Weekend

Gerardo’s

I didn’t see my friend and her son today. When she sent me a message this afternoon, it was to say that the boy was taking a nap. We’ll make plans next week. I think it’s a blessing too that we didn’t see each other today. At least I’d be able to prepare for that meeting better. I can make truffles for Adam! 🙂

And next week, I will not be sleeping through Sunday morning.

For the first time in a long time, I went out for a drink with Alfred after work this morning. There’s this place in Sgt.Esguerra, Gerardo’s, that has been a known hangout of people from the office. It’s a 24-hour bar/restaurant, perfect for vampires. When I started working at the company, I’d go to Gerardo’s with my batchmates almost everyday. We’d go drinking at six in the morning! At the time, Alfred had a different type of work and he really was against me going out with my work friends – mostly boys – at that time.

When he started work there too, it was his turn to spend a lot of time at Gerardo’s. That stopped eventually, just like I stopped frequenting the place. But recently, he’s been going out more often again, with a new and bigger crowd this time. I don’t really mind. Really.

This morning, I waited for him to get off work so we could just go home together. A few minutes before his supposed logout, he mentioned that there was buzz about going for some drinks. I knew he was thinking of declining on account of yours truly, but he mentioned it to me anyway. While on the elevator ride down the building, I casually asked him if he wants to buy me a drink and he jumped on it!

We walked to the new Gerardo’s at Panay Avenue, ordered, and then waited almost an hour before the rest of his friends joined us. I hadn’t spent any time with any of them outside of the office before; and being a supervisor, I hadn’t really exchanged more than a few words with them at a time. It was okay though. It’s a great way to catch up on office gossip too. Haha.

The new Gerardo’s is definitely an improvement over the original one, which is still open. It’s definitely bigger, better ventilated, and they even have interesting pieces of wicker of furniture. There’s a videoke room too that’s up for rent. 

We didn’t go home until over three hours later. I was so sleepy already – not tipsy mind you. I only had one bottle of Vodka Cruiser – blueberry – and a few sips of beer. We slept until half past two in the afternoon. I wasn’t sure if my date with the friend was still up so I couldn’t commit to another friend’s dinner invitation. For dinner, I fried some of the chicken patties we bought from my enterprising colleague Richard – it was yummy! While eating, we picked up on a conversation we started this morning at Gerardo’s – how to make more money. We’re going to be trying something soon. We were so inspired we went out right away to the grocery and looked/bought some stuff so we could see just how possible this idea is. I’m excited 🙂

I’ll share more when things really shape up 😉

I love Saturdays!

Don’t you?

There are so many reasons to love Saturdays.

It starts off my weekend, the last workday of the week. I get to relax after uploading all of my required monitors for the week. I can spend time to speak to my agents – and really talk to them instead of being in a rush.

Of course I’d rather spend Saturday sleeping in or going out to enjoy the day with friends or Alfred or with some of the kids. But it being the last day of work is just fine by me too 🙂

Oh and it’s also Scrapbook Saturday! I almost forgot about that, I haven’t scrapped a new page this week! Hmm.. So it’s going to be a belated SS post for me again this week.

Tomorrow, I’ll be seeing one of my best friends. We haven’t seen each other in maybe three years. She’s got a little boy now who turned one this year, and I still haven’t met him!(links will open to the pages I scrapped of him) So that’s something to look forward to.

Ohh and I’ve been spending time up and around the Net as usual and I came across software for Text to Speech Voices. I remember trying software like that back in college. Our professor for Science, Technology and Society (STS) told us about it and since we had SO much to read for that course, I thought I’d give it a try. The one I tried was too robotic for my tastes. Didn’t help in the comprehension department at all. So I stopped and went to conventional reading. But the ones on that site I linked seem to have a variety of natural voices download that are more close to being human. 

With e-books now gaining more popularity, specially with new reader products coming out, it doesn’t seem strange that more people are also looking to Download Text to Speech Software. It will, after all, allow one to “read” conveniently. 

I also found this template (or did it find me?) and am now thinking of using it. I’ll have to back everything up first, of course, so I guess I’ll switch templates after upgrading to the latest WP version too. Goodluck to myself on that. Is it really necessary to upgrade, by the way?  I really prefer my blog to have a black/dark background for some reason. And then a couple of months ago, I read about Blackle and figured, that’s another reason right there.

Blackle is basically Google, but in black. Using it as your homepage and main search engine (it is powered by Google anyway) can save a lot of energy in the long run. There you go – an a eco-friendly way to search I guess. 🙂 So if my site has a black background too, then I help save energy don’t I? 😉

Happy weekend!

 It’s the weekend again! Weekdays don’t seem quite as long for me as they used to. I guess that’s how it is when you’re really doing something you enjoy. 😉

 I am just waiting for Mom and Dad to pick me up (they should be here really soon) and we’ll be on our way to the theater.

