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!
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. 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. 🙂
I super appreciate that Ruth (my immediate sup) bought another yummy cake for me and my team on Wednesday early morning at work because my fellow TMs already ate the first one she got. And I was very humbled at the many well wishes I received at work that day.
I also can’t describe how moved I was that Arianne, Y and Mayeen even thought of celebrating my birthday on Y’s bridal shower last Saturday.
But this heart of beads that the kids made for me is by far the best gift I received this year.
A few days before my birthday, Esban (7) and Adam (9) came to tell me that they already have my present. They argued about giving it to me right away, or waiting until the actual day. On Tuesday morning, they both came up to the house again to say the same thing. I was sleeping on the couch that afternoon, thanks to the awful awful migraine that lasted for more than 24 hours. E crept up to my side to kiss me awake, and say: “Birthday mo na bukas!” (Tomorrow’s your birthday!)
So after spending a few hours at work on Wednesday, and then a yummy early lunch with Alfred at Chocolate Kiss – Roces Cafe, E and A welcomed me with the warmest greetings and their masterpiece – my heart of beads. All their names are on the paper: Esban, Adam, Dalnes (13), Shanti (14), Butchik (14), Hannah (9) and AJ (5). I’m sure this project was the older girls’ idea and they helped the little ones make it. A real team effort 🙂
You can tell this really was made for me: the bear in the middle, and the purple leaves all around.
I’ve decided not to buy the cookie diet I mentioned in a previous post. I figured I should do some fat burner exercises instead, or do something like the fat burning soup diet I used to follow back in high school. It’s a seven-day diet that’s mainly based on this soup that has a lot of cabbage and other herbs and veggies. It’s a full plan of what to have for meals in a seven-day period. It’s probably a good way to cleanse my system before I go on another regimen. Delaney also sent me some muffin recipes from the 8-Week Cholesterol Cure. (thanks again!), those are sure to help me burn fat!
I guess what I’m trying to say is that, if I want long term weight loss, then I have to work for it and not rely solely on diet fads. I will still probably turn to some diet principles, and maybe still try fat burner pills but they will only be there to support my efforts – not be the only effort. Know what I mean?
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…
