Wordpress: easier on mobile?

Since I have a 2.5 month old, I want to find a very easy way to blog from my iPhone. I was going through some japanese websites and it seems like everybody blogs from their mobile.

Find me on wordpress for the time being:

http://theeverydayshopper.wordpress.com

My first born

I can't go without mentioning my first born baby, Robert :-) He's a year and a half old.

He's half chihuahua half ???

Palty Japanese Foam Hair Color

I'm a hairdresser by trade. I got my license after I graduated highschool, practiced color technician for a few years and quit. Since I still have my license I professionally color hair on the side for my mom and anybody else who asks. I kinda stopped doing hair because I had pictures of what I wanted somebody's hair color to be but then the client would get all scared and my creativity juices would just get killed.

I work for the government'ish now so I've done a 180 since hairdressing LOL

Anyways, I'm always up for trying out new hair color. I've probably tried every drugstore hair color on the market. I have recently found japanese hair dyes. I dropped by a local chinesey trendy store and picked up a box of Palty Foam hair color in custard beige. I can't read japanese so I did my best from the instructions I saw. Afterwards I did some googling and found out I didn't shake the water base properly but whatever~

FYI, I previously bleached out my hair with goldwell bleaching creme with 12% peroxide. And my hair is naturally curly and I flat-ironed it today morning so its looks a bit frizzy.

Here are the before and after pics!

Past pictures of my nails

Its been 2.5 months now since I've had my daughter. It was a rough pregnancy and rough labor and delivery, and a very tough postpartum. Now I feel like I'm coming out of my shell again and wanting to do my nails again just to feel fresh and new. I did my nails a few years ago when I got married in 2009. I had them done every month for a year and I loved them. I usually got gel nails as they were the most comfortable. I had acrylics done once and they were very lovely but painful.

My nails are done by Grace by Graceful Beauty. You can find her work here:

http://www.gbeautystudio.com/

Happy Boxing Day!!

Pregnancy has not been good to me. I pulled my hamstring due to the lack of furniture aka. couch in my mom's basement. I'm 7 months preggos and getting up from the floor since we do not have furniture. Isn't it pitiful?? Anyways I've been handicapped for the last few days, limping around and grabbing my right cheek so I can isolate the muscle as I walk. GIMP!!

What did everybody get for Christmas??

We got Apple'd this xmas, not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing. Hubby and I are on the baby budget so we didn't go all out. I can rely on Hubs to get me what I really wanted, a pair of stretchy yoga pants and a big box of Lush products. yay!!

The Eye of Sauron aka Furfur

Here is the Eye of Sauron

Here is the Eye of Furfur, on top of the refrigerator

looking over his minion, Robert

Pregnancy Klutz

What is it about being pregnant that makes women into total klutz? Is our motor skills running low because we're making a baby??

Ive had countless encounters with near miss accidents since being pregnant, things that would of never occurred if I wasn't pregnant.

For example today, I'm doing the dishes as usual and I spill and entire bowl of water on myself and on the floor. Next I'm trying to pour some cereal in my bowl, then i spill half the bowl of cereal on the table and on the floor.

Lets not mention the near miss swipe of my civic when I decided to dodge the van on my right side and ended up swiping his rear end and my entire right side.

Ugh.

Happy Halloween Everyone!

On your marks, ready, set, GO!

Here I am coming into my 20th week of being pregnant. Its the half way point folks!!

I have to say this week has been one of the sorer weeks. I was home Monday - Wednesday, cramping Thursday and well Friday.. I couldn't wait for the day to pass. Luckily I got to go home early from work cause they were cutting cement right beside the HVAC system and basically it smelled like being in a locked garage with the car running. That is no place for a pregnant woman to be LOL! I booked it out of there fast.

I've been asking the other 3 girls at work who are preggos if they experiencing the same cramping and my suspicions are correct, it must be the uterus expanding. GREAT.

The nightmares and bad dreams have been occurring daily and it hasn't been fun. Last week was a pretty bad one, the one and only time I didn't wake up screaming that my house wasn't being robbed or I wasn't being kidnapped. good lord.

My appetite is still little to non-existant. I have no cravings and if it was up to me, I wouldn't eat period. Eating makes me feel gross and the only point I am eating is because of the baby. blah.

