Actual Conversation Peter had at work with a client that called in.

Back ground information first.

My husband is Chinese.

His "legal"  first and last name are the same, but he goes by Peter.

He works for a company that manages tuition for schools k-12.

The client, let's call her Carry, called in to ask for some help with the new system.  This particular client was not Peter's, he took the  call to help out a co-worker.

It went like this.

"Hello this is Peter, how can I help you?"

"Yeah Peter this is Carry.  Can you help me delete some students from our database?"

"Sure I can help you with that.  What are their names?" Peter asks.

"H-U-A-N-G" (insert some for of pronunciation in which she butchers it. But in all honesty I would probably butcher it too) Carry says.

"Yeah we will go ahead and delete her. Do you have a lot of Chinese students in your school?" Peter asks.

"We have 29, it is getting to be a little too much." Carry says

"Are they exchange students?" Peter asks.

"Yeah the are.  We can't take them all or we would have like a gazillion of them." Carry says.

Poor Carry........ she then proceeded to spell out all of the other names and butcher them as well.  Not all of the names were Chinese, there were other nationalities to be deleted as well.

She  then came upon a Chinese student with the same first and last name.

She spelled it out then said,  "Who would name their kid with the same first and last name?"


"Oh I don't know."  Peter replies.

"The final students last name is Anderson.  I don't need to spell that one for you." Carry says.


 "Is there anything else that I can help you with today?"  Peter asks.

"No that was it.  Thank you Peter." Carry says and hangs up the phone.


Peter got off the phone and immediately told his co-workers.

 It just goes to show you that you never know who is on the other end of the phone.

Is that a young Eric Northman?

This weekend my brother Mason played in his last Freshman basketball game.  It also happened to be the first and only Freshman game that I was able to get to see.  

When Mom told me he was trying out I was excited for him.  I prayed that he would make the team because that would be pretty awesome in a school as large as the one he goes to.  In the school I went to if you went out for basketball then you were on the team there were no tryouts.  You may not have gotten to play a lot but you were on the team.   Well he made the team and I am very proud of him. 

We geared up in our panther colors and headed to watch him play for 3rd in a tournament. 

They played pretty well, with the usual mistakes that comes with young players and won the 3rd place medal that had a sticker on the back saying it was from the 2011 tournament. 

I had the old camera with me so the pictures are not as good.  Mason is number 32...... the only red head on the team.  So even with blurry pictures he is easy to spot.

Carter played with his cars and ate various things off the floor. 

No not really, but I was giving him fruit snacks and my Mom freaked out thinking he got it off the floor.

I told her "A little dirt never hurt anyone."  Which I distinctly remember hearing when I was younger........ I must have eaten dirt at one time or another.

This kid was on the opponents team.

I think he looks like a young Eric Northman.

Hello.............

He should take that as a complement.

Because....... it's Eric Northman.

So here is proof that the Vikings played basketball.

OK maybe not.

My Fitness Pal

I downloaded an app on my phone call My Fitness Pal because a co-worker was using it and having a lot of luck with it. 

I love it most of the time and I loathe it some of the time.

It is a ginourmous billboard of all the stuff I eat right at my finger tips.

It counts my calories for me and tells me how many I have left for the day.   I can track my exercise..... which helps me earn calories and I can track my weight loss progress.   If has tons of foods built right in and you can scan bar codes on the foods you buy and put them into the system for easy adding to your food diary.  It also allows you to create recipes. Then tells you how many calories are in each serving of your recipe. There are a couple of us at work who have this app.  We attempt to help each other in our weight loss/ fitness goals while competing in a company challenge to loose weight.

At my work we get catered lunches almost daily from various drug company representatives. Today the drug rep brought us Farmhouse Cafe for lunch. 

Everything at Farmhouse is naughty.   They are amazing at naughty.
 
Around 2 pm my mind thinks it's snack time.  It is totally and completely in my head.  If I would eat only when I am hungry I would probably weigh about 100lbs.

I don't do that.  Therefore I do not weigh 100 lbs. 

Anyway,  I  decided to get a beverage and there they were. The evil Farmhouse peanut butter M&M cookies placed so beautifully on a tray with a glass dome.



drool drool......


Thank goodness for the dome.

I sighed and said to my co-worker "I should not have come over here.  They have those awesome cookies with the M&M's" 

She responds "Oh yeah! You want me to tell you how many calories they are?", grabbing her phone.

I had told her about the app and she downloaded it right away.

I said "No, I really don't think it would be worth  the calories." 

She says "You didn't hear me tell the girls about my day on Saturday."  Then proceeds to tell me about how on Saturday she did not log anything that she ate into the food diary until that night.  She ate whatever she wanted and when she logged it in she was 900 calories over her recommended calorie intake for the day.




I did not eat the cookie.

We all will have those days.  Quoting from the book "Hunger Games" they are called "hollow days", when nothing you eat satisfies you.   Though in the book most of the people who use that phrase are starving and  we live in a land of plenty and too much and starving is not usually the case at all.  It's a mental thing.

Thanks sweetie for helping me see the light!