Start of the Year

1) Where did you begin 2007?
At home with The Husband's family.

2) What was your status by Valentine’s Day?
I can't remember exactly. I think we had a simple dinner at home. The Husband cooked his famous fetuccini alfredo.

3) Were you in school anytime this year?
Nope

4) How did you earn your money?
I work from home as a web designer. I also freelance and do paid blogging.

5) Did you have to go to the hospital?
Yup, for my daughter's baby well checkups and vaccines.

6) Did you have any encounters with the police?
No.

7) Where did you go on holidays?
My parent's house.

8)What did you purchase that was over $1000?
Gifts this Christmas LOL

9) Did you know anybody who got married?
Yes, an old colleague of mine got married this year

10)Did you know anybody who passed away?
None.

12) Did you move anywhere?
No. But I hope we can this year.

14) What concerts/shows did you go to?
None.

15) Are you registered to vote?
Yes.

16) Who did you want to win Big Brother?
I don't watch Big Brother.

17) Where do you live now?
Paranaque, PH.

18) Describe your birthday.
Dinner with the family.

19) What’s one thing you thought you’d never do but did in 2007?
Nothing haha. This tag makes me sound so boring. The thing is I always plan ahead so everything that I did last year was all part of my short-term/long-term goals.

20) What has been your favorite moment?
Our Bohol trip.

21) What’s something you learned about yourself?
That it's time to start realizing my dreams. I can't just sit and wait for them to come. I need to work hard to achieve them.

22.) Any new additions to your family?
none.

23) Your best month?
December. Shopping month! LOL

24.) What music will you remember 2007 by?
I will not take these things for granted by Toad the Wet Sprocket

25) Who has been your best drinking buddy?
The Husband?

26) Made new friends?
I made a lot of online friends and even saw them personally last November.

27) Best NEW friend?
All blogs that I visit everyday and vice versa.

28) Favorite night out?
Dinner and laughter with friends.

29) Something you look forward to this year?
A car, a house, a schoolgirl.

30) Where did you start 2008?
Spent it at home, watching fireworks with the little girl and The Husband.

Mouse Trap

Just found out that my Ethernet cable has a few bites in it. It's probably one of the reasons why my connection is going on and off. I wouldn't know about it if I didn't have to crawl under my table to retrieve Sandy's jackstone ball. Guess I'll have to buy another cable then. I can go for those Cat6 snagless cables that The Husband have been telling me to buy. He’s addicted to anything that needed wiring you know.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year everyone!

2008 was off to a good start for me. First, I won 2 online raffles, both for $10. Not that big but if you think about how my name always gets stuck at the bottom of the raffle boxes, you will agree that 2008 is indeed my lucky year. Only two days have passed and I already received tons of design projects which means more savings, in time for our BIG purchase (I won't tell you what it is!). The little girl has also been sleeping through the night, though I'm not counting on it to last, the fact that I have been sleeping for more than five hours is a huge feat.

So, Happy Happy Happy 2008 to all of you out there. Here's a picture of me and Sandy while we're watching the fireworks from our house.

No Space

We so need a new foam mattress for The Husband's folding bed. The buy-one-take-one mattresses that we bought two months ago are a thing of the past. Now I know why it was on sale. As I've already mentioned before, it's not really Sandy who co-sleeps with us; it's my husband. We put a foldable single bed every night beside our queen bed so we can pretend that we're all sleeping in one bed. So now that his mattress is unusable, we'll have to squeeze him again in our bed until we can find time to buy a new one for him.

EAT More Chocolates

There's a huge poster at Max Brenner that says, "Eat more chocolates".

So that's exactly what I did.


This photo was taken when my friend from Singapore took us to dinner last week. We ordered different kinds of hot chocolate, from spicy, nutty Mexican drinks to a weird chocolate drink mixed with something that taste a lot like flowers.

All good.

Chocolates make you fat but they also make you happy. I mean, have you tried their chocolate fondue? The combination of cheese, chocolate and nuts is just heaven. And any woman will agree that it's way better than progesterone when you're having PMS.

So, follow the advice. Forget about the huge waist and wide hips. As I always say to my dieting friends, a taste of heaven is better than wearing a bathing suit.

Hope you all had a nice Christmas!

Here's a family photo taken on Christmas eve. Thanks to The Husband's tripod, we were finally able to have our much-awaited family picture. This photo is the best that we can manage because Sandy has this habit of doing ridiculous poses everytime she sees a camera. The matching red outfits were not planned, we all just showed up wearing something red. The red stripes on the two babies (well big baby in Sandy's case) matched nicely so the photos looked really Christmassy.



The two kids received tons of gifts which in my opinion could last for a year already.

Hello World!

I just want to wish all my visitors and blogger friends a Merry Christmas!

From my family to yours, Happy Holidays!

iMAC?

Whenever my boss comes to the Philippines to check out his team, he brings old gadgets and computer paraphernalia to give away to anyone interested. Last year he gave me a used cisco router that I used for my home network. It lasted a year before I had to buy a new one. A couple of months ago, my boss asked me if I want one of his old iMacs. I can't answer him immediately because my heart was pounding really hard LOL. Of course I would love one! I can already imagine the difference it will make to my designs. Not wanting to sound too eager, I said, "Yeah, I could use one". Bad move. He thought I wasn't that interested and just told me to wait for another year and they might buy me a better model. LOL. Like that will ever happen. In their defense, they did pay for my HP laptop. However, that makes it even less possible that they'll purchase another one for me.

Things to Buy

I saw our old luggage this week while doing a general cleaning. It absolutely needs replacing really bad. We always use my mother-in-law's travelpro luggage whenever we go out of town and I am getting used to its size and portability. It's big enough to fit all our stuff including Sandy's can't-leave-without toys and lightweight enough for me. So I guess we'll add that to our too long list of things to buy next year.

Sloppy Handwriting

Snagged this from Peachy

What Your Handwriting Says About You

You are a fairly energetic person. You know how do pace yourself, and you deal well with stress. You are very extroverted and outgoing. You are loving, friendly, and supportive. However, you are also manipulative and controlling at times. You are balanced and grounded. You know how to get along well with others. You need a lot of space in your life, and it's easy for you to feel stifled. You avoid commitment and responsibility whenever you can. You are somewhat traditional, but you are also open to change. You listen to your head and your heart. You are a poor communicator. No one really knows exactly what you're getting at.

What Does Your Handwriting Say About You?

All I can say is... SO TRUE! Manipulative? Check. Controlling? Double Check. Traditional but open to change? Perhaps this is the better alternative for "I can't make up my mind."