Christmas Photos

I know this is so late and I don't also have nice shots but just for the sake of Journaling, I will post some of our pictures.

On Christmas day, we played cards and losers get a line of lipstick on the face :) I am such a loser :(

On Christmas eve, Rachel opened her gift from me and she said WOW!!

My husband making funny picture with the lechon

And my Nanay as usual the busy bee in preparing the foods, we had halaya, leche flan, arroz valenciana, fruit salad, barbecue, sopas and ham. She made them all :) It was a wonderful Christmas!!

Packing up things

I am sure to burn belly fat this Saturday, why? Because it's our last day in the old house and we will be moving all our stuff, right now we have already six boxes filled and is ready. There are still more to pack. I need not count the many calories I will burn. :)

Actually, working out (walking or running) is in the top of my plans this year, we will just wait for our lives to be settle and be back to it's regular programming because right now, our life is at chaos, packing up things, meetings, plannings and searching for the perfect house it was indeed a messy schedule but as soon as we're settled. I'll seriously do that walking or running.

Detoxification: do you need it?

According to wikipedia;

DETOXIFICATION is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including, but not limited to, the human body and additionally can refer to the period of withdrawal during which an organism returns to homeostasis after long-term use of an addictive substance. In conventional medicine, detoxification can be achieved by decontamination of poison ingestion and the use of antidotes as well as techniques such as dialysis and (in a very limited number of cases) chelation therapy.

And now a days there are lots of detox centers available. Someone I knew personally went to a detoxification center (I guess we call it rehabilation center also) and It was nice to see him now living a normal drug free life.

But it is not only drugs that poisoned our body, sometimes we get toxins from the food we eat too that's why there are now other kinds of detox such as juice detox and the like. Those who made those kind of detox believe that you'll eliminate and flush out toxins from your body thus making you healthier.

But what if toxins are not taken in form of food or drugs or alcohol? How are we to detoxify from it? Like being addicted to computer games? Do we have detox centers for that?

Minute Maid's Pulpy Real Orange Juice!

I just drank a bottle of Minute Maid Pulpy. They say it’s got ‘no preservatives added’. Aw, c’mon…It’s bottled juice. Is that even possible? So I thought maybe... it's one of those many deceiving advertisement...

I didn’t believe it the first time I heard it’s got no preservatives added.  So I read the ingredients (even the fine print) and everything checked out! It really has NO PRESERVATIVES ADDED!  That means it doesn’t have ingredients that may turn out to be allergens, or worse...carcinogens!  Whew! Now that’s healthy goodness that tastes so good, I... said..maybe I should give it a try and my husband knows that I am not so fond of any bottled juice buy this one is really different!!

So okay, it’s got no preservatives added. That’s really good, right?  Not just because it doesn’t have those icky, harmful ingredients, but it also means... I'm getting the right thing from a juice :)

So far anyone who still has a hard time believing that Minute Maid has got no preservatives added - meaning it's THAT natural, it's almost like it's plucked straight from the tree, it's just as Mother Nature wanted your orange juice to be, it's got nothing but the good stuff yes, none of those potentially toxic stuff that can harm your brain, kidneys, heart; cause tumors aargh- the list of preservatives' bad effects just go on!!! Anyway, just to prove a point on just how good Minute Maid Pulpy is 'cause it's got NO PRESERVATIVES ADDED, I'm gonna include this one in my grocery items :) Very good source of vitamins because you are having the real thing.

Feels good to know about the real pulpy deal, right? C’mon show me a smile on the comment box, and you might win yourself a Really Pulpy Deal! (That’s a chance to win a Minute Maid gift pack simply by commenting. Sweet! C'mon you just might be picked as the lucky 'commentor'!)

Love,

Rocks :)

Home Ideas

I'm sure that will be on top of my search list this year as we start planning and preparing for the project house which I will be calling "home sweet home".

And I really can't wait to that time where I will be decorating our own home. where I will be buying stuff for our own bedroom, for my own kitchen. It's beginning to sound so exciting!!

And I know, when it comes to home ideas I have very little knowledge so I need to do a lot of searching especially to maximizing space and such. I don't even know something about interior plantation shutters just learned about it a while ago and I'm sure I won't be needing such, maybe blinds but not a shutter.

And oh..my eyes are feasting on so many beautiful bathroom designs. I hope I'll have one of them someday.

CHANGE OF PLANS

The past week was a week of deciding for me and the husband and decision making isn't always a nice job. When you are deciding, you need to weigh a lot of things and sometimes it becomes stressful. Good thing we're past over it now.

As you all know, we are moving out this year and our initial plan was to rent a place for me and hubby here in the Metro but turn of events made us decide other wise.

