My Other Addiction

Yes I am an addict! Games addict that is :) My recent addiction other than Winster is playing the computer game called Ranch Rush. The goal of the game is to help Sarah turn 3 acres into a thriving Farmer's Market Ranch. What you do is harvest fresh produce like clovers, tomatoes, corns, wheat, grapes, pumpkins at first, then progress to collecting honey bees, milking cows, making ketchup from your freshly harvested tomatoes and a lot more! I am in the expert stage now making bread :) You can take a snapshot of your Ranch too, but I have not done that part as sometimes my computer will just freeze on me while playing. It is a really fun and addicting game just like Cake Mania and Diner Dash.

this is a screenshot of Ranch Rush from Yahoo! Games

For Kuletz

I probably have mentioned a few times that I am a Winster addict. :) Yes I like playing Picture Magic at Winster. I just recently exchanged my points for an Amazon Gift Card and I bought a book called Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegried Engelmann (picture shown below). I ordered it last Friday and surprisingly, it came here yesterday. Pretty fast for a standard delivery. Anyways, I have read the introduction as soon as it came and plan to start our first lesson today. We will see how this one would go. Kuletz is pretty smart, hopefully I will be able to get a good response from him doing this reading thing. Will be posting our developments here of course. :)

Jen's Mom And Brother, Murdered

Last Friday, the breaking news was very shocking as the mother and brother of Oscar Winner Jennifer Hudson were found shot to death in their South Side of Chicago home. In addition, her seven-year old nephew is still missing and has issued an amber alert. Concerned neighbors helped looking for him over the weekend. No one has been charged, but authorities has been talking to her sister's estranged husband as a person of interest. Sad...sad...sad... Jennifer Hudson has a new movie coming up entitled The Secret Life Of Bees with Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okenodo and Dakota Fanning.

Quick Note: As I was writing this entry there's another breaking news about an SUV found with a boy's body inside. It has not been identified if it is the missing nephew of Jennifer Hudson. We will probably learn more about it later on today.

My New Comfort Food

Chocolate is my all time comfort food, but at this time of the year, this is my newest fave. "Ginisang Mais" or ...ahmmmm.. Corn Soup? Chowder? Who cares! eheheeh I started craving for this and never tried cooking till two weeks ago. I remember how my grandma used to make this when she was still alive and it was truly delish! She'd normally use white corn though... Hubby liked it too... my little boy, not really...but I was able to put some on his food last night and he didn't even notice it (he was playing video game when I decided to feed him) :D That way he's pretty occupied and just eating and eating without looking at his food ehehehehe he even ate carrots and brocolli :)

Boo !!!

Happy Halloween!

I posted this same picture in my other blog. This was my hubby's creation ehehehee. He did it the other night after getting the pumpkin from the grocery store. Kuletz got so excited and he went to bed with this pumpkin next to him. This is the very first time that my two boys made (yes, the little one helped hubby a bit) something like this coz in the past Halloweens hubby were out-of-town. A good time to snap a few photos. We turned all the lights off and I turned my camera's flash and voila! We put a flashlight inside the pumpkin, which is much safer for a kid instead of a candle.

Here's a snapshot of it with the flash on. I think I like the above photo better :D

Oldies But Goodies

Last night while hubby was flipping channels to see if there's a good movie on, he saw one of our favorites, The Temptations movie, so that's what we watched. Believe it or not, we have seen it probably countless times but still, every time we see it on, we can't help but watch it again. I love, love, love all their songs especially My Girl, Ain't Too Proud To Beg, Just My Imagination, and Get Ready. I wasn't even born when these singing sensations started in the limelight. Hubby was I think two years old then ehehehe... Anyways, here are some of their performances, tell me if their dance moves weren't killers :D

