A new driver on the road . . .

Yup . . . JP finally got his “learner’s permit” a couple of weeks ago.  Since he had no school last Friday, he had scheduled for one of those driving school  to come out and pick him up at the house where they drove for 2 hours.  I believe he said he has 2 more [...]

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Nanay and Me. . . circa 1962

As you can very well tell with this picture, it has seen better days.  I’ve kept this pix of Nanay and me tucked inside my wallet.  I’m planning to have it restored and “framed.”  This was my first passport picture but we didn’t use it because we didn’t leave the Philippines to go abroad until 3 years [...]

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The gurls . . .

After lunch at Empire Buffet (with VT & her familia), I took the gurls (AC, SC and LT) sans AB to get their HSPT Book.  I don’t know why Jack and I didn’t get the books yesterday since we were already at Bay Street yesterday…duh!   We had to go to two different Barnes & Nobel because [...]

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Yesterday and today . . .

I just finished replying to JG’s “comment” she made on my blog about the zucchini cake recipe….so here I am in front of the computer.  I can’t really say I’m “addicted” to the computer or “blogging” for that matter…or am I? Ha!  Actually, the hubs asked me if I was “blogging” just now.  :-) It’s only past 8:30 p.m., [...]

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Pumpkin Apple Streusel Muffins

Yesterday at Trader Joe’s, I accidentally picked up a bottle of “pumpkin pie spice” instead of ground cinnamon.  It wasn’t until I got home I realized it.  Since Fall is among us, I know I would be using this spice for recipes such as this, but still I don’t have my cinnamon (for my zucchini cake that [...]

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Bread, Bread and more bread . . .

Our neighbor brought over a bagful of baguettes & rolls….some seeded, some plain…a whole bagful from the Bread Garden Bakery.   I didn’t know what to do with all of them so I called RS to come over.  I was at her house earlier to use her printer and she gave me another quick course on how [...]

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It’s 4:22 p.m.

I’ve had problems trying to set the correct time on my blog.  My first blog this morning was posted at 8:11 a.m., but it read “6:11 a.m.”…hmm…two hours behind.  Well, we’ll see when I post this one.  It seems like I’m forever doing a load of laundry.  I’ve just threw in the whites so that’s all [...]

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I want . . .

I just threw another load of wash in so instead of getting breakfast ready, I decided to quickly surf…and this is what I found and I want it!  These are flip-flops from Crocs.  I’ve been meaning to buy those “Cayman” style Crocs about a year ago but never got around to it….maybe I really didn’t [...]

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Why am I here today . . .

Why couldn’t it have been a holiday for us to?
I just got finished eating my sandwich that I brought from home.  I can’t believe the beautiful  weather we’ve been having for the past several days now.  I think were in the mid-to-high 70’s.  I was supposed to have gone with Bril “downtown” at noon time but [...]

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Tunnel of Fudge Cake

Right now I’m watching the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest on the Food Network channel.  They had talked about this one recipe that took second-place back in 1966 . .  but what I found interesting about this recipe was that this prize-winning cake started the “bundt pan” revolution.  The recipe below is not exactly the same as Ella Helfich’s because Pillsbury [...]

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