Summer is almost coming to an end so we should enjoy whatever is left of the season.
Maybe go to the beach… do that hiking or mountain climbing you’ve been planning since summer began…
Or just go out of the house and walk on dry land.
Whatever it is you are planning for the weekend, I hope you will have lots of fun!
Happy weekend everyone!
I get emotional whenever I witness a graduation march. I remember how lucky my sisters and I were because my mom was still alive when we had ours. And I get emotional thinking that my brother no longer experienced having mom inside the auditorium when he graduated.
I know that university graduation gifts won’t be able to replace the gift of both parents’ presence but I still gave my brother one and hopefully he was able to discern from that gift how much I love him.
Nothing can ever really replace the presence of a mother in a person’s life.
It was a long time ago when the family was able to enjoy a day in the park. So when the opportunity presented itself, I took time off from writing and went with the family. It was a really good day so we expected a lot of people but we were lucky there were so many wooden tables still available when we arrived.
We spread out the food we brought with us. I took out a book I brought along. We also spread a thick blanket on the grass…
We enjoyed our park time so much that we are planning to go back this weekend again!
A cleaning woman found great jewelry inside a small bag at the mall’s public restroom. Instead of keeping it to herself, she immediately went to the mall office and handed the bag to them. After two hours, the owner went back to the mall and claimed her bag. She gave a token to the cleaning woman for being honest enough to return her bag and everything in it including a huge amount of cash.
The owner turned out to be an overseas worker who came directly from the airport to meet up with a friend to whom she’s given something from abroad. She, then, went to the restroom before going out of the mall to board a cab going home. When she’s already in her house, that’s when she realized she lost the small bag she’s carrying with her valuables in it.
Can you imagine the temptation such items have? What an honest woman the cleaner turned out to be!
The product launch was a big success if you base it on the huge turnout of old customers of the company and the potential ones including business affiliates. The stanchion managed to hold off the guests from going immediately for the product samples. The marketing director of the company formally introduced it to everyone present and the CEO declared it available for public consumption!
It was a really good night for everyone present. The guests managed to snag freebies while the company was able to launch their product and possibly made new customers from the crowd.
We may think that we are holding on to a very thin thread of hope so it’s better to give up now. But I say hold on! Hold on to that thin thread because it will coil and thicken as days go by.
Hold on and see how that thin thread will eventually bring you to the place of promise.
There was a banquet at the church and you wouldn’t believe the amount of food donated by the parishioners. A lot! Of course, seeing as there’s a filet mignon, I went for it immediately. I was famished and I had to get as much food in my tummy as possible! Ha-ha-ha!
I am a big eater and when I get hungry, I really am hungry! I need to eat something heavy to be able to feel full. Yes, I am like that all the time.
Oh, I am trying to do something about this horrible habit of eating and eating until I can no longer take in another bite. Hopefully, very soon, I will be able to just eat the right amount of food I need and turn away my head from the rest of the food laid out on the banquet table.
Mr. Torres’s house was cleaned from top to bottom. He hired a number of cleaners to help him get his house ready for the next renter. He has a summer house that he rents out to vacationers and the last one who rented it out already left after a month of stay.
The adult step stools were taken out so the cleaners can dust the ceiling and the walls as well as all the cabinets and shelves. Mr. Torres boasts of his summer house to be the cleanest and most comfortable house that is truly family-friendly.
And safe, too!
The medical interns are working on double shifts due to an emergency food poisoning scare in the little town outside the city. You could see them briskly walking with their computer carts from one room to another, tending to patients that are mostly teenagers. The patients attended a rave party and drank something that made them vomit. They were rushed to the hospital and when they were checked, it turned out they got food poisoned by a substance mixed in the drink and the food they ate.
It’s a scary episode for the teens involved. They thought they were eating something safe but it turned out the food and drinks were all spiked.
Good thing they were rushed to the hospital right away.
I was aboard the cab when I noticed a number of motorcycles that passed by with drivers not wearing motorcycle helmets. I was confused why they were not being apprehended as it’s dangerous for motorcycle drivers and passengers to be on the road without helmets on!
I wanted to alert them to the fact but, of course, the motorcycle drivers already sped up.
I keep reminding love ones who has a motorbike to make sure to wear a helmet when driving it. It is rule of safety number one! I don’t think you will regret in the beginning, right? It’s always in the end and sometimes, we don’t have the time for that anymore.
What was the last thing you got really excited about?
I was asked this question and you know what? I felt terrible when I heard it! The last thing I got really excited about was a book! A book!
How pathetic does that sound to you?!?
I have no life whatsoever and I live my life precariously over book characters. Argh! Even I cringe when I read it.
I am the first one to admit that I have no life outside of work and my books. For one I don’t have the money to go out and meet up with friends every week. I also don’t have the energy to go to a bar and get a pounding in the head from all the noise in there. Not to mention the amount of smoke I would inhale.
I know how my life is but it still sucks to read or hear about how pathetic it is.
Oh, well. It’s a choice I made so I should just suck it up and move on.
My cousins are looking for the best berries for their mom. Aunt Win is known for eating a lot of berries when she can. So they are checking out http://www.berries.com so they can order a basket for her. She has given so much to all of us that I know the cousins have been planning and saving up for the best gift they can give her.
She’s already with a family of her own but that doesn’t stop her from being the best aunt we can ever have. My siblings and I already gave her a token two weeks ago. When the cousins heard about it, they also told me that they have been planning the same thing but they are still saving up a bit so they can buy something more special for the aunt.
