Rewind

God has it been 3 months?? How do i recover this blog from all that? I don't even know if anybody reads me anymore. Lol. But as a writer, i will write anyway. Wherever my insanely full-of-thoughts brain cells and keyboard-tapping fingers take me...

Since the last time i wrote here....

.....i already thought of setting up a business or changing careers once, twice, twenty times over...and ended up taking up an insurance licensure exam, out of curiosity and desperation to find my place in the "scorching" 2009 sun. I have reviewed, passed the exam last dec and as i speak, have not actively done anything to pursue that (for now).

..... i decided to ease myself out from our casting business, and to focus just on myself and Nina.

.....christmas had been fun and now gone. Nina got the bike of her dreams (although it was pink, she loved it all the same) from moi.

.....christmas shopped on a shoe string budget. well okay okay, i spent more than i expected AGAIN. but hey i just can't resist christmas. and i loooove the holiday rush.

.... i have successfully participated in a very fulfilling christmas outreach endeavor with college bedan peers and friends last december. I have had sleepless nights pouring over iMovie video creations for it, but it was all worth it. 500 families and 200 kids served. Check!

.... i was voted president for this coming year's outreach. great honor indeed.

.... reported for 2 ad agencies for temp work. and no solid full-time offer as of today.

.... had my car fixed twice and had car wash, maybe thrice? yep, i can be THAT lazy, or should i say busy mommy? or whatever!

.... i have had the odd moments of cooking a few "new" recipes in my humble little kitchen. my next target: julia child's, beef bourguignon :) inspired by the movie.

.... i have finished writing projects here and there. collected checks small and slightly big. awaiting, the "enormous" one that has eluded me, last year. LOL. but hope floats!! so i'm holding on tight for a project OR job to whisk me away from my uncertain future.

..... i have cried myself to sleep several times, especially on those days when nothing was just happening.

..... i experienced having to pray so deeply, maybe God thought I was vying for an oscar-nomination for best drama queen. hahaha.

..... i realized the material things were just "superficial" manifestations of what life is all about, but never THE goal of life itself. It's sad how oftentimes, people measure each other by things they have rather than the things they "positively" made each other feel. I choose the latter.

..... i have gone through the replays of my life, my loves and my losses, and bottomline, it doesn't help to do those needless flashbacks. As Suzie Orman said yesterday, "Look at what you HAVE and not at what you HAD". Good job suzie! :) So I'm never looking back. EVER. okay maybe I'll slack off, a minute or two then i'll snap out of it.

..... i realized how Nina loves my company so much, her face lights up every time she comes in from school to see me in the same "computer" spot in our living room, for days.

..... i have rediscovered an online chat friendship that has lasted for more than 5 years now. And amazingly, we're still going strong.

..... i have started growing plants indoors, straight from mama rose's garden. For a fengshui kind of effect. So far this year, I'm doing relatively better. I'm sure it's not just the plants right?

..... mama rose has celebrated her 90th bday last Jan. 16. With video tribute and t-shirt design from me! :) i was crying a hundred times, all throughout the edit, as usual.

..... has swam just twice. walked a lot the past 2 weeks to makati, for an 8-day temp job. that was just about it for my exercise regimen for 3 months!

Whew, it was a roller coaster ride wasn't it?

February has just started. Hopefully i get to write something "valentine-worthy" soon? Let's see. Now if only I can urge my butt off my couch today. LOL.

Happy Friday!