Torn

I’ve been receiving SMS from my boss that he’s looking forward to my return. Haay…honestly, I’m torn between the thought of returning and resigning. Now that I already have two kids (the other one is still a baby) and hubby is set to leave on the last week of April to work overseas, I’m worried about leaving the kids alone. Yes, there’s my sister in law who’s helping me manage the house but then again, it’s different if they will grow up with a hands-on mom taking care of them. I really wish that I could be a WAHM (work at home mom). But when I see things on a different view, I know I still can’t leave. We still need to save. Plus the benefits that I get from the company like the health insurance is really a big help. Once I leave, I will be force to get a health insurance for us and now, I don’t know if there would even be any cheap health insurance that I could afford. Haayy…..I’m really torn.

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Yes...

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My various thoughts today...

Today officially starts the Holy week vacation. I guess some of my colleagues are now on their way to their provinces or vacation getaways…while me, still on maternity leave. Haaay, how I wish the vacation days is not included on my ML days so my vacation could still be extended.

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Hubby will be home by Friday. I wish he has something for me from his trip. I love Lucban’s longganisa, I hope we will bring home some.

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I’ll be going to the supermarket later to buy some stuff. As usual, the little girl told me that she will come with me. I bet she’ll be coming again with a little something for herself from the grocery store. She will definitely play with the barcode scanner again. Hmm, I don’t if the store’s scanner is an, LS4278 but I hope it’s good enough to last for a long time. Little kids that play with it might break it in one way or another so the store should have kept a good quality POS machine.

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I’m enjoying a Kdrama entitled “You’re Beautiful.” I’m still on episode 5. It’s been a long time since I got to enjoy a kdrama and I think I’ll get addicted to this one. Looking forward to finish watching it.

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It’s a cloudy day today…I think it’s the right time for a latte. Hmm...where did I put my star bucks gift check? I’ll go find it…

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Word of the Day: Tarradiddle

Popinjay \POP-in-jay\, noun:

A vain and talkative person.

Examples:

One popinjay shrieking from the left and another from the right about last week's headlines is not the whole of Washington's political dramas. Occasionally, American politics is more complicated and more momentous.
-- R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., "Feds Go Drug Crazy", American Spectator, May 26, 2000

A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay.
-- Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

The dignified, high density of personality of [Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart] is completely missing from our popinjay contemporary actors.
-- Camille Paglia, Salon, March 1998

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Double Time

I’m left to take care of the two kids. Hubby was invited to speak at his friend’s school for their graduation ceremony. I don’t know what time he will come back. As of now, I’m tinkering with my Photoshop LOs while checking out an online life insurance site, and checking my emails. I also have to finish all my tasks before the kids wake up so I’m working double time, haha! I hope I’ll be able to finish the little boy’s photo book this week before it expires. Haayz!

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Babe, I Love You

Have you seen the full trailer of Anne and Sam's latest movie? I watched it in youtube and I was intrigued to watch it. I like Anne and Sam because they look good together so I think I'll watch their movie. I love the trailer and the theme song is one of my favorite.

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My Handy Man

Half of hubby’s day was consumed repairing the leak in our faucet and the break on the water pipes. He breaks the floor cement of the kitchen to check the leaking pipe, and repaired it. It’s just good that we didn’t have any metal tile installed. It could have been more difficult for him. My Mr. Handy Man really proves to be my ever reliable helper in the house. I just couldn’t imagine how our lives would be once he return working overseas..haaay.

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Friday Fill-Ins #169

1. The right word to say is THANK YOU.
2. You can come in but avoid loud noises and shut the door quietly, please...the baby is sound asleep.
3. Up in the ceiling I hear some noises.
4. Inside my room in front of the computer is where you'll find me.
5. Ooh! What is that smell?
6. Giving the kids a pool party for their birthday on May is a good idea.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to another sleepless night, tomorrow my plans include doing the laundry and finished my online tasks and Sunday, I want to go to church and hit the mall afterwards!


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Glee: Defying Gravity

Defying Gravity

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules
Of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes: and leap!

It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I am defying gravity
And you wont bring me down!

I'm through accepting limits
''cause someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost!

I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
And you wont bring me down!

I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
And never bring me down!
bring me down!
ohh ohhh ohhhh!

I simply love this song sang at Glee.

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After the long hybernation...

