It's that time

Winter time is the time people are getting sick.  Cold weather ot only causes everyone to be lazy but also cause them illness.  Once 1 person gets it it will spread around.  That is why if you thought you are getting better wait, after a day or two you willb e sick again. 

Having kids in school I always tell them to wash their hands all the time especially before their lunc.

Oh getting evryone in good health is the 1st thing i have to worry about.

No Permanet Address

I have a best friend who married to a navy. Every two years they moved. I don’t know how they handle this moving part. Not only that they moved from house to house but they moved from one to state to another and even countries. Just only about the concept of moving again I don’t know if I can handle it. The packing and unpacking part, I already give up on it.

One thing I know that is why it is less stress on their part because they have moving companies who do the moving for them. This moving company hires some movers. With the amount of money they will pay for this company, the moving services they get in return overall are great. If not they will not have them for the next time. With how many times they moves they should have an idea on how much each moving will cost them if not at least just a moving quotes on how much each time they move.

I am so glad I don’t need to move in the near future. If I do that will be into a new house. Moving is not easy unless my husband will hire moving company.

Busy or What?

Everyone doesn’t want to get up this morning. The girls have been out from school for 4 days. They love it because they don’t need to get up so early. Roger may have long weekend because he have Friday off but still no rest for him because he had to take everyone out to shopping and not to forget to mention he drove me to work and picked me up. It was a long and busy day for him last Friday. Everyone did able to relax after 9 because we all decided to go to Lasallette Shrine in Attleboro.
Saturday was a busy day for everyone as well. We all went out to get all what we needed in order to put our tree up. Sunday was church day and went to couple stores not that we need to. We all stayed home for the rest of Sunday afternoon while I finished putting all the Christmas decorations and move some furniture.

So there it goes everyone’s weekend in my house. We all have a productive weekend.

Life Saving investments

I have been working in PharMerica for almost 4 years now. One the best investment I did is having a 401k. I consider this is my life investment. I have 401k and invest this to some different stocks. This way if one investment drops not all of my money will crush. I have to think for my future. With what’s going on w/ our economy by the time we retire SSS is no longer exist because they already bankrupt.

Getting familiar with different brokerage to invest your money is very necessary. There is a lot online broker or not that can help you. Wither you are going to invest your money through online trading, mobile trading or stock trading or if you want invest your money to IRA accounts.
The earlier you start investing you money is the money.

Christmas Tree is up

Day after thanksgiving kids keep begging me to put our Christmas tree up.  Finally we did.  it was the first time the family is havng a real Christmas tree.  The tree we have since the kids were still little.  The tree looks smaller compare to them now.  We all decide to buy a new one but instead we decide to buy a real tree.  It was a fun  and adventurous day for everyone. 
Now are tree officially up.  The kids did a great job putting all the ornaments.  It was a busy day for me as well moving all the furnitures and putting all the rest of our christmas decoration minus the lights on the window. 

Everyone in the family are now in the spirit of Christmas.  Have a Merry Christmas everyone. 

Looking for a new Car

I been in the US for over 10 years.  Believe it or not I still don't have a drivers liscence.  I don't have the motivation to get one until when my husband end up in the hospital for few days.  I felt so useless.  I have to asked relatives to drive me to visit him.  That was a wake up call for me to start working on getting my drivers liscence. 

Right now I will be going on my last drivers lesson and will schedule for a road test. Having a drivers liscence is a christmas gift for me for my self.  This will make a huge change in our lives. 

By next year 2011 my husband and I will be looking to buy me a new car.  I was thinking to get Chevy Hhr, Kia Forte, Grand-Marquis or wiki cars.  Anyone of this will do.

Right now it is not only that I need to get me a car but we also despirate to have a new one.  The van we have we bought this 5 years ago.  It is start giving us some issues.  Not counting that every time we get the sticker it always failed for break reason. 

I am hoping by March i will be driving around with my own new car.  Wish me luck everyone!!!

Long day at work

Holiday really screwed up everything. It causes less motivation for everyone to work. Everyone is looking forward for the day to get over. This makes day feels like longer as it used to.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Everyone will have Holiday off. A lot of people already scheduled out today and day after which is the Friday. But I will be here on Friday though. I am not one of those who got the luck.

My husband will have a day off. He will be able to bring the girls and my mom to stores and get their Christmas shopping done. Hope they will get a nice one for me. J What a wishful thinking though.

What I am thankful for

I am thankful for my family and friends.

