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Dec 25, 2008

On Christmas Day

Its been almost a month since my last post here. Just done eating our Christmas dinner. I tried experimenting my mothers ham recipe, my favorite recipe of hers which I am still trying to experiment and hopefully master and someday will somehow turn out just as good as hers.We always wanted to watch Alvin And The Chipmuncks movie since it came out on dvd or on the big screen, but we didnt get the chance to buy it. Fortunately, the movie was played...

Black Friday Aftermath

We didnt wake up very early and joined the crowd rush trying to fall inline infront of the shopping malls during Black Friday, yesterday, to get awesome deals on things. Years ago, I had my experience of falling inline infront of a department store so that we could get a new telivision set at a really awesome deal. We did get the TV that year, but it was a long cold waiting time of more than an hour, waiting outside in a cold freezing winter day....

Gas Prices Are Falling Down

A lot of times when prices go up, its very unlikely to see them go back down. But these days, gas prices seem to be on the right track when it comes to the end consumers. Yesterday, we went to a shopping center (here in northern CA) and their gas price was $2.25 per gallon, not bad considering it was more than $3.00 few months ago. When we went again to the shopping center today, we noticed that gas price went down further, its $2.15 per gallon there....

Online Reviews Are Helpful

My husband has a toothache and he needs a dentist around the area that can take care of his toothache. Since we are currently in a new place at this moment and a little far from the previous dentist that we used to go to, we have to find a new one nearby. But finding a new great dentist is not easy. It is difficult to just browse around the yellow pages or the newspaper and pinpoint the first dental ads that comes along. Not knowing a dental office...

Decorate Your Room With Modern Furniture

Growing up, when I was still living with my parents and siblings, we all loved to re-arrange our furniture and accessories in our living room a lot. Our living room was quite dynamic because as opportunities arised, we sometimes took the time to rearrange everything there as well as adding some new modern furniture pieces.A blank room regardless of its size is like a blank canvas waiting for your creativity to make it a usable and livable space for...

Historic Election Day In America

Today, November 4, 2008, is a very important day here in the United States of America because it is the Presidential Election Day. Its been busy months for presidential candidates like John McCain and Barack Obama trying to win each of our votes. With this challenging and rough economic times, we the people, cannot afford to waste our votes or just take it for granted by voting without thinking. With our right to vote, today is definitely a great...

Happy Halloween To All

Trick or treat? It was definitely a treat when we happen to pass by this creative Halloween decoration outside Whole Foods store in Roseville. If you are interested to read more about my The Parade of Pumpkins story, please visit my blog at www.ExpressInStyle.com too. Happy Halloween, be safe, and thank you for your visit here today. Written and Photography by JazeVox of...

Going In The Right Direction

For the past few days, the gas prices has been going down and down and down, which is definitely going in the right direction as far as the end consumers is concerned. Gas prices going down day by day, back to as low as $2.57 per gallon the other day, or a dollar less per gallon compare to a month ago, is a great news specially that the news regarding the economy is not as good these days. But we all deserve a break, a little bit of something good...

New Episodes Of Little People Big World Finally

We been wondering what ever happen to the Rolloffs in Oregon the past few months that theres been no new episodes of their hit reality show, Little People Big World. We have been following their show for awhile, almost since the first day that their first episode first showned on TLC. Last week, my hubby told me that he saw an ad on tv about the show, and a new episode of their show got aired last Monday finally. I like their new front patio and...

Comparison Shopping Saves You Money

Different online stores have different prices, that is why online shoppers want to check out several online stores before purchasing an item that they want to buy. But normally, it takes a lot of time and effort to visit each of the online stores inorder to get prices of certain products and compare them to other online stores carrying the same products.With Shop.com, you literally eliminate the hassle altogether of comparing prices from different...

Skunk Somewhere Near

It is definitely not pleasant to wake up early in the morning and realized that a skunk is hiding nearby or passing by your place. My hubby and I had to wake up early with this nightmare this morning. We smelled a skunk. We were inside the house, but we could sensed that there was a skunk somewhere outside, near the house or passing. We have all the under the floor vents properly screened, so we are quite confident that the skunk we smelled was not...

Shop Smartly With ShopWiki

Online shopping has gained popularity over these years, but there are still a lot of people that get intimidated, lost and confused about the whole concept of online shopping. But the feeling of uncertainties and intimidation can easily be overcomed by being more informed, more knowledgable, and more aware about everything and anything that is/are available in the internet.A great place to get a lot of helpful and useful data about variety different...

