Basil = Pesto

On impulse, I bought a basil plant last friday because I’ve been hankering for some pesto pasta for the longest time. Let’s just hope it will stay alive for yummy pesto in the future as I know nothing about planting. I have a green mind but not a green thumb boo hoo! I already weeded out the wilting leaves and the plant doesn’t look too happy. Of course, I used the wilted leaves and it produced yummy pesto!

Shoes..shoes..shoes

I am suppose to go grocery shopping because we don’t have bread and other staples anymore but I got tamad and instead swear to do it tomorrow.

I’ve been a bad,bad girl..since I can’t do actual shopping I’ve veered my frustrations towards Online Shopping! I swear 2-3x a week we get some kind of package. I’ve received one yesterday, one today and I’m expecting another tomorrow mwehehehe! Bad for the pocket tsk! I was suprised when I arrived to received such a big package, I couldn’t remember ordering something at all. When I opened the box I clapped with glee because inside were four pairs of sandals and shoes. Yes you read it right, 4 pairs but it’s not all for me of course. Last week there was a crazy sale at 6PM and I also got crazy ordering the darn cute shoes. Original price for these shoes were from 75-100+ and and and and (can you feel me bursting with excitement) there were on sale for 4.99 each! Syet!!!! Naloka dyud ko, it didn’t help that the sizes and styles were going fast so I was pressured to order quickly. Nonetheless, it was the best $26 that I’ve spent (4 shoes + shipping).

Killer heels these shoes have

The little boy and the exhausted mom

You know I haven’t blogged for a while here although I’ve blogged on my other site . I’m just tired right now, I am without social life so I’m a little bit cranky nowadays.

The little boy is proving to be too much for us, eating is a challenge, sleeping all night is a challenge and shopping and eating out is another thing. We have foregone eating out as it was such a hassle for us, he’d make a mess of our table, he shouts and wants to roam around the resto and I’d get frustrated on why we have such a challenging child so we gave up on that and only eat at filipino restos as they are more understanding of a makulit boy and fastfoods aka burger king, kfc etc. Shopping gaaadd, I haven’t shopped peacefully for a while, the last time I tried I couldn’t choose properly because 1) he wants to be carried and 2) he wants to roam around. Discipline is another thing, it’s something that have eluded us for now. We can only shake our head and say “Ngano ning enter man ta ani (Why did we get into this?)”. Other times he is darn cute that we forget about how makulit he is. Sigh, the ups and downs of being parents, no?

Ok I’m going to post some of little boy’s antics as I might forget them.

1. Yesterday, we were having dinner, he was getting fussy and wanted to sit on my lap. So I told him “you sit” and like a parrot said to me “You shi”. Hayyy..

2. Everytime after bath he forces himself to pee on the carpet. Arg! He likes to see how the wee wee goes out of his peepee and he touches his weewee while doing it! tsk! tsk!

3. Last Sunday at the church, he wanted to go out of the children’s room so he said ‘outside’ grabbed my hands and said “go go go”. We had to laugh at that, silly kid.

He is very bulol and yungit so his words are not clear.
ae-pen – airplane
kaah – car
baba – baby
baba – bath (different intonation)
ow shoo – outside
te-ten = ten- ten
cho cho – totoy ( o yes we are teaching him that! lol!)
bo-bow – rainbow (it took a while for us to “get” this)
a-poo – apple
afu (used to be aff) – open

I know there were others but this tired Mom has forgotten.

And I spend spend here..spend spend everywhere

Expenses for this month have been piling left and right, I hate August! There is a bulk yearly payment for our condo back home and this time I completely forgot about this one so the check bounced, what’s worse is that my mom issued another check with the same amount and I had a double bounce *ouch*. FYI, they are charging me 2500 for every bounced check so darn #$$$%%*$ that simple mistake cost me 5000 php!!!!! It gets worse, since the check bounced I am charged a late fee of 800 from our condo developer and since my balance went beyond minimum, I will be charged for another 250 php. F##$%%#! ‘

You all know how much of a penny pincher I am so I am fuming mad with myself for forgetting the post-dated check *smoke billowing out of my ears*. You know that bad luck always comes in 3’s right? Well, Yiek’s mighty IMAC conked out as in null zilch nada die imac die zap zap zap, we had to day $95 to have it diagnosed and the result tsadang *800-1000 $$$$ to have if fixed*. We decided to buy a new one and this time it’s a tumatagingting $2k. Yiek decided to build his own pc and the parts are pretty much high-end. It better last longer than 2 years or I’ll be crying foul!

December is near ayayay, how am I going to cope up with the coming expenses of going home? I have not started pasalubong shopping yet but I’ve already psyched them that we will be bringing minimal of those. Wala ko gapala ug gold diri no!