Ramblings and Brain farts

Alfred’s home!

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*If you arrived here expecting ::where the moon shines::, you have been redirected to my Blogger blog temporarily. My site is experiencing server issues and my host, unfortunately, is out for the holidays. 🙁

Last night, as I was getting ready for work, I looked at my pink polo shirt and immediately wished that Alfred won’t be wearing his pink polo shirt to work too. We would look so silly! To be honest though, I secretly wished he would too. Because, wouldn’t it be sweet? Haha!

Anyway, I went straight to the clinic as soon as arrived at the office. You see, coming back from the vet’s yesterday, my eyes were so irritated and they were soooo itchy, and there was stabbing pain all over. I lay down covered my eyes and wished it would go away. The pain went away but my eyes were still very watery and quite itchy. When I woke up last night, my eyes were covered with extra layers of muta – or morning stars as they are sometimes called too – on my eyes. My eyes were also itchy, and the lids were feeling quite hot. I knew then this wasn’t a simple eye irritation.

The doc sent me home to avoid spreading pink eye around. I wasn’t sure if I welcomed the extra day off or not. You see it’s the last day of the fiscal week (Friday) and I have uploads due. It’s crunch time for me. I also had agents scheduled for coaching last night.

Anyway, go home I must. I still stayed in the office until 1AM though, prepping stuff to take home with me so I could work a bit from here (technically I shouldn’t because staring at a computer monitor will tire out my eyes). I also had to talk to one my agents who rendered his resignation 🙁

Back to Alfred. Since the clinic was on Alfred’s floor (and very near my old beloved station), I passed by him before going down to our floor. And there he was wearing his pink polo shirt! Haha.

I saw him again just before I went home, and now he’s here snoring away. I don’t think I’ll be letting him go home to his parents anytime soon. I think he wouldn’t want to either. Not for my sake though, but for Zune. He’s bent on disinfecting the entire compound, if he can, just to be sure that the parvo virus is killed. I’m afraid about the outside though. The street is littered with dog feces and last night when I came back from work, there were three neighborhood dogs scavenging for food in our trash bins! I’m not sure if they are strays or if they do have owners, but more than the inconvenience they cause us, what if they pick up the virus too? What if they’re the ones spreading it around? Oh well.

 

This post reposted from my blogger blog.

Happy New Year!

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Sadly, New Year’s in the office was just like any other work day. My agents and I looked out the window at the stroke of midnight, watching all the fireworks light up the sky. I looked at the direction of our home, and picked the fireworks that I thought were the ones they had lit up – my Dad SMSd me to say that they were firing them already.

I had planned to leave the office by 7am on the dot. No go. I left about an hour and a half later. I found my cousins Freedah and Candy still up and singing. They’ve always been my buddies for all nighters. So I didn’t totally miss out on videoke – I had breakfast, changed clothes, and ran down to sing with the rest of them until an hour or so ago. 🙂
Alfred’s still in Bicol, probably flat out from drinking too much. Last night he mentioned trying to hitch a ride with his cousins who’ll be heading home today. If he doesn’t fit in their car/s, he’ll ride with his brothers tomorrow. I really do miss him. 
I disabled my blog’s redirect earlier, just to check if it was finally working. Just in case, I thought. But no. Everyone at the web host are really on holidays, such lousy customer service. I wonder if I’m the only Philhosting client whose having these problems? The thing is, I can access my Cpanel, but nothing for my WordPress is accessible.
As a result, I’ve had to contact Entrecard support and they’ll be disabling my EC. I had advertisers lined for the next couple of days, EC will manually return the credits they’ve paid to me. 🙁
Oh well, I am falling asleep on the keyboards already, better get on and have some sleep. 
Happy New Year everyone! Be safe and be blessed!
This post reposted from my blogger blog.

Another random post before the year closes…

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*If you arrived here expecting ::where the moon shines::, you have been redirected to my Blogger blog temporarily. My site is experiencing server issues and my host, unfortunately, is out for the holidays. 🙁

After taking a shower this morning, I went ahead and tried to use mom’s hair dryer and see if drying my hair would prevent it from curling up and have more of a finished, salon look. 

