Busy weekend

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Funny how when this weekend started I had a list of blogging stuff that I aimed to accomplish. Now, when it is about to end, I find that I have not done half as much as I thought I would.

By this time I thought I would have written an insightful first post on my photography blog. But as you can see, it is still empty. I also planned on uploading my Project 365 photos. It is the 12th day already (I don’t have a Day 12 photo yet) and the total number of photos I have uploaded is ZERO. There’s still some time left, so maybe I can do this. But I also don’t want my first ever post on the new blog to look rushed.

Now I have to lay the blame on something for causing me to neglect this important undertaking:

– Part of the blame has to go to Facebook. Ever since they changed the way they showed updates, it’s just been a challenge not to miss important posts from people you really wanted to be updated about. So I had to go through Status Updates, and the News Feed. Then I would also sometimes click on the Photos link because at least for my cousin Candy, her new albums posted don’t show up in my feeds.

– Half of the blame would be to Facebook apps Cafe World and Happy Aquarium. It takes sooooo long to visit neighbors! I have less than 70 neighbors in each app and it takes awhile to go through all of them. But it’s nice to do that too, every once in a while. Then of course there’s the tending to the Cafe that takes so much time too. This is why I hesitate to start up with the other apps like Farmville and Pet Society.

– Then there’s MyLot too. I signed up to the site months ago but never really knew how to go about their services. I guess I was mainly turned off by the fact that no matter what I do, I just could not claim my blog there! It was supposed to be easy too, just put a code in my blog (and I did so many many times) and then click on the Claim now button at the site. But no matter how long I wait, it just doesn’t work for me. Until now it hasn’t!  Anyway, I signed up for the site because you’re supposed to be able to earn money by just participating there. For the longest time I didn’t know what to do. Finally, I just started going through the discussions – either answering or starting them up. I haven’t had much response but I’ve already seen how one could potentially earn from it. It’s not big bucks, but it’s not a lot of work either. I’ve always said that I’m not much of the forum type, but their discussions actually work for me. 🙂 Check it out.

– The lack in insightful posts, and the further delay on the launching of my photography blog probably shouldn’t be blamed on the above items. After all, what took up most of my weekend was this: sleeping. I’ve found myself sleeping most of the time. I wake up early (all things considered) but then I take naps of two hour stretches. So I can’t really complain. It’s not as if my time was wasted, you know? I did catch up on precious sleep.

Some would wonder why I don’t feel bad about not doing anything else on my weekends except go online. Oh, I do. But I can’t afford it every weekend. And this was one of those when I wanted to just be here and chill.

On a different note, our tenth anniversary is next Tuesday. We don’t know what we’re doing yet because our initial plans of going to Baguio can’t happen. We’d probably end up going to Enchanted Kingdom for the simple reason that neither of us has ever been there. Never. The only problem I see with that plan is that we’d have to rely on the EK shuttle to take us there and back. It would be nice to go to Tagaytay for the evening…

Maybe we’ll rent a car and have someone drive us. Or we’d ask friends (with wheels. user!) to tag along. Oh we’ll see…

After my shift on Sunday morning we went malling. No particular reason. There were Hyundai and Suzuki vehicles on display and we were admiring one particular model. It looks quite affordable actually, but you’d have to figure the cost of auto insurance, and monthly maintenance in. So maybe buying a brand new car really isn’t in our priorities just yet. First, I’d have to actually learn how to drive, and not just in theory. Then I have to make sure I’m financially stable. Yes, I earn a decent monthly paycheck, but I also have such obscene expenses at times. To cure myself of this, I’m thinking of tying in my other goals into when to allow myself to spend money. But I don’t have time to talk about that.

So what did you do this weekend?