Best Deals On Off Season Items

We have a wooden bench in our backyard that we bought at Lowes few months ago. It is a great quality bench with classic decorative iron components in it. We been using it all summer but it was hard to have a soda or juice in our hand while seating in the bench because we had no table nearby to place it. Today, we went to Sears, and was checking out some of their clearance section. I immediately spotted their small outdoor glass table being marked...

To live here in northern california, it is almost expected to get hot weather temperatures on a daily basis specially during the summer. Weather temperature gets really hot, uncomfortable and unbearable when it is more than 100 degrees fahrenheit, it is normal here but something that it is hard to get used to. It is hard to get comfortable in a hot weather specially inside...

The Outdoor Fireplace That Got Away

We went to Sears yesterday to buy a plier, when we noticed that they were clearancing off their home and garden seasonal items. There were outdoor furniture set, lounges, outdoor umbrella, barbeque grill, and more. But we noticed that there was an outdoor gas fireplace that was marked down as well. The outdoor gas fireplace was very nice, so elegant, originally priced at $1000+, they were closing it out for less than $300+ yesterday, thats $700+...

Maternity Fashion And Style

Are you pregnant? Chances are, you need to update your wardrobe that you can use for the next nine months during your are pregnancy and have a growing human being inside you. Ordinary clothes that you own are normally not fit for your changing form and body shape during pregnancy. That is why it is important to wear maternity clothes that are specifically design for pregnant women, inorder to accomodate your growing belly without putting any pressure...

Mantis In Our Front Yard

My hubby called me the other day to grab my camera quickly because he wanted me to take a picture of something in the front yard. I grabbed the camera and hurried back to the front of the house, where my hubby was. He then pointed me the praying Mantis in our siding. So I set the camera to macro mode and started taking some photos of the mantis. Honestly, I never seen a praying Mantis until the other day, so to me it was very interesting to witness...

Finding Collision Repairers Near You

Being involve in a car collision accident is a hard situation to be in. It does not only affect the people who are involve in the accident emotionally but financially as well with all the aftermath responsibilities that needs to be taken care of to fix the car, up and running and in great condition. Fixing a car thats been involved in a collision accident usually requires...

Mixed Emotion With The Rain

For the first time for a long long time here in northern CA (where I am at), we are finally hearing in the NEWS to expect some rain late this week or this coming weekends! It is a mixed emotion for us though because we love the rain, we need the rain so badly here in CA, but at this point, our family is NOT ready for the rain to fall very very soon yet because we removed the rain gutter of our house last summer and planned to replace it before winter,...

Design Your Space With Stylish Furniture

Having difficulty figuring out what to do with your living space? Are you out of ideas as far as what to do with your existing room that just doesnt make sense as far as style and function?At Modern1Furniture.com web site they have wide variety furniture selections that you can utilize to fill your empty space, large or small. Any type of furniture you can think of, you can probably find it at their online store like bookshelves, ottomans, bar units,...

Yesterday, September 22, is officially the first day of fall here in the United States. In the NEWS yesterday, we saw the first photo of fall colors in the trees transforming into beautiful bright colors taken somewhere in the north east United States. I truly like the beautiful and stunning transformations of plants during the fall season. I remember when we were travelling...

Bedroom Furniture Choices

Few years ago, we had minor redesigning of our master bedroom. We just threw fresh paint in the walls and had different paint color in one wall as an accent wall. But we ended up just reusing the existing mismatch furniture we had at that time, that is why our bedroom makeover didnt came out so great because the furniture we used were either too small and/or too big for the bedroom, and the stained of the wood and the type of wood were different...

Wrong Turn

It was very funny because we were on a road trying to get home. In one of our usual routes, we normally use the Lowes store sign in the curb as our landmark to turn towards home. Today, we turned too early, two blocks too early, because a Lowes truck with a huge Lowes logo printed in the side of the vehicle was situated in one corner, two blocks before the landmark . Unknowingly, we ended up turning in the road right where the truck was, thinking...

Hurricane Ike Aftermath

We were following the weather NEWS both at The Weather Channel and CNN as both channels closely monitored hurricane Ike travelling thru from the atlantic ocean to the gulf sea. After days of watching the daily updates of hurricane Ike as it cruised thru other different countries in the carribean, hurricane Ike finally made landfall in the coast of Texas early dawn last Saturday. It was widely huge storm and the impact that it did in places where...

Check Out Empire Today For Your Flooring Needs

Are you planning to update the existing floor in your home or office soon or in the near future? Make sure to check out Empire Today, a company that specializes in flooring services. Empire Today offers in-home flooring services for both residential and business locations and utilizes several different types of flooring including carpet, hardwood flooring, laminate flooring and ceramic flooring. Empire Today's in-home services allow their customers...

