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Racing with Murphy

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Nov 282011

The girls and I have been mostly cooped up at home all weekend. I think we may well have run out of malls to crawl, if that’s even possible and we’ve moved on to greener pastures? That’s a story for another day. In other news, the weather’s been weird this year. Anyone noticed that?

This is the morning sky that greets us as we head out to the gym just before 7:00 in the morning. For all intents and purposes, it looks like the beginning of another blazing hot day in Tropical unParadise.

By early afternoon, the grey clouds are having a face-off with the white. It’s hot and sunny up till this point so it’s anyone’s guess which way the weather will go.

By late afternoon, there’s no mistaking who is winning. Thunder is a lot like labor contractions. The first rumbles are spaced fairly far apart. As the flashes and growls grow closer and louder, the skies unleash bucketfuls sending us on a mad scramble to unplug our precious modem before it gets fried.

Today we raced through groceries hoping to beat the rain. But Murphy beat us by 20 seconds. But of course! It was pouring elephants and tigers when we got to the exit. We’re city folks which makes us terribly impatient. We couldn’t just stand there like normal people and wait for the rain to ease up.

We had to make a run for it, make a mad dash to the car with our just-bought tissue boxes over our heads. That’s us ! Smack in the middle of the downpour, we were throwing everything (except the eggs!) into the back of my minivan and just as we were pulling away, the rain trickled to a bare drizzle! Thanks, Murphy, that’s real considerate of you.

Of dead phones, French movies and writing late into the night

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Nov 112011

I’m not one for numbers but 11.11.11 does look pretty cool… and just for the heck of it, I’m going to post this at 11.11 o’clock since this date only rolls around once every 100 years. As for what’s been happening in the days leading up to today, read on.

First off, my pocket PC decided to give up the ghost. It crashed once, twice, a few more times and that’s it, pretty much! So I’m officially disconnected from the whole world. Have been since last Friday. What a lonely place to be! Never thought I’d say this but hee-lp, I need a new phone – bad – considering the amount of texting that goes back and forth to synchronize our (Raine’s and mine) college schedules.

And that new phone I’m looking for -right now, it’s a toss-up between the iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy S (which phone do you have and what do you like about it?), both of which are, by the way, out of stock right now.

What a bummer! To sweeten things up, the girls and I stayed up one night to watch a French movie. It wasn’t supposed to be a funny movie but it cracked us up so much the neighbors must’ve thought we’d gone completely off our rockers. I’ve not laughed so hard – in a long time. We couldn’t understand a single word of it but the incredibly stupid subtitles (which made no sense whatsoever) sent us ROTFLMOAO. Watched a foreign movie lately?

Oh, remember I mentioned I won’t be attempting NaNoWriMo this year? Well, guess what? My girls have ganged up and sweet-talked me into joining them, and after 3 days, I’ve only managed to crank out a measly 1,038 words. Raine has raced ahead to 21,855 and Skye has 5,738 words to her credit. I know, I’m in trouble . My story isn’t even much of anything right now. Expect me to be sitting here into the wee hours of the morning (aka 10:30pm) trying to cough something ~~intelligible~~ out.

Happy weekend!

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Nov 052011

The word “weekend” is music to my ears. Working part-time now only makes me appreciate the weekends more. After craning my neck for a whole week, I’m so thrilled the weekend’s here again.

But just before I skip out of here to the mall (where else?) for a bit of nom nom and window-shopping, let me leave you with this ~~excitingly over-exposed~~ photo of the beautiful daisy that’s blooming in my little garden.

Have an amazing weekend!

Getting my kiss-a-day-a on!

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Oct 172011

Well, these may look be quesadillas to you but to me, they’re kissadayas. Read on…

Months ago, I tried my hand at homemade quesadilla. I used pizza base then as I didn’t have any tortillas�and my quesadillas were so ugly . But this time, I’ve got the tortillas so I made meatless quesadilla for our vegetarian Saturday!

You know me, I don’t really have a recipe for anything. I just kinda slap everything together. Spread some pasta sauce on and have the girls layer on the onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers and way too much cheese. Fold, press, shove into a preheated oven and wait impatiently for it to beep four times.

Man, these quesadillas are dabomb! Raine couldn’t resist lifting up the top of the crunchy shell to take a sneak peek inside. Scrumptious and healthy! Better yet, I earned myself a cheekful of cheese-y kisses from Skye for a meal she can’t wait to eat again. Go kiss-adayas!!

The good news is I’ve got 4 more of these amigos in my fridge ready to pop into the oven tomorrow. Worth at least 4 more cheese-y kisses !

Empty-handed

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Oct 102011

Raine heard about a book sale from a friend and of course, my 2 bookworms instantly proclaimed they wanted to go! What can I say? We never buy books at regular prices because the regular prices here are downright ridiculous!

We only shop when there’s a book sale which happens like maybe once a year. The girls know I will always indulge them when it comes to books and reading. So off we drove 40+ km away to the middle of nowhere, and arrived an hour later at a huge warehouse full of books.

We brought our recyclable bags, highly anticipating that we would walk away with a good haul. At the last book sale, we carted away some 40 books! This time, we made 2 rounds of the entire warehouse, and the girls found NOT ONE book to buy. Not one!

Half an hour in there and we came away empty-handed!

With nothing to show for our 40km drive, we decided to go for lunch. As we were leaving, it started to storm – big. Unfamiliar with those parts of the woods, we turned into the first restaurant in sight. Which turned out to be one of those seafood restaurants featuring live lobsters, fish and other exotic sea creatures on Death Row, waiting to be made into someone’s hearty meal.

If you� know me, you know it’s impossible for me to make that call. Faced once again with a waitress who gave us weird looks for infamously walking into yet another seafood restaurant and not ordering any seafood, we ordered a simple meal of pork ribs in herbal soup, claypot tofu and veggie stirfry.

And that was our weekend adventure !

Weekend in a nutshell

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Sep 192011

And the question is – how was the weekend? Inquiring minds want to know, right?

Started the weekend with a cozy lunch that was deliciously spicy and inexpensive to boot followed by orange juice and ice-blended hazelnut coffee… and one little slice of tiramisu shared by the 3 of us.

Raine prettied up for a wedding dinner in a spaghetti strapped LBD, Victoria Secret lace drape and 5-and-a-half-inch pumps *wolf whistles*. End result – she strutted out the door looking like a movie star while ~~the paparazzi~~ Skye clicked away at her every step. Way to go, Raine! *Mommy beams with pride*

Trawled the ~~zoo~~ mall as usual. Same old, same old.
Big plans to bake some cookies for Skye’s recess but those noble intentions didn’t quite pan out (catch the pun).
Scouting around the neighborhood looking for Tyson. He escaped more than once. Read all about it here.
Weekend ended at a very popular Chinese restaurant (first and last time fo’sure) on a very dry note (literally) with this really poor excuse for a crispy duck. Food was run of the mill and seriously over-priced and service, well, I’ll leave you to put 2 and 2 together.