happy day!

this has been the most perfect day ever! :)

jojie and i woke up at 10:00 a.m. i was a bit anoyed with him when i remembered that i went to bed before he did and that he did not kiss me good night (he promised me a couple of weeks ago that he would kiss me good night every day even if we're in the middle of a fight). anyway, when i woke up i remembered that so i did not kiss him good morning (hahaha! sobrang petty no?).

i actually did not want to get up yet but my mom was so makulit and called me several times to ask about her dissertation proposal. okay lang naman. tawang-tawa siya sa akin na tulog pa ako. sabi niya gumising na raw ako. sabi ko "ma, alas tres na ako natulog!" grrr talaga! at ang funny dun, she was calling our landline but because we were sleeping pa, hindi namin sinasagot syempre. so ang mommy ko na hindi marunong mag-give up, tinawagan ako sa cellphone. at tuloy tuloy nang nagkwento. she forgot na na sa cellphone pala siya at ang tagal na naming nagdadaldalan! hahaha!

anyway, after talking to mama, i decided to get up (that was around 10) to make lunch. i would normally prepare brunch pero mukhang walang sense na magkunyari pa akong pwede pang humabol ng breakfast yung food na maluluto ko so straight to lunch na.

while preparing the food, i told jojie that i was tampo because he didn't kiss me good night and he made me suyo and lambing to make up for it. :p

i made spaghetti, tossed salad, and garlic bread. super yummy! kakatawa ang asawa ko kasi napaka-pinoy kumain ng spaghetti, naghanap ba naman ng hotdog! hahaha! sabi ko sa kanya, "hon, hindi ka na 7 years old ha, wala ng hotdog ang spaghetti." :) jojie kasi does not like the italian (read: maasim) spaghetti so i learned not to use italian sauces and herbs when i make spaghetti. for some reason ang sarap lumabas ng sauce na nagawa ko (hehehe! at syempre wala naman kayong basis para hindi maniwala di ba?)

funny pa jan, all the major ingredients i used for the spaghetti (the pasta, the sauces, etc.) were fromt the free package we got when we bought our refrigerator. so in a way, libre pala yung lunch namin kanina. :)

for the salad, i just combined green lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, pineapple tidbits, and cheese. i normally use cream cheese kaya lang ang mahal na ng cream cheese ngayon (whereas P86 lang siya a month ago, P115 na ngayon ang philadelphia cream cheese sa cherry foodarama at P124 sa sm super sale) kaya nanghinayang akong buksan yung cream cheese at nag-grate na lang ako ng cheddar (daw) cheese. isa pa, when i open the package i have to make sure na ma-consume namin within 10 days and i'm not yet sure of our schedule next week (aysus! nag-rationalize pa ako, talagang kuripot lang ako! haha!).

for the garlic bread, i just toasted white bread and put butter and minced garlic on it. instant yummy garlic bread na yun.

jojie loved our lunch. sabi niya sarap daw food namin palagi! kakatuwa to hear that.

we cleaned up after lunch and made sure na ayos na yung kitchen before we... you guessed right... slept again. hahaha! wala kaming ginawa kung hindi matulog. before sleeping though, naglambingan lang kami. we cuddles and he made me feel so loved and beautiful. *giddy sigh*

we woke up at 5:15... actually i woke up at 5:15, he woke up at 5:45. hehehe! again, i didn't want to get up yet but someone woke me up again! you're right, nanay ko uli! tinawagan naman ako para makipag-kwentuhan. sabi ng mom ko, "anak, tulog kayo ng tulog!" hahaha!

i made dinner after talking to my mom (deja vu!). this time naman i prepared tuna sandwich... grilled white bread, iceberg lettuce, cucumber, and cheese. sayang nga wala akong apple eh (have you tried tuna-apple sandwich? ang yummy nun promise!). as a side dish naman i made french fries. so the sandwich plus the fried plus the tirang spaghetti from lunch, super yummy na ng dinner!

