visibility: 0

It's been really cold for a week now. Every morning we wake up to frost everywhere, it almost look like snow but, nope, it's just ice. So, this morning, it was pretty much the same, the roads are real icy. By midmorning though, there was fog. A blanket of fog descended upon us. When I went to pick up M, I couldn't see the school, that's how foggy it was.

Since she has ballet on Mondays, we drove over to the youth center and along the way there was an accident. We tried to figure out how it happened but couldn't. Car 1 was on the side of the road and car 2 was in the middle of the road. (They were still there on our way home.) Traffic was bad since everybody slowed down to about 30 mph.

It's 8:43 and it's still foggy outside. I hope weather tomorrow will be better. M has a thanksgiving play and luncheon and she's very excited about being the narrator.

*sigh*

I can't sleep. I usually talk to G before I go to bed, that clears my head, but he worked this weekend and he's been asleep since 5. We woke him up for dinner though and he was falling asleep at the table. Now, I have all these thoughts in my head and might as well post about it.

1. Merry Christmas. I'm kicking myself for not getting my christmas shopping done at the last bazaar. I was so busy looking at furnitures that I forgot all about presents. Let's see: in-laws, the women are done, just need something for the men & B; I know what to get A & M, P prefers cash, that leaves mom & dad. No idea what to get G; stocking stuffer for M's friends; which reminds me, I need to mail out christmas cards soon.

2. I saw a sign for "The Nutcracker" show. 40 pounds per person. Too much. But, I did say we should see a show before we leave UK and I want M to see "The Nutcracker", maybe it's worth it. Better check online first and find something cheaper. I am such a ...

3. It seems like yesterday that I posted about being SOOO excited to go home for A & M's wedding. Now, I can't wait for January for sis-in-law's wedding. I'm going to Cali. I told G, I don't want any christmas present. I'll save the money for shopping. =)

Hey, I think I can sleep now. Goodnight.

My neck is missing!

It's gone, half of my neck is gone. It became part of my chin.

Widgets

I am mad about widgets.

They're these really nifty things that you put on your desktop. I have a lady bug that just crawls everywhere, the 5-day weather forecast, not that it's accurate, but still... I also have the mastermind game, a memory game & word flashcard (for Megan). And a to-do list.

I'm still looking for more but I don't want to clutter up my desktop.

I haven't had a proper kitchen for 2 months now.

I finally got everything sorted out in the kitchen and I was ready to cook. I made pan de sal and it came out almost perfect. (I haven't figured out how the timer works on the oven and left it baking 5 minutes longer and it came out too crusty at the bottom.)

First meal I made was baked spaghetti. G has been asking for one and I finally made it last night. Of course, it was really yummy. I don't know why but M doesn't like it baked. I have to set aside a portion of regular spaghetti for her. I guess G & M are tired of eating out cause when I asked them what they want for dinner for the week, they just went on and on.

So, although I am not too excited about our new house, it's good to have my things around me. I'm back to being online 24/7. I don't have to watch TV to kill time. I can finally sing again without worrying that the occupants in the next room can hear me. I can start working again on my doll house.

Finally...

We have a house. Yes, once again, we moved. And this time the house is very small. It's a 2-bedroom house and I don't want to whine about things but just this once, let me just rant about this house.

1. It's so small that you have to walk with utmost care or you'll end up bumping into something and sport a scratch or a bruise for a week or so. Sitting in the living room is an art or you'll hit the coffee table with your sheen and that hurts. A lot!

2. I don't have a spot to put a trash bin in the kitchen. Have you ever seen a kitchen without a trash bin? I have a plastic bag hanging over the door know, that's my trash bin.

3. Can you say cold? It's soooo cold in this house. In the morning, our window gets all frosted, from the inside!

4. The water pressure in the shower sucks big time. It takes forever to get my hair wet. No kidding.

5. This house is so poorly planned. The cable outlet is in the dining room and that's the only one it has. The phone outlet is by the stairs. We will have cables and wires running everywhere in the house. (Right now, I'm sitting on the floor and the laptop is on the chair. The only way I can have internet access.)

6. The dining table and the chairs - that's all that fits in our dining room. Goodbye china cabinet.

7. There's a small room off the master bedroom but since the master bedroom is so narrow, we decided that will be M's room instead, anyways, the small room is so small that it's M's playroom.