Not Ready For Changing Season

Here in California, we still have obvious summer days, with triple digits temperature in the weather forecast three (3) days in a row, today, tommorrow and the day after that! I am definitely not looking forward to it because its gonna be too hot to stay out and with the few number of days left for this summer season, I would like more comfortable sunny days to stay outdoors and not have to worry about the rainy days yet. We just bought a new gas...

Been Watching The 2008 Summer Olympic Games In Beijing

We been following the Summer Olympics Games on telivision as it unfolded on a daily basis in Beijing China. Some of our favorite olympic competitions that we regularly watched were the gymnastic competition, swimming competition, and beach volleyball games. It was exciting to see Michael Phelps won and took home back to the United States a world record breaking eight (8) Gold Medals in a single Olympic! And witnessed Johnson grabbed a Gold Medal...

Summer Cool Down Today

We been experiencing extreme weather temperature for the past few weeks this summertime. So we have our airconditioning set to an automatic timer to turn on at around 78 degrees fehrenheit to keep the house cooler all day. But today is a different story, for a summer time, the temperature is definitely cooler outside, more or less 90 degrees, so we were able to keep the windows open and grab some fresh breeze for a change. Hopefully there are more...

Adventurous With Dining In America

I like dining out, although we dont do it all the time because it is quite costly to do it on a daily basis. But most of us enjoy and very passionate about great foods and great restaurants. Most of us have our favorite foods and favorite restaurants, but it is always great to explore new restaurants and taste new menus as well, to know what else is out there and probably discover new favorites! But walking into a restaurant that you never been before...

Military Wears And Gears

Whether you work in the military or you are an avid outdoor enthusiast, you can definitely find some really neat stuff at LAPoliceGear.com website, where they sell military clothing and variety of different accessories that you can use both at work or at play.Military wears and gears are hugely popular among outdoor enthusiasts because most of the clothes and accessories are...

It Is Possibly The Jalopeño Pepper

Few weeks had passed that there were a major national scare salmonella infected tomatoes which lead to the pulling out of a lot of stocks of tomatoes in most grocery stores and supermarkets nationwide as well and pulling out tomato ingredients in most menus in restaurants and inns. But after awhile of tracing the source of salmonella cases, there is been a recent spread in the news that the source of the samonella cases are possibly coming from jalopeño...

Stackable Tables And Chairs For Hire

Expecting a bunch of visitors? Whether you are throwing a party with a lot of invited guests or you called for a business or an organizational meeting and expect a lot of attendees, you can easily accomodate all your visitors seating arrangement by availing unique chairs and tables at Burgess Furniture, where they have wide selections of stylish and modern pieces perfect for...

Chicken Meal The Old Fashion Way

When it comes to cooking chicken meats, I always like the traditional way of cooking it, just fry it! Occasionally, i prepare chicken meats with bread crumbs and egg coating, sometimes with a brushed of mayonaise, other times with barbeque sauce in it, and then just baked them at 400 degrees fahrenheit for around an hour. But normally, when I dont want to go through all the hassle of any other ingredients, I usually just fry the chicken with sprinkle...

Fashionable Prescription Eyeglasses

Tired with the look of your current prescription eyeglasses? Get a new one today at ZenniOptical.com where they offer wide variety of stylish and fashionable prescription eyeglasses. They have wide selection of frames and offer all types of lenses like single vision lens, tinted suglasses lens, bifocal lens, and more. When you need to wear your eyeglasses everyday wherever...

Smoke Is In The Air

Waking up this morning was the worst yet, the air quality and visibility outside is terrible! By just a quick opening of the door, I could smell the smoke already. Its been hard trying to get out outdoors lately dealing with the thick smoke developing all over the place due to all the acreage of fires happening in different parts of California. And the three digit temperature is definitely not helping the whole situation. This afternoon, our car...

Being able to stay at home with the kids, spend time with them, raise them properly, and watch them grow are common characteristics that many mothers have in common. Many mothers out there decide to set their career aside and put their kids as their main priority in life. Before, it was extremely hard to get opportunities that allows you to stay at home and earn at the same...

Going Beyond White Paints

Summer and spring time is the best time to update our wall colors and start refreshing the look of the interior of our homes. But deciding which color to paint our wall is not the easiest decision to make. There are hundreds of colors to choose, that is why it can be extremely intimadating to find that one color that make it to your wall! That is why, for many people, they ended up choosing the color white, as the safest color they can find. But...

