Thanks Mom

My mom treat me and my hubby to dinner last night for my birthday at Crazy Buffet. I used to not eat sushi but when we went to the cruise to Alaska they serve sushi at certain time everyday so I tried it and liked it a lot. So yesterday my mom was telling me about the sushi and she told me to try the ginger sauce with it which was really good (I normally just have soy sauce with my sushi and now I discover a new one). The food are great, I pigged out myself as usual. I am eating anything in sight, LOL. I just have to work it out after eating so I don't have to stack them in my belly and it will be called "bilbil"hahaha

26 on the 26th

Yesterday is my Big day. I don't really like making it a big deal even when I was a kid. I never like to celebrate like have a party or something. I always like to keep it simple. Ray was asking me a week a ago what i want to do on my birthday. If I want to celebrate it on the weekends since it falls on the weekdays. I always said I dunno. He knows I don't want a party. So we just ate at a restaurant and let me pick where. I have been wanting to go to Bahama breeze so this is right time. We went there and I definitely love the place. It right at the little lagoon or bay something like that. Of course I have to open my gift and it was a complete shock! Man, I never saw it coming. I have been joking about it and never in enter in my mind that he will actually get me one but he just surprise the hell out me when I opened it. It was an iphone! He really hid it from me. I absolutely love the phone that I can't wait to use it. I am actually watching videos in you tube with it. So user friendly and I am loving it. Thanks Hunny Bunny for the surprise gift, I love everything about it!

Over Board

Yea, I my mood kinda went over board earlier when I know that my husband's old friend (girl) came in. I have been answering the phones while doing other stuff which I am behind and when I forward calls to him and he is not answering it because he is been talking to his friend. Next time I know the employee said that the girl is in his office, I was like what? Nobody goes there except us an immediate family none of the customer can go to the office! My husband said she is a friend and he ask me if I remember his friend because she actually been here before and want to take me to the mall but we didn't go. I don't remember anything and I was so unfriendly when I went to the office. I just went over board when I knew she was in the office which she shouldn't be but my husband let her in anyway. My husband keep reminding me of her when she came and want to take me to shopping but too bad I can't remember her at all. I was so unfriendly that I didn't even say hi to her but I was just acting over board (what can you do I am woman ;))

A lil help here

We just got a bad news today. An email from a family that our friend that was in the hospital because the car accident 3 weeks ago had to be back in the ICU because she just had a setback. She was doing great and now we are kinda worried. Hopefully you guys include her in your prayers.

A sleep over

My sister called yesterday and asking if we are not that busy because our niece is so bored at home and want to come over and stay for 2 to 3 days at the house if we don't mind. She actually stayed with us before for a few times and she help us at the store with other stuff. I am actually really busy but I really love her to stay for a change. It's always just us and the pets. I am just waiting for them since my dad is dropping her off in a few minutes now.

Get Well Soon!

We just got the shocking news late this afternoon that a friend (we considered her a part of the family) of ours just got involved in an accident last night and she is badly hurt. She had some broken ribs, some issues in her lungs and who knows what else is damaged. We also learned that it was a truck who ran a red light hit her. We just all hope that she will get well soon without any complications. For all the readers out there, Please be careful driving.

Thanks for the Visit

Ray's godmother was here, actually they come here for the reunion in Miami and they drove to Tampa just to see my mom and Ray. Ray and I visited her at her house in Las Vegas when we were there and she promised to visit us too.

Thanks Mom

Mom called in the middle of the day yesterday and ask us if we want spaghetti with meatballs. Of course one of my favorite foods is spaghetti especially with meatballs so how can I say no? I decided to go to the gym since I missed my Tuesday step class because we were out of town and that particular class always makes me motivated. I love it that always makes me think that I lose weight after doing it even though it didn't hehehe. Mom brought the food for dinner when I was still in the gym and she didn't know that I was going but it was perfect because coming out from the gym I get really really hungry so I can eat like a pig. Good thing about going to the gym is I can eat whatever I can (I am obsessed with rice and pinakbet with bagoong! love it! love it! love it!) and don't worry about getting some extra unwanted weight.
Anyway, I'm writing this blog because I am eating our leftover from our dinner last night and I am so grateful to have an in laws like mom.

So damn right!