8. G is hating life right now. He doesn't have room for his junk.

That's it, I guess. I'm off trying to make sense of this house.

Just got back from driving A & M to the airport, (M, success ang upload), my head feels funny, I guess driving for 5 hours (half of which I was by myself) does that to you. So, since I felt so alone during the drive, I switched from the radio to CD and sang along at the top of lungs with the 50 First Dates soundtrack. Lips like sugar...

That's it! It's been sooo long since I last posted! Nothing to post. Right now, I'm at the roofless house. The roofer is finally fixing the roof, but we're not moving back into this house. We're moving, AGAIN (that's move number 4 in this country alone)! 7 November is our move-in date. I miss being online 24/7. I have a TV-overdose. Not good!

Unbelievable!

Friday, Sep 9, mom and I went to pick up M at school then went to M's gymnastics class. On our way, there was a thunderstorm that seems to come out of nowhere. Thunder and lightning, winds were kicking in, rain started pouring. It lasted about 30 minutes and just as swiftly as it came it was gone.

The streets were flooded and Mom said that back in the days, when it would rain that hard, she and dad would jump in the car and drive around. I remember when we were kids we would be so happy when streets were flooded. Washing! Washing! we'd chant.

We stopped by the kebab place to get dinner and I got a call from G. He said that the landlady called about the powerline in front of our house. He got disconnected so I thought maybe we don't have electricity in the house.

As I entered the driveway, I was surprised that G was parked in the middle of the driveway, I parked at the designated visitor's area and started walking to the house. What I saw was something that I was not expecting. There were debris everywhere. Pieces of what looks like a roof was on the ground. One of our neighbors was talking to our landlady and G was on his cell phone looking all stressed.

The roof of the back part of our house was all gone, blown off. The debris everywhere, that was our roof. M started crying, she was worried about her toys. I didn't know what I was feeling. All I know is I don't want to go inside the house, I didn't want to see the extent of the damage. G said that with the roof being gone, water got in our house and it looks like everything in our bedrooms got wet.

Mom said that she needs to use to bathroom so we went inside. I just started crying when we got inside the house. The beds were wet, the carpets, it looked like everything got damaged. We started talking about what we need to do. We packed for the night and started moving stuff that are important. The landlord offered a part of their house to store some of our things that didn't get wet.

The next day, we came back to get the rest of our stuff. The damage wasn't to bad. The carpets and the beds got wet but we've been meaning to buy a new bed, so no big deal. The carpets, we can just get it cleaned again. The rest of the bedroom furnitures were fine. The living room didn't get wet and that's what I'm most thankful of, if the living room got wet, we would bo looking at a bigger damage.

Right now, we're still staying in a lodging facility on base. The landlord said, hopefully everything will get done by the end of the week.

Finally, I got a mini iPod.

I've wanted an iPod for so long but I kept telling myself that it's too much money. Then, I thought a mini would work but I still thought it's still a lot of money. I guess a shuffle would work. It's compact and affordable but G said it could only hold so much. So, I've been debating between a mini and a shuffle. I guess G got tired of listening to me weigh the pros and cons that he got me one for my birthday. It's very pink!

I'm so in love with it. Now, I don't have to take my bulky cd case whenever we go on a road trip. I still need a car kit so I can recharge it while on the road and also an RF transmitter so I don't have to buy the casette adapter. Hmmm... need more money. I also need the dock with speakers so I can listen to it in my bedroom.

Since I don't want to buy more accessories, I've been browsing around to see if I can transmit using the iMac, seems like I need to buy the airport express to do this. Why can't people just make something that is everything without buying more accessories! I would love to see that. Like a portable gameboy or playstation that is also a phone, at least 4.0 mp camera, holds 6 gb of music, gps, and a pda, the size of a packet of gum. And most importantly, affordable, like 200 bucks!

unbelievable

I weighed myself today and I gained 9 pounds! Now, I need to lose 30 pounds. 30 pounds! How am I ever going to lose that much. I had a hard enough time as it is losing that 4 pounds. Oh well. I just have to work out, eat healthy, and drinks lots of water. As if it was that easy! How do they do it. I'm talking about celebrities, one minute they're pregnant and the next time you see them, they're slim as ever.

I'm just ranting here. I knew I gained weight, I just didn't realize I gained that much. The prize I have to pay.