H-O-T in San Diego

Yes, It's Hot over here! It started to heat up a few days ago, Those sweaty sleepless nights are just plain ridiculous! It's like being back in Hawaii, goodness... We take 2 to 3 baths just to feel cool and comfortable.(sigh) I can't wait for Winter, I really don't mind being in 3 layers at all. Anyways, The little boy celebrated his 7th birthday today. We ordered a small spongebob cake for him from Goldilocks. He loves his cake very much, although Spongebob's friend Patrick wasn't on the cake, he was a bit disappointed with that, He asked us the night before if we bought the cake from Walmart, and when he found out that we got it from a different place he was kinda sad. But we reminded him that he was supposed to be thankful because at least he got a cake! Compared to majority of unfortunate kids around the world who can't even afford to have cakes on their birthdays. He finally realized it and was happy again. Kids, I tell ya.

Happy birthday, Gully!

I had conversations with my co-worker about loved ones dying a few months ago. She had experienced a lot on her part and It was mainly about cancer. She got all choked up when I also told her about my brother who died from cancer last August 2008. It was such an emotional moment when we were talking about our loved ones who left us. I am pretty much open now to talk about loved ones who passed away, I give emotional support to people who need them. I've trained myself to accept the fact that my brother is gone. He is not coming back anymore, that's what I told myself. I loved my brother so much, I had lost a best buddy in my life. But I prayed to God every day to guide me and accept the truth. As hard as it is, I had learned to accept it. Yeah, Once in awhile I still cry, but that's normal. I know wherever he is right now he is looking down on us and smiling. I know he is guiding us with the help of our Lord, that's why I'm thankful. He's our angel and we will never ever forget him.

Today he turns 24. Happy birthday, Gulliver! :)

Before I get some sleep I need to head on over a website that pays attention to Mesothelioma. So if you are interested on reading about this certain cancer, I suggest you do so it just might help somebody in the near future.

who is this??

This is pretty cool. Some of you probably know this already, for those who don't stare at it for about a few minutes, maybe a minute will do - and tell me who you see!

Universal studios trip Cancelled + a visit to my mom

We were supposed to go to Universal Studios today but something came up so we decided to cancel it. Instead, We are going to visit my mom today. Which we did of course. I love going to Universal Studios, So far I have been there twice now, first time was back in 2004. Since we bought the ticket around Dec. 2009 we get the whole 2010 free. Hubby is not much of a fan of Universal, he loves Disneyland better. :) I enjoy every part of Universal Studios. My favorites are the simpsons ride, the special effects, the tour around the studios riding the tram... Too bad King Kong wasn't open, but we decided to come back by Summer where he'll be back for sure!!!

I had a great time today. It's so worth it after all the stress at work I've been through, I needed a happy day.

DISNEYLAND!!!

Well, Since It's spring break we are taking the kids to Disneyland again tomorrow! we are so excited! We never get bored with it, seriously. The annual passes are worth it. Anytime we can go back and forth when ever we like. Hubby likes Disneyland better than Universal, so we have a whole day dedicated to the happiest place on earth! :D

FINALLY!

CREDITS: paper, ribbons, and flowers by fanette design white flower, tie, leaves by Bellisa designs (alpha_hugo tiny garden of love) Alpha, thankful word and photo border by foxydesigns (thankful mini kit)

SO, we finally got to meet, after 9 years! I am so happy! We weren't complete because the others couldn't make it. They were my high school buds way back freshmen year. :) We met up at National City, close to Sea food city supermarket. We ate breakfast at Goldilocks, we all ordered Tapsilog. Jazel, on my right brought along her BF. While Donna on my other side was 6 months pregnant. I envy them, because they are wearing sundresses! I can't wait to get back to my old weight which is 130. I want to be as girly as I can hehehe. We chit-chatted for about 2 hours and we all parted ways. After 2 days, we found out that Jazel just got engaged! We saw her post her engagement ring on facebook, so lovely! We were so happy for her, they look alike, too. :) No wonder when we asked them if wedding bells are coming soon, The BF couldn't say anything. So funny! Anyhoo, It was fun... I hope to see them again soon.

working out

As you all know I've been working out at the gym since October 1st, and I have lost a total of 25 lbs! You can't really see any difference when you see my pictures because I'm still not below 200 lbs. yes, you got that right - I am that heavy! I'm pretty upset at myself for gaining all that weight. Pretty stupid of me. :( at 5'6 you can't really tell.



