The other night, powerbooks sent me a newsletter of the new books to read for the long holiday break. And from those listed, I've come up with a few of my MUST BUY MUST READ selection:
* Paulo Coelho: The complete collection - it includes all 11 books with my most fave, the Zahir, and Brida right smack in the middle. It doesn't really cost much too :D yey!
* The Boleyn Inheritance (Philippa Gregory) - If you loved the movie The Other Boleyn Girl, you must love this book as well. With the way the synopsis is written, you can already say it's one helluva melodramatic history.
* The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (David Wroblewski) - is a tale about a born mute who has lived within his comfortzone, with loving parents and a loyal friend. When life's tragedies befall, he was forced to flee his home, grow up and returns homeward a changed man: strong and determined. MUST READ!
* One Day at a Time (Danielle Steel) - my choice romance novel, just to complete my picks lolz
I've made some room renovations and have put up a nook for me and Coco to snuggle and read a good book- a window seat with a nice book shelf on the side. Will post pictures soon when I finish painting them!
Do-it-Yourself things, love.
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
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Friday, November 5, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
What a Beautiful, Beautiful Christmas!
Look who's hitting sleepy CDO in time for the holiday rush? OMG.
Add up my baby girl and her bear hugs, my lovely family, a strong circle of friends, laughter, some good read, a few letters in the mail, skype, strawberries and cream waffle... and maybe a chance to make it bigger in 2011 and what a beautiful, beautiful Christmas indeed!!
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Wishful Thinking
Lil one woke up to christmas carols this morning, with the cold ber breeze blowing and the puto and palitaw mornings, it kinda gives you a pretty heads up for the holiday season.
Don't you feel it just yet? :)
So, lil one and I sat together after breakfast and drew up a list of projects that we want to embark on before the year ends and it included giving our sofa a pretty make-over: a promise that no more peeing and spilled milk, juice or water, changing her bike's training wheels since it's really really broken, hang more picture frames, learning to bake brownie fudge with soy lecithin or nuts for the holidays.
And we're thinking of celebrating the holidays differently this year. I'm not so sure yet as to how, but I think it's gonna be more of just me and lil one spending time together.
Of course, we didn't forget to draw up a wishlist. But as we sat there and talked about things we wanna buy (the realistic ones) we both ended up laughing cuz we couldn't really think of anything to buy!!
It's either we couldn't afford it. Or we already have it.
So for the wishful thinking list, we both agreed that we want and crossing our fingers that maybe a few Christmases from now we'd be really able to get one:
* a huge tree house (or a lil tyke play house) with the kitchen set!!
* a flat screen TV that plays Mr. Bean (ughhh!!) and a lot of chuggington (and CNN)
* a new car that's automatic and has beige interiors (my choice) and barbie seat belts (lil one's)
* matching gucci flats with cute ribbons or a flower (both of agreed on this right away!)
* a weekend trip to ocean park!!
Sigh. I wanna add iphone to the list but lil one couldn't relate and raised an eyebrow. As if telling me, how is she gonna benefit from it!
So there. For every lil thing that we want this holidays, we both wanted one thing (and it's possible too): to have matching dresses for the Holiday mass.
Happy, Happy Sunday everyone!
Don't you feel it just yet? :)
So, lil one and I sat together after breakfast and drew up a list of projects that we want to embark on before the year ends and it included giving our sofa a pretty make-over: a promise that no more peeing and spilled milk, juice or water, changing her bike's training wheels since it's really really broken, hang more picture frames, learning to bake brownie fudge with soy lecithin or nuts for the holidays.
And we're thinking of celebrating the holidays differently this year. I'm not so sure yet as to how, but I think it's gonna be more of just me and lil one spending time together.
Of course, we didn't forget to draw up a wishlist. But as we sat there and talked about things we wanna buy (the realistic ones) we both ended up laughing cuz we couldn't really think of anything to buy!!
It's either we couldn't afford it. Or we already have it.
So for the wishful thinking list, we both agreed that we want and crossing our fingers that maybe a few Christmases from now we'd be really able to get one:
* a huge tree house (or a lil tyke play house) with the kitchen set!!
* a flat screen TV that plays Mr. Bean (ughhh!!) and a lot of chuggington (and CNN)
* a new car that's automatic and has beige interiors (my choice) and barbie seat belts (lil one's)
* matching gucci flats with cute ribbons or a flower (both of agreed on this right away!)
* a weekend trip to ocean park!!
Sigh. I wanna add iphone to the list but lil one couldn't relate and raised an eyebrow. As if telling me, how is she gonna benefit from it!
So there. For every lil thing that we want this holidays, we both wanted one thing (and it's possible too): to have matching dresses for the Holiday mass.
Happy, Happy Sunday everyone!
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