well, I really don't get to blog a lot here. lol. anyway, hope you all had a great 4th of july!! we just stayed at home and watched 2 fireworks show!! yep, we moved into a one bedroom unit in the very same building, imagine that? ha haa!  it was sure fun, we moved all our things in just one day. using our total trolley! it sure came in handy, lol. so yeah, it all started when one day we received a phone call and they're telling us to move right away. heck, we only have 2 weeks! our lease is gonna end june 30 and we're supposed to have a 45 days notice to vacatethe place. we were veryyyy angry!!! we told them we weren't gonna move at all if they didn't give us that notice. somehow they just don't understand the hardship of finding a house here. it;s not like in the phils. when you see a house for rent ok, as long as you have money it's yours. but no. it's different here. it doesn't matter if you have money or not. they do the background check and credit history. thank God it was one morning I took the time to search at honolulu advertiser.com and I went to the classified section, and yeah there were a lot of houses, etc. on the list. I saved the webpage and called them right away. the funny thing was, we called a lot of apartments for rent, and the only person who called right back is the lady managing the one bedroom unit here in our same building. hmm, what a surprise!! and I was very excited that night coz my husband saw the apartment around 4:30 pm I was still at work, boo hoo! then a week later we started packing our things. we had a lot of storage spaces since it's much more expanded than the studio we used to stay at. I felt really sad. I don't know. I kinda felt very attached to the unit downstairs.  it took us a few days to straighten up our new home. we cleaned the place downstairs little by little. and the only great thing about the unit is the view we had. you can see the whole city. and of course the airport. hehe, I can see my hubby's workplace, too! isn't that neat? the only downside is.. it's a bit high. and I don't like it.  - but I keep on praying that we are all safe and sound always.   as you all know I've been minding a lil pixel site of mine being hosted by a nice person. I chose to do a pixel site since my ads-infested site is no longer that active. of course I just realized no one comes back in a website full of ads smacking in their face. I wanted to get a domain but since we are on a really tight budget that won't be granted yet..  since I love creating pixels I tried to start something new. it's like 3 months already since I opened it up. of course there are many things goin' on there not like here that we're all pleasant to each other. my link is http://kitty.cuddle-bug.net, you can find me there. I can't really blog there then blog over here, it's just too much. so just remove my link if you want to. I appreciate all the friendship we've shared.I know  the site I have really isn't your taste at all. but since trying out for country graphics I never had such great friends with that. they are all mothers of grown up kids, compare to me? no one wants to keep in touch with me or my site. I guess age really matters when it comes to that. when I had my pixel site open they just interact with you through commenting on your site. and I just enjoyed making my own layouts instead of using a premade one, mas nakakawala ng tension, lol.. I'm only thankful through this journal that I met a lot of my online friends namely ate Ana, ate  Honey, ate Jenny, ate Leigh, ate Jona and my very first guest at my site Cherry Rose!! if there were more out there, I want to thank all of you  sa walang sawa nyong pagdalaw d2 sa journal ko!! I surely appreciate all your thoughts and concerns...  I just hope we could still keep in touch? sana lang, kahit di nako mag bablog dito, I just hope we can still communicate when we see each other online.  ok lang, buharin nyo na yung link ko, but don't worry I'm always here to visit your journals. masarap yatang basahin mga kwento nyo eh. ok, till then warm hugs and kisses to all of you, my friends.... in just a short time I'll be offline for awhile since my son and my mom are almost coming. I just want to make up for the time we've lost for our son Nathan. if you want to come over my site it's up to you just to warn you though that it's not that pleasant as it is because of rude people who just try to ruin a good site. drop me a line over there pag may time kayo, ok? love you all!!!! take care!!!!

