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Sometimes I don’t like breaking routine because it is so hard for me to get back on track. Since I went to California at the beginning of the month, I have been off kilter all month. It didn’t help that I was extremely busy at work for the last two weeks and that this past weekend was a three day weekend. Everything, it seems have just been upside down.

Anyway, I hope I get back into the blogging rhythm soon. All my blogs are sadly behind schedule and my two new ones are practically flat lining right now.

Blogging wise, here’s what’s been going on or not….

In our old kitchen, I am still posting and pointing to new recipes in our new food blog, Cooked From the Heart; however, I am now doing some sponsored blogging on that one too, so there will be reviews and what not in between posts about food.

I am behind on my blogging about food (what else is new, right?) but I’m trying to catch up in the next few weeks. Lately, I made some awesome cheesecake pops that the kids have already started to ask for again. My entry for Lasang Pinoy was a bit late and one that I wasn’t really happy with, but the girls and I have committed to making better bentos in the future. I’m also late posting for Daring Bakers this month. Today was the deadline to post and I haven’t even completed the challenge yet. I may try to do a really last minute attempt tonight. I’ll have to see how I feel when I get home.

With the weather getting warmer again, I am trying to revive my photo blog, In Our Backyard. Although, I’m a little disappointed with my point and shoot and am now hankering for a new digital camera, preferably an SLR but I’m not holding my breath

Maybe if I earn enough bucks, I can get a new SLR. I’m still getting paid to blog at our old house, in our old backyard and at Found Not Lost, our review site. I’ll give more updates later on what the rest of the family has been up to.

I signed up for Twitter a while back but never really got into it. I figured, I can just say in a blog post what I can say on Twitter, can’t I?

Well not really. Blogs allow you to be long winded while in Twitter, you need to be more succinct. Just quickie little updates. No need to write about everything else. It has its purpose I suppose. So, since my husband and my daughter Jade signed up and chose to “follow” me, I guess I better give them something to follow. lol!

So if you’re a twitter and want to follow me, the badge is on the right sidebar under “What I’m up to…” Watch me twitter!

I was checking her blog and got worried by her post’s title, Good Girl Gone Bad. I thought, “What is this girl up to now?”. Then when I read her about ‘gone bad’ moment, I just had to laugh.

This is Jade, my now 14 going on 15 year old daughter. She is the one who got me started blogging just so she can have a blog. That was when she was 11. Since then she has moved on from our joint blog to her own. She has changed and discarded so many blogs, I couldn’t keep up with updating her links on my site. She is now trying her hand at designing her own layout that’s her design on her blog, but she is still working on making it work across browsers. Right now, it only looks right on IE. Firefox won’t show the main page, will show the individual pages, but some of the design elements are lost. So that’s the kind of thing that keeps her busy part of the time.

She and my other daughter Asi, are typical teenagers. They are all over the internet superhighway and it’s hard keeping up with them sometimes. I allow them a lot of freedom online but only after talking to them (until they were sick) about staying safe online. We keep the PC in a central area in the house but we also have a laptop that they can carry around even to their room if they want some privacy. I don’t have spyware on the computers, I pretty much trust them to do the right thing. Trusting them to do the right thing does not mean I don’t check on them once in a while though.

My friends laugh sometimes at how many social networking accounts I have and there is nothing on them but my user name. Yeah, that’s because I’ve been trailing the girls from Xanga to MySpace to Facebook and so on and on. They’ve been good about giving my their accounts so I can occasionally drop in and check on what they and their friends are up to. I try not to micro manage everything they do, but I want them to be aware that I’m aware and when I’m not, they need to keep me aware. I’m bummed that Jade won’t add me to her friends list though. She said that would be too weird. lol! Asi doesn’t care, so I’m on her list

I cross my fingers that I won’t ever find anything to worry about, and I place my trust in their common sense that they will always do the right thing. But, they are kids and kids will do what kids will do, so I still keep one eye open at all times.

Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo. That means I did it and it didn’t even hurt! I’ve been blogging everyday for this whole month!

Tomorrow is the first day of December, and that could only mean the holidays are in full swing. Today, The Clone got something delivered but not from Santa.

She’s been wanting this Orly Hat for weeks, and I just got around to ordering it last week. Luckily, they shipped it pretty fast and she’s happy. We ordered this online from one of her gaming sites, Gaia. She was so excited. She said she’s going to wear her Orly hat/scarf/glove when she goes to meet Santa tomorrow.