October 24, 2007

I very rarely have regrets in life. I usually indulge in whatever I want and take a leap of faith every once in a while. One thing that’s been nagging me though is my poor planning of my past trip to France. I should have focus more on getting out of France. Avril had some relatives in Spain and at that time I wasn’t so interested in Spain. I didn’t know much about Spain then and in my mind it can’t be that much different from Mexico.

Looking through some websites now, I can’t believe how wrong I was. If I ever get the chance to go back, these are the places I’d make sure to visit.

picture taken from Wikipedia

1. Muralla de Avila — huge castle. Just looking at the pictures of this place takes me back to the olden days. It just screams History doesn’t it?  I hope this is near the hotels in spain so that going around the area would be easy.

2. Gothic Quarter — I love Gothic Architecture and was even more attracted to it upon seeing the Duomo.  Of course if I’m going here I’ll have to look into hotels in barcelona.

3. Museo del Prado — I am no art fanatic but I’ve learned just recently that one fantastic way of learn about the place you’re visiting as well as to have a full day’s worth of activity without spending too mich is visiting museums.  Do  you know that you can find the Titians and Rubens here (is it obvious what my taste in Art is like? hehehe) So I guess I’ll have to look into hotels in madrid as well.

4. Hot Spanish Men…I heard these are a dime a dozen over there. =)

Planning imaginary trips which might not happen in the near future may be fun but it can be quite frustrating too….sigh.

We are thisclose to moving into our new home. It’s both exciting and scary because we will be faced with expenses galore as soon as we move. Another major consideration is the huge one-time expense of furniture buying.  Do you have any idea how hard that is? It’s also extremely hard finding furniture and appliances which would fit our tiny home.

So far we have a bed which I LOVE to pieces..that’s it. The toughest thing to find is good home theater furniture that’s both affordable and stylish.

My Aunt’s complaining that I haven’t been posting pics of Andrea so here it goes. (For those of you who don’t want to overdose on Andrea’s pics–you might want to skip this post)

What has happened to Andrea?

Well the biggest change is that she now knows how to smile…or at least look pleasant every once in a while instead of constantly scowling. =)

She is slowly evolving and looking a bit more like a girl. (Notice how slow the growth of her eyebrows is)

She has begun showing preferences for people…particularly for me…YEY.  Her stranger anxiety is more evident and she gets a bit clingy when in unfamiliar situations. (oh look…it’s Dark and Darker)

We took her to SM hypermart and she initially was hanging on to me for dear life. After a while she was quietly sitting in her stroller looking

She also learned that eating one’s sunglasses is better than wearing them.

She’s already bored with her wading pool

And finds the grass around it more interesting

Now for the biggest news….

She’s standing and walking…I can’t believe she’s already doing these big girl things. Where did my baby go? huhuhu

I always thought getting life insurance is something only old people needed to do. Now, at 25, I’m realizing that I need to start looking at my options. I get a bit confused and overwhelmed with all the information out there. Every time I talk about life insurance with anybody, I get bombarded with numbers after numbers after numbers.

After the problem with the decision making, there’s still that problem with the medical check-up. Who really has the time or the patience for this? Do any of  you know of any life insurance no medical or rather of any life insurance policies with no medical?

Notice how some people over-estimate the importance of their work and their selves? I think sometimes we become so full of ourselves that we always think the world revolves around us.

I’d be the first to admit that I was one of those people in the past. Thank God I’m slowly learning otherwise