Your Online Shopping Boutique, Tobi.com

Just like most men, my husband hates to go shopping with me as he said it would take me forever to decide on which to buy. You know women, we like to compare prices, check out the products that are on sale and we always wanna make sure that what we get is the best bargain of them all. Since I can’t drag my husband to drive me to the store to do some shopping, the best thing I can deal with my situation is to go shopping online.

Right now, I’m looking for the best pair of jeans I can ever have because all my jeans doesn’t fit me anymore (I gained weight a little bit). Anyway, I’ve been looking for the seven for all mankind jeans, which you can find at Tobi.com. I heard from friends that they are flattering for all figures. Well, that is one of the things I’m looking for a pair of jeans. It doesn’t matter what shape you have, it would fit you perfectly. And when it fits good, you will feel good and surely you will look good.

Meanwhile, buying my husband a pair of jeans isn’t a bad idea. He’s picky with his clothes specially with his jeans. He doesn’t go for looks but comfort. Since I’ll be getting mine at tobi.com, I think I’ll get him the nudie jeans I just saw awhile ago when I was browsing. It looks not only comfortable but it looks good as well. I think he’d like it when he tries the nudie.

If you would like to experience a personal high value shopping, check out Tobi.com, the next generation online shopping boutique, and a place where you can find the latest fashion trends.

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Yey! I Got My Juicer!

Wohooo! Finally! I will be able to start juicing now :) I have been wanting to have my own juicer since I don't know how long. I finally got mine. Courtesty of Winster. Ordered it from amazon.com last Friday and I got it today.

It came assembled already, you just have to disassemble it to take the plastics off. It looks good too, but will see how it will do, performance wise.

Till next blog! TC!

Travel Channel Features Bizarre Foods of the Philippines

Yes. It will be shown on November 5, 2007 (Wednesday) at 9:00 p.m. Just don't know if it is EST or Central Time. So, If you want to see it, mark your calender and check your channel listings for the time.

***Excerpt from the Travel Channel***

Andrew Zimmern is off to the island nation of The Philippines - where he chows down on local favorites like Balut, Crickets, Stuffed Frogs and even live worms!

Oh if you missed the November 5 sched, they will show it again on November 6. So watch out for it :) Geez! Now I'd like to eat some Balut.

My Blogging Personality

Your Blogging Type is Kind and Harmonious

You're an approachable blogger who tends to have many online friends.People new to your blogging circle know they can count on you for support.You tend to mediate fighting and drama. You set a cooperative tone.You have a great eye for design - and your blog tends to be the best looking on the block!

What's" Your Blogging Personality?

Wow! this is pretty sweet result :) Yes, I have a lot of online friends and true I am very much approachable. And if you need suppport, you can surely count on me :)

I'm Not Tagging You, Just Grab It :D

First name?: Rosella

Like your name?: Yeah.. never disliked my name :)

Named after anyone?: yeah.. combination of my tatay & nanay's name

Any nicknames?: Roselle, Oselle, Selle, Ate Selle, Osang, Drelle, Msdrelle

Age?: 34

Birthdate? : every 10th day of the 6th month

Birth place?: Nueva Ecija, but grew up in Pasig City

Time you were born?: hmmmm.. it's late at night dont know the exact time

Current location?: Illinois

Height?: 5'4" sometimes 5'5" :D

Like your height?: Yeah, its just perfect for me

Eye color?: Dark brown

Contacts/glasses?: I wear glasses all the time. Contacts once in a while

Hair color?: Long Black Curly hair, sometimes Straight :)

Natural hair color?: nope...wearing a wig...hehe

BlackDye your hair often?: Never..well, not yet anyway….

Righty or lefty?: Righty

Type of music?: All except those head banging, noisy onces

Band or singer?: Used to like Freestyle

TV show?: A lot to mention... mostly courtroom / crime fighting drama series

Movie?: Some of my favorites are Men of Honor, Behind Enemy Lines, Pretty Woman, My Bestfriend's Wedding and lots and lots more

TV channel?: CBS, FOX, ABC, A&E, HGTV, FOOD NETWORK, GSN, HALLMARK, TNT, USA, E!

