Donations!! Donations!!

I woke up early today to clean out my closet. I'm going to go to Goodwill later today to donate a whole bunch of stuff.

It's crazy because honestly I've never donated anything to Goodwill before. I say this because we usually give all of our unwanted stuff to our family in the Philippines. The thing with that though is that it takes my mom months to ship these packages to the Philippines and our junk ends up piling up in the garage. Also, my mom and/or auntie will see what I'm giving away and think that they would actually wear it. Let me give you an example:

*A pile of clothes on my bed*
Auntie Cora: Oh! I love that sweater. *Stands in front of the mirror holding it over her body.
Me: Ok are you going to take that?
Auntie Cora: YES! Look at it...it's still wearable. *Walks away with the sweater.
Me: Ok. Good.

*A few hours later.
Auntie Cora: *Holding the sweater. Can you put this in your room for now? I don't have space in my closet. I'll come and get it when I'll wear it.

Now that sweater is still sitting in my closet....

DON'T DON'T DON'T GET ME STARTED....

I'm going to sneak all my bags of goodies in my car so that I can stop by the Goodwill Donation Center down the road before I head to the gym.

Christmas Eve Tradition

My dad ALWAYS cooks Arroz Caldo for Christmas Eve which is chicken and rice with ginger in a chicken broth. Its pretty much almost the same as congee. I LOVE IT!!! He'll probably cook this on New Year's Eve too.

We ate butsi/sesame balls for dessert! =) This was not home made it was store bought from Chow King!!

Merry Christmas!! Happy Birthday Mom! =)

My family usually always get our cakes at the European Cake Gallery in Point Loma. We've been going there for over 20 years. I remember going there as a kid with my mom and I love it!


Their specialty Swiss Black Forest! =)

Last year I bought my mom a cake from Kona Kakes and although is was tasty it wasn't quite the same....we'll be sticking to our usual place. =)

Chargers!!

Yesterday after my dad and I found out Buffalo won, we celebrated and had a bottle of wine. LOL!! I love my dad!!My mom and I went to Costco just before that and you can see the tomatoes and eggs we bought in the background. I love my family!! =)

What an Artist.

This is a picture of my cousin JR.


This is me.
The face behind the art. LOL. My little cousin Vernice.

Don't Tell Me its Broken...

I love my mom.

This morning my mom and I were eating breakfast and all we could hear was this weird clanking sound. Lo and behold my mom's beloved washing machine was making the clanking sound. After a round of turning it on and off and restarting the machine and putting it on different settings my mom was on the verge of going crazy. She was on the phone calling my dad and calling people to fix the washer. Let's just say that her washer dryer is her life and there is not a single day when that machine is resting unless my mom is either 1. on vacation out of San Diego let me stress that because even when she is taking a day off to relax her view of relaxation is cleaning the house and washing clothes or 2. she's sick.

She is currently waiting outside for the washer tech to come a fix her baby.

Edible Arrangements!!

My family got a bouquet of edible arrangements today! The crazy thing was that it was sent to the wrong address. I guess the family across the street and 2 houses down got it and put it in their fridge on its side!! At least they gave it to us.

We also got a box of chocolate covered strawberries and apples!!

I am leaving for Spain tomorrow!! =) I will definitely keep everyone posted on my travels!! Adios and Au Revoir!!

DON'T GET ME STARTED!!!!

My food intake for the past 3 days has been TOO MUCH!!!! I'm not even exaggerating this time. At least I've been going to the gym to kind of make up for it. I was actually kind of freaking out this morning because I was definitely having a don't even get me started moment!! My dad woke me up to tell me he cooked pancakes and when I walked into the kitchen there was a huge stack of pancakes (obviously not just for me to eat but also to feed my entire caravan on a family), boiled eggs, pork chops, grapes, cantaloupe, coffee, orange juice, and oatmeal. I just had an artery clogging moment looking at everything!! I only ate a pancake and made myself a cup of coffee then quickly walked away from the table just so I wouldn't eat more than I should.

Last night I went out with 3 out of the 2678 family members that I have to Island Prime in Harbor Island. The place used to be called Reubens and I guess they had a change of ownership a few years back. Its a beautiful location. Right on the harbor overlooking downtown San Diego. Absolutely gorge. Anyway, WE ATE SO MUCH!!!

It all started off with this brioche!!

I decided that I didn't want to get steak and ended up getting Scallops with risotto and asparagus but then I ended up eating my moms steak because it was just soooooo good!!

AND to top that off we all shared 2 desserts! Key Lime pie and a trio of creme brulee!!

I didn't even have time to take a good picture because the moment that the sever placed the key lime pie on the table my family was already diving into it with their forks as you can see in this photo!! BTW, in the back was the YUMMY creme brulee.

This was just too much but so good!! =)

DON'T GET ME STARTED!!!!

I had a good day today.

1. Work was fun and productive.
2. I exercised twice!!!
3. Hung out with Bowie.
4. I didn't even eat that much today either!!! YAY. WOW! (Don't even get me started on this because for the past two days my I had a giant costco key lime pie sitting in my fridge and I pretty much gorged on it every night and now that there isn't anymore i have nothing else to eat.)

