~Straight up Country~

‘Still sore from jogging/walking yesterday @ the high school track with my kids, trying to lose weight for summer…eeek!…lol…the only problem spot is my belly…need to quit drinking every time I’m off…hehehe…hey only 2 and a half a night…it’s all good..hahaha…I checked my e-mail also and once again I was glad to see my cousin Antonio aka Toni aka Inot (fwensta), sent more pics from their wedding!…this time most of the family was there except for his mom–tita Nida…wonder where was she???…anyways, they both look sweet together and very happy indeed…*sigh*

     I’m going back to the track later around 5pm were it’s not so humid.  The weather seems pretty strange, last night it was a little cool and breezy, today, its sunny and dry…this is how people get sick over…gotta go and do a little errands and put gas in the car later…

Tiara Girls….behind the scenes on "Teen" beauty pageants and how the parents have taken it too far…

Parents are very hard on their daughters, criticizing their physical appearance and weight (even though they’re often overweight themselves). Sample comments include: "Your body has changed since last year — you’ve lost muscle" and "I’m going to tell you — you just don’t look good right now." One girl decides to quit competing after not making the top 10 because she can’t take the stress. When a girl is done with a pageant, her parents and coach genuinely console her.  They often pay extremely high prices for their daughter to get the right gown, coach, or stylist — and they clearly want to see a return on their investment.  Not recommended for teens who already are struggling about their insecurities…

The Simple Life - This show will take the meaning of a "Dumb white girl" or a "Dumb blonde" to a whole new level.  Two rich, privileged, spoiled, bratty, and egocentric girls strutting around as if they were America’s princesses. They were disrespectful to and belittled their host family, people they worked for and pretty much everyone they came into contact with. They ridiculed and acted like they were above the ordinary/regular/non-filthy-rich people. It is DISGUSTING to watch!!!! This show only goes to affirm that wealth does NOT equal class. Their parents ought to be ashame for having raised such classless, stuck-up brats, but my guess is they are not. There are a lot of bad and trashy shows on TV, but this has to be the winner! Truly barf-inducing material! lol.

I believe that there are even more "Rotten" shows out there that television has to offer us so, you might as well think of turning off your tv once in a while or flip through other channels that are not only good for you but good for your soul….lol.

    Its funny how some people are quick to give assumptions on who you really are, in fact they haven’t known the person personally.  I just now opened my Friendster profile and Lo! i got a testimonial from my cousin -BubblesFour-…her fourth account, I wonder why…I thought you could go for thousands of friends "Official Profile" that you hardly drop by and say hi but accord to "How Many" can you have?….nice!….darn computer…how am I going to tell her that I can’t see her testimonial for me even if I approved it.  Anyways, she broke down in numbers of how I was in those childhood years as in 1, 2 and 3 etc.  She was right about these: I was reserved–not a promiscuous kind, I love Barbie dolls, I like sharing and singing but, she says a"frustrated singer"…i thought that was funny.  I don’t know about "Locking myself in the room" instead of playing with them, I don’t remember that, our door doesn’t lock…LOL–but I do remember hiding in my room so Wanda and I can stop fighting and her strict Dad (my uncle) who dislikes me because he claims I clogged up the toilet he always sits in….LOL. …sometimes they get into some bad incidence (I just a little) in doing so, Wanda had a large tear on her foot from riding a bicycle–the pedals (one that looks like a tricycle) and was sent to a hospital…Bubbles and her sister had some dilemma and I pity bubsy because of her sis and coming from a broken home, *sigh* through it all, I had fun even when I think my family is a little odd in cebuano’s version of a "Yin and Yang"…lots of things went on in the house we live in "Grandma’s house"…I haven’t even visited her and my grandpa’s graves yet…Lola (grandma)struggled with asthma and was on life support and my grandpa on the other hand had an ongoing battle for Alzheimers…I miss you both!…When I left Cebu, my grandma left me a message, "…you’ll grow up to be a nice sensible lady", she was right.  Tears fell in her eye and mine…my sense of sadness overwhelmed me at that moment and the thought of not being able to see me and my brother once more.  Her words are still on my mind and will always be.  To change my mood–one thing for sure, I was the only grandchild she always like to take to the store o palengke with her most of the time when she was able…not Wanda…haha…I’m sorry and excuse me…lol.