we cleaned up again after dinner (the good thing with jojie is that he really helps in the household chores esp in cleaning) then made lambingan again (teka, before you think of kinky stuff, lambingan talaga is cuddling and making lambing like declaring one's self as the luckiest person for having the other, etc.).

we decided not to go to a coffee shop. we wanted to stay home for a change and since we have a stock of monet's breadsticks anyway (hi monet!), okay na kasi we had easy to prepare snacks na. pero syempre hind kami nakuntento dun and we went to red ribbon to buy choco mocha crunch.

we arrived from red ribbon just before 9. syempre we watched tv muna. we watched CSI NY. it's good. it has the same scientific hoola as the miami and LV version but it's much more ma-drama.

anyway, after CSI NY, we brewed coffee na and started working (and eating the cake, of course).

i just feel so thankful today. really happy day!

good night! *hugs*

finally had a haircut!!!

been wanting to get a haircut for a month now. my hair is so long, it's getting too heavy. at saka, ang gastos sa conditioner!!!!

i finally had a haircut last sunday. muntikan pang hindi matuloy because, again, we had scheduled too many things to do. jojie and i agreed na hindi na muna ako papagupit, siya na lang (mas important for him to get a haircut since he has plenty of meetings this week and his hair's too long). buti na lang, the girl who was supposed to go before jojie decided not to have a haircut and she left. since biglang naurong yung time, i decided to get one na. yey!

Jojie and I are currently at Coffee Bean... he working on yet another report while I, of course, am writing all my to do's for the clients' preps. To help me focus, I listen to music in my laptop and I forgot that I have The Prayer in my songlist. Hearing the song made me stop and remember my walk down the aisle, seeing Jojie waiting for me at the altar. I get goosebumps just seeing him in my mind. I am so blessed to have him.

Need to find a place, guide us with your grace, give us faith so we'll be saved...

Thank you so much, Lord.

It's so good to remember.

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Still in Coffee Bean...

Say this out loud: wehehehehe!

Now, say it with a high-pitched voice.

Now, say it much like the sound of a horse screaming.

Got it?

Now, that's the sound of the laugh of the girl at the far left table.

Geesh! I can't concentrate because of her laugh. Damn!

I promised myself never to be loud in any restaurant or coffee shop ever again coz the girl typing in another part of the room might just be blogging about me.

:)

Friendster and Ex-es

jojie doesn't have a friendster account. the reason he doesn't is because when i set up one for him several months ago, the girl i used to hate so much "be-friendstered" him that we ended up fighting. sa sobra naming away, he just asked me to delete his account. :)

so he's not really in the know when it comes to friendster. the other night though, since i wasn't in the mood to work, i surfed friendster and i showed him the profiles of his barkada. he was so aliw reading the profiles that we spent a couple of hours just looking through his friends' sites.

syempre pag may mga friends and schoolmates, there is abound to be an ex somewhere. sa kaka-surf namin, and dami kong nahanap na mga ex niya ("ex" here may refer to an ex-girlfriend, an ex-friend, an ex-fling, etc). and surprisingly, jojie was more open to me that night than any other night with regards to this particular girl that i'm so curious about.

L was jojie's fling back in college. she wasn't a girlfriend nor a ka-MU so i guess fling lang talaga yung term na pwede kong magamit. since hindi naman siya ex-gf, wala talaga akong pakialam sa kanya until one night a couple of years ago when we attended a party and her name came up (actually lasing na si don paul nun, yung best man ni jojie, at kung anu-ano na yung nasasabi). i wouldn't have paid attention but jojie's facial expression changed when paul mentioned her name kaya i knew that something was up. so when we got home that night, i bombarded jojie with questions and i discovered na siya yung girl na matagal ko nang gustong malaman yung pangalan. buti na lang sinabi ni paul so nalaman ko nga.

and although L is in the past, way past, we argued about her. talk about being selosa and paranoid (he doesn't communicate naman with her... haaay!)

