Let's cut the cheese!!!

For Christmas Eve, my husband and I went over to our longtime friends home to visit and spend some time with them. They are Filipino and as a tradition in the Philippines, they eat this special cheese called Queso de Bola which is this REALLY aged cheese for like 40+ years and according to my dad! there's no real special reason on why they eat it on Christmas, they just do!

So as we were seated at the dinner table, my friend kept saying, " Ok, let's cut the cheese!" Of course, me being me, I had absolutely no choice but to reply, " please don't, we are at the dinner table!!" Of course myself, her husband and mine all chuckled, but it didn't seem to phase her, so she just looked like us quizzically and we continued on with our dinner.

After dinner and dessert, she again became excited and once again said, " I'm going to cut the cheese now," to which...like I said! me being me! I had no choice, " please don't cut the cheese, or at least not in front of us!!" Again, we started laughing but she just looked at us like we were crazy, until her husband asked her, " do you know what that means? That's a saying for farting!" She gave a half hearted chuckle and said " oh you guys ok well I'm going to go cut the cheese now!" LOL.....that was one of the highlights of my Christmas Eve and I just thought I would share...Until next time beloved.....please don't cut the cheese!

New year, New me

Everyone is mainstreaming all of their highlights for the year 2013, but for me, I'm just ready to get this year over with!

I didn't have any highlights for the year, nothing that I can say was TOTALLY AWESOME, or amazing...Although, it didn't have as much heartbreak or as many depression setbacks as last year, if I had to reflect, I would say this past year for me has been MEH!

If you have been following me, I'm sure you have read how I was mistreated, betrayed, stabbed in the back and just straight out hurt this year, but I really don't think those things were such bad things! You see my beloved, if it weren't for those moments, I wouldn't be the strong, more confident person that I am today. It's because of those trials and tribulations that I found out a little bit more about myself, I learned about my limits, my own expectations and who I really am! I am the type of person that knows what I want and who I am and I am willing to put in the sweat and pain to get it, but the moment you hurt me, or make me feel taken advantage of, then it's so long, goodbye, don't let my fist slug you on the way out!

It says in Isaiah 43:18  "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past"and also in Ezekiel 36:26 " I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."

This past year has made me a new person, with a new spirit and an even deeper love for my Lord and Savior.  So good bye 2013 you are now history and I am ready for the adventure that 2014 brings!!

Happy New year my beloved, may it be a year filled with much joy, peace and above all else....LOVE!!!!! Until next time.....

Oatmeal Banana Bread Cookie Recipe

Hello my beloved friends around the world! How the heck are you? As for me, I'm doing well, the seasons are finally changing and Baking Season is full on!! So I made these cookies once before and everyone LOVED them, but I never wrote down the recipe, so I had a baking day with my mom the other day and while I was making them, she wrote down all the ingredients and what I did. Now that I have the actual recipe, please feel free to try it and make it your own...Lots of love and until next time!

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1/2 cup white sugar

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp ginger

 1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 stick butter

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 egg

3 cups oatmeal

1/4 cup milk

4 mashed riped banana

Optional Ingredients: Chopped walnuts, raisins or anything else you want to add for texture and crunch

Prep time 15 min

Bake time: 15 min

Instructions: 

1. In large bowl mix all dry ingredients first, then add, egg, milk and vanilla. Mix well, then add 3 cups of Oatmeal, use which ever brand you like, doesn't really matter.

2. Mash four bananas in a separate cup. The more ripe the banana the better! The ones I used were pretty much black.

3. Combine and stir with fork until all ingredients are mixed well together.

4. Put baking wax paper on a cookie sheet or simply grease your cookie sheet ( I line them for easier clean up), then With a rounded measuring spoon or tablespoon sized scooper, start to line the cookie sheet with cookie batter

5. Preheat oven to 375 degrees and once heated, place cookie sheets in for 15 minutes or until golden brown on the bottom. 

6. Take cookies out and let cool for a minute on wire rack. Cookies should be really soft and the consistency between a cookie and bread ( maybe I should call this my banana bread oatmeal cookie recipe instead huh)? Next place on a plate and watch them disappear before your eyes because they are so yummy!

Simple Bread Recipe for beginners

Hello all my beautiful friends around the world, as you may or may not know, my husband and I have been trying to live the simple life, and in these hard times with the Government Shutdown , the economy going down the crapper, etc, etc., we need to do everything we can to save. To continue on with this point, I decided that instead of buying bread every week, I would just bake it at home from scratch, which I think is really saving us a couple of bucks considering how expensive bread is getting. So being a beginner bread maker, I did some extensive research online and found this really easy bread recipe that I thought I would share with you all. As always feel free to make it your own as I did and hope you enjoy:

Prep Time: 3 hours

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 3 hours, 45 minutes

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup warm water
• 1 package active dry yeast
• 1 tsp salt
• 1-1/2 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp butter or vegetable shortening
• 1/2 cup milk ( if your lactose intolerant like me, use Almond Milk)
• 3 cups all-purpose flour, approximately

Preparation:

1. In large bowl, add the warm water. Slowly stir in dry yeast. Continue to stir until yeast is dissolved.
2. Add salt, sugar, shortening, and milk to bowl. Stir.
3. Mix in the first 2 cups of flour.
4. If needed, begin adding more flour, one tablespoon at a time, until the dough chases the spoon around the bowl.
5. Turn dough out onto floured board and knead, adding small spoonfuls of flour as needed, until the dough is soft and smooth, not sticky to the touch.
6. Put dough in buttered bowl, turn dough over so that the top of dough is greased with butter. Cover and let rise in warm spot for 1 hour.
7. Punch down dough. Turn out onto floured board and knead.
8. Preheat oven at 375 degrees farenheit.
9. Form dough into loaf and set in buttered bread pan. Cover and let rise for about 30 minutes.
10. Score dough by cutting three slashes across the top with a sharp knife. Put in oven with foil cover to prevent over browning and bake for about 45 minutes or until golden brown.
11. Let cool on cooling rack and enjoy! I ate mine with olive oil and Balsamic vinegar...yum!

Perseverance

Hello my wonderful friends around the world! It feels like we haven't spoken in ages! How are you? As for me, so much has happened in the last couple of months, don't even know where to begin?!

Hmmm, let's start from the beginning then; so in the beginning God created the heavens and earth. Too far back? I agree, let's fast forward to the beginning of this month better. So as I mentioned before, my husband and I were well on our way of starting our own company and everything was being set up and what not. We were doing medical billing services for this collection agency and for reasons only known to the owner, we HAD to be in his office?? We requested to work from our own location, but the owner insisted the work needed to be done in his office so we went, but it turned out they didn't want me, they only wanted my husband, the bad part for them was that they had no say so because it was OUR business and my husband needed me there. Truthfully, myself and the owners girlfriend are not on very good terms which is why they were not happy I was there, but what could they do? Well let me tell you what they could and DID DO!! They or should I say the owners girlfriend made it a point to do everything in her power to get me out so one day she pouted and huffed and puffed and made a HuGE deal out of the absolutely nothing so we left and truth be told, we couldn't be happier!

In all honesty, we weren't very happy there, the environment was very hostile and negative, I felt like I was in High School everytime I stepped into that office if you can catch my drift? All they did was gossip, mess around, curse and talk about the most inappropriate things all the time and it was just so negative! 

