Monday night grocery shopping

Did you know you can get cheaper groceries on a Monday night? I don't know if that's really the case but we happened to go grocery shopping this past Monday night and EVERYTHING was on sale! It felt like everything was half off! It was a great night to stock up the pantry! =P

FOREVER Stamps

Did you know that you can purchase stamps called "Forever Stamps"? I was just over at the post office today and was asked if I needed some extra stamps. I thought outloud that I would get them again after the price increase, which is in about another month or so, but then the postman said I could purchase FOREVER STAMPS - which I had no idea what it was until I was told they are stamps that you can purchase at the price now (41cents) and if and when the price of stamps go up to say even $5 in the future, you would still be only been paying 41 cents! What a phenomenon! I was so excited about this that I had to buy 100 of them, which I don't think it's even enough, but I had to get back and write it on my Blog. I think it's the best thing - like stocks - but this one, the price won't ever go down! =P

Millbrae Library

I think out of all the activities I've done with baby - walks, museums, parks, child observation classes, shopping, running errands, etc., going to the library has been and still is the most enjoyable.

Today we wanted to go to the Millbrae Library to check out their storytime because I just found out they have it in English AND Cantonese! But of course with my luck, the lady that does it is in China, and will resume class on 4-24. But I did get a glimpse of the newly renovated library on my way out. I haven't been there since high school, (which is more than 10 yrs ago!) and my breath was taken away! The best description I could give it is it looked like a college library! There were those rooms along the side for studying, with the glass windows and doors, and the entrance was so grand with a rotunda and automatic sliding doors! It's smaller than the Burlingame library, but the feel was so spacious and so much more contemporary.

I really was just blown away. But as I was on my way back to the car, I was thinking that I was hoping to see some glimpse of the old library, to reminisce the past, but no part of it had remained the same.

Bum it out Mondays

I don't have any kind of routine in my life. That's the beauty of it because I could never stand doing the same routine everyday of the week. It may also be why I could never do a 9-5 job. =P

We've unnoticeably been doing this for a while now, so that's why today, I've declared Mondays to be our "Bum it out" day. It's where the baby and I don't go out at all, we just "bum it out" at home. Every day of the week, including weekends, I am either working, or he is running errands with me, so we're always on the go. Mondays have been the only days that's been a bit slower, no baby activities either, so we really enjoy lazy-ing ourselves at home - not having to change, not having to pack our bags, not having to drive, no walks, not having to pull out the stroller...it's our day of bumming it out.

But now that it may become a routine, let's see how long that lasts! =P

We got our new car!

Finally! We were so tired of our white Pilot that we decided to cancel the lease early and get our new car! This time no more leasing, but financing a top-of-the-line Odessey Touring with automatic trunk, sidedoors, 8-passenger, dvd, navigator AND mp3 player, and not only one disc, but SIX! PLUS, THE BEST PART...it's in my Baltic Blue color!

Of course I'm the type that could wait until the lease is up to change cars, but now I understand why people say when you see the other person happy, you are happy too. I've never seen BA wanting something so bad, especially a mini-van! I've never stepped back far enough to see that if I let go a little sometimes, it would make the other person so happy. But I know that deep down he only wanted the new car for me.

Sitting there...

I sat at the optometrist's office sometime last week and had my eyes dialated and you're supposed to wait a good half hour to see the doctor again. I've never wanted this kind of quiet time more.

The old me probably would've wanted to be doing something - reading a magazine, checking email, talking on the phone. I could never stand silence and now, I savor any treasurous minutes to myself. Just to think or even to clear my head and not think. Hearing no background noise, like everything's muted, is something you don't get anymore. Having a baby changes your life - like EVERYONE says - and this is one of the ways. You no longer have time to yourself.

And so I sat there, closing my eyes, and just sat there.

I caved.

I am the non-medicine type. I'm the kind that when I get sick, I just hack it through - take no medicine, drink lots of water and sleep it off. (Maybe that's why I went through labor with no epidural.)

But then on Friday, after Thursday's 4-hour episode waiting in the ER to make sure baby was okay because his lips had turned greyish-blue from vomitting, I felt so sick myself - the headache, the cold chills and worst, the feeling of wanting to (but couldn't) throw up. Did I catch the baby's virus? Like my old self, I naturally wanted to just sleep it off and hope it would all go away. But with the baby crying and crawling all over you, sleep was not an option.

And so, I caved. Because medicine was not an option either.

I ended up spending the night at my parent's place, in my old room and BA took baby home. The first whole night off without the baby, and my mom took care of me. It felt good being someone else's daughter again.

Gift cards!

I never collect anything. I never liked anything long enough to continue buying, searching and collecting that one item. It would just be a fad, come and go.

But today, I am claiming to start collecting GIFT CARDS! I think they're just so awesome! These days, they are endlessly creative - all kinds of shapes (especially the ones at Target), all kinds of colors, for all kinds of occasions. The original idea came from seeing Nordstrom's newest gift cards for Valentine's Day - it's luscious hot pink with a stylish heart cut-out in the middle. I have to go back and get one.

How I'm going about collecting these, I'm still unsure of. Would it just be the ones I have and when it goes to zero balance, I put them in my collection, or do I "take" ones from the store? Since they are not worth anything anyway until an amount is put on them, then technically it wouldn't be stealing. But as I was first sharing my newfound one-of-a-kind idea to my friend earlier today, she hands me my FIRST collectible - her recently used up Target gift card, which I LOVE! It's a Christmas one, iridescent with three puppets moving their mouths open, up and down, as you flip the card at certain angles. LOVE IT!

However I decide to go about this, we will have to see. I'm already thinking about the big collage of gift cards I can put together in a sleek matted frame. No one copy my idea please, but if you would like to contribute to my new fad, please send them my way! =P