Geez, from the month of December so many parties going on, can't refused the events except double days the same day events. Every day had an events. From the day started at Jho son's birthday party Dec. 3rd,meeting with friends and foods. The next day was Julieta's daughter birthday. Food never ended. On Saturday Dec.10th the Filipino Club had X'mas party of course with the Santa and picture taking.3 days later, Ate Delia invited had a X'mas party at her house,& had exchanging gift with a yummy food.Dec. 16th, the Filipino club had a surprised party for Father Mirto turns 70th and his retirement. It was fun. Mercy make us laughed and tears to cheer everyone that attended the events of Father Mirto and his moving to Texas. On The 17th of Dec. 2 events, but I only joined  Alma's son birthday party which I couldn't make into the Bayanihan party. Monday the 19th all the girls from the Thornton neighborhood had a lunch gathering at Elly's house . then on the 23rd so many people that I never meet at Niah's X'mas party it was many people, then the next day ate Delia want us to joined them dinner at Christmas eve whine up went to thornton Church to had midnight Mass with my daughter and we had celebrate my family open presents on christmas day and went to had lunch at Golden Corral.My last party attended after christmas day it was Ruth's house that we had exchanging gift and it was her son's birthday too. Gush! relieve, no parties within few days. Having on diet this monthe won't make it, too much food eating :) Finally, Christmas is over and exchanging is done, but 2 more days too go another eating habit and party to go. Tonite having a Rizal night at the Double tree Hotel which a formal dinner and ballroom... Then attending 2 events on New Year's Eve party... whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... I'm a Party woman :D Happy New Year EVERYONE!

Whoa! I'm a little bit sore for 2 days cleaning and cooking. A lots of left over from the dinner last night. My friend's hubby left yesterday went to visit his son in Vegas so I invite her to come, she said yes b4 the day. On Wednesday night I made Embutido and Macaroni salad so I have some Filipino dishes. She called me around 9am to ride with her to take her hubby to airport but that time, I'm busy preparing the Turkey and Ham to be in the Oven so I couldn't go and remind her if she still coming. but she said will see because she going to take a nap that she have to work midnight for the Black Friday at Macy. My cooking still continue, instead doing lunch we did for dinner so my oldest son can join with us, that he gets off from work. My Turkey and Ham been cooked. Waited for everyone together, finally John and my son came, plus my 2 kids, me and hubby. I made Stuffing, Corn in the Cob, Mashed potato with gravy,pumpkin bread, apple pie, rolls, turkey, ham, embutido and macaroni salad, wow, that's a lot of food. I'm thankful to our Lord for giving us a good health, wealth and happiness. Surviving for the Crises....Amen...

I spent forever researching Internet Providers but what I didn’t spend forever doing was talking to my kids about using the internet safely. I know it sounds silly but at the end of the day I worry that they won’t know what they’re doing when they’re approached by someone nefarious online and that scares me to death. They know they’re not allowed in chat rooms and stuff but when it comes to Facebook and MySpace and all those other sites there are very few ways to monitor them. I just worry that I’m not being a good mother by letting them spend so much time online but it’s hard – you can’t wait your kids 24 hours a day, you know? They’ve got cell phones, too, so it’s not like there aren’t other ways for them to get into trouble when it comes to technology. I think I just need to trust them to make good decisions and come to me if they ever run into some kind of problem they don’t know how to handle.

Yesterday was the first day opening at the Miller Farms. Ate Delia asked me if I wants to join with them to the farms. Which every year Ate Delia and her husband always there, it's their fifth year been there.So I talked with few friends which they are going too. So I decided to join with them since were in the groups rate. However, were leaving early and I live far from them, the Cole's family allowed me spending night so I don't have to drive so early which that was a very big help. I was making fun of Ate Delia that even though I only will get couples bags of the harvest will, find cause I wanted to take picture. Oh gush, I had so much fun to harvest with everyone who was on the tractor dropped us off and we can takes as many bags in harvest. We paid $12.00 each, monies that I paid for was so much worth it what I had bring home with onions, potato,corn,eggplant,chilis,tomato,cucumber,cabbage,spaghetti squah. many more but we missed out the carrots. Gush, one of my friend got 27 bags she took  her 2 kids. I had 18 bags with my daughter. Now i had so much onions,and potato that I am sharing my friends. It was my first time to see how to harvest and see how it grow and it was a huge farms. We are thinking going back again next month, this time I more prepare what to bring...Didn't have time to take picture while were harvest cause we have to be in hurry so the tractor driver won't leave us. We have so much fun and enjoyed our harvesting vegetables.Afterwards we put our veggie into the car and we bought our lunch and had picnic...

