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My 15 year old daughter thinks Indiana Jones is hot.

and I think Shia LaBeouf is a cutie.

Is something wrong with this picture?

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.

Last night I cooked garlic fried chicken wings, fried tilapia, spaghetti and showpeas with yellow peppers for dinner. I cooked it pretty fast, too. Considering I got home at six, we were ready to eat by 7:30. Right when I called, “dinner’s ready” and everyone was milling around the kitchen getting their plates, the power goes out!

There was still a bit of light outside so we opened the window for light and went searching for flashlights and candles. Usually by the time we get find the flashlights the power switches back on. But not last night. So we got comfortable and settled down for a candle lit dinner. The Clone thought it was a swell idea. Even called it romantic.

Well, it was…. a swell idea.

We ate, fully expecting the lights to back on after dinner. But no, still no light after dinner. So we sat/laid around and just talked. No computers, no TV, no phone, no interruptions. Just us, talking the night away…. in the dark.

That was… romantic.

Here’s a little something my daughter Jade shared with me from YouTube. She was trying to learn to play this song on her guitar over the weekend, and we are both loving this song right now.

Since I was sick for the most part of the weekend, it was good to just lay around and do nothing. Well, that is when I wasn’t asleep. For some reason, whatever this is that I got gave me a sore throat which wouldn’t have been too bad, but it also came with a killer sinus headache that I could only sleep off. I must have slept 15 hours on Sunday.

Time like this, I am so glad my girls are growing up. I didn’t have to worry about what they’re going to eat or what they’re doing. They were just on auto pilot for two days.