We're finally moved in

I have been planning to ( should I say procrastinating ) to post. LOL . It has been more than three week since after we closed on the house that God has blessed us with . But we really didn't moved in right away. It was just a slow moved.

Every night for one week my husband and I will take boxes to the house from the apartment where we used to lived. And when it's time for us to move our furniture , men from church were helping my husband. That was really nice of them.

More than 3 weeks had passed and I only halfway done unpacking . That is why I don't like moving. Packing and unpacking takes so much time. I can't really do a lot when I come home from work because I still have to cook for supper and clean up afterwards. I am done moving. Since I have been here in the US , we moved about 5 times. When we moved from South Carolina to Minnesota last year, it was not a big deal . We had a mover who packed everything for us.

I still have not taken any pictures of the new house . Maybe one day :)

Quick Note

To all who visited my blog and drop EC, I am sorry I won't be able to visit back. We just closed on a home and we are in the process of moving to our new place. I am just so busy right now, with packing and bringing stuff to our house plus work . I will be dropping EC regularly as soon as everything is settled.

God Bless US all!

Busy Monday

I have been having a 3 days weekend for the last four weeks now. I have 4 days vacation left and I need to use it before October 21 . I decided to take vacation on every Monday for the last 4 weeks. Well, for the last 3 Mondays , I wasn't really doing anything. I was just being lazy after all , it is my vacation day.

But today is a different story, not only that I am busy doing lots of laundry I will also continue packing our stuffs. I have packed all our movies and some of the books last Saturday. I will packing the rest of the books today and start packing our kitchen stuff ( plates, glasses , etc ) . Aside from laundry and packing, I will calling be utility companies as well, ( electric, gas, waste management , water, phone & internet ) . I will probably include a cable when I call ? LOL . Yes my husband and I do not have cable ( we're still living in a stone age era.. ha ha ha ) .

So long everyone, let me continue doing my house chores and packing . ( Would be nice if we have a movers this time )

I love Orchids

Friday evening is usually the time that I stayed up late and chat with my family. But not last night.They weren't online last night. I still stayed a little bit late though. My husband went to bed around 8:30 I think because he has to get up early. I didn't go to bed until 11:44 pm. I was blog hopping last night and also dropping some EC cards. ( I actually missed doing so )

It was so quite last night that I can hear my own breath. While blog hopping and dropping EC's. I remember my father, I really do miss my family in the Philippines especially my father. Even my husband noticed that I mentioned my father a lot than my mother . I think it's because I am closer to my father than to my mother.

My father loves orchids,and I do too. My father has a lot of orchids when I was growing up,while my mother likes to plant roses ,daisy and bougainvillea. ( I think it's strange for a man who plants and takes care of orchids ) . But my father loves the orchids. Let's see what Orchids say about me :)

Your Orchids Say You're Very Elegant

You are exotic and intricately beautiful. You possess a unique grace that's both delicate and strong. You are thoughtful and refined. You are the definition of class. Some people may find you unapproachable, but it's only their lack of confidence speaking.

What Do The Flowers You Pick Say About You?

Blogthings: Discover the Parts of Your Personality that Have Been Hiding

Thanks to my FC - Marzie

Snow in October?

You would not believe it , Minnesota has been greatly affected with global warming . ( NOT ) . Well, Saturday October 10,2009, we already have snow. And forecast says, we'll have about 1-3 inches tomorrow. Yes, snow in October. The winter does not officially begin until December 21, but winter comes early in Minnesota , or I can call this state MANYSNOWTA!

This must be a very long winter for us, Brrrr... I don't even remember having a real summer this year. We still had snow in April. This is gonna be a big mess on the road, you see there are still a lot of road construction going on, and traffic in the rush hour pretty bad and I am sure it will get worsts. ( I still don't know why they call it " rush" hour when everybody is driving slow , LOL ) . And it's not fun driving in the snow, unless you are driving a snowmobile .

Update

Wow, I can't believe I ignored this blog for almost a month now. No updates, not even logging into it. The thing is I was a little busy with house hunting , going to a ball game and of course playing farm town LOL .

