Blogger Nortehanon’s Pens of Hope had a lot of support, and it inspired other bloggers to adopt the concept in another locality.
Thus, as Northern Samar’s children will be receiving their pencils (or they may have actually received it already), donations are still being welcomed in Davao. Click on the badge to the left to find out how you can help, where you can send your pencils. We’ll ship out some, hopefully by Friday. My birthday’s coming up on Wednesday, you can either send me a gift (haha) or you can make me happy by sending pencils to Pens of Hope Davao.
They’re only accepting donations until July 30th so we have to act fast!
A friend is getting married on Thursday, I haven’t even thought about what I’ll be wearing to the event. Hmm…
This afternoon, our small group of friends will meet up, reminisce about the good old times, then look forward to her wedding and the rest of her married life. The get-together was supposed to be last night, good thing it was moved because there was no way I could have been there.
Yesterday at work I started feeling woozy. My head was spinning while I was trying hard to coach one of my agents. I normally stay at work way beyond my shift on Fridays so I can complete all my deliverables before my rest day. But yesterday? I tried to stay but was not very productive. I just decided to go home, rest and try to go back on Friday night. Besides, I owed some people their orders of truffles anyway. Guess what happened when I got home? I went to sleep. I woke up several times just to complain of the wooziness and the headache and the back ache. I skipped lunch, the whole afternoon, and then dinner. No truffles, no Harry Potter, no going back to work.
That’s okay though.
Back to what’s happening this afternoon…
Arianne organized the event, I don’t know if I should call it a bridal shower but that’s what it probably is going to be. 🙂 I’m also not sure who else is coming, but I know it’s going to be a fun time. I haven’t seen the girls since August last year – almost a year since! Grabe. 🙂
Y’s wedding is the second that I’ll be attending just this month. In August, I’m seeing an old highschool friend tie the knot as well – she invited me just now via chat at Facebook. Then next year it will be Jo’s wedding. Everyone else is asking when mine’s going to be. That is the million dollar question indeed.
It will yet be unanswered 🙂
I was hoping to help out with Jo as she prepares for her wedding. It’s more than six months away but she’s got reservations going already and I, on the other hand, have done nothing so far. Haha.
Speaking of weddings, I came across this website offering wedding invitation stamps. They’re not just toy stamps mind you, these ones actually look like you could use them for postage of your wedding invitations. It is US postage though. I guess here in the Philippines, wedding invitations are normally personally delivered to those invited so maybe this won’t be such a hit. But still, it’s tiny detail that would really add to personalizing a couple’s wedding invites. Check out this video I picked up from that site:
A couple could use any one of their beautiful pre-nup shots , diba? I wonder if business like this would fly in the Philippines, specially when snail mail traffic has declined with the advent of more affordable (and efficient) courier services, and email. But since it’s a specialty stamp maybe Pinoys would go for it. I wonder how this gets approved by PhilPost? Hmm…
A friend commented (in person) on the lack of new photos uploaded to my blog. I wanted to say it’s because I haven’t found the push to post the ones I’ve taken recently. But to be truthful, it’s more because I haven’t really been taking much photos lately.
And that’s sad.
It wouldn’t be a sad fact if the reason for the lack of photos was that I’ve been baking during my free time. But that’s not true either.
Super sad.
So what have I been doing? Nothing really.
And I hate that.
I should schedule the things I’d like to try; devote time to take photos and learn more about photography. I should. Check back next week if I’ve done that already.
I should draw a list of stuff I want to bake and then run up a schedule to actually make them. This one I really want to do. Next week, check on my progress. Please.
Hay, shoulds. But these ones are the type I want to do. So I’m not complaining.
Oh, but I did snap photos of something today:
There’s a Pick & Mix kiosk near the building entrance and I pass by it everyday. Today, I gave in to the pull of these sweeties (though there were plenty more I wanted to get). You know what they are? Inside those colorful candy-coating (some of them are pink!) are chocolate-coated sunflower seeds. These are tiny! And yummy!
I have a confession to make. I am seriously considering spending money on what may just turn out to be another fad diet.
