all wrapped up and ready to be delivered...

finally! i just finished wrapping all the gifts last night. tiring, but i wouldn't hesitate to do it again next year! merry christmas everyone!

thanks veron and coach michelle!

got the phone charm from coach mitch and the other (i opened it already..it was a pouch!) from veron...thanks so much! i'll give your gifts on saturday - sorry, i don't have work tomorrow. =D
the other phone charm is for peepee...

ye, man!

De Original Jamaican Pattie..yum! i first got to taste it while i was still working at eTelecare. PBCom had the Patio, where peepee and i used to eat, and one of my favorite foods there is the jamaican pattie. when peepee and i left eTel, we missed eating it because we rarely saw a jamaican pattie store. the last time i ate a pattie was just last sunday. we watched a basketball game over at the araneta coliseum and kuya alvin bought jamaican patties for our snack.
then, just this afternoon, i was over at megamall running some errands when i happened to see this newly-opened jamaican pattie shop. i just remembered that we had seen it back then but it was still closed. i got so excited i bought four patties (a couple of cheesy beef and a couple of beef and mushroom). i took it home, and peepee and i ate the beef and mushroom. we have next to try their new flavor, which they call pinatubo. wonder how it tastes like...hmmm...

see that thinly sliced shitake mushroom and the beef chunks? yummyness!

blowout

good to see you again celani and art! =D

the parlor's almost complete...

i got this from peepee. yay! i've been wanting to own one for the longest time, but we just didn't have enough time to look at specific models until last sunday. a few days back (last week), peepee and i went to the mall to look at some possible gift items. i saw a Babyliss tourmaline/ceramic hair straightener (priced at Php2375). i wanted to buy it since i first saw it, but then we decided not to because we also wanted to look at other brands. also, looking at hair straighteners wasn't the main reason why we went to the mall. so, i said, we'll just buy it when we come back after a few days. when we went back last sunday, i went to the Babyliss area, but then the item that i wanted got sold out just the day before! i was so bummed out! so, i decided to not buy anything at all. i got so disappointed. the lady said there'll be another shipment that's due to arrive sometime next week. i didn't want to wait another day.
so, what peepee did was he looked at other brands and he found Vidal Sassoon. it did the same thing as the one from Babyliss did, but it was a couple hundred bucks more expensive than Babyliss. it was originally priced at Php3179.75 but we got it for just Php2861.
i mentioned that the VS straightener does the same thing as the Babyliss..well, the reason why i wanted the Babyliss was because it has tiny little vents at the side of the plates which acts as, well, vents. meaning, i could use it on either damp or dry hair, minus the worry of damaging my crown. the Babyliss lady was offering me another type of straightener (Php3450) which is just that...a straightener and nothing else. no way am i going to spend that hard-earned money on something that i half-heartedly want!
when peepee showed me the VS straightener, the first thing i asked the lady was that if it could be used on both damp and dry hair. she showed me a different model (which i think is much more compact than Babyliss'), and she immediately tried it on my hair. i'm glad she did, because i'm soo loving it now instead of Babyliss'

my newest babies

beauty gave birth last december 10 to two beautiful puppies, a girl and a boy, aptly named julio and julia. we just got back from the vet's clinic and had them declawed. they didn't cry much, not like the other puppies we had before them. but still, i feel sorry for them because their cute little fingers had to be cut off...

julio's on the left. julia's on the right. with little bandages covering their tiny injury. aww...

linked..

i was finally able to link my blog and facebook together (many thanks to bee and manet). although manet is still trying to figure out the kinks since hers is set to private.
here's the steps i went through..

• search networked blogs on your facebook account. fill out the form (your blog url and what-nots) then click on to the next step.
• when it asks you to verify your account, you will be given two choices. first is to verify through friends and the second is to install the widget on your blog. i initially went to the first step (it said it was the easiest. damn gullible!), but my head got fuddled with everything i had to go through, so i went back then clicked the second option.
• when you click the second option, you will be given an html code. before you copy the code, open your blog and go to customize, then add a gadget. click add html. then copy the widget code and paste it on the add html box. save it.
• go back to networked blogs then below the code, you should see a button that said verify widget. after saving the changes on your blog, click verify widget. it should get verified after a few seconds.
• once it's verified, you will be asked to change the feed settings on networked blogs, so go to the feed settings then click to check auto-publish to personal profile.
• once it's checked you can click on publish a test post. then, once it's published the test post, it's done.

thing is, whenever you publish anything on your blog, you'd have to go back to networked blogs on your facebook account so you can publish your new blog entry on your facebook account. just click pull feed and that's it! all done.