Indeed, Our Sunday started right. We went to bed late Saturday yet I was able to wake up early (10:30 am) which is unusual for me for being the sleepyhead in the house. I've been planning to go to church(once in a blue moon) and I did it this time. I was already up and running so I asked Ray if he can go with us (doggies) to the dog park and he agreed. We stayed for about an hour, it was a nice day so I was able to wear shorts even it's winter time (we have hot winter here..hehehe). The doggies were so excited, they can't even wait to go out when we were still driving especially when they see other dogs running.

Here's Bullwinkle & Ripsi making friends with other dog


Rocky walking with Ray (Yea he does walk with 2 legs)


Here's Ripsi with another lil dog


Rocky at the Big Dogs field


They made friends


After the park we went to the store and just finish whatever we have to finish and watch the first half of the football game.

At second half we went to Chili's for dinner and watch the Half Time Show featuring Tom Petty , and watch the rest of the Super Bowl XVII. Congratulations to the Giants once again....

Free lunches

Talk about free lunches, we have two days in a row free lunches here. My mom (actually mother in law) brought us lunch (Meatball sandwich with salads and French fries for today and shredded pork yeasterday) from where they ate. She's always bringing us food. She is a good cook and I love her rice and beans. Most of the time when she invited us to come over to have dinner, she always makes my favorite rice and beans. It's just incredibly delicious. She is just so sweet and warm. Actually the whole family is always warm that's why I don't think that I was away from my family when I first moved here. I have an instant family.

Thank you for the food MOM!

Filipino food

I miss them, my friend called me last week and she said that we are having a get together since Monday was a holiday. I went at her house Monday even though the store was open ( hey I'm the boss..hehehe). I only see my friends once in awhile because they're busy and and I am busy myself. Actually Ray found her working as a manager in McDonald's when I was still in the Philippines. Ray told her about me and when I came here we became friends automatically. She's been here 9 years. Through her I found more friends and we always meet at her house since she is a good cook. Every time she cook and I can't come she always call and said pick this food I got for you since I am only 2 miles away from her house. Gathering with other Filipino is just fun, you will feel at home. I miss my parents and family but not as much as the first 6 months. Now I adjusted pretty good with the help of my family and friends here.

Birthday Party

Saturday, January 19, 2008, Ray and I was invited for our Goddaughter's 15th Birthday. We went to Arigato Japanese Steak House in St Petersburg. Food wasn't too bad but I expected more. I love the cooking thing style where you see them cook it in front and the fire and all.

Welcoming a New Family Member

Our weekend was spent in South Florida. We have reasons to go all the way down Miami last Friday. First we have to buy computers stuff at the wholesalers, then at night we went to Sunny Isles to see Titi Helen (Ray's Godmother) and her husband. They came from Las Vegas so it's an opportunity to them even though I've seen her when we went to Vegas last year. She's a sweetheart. We also have to give her highlights on the laptop she got. She knows a lil bit about it but not enough so we just told her more and show her how to do this and do that. Saturday was just a free day, we didn't plan anything we just go with the flow. We woke up late and decided to go this big place (i dunno if it's a flea market or what, it's huge , they even have 10 drive-in movie theater). They have stuffs inside and out, it's like a maze inside. All i know is they have expensive cars on display (maybe for sale too) a little bit shy from $5million. I think they have like 5 Ferrari very sleek, but Ray liked the Maserati, they don't have Lamborghini though :(. Then we went to Sawgrass Mills. We went back to our room and planned to go to the fitness room but didn't stay that long so we decided to go to the pool. It's rare that i go swimming in the pool but i just wanna relax. We just went to a club in Fort Lauderdale at night i even took a video because i was so drunk and at that time that so fun to do. It didn't came out right though, it was so dark. Sunday was beach Day and to pick up our new family member, the weather wasn't cooperating so we just drove until we got to Pomona Park where the puppy is located. We already talked that we don't want another dog (2 was a borderline since we travel a lot), it started when we saw the 2 months puppy in a pet shop. Since then I've been wanting one. We like a Papillon Breed and we got 1 that is full breed but he is bigger so we want a Papillon puppy that is a small. We finally saw her yesterday and she's officially ours. We named her "Ripsi", she's 2 pounds and 9 and 1/2 weeks old.
I brought her to the vet today and she's healthy but we have to be careful because she got a soft spot in her head just like a baby.