So there we were without work again but this time we just praised The Lord and knew it was from him so we didn't worry we had nothing but peace in our hearts, then my older sister called me and asked us to do her a favor? I'm not one to pry so if someone needs my help I'm all in, so I was like sure whatever. The next day she came with her training manager and showed us this new company she joined. Being that we were currently out of work we were intrigued with this new opportunity and decided to go all in and joined the company as well. When we got to the office for the open house we were met with the warmest smiles and hugs and I think the most positive people I ever met on this earth! Everyone spoke to each other with encouraging words and when someone was down and frustrated, everyone gathered around to uplift them and as I sat there witnessing all this, I was like oh my gosh this is like the complete 360 of where we just came from!! This excited me because we just need positivity in our lives right now, so we got even more excited and with our excitement, plus all the positivity, positive things started happening to us. My husband got a job the following week, plus he's still getting job offers. I'm getting job offers left and right and we are even getting money pretty much out of thin air that we didn't even expect to get. God is so good!! That's all I can say!

 It says in Jeremiah 29:11 for I know the plans I have for you, declares The Lord, plans to prosper you, not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. I truly believe that God is doing great works in our lives right now and I'm just blessed and excited to see where he leads us next! In the meantime, I want to leave you all with this last bible verse my beloved "Do not be anxious in anything, but in every situation prayer and petition, with thanksgiving give your request to God" Phillipians 4:6

Yummy meatloaf recipe

Hello my beloved, hope your lives are happy and well?! I just made a yummy meatloaf and wanted to share the recipe before I forget what I put in it:

As you all know from my previous blogs, I don't really give precise measurements or ingredients; I guess you can say I'm somewhat of a mad scientist when it comes to cooking or baking in the kitchen? At any rate, I really should of written it down as i went, but heck I was in experimenting mode so it didn't cross my mind until now..oh well, here is more or less what I put in it:

Ingredients:

1 lb of ground beef

1/3 cup of diced white onion or more if you prefer, like I always said, just make it your own

1/3 cup Diced tomato

Little bit of diced jalapeño ( I can't have spice so I put very little, but I think next time I'll try a little more)

Cayenne  pepper

Garlic pepper

Pepper 

Garlic powder

1 egg

Bread crumbs

Serving size: 2-3

Directions: 

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees and while you are waiting for the oven to heat up, grab a bowl and put the pound of ground beef in it, along with one egg and mix it together, I find it best to mix all the ingredients by hand. next add cayenne pepper ( as much as you would like in it), along with the diced tomato, onion, jalapeño, bread crumbs and garlic pepper, again mix with hand and fold all ingredients. Then put all mixed ingredients into a bread pan or whatever oven pan you use. On a side note, I lined my pan with foil for easier clean up and even cooking. Shape your meat batter into the form of a loaf, then add your pepper and garlic powder on top. Oh wait I think once I did this step I ended up mixing those ingredients in the meat as well, so I will leave it to your own judgement on how you want to do it whether to add it with the other ingredients or just sprinkle on top. After you formed your mixed meat into a loaf, cover the top with ketchup. Make sure it's evenly spread on top. After you get your loaf to perfection, pop it into the oven for one hour. After the hour, take it out and drain all the juices that accumulate at the bottom of the pan and check if meat is fully cooked in the middle. If all is good, cool for a minute and enjoy. Or if you are like me and like to over cook to make sure your meat is actually dead, then after you drain it, pop it back into the over for another 15 minutes and voila you will have the most yummiest meatloaf!!! I couldn't stop eating it and my husband wasn't even hungry, but he inhaled his portion..the below is a picture of the finished product or at least what was left of it.....until next time my beloved

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Hurt people, hurt people

Hello my beloved, how are you all doing this September month? The season is finally changing and I'm so glad because I don't think I can take anymore of the heat! These past few weeks I've been really dehydrated and having dizzy spells which is why I haven't been on here that much lately. But I'm back now and that's the past, so lets move forward on today's topic of interest: why do people hurt people?

I don't know if it's the heat wave or what, but this whole summer or better yet, this whole past year, I've been pushed down, mowed over, stabbed in the back, crushed, mutilated and the worst one of all.....hurt. For awhile I reflected on myself and what I've done wrong to cause these certain individuals to attack me so hateful and spitefully? I prayed, I meditated, I asked the age old question of why? And after it all, I've come to the conclusion that it's not my fault, heck it might not even be their fault?

For my situation, I looked back long and hard to try to find where I could of done these individuals wrong, but the truth is, all I ever did was try to be there for them, love them, give them loving advice and support, but they took it as me "trying to control them, take over their lives, get involved in their business, when it's none of mine?!" To that, I reply, then why did you come to me with your problems if you didn't want my help? It's not like I was forcing them to conform or change...the fact of the matter is, as you know I am Christian and all I tried to do was give them Godly advice and spiritual guidance in a loving and encouraging way, but my mistake was that these individuals are NOT the spiritual type so any advice other than "do what you want," is considered " judgemental and critical" which makes me un Christian because supposedly I'm suppose to just accept them as they are. Well yes, that is true, I do accept you as you are, but I don't accept your sin. The problem with unbelievers is that they choose to pick and choose parts of the bible that rule in their favor, but the problem with that is, they don't read the entire context of the word before they start accusing and throwing judgements. Instead, they want to continue hurting and in return hurt you more, thinking that would make them feel better. 

For that, I'm sorry but you can try to break me, hurt me and say whatever you want, but I'm not going to compromise my faith or beliefs and conform to your worldly ideals just to make you feel better. As a Christian it is my job to love you with the love of The Lord and out of Love, help guide you on the right path for your life which God wills for you. It's not my doing or your doing or any one's doing BUT Gods, the only thing is he gives you the free will to choose wether or not to accept it. So for all those who have been hurt or make it a point to hurt, just know the only way you will ever find true happiness in your life is through Christ Jesus as your Lord and savior and I promise you that your life might not get any easier as a Christian, but it will be more fulfilled and joyful. It's like I said in the beginning, I've been trampled on, dragged across the mud, have personally gone through hell and back. Honestly, I'm going through a couple of trials and tribulations as I write to you now, but beloved despite it all I have peace in my heart knowing God Rules it and joy in my life knowing God is in control and will take care of me and for those of you who want to hurt me for standing steadfast for The Lord, while then I will not say anything to you accept, Matt 5:44 "do good to those who hate you and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you." Just know my beloved, God knows our hearts and our pains and it says in 2 Corinthians 1:5 "for just as the suffering of Christ flows over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows"..........Until next time my beloved

If husbands want to survive another day..then read this

Husbands, do you have the kind of wives where you had a loooong day at the office and you come home and they are acting irratically, yelling at you and cursing you out? Did you go to a sports event that went into overtime and when you receive calls from your wife you ignore them until after the game.. because well... you're at a sports even, you need to focus on the game, not whats going on at home? Does she for an unknown reason start texting and calling you when you're out on the road even though you told her you were going to be back about an hour ago? 

If you answered yes to any of these questions, well let me tell you a secret to avoiding all the drama and making your wife be as cool as a cucumber when she sees you.  CALL HER!!!!! If you're going to have a looooooonnnggg day at the office and you're not going to be home on time, how about giving her a courtesy call and let her know you're running late! If you are going to a sports event and YOU KNOW you're going to be longer getting home, then you said you were..geeee I don't know...HOW ABOUT CALL HER and let her know??!!!!!!!!! 