anyway, fast forward to the other night. i was so surprised that after years of making him kulit about her and what really happened, he finally told me. and it hurt. it hurt so much. but i dealt with it. he asked me if i were jealous and i said no (i wasn't jealous, i was hurt so i wasn't lying when i told him i wasn't.). he assured me that what happened was in the past and that he loves me so much. i know that but it still hurts.

how does one deal with his loved one's past? i jut tell myself that well, past is past and i can't do anything about the things he did when we didn't know each other yet. it's not that i haven't accepted his past; it's just that thinking about it still hurts me. is that so wrong?

i am dealing with it. and i know that jojie loves me to death.

at the same time, i'm very thankful that he, at last, told me what happened. at least now i know and i won't be so paranoid. actually what i imagined was way worse than what really happened so in a way, i feel relieved. still, it hurts.

i know i will deal with this. i have to.

It's Saturday, after midnight (so I guess it's Sunday early, early morning na) and guess where we are... that's right... at Seattle's Best. Jojie is writing a report (it's the season for the annual stockholders meetings so Jojie has so many reports to finish) while I am going through the preps of the clients, especially the May brides. Whenever I want a break, I read the bridal magazines I brought to help me keep updated with the trends in the industry. Sigh! This promises to be another all-nighter.

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I went to the doctor today to have a check-up. I found a lump below my puson and since Jojie is so worried (and my mom is, too), I finally agreed to have a check-up. Went to the doctor who operated on me when I had appendicitis. He's also the dad of one of our ninangs. He assured Jojie that there's nothing to worry about. He prescribed me an antibiotic (probably to reduce the lump if it's caused by an infection) and said I'm to observe the size of the cyst (it's a somthing-something cyst daw eh). If it doesn't go away, then I can have it surgically removed. I'm not worried though although I know Jojie really is.

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Funny thing... since the doctor's assistant was on leave, it was the doctor's wife, also a doctor, who was assisting him in the clinic (so syempre the doktora ([I'll use the term to distinguish between the two of them) is the mom naman of our ninang]. Since the two of them kinda saw me grow up (we used to go swimming in their pool when we were kids), they treat me like family. Tanong ba naman nung doktora kay Jojie when I was done with the examination na, "Teka, hindi ba naman kaya siya (referring to me) nabugbog sa sobrang ano?" I was mortified while Jojie matter-of-factly replied, "Ay, hindi naman po." Hahaha!

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The reason I'm blogging right now instead of working is because there's this really, really NOISY group of bikers here in SBC. Grrrr! Ang ingay!!! If Jojie were not with me right now, I would promptly approach them to ask them to tone down their voices kasi ingay talaga! I've had my share of people being maingay in coffee shops (I've overheard networking recruitment meetings, barkadas making chismis about another ka-barkada, law or med students discussing review questions across the room...) but I've never encountered a group who seem to think like they're in a really crowded bar that they need to talk at the top of their voices. For goodness sake, the music is so mellow, all the other customers are talking in hushed tones, why the hell are they shouting at each other? Haaaaay! I know I'm not in any position to complain since this is a public place after all but please, don't they know how irritating their behavior is? Daig pa nila high school students na first time gumimik at sobrang excited.

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i got the CD sampler of kadense musik and velvet mood today. was able to listen to kadense's na. haaay! gustong-gusto ko talaga sila. sayang hindi ko sila nakuha before. :(

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after 1 1/2 hours:

They're gone!!!! The bikers are gone! Yipeee! It's 1:30 na though and Jojie, I think, is just halfway through the report. Mukha ngang sasagarin namin yung 4am closing time nitong shop.