Radio station?: Don't listen to the radio anymore (once in a while in the car with MIL)

Place to be?: Home here and home there :D

Thing to do?: A lot! Little things here and there

Food?: Almost everything

Non alcoholic drink: Water/juice/soda (once in a while)

Alcoholic drink?: I don't drink

Animal?: We have a fish and bird

Holiday?: Thanksgiving and Christmas

Season?: Spring/Fall

Sport? : I like to play bowling...I've been wanting to try to play tennis, but never get the chance still. I like to watch, football, baseball and basketball

Place to shop?: Stores in the closest Mall here and Walmart of course :)

Clothing brand?: Nothing in particular

Scent?: Like Cool Waters, Beautiful, Hugo Boss for Women

Restaurant?: Bennigan's, Outback

Fruit?: Just about everything

Vegetable?: All veggies are good

Fast food restaurant? Popoye's, McDo, White Castle and Js Peapod (Chinese Food)

Pizza topping?: Mushroom, green peppers and onions with tons of mozzarella cheese

Ice cream flavor?: Any brand, cookies and cream

Magazine?: Ebony

City?: Nothing in particular

Color?: Any warm color.. I'm not really into bright colors

Number?: 19, 14, 10, 5 (parang pick four naman to) :D

This or that…

Chocolate or vanilla?: Chocolate ano pa!! :)

Pepsi or coke?: Coke (regular)

Hot or cold?: Cold

Black or white?: Black and White :)

Dog or cat?: Dog (Cat stinks eheheh sorry cat lovers)

French toast or pancakes?: French toast

French fries or onion rings?: Onion Rings!!

Hamburger or hot dog?: Hamburger

Pepperoni or sausage?: Sausage

Britney or Christina?: Christina

McDonalds or Burger King?: McDonalds

50 Cent or Eminem?: Never liked 50 cent, so Eminem for me

Canada or Mexico?: Canada

Hug or kiss?: I like to do both

Movies or TV?: TV mostly (can watch movie on t.v. anyway ehehehe)

Truth or dare?: Nothing to hide…so truth

Do you…Shower daily?: Yes mostly at night

Sing in the shower?: Once in a while :)

Like to sing?: Yep!

Like to dance?: Yes, But I don't dance like I used to anymore

Smoke?: Never tried and never will

Drink?: Nope

Curse?: Once in a while... the Sh*t word

Talk to yourself?: Who doesnt?

Believe in yourself?: I do

Play an instrument?: nahhhhh :( i can play some nursery rhymes on the piano though)

Go to school?: I think I did.. that was so long ago, I almost forgot ehehehee

Go to college?: I think so.

Finished it? I think so too eheheh tanong ko sa nanay ko

Have a job?: Yes

Like your job?: Yes

Want to get married?: NO!!!!!! :D double na nga eh

Want to have kids?: Got a four year old (almost 4)

Get along with your parents?: Absolutely specially with my nanay

Get along with your siblings?: Most of the time.

Drive?: yeah.. I've been practicing :)

Random …

Do you think you’re trustworthy?: I think I am

Think you’re funny?: Once in a while :)

Gone garbage can tipping?: yeah, are you talking about tumbang preso? :D

What are your parents names?: Rodrigo and Celia equals Rosella

Siblings names?: Ma. Krishna and Doris Leah

Do you wash your hands frequently?: Yes very much so! It's a mandatory here

How many times a day do you brush your teeth?: Twice a day at least

Collect anything?: I used to.. have collections of currencies of different countries

Ever been in love?: Always

In love right now?: All the time :)

What color pants are you wearing right now?: white short pants

How does your hair look?: still curly and black

Ever had your heartbroken?: yeah, a few times

Ever broken the law?: Law of whom or what?

