I’m back to work on this Thursday, but it’s just for today. It’s not as quiet as I thought it would be. One of my co-worker, Ms. E, is here which I thought she’s off this entire week. Been here for two hours and I have not done a thing. There are a few prescription claims I have to submit, almost $600+ money right there. Maybe I can get my pair of Clarks I want so bad. Yeah, not that easy. What will I do for the rest of the day? Probably write paid posts and act busy.
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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Vacationing in Texas
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I told DB I would love to visit Texas, a nice vacation just the two of us or with SD and BF. DB’s favorite kind of vacation is to able to hook up with beach vacation rentals instead of staying in hotels. Corpus Cristi is one of the coastal towns he said is his place to go. Renting a vacation home or a condo beats paying the prices for hotels. If we rent a vacation home, we can even have other folks to stay with us. Plus, there are kitchen amenities, a living room, patio, the beach directly outside the house, and some of these rentals do allow pets, too. It would be a great place for fishing too as it faces the ocean. Yeah, this would be a great place to take a break from dodge.
The day after Christmas
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Christmas is over. We didn’t do much for this Christmas. I spent most of the day surfing the web, upgraded my current WP 2.2 to 2.3, changed the template and added falling snowflakes to my blog since it started to snow on Christmas day. Since i have been here, this is the 2nd year it snowed on Christmas day. We had about 4 inches of snow from this snow fall.
After so much of surfing, it’s time to do some thing else. I baked another cake, a pound cake or butter cake. To be honest, I don’t like the outside of it. It’s like a crust. See the pictures and you know what I mean.
The cake texture was ok. When we nuke the slices of cake, the sides are softer, eatable. If not, it goes right to the trash.
Then comes our Christmas dinner. We thawed out the ham, the gift from my boss’ boss. I didn’t cook anything for this year.
We wanted to have green beans casserole, but the stores ran out of french-cut green beans. No choice, I bought a pre-made salad, a can of sweet potatoes and mash potatoes (KFC). What we really made was put the sweet potatoes in the dish, added butter and brown sugar and nuked it.
Here’s our meal on this Christmas day.
Needless to say, after the load of sodium from the ham, we were so thirsty, drank tons of water till we went to bed. We watch movies with the fire going till 1:30 this morning.
The left over ham, all put in 3 one gallon ziploc bags: one will be given to SD and we will freeze one of them, and the other leave out for sandwiches. And the bone, it’s for soup.
Now is time to get off this chair and help shovel the driveway and patio. The snow blower is konked out on us.
Filed under Holidays
Dec 26, 2007
At last, good weather
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It’s Christmas eve, the weather: clear blue sky, little wind but it can be deceiving; it’s actually 5F degrees out and the windchill is -10F degrees. No more snow. The snow storm we had yesterday has nove moved to Michigan, they can have it, too, so they could enjoy a white Christmas.
I wanted to go window shopping yesterday but didn’t since the road were so bad plus the snow were blowing all over the place making it hard to see ahead. I was at home just putzing, watching movies, made banana breads, yeah, not one, but two, and had curry for dinner.
This time around the two banana bread turned out much better. Got some tips from Simmie where she told me to add a little sugar into the mashed bananas and some extra milk to the mixture. I thought she would be coming over to our place last night coz I had a few pieces cut up for her to take along for her trip to Nashville. Oh well, sweetie, next time. The roads and the visibility were so bad, Forrest’s sister told her not to drive to my house to drop off the vacumm cleaner and shampoer. Her flight was delayed to 11 p.m., hope she made it out to Nashville.
OK, back to my baking/cooking. I got bored playing computer games and sitting, that’s why I brought the bananas out and decided I should bake them all. The bigger loaf has all the right ingredients – followed the recipe to the T; however, the smaller of loaf, hah, I ran short of flour and bananas. It turned out ok, according to the tester (DB), it is not as bananany as the first one, and it tasted more like a cake.