...we went to the mall to buy stuff that we will need for the little girl’s graduation on Tuesday though I still find it hard to walk. My sister –in-law who’s been helping me in the house since our helper left went on a vacation that’s why we also brought MJ with us. We’re one happy family, lol! But when we arrived at the mall, it was jam packed. I didn’t know that there’s a three day sale today. That’s why we just went and bought all the necessary stuff and decided to go home immediately. We we’re rushing to leave the place that’s why we’re not able to even stopped in a restaurant to eat or look for a spa cover. It’s hard to stroll when there’s a baby in tow and the place is too crowded. The little girl was crying because she wanted to play first before going home but since it’s too crowded I know it would be very hard for us to move around. I just promised her that we’ll visit again next week when the sale is over. It’s been ages since we last went out so I’ll keep that promise.

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Friday Fill-Ins #168

1. Today I will be fetching my daughter from school. It's their graduation practice and I would love to see what they are doing.
2. My husband said I should try teaching English online and I say why not? After all, its additonal income!
3. What do you think of the border less TV from Korea? Saw it featured in Rated K, a local TV show and I love to own one.
4. At some Starbucks outlets it's free Pastry Day til 1030 Friday! I hope I can get one, lol!
5. People say that what we're all seeking is world peace.
6. The image I cherish most is my whole family praying. I know it's a cliche that a family that prays together stays together but I believe it.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to seeing my husband who's been away for 1 week, tomorrow my plans include hitting the mall to buy graduation dress
for my little girl and Sunday, I want to go to church..I miss it!

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Moms shouldn't be "Losyang"

Not because we’re already moms we would forget about getting fit, and looking beautiful. The more that we aged should also be the more that we take care of ourselves. It’s not just for our own benefit but for our family as well. Getting fit should always be in our mind so we’ll stay healthy and look beautiful. I know some moms who looks pretty and fit even if they’re SAHMs (stay at home moms). And that’s what we should be. Let’s avoid becoming “losyang”! If we notice that we’re already getting bigger, look for the best natural fat burner, don’t forget to comb your hair put make up and dress nicely. Pamper yourself once in a while by going to the salon or spa, getting a massage, a hair treatment or a pedicure.

Remember that we should always look good for our husbands, for our kids and for ourselves. It’s one anti-losyang factor and it helps to increase our self-worth.

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Word of the Day: Gravitas

Gravitas \GRAV-uh-tahs\, noun:

High seriousness (as in a person's bearing or in the treatment of a subject).

Examples:

At first sight the tall, stooped figure with the hawk-like features and bloodless cheeks, the look of extreme gravitas, seems forbidding and austere, the abbot of an ascetic order, scion of an imperial family who has foresworn the world.
-- John Lehmann, "T.S. Eliot Talks About Himself and the Drive to Create", New York Times, November 9, 1953

And we want to tell our readers about sharp, clever books, utterly lacking in gravitas, that we know will delight them on the beach or the bus.
-- Benjamin Schwarz, "(Some of) the best books of 2001", The Atlantic, December 2001

That gravitas and germaphobic hypersensitivity sometimes led to situations bordering on slapstick.
-- Pauline W. Chen, M.D., "Why Don't Doctors Wash Their Hands More? ", New York Times, September 17, 2009

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That's Life!

I’m off to bed in a little while. I had to get a few hours of sleep while my baby is still sound asleep because later, I know I would be deprived again. I’ll just finish reading some tips and articles about weight loss and go to bed. I have not been watching my favorite soap operas lately so I can sleep early because I’ll be wide awake again during the wee hours of the morning…well, that’s life! And I’m joyfully embracing it.

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Wednesday Happy Thoughts

1. Finally went out to send my daughter to school
2. A new hair style
3. Paid bills fast
4. Decreasing abdominal pain
5. A hug and a kiss from my little girl
6. She finish her exams faster than her classmates
7. A good report from her class' assistant about her exams
8. A sweet SMS from hubby.

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Welcome Eye Bags!

“You don’t look like you’ve been pregnant. You’ve lose weight fast.” This is what I would hear from some of the people who know me. Well, thanks to my baby...I’m embracing now the looooong, sleepless nights (and days, lol!). It’s my natural way of getting back into shape so I don’t have to take adipex diet pills. Well, most people who do not get enough sleep lose weight fast though it’s not good. I know, it’s not healthy but since it’s necessary, I have to deal with it. So for now, welcome eye bags!

