A chat with a friend.

The other day, I was able to chat with my friend at California. It’s been a long time that we had not communicated. So I was so eager to know more things about him. He is now married with three beautiful kids and right now he is working as a law enforcer.

I was so lucky to find him online as he was canvassing stuffs at Work Boots USA. So as not to look dumb, I quickly googled Work Boots USA for me to be informed about their products. Then I found out that it’s a store who sells 5.11. I got interested with their tactical series clothing which promotes safety, accuracy, speed and performance of law enforcement, military and firefighting professionals. So that is the reason why my friend trusted this store with his tactical gears from head to foot.

Upon further browsing their site, I got informed that they have a full line dealer of the best selling tactical clothing, uniforms, outerwear, footwear, eyewear, duty knives, tactical gear, holsters and more on this site. So no wonder they are one of the fastest growing company in the US.

My friend has been loyal to Work Boots USA. As their products are durable, long lasting and not to forget that their prices are way cheaper compared to others. Because it’s the season of giving, he wanted to buy a tactical series eyewear to give as a present to his brother. He asked my opinion about the design. I looked at the eyewear he was referring and I am really amaze because it is stylish yet durable because it is armed with a hard shell and its price is so reasonable. So I told him it would be a great buy. Then I advice him to buy more stuffs atleast above 50 dollars from Work Boots so he could avail free ground shipping. That is a great deal right?

Then my friend suddenly said goodbye for he has to chat lives online with customer service. So I told him not to forget to buy me something form Work Boots USA.

So I am keeping my fingers cross.

What's Underneath the Tree

Few more days and it's Christmas. Wondering what the husband got me this year. I got something in mind but it's okay if he got me something else. But if he really want me to be happy he can asked me hehehe...(hope he reads this). You think the husband can figure ou what I want. Let us see!!!!

For now, have a merry weekend!

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Christmas Mint Cookies

If you love peppermint mocha at Starbucks,I guess you'll enjoy these (as not all love mint in their cookies)

You'll need

2 cups flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 cup packed brown sugar 1/2 cup butter, softened 1 egg 1/4 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon peppermint oil Colored Candies

What you'll do

1. Sift the first four ingridients. 2. In a microwave or heavy saucepan, melt butter and chocolate; stir until smooth 3.In a separate bowl, beat sugar and egg. Then beat in the choclate mixture then add the buttermilk and peppermint extract.

4. Combine the dry ingridients. Mix well.

5. Stand for 15 Minutes. 6. Drop the dough by rounded teaspoon or with a cookie scoop 3in a part. 7. Slightly push a few candies on top of each dough ball. 8. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. 9. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

Easy right...So will you try?

Carlsberg Web-TV Channel

Recently Carlsberg launches Web-TV channel for football fanatics! This is the much awaited channel for all those who enjoy the sport – football.

The new launched channel is www.partofthegame.tv . It has 5 channels that showing all aspects about the said sport. What good about this new channel is that you can upload and your favorite football video clips and even the funniest football magic channel too! Isn’t great?

So you football fanatic out there you got to see this channel now!

Peanut butter banana cookies :)

I bake these last Saturday. This cookie is one of my personal favorite :)

You'll need:

1 1/4 cup flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 cup crisco shortening

1/2 c. peanut butter (skippy reduced fat peanut butter )

1/4 c. sugar

1/2 c. brown sugar

2 pcs ripe banana, mashed

then...

Preheat oven to 350°F

In a large bowl, cream peanut butter, banana, and the sugar. Mix well until smooth

Sift flour, baking soda, and baking powder & salt. When the dry ingridients are well mix, combine the dry mix with the peanut butter, banana mixture. Blend well

Scoop out batter and place on baking sheet aproximately 2 inches apart. I topped it with brown sugar streusel and bake for 10 to 14 minutes until lightly brown.

remove from the baking sheet and cool on wire racks.

For Streusel

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

1/4 tsp ground cinnamon

5 tbsp (2.5 oz) unsalted butter, chilled

Just mix everything :)

I am home today

I am on leave today...

Before I start my relaxing day, I had tuna sandwhich for breakfast. Yummm! Then I will continue doing my project, few more stiches and it's finish. Then later this afternoon I will do some christmas shopping.Yebah.

So everyone enjoy the rest of the day! :)

Another exciting award

yehey I got an award from Grace. Thank you very much dear.

Premio Dardos Award

Premio Dardos means “prize darts” in Italian. This award is given to bloggers, in recognition of their cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writings.

Naks I have those ba hahaha!!! Now I am tagging creative people such as:

Mai. Because she is so creative in her passion, cooking. Also she has this writing style that is so inviting. That's why I keep coming back at her blog.

Grace. Another crafty blogger I knew. She makes great jewelries and unique style.

Sinta. This girl, the uber crafty I knew online. She knits, she bakes, she paints, she love reading books...whatelse?

J.Ana. The girl with a unique name. She bakes too. You have to see her vampie. It looks so good (and I knew it taste good too) aside from that she loves fabrics too.

Odette. Of course I won’t forget her. She is the first crafty person I knew at the blogosphere. I frequent her lovely notecards. She also has this passion for sewing and she's started knitting. As a proof she just finishes an awesome scarf. :)

Caryn. The person behind creative swap group. So you could just imagine how creative this person is.

Sheng and his husband. Sheng is an awesome writer. I love it when she wrote about her ethnical and cultural experiences. His husband is an awesome photographer. I wish to meet this couple soon.

Javaqueen. You have to see her blog. She is one strong person I knew at the blogosphere. She has so many stories to tell. A great mom, a loving wife and a funny friend, all wrap into one. Oh she knits too. :)

Bem. A crafty mom for her kids. I love it when she do projects to keep her kids busy hahaha. She crochet too. :)

See I got lots of great online friends. I am so glad I found them :)

I am addicted

Last night I got these and now I not only bought 1 but a dozen. I'll give the half dozen to my niece while the other half is mine (okay hubz you can get two from my share).....Therefore I got 4....Uoh sugar overload but who cares, these are my favorites. I could always use my navigator to elimate it. But for now, I would just enjoy everything. Harhar.

And look what they have to spread christmas cheers.

It's Mr. Snowman

He is so cute. Wish I could place him at the christmas tree hahaha:)

So while I am busy eating, let me say...have a great weekend to all and I'll see you later!

6 Random Things that make me happy Tag

Tag by the crafty Sinta, actually there are many things that made me happy but the tag asked for six so here goes. My husband. He is so cool, so loving and so patient. I am so lucky to have him. I guess if I married somebody else, I might be separated by now, hahaha!!!

My family. I got a perfect family,though my brother sometime thinks of out of this world idea, my sister is sometime hassling, mom is such a nagger and my father is therefore strict, I must say, they make me happy. If they aren't like that I think my life would be so dull. ;)

Work. however I have a love hate relationship with work, I discovered how to love it.

Friends. Hmmm....my friends are all crazy so what would you expect. hahahaha

A good breakfast . As I have always telling, I love sandwhich and coffee. These two are my favorite breakfast.

Sufficient sleep. Lately I've assimilate that having enough sleep is the ultimate way of having a good aura for the rest of the day.

So now, I am tagging Bem, Wits, Kumareng Grace, Rico, Javaqueen & Blue Rose