My dad flew back to Alaska yesterday. Dropped him off at the airport but before I did, I purposely turned on the car, turned on the a/c and literally just sat there cooling myself off. It.felt.good! We don’t have a/c in our home simply because we don’t really need it, what with the bay practically right behind us. But with the current weather now, the bay does jack for us! If there is a breeze, it’s a crazy hot breeze. Ugh, it’s disgusting, period (and sleeping last night? O-V-E-N). Anyways, as I was sitting there in the car, I noticed the home right across from my mom’s home which is completely identical to hers. They installed the exterior shutters I’ve been harassing my mom to get for her own home! I’m so jealous! I can’t tell you how long I’ve been harassing my mom to get herself some exterior shutters (months now!). It goes in one ear and out the other. I’ve also been telling her we need to re-paint her home with a nice neutral beige color with white trim and then install navy or black exterior shutters. It’d look so fabulous! I hope the neighbors don’t steal my idea, LOL.

Liv and Van did it so the curious me went ahead and got mine as well:

Your Slogan Should Be

Jen. Not for Everyone.

The Slogan Generator

Ha! Iloveit! But wait there’s more:

Your Slogan Should Be

Once You Go Jen. You’ll Never Go Back.

The Slogan Generator

Bwaahahhahaha! Gad this was cool.

Spoke to MIL last night. Told her we’re heading to Manila in August (I was getting so annoyed though because they live all the way in Tanay, Rizal and her cell phone doesn’t always get the best reception up in them mountains — I wonder if a cell phone repeater would work there?) and she is happy happy joy joy. It won’t be a long vacation — less than 2 weeks (or possibly more, depending if I can convince the loving husband that we stay a few days longer). Haven’t bought our tickets yet but that’ll be done hopefully before the weekend. I might have mentioned in an earlier entry that Erynne was asked to be a flower girl for an August wedding in Manila. My parents were also asked to be principal sponsors but unfortunately, they won’t be able to make it. I felt bad if we were to flake out as well so just recently, I went ahead and committed Erynne as a flower girl (better late than never!). In all honesty, I’m really touched because Erynne isn’t at all related to the bride or groom (it’s the groom that’s our friend) and yet, she was supposedly going to be only flower girl. Now I know for a fact the groom has nieces that could have easily been the flower girl but instead, they asked Erynne first. Aww, I so feel the love hehe. However, as it stands now, there will two flower girls because we didn’t commit soon enough and they were afraid they’d be without a flower girl. I don’t mind this as I’m hoping, because there are now two of them, Erynne won’t need mommy’s hand while walking down the aisle - the last thing I need is video cameras capturing me in all my jiggly glory on that church aisle.

And speaking of weddings, we’ll finally be able to pick up our wedding video and hopefully, we’ll get to take home our wedding album at last! Uh, assuming I pick out the pictures we want ASAP so that our photographer can get the process going hahaha. Haaaay, procrastinator for life, I am.

102 degrees.  Yesterday was already hot for me so imagine what today feels like.  I went to the gym to work out yesterday afternoon just because I knew the gym was airconditioned.  I want to go right now but the little one hasn’t woken up from her nap.  What is up with this weather?   I’d hate to be the post man today (and yesterday!).

Weather like this, I don’t have much of an appetite to eat.  And I never blogged about it but we actually don’t have a properly working refrigerator.  It’s been like this ever since we got back from our trip.  Something about a fan not circulating the cold air.  Even our water and ice dispenser is shot.  Just when I need it the most!  The frig part works only if we use the bottom shelves where it is cold enough to keep fruits, milk and some food but the freezer?  Freezes nothing.  So not only are we wasting electricity, I can’t even have cold @ss water on a hot day like today.  Lovely.  Can’t wait for the repair people to come this week.  And just for the record, I so don’t recommend Sears for any appliances.  They have the worst customer service in the entire universe.  Freaking dumbos, I swear.

If you’re on my side of the map, stay cool!

I’m a bit all over the place so don’t be shocked that I’m really late in wishing all you mommies a belated Mother’s Day. I just can’t seem to get my act together. That whole cruise vacation just put me back so much, I can’t seem to bounce back. And I’ve yet to continue that cruise entry….

Mother’s Day this year was uneventful and I absolutely loved it. We started off with an early food fest on Saturday night where I must have eaten at least 3 pounds of food. We went to the local Hokkaido buffet in Foster City and boy, were we in for a surprise. Just when we thought we were going to get a head start and avoid the big lines and crowds for the next day’s Mother’s Day, ha! We walk in just 45 minutes after they’d opened the dinner buffet and the line was massive. We couldn’t believe it! I swear everyone’s mama and their brothers and sisters were there. For the first time, it was such a hassle just getting food because there were soooo many people and refilling of the foods were beyond slow. Boy did I maw like crazy. I was sooooo full that I couldn’t breathe and I went to sleep without even brushing or taking off my contacts. Staying awake was that uncomfortable.

