Update! Update!

Okay, here is the scoop. I downloaded an iPhone app called pixelpipe and this I hope will give me enough motivation to update my blog more often. It provides the convenience of posting using my iPhone without having to log in each time.

First thing first: Texas. It is not going to happen! We backed out of the house. Tony went through series of interviews, feeling good about it. They liked him a lot and his management style just for them to come back and say they selected him among all the applicants but because he did not have mortgage experience, they offered him less money than what he asked for. BULLSHIT! Tony makes a lot more than what they were offering right now and what the hell is the point of moving his family halfway across the country starting with nothing and making less. Stupid bastards! Very insulting! We don't understand why the f*ck they went on an on with the interview knowing very well from the get go he didn't have mortgage experience. Tony was turned off about the whole thing and we decided to forget about Texas altogether.

There!

However, we are still looking to purchase a house in California. Of course we can never afford a brand new 4000-sq ft mansion here and we will probably end up with a 1200-sq ft fixer-upper and triple the price, but it'd be a good start. We looked at houses in the Canoga Park area (close to Tony's home town) and liked two of the houses we saw. Tomorrow, Saturday, we are looking in Simi Valley where we used to live. It goes without saying though that I need to find a job first before we can afford anything. Freaking Southern California, economy sucks and everything is still very expensive!

In other news, I am starting to wean Tyler off the breast! This gives some of my freedom back, my caffeine and margaritas! I was okay with it as long as he liked it but sleeping has lately been very harsh. He would wake up about 3 times at night and nothing would make him stop crying but the breast. So I stopped nursing him during bed time and this will be our second week and he is sleeping much better!

A part of me is very sad though because it feels like we are losing that connection. When he was born and we were bombarded with visitors who wanted to hold him, I liked our nursing time very much because it gave us a full hour every three hours, everyday, together. He survived the first 6 months just having me as his source of food. Now he is a big boy eating everything he could get his hands on and weaning him tells me he is growing up. It's a little sad he is no longer a baby. I can almost say I want another baby. Almost.

Hooray to pixelpipe! I can update my blog and fb at the same time using my phone! I don't have time to use the computer so I can never find time to update my blog. But yay! My blog readers (if there's any left hehe), I promise to be a bit more active now.

Tyler and mic

Testing 123 blogger and fb pic pixelpipe test.

Pixelpipe Test

123. If this works, I can blog more often :)

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Blogger and fb pixelpipe test.

Book Review: Jemima J

Jemima J

Author: Jane Green

343 Pages

My Rating: 4 Stars

It is a story of an overweight journalist who does not get the best treatment from her social-climbing roommates and always feels inferior to her less talented but better-paid co-worker Geraldine. At the Kilburn Herald in London where she works, it seems she is stuck at the bottom. Her only ally is food although she knows she needs serious change in order to be noticed by her charming colleague, Ben. When she meets Brad, a blond Californian hunk, over the Internet, she sees it as an opportunity to reinvent herself as JJ. JJ, like the women in magazines she collects, is charming, glamorous, and gym-obsessed. When Brad decides to meet with her, she decides to conquer her food addiction and just be like the woman in her dreams. After giving up food coupled with serious workouts at the gym and makes exercise as highest priority, she has transformed herself from Jemima J to JJ. She flies to California and meets Brad, who turns out to be a man every woman would kill for.

I will stop there because I do not want to spoil it for those who'd like to read it. I love the story, the journey JJ takes gives the reader eye-watering laughs. However, I just do not like the way that author told the story. It switches from third person to first person all throughout the book so it is like sometimes Jemima is telling us the story, and then it jumps to the author now telling us the story. Reading through it, I understand why the author chose such style of writing but it would have been possible to keep it first-person, just so the reader would feel more connected to the character as if the reader is there - reason why I did not give it 5 stars.

Moving Again?

It might be too early to tell but Tony has applied for a job that would require us to relocate to DFW Texas. Apparently, Tony is a promising candidate for the position never mind that he has no experience relating to the said job. However, Tony has great potential, very bright, and an excellent leader. I see how he handles his staff and he really is a great boss. Needless to say, we have been considering the possibility that he will get the job and we will have to start life anew in a new state and leave California behind. There, we will be able to give Tyler a better future because things are so much more affordable provided that Tony gets a raise and I get a job. We are looking to purchase a brand new house and we have fallen in love with a 4161 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 4 bath 2-story. Here are some pictures. This is probably in the millions in a good part of Southern California but it's only $269K in Texas! Something we can afford.

Everything about it sounds good except when I think about leaving my family behind and Tony's parents. It's a tough call between the pros and the cons but I guess I have to make the decision that best suits my family and that is to move.

Of course we might be getting too ahead of ourselves. There is also the possibility that his current employer might counteroffer and the decision gets even harder then. So for now, we'll leave it up in the air and cross the bridge when we get there. He expects to hear from the new potential employer this week so I'll keep you posted.

A trip down memory lane

I can't sleep and I had to find a way to entertain myself because the TV just wasn't doing it. I am currently reading Jane Green's "Jemima J" (Jemima J is an overweight chick who meets a guy online. She invents a supermodel to describe herself and has to work hard to attain such status when the guy decides to meet with her). So an idea sparked in my head - why not try the world of chatting again. I did it! I reinvented me - well, not really. I didn't change anything except for my name and my marital status, just to play a little, just for fun. But I remembered right after they asked "asl" how boring it was! I logged off chat immediately. It's so funny I haven't done it in a long time I couldn't keep up with the chatroom - I found myself trying to scroll up to see what I had missed trying to talk to two people. Boy I'm old! That's another trip down memory lane I'll probably never take again - because I know I'd just get lost and I know I don't belong.

In other news, Tyler is turning 1 in a week! Yeeey! I survived! My baby is still alive! Except for the hellish last week, he's super healthy! Last week is quite the opposite. He caught some kind of a viral infection that practically incapacitated the poor thing for 5 days. But I don't want to talk about it, I'm supposed to be celebrating here. So yay!

We are getting things together for the party. It is a big deal but probably not an all-out party like most Filipinos usually do. But being me, I have to have a theme. So it's blue and brown! I want it to be polka dots too but it's a first birthday party, so I stopped at the colors. I made invitations of the said color combination and we are blowing our own helium balloons, also only in those colors. We have chairs and tables covered in blue and brown, even utensils, plates, and napkins. Tomorrow, we will take care of the cake and other things. I'm excited!

I think I did a good job with Tyler. He's a super smart boy, but don't all mommies say that? He picks up any object and puts it against his ear and says "alo?". First it was really just phones, but lately it's been a hairbrush, a CD, and sometimes even a sock. He breaks free from anyone carrying him, wanting to explore the world around him. He walks up to strangers (like in a restaurant) and flashes them a big smile and waves. When they smile and wave back, he gets all shy, runs back to mommy to hide his face, presses his nose as hard as possible against my leg, and then sneaks another glimpse at them, still with the same smile pasted on his face. He's just the cutest!

Okay, maybe next time I can't sleep, I should start a blog because it's so soporific. *Yawn* -no wonder this had not been updated until now. Bye for now~