I always thankful of having an awesome husband that always there for me good or bad times; a husband who always there and always willing to take all my crap. I know I am worst than my kids. I am also thankful for my girls Leona and Angel. They are both great. I couldn’t ask for better kids than what I have now. They are doing great in school. I am thankful for my Mom who spends 2 years w/ us. I know how hard it is to be away from your husband and kids. I so adore her for this.

I am overall thankful for this year to God who always there for us. My family been through tough time this year but we all survive, we made it through to this entire obstacle.

Thank you Lord for all the blessings you bestowed to my family.

Date w/ my husband

My husband and I  been married for almost 11 years.  Since we have kids we never been to any gatherings with out my kids. 

Last Saturday November 20th, wa PAMAS night (Filipino Night event).  Thanks to my mom who volunteer to stay home and babysit our kids.  Roger and I went and all dress up nice.  Wow I think the last time we went somewhere and all dress up was at least 5 years ago a wedding of a family friend. Anyway it was a pleasant and wonderful night for us.  A sit in table dinner.  Foods were been served.  We had a chance to dance, slow, line dance and dance and more dance.  I almost don't want to leave at the end. 

This is a wake up call for hubby and I.  We will try to do something for us not just all the time with the kids.  My moms next suggestion was going on a dance to Foxwood on valentines day.  Take the opportunity while she is still w/ us as she said.  :-)

Wide awake

I may not admit to anyone or even to myself, i maybe depressed. It is not me, I went to bed so early and get up early.  As you can see here i am my finger is busy, lol.  It is Saturday anyway.  A busy Saturday for us.  The good news is we are done w/ our christmas shopping.  This is excited.  

I maybe done w/ my christmas shopping but I am thinking of buying a plaque to put outside my house or maybe buy a gift for a family. An address plaques and numbers is better this way for first time visitor who is coming to my house will not get lost.   This will help them to find my house easy. 

I am still thinking to get address plaque or an address sign for my family just on time for Christmas.  This is a unique gift that everyone can give, right?   

Too Many Pictures

Owning a video camera is great.  I don't worry that my memory card is already full and I need to print some copies instead i will upload all my pictures to my PC.  The only problem is if i don't keep them in a CD and something went wrong w/ my comouter then I will lost all my pictures.  Its almost happen to me. 

One thing i like to do w/ my pictures is making a slide show.  I have a video converter but this one is already old and I need to upgrade what I have.  If you have a right video converter  you can create a video from pictures further with flexible merging, clipping, editing, splitting features.  You can convert them to HD.  Add even music to it.  If you own a mac pc you have nothing to worry about becase there is also a video converter for mac even ipad video converter is already available. 

With todays technology nothing will be behind.  Everyone getting the upgrades the only big problem is the cash.  Of all of this you need money.  Hey at least now you know there are some ways you can save all those important memories. 

Vacation Plan

After that anouncement yesterday at work that we will be losing our job my March.  We will be getting a severance pay but still losing job w/ this economy situation is not good. Anyway,  next year my family will difinitely be going on a vacation.  No matter what.  A vacation what this family needs.  My mom will be in the Philippines.  If you ask me how long?  I don't know.  But our life will not stop. 

I am just thankful that even I will lost my job I still have my family and I will be receiving unemployment for a while.  So it is not a bad thing at all. 

What A Day

Today is not a good day for me, for everyone at work especially on my department.  One of my call pilot box are full, been rerouted to another call pilot box that another RBO who handle this box and this messages been forwarded back to one of my call pilot box.  Gave me head ache most of the day.  Not counting my co-worker who also incharge of doing call pilot are on a day off.

Before lunch time we had an emergency meeting.  We all receive a bad news.  This is all what we need before this holiday?  I wish I am rich that not to worry about this changes.  

I will leave everything to our God Almighty.  I know there are some positive thing are coming on my way. 

Phone call Away

This couple day is an interesting day for us especiall to my husband.  We got a call from his dads wife.  First thing came into my mind something emergency happened.  She never call before.  I guess somehow our phone line not working.  they been trying to call again and again but call are not going through. 

But anyway.  Roger got a chance to talked to his dad from Texas.  He sound okay.  Next day receive a call from his wofe again letting us know that Roger's dad been brought to the nursing home.   I know hubby not saying anything; I know he was worried w/ his dad.  Whatever happened in the past he is still his dad. 

Thank God that a phone call awy make everything better.  Rogers dad is fine.  he just need to be in the nursing home so that someone are always there to take good care of him. 

