I still can’t believe I’m actually doing great in my Summer Reads. First it was Blue Smoke  by Nora Roberts now it’s from a new discovery of mine, Emily Giffin : Something Blue. The book is about a woman’s journey to mature world, selflessness, responsibility, forgiveness, and knowing what really matters. It’s not all about the designer things we wear and covet. It’s about who we really are inside. It involves being ditched for her bestfriend, fiance’-less, friendless, and pregnant with her ex-fiance’s friend. Talk about fun..LOL.

I must admit though, I was on her side when she argues that a bestfriend shouldn’t hook up with her ex-fiance (even though she herself was cheating on the said ex-fiance while still engaged). Such a complicated story. Then to make matters worse, the ex-bestfriend went to the non-refundable honeymoon trip with the ex-fiance. In Hawaii! DOUBLE OUCH!!

All kidding aside, Something Blue is a good, fun, and self-discovery book. Next up is Woman In Red by Ellen Goudge. This is more suspenseful and dark :).

Instead of spending money trying to fix our almost 6 yr old HP laptop which actually died on us last December we decided to just buy a new one. Hubs and I would love to have a Mac and we “shopped” (online) around. Really nice one. A dream to have. We’re just not willing to spend about $1300 right now. So we scratched that idea.

We also wanted to get away from HP so DELL came to mind next. When we got to Staples last night I personally saw how small DELL laptops are. I don’t like it. I like my gadgets big, kind of manly, heh. So for a couple hundred  dollars more, Hubs agreed to get my choice :). Back to HP, hehe. It’s the 17″ inch monitor that attracted me to this HP Pavilion dv9810us. All the other details were taken cared off my the hubby. He liked what was in it, whatever they’re called (LOL), so I got my new laptop. Well, “our” new laptop. All I know is that it’s huge, yet still fits our old laptop case so it’s not that huge for traveling, it has a built-in webcam and microphone, and programs that Hubs has been having fun playing around with. He made a movie earlier where he split his body in 2 and there were two of them staring at me. It was both funny and scary at the same time :).  I also like how you could arrange your icons on the very top of the screen. It’s neat and organized.

I don’t know much about all the technical stuff but I know it has 3GB which can handle stupid Vista. The latter eats the life out of the HP Pavilion S3020N Desktop PC that we rushed to buy last December when the old laptop died. Hubs was able to fix the old laptop but the wireless connection doesn’t pick up for some reason, and it uses an external CD/DVD whatchamacallit. Good Lord I suck at technical terms…LOL. that’s why I keep my husband around, =P. So anyway, C is getting the laptop for himself which he probably won’t be using until we move to our new house, whenever that is. His desktop computer will  be given to Goodwill one of these days. No point on saving it for BabyE since by the time she’s ready to use computers, I’ll probably have my MAC by then :).

Anyhooo, I love our new HP Pavilion dv9810us. I borrowed the picture from Amazon.com. Haven’t had a chance to take my own. Some other time maybe.

If you happened to find yourself lost, ask my son for directions and he’ll point you to the right way. Well hopefully.

Take that Maddox Jolie Pitt. You might have “the mohawk” in the celebrity kids world but my son has an Arrow.

It’s called Summer Vacation/School Is Out which means everything goes…

We turned the whole house upside down last night but we couldn’t find her precious pacifier. So I said, well, it’s a blessing in disguise since she needs to get that thing out of her mouth anyway. Hubby smirked and said Yeah Right.

Story short, except for C, we all have about 3 hours of sleep. Coffee is my bestfriend. She refuses to go to sleep or even take a nap. She is one stubborn chick. Kinda like when I weaned her off her bottle. She refused to drink milk altogether for about 2 weeks, except for sips. Now it’s like she’s telling me, “Oh yeah, you won’t give me my plug, then I just won’t go to sleep. And if I don’t go to sleep that means you won’t either. Suck on that“.

And when she cries she starts with pouting. Too cute for words but of course it’s only temporary coz she’ll start wailing. Good thing we don’t have neighbors coz they’d be calling the Cops right about now thinking I’m beating my kids.

She’ll get used to it somehow but please make it quick before I totally lose my mind and hitch hike my way out of NC.

So at Goodwill today my son came to me and said :

“hey Mom, look this says “Made In The Philippines” so you should know what it is”

And I said :

“Errrrr, a small plate made out of wood?”

Some smart-ass lady right next to me chimed in and said :

“The product is made in the Philippines and was only imported here in America”.

Like, DUHHHHHHH! Surprisingly, I kept my mouth shut and got out of that section. As soon as we got in the car I relayed what happened to my husband and he was surprised that I didn’t give her “The Look” and said nothing.

