The Ladybugs

Another season comes to a close, my fifth one. Next season is a season of new beginnings. Old Man Kenny will be coaching, and I'll be assisting. Tonight was our last game, and amongst the cacophony and craziness, we love being a team and are going to continue on to carry the Ladybug name and do it proudly. For Leah, and for Ladybug.


The Ladybugs:
Top row: Ladybug, Nicole, Sesie, Erik and Barrett
Middle row: Clynt, Alycia, Jeana, John and Julie
Bottom row: Kenny, Sherry, Stacey, Fil and Jean
missing: Thanh and Melanie

Half Way There!!!

Today is day 11 of 20 in Marcia Benjamin's patented lap swimming torture class. I can actually see ab definition, and I have my waist back! My arms are more toned and I feel like I have more endurance. Let's take a walk down memory lane and troll down my list of Facebook updates from Day 1:

first day of swimming: pwned! however, I am ready for another.

day 2 of swimming: PWNED x2.

day 3 of swimming: neck muscles, armpits, and abs aching.

day 4: starting to feel better, maybe because i'm off work and can now lapse into a vegetative state...

Day 5/30: PWNED! Abs and thighs burning. Stupid foot cramping.
oh yeah. day 5/30. Today, we learned how to do the ROBOT!

Day 6/30: Legs jellied, killed large brown ugly spider in women's shower room, busted/bruised hand somehow.

Day 7/30: Muscles burning, did more drowning/snorting in of chlorinated water than swimming...

Day 8 of 30: thighs are burning, legs jellied and wobbly.

oops. swimming only has 20 days, not 30.

Day 9 of 20: did some paddling. Not the kind you're thinking.

Day 10 of 20: Made it half way! Feeling better, stronger, but still not liking the early wake up time.

Day 11 of 20: Sprinting the devil out of me. Old Asian man wandered into women's locker room looking for toilet. HELLO, see all those naked women!?! OBVIOUSLY this is not the men's bathroom!!!

Flying Time

Where in the world has time gone?
Once I cradled a newborn baby in my arms,
Bounced her on my lap.
Walked across the house with her,
hands curled around my thumbs
pattering away in a blur.
Heard the first words, listened carefully,
as time connected them into sentences.
That little girl,
On her own, her two little feet,
adorned with ruby red mary janes
walking across the stage
grasping the first diploma,
the first of many.
I watch the future, with time
unfolding before my eyes.

Class of 2009


Doin her thang on stage.


She said, "When I grow up, I want to be a piano player." Just like me.


The diploma, her first of many.


The proud Schmelzingers with their graduate!


Alexa and her best friend Ashley


Alexa and her pal Haylene romping around.


Aww... Jeanne and JD.


Um... it WAS supposed to be a tender moment when she was holding Daddy's hand a second ago...

Father's Day Feast

Finally got around to loading photos from Father's Day. Been running a tight ship with my crazy ass schedule of working 2 jobs 7 days a week, swimming at 5:45am, and playing badminton and softball. So here goes!

Dave with his monkeys.


Hyuk! Clowning around with GooGoo. I'm actually in a picture for once!


Hamfin and FiFi


Alexa anticipating the food...


Open wide!


Yum. We did more or less the same rendition of the menu from Mother's Day. Delicious.


They're kissing!!! Photographic evidence!


Three generations.


Drumroll please... Ladies and Gentleman, the fabled swanky bathroom. This is for you, Jer.


Har Har... My mother was NOT amused.

In 7...

My life is changing and in 7 months, there will be a fresh start. So I have mandated a few goals:

a) I would like to learn how to budget and save money
b) I would like to learn how to cook for myself
c) I would like to learn how to compromise
d) I would like to learn how to build up my self- esteem
e) I would like to learn how to live my own life
f) I would like to learn how to keep my place clean

most of all...

g) I would like to learn how to have a good relationship with my mother

Monkey Time

babysat the monkeys Saturday afternoon/evening so the parents could have a nice night out as grown-ups.
snapped some great photos of the two. Alexa is now 5 and JD is 19 nearly 20 months old. Time flies...

No nose-picking this time.


My beautiful Hamfin and her green/brown eyes...


Hellooo?


Already texting at 19 months old.


Can you believe it? He can unlock an iPhone at 19 months old. Kids these days...

FML... LOL

I always wondered why people wrote "FML" after each status message on Facebook. So I happened up upon fmylife.com and started reading. Man that stuff is hilarious, so bad that I'm sitting at my desk at work laughing like an idiot to nobody in particular.

For example:
Today, I decided to use my mentor's advice. I told her I had been having some trouble controlling my anger, she told me to throw rocks at trees. I threw a rock at a tree, very hard. It bounced back hit me above the eye. I'm still pissed as shit. FML

Today, I was working at a grocery store and a man came to my register to ask for the price of a mop. I took the mop from him to scan it without realizing the pole was between his legs. I hit him in the crotch with the pole. FML

Today, I was performing CPR on a woman on her floor while her internal defibrillator kept firing, making her whole body jump. When it fired, her hand went straight up into my nuts. FML

Today, was my sister's and dad's birthday. I accidentally mixed up the gifts I got for them and my dad ended up with a vibrator. He wasn't very happy. FML

Today, my wife and I watched a documentary film about a kid living with severe asthma. In one scene, the kid has a severe asthma attack, and is rushed to hospital. My wife started laughing hysterically at this and after apologising, goes "it's just he sounded exactly like you in bed." FML