I made some lentils last night because I refuse to eat meat. I loved my steaks rare and my prime rib bloody but during this whole pregnancy, the thought of an animal cooking just makes me hurl. Lets not mention dairy or eggs. errrrrrr.

Anyways I'll leave with a picture of Robert wearing Furfur's hand me down Halloween sweater ;-)

I have RETURNED!!!

Well! Lots of things have happened since my last blog on Feb 22.

First off, during the month of June I thought I was losing my mind. I honestly thought I was going mentally insane. It was to the point where I thought I was being undiagnosed with diabetes.

Turns out...

I'M PREGNANT :o
(and I got a dog!!)

I'm going on my 19 weeks now and things have been hectic. Between all of June, July, August and September, I thought I lived the WORST months of my ENTIRE LIFE. Between not eating, feeling sea sick 24/7, going through hormonal changes, feeling weak, exhausted, fatigued, then working on top of that, then moving to another place, I literally thought I was going to die.

Found out that my mom went through the same rough times as I did when she was pregnant with me. I don't have any cravings and I barely have an appetite but I am sustaining with eating whatever is in front of me. Now I only work 4 days a week with a doctors note cause its just exhausting.

And the dog, we got Robert during Easter weekend when I was going through one of my PMS tyrants. One look at him and I said we had to get him, he was unsold at the random pet store for 4 months. Not the cutest dog but he does have personality. He named him Robert, a no-nonsense name for a no-nonsense dog. He's half chihuahua half shih-tzu but he just doesn't look like anything really, just a wiry brown haired year old puppy. LOL!

Anyways, I will make more of an effort to keep up with this blog as the hubby would like me to keep track of my pregnancy some how.

Black coffee and frosty beer

2 of my favorite things.. americano, no cream no sugar. Beer, belgium, frosty and cold.

My other favorite things..

wings,
pho,
sushi,

good bye!

Merry Christmas! Long time no blog!

it's been 3 solid months sinced i've blogged. I think a lot of things have happened since september. I got myself a permanent job, I took a little trip to Cancun and I finally moved into our house,.. that we bought.. and we're in a lot of debt.

During my 4 month stint at head office, I applied for a position within the organization in june. Well september rolled around I finally got a call for the interview. A few weeks later, I got the position. That was the good part, the bad part was the commute. I can bitch and moan about the commute but I'm just glad I'm employed, full time and permanent.

My brother and sister in law got married in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. We were there for a week, it was beautiful but not as beautiful as our honeymoon in April. It was a lot cooler this time and the resort wasn't as great. Overall, it was satisfactory trip.

The same weekend we came back from Mexico, we decided to finally take the leap and move into the house we bought in June. Our brother and sister in law "P&S" went in with the purchase and they live in the basement while we took the top floor. They moved in September and have been occupying the house while renovations have been taking place. The move was quite rough but we managed. Its December 27th today and well, we moved in November 22nd and still haven't unpacked.

FYI: I also managed to sprain my right ankle by rushing down the steps and completely missing the last step. I really hate this house.

There have been quite a few things that have been going on but not enough to blog about. I've been keeping myself busying and reading other peoples food blogs from Vancouver.

I'll try my best to keep my blog updated in the new year.

Back from the grave

Its a dreary night here in Vancouver and I've caught a cold. I keep thinking about the past, like stuff from 10 years ago. I feel young but numerically, I'm a married cougar(good lord!).

Many thoughts through my mind, like hanging out a pool halls, ricers, eating at 24 hour chinese food joints, karaoking, bubble tea'ing, smoking marbs, drinking china white shooters, taiwanese food, pho, raves, Lesters, .. the list goes on.

Its not like I wanted to go back to doing those things but really I miss being young and free.

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Looks like the last time I posted was the same time I started my 4 month stint at MV covering somebody's leave of absence. Well its been 4 months and I completed my stint.

Within those 4 months, I met some great coworkers and I'll probably miss them a lot. I thought I'd be out on the streets after my assignment ended but good news... I won a permanent position within MV. This is rare because I heard horror stories were people waited anywhere between 4-10 years to becoming permanent. Like they say, the only way to get a position at MV is if somebody retires or dies. true story.