No more Ideas

Now because i am somewhat back to blogging I am running out of ideas on what to write.  If I don't have a pr of 3 on this blog I won't bother posting but while pr still in then I have to take this opportunity to make money.  Hopefully just on time for Christmas i will have enough to buy something for my self. Maybe enough to by a shoes.  Not thinking how many I already own.   Am I greedy or what.  But hey I am working hard in here.  Not all of what i earn have to go to the family right?  It is no that I am already spending so much to my family not here but way back in Philippines.  I guess i am just too good. 

My ideal backyard

Growing in Philippines where life is tough.  Since i was a little girl I always dream to have a very nice house w/ big yard where my kids can play with and I can have an area I can have my garden.    I love gardening.  But living in this country that weather keeps changing it is hard to have flowers that blooms all year round.  What i can only do is put a vey nice accent to my backyard like putting a gazebo, wishing well and maybe aa garden arbor or wooden arbors or any kind of arbor, as long as it makes my whole house looks presentable.  By doing this I have to start courting my husband now so that he will buy me one.  What do you think?   

Telemarketing

I hate to answer my phone everytime somebody call.  Usually it is a telemarketing calls or collecton agency.  Even i already added our number to donot call lists, we are still getting this calls.  Like earlier it was already after 9pm.  My phone rings i answered it thinking it is an emergency call because it is already late.  What the heck it is the Owtell.  Trying to convince me to use their product hello it is bed time here in America.  i know in Philippines it is day time.  how can you get any client if you don't consider what time you will be calling your customer.  I felt bad who ever i talked to because I kind a give him an attitude.  Maybe he will learn a lesson not to call to late at night. 

Shop like A Pop Star

One of the local FM radio station they have this one game SHOP LIKE A STAR.  They have a reward of $10,000 and spend all this money for one day.  If I win I already what i will do w/ the money I win.  I will buy new furnitures (coach and dining table). I will also buy a big flat screen tv w/ built in WiFi.  Buy everyone a very nice gift for Christmas. 

Now i am just waiting for them to give me a call letting me know that i win the game.  :-)

Own Domain

Now a days people are tend to do shopping more online.  I am one of those people.  i hate going to store not counting that I have to be in the crowd w/ people.  I have to be in line or long lines.  i hate it.  Especially this holiday season.  I have my own business even a small business going on.  i have to think of getting my own doman.  I know there are so many site whose main business is web hosting. 

If you are a business owner you have nothing to worry about.  You can consider them as your manage hosting problem. They will take care everything for you. Monitoring your servers, creating backups, or updating patches is no longer be your problem because an expert engineer from this web hosting will do it for you.  They have this great colocation.  you can pick what ever best for your business.  Overall it is better to have your own domain and site being managed by web hosting company.

Bad Allergy

My younger daughter Angel has an allergy w/ milk, eggs and clam.  Poor kid she needs to have special milk.  She is not lactose and toelrant she is just allerguc to dairy product.  With this allergy her eczema bothers her a lot.  everytime she eats or drink the a non soy milk she keeps scratching until she bleeds.  She have a special cream but she cried like somebody murder her. It stings a lot.  Kept telling her to take a shower but she is not listening. 

It is my fault why she is like this.  I should be more strick to her diet.  It is for her own good anyway.  I will show to her who is the adult in the house.  But wait a minute my mom just let my kids do whatever they want.  they are free if we are not home.

Home Improvement

No matter how new or old your place, you still need to do some renovation around the house from time to time.  I am one of those home makers wnat to keep rearranging the house.  Kitchen is harder for me to do.  Right now I am thinking of doing some changes like; I want to put new cabinets, to have more storage.  Glad that I found this blog that the main topic is focus more on kitchen cabinet. I can use some of the information from there.  this gives me some ideas.

Surprise Birthday Party

For the 1st time the family went to a party  at night time.  At first i thought the kids will not be having fun but I was wrong.  The party was fun.  We all got up and dance.  The kids played and danced on the floor as well.  It was nice to have a chance to do a slow dance with my husband.  May not be dance through out the whole song because Angel wanted to have a chance to dance w/ her daddy but indeed it was great.   Bring back memories when I was in Philippines. 

Now it is time to think of going to bed.  My feets start barking. 

Monster High Dolls

Christmas is coming.  My kids already have a lists of what they wants for christmas.  If you can see what they want, unbelievable.  What they think their parents have this bags and bags of cash hidden in the closets? 

