So-niele

Non-stop

Since J started school, life has been rather non-stop. I like it and yet I don’t. I still never filled out my week-by-week calendar that is supposed to be on the fridge. I did find all my colored pens tho !!! Just need to squeeze in some time to play around with that. And that would probably be about this time at night b/c they’re all asleep and it’s ME time but I don’t wanna.

We had our first Catechism meeting today and it wasn’t as bad as I had anticipated. J did all this extra work for nothing. Pfft! Typical! Next meeting is in December so come then, I won’t be such a spaz on him. It’s his religious teacher’s fault. He told us to do it ALL! Always the overachiever , better safe than sorry right?

Soccer is winding down. They didn’t win this weekend, BUT they didn’t lose either! It was a tie 0 to 0 ! And basketball is about to start up and J is having second thoughts about it . Not a competitive aggressive bone in his body. But doing nothing is not an option. Karate is always in the wings but he still doesn’t seem into it anymore. Lilmiss, however, wants to do everything under the sun. Hula. Yes. Karate. Yes. And I sooooo want her to do it all, but these things are NOT cheap.

It’s heating up here again in these neck of the woods. Indian Summer don’t fail me now!

The holidays are creeping too! I’m rather excited for them b/c of the kids! Last year I was rather bah humbug only b/c my family wasn’t here, mainly my mom. But we’re making her stay for Thanksgiving and Christmas too!!! WOOT!

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My Girl AGAIN

Despite the small language barrier I have been anticipating the start of the Philippines version of the K Dramedy My Girl!!!! It starts tomorrow on TFC! LoL.

And here I was telling the BM to cancel our subscription but I’ve actually been watching quite a bit of it and now well I’ll be watching it even more! Not just for the game shows and variety shows.

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For the love of Mac

That would be of the Apple variety and not that of the makeup! I’m more of a geek than a girly girl . So the BM got a hold of a brand spanking new MacBook and put it in my hands to do what I like with it. He just got one about a month ago for himself. We’re MacGeeks didn’t you know. iPhones? Check! iPod videos. Check! We both had Powerbooks but have since gotten MacBooks. And then there’s always his G5 downstairs in his office. Lilman inherited BM’s Powerbook.

So I sold my brother my 1.5 year old MacBook and upgraded to this upgraded MacBook. Weeeeee! I’m so spoiled. I know . Last night I was up to the wee hours dumping the old one and reloading the software so he to could have a “brand new” laptop. Heh. I’m slowly making him a Mac lover too, he got an iMac for the house in Hawaii.

I don’t understand why people are so discouraged by Mac’s?! Mac’s are love! They’re so easy to use. I’m telling you….. NEVER. GOING. BACK. NEVER!

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It’s March already

This is going to be a mishmosh post of random babbles.

- Right now I’m hungry and I can seriously go for a lemon cupcake. I’m on this community on LJ and damn someone made some lemon bar and lemon cupcakes. Can I just say that my mouth was salivating just looking at the pictures and that little twinge of sour is getting me at the back of my mouth b/c of those damned pictures.

- But as an aside…. I’m hungry but I don’t know what to eat. Should I send the BM out to get me food that I should NOT be eating at nearly midnight? I seriously need to go grocery shopping b/c our fridge is looking seriously sad. I mean it helps that my mom has been supplying soups and such, but that doesn’t help with the other people in this house b/c they’re not eating any of it.

-This is certainly not helping the hunger issue either. I’ve got all of those covered though, only I wish I were in Hawaii already!

- Got word of ANOTHER 2008 baby recently.

- We have been invited to 3 birthday parties this month. 15th in Pittsburg for a 4th birthday, 22nd we be clubbin for a 1st birthday, and the 29th to get our GRUB on for another 1st birthday

- Easter this month too. Easter dresses for the girls. Photos? AIYAH! And Easter baskets.

- I’ve been eyeing personalized Easter baskets, but I saw that there is a “new” Hello Kitty Easter basket at Target. Nevermind that we already have 2.

-Personalized things have been catching my eye since Christmas. Thinking that we might have to finally break down and get the kids personalized stockings.

