meeting???

paul has a conference call at 9 pm Pacific with folks from either India or Israel (not sure).  dahil maingay sa living room (malapit ng maging adobo yung mga ibon namin!  jk!) and michelle and i are in the bedroom, he went to michelle's room...


michelle:  daddy, why are in in my room?
daddy: maingay kasi sa labas e dito muna ako.
michelle: (heading towards me)  mommy, why is daddy going to my room?
me:  daddy has a meeting, wag ka maingay.
michelle:  meeting?  he can't meet anyone there, there's nobody in the room!


walang meeting pag walang tao.  

breaking bad habits

if you read my blog regularly, you know that i have weight-y issues.  =)  i am back on the weight watchers program trying desperately to lose as much weight as i can so i don't lose on the bet paul and i had when we were on vacation in las vegas.  (christmas is my deadline).

in addition to watching what i eat, i have given up soda (all kinds! even diet soda) since the last week of June...so i have been soda-free for the past 6 weeks (going on 7)...and i miss it every single day!  yesterday, i was at outback steakhouse with chel, t, and michelle, and when the waitress asked for my beverage, i said, 'i'll just have water.'  and then i told chel and t that i haven't had soda in six week and they asked me why i gave it up.  i replied, 'i want to stop putting junk in my body.' wow!!!!  parang totoo!

yesterday, i decided to add to my misery healthy choices and give up chips, too.  urgh!  this is going to be very, very, very hard for me!!!!  i like to munch on chips all the time (obvious naman di ba?) and so giving this up would be so much harder than giving soda up.  the last time i gave up chips was for lent back in 2002 i think...40 days without chips....i was so glad when the 40 days were over! 

the amount of chips that i consume weekly really adds up and makes it harder for me to lose weight...so instead of eating chips, when i get a salty craving, i go to the fridge and get some parmesan cheese (i weigh each slice, portion control!) so i can easily add it to my weight watchers points tracker.  so far so good.

i've also been exercising on the elliptical again and have started playing tennis.  i know i've written about this battle so many times and i've lost most, if not all, of them.  now, i've ran out of excuses and have no one else to blame but myself if i lose this one again.  i don't plan on seeing anything drastic, but i am excited that i am being more aware and making better decisions regarding my health.  i'm not getting any younger and i want to set a good example for michelle.  that and i need to look good in clothes again! 

michelle-ism from june 30, 2011

Michelle wants her own tablet pc. I said, ' when you start working and make your own money.' She replied, ' I work at tselogs and one way. Ninang gives me money sometimes.' She has a point. So I just said, 'you're too young. Pag malaki ka na, pagusapan ulit natin.'

michelle-ism from july 15, 2011

Took michelle to her pediatrician for her vaccine and tb test (required before school starts). After the tb test she said, 'that's it mommy? i thought iwas going to watch tv and you'll ask me questions.'

michelle-isms

i keep forgetting to post michelle's funny remarks here...

the latest is this:

(scenario) at home watching discovery channel's shark week.

michelle:  shark week! hu ha ha! like in nemo mommy.

mommy: anak, it's shark bait hu ha ha. iba yun.

good NEWS

there are many things i love about living in the bay area (close enough to SF to call it my  hometown)...the beautiful bridges, the fabulous food, the diverse neighborhoods...and believe it or not, the liberal thinking (even for a conservative me!).


but this news which broke out several months ago made me shake my head and say out loud, ''what the eff are they thinking...and what will be next?"


ok...sometimes, people take things too far.  this is going one step too far...it's annoying.  it's like the people who thought about it just thought about it for the sake of being controversial, for the sake of being mentioned in the news as , 'the first city in the united states to put such measure on the ballot.'


really, wtf?????

ODM on HAL

i think my motivation for blogging is going on vacation....


we booked a vacation in november to celebrate my dear friend, claire's 'dirty thirty' as she calls it.  i don't think there will be anything dirty about it really...we're all pretty conservative...except chel...she's not so conservative.  hahaha!  (she does not read this blog so i can say that).  


for claire's 30th birthday, most of the gang will be going on.....

A CRUISE!

the itinerary

i'm more excited about the company than the cruise, really.  the last time i went on vacation with my friends was in 2004.  they have all gone on trips together but since i got married in 2005, then had a baby in 2006...well, that limits the time you get to spend with your friends.  now that michelle is bigger, we can take her with us pretty much anywhere!


when claire first brought up the idea of the cruise, paul's response was, 'i would love to go on a cruise with friends...'  naisip ko, 'yey!  he doesn't need me to convince him anymore!' but then we found out the cruise is departing from florida so that means we have to pay extra for airfare...the cruise itself isn't very expensive, but with the airfare, we're paying double.  


so i told paul that i will bake pies like crazy to pay for the vacation and he said, 'ok!' 


i booked the airline tickets first because airfare always goes up and scouted for the best deal on the cruise.  we saved $200 by going with a travel agent vs booking directly with holland america.


we will be pulling michelle out from school for a week and we will all get to enjoy some sunshine in the caribbean this fall!


sama kayo!!!