Little Women

I've always thought that classic means boring. Lately, I have decided to give them a try. I'm nothing if not open-minded about some new experiences when it comes to reading. I might just read a lot of sci-fi yet.

Reading the classics need a lot of preparation. One of the things I have to do is borrow the movie of Little Women which fortunately for me have Christian Bale in it. He's just very sexy, who wouldn't watch the movie with him in it? Plus, I like Wynona Ryder in that movie. That was before a bunch of lawyers who's probably just jealous of her fame and fortune. Some lawyers are just asses that way. Anyway, Wynona is really great on that role.

After watching the movie, I meant to get the book and read it. Lucky for me, my husband saw the unabridged DVD in the library and got it for me. The movie was pretty much faithful to the book, right until the part when Jo came home from NY. It's different from there all the way to the end. The movie was engaging, and the book even more.



I was bombed when Jo didn't marry Teddy. The book explained that part much better. I wouldn't mind re-reading the book in print a few months time. That's how good it is. It's going to my keeper file.

I listened and looked forward to doing my laundry when the kids are asleep or busy so I could finish the story. I did, and I am now going back into classics and catching up. I have Tolstoy's book with me now. It's in audio...the next laundry book. Anna Karenina

Template Again

I thought I'd play around with my template. When I came back, I had lost all of my sidebar clutter. I love my clutter.

So, I had to change it again. Is it working now? I have no earthly idea because I wouldn't know until later. If you're noticing that it's not working properly, please let me know.

I noticed there's a video upload button on my editor. Isn't that nice? I haven't tried it...but I will. I distinctly remember a duck chase at a mall near us involving some straw. I tell you, I have never had so much fun watching ducks!

Home Remodelling

Home Remodeling is a tricky thing. Once started, it's hard to stop. Or, if you have a very bad start, you might never ever want to do it again. I have just moved into a new home, and I did remodel. Home Remodeling can be a pleasant activity with the help of this website.

They have ideas about reducing noise if your house is located near a busy street. They have ideas about flooring, and even have a mixer made by splenda. I kid you not. It's a beautiful yellow kitchenaid mixer. Just in time to replace my old faithful mixer because my 5 year old broke it by trying to bake a cake by himself. I was watching him when it accidentally fall to the floor.

Home Remodeling site makes it very easy to navigate because the site has clear categories of items posted. If you're thinking of remodelling, go and check out Home Remodeling.

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About Sharing

I was walking to the kitchen when I heard my 3-year old said, "I want to play with your toy."

My 5-year old said, "Get your own."

3-year old siad, "Mommy said SHARE!"

In which my 5-year old said, "I am sharing. You're sitting on my part of the chair."

Innovative Tutor

My children are very smart. They are in 3rd and 4th grade. They are in honor roll, makes good grades, and are prompt with their homework. However, there are times when they lost their momentum and will slide to "B" if unchecked. That's why it's great news to hear about Innovative Tutor. It's a program where they can help me make sure my children stays on track with their academic standing and goals. The have free academic screening, and better yet, a 15% discount for the fall semester. If I were to hire help for my children's academic health, Innovative Tutor is the way to go.

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Garage Flooring

I am not a guy, but I sure would like to fix up my garage. I already have neat shelves and a bench on it...what I don't have is neat garage flooring. I have found a place to shop for garage flooring. I am partial to black and white checker style. It will go well with my silver cabinets. True, I only park my cargo van and two refrigerators in it, but I surely would enjoy a neat floor.

Check out Carguygarage.com and you can see for yourself the neat and smart garage flooring selection they have. They have instant coupon available if you're ready to purchase.

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Hotel Reservations

With family as big as ours, we have to really look and reserve hotels in advance when we go on trips. At Hotel Reservations, they made shopping easy. We're thinking of going to San Francisco for a few days trip. I thought the best way to go would be to have two rooms, preferably connecting, or a suite.

I went to Hotel Reservations and search for the dates I am interested. There are several room available for the dates I picked. I like THE WESTIN SAN FRANCISCO MARKET STREET. For two rooms over a weekend, it costs about 179 per room. When staying for two nights, there's an additional 10% off. A great deal for a Westin hotel. So, for a stay from Sunday to Tuesday, it will cost me about 838 USD. That's a great rate for San Francisco. Besides, Westin is a 4-star hotel. They offer childcare in room. Hotel Reservations shows the ammenities available for each of the hotels they're offering.

There's another option at HILTON SAN FRANCISCO FINANCIAL DISTRICT, another 4-star hotel, for the same number of days will cost 640 USD for a city view. There's also a
Executive Level Bayview 2 Doubles-non-refundable for $940.28 Total for 2 Rooms.

