TMA #13: Cost of Groceries

| June 23, 2008

How much to you spend on average at the grocery store? We spend about $100 a week on groceries for our family of 3.  It’s quite a challenge keeping the grocery expenses down.  We go to two supermarkets…the “regular” one and the Asian supermarket.  We have to have our Asian loots for purposes of survival.  [...]

Take Advantage

| June 23, 2008

My daughter will be on summer break starting next week.  Woohoo for her and woohoo for me!  Hee hee.  That means we will both enjoy some additional shut-eye. :)  We plan on doing a lot of fun things the entire month that Abby will be on vacation from school.  July is my birth month, too, so we’ll definitely [...]

La.Pi.S. #2: Dessert

| June 23, 2008

This week’s theme for Lasang Pinoy Sundays is dessert…anything that goes well with tea or coffee. ;)  Good thing I checked out the theme before last week was over.  I made sure I took photos of my dessert from our buffet lunch yesterday.  ;)  Dessert, to me, is the highlight of a meal, kinda like the [...]

Cell Phone Upgrade

| June 23, 2008

I’m thinking of upgrading my cellphone.  I haven’t decided yet if I will do a unit upgrade or a plan upgrade or both.  I currently have a Nokia cellphone, the model of which I can’t even recall, or maybe I just choose to forget it.  Hee hee. :)  It does all the basic stuff a cell [...]

WS #16: Free Jetty Punch Smoothie

| June 23, 2008

Did you know that last Saturday, 21 June, officially the first day of Summer, was National Flip Flop Day.  :D  We didn’t.  It’s a Tropical Smoothie Cafe imposed holiday, I think.  Coming from my daughter’s dance recital, we decided to get some rest at home before we did anymore weekend activities.  We noticed a few [...]