Helloooo!!! here I am again!! I missed you guys!!! anyway!!! how's everything?? hmm.. sorry I wasn't able to blog yesterday.. I had a terrible sore throat building up that morning, but i decided to work anyway. but when I came home that night I was soooo hot! like I was on fire or something! I was staring at the computer looking so dull and everything my hubby told me It was time for me to rest coz I was going to work around 10 am the next day. ohhh, I feel sooooo bad until now. my throat hurts so much. nothing to make it feel better but just gargle it with mouthwash.. and drink plenty of water. OK! on to the news! I was so happy last monday!!!! why?? because my hubby Jon treated me to something special before our month-sarry (as they call it). that night, we we're about to go to sleep after having a long day's work. then all of a sudden he turns to me and he said, "why don't we go driving around the island?" and I was like, "huh? are you kidding me?!" and he's like "ok, take it or leave it.." and he was just smiling.. letting me guess if he was joking around or not. you see, the thing about Jon is.. you'll never know what's coming up next. he jokes around most of the time and I like it.. I was always convincing him to take me to a certain place, blah blah.. but still he won't budge! he's just full of surprises.. ok, so anyway.. we woke up early in the morning, uhm.. not very early, as I should say.. 9:30? then after having breakfast we gathered a few things, a towel, our digicam, bags, etc.. then we went straight to the gasoline sation, picked up a few snacks and drinks. then off we went! I was really happy coz he's taking me to drive around the island, going to the beach just chillin' around.. back in the philippines I live close to the beach, too-- about 30 minutes drive from where I live. I love the beach sooo much!!! ( I just hang around.. not to swim, though.. yeah, it suck.) I have some friends in college who lives close to the beach so whenever we're off after classes it's straight to the beach and just do a lil chit chat, you know. girls!! ok, ok.. so yeah, we went to waikiki.. and I just loooove the designer shops they got there!!! Ooh-lala! of course a lot of tourists here and there, surfin'..walking around with their 2-piece swimsuits.. argh!!!! I so envy them! man, when we reached the beach it was so wonderful-- sparkling blue water, oh yeah! I could just smell the wonderful ocean breeze. it relaxes me so much! releases tension, and all that. my hubby was my chauffeur for the day, we went to diamond head and from there I just loved the houses we passed by. they are worth millions! ack! can't afford it. just because it has the ocean view.. and much worse.. it's just located on the outside! when we we're planning to buy a house last year, here in hawaii, according to the realtor, the more higher the place you're buying the more expensive it is. shucks. just looking outside the window of the condo.. I was like, "WOW!" it was on the 17th floor and the ocean view was just spectacular! breathtaking! you could see the whole Honolulu from there. wow.. and then, back to the story! we had our first stop to Hanauma bay. but it was just great coz the whole parking area is packed! shucks! I was really angry coz we won't have a place to park in. and it really hurts coz we won't have a chance to go there again, I'll miss the beach. the first time I went there I was pregnant. didn't have the chance to take some nice pictures. since I don't have any pics from hanauma bay try going HERE if you love to travel.


Here are some pics that I snapped along the way. I'm a lousy photographer, I know! but I just thought it would be a very wonderful thing to share some pics with you guys. uhm? I only have one pic here, I just don't like myself in pictures.



the beach


China man's hat


ME being silly


Pali lookout


strong waves


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we went to pali lookout, and it was sure breathtaking! I couldn't take better pictures because of the wind, almost knocked my camera down, too. we went to stop at all scenic points where tourists we're just having a great time taking pics. for the finale, we walked along the beach barefooted, ouch! but it seems that we can't go in the water because the waves we're just humongous. I tell you, we weren't there to surf! I was looking for shells to take home but unfortunately there weren't any! back home in subic, I'd pick shells at the seafront and there we're lots of nice designs, too. ohh, I miss my shell collection.. darn it! and that was it! ohh, it was definitely a wonderful day for me. we went grocery shopping after. all thanks to my lovable hubby. who knows that the simple and small things are the the greatest things that makes me very happy..I love you, hal! thank you sooo much!!! ahem... I can still feel my feet ache, like it was exfoliated real good!

hi guys!!! sorry for the lack of updates!!! wow.. I blogged since april.. so it's about a month then! wow. anyways, I am truthfully sorry for not blogging, I was very worried you might take me off your list,  that would be so sad for me. as you know since my last post I told you I got into my new hobby of pixelling. it's not that good, but since I loved pixelling small things it's very fun so I tried it since my other site is being inactive and all. I just let it stay there since it has lots of ads nobody will waste their time going there anyway. so yeah, I got hosted by Tracy of cuddle-bug.net. I guess my lil site will be a display of lil works of mine and of course it will have a lil blog and update thingy. friendss, I may be not blogging here but always remember I'm always visiting you, guys here in our lil community. everybody's sweet and calm, and all that. it's nice showing  lots of pics and stuff.. I enjoyed it in all your blogs.. I have nothing to show but all my rants, . but I promise to you, guys.. I may not be here blogging, but I will always be here and visiting you, guys. I love my bravejournal family!  my son is coming home maybe by august, so far we're hunting a new apartment coz this studio is way too little for us!! and I promise, yes.. yes.. I'll post as much pics as possible. will be together as a whole family and we'll be going to places my mom and brother has not been to yet. I know it will be different. but it will be fun! and all my thanks, by the way to each and every one of you who greeted me a happy birthday!!! If you only knew how happy I am that day. I sure appreciate your warm thoughts and care for me.  take care and have a nice day to all!!!

