Weekend Recap (Apr 16 & Apr 17)

You know how when some one asks you if you want the good news or the bad news first? And you always respond with bad news first in hopes the good news will help buffer the pain cause by the blah news (no? Brave soul you!)? That's kind of how my weekend was, but I wasn't asked which I wanted first. Fortunately, I'm glad I got the bad news first because I would have hated to end my weekend/start my work week on bad news. *shudders*

Bad (might qualify as horrible) news: Friday was a rough, rough day y'all. Firstly, I had to wake up at 2am because the hubs forgot to bring some things to the shop and forgot to leave some things I desparately needed at the house so naturally I had a major small stress meltdown. After taking lots of deep breaths, I packed all my things necessary for work that day (e.g. work clothes, hair straightner, etc) along with the things the hubs forgot (e.g. suit, dress shoes and socks, etc.) and drove 45 minutes to the shop. Work day commenced as usual. Then, on the DART ride home, I was stuck IN a TUNNEL. for 2 flipping hours!! 2 frucking hours in the flipping dark!!!! Really? Sigh. When we finally were moving again, we experienced 2 more delays prior to reaching my stop - the last one on the line. Total commute time for a normal 40 minute commute - 3 hours. What a Friday.

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With bad news, comes the good news right? Right!

Good news: We went over to a friend's house later that evening to celebrate Cambodian/Thai New Years and our dear friends Sopie and Ly were going to reveal the sex of their second child - with cupcakes!! Yum! How? They bought 2 dozen cupcakes (1 dozen red velvet, 6 strawberry shortcakes, and 6 chocolate passion) from

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and one of the cupcakes was injected with a colored cream filling indictating the sex of the baby!! We were so excited about digging into the cupakes to look for the pink or blue icing, I totally didn't take pix! Boo! With all 24 cupcakes distributed and tore in half, the filling could not be found! WHAT?! Someone's holding out and we were all yelling with frustration and excitement as to who holds the special cupcake. Not cool. Not cool at all! Turns out, the filling wasn't in the middle. It was an itsy, bitsy, weensy squirt of icing underneath the mammoth cream cheese icing. It looked like this, but with the dap of icing inside the cupcake.

Pic from here, dot added by mwah

Yup. The dot literally was that big under all that icing! Who would have known it was there?! Natural assumption is in the middle right??? Tell me this is what you thought too? Common sense right? Any way, luckily someone noticed before devouring their cupcake. And as my awesome dot indicated above, they're having a girl! Perfect because their first born was a boy. Aw... perfection at its finest don't you think? I think so even if you don't!

More good news: Saturday was girl's day while the boys went fishing and shooting! For us girls, girl's day means eating. all. day. long. non. stop. while shopping. I literally put on 2 more pounds this weekend (d'oh!!), but all the delicious food was soooo worth it. That day. Now I have to workout 4x as hard so back to the grind. Tomorrow. Ha! Having quality time over yummy food all day with the girls is always worth it though. Always!

Even more good news: The hubby took me to the mall on Sunday and I got a mini shopping spree! Yay! Thanks hubby! In 1.5 hours, we found me a dress to wear to a wedding next weekend, panties at Victoria's Secret because I'm a coupon queen, and baking/counter mats from Crate and Barrel with their new Wedding Completion discount. Which means.... dum dum dummmm! I forsee baking cookies (as in different types of cookies) in my very, very near future. YES!

How was your weekend? Happy Monday everyone!!!

