Time’s up,You’re Busted!

Every Saturday (eversince we turned into a hiatus mode on one of our business), I found myself enjoying that time of the week alone where everyone else is away, doing their thing.

Unfortunately, today, I found myself at home already late in the afternoon. My original plan was to leave everything out and to blog my heart away which I used to do. But my I couldn’t let myself go far away as there are alot of chores left undone. So, I set up time plan.

My goal was to finish it all before my husband arrives which is around 6:30 pm.  It was already 3:00 pm when I arrived ( I went to buy dog food and cat food or our pets will kill me). I haven’t eaten lunch yet so, I took a break of about 30 mins. Then I attacked the laundry (which was already half way done for 2 days now). I finished hanging the clothes by 4:30 pm. Then there’s still a lot of things unpacked away from our move (we moved to current petite domicile about one month ago) I finally decided to store them all away. Then I have to put things still away in our house which was kind of hurdled by a hurricane. Then the our babies (our dogs, Phoebe and Chloe) starting making sounds which means they are already hungry, so I fed them in between tasks (I don’t know when anymore). Then I realized its already late, and my dad is nowhere in sight which means I am the cook for the moment and they have to bear with my pitiful cooking. I came up with corned beef (without the corn) with local lettuce. Then I decided that I could now clean myself and do MY thing.

To my dismay, while I was feeding the cat, my husband arrived. Don’t get me wrong, I love my husband. I am very much glad that he is now home, but its been a long time ago that I haven’t been to myself. People don’t know it but I hate being pushed to do something I don’t want to (which as far as my reading have taught me a very distinct Taurean personality). I do things at my own time and my way. I rather not do something if I won’t direct it all the way except of course for jobs that I know first hand requires teamwork. I would glady give you the throne if you want it just be sure that you’ll do a finer job than me.

Anyway, then I realized, time’s up, I’m busted! I won’t be able to write peacefully. I couldn’t focus if somebody’s interupting me all the time (which happened by the way). And now I got an angry husband on the bed with his back turned around and  a pillow over his head sulking because I said something he don’t like. Do everything I say should be disected and analyzed?

I finally got the 15 mins I am craving for. I learned something today. 15 minutes personal time is expensive. But I know I could get it cheaper. I just have to do more research and development. Hehehehe

House Renovation: The Story

I finally found time to write this entry at last! I have to wake up extra early as during the day, I have this urge to do something else again. Anyway, here it goes.

In my previous posts, I have written about that we have been renovating our petite domicile. Its very cute but I feel that this small space is very homey. We were dismayed before with our tenants as they didn’t took care of it like a good father of a family.

Here are some of the before pictures.

 

The Kitchen

The Sink at close up

Bedroom Floor

My father’s arrangement with our former tenants is not familiar to me. What I know is that they agreed to have this room on the other side of our house (we could no longer put an extension to the house due to the house structure) beside the garage where my cousin (who used to live with us) and my sister sleeps, to be extended. They occupied half of the supposed to be garage with them financing the extension in exchange for one year free rent.

Then like a normal house repairs are needed like need to replace roof sheets or the bedroom floor (I thought they included in the renovation then as I knew very well that half of the bedroom floor was only made of wood). Hence through out time like (16 years) the support of the bedroom floor was feasted upon by termites.

Anyway, past is past. Our tenants already moved. We occupied the space and like a good father of a family, we saw to it that its repair be treated as soon as possible. And the outcome takes away our fatigue.

   

When were thinking of what paint do we wanted for the house, we both agreed that we want something happy. And since we both love green, when see saw that green pallete (we just call it avocado green and we think of ice cream while doing so), we just fell in love with it

The kitchen is one of most important place for us. People who loves to eat looks first at kitchen’s houses (you could imagine our feelings when we saw the before look of the kitchen). I became even happier when I got my wish of one yellow wall that brigthens up your day.

And the bathroom is a bonus. The purple walls make us think of ube ice cream the whole time we are painting it. The yellow window is an accent courtesy of D. Actually, the purple reminds him of putobumbong ( a kind of rice cake with purple color ) and thought that it needs butter on the top hence the yellow was added.

And courtesy of our friend, Bearhugz, this window

 

 who we thought is a nusiance really, will turn out to be something beautiful as this

The idea came from D (we have thought about what to do with that window for a long long time and were gald we thought of this) and Bearhugz flashed in his mind as the guy’s talent is one of the best we know.

Hope you had liked the tour of the house. We have a cute house, don’t you think? We had a blast decorating our house. Its not fully finished yet. There’s still a cabinet to be installed there, things to be replaced and etc.

House Warming (Finally!)

Our week has been a very, very busy one. And unfortunately, I also experienced one of those what you call mental block. I could think of anything to write that I feel alright. But then, I am tired of waiting for my groove to return so I’ve decided to look for it. ^^, Here’s what have happened lately.