 yikes! can't believe it's a long time since I posted. I guess I was just too busy doing other things. getting bored all of a sudden. we just finished doing my mom's papers. all mailed in.. hah! what else? hmm.. I've been learning php just a few days ago. well? the result?  yep! a splinting headache!  I just had the feeling of banging my head over my pc. eek!  I didn't know it was that hard. well, just a little bit. I've been practicing from a freehost just for fun. anyway. so far so good i'll battle with it again when I have the time. and when I have a clear mind,  too. ok, what's been going in tha last few days.. w-ell..... I consoled myself with some scrapbooking supplies at ben franklin's! ha haa . I just told my hubby I was just  gonna walk over there and just look around, but it seems that I took myself way too over the top and spent a little over my budget. after walking out the store, I felt so guilty.  ok, to remind you guys that I'm not exactly a shopaholic.. and I'm not that thrifty, too. I only spent a few bucks on some things and it got me feeling so guilty. I'm so dead! but that's how I think it. I can control myself not to buy expensive stuff. I can just go window shopping for how many hours, I don't care. somehow window shopping just releases my tension. something to do to ease my boredom. as I told my hubby about it he said that it's alright. of course it was a few months ago since I bought some stuff from the scrapbooking store so I don't have to worry about it. as long as i can control myself everything will be fine. anyway, my lil pixel site will almost be up. well, it's just a site with all my lil pixel doddles. and because of all the pop-ups on my free site I know for sure nobody's going to waste their time going there!  so yeah, I applied for hosting at www.cuddle-bug.net and tracy  emailed me the very same day that she is going to host me. I was so thrilled and happy and got my info. the problem was.. I didn't know how to operate an FTP, luckily she taught me on the way and in just a few hours I was uploading all my files. since pixels are small I wanted to have a lil ad-free space and nothing more. I have no massive files that they can worry about.  anyway, the funny thing that happened no wonder I was like having trouble with connecting.. it's like this, I put my info on the boxes and hit connect. all of a sudden it's diconnecting, cannot find name, blah blah.. after an hour   I was so angry and wondering what's wrong. I kept emailing tracy for my errors,  but then I found this forum. flip over a few pages for some answers then all of a sudden I just remember somethin'. OH YEAH! I thought I just read a question 'bout her firewall thingy.. then I immediately opened up our firewall.. clicked "turned off" and went back to launch my FTP. voila'! it connected right away! yay! I was so happy and arrgh! how can I be so stupid? hmm.. well ok, nothing really special going on. that's that. see yah later! till then...

my, oh my! it's been awhile, huh? well, I don't know.. it seems I'm just too busy with my mom's petition at the moment. actually all the work goes to my hubby. poor hubby.. he works hard all the time and when he comes home he gets to do the papers. I just feel bad for my poor sweetie.. I'm not really used to working with immigration papers. for the whole week we got to make copies and everything.. we took it at the notary public, yes, all done now.. all we have to do is mail it in in just a few days. I'm so happy and relieved coz in a few months my mom will be here with us. and no more problems with our schedule and stuff.. and we get to see our lil nathan again! he'll be two in august. sigh.. goodness, we just miss our son so much. well, nothing good has happened yet. I have news, though.. I'm one of the chosen ones who will be part timers.. I'm an intermittent, we got no benefits at all. not unlike fulltime and part time! but from what I've heard they are phasing out full time?? oh, goodness! sucks! but I'm still looking for a better job  though. for now be contented of what you have.. or else! ha haa  w-ell, more news later on! bye..