Anyway, I was chatting away with Andrew online and getting so excited because I was adding new songs to my shuffle and telling him that I was excited to wash my clothes. HAHA. I know i'm crazy. I love to wash clothes and clean. Anyway, when I took my clothes out of the washer MY POOR SHUFFLE WAS SITTING IN THE BOTTOM OF THE WASHER!!!!! I almost died. =( Earlier after I added the new songs to the shufflesies my cousin kept on playing with it so I pulled it out of her hands and unhooked the ear phones from it and just dropped it into my shirt pocket. My dad and I were going to go for a walk so I figured I'll just change out of my work clothes and into my exercise gear and I just dropped my clothes into the wash completely forgetting about the shuffle!! Ugh...

Anyway, my dad felt bad for me I guess and called me destroyer. HAHA. There's a story why he calls me destroyer but I'll finish this story first. Well my dad just gave me his for now. I feel bad though but it did make me happy. =)

Destroyer Story:
When I was little or I guess not that little because I was in Middle School I put one of those instant asian spicy kimchee soup bowls into the microwave. I was on the phone with my friend Amy Lui at the time and this is kind of what happened:

Me: I'm hungry I just put soup in the Microwave.
*Having some sort of conversation about something.
Me: OMG. The wrapper on the soup bowl is curling.
Amy: You didn't take the cover off it has foil on it.
Me: I'm supposed to take it off?
Amy: Yeah.
Me: OMG!! It's on fire. OMG!! There's a fire in my microwave!!
*Throws the phone somewhere and opens the microwave and splashes water on the fire.

A Few Hours Later...I try to pretend that nothing happened.

Dad: Why is there a hole in the microwave? Why is the inside of the microwave all black?
Dad: CHRISTINE!!! DID YOU DO THIS? YOU DESTROYER!! Now we have to buy a new microwave!!

I mean the story wasn't that funny but I guess everytime I do something wrong my dad always has to be like...well when you destroyed the microwave...blah blah blah...HAHA. I love my dad though.

OMG....these just made me happy!! HAHA!!

Hot Like Fire

It was so hot yesterday it was disgusting. On hot days like that my mom thinks it a good idea to close all the windows and doors in our house so the warm air from outside won't come in. It's a good idea when there's maybe 3 people in the house I think but when there are 20 people all sitting in the kitchen it is just ridiculous. I think when the windows start to fog up there's a slight problem.
Anyway, we had tons and tons of zucchini from my uncle's garden so my auntie asked me to make zucchini cake.
I didn't really do anything since I was sick and didn't want to infect anything. I just had Jay and Vernice mix everything while I was reading off the ingredients. =)

Vernice kept on licking the batter!! I love her.

We only cooked a small tray and my family ate it all within just a few hours of cooking it.

Every weekend when my mom works she always has either me or my dad drive her and pick her up. ??? My cousin and I went to go pick her up yesterday and we were a little early so we walked around.

HAHA!!! That's all. It was hot.

Its What?

Its so cute because my little cousin Vernice LOVES to draw. This picture is called Daddy, Mommy & Baby.

What Day is Today?

Today is Father's day!! =) Happy Father's Day!!

I didn't get any Sunday pancakes this morning...haha. Andrew was telling me I should have cooked my dad pancakes instead. I just made myself a cup of coffee instead and ate frosted mini-wheats. HAHA!!

I bought my dad the new Journey CD Revelation off of the Walmart website. He said that was the only thing he really wanted. I was so frustrated last night because Bo and I were searching the Walmarts in San Diego to find it because its a Walmart exclusive but it was sold out!! I was actually really surprised that it would be sold out I couldn't believe it. Now I have to wait sometime around 6.23-6.27 to get the cd shipped to our house.

Happy 94th Birthday Lola Masing!!!

Yesterday was my grandma's 95th birthday!!! She woke up and asked for her usual oatmeal and bananas with coffee.

Actually she asked like this:
Gma: "Christine!!! I WANT TO EAT NOW WHERE'S MY OATMEAL?!?!"
Me: "Here gma."
Gma: "Where is the bananas? Smash it good!!"
Me: "Here gma."
Gma: "Christine!! Paper towel!! (That's what she calls her napkins) My coffee!!! Where is it? Make sure its sweet!!"

HAHA. I'm used to it. It's a daily thing. Then I did her nails and she went to get her hair did. Its so cute because she loves to get all done up and if you haven't noticed she loves to wear red.

The Crazies

One Saturday morning at around 7AM my mom decided that she wanted to go to a wholesale garden off the 805 to look at the different varieties of ice plants she could use on the hill in our backyard. After asking the worker a series of questions and looking at the same plant in 4 different colors she decided that she needs "TIME" to think about what she really wants because its a tough decision.

1. She's insane.
2. I love her.
3. I become more like her every single day.

DECISION 2008

Is Art Art or Are We Art?

My 3 year old cousin Vernice told me she was going to draw a picture of me and she drew this:




Then I looked at it and I was like aw how cute....but then I realized that she drew Oswald this cartoon Octopus which is supposed to look like this:



I still thought it was cute. She also drew me apples:



She is an artist in training!

Domingo

Almost every Sunday my dad cooks pancakes!!! I had some for breakfast and I thought this graffiti would be appropriate!!!

Le Jardin des Nancy

My mother's pride and joy....

Happy Earth Day!!