Cheers, y’all!

I only paid a penny for each for the wooden rulers and the crayons. The pencils were a dime per pack of 10. How else can you beat that price?! Come now, don’t think I’m hoarding school supplies. I’m planning on donating most of these where they are most needed. I’ll just keep maybe 2 of each.

We’re making the most of the last days of summer break. And what better way to end the long hot summer than with a Tax Free Shopping Weekend! Yeehaw!

Cheers, y’all!

We had a house guest – a very dear friend of ours – the first few days of June. He’s been to the US several times but it’s his first time in Austin and our first time to get together after 4 years! It’s sort of SOP to bring guests of ours to Downtown Austin to visit the State Capitol. Where else can we go without having to driver for ore than an hour?! Haha!

We had to make do with the IPhone for photo ops. The nicer camera was left and forgotten in the garage. *sigh* It’s been over a year since we last visited the Texas State Capitol.  The biggest and most noticeable change is that everyone now goes through security check, when before, everyone just came and went as they pleased. Better safe than sorry, I guess.

Anyway, I love going to the Texas State Capitol. Every visit always seems like a first to me. ‘We’ll be back, when the next house guest comes along! Haha!

Mabuhay!

The warmer weather, which will just keep getting warmer and warmer, has gotten  me thinking back to that one day in February when we woke up to a morning where everything was covered in a blanket of snow.  That’s quite unusual here in Austin, so you can just imagine our excitement. Hopefully, we’ll get a chance for some real revelry in the snow, when – God willing – we visit our friends who recently moved to Calgary.  We also found out just last week that our California-based friends are moving to Calgary as well some time in the summer!  What is it with Calgary, I wonder? Anyway, we’ll give them all a chance to get really settled first and get their meetings with calgary mortgage brokers (that’s if they need to apply for mortgage at all!) out of the way before we come knocking at their doors. Hee hee.

Sorbetes (Filipino ice cream, usually made with coconut milk) Season, that is, summer, is just around the corner.  Actually, I think it has already arrived in Austin.

It’s going to be another staycation season for us as we don’t have any plans of leaving the great state of Texas, unless we win the lottery. Hee hee.  We might spend some weekends at our favorite nearby citiees – San Antonio, Houston or Dallas.  We’re considering looking into some hitch bike racks so we can bring my daughter’s bike when we go on our weekend trips.  We’ll see how it goes.  Surely, she can survive one weekend without her bike.  Hee!

Weee!  These ought to inspire me to again be creative with my daughter’s lunches. I’ve gotten a little lazy in the school lunch making department. Catching up on my favorite tv shows via dvr recordings has me staying up late almost every night.  Having said that, it’s too difficult for me to wake up very early in the morning and come up with creative lunch ideas.

We’re on the final stretch of the school year.  I can almost already smell summer vacation and Outer Banks vacation rentals, as if NC is just a stone’s throw away.  It’s free to dream…and to smell that dream! Hee hee.

After filling up on that stuffing from Thanksgiving, it’s now time to think about the stuffing that goes into the Christmas stocking. I can’t believe it’s December already!  I’m excited as ever!  I still have a lot of gift shopping ahead of me.  But I don’t want to stress over the uncrossed names on my list too much or I might end up needing shampoo for thinning hair.  Stress and worry equals thinning hair, don’t they? Besides, I have plenty of time to get everybody on my list something.  That’s what I tell myself at least.

It looks like the cold weather is here to stay now and we’ll be needing a nice warm bowl of soup every meal to help keep us from freezing.  Throw in the best face moisturizer there is as well! The low temperatures isn’t helping hubby and me with our running.  It’s actually been a while since we went for a run.  It’s just more tempting to sleep some more instead of going out in the biting cold.  *sigh*  We have to resume our gym routine.  I sure don’t want to get heavy again. No, no, no!

The last quarter of the year just leaves all of us busy as bees, doesn’t it.  But I have to admit, I specially love the last quarter of the year, more so this year when we have something special planned for the holidays.

Having said that, in between Christmas gift hunting, chores, menu planning, cake decorating and what nots, I feel I could use something like  medical carts to keep organized and so I could just easily roll my computer around with me.  Oh, just excuse the crazy idea! Hee hee!

Fall is definitely here.  Save for the fact that it’s gotten harder to get up in the morning and harder even to go for that morning run, I’m loving the cooler mornings and evenings.  If you never got around to solving your home ventilation woes over the summer, I’m guessing they won’t get solved any time soon.

It is time to bring out the cool weather clothes and say a temporary buh-bye to the flipflops, tank tops, swimsuits and shorts. ‘Til next summer then?

Mabuhay, y’all!