Moments in My Life

Happy New Year everyone! 

Sorry for not frequently updating my blog lately.  My hubby had a one week (25th to 1st) shutdown from his office so we were going out almost everyday.  He was back to work on Friday and then work half day on Saturday to close some reports.

What have I’ve been busy around doing?  Well, everyday when I have my meal (breakfast/lunch/dinner), I will watch Gem of Life online here.  I am on episode 53 now.  I didn’t watch much of the other TVB series, Pages of Treasures which has the series finale last Friday.  I was able to catch a few episodes in the beginning of it and then finished up with the last episode. 

The day after Christmas I went to the Del Amo Mall to check out their after-Christmas Sales but I was very disappointed as there were not many sales at all. I guess they probably knew that many customers would be spending their gift cards anyhow so they didn’t bother to cut the price lower.

On Saturday 12/27 we went up north to Camarillo Outlet Mall, which is about an hour drive from here. Hubby stopped me at the Coach Outlet first and it was crowded and most items on their clearance shelves were gone, the shelves emptied! It was only 10:30am. I didn’t get anything for myself there. We did about 1.5 to 2 hours shopping there and left. I bought two Banana Republic blouses for myself. Got two Carter’s PJs for Brandon and Hubby got himself a long sleeve top from Gap.

Sunday 12/28, we drove down south to Fashion Island Mall in Orange County. They have the BIG REAL Christmas tree on display. Since we already put away our Christmas tree at home, I promised Brandon the night before his bedtime we would bring him to see a BIG Christmas tree. We had lunch at Wahoo Fish Taco and Brandon was eating quite a bit. He must have been hungry after all the walking around the mall looking at fountains. We stopped at the Costa Mesa Ikea on the way back home.

Monday 12/29, was our big shopping day at Target for their after-Christmas sales. The Christmas items were marked down 75% from the original prices. Hubby bought a few ornaments and some other Christmas decorations. I bought food items that were marked down - Christmas cookies, biscuits and chocolates!

Tuesday 12/30, visited Long Beach Aquarium. Since it is the aquarium 10th anniversary, anyone whose birthday falls on the 10th of any month can get in with only $10 admission.  Both my husband and I birthdays fall on 10th and Brandon is free.  But it was very crowded in the aquarium as it was school holiday.  Brandon didn’t show much interest in ‘fish’ so we spent about 45 minutes in it and we left to walk around the marina. 

Wednesday 12/31, had a late breakfast at Norm’s.  I had two pancakes, hashbrown, two slices of bacon, two sausage links and two eggs over easy.  Hubby had the same but he had waffle instead of pancake.  I shared my plate with Brandon and he ate quite a lot of it.  He finished almost two of my sausage links, a few bites of hashbrown and one and quarter pancake.  After breakfast we went to Target in Manhattan Beach and then stopped at the Manhattan Village Mall.  At night, I watched the countdown on NBC and fell asleep right before the ball dropped to 0:00 2009.  But I remember hearing a lot of fireworks outside the house.

That’s what we did for the last week of 2008.  Sorry for the late posting, it took me 3 nights to finish this post.