Fun Sunday

Yesterday, we had a great Sunday. I was actually feeling lazy then I remembered that my mom-in-law is coming by to bring some clothes for my kuletz. So I had to rush and check what I can cook for dinner. I decided on cooking Chicken with Broccoli and steamed rice. For dessert, just baked Chocolate Chip Cookies. Voila! Instant dinner in no time at all! :) Then she came around 4 just before I can cook... so I offered her a sandwich, which she gladly accepted. She said she was so hungry. She just came from the church and went straight to our house. To make it short, we had dinner and all that stuff... Never ending stories about this and that, hubby and MIL had a short conversation about the bible. Then when she's getting ready to leave, hubby asked her to stay for a bit more cause he wants to play the Monopoly. I don't really enjoy playing them anymore, but Monopoly is one of my favorite board games when I was like 8 or 9 years old :) But since hubby wanted to play, we went ahead and played. Surprisingly, we all had fun!!! At first my hubby is bullying me about buying properties and the likes, then he started losing money.. hahahah! I was doing good... For a while I had the most properties... but then when MIL and I started ganging up on him, he started making lots of money... and guess what! The bully ended up winning! hahahah! He had a great strategy buying properties. :) That was really fun! Now I am thinking of buying some more board games like scrabble and the new MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition. It's a great way of having fun conversations too. :)

Another EC Outage

It's 3:48 a.m. CST, trying to finish up my EC dropping, but unfortunately, in the middle of my busy dropping, this message just popped up


"Outage

Outage for a maximum of 2 hours until 7AM Boston time while we try and deal more conclusively to performance issues we are experiencing during high-load times. We apologize once again and hope this outage will be the last we need for some time.
Served from s02 "

Ouch!!! This is the only time I can do my droppings (sounds like poop eheheh EC Dropping that is) and yet another outage. buhuhhuh!! Oh well, can't do anything about it... have to wait till 7am Boston time. Will just play Winster then :D

Get Well Baby

My baby woke up today feeling sick. He was coughing and thought had a little fever. Thankfully, he's still playing, eating well and very active in spite of his condition. Right now he's acting up like he's Bob the Builder :)... hammering nails and stuff while watching Lightning McQueen.

Got My Pearls

Yesterday, I finally got the free pearl earrings that I have been waiting for. Yey! It is similar to the picture below. It was from AlohaPearls.com. I'd like to thank Aling Tikya for giving me the link to this free pearl earrings. Aling Tikya, thanks a bunch! I really can count on you when it comes to freebies like this one. :) I wish the next thing would come is my Visa Gift Card.:) That would be awesome! :)

Corned Beef

I really, really need to go to the grocery store. Our refrigerator is empty and so as the pantry.. geez! I am glad that there's one can of corned beef left and this is what we had for dinner (just me and kuletz though, hubby don't eat food like this, finicky pwe!):D Their corned beef here is not as good as the one back home. My fave is Argentina corned beef... I am sure pinays out there know what I am talking about. In fairness, the closest to Argentina’s flavor is the brand that I get from Aldi. I think it's Brookdale or something. Can't remember.

corned beef with onions and potatoes

EC Droppers

I just recently joined EntreCard and enjoyed it so much. I have seen and read so many blogs that I am sure I won't be able to come across in my regular blog hopping. Anyway, I would like to thank everyone who has dropped and still dropping ECs on here. Will do the same in return. Here are the top 10 EC droppers for the month of September.

Subjective Soup, C'est La Vie, Whatever Comes To My Mind, Inspire Emotion, Merydith's Place, Modern Glam, Lamberry, Fil-Am Gallery, Thrifty Thoughts, Mommy's Paradise

Again, thanks a bunch!

Kuletz' Art

Lately I've noticed that my son hasn't been drawing a lot. He used to draw every single day. Just like the picture below. This is Arthur. He likes watching Arthur in PBS kids channel. Maybe tomorrow I'm gonna ask him to start drawing again after we do all our learning activities. We are into spelling three letter words now. :) We started with the cat and the dog, now he can spell pig, bug, bed, car and cow. Everyday I try to add 1 word. It's not easy to teach him though. Concentrate or pay attention are not in his vocabulary :)

Arthur, another fave of Kuletz

Nicktoons TV Games

This is the video game that my son has been playing after we had our everyday learning activities. He got tired of the other one (the one with Super Mario in it). He got mad at me earlier today because I didn't wanna play with him. Can you believe that!? He wants me to play the game with Spongebob Square Pants. Darn! I don't even know how to play it... at least not yet coz I still don't have the time. Well, maybe tomorrow I will play with him for a little while.