Weekend Recap (Apr 9 & Apr 10)

I got off work an hour early on Friday and was super stoked about rushing home to make these bad boys

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Only to be texted by the hubby to help him make a Sam's run since he's running behind schedule. In heels. I was super mad. Not about making the Sam's run (in my heels), but not being able to make those scrumptious looking cupcakes. I totally heart chocolate with mint. *drool* Plus, I hate looking at all the shoppers face because I'm sure they're thinking, "what the crap is wrong with that girl? If she knew she was coming to Sam's to get a flatbed that's 4 feet high full of supplies, then why the hell would she wear heels?!" Because I would totally think the same damn thing if I saw someone else sporting the same do as me. And you gotta love the shoppers that stand and watch you load up the car with said supplies to see how you manage. Don't y'all have things to do? Places to be? And people to see?   No? Oh, okay. No wonder you're standing there entertained by my struggle. Thanks for offering to help by the way. I'm still a little upset about missing out an a golden mint chocolaty opportunity to make those cupcakes. Can you tell? No? Great! Moving on!

Saturday was a rough morning at the shop due to the lack of sleep (sorry hubs for being Mrs. Snappy Snap), but we got to see our foodie friends, Vandrew, for lunch over Indian food at Masala Wok. Maya over at Kinzie Says got me craving for Tikka and Butter Masala. all. week. long. thanks to her grilled tandoori post. I also got to spend some time with Andrew's grandmother and practice my Chinese with her. Boy is my Mandarin rusty. 9 years of Chinese school and I can barely hang on my own to have a conversation. Sad. Super sad. I'm sure my Cantonese isn't any better. This is a great chance to tell the hubby I must watch more TVB series and other Chinese movies! Ha! What? I gotta brush up man!!

Sunday was shop in the morning (duh!) and then we hit up the outlet mall in Allen to see if I can find me a dress for a friend's wedding in 2 weeks. Fail. On the other hand, the hubby did pick out a couple of cute shirts that I wouldn't normally wear (nor pay for) from MaxStudio!

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I really wished this top would have fit better, but instead, it made me look preggo. No bueno! At least it'll be a cute top when we do decide to start TTC!

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Happy Monday everyone! How was your weekend?

Weekend Recap (Apr 2 & Apr 3)

Lame. That was my weekend. The End.

How was yours?





If you really want to know the lame details, here's the low down on my weekend:

Our beloved washer displayed the dreaded Sud error proceeded with the F35 code. I checked the manual first to no avail so to the trusted Google I went. After some genius Googling, resources stated I need to fork over $100+ for a new part plus $300 if I want a repairman to do the manual labor. No thank you! That's what daddys and husbands are for right??? Totally! It says so on their job/life descriptions.

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It's only the beginning of April and yet, this is the third major fail in our house. Our current repair bill - just shy of $900. What the crap?! One of the tortures luxuries of being a homeowner. Aren't taxes due in a few weeks too? Is there a money tree growing on my property I don't know about?? I need to go buy a lottery ticket - stat! Or does someone have more money than they know what to do with and want to sponsor some home repairs for me??? I'll be your BFF! =D No? Okay. It was worth a try because you never know. Any way, so we spent ALL DAY Saturday after the shop washing our clothes at the laundromat. Super lame!

The shop will be down an employee tomorrow and my MIL is super awesome and has agreed to come help us out so that I don't have to work a double (work at the shop from 3am till 6am, then head to corporate job from 8am till 5pm). So Sunday was spent driving 4+ hours to go pick up her up.

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The End. Don't say I didn't warn you prior to proceeding! On the other hand, our flowerbed is getting a face lift today and I can't wait!! Happy Monday!!

Weekend Recap (Mar 26 & Mar 27)

This package greeted me when I got home on Friday

Who's it from?

Colorband PhotoArtisans??? It's here! It's here! It's finally here!!

Want to know what got me all excited? Unwrap with me to find out (please excuse my messy house)!!

Me: slow and steady and very ladylike

Callie: "Rip it open already!"

Oh eff it! I want the goods NOW

Darn packaging tape is super strong. The

hubs suggested using a sharp tool - small

flat head screw driver was the nearest thing

Sigh... how much of this tape did they use?!

Eep!! I can almost see it!

Double eep! It's our canvas wrap!!!!

Surrounded by more packaging/tape. Ugh!

At least they packaged it well for shipment.

Thanks Colorband PhotoArtisans!

