Friday, January 27, 2012
Skin Problems
Fortunately, I haven't had any serious skin problems myself. Except for the occasional pimples [Hello Aunto Flo!] and some skin irrations every now and then, my most serious skin problem is probably the one I get whenever I have to change earrings for long periods of time. There was a time I had to ask my doctor about it because it just wouldn't go away and my ear lobes were always sore. He recommended a cream and it cleared out only after a few uses. My grandson in the Philippines on the other hand is having some bad skin problems. His mom [my niece] sent me some pictures. I instantly felt bad for the little boy because the flaking and redness don't like comfortable at all. My sister-in-law tried every remedy she knows but nothing has worked as of yet. My niece said that it's starting to worry her so she asked me about natural seaweed body wash that she read about online. She tried to look for it locally but she couldn't find any local dealer so she asked me if I can get it here for her. Luckily I found it online and it looks very promising. I will probably buy it soon so I can send it right away. Hopefully it will do the trick and ease that little boy's skin problems.
New House
Thanks for the article from Jermaine Haynes
My husband and I just moved into a new house in a pretty rural area. I would have never thought that we would end up living so far from the city, but it is much closer to my husband’s job. Although it is not a lifestyle that I am used to, it is pretty peaceful most of the time. There is not as much nose or traffic, and the stores are not nearly as crowded. When we moved in to our new house, we needed to set up all of our utilities. We had cable, electricity, and water set up . I had to ask my new neighbor if she knew anything about satellite internet setup. She said she used satellite internet and gave us a phone number to call to have ours set up. It was actually pretty easy to do and they set it up fairly quickly. Everyone around here is so nice and helpful. I think that I might be able to get used to this small town feel. I might like it here more than I thought I would.
My husband and I just moved into a new house in a pretty rural area. I would have never thought that we would end up living so far from the city, but it is much closer to my husband’s job. Although it is not a lifestyle that I am used to, it is pretty peaceful most of the time. There is not as much nose or traffic, and the stores are not nearly as crowded. When we moved in to our new house, we needed to set up all of our utilities. We had cable, electricity, and water set up . I had to ask my new neighbor if she knew anything about satellite internet setup. She said she used satellite internet and gave us a phone number to call to have ours set up. It was actually pretty easy to do and they set it up fairly quickly. Everyone around here is so nice and helpful. I think that I might be able to get used to this small town feel. I might like it here more than I thought I would.
Partial Electrical Outage?
I decided to clean the back-up file cabinet by going through some old paperworks and decided to shred some papers we no longer need. In doing so I blew up a fuse causing partial electrical outage in the house. How did that happen? I guess I overused the paper shredder...not a guess actually. I really OVERUSED it! Toink!
I actually thought I broke the paper shredder at first because the green light on it just went off. I tried to mess with it a little bit until I gave up. Then the little one came to me saying that her clock probably needs new battery because it's off. Hmmm...that shouldn't be because it's plugged into the wall. That's when I realized there's a power outage. I automatically thought it's another outage in our area so I dialed our electric company to report it only to be told by an automated response that there's no power outage in our area. Huh?? I looked around and realized that only half of our house had an outage. Oooppssss....I blew up a fuse. Since McGyver's not home...McMommy has to step in...by calling McGyver. Hahahaha.....it was easy-peasy. He just told me to go to the box and reset it. All I had to do was to look for that one button that's not aligned with the others and re-align it. VOILA! Power's back on! I felt like a big man after that....fixing a blown up fuse. LOL...not much fixin' involved though, eh?
I actually thought I broke the paper shredder at first because the green light on it just went off. I tried to mess with it a little bit until I gave up. Then the little one came to me saying that her clock probably needs new battery because it's off. Hmmm...that shouldn't be because it's plugged into the wall. That's when I realized there's a power outage. I automatically thought it's another outage in our area so I dialed our electric company to report it only to be told by an automated response that there's no power outage in our area. Huh?? I looked around and realized that only half of our house had an outage. Oooppssss....I blew up a fuse. Since McGyver's not home...McMommy has to step in...by calling McGyver. Hahahaha.....it was easy-peasy. He just told me to go to the box and reset it. All I had to do was to look for that one button that's not aligned with the others and re-align it. VOILA! Power's back on! I felt like a big man after that....fixing a blown up fuse. LOL...not much fixin' involved though, eh?
Allergy Attack!
So what else is new, right? I can't even remember the last time I didn't have to take allergy medicines. Yep, I have to take the medicine daily, sometimes more than twice a day. My husband has already surrendered to the fact that I will forever be sniffling. Honestly, I've long surrendered to that fact myself. I just don't see my allergies going away. That is until a friend who went to see an austin tx allergy doctor told me that it is indeed possible to live allergy free. Just like me, she had her allergies way back when we were still teaching in the same school in the Philippines. She came here a few years before I did but it's only a few years ago that she decided to seek professional help for her allergies. I still have to learn more about what she had to do to be allergy free but I'm very excited just knowing that I may not have to live with allergies my entire life. Guess who's happier than me? Clue...I'm marriend to him. Ha!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Daddy's Girl
We only have a few days left before the end of this month. That means it won't be long and it's going to be Valentine's Day...aka 'Heart's Day'!Ha! We don't celebrate it here...but we acknowledge it. It's hard not to when you have an over excited little one who wants to observe every single occasion she can possibly coerce us into observing. So we try to somehow acknowledge it by giving each other something...a card or chocolate. Nothing extravagant.