The things that you don't seem to understand is if your wife is anything like me, and you told her you're going to be home at a certain time, most likely she has made plans and probably cooked dinner and made an intricate itinerary circled around the whole time that you said you were going to be home and when you DON'T have the common respect to call her and let her know the original plan changed and instead you leave her waiting and wondering with a million and one thoughts running through her head.....

then guess what..she is most likely going to be either REALLY mad or if she's like me, she is most likely going to turn into a big huge scary monster that if cornered and you don't have something nice to throw at her to diffuse the situation, she will most likely chew and spit you out. So husbands, take my advice, I'm not telling you this because I just want to talk about it..I'm telling you because I care about you and your marriage...so just think of her next time you want to take your time coming home.....until next time my beloved <3 

       

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Gas is a Natural Thing!

I was recently on facebook when I came across the funniest meme and it reminded me of two stories that I would like to share with all of you beloved. The meme went like this:

One day I had to fart really bad, but I was in the middle of class, so I got the idea that if I drop my book and fart at the same time, no one would notice.  So I dropped my book on the ground and everyone looked at me and then I farted really loud.

Did you laugh?  I know I did and I needed to.  Lately, I've been feeling like I'm in a trance and I just can't get out of it, but I read that and it made me laugh and I thought I would share.  But it reminded me of this one time when I was in Junior High School and right in the middle of class, one of my classmates just let one rip REALLY LOUD and everyone took a moment in silence and disbelief, but when we seen how red his face was, we all busted out laughing so hard!! Luckily, we were in science class and the teacher took the opportunity to teach us about how natural flatulence is and so on and so forth.  I can't believe I remember that one moment in time, that must of been really important if I remembered it more than 15 years later.

10 years later when I was grown and in the business world, I was sitting in a meeting in a circle, really close to my co-workers.  I knew I shouldn't of had that ice cream for desert at lunch, because I'm lactose intolerant, but I didn't know we were going to have a meeting so I took the chance.  As I'm pretty sure you realized where this story is heading, my stomache started feeling funny and making weird noises, but I couldn't do anything about it, because the more I tried to squeeze it in, the worse it got and well.....yeah  It was a loud one.  Luckily, my co-workers were respectful enough to pretend it didn't happen....but boy was my face red!!!  But hey..Flatulence is a natural thing!!!......Hopefully, this brought atleast a smile to your face today...Until next time my friends because my stomache is starting to make funny noises....

The joys of having children

Given I don't have children of my own...yet....I thought I'd share this silly story.

I was feeling pretty grumpy and inconvenienced earlier and really wasn't in the mood for anything, but we picked up our two year old nephew so he could spend the night at our house and we were on our way home, when he saw McDonalds. Like all American toddlers, he recognized the arches and got really excited, "DONALD'S!!!!!!! DONALD'S!!!!!!" Since we still needed to feed him dinner, we stopped, but went through the drive thru since it was late. 

He was so excited and we got to the first window and paid and started driving to the second window, when he became nervous and his eyes got really big and concerned and he started asking, " fries??!!!" Fries??!!!" 

So I had to explain to him that we paid in 

the first window and now we have to drive to the second window to get the food and he still seemed confused so he asked, "why?" So I told him, "because they don't want to mix the food with the money because that's just unsanitary," so again he asked, "why?!" So I told him, "because it's easier that way" and he asked, "why?" By now I figured he was just messing with me so I told him, it's so traffic can flow faster and the cars can just drive through and yet again he asked, "why?" So by now I had no more answers to give and I just said, " because!" At which he replied, "why?" So again I said , "because" at which he replied, "why?" And we went on like this for about a minute, until he got confused as to who was saying why and who was saying cause? Hahaha, the whole time my husband was laughing at us from the front seat and telling me, he never thought he would ever hear that conversation?! We all laughed and in that instant, my whole mood changed to nothing but joy. It's crazy how a child changes everything.....until next time


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The Good Wife

Have a long day at work from 9 a.m. To 5 p.m.....check, come home wash the car.....check.....feed the pets..check....wash the dishes...check......make dinner...check..clean the house...check....do some laundry..double check!!! Who says wives sit around doing nothing all day??!! 

Also for those wives who just work all day and expect everything to be done for them when they get home....ok I get you, you work hard and when you come home, you just want to sit back, relax and have a beer to unwind from the day, but come on...who are we kidding.....our husbands already do that so if we don't get in gear, our homes will become nothing more than a giant pile of crap!! 

Haha.....don't mind me, I'm just taking a break and trying to convince myself that all my efforts are worth while.....teehee.....okay breaks over...until next time my beloved...

The night I fell in love

So I was sitting on my couch after a long day, eating a bag if chips like a fatty when I got to the bottom of the bag and licked it clean. Now making a frowning face, I turn to my husband and say, "Marko, I ate all my chips!" Without even looking at me, his eyes still on the t.v. He replies, " awwwww, do you want to go buy some more?" He then looks at me with sympathy, I have $4 and some change we can go out and buy some right now?" 

Siiiighhh, it made my heart grow for him double! I don't know if I told you all this story before; I probably  need to check my previous blogs, but before we were married, my husband and I would have long conversations at night on the phone, like all young couples in love. 

One night, we were talking and I had a real bad cold and I told him, "I'm so hungry!!! You know what I can go for right now?" What?" he asked me in a doting voice. " I could really go for a First Street Burger with some fries and a gallon of orange juice, cough....cough, sniffff!" 

"Where is that at?" He asked curiously, " well it's on First Street of course, but its like 10:00 at night so I guess its too late?" I figured he wouldn't do it, but without even hesitating he said okay, I'll see you in an hour. With that, we hung up, but I didn't think he would really do it, but just as he said, an hour later, he called me to say he was at my door and when I opened it, he had a bag of first street burgers and fries and a gallon of orange juice. I was shocked and amazed and that was the night I fell madly in love for the first time in my life.

Korean BBQ..what a rip off

Don't get me wrong..the food was pretty good. We went as an appreciation for volunteering for an event and I am very grateful for it, because I was surrounded with wonderful people and had a wonderful time.

I never been to a Korean BBQ joint, but always wanted to try it so when I found out we were going to one, I was actually quite excited, but as soon as we sat down, I kinda started wondering about the whole ordeal? We sat down at a table and there was a grill in the middle of the table; now be mindful I never been to a Korean BBQ place before so when I saw it I didn't filter myself, I just right off the bat said....." What do we do, cook it ourselves? Shoot, I can do  this at home for free?!" But then one of the lunch participants looked at me and I realized that's just what we were going to do.

So basically, how Korean BBQ works, is that you order different types of meat and then they bring it to you and you cook it yourself and you just sit there and cook and while you are cooking the meat, they bring you a bunch of sides like salad, kimchee, radish, macaroni salad, noodles, rice, etc. and you just cook the meat and eat as you go. It was a fun experience, I just kept thinking to myself, " are we going to get a discount since we have to cook our meals ourselves?"

That's just me though, I'm cheap what can I say? Can you believe me, the meal was free and yet I still complain...hahaha.....but still, I would think that people go out to eat because they don't want to cook, but I guess this is more of a just hanging out with the gang and cooking kinda of place...so if your looking for a fun place to hang out with friends and cook and eat, then I guess Korean BBQ is a top choice, but if you just want to go and hang out without doing the work, then I say try another place.

