TODAY

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Today, November 30, 2005

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANAEA DARLING!

Today, our daughter Danaea officially turned 14. I got her a birthstone for the year she was born... which is the RAM 1991... and of course a birthday card.

Danaea is under the weather for the past few days, so we decided to just stay home and buy some food and celebrate it by ourselves and watched Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Yesterday I got myself a birthday gift the pearl jewelry in Mervyn's. Today my christmas gift (again to myself *wink*) arrived. A Dooney & Bourke bag... oh's its so pretty... but I will wait for next year to use it.

Before I end, I have to make a note... I got an email from my cousin Eva Lagumbay - Cunningham (Las Vegas, Nevada)... she said her husband was mad at me and that if Eva will leave him, he would kill her and he would kill me for meddling in their affairs. And to set the records straight, I didnt meddle. It was only when I got a one liner from Eva saying she cant stand the guy and wants to go back the Philippines, did I start to worry and emailed her and ask the a lot of questions and tried to probe on their relationship. And for that he got mad. If my cousin didn't send me that one liner, I would not have ask so many questions.

I want it documented here, that today, my cousin Eva got a threat from her husband Don Cunningham and the threat was extended to me. Eva didnt want me to tell the people in the Philippines for fear that her mom would worry. So my friends who are in the Philippines and is reading this... just please note this entry and don't spread it out for her mom's sake.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Today, November 29, 2005

Its again Tuesday and my honey has to go to Albuquerque. At 6 in the morning LBJ Freeway was already a mess... and it went on like this until the evening... what a mess! I reported for work at 7:30AM because I had to pass by Wal-Mart and get me my copy of the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I bought two copies for back-up, that is how supportive I am with Angielina and Brad. I had another shopping adventure to do at Mervyn's who was closing all their stores. To my surprise, the prices were not down yet except for their jewelries. And me my mo... I am just so impulsive and i couldnt resist buying a jewelry on sale. It was so pretty, a pearl set of earrings, necklace and ring... that I got it.

Monday, November 28, 2005

Today, November 28, 2005

Bummer! I had a car accident! It was a fender bender type. But still I felt I would be found at fault, even if I was already being cautious. It was a nightmare. There was even no big damage except a scratch on my car's right side and front bumper. It was due to the fact that they tore up Hillcrest and when I exited from the freeway, everyone got confused on where to go and I had no other option but to go to the wrong lane or I will be obstructing traffic on the freeway if I had to wait on the right lane to get thru. I just put on my signal so they would notice me and let me get in the right lane... Unfortunately this woman was on her cellphone, didnt have her signal lights on and wasnt paying attention to me... and she turned in front of me... making me hit her... I just scratch her left end side panel... but since it is a scratch, she wanted to report and claim insurance. What can I say? My day didnt start well...

Then at lunch time, I went to a McDonald's drive thru at Spring Valley and Midway and the computer was messed up. It took me 20 minutes to get my order...

When I came back to my office, I got an email from my friend Loy Concepcion informing of his father's condition. They had a thanksgiving party and his dad fell to the floor and hit his head, and was hospitalized. Today he got a call from his brother that his Dad is in the ICU for a surgery. Then to top it all off, I got an email from my cousin Eva. She was using our visayan dialect and it was a one liner saying... "I can't stand him anymore, I want to go home to the Philippines."... so imagine how I felt this day... As they say... when it rains it pours... and this is one of those days...

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Today, November 27, 2005

Skip and I went to the outlet mall in Allen. There were so many people, it was hard to find a parking space, but we managed. I got more christmas presents and he got me christmas pins. Then we went to see "Walk A Line," and we were pretty impressed at the acting that we saw. Joaquin Phoenix did a great job and so did Reese Witherspoon. They were justa amazing and it is no wonder if they get nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress in the Academy awards.

Saturday, November 26, 2005

Today, November 26, 2005

I had some little shopping to do again for my mom's christmas giveaways to friends. She wanted me to gift wrap them all for her and bring it with us on our trip to see her. I am about halfway on my list of gifts... Not bad!

Friday, November 25, 2005

Today, November 25, 2005

We had a lovely evening last night. And I took lots of photos of Christi's house. Here they are.

My friends, Fides and Mipette and I went shopping today at Galleria. Then we head to the movie "Rent" with Danaea.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Today, November 24, 2005

HAPPY THANKSGIVING Everyone!!!

We pray and thanked the Lord for the many blessings he has bestowed on us and for the continued guidance and guardiance he has given us!

I am glad that me and my daughter is in the USA, and that we have a day here where we thank the Lord for all that he has given us.

PRAISE GOD!

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Today, November 23, 2005

Today was like a skeleton force. Almost everyone work half a day and left us. I was busy trying to plan what to cook and do for thanksgiving when my hubby called and said, his daughter Christi has invited us over her place to celebrate Thanksgiving. So there you go, another free day for me. I was able to escape the work and party preparation.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Today, November 22, 2005

Thanksgiving is just round the corner. A lot of our staff are all gone. There is not much work to do in the office. Which is a good break for me.
Today, November 22, 2005

It's nearly thanksgiving and most of our staff are gone for the holidays. I am looking forward to a long weekend and a good rest. There were not many work to do in the office.

