POTENTIAL SCAM

I really don't know if anyone reads my blog at all, but I have an important announcement.

If you get a call from a Dr. Peacock, asking to leave a message with you (for your boss) and asks you to repeat the message back to him slowly, HANG UP THE PHONE.  I got this call yesterday AND today.  Yesterday I read the message back to him, though not word for word as he requested.  Then someone with a different voice called today claiming to be Dr. Peacock, asked if I had the message from yesterday, then asked me to read it to him slowly word for word. 

After discussing this with my boss, we think that he might have been recording my voice, and could be trying to use the recording to call others and play back the message. 

Yesterday he didn't leave a phone number, but today I was able to get it out of him.  It's a 312 area code number, and after tracking it down, I found out that it's a cell phone number based in Cook County.

So guys, you've been warned.

Weird Sci-Fi-ish Dream

This happened twice this early morning. 

In my dream, I was laying in bed, and Minh sat down next to me to talk.  I noticed that his hair was a bit lighter in color and ... sort of blotchy.  We were just talking when all of a sudden, another Minh came out of the bathroom asking me who I was talking to.  I was completely shocked!  I looked at him, then looked back at the one I was talking to, and they were both him!  But the one that came out of the bathroom seemed more real.  Apparently, the one on the bed was only a part of Minh that decided to come out of him and become his own person.  I urged him to go back inside of Minh.

WEIRD!

The then dream happened again right before I woke up this morning.  I can't quite remember what happened, but I remember telling him again to return to Minh.

Yeah, I have crazy dreams.

The Type of Mom I Shall Not Become

On January 8th, this article was published on Wall Street Journal.

In summary, the author believes that the best way to educate children is by setting up many rules and forbid, yes, I use the word forbid, them from doing anything they may like, or exercise their human right of choice making.

These are her 10 cannot's (quoted from the article):

The Right Person at the Right Time

After Minh and I met, we both talked about how we wished we had met each other sooner.  It was obvious to us that we were right for each other, yet it took such a long time for us to meet.  We lived so close to each other (in Southern California, a 10-minute drive is close, trust me), he went to the same high school as my sisters, and we both knew Ryan. Ryan is this boy I met during the first year of living in the US, back in 1992.  Apparently, Minh and Ryan went to the same middle school, and are best friends with the same guy. 

Counting Down!

In less than 3 weeks I'll be married, woohoo!

p.s.  short post cuz it's 10/14 - 1 day before tax due date, so I'm super busy!

Chloe

We adopted Chloe a few weeks ago, and look at her transformation!

The dog next to her is Nino, my sister-in-law's dog.  Chloe and Nino play together everyday.

Haunted

The company I work for moved its location about two miles from the former location a few months ago.  I noticed the first night there, as I proceeded to unpack, that something was iffy.  I couldn't pinpoint the source of the iffiness at the time, so I stopped thinking about it.