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Love...

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Getting back into shape is hard...

Yes, I think it does!.....I thought I wouldn’t need to look for the best fat burning supplement…but now, I’m searching, lol! I must admit after three weeks, I still have the flab. And because I can’t do some rigid exercises yet, one of the solutions I’m considering is to take fat burners. Yes, my weight was down to 47 kgs., (I still need to lose 2 kilos to get my pre-pregnancy weight, lol!) but my waistline is still….oh, never mind. If my natural way of losing my pregnancy fats won’t work, I guess, I will really have to take fat burners.

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Glee!

I am a music lover. That's why musicals appeal so much to me. And when I learned about Glee, I was Gleek! It was the show that entertained me during the first week of my maternity leave. I super love all the songs that they sang specially "Don't Stop Believing"..it gives me the LSS, lol!

I enjoyed watching all 13 episodes of season one and looking forward to watching the next batch of episodes.

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End of School Year.

My daughter will be graduating from nursery next week. But unlike other schools they will not send out first communion invitations because it’s a Christian school. They only advised us that they will be distributing graduation invitations and their class’ yearbook.

Well, I can’t believe that my daughter was able to cope with her studies and is now graduating. Next school year she will be in her kinder class. And just the same, I’m praying she’ll be able to cope with the class.

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Wednesday Happy Thoughts

1. Wake up to a beautiful morning.
2. Hot pandesal and chocolate drink for breakfast.
3. A new haircut.
4. A smile (though I know it's not a real smile yet, lol!) from baby MJ.
5. On time payment from one of my online jobs.
6. A new website.
7. I can now turn on my sides unlike the past few days that I only lie flat on the bed.
8. Decreasing tummy flab.
9. Wearing my pre-pregnancy clothes again.

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Insurance Scam?

Although insurance companies faced a lot of issues regarding insurances and college plans for the past years, it’s still easy to get life insurance quotes here in the Philippines and there are still more who trust insurance companies. But I must admit there also some who are still doing suspicious gimmicks in order to sell. Just recently, I received a SMS from a certain insurance company offering me a free life insurance package. Since I don’t easily buy such offers, I neglected it. I’ve heard from a friend that it’s just a scam. I’m ok with insurances but if ever I’ll get one, I want to get it from a refutable company...one that I really really trust.

Until now, the person is still sending me SMS but I kept on ignoring it.

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Happiness

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My Little Girl

We’ve already received one of the photo graduation invitations that were being sent to parents from the little girl’s school. A few more weeks and our daughter will be graduating from her nursery class. Next year we will have a kindergarten student. Time really fly fast. When our new baby arrived it seems that she also grew fast. Well, she’s grown and she’s growing continuously every day but she will remain my little girl.

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Word of the Day: Vivify

Vivify \VIV-uh-fy\, transitive verb:

1. To endue with life; to make alive; to animate.
2. To make more lively or intense.

Examples:

Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts?
-- Annie Dillard, "Write Till You Drop", New York Times, May 28, 1989

Stories not only provide context for statistical statements but can illustrate and vivify them as well.
-- John Allen Paulos, Once Upon a Number

They collaborated on, and for our benefit specialized in, like paleontologists, the painstaking reconstruction of vanished jokes from extant tag lines. They could vivify old New Yorker cartoons, source of many tag lines.
-- Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

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So Much To DO

I’ve been meaning to visit National Bookstore. Maybe after two weeks, when I can already walk normally. I need to buy a baby book for my little boy and a few Best Buy items for my little girl. I have already compiled all the things that I will need to start the little boy’s baby book. I want to document his growing years like what I did with my daughter. Haay..I have so much to do on my list before I go back to work. I hope I can do all of them.

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Friday Fill-Ins #166

1. Why are you making loud noises? Ssshhh..the baby's sleeping.
2. I want you to take a deep breathe and calm down.
3. If you fail, then it will be on my terms.
4. Just try and see what happens.
5. I could use a breastfeeding pillow whenever I carry my little boy. That way, I won't hurt my incision.
6. I'm planning to visit my dermatologist and then visit my dentist.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to sleeping early, tomorrow my plans include a time with my little girl and Sunday, I want to just rest! I need all the rest I could get to recover fast.

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