“You should’ve given her the look and told her “no shit sherlock” and called her a stupid lady. Stupid Stupid Lady”.

See, lucky for her, we just had lunch, my belly was full (chocolate turnover from Arby’s YUM-O) which meant I was happy. PLUS, I found myself a fondue set for $2.99 so I guess I was willing to be charitable this afternoon.

Get it? Witch, Broom??? Oh relax :). The girl loves cleaning. She adored my swiffer, until of course she broke it. It’s his brother’s job to sweep the kitchen floor and she tries to sweep too when he’s done. I told her Father he finally found the woman who would clean for him. He said he didn’t realize he had to create her first..LOL.

She’s petrified of the vacuum cleaner though. Even when it’s not on. The vacuum is stored in the laundry room which happens to be the way to the bathroom and the master’s bedroom. Whenever someone is in the bathroom, She’ll stand by the kitchen doorway trying to talk, actually yelling, because she’s so scared to step into the laundry room. The times she actually walks by the vacuum cleaner, her eyes stays put on the vacuum. Making sure it doesn’t move or something. Sometimes she’d knock herself down on the floor with the bedroom door coz she’s not looking where she’s going. Her eyes are on the vacuum cleaner the whole time.

She turned 22 months yesterday. 2 more months and she’ll be 2. She’s becoming a real Daddy’s girl. She and I just can’t go wander around anymore. She goes nuts when Daddy is out of her sight. I’m in her “bad-Mommy” list these days coz I’m always chasing her with the hair brush. Her hair is like a dust catcher and tangles so easily. I try to keep it smooth and shiny as often as I can but mostly accompanied with whines, crocodile tears and rolled eyes thrown at me for hours. If you look closer (click for bigger) in her pictures, she’s rolling her eyes at me. Again. I told you she can be such a witch :).

Yup, last day of 4th grade is/was today, heh. And he graduated, in the honor roll no less. I know I sound mystified at the fact that my son graduated with honors. See, it was a touch and go there at one point. Let me tell you a succinct history.

When he started Kindergarten, his Teacher recommended he joined the Advance program. I declined. I told her I just want C to enjoy Kindergarten. I didn’t want him pressured to do anything. It was too early in the school stage. 1st grade, his Teacher asked me again. I declined, again.

2rd grade, we moved, different school, his Teacher suggested he should be with the uber-smart kids. I was like, fine, just go for it. The school year went fine. He was able to handle extra work. He finished among the top of his class. He retained his status in the 3rd grade. But at the end of 3rd grade he was cutting it close. We noticed he wasn’t focusing as much as he used to. We watched the whole situation and assessed how it was going to turn out.

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After 3 failed attempts to install Wordpress, FeistyCook is finally running. I was up ’till 2 this morning trying to get it all up. Whewww. See you all there. I can’t wait to start sharing all my dishes. My folders are filled with pics just waiting to be uploaded. I’m still working on it so please bear with me :).

Well, I haven’t had anything from Dunkin Donuts in a long time so it wouldn’t be hard for me to give it up actually. I’ll make sure to boycott their asses off completely for being so cowardly weak on appeasing some uptight-attention-you-know-what Michelle Malkin. The latter along with some blogger  made such a big deal of Rachael Ray’s scarf that she wore on an online Dunkin Donuts Ad. According to those 2 numbnuts, Ray Ray’s scarf is a “kaffiyeh” which is “supposedly” a scarf  that “symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad”.

Give me a freaking break. It’s a scarf. Rachael Ray’s neck was cold so she wore the damn thing. Coz you know, cute and perky Rachael Ray is about as terrorist as they come. She might turn that scarf into spaghetti noodles, dump ‘em into a huge pot, with cups of Dunkin Donuts coffee, moth balls and make a 30-minute soup out of it.

Michelle Malkin is offended by Rachael Ray wearing that scarf. Puhleazzze, you’re offended by anything that moves. Get a life biaaatch and leave Ray Ray alone.

*Image Via CNN.

Our Funny Friday is of course once again from my family since we’re a bunch of comedians here :).

Upon seeing the sticker on my McDonalad’s Big and Tasty Burger box which said, “apply online“, I asked the Hubs :

Mom : McDonald’s is taking applications online now?

Dad : I guess, could be

Son : You should apply Mom, you’re  a great cook

Mom : Thanks C but Nahhh, Mom hates cooking for other people

Dad : Yeah, she only likes cooking for us.

Hehehe. If you don’t get the joke, they you suck. Have a great weekend!