Oh-kay! HAppy easter everybody!!!! how's everyone doing by the way? hmm.. me, I'm off tomorrow easter sunday, yay!!! glad I'm off 'coz so's my hubby, lolz.. well, I don't know what we're planning for tomorrow but hopefully it would be nice, though. nothing much happened today as usual but the same thing for me over and over at work. customers really are so irritating, blech!  but as a good customer service worker.. ahem.. I handled them all good. yesterday a filipina (a guest) tried to turn me in because of not giving her a subtotal. which isn't really allowed at the commissary since there are a lot of abusive customers who aren't even military but as guests only. I was offering to call a manager for her complaint but she disregarded it saying that i wasn't doing my job.. holding up the line people next to them we're giving odd looks to each other..  she was only a guest and she's the one complaining while her sponsors are just quiet.. please! I gave her a big smile and explained to her again the policies of purchasing of visitors.. ack! she remained so defensive and kept speaking in tagalog about me! well, as for me-I just rang up all the groceries and kept my cool as I was just doing my Job, the lady thought I couldn't understand her at all??! everytime she spoke in tagalog about me I always gave a comment about it.. and there she goes, she finally got a hint that I understood her all along.. whew.. thank you! they grabbed their groceries and went out of the store.. just about time, too. I turned at my next customer and explained everything, he just laughed about it and told me I was doing a great job. I wasn't really good at handling customers, but that was different. she doesn't have any military or dependent  id at all. sigh..well, ok as i said awhile ago I understood everything she said in tagalog. that is just one of the reasons why I don't speak tagalog at work even with my fellow filipina friends. It's like a cloak,  when I hear them speaking about me there is no way you can change it to something else. when I first started working there they thought I was mexican, spanish or portuguese?  and they couldn't tell at first coz I didn't had any filipino slang at all,  they wondered why I had such good english, because I came here in hawaii around 2003 and they we're so amazed why I didn't struggle with speaking english at all..  It's because I grew up speaking it with my dad (who's american) and my brother who's still in the PI but still speaks to his friends and me in english. he's words in tagalog  are kinda.. I don't know.. jumbled? he doesn't speak  tagalog very good. so yeah, people here always think I'm spanish or mexican.. a few times customer spoke  to me in spanish and i was like, "no, sorry I don't speak spanish!"  oh, goodness.. they thought that i was local, that i grew up here in hawaii, no no! I wish i did? lolz.. oh my.. sorry for being so talkative.. and I just babbled away about myself?  tsk tsk tsk, kitty..  what's happening to you? ha haa.. sorry, it's just that I hadn't blogged for about a week now. i need to blurt out every detail, sounds silly, huh? well, ok here's the update from my job interview.  first of all it did ok. a lot of people went there. and yeah, I heard that there were around 200 people whos passed their resumes.. yikes!!! luckily, my hubby's co-worker who's also from Olongapo  was there, too. what a relief! I lfeel very comfortable with her coz she's so funny and a lil humorous like my hubby, ha haa. she's a military wife so I always see her at work. Ok, here's the bad part.. I think I didn't make it !!!!!!!!!!!!!  oh well...  better luck next time, as long as they alreay have my resume they can call me up whenever there is an oppening the next time. that's what they told us. so I'm contented and just leave it there for now. there is plenty of time and there is no need to worry about having a new job just yet. we'll, work something out. hopefully my mom comes here and my brother before the end of the year. we have to find a new place to move in pretty soon.  so till then..  HAVE A HAPPY EASTER!!!  

 

HELLO EVERYONE.. hope you're all doin' fine.. sorry for not makin' any updates on my blog.. I feel terrible lately.. and happy--getting ready for a very important job interview.. hmm, I'll just try it out see if i will pass. God, it's a full time job with all the benefits and stuff, oh my if it all works out we can have Nathan back as soon as possible because it will have a fixed time not unlike my current job I don't have a definite sched at all, I work all shifts so that makes it so damn hard!  aargh! well, as of now i'm off today, so quiet and so hot outside..  I have this terrible sore throat that started yesterday and I feel so crappy.. ack! I can't swallow good either, it's like a huge lump stuck in my throat! anywayz.. gotta check my emails and stuff real quick, and of course cleaning time!!! you guys have a great one out there, take it easy!!  boy i feel  so bad.... see ya!

 

hi!!! I just want to show my new haircut here.. ohh.. I feel so silly posing- . gosh, my face  is much more chubbier than when I had my long hair. I surprised my hubby with my new 'do last march 7, and well-- what can i say?? he liked it so much! I know why he's so happy coz at last there's no more hair all over the place.. not to mention the bathroom, LOLZ.. so yeah- nothing new.. it's just that it took me a year before giving myself a new haircut, I like layered, it's very manageable.  at least it only takes me 15 mintues to get ready.. before 30 minutes! whenever I'm in a rush I would just comb it a lil bit and off I go!  don't be so surprised!! LOlz.. have a wonderful day!!!