Am I going to die???

As you know, before I started my business with my husband I worked in another job, which required a lot of extraneous physical labor from me. Although my body was getting into shape, it was also wearing and tearing my body and one of the things it did was mess up my toe!! I came home one day and took my shoes off my achy feet and when I looked down, my toenail on my left foot was black?!!! I freaked and didn't know what happened, but after gaining my composer, I remembered that I kept tripping on the sidewalks when I was making my deliveries and think that the trauma from that caused my toe to get injured? I told my managers, but they said it was all part of the job and I just needed to push through the pain and let my body get used to it. So I continued working, until I left to start my work with my husband and it's been three months later, but my toenail is still black and it's starting to cause leg pain? It hurts when I wear closed toe shoes or walk on it a lot so today, I couldn't take it anymore and I told my husband to cut it off!! I would go to the Doctors, but we don't have health insurance and considering our business is actually upside down right now, we can't really afford such a luxury as going to the doctors, so we did the next best thing and I dubbed my husband a "Doctor" for the day and told him to make my pain go away. Being the wonderful and supportive husband that he is, he put on his pretend Doctor hat and started cutting away at the dead nail and scraping out the old dry blood that apparently was the culprit for all my pain. Of course he took sanitary procedures to ensure the health and safety of preserving my toe and sterilized all his tools which was basically a nail clipper and one of those wooden toe picks that look like giant tooth picks. Then, he got rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide to kill any germs or bacteria that might have developed under my nail.

After he put the peroxide on, he said my toe started fizzing and that it was killing all the germs, then he elevated my leg and gave me a cold pack to put on my foot to help with the pain. I have to say Doctor Marko is quite good at his job, because my toe feels much better than what it did earlier although it is still sore. On the plus side, I got to eat ice cream afterwards as my reward for being good during the procedure..yay! 

I love my husband so much, because truth be told, I started freaking out and thought I was going to die?!!!!

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The perfect anniversary!!

Hello beloved, welcome back to my blog! I know it's been awhile since I wrote to you all, sorry for going M.I.A I have just been soooooo busy lately, I barely have a moment to catch my breath!!

Lets see what have I been up to? As I probably mentioned in a previous blog at some point, my husband and I started a company together and have been working towards building that up from nothing and I have to say....it IS taking some work so I will keep you all posted on that at another time, another blog! In the mean time, I have been doing a lot of volunteer work at my church and there have been a million and one events going on the last couple of months with weddings, birthdays, showers, etc....it's been so crazy!! But again that's another blog; tonight I want to tell you all about my wonderful anniversary that I had with my sweetheart recently! Are you all tucked in and ready for our bedtime story? Okay my beloved here goes:

It was ten years ago that I met and fell in love with my soulmate. I would tell you the story, but I already did in my earlier blogs so if you want the details I suggest you start there. Fast forward after that fateful night in 2003 where our hearts and eyes met,we are still going strong and even more in love than ever! 

A week or so before our special day, I asked my husband what we were going to do? Can you believe he had the audacity to sit beside me and say point blankly, " nothing!" Oh my goodness you should of seen how upset I got?! " how can you say nothing?!" I responded, " do you know how long we've been married? TEN YEARS!!! Some couples can't even last seven years...shoot Kim kardashian couldn't even last three months!!" "72 hours," is what my husband came back with, " what?!" I said, "Kim kardashian was married for like 72 hours." "No, she's still married, they didn't give her a divorce, she's still fighting it,  thats besides the point, we have been married for a whole decade and.... My husband cuts me off and asks " what's a decade?" " that's 10 years." " are you sure, are you sure, then what's a century?" " a century is like 100 years right?" No America has been around for a hundred years though; isnt that a millennium?" No, what's mil in Spanish? 1000...there you go then, stop changing the subject..how can you do this to me, we've been married for ten years that is BIG!! We need to do something special!!" We went on like this for the rest of the week or so, but then in the end, my husband really pulled out all the stops to make this anniversary special!

First we took two days off from business and just focused on "us time." On the first day which was our actual anniversary we went to the movies and watched " this is the end," starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, etc.....we really enjoyed it although I felt they kinda cursed a little too much for my taste? Afterwards we went home and rested a bit before heading downtown to the actual theatre and saw a musical play called " the scottsboro boys," it's the true story circa 1930s Alabama where 9 colored men were falsely accused of raping two white women and it gave us the story of what they went through during their trials....surprisingly, despite the history of the story, it was a comedy and I felt that it was very well written and everyone should see it if they could. Afterwards, it was late at night and we were starving, so we had a nice, sweet dinner at IHOP. 

The following day, we went to the movies once again and this time saw " man of steel," to be honest my husband LOVED it, but I felt like I've seen it all before in marvels other movies (I.e. Thor, avengers, etc.) but it was okay I guess? Afterwards we went to Disneyland and spent the entire night running around the park with my sister and her three daughters and had the time of our lives! The next day after that, we spent a quite day at home and then when the day cooled down a bit, we went to this old fashioned ice cream parlor called Fosselmans where they make home made ice cream like they did back in 1919 and it's a family owned business. We got their salty caramel and English toffee nut ice cream and I was in absolute heaven!!! Although, I think it went straight to my hips so I'm not feeling all that great about it anymore. Now we are back home, enjoying each other, but in our separate corners. Sigh, these past three days have been heavenly and I know to some, it really doesn't sound like much, but considering what big movie and theatre buffs my husband and I are, I'd say it was actually quite perfect and I wish it didn't have to end!!.....until next time



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I'm so over it

Lately I feel like people are really hating on me??!!!! I really don't understand why though, I've done absolutely NOTHING, but be kind and generous, yet I'm still a stupid B**** according to one of my haters? I really don't get it, but I think I'm so much stronger from it. If this was a couple of years back, I probably would of fallen to pieces and asked WHY?!! WHY ME??!!!!! You know with tears and mocos running down my face and all, but I think after everything that this life has thrown at me, I just accept it now.

People are going to hate on you no matter what, all we can do in return is keep being ourselves, living our lives and ignoring all of their bulls***, because truth be told, if they have the gulls to talk about you, it's because we affected their lives, but that doesn't mean they need to be affecting ours, so go ahead haters and hate, all that you are doing is polishing me to be more beautiful and strong in the end...all the while you'll be getting older and uglier! HA....what a thought huh, yet it's true! Until next time......

Sometimes it hurts

Today is such a beautiful day! The sun is shining, the sky is so clear and blue, and there is a nice ocean breeze that is softly coming through my window and wrapping it warmth around me. With this day being so beautiful, it's hard for me to understand why inside I want to just scream at the top of my lungs and pull my hair?! Nothing is wrong, it's been a pretty easy going day, I have just been home relaxing with my nephew and he's been asleep for the past three hours so i know it's not because of him? In fact he's been the total opposite, whenever I'm with him he just makes me laugh with his crazy ways.

