Island Girl

I had to close the comment section for this blog because of the spams I get all the time. I found out a way to stop spams on my other blog though and that is to use the plug-in Akismet. It is supposed to filter all spam comments to happen on my blog and I hope it will do its job. I still have to find the API key for this blog though so this will have to wait. Perhaps I can try to use a tagboard here for a while. Or maybe not. I seem to like the closed comment thingy, lol. I am a nut, I know. I am happy that I seem to find a way to be in control of my blogs. Albeit just a little Ah, the perks of having a good and generous friend hosting my blogs. Thank you mami Belle.

We plan to buy our own house in the years to come. We can’t keep on renting forever. We still have to save though. But we already have plans on what the house will look like, how many rooms it should have. We want our house to have a fenced-in yard too. So our son will have space to play outside without us fearing for his safety. If the house we will find doesn’t have a fence then we can always hire somebody for fence installation instead. We just hope we will be able to follow through our plans. In God’s own time.

I am in a crazy mood again today. I am so hungry but I don’t know what to eat. There is food in the fridge that I can just heat up but it doesn’t have any appeal on my appetite right now. I don’t know what I want! If only the husband is here we probably could go somewhere to eat. This woman here is getting spoiled I guess. I might just end up starving myself which isn’t a good idea because I don’t want my ulcer to act up again. All I know is I don’t want anything oily or sweet or sour. What does it leave me with? Salty?

We are going to send a balikbayan box to Leyte in a few months. I have started accumulating things I can put in the box for my parents and the rest of the relatives. Papsy said his shoe size is six and a half and Mamsy said she wants another pair of sandals. I still have to get the shoes and sandals because those are a little expensive right now. I have to wait for stores to have sales so I can get these for less. I already bought flash memory for my niece because she claims she needs one. She actually has been bugging me about it since last year and if not for the husband deciding to get one for her then I probably would have conveniently forgotten about it. I know I am a lousy aunt, lol. We will have to make sure the box will get there before Christmas which means we only have two months to get ready.

One of the games which my cousins and I used to play when we were kids was tumbang-preso. It is a game that only needs a used tin can, an ”it” who tries to defend the can from tumbling over, and a couple of kids to of course hit the can with a slipper. The way it works is the kids try to hit the can with a slipper and then try to get the slipper without being caught by the “it”. The “it” then has to make sure the can remains standing so he can chase other kids to be the next “it”. It is just a cycle and it was fun. The fact that we got to play with everybody made it all more exciting. It involved a lot of running which was really scary for me who wasn’t very quick. There used to be arguments and shouting and sometimes shoving but we all loved the game. After all it was free and didn’t have too many rules. Thinking about it made me realize I was lucky as a kid I got to experience the things that I did.

It is my son’s birthday in two months time and I plan on getting him something special. It will be a good time since he will be two and is now beginning to appreciate toys and presents we give him. I want to look on personalized gifts as an option this time instead of the regular toys we see in stores and see how he reacts to it. I hope he will appreciate our effort and say thank you in that cute way of his.

I helped the husband clean the garden yesterday. And since it has been days that I didn’t water the plants the soil was bone dry. So he decided to soak the garden by letting the water run for a long time which didn’t really made much of a difference. I mean I watered the soil for thirty minutes but when he dug it with the shovel it didn’t even seep through. Now where the water went I had no idea. I stopped what I was doing and he had to continue doing it. I hope the plants had enough water to last them a few days because I don’t really want them to wilt. We are planning of planting new batch of tomatoes next weekend and this time we are going to put chicken wires around the plants so the squirrels will stay away.

It is a good time to go for a vacation right now. To be outdoors, enjoy the summer sun, mingle with people. It will be good to go to a place like Reno where everything is alive and then at the end of the day rest on one of the best reno hotels we already booked prior to the trip. It feels good to day dream and hope for a worry free vacation with my boys. At least it is free to dream.

I am back to using the old template I have used for this blog. I just like the simple background and I missed the bird I want to change the template but I don’t know how so the best way to go is to use something that I already have in my dashboard. I like this template and I may keep this for a while. I like to look at neat blogs and I envy bloggers who knows how to tweak their themes to suit their style. I have to get used to seeing this theme once again.

Do you think diet pills work really good? I have considered this option for how long now and I still am not very sure if I should go through with it. I surely will feel good to be back on my pre-pregnancy weight but I have reservations. Maybe one of these days I will make up my mind on what to do to lose this fat hanging in my tummy and my sides. It looks awful no matter what I wear. And it makes me uncomfortable. Help me decide.

Growing up in the province from parents barely surviving financially, my brother and I, along with cousins and other kids found ways to entertain ourselves using things that we didn’t have to buy. One of these is collecting spiders we found on plant leaves and gearing the poor things to fight with spiders owned by other kids. The bigger and meaner the spider the better chance it has of winning. We used sticks for the spiders to crawl and fight. It usually lasts a few minutes where one ended up either dead or hurt. The dead ones were thrown away while the survivors if it had any bite were being taken cared of to hopefully recover for the next fight. I know this sounds a little inhumane but we were kids and we had to do things to get out of our parent’s hairs. It was very popular when I was growing up but my younger cousins wouldn’t do it now even if you will pay them. This was only one of the things we used to do on our spare time (which was a lot specially on vacations) and I get that funny feeling when i remember those carefree days. Playing with spider! Ha, tell me if you are courageous enough to do it.

I guess as long as I don’t reach my ideal weight which is less than a hundred pounds (I deviate from a hundred to a hundred and one right now) I will continue to yap about diet and fitness and losing weight and of course weight loss pills and other weight loss products. And to remind myself that no amount of talking about weight loss will make me lose weight unless I work on it. I just hate to look at my sides because it bulges in every direction no matter what I wear. Unless I wear a girdle which is so uncomfortable. Well, too much for this. I have to go and do some sit-ups and see if it works. I am so out of shape and I can feel it in every creak my body makes. And to think I am not that old.

I am currently listening to my 21 month old son trying to say the alphabet. He gets so excited when he guesses the next letter, lol. A few days ago I thought about buying DVD’s of different animated movies for him but realized that he should start learning simple things like ABC’s and such. So to start with we bought his first DVD- Little Steps ABC’s. Why this? Because it was cheap and yet educational. I can’t believe that most animated movies and other kids shows we watch on television everyday will be very expensive. So I decided to get the cheaper DVD which was a good choice actually. And he loves it judging by the way he tries to make sounds even if his A sounds likes e and his F sounds like “af”. He is so cute. I love this DVD as well.

When times get tough and we need financial help we always go to relatives first to ask for help. But if it doesn’t work there is always another option. This is when a loan is in handy. Pay Day Loan is getting popular nowadays because it provides cash without too much fuss. And a person can avail of it sometimes regardless of his credit history. The same can be said about Personal Loans too. One can apply for a personal loan and use the money for his personal plans or expenses. Some people are lucky to be able to avail these kind of loans to help them out in times of financial hardships.

I am into green tea right now. Organic green tea to be exact. I don’t know what prompt me to get into this habit but I am hooked. True it is bitter because I don’t put anything on my cup but the bag of tea and water. For some reason when I started drinking green tea I have stopped drinking sweet tea. The urge just isn’t there anymore. Could it be because of the bitter taste in my mouth that stopped the craving for sweets? Or maybe, wonder of all wonders, my body finally realized that it need to lay off on sweets to stop my ballooning weight? Who knows? I don’t see any change in my body or on anything except the above mentioned. But I have only started for a week. Let’s hope this will result to something consenquential.