- Back to photos. Do they NOT do hospital photos anymore? babyM wasn’t even given the option. And I totally didn’t think to ask about it. Seeing as how we were there so freakin long too. Lilmiss didn’t get ‘em either, but we were told it’s b/c the photographer isn’t there on weekends, she was born on a Saturday, we left Monday morning.

- I’ve been telling myself that I need to take MORE photos and post them b/c I like photo posts, not just of the kids either, just random stuffs. That hasn’t been happening.

- I told BM to cancel TFC but I’ve actually been watching it quite a bit lately. Nearly everyday , as I’m typing I’m also watching ASAP 08, oh Piolo *swoons*

It’s time to get something to eat before the next feeding…

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Day 2 of the New Year

So I’m doing well with some of those resolutions I put upon myself and some not so well.

1.stop yelling @ my kids I think I’ve been doing pretty good. Albeit I need the cooperation of the kids, and that’s no easy feat b/c #1 is an instigator and #2 is a whiner/ crybaby. But seriously I think I’ve been doing alright with that one. I don’t feel my blood boiling as much. It just boils for other reasons, that I won’t bother to get into.

2. stop yelling see #1

3. cook more home cooked mealsHa! That’s a joke as for dinner yesterday we had pizza to enjoy with the sad , very sad, football game yesterday. And today although we didn’t eat dinner out, I also didn’t put any big efforts into cooking something wholesome for the kids. They had grilled ham and cheese sammiches with apple slices. I, on the otherhand, had a bowl of cottage cheese with peach slices and a handful of blueberries. Then topped it off with a TJ’s oatmeal raisin cookie. I need some oatmeal in my life . I’ve been trying to get a bowl of wholesome oatmeal in the morning, but it just hasn’t been happening.

4. eat out less Yeah another HA! BM brought home Wendy’s for lunch yesterday, and as I mentioned we had pizza last night. And although I hadn’t planned on eating BK, we were at my aunt’s house and my uncle picked it up for everyone. I guess they weren’t planning for lunch and the other option had been pizza but her grandkids are not fans. Good for us, being that we had pizza the night before.

5. use the computer less I’ve actually been very good about that one too! Yay me! I’ve decided to try and not get on the laptop until the lilmiss is asleep. Achieved 2 nights in a row. I will twitter from my phone though but not much.

6. spend more time with J I’m trying, but I need to work on that better. It’s just difficult b/c N doesn’t nap and she gets very jealous.

7. take more photos w/ my camera HA! There’s still photos sitting in the camera from the 30th and 31st and no attempts to get them out. And I just haven’t been feeling it.

8. de clutter Yeah haven’t gotten there yet.

9. stop swearing I’m not sure, I haven’t been consciously watching/ listening to myself. Working on #1/ #2 certainly aids in this one though.

10. start walking to pick up J from school in April Can’t work on that one until April

11. spend less/ save more Haven’t really been spending as I’ve been utilizing gift cards. Cheating, yeah! But it hasn’t been frivolous cash spending.

12. take my vitamins So far so good

13. read more Not yet, will as soon as I hit publish and close the laptop.

14. more QT time w just S Hasn’t been possible b/c he’s been having to run to work for meetings and such, and we don’t really have anyone to watch the kids.

15. clean the house I’m trying, but I also need the help of the other home inhabitants.

So on Day 2, not doing too bad. At least I don’t think so .

In other news… I’m honored , I was nominated to be part of the Yelp Elite ‘08. I’ve always wanted to be part of the Elite but never bothered to submit why I should be on it. I don’t think I ever would have… instead today when I opened my email there it was ! Which only means I want to Yelp! more, but that would require me to be out and about more. Heh. So yeah. I’m a dork , I thought you knew!

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An attempt to get a little festive around here!

I changed the dining table’s cover and placemats. Ahahaha. It was actually more b/c I was getting irritated by all the junk on top of it. It’s all nice and clean except for my little corner that has all my bill paying accessories. It should stay as it is, b/c lilman only has another week and a half of school. Nevermind that he has a desk in his room, he can’t really use it b/c there’s junk on there too. Someone come and do a packrat/ junk intervention for us. PLEASE?!?!