  Oh, i feel sooooooooo  good! wonder why? w-ell.. I just got back from work  around 4:30 supposed to be 3:45, I got off 2:30 and it was so busy! ack! but they didn't let me stay for another hour so no overtime for that day.. aww..anyway, last night me and Jon planned our daily schedule since he switched to swing shift. that means I won't get to see him until 10:45 pm.  If i work at mornings he'll take me to work and I'll walk home. then if I work around 2:30 which he has the same time, too-- I have to bring the car and drop him off first. I'll fetch him around 11 pm.. sounds good of  a plan, huh?  at least we can save gas at the same time, too.. ok, what delayed me from going home early? I decided to go to longs drugs first and pick up a few greeting cards. It's almost my aunt's birthday I have to send her a card this week. and there will be a potluck or I may say a baby shower for ate Lauralee. so I picked up a cute lil card for her and maybe bake her a tray of brownies.

she told me liked the brownies I've made, very fudgy!  well.. those are just the ready made ones from betty crocker, ha haa! uhm.. I bought myself a small lotion for work since my hands usually get so dry from the cold! and my eyes caught up with a mini spray bottle of my favorite Raspberry scent, I took it since it's only cheap, lolz.. ok.. I enjoyed my walk awhile ago, and it was fun. coz eventhough it was still hot I enjoyed looking at the golf course ... , my.. there were a lot of people playing today! oh my goodness.. I forgot it's saturday today! how can i forget?? I thought. as i walked through moanalua terrace, the military housing was so nice-- I felt so good looking at the kids playing outside their homes.. biking, lil babies and toddlers swimming in a lil rubber pool, so cute!  the first time I walked home from work was a few months back. and it was terrible! I was so exhausted...

I wanted to  collapse that very moment I entered our street! but walking today.. I don't know, I really appreciated that long walk. not bad at all.  I think it's a start for me to have this as part of my exercises to be fit. I felt a sudden whisper of encouragement to stick to it at last!  peaceful me, at last... ok, guys got to go for now! I have to start cooking for my hungry hubby.. later!!!

 ok, maybe i was a lil dramatic with my previous post. but at least that got out of my chest. HA! anyways.. what's up with me lately? nothing as usual.. plain ol' boring life as the same..  who can blame me? LOLZ.. well, ok I finally moved my quotes and poems to another room in my site. fro poem loving visitors who love a lil dose of inspiration.. eventhough you already are inspired!  

let's see.. I'm currently working on my inspirational corner, which will not be out yet in a few days more.. sigh! I'm setting up my pixel site which all my love for lil pixels will be displayed, my collections and stuff. and of course my lil pixel creations and other stuff, too. but I don't know when will be the release. I love my country home but I want to have a lil pixel site, too. it's just my lil addiction  I guess.. hmm.. been net surfing and found so much filipina sites out there. their love for blogging and webdesign.. what can i say?  you go girl!!! I've so much fun perusing their sites and I'm pretty much impressed how filipinas are evolving today. well, since meeting my filipina webmistresses on the net thru my site.. I've been so inspired to do better at my work and thank each and every day that GOD has given me for having this hobby and meeting new friends. it's so amazing how the web can connect friendships in all different parts of the world.

speaking of friendships...

my posty pal group is closing it's doors.. ohh.. how sad.. well, i guess that's just the way life goes.. it's really hard to join a group and not really be devoted to it.. I know I had a lack of time.. sorry. but i guess I'll just visit them whenever I have time eventhough there's no more posty pals, right? I had a nice time talking to the group eventhough I wasn't that chatty enough. I had wonderful gifts from Diane on our posty pals secret valentine. THANKS, DIANE!!! I appreciate it.. I'm working on setting up the gifts when time permits. as well as the other gifts.

 so far right now, I've been involved in a book club called chicklit  and currently reading sophie kinsella's "shopaholic & sister" and so far I'm reading it every night. a few chapters so far, lolz.. so I made my lil chicklit page.. you can go there but it's not actually finished yet.. there will be more finishing touches.. you might come across broken links, so excuse me for that. I found the book by the way at the library, searched it on their pc and VOILA'-- it was checked in!  I didn't want to buy any boks coz there's not enough space to put it in here in our lil home..

 hmm.... what else?

oh! I made 2 new websets and will upload it the next few days.. don't you get tired hearing me say that?  ha haa.. and I changed my site to the dainty designs set.. simple but I'll soon get bored and will soon change it again. ok..  yaaaaaawwnnnn....  have to have some shut-eye.. till then another post has again ended. till we blog again!

 my garden of thoughts.. that's what I call my blog now..