Sundae with Apple and Caramel

I am sure how it is exactly called but I got excited when I saw this new dessert in McDonald’s yesterday. You know me, my favorite Is caramel sundae and adding apples to it, makes it the bomb! You have a choice of parfait or sundae. I got the sundae. I cannot let it pass. Here is the newbie dessert at mickie dees.

How Do Your Call Your Country?

When we signed up for our phone service at home, the company also offered international calling where you can call anywhere in the world through your home phone. You get 300 minutes for a flat rate of $20.00 but the only downside is that whether you use the minutes or not every month, you have to pay the monthly fee. This set up was ongoing for months then i realized we do not make international calls that much every month. It seems that we are paying minutes that we did not even use. Sometimes not even half of the monthly minutes allowed have been used. I told my husband about that and we decided to give up the monthly international calling plan. All we need is a low cost international calling to the Philippines where the minutes do not expire every month.

I searched online on how to make low cost international calls through your cell phone without paying too much money and i found Pure Minutes Long distance. With Pure Minutes I can call my country anytime anywhere just like calling my friends through my cell phone. There are no hidden fees, I pay only for the minutes i used and the unused minutes do not expire. I like pure minutes a lot. I do not have to be home to call Philippines. I also signed up for the auto-recharge to get $3.00 free service. Try Pure Minutes and you will like it right away.

Saturday Work

I got a phone call early morning from our office manager asking me if i can go to work. We were closed Friday due to some road closures in the area where my job is located. Today the town opened for all businesses but a lot of the residents were still at the evacuation area. This is already the third time this year that this area has been hit by a big flood. The recent has the most widespread damage. It was only two weeks ago that the hurricane Irene was here and here is another flood again. On my way to work, I saw on the sidewalk broken appliances, wet carpets, wood panels and boxes of clothes waiting to be picked up by the town trucks for disposal. My husband was even asked by his friend to order parts for dryer to be used in his machine that got submerged at the basement. Hubby knows a little about fixing washing machines and dryers. He used to have a shop back home before he migrated here and that was his way of living. He is not doing it for money here anymore but when friends call him, he is always willing to do it as long they are not the newer models which are all computerized. It is his joy to help his friends because he knows how expensive to have it repaired here. Usually the labor is more expensive than the parts.

Our First Dinner in Orlando @ Bubba Shrimp

Bubba Gump Shrimp co is a seafood restaurant that is located right at the entrance of City walk Orlando with branches all over U.S.. If you have seen the movie Forrest Gump, you know well this restaurant. Bubba is one of the characters in the movie and Gump is of course Forest Gump.

This is the whole gang. Taken inside the restaurant.

Big Savings With TracFone

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of TracFone for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

 

I want to share with you how I got so much savings I got by just switching to TracFone. Every month, I spend around $150 for my cell phone bill for the three of us. I am done with the two year contract and I am just paying for the minutes that I do not really use so I talked to my husband if TracFone is a wiser alternative. When he saw what benefits we can get from TracFone (which are actually the same with our contract phone) he right away said yes.

 

Here is what TracFone can offer. First, you are not committed to any two year contract. There are no credit checks and no activation or cancelation fees. This is a lot of savings already with great nationwide coverage and excellent reception/connectivity. Their phones are from branded manufacturers also like Motorola, Kyocera, LG, Nokia and Samsung. They have “candy bar” phones or simple phones that can do calling and texting for under $10.00 of the Bluetooth-enabled “Smart” phones  packed with So many features features like camera/video recorder, web access, app capabilities, mp3 player and full QWERTY keyboard for $29.99.

 

The best part of being one of the Real TracFone customers is the service plans. There is a monthly plan where you pay as you go online or with cards available at thousands of retail stores across the country. There is also a one year service cards which can give you so much more. You can receive double minutes for the life of your Tracfone and 800 minutes for only $119.00. “Double minutes for the life of your phone” is a feature that can be purchased separately for only $19.99 but some phones include it. If you want the month plan, you can choose the 200 minutes for under $30.00 and as low as $9.99 for 50 minutes.

 

Do you that you can also call international with your TracFone? This is the only wireless service where you can call internationally for the same price as any other call. You can call over 60 international destinations from your TracFone at no extra cost and through the International Neighbors program, you can also provide your family and friends in Mexico or Canada a local phone number in those countries to reach you at your own TracFone in the U.S.

 

Make the switch now and get that savings in your pocket.

 

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Meet You In Chicago?

This is an overdue travel plan. My husband has a friend In Chicago whom he has not seen for decades now. He was surprised when one day he just got a call from him, not from Philippines but from Chicago. He is here visiting for about a month.

We made plans of driving to Chicago to see him the weekend when hurricane Irene hit the East Coast. The plan was canceled because of bad weather then the following weekend we were already set to see the U.S. Open so we had no choice but to reschedule it or maybe we can just ask his friend to come here instead so that we can tour him around New York City. He already saw Chicago via the Chicago bus tours together with other Filipino tourist in their community. They did the Highlight, City in a Garden and Stained Glass tours through Pontarelli Worldwide Ground Transportation. We saw the pictures he posted at the social networking site where he left a comment that it is time to see New York after his Chicago tour.

I hope my husband can get his two day off approved so that we can finalize his friend's trip here. Our target date is on September 15-18. I hope this will push through this time. We will post pictures right away.

Guess What I'm Cooking Tonight?

I have the string beans from my daughter's baby sitter's garden then the eggplants and bittermelons (ampalaya) from hubby's tennis partner, then I will just add some squash and shrimps that i have from the refrigerator and I am all set for pinakbet tonight. I used to put pork but i switched to shrimps as per hubby's request and he also does not like okra so i had to make changes. All is well, still the good old pinakbet that i used to love.