Lirio's Birthday!

It’s Lirio’s birthday today and since yesterday we’ve been thinking what would we have for her birthday. Since she doesn’t like cake much and the only cake she likes is chocolate mousse we ordered one in Red Ribbon. You know if you really want to please the celebrant it’s best to give what you think is her preferred flavor. Anyway I know Lirio will say that it’s not that important as the thoughts count most. We also ordered pancit canton as traditionally served on Filipino birthdays as they say “for long life”. To complete our eat-together lunch Lirio ordered lechon manok and softdrinks then rice was cooked here to enjoy newly fresh cooked rice. What a lunch! I ate rice even if it’s my second day diet plan today. You know if it’s a birthday you’re excused lol!

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Corner TV Stands

Hubby did some general cleaning of the house and as I can’t carry anything heavy because of my operation he just did it by himself. He always did it at night because he has only one day off for the whole week and he devote it for our Sunday fellowship service. Our house is really big that’s why we need a lot of time for thorough cleaning of the house. Every time we do general cleaning we get to find house equipment and appliances that needs repair or replacement. Well, I need corner tv stands so I’ll have more space in my living room. Got to find some nice tv stands online now so I can have variety of choices.

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Orly Came Home For A Short Vacation

My nephew Orly, son of my first cousin Ka Duneng in Laguna came home from his work in Qatar. They informed us that he’ll be here for a short vacation this August. He arrived last Saturday August 2 but we’re busy with a lot of things scheduled weeks before that we didn’t find the time to go to our hometown in Laguna. My Mom and I are a little sad that we can’t go home because Orly is one of my mom’s favorite apo but we don’t have a choice as we’re also busy with the clearing works done by Public Works and Highways. I keep on thinking that I should really have more time to accommodate more activities, hope Orly understands! Anyway by now I’m sure he’s thinking of dropping by in our house! I also missed his chocolates!

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New Business in the Province

Got a call from my uncle in Laguna, they’re proposing a small business that they like to open in middle of this month. He likes to suggest to my mom to invest a little capital for it. I’m so curious about what they’re going to sell in their store so I persuaded him to tell it to me first before my mom as I’m the one he’s talking to. Anyway my mom will also suggest that I’ll be the one to manage it instead of her. My uncle told me that he’s planning to sell cattle supplies in our town because there’s a great demand for it in many areas there. It would be nice to have a store for cattle and other animal supplies because we have many prospective buyers there, actually the whole town will be our customers because there’s no cattle supplies’ store there.

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Diet Day One

I’ve started another attempt of dieting yesterday and I’m still searching and thinking of other ways to completely rid of some temptations to avoid foods with fat and too much salt. I’ve started with having these foods yesterday:

Breakfast – Oatmeal, I’ve avoided coffee and instead had one glass of water

Lunch - Wheat bread with tuna flakes

Afternoon snack – (can’t avoid when you’re working in an office) Wheat bread with tuna flakes, taken before 6 pm to avoid being hungry at night lol!

Dinner - Banana

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Rap's Investigatory Report

Bro was here, they need to create an email address for Ate Mariz for a new business venture they’ve been entering. They’re still waiting for their PLDT DSL connection up to now. When Rap (my nephew) learned that his parents were here he asked them to research an investigatory project for him as his teacher gave him a new topic instead of the usual soap-making project. Together we searched for the process used in making vegetable oil as fuel for car. We immediately found what we’re looking for and in 10 minutes time we had it ready for Rap.

I got interested in what we researched, set aside my blogging and read the making of fuel out of vegetable oil. It’s true and I’m going to write some specific details about it on my next post. I’m going to sleep now to recover from my overnight blogging yesterday.

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She Loves Sightseeing

My architect friend Jacqui has been invited by her sister to spend a three-month vacation in New York and she was very excited at the invitation. She turned over her work as a resident architect of a 5-storey building in Quezon City to a mutual friend of ours. Anyway our mutual friend is an engineer so handling of her projects didn’t seem to be that hard when she finally left her work for New York.

My friend has been dieting at that time and the only thing that she didn’t like in her sister’s house is the kind of food available there. She likes fish and the only fish readily available in their place are frozen so she didn’t have much choice in food. Since she can’t continue her no-pork no-beef diet her sister asked her to join in New York City Sightseeing so she’ll have more time roaming around the city and less time in the house to avoid eating too much. She joined the sightseeing tours by CitySights, a known company which provides hop-on, hop-off bus tours which uses top-deck only seats so you’ll get to see beautiful views of New York City and its attractions. They also offer sightseeing packages with museum visits, helicopter tours, harbor cruises, shopping day trips and motorcoach trips.

My friend called me up and told me that her vacation was superb. She had the chance of seeing Statue of Liberty, Top of the Rock, Empire State Building, Uptown and Downtown and Manhattan City, you know an architect really loves seeing magnificent houses and buildings. I was happy to know that she had a wonderful sightseeing vacation in New York.

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Clearing Away

DPWH workers started the clearing and construction works since Monday but I think they are assessing reactions of the people the reason why their works are slow. After three days of their clearing works I've found only 4 compounds which have finished the clearing. Some of my neighbors are really hesitant to clear their properties because that would mean the start of their zero sales for their businesses.

Since my brother is living in another barangay I've asked him to go to the house and instruct the DPWH team as to what they should do with our stonewalls and gate, clear instruction should be given to ensure that proper restoration will be done. Our neighbors keep on telling us that we're really lucky that my father did a great house plan when he renovated our house in the late '70s. Our house is the only one in our place that has a 5-meter setback which allowed us now to have a little more space remaining for a garden or store after the widening.

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Beautiful Mailboxes and Address Plaques

What makes us happy everyday? It’s in knowing that a lot of people love us no matter who we are and what our status in life is. It’s in knowing that somewhere and somehow people are thinking of us in a sweet and thoughtful ways. That’s why communication is very important in our lives. I remember when I was in high school that letters in our mailboxes makes me happy because I’ve got mails from my distant friends and relatives living in the province. It’s what you call the power of communication, you know a single letter can make a sick man get well, an angry fellow to relax, a lonely man happy and sometimes a war to freeze.

Mailboxes are very important to me and I searched for stylish residential mailboxes that would look good in our house. I’ve found Mailbox and Beyond, a site which offers mailboxes, address plaques and signs, garden hose holders, personalized doormats, doorbells and a lot more. I’m particularly eyeing some whitehall products for our house because they are 20% larger than other mailboxes and made from die cast rust free aluminum.

You should also see their wide selection of address house signs, address markers, wedding plaques and personalized address plaques with personalized street and house numbers on it. Many people love having elegant and beautiful mailbox and address plaques as they’re a welcome site on their front yard especially if the styles and design blend beautifully with the garden. So if you need one for your house just visit their site and you’ll enjoy choosing from their selection of mailboxes, plaques, posts and many other products

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A Perfect Blend Of Friendship Award

I got this sweet tag of friendship from Bregie. Thanks Bregie for always sharing me tags and for giving me this perfect blend of friendship award, I deeply appreciate your sweet and kind thoughts!

I am passing this tag to my sweet and loving blogging friends Best friend JennyL, JoyD, Geng, JennyR, Emzkie, Chloe, Tom, Lutchi, Yen, Tere, Cherry Rose and Nita.

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