It's when I'm sitting here quietly alone with my thoughts that I start feeling so.......I don't know, I can't explain it; is it my depression rearing its ugly head? Maybe it's because I'm 30 years old and my life is nowhere where I wanted it to be by now? Maybe it's because I can't do the things that I so deep in my heart want to do like finish school, start a family with my husband, have my husbands things worked out,  have financial freedom, etc, etc? I don't know?! the only thing that I do know, is that God withholds things from us for our own good and if my life isn't the way I planned, then God has a good reason for it.......that reminds me.....want to hear God laugh......tell him YOUR plans......until next time beloved

Easy Banana cupcake recipe

Hello all my friends around the world!! I was in my kitchen today and noticed my bananas were turning brown and instead of tossing them out ( cuz that's just wasteful)! I decided to do some good old fashion baking and made some yummy banana cupcakes! This recipe is really easy to do and the prep time takes no more than 10 minutes. Feel free to make this recipe your own by adding extra things like I did with the cinnamon ( I would of tossed in some ginger as well, but I couldn't find any in my cubbard) so here is how I did it...hope you enjoy:

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, (spooned and leveled)
• 3/4 cup sugar ( I used carnations brown sugar, but that's because I was out of regular sugar)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
• 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (about 4 ripe bananas)
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• A dash of ground cinnamon (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a standard 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners. In a medium bowl, whisk together all of the ingredients until smooth batter like consistency (there might be chunks of banana in there, that's okay too, just as long as all ingredient are mixed together well).
2. Using an ice cream scooper, spoon batter into muffin cups.
3. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove cupcakes from pan; cool completely on a wire rack. Once cooled, spread frosting of choice or enjoy as a muffin :)
   

Life's haha moments

Me all morning: where the heck is my cell phone?

When my 22 month old nephew wakes up from his nap...

Me: Nephew where did you put aunties phone?!!!

Nephew: puts his hands up like I don't know? Thinks about it and points under the couch and says " there!"

Me: looks under the couch but doesn't see anything??? No, Nephew it's not there you liar! So I start looking everywhere else....Nephew where's my phone help me find it?!!

Nephew: still persist its under the couch

Finally I get frustrated and use my iPad to call it and lo and behold, where did my phone end up being????....... Under the couch!!! Boy is my face red :p

I gotta see a man about a horse

Hello friends, how are you today?  I was blessed enough to get the day off from work and thought I should drop in and let you all know what the hell has been happening to me lately.  As you can see from my first sentence, I am still working; YAY! But yesterday, I felt like dropping everything and running for the hills!!!!

It was just a BAD day for me, which is why I think they gave me the day off?  I think they are trying to figure out if I'm going to still cut it or not?  The day before, I did alright; at least that's what I think? Yesterday though, it felt like it was my first day all over again.  I was already in a foul mood because the night before I had an "episode" and didn't really sleep well and then in the morning, I was loading up my truck with everything I was suppose to deliver for that day and I went up this little slope to get to my truck and BLAM!!  Everything fell over and scattered all over the parking lot!! So aside from being tired and achy from the previous day, I was freaking out over what just occurred! My supervisor was gracious with me and told me to relax and just start my route, but I still couldn't believe I did that?! Then I put the address in my GPS for the first delivery, but I put the wrong address and it led me somewhere else and I had to figure out how to get back on track. Once I started my deliveries, it got a little better, but I couldn't move as fast as before, because one, my body is still sore and two, I had to deliver extra things on top of the regular deliveries and that slowed me down a great deal more.  Then my scanner that I use to confirm that packages were delivered and track where I was, kept shutting down and I kept having to restart and wait for it to reload itself, which I felt took another eternity for me.  So on top of being tired, achy, weighed down and behind in my work, I was frustrated with all the little extra things that were happening to me, like the stupid wind that kept trying to blow everything out of my arms and finding where to deliver and it was in the 80's yesterday, which made it even MORE arduous for me!!  I just wanted the day to be over so bad!! Towards the middle, I felt like just abandoning ship, dropping everything and just telling them I QUIT!!  But instead, I sucked it up, called for back up and freaked out when my back up came and I realized how behind I actually was! When I got back to the office, I was comforted by my co-workers who informed me that EVERYONE has had one of those days and even shared their stories with me and were very understanding.  So I know I sucked yesterday, but that just means I could only get better right?  Truth be told, I don't know yet because they gave me the day off...teeheeehee...but tomorrow is still another day.........Until next time!

I'm just so sad

I feel like I'm stuck! Hello my beloved friends around the world, how have you been? As for me, I've been working. To be honest with you, I am truly grateful for my new job, but am quickly finding that I doubt I'm going to last very long at it? First off, it is VERY physically demanding and the wear and tear its doing to my body is agonizing! Secondly, it has to do with speed and accuracy and although I'm fine with that, the pressure of everything combined with the pressure of "am I going to make probation?" Is absolutely terrorizing! I find myself waking up feeling sick to my stomach, my hands clammy and in a cold sweat just thinking about the beating I'm going to get for the day. To make things worse, yesterday I was monitored by practically every person in upper management and today when I called for my clock in time, they told me NOT to come in today?

To be honest, I'm relieved to get the day off because EVERYTHING hurts and I had a nervous breakdown last night, so I kind of need a day to regain my composure. What cause the nervous breakdown you ask?

Lately, to relax, I've been playing this online game called Candy Crush; I don't know if you ever played it, but it's like a puzzle game, where you match different colors to get high scores or unlock things. So I've been playing it to take my mind off of things and last night I was playing a level where you had to bring down "ingredients," like cherries or nuts and get a certain score in the game to win, but the only thing is that you only have so many moves to do it in. I managed to get all but one ingredient down and get the high score, but I ran out of moves and lost the game. That's when I lost it! I know something so trivial can make it sound so pathetic of me, but that's the honest truth; I cried over a lost game. Well actually, it wasn't because I lost the game, but because I felt like that ONE game just about summed up my entire life. In fact, I even said, "story of my life," right before I broke down. I just feel like everything is at my fingertips and just when I get close enough to win, I get stuck and " run out of moves and lose." It's like no matter how hard I try, NOTHING ever turns out in my favor. I worked so hard in my last job and all it got me was pain and heartache, I spent the last year on a roller coaster ride feeling so inadequate and now that I have a job, I feel like it's slipping through my fingers because once again I feel inadequate. I just feel so sad!! I spent the majority of last night crying and I think I've cried more this past month than I have last year! I'm just so tired of feeling worthless and not good enough and like im never going to make it. Well that's it for now I guess, until next time......

Story of my life

Today I got into the car after work so that my husband and I could go to the store and my husband pointed out to me that a bird had apparently pooped on me and without even thinking, I responded with " yeah that sounds about right, just like life has already done!" He started laughing and I just looked at m for a second like, " what are you laughing at?"

That's how I've been feeling lately; I feel like I'm in a valley right now and no matter how hard I try to push up the hill to get to the top, something always seems to come at me, pushing me back down. As you know I recently got a new job...yay! The only thing is that I didn't realize how complex it is?! Scan this, scan that, enter this, sort this, bundle that, load, drive, you have two hours to finish this load, then back again and start over. My head is still spinning from all the new information I have to obtain.

I know I have only officially been there a week, but today all I wanted to do was cry! I went on my route to deliver and I couldn't find parking so I parked almost at the top of the hill and walked to the first house at the bottom and it wasn't until then that I remembered that I forgot what I was suppose to start delivering in my vehicle, so I had to run alllllll the way back to my vehicle, grab my delivery and run back to the starting point. By this point the day started getting warmer and I had two huge boxes to deliver and it was just my luck that it was the last apartment at the end of the block...sigh and let's just say that set the precedence for the rest of the day. Everyone at work is really nice and supportive and tell me that it will get easier and better and I guess I just need to cut myself some slack.

