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Butterflying the Award October 24, 2008
Yehey nanalo rin ako ng award compliments of Nanay Belen
At ang susuklian ko ng tropeo ay sina:
Dahil ang inyo pong mga blog ay pinupuno ninyo ng visual experience, salamat.
Kung interesante po kayong maka recieve ng award na ito, ito ang mga guidelines:
- Put the logo on your blog. Sa regular post or sa sidebar?
- Add a link to the person who awarded you. Si Nanay Belen yon, yehey!
- Nominate 10 other blogs. Sorry po at tatlo apat lang ang na-awardan ko.
- Add links to those blogs on yours. Tama kaya ang ginawa kong paglilink?
- Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs. Do you mean in comment form o in contact form? Before you award them o after?
Ganunpaman, salamat sa award na ito kahit mahina ako sa following instructions lalo na kapag alas-dose na ng gabi. Happy blogging everyone.
Feeding the Different Parts of my Brain October 11, 2008
- I have just written The Broken Chair in Chocolateword.Net. This is a post about the havoc my kids wreak inside our home.
- I have also posted an insightful look on the difference of City life and Rural Life on Bloggityblogs.Com This post begs to question you dear reader regarding the sidewalk we all share and the people who regularly stand on it. Are you fitting in?
- Enjoy as I offer a different flavor of two diverse websites.
- Thanks.
Consumer Report on Melamine in Milk October 6, 2008
I have written a couple of articles at Chocolateword about my consumer perspective on Melamine and milk. Here are the posts: Hmm Melamine and Carnation Milk News. You are welcome to comment and share stories in relation to this post.
Other Dives October 4, 2008
Hi everyone, I am experimenting on spreading myself too thin, so I blog some more in other places. One of them is http://www.bloggityblogs.com. I hope to see you there.
How to Can a Tomato October 3, 2008
At the time I planted our garden I was looking forward to all the yummy goodness awaiting me come harvest time. Harvest came and went and all I got were a few cabbages and a couple of cherry tomatoes. Read more at http://chocolateword.net.
I did get a bunch of tomatoes from my mom-in-law and as tomatoes go, it won’t last long in the fridge and it doesn’t keep in the freezer well. All I had to do was can them which took a lot of time off my blogging.
Here’s the instruction:
- Use plump red tomatoes. Firm to the touch and without worm holes.
Oops, I have my myopic eye on duty. That’s no tomato. I’ll upload a tomato again. Here goes… 
. - One tomato won’t work. Try a few buckets, say, 5 buckets. Boil a big pot of water and dip the tomatoes in it.
- Dip only for less than a minute, you want your tomatoes firm, we’re making diced canned tomatoes not tomato juice. When you see that the skin is peeling of like blisters when you get sun burnt you can take them off the water. Be sure to protect you fingers. I know, it happened to me too.
- When the tomato is free from its skin,
it is time to dice them. You can make them as big or as petite as you want, I had to dice them small for the pictures but the truth is, after 5 buckets of dicing I was ready to stuff the whole thing in a canning jar just to get done with it. 
- Get your pressure canner and wash it. I mean, I got my pressure canner and washed it from last years canning shenanigan.
Make sure–see there are many make sures in this procedure, if I were you I’d just read this post and say, it is indeed better to get your piggy bank out, get a hairpin and fiddle around with the cracks. You’ll get enough canned tomatoes with a few quarters and let your kid ride the coin-eater pony at the store while you’re at it. I got sidetracked in the last sentence, make sure you have that thingy you put in the bottom of this humugous-I-hate-to-wash-this-big-ginormous-kettle-cooker. Here’s what it looks like: 
. And don’t let your kids play lets-pretend-we’re aliens with it. It does serve a purpose. I really can’t tell you what but it belongs in the bottom of the cooker. 
- Get Mason. If you’re into canning, you know who Mason is, no, not the secret society/conspiracy suspected group. For those who are unsure who Mason is, here, Hi Mason, the Mason Jar.
Along with it, the cap thingy and the ring. Sounds like a movie, hmmm. Let me take a break and sit infront of the tube and continue my weeklong movie marathon. - I’m back, I know what you were thinking, “Well, be gone for good.” It’s too bad, I need to finish this post. I really don’t look forward to eeww eating all tomatoes for winter but as the packrat philosophy that I have sworn under, I have to, I just have to. What’s next, clean the jars in warm water, boil the caps to rid of any microscopic squigleys you don’t want me to describe them here. Shove the diced tomatoes in the can cap it up and place about 7 pints in the canner. Please don’t write to me asking me the difference between pints and quarts, I have a foggiest idea plus I had F in Math, so there.
- Place the lid. Duh!
