Just My Rambling

I love all aspects of winter. That includes the snow, the bald trees and even the cold weather. The only thing I do not like about winter is the electricity bill. Besides turning on the heater, we also use the kitchen a lot more since we like to make soup and hot drinks in the winter. That means the electric bill is a lot higher in the winter. In fact, it is about twice higher than our summer electric bill. I wish we have a low cost option like the one my friend has with nj electricity. Unfortunately we do not, so we might just have to make sure we do not turn on the heater as much or maybe not cook as much in the winter next year. Hopefully that will lower the bill.

Since we came back from our vacation, DH has been checking out samsung lcd televisions. I guess it is because of all the LCD TVs they had at all the hotels that we stayed in during this vacation. Our current television is definitely not at the edge of technology. It is huge and definitely not as pretty and slick as one of those new slim LCD televisions. So I guess it might be a good time to upgrade. Now how am I supposed to get rid of my monster of a TV?

Ugh! I do not like spam. No, not Spam as in the food but spam as in the unwanted soliciting mails that floods my email every day. Lately I have been receiving a lot of mail about free online dating sites and other things that I am not interested in. Sometimes I wonder where the sender gets their mailing lists. Luckily I have separate emails for different purpose and the spam usually floods those emails that I set up for fun. So when I get start getting too many unwanted mails, I will just delete those email account.

Christmas is less than 2 months away. Have you made your wish list yet? I am not big on Christmas presents, so my list is very short. All I want are a couple of books and some matouk linens. Short, eh? I just feel that I have everything I need, so why ask for anything more. This year I plan to teach Lil’ C the true meaning of Christmas and why we celebrate it. I am really hoping that she will not get caught up in the commercialization of Christmas.

What is your least favorite household chore? For me, it’s cleaning the house especially the bathroom. I don’t mind cooking or doing laundry but cleaning, that’s a different story. If I ever go back to work, the first thing I would do is to hire a cleaning company to clean my house every week. For now, that is a luxury that I can’t afford. Maybe I should make everyone clean their own bathroom and maybe I should get a new hair loss shampoo because there seems to be hair everywhere especially in the bathroom! Sigh… time to stop whining and get back to cleaning.

Ouch, I just stepped on a Lego piece! That hurts! Sigh, when my girl is ever going to learn to clean up her toys after playing with them. I have tried the reward system but it doesn’t seem to work. I would like to try the “throwaway” system but I can’t bring myself to throw away her toys. Maybe I can do a pretend throwaway and that means I will hide everything that does not get put away and pretend that I have thrown it away. Maybe that will help her to realize that she needs to clean up her toys or she will not have many toys left after a week.

It’s done! Finally the school auction is over. We had a great time at the school auction and raised a lot of money for the school but I was exhausted from the preparation. Somehow I got involved in the making of the centerpieces for all the tables at the auction. Since it was a carnival theme, it was right up my alley with my obsession for all things cutesy. I ended up with a popcorn box centerpiece which turned out really cute but I had to spend the entire week making chocolate balloons and chocolate party hats for 25 tables. There were many long nights spend in the kitchen. I look so tired after the whole ordeal and probably need some prototype 37c and lots of sleep to get me back into shape again. Would I do it again next year? I think I will have to think twice as hard before I say yes again.

It was DH’s birthday yesterday!! Yup, he hits the big 4-0!! I didn’t get him a gift, instead we went out to his favorite restaurant and he got to order everything that he likes. A huge meat-lover, we went to a BBQ restaurant and he ordered every kind of meat they had! That is a huge treat for him since he usually does not get to order to his heart’s content. Yikes! I am so glad that his birthday is only once a year or even the best cholesterol treatments won’t help him. He is such a carnivore!

For this past month, I have been spending a lot of time in my kitchen doing a lot of baking. After a month of staring at it, I realized that I don’t really like my kitchen backsplash. So I decided to look around for other options. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the stainless steel tiles. I didn’t know that they have so many designs available and I love some of the designs. The stainless steel look will definitely blend in with my stainless steel appliances. I think I might just gather more information about it and hopefully I will be able to change my kitchen backsplash.

As I mentioned in the previous post, it will be party galore at our house in the next 2 months. So I decided to get a head start and start cleaning up the house a little at a time. Gosh, I really do not like cleaning especially the bathrooms! I think there are too many bathrooms in this house. Speaking of bathrooms, I wish I could replace the sinks with Toto sinks. I really want pedestal sinks instead of my current sinks. Maybe that could go on my wish list. But for now, it is back to cleaning. Sigh…