***ENTRIES FOR THE THREE $10 PRIZES ARE NOW CLOSED***
10.11.2008 (2:15AM MLA TIME)

Recap posted – come and see the fabulous ladies!

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Finally, after such a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG break, AWK is back. I had a loooooooooooooooong draft about this week’s (or month’s) tag. But the last minute, I decided to just scrap about it and share it with my kids in the future (nope – not sharing online even on Flickr. I honestly feel if it needs to be seen by the world, it needs to be in print! LOL). There are certain things Id like to keep for myself, and well, if you read my blog, you’d find bits and pieces already!

Anyway, for this week, I want to SEE you. Post your most recent pictures. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t look great. I want to see more than what is a normal avatar. Take note that it needs to be RECENT. Can you believe I can use an avatar dated 2 years ago? Time for things to change

Secondly, I want to KNOW you. Just YOU. Sans kids, the husband, just YOU. I have a lot of ME tags in my blog – you can use that. What do I want to read: You – Now. It can be as simple as “I love Coke.” or as complex as “I am the crossroads of my life.”

Here is mine:

This is me today. The picture was taken last September 15, after I got my hair dyed (I use the term dye because if I use the word colored you might think it’s a drastic change).

And here is what I want to share for now:

What I wrote: I was the smart kid who had a baby too soon and still refused to get married. I am blessed to still end up with the love of my life who waited. Waited until I was ready to marry him. 24 is my lucky number At age 24, I finished two degrees, had the wedding of my dreams and got pregnant with my mini-me. I feel I have been living my life in the fast lane and Im scared that if I don’t slow down life itself will be gone in a blink of an eye. So that is what Im doing. Slowing down. Walking through life. It is harder than I thought, being used to running all the time. But yes, Im stopping to smell the roses. at last. i managed to finally slow down and enjoy these things: scrapbooking, taking photos, sipping coffee, smelling coffee, collecting scrap kits, blogging, twittering and plurking, kaboodling – it is shopping without spending!, the colors green and aqua blue. pink and brown is still the best though. maintaining my own house. learning domesticity aka cooking. i realized i enjoy losing weight, but still love eating. what a dilemna. i enjoy my kids – eventhough they have made me cry countless of times because of anger and frustration. i enjoy talking, even if it is my fingers talking (aka chatting online). i enjoy family dinners now and talking to my parents. i never thought i would say that. i talk to them more than my husband. i guess that is a bad thing. i enjoy my husband’s company, i only realized that when he is not at home 5 days a week due to work. this is me talking, me who cant wait for him to get out of my sight for an hour back when we were together 24/7. now, i enjoy him more, quirks and all. i enjoy going to tagaytay, a place where you just see things and eat and smell clean fresh air. i enjoy being productive and realizing at the end of the day, i still get to do the things i love. i enjoy setting unreachable goals. i always make sure i work to make them reachable. i love praying, i really hear my god speaking to me. try it sometime. walk through life.

And since I’m especially generous these days – in the spirit of the upcoming holidays, ALL entries posted on or before October 10, 2008 (my Dad’s birthday), will be entered into a random drawing to receive $10! I will be drawing three entries on October 11, 2008, 12NN, Manila time.

Take a picture of yourself. I want to see you.

I’m off to look for potential Chicago jobs at a hospital! Join the fun!

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