Happy birthday, my Valentine

We had a full day today, Valentine's day, Val's birthday.

I have greeted him "happy birthday" at 1:15 AM on February 14 when he got home sooo late from a photo shoot. I was groggy with sleep and went quickly back waking up at around 7:00 in the morning. I had to rush early to the store to buy water and EnfaGrow A which both ran out much to my surprise. When I came back, Val was already awake. The yaya had already finished most of the laundry yesterday leaving a few to attend this morning.

Since there was still no plan on what to do today, I asked Val what he liked to do, where he want to go. Oddly, we have all decided to go to the Pasig palengke as I have been telling tales about how mura blouses and clothes there were (our adventure on a separate entry). So off we went to the palengke - Ner, her daughter Abby, Ritzie, Neo, Val and myself. After a while of looking and buying, Neo became uneasy and started to make sungit. We had to cut short our shopping! Huhuhu!

As it was already 11:40 and lunchtime, we went to Panciteria San Jacinto in Libis.

Our lunch set for three -Val, Ritzie and me (Ruthie already sleeping from her shift)
comprised of ....

bird's nest with quail egg soup, fried chicken (medium)

long life pancit canton, stuffed bean curd with pork filing

... and bottomless drinks (iced tea, never miss)

And what's the perfect way to cap a good lunch but some yummy desserts! And there was Mom and Tina's. Bwahahha! We got a couch seat.

Tada! our selection ...

oreo cheesecake strawberry cheesecake

wow wow weeee!

Some shots of Neo today...

We went to the Holy Family Parish in the afternoon.

Towards the end of the day, I forced Val to finish the weekly errands because he will be out the whole day of Sunday. So, we made the trip to the laundry for his clothes, accomplished the groceries and went for the car wash.

Our day of eating an celebrating is not yet over because beside the car wash station was ....

We were supposed to dine there but Neo was not in his good mood so we took home our orders of Fili cheese steak (for the hungry) and crafted fries.

So that's about our day, Valentine's day, Val's birthday.

And oh, this is the little boy's way of celebrating with his papa.

Happy, happy Birthday, honey!

and to everyone, wherever you are, a lovely happy valentine!

Charlie's! again

Last Saturday, Val came home with a food package.

The content?
Charlie's black angus burger, whoohooo! favorite!
potato wedges, yum yum yum
and.....
meatballs marinara

yummy heaven, again!

Try Charlie's sometime.

2nd round of Charlie's

There are just some things (or food!) that, no matter how sinful and "calorific", you will just keep coming back for more. Like the burgers at Charlie's.

During our trip back to Kapitolyo from Cavite, I told Val I was hungry and craving for the angus of Charlie's. We stopped by the joint to take home our burger. It turned out, instead of just burger it was burgers for us. Val ordered chicken gourmet with bacon & black angus with fries.

Next time daw, as pasalubong for me, he will buy and try the marinara pasta with meatballs.

Midnight snacking

Maybe because he can't sleep yet, I heard Val going out of the house last night. I didn't know for how long but when I heard him enter the house, it was already 11:45 PM. Through my half open eyes, I can see him waving a brown paper bag which I shortly found out to be a bag of hot potato wedges. With the potatoes was an oversized burger from Charlie's Handcrafted Burger.

Charlie's is a joint adjascent to a car wash/detailing shop in Kapitolyo serving angus beef burgers

Val's take home was a black angus combo. Tasty and juicy. Filled with tomatoes and lettuce with a special sauce that I just can not identify at this time. Cost is 150 pesos for the burger and 25 pesos yata for the wedges.

We devoured this midnight meal in bed while Neo was asleep beside us.

At some nights from work, Val would come home with a pasalubong of one hamburger combo meal from Brothers naman. We share this night snack and he would always joke, "Samantalahin na natin ito ngayon, pag laki ni Neo Boy papanuorin nalang natin sya kumain".

Yay, can be true ,di ba?