Joining the Blackberry bandwagon

So I jumped the Blackberry smartphone train last Friday and I don't know how to feel about it. I still think that iPhone is the better phone but I cannot afford it to save my life. I mean, I can but I will not spend 2 million dollars for a phone. Not now, anyway.

So I got a Blackberry 9300 from this seller in Multiply. He's had it for two weeks but never got to use it so he sold it. I got a huge discount from the seller because one, he's a La Sallian (oh, Alma Mater, you never fail me) and two, because he didn't include the memory card which only costs Php500 max and no, I didn't get a 500-peso discount.

Anyway, there. I just needed to record when I made the purchase... and no, I don't think I will be activating the BBM function because it's a waste of money.

What have I been up to the past week?

It seems like I've been too busy to even breathe this week. I feel so exhausted but I ain't complaining. I actually am thankful for everything. So what have I been up to? Working two jobs that I still am struggling to manage even if I am on my 5th day into it.

I have a regular 9-6 job and I have a part-time gig that doesn't have times in and times out but has a two-week (now one) deadline due next Friday. The 9-6 is doing great but by 6pm, my brain and my eyes are too exhausted to work for the other gig because of the online marketing training. I have 5 websites to finish for this week and so far, I'm not even done with the first one. I am kinda panicking over it because this weekend will be pretty crazy and next week, I'm gonna have 5 additional websites to work on and the deadline's on Friday already and I will be going out with friends on the 29th and I cannot afford to slack off anymore...

WOOOOOOOHSAAAAAAAH!

See? I am panicking now. I need to finish 4 websites tonight. For real. I know I've been saying these things a lot lately

but I still haven't done anything significant for the second job. I know I can pull this off. I just need to work outside of the house, so far away from the bed tonight without anyone with me except the laptop. I am planning to work in a coffee shop in Ortigas to finish everything. I just hope I don't bump into anyone I know until I finish everything.

#50. I really, really, really hate it when people make pakielam my stuff, especially my purse.

Habits

Here are a bunch of things that I want to become habits of mine. In no particular order.

• Putting on lotion
• Washing my face with facial wash, not just any soap I get my hands on
• Reading books (AGAIN!)
• Putting on cologne/perfume whenever I go out
• Writing using an actual pen and an actual paper
• Running an hour EVERY morning
• Bringing a digital camera whenever I go out and actually take pictures

Let's go swimming, swimming, swimming...

So I bought Brianna this mini pool last Sunday and we broke it in yesterday. The pool was not yet even halfway full when she got in. Excited much?

I'm glad she's having fun with it. She was in there again a while ago and didn't want to leave anymore. We convinced her, though... I wanted to go in there, too, to be honest. Mukhang masarap e. :)

It arrived!

I was kinda wondering when my Firmoo Sunglasses were gonna arrive in the mail since I ordered it from their website weeks ago. Well, it finally came in the mail just 10 minutes ago. I got all excited when the mailman yelled "Aleigna!" because I knew that the sunglasses have finally arrived.

This aviator sunglasses comes in two colors. This and black. :)

There are so many glasses you can choose from the Firmoo Global Online Optical Store and most of them are prescription glasses. You just send in your doctor's prescription to them and they put the grade onto your chosen pair of glasses and then they send it to you via courier.

Firmoo does not only sell eyeglasses. They sell sunglasses and goggles. You can also ask them to put your doctor's prescription into the sunglasses and the goggles.

Go get your Firmoo glasses today. Visit their site: www.firmoo.com and like their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/FirmooGlasses.

This was me a couple of days ago.

Not that I've finally had sex again. I just got my period already.

I think I spend too much.

I am a mom who should be saving up for a house and a car and a wonderful wedding and I think I spend too much. Just a while ago, we went to Megamall and I was just supposed to buy one of those strap-y Velcro stuff for my cables, tampons and maybe a bag of chips or two but noooooooo. Instead, I bought these:

I got these from the 88-peso store in St. Francis Square. I got a huge ass hanger and I don't even know why. It currently holds my towel and Brianna's towel and I think it looks awesome in our room. I got triple AAA batteries for my cordless mouse. The Sesame Street playing cards are just way too cute to ignore. Damn, I hate those kinds of places.

We crossed the street and again, I had the urge to give my money to the number one department store in the Philippines and I did. I got Brianna that inflatable pool because let's admit it, a child's summer won't be complete without those inflatable pools. The Sun broadband was just something I needed to get and I just got it without thinking today. The pink sippie cup? Just 'cause. Most favorite buys for today? The denim skirt that I have been taking forever to actually buy and I don't know why and this blue slim wallet that breaks all the pink inside my purse.

Uhm. What's the point of this post again?