So my plans for Sunday have been postponed til next year. Too many busy schedules and such, so hopefully we can meet at the next designated date. Just gives me more time to get my Kris Kringle gift . I can lag and wait til the after Christmas sales . I did buy some sugar cookie mixins and fixins today when we went grocery shopping, so maybe if we’ve got nothing else to do on Sunday we’ll make and bake some cookies. While I was looking for my table linens, I found my cookie kit. I told the bigmister the other day that I don’t have any cookie cutters *gasp* Yeah. Really!

I almost went through the stuff in the garage too to put even just a little decor up, but dinner and putting away groceries got in the way. Maybe tomorrow. Eh.

I need to find a recipe of sorts. Crock pot? Maybe. I’m thinking something hearty. I’ve got some beef, potatoes, carrots, and celery.

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Hello Kitty makes her debut????

The keiki and I went and hung out at the mall today, had dinner, and walked around. Went by Macy’s and saw a poster for the annual Thanks.giv.ing day Par.ade.

Dude I remember waking up to the wonderful smells of my parents’ cooking and plopping in front of the telly to watch the parade. Oohing and ahhing over the cool balloons and floats and envying those people standing there in the cold and sometimes rain . My kids have no interest in it whatsoever.

The poster at Macy’s has HELLO KITTY on it! Does that mean she’ll be making her debut as a balloon this year? No seriously? Is she? I went and looked on the official parade site and there’s no mention of WHO will be there! If so… man she’s come a loooooooong way and I would love to see her float the streets and skies of NYC!!!

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Shopping

So it’s funny how things range in price here. A gallon of whole milk at the regular grocery store runs you about $7.29. Like OMG!!! Yeah! Costco doesn’t sell the Kirkland brand of milk here either, ya know the kind in the box that comes with 2 1-gallon jugs, that I swear sells for about $5 in the mainland. We’ve found that Kmart is the cheapest @ $3.89 a gallon.

I’ve found some super good deals on clothes here too, b/c the need for sweaters, long sleeve tops, and long pants isn’t much here especially this time of year, or really any time of the year really. I found a super cute crocheted sweater with bell sleeves at BabyGap for $4.97! YOWZA! And a pair of shoes too for $3.97. And then a pair of warm up pants for the boy at OldNavy for $3.97.

Planning a super duper small shindig for the lilmissy’s birthday for next month. So kuwawa , not our usual blasts that we’ve had for lilman, but it’s okay. We’ll invite the kids from next door have some pancit and cake and a few other goodies and we should be good to go. Been trying to think up some goodie bag things, found 24 count packs of Cray.ola crayons @ Walm.art for 20 cents and 6 pack of Miracle Bubbles for $1.89. Was thinking I need to go to Maru.kai and see what other goods I can find and some candy/snacks and those should be good to go!

Aloha Friday!!!

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*Comes up for a breath of air

Busy, busy, busy. I even tried to update the keiki blog at blogsome, but I can’t remember my login stuffs so I just created them a blogger account. Ahahaha. so lazy. I need to get a prettier look to it. But I need to breath some of this free time I have, which I should actually be spending doing laundry and packing. But nope. I’m not. BLAH!

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12:13AM

and I’m done. I cried. It’s sad. the end.

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Why I might be MIA

I forgot how addicting Animal Crossing could be. I had it for the GameCube and used to stay up just wandering round and round. Now I find myself doing the same thing. I can’t seem to get past a level on both Diner Dash and Cake Mania… so I’m subject to wasting time with this game.

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Fritzi

My stinkin media reader is on the fritz. Ah poo! It did this to me in Hawaii too and obviously I wiggled it enough to get some photos out of it. It happened again a couple weeks ago but again I wiggled and banged it enough that I could milk the photos out. I’ve been banging and wiggling for the past hour and still nothing . And I’m too lazy to bust out the other wires and the actual cameras and hook them up to the laptop to milk out photos. Lil man had a handle of the P&S and took some random, crrrrrrrazy photos. He likes to think that he has inherited the camera. HA! As if. I still need it to take video, but more or less I allow him to “play” with it. It amuses him quite a bit. At the party last weekend let’s just say there was a lot of photos of beer and the camera even went into the bathroom. Yeah.

