Gimme A Break

I just went to another wedding dinner last night. It’s wedding season again, that’s for sure, as everyone seems to be tying the knot this month and next.

But imagine what it would be like to have your wedding - in Spain - at the Palacete de Cazulas. The Cazulas is a Spanish mansion for rent where you can host your wedding celebrity-style.
Yep, I think it’s definitely a dream unfolding even as you enter this 12-bedroom mansion set against the Spanish hinterland with its lush gardens, private chapel and its own courtyard cottage.

Not only is it perfect for a wedding, it’s also great for a family vacation or even a corporate retreat.

It can accommodate up to 24 people though I’m pretty sure once everyone else finds out about it, they’re all going to want to go.

Let’s just say, this mansion is rustic and has old world charm, yet the interior is stunningly modern.

It’s been refurbished before and used to be a hotel, so every bedroom has its own private bathroom.

You know what, if you should choose to vacation or get married, you should really think about making a movie out of it.

The natural backdrops and views would be breath-taking so you won’t even need any acting skills .

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Sometimes I get to feeling more tired after the weekend when I’m supposed to be well rested and rearing to go first thing Monday morning.

But to be honest, there are weekends like this one where I’ve spent almost every waking hour staring into my viewsonic monitor till my eyes start to droop.

I always have grand plans to kick back on the weekend but end up working harder than ever to catch up with the things I never get done during the week. Like the backups, housekeeping, blogging…

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I met a friend’s mother at the mall last night. I was walking past a group of people and didn’t even realize she was one of them until I heard her voice.

It’s amazing because she talks such an awful lot and so loudly too, it’s impossible not to hear her. So I had to stop to say hi though I was in a bit of a hurry to get home.

But as you would’ve guessed, she just wouldn’t stop talking despite the fact that her friends had given up waiting for her and had gone ahead with their shopping.

First she told me about her entire family and which country everyone was at. Okay, great, I thought, thanks for telling me (as if I care! honestly). I kept saying we should catch up another time, but …

… then she proceeded to ask me about my family and where everyone was and what they were doing. OMG, we could’ve been there all night till the mall closed!

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It seems all kids like to talk about these days are their computer games. And they’re burning up the phone lines just chatting about it. Well, my son’s friend is a game freak who never seems to go offline.

His parents got him a Macintosh for his birthday and he’s been at his mac games ever since. My son tells me there’s an infinite number of games for download online and new ones are popping up every day.

There’re Mac games called “Plant Tycoon” where you grow plants and sell them, and another called “Tasty Treats” where a bear collects coins and fruits. So they aren’t all violent, kill-them-on-sight kind of games? Whew, that’s good to hear.

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I had a sirloin steak for dinner that was strangely fusion. Now there’s a big difference between fusion well done and fusion completely gone wrong.

The dinner I had was probably concocted from out of a drunken chef, who in a moment of madness, decided to serve sirloin steak, marinated with nothing, with coconut rice, cole slaw and chilly paste?!!

OMG, the effect was fairly horrible. It was a nightmare of a fusion meal even just looking at it. There’re just some foods that don’t go well together … at. all! And this was one of them.

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I knew I shouldn’t have dropped out of my piano lessons. Ack. If I hadn’t, I might be a musician or a composer by now , who knows?

We used to copy song sheets by hand. I’m sure if we were composing songs then, we’d be using up tons of paper writing and rewriting unlike modern day musicians and educators who now have the best music editing software at their fingertips, so to speak.

FinaleMusic.com boasts of the world’s finest notation software, Finale. What’s even more impressive is SmartMusic, a music practice system with Intelligent Accompaniment and an entire accompaniment library to choose from.

Man, if they had this then, my daily practice sessions wouldn’t have been such a drag that I had to finally give up! Duh!

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I saw a little girl eating candy floss and was reminded of the first time I set eyes on candy floss. I thought it was wierd how it melted on my tongue leaving a small fire behind.

I never quite figured out why it feels warm when it melts though. Does anyone know why? Is it the combustion of the sugar releasing heat energy? Haha, clearly I’m no Einstein but I guess I should get some points for venturing a guess.

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Oooh, here’s more gossip that my neighbors can churn up over the fence.

Gossip Girl is going to beat them flat this Wednesday at 9pm EST on the CW… where there’ll be more clawing and backstabbing among the rich and beautiful.

Just to get you into the swing of things, here’s a super mild version of what you’ll be seeing on Gossip Girl, the new series that everyone’s been waiting to see.

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I drank a cup of ginseng last night before going to bed. Yumm, gotta love its taste. It’s so potent it just makes you sleep like a baby.

Much rested, I spent the morning running errands that I’ve been putting off for days. If it weren’t for the parking hassles, I wouldn’t mind it so much.

But everywhere I go, it seems I have to double-park and then end up stressing myself out over whether I’m going to get a ticket for it.

It seems a waste to spend a few bucks on parking for just a few minutes as I zip in and out of the bank, post office or whatever.

But I’ve found that in the long run, paying those few bucks is better than getting stressed about your car being parked illegally.

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My kids would be happy to tell you what new game they’ve discovered on the internet. Frankly it’s not just the kids that play these days, even some of our adult friends seem to be hopelessly hooked. Seems that’s all they can talk about.

The planet conquest type games are universally popular, I guess. After all, blazing trails and fighting aliens across the Milky Way has a strange attraction for many folks.

I hear Hyperiums is a hugely popular browser-based game that runs in real time. It’s one of those planet quest strategy games with a multiplayer capability, which makes it much more interesting and competitive.

The Hyperiums Empire lets you manage first, one planet then another in a distant galaxy. You can set up businesses to trade with neighboring planets, and build your own defense systems against invading planets.

In good times, you can research new technologies to take your planet to new heights. Or if you’re in a competitive mood, you can set up alliances and plot to invade other planets.

Strategic games can be educational if properly supervised but of course, as a mom, I wish they weren’t quite so violent and addictive. At any rate, sign up for the game is free.

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