Yesterday morning I got up at 6:00am, like I do every day, and headed to the gym. When I got there, the manager had just gotten there to open the doors, and I realized that I had forgotten about the time change, so it was actually 5:00am, not 6:00am. I decided to stay and work out anyway, and I stood there with the manager as he deactivated the alarm system. That made me think, “I never thought about a gym being broken into.” It made me start thinking about the fact that I need to have an alarm system installed in our house. There have been a few break-ins in our neighborhood in the past year, and I want my family to feel safe. After my workout, I talked to the manager a while and he told me he found the security system for the gym at allhomeSecurity.com. I hadn’t thought about looking for a system online, but I think I’ll look into it today. After all, if a gym can be broken into, my house definitely could be too.

It’s nice being able to get online and look for houses in my spare time, although the process is really wearing on me. I’m kind of tired of looking for homes here and just wish I would find one already that really fit the bill. It all started last year when I got termites in my basement and it took weeks upon weeks to get them all contained. I was totally fed up with my old bungalow at that point but there was nothing I could do about it until I found a bigger place. All at once in the middle of all this going on my air conditioning decided it would be a great time to go out! It took nearly a week to get it fixed and I sweated my butt off in the meantime but my repair guy did tell me about www.texaselectricityproviders.com which helped save me some. It’s been nice thinking about moving but for now I’m stuck in this fixer upper until I can find something a little better!

I spent 2 nights and 3 days with my family and friends at the Blackhawk Casino. We left Sunday and stood at the Isle Capri, and moved to Ameristar Hotel on Sunday. We were at the Isle Capri when the fireworks started so we watched by the street were the Vallet parking.  Monday we checked out at 11am and put our baggage to the car and had lunch. After ate we played in the slot machine, but I was walking around and watched someone played Craps. I told them I don't know how to play. The dice dealer told me they have a free lesson, so I stood and learn and called my friend.Hubby wants to go home so I told hubby to go that I'm riding with my friend . We try to play and learned putting $60.00  myself, and $100.00 for my friend. We been playing for a long time for the money we had , we winning. It was our first time played the Craps game. My Friend Won $220.00 while me $90.00. Cool! Were so excited what we Won.... Now that we learn how to play, we would like to go back and play on our returns... We also had fun to watched and video the fireworks... 

I've been teaching my kids all kinds of green techniques for them to practice for life. They're really excited about recycling and even painted tote bags for me to use to carry all my groceries home in. So they were excited when I told him that we were going to go on a spring break trip where we're staying in a green hotel.

But I also told them that before I found an actual hotel like that, so I had to follow through on that promise. I spent a bit of time doing my research online and when I was doing that I came across the site http://www.ShopElectricityRatesTexas.com. I read through it some and after I showed it to my husband, we dec! ided to switch over our energy service to an energy savings plan we found on there.

I did eventually find a green hotel at the beach, so I booked a room for us for four nights there. I think that a week of just relaxation and having fun at the beach is exactly what the doctor prescribed for the Michaels family!

 My contract at the Gym was expired last December.Hubby just renew my son and my contract today. It's been 6 months I haven't went back to do my spa and steam room. I'm so excited to go to have relaxing my body, and might do little bit works out. My neck been bother me for 3 weeks now, and I made an appointment to see chiropractor on Wednesday, hoping today on my going to spa and steam will help of my aching, it probably getting old,hahaha. In a while about an hour later, hubby,my son and I are going today to the gym , for sure that will be my first stop to do my relax at the spa...

