Winding Creek Circle

Well, honestly, just an lcd monitor. But if you ask the husband we might as well upgrade everything. The LCD has been blinking on and off for sometime now but lately it has been blurring a lot as well. We are holding onto it as long as it will hold on its own as a new desktop isnt on our plans for the next couple of months. We are pretty heavy graphic viewers - watching movies, using Adobe a lot so the monitor is extremely important to us (good thing I have G!).

Rules:
1. List 6 things that describe yourself today.
2. Add your blog to the list. Feel free to add all your other blogs.
3. Tag other online friends you know.

Today, I am:
1. PMS-ing
2. Feel creative.
3. Feel the need and drive to clean and organize my mess. (I need to check on HDMI cables for the internet)
4. Feel depressed. Sometimes.
5. Feel frustrated. Esp. when the youngest throws tantrums
6. Doing OK.

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How are you today Jane, Abie and Kelly?

Appetizer

When someone smiles at you, do you smile back?
Depends on the person who smiled at me. I dont like creepy people.LOL

Soup

Describe the flooring in your home. Do you have carpet, hardwood, vinyl, a mix?
Vinyl and wood.

Salad

Write a sentence with only 5 words, but all of the words have to start with the first letter of your first name.
Many men made many munchkins. (Whew!) (If my name was C, Id use the word used cisco!)

Main Course

Do you know anyone whose life has been touched by adoption?
Yes, many people from the scrapbooking world who are single by choice.

Dessert

Name 2 blue things.
My bag and the sky today

Well, better call it bus-ted.

It seems that two buses out of the five that our organization rented for the events we have this weekend has a faulty aircon. This cannot be as the delegates came for all over the world, and the weather has been crazily humid this week (especially in the city). If only we can afford to buy a bus, we would. But we have been building a retreat house and activity center so having a permanent mode of transport isnt the priority.

I hope the bus company replaces the faulty buses!

The faucet in the kitchen sink needs to be replaced. The water sometimes doesnt come out even if we have the faucet fully opened. It is a good thing that the owner of the house has told us we can replace, improve or renovate the house and have the expenses deducted on our rent. (I think they dont have money to do the repairs. Oh well, we dont have either! Ha!). Kohler faucets have been the recommended ones when I asked around the hardware store. I just dont know which style the husband wants to so I need to wait for him to make a decision.

I sound like a domesticated, submissive housewife there.
(So not true, by the way).

I still get a silly smile whenever people ask me how I survive living in the suburbs without a landline phone, a car to take me places (like the grocery), and things “needed” in the city. I just say, “Well, I have the kids to keep me busy and the Internet to keep me sane.” I do need, however, a cellphone to keep me connected to the husband and in cases of emergency. We anticipated long minutes spent calling each other so we decided to subscribe to a company that has a plan for unlimited calls and texts within the same network. They have dual plans perfect for the family so we got one subscription - which let us have three phones. The husband and I got one each, and we gave one to my son, which is originally intended to be used as a “house phone”. Imagine our surprise and indignation (yes, I was so frustrated I refused to pay our phone bill) when we moved and found out the cellular company didnt have any signal within our area! Que horror! I lodged a complaint against them when somebody reached me asking me to update my bill with them. It is good though that after three days, cellphone reception signal was strong. Imagine the plan being wasted if there wasnt any signal at all. There are times the signal gets weak and that’s when I am sorely tempted to get a cell phone signal booster, especially since talking with the husband over a choppy line is extremely frustrating.

Basically, the kit - SOHO Quick Kit - is a quick set up kind. Basically built for mobile homes (RVs and motorhomes), it boosts cell signals (Disclaimer:The dual band 50 dB (both 800 & 1900 MHz frequencies) wireless amplifier works with ALL North American cell phones, data cards and carriers except Nextel/iDEN.) You dont need any cables to install the kit. It retails for $399.95.

Some food for thought.

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. Read the rest of this entry »

My obssession with London has not stopped yet. I have been reading up all I can about London and how I can make my obssession a reality.

That being said, I have been researching how much going to London would actually cost - airfare, hotel bookings, tours, food - the whole shebang. I need an actual cost so that the goal would be more realistic. I have found a site that makes hotel booking easy, and it caters to a lot of key cities around the world. It is aptly named Easytobook.com.

So they feature and have a list of London Hotels available and I was attracted to their Hotel of the Month - Novotel West London (1 Shortlands, W6 8DR London). It is an award-winning four star hotel with their trademark Novation rooms. It is prime booking hotel spot for some serious shoppers as it is ideal for people who want to visit Harrods, Kensington Palace and Gardens and museums. It boasts of offers 629 spacious en-suite classic and superior bedrooms, two restaurants, two bars, fitness centre, beauty salon, business centre, pay parking on-site, as well as state of the art meeting and convention facilities within 5,500 square metres of flexible space. Not bad, eh?

I would like hotels near the museums though so I need to search some more.

This made my day (yes, this made my day far better than my best stay in vegas hotels when I was 16!).
We now have an antenna which makes us finally see local stations.

Uber babaw right?

Try being TV-less for 10 days, with Elmo and Barney on repeat. You can only watch your kind of DVDs by the time the little one is asleep and by then, it still needs to be rated PG because the big brother will be watching with you.

So no kissing scenes or violent scenes.
Tell me, ano naman mapapanood mo nun? LOL

Yay, I can watch Dyesebel tonight

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