Leah's Cafe

Met an auto accident on the way home

T met an auto accident on the way home from work, thank God he is not injured. One of wheels of a big truck in front of him came loose and rolling down the road and hit his car. If T didn't turn the car to the right to avoid ...

Our new apartment

It has been three weeks since we moved into the new apartment. Here is a picture of the exterior. Will take pictures of the interior when all the boxes are unpacked! The apartment building is a four-plex, 2 lower unit and two upper unit, we are on the lower unit on ...

Selling our stockpile at yard sale

The Commerce Chamber organized a city wide Garage/Yard Sale that called "Treasure of the attics". Though we have just moved here two weeks ago and have not totally unpack, we decided to participate in it. Unlike most people who would be selling used furniture or used pet beds full of ...

The fun game that pays you to buy groceries

Some people believe nothing is FREE in this world. I used to think the same, not until I learn to play the grocery game!! Marketing and advertising are BIG in America. Businesses are constantly trying to sell you stuffs that you don't need and commercially prepared junk food are disguised as ...

Our favorite frozen meals

It was almost 8.30 p.m when we reached home last night. I was too tired to prepare dinner, so we had frozen pasta meals. We don't usually eat much of microwave frozen meals. However, we both like the Marie Callender's Pasta Al Dente (frozen pasta) and Pot Pies. The frozen meals ...

We drove the baby Kia Sedona home!

We drove this baby home last night! After T got off work at 2.00 p.m, we drove down to Oak Park in Chicago. After we got the mechanic to inspect it, T signed the papers and paid the seller with a cashier check. I drove the Toyota Camry and T drove ...

Life in a small town

Where we used to live is a college town, a small town of 50k populations, half of that are students! We just moved two weeks ago, to an apartment at the next town bordering the college town. Both towns are small and surrounded by farm lands. Many foreign students who ...

A busy week with activities

We have a busy week ahead of us! T is working till 2.00 p.m, we are driving down to Chicago to have a car inspected right after that. We have looked at the car and wanted to purchase it, so we are sending it to the workshop for a final inspection ...

Untended blog

Almost three months of neglect, it's overgrown with weeds!! Time seems to go by so fast day by day. We are in the process of unpacking after the move last week! Just got the cable and internet hooked up yesterday.

Found an apartment to move

We were looking into buying a house since April but at the same time looking at rental places. This must be the 20th place we have looked at! We have decided to delay the plan to buy when we found this apartment! It's a newer apartment (especially compare to the 100 ...