I forgot to tell you that hubby has also enrolled himself at 24 hour fitness, woot! Since he has lost about 40 lbs he still needs to lose about 30 more before meeting the Army recruiter. I just hope we can do this, we go to the gym almost everyday. I've never seen my husband so dedicated in losing weight. We're both motivated if we both workout at the same time, It's pretty awesome. I already left LA fitness and transferred to 24 hour fitness, They have a pretty good deal if you ask me, plus their place is just walking distance from our home. So yeah, If I leave the 200 spot you'll notice a bigger difference. Right now, I feel lighter, my pants are getting looser, my rings fit me well (no more resizing) and My skin as well as my whole body feels healthier than before. I'm giving myself about a year to reach my goal. SO wish us luck!

a scrappy moment

It has been awhile since I posted some of my scrap works here. I have been updating my facebook photo albums since my flickr account pro has already been expired. I have no intentions of renewing it, It's a waste of money (although, some of you will disagree with me) I understand if you have an SLR camera then you can showcase beautiful pictures to the world. I don't have any those. I also felt guilty for not updating my flickr for a pretty long time. Now, It's goodbye flickr pro. tsk.

Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas)

Before Christmas day ends I would like to make a toast to all my dear friends for putting up with me these past years, I am thankful for a lot of things and that Includes meeting new people, bonding more with my family and continuing the Love and friendship that is all around us. I'd like to express my feelings but I'd rather save it for the last post of the year before we enter 2010. We had a great day yesterday, Attended the 7 pm mass and went on our way to the Christmas party. We had loads of fun and went home around 2 am. As sleepy as we all were, we managed to opened all our gifts and took family pictures at the end of the night. It was indeed a great Christmas. I was a bit sad when I was in church, though - I miss my brother Gully so much, if only he were here with us celebrating Christmas... I am thankful we got to spend his first Christmas with us back in 2007. I wanted to break down and cry but instead I prayed very hard because I know wherever he is right now he is a happy contented person. He's the reason why our lives changed and I think he might have talked to God about that. And speaking of lives changing - We visited my mom this morning and we were all happy, but that's another story so let's save it for another day. :) I hope you guys had a great time celebrating Christmas with your families as well.

Merry Christmas and to all a goodnight!

deck the halls

After visiting Disneyland last Oct. 31st, 2009 - we are about to go there again tomorrow! We all purchased the Deluxe pass and It was sooo worth it! We're just going to pay $60+ for the 3 of us every month for about a year, how great is that? I'm off tomorrow and We'll be leaving by 5 Am, we'll be spending another great day at the happiest place on earth. :D For sure we'll be back there again in a few months. Hopefully we can go to Orlando some other time. We're also planning on a trip to LA sometime soon, As well as San Francisco, too. :) If you haven't seen the Disneyland photos yet, come on over to facebook!

Our home is all decked out for christmas, how about you? my SIL and I decorated the tree with the theme of black and Gold, in honor of the Steelers ;). I haven't finished my christmas cards yet, boy - I am soooo behind as always.





You can't really appreciate the tree because of the flash, I'll post a christmas pic of us the next time. Anyhoo, I gotta head on to dreamland before the hubby wakes up and finds out I'm still online (LOL).

Hope you guys have a wonderful christmas and a happy joyous new year!!! :)

Christmas wishlist 2009

Well, well, well... we've come across again for another yearly wishlist talk. As you all know I have my wishlist and I know, I know... I won't be getting all these in just one time. So to satisfy the shoppaholic in me I only have a few in mind and here they are:

The top of the list is a digital SLR camera. It could be a Nikon or Canon rebel. :)



second, A Sony - Reader Touch Edition Digital Book. So I can have all my ebooks with me and I can read anywhere at anytime. sweet. :)



Third, a Cricut machine! but I promised myself I will only get this when we have our own home someday. I'll be so happy with this, It will be the ultimate scrapping machine ever. :)



and oh yeah, an iPhone (again). hubby promised he'll get me another one after a failed one we purchased last year, that thing went berserk on me! But I'm going to miss my blackberry curve though, hubby will be adopting my blackberry when he gets me this. :)



Last November 29, my husband and my sister-in-law as well as the kids arrived from a tiring trip back from Las Vegas. And guess what he got me???



