Summer is here

Summer is officially here and I feel like I’m back home. The sun rises early on this part of the world, 5 am is normally the time when the sun will rise and the sun here is hardworking too, it will set really, really set late, 9:00 PM (the most). So, I’m still not used to seeing a 5-pm(ish) sun at 8:00 PM.

Also, I’m having difficulty sleeping at night time because our centralized aircon is not always ON and I have to contend with the warm, warm weather, countless times I woke up sweating. Can I just say I want this weather during days and I want winter weather during night time, is that possible? Enough rambling.

My officemates are filing leaves and most of them are going on a summer vacation, from Las Vegas, Europe and exotic places like Costa Rica and Dominican Republic. Wish I could also go on a vacation myself but money is pretty tight right now, with Yiek spending almost 3 Grand on his last vacation to the Philippines (for his sister’s wedding). With our upcoming BIG expense for the coming of our little one, travel is just a dream for both of us now. I did surf the net and found good travel deals, and booking is easy as 1-2-3, with a touch of a button or a call you are on your way to your dream vacation. I’m doing my research as early as now, you’ll never know I might win the lottery *wink*.

8th week

I’m working from home right now because I didn’t get enough sleep last night. I’ve been having headaches before sleeping time, if I don’t have morning sickness then I have night sickness, which just goes to prove that I’m a night person hehehe.

Yiek has been a trooper because he’d drive me anywhere I’d like to go just to appease my so-called cravings. Funny is once I tasted 4 bites of the food, I no longer want to be associated with it. Friday, I had cravings for sisig, so Yiek had to drive 30 minutes to a Filipino resto and yesterday, I was craving for Red Ribbon’s dinuguan, so we drove 30+ minutes just to get my fill.

Last Saturday night, I had a bad case of hyper that I was writhing in pain, thank you singkamas dahil pinasakit mo tiyan ko! Sorry, takaw ko kasi inubos ko with matching suka and salt. Now, I’m more careful with what I eat at night, I no longer want to have hyper, masakit sya sobra!

Also, I’ve been munching on Skyflakes and its a real helper, I wonder why it taste good when all other food taste blah.No puking yet, alhtough sometimes I do get the urge to puke but its not really often, only after I’m really full, I am still queen of my throat because I can hold it off. LOL!

I’ve also been buying lots of stuff, only to throw it away because Yiek would lecture me that its not healthy or that I shouldn’t be eating leftover food because germs would accumulute or I shouldn’t heat my food in the microwave because its baadd or I shouldn’t put my cellphone in my pocket because radiation might do harm on our baby. He says that I’m the most pasaway pregnant woman, I’d say he’s just o.a.

I’m longing for the first trimester to be over, so I can have my appetite and taste back.I have 6 more weeks more to go before I can finally be safe from any danger of miscarriage. Hay! tagal naman non. I do have good news, I now know baby’s EDD and its on Feb 5, 2008, am hoping he/she’ll come out on the 8th para “swerte” daw.

Also, I have to get used to spreading my legs and putting my “pussy” into full view by my OB. Tsk! Just this morning I had another bloodtest and my eyes were as big as saucers when I saw that she prepared 4 small vials and 1 big one, “she’s seriously not going to draw that much blood from me???” but alas she did and I got weak on the knees, I felt like I donated 250 ml++ worth of blood (come to think of it, I think I did donate 250 ml worth of blood)

Gotcha!

I just found out that my cubemate and I have one thing in common, pretending to work while sleeping! Caught him pretending to surf when in fact he was probably dozing off! How did I know? I myself was dozing to sleep and when my head was already falling, I pretended to be busy and looked at what my cubemate was doing, he was just staring at the cnn site for x minutes.

Pregnancy Rant 1

Fcuk! I’m hungry again, I am always hungry, not the regular feeling of being hungry but the my-stomach-is-aching-i-am-having-a-splitting-headache kind of hunger or I’m-so-hungry-I-can-cry hunger and this happens almost every hour. I feel like I’m having an ulcer but it seems this is normal with my condition. Do I have to endure this for 7++ months? Pisti!

 Ok ra tani, kung lami ang pagkaon, wa man pud lami tanan, imagina gihilantan ka, ingon ana ang lami sa tanang pagkaon para nako karon.

Pregnancy Ramblings 1

Notice how I’ve been blogging non-stop lately? I am just so bored! I’m have very few task at work and I am not challenged enough, I want more coding! I think I need to switch jobs (again?) BUT due to my condition, I can’t. My insurance is here and transferring to another company will nullify my coverage and I need this badly! Doctor’s fees are exorbitant here, with my insurance I only get to pay a minimal fee and sometimes I don’t pay at all, like my ultrasound and bloodtest. I do pay some monthly fee for my insurance but all that is bawi with all the coverage I get. Pero naman, gusto ko naman mas challenging job kesa dito, hopefully next project may matutoto(sp?) naman ako ng something new! Gusto ko talaga makapasok sa financial industry i.e. fix/derivatives pano ba?

