Adoption Works! Ask Angelina

Ok.. let's see if this works.. I adopted a gatito (now that we only have 1 left at home!)

adopt your own virtual pet!

Heh.. Hooch Boy would probably like this. (you have to click "MORE" in order to play with it, hee).

Look Mami! No Cavities

Hooch is in the "No Cavities" Club, which is great news.. yet why oh why does he get accosted by people bearing CANDY???

I'm not exaggerating: Hooch has been offered:

1. GUM from a viejita at Mervyn's (to be fair to her, he was saying, "I want chicle! I want chicle!" and she was only too happy to oblige)
2. TWO candy bars from a Pinoy grandma (it's the same as saying "hi!"). I wouldn't have minded as much except that she offered these to him at the same time I was peeling an orange for him to snack on.
3. THREE candies which were on the buffet line (next to the chicken adobo and the biko)
4. BIG BAG of candy from my hooch co-worker who claims we she gives him candy because we don't... (oh and because we punish him by giving him soy milk and organic snacks!)

**Sigh**

La teoria del cordón

I'm sitting here watching/not watching a NOVA special about "string theory".. This is fascinating! But I really want to discuss a comment made by one of the scientists, who were trying to "pull the string" on the theory.

This particular academic was stating that string theory could not be proven, since these are subatomic particles, and that there was no way that it could be tested, or proven.

All I'm thinking is, hey, atom smashers are live and well.. ya never knoooow! It's a little irresponsible to discredit something just because you don't see it. Hmm...a theory is just that, a theory, and can lead one towards another theory, etc. etc. until one is proven.

*Sigh*... Anything just so I don't have to do homework...drat! The lengths I go to.

¿Piedra, Papel o Tijeras?

OK....so it's Saturday, and Stack0 asked me to change the channel.. to the USA RPM, rock paper scissors, ah, championship?? Allrighty... I'd never, ever have imagined this.

Sound bites from the event:

"The tension is so thick you could cut it with scissors."
"Women start off with scissors 53% of the time... If the woman has short hair, that number shoots up to 68%."
"Rock paper sissors are immaulate. It's the game of the people."

So if you think this is a joke, the $50,000 prize is not. Hey it's never to late to start training a Hooch Boy...

So Long, Gatita!! Te Extrañaremos

Gatita has been lost for more than two weeks now... I guess I've finally come to the realization that she is gone. OK, I pretty much figured that after the guy from the Animal Control said, "You live by the mountains? Oh yeah, un Coyote!"

Gatita was given to us as a kitty by some friends of ours. She lacked a name, and nothing befitted her more than the name "gatita." She was with us when my sister left the door open and lost "Gato", our siamese, and welcomed "Bucky" our new siamese, into the family. He quickly became her best friend.

Gatita loved to mew. She also loved to pee in the most inopportune places. Nonetheless, we loved her.

Ay Gatita... hope you had a happy life, as much happiness as you gave to us.

A new baby! Well..not really

I know, I know... we haven't posted for a while - But we have a good reason! Stack0 and I were working on our Favorite Congressman's Campaign Website, which is now officially finished!!

I don't think I've ever slept this little (maybe when Hooch was born), but now it's (alas!) finished.

So... please keep reminding me to post, as I promise to do so as soon as I have time (ok, maybe when I have a Little Time).

The Colorful World According to Hooch...

It's no surprise that Mexilina's and my latests posts are about Hooch boy. It almost seems like he's becoming smarter exponentially. This also means he is more demanding of our time, and it's more difficult to keep him preoccupied with things that don't require our complete attention -- not that we try to, but sometimes we need a break, even from Hoochness.

Anyway, anyone who has children knows that coloring in brief doses is an activity that is always fun. Being the digitally addicted parent that I am, I, of course, found numerous sites that allow you to print illustrations for the Hooch.

Here are some of our favorite finds:

Crayola Creativity Central: Duh! But, you have to register to print the coloring activities

"Coloring Books" website: This site has a good number of coloring illustrations, but I'm waiting for Disney or Warner Bros to slap them with a law suit.

Kid Explorers Coloring Pages: No, I'm not a religious person, but the site has some interesting coloring pages. With the recent Intelligent Design debate, I think it's a hoot that they have dinosaur pages :)

Disaster Activity Books (by the Red Cross): Yes, you too can teach your kids about disaster... using a crayon! Oh yeah, you can download the coloring activity books in English, Spanish, and one other language. Can you guess it? If you guessed the the 9th most common language in the United States and the 20th in the world, you would be right: Vietnamese. I guess the Red Cross must know some statistic about the Vietnamese and disasters that the rest of us dont know. Right? As for filipinos, we don't need no stinkin' disaster coloring book. For one, we'd find some enterprising way to make a quick return from the resulting chaos (no, I'm not hating), and for another, the filipinos as a whole are patient survivalists, meaning we'd just as well wait out a disaster if it suits us -- as long as we have enough rice, fish and adobo.