Here's when she was a week and a half old

So adorable

I visited my friend Zeny yesterday in Plant City and of course I am so anxious to see the new member of the family. We brought her to the store to look for her dress and ahhhh she is so adorable. I wish i could pinch her but better not LOL.

My friend Zeny and Shawn is so lucky to have a baby girl that is so cute. Here's some pictures of Andrea Faith
She is only 5 weeks and she looks a lot bigger than she should!!! Be a good girl sweetie...

Family Weekend

I will start Thursday, I drove to Orlando to meet my friend Cony from New York. I was supposed to drive over there with a friend but she never called or left a message (she just left me hanging, which is pretty rude for someone to do). I am a person with a word in spite what happen i still drove to Orlando all by myself because I already committed to Cony. All the driving was worth it anyway, I finally meet a friend that I've been talking in the internet for months. We saw some Filipinos at Downtown Disney and even dance to another Filipino at Mannequin at Pleasure Island. It was fun and glad that i met Cony. To Cony, gurl I enjoyed it "Kanus a na man pod kaha ta magkita ani".

Saturday was for our pets (mainly for our dogs, Rocky and Bullwinkle and a our Bird Daisy). We went to Fort Desoto for our dogs to swim. They haven't been in the water since last summer. I love watching them swimming especially when we went to the sand bar where no leash and they can just run and swim, of course they can't go anywhere because they'll drown if they leave the shallow water. Mom and friends even go because we told her we're going but they just stayed in the beach. Mom's friend was fascinated with our bird Daisy because she actually say some words and very interactive. The only thing is i left the camera so i just have to take some when we come back (I'm sure we will, summer time is coming so water is always apart of it ).

Sunday we celebrated mother's day and Kristina's Birthday(niece) at his sister Denise's house. The traditional family get together.

2nd Year Wedding Anniversary

My blog is so late, actually our wedding anniversary was Saturday January 27th. I just want to post it for my record in case i forgot where we went to our 2mnd anniversary. It was lil chilly so we decided to go just eat at a Japanese Restaurant but it was close for renovation so we turn around and saw The Melting Pot, Ray said it's supposedly a romantic place for anniversary and it's dark inside but he doesn't like their food. I was so thrilled of what he said so i insist to go and eat at Melting Pot. It was definitely different than any of the restaurant that we went together before. It's a fondue kind of thing. We chose the style of cooking and the spices that goes into it and then we have cook our own food. They just give us the meat and everything then we'll cook it and eat it after of course ;). The dessert was awesome instead of cheese we chose chocolate. Everything was terrific,we had a lot of fun and the food turns out to be very good.Ray didn't know why he didn't like their the last time.
My gift was way before our anniversary, I'm always advance(better than late right?). He gave me his gifts after work, store was really busy.
Anyways, we had a good time on our anniversary. I want to go out dancing but it was so chilly and rainy.

I can't make it longer, latest activity is just Miami trips for the voluntary rehearsal for the Super bowl. We are going to Miami Beach tonight hoping we'll see some of the player ;), I'm sure South Beach hoppin' right now.

Catch ya'll later folks....

New Year 2007

We are trying to make our New Year different from our everyday routine, it only happens once a year. Let me start from Saturday even though it’s just a regular work.

Saturday, I have to be in Safety Harbor to meet somebody for a possible (possible) job. Hence, Ray is not working; we just lay in bed the rest of the afternoon. At night we decided to go to the club. I am not in the mood to drink and besides I haven’t had good dinner because I don’t feel like eating anything. The club had some complimentary snack buffet but didn’t eat enough to fill my empty stomach. After a game of pool I decided to have a shot of Tequila (not a good idea for an almost empty stomach). In between playing pool, drinking, laughing and dancing, everything pretty much made my world round. This was my first time since I got here that I actually throw up. It made me not think of liquor even for New Year, not even for champagne.

