Startin’ A New Life

Finally…I found a place where I can be organize. Thanks to Tin for suggesting this at her virtual place. I was looking for something like this but not as complicated as WordPress.

It’s hard to leave all my butterflies behind, but I know they are happy for me. I wanted them to bring but there should be somebody to entertain my visiting friends at my old place and inform them that Im now here.
I’m finished unpacking. I’ve put things in it’s right places. I’m now Startin’ A new Life here.

And oh…you can use my pen up there to update your links.
Have a happy week to all!

If you have been wondering what did happen with my resignation. My boss and I had this talked the very same day I tendered my resignation. He asked me why. There were no signs that I’m planning to resign as he mentioned. He even asked if I were going somewhere else or will I work abroad. I told him that Im not going anywhere. I’ll just stay home and have this little business that H and I had been planning since last year. Aside from that I do wanted to take a break from the longest time I’ve been working. After hearing my side, boss suggested that I should take a 1-month vacation leave. He said that, I am just stress-out from work and do need a break. And he even mentioned that not all resigning employees are given such option. He just let them go and leave the office. Still I insisted my resignation. So he read again my letter and insisted more the vacation leave. He then wrote “leave for 1 month” on the paper and said, ” sige na, mag leave ka muna, then after a month pag ayaw mo na talaga, hindi na kita pipigilan.” I felt that I was that important in this office.

So after our talk, I agreed and wrote a request for a month vacation and boss signed for approval. Then people from other departments were asking if it’s true that Im leaving and some even asked why. It was funny because, they suggested the same thing as what boss has in mind. Then a co-department of mine suggested this ” Jen, wag ka na muna resign. Please.” My heart was touched. It’s hard when you really spend most of your time at work, you’ll surely miss the people and the environment when it’s time to leave and move on. But again Im positive about this. If ever my mind wont change after the vacation leave (at this time, I know I wont) I’ll go with my resignation. After all, it’s the work that Im leaving and not the friends I made.

So now, Im counting the days, 13 more and I’ll be on leave. Im excited.

Im absent today at work. Not that Im sick, not that I have to attend on something. It’s just that Im thinking something about work. Something that will surely need better judgment.

Tomorrow, I’ll bring this sheet of paper with me, telling my wants of leaving the company. I won’t be in any office yet. I’ll take my time here at home. I’ll relax a bit for the meantime. This is what I’ve been wanting after the 9 straight long years of working from 2 companies.

But again, I know, this wont be easy. During my long stay at my present employer, I have gain friends. A close bonding to those people I have been with for 5 years. Hope they will understand why I have to leave them.

Hoping that tomorrow, I won’t cry…

Do superheroes exist…

As a kid, I wanted to be a superhero like wonder woman. A lady wearing those sexy hero costume flying her invisible jet. ha ha ha. My older cousin said, that, It wont come true daw, superhero things are just make believe. I find myself crying while my not so kind cousin, keep on teasing me. Oh well, those were kids stuff. When I get a little bit older, I then realized that my cousin was correct. Wonder woman is a make believe character and supeheroes are the ones watched on TV alone. Sigh.

Couple of years had passed, I forgot all about the superhero thing then one time
there was this old lady walking down the street, a young guy approached her, held her hand and help her cross the street. What a gent, I told hubby…

Two nights ago while in the car, It was raining very hard, I saw this lady covering herself with a jacket. She was really getting wet when this other lady offered to share her umbrella with her. So generous of the her I said to my man.

Then the other day while I and hubby were eating at a fast food, we saw this can which has a printed picture of a kid wholooks very sick. My heart melts upon seeing the picture. I grab some money in my pocket and slide all of it in the tiny opening of the can and I said hope this helps then hubby whispered in a soft voice “it will surely do.”

Then I remember again what my cousin said before…There is no such thing as a wonder woman but a supehero do exist. In our own little way of helping others.

So may I help you…

Oh I can’t wait to watch the movie The Fantastic Four

Tribute to moms… the week topic at Wifespeaks. I have copied paste my entry there and wanted to have the same entry word for word. For a reason that each word comes from my heart. While I was typing this at WS, my heart was burning with love and affection which I sometime forgot to show to this wonderful lady that brought me to this world. My nanay.

Just read on…

I call her nanay. She’s in her early 60s right now. But I find her looking young. Maybe because she loves to smile, to laugh and to be happy at all times. She has few white strands of hair on her head, showing that it’s not easy to raise us three. My nanay, my ever dear nanay, the woman that taught me how to live life and makes the most of it. The only person who was there when I was hurting as a teenager. The person that I first told that I’m not a kid anymore, the one who taught me how to act like a lady though she knows Im more of the boyish side during those times.

I admire her beautiful eyes and her winsome smile. No wonder my father left her girlfriend before just to be with my mother. And oh, father said that It’s her cooking that hits him. I could hardly agree to that too. Nanay is a great cook indeed. She taught me how to move in the kitchen. Basically, she’s my one great mentor in cooking.