Well, what do you know? He got me a Coach bag instead! Not on my wish list after all. I was sooo happy, because as you guys know I'm not a brand conscious lady and I'm happy with hubby spoiling me with gadgets instead of designer stuff. I was expecting he'd get me the Sony eReader but It's ok, I'm happy with this baby. My advanced Christmas gift. :D plus he told me he wasn't really approving for the Sony reader because of a bad review he got from a best buy associate. bummer! but that's ok, he will get me that eReader someday. What he wants to get me is a digital SLR (no kidding!), but that would wait until next year, besides, May is just around the corner (wink, wink).

Aloha, Hawaii!

This was taken on my potluck (Sept. 15, 2009) Hello Kitty cupcakes courtesy of Shawn and Jan, my lil best friends at work. Thank you, my Pearl Harbor commissary family! Until we meet again! mahalo nui loa!

I'm too tired to update my blog with pics as well as my flickr. In just a few hours our internet will be gone so I'll be on hiatus for about a month, we leave the island around Sept. 29th. I'll be focusing more on losing weight once I get to the mainland, so bid me goodluck and hoping I could lose A LOT. Thank you, friends! It was a great ride and I will miss all of you...

Happiest place on earth

Yay! we'll be seeing the whole gang by October! me and the fam are soooo excited. It's been 5 years since we've visited Disneyland as well as Universal and Sea world. As I was throwing out some stuff from the storage boxes I found these maps and some Disney napkins, too. goodness, I really miss Disneyland. :) My little one is quite happy, too always asking us 'Are we going to the mainland now?'. (LOL) Sooo cute! When he was 2 years old my sister-in-law and her whole family brought Nate to Disneyland Tokyo, soooo I'm not sure if he remembers it at all unlike now, we're complete and he's 6 plus he passes some of the height limit for certain rides, too.

watermelons + other stuff

Sack and Save had a great deal on their watermelons! 19 cents a lb! regular price is 59 cents a lb. see the difference? We don't really buy watermelons here because it's sooo darn expensive. I'm not sure how much a lb is it in the mainland? I bought one seedless and one regular. This was around the 4th of July, we miss eating watermelon! In other news, I finally got to update my This and that blog and my Shopping blog and I'm not even done yet especially with the links, if you're interested please leave a tag and I will link you as soon as possible when I have the time. I miss blogging so much, as well as my beloved online sisters... I'm spending a lot of time on flickr, facebook and twitter and I wasn't aware taht I've been neglecting my dear poor blogs! how awful of me... but I promise, I'll stick to it. :) thank you and God bless!

a scent with bite

Okay, it's been a month or so after I've read the whole Twilight saga and I am proud to say that my obsessiveness towards it had gone down (thank God), it's really funny how you can call it the twilight fever :P so anyways, I came across a twilight inspired perfume at ET online. It looks lovely :) but I wonder if it smells nice though?



anyhoo, back to the movie and the book. I was searching for blogs who hated Twilight and I came across a lot, of course. They listed a lot of flaws that was in the movie and in the book (not surprised) there will always be flaws no matter what. and there will always be haters no matter what. I wanted to get rid of my obsessiveness to the book as well as the movie (I'll still buy the dvd though) I tried finding negative comments about it and it actually worked a lil bit, When I bought the DVD of Shia Labeouf's Eagle Eye my mind completely forgot Twilight for a few days. I'm proud to say I'm done with it. although I know when the next movie comes out I'll be sure as heck to be over ga-ga with it. depends though on how they make it. I'm a kid at heart and I love cheesy romantic movies, so sue me! I just like the feeling of falling in love, you know...

before I hit the sack I'd like to extend my greetings and my heartwarming thank you's to all the friends who never gets tired of reading my posts, you may not leave a tag or comment but base on mybloglog, I will know the people who dropped by for sure. I know inspite of my lack of presence in this blog world, I know my friends are still there. I'm kinda getting tired of blogging, too. sad, I know. I am thinking of quitting... but with the little extra bread coming in, I can't really give up now.

