Pensive Thoughts

Monday, July 6, 2009

Friendship Chain

Thank you so much Enchie of Sweet Nothings, Mys of Thoughts and Obsessions, Beng of Beng’s Entertainment Spree, and wickedlysexy of Mom from Manila for this Friendship Chain.

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This is the easy way and the fastest way to :

1. Make your Authority Technorati explode.

2. Increase your Google Page Rank.

3. Get more traffic to your blog.

4. Make more new friends.

Rules :

1. Start copy from “Begin Copy” until “End Copy” to your blog.
2. Put your own blog name and link.
3. Tag your friends as much as you can.

1.Picturing of Life 2. Juliana’s Site 3. Hazel-My Life, My Hope, My Future.4. Jeanne-The Callalily Space5.My Family is my Life 6. The Simple Life of a Baghag 7. On A Wonderful Day Like Today 8. House Everything 9. The Creativity in Me 10. Travel and Photography 11. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 12. You Are My Sunshine 13.Song to Remember 14. Super Blog 15. Philiippine Tv Marathon 16.Simply Blue 17. Breaking the Boundaries 18. Top Five 19. A Simple Life 20. Simple Happy Life 21. A Great Pleasure 22. Glossa~licious 23. Time Goes By 24. Sweet Nothings 25. Thoughts and Obsessions 26. Beng’s Entertainment Spree 27. Mom from Manila 28. Pensive Thoughts 29. You're Next!
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I’m passing on this Friendship Chain to the following:

Rachel of Heart of Rachel
Kaye of WAHMaholic
Cecile of Life Is Good and Beautiful
Race of Beyond Horizons
Juliet of My Pastime
Beth of trust.loyalty.bliss
Online Mommy of Online Mommy’s Corner
Hazel of Delineating Des

Saturday, July 4, 2009

What a Week!

This week has not been very good to me, and I’m glad it’s almost over. Last Tuesday, my computer wouldn’t boot up. I panicked because I haven’t backed up all of my recent office files stored on my PC. To add insult to injury, I lost my Internet connection at home. I had no choice but to go to our office to work. It’s only today, Saturday, that Globe finally fixed the problem, although I don’t want to be too complacent about that.

It turned out that my five-year old PC (yes, you heard that right) badly needs to be defragged, and now it’s working perfectly fine again, thank you. (God must have heard my prayer as we still don’t have a budget for a replacement.) I’ve worked for a total of 3 days in the office this week; that could have been four if I wasn’t absent on July 1st to accompany my husband to his doctor’s appointment.

Now, what am I saying here? After working from home for almost one year now, I have realized that I don’t want to go to work in the office anymore because it’s too taxing physically because I still have to drop my son to school and wait until he’s settled before I could leave for work and because I have to suffer the scorching heat as I cross the Ortigas footbridge, mentally because I’m missing the chance to know what my son is doing the whole day which working from home allows, and financially because now I have to pay for transportation and food if I haven’t prepared packed lunch and snack.

I hope the coming week will be better.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Mommy Moments: Encounter with Pets or Animals

I was having second thoughts about participating in this week’s theme. You see, my son Justin only had one chance to own a pet. A month before Christmas last year (he was 2 years and 4 months old then), his Dad bought him a fish and a small aquarium. I was able to take a photo of the fish, but none of my son with that fish. I was also able to blog about it in this post.

That fish has long been dead and done, and we haven’t bought any other pet since then. Since we have limited space in the condo, owning a bigger pet, such as a dog, is not really advisable; besides, I’m afraid he just might be bitten by it. We have also not taken him to a zoo yet, so he doesn’t really have that much encounter/experience with animals.

Let me share instead some stories about my son when it comes to pets and pests (Pests are also animals, right?).

His first pet (fish) – He was fascinated with his first pet that he even hugged the aquarium and said “I love you” to his pet.

Ants – Whenever he sees ants, he would step on them or slap them hard with his hands, and he won’t stop until they’re lifeless. Poor creatures!

Cockroach – He’s afraid of cockroaches, even the dead ones lying on the road/floor. He would stop walking if he sees one, and he wouldn’t budge until you convince him that the cockroach is really dead and would not be able to do him any harm.

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