When I was single, I am hard headed sometimes but she never gets tired of advising me how to handle life. I may be mean and wild but her patience was her instrument to tame me. The pessimistic that I was before, was transfigured to a well-minded being. And I thank my nanay for doing all those great things to me.

Now that Im married, she’s not only a mother but also an amiga. Were like two equally aged people discussing married life, our husband and my wants of having a big family. of course her motherly advice would always be there. Im in my 2nd year of successful marriage, I ought a part of it to my mother.

Lastly, to my mom who’s always been there, I love you and I’m thankful of having you as a nanay. I don’t know what will I be without you.

Happy Mother’s Day po.

Have you ever tried working so so late and the next morning during work, suddenly you feel sleepy or in a meeting, your boss is discussing something while your eyes are bit by bit shutting. Well, I was like that this morning. I tried sipping brewed coffee but still my self wont cooperate with the idea of staying awake. An officemate gave an energy drink but it didn’t help me…I was still sleepy, man…

I was sluggish. I can’t work. My goodness…If not of that very rushed work, I wont be in this sleepy situation. Good thing, my friend L called me and somehow diverts my attention in our conversation.

Lesson learned here…Eight hours of sleep is still needed by an adult, tee-hee.

Have you ever tried working so so late and the next morning during work, suddenly you feel sleepy or in a meeting, your boss is discussing something while your eyes are bit by bit shutting. Well, I was like that this morning. I tried sipping brewed coffee but still my self wont cooperate with the idea of staying awake. An officemate gave an energy drink but it didn’t help me…I was still sleepy, man…

I was sluggish. I can’t work. My goodness…If not of that very rushed work, I wont be in this sleepy situation. Good thing, my friend L called me and somehow diverts my attention in our conversation.

Lesson learned here…Eight hours of sleep is still needed by an adult, tee-hee.

My week long vacation officially started today. Supposedly, my vacation leave should start yesterday but since there are some few more loads to finish, I reschedule my leave to 22,23 & 28. So I’ll be coming back to work on Tuesday. A week long vacation here at home, no boss to call you, no meeting to attend, no paperwork to do and NO NO Overtime for a week. This is life.

By the way, let me share you guys what’s been seating in my fridge. I have a pack of Oreo, a box of Cream-O and 2 bars of toblerone. All chocolates. As I’ve said before Im not really into sweets especially chocolates. I love Oreo but I consume a pack of it for a week or two. The Cream-O chocolate-coated cookies are husby favorite, so I bought it last Saturday at the grocery. My Officemate C gave the 2 bars of Toblerone yesterday. Thanks C. It’s good thing that my 8-year-old niece is here, I gave the other bar of toblerone. So the big bar is still in my fridge and kind of thinking to share the half of it with my sister. Oh well, that is if she’s not dieting.

Anybody here who want a bite of chocolates, here have mine…

Finally…
Now I have the time to blog. Its been a week or two that I haven’t been here. So, what’s been happening to me lately aside from a busy work week and sleepy weekends nothing really much had happen. Uh oh, I skipped work the other day. My body is so so exhausted and my I felt that my brain is malfunctioning and I do believed that I wont be that effective at work that day so I decided to have a leave, a sick leave to be precise. So today, I filed that sick leave wrote down the reason why I was away from work , hmmm…What will I write as a reason, aha…The ever famous reason, migraine, he he he. Bad me, blaming migraine for my absence and tolerating my laziness. Oh well, atleast I got to use 1 out of my 13 sick leaves.

Speaking of leaves, I’ll be on a vacation leave on the 21st of this month and be coming back at work the next week after holy week. So it’s a week long of bonding with husby. Im really excited and cant wait for it. Since husby has this 2am-10pm work schedule at Laguna,meaning he’ll be home at quezon city at around 11:30-12 midnight. To late isn’t, however, we still have time to talk and ask how the day was for us. I miss the time when we go home together, eat dinner outside or just do window shopping after work. The only good thing with this 2-10pm schedule was, I need not to wake up at 3:30am anymore to prepare his breakfast.This schedule will only last for a month, so by April, he will have another shift which is 8pm-5am….yaiks!!!!

Anyway, as I was saying, I’ll be on leave on the 3rd week of March. Nah, I and husby will not going anywhere, We’ll just be staying home, read a book. I borrowed Dan Browns Da Vinci Code from an officemate, or I might try those pending recipe that I gathered from friends, ofcouse its a no meat recipe timely for the Lenten season. We have a DVD of The Passion of Christ. I have watched that already but husby hasn’t so Its in our viewing list this Holy Week.

Lastly, Mia and the rest of my ym chatmates decided to create a blog, all about life and love, and the everyday joys and challenges experienced by married women. So check this out