  

Almost there...

This should do the trick!

Ta da! Completely unwrapped and in my

hands! Muahahaha!

Now let's hang this beauty up!

Apparently, I was so darn proud of myself

Our wall of wedding pictures in the living room with

our fan pulling string making an ugly appearance

On Saturday evening, we attended Farmersville's Chamber of Commerce's Banquet as guests of the City Secretary, Mrs. Edie. She's a super sweet person and great friend of ours. It was such an honor to be invited by her. Theme for the evening: Country!

Mrs. Edie and her husband Ricky

The centerpiece and our own table!

The hubs checking out the silent auction goods

We were super exhausted on Sunday since the banquet ended much later than anticipated which means less time for us to sleep prior to the shop. So we went into hibernation mode after we got home from the shop!

How was your weekend? Happy Monday!

Weekend Recap (Mar 19 & Mar 20)

One thing I absolutely love about my corporate job - my manager is super flexible! When I ask my manager if I can leave work a few hours early here and there, it's never been an issue. Last week was Spring Break, so the bride-to-be, Hany, her MOH, and other bridesmaid took advantage of the open schedule and drove up to Dallas from Houston to go wedding dress shopping!!! I asked my manager if it was cool to take off around 2pm on Friday and he said, go for it! No questions asked. Sweeeet!

Thankfully, the bridal salon Hany picked to check out was only 2 train station stops and a 10 minute walk away! Once everyone arrived, we got to work on pulling dresses and finding The One for our bride. The bridal consultant was completely useless. Sorry! She never came to help us pull dresses off the rack and put them in the dressing room, never the less help us identify dresses we were looking for and help the bride in and out the dresses. Um, I know my wedding wasn't that long ago, and I'm pretty sure that's part of their job! Hany tried on about 12 dresses in less than an hour and has a major contender for The One. Yay! 3 bridesmaids and 1 bride make things super efficient! :) This was the first planning event I was able to participate in so I was super stoked! Simple mind, simple pleasures, I know.

After wedding dress shopping, we decided the shopping extravaganza shouldn't stop so we headed a mile North to Northpark Mall to grab a bite at La Madeleine (I totally heart this chain French Cafe).

Top left and clockwise:

Chicken Friand, Potato Galette, Croissant with Chicken

Salad and a side of pasta salad, and Spinach Pochette

After burning some calories at the mall, we headed over to Krispy Kreme. Lilli has major love for this donut place. The girl shrieks when she sees this sign lit up half a mile away for goodness sakes! haha! And yet, she still skinny as a stick! Totally jealous.

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Saturday morning was working at the shop and since I was still on a shopping high from the previous day, the hubby was kind enough to take me to Allen Premium Outlets on the way home. Normally, we only hit up 2-3 stores (4 max) because we're so darn tired after a grueling 10 hour shift at the shop, but we took advantage of the gorgeous weather (85 degrees) and walked the entire mall. Best purchase: a pair of jeans and three shirts at Banana Republic for $25, for the win! WOOT WOOT!! I also stopped by BCBG Max Azria in hopes of picking up a dress for a wedding we're attending in April, but that was a fail. :(  The hubby did pick out a really nice dress, but my not so nice body denied it with a quickness. Super sad!!

Me sucking in hardcore to see "what if"

I lost enough weight by then... It was

still exposing all the wrong curves! Fail.

Meanwhile, this shopper was also checking out dresses at BCBG:

Tshirt with running shorts, panty hose/tights

with Ugg boots? I know I'm not fashionably

inclined, but does anybody else think this is

a fashion breach?!

Sunday was more working at the shop in the morning then a dinner fiasco at a Hibachi and Sushi buffet since I didn't have lunch (I woke up STARVING and that rarely ever happens). I've been on a sushi kick lately despite what I've recently learned about the potentially deceiving wasabi being served! Oh well! Hi Serena from Big Apple Nosh!

