Well 2005 is practically upon us. There are many things that I am looking forward to in 2005, particularly Dennis getting his Ph.D. and awaiting the new arrival to our family. Do I have any regrets for this past year? Surprisingly, I have no regrets. This has been a great year for us. I am been a SAHM mom for a little over a year now and so far it has been the best thing. Yes, I do complain about domestic duties and such, but staying home with my baby has been the greatest thing for me. I received a xmas card from an friend and she wrote that it seems like I have finally found my calling in life. That is to be a mother. It has been pretty much the only thing that I have been 100% satistfied with. I can’t imagine working in the Ad industry anymore or any industry, so to speak off. Although, I do eventually plan to go back to work.

Dennis has been working very hard this year to teach 6 classes and has been writing his thesis nonstop. He has been even working through the holiday. In fact, he is at his office now. He plans to come home around 2:00, where we will probably have an early dinner at our local eatery, Rocky Cola Cafe, at least that is what I am craving. Specifically, I am craving either pancakes or waffles. We were planning to hang out the beach, but I don’t think that will happen, since it is raining. Maybe it will stop later in the afternoon. I do remember that it has rained every year at this time, except New Years Eve and Day, just in time for the Rose Parade. It is like mother nature knows not to rain on the parade. LOL. Other than that, we don’t have any plans. Earlier, we were thinking about going to Downtown Disney, Medieval Times, or Knotts Berry Farm, or to even go dancing somewhere. But it turns out, neither of us are really enthusiatistic to go anymore, or even hang out with our regular gang for New Years. Oh well, blame it on age or laziness. I plan to stop by the local scrapbooking store, the dollar tree, and Tar.get later when Brennan wakes up. Just to pick up a few things.

I really don’t have any resolutions for the New Years. But I am thankful for what I have and just try to strive to become a better person. Maybe not so negative on myself and to try to be a better mom and wife.

Oh btw, I enabled the spam plugin because I have been getting a rash of that crap. So you won’t be able to comment, until the spam subsides. Sorry about that.

I wish everyone a wonderful New Years! See you next year! Susie Q.

Oh ya, congrats to Suze for the new addition to her family.

I was driving back home, well actually I was driving around waiting for Brennan to go to sleep for his nap while sipping on my favorite chai tea from the small drive through coffee shop, not Starzitswhatzit. As I was driving, I spotted this rainbow, but of course I didn’t have my camera, so although Brennan was still awake, I drove home to retrieve my camera. (note to self: always have camera with you). After getting my camera, I drove back to the area where I saw the rainbow, but the clouds were already moving in for another storm, so I drove further north, or is that west? Oh whatever, I just drove toward the whiter clouds and away from the grey ones. I then spotted another rainbow, but then I couldn’t find a place to park, to get a good shot. So I headed back home, where I spotted the rainbow, or was it another one? Hmm, now I am wondering, if there were all the same rainbow, or were they different ones. Anyways, I spotted the rainbow, and parked next to this school. Brennan had fallen asleep, so I got out of the car and then looked around, but the rainbow was gone. I just couldn’t fricken believe that I lost my pot of gold.

Anyways, yesterday we were semi close to getting hit by a tornado. It woud have been a small one, and it ended up more South, I think. I couldn’t imagine what we would do if we were hit by one. We don’t even have a basement.

Anyways, today was my grandfather’s funeral. I think my parent’s are flying back in tonight like at midnight, unless they have decided to stay longer. We live like 10 minutes from the airport, so it really won’t matter when they fly in because we are so close, and plus Den will be picking them up, not me. They haven’t called me, so I suppose they are coming back tonight. I think they should stay as long as they can and spend time with the family.

I had this dream last night that we were on this huge hilly like island surrounded by a huge body of water. We were with a group of people, and I had no idea who these people were. But they were saying or yelling over to me to watch out for my mother because she might be engulfed by a huge wave. I am not sure of the exact words because I can never remember my exact dream. Anyways, I was running down this hill as my mom was swimming quickly back to shore. She made it safely. Then a few moments later, they were yelling to me watch out for your father. I saw him from the top of the hill and he was swimming quickly back to shore just narrowly missing the huge tsumami. He walked onto the shore smilling and giggling, gloating how me missed like 4 huge waves. I was thinking, actually, I don’t remember what I was thinking. Remember it’s a dream. Upon waking up, my final analysis of this dream was that since my parent’s flew yesterday to D.C. for Brenann’s great-grandpa’s funeral, I was a little worried about them flying because of the weather. The fact that they missed the huge tsunami waves from hitting them in my dream, they made their flight safely. Also, the reason that I was dreaming of these huge tsunami waves must have been because I was thinking of the huge tragedy that hit at least 7 Asian nations and one in East Africa that killed more than 20,000 people. This s a horrible tragedy. It also got me thinking that hopefully, this doesn’t happen to us when we go to Hawaii in a few weeks.

We just received sad news from my mom that Brennan’s great-grandfather passed away tonight. He is in the East Coast, so apparently it was around 9:00 p.m. East Coast time. It is 7:18 p.m. here, so it must have been about an hour or so ago. He was 98, I think. My grandmother and grandfather have both been staying in an elderly assisted living home for several years now, since his health had been deteriorating. They were always complaining about being there. My grandfather was depressed a lot in recent time. Mentally, he was there 100% there, but physically, it wasn’t going too well.

He was a great man. He was a highschool principal in Korea before he came to the U.S. , early in the 70’s. He was very strict to my brother and me. I remember him helping me with my piano lessons. The last time he was in California was for our wedding, which was about 10 years ago. He was 87 at the time, I believe. Physically, he was strong as a horse. He even played tennis in my parent’s backyard. Brennan had the opportunity to meet him in April, earlier this year for his birthday. It was his first trip to the East Coast and to fly for that matter. He lived a full life, that’s for sure. But it is always sad when someone that you love passes.

I don’t know how he knew, but Den got me Photo.shop CS. What a wonderful husband I have.

…fat, farty, bloaty, and a tad bit nauseous.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I would love to live in Boston because of all the beautiful wrought iron staircase railing.