Aside from the excitement of my new job, I am also going through some other personal tngs that I'd rather not talk about out loud, but nevertheless, it is making me feel frustrated and like all my husband and I are being, is pushed around and put in limbo. Siiighhhh, I know that this is just a storm and all I need to do is get though it and wait for it to pass, but how many of these storms do I need to go through, until I start to see some sunshine?

I work six days a week and get to have Sunday off, but at this rate is it worth it? I mean don't get me wrong, I am VERY appreciative of this new job opportunity and for my employer taking the chance on me, but to live to work, instead of working to live? I've been there done that and was " married" to. Y last job, where I worked and let it consume me seven days a week and I did that for five years and what did I get in the end? Nothing except rejection, humiliated and deeply crushed. My new employer doesn't seem like the type that would do that to me and actually are making me feel comfortable, it i still have my 90 day probation and with the day I had, will I even make it that far? Until next time.......

Out before I'm even in??!!!!

Hello my beloved friends around the world!!! Wie Ghet es ihnen? Здравствуйте, Доброе утро, Добрый день, Добрый вечер, 환영합니다?! As you know I got a new job after being unemployed this past year and I was so excited to jump back into the working class; that was until I got there?!

I wanted to show my new employer that jam not only dependable, but also diligent, so I went into work practically an hour early. When I came in I asked for the supervisor and one of the employees told me to look for a certain person, but for legal rights, lets just call him Lance. So I started walking towards the description of the person, but then another person said, "I'm lance!" Then another person yelled out "No, I'm lance!" So for the first minute of my official day in the office, I went on a wild goose chase trying to find out who the real Lance was?! I finally found him and he told me to wait in the office for him, so I obliged and then he and another supervisor had a meeting with me on what to expect and what is expected of me. Truth be told, I was very impressed with their office ethics and strategy and told them I would try my best to make them proud of hiring me. I was then introduced to my in the job trainer ( let's call him Randy; only because I think that is the funniest of all names and it makes me laugh when I say it.....no offense to Randy's in the world, but I always exaggerate the way I say it like this," RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNDee)! Anyway, that's another blog story I guess, so back to this story.

Randy took me on a quick tour around the office and what I was going to need once we got out in the street. Once we were about to leave, an old retired employee walked through the door and so Randy stopped to catch up with him for a minute. As I waited for him to finish chatting, another older employee who was standing near the exit door called me over and told me in a low, sincere voice, " you should just quit this job right now, because you are a woman and this job isn't for women." I chuckled, because I really didn't know how to take the news I just heard and politely just told him, " we'll see?" He insisted thought that I quit, because I would be doing a lot of walking in the sun and the days are getting older and then it's going to rain and blah blahblahblahblahblaaaah. And I just repeated, " ok, we will see" he waved off my come back and walked out the door. I just laughed to myself, because in what country or century does this guy think we live in that a woman can't work just as hard as men can? Truth be told, he wasn't kidding about the weather; it was hot! The bad thing was that I was driving around in a sardine can ( not really, just metaphorically speaking) and the vehicle had no air conditioning. I used rough it though and I think I did fairly well for my first day out, so take that old man!

The job isn't hard, but there is just waaaaaaAyyyyyy tooooo much information for one person to learn in one day; hopefully I can absorb it more tomorrow....until next time!

My husband the hero!

There are many reasons why I love my husband, but one thing that always has me falling back in love time after time is how chivalrous he truly is. I have countless stories about how he put himself in harms way to protect and defend the innocent, but I don't think there is enough space in my blog to boast, so I decided to just tell you about what he did today instead.

We had a lovely day (despite this horrible rash I acquired on my face that is so itchy and making my life miserable), but that's another story, another day. We went to the happiest place on earth Disneyland and spent the day with our nephew, nieces and sister; it truly was a day to be had!

At the end of the day, after we dropped off our nephew, we decided to go shopping for a few needed household items at our local store and on our way back to our car, my husband stopped in his tracks and gasped, " oh no!" I had my eyes down and when I looked up and towards what he was staring at, there were two women in the street of the parking lot. One was an elderly woman laying on the ground and the other was a slightly younger woman (maybe her daughter or home health aide) trying to pick the elderly lady back up. On the sidewalk was a wheelchair that was half on the sidewalk, half on the street; Just then, a car was entering the lot coming towards them. After assessing the situation further and seeing the car coming towards them, my husband quickly handed me our shopping bags and ran towards the scene without any hesitation. I stood behind trying to figure out what was going on and as I looked around, I saw two other gentlemen running towards the women as well, but my husband was the first at the scene so only one of the other guys came over and held the wheelchair, while my husband and the younger lady helped the elderly woman back to her chair. Luckily, by this time, the car that was coming in the parking lot saw the situation as well and stopped in front of them and got out to see if he can also lend a helping hand. Fortunately, by this time, my husband, the other woman and the third stranger all were able to safely get the situation under control and the ladies out of harms way.

When I got closer to the scene, the younger lady was apologizing profusely to everyone and explained that she wasn't paying attention so she thought she was rolling the wheelchair down the slant of the sidewalk, when in actuality she rolled her off the curb, which I guess caused the wheelchair to dip and the elderly woman to fall out into the street. My husband offered to assist in pushing the wheelchair across the parking lot, but the younger woman just kept apologizing and saying she was okay. We walked back to our car, but with a watchful eye towards the two women which now seemed to be stopped behind a bush in the parking lot, where the younger lady was assessing the elderly woman to see if she was seriously injured. My husband said that the elderly woman was yelling at the younger one and that the elderly woman was complaining about her arm, but as we pulled out and started to leave the parking lot, we looked back and seen the two women walking back towards the store, while the younger lady kept rubbing the elderly women's shoulder.

We hope that she is okay, because I know how serious even the smallest falls can be for the elderly, but for now my husband was a knight in shining amour or at least in my eyes anyway!....until next time.

Why did I do that?

Okay there are two things that made me say this yesterday and I thought I should share. First off, I actually wrote this blog yesterday and it was totally awesome, but genius me decided to add a picture at the end and when I went to my photo album to add the picture, I guess it exited me out of the website so I lost everything I wrote!! Arrrrgggghhhh, why didn't I save first??!!! Oh that reminds me, I better save this before I lose this blog too! Whew, okay I think I'm okay now, so on to the second reason why I would say," why would I do that?"

Yesterday I got bored (which pretty much sets the precedence of what's to come, because if you follow me, then you know that anytime I get bored, I usually do something I really shouldn't do, like cut all my hair off or something of that nature). Anyway, getting back to the story, my husband and I got home yesterday and decided to wind down, so my husband started playing his video games and I was pretty out of it because I was doing my training on an obstacle course out in the desert where it was like 100 degrees for work and got heat exhaustion so I didn't care. But after an hour or so of just sitting on the couch waiting for my husband to get off his video games, I got bored and started listening to the voices in my head which said, " you know what would be AWESOME? If you drew a mustache on your refrigerator!" So me being the free spirited, creative person that I am said, " you know what? That WOULD be AWESOME!!" So off I went in search of some markers.