Hire The Right Electrician To Do It Right

Working with electricals can be an intimating jobs for a lot of homeowners. Most electrical jobs are quite complex that non-electrician individuals dont have the proper training and education to make sure that the job will be done right and by code. That is why it is important to contact the right people like Lowry Electric, based in Pennsylvania, who are not only professionally trained to do electrical jobs but also know what they are doing. Lowry...

Triple Digit Temperatures

For many people, comfortable outdoor temperature range around 70-89 degrees fahrenheit. When temperatures hit the triple digits, that is when it is definitely hot and beyond the comfort zone for a lot of us. When it get that hot, it is best to just stay indoors, if you are able to maintain a comfortable room temperature inside. Best ways to cool off your place indoors is by using running the central air, an aircon or an electric fan. House shaded...

Become A Competent Real Estate Investor

You probably heard it before that if you want a fast way to richness, indulge in real estate! There is probably more people who become rich doing real estate than any other career out there. There are so many individuals that are interested to tap into this promising opportunity, but if you are one of these interested party and you had no proper education nor training regarding real estate investments, then it is best to equip yourself with the right...

Our Fourth Of July Celebration

We usually go to fireworks show in the park for the Independence Day (July 4) celebration. But this year, we decided to just check out awesome deals at some stores like Home Depot, Lowes, and Best Buy. Most stores have 10-20 percent discount in most items during Fourth Of July. Although, we didnt buy a lot, nor take advantage of the huge savings we could get, we had a great time window shopping! Instead of going to the park for the firework show...

Energy Saving Cordless Vacuums

With the growing concern of global warming, more and more people are taking action to help minimize the global warming problem. Some of the most popular ways to save energy nowadays is by using Energy Star approved appliances, windows, and doors. And now, the first ever cordless vacuum that earned the Energy Star approval is the AccuCharge Stick Vac and Hand Vac. Help save...

Fireworks Or No Fireworks This July 4

In places where most areas are experiencing dry and drought season, lighting up fireworks this July 4 Independence Day may not be the safest. Before you purchase any fireworks or decide to light up fireworks, it would be sensible if you check the condition of your area first. Lighting fireworks in continued no-rain or drought days may be hazardouz in high fire danger conditions. High fire danger not only directly affects you and your immediate family...

Low Cost Car Rental In Europe

Heading towards Europe? Explore more places, see more of the countryside, in your own pace and in your own time, with rental car you can do just that without spending so much money in car rent. See Europe in new dimension, forget the tour bus, if you rent a car, then you allow yourself total flexibility. Design your trip or your vacation the way you want to see it. See the parts of Spain, Italy, and/or France that you really want to see! You definitely...

Dealing With Bad Air Quality

When there is a lot of fire burning in your area, the air quality can be dangerously unhealthy for you and your family to inhale. Many places monitor the air quality and share such information to the public, mostly by NEWS report, inorder to alert everyone of any danger zone air quality. One of the most common cause that affects air quality is when there is fire in your area causing smoke to fill the air. Depending on the gust and direction of the...

Blogging Opportunities Available

Do you own and maintain your own blog? Why not start writing reviews and posts about companies and products and make money for it? Bloggerwave provides writing opportunities for bloggers who wish to write reviews about several different topics. It is so easy to join, just sign up at their online site and submit your blog/blogs for approval. Once your blog is approve, Bloggerwave...

Watching The Stars In Circus

One of new tv show we been watching is the Celebrity Circus, where popular celebrities/stars like Christopher Knight of the The Brady Bunch perform dangerous and professional circus moves infront of a live stage audience. Celebrity Circus is a competition between the participating stars which allows the tv audience to vote for their favorites which will be the determining factor if who will stays and who will go. With time constrainst and challenging...

Whether you work hard or play hard, wearing the right footwear definitely matters. Wearing the right work boots that will give you both comfort and protection for going out and working is essential to keep you feet in best shape and protected. At Work Boots USA website, they offer name brands and high quality boots for both men and women with several different styles to choose...

Tommorrow Is Officially Summer

Its been weeks since the weather here in west coast feels like summer already, but as far as calendar days, the summer season (here in the US) will officially starts tommorrow, June 21. Many family are perflexed what to do this summer time. With the soaring gas prices, a road trip is definitely the last thing in anyones mine right now. A beach getaway is definitely a favorite thing to do on a summer day for many of us, but if a person live far away...

I Signed Up For SocialSpark

I had been getting email invitations from IZEA inviting me to checkout their recently launched SocialSpark website. Since I did not have a lot of time to check it out right away, it took me a little while before I finally got the chance to visit the site and check it out in detail. After roaming around the site navigations and menus, SocialSpark website definitely sounds very...

