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(Because I haven’t even started doing the July-December roundup!)

2008 Wrap Up — Second Half Edition:

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THAT YOU’VE NEVER DONE BEFORE?
I’ve never moved out on my own before. I also haven’t posed with a movie poster even when I was a teenager – but I did when I watched Twilight

DID YOU KEEP YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS?
Some of them yes. I actually was good last year. I hit 4 out of the six goals I made for myself.

DID ANYONE CLOSE TO YOU GIVE BIRTH?
Yes! With my age, a lot of friends and acquaintances are settling down and starting a family. Most are even working on baby number 2 

DID ANYONE CLOSE TO YOU DIE?
A family friend died. She was especially fond of Martha.

WHAT COUNTRIES DID YOU VISIT?
None

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE FOR 2009 THAT YOU LACKED in 2008?
Savings and good health

WHAT DATE WILL REMAIN ETCHED UPON YOUR MEMORY AND WHY?
June 8, 2008

WHAT WAS YOUR BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR?
We survived moving out on our own and I finally was able to quit my job after five years! Let us hope it will not take another 5 years to quit the one I’m working on right now. LOL

WHAT WAS YOUR BIGGEST FAILURE?
Not losing weight, forever and ever.

DID YOU SUFFER ILLNESS OR INJURY?
Yes. Ironically, the whole time I had Maxicare I was never hospitalized but three months after resigning from work, I had dengue! I should consider myself lucky because with they way I ate, I didn’t develop diabetes (Im not saying I wont though if I dont control myself). Bottomline: If it’s in your genes, get checked. Women who develop diabetes commonly complain of vaginal dryness and itching, gradual loss of vision and thirstiness

WHAT WAS THE BEST THING YOU BOUGHT?
The Dell Inspiron 1525 pa din

WHOSE BEHAVIOR MERITED CELEBRATION?
My kids  — they grew up so fast and while they are still a bratty bunch, they are learning to have some manners!

WHOSE BEHAVIOR MADE YOU APPALLED AND DEPRESSED?
None really. I steer far away from people who appall me

WHERE DID MOST OF YOUR MONEY GO?
Paying bills and buying groceries.

WHAT DID YOU GET REALLY, REALLY, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT?
Christmas

WHAT SONG(S) WILL ALWAYS REMIND YOU OF THINGS THAT LAST YEAR?
Hmmmm. So many eh.

COMPARED TO THIS TIME, LAST YEAR, ARE YOU:

I. HAPPIER OR SADDER? Happier

II. THINNER OR FATTER? I refuse to answer this question.

III. RICHER OF POORER? Richer, I think.

WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU’D DONE MORE? Read more books.

WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU’D DONE LESS OF? Spent useless time on the web.

DID YOU FALL IN LOVE? Oh yes, with Gong Yoo and Edward Cullen

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TV PROGRAM? Survivor Philippines kept me sane.

DO YOU HATE ANYONE NOW THAT YOU DIDN’T HATE THIS TIME LAST YEAR? None 

WHAT WAS THE BEST BOOK YOU READ? The Twilight Series

WHAT WAS YOUR GREATEST MUSICAL DISCOVERY? I stick to pop and R&B

WHAT DID YOU WANT AND GET? What I wanted, I got

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE FILM OF THIS YEAR? I didn’t watch that much movies.

WHAT DID YOU DO ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, AND HOW OLD WERE YOU? I was 27 and I honestly forgot what I did – which means I didn’t do anything special!

WHAT ONE THING WOULD HAVE MADE YOUR YEAR IMMEASURABLY MORE SATISFYING? If we had savings.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONAL FASHION CONCEPT THIS PAST YEAR? Capris and shirts, slippers all the time.

WHAT KEPT YOU SANE? The internet and online friends

WHICH CELEBRITY / PUBLIC FIGURE DID YOU FANCY THE MOST? Barack Obama.

WHAT POLITICAL ISSUE STIRRED YOU THE MOST? US Elections 2008

WHO DID YOU MISS? Many many friends.

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December is halfway over – before you know it, it’s going to be Christmas and with a blink of an eye, 2009 has come!

Remember my AWK#3: Halfway There tag? Well, we are just going to be continuing what we have done – this time from July  to December! No worries if you werent able to do the first one. Just join in!

