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the previous week's meals were nice... pot roast, tuna pesto spread on bread and savory pork caldereta with lots of cheese. i wish i took pictures. i am feeling yucky today. could be the weather: hot then cold then hot = headache, gloom. could be effects from last night's meds. could be the weather {yes, this again}: hot=sweaty and cold=dry; either makes walking and other ADLs difficult. my adage in times like these is "one step forward, two steps back" so i know that means to take it easy and stop testing myself today and also, to stop worrying. actually, that's more of a warning.{myositis}

i wrote about following up and then finally receiving the zalora philippines store credit + complimentary voucher here: chasing zalora philippines . so i redeemed them June 13, Wednesday, midnight. {note: no confirmation email received} i received an email from xend with my package's tracking number on June 13, Wednesday, late afternoon. my zalora package was delivered June 15, Friday, early afternoon. excellent. this zalora philippines online order was completed successfully.

lechon kawali and broccoli+oyster sauce here's tuesday's lechon kawali, broccoli and fried rice. i can't get a decent photo... oh well, what's new? haha. we found a couple of old, small dresses in storage. i think they're from the '90s! one has small holes in it but they're not so obvious, i can work it - i'll just wear it inside the house. the other one, well, that looks like i can use it for... well, something, so that goes in my closet. it's wonderful that they still fit me - but maybe they were my sister's. i never got to make a d.i.y. shirt dress anyway so finding these dresses was a happy coincidence.

party pork and beans here's one of the easiest pork dishes that i know! it's stewed thick; delicious! so good when spooned over rice. i did not make the one in the photo but if i were to make one, the recipe would not be too far off. what i'd do is saute chopped garlic, add the cut-up pork, add water and boil until the pork's almost tender, add a can of pork and beans and cut-up potatoes, then let it all boil until it's thick and cooked. i'd smash some beans on the side of the pot with the cooking spoon while it's boiling too so it'll be thick and savory. soooooo easy, sooooo delicious.

high on the agenda is chasing zalora philippines to give me the store credit+voucher we agreed on last monday, may 28. i was one of the many buyers on the zalora website whose orders were lost when they moved warehouses last month. customer complaints flooded their facebook page then, but they have since deleted the angry comments from their wall. choices two weeks ago, they offered me two choices: they'll try to fulfill my paid order but that will take another two weeks or i can just cancel it. if i cancel, i can choose to get a refund or get store credit+voucher. i cancelled and agreed to the store credit+voucher because it seemed like they're back on their feet and i wanted to give them another shot. waiting for recompense an email reply on may 28 said that they'll send the store credit+voucher in 2-3 days; but i got a call on may 29, tuesday, that i'll get them in a week so i waited a week. a week has gone and still no recompense. i was getting anxious. i s

take-out longsilog longsilog brunch was delicious. i ate left-over shakey's pizza and mojos for dinner. bought a pizzanatic card last night; it still costs 299 pesos. everytime i see the shakey's delivery menu, prices are higher by more or less 10 pesos per item. at the start of 2011, the pizzanatic promo: 1 large, thin crust pizza + 1 1.5L coke + 1 free large, thin crust pizza = 407 pesos. towards the end of 2011, the same promo was 414 pesos {i can't be sure, but this is what i remember}. this year, it's 422 pesos {ordered it last night}. see? how often does shakey's raise prices? twice a year?

picture - I did not take a good photo of today's food so I won't put it up. specs - I think I'm getting used to my new eyeglasses. I see everything well enough from afar. In front of the PC, it's not all OK. I don't understand it. mice - Surprise, surprise: my wireless mouse is holding up. I've been using it everyday for nearly two months and I haven't had to change the battery yet. I'm almost tempted to unplug the PS/2 mouse now. I've dropped that wired thing so many times, it isn't working as well as it's supposed to. Do I dare go on and work without a backup mouse {even if this one's iffy}? Why is it an issue? Because I can't get behind the machine to unplug/plug it so easily. headset - I've dropped my wired headset many times too. Sometimes, I need to tweak it for sound to come out on both ears. Irrelevant but... "No wire hangers!"