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I'm feeling sick and I can't concentrate on my bookkeeping... wanted to "write" about it or anything else, though. See, when you're doing the books (mortal&pestle -- not with any software), you have to concentrate. Or else, you'd be crossing out errors over and over again and you'd have no more space and your pages will look dirty... and I don't like dirty. The worst thing that can happen is that when you're doing the totals later on, you'd get that .01 error and you'd have to go back to find it... that's such a terrible waste of time. If you've done it right by concentrating in the first place, that would never happen. Not that it's happening to me, right now, but if I went on with this while I'm feeling sick, it's inevitable. I got this bad cough and it comes and goes but right now, I feel that I'm too aware of my breathing because there's phlegm... ewww! Sorry 'bout that. Anyway, I also used "Sens

Yes, I use Firefox 3 and yes, all I know about managing Firefox tabs (and it was all I was using too) is "Ctrl-T" to open a new tab. And no, there were no choices for it under the tools=preferences menu -- switching tabs, that is. When I searched about switching between them, all I saw were discussions about older versions and that "Ctrl-Tab" was for managing between tabs. (Well, I did open just one Mozilla forum so that's not ALL there is, I'm sure.) Okay, so that works - YEY! All I need to do now is to get used to it and I think that wouldn't be hard to do at all. :) What also works is "Ctrl-PageUp" and "Ctrl-PageDown". The first switches between Firefox tabs to the right and the latter to the left... though it does go back around so you can use either one of them. I guess I was too aware that I was going for the mouse when I wanted to shift between tabs that's why I looked it up. And it does make it easier for me to work online

Okay, I haven't been shopping for a while but finding out that this little thing costs Php109 (a little over $2) is a shocker, to say the least! Well, it is one of my must-haves so I'll just shut up about it. It's like $4 if you buy one in the States (though with different packaging) so that's a consolation, I guess. I was so disappointed that one of my online, disposable-income sources stopped paying through Moneybookers because they changed to Paypal. That was so upsetting because now, I have to verify my Paypal if I want to have my money deposited to my bank. I guess I'll just have to use that for online shopping and not cash-on-hand (if you know what I mean) any more. :(

I've noticed that it's already dark here by 5:30pm. Actually, someone else talked about it so... yeah, it is pretty dark by then. Well, it's been cooler lately so that's good, makes one want to sleep in.. a lot. LOL I've also noticed some discomfort on my right wrist... carpal tunnel?? NOT! Thank goodness! I just looked it up and I've experienced none of those symptoms. It's probably just from clicking on the mouse a lot... from playing Diner Dash, I suppose. Or maybe it's my position -- I moved the monitor a little to the right and it's at an angle too. I should be keeping the keyboard where it's in front of me but sometimes I forget and turn it at an angle too. I figure that's making me stretch my wrist more to the right to hit "Enter" and "Backspace". Oh well... I wanted more space on the table kasi . Well, back to working then... LATER!

Here's another kind of choco cake roll from Red Ribbon. They thought the last one was so good (ditto!) that they bought another kind of chocolate roll last night. See how shiny that icing is... and how rich that cake is... and btw, it really is not THAT sweet at all (unless all you eat is the icing, of course!) I didn't ask what the name of this roll was, but it was fudge-y and oh-so-yummy. On a different note, don't you hate it when you ask for coffee in the morning and you get decaf?!? I was like, don't give me decaf when I want regular coffee!!! Oh boy... So, I drank a full glass of Pepsi max, straight, just now to get my caffeine fix today. Now, my head hurts and I want to crawl back to bed. It's probably my high blood pressure pumping away and not the Pepsi that's causing this. Oh well, that's enough rant for today... :)

This is re-heated adobo from last night. It's chicken and pork adobo. It's salty, sour and slightly sweet... yummy. There are whole peppercorns on there too. I guess they leave them whole so that we wouldn't bite into them - good idea. :)

We had a very early dinner tonight - 5:30 pm, to be exact. And to think that I just had a cup of KFC chicken-macaroni salad an hour before that. Let's just say that I took one bite of meat and a couple of vegetable pieces for dinner. But I sure didn't pass up dessert! It's a slice of Red Ribbon chocolate cake roll. Judging from the messy plate, you can tell that this is my second piece. Red Ribbon makes the best cakes, I think. This one's moist (all their cakes are!), not too sweet and decadent! And yes, my head is spinning from the sugar rush. :) Now, I'm going to get a cup of decaf so... till next time!

I painted my toes black last night... It's a slow, relaxing weekend so I thought of painting my nails. Aside from that, I've managed to read about this thing called "myLot" too. It looks interesting - people post their opinions, start discussions and the like. Yesterday, my mom made this bitter gourd (ampalaya) cold side-dish/salad that I ate with roast chicken. What's great about my mom's cold ampalaya side-dish is that it's sweet and sour with just enough bitterness (very slight, to say the least) to even the flavors out. She said my lola taught her how to make it so I think I better write it down -- for posterity's sake... She takes a bitter gourd and thinly slices it, think paper-thin slices - that's how she does it. She soaks it in water with some salt for a while, maybe, ten minutes or so. She takes a handful of the paper-thin ampalaya slices and squeezes out the water. She holds it under running water and squeezes it some more. That's ab