Whenever he skips lunch to drive our kid or me to hospitals or parties, etc. I would pack him food which he can eat in the office when he gets back. One time I packed him noodles and included wooden chopsticks. Guess what? His officemates teased him that I forced him to use chopsticks instead of fork. Yada! I’m not Chinese, I eat with spoon and fork. The irony is, he’s the one who taught me to use the sticks.

Anyway, I bought some colorful chopsticks couple of weeks ago while shopping. Haven’t got the chance to use this yet. I wonder what his office mates will say when they see this:

I am very delighted to let you all know, that I’m running my first ever contest on my three blogs: My World, My Library and Juliana’s Lair. I will be celebrating my first anniversary in the world of blogging this coming July 19, 2008. I can’t believe it will be a year soon, and I have enjoyed this experience immensely.

As my way of thanking my readers, my blogger friends and my constant visitors, I’ll be giving away cash prizes to contest participants with the highest accumulated points across all my three blogs.

1st place – $100.00
2nd place – $ 55.00
3rd place – $ 40.00
4th place – $ 30.00
5th place – $ 25.00

The contest starts today, as soon as this post is published and ends on July 19, 2008. Contest winners will be announced on July 23, 2008.

Here’s how to earn points:

1. Comment on my blog posts.
- Every comment is equivalent to 1 point. You can only leave a maximum of two(2) comments per post and the comments should be relevant to the post.
- Comments on my posts starting from entries written starting February 24 ,2008 counts. Only comments written starting today, March 2, 2008 are valid.

2. Copy and paste then publish this entry about the contest on your blog.
- You earn 30 points.
- Please inform me of the link so I can validate and add the points you earned.

3. Mention this contest on your blog by linking to this post.
- You earn 20 points.
- Again, please leave me a comment notifying me about this so I can credit your points.

4. To add an element of fun, since many of my readers have been asking about how old me and hubby are, let’s play a guessing game.
- If you join the fun, and make a guess you’ll earn 10 points.
- The right guess/guesses will earn 30 points (if both ages are correct)
Only one right guess will earn 15 points.
- Again, leave me a comment so I can credit your points.
(Hint: the pictures you see on my three blogs are all current except the wedding pictures, which were taken when we celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary three years ago.)

The running accumulated points across the three blogs, will be posted on the side bars of the three blogs to keep you updated on your points earned.

Should there be a tie in any of the prizes at stake, a drawing will be held to determine the winner of that prize, and the person/s not drawn will win the next prize.

Prizes will be remitted to the Paypal accounts of the winners.

Easy enough, right? I hope you’ll all join the fun.

For only a little over $1 USD, kids and adults will have a grand time running and catching these flying discs. It’ll be a good exercise for the limbs too. Get one for yourself or your kids! It’s a cheap way of having fun!

This weekend I’ll be malling to check out the shops and see if I can grab some nice jackets or coats which I can use for this year’s cold days. Why don’t you share with me your shopping finds and escapades too?

Before heading home, we decided to eat in their cafeteria as our tummies were already grumbling. There were plenty of high chairs for infants, so we were able to eat comfortably while the little one was having a grand time in her throne. But before that we had a little problem to tackle before settling to eat. The dad left the diaper bag where I stashed a canister filled with crackers for the little one. I looked at our ordered food of meatballs with french fries and the dad’s fried cheese, sadly those weren’t good for the baby. Achhhh and there she was, all eager to eat! What I did was mashed the french fries for the baby to munch or else we won’t have peace!

One surprising deal we got when paying for the food was that the second order came for free! We only paid less than $10 for the bottomless drinks, medovnik (honey cake)for dessert and two food set.

One last plus is that they have a small private corner where moms can breastfeed the baby. I gave baby a quick feeding before we left. We all went home satisfied.