November 22, 2007

We are moving into a tiny house. When I say tiny I’m not exaggerating, it’s really tiny with a capital T. This works well for us as we’re a small family. It’s easier to maintain a small house specially when you’re working with a budget.

The drawback is the lack of storage. I can’t imagine how we’ll be able to fit everything inside our house, we’ll have to be very creative in finding storage space. I have a feeling we’ll have to use tv shelves just to add extra storage area.

When I think of engagement rings or wedding rings I think of diamonds. And when I think of diamonds, I think “I WANT MORE!!”. Yes, some people have an LV obsession I have a diamond obsession. I just can’t get over these beauties. The more I see them the more I want them.

I know the bible said thou shalt not covet, or something like that…but when I see diamonds I just turn into a sinner. =)  They do say that diamonds are a girls bestfriend, and I just happen to be a very friendly person.

When I was young, I thought the term juggling work and home was a hyperbole. I didn’t know that the term juggling is actually an understatement. 

Yesterday, I was overwhelmed yet again by how difficult it is maintaining a stressful job, a growing baby and a part time job (maintaining 3 blogs and maintaining opps).

I had to take Andrea to the doctor yesterday for her IPD vaccination. Not only was it extremely expensive (around 5k) it was also scheduled right smack in the middle of my working schedule.  I was just on leave last Monday due to an accident with my car so I couldn’t possibly go on leave again. I then asked my boss if I could work 13 hours on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday just to offset my Wednesday working hours. He said I’m not allowed to work more than 11 hours…so I had no choice but to work half day on Wednesday.

I then took Andrea with me to work, Andrea decided to use the hour long drive to work for crying. This is strange as she actually enjoys long drives but at that time she was just cranky for some reaason or another. When we got to the office, I left her in the lounge with Mary our trusty helper and then worked for around 4 hours. At that point I was stressing out hoping that Andrea wasn’t disturbing other people.

I then had to rush and drive to Cardinal Santos where her Pedia was. The Pedia only had 2 clinic hours so I was panicked beyond words when the traffic was jammed.

When we got to Cardinal, Andrea was back to her crying/screaming phase and the rain was pouring like there was no tomorrow. It wasn’t raining cats and dogs, it was raining leopards and wolves I’m telling you.

What does one do in situations like this? I drove to the driveway, asked Mary to take Andrea down so I can look for parking.  I had no choice as our umbrella couldn’t have kept Andrea dry under that rain.  

I was then told by the guard that there’s no more parking. I wanted to cry right there and then. Andrea’s there inside the hospital crying and hungry, while I was inside the car with nowhere to park and Andrea’s bottles were all with me. I wasthisclose to having a breakdown right there and then.