Custom made

Well, we can't find reasonably priced bamboo heat registers and so P made it instead. It took him more than 10 hrs to make one, much longer than our demo work but quite frankly he should be proud of his masterpiece because it definitely looks like it has been made by a craftsman.

Operation demolition

We have been doing a carpet demolition on our hallways and Joshua's bedroom to be the last two days. We have decided to complete our bamboo floor project while P is on break.

marked grid pattern the size of our garbage bin on the carpet and fiber board for easy cutting and disposal.







here's the back breaking labor of removing the heavy, dusty and nail-riddled fiber board.







after about 10 hrs of back breaking work - the end result is an ugly subfloor! ... he he he...

We're still in the process of acclimating the floor to the room and that will take about 2 weeks. Then, we can lay down the beautiful floors. Of course that will be another back breaking task but the overall end result will definitely be worth it!


We thought it is a good time to do it now before we head out for our much awaited Hawaiian escapade. Actually, it is my one way of guaranteeing that we won't do any back breaking hike or bike ride in Hawaii - since our back already hurts now, he he he!

We're Doomed...

Who in the heck is steering this ship anyway. Sharia law, coming soon to a courthouse near you. The idea that the swearing one in with the Bible somehow favors Christianity is not only preposterous, but exposes yet another reason the ACLU should be absolutely shut down.

I take great comfort in reading this...

I've been losing sleep over what I have coming up next week...

Exit Interview Goes Well

Too bad they're out, but...


Food staple here:


OK, this one's after my time, but it's got a good bumper...

Book worm

J loves his books and asks to have them read to him ALL the time. While it is fun to read to him, it is so nice to catch him reading on his own too! Here we caught him reading the children's bible - Good choice!.

Destination Oahu...

After several days of discussion and planning for how we will spend P's jobless days, we end up booking a vacation to Oahu. Believe me, I was pretty much in a state of shock over the weekend while doing the booking. It is a totally unplanned, uncalculated and unexpected trip...but I am not going to complain.

The choices were unlimited but we only have very limited "jobless" days to spare. First, we wanted to visit the "W's" in New York but then it coincides with vent camp, then considered staying in Arizona to check out the Grand Canyon and perhaps sneak a visit with the Pastoria's in California but that also didn't materialize...then out of nowhere P mentioned Hawaii. Okay, that is a shocker to me since P really is not into beach from what I know. He likes mountain adventure more than anything and so I thought he would suggest something more like - hiking and/or camping and I came prepared with suggestions for adventures catered towards that...but when he said Hawaii - wow it was difficult to ignore. I resisted initially but that didn't last long (2 days). Next thing I know I was online booking the tickets. Whew, this is one of the most impulsive decision we have done in a while but I think it will be worth it.

So, 10 more days to go and soon we'll be saying Aloha!