I guess I'm just tired. exhausted. burned. I am soooo out of shape, I need exercise. I need to get away from the net as much as possible, focus on myself for once. but before I do that - I need to revamp the site first, so I promise myself on my days off I need to focus on fixing some things around the site like delete broken links, give it a facial lift, the list goes on. organize my scrap gallery as well, I want to make a photobook that contains all my scrap LO's. It's now 1:12 am here and I need to get some sleep coz I have to get up at 7:30 am for work. goodnight to all!

UPDATED BLOGS:

1. bling bling

a belated merry christmas

How was everyone's christmas? I hope you guys had a good one. as for us, well you can say we had a lonely one since the little one isn't here as well as the in-laws. Can you believe I didn't cook anything for our Noche buena? I didn't even get to open my presents, I only opened it this afternoon when hubby came home from work. It was mostly food and kitchen utensils (lol) It was all good. hubby bought me a 10 MP fujifilm finepix z20.



I was supposed to get another sony cybershot since we gave my 6MP one to my MIL. but I am so lovin' this camera right here. it isn't bad at all, I tell ya! What I love most about it is it's mpeg video, It's amazingly clear! compared to my cybershot this one take's the cake. I can't really share the video that I took on christmas eve at work. since my card reader isn't working, I'll probably share it some other time. anyhoo, hubby was also supposed to buy me DSLR! but he told me I can only choose one, soooo I chose the compact point and shoot since it's very important to me. The DSLR can always come later, besides it's not practical to buy that yet. I'd rather spend it with other things, I had to weigh in my options to see if I really needed it or not =/.

Thank you so much to Lhyz who gave this cute lil hello kitty gift! mahalo nui loa, Lhyz! It's perfect for putting all my beaded jewelry! love it!



and of course, I finally got my twitter exchange gift from my twitter mommy Dianeskie, maraming salamat, princess Di! I'm always wearing them, I swear! love na love ko sila talaga... I can't retrieve the pics just yet on my camera since my reader isn't working. and of course my baby caryl finally received hers as well, thank goodness! I'm glad she loved it!

UPDATED: In other news, last night around 7pm, the whole Oahu island had a power outage, due to lightning and rain I wasn't sure. I was currently shopping at Ross at the time. I was in the fitting room when I noticed the lights kept on flickering. As soon as I got to the checkout line the registers went down and I was so glad to get in line before the line became long. As I headed to Pearlridge mall (the building was just behind Ross) The whole mall just blacked out! of course a lot of screaming and yelling here and there mainly caused by silly teenagers! I quickly walked my way up to Sears since I had to take one floor down coz I parked in front of Sears, the place was just pure darkness, it was sooooo spooky! it also rained hard, I was shopping by myself since hubby was all alone sleeping at home. there was heavy traffic due to people getting out of the malls and heading back home. You can only see car lights, there was no power everywhere --- not even traffic lights! I spent my time using up the power of my laptop and just twittering on my phone. I slept around 1am and can you believe the power came on around 9:45 in the morning? this was way worse than the last time, The last power outage was around 2006 when an earthquake shook the whole hawaiian islands! ok, I'll be blogging again sometime soon, I need to finish my online tasks. It's about 1am here Hawaii time, I need to get some sleep now. have a blessed holidays to all! oh before I forget, I've sent the christmas cards FINALLY! for those who haven't received anything, you'll be getting something from me in the mail... wait lang kayo! iisa isahin ko kayo eh hehehee...

UPDATED BLOGS:
1. Eagle eye
2. clothes shopping

Ruby Tuesday #1

goodness, me... call me crazy but I just had to put up the tree earlier this year. ;) I added more mini stockings, I don't buy those huge stockings coz first of all we don't have our own fireplace to hang it from. =) I usually put up the tree around after thanksgiving but since the lil one bugged me to put it up, ta-da! I haven't displayed the smaller ornaments, I got too tired that night. I couldn't forget one morning when I woke up my son and told him to check out something in the living room he was like "whooooahhh!" and got all giggly asking santa for extra gifts for his wishlist, oh my.... happy ruby Tuesday, everyone!