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

Blessings! :)

Good things come to those who wait! :) That's a lot coming from someone as impatient as me. But seriously, I have been working in the new company for about two months now. :) And things are starting to pick up. :)

I had my first ever event last weekend. It was for the SM Cyberzone Tech Fair. We did it in three malls simultaneously. :) Yup, you heard me, simultaneously. :) How cool is that! :)

On top of that there's two other account that we're working on that's already kicked off. :) I can't wait! :)

Thank you God for all my blessings! :) I can't wait for more to come! :)

Sunday is Family Day

I remember being a kid and spending Sunday dinners with my cousins. It was so much fun. A day spent just lounging around and having fun. We would play in the extension house, in the garden, in the groto, by the macopa tree! we played to our hearts content. Sadly the househelp got older and we got too many that it was really hard to just meet every Sunday. But those would always be treasured memories that helped make our family, no matter how crazy, close! :-)

Growing up with two brothers, i was always constantly teased. We would have tons of fights and they would always gang up on me. I guess that's how kids really are when they're growing up. It's always boys against girls and too bad for me I was an only girl but then again, that only meant I could play the boys picking on the only girl card. And I played that A LOT! ahaha

While at dinner with my brothers, we were laughing about all the crazy situations and ideas we used to have as kids. You see this all started when my younger brother said he couldn't believe he was related to us because we were so corny. I told him that's cause pulot lang siya sa basura (we just picked him up from the trash) hahaha...it was what we would tell him when he was being all gross and dirty when we were kids. My brother used to be scrawny. hahaha...thinking about it now it was mean but as kids it was all fun. Then I remember this old commercial about child slavery and child trafficking. That's when, as kids, we had the bright idea to sell my younger brother per kilo. hahaha...yes we were mean. It was fun. We all had our own share of evilness. Trust me. I was the butt of all cry baby jokes. What? I was sensitive. You can't blame me! hahaha...that and I was a wimp. At least I admit it. I've outgrown it, or at least have learned to use it to my advantage.

Memories are hilarious to look back on especially when you're part of a family that loves one another to enough to always play pranks on one another. Don't get me wrong, we've had our share of ups and downs but in the end. It's all good. I can only wish that by the time I have kids of my own, we'll be able to make memories like that as well. :)

When I have kids of my own we will do pancake Sundays and on special occasions waffle Sundays. I will make the effort to have dinner with the grandparents and the cousins cause I remember those were the days that were most fun. It's fun to plan and all but I don't want to be jumping the gun or anything. Everything in God's time.

I thank God each day for my family. They're the best people in the world despite the fact that they're looney most of the time and I love them more than anything or anyone.

Family will always be love. :)

Welcome to civilization

I was browsing through the internet and came upon this article on Yahoo that talked about a photograph of 2 slave boys.



This photo shows how uneducated and little minded people were before. We are sometimes still like that in our society now a days, especially when it comes to accepting the minority or people who grew up away from our social circle.

But despite that, we have still grown a lot and I'm thankful that I was able to live in a generation where being able to share one's ideas and beliefs does not automatically mean being stoned or crucified. :)

To read more on the article go to this address...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100610/ap_on_re_us/us_slavery_photo

***I would have posted a link but I can't seem to figure it out! hahahah