CUPCAKE SECRET

Here’s another belated gift to myself – and it arrived in the mail today – yippee! My very own Cupcake Secret silicone muffin pans! What is it really? Well, it is just like your regular muffin pans but it has a secret… it has pins at the center of the cake and removable bottoms so you can place anything – marshmallows, a chocolate, even a fruit at the center of the cupcake! Or you may opt to use the small thimble-like container, if you want anything liquid naman at the cupcake centers – like maybe some melted cheese or dulce de leche or even dark chocolate! There are endless possibilities – all I need now is to find some very promising recipes, buy the needed ingredients, and have THE TIME to finally do some baking! I am just SO EXCITED!!!

NEW POPSICLE MAKERS!

Before I left for home today, I decided to open my emails and FB page to check out the greetings and thank those who greeted me on my special day. Then, I got a pleasant surprise when I saw in my email inbox an item for sale at Cash-cash pinoy…the popsicle makers that I had long been wanting to have! This is just the perfect thingy for the coming summer and the perfect birthday gift I could give to myself and my daughter! She would surely love this…and I just know we would both enjoy making different flavored popsicles together! Here’s looking forward to a fun summer with my new popsicle makers!

A DIFFERENT BIRTHDAY GIFT

It’s my birthday today but I am not at home cooking up a storm for my family…and neither am I out shopping till my feet hurt…nope in fact I spent the entire day at the hospital – the National Kidney Transplant Institute – to give myself a unique birthday gift… the gift of health! You see a few times last year, I felt some bit of pain in my lower abdomen and also at my lower back and back then (when we didn’t have a medical health card yet) I shouldered the doctor’s fees gamely just to ensure that the pain would go away. And it did but he recommended some tests which I was unable to follow through since I didn’t have the money for it e! This time around, since we already have a card, I decided to take my leave of absence not at home but undergoing a thorough checkup for my kidneys…

In the morning, when I arrived at the office I immediately left for the hospital to see the doctor who then prescribed some tests for me to undergo – I had urine tests, blood tests, a KUB (Kidney, ureter, bladder) x-ray, CBC and some kind of ultrasound wherein I was made to drink lots of water before they checked out my bladder then made to pee and checked once again…truly a one-of-a-kind experience. It took me the entire day to finish all my tests but I am glad that I finally did it because at least now I would truly know what it was that had been troubling me…






P.S. It was about a week after that I learned that there was indeed a stone in my kidney but it was nothing to be truly alarmed about…or so the doc says. He says it did not require any surgery but that I should just drink more water and jog a bit so that I could pass the stone out thru natural means…it’s that small! So I guess it’s good knowing my kidneys are still OK…