And just when I thought there couldn't POSSIBLY be any more room for anything eventful in our lives (what with our house tasks and our I-485 process), Hoen and I (FINALLY!) got a Wii! Yippeee!! We got this trade arrangement that if we trade in games, we could deduct the total amount of those games PLUS 30% of it to the actual cost of the Wii. In this case, we got $25 off. Not much but we just couldn't wait any longer. So instead of going to the house to rip the tapes off of the paint job we did last night in the basement, and instead of heading to the gym, Wii are We-ing! Haha.

I love tennis the best. Hoen is on a roll. He's been on it for 4 hours and has even skipped dinner for it. And FOOD is his number one indulgence. Imagine all the fun he's having. Hehe.

Desperate Housewives -- Geez Louise. Which story came out with a bang? Lemme see... Lynette is diagnosed with lymphoma and her mom with a history of alcoholism welcomes herself into her daughter's home, uninvited. Bree returns from "traveling" and comes back with a bump in her belly. At first I thought, "Weren't they supposed to NOT write her pregnancy into the show?" But alas. She was all but wearing a fat belly suit so that when her daughter comes back from Nunny camp, she will claim her baby as her own. Gabrielle had the wedding she always wanted. It was lavish, it was over the top, but overhearing her politician groom talk about her as his "asset" and "bet to win the Latino votes", she seeks solace in the poolhouse. Guess who's there. Carlos! Who had just broken up with Edie after he found out that she was still taking birth control pills, all the while pretending to want to have a baby. She and Carlos lip lock and who knows what happened next. Now for Susan, my favorite part. She tells Mike that even though people won't be OPENLY comparing her wedding to Gabrielle's, deep inside they really are. So Mike works overtime for nights in a row in order to make her dream wedding come true and in fact sleeps through Gabrielle's reception. Susan took that opportunity to talk to Gabrielle's minister and asked him what he was doing tomorrow night. Turns out, she had planned for her daughter to pretend to make a midnight call to Mike and while en route, both of them would make it to some secluded spot with the minister a-waiting .The minister gets in front of the car, hands him a suit and tells him to wear it. He and Susan have the wedding right there and then with lanterns and vines and the entire wilderness as their ambience. It was just sweet and lovely! Susan's guilt paid off as Mike gave her a lingering kiss even before the ceremony started. And now the ending. Edie is seen with her legs dangling after she takes something that looked like a curtain tassel and obviously hung herself. Very nice ending.

Brothers and Sisters -- Another good finale!! Where do I start? Let's see. Kitty (Calista) insists on not having an Engagement Party to make way for the family to say the proper goodbye to Justin who was Iraq-bound. But Mrs. Walker ( Sally Field), being the doting mother that she is, throws her one anyway and gets the surprise of her life. Turns out, the senator's (Rob Lowe) family is way crazier than theirs are. Haha! Tommy (Balthazar Getty) tries to get over the death of one of his twin babies but his wife has it worse. Still, he shows up at the party and tries to celebrate with Kitty. Kevin (Matthew Rhys) meets the senator's gay brother again and realizes just how much they loathe each other. But at the UNEXPECTED heat of the moment, they end up kissing in the kitchen. Saul (Ron Rifkin) meets an old friend at the party and well, they might have had a GAY past. Shocker! Justin holds out telling people that he is in fact leaving for Iraq the day of the party. Only when Rebecca told them that Calista and Sally Field go running to the airport to give him the proper goodbye. By the way, the whole mother and son dialog was very good. Very well written. Sarah (Rachel Griffiths) gives a very nice speech during the party which was very ironic since she is still estranged from her husband after sharing that kiss with Rebecca. The ending-- after being given a dare, Sally Field jumps in the pool and Calista follows and so do the rest. It was a very good ending sans Justin. Everybody was in the pool and they laughed their worries away. Can't wait for next season!

Heroes -- This one I loved as well! But why couldn't they have just done a 2-hour finale. That way, LInderman and Eric Roberts' character die on the same night. Anyway, it was indeed Peter who was going to blow and Sylar tries to intervene. I loved how each Hero was able to contribute somehow to the ending. Matt Parkman (the cop) tried to distract Sylar but ended up being shot by his own bullets. Nikki successfully hits Sylar with a meter maid and weakens him. Hiro was able to stab Sylar but was thrown into the building. Good thing he was able to teleport before hitting the concrete. Mika, the tracker, the father, even Claire had some contribution albeit useless and not enough to have stopped Sylar. In the end, Sylar may have been hurt but his blood trails leading to the manhole makes for a good second season opener. The tracker says that there is someone out there worse than Sylar. Hmmmm. And Nathan rescues Peter despite their mom's persuasion over what is "Inevitable." He takes Peter, flies into space and, as Peter turns nuclear, they both SUPPOSEDLY blow up in the sky. Or did they? We never know. But in the opening of Volume 2, Hiro teleports to Feudal Japan and stands in the middle of a Samurai war, just in time for the solar eclipse. A-ha!!!

Holy Crack. The other day, on Hoens' birthday yet, I came across a blog post by Mariel, the mother of Dudelet's child. Her title was "Misery loves company." I clicked it and discovered that it was a blog about some really cool riddle or puzzle series. So I clicked on the site and read it and solved the thing and I solved the one next to it and so on. Before I knew it, I was on the 5th riddle. That took me a long time to solve and by the time I got the answer, I was hooked! This guy is a genius!! I went through a couple more riddles, fell in love with it more and thought to msyelf, "Wait, I can't stay miserable all by myself. I have to tell people about this thing!" The piranha came to mind as well as a few people so I sent them all an email. The responders were Jown and Oona who had now labored for a few hours over this really fun and adorable riddle series. Jown was cussing under her breath because her SUPPZIBLY important OR exam and report were shoved aside to make way for the riddle. Oona reports to work only to spend 90% of her time doing the riddle, save for that meeting she had to attend. Now Sam's hooked and she says she hates me for getting her addicted. Hahaha!! Misery INDEED loves company!

