Just Another Typical Tolentino Day

Today while I was at work, my darling daughter Julz Tolentino got out of school early and asked me to pick her up. I was at work and could not get away, so she asked her friend Kaley, who is home from college, to come pick her up. I said fine.

Jophus (the hubs) was supposed to meet ME for lunch with our nephew Charlie Vanderhoff and his fiance Marilee Taylor for lunch and was late. I called him and he told me that SOMEONE STOLE OUR VAN AND ALL OUR CAR KEYS that were hanging in our basement! They broke into the van, opened the garage with the door opener and came right in the garage taking ALL of our car keys! The police were on their way. He was positive he had locked the van, so I told him to go look for broken glass. The NERVE of these thieves and sheer violation of our privacy and property!

Then I remembered that Julz was going to have Kaley pick her up from school, who borrows our car every once in a while. Jophus told me to call Kaley - I did, over and over and over - no answer.

What I did NOT know was:

When Julz was asking Kaley to pick her up from school, she told Kaley to come in our house and ask Jophus, who is at home, if she can use his car. WELL Kaley got here, came in the house, heard no one, (Jophus was IN THE SHOWER and heard the garage door!) took Jophus's car keys to start his car. It would not start, so she came back in the house with garage door opener and got the van keys (we have way too many cars and keys). She closed garage door, took van to go get Julz. (She also forgot to replace the car keys of the car that didn't start)

When she picked Julz up from school, they went to Jamba Juice - and Julz told Kaley to bring her phone in, Kaley said "it will only be 5 minutes". We were calling and calling and calling. No answer. 

The girls came home after stopping at Jamba Juice only to find the police here, who shook his finger at them with a sly grin.

They all came inside the house, and Kaley who had not seen Jophus since September said awkwardly "I really missed you!"

Mama's Hand

 So after a serious stroke - if a part of your brain is damaged, it basically paralyzes either side of your body, depending on which side of the brain is hit. My mom's stroke happened on the left side of her brain, which controls the right side of her body. She cannot move her right arm or hand at all. When this happens, the hand wants to curl up. Nothing can make it stay open - except for Botox shots in the muscles.

My mom is such a trooper! She was making a few jokes about this dang hand and fingers last weekend on my visit. 


FIRST as we were driving, we noticed a Second Hand shop. We started making jokes about why it was called second hand, etc. My mom said, "I should go in there and tell them I need a second hand"! We laughed at what the store owner's possible reaction would be.

The other funny she made is when, at dinner with our 8 friends, we were talking about trigger finger, which I now have (rats). Trigger Finger makes your fingers stick shut, and they snap to open - if that makes sense. One man said to hurry to get the surgery or it just gets worse. We were comparing our trigger fingers, and mom said "I have trigger finger too!"

God bless my mama.

My Buddies

I go to visit my parents 4 days a month. It is a blessing to be able to do so, as my mom is now full time in a wheelchair, and my dad's Alzheimer's is progressing bit by bit.

At dinner, we all sit in same chairs - well, I mix their table up when I come. This visit we decided to play that old game called "telephone". One person starts it by whispering something to the person on their left, who repeats it in whisper to the person on their left, etc, etc. The last person to have it repeated to them says it out loud for all to hear how it changed through the gossip chain.

WELL, there were 8 of us. Tom went first, who repeated to Joan, who repeated to me, who repeated to mom, who repeated to dad, who repeated to Doris, who repeated to Elaine, who repeated to BILL, WHO BY THAT TIME FORGOT WE WERE PLAYING A GAME. The message that Elaine whispered into his ear was, "Meet me in the parking lot tomorrow morning at 5:30AM".  When she whispered that into his ear, he looked at her a little horrified, and said "WHAT FOR?" WE ALL DIED LAUGHING for the rest of dinner.

A few of them let me take their picture, and here it is. I just love them all so much.

Juicing

 Problem with juicing, I hate hate hate throwing any food item away. SO, after many many tries, I have found the perfect pulp stuff.

Last time I juiced, I tried pulp lasagna, pulp pizza, pulp quiche, pulp soup, and pulp muffins. My family gagged.

THIS time I have a better juicer with very dry pulp. The juice yield is great, but the pulp is heavy. I now think I have a great recipe.

Pulp: amended with coconut flour, hemp seeds, chia seeds, and flax meal. Add eggs and ground sausage. AWESOME!

The juice to pulp yield is amazing - look at all the juice, and all the pulp patties. (My hubs wants me to call them veggie burgers, it sounds better than pulp patties)

Facial Recognition

That moment you leave your new Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro with at home with hubs Joseph Tolentino to install Microsoft Office and Anti Virus, and he texts to ask the password you set, and you reply "OH! I set it to Facial Recognition! Isn't that the coolest thing ever?" and he says, "not in this case". 

 I told him just go find some blonde haole and see if it works.....I also told him to get a blonde wig in our dress up stuff and try it - he did, and it still didn't work. I told him it cannot recognize his fatty Filipino nose.

THIS is a COOL machine! PERFECT for travel and work.

Down The Toilet

 I dropped my newer Samsung Galaxy S4 phone in the toilet today.

 I looked down at it and thought "urine trouble".

 Everything seems to work fine except that facebook is removed.

Evening update: Not good  - my phone got all pissy and 

would not hold a charge at all - used warranty and got a new one.