quick thoughts

quite a bit has happened… and i think i should blog this stuff to clear my mind so i can refocus on studying.

typing on al’s lappy is whacky cuz the keys and size of keys are quite different than what i am used to.

where shall i begin…

aug 29 – flo’s bday dinner. after asking her to give me some kind of direction to what she would like to eat for dinner that night… i really appreciated her choosing to eat dinner at my place than at a restaurant.. having z at a restaurant would just be chaos. anywhoo.. i wanted to make it a nice bday dinner for it. she told me she would like feta cheese, mayo and some kind of sashimi for dinner. lol – what a combo, eh? but after a bit of thinking and shopping around.. got it figured out. pizza, cocktail shrimp – the same one she requested for the last bday dinner and a ton of tuna sashimi. anyways.. out of the blue i saw this cheesecake recipe – it was a simple on too! so i wanted to try it and have it become flo’s bday cake. of course i didn’t have much time during the day – sat to work on it.. i was trying to pick up groceries for tomorrow’s dinner. so i didn’t start on the cake until 12 am sunday. technically it wasn’t suppose to take more than an hour! i followed the recipe which was to combine a bunch of ingredients together … that simple! so i followed. after a few short minutes.. my cream cheese mixture didn’t look well. while i was trying to figure out what to do….. i text ah fee hoping he would still be awake since i figured flo would be asleep by then and i didn’t want to wake her fam up to get to her. luckily or maybe not since my embarrassing story leaked out of the house. he was around and some how thru his texts – it led me to making a few batch (thank goodness i had spare ingredients) .. trying to text him back – i took a slightly frozen pack of cream cheese from the freezer and shoved it into the microwave to defrost for 40 sec…..something wasn’t right.. i opened the door after 40 sec and one corner of the package was turning brown and i pulled the block of cheese out and it was flaming hot! then it hit me… there was a piece of tin foil wrapped around the block of cheese. i whipped the package into the garbage and took my last brick of cream cheese from the freezer and properly defrosted it. using the normal combining ingredients procedure which ah fee told me and confirmed with another cheese cake recipe.. i did that. and shoved the cake into the oven. when it was finally done, i took it out – and following the original recipe procedure, i was suppose to move it to another dish and let it cool… in the fridge. since i greased the pan.. i didn’t run a knife along the edges of the cake pan before taking the cake out .. so the cake ended up with jagged edges! and by morning .. it had a crack in the cake (which i covered it up with whipping cream before serving the cake). anyways.. it was 4 am by the time i got to bed. 10 am was when i had a meeting which lasted until 1 pm. the rest of the day was a rush.. and thank goodness ah fee showed up an hour earlier to help me prep food.. tho he was doing more fancy stuff than a quick dinner. so the two of us got food all done and presented a beautiful delicious dinner for flo and the rest of the gang. 

sept 1 – today .. i took my eyes of z for a few minutes.. she zoomed up the stairs and almost got to the the second floor! she hasn’t climbed stairs at home before…………….!!!!!!!!!! and when i was OMG and was :O chasing after her on the stairs.. she found it funny and like a monster was chasing after her – she climbed another stair or two before i managed to catch her and bring back down into the living room. 

the whole week has zoomed by.. i have no idea what.. well monday i had to take my mom for a health examination and did some errands. tue.. oh that was yesterday.. my massage appt was moved from thur to tue.. and sadly my massage therapist’s last day. he is becoming xray/ct scan etc technologist and is moving to alberta.. ending his massage career. good for him but bad for me.. since my other massage therapist isn’t around as well.. same as my physiotherapist.. and my back is not better.. sigh. well it doesn’t help that i’m not exercising too. 

me and al finally worked out a schedule.. housework is of course split between us.. z’s stuff is split too.. feeding her is my duty and almost everything else is his! as for cooking and housework..  it’s going to be kept as a minimum until i finish my exam. and while he is off to hk.. "m" will rescue me!

hopefully with most of the stuff vented out.. i can now concentrate on studying again.. and of course i fell more behind than ever!