It’s Friday once again and weekend is looming just around the corner.
We need a vacation. That’s what comes to mind when Friday arrives. The weather in Manila is scorching hot and the beach sounds so inviting.
Or a cooler place probably that even when the sun shines down, we can still go out under the shade of trees and enjoy the cooler breeze.
Happy Friday everyone!
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I haven’t experienced being pregnant yet but I know from my mom and from other mothers who are close to me that the first pregnancy is the most difficult particularly in adjustment. That’s why they all told me that pregnant women with a support group are lucky as they have people to rely on when they find it all too much. The first trip to the maternity clothes stores, buying maternity supplies, going to the OB-GYN and other things to do are made exciting because of the other persons around the pregnant woman (aside from her husband, that is) who are just as excited for the pregnancy.
Two first time moms are women I’ve known since I was a little kid. I know they are both excited about their pregnancy and their husbands and every family member and friends are all excited for them!
Filed under FYI I saw a status update of a friend in Facebook about buying yoga supplies as she will be starting yoga classes this weekend. I’ve been reading nothing but negative updates from her the past couple of months so I know yoga will be good for her. She needs an outlet, a diversion, anything to keep her mind from straying to the negative always.
Misery loves company. I believe it’s true. My friend is obviously miserable but she prefers to keep the reason to herself. I’ve been asking her about it, common friends did the same a number of times but she refuses to divulge the reasons why. She just keeps on posting cryptic updates about how miserable her life is now and how stressed out she is at work and even at home.
I am hoping yoga will make a difference to her life. She really needs it.
Filed under FYI I am helping my cousin pack for a month-long stay in the mountains. She will be staying with a family that she’s going to help in her capacity as a social welfare. It’s a special project and I don’t really know much about it because she is not really in liberty to discuss it with anyone aside from the family and her boss.
She needs to pack as little as possible but enough for a month of stay in a community with no stores to buy necessities around. She has to go down the mountain if she wants to buy an extra shirt or pants or toiletries. So pack is what we will be doing tonight and then I will be accompanying her to the bus terminal with her backpack tomorrow.
Thank goodness for the high sierra rolling backpack I need not carry the heavy backpack on my shoulders. I just know it will be heavy!
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When my siblings and I were younger our mother would always tell us to avoid dogs as much as possible as we could get bitten. Even puppies, she didn’t want us anywhere near them. I guess seeing a relative die from rabies from a dog bite scared her.
For years I avoided dogs. Even when we had one at home as a guard dog, I didn’t go near it. The same with my siblings who also avoided dogs like I did.
And then last year, a few weeks before our youngest, my brother, turned 20, he told our sister R that he wanted a shih tzu. My sister didn’t allow him to have one but he insisted and one day he came home with a puppy. It was a cross breed and was a gift to him from his girlfriend. We sent it back because the dog looked like a local breed only and told him to pick another breed. He went home with another one that looked too sickly but since it was so cute, we tried nursing it back to health. It was not meant for us as two days later, it died. My brother went home day after it died with another puppy! This time around, it’s a black cross Labrador. My sister R didn’t want a black dog and she was also getting more and more interested with a shih tzu so she asked an old schoolmate friend of hers who breeds toy dogs if she could buy one from her. The transaction happened so fact that on my brother’s birthday, September 26, they just went out to buy ice cream and came home with a new shih tzu puppy. My brother named him Kobe.
Two came home together, Meggy (the other shih tzu) and Peggy (the pug). Then came my chihuahua Patchie and just yesterday our newest month-old pup Drako a Siberian husky.
I didn’t know I could love dogs this much! I bought a lot of stuff for them including beds, chew bones, water feeders, a couple of cages and dog carriers.
Let me tell you something else… I want to buy more pups!
Filed under That's Me! With all the plans we are making in improving our home for the puppies and for making room for the important stuff, I keep imagining a new home. A home with space saver stuff inside or with aspen furniture similar to a house we rented one summer a couple of years ago. Just enough square meters, not too big or too small, and just enough number of rooms for everyone in the family. What I love about brand new home is the idea that it will come with a spacious backyard!
I wish. I pray. I hope it will happen before this year ends.
Our house now would have been okay but the limited space and the noisy neighbors…
Filed under FYI We have 5 puppies here at home now: two shih tzu, one chihuahua, one pug, and one Siberian husky. My brother is taking care of the puppies with my dad and I alternating with him when he’s either in school or at work. I had our terrace tiled for the pups but that was when we only had three. Now that two more were added, I want another portion of open space we have outside the house to be tiled again. The Siberian husky will have its own cage there.
So now my dad and I are canvassing materials for what we want done to that portion of the open space. We are canvassing for hollow blocks, cement, sand, tiles, and other supplies like acorn nuts. I will have a cabinet for the puppy supplies custom made for that corner as well.
The family is growing and we really need more space!
Filed under FYI My sister and I have this habit of talking as soon as we hit the bed. If we happen to do so at the same time. We would discuss a lot of things, her teaching work, her students, TV shows we like, people we both know, Facebook updates, etc. Last night we were talking again but since I lacked sleep from a number of days taking care of our new pups, I just couldn’t keep up with her.
Maybe I can learn more about the sieves or the eye make-up demo she was talking about if I could only stay awake while she was discussing it to me. Alas, I couldn’t keep my eyes open long enough to let her finish with the last sentence I saw her mouthing to me.
I succumb to sleep several minutes after my head hit the pillow. I woke up an hour after midnight, my sister already asleep.
Filed under FYI I met up with my friend who works as a nurse in a government hospital a couple of blocks away from the street we live in. We were supposed to have dinner then coffee after so we could talk and catch up. We haven’t seen each other in a while so I was really excited to spend time with her.
But when we met up, she looked exhausted. She told me that she was assigned that day with the medicine carts, dragging it with her from one patient to another. And it’s a government hospital so I knew how many patients my friend was talking about! We had dinner but instead of having coffee after, I told her that we ought to go home and just meet up again when she didn’t come from a work shift. I really pity her that night because I knew how tired she was.
Filed under FYI I can feel the itch to change this blog’s theme again. Something with a white background and a simpler header, perhaps?
Or I might just change the colors here.
I’m not really sure what changes I will make but there will be some.
Most likely in the font and background.
Hmm…
In the meantime, I will take a much needed break.
Sleep a bit and then go back later to decide whether I will indeed change the theme here or not.
And then there will also be a couple of new entries here about what happened the past few days. Nothing too interesting but I still would want to tell you about it.
Happy Monday everyone!
We are creatures of comfort, me and my family. We love the comforts a home can give us. Bathroom, mattresses, appliances and hot meals. We are therefore not too much on adventures. We don’t really like the risks involved in being outdoors. We do try to go on adventures from time to time but there should always be a hotel nearby for the whole family to reach a consensus. Hahaha!
When my sister V mentioned Lightweight Backpacking Tents, every immediately groaned. We are going camping! This summer somewhere outside the city limits. It will surely be an adventure for the family as we haven’t done camping before.
I sure do hope there’s a bathroom in the camping area.
Filed under FYI Ah, yes! Our married family friend couple has gotten past the 7-year itch most couples go through and have surpassed the tests thrown at them! They are now about to celebrate their 10-year wedding anniversary and the husband promised the wife a 10 year anniversary ring. They planned to go away on the weekend of their anniversary and will be back after 5 days.
There are couples who break up on the 7th year they are married. Why? They couldn’t stand the hurdles they go through. Their love for each other is not strong enough to surpass all the tests married couples go through. Which is too bad as they vowed to love each other until death do them part, right?
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