Little How-To:

Here’s what I did, I posted my roundup month per month, with an equivalent word (I planned this for scrapping year end month to month memories), and posted some highlights per month (your blog will come in handy here). If it’s too tedious for you, you can just list some memorable things/accomplishments/disappointments that you remember or do the survery I snagged from Glo (which you can see below – Im a sucker for these things I did it as well). If you have your Things To Look Forward To or resolutions from last January, link that as well. At the end of your post, please tell me what are the things you look forward to with the remaining months of the year (Masyado atang kumplikado to no? Hehehe – You will thank me for this!)

And you can do this as well!

2008 Wrap Up — Second Half Edition:

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THAT YOU’VE NEVER DONE BEFORE?

DID YOU KEEP YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS?

DID ANYONE CLOSE TO YOU GIVE BIRTH?

DID ANYONE CLOSE TO YOU DIE?

WHAT COUNTRIES DID YOU VISIT?

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR THAT YOU LACKED EARLY THIS YEAR?

WHAT DATE WILL REMAIN ETCHED UPON YOUR MEMORY AND WHY?

WHAT WAS YOUR BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR?

WHAT WAS YOUR BIGGEST FAILURE?

DID YOU SUFFER ILLNESS OR INJURY?

WHAT WAS THE BEST THING YOU BOUGHT?

WHOSE BEHAVIOR MERITED CELEBRATION?

WHOSE BEHAVIOR MADE YOU APPALLED AND DEPRESSED?

WHERE DID MOST OF YOUR MONEY GO?

WHAT DID YOU GET REALLY, REALLY, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT?

WHAT SONG(S) WILL ALWAYS REMIND YOU OF THINGS THAT HAPPENED EARLY THIS YEAR?

COMPARED TO THIS TIME, LAST YEAR, ARE YOU:

I. HAPPIER OR SADDER?

II. THINNER OR FATTER?

III. RICHER OF POORER?

WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU’D DONE MORE?

WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU’D DONE LESS OF?

HOW WILL YOU BE SPENDING CHRISTMAS?

DID YOU FALL IN LOVE?

HOW MANY ONE-NIGHT STANDS?

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TV PROGRAM?

DO YOU HATE ANYONE NOW THAT YOU DIDN’T HATE THIS TIME LAST YEAR?

WHAT WAS THE BEST BOOK YOU READ?

WHAT WAS YOUR GREATEST MUSICAL DISCOVERY?

WHAT DID YOU WANT AND GET?

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE FILM OF THIS YEAR?

WHAT DID YOU DO ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, AND HOW OLD WERE YOU?

WHAT ONE THING WOULD HAVE MADE YOUR HALF YEAR IMMEASURABLY MORE SATISFYING?

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONAL FASHION CONCEPT THIS PAST HALF YEAR?

WHAT KEPT YOU SANE?

WHICH CELEBRITY / PUBLIC FIGURE DID YOU FANCY THE MOST?

WHAT POLITICAL ISSUE STIRRED YOU THE MOST?

WHO DID YOU MISS?

Leave me a comment once you’re done! Ill be posting the round-up first week of January! Be back with mine soon!

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Thank you again ladies

If you want to join, feel free to leave me a comment here or on the original post. I will update this post every week (or as somebody joins in).

And now, I ran a little giveaway for this last week and all entries received before October 10, 2008 11:59PM MLA are entered into a drawing of $10 PayPal money. Here are the qualified entries:

Farah
Kathy
Alexis
Glo
Jody
Litzie
Vannie
Nice
Dzoi
Apols
Kaje
Yen <
br />Jacq
Twinkie
Amore
Abie
Suzanne

I used the Randomizer to choose three ladies and it chose:

Congratulations Jacq, Vannie and Twinkie!! I will get in touch with you soon
I have the AWK in draft for next week! Until then!
Enjoy the weekend!

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

Recap posted – come and see the fabulous ladies!

Snag the button: Right click on the Image – Choose Properties – Copy the URL

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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Im extending the AWK3: Halfway There entries up until Wednesday this week as I understand it would take longer than usual for us to do a round up. So far, there have been 11 ladies who have joined (Please leave me a comment if you did as I sometimes forget the pings to my blog with this topic – hindi ko kayo nasasali). Thanks ladies. Ill get around to commenting within this week, but Ive read all them already (Lagi lang akong read ng read, Hehehe).

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