Ruth’s First Fruit Salad

Since it’s a holiday tomorrow I bought some food for the occasion, since my kids love pandesal I bought a bag full of pugon-baked goodies from Pan de Manila, I’ve picked the biggest size and some wheat type for me. For our lunch tomorrow I’ve only bought chicken because it’s their favorite together with barbeque which I intend to buy from the neighborhood barbeque house. For dessert I’ve picked some canned goods and creams for fruit salad. We all love salad from my Mom to my youngest Josh who has a taste for everything delicious meaning he has a big appetite!

I was relaxing myself watching television when Ruth volunteered to do the salad and since it’s a mix-everything-up recipe I let her do it with just basic instructions from me. She took after my flair in cooking and mixing food and little by little as she grows older she wants to try something new always. After mixing the salad she let me and her granny taste it then after our meticulous judgment (lol) she perfected the taste of her first ever fruit salad. We nearly ate one third of the mixture before she stored it in the freezer, yes she’s done it perfectly!

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Home Shopping

It’s nice to watch Howie Mandel’s video on promoting buy.com online shopping. It’s really amazing to see fast delivery of ordered items through home shopping. This kind of advertising is really great and I’m sure it will hit the market. Their style in promoting products and home shopping will boost the sale of all the products that they will endorse. It’s good to know we now have this kind of home shopping. It’s fantastic!

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: Yen's Questions of the Week #37

1.What does whispering make you think of? Confidential things, sweet nothings, gossips
2 What kinds of current women’s clothing styles do you dislike the most? Very low waist jeans that exposes your underwear and wearing them in workplace
3. What is your greatest extravagance? My 3 kids :-)
4. Do you have a good luck charm? What is it? Not really a good luck charm but a key chain with my favorite bible verse on it, It’s there on my office bag, lucky for me!
5. Fill in the blank: “Without ___ I am nothing.” Without Jesus in my life, I am nothing
6. How do you react when you find out that your closest friend dated your ex? I would feel awkward... there’s plenty of men out there surely my friend would find others…. But on other thoughts I think it would be ok as long as I don’t see them together hahaha! Honest – it’s ok because I’m happy with my life now and other people especially my closest friend have the right to be happy also!
7. Do your heart and your mind ever disagree? Most of the times especially at my work, sometimes I’m forced to do things my heart don’t approve but my mind tells me it’s ok. Prayer is the key to make them agree.
8. In what areas of your life are you uncompromisable? My spiritual life
9. Have you ever gossiped about other people in order to add excitement to your
own life only for it to back-fire on you ? Nope, I hate gossips I only like chikkas.
10. I am in the phase of my life when I want to start something new and better where I can pursue the dreams of my heart and not the dreams of my mind. At 40 I want to do the things that I love doing and not just for the money! Life begins at 40 you know!

Questions of the Week

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Beautiful Faucets

We were having a lunch break and washing our hands in our office lavatory when I noticed a very small leak in the faucet. As usual I must report it to our maintenance to see the faucet at once to prevent major repairs. Since the person who will do the checkup will reach the office in more than 20 minutes I started checking the mentioned faucet. I remember what my brother taught me about checking and fixing bathroom accessories. Sometimes the trouble needs minor repairs only especially if you have a quality well-made items like Delta faucets which is of good quality and beautifully made with anti-tarnish finish. This faucet is made to last for a long time.

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Surprise Visit

I was hurriedly packing my things and food for office when we had a surprise visit from Shela, my niece and first-ever godchild from Famy Laguna. She's very close to me and now that her Mom passed away already I'm one of her adopted guardian because I'm her ninang, tita and also a friend. She was baptized when I'm only 10 years old so that makes us good friends too, too young to be her mom :-).

She's a favorite (hope some of my niece will not be able to read this or else!!! If you know her you'll know the reason why. She's sweet, funny and very thoughtful. When I gave birth to Josh 5 years ago she volunteered to come here in our house all the way from Laguna to be there for me when I arrived from the hospital. She assisted me for almost a month in her little own ways to make me feel comfortable. I have a helper then but in our house babies were cared for by my Mom and close family relative. My mom wouldn't allow my helper to take care of my kids. Helpers were just there to do household chores.

Anyway as I left for the office my girls entertained their Ate Shela by showing her photos in my pc and they read my blogs. I just talked to them online when I arrived at my work. Shela and her companion Tita Ilyang (my uncle' sister-in-law) arranged some papers here with my Mom's help and went home before 5pm.

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Some Tips

Since it’s now Monday and workloads are usually full on this first day of work week I brought my own snack this time so I can work continuously without having to worry about my food. My officemates normally order lunch from nearby carinderia located just a few blocks away from our office or sometimes order from fast food restaurant. I bring my lunch most of the times but wait for the regular delivery guy who brought us snack here in our office. I’m a little bit choosy with the viands but for snack I love having different kinds.

Having your own food saves time because you can eat on time saving you the dilemma of waiting for food delivery and you can have plenty of break time to do anything you want on your rest periods. Like me now I’m reading some tips on how you can build muscle fast with proper training in gym, adequate intake of protein, proper nutrition and the use of muscle building supplements. Actually it’s not for me it’s for my friend who loves to have an ideal body built.

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Planning Ahead

I’m glad that I’ve finished with my tasks of getting all food orders for our camp meeting in December. I’m now finalizing the total orders per menu so we can have the menu plan finished by Sunday in time for my report. Since I’ve drafted all yesterday I’m now doing the computation in my PC so I can save my file for future references.

Menu plan will consist of the quantity of meat, fish, vegetables and ingredients that we’re going to need for the whole consumption of all church members. I’ve already listed one and a half cavan of rice so when I’m finished with this one I’ll be able to complete all necessary food items for budgeting and buying. All I need after this is the printing of meal ticket which will be given one week before the occasion. I’ve always liked early and detailed preparation of things, in this way everything is in order.

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Passport

My cousin needs to authenticate his birth certificate because he’s planning to leave the country by the start of the coming year. He didn’t have much time to do it so he just requested it online to save him his precious time. If he will not prepare the necessary documents for his passport his impending trip abroad will be delayed so he’s doing all efforts to complete them. I’m lucky that he didn’t asked me to do those things for him because I might not be able to refuse him and as it is I have lots of things to do by the end of this year. Lucky!

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Preparations for the Camp

I’ve prepared the list of menu for our upcoming camp meeting fellowship this December. Hubby and daughter Ruth helped me plot the order graph in the big whiteboard detailing the families and individuals in line with the menu for listing orders from them. In this way we can calculate how many meals are we going to prepare and cook for the whole church. Our setting in the December camp will going to be a cooking for the whole camp and not per family which is a much better setup for me.

We’re doing an early preparation of our camp meeting in December including the list of ministers who will share God’s word, the activities of the youth and kids, our transportation and travel to the venue, the musical instruments that we’re going to bring and the essential things that we must bring per family for our three-day stay in Villa Dominga Forest and Resort Camp Site

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My Home Office

I’m starting to sketch renovation plans I’m going to do with our living room because I’m planning to put up a mini-office after my resignation in my work. I’m going to use the office for my outsource job, my blogging and for some accounting works on my store. It’s exciting to plan everything that relates to your dreams even if I have few months more before I can finally start this. Important thing is how I can fit my home office in a perfect location in my house. Of course I would want a cozy environment where I can have the convenience of a home environment in an office. That’s a lovely idea.

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