So I helped the cousins clean our grandpa’s tool shed the other day. It was filled with so many things that it took us hours just to bring out each item stored in the shed. There were tools for cutting grass and plants, broken electric fan machines, a pail full of concrete nails, a stink bug trap, several fly and mouse traps, and a whole lot more.
We found a lot of stuff that our grandpa obviously stored there years ago. It accumulated so much dust that some had to be scrubbed before we could fully recognize what was it.
We ended the clean-up before seven at night and we were all so exhausted but happy because the shed was finally free of all the clutter in it!
Billy installed a new sensa trac shock absorber in his SUV. He wants to test his vehicle so he invited his sisters over for a joyride after work. They were laughing while cruising the road at night. They had dinner somewhere and when they got home they were so overjoyed by the experience.
Billy loves spending time with his brothers and sisters. He now lives in another city alone. He chose to live by himself near his place of work so that he can save up on gasoline and parking costs. But he admits that he misses being with his parents and siblings so he visits them anytime on weekdays and spends most of his weekends with them.
My sisters and I were in a packed diner a couple of days ago. We were really hungry already we thought we would have to wait for a long time for a table to become available (but didn’t) and for our orders to arrive (again we didn’t have to). I think it’s because of the command communications tools the diner crew have. They were able to communicate easily with each other thereby making organization better.
Tables are cleaned fast. Orders are made on time. And everything in the diner seem to move faster and more efficient because the people are organized and know what they are doing.
This is so true! I can actually relate to the funny photo above. I am guilty of posting a vague status update in Facebook and Twitter a number of times just to get my friends to ask about and show they care.
Admit it, you already did it, too! Once, twice. Maybe all the time!
I rant almost all the time. It’s one of the reasons why I created a blog, to vent out my frustration with life. I need it as an outlet and I am using it to the fullest.
But I know that the truth is nobody cares what happens in my life. Nobody cares if I am suffering because they, too, are suffering just like me. Who truly cares, right?
Well, welcome to reality!
Nobody cares!
:p
A friend of mine is doing software promotion to earn some income on the side. She’s been helping her husband earn since their kids are now both going to school. She told her husband that she can take care of their grocery needs so she’s really working hard while the kids are napping in the afternoon.
She learned how to create a web site and used that one she created to work on her recipes and then for promotions to earn. It’s working for her and she’s not only enjoying her online time in the afternoon but also networking, learning so many things from other moms like her.
They are very lucky they took advantage of the tires for sale that they found out about. They have two extra tires at the back of the SUV so when they got flat tires in the middle of the road, all they had to do was push the SUV to the side of the road to change tires. And then they’re back on track!
They still have four more hours on the road before they finally reach their destination. They are a day ahead of the ceremonies so there’s nothing to worry about. They already booked a room in a bed and breakfast two houses away from the location of the ceremonies so they have all the time in the world to relax, explore the place a bit and get ready for it tomorrow.
There will be changes in his life once he’s done with the IT Infrastructure Library. He will be starting a new life in this place where the company he’s working for will assign him. He is ready for the changes to take place and he can’t wait for his new life to begin!
He’s had so many setbacks in life since he graduated and he’s just shrugging his shoulders in front of others but when he’s all alone he truly hurts from all of it. He’s ready for the positive things to start pouring in and he knows it already started with the training.
One of the things he loves about being in a band is the tours. He loves that he and his band can do what they are passionate about which is their music and can also do something they’ve always wanted to do which is travel. They get everything delivered to the place where they will do their gigs, including the Ampeg Amps that they are very particular with. And then they just go there to explore the place a bit and then perform at the day and time designated.
Oh, how he loves touring!
They met in college. From day one they already know that they are both fascinated with skyscrapers. They often talked about it and vowed that one day, after college, they will build their own company. And you know what? It’s been two decades since that vow they made to each other. They are now dealing with steel buildings specials. They have made a number of commercial and residential buildings across the country. They are also both licensed engineers who are still dreaming of something that will make people’s jaws drop at the sight of it. In a good way, of course.
They are partners for life and they know it. Even now that they are both married to amazing women they met on their first project, they are still closer as they were before.
It didn’t take her long to think of a gift to give her husband. If there’s one thing he wants, that would be the best flavored cigars. He has a drawer full of it and he brings a box of his favorite ones inside his car wherever he goes.
He learned how to smoke one when the in-laws invited them over for a month-long vacation up the mountains. They stayed there and after a day only, he tried one and never looked back.
He’s been a cigar lover since then.
Sooner or later I will be on that level where I won’t worry about tomorrow or for emergencies because I have more than enough money saved in the bank for such. I am hoping that I will be able to do that in the second half of this year. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
You know I am sick and tired of always worrying about the state of my finances. I know that I will be able to do something about it if I only go back to the corporate world but since I have so many apprehensions about going back, I just have to find another way to get to that level of security I want to be on.
A multi-million jackpot in the lotto win please?!?
My dad and I together with my two siblings went to visit an old family friend of ours who already lives in another part of the metro. We went there for the blade sharpening tool that he has. He is well-known for his all-around services and since my dad really needed it, we decided to go with him so we could also say hi to him.
My siblings and I, we grew up with the man tinkering around the house. He is a very good friend of my parents and when he was called by his older brother to live in their house (because his older brother and his family went abroad to live there), he said goodbye to the family. We were saddened and we truly missed his presence around the house.
When we came to visit him, he was so surprised seeing us that he cried. He is now ten years older, more gray and his hair all white, but he still has the same warm smile of the old. We missed the old man!