1. House Warming

We have invited our friends over last Sunday for our housewarming (there’s a proposal for part II by the way, but we’ll see). And everybody was so happy (they have to say so or there’ll be bloodshed. hehehehehe) as it was also our official announcement that we are already married.

Everybody loved our choice of color with the house and the food which D prepared. It took us (I’m the messman and 2nd cook) almost 5 hours to do all the preparation and cooking as we cooked it on a charcoal stove which added flavour to the food. And unfortunately, I got to picture only two of the dishes as we are already tired by the time our friends arrived.

     

I didn’t even had time to take pictures of the before cooking as we were running to and from.

And everybody was excited with the food. Its our first time to cook for them. Though they didn’t told us directly, we were pretty sure that they loved our Spaghetti with pepper paste ’cause they have been coming back for more.

And the guests, I hope they had a good time, they should or their tummy will hurt (a little violent here *heh*).

Aren’t they cute together?

I hope so. Even the our beloved cat matriarch  visited our humble abode. She’s already 6 years old, have a croocked teeth and now hates to bathe. But still cute and cuddly as ever.

2. Change of Work Station

Last week, they moved our department to our old building which was about 15 mins ride from the our building. And stress accumulated due to the change of system procedure. I don’t usually file for an overtime (as I consider myself graduated from overtime a long time ago) but I have to or the consequence of delay is very, very big. Which is also the reason why I haven’t got to update my blog as much as I wanted to. I am too tired to write a couple of sentence. Thank God, we already have our MyDSL connection last week. I could now blog at home! Hurraay!! But unfortunately, our schedule has become a little bit tight. T_T

I haven’t posted all of the things I wanted to. For now, this will do.  Until next time.

June: Month of Liberty

June for us Filipinos is considered as the month of Independence as Independence day is celebrated every June 12. But for me June is not only so far have been a month of national independence but as a personal independence as well.

Last June 12, we have finally moved to our tiny colorful space. We love the colors and the atmosphere and we are thankful for the people that helped us make our imaginations into life. My husband is a great decorator and it makes my heart melt when I hear him tells me that its all for me. He wants me to be comfortable as I can be to the simple home that we started to build. I am very grateful that we are so alike in our taste that we don’t argue on how we would arrange our home. God is really good.

And just last June 16, we are finally approved to move our department to our old building. This is liberating for me as I was praying and attracting the change of scenery for me as I have been ranting before. Now we are staying in a very close room that is so peaceful and quiet. I have never had a peaceful Monday before which is kinda scary by the way. Its not normal so it could only mean darker days to come.

For now, I shall savor every little peaceful time I have and free my mind for stress and be more tuned to myself for now.

Pictures? Soon. Promise.

Out of This World

The title is actually nothing to do with this post content. I am just out of great idea to name what I just wrote about.

Anyway, I’m finally able to relax now a bit. I finally have the “downtime” I am craving from my work. I wasn’t able to blog much as some of might have guessed it (and I hope my company don’t mind as I still finish my work and deadlines), I am blogging at work. I just couldn’t help it as I need to pour out the things that are on my mind before it spills. But don’t get me wrong, I have made some of my posts at home using the not so speedy dial-up (we use Blast as its the fastest we have tried)  with 44.00 kbps and it takes me 2 hours to compose one decent post. *whew*

But I am happy to announce that soon we would be blogging at home. *whopee!* We have just applied for the promoted PLDT MyDSL (the highly commercialized one that teaches kids to tell a ”white lie” to parents just to have one) with the speed of (I just truly hope that they are true to their word) 768 kbps.  I just can’t wait till they install it. The downside for it (I’m pretty sure is the

We are almost finished decorating our new home. The paints are now drying up and the smell of enamel paint is slowly fading away. And I think I will miss the smell very soon *heh*

I love the colors that we picked. I am very through with plain colors and we opted to a quite unusual ones. Our paint mixer is quite a talented guy. We just showed him what color that we want by bringing a sample like magazine or cloth and then manually, he mixed the color for us. We are amazed as once upon a time we tried doing the same as we thought that mixing paints is just the same as mixing watercolors.  The basic is yellow plus red equals orange, right? What we came up instead of the basic orange is brown. Perhaps its in the pigments used or something but the thing is it is not easy as it looks.

Anyway, we have not yet taken any after photos yet as we’re still busy with segreggating the trash from the good and the finally can live without things like that favorite undies that so comfortable that it has already five holes in it or those assorted books I have collected through out the years that I have outgrown (our small space will look like a mini-library if I insisted on gathering ALL of it).

In total, we love the environment we created. Its quite homey in its little way. Well except maybe for the bathroom that needed an overhaul. The stains have just placed itself quite firmly in the tiles which even muriatic acid couldn’t do anything about (suggestions anyone?) D is even kidding me that I became obsessed with the bathroom that I spent 3 hours on scrubbing out the stain but with dismal results. I decided to stop when I saw that the muriatic acid is already cleaning out the white textile cement instead of the orange molds, stains and stuff.

Shall update again, soon. For now, please excuse me for not posting another Thursday Thirteen again.