23rd October 2008

Ella moved in her new HOME

I do not know why I feel I wanted to clean the whole house. It was like I am going somewhere for a vacation and I do not want to see any clutter when I return. When we did the laundry yesterday, I feel the same way too. I wanted to empty the laundry basket and have fresh and clean clothes to bring on our trip. Although I know that we aren’t making the trip to my hometown anymore, I still feel we are going somewhere. :roll:

I have been making some cleaning-up project since Monday. I already washed the windows, dusted shelves and tables, waxed the floor, rearranged the bedroom, totally cleaned and sorted out the stuffs on Ella’s desk and the laundry just dried up. But there’s more to do around this small house. Read the rest of this entry »

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16th September 2008

My blog has been reviewed!

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Yes you read it right, my blog has been reviewed by Shen, the author of The Blog Reviewer. I came across a blog which he has reviewed, I am not sure when but I was very interested about it so I left a personal message asking him to review mine. And surprisingly he did! Here’s his complete blog review of my blog. 

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26th April 2008

Cracks

Ella played until midnight. She had Carrot dressed in baby clothes that I have saved for her sister (if God will bless us with another bouncing baby girl) :-) That’s what Ella wanted, a baby girl. I asked her what if it was a boy, she answered “Eh di palitan natin…” ( Let us exchange it) What?!! Was it a dress that you can exchange if it doesn’t fit? LOL My sister was teasing her that we will wait for the mall’s midnight sale so we can buy her a baby sister for a 50% OFF and she pouts saying she don’t want one that is bought. She wants one that is made. :roll: Well, with the rice shortage right now, we can’t afford to have another baby yet. We should be settled first with a home and food and with basic needs. I want her to send to a good school and not be deprived of her needs. In short, the truck should come soon.

Speaking of the truck…I hope next time we will be told that it will come, it will. We need really need to move and get settled in Agusan before June comes so we can have still time to find a school for Ella. We are told last time that the church can offer little amount for our help with the church work. And the rice too, which I can tell now that it would be a great help since the rice price increased drastically. We have actually accepted the work before even without the cash allowance, but with this offer we are more than grateful and who would resist such a blessing? So there would be a house where we would live, rice and allowance. While Donald will be off for church works everyday, I will be left at home. Good that I have this blog to keep me busy and at the same time earn. Being approved by PPP and PayU2Blog is such a blessing. And writing essay for Academi-Research too! I can have dollars and in time, we can get through with our struggle with finances right now.

I was infront of my pc when Ella went beside me and said “Tingnan ko nga mata mo Mommy. O, may dugo na….may mga crack na….’di ka kasi natutulog.” (Let me see your eyes Mommy. See there’s blood, there’s some cracks…it’s because you are not sleeping). The CRACK thing pertains to my blood shot eyes. It just made me laugh how she looked so worried about the CRACKS on my eyes. As if she’s seing cracks on eggs. LOL

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24th April 2008

PPP approved me!

I have received a great news today! My blog is approved by payperpost!!!!! Yipey! After a month and 11 days my blog has been finally approved. Yes, FINALLY. Because I have been praying that they will approve my blog and was declined more than thrice because my blog has not reached the minimum age. Must be 3 months, and been changed to 2 months. Still I have submitted my blog again thinking maybe they PPP will get annoyed by my persistence. When I last submitted my blog this week, I was not expecting them to approve it that’s why I am surprised when I got their email.

I heard about PPP from my sister Crislyn who have been blogging two months ahead of me and was approved since February. She encouraged me to apply because she’s earning good sum from it. Since I am stay-at-home-mom might as well try it. Good that I was introduced to PPP because everywhere I hop, almost all the blogs much older than mine are PPP approved, and I feel like being an authentic member of the blogging world now that I am a member too! I am looking forward to more opportunities here since we have lost our little business and our little home. This will be a big help to us in sending Ella to a good school, to pay for my youngest sister’s tuition fee and pay the remaining balance of my computer.


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18th April 2008

I’m Back!

Hello world! My site is down for two days and I am just so happy that I have it again. I missed two days of blogging! But I will make up for the lost time :-)

Last tuesday night after writing my post for the day and have some hoppin’ around, I decided to change the font on my header. I replaced the font to Century Gothic from Georgia (’cause it’s too small ‘di ba?), then went blog hopping and I was shocked when I went back to my site because it could not be accessed anymore.  I was wondering what have I done wrong. I did it many times before, even changed the font of the whole blog and it worked. I was even very careful to replace the font and made sure nothing is missing on the code. Oh how could there be missing code if I just have replaced just the font name and nothing else? So I was wondering what have I done wrong (Did I already said that?) I went to other blogs hoping that it’s just a network problem but when I went back, my fear was confirmed. It was really, truly, madly, deeply DOWN. I read what’s on the screen, It said there’s a fatal error made on the header. What!?! FATAL!?! Patay…pano na ang blogging galore ko? I was stunned, like I have seen a ghost or been poured with a bucket of cold water. I didn’t panick until I went to the wordpress to get in my site through the admin panel and discovered that my username and password didn’t work as well. I once did go to my site through admin panel before when I can’t go directly in my site because I accidentally removed the widget where the site admin was. I didn’t changed them which left me wondering how must it have been reset.

