安泰乐

上星期五和Biajee一起去安泰乐的厂家直销店买了衬衫，西装和短裙，直销点的东东40%折扣，比上网买要便宜，非常好看。这次购物进一步确认了我只能穿零号衬衫和西装。Biajee说零号还是太肥，最好能买零零号的。这周末我们带孩子们去布兰森，再买几件上班穿的衬衫，最好所有的衣服都是零号的，而不是存货最多的10号。

现在才发现以前买的衬衫全都太肥了，而且并不是正式的西装衬衫，真是很弱智。这都是从小家境太贫寒，根本不懂着装的缘故。这个社会对女人太歧视了，所以女人一定要穿戴得体，还得比男人聪明能干才能事业有成。当然这只是我在商场上的经验教训，别的行业也许不需要太重视外表。

今天中午和Biajee一起去吃将军日本料理了。我们每次都点一份生鱼片，再加两份寿司，怪不得两个人都越来越胖。我最近正在鼓动全家吃完晚饭出去散步以达到减肥的目的。从这里走一迈就到健身房了，健身房旁边有儿童游乐场，孩子们玩一会儿在集体回家。值得一提的是阿诺是骑三轮车来回的，非常了不起。

六月的第一个星期六我们在校校体育馆举行阿诺的生日会。到目前为止只有两个孩子确认来参加。六月份是暑假，大家都去度假了，所以没空来和阿诺玩了。希望他不要太伤心。生日会很贵，如过来的孩子小于15人，需付192美元，比萨饼，礼品包和蛋糕还要另外准备。前几年阿诺还小，我们又经常出去旅行，所以一直没有能够给他开生日会，今年是第一年，要好好珍惜。

Wild Life

There was a bird nest on our fence. Biajee found it earlier this week. There were four blue eggs in the nest. Biajee accidentially dropped two of them and one was broken. He placed the fallen egg back into the nest. The mother bird has been sitting on the eggs every day.

We were eating hot pot for lunch today while Biajee found a snake right outside of our dining room window. It was about four feet long and 3 inches in diameter. We called the Bentonville police twice, but the lady who answered the phone told us that they didn't deal with snakes. She said that snakes were dormant during the day and would walk away at night.

The snake was waiting under the bird nest to eat the bird eggs and birds. Biajee took a shovel and went outside to kill the snake. We bagged the body of the dead snake into a woven shoebag and threw it in a dumpster.

It appeared to be a rattlesnake. Biajee followed it around our yard. If it had gone away by itself, Biajee wouldn't have gone ahead and killed it. He was just worried about the kids and me going out to the yard and being attacked.

Such was our excitement this weekend.