So this past weekend I made 6 batches of marshmallows and sent them out to various people. Crazy? Yes, but I got to try out a bunch of different flavor combos and have guinea pigs to finish them for me. About 8 lbs of sugar later, I think it'll be a while before I take on a project like this again... maybe Christmas ( Read more... )

I'm using eyedrops that would cost more than gold ml-for-gram if I didn't have insurance. WTF?

I made some caramel corn, but I'm the only one around to eat it :( Maybe they'll keep until Odi gets home... poor guy is sick overseas ( Read more... )

So I went to a new optometrist for my checkup this year and ordered some fancy new (coach!) glasses... except that not only is their office on the slow end of quoted times, but sending my glasses to the Fremont office (from the Newark one) and back takes 5 business days. I should've offered to drive those glasses over the 3 freeway exits to the ( Read more... )

Yay! So I survived having 2 teenagers, Alex and his friend Ryan, plus mom stay at my house for almost a week. Odi had to get our house wired for the internet and move another TV upstairs so we can leave the kids to play xbox 360 together upstairs and out of our way, yet Alex still managed to break off a stairs railing that has been loose but still ( Read more... )

Hrm, the court is upholding prop 8... I'm going to go be sad and drown in my 3 batches of marshmallows now (vanilla w/orange blossom water, strawberry, and bananas foster.)

On a good note, I'm sending out 3 marshmallow packages to 3 people for different occasions, hopefully they'll like them ;)

I just found out from Odi that we can't get a green cart, but the single family homes "across the street" can. Huh? Our pickups are on the same street at the same time, so it's not because they don't service organic wastes in this area. Odi called the company and they said that it's an HOA restriction, so we'll have to bring that up at the next ( Read more... )

I was watching TVB USA right now, and the guest on this show was Sandra Lang/仙杜拉. I recall her being my neighbor at Waterloo Road back when I was a wee lass in Hong Kong, and once she gave me a little purse that says "Las Vegas" on it as a souvenir. Hee, she mentioned that she lived on Waterloo Road :D ( Read more... )

We rarely watch movies in theatre nowadays, and I managed to pull Odi away from AoC and out this last weekend for a lunch/movie thing. We thought about watching Sex and the City, but I gave a few suggestions to Odi and he said we should watch the movie that we probably wouldn't remember about later, so we ended up watching The Happening. I have ( Read more... )

(Last night) mom called me halfway through my Whole Foods shopping trip and told me that my stepgrandma died. I thought I should be a tad more sad, but we really weren't close even though we lived in the same city for a while. I can never quite understand her Cantonese with her thick accent. She's pretty old (90+) and she's been ill, so I guess it ( Read more... )

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