I found my old dry erase markers that I use to use in my old job and figured it would be safe to use and easy to remove afterwards. Just to be on the safe side, I even made a mark and easily removed it from a small corner of the fridge so I said "Cool!" And from there I drew a HUGE mustache across the bottom half of my refrigerator. I was so pleased with myself that I even caught the attention of my husband who was still playing his video games, but took a moment to find out what I was so happy about? I showed him what I did and he half heartedly laughed and told me to take it off. Even though I had fun drawing on my refrigerator, I obeyed my husband and proceeded to remove the drawing, the only problem with that was that it DIDN'T WANT TO COME OFF?!!!!!!!!"

I tried the dry eraser, a dry paper towel, a wet paper towel, a dish scrubber, nail polish remover which only removed like 10% of it, Awesome ( it's a liquid household cleaner which was not so awesome at cleaning this job). I tried just about everything, but nothing worked?! By this time, my husband became peeved and scolded me and told me that I better get online and figure out a way to take it off! I became just as peeved and told him that it's really all HIS FAULT (since I can't blame myself) because if he "would of been spending time and monitoring me, instead of playing his dumb video games, then we wouldn't be in the predicament that we were in!" He gave me a baffled look like, " WHAT?!!" And again informed me that I better take it off. I told him to " Chilax, Count Chocula, it will be gone by tomorrow!" Then I went online and looked up " How to remove dry erase marker from your refrigerator?" Luckily, I wasn't the only person in the world to do this and found a bunch of people saying that the only way to take it off is by soaking a Mr. Clean eraser sponge with nail polish remover.

The next morning, I awoke to my husband yelling at me to get up and demanding that I remove my graffiti! Truth be told, I still was proud of my work and felt that it made our fridge look more well established in its refrigerator life. As if he should have a noble name, like Lord Fridgidaire or something in that nature, but again my husband was not pleased and decided to barrate me like a child and so I decided to act like a teenager and pretended to not care and ignored him while he sat on the kitchen floor cursing my name and trying to scrub the drawing away. To make a long story longer......just kidding, I'm almost to the end! Heehee, okay, I got sidetracked now; where was I? Oh yeah, so we eventually went to the store and bought the recommended sponges and nail polish remover and I came home and I kid you not, as soon as I put the nail polish soaked sponge on the fridge, the stain magically disappeared before my eyes!!! It was truly a miracle I say! I tried wiping it with nail polish remover by itself on a cotton ball, but like I previously stated, it only removed a little bit of it, so I don't know if Mr. Clean is really a genie that grants your cleaning wishes or what, but I am reluctant to report that "Lord Fridgidaire" is no more..........Until next time my beloved (don't draw on your refrigerator with dry erase markers) ;p

Today was a good day

Hallo! Shalom! And all those wonderful greetings to all of you friends around the world; how the heck are all of you?! As for me, I am doing great! I started training in my new job, I am happy and in a place in my life that I feel is peaceful.

The only thing that I am disappointed in myself about is that I missed church this morning; I can't believe I did that! I totally forgot about turning the clocks forward for Spring, so this morning I thought I woke up at 9 a.m. and so I didn't nag my husband to get ready or anything, because church starts at 10:45 so I figured we had plenty of time......that was until I looked at the clock on the television that said it was already going to be 11:30 a.m!! We decided to just take the day as it is and enjoy what was left of our morning because by the time we got dressed and made it to church, it would have already of been over :( besides that hiccup, we had a nice day.

My husband made me a delicious breakfast sandwich that had sausage, a slice of turkey and then grilled it with melted cheese and topped it off with a nice steaming cup of my favorite tea ( this is probably why I was in such a mellow mood in the morning). Afterwards, we watched a few episodes of some random reality tv show ( seems like that's all there is on tv now a days) then we got dressed and set out on our adventure for the day.

I told my husband I wanted to be romanced and go on an adventure with just the two of us, because I know once I start working, I'm not going to have so much free time as I do now. Sadly, the only thing he could come up with was to go get some cupcakes at this cupcake shop two cities over from us. I told him, " is that all you can come up with? I have like a dozen different adventures running through my mind just as we speak?!!" He asked me what ideas I had and I told him, we could go on adventures to see how many countries we can visit without living the state? I know we have a Mexican town, China town, Korea Town, Little Armenia, and even a Dutch town and I always wanted to just take a road trip and see all of them. The way I see it, if you fly around the world, you have to buy a plane ticket, rental car, rent a room, pay for food, etc. and in the end that will cost you what, between $5,0000 to $10,0000 or maybe more? If we just traveled to each town, which has the same culture anyway, we would only be spending what $1,000 tops? By now beloved, you all know I'm cheap, so which one would you choose?

To make a long story longer, we didn't end up doing that or the cupcake run. Instead, we used a free coupon I got in the mail for one of my favorite restaurants, then we walked and bought some cream puffs from a near by Papa Beards. Usually, I love their cream puffs, because they are so light and fluffy, but today they seemed a little dry; oh well, se la vie. After our dessert, we walked around town and found this really great shop called Ten Thousand Villages, that is a non-profit store. Apparently, from what I read, they buy handmade merchandise from people in different countries and sell them to help pay for their livelihood, like food, water, etc. they had some really cool things in there like jewelry, sculptures made out of recycled cans, etc and each item has a sticker with the location from where they are from and the name of the individual who made it. I walked around for awhile and found this really cute onyx cut elephant. It was from Pakistan, but it didn't have the name of the person that made it. I LOVE elephants and if you look inside my home, you will see that I have quite a few around my living room.

 The elephant is actually pretty small and fits in the palm of my hand and it is grey with a little but of brown, gold and white in it. I think it is so adorable and I love buying things that go to good causes, so even though I'm broke as a joke right now, I was still more than happy to indulge with this item. After walking around, we decided to walk back and somehow made our way to a clothes store (it wasn't me that lead the way, I swear....or maybe it was)? Anyway, we made it into the store and I told my husband that I wanted to look for a dress for my upcoming birthday party. For all of you that are following me already know that this is a big year for me since I'm getting closer to the top of the hill and decided to throw myself a mad hatter tea party unbirthday spectacular!! So we walked around and I found a couple of options and showed my husband and he told me I should try them on. So being the obedient wife that I am...heehee...I took the dresses and tried them on for him. The first one just didn't do it for me. The second one was alright according to my husband, but then I tried on the third one and when I walked out of the dressing room to show him, his eyes lit up and he told me, " that one is REALLY nice!" Pleased with his response I changed back into my regular clothes and brought the dresses out to give back to the store clerk. Then my husband being the spoiler that he is, told me that if I really want it, that I can put it on my credit card and that it really looked nice on me. I accepted his permission to use my credit card, because I know that it's hard finding things that fit just right on me and since the dress was less than $30, it made me happy that I wasn't splurging all that much. After dress shopping, we did a little more walking around and decided to call it a day, but remembered we had to go to the 99 cents store. For all the readers that aren't from around here, or ever heard of the 99 cents store, it is pretty much my most FAVORITE store to shop at. Here the name of the store pretty much sums it up; EVERYTHING is 99 cents!! Doesn't matter if its a pack of gum or household utensils, literally EVERYTHING is 99 cents! Well wait, actually not everything is 99 cents, it take it back. There are actually a few items that cost less than 99 cents like cups of noodles are only 29 cents and there are items you can buy 3 or 4 of them for a dollar, but nothing is over 99 cents...I love that store so much! Okay, Okay, enough praising of the 99 cents store. So we went and bought some fruits and vegetables that were too expensive to buy at the regular store, as well as some other food items to get us through the week, then we came back to our humble home and started to clean up a bit to get ready for the week. Then we sat down on our couch and spent the rest of the evening ignoring each other; oh what a glorious day! Just kidding, actually he is sitting right next to me playing video games and I am here chatting with you all, while I am waiting for my load of laundry to finish. On that note, I better get back to my wifely duties and get my husband off the video games before he turns into one of those zombie teenagers, then I will never see him again!! Until next time my beloved.........