Back when I was an agent, two years ago, I had weekends off and I would always send off “Happy Weekend!” emails to everyone in my address book. Some of them would respond by mail too, while some would just acknowledge it when they see me. That’s how I used the many tags and graphic files I received from my groups.

I stopped sending out those emails when I got promoted to Trainer. One because it’s awkward to keep sending those through our corporate mailboxes. And two because I got too busy. But that shouldn’t be so right? We should never get too busy to greet friends, to say Hello! or wish them well.

Anyway – HAPPY WEEKEND EVERYONE! 🙂

Meeting Sharpei. And no progress on the weight.

My nephew has a new puppy, also a Shih Tzu like my Zune, but this time a girl. She’s here, with my nephew and his older sister too. Finally, Zune is going to have a girlfriend! They named her Sharpei, from Disney’s Highschool Musical. She is so cute and cuddly, but quite feisty. She isn’t enjoying the attention that Zune is showering her with. Haha. One minute we think they’re playing, the next, well they sound more like they’re fighting! 

They’ve got plenty of time to get along though. Sorry no pictures of her to show yet, maybe in another few weeks.

I am done reading the entire Twilight Saga, much to Alfred’s surprise. But I think I’ll keep my thoughts to myself for now, I don’t really want to spoil it for him. He reads my blog you see, and he’ll surely ask me about why I say what I say and so it will just spoil the reading part for him. 😉

Unfortunately, I don’t have any update for our weight loss program – because there’s still no program to speak of. I stayed home all weekend which means I didn’t go to the grocery to buy ingredients for salads that I could take to work with me everyday.

I’ve been thinking about taking those replacement diet stuff, you know, the ones where you’re supposed to just drink their special shakes in replacement for one of your meals? I don’t actually know anyone who has actually tried it and had significant weight loss though. I’ve been reading up on different product lines and testimonials about stuff like orovo. The only thing that keeps me from trying them out is the added cost. 

Hmm… maybe I’ll walk to the office early morning tomorrow to pick up Alfred. That will be good exercise for me 🙂

Alfred – my Shopping Buddy

In my excitement about the Magic Sing (see 2 posts down), I forgot other things I had originally intended to blog about on Sunday night.

When neither one of us in a hurry, or tripping over ourselves from sleep deprivation – I truly enjoy going on a shopping spree with Alfred. Last Sunday, that’s what we did and it was fun!

I had secretly wished we’d go to Cubao again so I can buy yarn from Maning’s for a project but Alfred wanted to avoid the UAAP crowd. As it turns out, half of the population was at the Araneta that afternoon, but the other half was in Trinoma! Aside from the Pampers event at the Activity Center of the huge mall, we could see no other reason why the place was packed. Seriously, there was a LOT of people in there. 

Because this outing was specifically intended to be a jeans hunt for Alfred, he led the way. We still managed to land ourselves in the area where the Sports boutiques are – he was also secretly wishing something: that he’d find a pair of trainers that he loved on sale. Now I didn’t intend to buy anything that day, but I happened to see some thing(s) I like and that actually fit me, so I swiped away (not on credit, it was using my ATM as a debit card 😉 ).

So there was my first purchase at the Puma shop – a knitted sweater in some shade of gold.

They had it in black too, but when I tried the golden one on, it actually looked better than I anticipated (it isn’t the shining/shimmering gold type okay). I really like how it looks on me. It was Alfred’s vote to take the golden one. If I was on my own, I’d either have passed on it, or taken home the black one.

Next stop was the Landmark Department Store. Alfred was looking for a pair of blue pants for his mom – we were going to buy one for her as a birthday present. We searched and searched for the perfect pair but we ended up buying this cute, light blouse for me instead. At first, Alfred wasn’t keen on me getting that blouse, but when he saw it on me – he gave it a thumbs up. It’s not my usual style – but I think the light and airy feel of it reflects my personality better.

Why is Alfred’s opinion so important when I shop for my own clothes? It’s not because he has to approve what I wear and how I wear them. Not that at all. It’s just that when it comes to what looks good on me, I trust his taste. I don’t agree a hundred percent of the time, of course, but I do listen to him like 70%. Hehe. It’s a running joke between us that I think he’s gay!

We also needed to have some photos printed for Papa that day so dropping it off at Kodak Express was our first agenda. As with most other shops in Trinoma, Kodak Express was full too. We didn’t have to wait too long to be attended to though. They have staff there who Photoshop the photos before printing. In my mind, I was thinking, what’s the point? Why do they need to have their photos edited? This girl was laying over somebody else’s hair on top of this girl’s head in the photo. What was up with that? As Alfred and I were exchanging smiles and glances, I thought that’s what he was thinking too. No – he actually liked the idea of working part-time in such a place. Okay…

But why couldn’t the day just be perfect? We weren’t rushing even though Alfred had to go straight to work from the mall. We really were just enjoying ourselves there. More after the jump.


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