Archive for September 8th, 2009

1. Procastination
2. Emotional Eating
3. I do not sleep until my eyes cannot hold it anymore. I don’t lie in bed if I’m not so-drop-till-I-sleep sleepy.
4. I endlessly surf the whole day, I can’t help it.
5. I have a habit of ordering people around, like telling my son to get me water, when the glass is just right beside me.
6. I don’t care going out in unironed clothes.
7. Clicking my tongue against my crooked tooth when I’m thinking. It makes me look like I’m spoiling for a fight.
8. Using the same glass the whole day – even if I drank coffee, cola, water on it
9. Drinking straight from the water bottle. This drives my husband insane!
10. Walking around the house in my – gasp! – underwear. Hey, I am mostly alone with my kids almost 90% of the time. So what?!

Wine, has better benefits than other alcoholic drinks. For one thing, it contains antioxidants – more on the red wine than the white – which help anti-aging and cancer. It is not only used for drinking but also for adding flavor to food, like stocks and braising.

And when you are fine dinging, you need to be acquainted on how to open a wine bottle! Granted that the waiter on hand might probably do it for you, he might even use a rogar estate wine opener, but you need to know how to open one just in case you might want to entertain guests at home.

You might want to invest on rogar wine openers too. Look at this beauty:

**This one is the Estate Antique Bronze Wine Opener Sets with Hardwood Handle & Table Stand.**

The steps I am outlining here are to be used with rogar corkscrews: (these are steps summarized from e-How)

1. Remove the top of the lead or foil capsule with the sharp point of the corkscrew.

2. Stand the bottle on a flat, hard surface. Lower the arms of the corkscrew. Holding the corkscrew as vertically and straight as possible, place the sharp end directly into the middle of the cork.

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