October 20, 2007

My boss has been obsessing over our laptop batteries. Everytime he’d come to our office and see that we’ve left our laptop charger connected to the laptop overtime he would unplug it himself and then give us a lecture on why leaving it unplugged is important.

I have been negligent in doing this and would often find myself lying in bed then remembering that OOPS I left my laptop plugged again.

It seems that this practice has now taken it’s toll on my laptop batteries.  It’s battery life is so much shorter than around 5 months ago =( .  I hope I won’t have to subject my laptop to any power supply repair. God knows my boss won’t be too pleased with that.

I haven’t even shed all of my baby fat when suddenly I get pregnant and end up with a baby and more fat. Van has already lost most of her pregnancy weight meanwhile I have graduated from being a cow to being a triceratop (yes complete with horns). I’ve been going over my daily schedule trying to find an extra hour for me to work out but it’s impossible!! Honestly I’d rather spend the time with Andrea than on the treadmill.

I really wish I would wake up one day and I’d be back to my hot hot hot body of 7 years ago…wahahah I don’t care what you say. I think I was hot hot hot then (meanwhile I’m just hot now…Hey Jen! Can you sense that I overdosed on self-esteem this morning?).  I wish there was a Miracle burn that could just quietly melt away all the fat…

See that last sentence just made me think of butter and bulalo soup. Oh no, with this way of thinking I might never lose weight.

Regardless of what people say, my “bitchiness” has definitely  gone down in the past year or so. I have mellowed down quite a bit but when it comes to Andrea, I somehow get all riled up without meaning to.

Last Thursday, we went to a grocery and Ruy was carrying Andrea. A sales lady came up to Andrea started holding her hand. Now I’m very particular about this cause Andrea always puts her hand inside her mouth. I then told the lady “Don’t touch!” …I said it in a matter-of-fact tone yet somehow Ruy thought I was being a bitch. Was I? I think people shouldn’t go around holding other people without knowing if it’s okay for the other person. People have told me that was too bitchy. I seriously don’t think so. I think I was straightforward and told the person exactly what I wanted. I don’t see anything wrong with that even if other people do.

I’ve been forcing a friend of mine to go and join one of those cruise ships. Nope, not as a passenger but as a cabin boy. This might seem like crazy advice but when you hear about their compensation package you’d want to be a cabin boy there too. The basic salary’s not that big. You get something ranging from $1,000 to $2,000. That’s just the basic okay? Imagine that every cabin boy is assigned to a minimum of 100 rooms in a ship, and based on a cabin boy they earn around 5-40$ a day per room. So let’s say they earn the minimum…that’s 500$ a day on top of the basic. What’s even more fantastic is the fact that they have no overhead at all…no tax…no housing (they live on the ship) and no lunch costs cause everything will be provided for by the cruise line.

The obvious drawback would be that you’d be thousands of miles away from your loved ones. The particular cruise ship is stationed in Florida and so it’s extremely far from the Philippines. I told my friend he can just avail of short term Orlando Vacation Home Rental every once in a while if he wants to see his family.

If Andrea weren’t in the picture, I’d try to persuade Ruy to do the same.

I have to once again be a stage mother….Andrea has been sitting-up; hoisting herself up; slowly navigating her way around her crib (while holding on to the railing of course) and talking.

Her vocal repertoire includes: Mama; Daddy; A-boo (for peek-a-boo)….of course these are her rare words drowned within a sea of “Eh” and other gurgling sounds.

I should keep on reminding myself this. Times are not easy and despite my more than okay income we can definitely benefit from having more cash in our pockets. Maybe if I grabbed any business opportunity that comes my way, I’ll be one step closer to treating QA to Maldives like I talked about 2 posts down. wahahah

Seriously speaking though, I feel quite frustrated about the fact that I have EXCELLENT ideas. I just don’t have the motivation to execute them now. This is silly I know because of course having Andrea should be motivation enough right?