Its been a busy 4 months.. hence coming back and updating my blog.

I'm not sure what's in store for me in the future but its pretty scary thinking about it. I'm off to LCOC for the next 4 days, then permanently going to SCFP and supporting the people out there.

My short-term goal at this point is trading in the Civic and getting myself a nice pickup truck and running over pedestrians. I've already gone back to my roots and highlighted my hair blonde(you can't tell by the pic tho). I might as well start fresh with a fresh new look..

scurred.

GM's Reinventation

I really love this commercial !

ah my chicken mcnugget is snuggling my pink elmo~ what life~

may 29th: writing my blog via my blackberry and wifi

So I ended up finishing my lakecity assignment today. Ill be sad to go but I'm off to head office next thursday to start the next. Its been rough cuz work's been starting at 7am :o anyhoo I got myself a new pair of glasses :)

Monday I'm going to BMC for an information interview. Tmr is jazz time!

$49 million lottery

Maybe if I win the lottery tonight, I can donate some and the rest I can adopt as many cats as I want and live a big mansion in Burnaby with 10 cars.

I don't think I'd give any to my family, maybe my friends tho.

El Mariachi Mexican Restaurant Hastings St Burnaby BC

El Mariachi Mexican Restaurant

We need a quick bite to eat so decided to try the newly opened mexican joint that previously was called El Mexico or something. I previously tried lunch at El Mexico last year and I found it mediocre so I was skeptical about the new owners.

Sad to say, I was disappointed. We arrived at 6.45 and waited 10 mins for our server to get our orders. Mind you there was 1 server and 1 mgr? and they kept walking back and forth from the tables to the cash area getting drinks. It was clear to us there was no experience here. It seems they went to a table, forget something came back to the cash, grabbed something, went back to the table, went to another table, went back to the cash and back and forth every minute. It was very annoying.

After waiting 10 mins waiting, the waitress got our order and 5 mins later we got the compliementary chips. It was ok, the salsa and salsa verde were good. We ordered chicken fajitas, bbq pork and nachos as appy. I would expect an appy to come out usually 10mins from ordering. This wasn't the case, we got our nachos 25 mins later. We gobbled it up, and waited another 15-20 mins for our dishes. The BBQ pork in adobo sauce was basically vingery ketchup sauce poured on top of BBQ ribs. gross. My chicken fajitas looked like a chinese stir-fry with "red" sauce, bland, and full of water collected on the side of my dish. It came with beans which were nice and a dry cup of mexican rice. We had to ask for the tortillas as well.

Over an hour later, we were very disappointed, late and will never eat mexican food in a restaurant ever again. We have yet to try Dona Cata which I heard its ok.

I'll take Taco Del Mar anyday.

I didn't bother taking pics because I didn't want to waste space on my blackberry, plus you'd barf if you saw the food.

Retro plush dolls

Again my mom is on her menopausal rage and while I'm home not working, she's trying get out her frustrations by cleaning out this entire house. Today she started on the utility room, which means the room under the stairs.

She grabbed 3 bags of my plush dolls I've kept over the last 25 yrs. Here's a few I've kept around! I donated the rest~

(From left to right Theodore from Alvin and The Chipmunks(bought at Woolco), Smurfette, Twinkle from Rainbow Bright(bought at Woolco) and Papa Smurf. Above is Odie the Pound Puppy(probably brought at Sears) Also the Cabbage Patch Doll .. ugh.

13,500 karaoke to "Hey Jude" at Trafalgar Square

Love it !!

Chicken Fried Chicken

My cat is the most moodiest cat that ever lived. He is your typical cat where he doesn't remember what happened 5 seconds before. I usually call him something related to the poultry family because he is so chicken over everything. He's chicken and I love fried chicken so I usually call my cat the following names, Chicken Fried Chicken, Chicken McNuggets, Mister Fizzles, Furtastic, Furball, Flea, Turkey, Sheckie Shabass, Moomoo, Mister Murphy, Bad Kitteh, Bad Furball, Angry Kitteh, or I just shriek cause I love him so cute.

I don't know what I'll do if I lose him, I'll probably give him the most grandest funeral. He's the reason my parents are still together at this point. I love Angry Kitteh!