hmm

So, mom is on the airplane now. Achi is at the airport, killing his time.

Me, cleaned most of the house (not completed :-p), noticed no flowers to decorate. Oh well, they are my family :-D I don't have much foods in refrige, but I bet they would enjoy shopping at American grocery stores.

Since mom will arrive about 11am and Achi is coming almost 8pm, we have too much time to kill. I'm thinking of taking her to Korean grocery stores near airport to get some foods (she loves Korean foods too), maybe cafe to have some coffee/tea, but I don't know what else to do.

I know it sounds cruel, but I can't let her sleep while we're waiting. She came to visit me when I was in college, and she had bad jet lag, very BAD one. She started cooking at 2am, actually made a whole meal, and woke me and my roommate up and made us eat. Man, I can't let her sleep during day time, doesn't matter how sleepy she would be. I want her to sleep at night!

Preparing :-)

I'm so excited for my mom & brother coming to visit us, we are fixin', cleanin', and decoratin' the house for this weekend. I saw the weather forecast said it will be a thunderstorm on the market time, so I cancelled it. It's not raining yet... oh well :-( I hope I didn't miss another great sales day.

Our dishwasher had a week power (doesn't make any dish clean), doesn't dry plastic products (I don't know why), and color was wrong. All other kitchen appliances are white, somehow they put a black dishwasher when they built this house.

Well, couple weeks ago, its handle was broken and some plastic pieces came off. Oops. It was still manageable to open/close, but it was pretty annoying. John called the company, and we figured out the parts cost like $60 and including maintenance it will be over $100. It was a good enough call for us to think about getting rid of this one and get a new one.

I started searching how much a new dishwasher cost, but soon I went back my daily routine, checking craigslist. Several days ago, I found a nice&white dishwasher for sale, and it was a pretty good deal. I contacted the seller, and we went to pick it up.

Neither of us had ever exchanged/installed dishwashers before, but since my family is coming soon, I didn't want the dishwasher sitting in my living room. I searched "how to install a dishwasher" online, watched a video, and John started working on it.

removing old one.

installing a new one

Cutting elect cord. Thank goodness he wasn't zapped.

(we turned the elect off before he started working)

Doin' something.

Connecting a drain pipe.

Tada-

Yay! A new dishwasher!! I ran it last night, seems like working quite well. We will try couple more times to see if there are any leaks, and he will screw it to the counter. My husband is so handy! ;-)

Who's in charge...?

This happens when blood type O was in charge for organizing.

 This is when blood type A is in charge.

For you who don't know much about Japanese culture, we strongly believe into blood type characters, maybe stronger than holoscope. Oh, according to its diagnose, blood type A and O are good match :-)

Excited!

So, my mom & brother are coming soon! I'm so excited!

It's been a while to see them. I'm thinking what I will do with them, where I can take them to, etc. It's so fun.

Record!

Yay! It was my best record sales for the market!!!

John knew an average amount I make usually, and he set the goal a lot higher. I told him it's impossible, but I made it! WOW So amazing!

We need to celebrate :-)

Oh, by the way, Achi and my mom might come to visit us soon. That would be fun :-D

Homemade rain barrel

We made a rain barrel!  I've been trying to find a reasonably priced & useful featured rain barrel, and got tired of expensive prices. We had an trash can which we don't use anymore, so why not, I bought some parts from Lowes and John helped me to assemble it.

Ok, I might need to trim the mosquito net little bit more, but hey, doesn't it look good? It wasn't so hard to make it.

Spigot on the bottom. This metal parts was the most expensive, but still like $5 or so. I bought some O-rings and rubber rings, $2 the most. I was not sure if any of them would work, but we left the container full of water but it's not leaking so I guess it's working!

Inside view of water going out parts. Doesn't it look good? I'm so proud! I can't wait to set this on our garden, then I will be so happy for rainy days :-)

Today's Sheepy-Poo