Oh, and the riddle URL is weffriddles.com. Better than heroin, more elating than weed and crisper than alcohol. Makes you want to just rinse and repeat. Hehe. I LOVE Weffing! (Here's a sample riddle. Took me 20 minutes worth of staring. I showed it to Hoen and he got it in like, 10 seconds. GEEK!)

We had a very lovely weekend. Saturday, we saw Spidey which was just pure delight. We were already armed to make it to the Cinco de Mayo parade with Tahnee but a late Friday night makes for a late Saturday morning which led to zero parking in sight come Saturday noon. I've always wanted to watch the Cinco de Mayo parade and see Filipino-looking people (with long and sharp noses) devour the streets of Omaha with their green, white and red flags. But nopersiree. Next year I guess will be THE year. I had to leave Tahnee several messages because she invited us and was really expecting us to make it. She said she was bringing her twins as well (michael jackson before and michael jackson after, she calls them). And I absolutely had wanted to meet them. She then emailed me that she left her phone because of the weather and the twins had to stay home. Maybe just as well. We couldn't have made it back in time for Spidey with the rain and sucky parking.

Come Sunday, we went and saw the airshow at Offutt Airbase. We had to drive all the way to Bellevue, park the car at the Southroads Mall lot to board one of the queued buses in there. Taxpayers' money since everything was for free. I love how your money goes a long way here! Anyway, Joen and I had to sit up front because of his motion sickness. I was so excited for this and when we got there, I knew we were going to have a lovely time. It was soooo cool! Cool in the figurative sense as well as the LITERAL sense. No wet armpits there, what with the wind blowing at 50 mph. We had lunch over gyro and hotdogs, sat on the view area on the tarmac and just munched away as we watched planes mimic the fighting positions of planes from both world wars. The pilots were hilarious. They spoke while they were spinning, dropping, zooming and zigzagging. Crazy people! Finally got inside a Black Hawk chopper. Here are some pics.

Here's a cool video. We took a dozen videos but this one was the most clear and most exciting. The sky acrobats looked too small on the lens.

THERE IS A GOD!!

Paris going to Jail for 45 days. FINALLY!

I have two bad newses and bruises.

1) The Lakers lost to the Suns last night. Not that I didn't expect it, but at Game 5? Why did they have to play against the Suns first on the Play-offs!!! This team needs to be more cohesive. They get rattled and excited too quickly and mess up with how many turnovers. EEJOTS! Why do they keep hiring butterfingered players to prance back and forth on the court, losing the ball many times?

2) Gilmore Girls just OFFICIALLY announced their series finale scheduled for May 15. Meaning, they were still negotiating for an 8th season and came up with an ambivalent last episode for Season 7 which could be both a Season or a possible Series finale. Apparently, it will be the latter. Bummer. So Rory graduates, Logan proposes, she turns him down, they break up, and then what. Lorelai and Luke are slowly re-introducing each other into their lives. Will this end with a wedding? Two more episodes. I should say just as well because if season 8 would have been a lag, then closing shop would be the best decision yet.

There is a rule to be followed when you're trying to declutter all your stuff. It is the KEEP, DONATE, TOSS rule and that's exactly what I did yesterday. It was not just Spring Cleaning day, it was time-to-get-rid-of-stuff-never-worn-within-the-past-year day. It was the first day of May and now that we're mere weeks away from moving out, it was the perfect time to get started.

I started off by stashing away all our winter clothes (read: THICK) into these huge plastic containers and placed them together with the rest of our "for moving" stuff which are now still grouped together right in front of our fireplace. Then I went and replaced them with all our summer and spring clothes. After which, it was time for the huge chin rubbing feat. Which ones to keep and which ones to toss out or donate. Everytime we're getting ready to go somewhere, Joen always tells me to "Please think na what you're going to wear" because he has seen me in my closet staring element. And it took a lot of staring, prancing, folding and refolding to finally decide which fabric souls get to remain in our closet. The TOSS/DONATE pile was getting higher and higher! Just as well. Why keep clothes we found neither the time nor excuse to wear? Next up, shoes. It was very uplifting to finally sort out all our shoes AWAY from the shoe rack. I paired everything together, got rid of the undesirables and placed them in plastics sacks and stacked them on top of our For Moving pile. I packed up all our picture frames and un-albumed wedding pictures (reminder to self) as well as all our books, magazines and DVDs. Good thing I've held off on the book buying lately because it was just box after box after box. See all those shoe boxes? I don't know why didn't get rid of them ages ago when they were rendered useless by our nine dollar shoe rack.

What's just two paragraphs worth of blogging was actually a whole day event. Today, time to dive in to my girlie stuff. My husband has it easy. He doesn't have to worry about his stuff because he trusts my judgment. But that's not saying he has lesser stuff than me because he has LOTS more clothes than I do! Look at our closet. I can see the wall behind it now! And we've freed up what, dozens of hangers! Hurrah! I LOVE moving out. It feels like detoxifying really.

So there. For days until we move out, this is what we (read: I) will be doing. Wish me all the luck and none of the sneezing because all this dust is really starting to get to me.