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In her new album, Madonna talks about infidelity. She talks about how it might initially seem exciting for the guy but eventually the guy will realize that:
“She’s not me,
She doesn’t have my name.
She’ll never have what I have
It won’t be the same.
She’s not me!”
TARUSH!!! Go Maddie!!
A friend asked me earlier if I would ever forgive Ruy if he cheated on me…I said no.
He asked “Not even for Andrea?” to which I replied “Especially because of Andrea”
I know this doesn’t make sense to most people, but I would like to put out a positive message to Andrea in terms of being a person. It’s about valuing yourself enough to know how you should be treated. It’s about telling Andrea that she shouldn’t allow people to do that to her as well.
1. What’s your relationship status?
2. What is your current mood?
3. Who is your favorite band/artist?
4. What is your favorite movie?
5. What kind of pet do you have?
6. Where do you live?
7. Where do you work?
8. What do you look like?
9.What do you drive?
10. What did you do last night?
11. What is your favorite TV show
12. Describe yourself
13. What are you doing today?
14. What is your name?
15. What is your favorite candy?
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Ruy and I try, as much as possible, to spend time with Andrea during weekends. We try to find things she would enjoy doing as well as things she would learn from. Last weekend, as I’ve already told most of you, we went to a mall with a huge castle which acts like a trampoline while this weekend she went swimming!!! It’s her first time and she took to it like a fish takes to water. It’s very refreshing to see that she was able to get rid of her fear of water. I’m really looking forward to her swimming lessons which will start next week. I’ll tell you more about that another time!
I am now a massage addict!!! Luckily there are women in our office walking around giving massages (not for free though) to anyone who needs it. The lines are always long but I often manage to secure one when I really need it. I don’t know why but my back has been giving me trouble lately. I think I’ll have to think of purchasing posture correction pillows or back rests to help ease the tension on my back…either that or I need to be less stressed. I think the first option is a lot easier to do though…hahaha
I am losing patience and hope already, not weight!! I am going to go and try Jen’s weight watcher formula as it seems to work wonders for her. Not to belittle Jen as I know she’s working her ass off just to lose weight. I am going to try it the hard way one more time and eventually I’ll try lipovox.
What’s up with all these illnesses and sicknesses I’ve been hearing about? It’s seems everyone’s getting sick somehow. Some of the illnesses are those I haven’t even heard off like mesothelioma or rosascea (I don’t even know if I’m spelling this well). Is it because of our diet? The preservatives we ingest? The pollution in our environment? I swear I’m getting paranoid already!!
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A friend of mine is leaving. The one and only friend I have who actually knows what a CAT6 cable is. I actually talked to him heart-to-heart last Tuesday and I made him promise that we’re going to have a long talk before he leaves. See this is a guy who would tell me to my face what I need to change and what I need to improve on professionally. This is rare…I truly value feedback like that.
Andrea’s memory is AMAZING. How do kids remember all these things? My goodness, compared to them I’m like a rock….meaning I don’t absorb anything at all. I forget my keys, my wallet, my laptop, my bills…EVERYTHING. Whereas Andrea can still trace where she saw Barney in the mall weeks ago. Amazing isn’t it? I wish I can sharpen my memory and bring it back up to that level.
I guess it’s the time of the year when I am once again drooling over jewelry. But not just any kind of jewelry. I want designer jewelry this time. I took screen caps of these really pretty ones from Wendy Culpepper. I’m in love I’m telling you….it’s really love! You have to admit these are really pretty right? I can justify this purchase too as I can pass them on to Andrea when she’s older.
A colleague fell ill a few months ago and her hospital bills reached over 200k. Thank goodness she had some medicare advantage which lessened the bill considerably. It made me realize over again just how difficult life is in this country. When someone gets sick the entire clan is affected. I really should start saving up. I don’t want to be put between a rock and a hard place when this happens.
Andrea is not a baby anymore….huhuhu. I’ve finally admitted this to myself. I realized this when we went to this place with this giant inflatable castle. Ruy took her inside and she was so afraid because of the movement. I decided to take her around the inflatable castle and show her everything. When she still seemed afraid, I decided to take her out already. I put her down while I got our shoes then she suddenly ran back to the castle and she walked all over on her own. No more fear this time.
She’s becoming so independent already.
She can also say the following:
mah ki - for monkey
mama/mimi/mami - for mommy
dada - for daddy
nyinyi - for Nyingnying (my sister)
Bapi -for my Aunt (whom we call Abap)
Nyanya - for Nanay (my grandmother)
ahney - for Barney
yanzee - for chimpanzee
mik - for milk
dh gee - for doggie
tik tok - for tik tok (sound of the clock)
teet - for tweet tweet (sound of the bird)
She can also make the sounds of the ff: dog, cat, bird, snake. =) Amazing how fast these kids learn things.
I asked Jen to get me a suit. Why am I taking an interest in this all of a sudden? Andrea’s into swimming and I want to be able to join her and needless to say all my suits are too tight now.
Jen got me a black and white color block from Isaac Mizrahi which looks so cute on it’s own. I also wanted this suit from Old Navy:
This suit might seem boring BUT it would look so good with gold and wooden accessories. Don’t you agree?
A whole lot of my friends are buying plasma TVs, or at least coveting them. I am a bit more realistic, right now I can only imagine buying a plasma mount. Hahaha. I have this rule of thumb, never ever buy something which would kill you if it gets damaged or if it gets destroyed. Don’t buy things you can’t replace as well. (or would at least cost you half a kidney to replace). So by the looks of it, the plasma mount is all i’ll be having for a LOOOONG time. =)
I once wrote a blog entry about fibromyalgia and a lot of people asked me what it is all about. I thought it would be great if I showed you guys what I saw in Wikipedia (they explain things better than I do)
(FM) is a disorder classified by the presence of chronic widespread pain and tactile allodynia.[1] An example of tactile allodynia is when a person perceives light pressure or the movement of clothes over the skin as painful, whereas a healthy individual will not feel pain. Fibromyalgia patients are often affected by a number of symptoms other than pain, including debilitating fatigue, abnormal sleep architecture [2] meaning the brain does not reach all the restorative levels of sleep necessary for overall health, functional bowel disturbances[3] and a variety of neuropsychiatric problems including cognitive dysfunction [4] which can mean short and/or long term memory problems, slowed information processing ability, diminished attention span and anxiety and depressive symptoms
Scary isn’t it?
I’m selos-jealous yet again. It’s a Philippine Holiday and since I chose to be on French Holiday then I am at work. I left for work just as Ruy and Andrea were in the garden playing. Huhuhu…I so want to be playing with Andrea right now. I do think I had a whole lot of Andrea over the weekend, but then you can never have enough of a good thing right?
Thank goodness I love my work (I might have to rethink this statement soon) and so going to work is not as difficult as it probably is for most moms.
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