But for our friend now as she is turning 30 herself, I bet she will be pursuing some of her dreams in life this year. She has a list and am sure she will be talking about that when we meet for her birthday. Now we are thinking of chipping in to get her a birthday gift as agreed by her friends. We have gift ideas in mind already. She loves red velvet cupcakes from one bakery here so that will be her birthday cupcakes unless we get her the chocolate mousse cake which is also one of her favorite cakes. Also, she loves to collect mugs so we are getting her one from one of her favorite coffee shop or maybe that mug I saw from a gift store online. These gifts could be something she will appreciate getting as birthday gifts for her 30th birthday. She loves chocolates too and there are many chocolate stuff that we can buy from this online store that I am browsing right now. Oh my those chocolates look so tempting and delicious! I could wish I am turning 30 too and my friends are giving me those chocolates as their birthday gift!

Anyway, I am not that busy and I want to give myself a break after a rather quite busy week. I wanted to play some online game for tonight. Yes I have been wanting to take a peek at my Farm Town game which I have not played for a long time. My former college classmate was suggesting over at Facebook for me to try this Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 game that he and his friends are into. He said it has that reinvented Special Ops co-op play and an all-new survival mode. I am not familiar with the game though hubby may be able to play it more.

Anyway, I found another thing to do and maybe I can work on the photo album that has been saved and pending to be completed since last year. I’ll try to work on that unless I find another nice movie to watch in awhile this relaxing Friday night.

I told her I had to wait until the last week of January if extra funds will get through before I decide on getting what she was offering me. I know insurance can be a good investment so I told her I will wait for that period and it will give me somehow enough time to think about it.

It was a nice surprise meeting with old friends and we chatted till SB was almost about to close. The hubby of our schoolmate will be going on mountain climbing today as I remember our meet that night. He had been looking for a mountain hardwear in the sporting goods stores in the mall before they went to that coffee shop. It was interesting to know about his climb and had we have been prepared, I would wish hubby and I can come along (wishful thinking) and fulfill our dream of climbing Mount Apo. Our chat went on endlessly but time flies indeed when you are having fun talking with your old friends. I wish we have more time to catch up with each other’s lives. It was like a Christmas gift for me to have this surprise meeting with old friends. I hope we will see each other again soon.

We still regulated the kid’s TV by locking the channels we don’t like him to watch including Nickolodeon and Disney. We let him watch the Disney Junior because we fell the shows there are better. However yesterday, while I was looking for this car hire malaga, the channels got scrambled and SkyCable might have been affected by the typhoon Sendong. Now we lost most of nice channels including the little boy’s Disney Channel. Good thing Lifestyle Network is still there and that’s the one we watched earlier. For now we hope SkyCable will be able to fix the problem soon or else this digibox won’t be that fully maximized in terms of use during the Christmas break.

It is nice too that my sis is looking for books online since by coincidence I found these barnes & noble coupons as suggested by a dear friend of mine who is also a book lover and she also recently bought books  online as her Christmas gift for herself. Books will be one of the Christmas gifts that I wanted to buy for our lil boy. There are many books that I want for him which is out of stock in the two bookstores I went to last week. Maybe my dear sister would be willing to buy those books online for her niece. I’ll keep my fingers crossed on this one!

As a friend of mine once told me, her mom has saved and built a home away from home for them on a place up in the mountains as their family hideaway and the furniture her mom used there were mostly rustic furniture they got from a supplier they know since her mom is in the furniture business. I’ve known that since we were still in grade school so that is such a long time ago. I do remember the photos of their house is one of those which you can say is really cozy and inviting too. Truly one that they can call a home away from home.

We miss them and seeing these photos of her doing her work makes me realize it is indeed a blessing she has to have this work that sustains her family. It is her dream while it is also our dream for her and my nephew to be home for Christmas holidays but as the past years had been, she is always busy at work during the holiday season. We could just be thankful and keep in touch through the internet during this holiday season.

I have a friend who showed me her printed artwork and I got the idea that the little guy and I could do something like it. Its just that it can be costly in the sense that we need to buy the other supplies. The little guy in the house would love to see his works in photos and I could use this on other printing projects too that I have had in mind for quite sometime with the use of this all in one printer.