Archive for the 'Lessons learned' Category

11 Apr

Food Gone Bad

The evening started out good, but as it was getting later, it turned out to be the other way around. After dinner, I was working to extract a little dot perceived to be a splinter on my left thumb. I wasn’t successful and even if it’s now sore, as it bled a lot, that stubborn […]

07 Feb

Locked Out

What a way to start my day today. Yes, that’s right, I got locked out for the first time in almost eight years. Thursday is my laundry day, and I normally want to be done early but as usual I lingered in bed a while longer.
I walked out the door by 10:15 a.m. only to […]

11 Oct

Cell phone hazard

Alert! This is a must read!!!!This incident happened a few months ago sometime towards the end of spring. I just didn’t remember to write about it but I got reminded today when I was on the phone with my sister.
My sister’s friend is now in the Burn Unit at one of the hospitals here in […]

15 Aug

Laundry mishap

I did the laundry today and boy, did I have one big mess. I do the laundry every week and it’s pretty much a routine for me to load the washer and dryer the same way each time I do this chore. It was early in the morning and I must have been out of […]

13 Aug

Direct Buy…Direct Scam?

What will US$3,800.00 buy and how far will it go? Well, for me it will surely buy me a lot of toiletries from Kiehl’s, L’Occitane, Laura Mercier, Fresh and a few bottles of my favorite scents Imperial Millesime(Creed) and Jo Malone.
It’s been three years ago when we found ourselves attending an open house by invitation […]

05 Aug

Shopping at Costco

Today, we were off to an early start. Sundays for us are usually idle but since we haven’t been to Costco for a long time, I urged Frank that we go shopping today. And Costco shopping usually means at least 2 hours. I just like to browse, and go from aisle to aisle because there […]