Sunday, almost stayed home because I made a reservations on the Sun Cruz at Treasure Island (at least do something on New Year) unfortunately they are fully booked since Friday. We really want to go to Cirque du Soleil in Downtown Disney in Orlando. We started to look for our tickets. We got 2 for the 6:00 pm show, perfect before the New Year's countdown begin, the bad news was they don't have available seats near the stage and the good news we don't have to look up because they are doing stunts, rope exhibition etcetera. We got out from the show around 8:00 o'clock. We wander around Downtown Disney; it was quite bizarre when a couple comes up wanting to take picture of me of course i can't just say NO with all the compliments they uttered (that was my 2 seconds hall of shame). We checked out Pleasure Island and it was $90 per person just to get in, knowing that the place is mostly filled with bars and clubs and considering that i don't want to drink liquor after what happened last night. It's just different when you are in the club without having a drink (just an opinion). Instead of staying in Downtown Disney, we drove to Old Town. There were way more people than what we expected. That was our New Year's Eve.

Monday after checking out with the dogs, we drove directly to the store. I don't want to go home because i know i will just sleep all day. We search some movie ratings and schedule at AMC movie theater. It was a blast and a movie marathon. We stayed 9 hours in the theater. We first watch "Blood Diamond" it was really really good. "Black Christmas", "Pursuit of Happiness" just an ordinary story and setting but i love it, "Borat" we've seen it before and just wanna see it again and the last one was "Apocalypto" it was a really good movie but I prefer love more than just killing each other, i know it's history it's just i hate the killing of innocent individuals.

New Year a new beginning of a life full of challenges.
Happy New Year. Be hopeful for a blessed and fruitful 2007!!!!

Christmas 2006

Time goes by pretty quick, it’s my third Christmas (actually only been here 2 years now but I came during this time of the year so I had Christmas right when I got here). We have traditional Christmas Eve every year, to celebrate it at my Mother in law’s house in Tampa. It’s always like my family in the Philippines; my new family here is always warm and caring. We give gifts to each other. We played our traditional gag gift, giving of gifts and everything will end up in the table to grab food. Of course football game is always on. Whew, another fruitful year has come. We’ll just hope for another one for 2007.

We spent Christmas Day at my Sister in law’s house in Saint Petersburg. We just had more foods and talking and watching football game. When we got home we opened our gifts for our pets too. We gave them treats. We also gave each other’s presents. We always save the BEST FOR LAST :)

My ever Late Thanksgiving Blog

I am so blessed of God’s planned destiny for my journey for having a good quality of life, good health and happy family that sometimes I question myself why God is so GOOD to me even though I don’t have time for HIM most of the time. Actually Thanksgiving Day was full of MY DRAMA, in spite what happened I am still thankful of having Ray into my LIFE. I thank God for giving Ray to be part of my Journey in this earth who always gives his time whenever I need it (or even I don’t need it…shhh!), always understands my mood swings and needs, always gives time for our little vacations (hahaha), and of course loving me as long as he can stand on my “more often than not childish” attitude. Believe it or not I still pout considering the fact that I am already 24(it’s Ray’s fault he just let me do it the first second and third time that I accustomed to it). Don’t worry folks I am working on it.

The Shopping day, who the hell don’t want all the sales and discount, right? Yea, I went to the mall after I finish my task at the store. I didn’t go for every sale and discount and dig the whole mall; I went there for one thing “the tote”. Yup that’s right, I just want to get the tote even though I am not sure if I will use it, but right now I don’t think so. I just bought something small for myself, Ray and a Christmas gift for our adorable great nephew (are we that old to have a great nephew????)

Weekend was relaxing; Ray didn’t work Saturday so we watch 3 movies (Casino Royale, Saw III and Deja Vu) on Friday night at the drive-in theater. We slept all day and stay in bed for the rest of the weekend.

Writing a blog so late???? here's why, I just don't feel like writing my blog without my store computer. I feel dumb without it I'm sure ya'll know what i mean:(.

just fishing..

We can't decide last night whether to go out fishing or not because of the crappy weather. It was raining earlier but the sun came out around 6:30 pm so we called mom and finally we made up our mind. We already talked about Ballast point in South Tampa. We got lost going to the place and we made a big circle trying to avoid the stinking train. Anyways, the good news was we finally made our way to Ballast point and the bad news was we ain't catch no fish(dammit to hell). Mom and Dick(fiance) were catching fish like crazy that i never heard of (dog fish(a dog fish???????), sting ray, cat fish, snake etc.). Came home late around 11:00 pm.