Did anyone notice that I had been offline for about 48 hours?
I wish I could say I was away on Disney World and Vegas vacations, but I wasn’t. I didn’t take a break. Rather I was forced to go on an unexpected hiatus.
Read about it here.
I had to post photos of our visit to Times Street at my bravejournal because of this domain’s downtime too.
But I’m back.
Interesting how this set of top droppers has changed since the previous month’s.
Thank you so much for coming by, specially for the comments some of you leave along with your ECs 🙂 As a token of appreciation, I’ve decided to place ads on your widgets, so expect to see me there, hehe 🙂
What hasn’t changed though, is my weight. I am still very much obese, and I can’t even say that I have increased my physical activity to help burn all the calories I take in each day. I do hope though that going out to shoot photos on weekends will help change that. I saw these Kettlebells and thought these may be a fun way to build strength on my arms/upper arms. It gets tiring carrying a bag or lugging your camera around everytime, hehe 🙂
The boyf and I have the same work schedule now, which makes it easier for us to save on transpo on the nights he stays over. But it has also opened up the idea of us walking home together in the morning. I’d have to bring a big bag to work though – for both our trainers and more comfortable clothes to change in. That idea sounds good to me, and it does to him too. Just that it’s been raining a lot lately making it impossible to walk without getting sick. I used to walk the two kilometers from Mother Ignacia when I started working there four years ago. Since getting promoted though, I’ve only done it sporadically – I find the idea of walking home unappealing after a long and stressful business day. Walking Alfred though would give us an opportunity to just be together and talk too.
The entire Philippine nation mourns the death of former president, Corazon Aquino.
She battled with Colon Cancer, diagnosed in March 2008. Since then she has had a few public appearances, but she remained vocal on many of the political issues that shook the country from that time until her death.
I have the yellow ribbon on my Facebook profile. Got it from the former president’s webpage.
I don’t have much more to say, but Ganns has a post that echoes my very same sentiments. The boyfriend and I planned a photo shoot this afternoon at the UP, we’ll swing by Times Street to pay our tributes and act paparazzi there as well. I hope the sun peeks out so we’d really be able to go.
Hamon nya sa buong bayan: magbantay, manalangin, magmasid – manindigan!
Wouldn’t it be nice if the millions of Filipinos mourning her death and expressing their praise of her integrity and moral leadership could be half as sincere as she was in her service to the country? There would be no greater tribute to her life and legacy than to be like the wife, mother, and citizen, that she was.
Tita Cory is probably dancing with Ninoy right now, reunited in heaven. Two Philippine Heroes. What a nice thought.
Edit:Â Dad asked to make this card for the flowers we’re taking to Times Street this afternoon.
Taken a year ago, August 2008.
At work, it’s crunch time once again. I was hoping for some kind of respite for this period, until things go in the upswing again for the last quarter of the calendar year. But no, there’s just no slacking off, hehe.
I don’t want to say I want to quit again now that the pressure’s mounting. I can’t be like that everytime we hit a bump in the road.
Hay.
But you know what, I bet if it wasn’t soooo effing cold at my station, I’d be better off. Seriously. I’ve developed allergic rhinitis in recent months, and I always have headaches, and I always feel cold. And it doesn’t matter too that I wear a jacket all the time. I try to cover my head from time to time but we can’t really hide under hoods – it’s in violation of the dress code. It’s really become a daily battle with the cold.
Blame it on the A/C? Whatever gets me through right?
STOP!
It’s all about perspective right?
It isn’t just crunch time – these are exciting times! A race to the goal!
Let’s go for it, team! :p
(Pardon my ramblings, thanks for the visit! 🙂 )
Sometime last week I came across a site that pays one to write content about a variety of topics. I signed up and tried a job. I felt like it was too much effort for a measly amount. I could easily earn the same amount for just one sponsored blog post – but there I had to write twelve articles. Yet I took another assignment after turning in the first one. Ugh. I almost finished it. I was two articles shy of ten, each article being more than 25o words each. I had learned so much about vacuum cleaners by then. Yet I gave up on it. I let my extended deadline lapse. I shouldn’t have attempted it at all.
I wasted time. I could have done more Good to Great stuff, or I could have actually uploaded recent photos to my Facebook account. I could have blogged. My Adgitize earnings have suffered because I haven’t been earning the 100 points per day by clicking through ads in the network. Â Sigh. This new content writing gig? A flop.
When Entrecard announced a few months ago the cashout system that will play bloggers in the system a dollar for every thousand EC credits, I was excited to have all that clicking payoff. I accumulated points, applied for cashout and then proceeded to transfer credits every once in a while. I never got paid though. Now that EC has a new owner, they’ve announced that they have used up all the money in the cashout system and will no longer payout the pending request. Oh, o-kay.
So I find myself with 15k of credits in EC. I guess I’ll just use it to advertise on other EC widgets, or I could donate to someone who’s running a birthday blog contest or something. We’ll see. But the EC Cashout system – a flop.
Hay. Things have been whacked out during my birthday month. I even messed up a bit at work on my birthday week. Imagine that? What perfect timing. I blame it on the eclipse that I didn’t even get to see.
This week, it’s shape up time. And then never look back. Haha. 🙂
I’ve been thinking about my finances lately, and pondering why I just never seem to have any real savings. I mean, others who earn less than I do have families and kids to support, household utilities to pay for, house payments, auto insurance payments, health and life insurance premiums, among other day to day expenses. They seem to get by. How? I rant on the boyfriend for not having any savings but really, when I look at my own savings – it’s not as much as what I should have been setting aside. If I wanted to cover up for the absence of a decent savings account, I would point to the fact that I’ve been paying premiums for a life insurance plan (last installment this year), and that I’m paying off the housing loan we took out for the purchase of the San Benissa unit (2 years paid! oh, and would anyone be interested in renting?). But are these really valid excuses?
Hindi naman ako gipit. I have enough, but I’d definitely be comfortable if I had more. Haha. 🙂