It wasn’t effective. Either my hair is just so stubborn or I totally don’t know how to blow dry my hair! It’s probably the latter.
I had no intentions to go out this morning, in fact, I just donned another sun dress (also read nightgown 🙂 ) after showering. I just wanted to time how long blow drying my short hair would take, so I know what to expect if I were to do it before work. So scrap that idea. It won’t really do anything different. 
I will test how long it would take to iron my hair tonight. That shouldn’t take longer than the blowdry did – under 10 minutes.
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It’s probably not a good idea to have this next photo in the same post that I show off my short hair, but what the heck. Haha!
The piggy on the left is a cellphone holder – the only Christmas present I received on the 24th. Esban gave it to me. The piggy on the left, with a purple snout, is a wrist rest that one can use for the hand holding your mouse when you’re on your computer. I got one like it, a blue bear, last Christmas from Nonoy (my boss). This one I bought for myself for use here at home. I brought home the blue bear a few weeks ago because I wanted to use one at home. Now I can bring blue bear back to work with me.
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Rather than just becoming hung up on the fact that my blog is down, I’ve been bloghopping through EC and also through my Digital Scrapbooking links (which reminds me, Blogrolling still doesn’t seem to be 100% back up). There are so many wonderful freebies out there and I know missed so much more in the month or two that I’ve been laying low on the scrapbooking stuff.
I started downloading some freebie kits from BooLand Designs and my favorite Vicki Parker. And then I suddenly realized I still haven’t gotten myself an online backup solution. So now I’m in the process of downloading Carbonite. I’ll be using their free trial. If it works efficiently, I’ll go ahead and purchase a year’s subscription.
I first heard of Carbonite from Ro of Scrap Girls, through their newsletters. It sounded like a good idea, plus it would take out the effort from having to manually back up every once in a while – what if you forget? And I always forget.
Plus I always have computer problems every couple of months (though I hope it takes another 6 months before I have any issues again) and it takes time to back up, format, and then restore files. That has caused my files to be more disorganized every time we have to do it. With Carbonite, restoring files might just be a little more simple. Hopefully.
I hope my Internet connection supports this automatic back up well. We’ll see how it goes. 
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Here’s another photo I’d like to share, taken a week or so back. My Zune, with his girlfriend Sharpay:
This was a rare shot because they’re usually at each other whenever they’re together. Or Sharpay will be eating off Zune’s bowl! Haha. I think Esban took this shot – he’s way better at shots like these than I am.
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Mom did a lot of cleaning in the past 24 hours and she unearthed some of the photos we’ve had lying around here. This has prompted my dad to go over our old pictures and take them off the albums to be scanned at a later time. He intends to put them on picture frames too. So 2009 will probably start off with me posting photos from years ago. 
This post reposted from my blogger blog.

You’re not lost…

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Well hello there! I had my http://verabear.net redirect to this blog for the time being. My WordPress site is down due to a database error on the server side. And since I found out that my hosting service is on holidays until the 5th, I figured I’d post here or at Bravejournal, and redirect my site’s hits here too.


I don’t want this post to be about how I hate Philhosting right now, that’s what I already did in this post.

So what’s up for the last day of the year 2008? Not much for me. I’d probably sit in front of my PC until it’s time to sleep again. I had one day off (last night) and I’m due back at work tonight. Uhm-hmm, just when everyone would be enveloped in smoke, watching all the fireworks, and singing the Auld Lang Syne come midnight tonight, I’ll be at the office. The next off I’m getting, isn’t until Saturday. Argh.

But spending New Year’s Eve in the office shouldn’t be all that bad right? I mean, we’d be on the 6th floor and that should be a good vantage point to see fireworks from different parts of the city. We could probably even try and get to the rooftop, for an even better view.

I guess the only negative thing about having to be at work tonight is that this will be the first time ever that I wouldn’t be spending New Year’s at home, with all of my family around me. I did request to have tonight off (and originally, my offs are supposed to be tue-wed nights) but they decided to have half of us off on Christmas and I got that. Christmases are fun of course, but welcoming the New Year has just been more fun, you know? 

I wonder how the kids are going to be celebrating tonight? Ton’s around to facilitate the games anyway. Hay, no more all night videoke singing from me. At least they’ll be relieved I’m not around to hog the mics all night long. Haha 🙂
This post reposted from my blogger blog.

Short hair day

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The day after Christmas, I had my hair done. I am now sporting a very short hair-do. (I wanted to post before and after pictures, but hadn’t found any decent ones yet, hence the delay of this post…)

So on Shorts Day at work in the evening of the 26th, I came in sporting a new short ‘do, rather than wearing shorts! 🙂 We have wacky days at work on crazy occasions and during this holiday week, we’ve had Santa Day, Shorts Day, Jersey Day, and Headgear Day, among others.

Back to hair. Last time I had cut mine really short was around February 2007, just before I transitioned from being trainer to team manager. I had short hair for some time before that, and loved the fact that I didn’t have to worry about what to do with it constantly.

This time around, the cut seems to encourage my wavy hair to curl at the ends! I am happy with the cut, but a bit frustrated too that I may still have to use the straightening iron or blow dry my hair for it to look better (read: like the way it did from the salon). I really don’t want to have to resort to doing that because the main reason I got a cut was to avoid having to style my hair before leaving for work. I’d rather take the 15 minutes to sleep, than to bother about my hair 🙁

Anyhoo, it is said that women change their hairstyles when stressed, or when they want to have (or there is) something new in their life. Having haircuts are usually associated with breakups. In my case, yes I am kind of stressing out these days, but that doesn’t really have anything to do with the change. I just had time to look at my hair, and feel it, and thought that I’m better off without too much of it. 🙂

But do you agree with that idea though? Where could it have come  from?

I guess there’s a sense of freedom in having your hair cut really short after wearing long tresses. And don’t you agree that having a cropped ‘do sort of emboldens you? Somehow it helps add a spring to your step. Haha 🙂 As for me, there aren’t any major changes on the horizon in the next month. I mean, I’ve just had change, remember? Oh, and god knows how long it will take me to fully sink in with this one before the next big change comes along.

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