Mother’s Day came the next day and I was greeted with flowers and cards from the daddy and Erynne. DH was going to get me a gift but I told him the night before not to because what I really wanted was a bracelet. HAHAHA. And well, if I couldn’t get the bracelet, I didn’t want anything (not even a gold bangle) besides a card. Was that mean? I didn’t think so — honest is more like it :). And hey, honesty works for us so it was all good. And truth be told, to have splurged on food the way that I did the night before — that was more than enough gift for me hahaha. Sadly, I forgot to give something to my own mom. How terrible of me. Uneventful, I tell you. But happy, don’t forget.

And just when I thought we had already celebrated Mother’s Day the night before, my mom decides we go out to dinner again — this time, Pinoy food. Off to Ongpin we went. Crowded as usual (why don’t they think to expand???) and food was satisfying. They ran out of halo-halo much to Erynne’s disappointment (her favorite and the only reason she agreed to go) but Ube ice cream got her to calm down. Remember that I forgot to remove my contacts the night before. As a result, my left eye was a bit swollen and my eye was nasty red and tearing up like the Nile River so that the whole time we were having dinner, I had shades on (it was already evening and dark out). I couldn’t see (no contacts/glasses) so who knows if people were looking at me wondering what was up with the shades. Plus, I kept wiping my eye so they must have thought I was also crying. LOL. Thankfully, my eye improved the next day and it was back to business with wearing contacts. I tell you though, there is nothing worse than having an eye that’s so handicapped it can’t even stay open in the light. Add the tears and having to just stay in bed so the eyes remain shut — b!tch! Let’s hope I’ve learned my lesson, the hard-headed person I am.

So despite my “uneventful” Mother’s Day filled with food, I’ve still managed to drop .4 lbs at Monday’s weigh-in. Good enough gift for me!

I was never a Heath fan (but I wasn’t a hater either!). Some of the magazines at the gym are a bit old so I had no choice but to read about Heath’s untimely death the other day. Such a tragedy. His career seemed to be going well and then there was his precious daughter. Too bad he’ll never get to walk her down the aisle. And that whole relationship bit with that “Full House” twin? What the hell was that? Yah, great (girl)friend she was. Ever hear of 911? That’d be directed to his assistant too (or whoever the hell that called the freak twin in the first place). Sigh. Easier said than done but drug rehab would have been nice.

Imagination — that’s the name of the ship we were on.  Just had to clarify that lest you might think I was imagining a carnival.  LOL.  So as I blogged a few days past, I was very pleased with our cabin on the ship.  Being the kuripot person that I can be sometimes, I booked a “guarantee” cabin for the first time, hoping and praying to the Gods that we would be able to get a really high upgrade to a higher cabin without paying the price.  Ha!  Riiiight.  We still ended up on the lowest floor possible but I’m happy to say we were pretty much right smack in the middle.  If you’ve cruised before, this is a good thing — you don’t feel as much motion.  And truth be told, whether you’re on the bottom or couple floors above, the hallways and rooms look exactly the same.  In any case, I loved everything about our room and floor.  And can I just say how much I loved their wide hallways?  For someone as fat as me, I didn’t have to turn sideways or anything if someone were to pass me in the hallway — two people fit side by side, hurrah!  I felt skinny HAHAHAHA.

welcome to our newly refurbished cabin

see the extra bed?  that’s for the daddy hahaha

pleased with our bathroom

spacious enough to drop your soap and still pick it up

freebies — woohoo!

To be cont’d..

What Your Flip Flops Say About You

You are super laid back and peaceful. Not much disturbs you. You’re content with what you have in life, and you can’t stand feeling worked up.A lot of good things tend to come your way in life… You’re not too busy or stressed to let an opportunity pass you by. Your ideal warm weather place: Hawaii

The Flip Flop Test

I don’t understand how this can be true.  I can be the biggest whiner when I want to be — or when someone pisses me off, forget about peaceful.

Remember the 3 pounds I gained while I was away?

I dropped it… plus another pound! 4 pounds lost this week. That’s insane. To think today was my first day back at the gym after close to two weeks of absence. I had said I wanted to lose a total of 40 pounds by June 7th but realistically, because of that 3-pound setback, I don’t think I’ll make it. I don’t mind though. If there’s anything I’ve learned throughout this weight loss journey of mine, it’s that I’m going to have days where I’ll go backwards instead of forward. No need to feel bad about it though; I’m in this for the long haul. Plus, how do you contest 3 pounds of fun and food? I’ll pass :).

I’m back in the gym and I’ve lost 27 pounds to date. We’re so back in business. Woohoo!

Lovely.  I’m back to zeroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.  If you’re a hungry wolf like me, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

I knew it wouldn’t last.  Like it really meant anything to me anyways. 

Whatever.  Life goes on.