When I was still teaching, Valentine's Day was a big thing to my students. They're pre-teens and teenagers so it's expected. Needless to say our admission office would usually be flooded with flowers because of all the deliveries on that day. Unlike today where one can order flowers online, which I think is very convenient, during that time the flowers needed to be ordered in person or by phone which were then delivered at our school. I've never ordered flowers online myself but the husband did that a few times when we were first married. He doesn't order flowers anymore, be it online or otherwise, because I asked him not to get me flowers for special occasions. Why? Let's just say for practical reasons.
This Valentine's Day, I have no idea [well I kinda' do] what he'll get me. The little one really loves pretty flowers. I may just ask the husband to get her some for a change this year. I'm sure she'll be thrilled to get some flowers from him especially on Valentine's Day. I'm just not sure if he will agree to do that. On second thought, he will probably do that knowing how much he likes to surprise his little girl. She is after all 'Daddy's Girl'!
When I was still teaching, Valentine's Day was a big thing to my students. They're pre-teens and teenagers so it's expected. Needless to say our admission office would usually be flooded with flowers because of all the deliveries on that day. Unlike today where one can order flowers online, which I think is very convenient, during that time the flowers needed to be ordered in person or by phone which were then delivered at our school. I've never ordered flowers online myself but the husband did that a few times when we were first married. He doesn't order flowers anymore, be it online or otherwise, because I asked him not to get me flowers for special occasions. Why? Let's just say for practical reasons.
This Valentine's Day, I have no idea [well I kinda' do] what he'll get me. The little one really loves pretty flowers. I may just ask the husband to get her some for a change this year. I'm sure she'll be thrilled to get some flowers from him especially on Valentine's Day. I'm just not sure if he will agree to do that. On second thought, he will probably do that knowing how much he likes to surprise his little girl. She is after all 'Daddy's Girl'!
Stuffed!
I wish I'm talking about my belly...but I'm not. I'm actually hungry at the moment. Toink!
I'm talking about my lovely nostrils! I have to breathe in and out through my mouth because I'm so congested as a result of my allergies...which is brought about by our lovely weather down here in the ALLERGY state. Even our weather people here are stumped as to why we are having almost summer like temperature here during the day and cold ones at night. Winter is still a long way to go so I'm pretty sure there will still be some really cold weather coming....and some more allergy attacks to look forward to. Yee Haw!
Aside from the neverending sniffling, things are doing okay around here. Work has started to pick up already which is keeping me busy once again. I'm not diving into it it head first yet because I have other things to do for now but I'm sure I'll be busy as a bee here in a few weeks. For now, I'm busy doing 1 thing and 1 thing only....sniffling! Ha!
Enjoy the rest of the week everyone!
I'm talking about my lovely nostrils! I have to breathe in and out through my mouth because I'm so congested as a result of my allergies...which is brought about by our lovely weather down here in the ALLERGY state. Even our weather people here are stumped as to why we are having almost summer like temperature here during the day and cold ones at night. Winter is still a long way to go so I'm pretty sure there will still be some really cold weather coming....and some more allergy attacks to look forward to. Yee Haw!
Aside from the neverending sniffling, things are doing okay around here. Work has started to pick up already which is keeping me busy once again. I'm not diving into it it head first yet because I have other things to do for now but I'm sure I'll be busy as a bee here in a few weeks. For now, I'm busy doing 1 thing and 1 thing only....sniffling! Ha!
Enjoy the rest of the week everyone!
Time Flies!
Indeed it does. We may not feel it on a day to day basis but when you stop and look at some old pictures, it surely feels like time has passed us by so quickly.
Yesterday a friend of mine posted a picture of her son playing with his tama silverstar drum set. I was taken aback because I forgot how big he has gotten already. It seems it was only yesterday when he was playing with a toy drum set I gave him his first birthday. Now he's already playing a real drum set. I have yet to hear him play in person but I heard he has been taking drum lessons so I'm sure he's good at it already.
Another reminder that time really flies...our little one who technically is no longer little because she's about to overtake me height wise. We were standing side by side the other day and the husband commented that she's actually taller than me. Ugh! Well not quite yet because she was tip toeing as I learned later on. She just couldn't wait to be taller than Mom that's for sure!
Yesterday a friend of mine posted a picture of her son playing with his tama silverstar drum set. I was taken aback because I forgot how big he has gotten already. It seems it was only yesterday when he was playing with a toy drum set I gave him his first birthday. Now he's already playing a real drum set. I have yet to hear him play in person but I heard he has been taking drum lessons so I'm sure he's good at it already.