Since I was in the mood to cook, I asked DB what he wants for dinner. It was either rice or noodles. I don’t fancy any grilled/baked chicken, and all the blah food. He said he was not up to all those blah food either escpecially since the return from our vacation. His taste buds have opened up a million times to a variety of taste.
I cooked this curry mixed from Hup Loong. I don’t have anymore beehoon, and plus he prefers rice, so I boiled rice, cut up some chicken, added schrimp and tofu pok for this dish.
The end result:
DB said it was very good. I told him to thank Hup Loong and, of course, my sister, for mailing these packages of mixed for me lazy bones. You know, the funny thing was, the last I cooked this that was before we went for our vacation, he detested the smell of this mix especially when I was frying it with the onions. He said it stunk to high heaven. It stinks because the mix has belachan (shrimp paste) in it. Last night, he said it smells so good. He must have gotten used to the smell of cooked belachan at my mom’s house.
Today, I will be going out window shopping. Just to get out of the house. Db will be shoveling the driveway and the patio. I’m getting antsy of being at home for too long.
Another banana bread in the making
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DB wants me to make another bread later today or tomorrow. On his way out to SD’s apartment, he called and told me not to go out since the roads are really crappy – icy in some parts of town going to the grocery store. He said he will stop and get some bananas and if I be so kind, make another one. I take it as a good way to practice baking!
Filed under Just
Dec 22, 2007
Used car for BF
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BF is trying to sell his old Pontiac. That car is a real piece of junk which is not worth putting a lot of money into it. That guy is looking for a used Chevy truck. We told him to check out Used Car Warranty, too if he wants better protection for his new car. Depending on how old the truck is, he might need a manufacturer’s warranty and usually newer cars/trucks has warranty that covers at least up to 50,000 miles.
1st day of winter
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Today is the first day of winter and there is snow flying furiously right now. It’s not those light one either, they are those heavy and wet. The temp this morning when we got up was 33 degrees F, and will continue to drop throughout the day. At least we will have fresh white snow for Christmas. Last year’s Christmas was only a layer of dirty gray snow. The trees for now are all white and the wind is blowing. I am hoping I don’t have to be called in for work today!! Great time to start a fire and watch movies.
Filed under MN Weather, Winter
Dec 22, 2007
Workout for the holidays
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DB said he has put on so much weight since our vacation to Malaysia. Yes, I agreed with him. We did put on a lot, however I lost some of mine when I returned to Minnesota with a stomach flu. I think I’m back to my usual weight before I left for vacation. For DB he said he is gaining even more now since it is the holidays and the holiday food I brought home for him to much: cookies, brownies, cakes, and other desserts. Maybe he might like to check out the leg magic from buylegmagic.com. This product targets the lower body like the thighs, abs and buttocks and losing the extra weight quicker. This exercise equipment is mobile, very light and you can bring it anywhere you want in the house.
Photohunt: Light
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It’s been four weeks I have not participated in this hunt. I better get back to it as it sure ticks my mode to look through what pictures I have in my albums.
This is picture I took while I was in Kuala Lumpur (Dec 5, 2007). The Sultan Abdul Samad building at night, all lit up, very majestic looking with Moorish architecture. I always like this building and especially now with the soaring KL Tower in the background.
Filed under PhotoHunt
Dec 22, 2007
Online classes at Capella’s
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Nadine’s buddy and her are thinking of going back to graduate school. I really hats off to them. Working full time and part time as real estate brokers, and yet they still have time to go back to school. They are thinking of masters in psychology at Capella University in Minneapolis. It would be close for them since they both live in Minneapolis. They think that online classes are much easier and they have more time for their other work duties.
It is true that when you take online classes, you do not have to attend any on campus classes unless your course requires it. Capella is an accredited online university and I know one of my coworker has completed her Human Resources degree through Capella university online. She has no regrets at all. For those who are not keen on taking classes on campus, they should try online classes from Capella University at www.capella.edu.
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Holiday started
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Yeehah, my holidays have started. I took today off since I still have 3 more vacation days to burn. I will have the entire weekend, the holidays, and the day after Christmas off. Long frigging weekend.
