Pinay WAHM

That's the pumpkin that the little carved this year! SCARY, eh??? She did all the work this time around. I didn't lift a finger to help her except with a little bit of cleaning after she was all done. She had fun carving it and had more fun [I think] doing the 'presentation' to her biggest critic....Dad! LOL...It actually was like a presentation...like a school report when she was showing it to him last night. Her voice was modulated while she was explaining it to him...haha. I asked if she was expecting some kind of a grade from him. Anyway, here's how it looks with a little bit of light around it... It's now sitting on the table ready to be tossed. It has served its purpose so it's time for it to go. Wehhh.... Happy Halloween ~

It's Halloween week. Unlike the past 11 Halloweens we're not as excited because we won't be doing any trick or treatin' this time around. As I mentioned in my earlier post this is the first year our not so little one won't be donning a costume. I didn't think much of it before but now that it's getting close I'm actually getting a wee bit sad. This is just one of the proofs that she's indeed a grown-up already. She's actually at that awkward stage when even she herself is not sure if she's a grown up already or still a little girl. Oh well. I didn't think Halloween will make me sentimental. Ugh. Here in our neighborhood only a few houses put up decorations for Halloween. One of them is actually right across the street. They put up lights around their house and set a huge pumpkin blow-up in their front yard. I'm sure there are more decors by their front door and probably in their house but we can't see those from where we...

I've been trying to make copies of our home movies that are in DVDs and transferring them to our external drive. Hubby said that DVDs are normally good only for 10 years and most of her DVDs are older than that. I thought that once they're in DVDs then we're all set. I guess not. So even if I wasn't sure how to do the task, I decided to do it and just learn along the way. As it turns out, it's one tedious task because I had to extract [not sure if that's the correct term to use] the files from the DVDs and make another home movie out of it. The only difference this time around is I don't have to do a lot of editing anymore. All in all, it took me more than a month [even longer I think] to transfer about a dozen DVDs to our external drive. I still have some more to transfer but I'm glad I'm done with the oldest ones. Hopefully I'll be able to finish all of them before this year ends.

Just like a lot of people out there, I'm still at a loss as to how this new healthcare act will affect us as far as our insurance goes. I tried reading as much as I can to get an idea but not much makes sense to me unfortunately. I'm even visiting websites such as www.nchealthagency.com even if I'm not a resident of North Carolina...yet. That's how desperate I am to know what's out there. I've been hearing from people I know that their insurance are dropping them after this year and that they need to look for a new one before that if they want to stay covered. And from what they're saying the new premiums they'll need to pay are just very high. We haven't received anything from our insurance yet. As it is, we're not happy with our current one but what choice do we have. Needless to say, I'm not looking forward to receiving that letter our health insurance may send us in the near future.

For the past 11 years our little one who is not so little anymore donned a costume for Halloween. We also went trick or treatin' for most of those 11 years. There were a couple of years we weren't able to go. The first time was because of hubby's work and the second time was because of the time mix-up. We never went trick or treatin' around our neighborhood because we didn't have enough neighbors that gave out candies so we always went to the mall to do it. We could have gone to other villages/neighborhoods like what others did but we thought the mall was more secure and safer and convenient for us. There was always a big crowd there so it was more fun to watch and see kids [and some oldies sometimes] running around. Anyway, this year the 'tradition' stops. Our little one won't be donning a costume anymore. She was already a bit awkward last year when she was going around at the mall because she was one of the tallest [if not the tallest] in line. So t...

One of our neighbors is starting to concern us. There seems to be a lot of different kinds of people coming and going in their house. On a regular day, there are about 3 or 4 different cars parked in their driveway or in front of their house. But that's not the only reason we're starting to be concerned about. Recently they pitched a couple of tents in their property as well as parked a gooseneck trailer in their backyard. I'm not sure if anyone actually stays in the tent but it's odd to see them there for about a week now. We know they are very active in their church so that may have something to do with it. We're just hoping that they won't start bringing in homeless people or worse yet use their house for rehab purposes. Hubby said to pay close attention to what's going on there because we're just never sure how it will affect the peace and quiet we so love out here. I'm hoping those tents and trailers are there temporarily or else code enforceme...

I guess that about sums up the weekend weather we're having at the moment. And where are we spending it? At home! We also stayed home yesterday because the man of the house had to go to his 'day job'. No complaints here because I know they need all the work they can get. That's how small businesses roll unfortunately. They can't really choose when to work or not to work. Well, they can...if they're willing to lose customers. Hubs is not about to do that even if it means giving up his weekends every now and then. Anyway, today we're all home. I'm actually feeling a wee bit 'off'. Tired mostly because I had a hard time catching that elusive 'zzzz'. The thing with me is no matter what time I fall asleep, I wake up the same time everyday. I just feel 'heavy' literally when I go past 8 o'clock. I'm not sure if it's only me but I get that feeling like I'm sinking in bed at 8 AM. Weird, huh? Oh well. I'd probably be...