Archives for August, 2005
I'm on leave for 4 days.
And even 4 days arent enough for all the things I want to do. I'm in a middle of career change and I'm gearing up for it and yet scared I won't be able to make it.
Time for me time today.
Time for family time tomorrow.
Time for us time on Monday — di pala pwede malapit na si red tide nun, heheheÃœ.
How I wish money was never a problem and weekends are always longer.
Somebody gave me a compliment earlier, and it left me flustered. Twenty four years and I have not fully managed to say thank you back to a compliment properly.
Or maybe it has been a long time somebody took notice and I'm not used to it anymore.
I cooked Arroz ala Cubana yesterday, and thank goodness it was easy and the three men in the house – Daddy, Kuya and Edil, loved it. Matthew ate a somewhat different version – hotdog, scrambled eggs and rice. And what more, I served it with flair! Cupped rice on top of which is the fried egg, the meat on the side plus two half slices of fried saba.
OK, so I burnt some of the saba, I haven’t made perfect egg circles (at least the yolk was still intact) but all in all, it was a success!
Too bad my cooking enthusiasm was bogged down by the water pump being broken. I hate washing, cleaning without running water! So much so I have egged on Edil to eat out the couple of days past, syempre, tipid kaya sya naghuhugas, hahaha!
I’m going to target this next.
So far, www.pinoycook.net is the best site I’ve been to for recipes. I’ve debated over and over if I’m to buy a cookbook, but my mind and pocket has rebelled against it. I have 24×7 access to the Net, kelangan masipag lang ako mag take down notes, hehehe.
I’m enjoying doing the grocery as well. I can budget na! Yahoo! And so far, we need to have at least P6,000 for groceries a month – that includes rice and our supply of mineral water. Hindi pa kasama ang Shellane and additional expenses like our toiletries. Hopefully, the digits will go down when Mom and Abbie goes to the US for my cousin’s wedding, and Kuya will stay more often with Dad in Cavite. There goes our help for sharing the bills as well, hehehe. OK lang, I just need to actually get rid of my ONE credit card. Pag nasara ko yun, easy easy na ko.
I’m missing fish though. I don’t have time to go to the wet market since late na ako umaalis sa office (8AM – graveyard zombie ako) at late na din ako nagigising pag rest day ko. Supermarkets, feel ko lang, don’t offer fresh fish. I miss tahong and halaan and tilapia and bangus. Yummmeeeeh. Feeling ko puro cholesterol na ang nasa katawan ko at tutubuan na ako ng pakpak nyan.
Hmmm…let’s see. The water pump will be fixed later, so I can cook na naman. Yahooo!
Ngapala, reklamo ako ng reklamo na walang isda sa bahay, nagpadala pala mula Dipolog ang friend ni Daddy at Mommy ng isang box ng fresh seafood. Sugpo, hipon, lapu lapu, pusit..ayus! Kaso hindi pa natanggalan ng kaliskis, so sorry, hindi ako marunong magtanggal nun, bahala na Kuya ko nun.
Makagawa na ng menu for next week 
Mahirap din ha kasi iba iba panlasa namin:
1. Si Edil maanghang gusto o kaya matabang, basta wag maalat. Minsan, nagluto ako ng asado, sya lang nasarapan. Keber ko, I cook to please my husband! mwehehehehe.
2. I need to cook entrees na may sabaw since Matthew is bungal…este bungi. Plus, I cant cook binangoongan or spicy food since may bata kami. Ayoko naman magluto ng 2 putahe, ano ko hilo?! Tamad din ako kahit paano no 
Ayoko naman si Mato ng puro hotdog at noodles. Puro preservatives yun eh and nung na-ER sya last week (di ko na-blog un), the MD advised not to have anything salty, with preservatives and to drink lots of water. Kaya si Mommy, dieta din. Si Mrs. Coke ako eh.
3. Maalat kaming pamilya kumain. Nuff said.
4. Kelangan may something sweet after every meal. Syempre, wala na nito kasi controlled na ang moolah from Edil, hahaha. Panakaw na lang ako kumain….hahaha.
