i seriously want to get out of the city and go to this lovely place called Batanes.
nice noh?
i know, i’m from davao and we have nice beaches there. but i seriously want to go around and explore the beautiful yet underrated places of our country.
oh well.
i have been pre-occupied with a lot of things these days (buy nina’s gifts for her classmates, company christmas party, our christmas gifts, etc.), in other words, mega-hectic! But more importantly, i am now on my second year of completing stickers (not to mention gaining extra hideous weight and bulge!) for my little sis’ starbucks planner. yes, i have to. ever since she was in college, she never failed to acquire a planner each year and now that she is in SG, i don’t want to break the “tradition” for her. I am obliging myself to do it for her, even if it means asking the foreign guy seated next to me at starbucks rockwell, for stickers that he said he doesn’t need. yes kapalmuks ako.
heniwey. i still have 2 christmas drinks and about 7 regular drinks to go… good thing pwede and tea, hehehe!
ps: thank you digital manila for the image
dear someone,
you are really testing my patience. this is already the 2nd time that you have placed me in a tight situation. i have no qualms with anything but just don’t (beep)-up with me. if you want to be popular, then by all means GO! no one is stopping you. just make sure that it’s not at anyone’s expense. especially mine.
i so want to strangle you for being such an ass.
breathe lovella.
gedemit.
But…
Be thankful that i practice yoga
And that i am a mother to two wonderful girls.
Otherwise, I would have been violent and aggressive.
so instead, i shall bite your head off and skin you alive.
so i went to jollibee with my officemates earlier today(you know our office building is one of those that has call centers, ergo there’s jollibee) and i saw a girl trying to look like this:
nice right?
but…
she walked like this:
paris isdatchu???
wannabe…
lesson learned: if you want to look fasyonable, walk and wear it well.
i should have taken a stolen shot of that girl.
nevermind, it would have been a great insult to penguis.
gotta go home now! (yes, i am blogging this from our central pc in the office while waiting for the fafa to get me), it’s raining, so deal with it.
mataray lola niyo today.
this may be a bit late, but, this is what happened to our condo and most of our neighbors’ cars when ondoy “happened”: www.rayaflood.tk
the fafa said that God really loves me as we were spared. i ask him why me lang, his reply: “because among the two of us, you are more prayerful”.
my reply: ” nope, God knows that we don’t have money to have the car fixed had we been flooded.”
so there, being stuck on the road for 5 hours was actually a blessing.
my question is: WHAT NOW DMCI? I am utterly disappointed with you.
so i am now back in the corporate jungle. so far so good. and the great thing is: i got the shoes that i wanted!!!
banena was all too happy when my first paycheck came, as i promised her that i will buy her new havaianas.
koala is now a mini-school girl and now sings “tinkel tinkel titel staaa, aw ay ander at ow aah…” hahaha!
who isn’t???
every girl loves shoes, bags, shoes, shoes, shoes…
lately, as i prepare to re-enter the corporate jungle, i have been scouting for really nice shoes. as in.
so i found these in the aldo site:
i sooo love this shoe, and it’s on sale!!!
this is cute too…
it also comes in taupe
hay buhay!
i miss mama.
i feel like it has been ages since i last talked to her.
i just spoke to her yesterday actually.
well…
mama and i used to have this really tough love-hate relationship. but as i matured (not necessarily wiser), i have learned to appreciate and love her more (shucks, now i’m teary-eyed), especially when i had my girls. it was then that i told her how much i understand and appreciate everything that she has done for us and called just to say sorry for all the hurt that i have brought her.
now mama and i talk. a lot. sure we still argue or get irritated with each other, but my day is never complete without her calling to tell me how exciting or otherwise her day was. even the animalets know that it’s nana who’s calling at a certain time.
i really miss her, sob!
she is away on a much needed retreat with papa and brother dear and will be back on friday afternoon. i guess cellphones were not allowed as cel and i were texting each other whether mama has texted back.
i miss her.
i hope it’s friday sooner.
these are cute!!!!
