LATE POST ( ABOUT FATHER's DAY)

Kyra looking at the box while her Dad was opening it
My bana thanking Kyra for the present
Their bonding time, Kyra is such a playful dog
Wow! a coffee Mug with their pic printed on it



I haven't got a chance to post this entry of mine about father's day not until today. Though my bana and I, don't have kids of our own yet, but we have a dog that we treat her like a child. We pamper her with all our love and affection that makes her like a spoil child. Last father's day Kyra had something for her Dad. Early in the morning when my bana woke up I handed him a sealed box, telling him it was a present from Kyra for father's day. My bana was really surprised and happy of course, he laughed and thanking our Kyra for the gift. My bana really appreciate the way I thought about it making him happy on father's day. Others believe that having children on their marriage is the key to tie the marriage stronger. To me I believe that though you don't have any children in your marriage, you can make your marriage stronger by giving love, cares and affection to each other. We do have plan to have a little Lerio or a little Keith someday, when God permits it. All I want for now is to enjoy my life with my husband first, I had been taking care of children for 13 years since I was 18, and I know how it looks like. The most important thing is we both happy in each other's company.

I am still very busy until now. For the last 3 days my bana and I were busy clearing up our family room and living room, unpacking boxes and putting things in the right place. Today I will start clearing the dining room and the office room. Our study room is still full of boxes, we really need to put them in the basement, and I am not sure if I can manage to clear them all by today. It wears me out carrying boxes going up and down on the stairs, since I am getting older really! We first planned to have a hut warming party on the 2nd week of this month, but my bana told me last night that it will be moved sometime later this month coz we really need to clear everything first. Our place now it looks like a trash area, boxes and plastic bags are all over the place. It's not easy at all to pack and unpack boxes, somehow we are both happy with our new hut.

I should close for now to start Rock and roll ( I mean working) I have lots of work to do, plus I am kind of upset right now after finding out that someone hacking my account, there were several unauthorized charges in my account. I just finished talking to one of the banker, I asked her to block my account temporarily. My bana was cheering me up, he said he would helped me fix things when he comes home. He can't do anything right now, because it's not his account. Hopefully everything will be fixed and I can get my money back.

STILL A LONG WAY TO GO

I got a chance to do a little update tonight before heading to our new hut to sleep. Tomorrow we woudn't have any internet connection. Moving is not fun at all, though we hired some guys to move our heavy stuff but still tiring for both of us with my bana. We started moving last Thursday, and still we have more stuff to move tomorrow. We really want to have a house warming soon, though the house that we bought it's not a brand new one. As a matter of fact we like having parties in our house. As of now we can't decide when will be the party, since our hut still in a big mess. We do hated the wall paper in the living room, we don't know if we want to do some work for it before having a HW party. It has a lot of work to be done moving from one house to another.
I can't really talk so much right now as we are leaving sooner. To all of my friends who left me messages on my tagboard ang giving me some comments in my post, I will visit you guys once I am done with my mission, sorry about that. I really thank you all for visiting me always, I am just terribly busy right now, that's the reason why I couldn't visit you back. GOOD NIGHT!

THANKS GOD WE FINALLY GOT IT!

A basket full of goodies given by our realtor

Today marks my 2 years in the U.S. and the same day we had the house closed at 4:00 P.M. it's kind of a memorable date for me. After for quite some time of waiting, and feeling very stressful, finally it paids off because we really got it. I can't thank God enough for granting our wish to buy a house this year. My bana thought that he couldn't own a house again after losing his second house from his divorced.
After signing a lot of documents, and the closing person Congratulated us both that we finally own the house, I was relieved. Our realtor then handed us a basket full of goodies as a gift, he is such a very nice guy. After everything done at the closing place, we then went to the house to pick up the keys and check it out a little bit. Tomorrow will be a huge work for us with my bana, luckily he managed to take some off from work, at least a week hopefully everything will be settled by then.
The house we bought is just an average size, that's all we can afford, we are both happy with my bana even though it's not a brand new house, at least we can call it ours. Again thanks God so much for everything!

