Taking a Breather...

It has been an extremely overwhelming day today. That might even be an understatement.

So many changes happening recently. We've finally started renovating our rooms and that's causing me so much anxiety. I guess when there's so much change happening in one's life all at once everything becomes chaotic. Especially if that someone is like me who loves being in control over EVERYTHING. Gaaaah.

Work has been crazy. Fun…but crazy. I'm so proud of the team that we have now. We're slowly growing and that on it's own is pretty crazy. Add to that the fact that today my partner and I finally signed the lease on a new space. Eeeep. Here's to bigger and better things for us. Can't have done it without everyone in the team of course. Those guys are amazing. That is an understatement. Aaaaaand, of course we can't have done any of it without God getting us through it. Seriously, every time I feel overwhelmed, much like right now, I take a breather and pray about it.

Let me talk about my team a little. They're such characters and it's so much fun having them around because it makes everything easier. Not only because there are people to share the load but because they're such a happy bunch. There are random afternoons when we get surprised they suddenly burst into song, the most awkward of songs, which genuinely adds to their charm. I love them!

We started the year a bit slow which had me worried but once things got busy…as they say, When it rains, it pours. Just another testament to God's unlimited blessings.

But let's take a step back from all that stress and realise that although everything is all up in the air right now it's all a lead up to a whole lot of positive things.

I'm baaaack…!

So…I find it funny that every time I tell myself I'm going to start posting on my blog more frequently I always end up NOT posting on my blog. It's like I do things just to contradict myself. Like yoga, I keep telling myself tom is the day I am going to get my ass to the studio and I'm still here. Fat and sluggish and waaaaay inflexible. Oh yoga, how I miss you.

You might be wondering…Why'd I all of a sudden decide it was time for me to write a blog today…well, because I'm being honest here, I'm procrastinating. Don't tell my partner, although I don't think she'd mind since she's currently making her second cup of coffee after successfully butchering the first one she made. We're kissing productivity goodbye…I'm kidding.

How has life been? My life has been filled with work, work and a little bit of fun on the side. I'm not complaining. On the contrary I'm having the awesomest time. We're actually in the process of making our dreams come true and it may be a bit scary, ok, I lie it's REALLY scary but it's worth it. We just have to keep praying and of course working hard. Harder than we've ever worked in our lives.

In the more personal aspect of life. Been married a little more than a year now and it's been sooooo much fun, and that is why you should always marry your best friend who may or may not think he's funnier than he actually is. :/ hehe…

Last year was heartbreaking as well because I lost my car…well, not really lost. It decided it wanted to be a submarine and well, it's still partial car partial who knows what. :( And as we wait on the final verdict…I just have to live with driving my husbands car and he just has to live with the fact that it might not be in such safe hands. LOL. I KID!!! I'm a super safe driver, well except when backing up, but that's a story for another day.

And as the brand new year starts, Chinese New Year pa lang so pwede pa humabol! :D I guess I should put my resolutions in writing somewhere…and this year instead of making resolutions let me write down the things that I want to be able to do by this year.

• I want to have a constant yoga practice. Be it in a studio, at home or at the gym. I need to get back into yoga. My husband told me recently, in a not so nice tone might I add, that I should get back to yoga because I complained less when I was still practicing. Soooo…yeah. 
• Must make actual edible meals for the husband because all my married friends keep posting their kitchen masterpieces it kinda hurts already. Ahem Tin, ahem!
• Invest more!
• Spend more time with my family…because every year this should be a priority
• Branch out and always challenge myself, work wise and personal life wise. 

I think 5 is enough…because let's face it…I'll probably not do the cooking thing and the exercise part is still a little iffy. LOL. 

Getting Back on Track

Oh what a week it has been. Don't you just love the New Year. It gives people the chance to reboot their lives, and as my Wally app reminded be ever so nicely...It's almost the end of the month, want to get your life back on track. Lol. It's a hilarious app. Anyway, every year we get a chance to get perspective back in our lives. We re-asses and make a mental list of the things we should prioritize and those that quite frankly should just take a back seat. At least that's the way it is for me. I hope. hehe

So this year I decided is the year I get back on track when it comes to being healthy. I used to play sports. Used to being the operative word. Now I want to at least be able to walk around a foreign country without feeling like I'm about to keel over. It's good motivation. :D I've been so unhealthy lately it's not funny and since I was vegetarian for awhile, and was too vain to take vitamins because they make you fat, my immune system suffered tremendously. I've been crazy sickly and well, let's just say I'm tired of that and decided that it's high time to change it. What have I done to get back on track? Well, signed up for 6 months of yoga. Weeee...see it works 2 ways, I now have access to yoga for half the year and it's wasn't cheap so every time I'm too lazy to wake up I just have to remember that I paid all that money and I must push myself. Haha...Hopefully I'm more kuripot than tamad. Oh and I have a yoga partner, well 2 if everything works out. :D Ele and I have both signed up and she's game all the time some times I want to bonk her on the head. LOL. You know I love you El!

