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what the... my new mouse drained one "eveready" black AA battery in one week! oh no, this is not a good sign. to think that i don't forget to switch the mouse off after i shut the machine down. i do hope it was only a bad battery, even if it was from a newly opened pack. does this mean i have to switch to a gold "eveready" or to another brand?

here's the ube macapuno cake {half roll} from max's corner bakery that we had on the 24th, for 204.75 pesos. when i called on the 23rd, they told me it was 190+, and they said they don't deliver if orders are just for the bakery stuff. i think i could have gotten away with just the cake on the 24th because i could tell they were swamped when i called; it was so loud over there that the person who took my order could not hear me very well. but i also ordered lumpiang shanghai anyway. it was nice that delivery did not suffer, they were here in less than 30 minutes, like always. so reliable, max's. oh, and this cake tasted yummy too.

lechon kawali + pancakes = yummy! a play on "chicken + waffles?" but the meat was not spicy {no hot sauce here}, instead, it was salty. i discovered it yesterday afternoon. my gulay, it was delish! the left-over pork {from lunch} was salty. they cooked the pancakes this afternoon. a forkful of pork, then a bite of pancake, or both in the same bite...! the maple syrup on the cake was required to get it right. wow.

December's package no.2 arrived this morning. I'm getting in as much shopping done this week - I want to have it all done this week, hopefully. I would have taken a picture of what's inside but they're going to be gifts so... hehe. This is my second human heart nature delivery order too. Now, they have the online shopping thing worked out pretty well. They don't have a lot of products so I guess it makes sense that they don't have a wish-list feature as of yet. Here's a time-it-took run-down: Sunday evening - Ordered and paid for {in one go; no waiting for confirmation, no glitch, no hitch} Monday - Received email that package was shipped. Tuesday morning - Package arrived. Human heart nature used table rates for shipping. It's the most affordable I've worked with so far. They used LBC. Needless to say, I lost no sleep with this one.