Crabbed Out.

As I mentioned yesterday, my mom came home with a huge box of fresh crabs. As in, she had just bought it the night before and had steamed it all before flying out of Alaska at 6am the other day. Some of them had cracked shells so some of its juices came spilling out of the box but my ever so efficient husband had it cleaned up in no time. THE FAT! ‘Twas truly amazing. I didn’t have a camera on hand but I promise you there were about 25 crabs in total. Because some shells had cracked, the purple fatty parts were just oozing out. Feast for the eyes, no less! Neighbors across the street from my mom’s place were kinda staring at us so it was but right that we gave them a few pieces. We’re nice neighbors, you see. I hope they enjoyed it because by the time we had dinner, that stuff was soooo sweet and fresh. Popped it into the microwave and it was slurp, slurp, slurp. Didn’t get as PG as I wanted as after a while, so much crab (we cracked open 2 between E and I) gets to be pretty overwhelming. Plus, I don’t enjoy legs at all. I just like the inner part. Mainly because I don’t like to put stress on my teeth and we didn’t have a cracker thingamajig. Sadly, there’s about 10 pieces of crabs sitting in our freezer and it’s just a shame they’re going to sit there. I’m so crabbed out — yes, after last night’s semi-feast. I’m pretty maarte like that, I guess. Once it’s frozen, I no longer desire it. I like them super duper fresh. Arte, I know. Crab cakes? Eh. I don’t have the patience.

No More PPP.

I had to delete all my posts here that had anything to do with Payperpost. Lost a bit of money but I'm just happy that I got my blog back. PPP suspended my account because they know they're not allowed to be there. So to answer your question Abby, no I wasn't banned from too much swearing hahaha (do I swear that much??). So in the grand scheme of things, you know what this means. I'll have to build this site up as I did the other one so I can increase my page rank in order to qualify for some good PPP posts. Sorry, it's the money hungry in me guys. That said, I might be backing off from wordpress and making myself comfortable here in order to do just that. Trying to figure out how to make this place look nicer as the free templates have got to go -- big time. I just wish I was computer literate enough to know how to get things done. Tsk tsk. I also want to put up a blog on my own domain (am I even saying it right?!) but I don't know which to go with (what's expensive and what's not?). It hurts not to know enough about the internet, I tell you. Would you believe I took an HTML class in college, learned how to create my own homepage from scratch (inputting codes or something) and scored an A? How I did that, I have no idea. So it was an introductory course, fine but at least I knew a little HTML. So anyways, if you have any suggestions as to where I should put up a new home without having to use these free domains, let me know. I would love to be enlightened.

My mom is back from Alaska in a few hours. She has my Alaskan king crabs! Yummmmmm-o! My cholesterol is going to shoot way up but that's how it'll have to be for tonight. I am going to feast!

More stories to come.

She Is Definitely My Daughter.

Aha, you thought wrong if you think I'm referring to myself.

It is 9:29am as I type this and Erynne has already had a bowl of cheerios cereal with milk (with seconds that she didn't finish off completely), half of a bbq pork siopao bun, half of a cup of orange juice and now that I'm eating my breakfast of maple and brown sugar oatmeal, she's eating some of that too. She's now walked away with her other half of siopao to watch TV in her room while she continues to eat. Isn't that wild? I love it! Now if she would just gain weight with all the food she eats, I'd ask for nothing more. But I guess in the long run, she's lucky. She can be PG and still be skinny. Lucky girl, tsk tsk.

And So It Happened.

It was only a few days ago through an email from Joy did I hear about Wordpress shutting down websites with paid Payperpost posts. I'd yet to receive "the email" about being given 7 hours to back up my blog. So imagine my surprise a few minutes ago when I saw I couldn't access my Wordpress blog anymore. Where was my supposed email with my 7 hours to pack up and say goodbye? I don't understand. I knew my time would come but I didn't think it would happen today -- and without so much as a warning! Though, thanks in part to Joy, I should have acted accordingly and followed her advice to back up my blog at that moment. Who's the sorry @ss now?

