Bring It On!!!

I am so stressed!!! Its been a friggin week and I think there will more this week. I hate this!!!!Waahhhhhhhhh!!!!

Why???

1. The guy who bumped into my mother-in-laws car is so friggin slow. Its my problem because I was the one using it on the day it was bumped in the parking lot. It was just parked and minding its own business when this stupid guy who was about to leave his parking space, backed up into it. His excuse, he didn't see the friggin car!!! Man, how can you not see a parked car. Anyway, this happened during the holidays and until now his insurance company has not completed all the required documents. Meaning, the car is still not fixed after more than a month. My mother in law, meantime keeps on following me up about it. I do understand why she's doing that but its really stressing me out. What can I do????

2. My mother in law asked for my help to look a maid for her. I have an aunt in the province who normally sources maids for us. So I asked her if she has 2 maids available and she said yes. So I started coordinating this since Christmas and guess what, the maids are still not here. I already sent the money for their plane fares and everything has been set and they were suppose to be here Monday. By unfortunate circumstances, one of the maid needs to have her teeth pulled out and because she had her period they had to postpone the trip again. Waahhhh, so again my mother in law has been following me up about this. What can I do!!!! I hate having problems about things that are suppose to be simple.

3. Our water bill arrived and imagine my shock when I saw that it increased by a 100%!!!!!What the f*** happened here?? Since I don't know any plumber, I had to call my mother in law for her plumber. Of course, I had to tell her the reason. This other maid of mine then told her that there's something wrong in our guest bathroom. So, I told why didn't you tell me. On the other hand I felt so guilty and mad at myself, if I was a better housewife and if I had taken the time out to really check on things, I would have found out about it sooner. Anyway, this problem has been sold but then again it added to my stress.

4. My maid of almost 4 years is leaving and going back to the province. She will be helping out her sister's food stall that's why she wants to go back there. So here I am again on the look out for another maid. Hmmm, I wonder sometimes if my life will be simpler if I didn't have maids :(

5. Another thing that really pissed me off was when I started checking and seeing the quality of housework I'm getting from my maids. Since I am home most of the time, as a housewife I should be able to monitor how they are doing their duties. I saw the guest bathroom and it was so full of dust. So, I had to talk to my maid again and supervise her duties.

There goes my harassing week!!! Dealing with domestic problems is more difficult than dealing with work stress. Household problems will hound you 24 hours a day while stress in the office can be turned off and on once you get home.

As a housewife, its like your pressured to always have an orderly, pristine, smooth, and organized household. Much harder than I thought :(

Hmmm, do I want my old life back????

How to Cook Tuna?

Hubby went fishing a couple of weeks back and he caught a tuna. I was asking him how are we suppose to cook it?

Being me, the only way I know how to eat tuna is the way Japanese restaurants prepare it - raw or as sashimi. Since it was not fresh anymore, it was stored in an ice cooler during their travel time, it can no longer be prepared as sashimi.

So, I told him I'll look for a recipe. I completely forgot all about it!!!! Then tonight, my cook prepared it by frying it. Hmmm, hubby was frowning when he saw it. He said, what a waste in frying the tuna. I didn't say anything and I just tried how it tasted. Good thing it was tasty and passable. Whew, what a major boboo for me. Of course that's why I'm an undomesticated housewife.

I should really take note of these things. After 6 months of being a housewife, I'm slowly trying to learn the ropes.

Shopping Marathon

Ok, today was my gym day. I go to Gold's Gym and its located inside the mall Robinsons Galleria. After my work-out I really intended to buy some stuff, but guess what? Of course, I ended up buying more than what I planned.

I bought about 5 items in less than an hour visiting 5 different stores inside the mall. Hmm, talk about a marathon.

Let me start off with what I intended to buy. I wanted to buy black shoes, a black clutch bag and fashion tape. Why do I need these? I'll be attending a wedding on Sunday with my mother in law in Tagaytay. I'm not too happy with my black stilettos at home so I wanted a new one and for some reason or another I wanted a clutch bag to go with my dress and shoes :) This is the dress that I'm going to wear on Sunday and here's my new bag and shoes to go with it. I bought the shoes from Charles and Keith while the bag is from Dorothy Perkins.

Fashion tape, this is definitely a must have. I'm not sure if its noticeable but my dress has a rounded plunging neckline. To avoid unnecessary baring of private stuff, fashion tape is the answer!!! So, I dropped by Beauty Bar to buy the fashion tape :)

So, I was done with what I think was necessary or my must haves. But in trying to look for that "perfect clutch bag", I stumbled upon this bag from Wallis. I am really fond of big bags and I actually have a hard time using small bags because I have so much stuff that I need to bring every time I go out. I fell in love with the bag so I decided to buy is as well.

