Sushi-less

Those who know me well know I'm a crazy sushi fan.  I'm very particular with my fish and won't just go anywhere to satisfy my cravings.  Somehow I've been pretty unlucky lately that whenever I feel like having my sashimi fix from Taro's that it's ALWAYS CLOSED.  Meaning, I've only thought of having sushi on Sundays and Mondays when they happen to be closed.  So on Saturday, I thought I was ahead of the game and yet nope, they're closed for the week.  Just my luck.  No sushi for me!  :(  The cheapie Korean-owned sashimi platter from last Sunday obviously didn't do anything for me... sigh.  Instead, plastered on the door of the pitch-dark Taro's was a poster advertising 和食祭り on November 12.  OMG, I soooo wanna go!  $150 a head though, but so tempting nonetheless.

Week 42 is on time baby!

Last week CLM had another three nights worth of constant wakings (what's new?), a couple of days of super fussiness and then two days of being an absolute angel.  Every day is a new surprise with him, LOL.  Today, he's discovered that if he kept banging his back against the back of the highchair that he can move it across the floor.  I don't have a single clue how he figured that one out but he did.  I wonder if he can magically "figure out" that he could sleep through the night?

Someone's Got a New Do!

CLM got his first haircut today!  I've been putting off giving him his much needed haircut because I wanted to make sure I could properly document it as well as save his little strands.  I'm glad Mom did the honour of giving him his new do because I don't think I would have done a better job, haha.  Took her all of five minutes.  Maybe even less.  Even with CLM flailing his arms and tossing the combs.  What a pro.  =)

 Finally!  No more bangs poking Curtasee's eyes!  I'm such a horrible mom, lol.

CLM's been really clingy in the past couple of weeks.  It's gotten to a point where I can't even turn away to grab a drink of water without him wailing for attention.  Not to mention the last few nights of hourly wakings... aiya... one step forward, three steps back.  Sigh.

Best Mom in the WORLD!

LOL, not me of course!

MY mom has got to be the BEST IN THE WORLD!  Truly the BEST.  Last night MarMar decided to take CLM into her room for the night so I can get some real rest.  I slept a full eight hours for the first time in 8.5 months!  It was great! Poor mom though.  CLM woke up at midnight and stayed up fussing until 4am!  When he finally fell asleep again, he was up every hour.  OMG.  My poor MarMar...

I LOVE YOU MARMAR!!!  I can't stress this enough, 您是最好的, 您知道嗎?

Caught Up! Phew!

Inspiration just comes and goes, that's for sure!  I truly fell behind with P365 last week because I couldn't get the layouts for week 39 or 40 to look half decent.  The lack of sleep of course doesn't help things at all because whenever I open up Photoshop, I'd feel like clicking the damn "x" and just closing it again.  LOL.  Last night I realized that week 41 has past so I sacrificed 2 hours of much needed sleep to finish the two layouts.  Surprisingly enough, I managed to scrap week 41 to my liking really quickly and finished week 40 as well.

Last week was pretty uneventful, except for making my first ever Edible Arrangements inspired fruit basket.  Danny's birthday fell on Thanksgiving this year so I spent an hour before bedtime cutting up the fruits and trying to make it presentable to bring to the office the next day.  Not too shabby even if I say so myself!  Now I understand why EA charges an arm and a leg for their baskets.  It's a lot of fruit and work!  Especially after planning and executing a last minute evening of hot potting at 公公's.

At the sacrifice of two hours of much needed beauty sleep, I'm caught up!

This layout took waaaaaaaaay too long to finish

The week before was Mid Autumn and this year mom decided we'd stay at home to eat.  We switched things around and made turkey!  Ya, turkey for Mid Autumn, exactly one week before Thanksgiving.  All thanks to an inherited (and defrosted) gobble gobble from 葉太.  My first time making turkey and stuffing too!  It turned out pretty good, to my surprise.

The co-chef

The bird.  Yes, I know it's upside down, stop laughing.

On another note, construction's been going smoothly at the office until Carlo decided, well, he didn't like the colour scheme.  So... we're renovating again.  Yep, already!  The floors are coming out, the walls repainted again and things redone.  Just when we thought we're seeing the end.  Sigh.  Well, he's the one with all the money so whatever.  Meanwhile, I'm the small potato that was pretty happy winning a $10 gift card to Walmart from McDonald's Monopoly.  My first time winning any non-food item from that damn game.  The years and years of playing Monopoly... well, okay not really because I gave up on it many many years ago.  I guess I was just lucky!  HAHA~!

Okay, it's 11:15pm and I'm going to now rush off to bed.  CLM is sleeping in MarMar's room tonight so for once in 8.5 months (who's counting anyway?) maybe I can get 8 hours sleep.  OMG, I'm excited just thinking about it.

I'm off!!

Anti-Crawling

Finally!  I'm finally done week 39 of P365.  For over a week I've been putting off finishing the page because I didn't like how it was turning out.  Finally I sat down and really worked on it and thankfully, it was slowly starting to come together to my liking and now it's done!  CLM's lack of cooperation didn't help of course.  Most nights I take a look at the page, sigh, then go to sleep because I'm so exhausted.

CLM turned 8 months last week and of course, his pediatrician gave me an earful for him not sleeping the night.  Sigh, how do I let him cry when he pulls out his hair while he's at it?  Aiya... Apparently his weight gain slowed down a bit (CLM was 19lbs at the checkup) and I should keep trying to stuff him.  Like turkey.  LOL.  If only it was that easy.  I should tell him to try and stuff a live nosy turkey.  See what he says.  LOL.

Last Saturday, 文生 and I were trying to coach CLM to crawl (so far he's shown no interest whatsoever in crawling) so we put a cordless mouse on the bed just out of reach for him to get to.  After a few stretches, CLM figured out that if he pulled the bed sheet, the mouse would come to him.  All attempts at crawling just stopped right then and there.  Smart boy.  Honestly, we think he might just skip the crawling stage and head straight to walking.  Since he can stand unaided for all of 5 seconds now.  未學爬先學走.  Aiya.