Pasta For Dinner

A few days ago I saw one of discovery health show about cooking quick meals. This also gave me an idea to make dinner myself. The host was talking about different pasta. Now I am craving to also cook for myself and my husband. The following day I stopped by at the store and pick up some fresh ingredients. Most of the ingredients I need is already in my fridge so I only have to buy the once that I really needed. Bought some Parsley, Pepper & Mushrooms and tomato my key ingredient for my pasta sauce of course.

Made fresh pasta sauce from the scratch. We have wheat spaghetti with fresh sauce for dinner.
I was very surprise how good it is and it only took me no more than 15 minutes from start to finish.

Good Relaxing Massage

Since I accumulated a lot of massage hours I can for for a full 2-hour massage at massage envy. After being in the sun fishing and standing for so many hours we went to Carlsbad for our 4 o'clock massage appointment. The massage was very relaxing and 2 hours I think is long enough. I would say 1.5 hours is good enough. Since I have these massage hours that I haven't used, I decided to try the full 2-hr massage. I felt relax and I think also feel as sleep for probably at least an hour. Finally all the tensions in my upper back, shoulder and neck is more relax. After the relaxing massage my husband and I went to Vons to buy some grocery.

Handyman Never Showed Up

Well he just lost a business. I have quite few things that needs to be done in the house like changing the faucet and as well as the outlets and switch. I got the handyman contact through San Diego craigslist website. I did call the guy during lunch time and set up an appointment with him to meet up in my house to give me an estimate, we agreed that he is coming over around 5:30 or so in the afternoon. I said that this is a very good timing because we should be home by then. Around 5:30 or 5:45 has passed and no handy man showed up. I really don't like people who cannot keep their word especially if the appointment has already been set up. I can understand if there's a special reason why the appointment haven't meet but by not showing up and not letting the other party know is so unacceptable. Good thing is there's another handyman I called and he did respond with my voincemail. Since I really need my faucets replace and the soonest available appointment this guy have is tomorrow. Unfortunately we are busy. We are going to the Del Mar Fair in the morning probably until 2pm then I have party to attend in the afternoon. One of my friends baby is celebrating her first birthday. I am excited again to see my friends and meet new people here in San Diego.
Anyhow, my handyman's appointment will on on Sunday morning around 8 or 830 in the morning since next weekend is 4th of July and it's no fun to work during holidays.

PR is Gone!

I think google didn't visit my blog anymore. Is this because I haven't updated this blog more often. Even my GBL is now 0. I should start keep this blog up to date. My very busy schedule keep me from regularly update my blog. Thankfully I got a job with our down economy. I love being out from my house during the week and do something as well as learning new things. I am woking in the accounting department. And I am having fun with my work.

Hello Monday!

I just can't believe it's almost April. My birthday is coming up. Have no plans yet. I may have small get together with a few of my friends. Since I just moved here in CA recently I really don't have a lot friends though I met a few Filipinos and I think they are nice people. Anyway, been so busy lately that I didn't even have a lot of chance to keep my blog updated. I will give an effort to keep y'all updated with one of my blog at least one blog a day.

It's PST here and am up early with my work. I enjoy working early in the morning like threeiesh because I feel like I have longer hours to do something than getting up late and going to work later and I only have a few hours in the day.

I guess my body clock is starting to get used of me getting up early because I don't feel tired that much when I get up. Before I was a bit tired and very sleepy probably because I also go to bed a little bit later than my schedule. I tried to get at least 6 hours of sleep that's why I go to bed around 730 or 8 and get up around quarter to 2 or at 2 o'clock the most. This gives me enough time to toast 1 bagel, shower, and dress-up to go to work.

Give A Bit of Time in Blogging

I feel so bad for some of my blogs since I don't have a lot of time to keep them up to date. I am going to try my best to write an update 1 or 2 blog a day at a time. Since I started working I've been so fully occupied with my new responsibilities. So much work to do and to get done since I just started working for the company. Of course I want to prove to them that I am capable of doing what they asked me to do. By helping the company means I am also helping myself and my family. Been working with my part-time job for a little while and so far I enjoy my work. Hopefully the company is gonna keep me for a little while since last week they were downsizing again.

On Going Training

I am starting to have fun with my taxation training for certification. When I start working as a tax preparer I am going to buy probably 2 to 3 years bond for tax preparer. The cost for tax preparer bond for 3 years is between $55 to $100. You may wonder why do I need a bond. Tax preparation is also risky since this involves with money from different people as well as to the government. This is required by California law that if you prepare tax to the public you need to have certificate and in order for you to get the certification (CTEC) you need to purchase the bond showing that you are insured. Other stuff that I need to do is to finish my training to get my certificate. I also have to file PTIN (Preparer Tax Identification Number) through the IRS website. PTIN is for paid tax return peparer he/she does not want to disclose his/her SSN on returns that is prepared.

Not so busy day!

Going to CostCo is our only plan today. I guess today is a relaxation day since we were so busy for the last few days. We were gone on a trip to Vegas during Christmas and our Anniversary. Then we spent our New Year with the Ormocanon Organization party. It was interesting to meet people from Ormoc who now lives here in the US. I quite a few good people during the party and we did keep in touch.

I emailed one of Tax Liberty associate in order for me to attend one of the Tax Class. This should help my brain occupied with something else. I am excited to learn new things again. I only had one Tax class during college and learning more about taxes and it's process sound interesting to me.

Cleaning Before Christmas

Finally our house is starting to shape up. The side of our garage is finally turning into a storage area. We bought shelving at Lowe's to store our bins and different stuff that we only use on occasional basis. Since we don't have basement here we have to economize our space to keep everything look neat. We are planning to have somebody make our garage ceiling as our storage space. It seems like quite a few people here in Southern California are using their garage attic as storage. This is not a bad idea actually specially that there's no basement here and the garage attic is a waste of space is you're not going to use it.

Christmas in Vegas

Michael and I decided to spend our Christmas holiday in Vegas. This is our very first time to celebrate Christmas as well as our Anniversary in Las Vegas, NV. This should be fun. We are going to drive from our house and hopefully traffic around LA area is not very congested on the 24th. It's about six hours drive from San Diego but this depends with the traffic. We are planning to go for a roller coaster ride and do some sight seeing. I already imagined the lit Christmas trees in all hotel/resort in the strip. Can't wait to go for a vacation this Christmas.