On to my last stop, I think this also a must have so more or less I only bought 1 item that was not on my list.

Remember my new maid or cook, well she requested for cook books in Filipino since all of my recipe books at home are in English. Since she was having a hard time understanding some of the terms, she requested me to buy some for her. I bought several to make sure that she'll be able to cook a variety of meals without having to repeat any meal in the next month thus avoiding a sure complaint from hubby. Ha, I think I found a gem in her....

Watched "Wedding Daze" and Bought My Bath and Body Works Stash

My husband and I were once again at Greenhills to watch a movie.

We watched "Wedding Daze" by Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher. I found funny, cute and heart warming movie. The movie tackled the possibility of meeting "the one" across a crowded room, fall in love and get married. I know this might seem fat fetched but the romantic in me feels that this is indeed possible.

After that I went to the V-Mall area of Greenhills and bought my regular stash of Bath and Body Works lotion and bod splash. This time I got the green clover scent for the lotion and winter candy apple for the body splash. I just love Bath and Body Works and how I wish that we have a store here in the Philippines. I also want to buy the shampoos and conditioner but I have to wait for my relatives to go here or when I go visit the States again.

Another topic, my new Cook. Hmmm, I don't know if she's a good one though. So far the food she has cooked were just the typical type, so I'll just give her a week before I assess if I'll change her. Good thing I didn't have to cook because my new cook came on the day my old cook left. Good for me.....

Another update, yes that part of our messy room is still messy until today. Why, I needed to buy some hooks and organizer for my bags. I'll share that in my next post....

Maid Crisis Resolved

Yesterday was really bad, my cook prepared a really salty food and my husband went crazy with her already. He didn't eat the food and I ended up ordering food for him.

He already gave a statement that he will not eat anything she cooks. Yes, I was in panic mode yesterday. I was hoping that after he has eaten he would have cooled down and would have eaten the food she prepared for dinner. But no, he was so adamant in not eating anything.

So, I finally got to call the agency to look for cook ASAP. The agency said they would call me the following day. Despite my hesitation in getting a maid from an agency because of all the horror stories, I really didn't have a choice. I already got one from Sacred Heart before and I was happy with that maid unfortunately she left because she wanted to study.

I was really panicking because I had to fire her today and I don't have a replacement yet. It was no use letting her stay because my husband will not eat whatever she prepares.

I was already thinking that I will be forced to cook. Oh no, I got scared that my husband might end up in a bad mood anyway since I'm really a lousy cook. So, I started browsing all the cook books I had at home. I was thinking of preparing adobo and vegetables.

Today, I ended up ordering food and finally telling the cook that she's fired. I think she knew that it was already coming. I also heard from Sacred Heart Agency and I'll be fetching the new cook tomorrow. Hallelujah!!!!!

I'm crossing my fingers that this cook will turn out to be good.....

Watched a Great Movie Today

Oh today was a much lazier day for me. Again, I woke really late like 11 AM because I got engrossed in watching one of Reese Witherspoon's movie in cable. I don't know the title of the movie but the story was she pretended to be the perfect man for her Mom. I ended up watching until 4 AM. Whew, I had a headache afterwards.

After lunch, my husband invited me to watch a movie. So we went to the mall and we decided to watch "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry". Since the movie was at 5 PM, I decided to drop by Gourdo's and did some shopping. Here's a link to my other blog regarding my shopping.

Anyway, Chuck and Larry was such a funny movie. I also cried in some of the scenes, oh well I easily cry on anything. I'd recommend this movie if you want to have a good laugh.

So, again because I had a busy day I was not able to take care of the replacement of my cook. I promised myself I'd do this tomorrow :)

Oh, I have another project tomorrow as well, to fix this part our room. That's one corner of our room that's really messy. Those are the bags that I frequently used, a basket stuffed with junk and some clothes that needs to placed inside my cabinets. My maid can't touch that part, it has to be me.

Oh well, tomorrow is another day :)

A Peaceful Day :)

Yes it was a peaceful day today. Woke up early because I had Chinese language lessons (Fookien) at 10 am. Although I was late by 15 minutes because it was so hard to wake up today.

Why am I taking up Fookien? Because I married a pure Chinese and here in my country, they normally use the Fookien dialect. I am pure Filipino on the other hand and I really don't know anything about their language. Since my in-laws normally converse in Fookien, I decided to learn so that I can understand what they are talking about especially during family gatherings. I also want to prepare because when we have kids, I want them to speak Chinese as well because this part of their heritage.

