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Archives for 2008 Week at a Glance category
June 15 – June 22
(I think this might be a regular post from me from now on)
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Typhoon Frank has switched paths and is now going to hit the Metro, with a strength that can be classified as Signal No.3. I hope you stay safe everyone.
It has also been raining non-stop since last night here. What has been nice bed weather at the start became frighteningly cold. At least for Edil. (He is in a jacket now, while I still managed to take a cold shower last night 
). The kids are stuck at home and they are close to freaking out – they are used to seeing the sun at 5AM here and everything here is gray.
What I would give to have hot champorado right now – but we dont have it here, and I think we dont even have an umbrella to go out. We dont even risk going to the market yet as the roads to Silang is very curvy and slippery.
Anyhow, what did we do yesterday?
I slept the whole afternoon. Oh wow. It’s a first, especially with the kids awake. Edil let me sleep in because he slept the whole morning, hahaha. He took the TV out of the room so the kids are not noisy and just let me sleep. Nice, eh? I also managed to scrap!! I scrapped three pages and would have done more if I didnt check myself and forced myself to sleep last night.
We also had a light discussion on the expenses this month. We have a higher electricity bill than last month and we know it is because of computer usage. Im going to have to start turning it off at night. Edil has also made the decision to accept the car plan his company has been offering him so he can just leave the owner jeep stay here. Hopefully, their transportation allowance goes up too so he can use it to go here – otherwise, he’d have to commute going home and I would just have to pick him up at the terminal (Id have to learn how to drive I Know). I think the offer will be made on the last quarter of the year — so keeping my fingers crossed 
It is better than us getting our own – we would need to apply for Auto Loans and I dont think, at our current standing, we can afford to pay for it.
I never thought I would even talk about needing a car – but where we live at, we really need it to go around otherwise it will be doubly hard. And even if we commute, transportation prices are so high! For example, when I go to the grocery, I need 50 bucks to commute BY JEEP! (That’s how far it is, LOL). So yes, car=necessity.
I think I have not even done a nice personal post this week. Lack of time does that to me – and sometimes, to be honest, when there is so much to do, I have a tendency to space out
So to recap.
(I dont even know what date it is today, have to go look and find a calendar. I so need to wear a watch already, it doesnt need to be a fancy watch like Patek world time).
June 6-8: Weekend
I went with my family (Edil had to stay at home to watch the kids) – and while my heart was torn leaving them behind (especially Edil who I wanted to take with me), I needed that weekend. It was the one thing I need to be assured, find my purpose, look towards the goal, and bear my crosses. It was doubly hard after the weekend but I will persevere.
June 9: Holiday
Edil stayed at home, we went to the mall to buy Matthew’s school stuff (additional black pants, sando, etc). I FINALLY had my Chowking Halo Halo (Hehehe). Then we went to my parents and visited the Shrine and stayed there until evening.
June 11-13: Tagaytay
We went to Tagaytay with my cousins and their kids and stayed at the resthouse where I celebrated my debut and stayed when I prepared for my wedding. Such a special house. If I had gazillions of money, Id buy that house in a heartbeat
Buh bye April. HELLO MAY! What will you not miss about April? And what are you looking forward to in May?
I will not miss the stress, the frantic move, the tightness in money, all the useless catty fights I had with Edil because of stress.
Im looking forward to staying at home, taking care of the kids, focusing on my health (lose weight without the diet pills), Martha’s 2nd birthday, EXODUS.
May will be our EXODUS.
WOOOOOOOW!!!
Life gets crazier for us, since our plan is to move houses this month, and we havent even done anything yet! The house is semi-furnished already so we just need to move some things we can’t live without.
So March! Start of summer, Holy Week, and some big life changes!
1. I file for resignation.
2. We plan our move. We go with the move. Im just a little frustrated that we dont have moving companies like the New York movers in the US. It’s a good thing my parents can ask the help of some people to borrow big trucks (well, we dont even need trucks because our things are very few! LOL).
3. I finally send the BON CA application. I scout review centers online (reco’s anyone?).
4. Matthew finished first grade! One year done, with him being the top of the class. Only 9 days left of waking up early in the morning to cook for the finicky little boy! I dont who is more excited – me or Matthew, who doesnt want to go to school anymore! Hahaha!
5. We are on the second month of Martha’s treatment, yay! Four months na lang 
Highlight of the week:
(Yes, even if it’s only Thursday!)
Finally ordering G! It’s my biggest splurge to date (after my SLR) and I cant help but feel guilty – we might make use of the money in some other things, you know. However, as a friend nicely puts it, I have been working my a** off for a year now and it’s about time I get this. OK. So with closed eyes the purchase was made.
Im excited! G is bi. G can be a she when Im a good friend and G can be who-else-but when Im all hot and heavy for GY! Bwahahaha. Edil let me have his picture on his Vidal Sassoon endorsement as our desktop .
Lowdown for this Week:
Well, if you can see it in a way that I cant eat and still need to go to the restroom 10 times a day so I can lose weight, fine. But the cramping is killing me. Damn virus.
Edil is hot (not hot-hot, LOL) with fever since the other day too.
Im sorry pero we need summer already!
That you were supposed to start the New Year in February?
It has taken me this long to recover from the holidays and this long to keep all chores and duties clear – it is still NOT done (far from it even) but I guess this year will have the same similiarities as last – insanely busy.
Let me recover some more and see if I can swing it by next week.
A quick update on our week(end).
Our best househelp to date needed to stop working, she has diabetes and last week, her blood sugar shot up to 375 and her blood pressure was 180/110. Her condition isnt ideal for working anymore.
Martha is staying with my parents again. Given the situation we have right now, it is highly probable that she will stay there until our move already 
. I could commute everyday, I really can but we have a schooler that needs to finish school. *sigh* The more kids you have the complicated it gets – and they have a wide age gap. So you mommies, plan your pregnancies together. They grow up together, go to school together! (In short, you guys need to get preggo this year! Haha!).
We are still scheduling Matthew’s operation. We want it to be done with this month so he can swim by summer. (He will have his heart broken if he finds out he can’t). He is an independent boy already. He gets by himself at the house for a few hours with food and more food (we live in a compound with relatives of course) until we get back from work. Most of the time Edil and I take turns sneaking out of the office earlier 
. We are living the American Life. *sigh*.
We do one load of laundry, iron, I cook in batches and do everything by ourselves already. We dont hire weekly help as Edil decided for us to learn the hard way. If not for Martha being a toddler, we could have gotten by easily. It is hard work, it takes discipline but it is doable.
Edil does the laundry! Yes, he does! I got lucky with him on that area. He also has gotten back to playing basketball once a week and lifting weights twice a week so he is beefing up again (Oh lala! LOL). Somebody suggested he take supplements with creatine ethyl ester to define and pump his muscles more but he declined. He just wants to get back into shape and not have bulges in the wrong places. Now if he quits smoking, Ill fall in love with him all over again, hahaha!
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