Where have I been?

Hello my wonderful friends around the world! Sorry it's been awhile since we last spoke, but I've been so busy this month!! For one I started my new job; YAY! My first day was Monday and I gotta say it was a pretty awesome day! I had to be at the training site at 7:00a.m. So I woke up at 4:30 ( haven't done that in awhile) and was out of my house by 5:45a.m. I was so worried because according to my husband I have no sense of direction ( woman driver, blah blah) and I always get lost. He was originally suppose to drive me the 40 miles,  but he is continuing to care for our nephew so we agreed it would be easier if I just rove myself. So off I went with my GPS in hand and ready to launch out on my new adventure, when all of a sudden I had to make an abrupt stop, about face and head back to my house because I forgot the car keys in the house and to top it off I locked the door from the inside before I went to the car, so there I was banging in the washroom for my husband to come open the front door and give me the keys ( hope I didn't wake the neighbors)?! Once I was back on track, I headed towards my destination and only had to turn around once, because I missed my turn to change freeways and had to get off and turn around again. Thankfully I made it to the training site with time to spare and I had a wonderful first day!

My trainer looked and acted like George Lopez ( for those of you who don't know him, he's a Latino comedian actor) so my day was spent mostly smiling and laughing. After training I came straight home without any delays and I patted myself on the back for finding my own way home without any help :D I'm a little worried though because they are saying if we can't cut it, then they are letting us go and I just hope I can keep up?! I'm putting my faith in The Lord though, because he got me this far and I am trusting he will give me the strength to do what I need to do.

Another reason why I am so busy is because this is actually my birthday month!!!! Hip, hip Hurray I'm turning into an old fart! Well almost anyway; I'm turning 30, but I feel more like 50; hopefully this new job will whip  me into shape with all the walking and lifting I will be doing?

Since this is such a milestone birthday, I decided to go crazy and throw myself a birthday party to celebrate. The theme is "Mad Hatter wonderland tea party," I don't know how I'm going to decorate or anything, but I know we are still tight with money so I'm baking my own birthday cake and also having a birthday cake bake off challenge so I can have lots of desserts and birthday cakes with having to spend hundreds of dollars. My total budget I am giving myself is $200 that's with a cushion, so lets see if I make it below budget and still have an awesome birthday party. Well I gotta get back to all my planning; wish me luck!...... Until Next time my beloved

Today's Adventure

Hallo!!! Guten tag! Wie ghets? Hope all is well with all of you friends around the world? I know it's been awhile since we last have spoken but oh how the time flies!! So many wonderful things have been going on, I don't know where to begin?!

To start off I got a job!!!! Yay! FINALLY, so now you guys can stop hearing about how I have no j-o-b..LOL! It's with the post office and I couldn't be happier, because I pretty much am going to get paid to work out! I start training on March 4th and I just hope that I, strong enough to keep up, because they informed us that if we fail the training, we are going to be automatically fired (yikes)!!!! Nevertheless, I'm counting down the days and after a year of being out of the game, I can't wait to jump back in!

Being that I'm going back to work, unfortunately I'm not going to be able to provide childcare for my nephew anymore :( my husband is taking over and I just hope he doesn't slack off on all the work I've been doing with him, such as lessons, activities, exercise, etc. I have every faith in him though ( but I left him a survival guide just incase).

Since I've been getting ready to go back to work (I.e. making notes for my husband everywhere and trying to get used to going to bed and waking up early) I have also been going into over drive trying to do as many things with my husband and nephew, since I pretty much will be working six days a week and won't have another vacation anytime soon.

We went to Disneys California Adventure last week and enjoyed a nice relaxing day walking around the park and since today was such a beautiful warm day, I decided to take everyone to the petting zoo! I actually seen a sign for it a couple of years ago and always wanted to go, but never had time. And then when I lost my job ( ok hopefully this will be the last time, that sentence will ever be said..heehee) anyway, I didn't have the money, but since I'm starting my new job next week ( yay) I'm considering this my vacation and to be on the safe side, we cashed in all of our recyclables we've been saving for a special occasion and off we went!

We've never been there before so we didn't really know how to get there and our GPS seemed as though it was sending us to the outskirts of town?

We were driving a little slower than usual trying to find the right street to turn down, when all of a sudden a car started honking at us from behind? My husband does this thing whenever this happens, which is that he starts to drive even SLOWER to piss off the drivers more, then when they pass us and start flipping us off, he just smiles and waves at them. So today was just one of those occasions and when the car pulled next to us and expectedly flipped us off, etc. my husband smiled and waved and said Bye! And from the back seat, I heard a small bye!! And when I turned around, our nephew was copying my husband and waving out the window....I started laughing at this precious moment and told my husband, " at least you're being a good example this time!" Eventually, we found our destination and it was actually part of this park and it was like and enchanted place that I, nor my nephew wanted to leave! It was so awesome! They had every animal, from an Emu all the way to a Zebra! And then they had pony rides, train rides, merry go round, gem stone find area and a fishing area. We had a grand old time and all we spent for the three of us and all the activities was $22; that sounds like my budget!

After our fun adventure, we came back home and enjoyed the memories we made....Until next time my beloved.....

Woman scorned

Hello my friends, hope all is well? Just wanted to talk it out and thought I might drop in for a chat?!
I'm feeling a little down today. Maybe it's because the day is cold and gloomy so my mood decided to match it or maybe it's because there's some discord in my life and it's making me feel down?

I hate discord! I especially hate being the scapegoat for everyone's problems when all I've ever done was be there and support them. I really don't understand it to be honest with you? I mean I thought being helpful and kind and supportive were things that would make people happy and show how much I care and love them, but has been my unfortunate experience that it causes the exact opposite effect?! Apparently, if I'm helpful, I'm being too involved in there lives and is being annoying? If I'm kind, that apparently gives them the license to think they can take advantage and walk all over me and if I'm being supportive, apparently, I'm being some kind of judge mental critical B****! I mean is it me? I didn't think I was doing anything wrong? All I would do is be there when they called or needed me, be an ear or shoulder to cry on when they needed to talk and try to give Godly advice when they were facing troubling situations, but apparently by my doing that, I have become the enemy. I have become the reason why their lives are so miserable and I am the one that needs to apparently stay away and out of everything??!!

Truth be told, I'm perfectly fine with that, like I said, I HATE discord and really don't want it in my life. So, if they choose to cut themselves out of my life because of their own issues, not mine, I'm fine with that, but don't come running back and be hurt when I'm not there waiting anymore.

Here's another truth, I probably would still be there, because I don't have the heart to turn from someone in need, but if I feel I've been hurt enough times, don't get mad when I decide to treat you the same way you so cold heartedly treated me first....Until next time my beloved