Pigging out - wasabi and all! Ha!

They serve shaved ice here! Unfortunately,

the complimenting condiments were eh.

Papaya! Totally good for your digestion

and moving things along if you're um

struggling in that particular area!

Chocolate fondue with an assortment of

fruits. Tomorrow - back on the healthy

wagon I go!

We're also dogging sitting for my former colleague for the next 10 days. Say hello to sisters, Calle and Scout, y'all!

How was your weekend?

P.S. I get to wear my contacts again today. I can't flipping wait!! Eeeep! No more glasses suckas!

Weekend Recap (Mar 12 & Mar 13)

This past weekend was productive - for me at least (I'm only productive when the hubby's not home. Otherwise, I'm the laziest bum bum ever! Weird right?). The hubby went clay shooting with Andrew on Saturday so I ran (okay, not literally run there. I drove there.) to Home Depot to inquire of yard products to tackle the weeds (the garden weeds, not the puff puff mmmmthisshitisgood weed. Although I'm sure I would need to get rid of those as well if they showed up on my property...). When we first purchased our house, the previous owners had let their flowerbed shrubs outgrow and become shrub-trees.

I promise our house is behind the forest of trees shrubs

Last year, we chopped down the overgrown trees shrubs and hired some tree experts to grind down the stumps so that we could make our flowerbed all pretty and be proud of our work.

Who doesn't want a house with a pretty curb appeal

filled with colorful perennials and pruned shrubs!

Unfortunately, we got lazy and let the donut shop run our lives so instead of planting pretty flowers and new shrubs, the (garden) weeds beat us to the punch line.

Weeds = not pretty. at all.

So off to Home Depot I went to put my green thumb to work. Since weeds are already infiltrating our yard and flowerbed, fertilizing with pre-emergent wouldn't do. Therefore, I consulted the Home Depot garden experts and with a sly smile and some "follow me to the good stuff" acknowledgement, they put these bad boys in my cart.

Supposedly the good stuff - we'll see!

So I headed home with the secret weapons (the weeds won't even know what hit 'em! muahaha!) and put on some weed combating clothes similar to this:

Gotta show them weeds

who's boss man!

Okay, so in reality I was in gym shorts, a tshirt, and tennis shoes, but can't a girl fantasize about being Angelina Jolie in a rocking body and doing killer secret agent moves?? I got to reading the instructions and (while pretending to be Angelina Jolie) began drowning the weeds in pesticide! The container said "visible results in 6 hours" so when I went to check on them the next day, the broad leaf weeds wilted, but the shamrock looking ones were still thriving! What the heck?! Maybe I need to give them a bigger dose of the weed killer meds? I'll do that later tonight, and report back with the results. Once all the weeds are dead and pulled, we'll actually plant something this year! Woot woot! Pretty curbside appeal, here we come!!

Sunday was dim sum with some friends after the shop - YUM!! And we zonked out at 5pm until Monday morning. We can hibernate like koalas if we're tired enough. This past Sunday was definitely one of them!

How was your weekend and when are you most productive? Any recommendations on how else to kill these darn weeds, especially the shamrock/clover looking ones???

Weekend Recap (Mar 5 & Mar 6)

Weekend was eh. Saturday was stopping by Toys R Us (I think I need to start investing in their stock because that's two posts in 2 weeks about them!) to buy gifts for the hub's cousin's son who turns 1 and running errands for the shop aka a Sam's run.

The dad said he likes balls and to chew on things

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Who doesn't love ball pits, until they made scary news

about them. And the little girl in the picture gives me

the chills *shudders* Anyone else?

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Saturday evening was spent with our favorite foodie friend - Van!! She and her fiance made yummy pho, raspberry bubble tea, and 100 eggrolls (which was taken down like a champ by 8 of us)! YUM!!!

Elyssa being a total ham.