Meron kayo isusuggest na luto? Yung mabilis lang ha. At yung wala masyadong hiwa hiwa. kaliwete ako eh, so I dont pare vegetables well. heehee c”,)
I cooked Arroz ala Cubana yesterday, and thank goodness it was easy and the three men in the house – Daddy, Kuya and Edil, loved it. Matthew ate a somewhat different version – hotdog, scrambled eggs and rice. And what more, I served it with flair! Cupped rice on top of which is the fried egg, the meat on the side plus two half slices of fried saba.
OK, so I burnt some of the saba, I haven't made perfect egg circles (at least the yolk was still intact) but all in all, it was a success!
Too bad my cooking enthusiasm was bogged down by the water pump being broken. I hate washing, cleaning without running water! So much so I have egged on Edil to eat out the couple of days past, syempre, tipid kaya sya naghuhugas, hahaha!
I'm going to target this next.
So far, www.pinoycook.net is the best site I've been to for recipes. I've debated over and over if I'm to buy a cookbook, but my mind and pocket has rebelled against it. I have 24×7 access to the Net, kelangan masipag lang ako mag take down notes, hehehe.
I'm enjoying doing the grocery as well. I can budget na! Yahoo! And so far, we need to have at least P6,000 for groceries a month – that includes rice and our supply of mineral water. Hindi pa kasama ang Shellane and additional expenses like our toiletries. Hopefully, the digits will go down when Mom and Abbie goes to the US for my cousin's wedding, and Kuya will stay more often with Dad in Cavite. There goes our help for sharing the bills as well, hehehe. OK lang, I just need to actually get rid of my ONE credit card. Pag nasara ko yun, easy easy na ko.
I'm missing fish though. I don't have time to go to the wet market since late na ako umaalis sa office (8AM – graveyard zombie ako) at late na din ako nagigising pag rest day ko. Supermarkets, feel ko lang, don't offer fresh fish. I miss tahong and halaan and tilapia and bangus. Yummmeeeeh. Feeling ko puro cholesterol na ang nasa katawan ko at tutubuan na ako ng pakpak nyan.
Hmmm…let's see. The water pump will be fixed later, so I can cook na naman. Yahooo!
Ngapala, reklamo ako ng reklamo na walang isda sa bahay, nagpadala pala mula Dipolog ang friend ni Daddy at Mommy ng isang box ng fresh seafood. Sugpo, hipon, lapu lapu, pusit..ayus! Kaso hindi pa natanggalan ng kaliskis, so sorry, hindi ako marunong magtanggal nun, bahala na Kuya ko nun.
Makagawa na ng menu for next week Mahirap din ha kasi iba iba panlasa namin:
1. Si Edil maanghang gusto o kaya matabang, basta wag maalat. Minsan, nagluto ako ng asado, sya lang nasarapan. Keber ko, I cook to please my husband! mwehehehehe.
2. I need to cook entrees na may sabaw since Matthew is bungal…este bungi. Plus, I cant cook binangoongan or spicy food since may bata kami. Ayoko naman magluto ng 2 putahe, ano ko hilo?! Tamad din ako kahit paano no Ayoko naman si Mato ng puro hotdog at noodles. Puro preservatives yun eh and nung na-ER sya last week (di ko na-blog un), the MD advised not to have anything salty, with preservatives and to drink lots of water. Kaya si Mommy, dieta din. Si Mrs. Coke ako eh.
3. Maalat kaming pamilya kumain. Nuff said.
4. Kelangan may something sweet after every meal. Syempre, wala na nito kasi controlled na ang moolah from Edil, hahaha. Panakaw na lang ako kumain….hahaha.
Meron kayo isusuggest na luto? Yung mabilis lang ha. At yung wala masyadong hiwa hiwa. kaliwete ako eh, so I dont pare vegetables well. heehee c”,)
Please answer this ONE question, found here.
And no matter what the result is, please tell me.Ü
My answer: GUESS?
Here is the analysis:
You will never cheat on your boyfriend/girlfriend and you will never let him/her do it as well.
