I love Sundays.  Especially after a long week.  One day out of the week where I don’t have to think about studying Chinese character flashcards, or rush off to an appointment.  Just me and Jay and the whole day.  I think there may be a game of Scrabble in the future for today…

It’s warming up outside, so all our windows are wide open.  It’s nice to hear all the sounds of our neighborhood enter our apartment while we do our normal day-of-rest routine.  Of course, you can’t go a day without the Chinese grandma hacking up some phlegm while you eat breakfast.  It’s just part of the charming atmosphere for us now!

We were going to go see the new Terminator movie at the theater, but checked out some reviews online that said it was pretty lackluster.  Anyone seen it?  We may still try to see it as it may still be interesting enough for us with our mediocre level of Mandarin.  Lots of things blowing up and people yelling “RUN!” (I do know how to say THAT in Mandarin, at least).  I can handle that.

About once a week we’ll hang out at a friend’s house ’til really late and catch a cab home.  It’s sort of funny how some of the cabbies on the night shift do up their cabs like mini nightclubs.  All neon lights and really loud techno music.  It’s kind of a fun way to end a day, and it keeps the entertainment going right up to your front door!

Someone gave us a box of Trader Joe’s Organic Macaroni and White Cheddar Cheese and we are forever thankful to them!  There was much reveling and celebrating over that weekday meal.  Yum.  It doesn’t take much to please us.

Jason found this exercise routine that trains you to build up to doing 100 consecutive push-ups…it came with an exel spreadsheet of our workout, so I was on board.  It starts off with a test to see how many push ups you can do to assess what level you’re starting off at.  Doing full push-ups, good form and everything, I could do the grand total of…2.  Yes, two.  So, the training begins tomorrow.  We will see…