Oo nga naman, if you can’t buy or have these wall abubots, why not improvise???
yes, those are key holders.
this i loooove….a cassette tape dispenser!!!
manong, mabigat ba?
when i get married in church, i would like to have this:
…i meant the waistline.
well, as long as i am wearing these underneath the gown:
o divah? ganda ng lola mo. Di baleng malapad ang waistline, basta kikay ang shoes!
and then, as the queen of my abode, my portrait will be something like this:
reminder: this is my blog so agree ka na lang.
I’m a very unhappy zookeeper today. My animalettes were not at their best. They were, a combination of a tsunami and a tornado. Both were equally loquacious, quarrelsome and just being the kids that they. I do understand them and I do pray to God every single day to grant me extra tons of patience.
First, Nina didn’t take a nap, so since it was a Friday and she didn’t want to watch tv, I made her use the computer and feed her virtual pet, Banenarama. She made ice cream sundaes for the two of us. She was such a good girl and cleaned up her mess. But since she was so into Banenarama already, she threw her empty water bottle amidst the clean clothes that are on her bed(our temporary cabinet “expired” and the real cabinets are to be delivered this weekend, that’s why our clothes are on her bed -mabuhey! finally! after more than one year, we will finally have decent cabinets), I earlier remprimanded her for not flushing well and for leaving a very slippery bathroom floor. Then during dinner time, her entire glass of water spilled on the table and unto our abacca rug. After a few minutes, Koala had the same incident. You might say that these were such minor incidents. They are. But after a whole day of telling them to stop quarrelling, changing and cleaning after their mess, I just had too much.
I started feeling edgey yesterday, that’s why I booked a massage for the fafa and I late in the evening. Now I think I need another one. Yesterday was a series of never ending cleaning up. I was barely done with one chore, when I had to start with another or forego one more just to change koala, make sure that banena took a bath properly , make their merienda, wash dishes, have them take their naps, review lessons with banena, bathe them, cook dinner and wash dishes again. hay! It is a never ending vicious cycle of domestic tasks. At the end of the day I felt I have lost my steam and I smelled like a hyena. Not that I have smelled one but I reckon it was as stinky as me.
Banena is usually asleep, at the latest, by 9pm on a school day. So the three of us (the fafa wasn’t home yet) were already in bed by 8:30pm. Koala slept, until about 10pm and was up until about 3:30-ish am. She wouldn’t sleep! No matter what I do. She finally succumed to the sandman on my third try of lulling her by the balcony. The first two were such flukes. Just when I thought she was happily in deep slumber and lay her down beside dad and ate nina, she would wail and wake up and look for “mooooommmmyyy!!!” So on the third try, my feet were really hurting and my back was aching (I forgot I just had a massage), that I just sat on their Little Tikes stool and cuddled her. I felt so tired and alone that I cried. I cried so much that I just let huge tears roll down and sting my eyes. That scene would have beaten any telenovela.
I cried because I was really very sleepy and emotionally worn-out. I wanted to talk to the fafa earlier about something really crucial but he was already snoring the night away the moment the masahista was done. I also cried because I felt bad that I was cross with nina and then now I was being impatient with julia. I hate it when I am in such a foul mood with my children!
I felt like fate was taunting me like an annoying clown. This circus can drain you of everything yet can sometimes become so inhibiting. Whe I find myself having such negative self-evaluations, I remind myself that we all have our own strengths and weaknesses. Yes, my house is currently a mess, clean, maybe, or it is just chaos. I sometimes sing(in my mind) Alicia Key’s Superwoman(“Cause I am Superwoman, yes i am!”) when I’m in daunting situations.
I longed to sleep my blues away, but it was such an extremely uncomfortable sleeping arrangement that I was unable to do so. We have an ample queen sized bed. But(in actual order) from the left, Dad, Julia and Nina. Where is mom? Curled up at the foot of the bed. No wonder my back ached so much. I had a talk with nina about it and told her that it is time for her to sleep in her room already and so that koala willl emolate her. We ended our talk with a symbiotic agreement, thank God.
So, in as much as I want to be in a jovial mood and look good, this is how I look at the end of each day:
I am a full time home executive
But tonight, if ever I do cry again (it is my outlet so sue me!), I will make myself a cup of honey-vanilla chamomile tea (thank you sister dear) and sip my blues away. For tomorrow is another crazy day at the zoo.
UPDATE: The fafa just got home and got me a long stemmed pink rose, wow! with a card that I have yet to read…shucks!