Another reminder that time really flies...our little one who technically is no longer little because she's about to overtake me height wise. We were standing side by side the other day and the husband commented that she's actually taller than me. Ugh! Well not quite yet because she was tip toeing as I learned later on. She just couldn't wait to be taller than Mom that's for sure!
Monday, January 23, 2012
Surprise....a TAG!
Wasn't it just last week when I posted something about TAGS here in my blog? Yep, it was. I wasn't doing much [still isn't actually] so I thought of 'bactracking' and looked back at my early days of blogging. Lo and behold, tags were abundant during those days.
But that's not what this post is all about. It's all about a TAG I got from Ate Beng of Beyond My Quiet Zone. Yep, she just gave me this...
Unique! I don't know about being unique but thanks much Ate Beng! I decided to post it right away even if she hasn't officially bestowed it upon me. Talk about overly-excited, eh? Haha....Anyway, it's Monday again! Anything new? Not much around here. Hopefully we'll start getting busy at work this week already. I'm starting to get a wee bit 'antsy'....
Small Business Grants
One of the big plans I used to have when I was still single and was working as a teacher was to start my own business. I didn't have anything in particular in mind as to what kind of business it would be, I just wanted a business of my own. All I knew back then was I needed some money to somehow make it into a reality. It's only some years down the road that I learned that there are actually business grants available out there. I just had to look for them. Right now I don't have that plan anymore...but I have quite a few friends who are planning to do that as soon as possible. As it is right now, most of these friends are still stuck in their 8-5 jobs in order to survive.
Start-up financing. That probably sums up the reason as to why so many people with really great ideas for a business cannot take that first step towards fulfilling that dream. Many think that they need to save up in order to have that seed money they need to start a business. That's not quite true because there are several business grants out there ready for the taking. One just needs to look for them. This is where businessgrants.org comes in because this is a site that can help those who want to have their own business on how to get small business grants. Aside from small business grants information, it also information on non-profit grants and contract funding. I may not need business grants right now but I'm sure glad I came across this site. At least I can refer my friends here who still has that burning desire to start their own business but don't have that much needed seed money...
Start-up financing. That probably sums up the reason as to why so many people with really great ideas for a business cannot take that first step towards fulfilling that dream. Many think that they need to save up in order to have that seed money they need to start a business. That's not quite true because there are several business grants out there ready for the taking. One just needs to look for them. This is where businessgrants.org comes in because this is a site that can help those who want to have their own business on how to get small business grants. Aside from small business grants information, it also information on non-profit grants and contract funding. I may not need business grants right now but I'm sure glad I came across this site. At least I can refer my friends here who still has that burning desire to start their own business but don't have that much needed seed money...
Friday, January 20, 2012
A Bit Over the Top
What am I missing?
I know that a 1 year old's birthday is a milestone. So I get it that some parents go overboard sometimes when it comes to having a party for it. Balloons, plenty of foods, maybe a clown or two, games for the guests. I think those are acceptable. I even see some with themed party, etc. I don't know how much that would cost but I'm thinking it's somewhat affordable because I'm seeing it a lot [thank you FB!] in pictures anyway. What I don't get are the 'pre-birthday' photo ops. Why? They treat it like a pre-nup now?
I can understand one spending probably...a thousand dollars which is about $40K in Philippine money for the party itself but $100K or more is just a way too over the top for me...for a 1-year old's birthday anyway. I don't know. Maybe I've just been away far too long and this is how it's done now. I'm not quite sure actually. But to be honest, I just don't see myself spending that much for a birthday party...for a 1 year old if I am in the Philippines. Maybe I'm too cheap but that's how I see it. As fragile as the economy is right now, one has to be responsible when it comes to spending his or her money...
Oh well...as they say: To Each His Own...I just hope those parents have some pretty solid investments for their one year old. They will definitely need it once that kid starts going to school already.
Venting is done!
I know that a 1 year old's birthday is a milestone. So I get it that some parents go overboard sometimes when it comes to having a party for it. Balloons, plenty of foods, maybe a clown or two, games for the guests. I think those are acceptable. I even see some with themed party, etc. I don't know how much that would cost but I'm thinking it's somewhat affordable because I'm seeing it a lot [thank you FB!] in pictures anyway. What I don't get are the 'pre-birthday' photo ops. Why? They treat it like a pre-nup now?
I can understand one spending probably...a thousand dollars which is about $40K in Philippine money for the party itself but $100K or more is just a way too over the top for me...for a 1-year old's birthday anyway. I don't know. Maybe I've just been away far too long and this is how it's done now. I'm not quite sure actually. But to be honest, I just don't see myself spending that much for a birthday party...for a 1 year old if I am in the Philippines. Maybe I'm too cheap but that's how I see it. As fragile as the economy is right now, one has to be responsible when it comes to spending his or her money...
Oh well...as they say: To Each His Own...I just hope those parents have some pretty solid investments for their one year old. They will definitely need it once that kid starts going to school already.
Venting is done!
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