Reason why I came up with this on another entry.
You have to answer first.
Please? *pwetty eyes*
*Comments are screened just in case you peek first before you answer. And to protect you, just in case you are surprised by it.
Mommy Sick
♠ I was sick last week, which meant I didn't do the laundry, cooked and washed the dishes. It meant I had a runny nose like a faucet, a ballooning headache, constant cramps on my flanks and appetite for sexÃœ.
♠ I finally put to use the HMO card I'm paying for. I saved around three thousand bucks for the check up and tests to be done and had to shell out around 250 pesos per day for medicine. It can get worse. So I'm not complaining.
♠ When sick, I don't look sick. So I still had to go to work.
♠ My prescribed medicines are taken orally and some other way than orally, go figure.
Mommy Scared
♠ Matthew had been throwing up a lot lately, even if he hasn't eaten a thing. He complains of having a headache and his tummy hurting. Aware of the dengue scare, we bring him to the ER. Dengue scare is just a scare, but he is dehydrated and has Espohageal Gastric Reflux. Thanks to HMO for footing the bill. I still have to pay for meds though.
♠ Matthew is showing signs of an only child syndrome – being a spoiled, jealous brat. I go play with Iana, a cousin who is a year old, he goes to tell me, “Mommy, I'm not your favorite anymore.” He increases his when-will-I-have-a-baby-sister to age two-hands-all-fingers = 10.
Mommy Cooking
♠I'm getting the hang of the kitchen. Edil has praised me for cooking asado a few days ago, his first compliment ever since I started cooking, which was like, 2 months ago, hahahaha!Ãœ. I'm planning to do this next week. Maybe on a rest day.
♠ After about 10 trips to the grocery and spending 30 minutes on the poultry and meat section, I finally know what kasim, pigue, and shank mean, instead of asking “Ano po yung pang sinigang na baboy?” to the saleslady. I miss eating tahong though, since I don't have time to go to the market.
Mommy Nurse
♠ Some of my nursing classmates have passed their CGFNS exams, which makes me jealous. I can't wait to practice. Hopefully, in two months. Maybe three. Definitely not going to wait 6 months.
♠ I took a self-measuring test if I'm ready to take it and I got more than average scores. Whaddayaknow, 8 months of not opening any nursing book and some of it has stayed in my brain.
♠ Unrelated: I saw a batchmate in Med Tech when we took Matthew to the ER. She was an intern already. My heart did painful lurches for about five minutes. Edil told me, “Hindi mo kelangan maging doktor kasi may ibang plano sayo. Ganun talaga buhay.” I wonder what that is. Sana sa hospital pa din.
♠ I got my PRC card at last! After having the first one stolen after one week of it being released, I'm not too keen on having it on my wallet anymore. Buti na lang din napalitan, mas OK picture ko dito, hahaha Ãœ.
Mommy Work
♠ I got stocks! Im not allowed to divulge details due to insider trading policy but a unit stock sells for around $10.00 right now. I have around 40, so you guess the figure. I can't wait for it to hit $20.00 and I'm getting something good for myself. It is nice I'm learning all about stock options and making money.
♠ Working in graveyard has grown on me, pero I'm not used to going to work at night. Darkness scares me now. I'd rather be in bed with my boys.
♠ Reading from the PC is a threat to my 20/20 vision. I need to get glasses for eyestrain. HMO would cover that, I hope.Busy, boring, routinary life.
I'll be such a hypocrite to claim I love being a wife. Yes, it makes me happy – but not the giddy, teeny-bopper happy that makes you smile to yourself like an eejit all day long. It's more or less like a peaceful kind of love – the one that is secure, that gives comfort, and assurance. It's almost always having family again (the first one being the one I was born to), which is actually the case.
It is an adjustment though. We haven't had any proper honeymoon nor a honeymoon stage because 1) we already have a son who is 4 and 2) having a son would not really be a problem but having no maid really is.