We took advantage of the promo from Bliss Yoga. Yaaaay!

Seriously though, the first week of January has been awesome. I've been to yoga 4 days in a row and although initially it was painful and everything felt stiff, I've survived and can honestly say it's not crazy painful anymore. I just need to work on a lot of stuff. Every time the yoga instructor asks us to set a goal for the practice mine is always the same. I want to be tone but more importantly I need to improve my balance. It is seriously frustrating not to be able to do any of the balancing poses because I keep falling over. :( Must concentrate and not be so negative about it. I'm sure it will come.

My other goal for this year is to take more photos. I keep telling myself I want to buy a new camera so that I can take more photos but part of me thinks I'll be too lazy to actually lug it around. Must really decide on that. To be honest though, it kind of made me sad that I haven't been taking a lot of photos lately especially since I used to be such a camwh*re it was ridiculous. So this year I will take more photos and I will make sure to upload them somewhere so I never loose them. :D

Now the only problem with that is I also told myself that this year I will curb on all the spending. When I looked back at all the things I've been spending on the past year it's been crazy. I have been trying to write down all our expenses to give ourselves a respectable budget that way I won't feel like I'm punishing myself and after seeing everything I paid for last year, you can say I was shocked. That is an understatement. Which led to the fact that this year, before buying something, even if it costs 50 pesos, I have to think twice about it. If I don't really need it it's not going to be bought. Oh, and I'm not taking money out of the savings account either.Which means someone's got to work hard to spend hard. LOL. Notice how it's not really I, this is a marriage and that means it's a team effort. LOL. I'm sure my husband knew what he was getting himself into before we got married. :D

So I've got to earn my camera before I buy it. Now, which camera should I get? I haven't decided yet, will have to consult the experts. Husband wants a dslr kind of camera and I honestly cannot see myself lugging that around so we have to meet somewhere in between. :D We'll just have to wait and see.

Here's to keeping our resolutions!

2014 Bring it On!

This year is the my most favoritest year EVER! That's cause this year I married the love of my life and although it's been a crazy year of planning and planning and stress everything was worth it. :D Since some of you weren't there to witness the wedding let me share with you one of my favoritest parts of Miggy's vows. :D

• My favorite quote about love goes...“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.” from the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I must confess I've never watched the movie but I've loved that quote since I read it the first time! hehe so you must imagine my surprise and excitement when my husband started his vows with that exact quote. :D It was perfect. He was perfect. I am still all gooey inside when I think about it. 

Weee...how lovely it is to be loved. My heart is a happy little heart. Anyway, enough with the cheese...for now. I've been blessed with a lot this year. A lot of changes have been happening and as my aunt texted me about a month ago, 2 big things happened for me this year. A change in surname and a change in career. Although there is always uncertainty when you venture out on your own there is also that excitement for what the world has in store for you. So even if recently I've been scared sh*tless because of the possibility that this might not work out I'm even more excited because I know God has so much more blessings to shower upon us. 

On a more personal note, no we're not pregnant so please stop asking..LOL I'm having the time of my life being a wife. :D Ok, so I don't do all the stuff normal wives might do. I'm still lucky enough that I don't have to manage a household or do chores. But I still make sure I take care of the things my husband, eeep, still not used to that term, might need. Oh, and I love spoiling him. Making him happy makes me happy. So the PS4 might not have been the best idea, everyone keeps telling me I'll never hear from him again, I'm still happy about it cause he's like a little boy all excited. Oh, and I get to do whatever I want since he's always on that thing anyway. Win - win! :D

2014 is going to be a year of many firsts. I've given us a budget and the idea is to stick to it, although I'm already thinking it might not be enough. What a challenge! I've also decided that in 2014 I'm not going to go crazy shopping...all the time. It's time to invest wisely. I'm so freaked out because I think I'm starting to sound like a grown up. Waaaaah! It's so surreal. So here's to a better year for everyone. 

Oh, and before I get too lazy to write another blogpost let me try to write down my resolutions for the year...bear with me here. 

1. Learn to live within a budget. A non-negotiable budget. LOL. There are just some things we can learn to live without. I won't die if I don't get to buy all the crap I love buying. 
2. This year I must learn to keep with the yoga program. Last year was crazy, loosing weight because of the stress was easy now they're back and they want to take over the world. 
3. Travel more with the husband. Although this may be extremely difficult because he has an extremely inflexible schedule I think short trips can be arranged. :D
4. Learn to cook...or at least get back in the kitchen. It won't kill anyone until it actually does. Hehe...
5. Spend time with family. Because in the end they are the people who matter.