My husband and I get smart this year we increase our christmas club and we put stuff in the lay away two months ahead.  As soon we get our christmas club money and that was 2 weeks ago.  We paid half what we owe in lay away and bought the stuff that the girls wants. 

One toys in their list are monster high dolls.  Leona wants the draculaura and Ange wants the Frankentein.  At the time the told us we already have hard time find them.  We went to stores and stores.  i guess this is the hot toys for this holiday.  What I did went to amazon.com and got luck at that time draculaura was available and it cost me $24.99 and for frankenstein $19.99.  I was glad I bought the dolls right away.  Because now I found out they cost more. 

Shoppin in advance is not a bad thing at all.  Especially if we are talking about Christmas shopping.  My ideal way of shopping is shopping over the computer.  This way I will not be in the crown w/ lines of annoying people. 

Window Accents

I may be busy at my work and family,  I always make it sure I have time for my self.  One of my favorite  thing to do is gardening.  One positive thing i got from my mom. No matter how nice your nice if no flowers outside it is nothing to me.  I always want to have window boxes planters.  But I am looking for a specific one that fits to my house.

Living in house or an apartment is no problem at all.  You can use window boxes planters.  When it come winter you can even bring them in the house.  This way your flowers blooms all year round.

Deleted Blog

I still can't believed i deleted my other blogs.  I was not thinking at that time.  I may not be doing on my blog but all the contents i wrote in there.  I am just glad that i found this site an archive where all the posts that i posted were in there.  I may have to copy and repost those important one.  It may be a pain doing them but at least I can recover some of my posts.  Not a totall lost at all.  It took me a day to figure out how. 

To all my fellow blogger in case you no longer want to do anything w/ your blog don't delete them.  you might regret it in the future.  I was so stupid.  Learn from my mistake, I can tell you that though.

What's going on w/ my DVR

Because of our busy schedule from work to home, Roger and I used the DVR to record all our favorite shows.  we will watch them once we get a chance.  But lately we are having trouble with our DVR.  We thought maybe it is our cable box.  So we called the cable company to give us a new one.  We thought everything should be fine.  But last night hubby and I sat to watch some of the shows, guess what a lot of them never been taped.  I think it is the cable company.   They sucks.  Sorry for my french language, lol.   I can't wait the verizon to be done installing the wiring in our area.  I will fire comcast in a heart beat.  Right now they are so lucky because they have no competition yet. 

Family Vacation

My husband I may not make enough money but we are trying hard to do fun things for the family.   Ever y summer time we have to take at least a week off or some long weekends from work.  Roger and I plan for next year summer 2011; we are going  to a nice resort . I am checking this site http://avistaresort.com/.

What you think about going to South Carolina for vacation venue next year?  I like to stay more likely in the same place where all fun stuff are just around the corner.  Being infront of a beach is great.  I may asked my husbands` approval  first if we can afford to stay in Myrtle Beach hotel.  Looks like this family oriented resort.  The whole family I think will like it.

By just looking at the pictures i already love the resorts in Myrtle Beach, how much more if we will be going there.  I better, up my vacation fund and start being more frugal.  I love to see my kids faces reaction.  It will be priceless. 

Thank God it's Friday

After a long day at work, so glad I am home and it's Friday.  Being infront of the PC for wholeday and trained a coworker inorder to help me w/ my job during busy time.  My job is the most important task in my department.  The more help is the better.  I know they are happy w/ my performance I may not be but I am just thankful that i still have job.  I know that there are a lot of people lost their jobs. 

But anyway work week is over, now I have to face and spend time w/ my family.  It will be again another busy weekend for all of us.

Have a great and happy weekend everyone !!!!

Responsible party

I work in a pharmacy where  we supply medicine to nursing home nation wide.  I am in the admissions department.  Where one of my job is to make it sure we have the correct responsibles party address.  Especially if they are paying private whick means they have no insurance to pay their meds.  We make it sure we verify the address.  If for some reason we can't find any address we local yellow pages to search for addresses and double check @ USPS.com if it is the correct format and can be deliverable. 

Sometimes we are having hard time to find some correct address.  But we will try different way just to obtain information.  Local search is usually the top option.  If not then we will try to call the facility again hoping to give us information we needed. 

It was a biggest mistake

At least couple months ago I delete my other 2 blogs.  Now I was felt so dumb why i did it.  I know my main reason was to focus only on this one blog.  Not thinking i will lost all what I posted in there.  Here i am trying to find a way to retrieved the deleted blog.  But I guess there is no way now.