Friday today but it sure feels like Saturday to me. I went to work for Corrine at Satay2Go this evening. I told her I will work for only if she needs help, especially when school starts on January 16th. It will be a challenge trying to get my reading in and work in the weekends.
Tomorrow is the day SD and her fiancee are moving to their townhome. I’m happy for them. DB will go over to help out. He rented some moving rugs for them. I’m not going – have stuff to do at home and have to work for Corrine, too.
What did I do this morning? Shopping and went to the pharmacy to get my prescription but I still have not receive my insurance card (I had insurance coverage under DB’s company, but the cut off was Nov 30). So, now I have more paperwork to do for claims. Haih…..
Oh, I made a banana bread and it was a disaster initially. I fold the flour in to the mixture and poured it to the pan and just realized I forgot to add eggs!!!!! Duh!!!!!!! Threw the entire mixture into the disposal and start a brand new batch. The recipe asked for 3 bananas, I only have 2 left. It turned out not too bad, of course short of bananas, but it was a little too dry I think. The stupid oven’s temp is not what it says. Damn thing. Oh well, DB still like it. We will have that for breakfast for a few days.
Filed under Vacation
Dec 21, 2007
One year already
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Wow, can’t believe I have been blogging for a year now. Dec 3rd was the day I started with Blogspot then in April I moved to WordPress.com and when I bought my own domain I moved everything to WordPress.org. Also, it’s been 6 months since I started writing paid posts. This blogging business really kept me busy body, plus another thing is when I run out of ideas to cook, go to these cooking blogs for recipes. Will I continue to blog? Yeah, for now. It’s the only cheap form of communication with my sis and friends. Yeah, I have became rather cheapskate now, and will continue with the paid posts till I school work conquers the idea of money.
Filed under Blog
Dec 20, 2007
Legwear anyone?
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Renee, my coworker, brought her daughter, Abbey, in yesterday. She is really a very pretty girl, and everyone was ooing and ahhing at her, and how intelligent she is since she skip a year (not sure which grade) and went right to her junior year. Many of the ladies were asking her where she bought Abbey’s tights. They are very cute and Renee was wearing one, too. She bought them at hue.com, a website for all sorts of legwear. It also has sleepwear and eyewear sold on their site. But Renee told us their legwear items are what she loves. Abbey said she loves the socks and lounge wear she bought from hue.com. Hue.com’s fashion is very modern and trendy.
Stuff in my parents’ home
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Of all books, I read this when I got to me parents’ home. The first time I read this was I was 15 years old – Form 3. This was one of the English book I needed to read during class. The stories are good. I forgot how good this book was: it test your comprehension and my comprehension really sucks. You think I did those questions? Hell no.
Then, I saw this larder. If my old brain buckets tells me, this larder has been in this house even before I was born. My mom repainted it from its original wood. It used to have a very dark colored wood and it actually makes the kitchen rather gloomy. But that larder stocks all the daily usage of plates, bowls, oil, sugar and other whatnot for cooking.
The kitchen: not much changes to it. The marble table dates back from my great grandmother’s time, I think. And the food cover on the table has been there forever. The big bulging thing right at the top right of the picture is where all the shopping plastics goes to. This kitchen is always hot. For me, I always have the table fan, which is next to the refrigerator, on each time I sit there for meals.
The living room: The two vases between the TV, were from my dad’s father. I told my mom once I wanted them, but now that I’m here across so many hills, mountains and seas, how to bring them back here lah?? Plus, the four wall panels – I think they are the 4 most beautiful women in China (a million years ago!) And the painting of the two boats (not sure what you call them things that can be found in HK) were bought in HK so many umpteen years ago.
There are more pictures I want to put here, but there are still in DB’s laptop: that damn laptop is having a fit now. So, will put up more pictures as I get them downloaded to Photobucket.
Filed under Memory Lane, Vacation
Dec 20, 2007