Like I said in my previous posts, we have been faithfully looking for a house. But every time we find something that interests us, someone snaps it right away. There was this house that we really like, it's a 3 year old house and yes I love the features and everything. We told our realtor that we are going to make an offer , she made some phone calls to the listing agents and asked what needs to be done. She told us we get a cashier's check for an earnest money ? So my husband and I went to the bank to get a cashier's check. While at the bank , our agent called us and informed us that there's 8 offers in the house already ! The house was only in the market for 3 days and there's already a lot of offers. So we decided not to compete.

I found this new construction house and we told her that we wanted to make an offer and last week we signed tons of paperworks and we also chose the color of the wall, carpet, the kitchen counter and everything. The house will be completed next month . So excited about it!

Please pray for us , that everything will be smooth .

Glad To Be Home

After a week of being away , I am so happy to be home. I was in North Carolina for training.I have to admit that I love to travel, but it's weird to travel by yourself. Todd and I like to do things together. But there are times that we need to do things by ourselves.

I have never been to our corporate office, and it's nice to see people that you talked to on the phone most of the time.
And not only that , I also had a chance to see some of the people that I worked with while we were still living in Charleston .

We had a very hectic schedule, but it was fun. It's fun to learn new things .

The dead guy's house

Okay.. so my husband and I have been house hunting for several weeks now. You can hear it on the news that this is a buyers market. Well.... not so in Minnesota . As soon as we find something that we like, someone already bid or made an offer on it. ( I wish the same thing happens in Columbus ,where the housing market is bad . We still have our house in Ohio that we can't sell )

Our realtor told us that if we find something interesting online , let them know..then we go look at it. So I found this house that has 1o acres land and wanted to see it.

So , on the morning of July 4th we went to look the house. It was an older house, but my husband likes it because of the land. I don't really care for the land though, the bigger the land , the bigger the maintenance .

We looked around the land first and then got into the house. Me and Jennifer( our realtors are husband and wife team , this is their sideline job ) . So Jenny and I went to the living room while my husband and Jenny's husband were in the kitchen when all of a sudden , my husband says " Dusty , this might be the first time you experience this, then he showed him the urn and it is not empty. That was actually my first time to see something like that. Therefore, we nicknamed the house " the dead guy's house " . Ask if I want to live in that house ? Heck NO!

I am an Idealist ?

Todd and I are going to a birthday party this afternoon. So while I was in front of the computer I wanted to see what does MY birth date means. And the result is that I am an Idealists ? Hmm... interesting! Why don't you check out that does your birth date means too ?

You Are an Idealist

You are a natural born leader, even if those leadership talents haven't been developed yet. You have the power and self confidence to succeed in life, and your power grows daily. Besides power, you also have a great deal of creativity that enables you to innovate instead of fail. You are a visionary, seeing the big picture instead of all of the trivial little details. Your strength: Your supreme genius Your weakness: Your inappropriate sensitivity Your power color: Gold Your power symbol: Star Your power month: January

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Tweet to Win Prizes ? Awesome!

I believe most of households in the US has some kind of gaming machines, like Nintendo, XBOX and other gaming gadgets. But my husband and I never own these gadgets, I would like to have one, but it is expensive. Then I found out that I could actually won an ultimate gaming package by twittering about BluFrog. I would really wanted to win these ultimate gaming package and why not, aside from having everything I need for the game,the package includes Xbox 360 Elite System (includes 1 controller & Xbox LIVE Headset),Rock Band 2, Bundle of Call Duty: World War at Complete Package,Xbox Wirelss Networking adapter,Complimentary X- Shot and I can also win 2 cases of Blu Frog Energy. My husband will surely enjoy this as he loves to drink energy drinks. I just started getting addicted to tweeter lately and it will be more fun to tweet and then win an awesome prize.

For those of you who wants to have a chance of winning an awesome prizes, I encourage you to visit it's a blu world website to check out the amazing prizes you or your friend can win. There are three ways to enter and win in this fabulous contest,you can blog about it, post a comment in their contest page sharing what would like you to win, and yes tweet why blu frog is better than the other brand . And for complete details , please check the official contest rules and get ready to win!