Sweet dreams!

on weight issues

I was so thin growing up, until college graduation, that I never had issues about being fat. I had a really fast metabolism so I never had to worry. When all my friends were getting concerned about gaining weight and all, I continued to eat and eat and eat and I never gained a pound. I remember that everytime I would eat at KFC, I would order the colonel's dinner (too bad they don't offer that anymore); it had 3 pieces of chicken, 2 regular fixins (I would get cole slaw and mashed potato), and a choice between rice and rolls (of course I would opt for rice and would even order an extra one). Top that with large mountain dew and I was in KFC nirvana.

When we were in college, the boyfriends of my friends were in awe of my eating "skills". Hahaha! Sabi sa akin nung isa, "Pucha, Clarice, mas malakas ka pang kumain sa iba kong kaibigang lalake!" I think he said that after I consumed P70.00 worth of food from the campus isawan (a stick of isaw manok costed P1.50 then while a stick of pork isaw costed P2.50). As I said, I never gained a pound so I didn't care.

All that changed when I went to Canada. I stayed there for three months and for the first month alone, I gained 30 lbs!!! Hahaha! Buti na lang mataas talaga self-esteem ko at malaki bilib ko sa sarili kung hindi baka nagka-issues ako big time! Hahaha!

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When I first met Jojie, I was thin. He was courting my friend then. When he next met, I had gained that 30lbs na. That was when he found me attractive. :)

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I realize that I really, really, REALLY want to lose weight. And you know why? Because one of my dreams is to have a half-naked picture of me taken when I am like 7 months pregnant. That would be really cool, eh? But I also realize that that picture would only look beautiful if I were thin (by "thin", I mean that I would not look like a blimp with the stretch marks and all). Haaay! I imagine being photographed in a studio with my bulging tummy. I would be really poised and the photographer (I imagine this to be Auey Santos coz I got the idea from her flyer) would take fabulous pictures of me. I would look like Tweetie de Leon incarnate (I saw her before she gave birth to her second child. Boy! Was she a gorgeous preggnant woman! Very sexy and poised.) I would have the pictures laid out to be included in my baby's photo albums (who, of course, will also be photographed by Auey every couple of months).

But then, as I said, I can't do that if my stretch marks show. Haaaay!

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I love our home but we don't have a full-length mirror! So imagine how I felt when we were at UCC last week (see previous posts on coffee shops) and discovered, when I looked in their bathroom mirror, that I have gained weight, yet again!!! When I came out of the washroom, I immediately asked Jojie why he hasn't told me that I'm too fat. Of course he replied I haven't gained a pound (hehe! yan ang trained na asawa!). Haaaaay! I really have to diet na. I'll do that as soon as I finish this supremo Mocha Javakula. :)

coffee shops

a. taken an hour ago (SBC morato)
b. taken a few weeks ago (SBC morato...notice we sit in the same table? pareho backgroound eh)
c. taken on black saturday (UCC morato)

Jojie and I love working in coffee shops. We are able to focus more when we're not home. When we're home we end up watching tv all the time that we don't get any work done. Like, today, for example, Jojie and I were at home all day. I was supposed to work on my clients' weddings and Jojie was supposed to write a report. But of course we were not able to accomplish a single thing. We woke up at 10:30. Had lunch at 1 p.m. Cleaned up until 2:00. Looked at our respective laptop monitors from 2:00 to 3:30 and then promptly slept at 3:30. Bumangon kami alas sais na! Ano ba yan?!?

So what we do is we go to coffee shops. At least sa coffee shop nakakahiyang matulog, walang tv, may kapeng pampagising. When we get hungry, we order food. We know it's magastos but since our work (especially his) depend on output, we do it. Besides, these serve na rin as our dates. We have meals at different places so we get to explore pa different restaurants.

Like now, it's 1:30 a.m. and we are still here at Seattle's Best. I am finished with my work but Jojie still isn't so I am blogging. Haaay! Mukhang marathon posting na naman ito.
:)

he's home

Thank you, JPII!

kakakilig pa rin!

*while we were watching CNN together

jie: salamat, honey.
ging: saan?
jie: sa pagiging asawa ko. *insert: most tender kiss*

haaaay! :)