     I’m so glad I opened my email just now because I got a message with pics from my dear first cousin Antonio aka Toni aka "Inot" (fwensta).  It’s about the update on his wedding last April 8.  I wished I was there especially helping myself with the food—glorious food that they prepared/catered…LOL.  Another cousin of mine getting married besides me…I did it first!  He got hitched before his big sis Wanda, I’m not really surprized…lol.  I saved the pic below:

     I can’t believe I spent some valuable time taking pictures of myself, just to share an update for my friends on how i look now, like right now….i guess for as long as i have my internet, ill be updating my pictures monthly or so.  TBS is showing the Lord of the Rings trilogy right now and even if i’ve seen it too many times, i’m fixing to go over the living room and watch it, I wanna see Golem again…lol….my kids are already looking at it now.  Later on tonight i dunno what’s goin’ to happen…lol, Alex brought a case of my fav Seagrams Wildberries….oh yeah!… oh! btw, I’m off for this weekend!…Yehey!…until then blog buddy…

    Sometimes I feel a little tired of looking to see if any of my cousins are online because they haven’t logged for weeks and if they did, they never kept in touch.  I got a little sad as I was looking through their profiles and I happen to read Bubbles’ testimonials from Wanda—my first "blood" cousin (her dad n mine are brothers), I wasn’t jealous but, I felt like they have forgotten about me.  I noticed they never mentioned me in any of their childhood memories….it struck me like someone punched me in the stomach…..I did shared a lot with the two of them, we sang along some songs like–pretending to be a trio of girl singers, hide and seek, bahay-bahay, climbing trees, playing with barbie dolls (i got the most), remembered their nicknames Wanda–wandidut o lapad and Bubbles—used to be Kigwahon….i dunno what it means, she used to scratch her butt a LOT, me, all i hear from back then is Cyndi Lauper or i have a small nose, and not to mention Dancing…lol and hey! take a shower in the rain or in the same bathroom! looking out how small our boobies are or who gets to grow "bigger" first….LOL…the age of innocence…I feel like something or someone can say to me right now in cebuano, "Intawon, Kalu-uy ni Cindy!"….I try not to have hard feelings but, both of them really hanged out most of the time and they never did try to take me in.  If I did try to hang out with just Wanda, we end up having a "Cat-fight", like I said in my other blogs, she hates me for no reason?  Its still a mystery to me.  So, when i left the philippines, its been since ‘93, I guess you could say–actually its sad to say, it’s probably for the best….meeting new friends and a new life.  Deep inside though, I really miss them and it really doesn’t matter now that I haven’t seen them, they are on my mind and will always be my cousins…..so, I’m here trying to keep in touch…sometimes devoted to Friendster for this…lol….*sigh*

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox.  The lazy dog jumps over the quick brown fox.  The lazy fox jumps over the quick brown dog.  The quick fox jumps over the lazy brown dog……what other possibilities are there? ur welcome to comment.

Anyways, I obviously don’t have any other things in mind right now and I  just have to throw some garbage pails outside as its "garbage" day, usually, trash truck comes around after noon so, I better go…

    Last Friday, I was sick and I felt like I was getting a fever but, I had no temperature that whole day, my entire body aches…kind of like how you feel when you have sun-burn….sore, that’s the word.  I haven’t done anything strenuous, just some crunches like I’ve been doing for the past month but, it shouldn’t have made me feel the way I did because I’m used to the routine already.  Anyways, I’ve heard it’s been going around…people getting sick…more like nausea and diarrhea and No, we don’t have an "outbreak"….its just that we’ve been getting quite a few people in the hospital or "calling in" sick.  I’m guessing its the weather or something, more like airborne.  I’m glad I had someone who was willing to work for me that next day Saturday because, I didn’t get better during the late afternoon and all I really wanted to do was take a nap.  I’m fine now and ready for tonight…yeah its 1:40 am right now as I’m typing, and I know its late but, I’m not sleepy yet, just wanted to update and see if I can doze off while I’m surfing the net…

PHAT GIRLZ

I’d like to see this movie because, Mo’nique is funny and I admire her for being Her!…

Last Tuesday, I took my kids to have an early regististration for pre-k and kindergarten.    Both of them were very enthusiastic about going

that I have to buckle their seat belts tighter…lol.  It took only about 15 mins. for me to fill out the necessary paperworks and another 15 minutes to have them two evaluated for their skills.  An educator came back with a very good news, about Anthony, they have told me that he was very smart, they told him to count from 1-10 and he kept on going…probably around the 30’s…lol.  Also,   They even asked me if he had been in any pre-k schools somewhere and I said, No Ma’m—just at home.  Same with Alexy, they were impressed by her too, it seems like what they did was kind of a little too easy for them.  I really have to learn to make them adjust to sleeping earlier than they do now and me, having to come home at 6 in the morning only to fix breakfast and get them ready for school…I need to sleep right after I’m done with all these!…*sigh*  Alexy cried right when we got out of the door because she still wants to stay…lol.

From now until the school opens around September, I have to put them to bed were they can have at least 8 to 9 hours of sleep…makes me wish I was in back in school again…lol.  I still have to think about Anthony having to wear pull-ups because, he still have some accidents when he doze off even if he did it before going to sleep so, I’m thinking that when he goes to kindergarten, they do have one of those "nap-time" and I’m pretty sure he’ll go–as in go potty.  I don’t have a problem with Alexy, she goes right before going to bed.  As for my little one, Andrew, he still hasn’t mastered the "potty" impasse but, he tries without me pressuring him.  He would be able to go to school next year.