Our trip to Alabama

I am back from a short trip to Alabama for my step son's wedding. My step son and his fiancee both live in Columbus Ohio, but they got married in Alabama.

My husband and I actually had a good travel this time . No plane delays , no baggage missing, etc. In short, it was a smooth trip. It was my first time to go to Alabama and I think it was a nice place, quiet and friendly people. Since we got there early, we were planning to watch the " River Fest ", but decided to just stay at the hotel because there was a thunder storm :( . Yes, we just stayed in the hotel and watch movie, and guess what movie we've watched , " Forest Gump " .LOL .

Below are some of the pictures of me during the wedding.

Thanks to my FC

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Two years ago, my husband was deployed in the Middle East. He was there for about 11 months. One of the agreement that we made was that I cannot chat at my favorite chat room.:) So when I get home from work, I just played online. Just imagine how boring my life was during that time. Then one of my Filipina friend introduced me to blogging.

When I started blogging, I always wanted to have my own domain. I remember searching from different websites that offer domain as well as hosting. I even bought a domain, but have not used it because that was a little complicated for someone like me who is not a tech savvy. I think I was just wasting my money for that. But that was the thing of the past, now we can if we are not sure where to buy a domain or see a dedicated server hosting and see what options they have for you. And good thing about web hosting geeks is that you can compare different web hosting provider, see what features they offer, the bonus offer and also you can read reviews about their services. If you have a blog and wanted to have your own domain name, try web hosting geeks. You can visit them today and read about the many reviews about web hosting provider. And while you are at their website, I invite you to read their blog as well.

Rainy and Cold Saturday

Happy Saturday everyone. May each of us are having a good weekend.

My husband and I got up early for our monthly church breakfast this morning. I was really not wanted to get up yet because I went to bed late last night. I joked my husband that I don't want to get out from the apartment because it is Saturday. LOL But I am glad we did went to the breakfast to have fellowship with other believers.

Anyway, after the breakfast and fellowship. We went roaming the town looking for a house. ( We are planning to buy a house here in Minnesota even though we are still paying mortgage for our house in Columbus OH ).

My husband likes this one house that has a 2.1 acres , but my problem is the house is old. It was built in 1950, wheeww.. I even joked to my pastor and to my husband that I don't want to live in that house because there might be ghosts in there. LOL

We actually looked three homes this morning and boy.. it was cold. It was raining and the temperature is only 48F. And I was only wearing t-shirt and flip flops. I know it's almost summer but it's still a little bit cold here. I wish it's not raining so we could just walk to the theater later this afternoon( but we needed the rain though ). We are going to watch the movie called " UP "

Have a great weekend everyone and God Bless!

I Miss Playing Racquetball

I really miss playing Racquetball. Although, I am not really good at it ( I was just learning ).

We lived near the base when we were in Charleston SC. Yes, I miss grocery shopping at the commissary , or buying perfumes at the Exchange and most especially , I miss the gym . My husband and I go to the gym almost everyday when we were down , except Wednesdays and Sundays ( Church days ).

My husband and I decided to play racquetball when there's no available machines that we can used while we're at the gym. Picture on the right was taken last year while I was playing racquetball and I really miss it!

-Thanks to my FC -

Updates !!!

Hello everyone. May each of you had a productive week!

I would like to apologize for not updating my blog as I used to . As you can see, I don't even take opps now :) I was a little busy ( or I can say, I just got lazy he he he )

Actually, my husband advised me to give my eyes a break from the computer. I just had my annual eye check up done a month ago and as expected my prescription goes up again. And this time it's worst. And I am now wearing Bifocals. I am not even 40 years old yet. But at least, the one that I wearing has no lines which is better. ( I think )

Now , instead of sitting in front of the computer when I get home from work, I go to the gym and work out . It is my goal to wear a two - piece bikini for the first time LOL . Wish me luck!

- Thanks to my FC -



Liza