OUR WEEKEND W/MY BANA

At FACC with Comrades
Outside Oak Express
Gikapoy mi ug nilibot, mao ng lingkod sa mi, sa among new cheap bed

Saturday we were so busy, last minute the management called telling us that there were 2 couples need to see the house, so we rushed to clean everything. An hour before noon we went to Albertson's to do some grocery shopping while taking Kyra with us, since we couldn't leave her in the house while there were other people around. Around 12:30 we came home and put the groceries away, then drove to Lakewood where the event was held. We didn't really stay there longer since we need to look for furnitures. So after I met my Kumadrenas and took a picture with them, we then headed to Furniture Row and ended up at Oak Express where we decided to buy a new bed. It took us a long time to decide w/c bed we gonna buy, after so many times of trying by laying on it, finally we decided to get one. By the time we left from the said shop, it was raining very heavily, but the moment we got at Furr's the rain stopped. After eating our dinner we stopped at Target to look for some bed sheets for our queen size bed. After we grabbed the things we need, we headed straight home, we were kind of worry about Kyra because she was alone in our bedroom and she is really afraid of thunder.
Sunday, that was yesterday, we just stayed home in the morning, and went to Costco at around 2:00 p.m. We got a visitor's pass, we just want to check if it's really worth it to get a membership. I was looking for a big wok, but I couldn't find one. We didn't really decided yesterday to pay the membership. We noticed that it is still cheap to shop at King Soopers or Albertson's, some items at Costco are quite expensive compare to the 2 stores I mentioned above.
That's the way we spent our weekend with my bana, and today I have loads of packaging to do, because we have quite many of Auctions that ended last night. Thanks God for all the good sales, we really need it to survive.

ALWAYS BUSY

I will be definitely busy for the entire month and mid next month. Few weeks ago we got our 2 cases stock and I just finished scanning them yesterday. I have thought that I can relax and do some other things today. But late evening yesterday we got our 3 cases of new items, and I have to start scanning them, and sorting some sets because we have customers waiting for those items to be sent.
I haven't done much yesterday because Babe and I went to the Estate Sale, the house owner run an ES for all of his things. Supposedly today is the beginning of the said sale, but since we are going to be the owner (hopefully) so they gave us the previleged first to buy the items that we want. My bana is happy that he was be able to buy the swing, dart board, pool and a ping pong table. For all these 4 items he only paid over 600 dollars. A brand new pool table it will cost at least almost a thousand, so we really save a lot for buying a used one. They are all in a good shape, and just for refreshment at home, I think the price is reasonable. Am glad that my bana bought the freezer too. I have longed to buy a freezer, but since we didn't own this house that we are living now, it doesn't make sense at all. Again buying a new freezer it can be very expensive too, the freezer that my bana bought from the owner, it only cost us a hundred bucks, and it is huge. I am so excited to store all my fish in there, it can hold a lot of food.

Lastly am still praying and hoping that everything will go smoothly about the house. So far there's no interesting news yet. Question arise from both of us with my bana.....Where we gonna live after the 30th of this month? The answer is still unknown!

That's all I can share for today, I need to go back to work as I still have a lot of work undone.

THANKS AMY FOR THE AWARDS

These 2 blogger awards was given to me by Amy in Florida. Thanks Amy for including me into your list to receive these awards I do appreciate for counting on me as a friend of yours thru blogging. My apology that I can't follow the exact rules to pass these awards to 15 people. Sorry for breaking the rules, I want to make my own rule, heheheh! Stubborn me! My life is too busy, following all the rules it takes up my time a lot to type and think, good excuse I guess, (that's the truth anyway) I have more and more works to do everyday, needs to work hard to survive the so called life!
I want to pass these awards to 2 people, first to Anne who I have known from CB and become my friend online before I flew here to the US. The 2nd one is Zima who is the 2nd person I have talked on the phone and the 2nd person I have met after 5 months since I got here in CO.

DELIA's BB SHOWER

Am still very bz that's why I didn't have time to upload the pictures sooner, that were taken last Saturday during Delia's BB shower party w/c was held at Browning's residence. We did have lots of fun, singing, dancing, playing games and doing our make up session. The Mom to be was enjoying opening gifts for her coming bb girl name Catherine Jane, not really sure with the spelling. Lizel and me volunteered as an assistant for the Mom to be during the gifts opening time. The 2 of us with Lizel have more pictures, that was our strategy hehehehh! All the food they served were yummy, as usual a filipino food and there were few american dishes. I want to thank Mechel for hosting the party, and for the Mom to be as well who was helping Mechel to cook. Thanks to everybody who made it to be there last Saturday, and to those who sent their gifts but didn't make it to join with us. Thanks for all the support!

A PACKAGE FROM MY FAMILY

Ang akong pag umangkon nga walay libog, liwat nako heheheh! Matud pa niya, bisan unsa gud ang ipasul-ot sa tulo ka hari ok ra daw niya.