If things were different and my husband isn't living with us, I would have lasted me and Matthew on junk food and pasta all week, with occasional eat-outs to Jollibee. I would have taken my clothes to the laundry, and would have not cleaned my room for God-knows-how-long. As long as Matthew goes to school on time, gets high grades, eats well, I'm OK.
But Edil doesn't like pasta. He prefers rice on every meal. I need to do laundry every three days or his clothes would stink – he goes to the gym so most of his clothes get wet from sweat. I still have some notion that I need to be the wife so of course, I'm in charge of cleaning the room.
So, alas, the first few weeks, have all been but routine. I can't even begin to count the number of time there had been fights (no bouts of crying, thank God) or the days there would be no talking. While most newlyweds would gush and exclaim na “Ang sarap pala magpakasal!”, I would then fight the urge to say, “San mundo ka ba nakatira?”
Dont get me wrong, Im not even regretting having gotten married. I love the man I vowed to love and cherish for the rest of my life (very much, actually). I guess it's just the adjustments that are killing me. And the fact that I'm forced to be domesticated – which I wasn't trained to be ever since a kid (I grew up with helpers all the time).
For one thing, since wala kaming katulong, and I'm the eldest girl in the house (we still live with my parents but they are more often in Cavite, where they stay now, than in Manila), I'm generally the Mommy in the house aka THE KONTRABIDA. I have an older bro who is good at cooking but never wakes up in time for us to eat during decent hours and two younger sisters who dont know anything about being domesticated. Yeah, they can do chores, but not after being told to do so. Yun pa man din ang pinaka ayaw ko, walang kusang mga tao.
Anyhow, I plan the menu, budget expenses, cook, do laundry for three (me, Edil and Matthew -pero it feels like 5 since Matthew changes clothes 4 times day! Plus bed sheets, towels, etc), be a mom to a makoolit 4 year old, be a wife, and still work AT night. OK. Mukha na tong pity-me-Aggie spiel.
OK naman eh. Sometimes, I feel like I've passed the boards if Edil praises my cooking – which is a challenge since we have very different tastes when it comes to food. (He hasnt criticized my cooking yet though, he eats everything). Or when the clothes really feel and smell Downy fresh. And when Matthew just hugs me and says “I love you Mommy!” (He is very affectionate. We exchange I love you's up to 10 times a day).
And with some meditation and soul-searching, I think the Big Man is just training me on what life we will lead when plans materialize and we will be moving countries in, hopefully, two years. I've been chatting with a cousin who lives in the US and I was having a wife-rant na I have to do the laundry, cook, yada yada nandyan pa si mato and I have to work, when she replied, “Ganyan din kami dito, pero carry lang. Disiplina lang yan.” Which is actually true. Disiplina lang talaga.
Almost 60 days of married life, and we still have to go honeymoon and still have to make plans for an exclusive date, pero, I'm loving it. Totoo. I would never have it any other way.
Sometimes, I get mad at Edil for not doing certain things or I have to tell him to do this and that, pero I appreciate that 1) He does what I request him to do, and 2) He is patient in teaching Matthew. I also appreciate the fact that he let me go to work and he stay at the house while we have no maid (feeling ko hindi na kami makakahanap pa), and still let me have all of my salary. He still takes care of expenses in the house and can still save (ang galing ni Edil sa pera) while my salary would go to credit card debt payments. I appreciate that he has respected my decision not to have babies in 2 years. And I appreciate the fact that he has no macho syndrome. He doesn't feel insecure being in the house. (He still makes more money that I am kasi, I think).
Though I would want a maid to help us out with some things, I think having no one to turn to but each other has brought us closer in a weird way. When I have no work, we still wake up at 7AM to get ready Matthew for school, and then we go about on our own business. Then he fetches Matthew from school and we eat together and just be a family. It may ba far from giddy, but it feels nice.
I’ll be such a hypocrite to claim I love being a wife. Yes, it makes me happy – but not the giddy, teeny-bopper happy that makes you smile to yourself like an eejit all day long. It’s more or less like a peaceful kind of love – the one that is secure, that gives comfort, and assurance. It’s almost always having family again (the first one being the one I was born to), which is actually the case.