Now, we are moving in my sister's place in Bulacan and for some it raises some questions but I know it's the best decision we came up to. For one, we wouldn't be renting for at least 18 months and the money we will spend for the rent will go directly to the PROJECT HOUSE fund which is our biggest project this year and I guess for the rest of our married life.

The only downside is that I will spend more time on the road everyday because of work. I do not want to risk hubby's life so he wouldn't be taking me to the office with our motorbike everyday. I don't want to have unnecessary expenses if ever, road and Offshore Accidents do happen everyday and I certainly do not want that.

So, another BIG CHANGE in our life. I just hope I am able to cope up with all the changes coming our way this 2011.

New beginnings, changes, home and a pet

This year brings a lot of changes for me and the husband. One of the major change is that we're moving and will really start living on our own. No housemates, just the two of us, for that part I am excited.

And maybe it's time for us to get a pet, my husband is an animal lover, dog or cat or birds or fish, he loves them all and for sure he would want to have one. He actually wants a dog last year but I declined because I have to consider other people in the house. Now I might say yes.

And even if we don't have that space on the house that we're going to move in, at least we can buy dog crates online. I just hope it's not that expensive. I know that having pets at home somewhat lessen the stress, and I guess it's just right for me who's always tired from whole days work. Oh and I read online that provigil is good for tiredness, haven't tried it though.

Indeed, I expect more changes in the way we live this year. I expect changes in our sleeping and eating habits. I also expect changes in the way we handle our finances. I hope and pray that all of this will really happen and that we would live a better life this year, much much better that 2010.

First Post for 2011

and it's the 3rd of January. I had no internet access at home and that explains why.

It's actually good not having internet all the time. I have time to read and watch movies at home.

I'm so glad we started the year right. By  starting it right means we prayed together on the first morning of 2011 and prayed together again on the first night of 2011 and I hope we can keep that up, praying together every night.

This year, hubby and I want to FOCUS on the LORD more, spent more time with the Lord. It's my first devotion for the year.

I know when we do that, the stress and problems this life gives us becomes vague because we see God so clear.

I hope you all had  a wonderful start of new year too!!

House and scrubs

Everyone is in the new year's celebration mood already except me who is still at work and up to now has still no plans about new year's eve. I don't even know where to spend it. Home or sister's home are my options but if the lazy me strikes again we might stay home and do nothing (well, not really nothing, we might do a dvd marathon)
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We were out last night looking for house to rent, we inquired and checked one or two houses but nothing definite yet. How I wish it is as easy as choosing medical unifroms like picking one from the many lines of nursing scrubs on sale from bluskyscrubs.com. They have cool and stylish designs, you know those type of doctor scrubs that doesn't look ordinary.
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I refused to get stressed by the fact that we do not have some place to go to in two weeks. It's new year and I want to have that celebrataory mood too. And by that, I guess I have to start planning what to cook on new years eve. :)

Happy new year everyone!

In two weeks

We have only 18 days left in our present house. We have to leave on the 15th of January and until now we have no where to move to. I kinda worry now because I didn't realize it was this hard to look for a house here in the metro, well not if you have the money but I only have this certain budget for the house rent.  I thought I'll find one in no time but my golly it's like two weeks more and we're out there on the streets.

And I didn't see this coming, this house hunting at this time of the year, I really didn't see it coming.

I wish I have prepared for this like someone who would buy rain boots in a summer day but I didn't and as I have said I didn't see it coming so soon.

But anyways, my hopes are still high that soon we will be able to see that "house" God has prepared for me and my husband. I just need to spend more time looking around.

reflections

Four days left and the year is coming to an end. Year end is the time when I usually do some reflections, looking back, reviews of how has been my life the past year. but this year, I am kinda apprehensive of doing such and the reason is that I'm afraid I'll affirm the fact that I did not do well this year.

Yes, I know I did not do well. In many aspects;

In my job

In my ministry

In my marriage

In my family

And in my self

But NEW YEAR means NEW HOPE, NEW BEGINNINGS..

and I look forward to having the chance to do better next year :)

Special gift to husband

Two days before Christmas and we are still wrapping gifts (well, the husband is) because obviously I'm here typing :) and aside from gifts to wraps, we still have few gifts to buy.

Today, the husband is getting his gift from me too but he's buying it or I might come if I feel better. This would be the most expensive gift I will be buying for him and he's more than thankful. We can't even compare our First Anniversary gifts from this one.

I do not know what's his gift for me this Christmas but I'm hoping I'll be surprised and that I will love it also but if not, as we always say it's the thought that counts.

How about you guys? Are you done with your gifts? Or rushing also like us :)