After my lessons, I passed by a mall to buy some stuff then dropped by the bank as well. Our lunch was acceptable to I didn't hear compains from hubby today. YIPEE!!!

I was suppose to call up the manpower agencies to search for my new cook but then it completely slipped my mind. After lunch, I was so busy surfing the net and chatting with my friends then before I knew it was 5 pm already. They were all closed by then. Hmph, what a lazy girl!!! Ha-ha....

Good thing dinner was a again a peaceful occassion. TWO YIPPEES for me!!! But tomorrow, that will be the first thing that I'll do.

Hmmm, aside from that I really need to start fixing our room. Its such a mess. My maid can't fix it on her own because she doesn't know where to put my stuff.

I guess that will my next adventure....

Maid Crisis - Part 2

My Cook really made my day..

Hmph, I woke up at around 11 AM (I had to take a nap again when my Mom called me at 8 AM) I was at a dillema. My Aunt from the province called and she found a cook but the thing is she doesn't want to come over to Manila unless another helper accompanies her here plus the fact that she wants both of them to stay in one house. What the heck am I going to do with 3 maids?

By the way my long time maid already promised that she will stay as long as I will get another Cook. Its a bit of a blackmail but then again I'm not happy with the my Cook anyway so I just told her to give me time to look for one.

So here comes lunch and I was so hungry and so was my husband. She prepared stir fried vegetables and steamed shrimp. We were okay with this despite the fact that she cooked the same thing the previous week. But the bad part about it was the the shrimp was too salty and was cooked with a lot of ginger thus we couldn't hardly taste the shrimp itself. How can she not cook it properly when its just steamed????

Anyway, hubby didn't eat anymore and so he was in a bad mood. So I talked to my Cook and told her that the shrimp was too salty and she added too much ginger. I also told her that she kept on repeating our meals again despite my reminder time and again. I was really pissed off with her and I said how many cook books do I need to buy for her???

At about 2 pm, I left the house to go the gym. Man, traffic was terrible because of the heavy rain. It took me 30 minutes compared to my normal travel time going home. I had to pass by Greenhills to buy hubby some original glaze doughnuts and coffee from Krispy Kreme.

So when I got home, I just surfed the net and had a bit of snack.

Here comes dinner, I had high hopes after our talk earlier. To piss me off further, she cooked this beef with watery sauce. The beef was too hard and tasteless. In short, both hubby and I didn't eat, AGAIN!!!! For the second time in one day.

I called her attention again and I asked her what did she cook. She said it was suppose to be pot roast??? I said that can't be pot roast so I told her to show me the recipe. I don't know how to cook but the recipe stated that the sauce was suppose to be thick among other things. I said how come it was not thick, she said it was thick. Man, I flared up with that statement. Its like she was making me look stupid not knowing what I'm suppose to expect just because I don't cook.

So, McDonalds came to the rescue again. I also decided to just get a Cook from a manpower agency despite the horror stories. I just don't have a choice at this point.....

Maid Crisis!!!

My maids are fighting. Arghhhh, of all things to stress me out this one thing that shouldn't even be a problem for me.

My all-around maid who has been with us for 3 years could not get along with the other maid (cook). Her reason is that the cook is so moody, not easy to talk to, lazy, and doesn't listen when she tells her not to do something because she knows I won't like it, etc. She said that she might be forced to leave because she couldn't stand the cook. I really panicked with this thought, I can't let her leave. She is the only one who knows where we keep our stuff, when to bring the dogs to the vet, how i want our clothes irones, etc. In short, I am very dependent on her in a lot of things.

The cook has been with us for a year and I've noticed that she has become hardheaded. I've told her not to repeat our meals because my hubby hates that. She should come out with a variety of meals for us and never serve leftover foods. Despite this, she still keeps on serving the same meals and she sometimes comes up with new but unusual and unappetizing food. I bought her numerous cook books already and I already prepared a menu plan for us. Despite this, she still insist on doing her own thing.

My hubby is already complaining about our food and I'm getting stressed with it. That is the only thing that my husband requested, to eat really good food. So if this does not happen, "umiinit na talaga ulo nya". He is be in a bad mood the whole day.

So because of this I need to fire the cook but before doing that I need to find a replacement for her. I called my aunt in the province to look for a cook for me ASAP. She'll call me in 2 days to find let me know if she found one for me.

I need a cook ASAP.....

Other than that it was just a lazy Sunday for me. Just watched TV the whole day and took a nap after lunch. Nothing much on the showbiz "tsismis" shows so I kept on switching channels.

As I am writing this blog, hubby said he was hungry. So I already called McDonald's for delivery since its the only fastfood chain that offers 24 hour delivery.

Till my next adventure....