Did you see the video? Did you watch it? It’s one cool birthday cake, talk about being interactive 🙂
I have Angry Birds Seasons on the iPad and I find it harder to crack than the original version. We lost pretty much all our apps after upgrading to the latest iOS and having the device jailbroken. No big deal really, but we haven’t had time to redownload apps and discover new ones.
There also hasn’t been much time to go through our photos from Cebu and organize my thoughts for my blog posts. The boyfriend didn’t post-process our photos anymore and he’s started uploading them to Facebook so that should be a good place to start. It was a happy time and I definitely want to share highlights here, and scrap pages too! I haven’t had time to consolidate because I went back to work a few hours after touchdown in Manila but I’m bound to get to it, right? 🙂
Another thing I haven’t had time for is learn more about and take advantage of the Wii for fitness. We should definitely bring it down to the living room where there’s more space to move.
Anyhoo, thanks to everyone who sent well wishes and channeled good vibes while I was away. So what has everyone been up to?
With Dreamhost, it was so easy to opt for a Google Apps hosted email Inbox over the self-hosted one. All I had to do was select that option and set it all up. I don’t remember having any problems with it when I moved from Philhosting to Dreamhost. But moving Badodong.Com from Dreamhost to Fatcow left the boyfriend without access to his Inbox for over a week.
I kept going back to my DreamHost panel checking the settings for the domain name – it seemed to still be pointing to Google and it was selected as the email provider. What was wrong then? Eventually, I realized that having changed nameservers to that of Fatcow’s most likely messed things up. I was right! It was NOT cool that there was no one click option within FC’s Control Panel to host your mail with GA, but chat support said there was a way so I kept at it.
The chat support people at Fatcow gave me direction for changing custom DNS records and I was able to setup the right MX records for my chosen Inbox. Yet mail.badodong.com was resolving to Fatcow’s default webmail service. My next mistake was adding Google’s MX record as the destination address for the subdomain. I asked FatCow chat support again if I had done things correctly and they kept saying yes! But nothing was working.
I wasn’t getting anything more from Google Apps support, and Fatcow support wasn’t much help either. I compared my settings from my old host and realized that the Fatcow panel didn’t give me an option to add or modify the CNAME. So, what I did instead was point the subdomain “mail” to ghs.google.com. And what do you know? That did it!
With that mystery solved, I should be able to move the rest of my blogs to their new home. The only question is, when would I have the time to do it?
I may not have the best job in the world (and I say this only because it’s WORK, and not because I don’t really like it), and I certainly don’t have everything I want. But this one’s for sure: I have much to be thankful for.
I have always said that I had a wonderful childhood. I grew up with a loving family around me – a big one at that. There may only be mom, dad, and my big brother in this small unit, but there was never a lack of aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins as I was growing up. I also had lots of opportunities to be a kid and to discover who I was going to be. For that, I will always be grateful to my parents. And I will always thank God for choosing them for me 🙂
I will have to admit, I don’t always look forward to going to work. Everyday I wake up and know I have to go, so I do. But when I get there already and I start working – I do it without grudging. After all, no one is forcing me to be there. And truth be told, I love what I do. I love that the work challenges me until I sometimes become frustrated. The stress that comes with the job? I welcome it too. Yes, I would still choose to stay home and bake and blog all day if it can pay for all my bills, but that doesn’t mean I hate what I do now. I don’t. Whenever I pray, I say thanks for the job that I have, and the opportunity to work with a lot of people on a daily basis.
I am not at my healthiest – I think I was there maybe six or so months ago – but cheers to health and well-being! Tons of self-discipline and one big lifestyle change is what I need. Thank you in advance for the healthy mind and body that I know I will someday achieve. Someday soon I hope. 🙂
Thank you for another year to do all that we didn’t do in years before. Isn’t it great that we are given the chance to live our lives a day at a time, and a new year offers so many possibilities. This year, we hope to do more, and be more. And let me say that I am thankful to have the boyfriend to continue with this journey. 🙂
There’s so much more I should be thankful for and it will bore you to pieces to read all about it. So let me just sum up by saying THANK YOU for being in my life. You may be a passing stranger who happened to read my blog or a very dear personal friend who just likes stalking my blogs, all the same, your visits are appreciated and your comments are most welcome ;).
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That is the question that Thunderbird Resorts asks in their video contest.
I was checking out the latest events from Nuffnang and this is what I found. Click the image to know more.
Thunderbird Resorts are not exactly affordable. For the average income person, it is quite pricey. That’s my excuse for not having gone there yet. I’ll have to think of a good concept if I were to join this video contest and get the chance to have a weekend (three-day) getaway at one of their sites. Otherwise, we’ll have to cough up the 5k per room per night ourselves just to experience it. 🙂
Wow, another giveaway and one that I really really would love to win 🙂
Faye's Giveaway
Of course I’m eyeing the watch! I’d been eyeing watches for two months now but just couldn’t bring myself to pay for them. Winning one would be sooooo awesome 🙂 She’s made it so easy to earn raffle tickets too (yep, it’ll be drawn). Check out the mechanics:
HOW TO JOIN:
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– If you have multiple blogs, much better. Each blog post along with the Prizes -5 Entries.
3. Leave a comment in this post telling me what you did and give me the link of the blog post. 1 Entry.
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See, easy peasy no? We do have to wait until end of December though, but that’s not too far away 🙂 To really claim that I will win this, I’ll even scratch off a watch from my Christmas wish list. At least it’d be shorter, no? Alfred and I have been comparing our lists, we both have camera gear there, a pair of trainers. I have two types of cameras I’d like to get, a Sony TX5 and a Fuji Instamax. Then I need a new wallet too and there’s one from Fossil that I really really like. Not sure if we’re getting new clothes this Christmas. I’ll probably not because I’m shooting for a slimmer body haha 🙂 But for the boyfriend, maybe giving him a pair of rocawear jeans would be a good idea. Hmm…
Going back to Faye’s Giveaway, be sure to check it out for yourself and join up! Don’t get your hopes up too high for first prize though, that’s going to be mine! 🙂