Did you turn on the right gas stove? Don’t worry if you did, you will just have a minor fire damage from the burning potholder sitting next to the stove, and don’t get anxious about burning your kitchen down, at least you can do away with cooking, at least for a while, up until your stup*d insurance gives you a brand new kitchen to work in. Did you remember to send that home insurance bill that’s been sitting on your computer table for a month. Get your butt off that chair, turn this enslaving computer off and walk to the nearest blue post box. Send it off. Check the stove closing the door behind you. - It’s 10 something something pressure using the round pressure regulator at 10. again, I don’t really know how it works but it does. Set it for about 10 minutes. Easy enough, 10, 10, 10. For Lotto addicts who think they can google their lucky numbers off of the internet, here’s your winning combination. Don’t forget to remember reading this post after you win your 25 million. Like you would.
- Yep, were almost done. For the ten minutes this pressure canner’s been whistling in your kitchen, do something productive, link me, write a blog, open a book–I didn’t say read, pretending to read is good enough, kiss you dog and pat your kids–or is it the other way around? After the ten minutes, wait until all the steam built up inside you explodes err, steam from the pressure cooker lets out and place your newly canned tomatoes in a shrine. Next stop, Potato Heaven, How not to can Potatoes.
If you got annoyed in any way in reading this post, tough luck. I don’t really give a penny. If you thought it was cool, have you got anything better to do than read dumb posts, if you thought it was good, I have worst writings at Chocolateword
See ya around.
How to Can Tomatoes
Moving Day September 6, 2008
I’ve moved. You can check out blogging updates at http://chocolateword.net. I have moved most of your links there. My bloghopping will probably come from the new site.
Come and visit.
Coffee’s on me!.
He Watched Sarah Palin in Those Red Stilletos August 31, 2008
The political world stood quiet for a second as a pair of red stilletos came walking out on stage. John McCain, the Republican candidate for Presidency announced his running mate, Sarah Palin.
This little know politician from Alaska described herself a hockey mom. Wearing a classic black politician look, she may be going for the average political look exceptthat her Appepaza Musa red pumps caught my eye. With that outfit you would not know that she goes hunting with a rifle and camos to chase after Alaskan Moose. This is one of the reasons why my husband thinks he likes this 44 year old lady. The reason why I like her is that she just had a baby ten months ago. I imagine her in the labor room talking to herself “Okay, let’s have this baby, let’s slim down quick, shoot a moose, do a video with my machine gun, and run for vice-president”. Seriously though, her candidacy is a refreshing change to the political face. She was a beauty queen by the way. Although, she is not just running to pretty up the Republican ticket, I’m sure she’ll bring her experience and savvy to the campaign. Don’t get me wrong though, I am not campaigning for her. I just keep thinking of those red shoes. You know how you get your mind so wrapped up about something that you just have to look it up at wiki or look through the rose colored goggles–the search engine with a PR10. This I did. Plus blog about it a little. When my husband’s mind gets wrapped up in something, like this infatuation of his to the idea that Sarah Palin hunts, he wanders off to the woods in his daydreams.
That said, I guess I headed off to a shoe store somewhere to look for a cheaper similiar not quite as high heels.
Shoe Fetish August 30, 2008
Mixed News
The number of shoes a woman wears in a lifetime averages about 30. Some exceed this number, some are stil trying to achieve this number goal. Thirty is little compared to the famous Imeldific collection. But then she’s not as average as most of us. And thirty is a lot to those of us who prefer to go barefoot.
The average number of hours for chores goes up to 28 per week. This is mostly done by a woman. That’s 28 divided by 7 = 4 hours. That is not counting bathing, feeding, entertaining and reading to the kids. Now that I think of it, something does not add up. Seven hours of sleep, 6 hours of feeding the baby (breastfeeding takes time), 3 hours of playing with the kids, 3 hours on the computer and 4 hours chores–that’s 23 hours! That leaves me with an hour to brush my teeth, take a quick shower, brush my hair and clean my nail–paint it if I have time. After realizing this, it amazes me how a working mom is gifted with time management skills.
The average number of children per household is 1.9. Well, this is a questionable fact. Whoever thought of having a 0.9 child? It’s either 0 or 1, but I was sleeping in Stat classes, I would not know. Let’s say for common sense sake 1 or 2 kids per family. These kids are mostly under the mom’s care–except for some housebands.
US Current Population Survey report that the self-employed female skyrocketed 74% from 1975 to 1990. That’s less than 20 years ago. The representation of women in the labor force is still soaring. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by the end of 2008, women will claim 59 percent of the labor participation.
Women by the Numbers
153.6 million women in the US.
82.8 mothers
6.5 female owned company
65 percent voters
59 percent women workers
84 percent women used their computers at home
36 million women volunteered for free
And in a few months we will know if Sarah Palin will be the first female Vice-President running for the Republican Party.
It is astonishing to see the significant contribution of a woman. Like the many shoes she may own for a lifetime, she will step into the many roles given to her. Running shoes for catching up to the fast growth of her children, flip flops for keeping up with the order of the home, leather shoes for earning an income for the household, clogs for gathering the harvest for the dinner table–it’s buying the food staples and creatively turning it into a gourmet meal, basically, leather boots for her positive answer to her innate call of volunterism, and stilettos for her husband.
How many shoes do you own?