After 3 years...

Those people who are nice enough to actually pay attention to whatever it is I am saying know that it has been my lifelong (well...) dream to be a part of the ABS-CBN Corporation team. I felt it was the right job for me. I wanted to be a part of a very dynamic work environment and I wanted to be a part of the "difference" television made. I was willing to start from the bottom; to work long hours without them having to pay me anything higher than the minimum wage, to be thrown into a far off place with nothing to eat, everything. I was willing to sacrifice my health to be a part of the team.

The last time I sent my resume to ABS-CBN was way back in '09 when I got forced to work. It was 3 months after graduation and all I did was drink day in and day out. They called me for an interview and got another call a week after for a second interview. I never got another call since then. I got into TVSTYLE, got pregnant, have given birth and now, 3 years after my last application with the company, they decided to tell me that I have been chosen to become a part of ABS-CBN Global. Quite frankly, I don't know if I still want it.

Don't get me wrong, though. It's still the dream but it's not the priority as of the moment. If they had called me exactly 2 years ago, I would've said yes in a heartbeat but now, things are different. I have another mouth to feed (literally). I have someone who needs me to be beside her all the time and that is entirely the reason why I am actually making this work from home gig work. I'm still quite young and in a couple of years, when Brianna starts going to school, maybe I can give the ABS-CBN dream another shot but now, that dream has got to take the backseat.

So as much as I want to, I'm gonna have to decline. There are some more important stuff than building a career. Maybe in a few years or maybe not. If we're meant to be together, we will be together.

One year and one month.

I am now getting really worried because Brianna still hasn't started walking. I know this is still within normal but I am not feeling really comfortable with knowing that she still can't walk. She can't even stand up on her own yet. In fact, she can't make herself stand up yet.

I am really bothered by this. Can somebody help me encourage her? I don't know what to do anymore. I just get even more and more frustrated by the day. :|

Finally!

I'm so sorry if I seem so excited for these rather plain-looking lippies (even if I'm a self-professed tomboy) but I've been eyeing these over at Digtital Traincase's Multiply shop since forever. I always, always was a bit too late in ordering these two specific colors at their shop that I have to endure weeks (felt like months, really) of checking my Multiply account all the time when yesterday, I saw that both colors were still available:

I couldn't choose between the two (and I was getting a bit paranoid since the NYX round lipsticks in their website sell like pancakes) because I wanted both so I bought them both, which isn't too bad because one stick just cost me a hundred and fifty pesos.

(I haven't tried both of them on but once I do, I will update this post.)

Digital Traincase has all sorts of make-up and make-up paraphernalia in their Multiply shop so if you want to buy high-quality make-up for an affordable price, check their shop out. It's at http://digitaltraincase.multiply.com/.

“If you have little money and you want to be rich, you must first be focused not balanced. If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced. Balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot. To make progress, you must first go unbalanced.”

- Rich Dad, Poor Dad

(Taken from Ariane's Tumblr)

I love Dr. Seuss.

It's a freakin' tablet! :)

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God is good all the time.

As I've mentioned here, one of my (full-time) projects is about to end soon. You want to know what God did? He asked Jane Formoso and Rosemary Zalewski to hire me and work for them full-time! Just got off Skype with them.

He is really good all the time. :)

Control...

Going on a strict no-dinner diet really drives me mad especially during Sundays, when Ate Thelma thinks it's the best time to cook all the yummy food for dinner.

I wanna go all

on tonight's dinner!

Sucks to want to lose all these fats...

Staff.com

In my pursuit to make my work-at-home dream a stable reality, I have joined several (i.e. A LOT) online job search sites that offer mostly home-based jobs. There's oDesk, Freelancer.com, Elance.com, TeamLauncher and Remote Staff just to name a few. Yes, these are the sites I remembered registering in. There are still loads that I forgot about because I unsubscribed from their newsletters.

Click photo to register with Staff.com

Anyway, to add yet another online job search site, I've just registered with Staff.com. Staff.com is practically the same as those websites I've mentioned already except Staff.com offers mostly full-time jobs which definitely got my attention. I work with TeamLauncher for 8 hours in the morning and I know that I can still handle another 8-hour job after that. Plus, my contract with TeamLauncher will end soon so I need to go look for another full-time, work-from-home job again so the timing of which I knew about Staff.com couldn't have been better.

I'm sorry if I keep shoving these stuff to your faces but working from home is really relaxing compared to a corporate job. The income is the same, the benefits are the same... The only difference is I work on my bed and you work on an office table.

The first of March.

The first day of March is almost over. I will be ending it with a Skype interview with a potential (full-time) client.

God, the best ka talaga. *fist bump*