Easy Chicken With Broccoli

Here is one of my experiments again. This was inspired by food we always like to order at the chinese take-out "the beef with broccoli". Since hubby don't eat beef, I replaced it with chicken.

the picture isn't good (used my cellphone)

Ingredients:

4 chicken breasts
broccoli florets (just eyeball it)
1 packet of McCormick brown gravy (dissolve it in 1 cup of cold water)
green peppers
onions
carrots
garlic 1-2 cloves

This is so easy... just saute` the garlic (after infusing it, I like to take it out coz I don't like chunks of garlic in my food). Then add the chicken, cook it till it's not pink anymore, then add the gravy...simmer for a bit then add the carrots, green peppers and onions. Simmer it again for about 15-20 minutes or until the gravy thickens. It's up to you really and that's it! By the way, I don't measure all the time, I just eyeball everything even with the cooking time :) You can serve this with steamed white rice. Yummers!

I Fell Asleep

Wow! I fell asleep and just woke up. Thankfully I still have much time to write about the opportunity that I reserved last night. Another bummer if I didn't wake up on time. But I need to hurry up and do this so I can go back to bed, I can barely keep my eyes open. I really need to get some more sleep. I have been lacking so much sleep lately, blame Winster. Ha!

Unbelievable!

I was blog hopping yesterday and stopped by at Aling Juls' blog for a while cause one of her posts caught my attention. The post..."What Would Simon Cowell Say About You?". I took the short quiz and I was absolutely shocked of the result :) Totally unbelievable! I guess I ought to say, I love you Simon! Yaiks! har har har!

What Would Simon Cowell Say About You?

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First Time

I've been living here in the South Suburb of Chicago for a year now and I just found out today that there's a Filipino Store close by. It's located in Steger, Illinois which is like 25 minutes away from where I am. This is a bit closer than than the one in Schererville, Indiana. The name of the store is Asia's Best Oriental Store. I bought one of those Mang Tomas All Purpose Sauce, which is my fave and my son's too, I got some Oishi prawn crackers, a bottle of fish sauce and a can of Butter Cookies. I was looking for some "butong pakwan" (watermelon seeds) but they don't have it. Maybe next time.

After that, Che and Ash, had dinner in our house. For the first time, hubby was able to spend time with us coz usually when Che and Ash are here, he's always at work or some place else. He enjoyed playing with the kids. They played board games like Monopoly and Sorry, then played Nicktoons video games while me and Che were at the dinner table chatting. They went home around 9:30. All in all it was a great day! We all had a wonderful time.

TV Character Tag

I got this amazing tag from Aling Juls :) She probably knows that I am a t.v. addict. I watch t.v. probably 20 hours a day :D I really do. My computer monitor is like 10 inches away from the television. So when I am doing my job you will see me typing and watching at the same time... yeah believe it or not I can multi-task :D

Anyways, here are some of my fave television shows (the tag calls for two but I did 3 ehehehe)...

Which Monk Character Are You?

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Which House Character Are You?

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Which CSI Character Are You?

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*begin copy here*

1. Take some Personality Quiz here. At least 2 (two) of it.
2. Post the result on your blog and then leave a comment here so that I can add it to a Which TV Shows Character Are You? master list.
3. Pass this tag to a blogger who you think watch a TV Shows. OR, if you interested in having fun, just include yourself in.
   
4. Update the list on your post regularly to ensure everybody gets equal link benefit.

Which TV Shows Character Are You?
1. Snapshotcap 2. Azlan 3. My so-called Life 4.Pinay WAHM 5. Roselle's Sweet Escape

*end copy here*

Now who am I gonna tag? hmmm... How about Red, Jhona, Eds, and Aling Tikya. Have Fun!

Finally!

After waiting for almost a month, I finally got the check that I've been waiting for. At least one of them. Still waiting for a couple more. It's not really a lot, but heck! I worked for it so I deserve to get it on time. I am not sure what's going on with this company. They use to pay us really really good and a year ago the rate just got lower and lower and started sending out our checks kinda late. Well, I am just so thankful that I got my check, which let me know that at least they are not shutting down (crossing fingers).