Been searching around hoping i can find some answers.  I better give up.  i am having no luck at all. 

I learn my lesson in a hard way.  What's new right?

Veterans Day

Yikes today is Veterans day. It is a federal holiday.  There should be no work for my husband he is a veteran.  But we work in a slave company that we have to get up and work wither we like it or not.  It sucks, lol. No school for kids and no work for some workers not for hubby and I. How lucky are they.  Kids are still in bed while here we are going to work.

Thinking of a new career

I have a friend whom right now want to work.  But having a little knowledge it will be hard for her to find a good job.  She is thinking of going to school.  But the question is what shool she is going for?  She have a 1 year old daughter.  I advise her maybe just take an online course.   Advice her to check out Walden University. She is not sure either of what course she will have to take a nursing or a education course?

If she will decide to take education course  i know she will do good.  Both her parents are principals.  So it should be not new for her environment.  Education is great wherein you can have all holiday off not counting you will have a summer off as well.  If i can go back time as what my husband keep saying I should take education class.  i know it is not too late yet but my brain is no longer in mood to study.  I just have to do good on the job i have now.  With this friend of mine hope she will decide what is best for her and also w/ her family.

She is also thinking of taking Nursing course because it pays good.  But you have to work hard in order to earn it. They maybe times like holidays that you have to work or got stuck at work because of the bad weather and the person who supposed to work after you called out.  What can you do it is your job.

 If I  have time to take more classes I want to do I will.  But my schedule is already crazy enough.  I can go to the chronicle for higher education.  Just to think about going back to school is already tough for me.  how can I budget my time between work and family and i have to add shooling too.  I think i better fucos on what I have now and do better with it.

What a surprise

Once again it's been a while I did not visit this blog.  I was just lazy to post something.  Also I am addicted to face booking, i know i admit it.  Good thing i was having an emotion issue that i can't express what i feel in facebook.  Then i will not able to find out this blog has a page rank of 3 again. 

I was excited now maybe i can start posting ang making money in this blog.  just on time for christmas.

Coin Collector

Before I meet my husband I love to collect coins from different country.  Not knowing that i will marry a guy who have the same hobby.  I was amazed on how many coins he have.  he ven have special container and invidividual cases of them. While looking each one by one i found at least a couple bullion coins.

The coins he have is of course better that what I have.  I guess he been collecting all of these coins from different countries.  My husband use to stay in Germany and this is where most of his coins collections are from.  There are time I was thinking how much did he spend in all of this coins.  How much a gold bullion you think cost that he able to have this in his collection.

I don't mind him having all this coins until now.  Never know if we really need money so bad, we can sell some of his coins.  This might be worth something.  There are so many places around who will  buy bullion coins.  After all being a collector is a great hobby at all.

I Can't find my backpack

As soon as I get in the house I heard my daughter Angel crying.  She was so upset because she can't find her backpack.  She been home for almost 4 hours and just realize that her backpack is nowhere to be found.

Trying to help her retrack what she did before she took off from school bus.  She was 100% sure , she was carrying her backpack.  But my mom who picked them up at the bus can't tell us either if she have her backpack w/ her.  I can't believe it not even one of them did not noticed that she lost her backpack.

We are not so worried because we are very sure that the school bus driver will keep it somewhere safe.  And Angel will get it back on Friday because tomorrow is holiday and no school.  We will make it sure to call the school as well.

This just tells me that she is not responsible enough to take care of her stuff.  I better ask her sister to double check everytime they get off from that school bus. 

Baby Sitting

Why it is cost so much to let other baby sit your kids while your at work.  I been through to this.  Before my mom came in US to live with us.  I have other people to watch my kids while I was at work.  I was just so lucky that I have a very good neighbor that willing to watch my kids for not much under the table. We were paying her $300/wk for 2 kids.  That was a big help for us.  If I had to bring them to day care it will cost us more. 

Now i have here a friend who have a 1 year old daughter.  My mom is watching her daughter from 6AM to 6PM for $100 a week.  When my mom ask her to increase the fee to $150.  She trying to scare my poor mom that she will claim the fees during tax time.  It was not fair.  you think $150 a week to watch a 1 year old is too much?  Try bringing your kid to a real day care you will see how much it will cost.  Not counting how they will take good care of your kid. 

I felt bad about my mom.  I think she been abused.  By the way now they both agreed to pay her $125 a week and not to file a claim at tax time.  But between my husband and i we are not hapy with whats going on.