Been arrested?: No.. and do my best not to be arrested

Can you stick your fist in your mouth?: NO I cant!

When was the last time you got drunk?: 65 years ago! Dont drink ehhehe

Do you do drugs?: Nope :)

When was the last time you were high on anything?: Never experienced it

Do you prefer the lights on or off?: If I'm ready to sleep.. its off..

Would you ever get plastic surgery?: Not at this point :)

Do you prefer boxers or briefs?: If I were to choose I'd say boxers, I tried putting one of my hubbies and they are comfy :)

Do you like to laugh?: Of course!

Ever had a bloody nose?: Nope.

Have you ever caught a fish?: Yup! Before I got pregnant, hubby and I used to fish a lot

What was the last thing you ate?: I just had a granola bar

What time do you go to bed?: last night, believe it or not 1 a.m., one of the earliest sleep I have ever had this month :)

What’s your favorite color?: Black, blue, white and I'm liking pink now too

Do you like to give or receive?: It feels good to give but I don't have a problem in receiving :)

Are you obsessed with anything/any one?: No I dont think so

Do you live alone?: NO

Do you own a blender?: I don't think so.. I think I gave it to my MIL

Do you like the snow?: Oh yeah! Love love love snow! They look awesome.. but not after they shovel it

Ever been up a mountain?: My friends and I tried to climb one but we did not go all the way up
top.

Ever been rootin’?: I'm lost, whacchatalkinbout?

Do you like surprises?: If it's good, sure surprise me..

Cool Nanay Award

Another award, this time from Ms. Racel. She passed me this "COOL MOM AWARD". I am not so cool all the time though, specially when kuletz here gets on my last nerve :D He can be a handful sometimes. I know you moms out there knows what I'm talking about. These kids are cute, funny, smarty pants and everything but believe me they can be a pain in the you know where :) But I sure love the boy no matter what. :)

Thank you very much Racel!!!

Now, I'm passing this to Ms. Juliana, Aling Tess, Teacher In-In and to all my Mommy blogmates :) TC!

The Better Half Tag

Yesterday my hubby saw me scanning his pictures. He probably know that I'm gonna be posting it on my blog so he said, "Please don't post anymore pictures of me on the internet, please, please". I know he's serious about it coz of the tone of his voice. But you all won't tell, would you? eheehehe

Since he said please please please to me. I'll just post two of his pics. :)

This one is my favorite. I don't know how old he was here but geez! He looks so adorable! (Parang di tinotopak hahahah!) :P

Look at that big bow tie, pamatay! hihihihi ang sama ko!

That's all for the pictures. He could kill me for this ehehehe . Nways on with the questions.