Kasab-itan ang simud sa kaldero kay gisapot daw siya kay wa ganahi sa iyahang attire. Pero way mahimo kay sugo sa tulo ka hari sa among panimalay. Mga lalaki na wa musunod sa uso. Matud pa niya sobra kaayo sila mo control Tita, ako na lang gitubag, kaagi ko anang mga butanga, so kamo na sad karon.

I was so happy yesterday coz I finally got the package that I have been waiting for. I didn't open it not until my bana came home. I showed it to him with my biggest smile while telling him, this " Babe I already got my stinky stuff that my family sent for me. He was laughing and telling me that, his sweet wifey was in heaven because she got her dried fish, hahhaaha!!! I opened the package in the kitchen, and saw all these 2 kinds of dried fish. My family sent me a bunch of squid dried fish and danggit. Hmmmp I love danggit dried fish, I couldn't resist, so I tried them for dinner, with my beef soup and fried fish, I had a very delicious dinner last night. My bana was telling me to send a balikbayan box to my family, he knows that I don't really like to send a package to them. I rather send a cash, coz it's easy, it saves me so much time esp. with my busy life. But my bana insisted he told me that there's always a difference between sending a package and a cash. After I put all my stinky stuff and the landang in the fridge, I was searching the pictures of my 2 nieces in the package. I had difficulty finding them because they tape them at bottom of the box to avoid from being stink. I am so happy looking at them, they are both skinny the same as me. Both of them fooled me by telling me before that they got 10 ribbons each, when I talked to them last night, they both said that, 6+4=10 Tita. Actually they added the ribbons all together. My eldest niece got 6 and my 2nd niece got 4 ribbons. I am quite sad when there's no picture for my nephew, my brother told me it was ruined so they didn't enclose it. Somehow my nephew also got 1 ribbon. What I notice about them were the way they dressed up, I was asking them both why they wore that kind of clothes to their school ceremony? According to them their Lolo, their uncle (my first brod) and their father don't want them to dress up like a prosti. These 3 guys never changed, I remembered during my teenage time, I couldn't go outside the house once I am not wearing jeans or long dresses or long skirts. Back in 2005 when I took my vacation, I was going out to the internet cafe to IM my bana w/c was my fiance at that time. I was ready to go out with my 2 nieces when my first brother spotted my sexy top and my mini skirt. He was asking me to go back inside the house and changed my attire. I told him that how am gonna hunt a foreigner if I don't dress up sexy? He gave me a frowned and was telling me that if the guy would really like me, no matter what kind of clothes I wear, he would still like me, he is absolutely right! I was telling him so many excuses coz I didn't want to change my outfit, until he concluded to accompany me to the internet cafe. I am happy to know that they discipline my 2 nieces the way they did to me before, because girls need caution. Seeing my nieces pictures, wanted me to go home to the Philippines, I missed them real bad.

A BUSY LIFE

What a busy life I have now a days, it's not easy to move from one place to another. Aside from being busy working with our little hanap buhay at home, I am very busy cleaning the entire house as well, hoping that we can get the security deposit back that my bana deposited 3 years ago for this house we are living now. My bana doesn't expect to get that amount back, but I am still hoping because that amount would really enough to buy the 2 items I want when we move to our new hut. Unluckily the closing date was moved up for another week, we didn't really want to give a one month notice to the management, but our realtor was telling us to do so, otherwise we gonna pay the one month rent for nothing. Babe and I are feeling like we are in the cross roads, he doesn't like to gamble like this, he really worried where we gonna stay if ever there's another problem arise with the hut we are buying. Again only God knows I do hope everything will go smooth. I understand that sometimes there are some hindrances to something that you really want to achieve in life. Since we have only a month left to stay in this place we are staying now, we might stay in a hotel for a while if ever there's another obstacle that comes along the way. I had been cleaning the entire house yesterday, so today I have to do packaging and scanning, my bana reminded me to get some rest this afternoon, since I had been working real hard yesterday. This morning I was browsing shops online and bought some different items, I was kind of addicted to shop online now a days. I keep wanting to take a nap, but I got bored just laying in bed, so I decided to get up and work on our hanap buhay. I am really thankful from above that we have good sales starting from last Friday, I was telling my bana that our online business income is catching up with his monthly salary, he laughed. I couldn't hardly believe that we had $70,000 sales last year, we've found out after we did our inventory. I am really glad that we have this kind of little business that I can work for, besides that it helps us a lot, I do enjoy working on it.
I better go now, I have some items to package and some items to scan, but before I start my work, I have to take the fish out in the fridge first to defrost them for me to fry for dinner. I will have fried fish with beef soup tonight. Maybe I wil make some corned beef sandwich and a salad for my bana. BABOOOOOO!