First Snowfall

We just had our first snowfall of the season early this morning, then it turned to rain. Good thing I was able to take some photos before it all washed away.

I also want to introduce you to our resident squirrel, Sandy. It lives in that tree and we usually see her hanging out on our fence. We're not actually sure if it's a girl but we thought of Sandy from Spongebob. If you watch that show, you'll remember an episode where Sandy was hibernating and Spongebob, together with Patrick, went in Sandy's tree dome. Sandy was soooo fat! Here's what our Sandy looks like now. She's like a ball of fat and fur (^_^) I'm sure she'll be fine when she hibernates soon.

First Visitors ...

... from out of state (^_^) Melissa is a long time friend of mine from ballet and elementary school. She came from VA, went to visit her dad in NY and came here before driving back. The blurry dog in the photo is Miles. Isn't he gorgeous? They arrived before 1pm and they just left a few minutes ago. And silly me, I didn't remember to take pictures the whole time they were here until they were about to leave (-_-*) But at least we got a couple of shots and here's one of them.
It was great seeing her again and hopefully next time they visit, they'll stay longer (^_^)

Thanksgiving

Our first Thanksgiving here in our home (^_^) For the past 7 years, we've always gone to gatherings. But we decided to spend this year's Thanksgiving here at home. Turkey was out of the question since that'll be too much for just the three of us so we thought of making stuffed chicken instead. But Finn wanted ham so that's what we prepared ... or rather, Jojo prepared (^_^) We also bought lasagna and yams, and I made some mashed potatoes. The recipe I got for the yams called for maple syrup but I made honey syrup instead since we have honey crystals here. The yams were so good with lots of pepper. The ham was very tasty too. Finn ate all of the mashed potatoes (>_<) So it was all good, a nice, quiet thanksgiving for us. How was your thanksgiving?

Looky!

It got delivered this morning (^_^) We went shopping Saturday am and found a set that's simple looking, yet energy efficient, and has just the right amount of settings that we need. After they installed it, we put it to work right away (^_^) As I'm writing this, it's on it's second load already and more to come! hahaha ... well, maybe I won't do all of it today. There's probably like 5 more loads left (can you tell we haven't gone to the laundromat in quite a while?) Yeah, I'll do the rest tomorrow. Don't want to traumatize it (~_^)

Greenery

UPDATE: I forgot to include our Lemon Cypress that we planted outside so it's now in the slide show below. Also, if you want to see Finn's room, let me know your email address so I can send you an invitation to view them (^_^)

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Just wanted to share with you the indoor plants that we bought today. As I've said before, I like plants, but they don't like me (-_-). Fortunately, Jojo has a green thumb so it's his job to take care of them (^_^). The yellow ripple ivy and the orchid sit on top of pedestals in our dining room. The cordyline and dragon tree are in the planters that I bought yesterday and they're in the living room. They make me smile when I see them (^_^) I hope they thrive in their new home.

Day in the City

Finn didn't have school yesterday and today because of a teacher's convention. School was closed on Tuesday too for the election. Since I didn't have work today either, Finn was able to convince me to go to the city (I was hesitant coz it was cloudy and, well, I was just lazy ... hehehe). We took the 10am bus and was there in about 30 mins. We were gonna meet Jojo for lunch so I thought we'd go downtown already and wait there instead. Finn was finally able to see his dad's office ... he'd been wanting to go for a long time (^_^). After lunch, we went back to midtown and walked to - where else - Nintendo World. Played for over 3 hours and bought something ... again. I don't think there has ever been a time that we went there and came home empty handed (^_^) But Mario was just so cute I couldn't resist!

When we got home, look at what arrived ... our custom wiimote skins!!! I designed it and ordered it from SkinIt through Best Buy on Monday afternoon. Fast right? Now even if we bring our wiimotes elsewhere, or if our friends bring theirs here, there'd be no confusion as to which one's ours.As you can see, it's us (^_^)

Guest Room

I started painting the guestroom on October 26 but had a few interruptions due to rain and time constraints so it got done just this Tuesday. Finn requested for a spot for him to paint and since there was no school on Tuesday, I let him "finish" the room. I didn't buy new paint for this. We still had leftover paint from Finn's room so I thought of just buying a tint to add to the blue to make a new color. I like this color. It kinda looks like teal but with just a tad more green to it ... I think.
So I primed the purple walls and did that first. I thought I won't be needing primer for the yellow walls since it's light enough that it won't show through the new paint. But when I painted over it, it didn't want to hold on as well as the primed walls. Probably because the yellow paint was a little glossy. I didn't panic, I just got some newspaper and started texturizing instead, which allowed some of the yellow paint to show through. You can't see it in the photo coz it's very subtle but I'm happy with it (^_^)
Right now, our old bedroom furniture is in here and last night we brought the computer table and all my "office" stuff down here from our bedroom. I'm not done organizing my stuff but I'll do that today. So this will now be the guest room / home office. I'll take more pictures of the whole room once it's presentable (^_^).