Soaring Gas Prices

Nowadays, gas prices is definitely one of the talk of the century. Wherever you go, you hear people complaining about the non-stop increase on a daily basis of gas prices and along comes with the soaring gas prices is the prices of basic commodoties including foods and shelter because these items are directly and/or indirectly dependent and affected by the gas prices like transportation, deliveries, etc. The other day, it was radical how we checked...

My Top 5 Things To Do

My Top 5 things to do today are: 1. Finish a detailed floor plan drawing of house I need to finish 2. Go to USPS office to drop off a mail 3. Go to the plumbing store with my hubby so we can fix our broken shower 4. Go to Home Depot or Lowes to check out and compare prices of some items 5. Do blog hopping and blogging, been so long! Thank you Chant for giving me the chance...

French Door Fridges

Many family spend plenty of their time in the kitchen, that is why it is quite fitting for most of us to have the appliances like refrigerator and oven that we really like that will work best for our needs. I personally like the french door fridges because not only do they look high-end, they are also very functional. The great thing about french door refrigerators is they offer the option to open a single door or both doors, depending on what we...

We recently check out a beautiful botanical garden with amazing collections of colorful plants and flowers. But only after few minutes of being there, we realized that there were several mosquitoes all over the beautiful area. Most mosquitoes frequent in dumped and wet places, and since most garden are watered and can collect standing water in some parts of the plants and...

Greetings To All Mothers Out There

Today is Mothers Day here in the USA and probably in other parts of the world as well. Although, it is always great to appreciate our unselfish and caring mothers on a daily basis, it is extremely important as well that we celebrate Mothers Day inorder to give them a special day worth celebrating and let them know that we appreciate their motherhood that much and all the things that they have done for us, all the sacrifices, effort and time that...

Thank Goodness For Washing Machines

I grow up as a kid not using the washing machine for our laundry. We had a washer and dryer but we only occassionally used it for bed sheets and other super heavy fabrics like curtains and sofa covers. But for our everyday clothes, everything was done by hand, that is why it was a heaven sent that every weekend we have a helper for doing the laundry, also known as Labandera, to help us with the loads of clothes to wash. Now that I am married, I have...

Factory Direct Technical Furniture

Most people spend a lot of time working, that is why getting comfortable and having the right tools, equipments, and furniture at job site is essential inorder to help us perform our tasks and functions better and easier. I do a lot of work in the computer that is why it is important for me that the chair i use supports my back properly and my feet touches the floor so that I can relax my leg muscle at anytime. While browsing at Formaspace website,...

Airline Tickets Cancelled

It is extremely frustrating to book an airline tickets early inorder to get a great deal and save only to find out later that the reserved airline tickets are cancelled. Many people here in the US have to go through this hassle nowadays, including us with our interstate flights. Few months ago, we reserved interstate plane tickets for this summer, unfortunately, the airline company discontinued their service and cancelled our flight and no complimentary...

Online Shopping Cart

In todays world, most of us if not all of us are already connected online, which means that each individual that is online is also a potential buyer or customer, if you happen to have your own online store. But if you dont own your online store yet but you been dreaming for so long to tap into this worldwide market, getting started to build an online store is not as complicated as it used to be. Nowadays, you can easily utilize a shopping cart software...

Melting Milk Chocolate

I am currently blogging, and my hubby just handed me a Hershey Milk Chocolate with Almonds to eat :-P We grabbed a pack of chocolate the other day in the grocery store. When we were eating the chocolate inside the car, we could see how the chocolate was melting so quickly right before our eyes, thats how hot it got here already and its not even summer yet. Its only like yesterday that we had really freezing temperatures, but these days, it gets really...

One of my favorite clothes pattern is green camouflauge because it is great for all around casual wear. I own some long pants, short pants, and some shirts in camo that I like to wear in casual or outdoor activities. I like wearing camo prints because I dont have to worry about my attire getting dirty and I have the opportunity to focus more on the fun activity at hand. And...

The Milky Decision

Later today I had a quick run to the supermarket to get a gallon of milk because I just remembered that when I checked the ref last night, we were out of milk. So I had to stop by at the grocery quick to get a gallon of milk. But when I scanned the store refrigerator, i noticed that a gallon of milk is $4.49 while if I buy 2 gallons of milk at the same time, I would get huge discount because it will only cost $5.49 for two, it is like buying the...

Multi-tasking

Ladies are best known for their ability to multi-task and they are good at it. I, for one, usually find myself doing so many things all at once. For the past few hours I been extremely busy throwing dirty clothes in the laundry, while cooking dinner for us, at the same time went through the mountful of junk mails coming delivered in our mailbox on a daily basis, and also browse trough some of the magazines that I subscribed. I am quite positive that...

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