So if you're here because you saw I've been shut down (or will be), welcome. Make yourselves comfy as this is where I'll be hanging out for the meantime. I'll have this place cleaned up in no time. Corny as it sounds, I'm a little sad that I wasn't able to save some of my entries from Wordpress. Nevermind the money I'll have lost from PPP -- so many memories I'd documented there that I've now lost forever :(. What a bummer. Ugh. I so need some proper closure.

Bastards!

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Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda

Having been born, raised (and made!) in Alaska, it was literally a dream come true for me when I had the opportunity to live in Manila for less than 2 years. My only regret though was that hubby and I didn't travel the country as much as we should have--could have and would have-- had we known we'd be leaving for the States a year and a half into our marriage. Palawan, Cebu, Baguio, Samar -- so many places we had yet to experience! And it's when you're far and away from your surroundings do you start to wish you'd done the things you should have when you were already there. And I highly doubt we'd ever go back to the Philippines to live -- I was so anxious to get out as it was, LOL. But oh, how I've yet to experience every part of my parents' homeland (and err, my husband's!).

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I've Been Tagged.

And happily so — I seem to have a lot of hate in my life, LOL.

1. Food you hate - peanut butter (but I love kare-kare).

2. Fruits that you hate - i wouldn’t die if i ate it but i wouldn’t mind never eating grapefruit (even though it’s good when you’re dieting).

3. Veggies that you hate - GABI!

4. Celebrities or people that you hate - Liars, fakers, posers, people who have no common sense or an inkling of knowledge about anything, people as rude as me, people as sarcastic as me, pinoys in Manila who have no patience in waiting for people to get off the elevator before they come scrambling in (MAJOR HATE!), pinoys who don’t know the meaning of “wait your turn,” pinoys who try to run to their airport gates because they think the plane is going to leave when in fact, it’ll just sit there for a while, pinoys who don’t know the purpose of a line (refer to “wait your turn”) and then PRETEND they don’t hear anything when you, in fact, are talking right at them to be civilized please (at least I use the word “please”), pinoy telemarketers who don’t know the meaning of “no” and then have the audacity to tell me, “God bless,” because they think I might feel guilty for being a B*&^%…. DO YOU REALLY WANT ME TO GO ON? *LOL*

5. Event/Incident/Situation that you hate - oh sorry, I didn’t see this. I listed some above. Joy’s right, blackouts in Manila are one. I try to pretend I’m “cowboy” but as God is my witness, I am beyond uncomfortable when this happens. You can’t blame me — how would you like to feel like a roasting pig? That’s what I thought. I also hate how people function within a bank in Manila — grab a number? Even when no one’s there? And what’s up with signatures? And no, I will not come back after lunch to get my documents, thank you very much — just sign the damn thing! And one last: when I’m paying for stuff at SM department store. Have you noticed how many people are working behind the cash register?! And what is all that scribble they write on the receipts? And please, save a staple and a strip of tape — you can just put my receipt in the bag, thanks. SIMPIFY PEOPLE, SIMPLIFY! Oh, wait, just thought of another one — I hate it when filipino women stay with their cheating partners for whatever reason (be it kids, love, length of time they’ve been together, etc etc). Love yourselves ladies — a man is NOT the end of the world. Jose Rizal already died for your sufferings — one martyr is enough!

6. TV Shows or Movies that you hate - all the talk shows except Oprah. And period movies like Marie Antoinette, Pride & Prejudice, etc.

7. Type of Music that you hate - Rap. Too much t**s and @$$, and the words. I do not want to know what you do with her private parts, please.

8. Household chore that you hate - cleaning the bathroom, hands down.

9. Things you hate about the world - when babies and kids are left to starve or when they’re abandoned. I also don’t understand and like war.

10. Things that you hate about yourself - that I still haven’t gotten rid of my 50 or so postpartum pounds. That’s why hello Weight Watchers tomorrow. I can’t do this alone hahahaha.

I LOVED THIS — thanks Joy :). Okay, it’s time for Cheche, Van, Liv, Jean and Leah to show some hate.