Hotel Reservations can also help with flight and cars reservations. For seven tickets, I would pay about 1, 852USD. That's leaving around noon-time, arriving at 3PM, perfect for check-in time. This schedule would depart 2 days later around 6 PM, which is also a good time. We can have dinner before boarding our flight home.

Hotel Reservations also handles car reservations, or van in my case. At Budget, a full size van is about 282USD for the duration. That's a great price, better than I can get at the travel agency I have asked for the same date range.

Hotel Reservations has vacation packages availables, and vacation rentals too. In fact, I had search for vacation package. The price for the vacation is 2,635.04USD. That is a whole lot cheaper than purchase flights, hotels, cars separately.



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A Surprise Visit

My cousin Annabelle stopped by yesterday afternoon for a visit. Her son is about DS4's age and they had a blast. They did their baby talk, baby screetching, and head bopping. I do believe they were well on their way to being great friends at the end of an hour.

I was running late for the post office and was sorry to see Annabelle go. I made it to the post office with seconds to spare...then saw that my passenger was only in his diaper! I couldn't go in, so we just turn around and went home.

Bedroom Furniture

After being married for over 15 years, I am still on the quest to finding that perfect bed with it's perfect mattress. I have scoured stores after stores, but I haven't found the perfect combination.

I would like it to be four-poster because one never know when there's a need for a sturdy post. Today, at Galleryfurniture.com I have found this bed and the perfect mattress to go with it. Galleryfurniture.com has a most extensive collection of tempur pedic mattress. For those with back problems, this is idea. It's firm without being uncomfortable. This is an idea mattress to use if you're looking for that maximum comfort without having to go to water bed. Tempur pedic mattress will conform to your body while you're in it, but will not sag afterwards. This type of mattress is great for sufferer of sleep apnea. Gallery Furniture is an elite dealer is this wonderful mattress.

I like this bed below. It will go with my current decor. It's not so overwhelming as to swallow my whole bedroom. Besides, it looks sturdy enough for my five children to use. My main requirements are fulfilled by this bed. Sturdy and beautiful.



It's not easy finding the right bedroom furniture, but one can make shopping easy by going to the right place. Go ahead and visit Houston Furniture because they have extensive selections online. Gallery Furniture has beautiful selections of children's furniture. With five kids to find a bed, this is heaven sent! I know my daughter has a bed all picked out from this store.

Echo Malibu

It's stressful being a teen. Sometimes, addictions will develop to interfere with life. It's hard to navigate this big scary world of Teen Rehab. There are so many programs out there. Echo Malibu is teh one place where a teen could get help with addictions through development of emotional, physical, social, sritual, and family health. They help teens through their addiction by having individual, group, drama, poetry, dance, art, expressive arts, or music theraphy and more. They have holistic approach to the problem. On top of that, their faciliy is beautiful.




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Sing Me A Song

There are some songs I knew from childhood which I love to hum and listen. This one below is one of my favorites. Jose Marie Chan rocks! You'll see some of the top actresses from the Philippines here.




My best friend, a gifted pianist and singer, sang this one at my wedding. I think Regine Velasquez might have sung this song.

Slave For You...Oh Dark Master

Get your minds out of the gutter! I don't mean that...whatever is that you're thinking about. See this picture on the left? My friend, Tart, from New Zealand, who shall forever be known from now on as a "goddess of chocolates" sent me a pack of Tim Tams. You wanna know how good this thing is? Well, it's character altering. I, a mother who always shares my goodies with my kids decided to hide this one. Until I know for sure I can get this locally, I will probably eat the whole thing myself. Yep. I stashed my chocolates deep into my underwear chest. To give you a picture of how big this chest it, imagine one big enough to hold almost 200 pairs of underwear!

If I can't find it hear, beware if you leave in the Australian continent, maker of this miracle food. Thank you, Tart, for sending me this Tim Tams. You've made this mother, one happy woman!

With a Chance of Poetry

I should be sleeping, but I landed on this Haiku site. It says, 5-7-5. So I came up with this

summer for children;
rolling in mud and water
chasing dog around

and no, I am not quiting my day-job!

I wanted to post this picture from the author signing. It took me a long time to find my camera thingy.


As usual, to find something, you must first buy it again. Once you have it in hand, wait a few day, and surely, the lost item will be found. I now have two of this camera thingy. It's not such a waste. I get to leave the other by the TV and watch my pictures on big screen before downloading it.

Garden Again

We had a garden in our old house. Since we moved, we missed our flowers, even though we could just have walked over if we want to say "hello" to it.

Today, we decided to go shopping for new flowers. We have begonia, because they're so beautiful when blooming and fat! We have other flowers too, but I don't remember their names. I will post pictures later.