Photo taken by Van

Sunday was more errands (ugh) and then to the hub's cousin's son's above mentioned birthday party (try saying that five times fast!). I hate ending posts on a blah note so here's some exciting news - we were voted the town's favorite donut shop for 2010! Don't believe me, check out the local paper yourself!

Don't see it? Here, let me help you!

Tiny print on a computer screen in a

big ass picture not working for ya?

Fine, let me zoom in - shesh!

See it now?

 If not, let me point it out again for you! :)

How about now?

If you notice, the category name is on the left followed by the winner's name (e.g. Best Fast Food - Quick Check), therefore, our shop's name really is Best Donuts, not Donuts and the category name is Best Donuts. Well, the category we won really is called Best Donuts, but it also happens to be our shop's name also! Confused? Don't worry about it, just know we won k? Good! Yay us!! Oh, and we assumed the shop's name when we took over so don't ask how we came up with it because we didn't. And if you're wondering why we didn't change it, have you ever looked into the price of replacing a neon font size 300,000 sign in front of a store runs? No? Google it, or just trust me that it's "drop your jaw to the floor are you flipping serious" price. Plus, it's fitting for us no?

How was your weekend?

Weekend Recap (Feb 26 & Feb 27)

Fridays = YAY and Mondays = BOOOO! Funny how that feeling never goes away as we age.

Our foodie friend, Van, text us if we wanted to hang out after work on Friday since we haven't seen her in ages. Technically, two weeks, but we see each other on a weekly basis so two weeks seemed like FOREVER. Dramatic much? Nah. Plus, she was feeling poopie so even the more reason to meet up right? She even brought us cupcakes from her work - she's such an awesome friend!

Left: Vanilla bean red velvet swirl with whipped cream cheese frosting

Right: White chocolate macadamia nut with white chocolate frosting

We even had a guest of honor for the evening - Elyssa!! We picked her up at her work place and we had to take a small detour to Babies R US. While en route to said place, dinner needed to be decided!

Van: "I've been craving something for awhile, but it's kind of far..."
Moi: "Where?"
Van: "Umm. Okay, I'll spell it. B!!!"
Elyssa and the hubs, simultaneously: "A!!!!" (with Elyssa demonstrating the letter with her arms - it's the former cheerleader in her coming out. Meanwhile, I'm completely loss. How in the world does Elyssa and hubs know?!)
Hubs: "B!!!" (Me: B.A.B - still no clue!)
Van and Elyssa: "E!!!!"
Van: "apostrophe and S!!!!" (me: ohhh. got it! Damn I'm slow!)

Babe's Chicken it is!! Yum!!! You pick your meat from a select menu and as much mashed potatoes and gravy, creamed corn, green beans, salad, and biscuits you can devour!!! *drool*

Waiting outside

Elyssa packing it down - JK

All the meats ordered minus half that was already eaten.

We take food very seriously!!

After a fulfilling dinner, Van needed an evening topper so we drove down the street to The Londoner Pub for a shot!

3 red headed sluts with a side of patron

After 3 hours of sleep, it was to the donut shop we go! We were spent by the time we closed so we took a quick nap then headed to dinner at Woo Mee Oak with Tara, Veraya and her hubby, Mike! Veraya took our engagement pictures and we instantly hit it off. She's currently 30 weeks preggers and we haven't seen her since she announced the news so dinner was absolutely necessary. Remember the Babies R US trip the previous day? Makes sense now? *light bulb* And because we're food savages, I once again forgot to take pictures! DOH!

This time, we got 4 hours of sleep (woot!) before the alarm screamed at us to get our asses up for the shop again. Just like Saturday, we crashed after the shop for a quick nap prior to the funeral viewing for Sid. We tried to be strong for Sid's wife, Mary and his son, Steve, but the closer we got to Sid, the harder it was to fight the waterworks. Mary was being super strong and didn't shed a tear. We paid our respects and cried it out on the ride home. This isn't going to be an easy week. We'll miss Sid dearly.


*all pics are taken by me except for the cupcake one. That's by Van!