Monday, November 21, 2005

Today, November 21, 2005

As you could all have noticed, I am not getting good at making my blog this past few weeks. I have so many things in my head and I can't seem to write as much as I would want to. I have already started doing my christmas shopping, and planning for our christmas vacation trip. These things just fill up my mind.

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Today, November 20, 2005

We wanted to go to church, but I was still aching from the previous party. I am old and there is no denying. Everytime I do some house cleaning, after a day or so, I hurt badly. I am so glad my hubby is here for the whole week. He will be able to help me out.

Friday, November 18, 2005

Today, November 19, 2005

I slept at 3AM this morning, trying to tidy up the mess we had during the party. Then at 9AM I had to get up and make breakfast for the kids before their parents pick them up. I was so so tired!
Today, November 18, 2005

Finally, today is the Danaea's birthday party. My husband did a great job! Our place looked really great!


There were 9 kids that slept overnight, and I had my friends Fides Pacheco, Mipette Nixon and hubby Dennis, Sancha Pascual with hubby Toto and son Tofer and daughter Trinka, Mama Jean, Christi, Brooke and Wendy, my ex-coworker in National Steel Rudy Plaza and wife Rosanna Nunez-Plaza.

We had sticky rice, pansit palabok and pansit behon, cheese and grapes, root beer floats, roasted chicken and the most special meal, the roasted pig.

Danaea got her wish for a birthday. An iPOD. The 30GB one. Black and personalize with "Happy 14th Birthday Danaea... Love Dad and Mom." She also got 175 dollars cash from friends and relatives... She has more cash than me and Skip... hahahaha

Here's some photos:



Thursday, November 17, 2005

Today, November 17, 2005

Thanks God its Thursday! My honey is coming home. He can finally help me do the finishing touches of the clean up. I hope he will be happy of what little clean up I did in our place.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Today, November 16, 2005

Danaea's birthday party is this Friday and I am going crazy trying to keep our place tidy. I am such a pack rat that it is hard to clean up. I wish my honey would soon be back because he is such a neat person.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Today, November 15, 2005

Tuesday, Skip has to travel to Albuquerque today and we had to get up early. After sending him off to the airport, I reported for work. This is my flex week, so I need to put a lot of hours to get off for a whole day this Friday.

Monday, November 14, 2005

Today November 14, 2005

Hurrah! Today is our 5th Anniversary! It's been a splendid year for me and my honey. We have been thru many lonesome nights with him working in New Mexico. But it all turned out well. We did so many awesome things, travelled a lot and acquired a lot of nice things too.

We don't plan to go anywhere, but just be home and have a quite dinner with Danaea. We already did a lot of stuff the past week. We deserve a quite dinner!

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Today November 13, 2005

We went again to the First Christian Church, and ate at a new Mexican Restaurant in downtown Garland.

Then we headed back home to clean up the house and put the old living room set in the garage and make room for the new one that was scheduled to be delivered today. My hubby was surprised at how strong I was in assisting him with the moving. Maybe the adrenalin and excitemen of the new furniture gave me extra strength!

It was nearly 6PM, when the delivery people came with the furniture. As expected, it was gorgeous. Now Danaea's party this Friday will be a ball! The furniture was again another anniversary present for the family as with the china that we got the other weekend. What an anniversary! I guess this is one tops the rest with all the new things we got for our family!

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Today November 12, 2005

I don't know what's with Saturdays and my hubby. We went wild again this time. We were just supposed to look for a counter at Office Max. We found it and I found the biscotti that I love and had him buy it too. He was kinda interested in the jump drive, but they were kinda high. So we decided not to get it then.

Then we went to visit Ashley Furniture and look at some living room suites. I got interested in the microfiber ones, since I had good feedbacks from Christi and Fides. The one we saw was pretty and was not so expensive. We took note of the number and the price and left the store. Beside Ashley Furniture was the Burlington Factory. I had some gift card from Burlington, so we decided to drop in and spend the card. We found some nice thanksgiving decor and did a little christmas shopping too.

Danaea called and said she was hungry and wanted a Braum's sandwich. So Skip and I went to Braums and bought our lunch and ate at home.

After lunch, Skip and I went out again to visit more furniture stores. We went to Furniture Mart and Furniture World. It was our first time to visit Furniture Mart. It was really a good cheap place, specially the paintings and the carpets, as well as the furniture prices . We decided that if we want some paintings and carpets, this would be a good place to buy it. Then we visited the store beside it, the Furniture World. Furniture World has recently been our favorite store. They always had a great package for us. We got Danaea's futton bed from them, our bedroom suite, lamps, and our living room tables. Today, we were not hoping to buy anything but just scout for the microfiber furniture. Then something caught our eyes. We saw a beautiful leather living room set. Mike our favorite customer service guy was nowhere. So we talked with another salesman named Randy. Randy didn't give us a good deal as Mike would have, but we just feel in love with the set. And so just by the spur of the moment, we got ourselves a new leather set minus the tables which we just had. It is unbelievable, but we just did it again! Oh well, we hope and pray we can get our butt to work more now that we have so many bills to pay.