So here's to an awesome 2014 for all of us! :D

Long overdue Thank You part 2!

It's the last day of the year and I realized I've been procastinating blogging enough I must get on with it and truth be told I've been feeling bad I haven't completed the Thank You's and we've just gotten to our 2 month as a married couple mark. I thought it was high time I start writing the second part of my list of people to thank. See, I have been racking my brain trying to figure out who to thank first and stuff like that. But then I figured, it's not in the order but it's in the content. That means this post is bound to be a long one. LOL! Be warned!

Most people would think that since I have experience in planning events it would be easy-peasy planning my wedding. Boy did they get THAT wrong. See, as I mentioned in my vows, which I totally should write about in another post, I'm not the typical girl. I didn't really know what I wanted, I was fickle. We had a color theme and half way through the planning we, by that I mean me, decided to change it. It wasn't right. And I'm glad I did! :D That meant everything that already got made had to be redone. All the planning and designing and pegs hunting had to be redone. It was chaos...in my panic riddled brain at least.

So let me introduce to everyone my best friend Val, or as she prefers to be called Master. :D I had to italicise the best friend because she thinks I'm kidding most of the time. LOL! But seriously though, Val and I have been friends since high school. She's my go to person for all things design. "Best friend are you busy? I need kasi..." hahaha...most often texted line between us. Whoops, I'm sounding soooooo abusive. But I'm nooooot. I promise!!! :P So obviously Val did all the designing for the wedding. From Save the Dates, to Invites, I made her do 2, to missalette covers. And I think because we've grown up together she knew just exactly what I wanted. The best part...she actually drew/designed us...don't understand what I mean...let me show you.

I was super aliw with it and everyone kept commenting on Mig's hair. Yes, he really has curly hair. :D So super kaduper thanks Best Friend! You are awesome!!! 

The thing that caused me the most panic was finding someone to take care of the styling of the venue. I was in so much panic. The venue had so many restrictions and there was so many other things that needed to be considered, primarily the budget. LOL! So there I was literally a week before the wedding talking to a bazillion people trying to figure out what to do...and then literally like mana from heaven my aunt tells me she found all these things that I could use. That was already on top of all the other things she previously got for us. So you can imagine how much of a load off that was. All the little things you saw at the wedding she had a hand in. From the words of love and encouragement spread all over the tables to the little balls of light to the spray painted (by hand might I add) butterflies and fireflies, everything came from her. I was beyond ecstatic. So thank you Auntie Stella for picking up all the little things that made our reception look perfect. :D 

see the famous cake topper, one of her first buys. :D Isn't it perfect?!?

And everything put together was just perfect. :D

Add to that the fact that she hosted 2 Bridal Showers for me. Am I not the luckiest?!!? :D It was so much fun being a bride I kind of miss it but I'm happier now because I don't have to stress so much. So super kaduper thank you Auntie Stell. You are the awesomest!!! 

And then there's Barbs. Who amongst all the stress I would call and she would repeatedly tell me to relax. Things will work out and we have tons of time. I was so stressed about everything it wasn't even funny. The only thing I wasn't stressed about was the amount of drinks we had. Miggy's number one priority when planning the wedding, make sure there are drinks enough to get everyone drunk. It was epic. Everyone was plastered including me. :D By the last week before the wedding I was literally just calling her to make sure I didn't forget anything. On the day of the wedding I didn't stress about anything. I gave everything to her and she took care of the rest. I literally left her with all the things she had to hang on to our bag of angpao's because as previously stated I was too drunk. LOL! I love you Barbs and my best girl Bea! hahaha

Chiqui (my drinking mentor) and Barbs! :D

There was so much alcohol at the wedding my bouquet is still with Barbs. LOL! :D

And then there's Ed, who literally came in to save the day. I don't even remember how it came up but one day we were talking and the next thing I know he said he would take care of styling the venue for me. He talked to the florist and got all the elements and put them all together. As you can tell, I was in love with everything. So thank you Ed! You are a life saver.

Finally, I think it must be mentioned that our flowers were more than I had dreamed of. From my bridal bouquet to the flowers by the table. Everything was beyond what I was expecting. I am blessed to have family who love me and make sure that my dream wedding would come true. So thank you Auntie Lilian for making sure the flowers were just perfect. They tied everything together. They were so amazing Miggy made everyone take home as much as they could. Even the fratmen. LOL. I don't think I should have shared that. Haha...

This year we have been blessed with so much and I'm sure next year will be even better. So yay for all of us! :D It's been crazy but I'm sure it's going to get even better!