There’s a kiosk at the ground floor of our office building selling supplements of all sorts. Mostly, they have health supplements for body builders and others like it. I’ve seen green tea based supplements there too. But the other day, I saw something I’d been reading about all over the net before but thought wasn’t available locally: boxes of the Hollywood Cookie Diet.
So today, I went online and searched for reviews. There are celebrity endorsers for the Hollywood Cookie Diet, probably that’s why “Hollywood” was attached to the product name. But I remember reading about Dr. Siegal’s original formulation. It seems that Dr. Siegal’s is more feasible because it’s a companion to eating well and exercising, rather than the HCD’s complete replacement for both breakfast and lunch. There’s also no mention of exercising while on the diet. Hehe.
I don’t think it’s healthy and that it can be used on a long term basis. I do think though that it will help jumpstart what I need to happen to get out of the obesity zone.
Of course a box of the HCD bought there is more expensive than what’s available online. I figured I’d give it a try and if it’s okay with me, I’d purchase more through their main website.
I have hopes that this will work. I frequently skip meals anyway, but I will munch on regular cookies, or biscuits or bread or a cupcake or two. So I guess it’s better to do it officially, and munch on something that will still give my body some or most of the nutrients that it will need. I will have to plan my sensible dinner though. In my world, the sensible dinner will have to be taken in the morning – after my shift. Hmm…
I’m not sure I can live with the discomfort that some diet pills cause. Like the frequent line of poop that is said to come with Xenical and others like it? For someone who can’t poop while in the office, that would be a nightmare for me. There’s gotta be something out there though that won’t cause such.
There are diet pills endorsed by local celebrities. Those don’t seem to have the side effects I’m talking about, but I’m not sure how effective they are. And I don’t want to just go ahead and test them on myself. I’ve heard so many horror stories of diet pills gone bad, I don’t want to follow in their footsteps. There was one from work (she’s not there anymore though) who was using diet pills and she’s lost a lot of weight already. She wouldn’t tell me exactly what she’s taking though. Hmm.
Now don’t go lecturing me about self image or about exercise and healthy eating being the only way to real and sustainable weight loss. I’ve heard all about that. Plus I have no self image issues. I know I am beautiful. Yes, I am. I know I’m sexy 🙂 I also don’t think I miss out on anything significant in life just because of my weight. But I need to lose weight. At least when I go back to my OB and I’ve lost weight already, they might finally stop blaming it for my PCOS. When I’ve slimmed down, I can wear the wedding gown of my dreams when it’s time to walk down the proverbial aisle. Haha. 🙂
Hay. All this talk reminds me of an article of mine that got published in Peyups.com many years ago. Fat is Beautiful.
When I first heard of Facebook, I had no interest in signing up. Now, the day is incomplete without a dose of FB.
You know Friendster? Check out my page there – http://friendster.com/verabear. You won’t see much there though. I seldom update and I rarely log on. Because of my non presence in Friendster, I distanced myself from social networking sites like it. I figured it just wasn’t my thing. There was Hi5, and MySpace, but I ignored both.
Then a few months ago, I finally signed up for Facebook, and life has never been the same. Haha!
I love how easy it is to see updates from friends and family, and how easy uploading photos could be. But the best thing? The applications.
Restaurant City!
And now – Guitar Geek!
I don’t care much for Mafia Wars, but so many of my FB friends are hooked.
I got hooked on Restaurant City probably a week ago. It’s just cute, and fun. It’s tough deciding what to spend hard earned RC money for. Should I get porcelain tile or glass ones? Do I fix the outside, or spend all my money for indoor improvements? What makes them cook faster?
Do you FB? http://facebook.com/verabear
**I had this all typed up last night, why didn’t it publish?
Blogger Nortehanon’s Pens of Hope had a lot of support, and it inspired other bloggers to adopt the concept in another locality.
So today, I went online and searched for reviews. There are celebrity endorsers for the Hollywood Cookie Diet, probably that’s why “Hollywood” was attached to the product name. But I remember reading about Dr. Siegal’s original formulation. It seems that Dr. Siegal’s is more feasible because it’s a companion to eating well and exercising, rather than the HCD’s complete replacement for both breakfast and lunch. There’s also no mention of exercising while on the diet. Hehe.