It was really sweltering (my baby just came over, stick his hands inside my shirt and grab my breast! His mouth open and making unhappy noises already because I am still typing) when we picked our plants.

We're going to plant it tomorrow because we're going out to eat now. I couldn't possibly prepare food in my kitchen now...there's too many stuff out there and I don't feel like putting it in order. So, we go out.

Not so Pointless

I haven't done this quizzes in a long while. I thought I'll take one. Actually, I don't think the code is working, and I don't want to take another test. This one says "Completely Pointless Personality Test." I took another one. I was a liberal Rocket Scientist. Really! What does liberal means exactly? Does it involve running around naked in the backyard? Because I have done that.

I was only 8 years old at that time, but is that liberal? I also use a lot of sugar in my coffee, back in the days before I switch my allegiance to tea. I use a liberal amount of sugar in my sweet potato, also. I guess the quizz result below fits. I am a liberal!

I have such a wonderful day today. We took all of us to see The Simpsons on big screen. It was another wonderful time. I can't believe it. DH and I like going out for movies. Since we don't have a reliable person to trust our kids with so late in the evening, we decided to bring them with us. It was wonderful!

Hmmm, I think blogger's going bananas today. I have made some post earlier and it wasn't posting. Oh well, it's past midnight now. I just want to say that I am enjoying THE TENANTS OF WILDFELL HALL by Anne Bronte. It is not an easy feat for me to enjoy this. The previous book I was listening to was HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS by JK Rowling. Have you ever heard Jim Dale on HP series?

If you haven't, you must! You have missed so much. This guy is simply fantastic. He reads so wonderfully, there is never confusion who's speaking the lines. I simply love listening to HP series becauseo of him. I really wish he would read another series. Maybe Artemis Fowl, or the Redwall series maybe. Then I'll get to know what those books are.

Shoshana was a Liberal Rocket Scientist in a past life. Discover your past lives @ Quiz Me

Two Movies!

I can't believe that despite being a very busy mother of five, my husband and I managed to sneaked two movies today. At home, on DVD. I don't think I can watch two movies in the theater back to back. I'd probably go blind or my head will ache horribly.

We watched THE NUMBER 23 with Jim Carrey. It's a very neat plot. I actually like it, and it wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. Not like EVENT HORIZON, which to this day still gives me the willies. It wasn't very predictable. It was still surprising to find out whodunnit.

The second movie was NANNY MCPHEE. I only rented it because I am in my Colin Firth phase. He's just so delicious in Pride and Prejudice, I had to see him again. Bridget Jones series is out of the question because I have seen it too many times! Nanny McPhee was a fun movie to watch. The scenery and the set were so pleasant to see. I don't even mind the ugly face of Nanny McPhee. She's rather ugly.

I do not usually complain because I like the movie just find, but do they have to pair Colin Firth with an infant? I mean, I know it's Fairy Tale and all, but she's practically a baby! That said, the whole movie was fun and worth stopping 2 hours of my life to watch.

Bottom line, DH and I got to have our date, even if it's in our house.

Fantastic Read!

My friend Harlot loves book. I am very glad we found each other because I now have read a lot of fantastic books which I would never have found by myself. Come to think of it, I haven't yet read a book she had recommended which I didn't like. I won't count Flowers in the Storm by Laura Kinsale against her. I don't think it was her recommendation. I can't get past the first third of the book without falling asleep. I will try for the 10th time again to read that book because I heard great things about it. I am stubborn about things like that.

I had to start reading Outlander by Diana Gabaldon about six times before I got into the book and didn't want to put it down. It was most inconvenient as the book was over 700 pages. I won't even mention the time I read The Bronze Horseman by Paulinna Simons, or its sequel Tatiana and Alexander. All I can say is, my usual 4 hours of sleep went down to two hours until I finished the book. Needless to say, when I finished the book, I was surprised to find my house in total disarray. I love reading. Did I mention that I really love reading? Check the books I've finished this year on my sidebar.

So, The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly is fantastic! Even if you're not into reading, but like it a little, grab this book. Don't let it's size intimidate you. Park it in your bathroom if you have to and read a page or half a page each time. It's simply a book not to be missed. Fiona and Joe. Simply marvelous, darlings!

In fact, the book is so good, it's sequel not due for release in US until January, I decided to order from UK. Considering it's now 2.03 USD per pound sterling...actually, I don't even mind the cost. I must simply read the next book. Have you ever felt this way about a book?

A Little Bit of Music

This is my DS1 on same Summer Recital. D forgot to hit record when he started so this one missed the beginning part.



This is my daughter from her Summer Recital.

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