1. First name: His name is very, very common. It's Mark.

2. How and where did you meet?

We met online as most of us here. To be honest, I don't really know what site it was. That was way back late October of 1998, my officemates and I got so excited coz for the first time we had an internet connection in the office. Mind you the internet is exclusive in our section only. No one can use it but us :D Little did they know that after office hours, we (my officemates), cute red devils were online creating emails, searching chatrooms here and there. The first two weeks, we didn't find an interesting chatroom. Until one day, I went to the office early went to www.yahoo.com and just typed chatrooms.. a lot of chatrooms were listed. I picked one at random. I started chatting with people, the usual a/s/l thingy. Then to make it short, I told my devil friends and we all became regulars. The three of us were the only Filipinos chatting in the room. Most of them are americans and australians. We had friends, then one time there's this Mark1 guy, I assumed he' a guy coz of the nick (who's kinda new in the room coz we haven't seen him before) So I talked to him. As usual the a/s/l thingy (which is pretty tiring to answer sometimes) We chatted for a while then started exchanging emails. He started sending me emails regularly. He asked for my pictures, but I said, I won't send you my picture until you send yours first. He said he didn't have a scanned picture as his scanner is not working (i thought it was a lame excuse eheheh) but he promised to send it to me as soon as he had his picture scanned. So I said, OK. I sent it and he said I'm beautiful! hahaha! That was funny to me. :D He keeps on losing my picture. He said he accidentally deleted it and want me to send it again. He had me send my picture at least 5 times. Then he finally send his picture and I didn't like it. I stopped replying to his emails for a while. But I still kept getting emails from him so I said, hmmm.."masagot na nga! wawa naman ehhehe" (don't tell him coz he didn't know that). We started exchanging snail mail addresses and phone numbers. Geez! He called me everyday! As in everyday! Either at the office or at home. My parents kept asking me, who is that? blah blah blah :) You know how it is with our parents. He kept sending me cards sometimes chocolates. Anyways, he decided to visit me in August of 1999. His mother was with him. I wasn't nervous at all coz I felt like I have known him for a long time. He was the one that was nervous when we first met at the airport coz I have my father with me and he kept asking himself, "what am I gonna do? Should I kiss her, hug her or shake her hand?". He hugged me and kissed me though :) They stayed for a week (very short) in Manila. Before they left he told my parents that he wants to marry me. (By the way, he's been divorced for ten years when we first met and has a son) My parents are a bit worried ofcourse, but geez! I was 25 years old then. As soon as he landed in the States, we started talking about marriage. This and that... To make this part short, we got married in the Philippines in March of 2000. He had his big brother, his mother and his dad's bestfriend as moral support. :) We've been married now for 7 years blessed with one "kuletz" in the house. Imagine that!

3. Characteristics: I love the fact that no matter what, me and his sons are his priority in life. He's very hard working. Honestly, he didn't need a wife ehehehe He's very good in the house. Whatever a good wife does, he can do it too.. ehehhe Much more organized than me. A bit perfectionist. Too scary to be around with sometimes because he wants everything to be in order. And the one thing that I am very sure of, he will never ever cheat on me. You might ask how can I be so sure of it?. Can't answer you that because it's just between him and me :D

4. Your plans 20 to 30 years from now. We haven't really talked about it, but we probably are just chillin' by then. Travelling here and there. If not, maybe we are sitting in the rocking chair in the front porch chit-chatting ehehehe Watching grandkids running around :)

So that's it. He'd kill me if he happens to read this post. :) Tagging all of you who hasn't done this. Take care everyone and thanks for reading!

My Own Domain

I got my own domain finally! But heck! I don't know what I'm gonna do with it. Luckily I have Ms. Tess helping me out coz honestly, I have no slight idea on what to do. As usual, Aling Tikya walked me through it.

Unfortunately, I did something stupid today that messed it up. I can't explain the HOWs and the WHYs so please don't ask me :D I tried to add my URL to Google but when I did the searching it didn't come out. siggghhhhh

Anyways, please do me a HUGE favor, if it isn't too much asking, please update my link on your blogs. I would appreciate it very much!! Thank you!

Here is my own domain link : http://www.msdrelle.us/

Till my next blog! TC all!

My Weekend

Friday: My MIL picked us up coz we need to spend the night in her house as the next day she had to take me to the CIS office for fingerprinting (requirement for my application for naturalization)... Saturday: Travel time is probably 30 minutes or so going to the CIS office...then when I got there I went in and out just like that... maybe 10 minutes and I'm all done. Came back to my MIL's house got our things and went back home. When we got to the house, hubby is here already. My son is jumping up and down. He's always happy to see his daddy. He kept hugging him and kissing him. So lovely to look at. I wish I took some pictures... Sunday: didn't do much, just rested the whole day...Ordered some chinese food, which we had for lunch and dinner... . Oh before it got dark hubby wants us to go out for a drive (my practice session), but I said I don't wanna drive.. don't feel so good-got cramps, "red flag" is up! :D plus hubby has a little headache so we just all stayed in bed, watched t.v. and slept all day.

Hope you all had a great weekend too! Enjoy the week ahead.