It is an adjustment though. We haven’t had any proper honeymoon nor a honeymoon stage because 1) we already have a son who is 4 and 2) having a son would not really be a problem but having no maid really is.
If things were different and my husband isn’t living with us, I would have lasted me and Matthew on junk food and pasta all week, with occasional eat-outs to Jollibee. I would have taken my clothes to the laundry, and would have not cleaned my room for God-knows-how-long. As long as Matthew goes to school on time, gets high grades, eats well, I’m OK.
But Edil doesn’t like pasta. He prefers rice on every meal. I need to do laundry every three days or his clothes would stink – he goes to the gym so most of his clothes get wet from sweat. I still have some notion that I need to be the wife so of course, I’m in charge of cleaning the room.
So, alas, the first few weeks, have all been but routine. I can’t even begin to count the number of time there had been fights (no bouts of crying, thank God) or the days there would be no talking. While most newlyweds would gush and exclaim na “Ang sarap pala magpakasal!”, I would then fight the urge to say, “San mundo ka ba nakatira?”
Dont get me wrong, Im not even regretting having gotten married. I love the man I vowed to love and cherish for the rest of my life (very much, actually). I guess it’s just the adjustments that are killing me. And the fact that I’m forced to be domesticated – which I wasn’t trained to be ever since a kid (I grew up with helpers all the time).
For one thing, since wala kaming katulong, and I’m the eldest girl in the house (we still live with my parents but they are more often in Cavite, where they stay now, than in Manila), I’m generally the Mommy in the house aka THE KONTRABIDA. I have an older bro who is good at cooking but never wakes up in time for us to eat during decent hours and two younger sisters who dont know anything about being domesticated. Yeah, they can do chores, but not after being told to do so. Yun pa man din ang pinaka ayaw ko, walang kusang mga tao.
Anyhow, I plan the menu, budget expenses, cook, do laundry for three (me, Edil and Matthew -pero it feels like 5 since Matthew changes clothes 4 times day! Plus bed sheets, towels, etc), be a mom to a makoolit 4 year old, be a wife, and still work AT night. OK. Mukha na tong pity-me-Aggie spiel.
OK naman eh. Sometimes, I feel like I’ve passed the boards if Edil praises my cooking – which is a challenge since we have very different tastes when it comes to food. (He hasnt criticized my cooking yet though, he eats everything). Or when the clothes really feel and smell Downy fresh. And when Matthew just hugs me and says “I love you Mommy!” (He is very affectionate. We exchange I love you’s up to 10 times a day).
And with some meditation and soul-searching, I think the Big Man is just training me on what life we will lead when plans materialize and we will be moving countries in, hopefully, two years. I’ve been chatting with a cousin who lives in the US and I was having a wife-rant na I have to do the laundry, cook, yada yada nandyan pa si mato and I have to work, when she replied, “Ganyan din kami dito, pero carry lang. Disiplina lang yan.” Which is actually true. Disiplina lang talaga.
Almost 60 days of married life, and we still have to go honeymoon and still have to make plans for an exclusive date, pero, I’m loving it. Totoo. I would never have it any other way.
Sometimes, I get mad at Edil for not doing certain things or I have to tell him to do this and that, pero I appreciate that 1) He does what I request him to do, and 2) He is patient in teaching Matthew. I also appreciate the fact that he let me go to work and he stay at the house while we have no maid (feeling ko hindi na kami makakahanap pa), and still let me have all of my salary. He still takes care of expenses in the house and can still save (ang galing ni Edil sa pera) while my salary would go to credit card debt payments. I appreciate that he has respected my decision not to have babies in 2 years. And I appreciate the fact that he has no macho syndrome. He doesn’t feel insecure being in the house. (He still makes more money that I am kasi, I think).
Though I would want a maid to help us out with some things, I think having no one to turn to but each other has brought us closer in a weird way. When I have no work, we still wake up at 7AM to get ready Matthew for school, and then we go about on our own business. Then he fetches Matthew from school and we eat together and just be a family. It may ba far from giddy, but it feels nice.
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