The reason I wanted to load photos was b/c tonight was homemade burrito night. First time event, and it went well. I took a picture of the burrito all prettied up, before it got devoured but it sits in the media card. So no salivating for you. I thinly sliced a London Broil and marinated it in some fajita seasoning. Cooked up some onions and threw in the marinated beef. Cracked open a can of whole black beans, rinsed them, and mixed them up with a tablespoon of BBQ sauce. Made a package of Spanish rice. CHopped up some cilantro and tomatoes. And assembled. There was also sour cream and cheese. And instead of regular old flour tortillas, I used spinach and sun dried tomato and basil ones. YUM! I thought for sure the lil man would get freaked by the color of the spinach ones, they’re green, but he devoured that sucker! Lilmiss had the meat, rice, and beans separately, although she loves tortillas. I just envisioned mess wth her. She ate 2 servings. Like WHOAH, and she did NOT disappoint with the mess. Gah!

So yeah no flickring for awhile I guess, until I figure something out.

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Postal Love

Of the UPS variety. I ♥ my new purse, hehehe, camera bag. It looked smallish in the box, I got the 5million one and I had to totally check the website to make sure that it was right. I thought it came with a shoulder pad thinger. I was wrong. And again, for some reason, I thought it would have been bigger. Not that I’m complaining b/c it fits my new lovey and the cords for the battery, a pack of gum, a pack of Hello Kitty mints , my wallet, and my small P&S camera, with room to spare to shove other things in it . Yeah I know it’s supposed to be for lenses and speedlights and other camera loveys but I don’t have any of that stuff yet, so half camera bag/ half purse it shall be .

I can’t imagine how small the 2million is now. Wow. Talk about compact huh?

Now I have no real excuse now to leave home without the camera. YAY! I totally missed out 2x this week b/c I didn’t want to lug it around in its temporary home, in addition to my purse. We went into the city on Monday and the weather was lovely and then today took a cruise down the coast, missed opportunities, but no more!

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Cooking, baking, anticipation, and leaky

I cooked again today. Woo hoo go me and it went well with the lil ones. I cooked up some teriyaki chicken wings. One of the easiest things to make, and I squeezed a couple of oranges into the marinade, unfortunately I couldn’t taste it much. The lil man had 2 servings of the chicken and rice. Lil miss cleaned up her plate with my help. My help being that I spooned her food for her. I’ve been letting her self feed for awhile now, but cleaning her and the uncertainty of how much she’s been eating strayed me from that today. She cleaned up the whole bowl today! YAY! Shh… don’t tell the big mister but there’s a hefty container of some leftover wings in the fridge .

On baking, I been wanting to bake something with raisins lately but not cookies. The other day I made some waffles and they were a big hit all around so I thought I might throw in some raisins in to the mix. That still didn’t happen though.

Anticipation for my camera bag! Acck, it’s en route and should be here either tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest.

And leaky is in reference to the lil missy’s nose. From fevers and now to a cold or something. Yeah she had teething induced fever a couple weeks and what I thought was a shake and break in the sickies, she’s got a leaky faucet of a nose. Poor thing. And b/c she’s been wiping and we’ve been wiping redness has occured under her nostrils. Which should make for some noisy sleep tonight.

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What else

Geez, just thought of something. Need an external hard drive of my own! And let’s not forget an extra battery. Damn me.

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Expensive Hobby

So far the shots I’ve taken with my new toy *look 2 posts down* have come out beautifully. Unfortunately this is going to be one expen$ive little hobby.

*I just ordered this bag in the brown/olive color. Thanks to the gc that my sister gave me, it cut the price down just a teensy bit.

*I was told I might want to consider getting this book from a fellow flickr friend.

*My favorite photo mama in Florida told me I also might want to consider getting this lens and this lens.

*Eventually I’d like to get a wireless remote and this speedlight.

Don’t know much else in the way of lenses though. Any suggestions?

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