Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

That’s how both my knees sound.  Hopefully the below is the remedy for all the sounds and the major pain that comes with the crackling, unless my doctor approves me for knee replacements.  That will be too fat of a chance. 

I have never try Osteo Bi-Flex before,  and this bottle of 150 caplets is not cheap either.  I paid 20 some bucks and it is on sale too.  I sure hope this is gonna lubricate my old joints back to the how it felt before I started pounding on the roads for years.  I know, i’m not old, but sure damn hell feels like I’m 80 years old, can’t bend my knees, squat, walk up or down the stairs and no more running.  You think I feel like an old lady or not?? 

The weekend ended with The Giants winning Super Bowl XLII (42).  Yes, I’m so happy.  Both DB and I thought the game starts at 6 p.m. CST, and of course when we flipped the channel to our local Channel 9 FOX, the game had already started with The Giants leading 3 to nothing.  The final score was 17 Giants and 14 Patriots.  Too Randy Moss (81), you didn’t get  your Super Bowl.  Try harder next year, dude!!!  I just enjoyed watching how Tom Brady, the Patriots quarterback, gets sacked so many, many times by the Giants’ defensive team. 

Giants’ coach Tom Coughlin cheering after the second touchdown.  So, I’m estatic, gotta blog about it, I guess.  If you are interested, read it all here.  

Anyways, what I really wanted to blog about is I made my sister’s Rich Chocolate Cake.  This was how mine turned out, totally ugly to the max!!!

Too malu to even blow it up!!  Craters all over the top.  Then I sapu-ed some chocolate frosting on top, it didn’t look so bad. DB and I both had a piece and he had a second helping, plus cleaning up whatever that was left on the knife.

And this is what’s left this evening,  three quarters gone by the big rat even though it looks go damn ugly, but it tastes good, per the guinea pig.

I was looking for answers why all my cake comes out with big hug craters and the bottom like tak masak (not cook).  While reading Lilian Chan’s food blog, she has a recipe for Butter Cake and she mentioned about how the top of the cake will crack if the height of the batter is more than half of the tin.  Well, now I know why all my cakes has that super thick crust and uncooked middle or bottom.  And here I am blaming it on the oven! 

Weekend is over with and this will probably be my last post for the week coz I have to get my butt going for my exam on Wednesday night.   I have not even started revising the chapters on the types of ROCKS, those darn igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and the minerals that goes with them!  At least Physical Geology is better than General Science, I think.

I was checking my banking stuff online and saw the insurance for both vehicles were paid for the month of February.  Out of the blue, I was wondering whatever happened to our home insurance.  Is DB paying it every month, which he didn’t tell me about it?  I asked him over dinner last night and came to find out the home insurance is added into the mortgage.  We are paying a little more on mortgage but we don’t have to worry about the additional bill we have to pay every month.  My only other question is, do we have flood insurance?  DB said no coz our home is not situated in a flood zone.  Hhmmm, but you never know…..

Pete, the neighbor across from us works at the steel company which I have no idea where it is.  DB told me where but it went in one ear and came out the other.   DB was out talking to Pete yesterday and I over heard their conversation about how he needs to learn new machines like he plasma cutting machine, the most high-tech steel cutter in the state.  To be honest I don’t even know why he needs to learn it since I always sees him in a suit and tie.  He must be in a managerial position, supervisor, who knows, but looks like he needs to work the machines, too if he is in management.

Since my department is all hyped out about where to go for their vacation and the two main queens of vacation have  already sort of booked up the out of office calendars, I should probably think of some thing myself.  I have 160 hours of vacation this year plus 16 hours personal time.  20 days of vacation what can I do with it?  Have a spring break out at Outer Banks in North Carolina?  I know that’s where DB thought of going once some time ago when we were talking about where to vacation if we have the money.  It will be nice to have a vacation home where pets are allowed, too.  Our dream was to rent a motor home, drive to our destination with the boys and spend a week on the beach with them.  That is what I call a vacation.