I'm proud of my hubby. I am chilling in the living room in front of our TV while he finishes cooking some pork. He always gets a hard day at work but still manages to go the extra mile of helping me out at home. Valentine's Day is just around the corner but I still don't know what to get for him. I'll deal with that later. At least I was able to pick up a card yesterday at CVS. I want him to have something special after all the things he does for me, or gives me.

Do you want to hear something funny? Lash night, he asked me to help him shave his head. Because he said he wants to save money. He gets a haircut every two weeks, pays $ 15 each time, and so he already got the total amount of savings for the whole yea r figured out. Smart.  Even if I, who had no idea how to use the electric razor, found myself mowing row upon row of hair on a head belonging to someone inches taller than me but refuses to sit down and instead bow on top of used cardboard box (to catch the hair) on top of the sink. FAIL. He ended up looking like he had a scalp disorder. And so we shaved closer to the skin to even it up.  And so he ended up with no hair at all. Almost. He's very happy with the result.  He admired himself on the mirror like an uber self-consious adolescent would.  I got it.  He wanted to look like this actor I like very very much.  The one who makes my world stop everytime he's on TV. He has a shaved head. 

 I get it....

Hubby's so cute. I'm watching him wait for the pork to be done while he browses through his favorite car magazine, and dreaming about the 1967 Pontiac Firebird he used to have.  We still have pontiac accessories in the garage.  I don't know what other car projects are cooking in his man cave. I just want the pork at this point.

Later my dears! Dinner is almost ready.

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*SIGH*

I just finished ordering a baby swing / bouncer for my sister's baby. I got a good deal with the free shipping and all. How exciting it is. My little newborn niece is so cute and we're so proud. My sister wants her to call me "Mommy Ate" (Ate- big sister) and I am loving the endearment! I hope the new swing arrives in their home soon so Baby Bops (as we like to call her) can start enjoying it...and the parents too. They can use a third hand to take care of the baby -- rocking her while my sister and hubby deal with housework and other personal stuff.

After ordering the swing, hubby and I just started surfing for good deals on Car DVD Players, some new GPS gadgets and ah, yes, not to fortet, car speakers because mine went kaput on me last week (after a year of having been resurrected). We 're seeing so many tempting gadgets that has something to do with Audio and Video car accessories, receivers and other man toys for my hubby.

And then it dawned on me...

It has been three years since we lost our baby. It has been three years of us finally moving on with life and actually enjoying it.

I wonder...

When will we be able to surf and shop for baby stuff, and not just car stuff, and shoes and purses?

I await the day.

Suddenly, my love for French (which is occasionally forgotten) has been revived lately. Thanks to a scrumptious dinner of french cuisine in the city last night. It is our annual holiday date visiting union square, the boutiques at Geary St., Neiman Marcus (luv the smell in there), Sakes 5th...and Westfield Mall and Bloomingdales.  We were supposed to get Italian but the wait was over an hour and a half. And then our feet took us to this jazz bistro, where I had the best french onion soup in my life (hubby agrees). I had lamb stew and normally,I'll save half of it to go for my lunch at work the next day. But no, I didn't leave any morsel on my plate!

And now, I'm watching Anthony Bourdain do his Christmas Holidays special and all those french dishes are making me drool again.

Ahhhh, french. I wish Ican speak it!!! I'm visiting french websites right now, to test my skill like comparateur assurance vie or this moe difficult one ouvrir un compte hahaha I feel nice just writing that out. How about big bag in french?

Chanel?

Oui!

I just wrote about the most important item on my holiday wishlist. And one thing about blogging is having all my thoughts put out for the whole world to stumble upon...including THE SPOUSE. He is not against my love for anything Chanel but today he just mentioned, "But a white purse gets dirty!" Where on earth did that come from?

He found my entry, I believe. After all, his iPhone has some shortcuts for my blogsites. (Hi hubby! I know you're reading this. That is,if you're not busy surfing for Cheap Xbox360 games which I know are on your wishlist these holidays. I can help you find good Xbox360 game prices if you help me find that white purse, hahaha.

Our shipment for the Home Theater system arrived too. I'm happy because that's my anniversary present for hubby. December really gets me broke. But it gets him broke too. With me celebrating my birthday within the holiday season too.

What makes us truly happy is really simple though. A holiday date in the city, just walking around, watching people at Union Square, having coffee (or tea or hot chocolate especially this year that I'm finally weaned from coffee), a quiet dinner, a simple trainride, holding hands.

Tomorrow! Yes, tomorrow!

#2 on my Holiday Wishlist

Yes it's in my Holiday Wishlist....but I didn't say 2009. I can have it 2010...2020...2030... Ahahahaha! But it's free to dream. And perhaps that long period of dreaming should buy me enough time to save up so my Black Classic 2.55 Flap and my Large Shopping tote can finally get a CC sibling in white. Yummm!

What's #1 on my Holiday Wishlist, you ask?  A CRAYOLA GLOW STATION. And I'm not kidding. I've been lusting for it since it came out last year!!! Luckily, we found it at Walmart for $19. and I'm so over the moon having it!!! I'm good for several years. Hahaha. Now, if only my hubby can get me those batteries.

I know, I know. I'm so guilty of not posting a HAPPY THANKSGIVING post here, not even a Turkey picture which I've cleverly done in two of my other sites-- a big one too, just to make up for not being able to write the mile-long posts I used to make. I had no time. But I'm here, 20 days since the last post, just wanting to say hi and I hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving with family.

I've been busy. After a scrumptious Thanksgiving dinner, we threw a party for my stepdaughter at home two days after. We don't get a chance to have her for her birthdays so we took the opportunity to give her a simple yet special birthday bash yesterday while we had her. She just flew back downsouth an hour ago. I hope she had fun with us. I took her shopping on Black Friday and we were able to get a lot of stuff that we needed, we both like clothes and shoes and I think eventually, my interest for natural beauty products will soon rub off too. We did have a blast at this store where we maxed out the budget we set for ourselves.

I'm disappointed that with the busy weekend, she and I were not able to watch THIS IS IT together as planned, and go to the salon for her birthday manicure-pedicure. I also wanted to take her for a massage (and salt bathing *dream on*) at the spa -- or am I pushing her on stuff that I want? HEHEHE.  Her cousins ended up staying overin our house...so we also had a lot of fun afterall!!!

Maybe next time we can finally pull these all off when she comes here upnorth for a visit again.