trio

I have three ‘legitimate’ pamangkins—two girls and one boy. It’s rather hard to have them all together in one picture or video and this clip is a rarity. Good thing my cousin shot this while I was there, So may I present my wonderful and makukulit pamangkins:

Ayel as the madaldal & noisy ate

Kim as the apple-holder/bungisngis

Doydoy as his usual self (PG)

And such is my life as Tita Nina. :D

Hugo

I’m cramming once more but I know I have to start, if not finish, on this tonight before I head to sleep.  Oh well, what a way to open the semester. 

Anyhow, I got a nice and, early Christmas present yesterday.  He’s cute, lovely, and really sweet.  Too bad I can’t take care of him  for so long.  He alleviated the stress I’ve been under the past few weeks. :)

Hugo, my lab :D (or lab + golden lab mix?)

And like what Cat said, he’ll be better off in Bulacan than to stay alone in my house given how my schedule is.  Big, big thank you to Laurie and the Villaramas for the gift and thanks too to my ‘sitter’ for a day. :)

Kim’s out of the hospital ( a relief) but she still needs to recuperate.  I hope she’ll be back to her old naughty self come her birthday.

after everything

I am having a very complex day but I know for a fact that some of the people dear to me are having it worse than I am.  Anyhow, Cat’s been asking for pictures and I haven’t done anything about it.  I did post some of pictures of my pamangkins on FB but other than that, oh well.

This is the only ‘real’ sembreak week that I have which says a lot but given the things that have occurred the past few days, Hmmm.  Un lang. I haven’t had enough sleep, the number of hours are waaaay less than my normal so I get cranky and all.

Anyway, to combat this day, I decided to treat myself to a latte which I haven’t finished (quite unfortunately) until now.  Just the same, that’s one sticker. Haha.  And I’ve also decided to try  to sleep by 9pm just to normalize everything. Plus the new layout. Haha!  I overcome stress better when I’m busy with something and given that I have yet to start the semester, I settled with playing with this blog’s layout.  It’s blue and white and simple. :D

And about the pictures, I can only post one as of now. 

More to come soon!   Sorry. :)

(I thought of posting another one but decided against it. Next post, I promise. Just pray that I’ll have enough time to do it. )

trixie!

She’s big!

Of course she came while I was away. But then again, she’s here and though her mom warned me about how traumatic giving birth can be, she’s more than happy to see her coo and smile.

And yeah, Pat is one hell of a proud father primarily because she mostly looks like him. :D

Cat, I promise to post pictures.  Will probably get to it by tomorrow night.  Sorry. :)  And get enough sleep!

Three

I'm posting this using a proxy from the office so I'm not sure how it'd look like. Anyhow, there are three things that have been nagging me endlessly for the past few days so I might as well let it out here.

One -- Thank you to all who completed my survey. Your answers really helped a lot and now, I'm just trying to make myself write the paper. Dr. Mira's encouraging me to do the paper even if it's no longer required (Ateneo gave out a memo regarding Finals). Given what I have ran on SPSS, my scale's okay. :) So thank you, thank you to all of you especially to those who distributed it to their family & friends and even to strangers. Thank you, thank you! :)

Two -- The reversal of roles with Catherine proved to be enlightening, amusing, and yes, quite refreshing to a certain degree. Years back, I never would have imagined that we'd reach this point given the topic. I guess that an individual's trust can be rebuilt no matter what preconceived notions one has and given the right people and circumstances. Nonetheless, it was also unnerving because she's Cat, she's the person who sees the best in everyone and everything and I'm me--the disillusioned, cynical, and sarcastic one. But then again, so much had happened in the past few years that we both can't discount the impact of change.

Three -- This question/thought is somehow related to what I had with Cat but completely autonomous as well. Anyhow, I've always been curious about this: is it such a big thing that I am friends/in contact with the guys that were somewhat involved with me in the past? It only proves that I'm friendly and I'm nice (yes geek, I am nice despite everything else. Sorry about last night, I'll find time to talk to you soon. ) and that I can be friends with people. Well, yeah, they're guys but guys make good friends! I wouldn't have as many guy friends, whom I love and who love me as well, if I weren't. Granting that there are two people who in one way or another declined, still, I'm not holding such a bad record (on this note, I envy Laurie for her impeccable track record with her exes). It also proves that they're nice too and that they are mature enough to be friends with me. Yeah, this is me justifying me asking a 'favor' from them but hey, it's for a study! And it's a good research topic! :)

So there, three thoughts let out. Better try to motivate myself into completing the paper and preparing for next week. :D