Friday, November 11, 2005

Today November 11, 2005

Friday! Wow! Where did the days go? It's now Friday! That was a pretty nice week I had.

I went to McDonalds to buy me breakfast, but with the busy day I had, I never got round to eating my lunch. I was glad when my buddy Chris Brown came and ask if I was hungry and so we headed out to Flying Fish.

In the evening, I then went to Stein Mart and got my hubby an Anniversary present. I also drop by Walmart and got the donation for the hospital of Iligan City from Antonietta O'Hanlon.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Today November 10, 2005

It's Thursday! I am excited! My honey is coming home.

I went to Fides place to wait for Skip. It was still early so we went to eat at the Hook, Line and Sinker restaurant. I then bought Catfish to go for Skip and Danaea. It would save me the cooking time and they will be probably starving by then.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Today November 9, 2005

I was excited today, because my Mama Nene finally gave her word to come and visit us for the New Year. She will be going with us in our land trips to San Diego and San Francisco. And then stay with us in The Mirage hotel, then fly to Dallas. We will then bring her to Austin to visit, Joy and Gerry Cruzabra's family and Nang Auring.

God willing, we will have a beautiful Christmas and New Year with Mama Nene.

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Today November 8, 2005

I had to wake up early to bring Skip to Love Field airport. He is sked to leave for Albuquerque, New Mexico. Then I went back home and brought Danaea and Nita to school. I took off early (undertime) from work to pick up Fides, then we went to New Manila to send some money to my brother in the Philippines. I bought some filipino food and went to pick up Danaea, Nita and Gabby from school. Then we stayed in the house a bit, and Fides and I went to see Firewheel Mall of Garland. It was such a pretty place and I cant wait for the AMC theater to open so we could start watching from that place.

Fides and I then headed to Christi's house for the Southern Living Party. Her place was hard to find in the evening with no lights on the highway. I was glad Fides was with me and she helped me read the signs while I drive in a one lane 45 mile per hour street.

I ordered a Old Taylor Chandelier and a school scrapbook.

Monday, November 07, 2005

Today November 7, 2005

The day went fast, Skip was busy with his work and I was at work. He picked up Danaea from school in the afternoon. We had a quite dinner, and did nothing much except watch our favorite shows on TV.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Today November 6, 2005

After a long day yesterday, we decided to just take the day easy.

We went to the First Christian Church and ate lunch at On the Border. Then Skip and I went to see the movie Doom starring "The Rock."

In the afternoon, we got Danaea a basketball, and canvass for a Combo basketball goals whcih consist of a backboard, rim and net at the Academy . She has signed up for Garland Girls Basketball Association, and she would need a good area to play and hone her skills.

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Today November 5, 2005

Wow! I could never believed how tired we were after a day long shopping! Yes, shopping, my honey went crazy and bought a lot of stuff for our 5th year anniversary!

We went to Tanger Outlet in Terrell, Texas, so he could get a nice attache or office bag. He found a good one at the Samsonite outlet store.

Then we kinda browse around the place. We visited Mikasa Outlet and the prices were so good that my honey couldn't pass up a good package. We already have two sets of china (Noritake China- which I bought and Johann - which my sister-in-law Elizabeth gave us) and a (Reed and Barton ) flatwares, but he thought that both didn't go well with our dining set. So we picked out one that would match with some flatwares too. Anyways, we thought we would just give away our old sets. But when we got home and started looking at what we have, we changed our mind. They were all so pretty. We agreed to keep it for sentimental values.

Then we went farther and bought more stuff from Van Hussein, Levi's, Kitchen Collection and Casual Corner. We got new rice cooker, crock pot, and deep fryer to replace our old ones which we plan to give away if there are any takers, or donate them to Goodwill.

I already did a bit of christmas shopping. This way, my list for christmas wouldn't be that long.

Friday, November 04, 2005

Today November 4, 2005

At last its Friday! I am so relieved. The days went by so uneventful that I cant hardly remember what I did that was worth mentioning, except for the tv shows that I have been watching.

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Today November 3, 2005

Thursday - Still not that busy at work. Had time to clean my computer and delete some old files. At home, I took time to set aside the goodies I will be sending Adonis in the Balikbayan box. Then I went watch my favorite tv show "Without A Trace."

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Today November 2, 2005

Wednesday was uneventful. I just went to Target and bought chocolates which was 50% off.

Then I watched my favorite show "Law and Order."

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Today November 1, 2005

Tuesday. My hubby Skip was on a shopping spree. He bought himself a new cheap keyboard and a very big beautiful 23" flat screen monitor - HP f2304 at MicroCenter.

I was happy to note when I bought some gas at Sam's Club in Addison, that the pumps were all new and good looking. It was like an LCD screen and it showed a lot of product advertisement. Making customers look at it and come inside the store and buy the products. Very good marketing tool!

I wasn't able to cook dinner so I just dropped by Boston Market to get it.