I bought my first furniture

I have been asking JJ to get me a nice curio cabinet that I can house my mini tea sets collection for quite a long time. It has never been granted! Arggh! I bought 5 mini tea sets recently and on top of that my friend Ligaya gave me one, I have not thanked her yet (I don't think!) bad me :( so I have quite a few collection in one tiny corner curio cabinet display. So, I took matters on my own hands. I search and found one off *bay that I have fallen in love with.

I ordered it, came so fast and JJ assembled. Dang, we found 2 imperfections. When doors are shut they don't align correctly as you can see in the peekture.

There was also a discolored area at the top left corner of the surface.


I then e-mailed the seller and he was very helpful. Without questions, did not even looked at the pictures I attached on my e-mail as my evidence, he just asked me to give him the letters of the parts replacement and in just 2 days, I received my replacement!

Wanna see my display??? Oh no not yet. I am still waiting for one more shipment and then I can show you my new entry way, hopefully before Fall everything will be into place.

Flowers from my Garden

I haven't really paid much attention to my garden this season. Weed extraction is the only thing I did after I put mulch on it last Spring. I have not watered nor fertilized it but it still flowering like crazy. I can't help but get my camera and get some shots. I also experiment some functions of my camera which I seldom do and I am happy about the result. What can I say I am just a plain boring Auto function user, well sad but true!!! LOL! Anyway, without further ado, here they are:

Pink Stargazer Lilly

Yellow Calla Lilly

Daffodil

Potentilla -Gold Drop

Grape Hyacinth

Purple Lupine (I have red's too)

Tulips (sorry I don't have a good micro shots!)

My Yellow Gladiolus are about to bloom in a week or two.

What's annoying about her

Twinkle is at the teething stage right now and you know how dog's behave when they are at that stage? Unlike kids who cries and gets uneasy or cranky when they are teething, dogs are at least to my experience from Star and Sunny, get crazier, they like to bite and nibble on our fingers, they bite our toes and ankle. If no one is there for them to play and play attention, they can really ruin your furniture. BUT, they good thing is that Twinkle has Star and Sunny plus JJ and I to chew on. So she is not really into our furniture. When Sunny was teething, he had literally ruin our side tables, coffee table and then some areas of stairway. Other common behavior they all portray is that they like to play with water. They all like to dig on it and dump everything out from the water bowl. Its kind of annoying because I have to clean the mess many times a day. I like to just leave them 2 bowls of water a day especially when JJ and I are at work. I want them to have access to water all the time. Now, as soon as we got home, I see flood of water! I can't really be angry at her, I know her gums are in pain and there is really nothing I can do, except to give her ice cubes from time to time. I hope it all comes out so this cleaning saga will end! Cross my fingers*

Taking care of Gadgets

I finally was able to bring my Ipod to work, thank God! JJ forbid me from bringing her to work without the invisible shield installed and vaja cases I ordered online. Now, I don't have to worry her inside my purse being scratched because the invisible shield protects her and then God forbids, accident happen it fell on the floor, there is always vaja cases for protection.

I am really enjoying her a lot, now I don't have to listen to xm radio that plays the same music over and over the whole freakin' day! Gosh, you have no idea how I hated it, now I can switch to my Ipod when I am on break and after work when I have to do the 2 report. It's just the perfect Ipod and the vaja case, I can just hook it on one of my belt loop. I am still working on my music, compilation I have about 1.59GB free space right now.

Plum out, Signature Bucket in and new Product Red

Yep, you got it. I have returned my second Coach handbag purchase after 3 days of receiving it. Don't get me wrong, the color was really pretty, the size is really good and its soft and I am really loving it but the reviews at the forum regarding patent leathers were not good and so I got scared that it might turn into one of those horrifying stories. Thus, the return of plum patent tote!

Sigh** my heart ached as soon as I stepped in into their Easton boutique. But JJ was there for me supporting how sad I'd feel for letting it go. In fact, right before we left the house we had an agreement that I can only look at displays but I should refrain myself from being tempted of getting a replacement, in short I better be a good girl or else I'd get a spanking from him :p

When we got there, there was no questioning or whatsoever but I was asked if I wanted to look around?? And I just smiled and looked down, I knew I'd be tempted and then JJ stepped in, he told the SA we will return it for now but we would look around and if there is anything I like we will think it over and come back the next day. Good reasoning/ errr good excuse??? LOL!

So days went by and my birthday is approaching. I felt anxious that I don't have a new purse for my birthday. I don't know if I can already call it a tradion but I've been used to getting purses on special occasions for many years now. Although deep inside, I am hoping that JJ will get me a purse even a wristlet will do so I waited with an agony.


On one of our trips to Easton, days before the 4th we stopped by at the apple store and JJ got me a replacement to my iPod classic which is his birthday gift.

I got the (Product) Red iPod Nano 3G. I am happy and excited about it and as soon as we got home he synchronized my new nano to our music library at iTunes and voila, I got the teeny winee iPod, working sweet! Now, I can use my Motorola stereo blue tooth headphone with iPod adapter, he got it for me from last years birthday and it hasn't really been used that much.

So what did we do on my very birthday day? July 4th is America's birthday and so most families gather for party, having fun, enjoying a good meal and what else! That same day, its hard to get a good restaurant for dinner. Its been a struggle for us ever since I got here 4 years ago. Most of them are closed! So this time we outsmarted them, lol, instead of dinner we went for lunch! Even then, the first two restaurants that we attempted were closed the whole day! What a bummer, so we went to Polaris Mall and found Brio Tuscan Grill was opened so off we go.

After a sumptuous lunch, JJ asked me where else I would wanna be and added that he would take me anywhere I wanted to go because its my big day so I blurted "prime outlet mall"! Although, that was already on my mind for days! I did a little shopping spree at the Correlle store. I bought some additional serving plates and miscellaneous stuff.

Then, off to the Coach store, again??? At first, I was really just planning on getting collars for my fuzzies. Yay, to designer dogie collars, wohooo!!! Star and Twinkle, got leather collars but my poor boy won't be getting anything on this trip, there is none that would fit him. There were a lot of people up there, lots of purses on sale from 15% to 60%. I told myself, If I ever get a purse, It has to be a little more or less than a $100 (let's call it self-control).

I spent a few rounds checking at their displays until I saw this tiny signature top handle pouch. I looked around for a different color and learned from one of the SA's that was the only 1 at the store. So I hold on to it and decided it was worth keeping. Yay, I am inlove again. It was just perfect for a quick trip to a movie, dinner, grocery shoppin' or doing a little errands. I also got a scarf to help the black color pop out a little bit. I also grabbed a purple butterfly cellphone lanyard which is very cute. This trip's motif was purple and I am rockin' it! WOhhhoooo!!!! Happy birthday to ME!!!!