Everyday you walk downtown and there is this beautiful store front with graffiti scratched on the glass. Most business owners let it go because they don’t want the expense of replacing the large window. They could save thousands of dollars getting scratched glass repair.

It’s a low cost way of repairing the window, back to its original look, and quality. This type of repair allow the business owner to have their window back the way it was without having a large window out for days. What glass restoration does is allows the business owner to continue the business in a normal manner.

When you have the correct technicians on the job to do glass scratch repair, it takes a few hours, rather than days. So many times you see a large window replaced on a business, and it has plywood on it for a day or two. That’s the advantage of repairing the scratched glass, rather than replacing it. It only takes a small time for the repair, and get that nice view back the way it was.

Preparing the kids for school after the long holiday break this year was particularly easy. We had no guests; it was just me and hubby and our three girls, ages 8, 9 and 11. They aren't the types to stay up really late anyway, so there was no need to get them back on schedule for that.

The girls talked a good game about trying to stay up to watch the ball drop, but of course ended up asleep on the couch with their party hats on at about 10:30. Of course, our youngest Katie wanted to stay up on the couch to wait for Santa, but that didn't work out well, either. The cutest thing was that she wanted me not to set our home security alarm I found on some random blog post, so Santa wouldn't set it off. I set it anyway, because where we live is not the best neighborhood, but I almost fell down I was laughing so hard!

So preparing the kids for school after the holidays really wasn't anything at all. There were sad, but they usually get over that pretty quickly. I am so happy I have the greatest little girls in the whole world.

Thanks to Olga Quinn

Wow!Several months went by not getting a blog and not doing my latest journal either,many activities went by not remembering what the day by days life on which always been out. I tried couples time to get in the advertisement of the grab bag but it won't let me when I was out of the country, since then I keep forgetting to log in. I'm so glad  today I got email do the blog, at last they let me have opportunity to do the blog again, hope this will keep me start doing my journal again..Thank you...

I have quite a big problem. I have way too many clothes and shoes, so packing for trips can be really tough. There have been several times when I've gone somewhere with a carry on bag and then once I go through airport security they tell me it's too big so I have to have to end up paying to check it because I bought too much stuff and tried to pack it into the same small suitcase.

But I'm hoping those days are gone. After taking weekend trips where I have to do that too many times, I've bought some new luggage off of clear 4G Internet that can supposedly fit more stuff in it.

I thought that in combination with that I would for sure be able to do some light packing and end up having to pay a whole lot less for my luggage.

I'm going to visit one of my friends out in San Diego in a few weeks so I'm going to try out my new packing ideas soon. Let's just hope I can do it and save some money on checking bags.

There are two main advantages of using circular knitting needles. The first is that you can create round items such as bags or the body of a sweater without any seams. Since many knitters seem to put off finishing once the knitting is done, this can be enough of a reason by itself. The other advantage is that you don't have to keep switching from knit to purl. If you are working on a stockinette stitch project, you can just knit all of the stitches when using circular needles.

There are two problems that are commonly experienced when learning how to knit on circular needles, and both of them occur as a result of joining the end of one row to the beginning of the next. The first problem is that if you're not careful, your knitting can get twisted when you join the first row and you'll have to rip it out and start over. Fortunately, you probably won't get through the second row before you notice this, so you won't be ripping out much.

The second problem is the development of what looks like a ladder running down the part of the project where the rows join. This is usually the result of stitches that are too loose where the two rows come together. Some people counteract this by knitting the first stitch of each new row very tightly. Another method is to slip the first stitch on the left-hand needle onto the right needle then pass the stitch to the right of it over so it is on the left. The knitting then continues with the next stitch on the left-hand needle. If you don't have circular needles yet, you can do what I do: shop online using your clear mobile broadband directtv bundle savings and have them shipped directly to your house.

Jokes from Arcamax:

Bernie was unfortunate enough to be hit by a truck and ended up in the hospital. His best friend Morris came to visit him.

Bernie struggles to tell Morris, "My wife Sadie visits me three times a day. She's so good to me. Every day, she reads to me at the bedside."

"What does she read?" asks Morris.

"My life insurance policy."