Another disgusting thing is, when I went to Borski and Nai’s blog somebody left a message in the cbox using my name. I don’t want to elaborate this because as much as I want to be understood and heard, I also want to keep it private since I don’t blog about dissapointments in life. And besides, my sister has said what must be said. Anyway, kuya Ace had his first salary. He brought home french fries’ and burgers for everyone :-)

That night, I slept with the thought of having it fixed tommorrow. Oh, I haven’t actually slept because Donald was sick. REALLY SICK. He has a very high fever and I am giving him cold compress every now and then. Ella is very good at nursing her dad :-) While I was doing something in the pc, she’s the one giving him medicine, constantly giving him cold compress and checking him with her “doctor doctor” toys.

The following day, Donald woke up with a very bad headache and still he’s burning with fever which almost reached 40. I replaced the wet towel on his head, gave him medicine and headed to finish my work on the pc. It is so disgusting to see that my site is down. Hmp! I just went on with my work, taking a break to check on Donald. Ella played with the kids again. She let me braid her hair when I called her in to brush her hair.

In the afternoon, I emailed my sister’s BIL about the problem with my site. Since he was the one who have set my site up, he must have still my username and password. I relate the problem and asked if he could help me with it. Donald is getting worst. His temperature is constantly high and his head aches real bad. I put on towel soaked in ice water on his forhead. He was saying about going to the hospital that night if he can’t stand the pain.  

I got a reply from my sister’s BIL the next day and send him the details of the problem. This time, Donald is better. When I woke up, he has already taken a cold bath. His fever subsided. I am not yet done with my work, good that I have something to be busy about. Site is still down. Ella played with the girls and joined in by the boys. They taught Ella how to play skipping rope. She hold the rope with her two hands and bends to throw it upfront then jumps too low. She was complaining all the time about how she failed to jump right. I was busy in my pc so her daddy went to teach her. Since there must be two persons holding the rope at both ends and I could not join them, they figured a way to do it without me. I was laughing when I saw them. Donald held one end of the rope and the other end was tied on the gate while Ella leaps like a frog.

In the evening, my sister and Nai are chatting regarding the problem with my site. Nai mentioned about deleting the theme on the ftp which my sister did before when Borski and Nai’s blog went down too which is successful. So my sister, who forgot about it, deleted the theme. We waited but still the site is down. Must have been worst than the problem on Borski and Nai’s blog. After an hour, I got an email from my sister’s BIL telling me that he can access to the admin panel and that my username and password is still the same. He had checked it and found something’s broken with the codes. I was relieved when he assured me that it can be restored. He asked me if it is okay that he will upgrade my blog to wordpress 2.5. I gave him a go signal and thank him for sparing me his time since he was busy and on his work. I thought that maybe it will be fixed in a day or two so I resumed working with my assignment and tried not to think about how I missed blogging. When I called my work done, I went to sleep. It was almost 2am. Donald was feeling better and was still awake. I asked him to check on the programs that has been downloaded so my sister will have company in the living room working on her shift as data coder. I was about to doze off when he called me up. My site is back!!!!! It was with other theme since the theme was deleted but it was upgraded. I downloaded my tulip theme and had it back again. I changed the font of the body but never dared to touch the header. Thanks to my sister’s BIL, I was back to my blogging world. :-)

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11th April 2008

$$$$$$$

Got a new font! After days of wanting to have it changed, I finally had the push to edit the css when I realized I got hard time reading my small and boring font. To make it more readable and more fun, I changed it to suit my taste and hope yours too.

My new routine for a week now is to get up no later than 6am, prepare a breakfast and settle infront of the pc to open mails. I am receiving emails now and then from my boss regarding the project I am working with so I want to get it done early of the day. He said he hasn’t reviewed my report in depth since they were in the middle of web transfer (due to network problems occured this week) but he had seen the first few ones and told me I did well just as I performed the first time. He even said he can pay me in advance for that report without having reviewed it because he trusted me that I have accomplished my task according to his standard. That was the most encouraging word I have received from a boss :-) 

I have also received an email from PayU2Blog. My application was approved!!! :-) My blog is only 3 weeks old but I just tried to send an application last monday, that is why I was a bit shocked and overwhelmed. I will be sending application to others too when my blog will be 1 month old (that’ll be next week)…..so I could also earn $$$$ like you guys! :-)

 Ella was playing outside with the dogs and her imaginary friends :-) It’s funny how she talks to herself just like I did when I was little. Got to write about Ella’s mischief which I have promised…..See yah!

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17th March 2008

22-7

I got more hooked on this blogging thing. I spent hours and hours blog hopping and searching for cute blinkies to put in my blog. I like blinkies so much that I snagged every blinkie that I found cute. I was up for 22 straight hours (no nap breaks!). So that means, starting my day at 9 a.m. yesterday and finally ended it 7 a.m. today. I must be a call center agent (graveyard shift) or so I say. I can’t believe I have stayed up that long. If not because of Ella who at 5 a.m. found out that mommy is not beside her and tagged me to bed, I maybe up until lunch. :-) I slept more or less 4 hours. I woke up with the feeling of sand particles on my eyes. Read a few chapters of “So, Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy!” by Barbara Johnson. This is not recommended by Oprah’s Book Club but I bought it anyway. I had slept while reading and it’s already dark when I woke up. Took a quick shower and started working on my blog again.

It never took so long after I started on this post when I received a call. My cousin is dead! He strangled himself and was found dead 6 p.m. tonight. I could not think of anything good to write about as of now. I feel tightness in my chest and I am short of breath. I would just be back a little later to write on something when I feel better. The news made me feel sick and dissapointed.

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