Caroleen’s Treasures

What a day! Early morning I tried to work, like any other day I will be in and out of the tool. Since my schedule is 5 pm to 1 am, I can work only during morning until early afternoon when the queue is high. Then off again whenever queue drops. After I logged out the second time at half past 8, I discovered I could not get in other sites and was redirected to Smart Bro page. We called Smart Bro and they said our internet connection is temporarily disconnected. WHAT!??!!!! Donald has paid one month bill yesterday through LBC so I asked why. The lady said I have to wait 3 working days before my account get reactivated again. And since I have two months balance all in all and was now temporarily disconnected, I need to settle the whole amount I owed them. I almost yelled to the lady that I have not paid the whole two months bill because they still owe me a refund or rebate for having NO internet connection for A WEEK last July. Thinking I am still the one on the lossing end here (since there is no other internet provider here in the province and that I really need to have my connection back so I can work), I sent Donald over to pay the remaining balance. Then I called them again and was told I have to wait for 24 hours before I get reconnected. Maybe they are just afraid of me being from Mindanao, that I may send them over a batallion of MILF (just kidding!), they reconnected my internet at half past 4 in the afternoon. If only they did not act that quick, I will definitely blog about how bad their services. In fairness to the lady whom I got to talk (and almost yelled), she accommodates very well and is very professional in handling customers. I honestly could not do her job. Maybe I would yell too or just hang up But I also thought, maybe they always get the same call each day and they are used to raging complains that they developed this sense of peace while talking to a dissapointed customer.

Other than this event, my day went well. Ella went to school like usual. When she arrived from school, she began her oration of thanking God that we had a TV All she did was play with her babies and watch TV while we tried to take a nap. The heat is making me more nauseated. When I feel sick, I hold it as much as I can. Throwing up makes my heart palpitate and I hate the feeling like I was drowning.

We did our grocery shopping in the afternoon. Just picked some items we need and headed home. Donald put together the screen that we used before in our store and put the chicks inside. They are growing fast. We are laughing at their sizes…like DO RE MI FA. It is good they don’t have the same sizes so in time for them to get in the pan, we can butcher one at a time.

Today is the Floral Float Parade for the KADAYAWAN FESTIVAL (Davao City Foundation Anniversary) and was thinking if we went to see my doctors this weekend instead of going there last weekend, we could have watched the grand parade of beautiful floats. It is always been a big contest among establishments and organizations. The first parade that I have seen was when Mamang was still alive. Ella was 2 then and most of the time she was carried by Mamang. She just loved carrying her piglet.

This float was made of corn grains, chrysanthemums, anthuriums, dendrobiums, mums and foliages of different kinds. We really enjoyed the event and Mamang, who is the most crazy over flowers climbed on some floats and let me took her photos which is the last photos she had before she died. I must say last because some of the negatives after this event are not yet printed until now including Ella’s 2nd and 3rd birthdays. (sighs)

I hope Crislyn will post photos of the parade tonight so I could at least feel I was there.

We have a 12 hours power interruption from 6am to 6pm today. Since we do not have fans in the church, I did not feel that we don’t have power until after worship when we went inside the house. After lunch we spread a mat on the living room floor. To help Ella sleep, I read her a couple of stories from her favorite children’s books. It is too hot! Ella and Donald has slept and I wonder HOW they manage to sleep without fan.

Ella was very protective of her chicks. She has 5 broiler chicks which she and Donald bought yesterday when we went to the market. She was asking for it for a long time and we decided it is time for her to raise chicken again BUT I told her that they will be “fried chicken” when they get big. She nodded and so they went to the store to buy 5 chicks. I think they are more than a week old because their feathers has turned into white. I have to make sure Ella understood that her chicken will be cooked for dinner because we had a very hard time convincing her last year that her two chicken will be butchered for food. She loved her two chicken before and when they are 45 days old, we decided to sell and just tell Ella that they went home to our hometown to visit her grandma’s grave. She bought the idea of her chicken travelling 3 hours to Kabacan. LOL Now that she is 5, I think she have to know so we won’t be feeling guilty again selling or butchering them one by one. So now that she agrees with the idea of making them “fried chicken” someday, she takes care of them as best as she can and makes sure they have always food and water in their cage.

I was dragging my feet all day as I feel so tired and lazy from Ella’s birthday party yesterday. It was just a simple party yet I feel so exhausted. But Ella wasn’t feeling that and went to play early in the morning. She went outside and found her birthday present dead. The frail looking chick that a kid gave her yesterday. Good that she has not built a strong attachment to it yet so the funeral was quick and easy. Her friend Charlie dug a hole in the yard and they buried it there. Ella put a cross in it and they said a little prayer for its innocent soul. Here’s some photos of Ella’s birthday party yesterday.

As I always ask “Where did the time go?”….Oh well….she is growing up so fast and Donald was saying since the other day that we do not have a 4 year-old in the house anymore. 

See our baby turned into a lady 

Ella and Mommy

With Tita Crislyn

the Drama Princess and the Drama Queen (Tita CheChe)

and last but cetainly not the least, our family picture

I was working with my blog for a couple of weeks now. Although I like my previous theme, I finally decided to have it changed. I had problems with the background and the widgets. I changed the widget codes just to make everything fit but still it doesn’t look good. Blame it all on the blinkies! I have collected a thousand blinkies on my album. My body clock has been changed. Since last week, I was up the whole night. Got to sleep at 7:00 a.m. and be back infront of the computer after just a 5 hour sleep. I suppose my body feels like being there on the other side of the earth. I just hope after our short vacation from Kabacan ( my cousin’s funeral will be on tuesday) will get me back to my old routine. I hope too I could sneak to do my blog updating there.

Oh by the way, we had unexpected visitors last friday afternoon. While doing my usual browsing, I heard Donald greet them and I thought Donald is just fooling us around. ( He’s good with that I did not even hear somebody knock at the door. Well, how would they be knocking door with just two feet and have no hands?

Ella was very happy to see those chicken. She is soooo fond of animals and she has not played with kids for a number of days. She could only play with humans everytime we bring her to Wonderland. She plays with the dogs and a cat and this little fellas excited her so much. At least for a change. She was so happy and was jumping and yelling ” Sige, lutuin natin!!! I-fried chicken natin!!!” (Come on, let’s cook fried chicken!!!) I could not just imagine how tiny that fried chicken must be. They have just barely grew their feathers and trying to see the beauty of the world, maybe ran away from home dreading what being a certified chicken may bring them. They might end up the mother of threir brood or end up as the star of “tinolang manok” (chicken soup). Ella was convinced to let them go and they are just so lucky to get out of here alive.

 I was smiling all along of the thought of my rudeness with chicks back then. I can’t remember exactly how old I was, all I can remember is there were a dozen neighbor’s chicks marching around our yard with their mama hen. I was playing alone when suddenly the light bulb over my head sounded “ting!”. I grabbed all of them and put inside a small box. They were sooo cute in their yellow “feathered uniform”. I did not know why the devil made me peel off their feathers on their tiny-skinny legs and a little while they all had bare-pinkish legs!  I tied their legs one by one on a  calamansi tree. I was very fascinated to see them on the branches like christmas lights ( Just imagine their chirps that made it really look like musical christmas lights ) It was really gross! I didn’t get near chicks anymore since then (or they didn’t dare come across my way ). I was just so happy Ella has no dark thoughts as I had.

As I was about to publish this post, I looked for the “tag” space at the bottom and found out I have written on the “write page”. I was making this fast because of this backpain. At least copying and pasting won’t consume so much of my time. Thanks for the chicks, the thought of them made me smile still.