I am rambling, I hate how I always have a bitter taste in my mouth and all the food seems to taste like sawdust(as if katilaw).  I am literally forcing myself to swallow the food because I am hungry all the time! I heart bacon before now I can’t seem to stand its taste. Sometimes, I have food cravings like palabok and arroz caldo but after 3 bites I’m done with it and again I’m forcing myself to finish the stuff. Now, I’m craving for dinuguan but I’m not sure if I’m even allowed to eat it. I hope hubby gets home sooner so he can drive me to Asian-Pandan, a filipino resto, so I can eat sisig, their yummy shanghai and buko/buko pandan juice. Naglaway nako pagmaayo grr! Lami lagi mokaon ug manga? Nangita ko gahapon sa shoprite pero wa dyud miski isa ka manga!

I am feeling tired all the time and can go on the whole day sleeping, which I did yesterday, sleeping,eating and sleeping again. And I’m becoming an emotional wreck, these hormones are wrecking my brain not to mention giving me massive headaches.

Europe Dreams

I’ve been meaning to go to Europe this year to fulfill my life-long dream but sadly those plans are shoved to some hidden dark corner and will not be opened ’til maybe 2 years from now. Plans have changed with the coming of our little one so, I would have to dream more of being there.

A friend of mine is soon going to London/Amsterdam to visit and have tea with the queen, kidding, she’s been assigned to work there and I’m really excited for her. It must be music to my ears if I hear any british-accent guy talking. It sounds romantic. Maybe, just maybe we can visit next year for a few days or so, baby in tow that would really be bloody exciting! I’m looking now at hotels and the prices are not that bad.

I still can dream can I?

Mommy’s First Look

Mommy had her first ultrasound today, it would have been better if Daddy were here but he is on the land far far away, am told its called the Pwelipens. So, mommy will be driving alone for 7 days which makes her a nervous wreck because she’s always fearing that she’d bumped someone or something with her carelessness but all is good so far, no minor accidents except that she takes 3 minutes to park the car. Mommy can be really funny sometimes, I hope I don’t get clumsy like her.

Before going to the hospital she got a cup of water and washed her privates just in case it will be a trans-vaginal ultrasound (tvg), truth is she doesn’t know what that is but since it had “vagina” in it, she assumed that some tube is gonna be inserted there. Mommy’s afraid that her privates will smell like some dried fish so she washed and wore a pwetty panty.

When she got to the St. Claire’s hospital which she thinks is really cool because it sounds like Sintclaire, a name she’s mighty proud of, she was given a map to go to outpatient and got lost along the way. Her sense of direction is non-existent, another trait which I hope I don’t get. She registered her name and talked to a Filipino guy who was really all friendly, helpful and cute too because this guy was trying his darn-est to speak slang tagalog to her ala Sam Milby.

She then went into the prenatal wing of the building and forced herself inside the door even though it said “push button on right side to enter” (she couldn’t see the button, I don’t know why). She then talked to the secretary who asked for a prescription from her OB GYNE and answered sheepishly “I’m sorry I forgot my prescription”.

A few minutes after, she was ushered to the ultrasound room, told to sit on the bed like some child and took off her shoes but the lady said “Don’t take off your shoes, its hospital policy”, she assumed maybe the shoe will keep the radiation out. Where does she get all her ideas? The lady then put some hot stuff on her tummy and pressed a razor like thingy to view me. I was like a caterpillar sleeping and my heartbeat was really fast. Mommy got teary eyed and looked at the ceiling to not be obvious. My doctor took a picture of me, ain’t I cute just like mommy, nevermind daddy, am hoping to get daddy’s intelligence and mommy’s good looks.

To replace picture once scanned, dinala ni Yiek yung laptop eh tapos walang driver for mac yuung scanner namin

I don’t know when I will come out yet because the doctor said I was too small and backtracked my age so instead of 8 weeks, I’m still 6 weeks and 4 days. Next visit I’ll tell you when I’ll come out and I’m so excited Daddy can finally see me.

Cravings

Yiek is going home tomorrow, which meant that I’ll be alone. I can’t go home with him because its tambok, wala na po kaming pera. Kaya home alone na lang. Yehheeyy! Peace at last.

Do you know that our apartment was built in 1920, so far no ghost has been apparating in front of me. Takot sila sa ‘kin. Pero baka kako bigla silang mag appear, picturan ko nalang sila para may proof.

Sigh! I’m so jealous of Yiek right now, because he gets to be with his family (it’s his sister’s wedding) and eat all those yummy food. Lechon, Mongolian BBQ from Kublai Khan, Steamed Rice from Harbor City, ngohiong, grilled pork belly and many more. Wah!!! Paulia ko ninyo!!!!

I’ve been having food cravings such as pandesal and pospas. Yung pandesal na hangin lang ang laman, tsaka bagong luto galing pa sa bakery, to be exact gusto ko yung pandesal sa Magdalena bakery dun sa San Carlos City, Negros(o di ba may brand pa. hehe). Masarap din yung Valenciana ng Tita ko, tsaka gusto kung kumain nang Molo soup sa Chowking.  Na-iiyak na ako! Gusto ko nang kumain.

Malapit na Dec 2008, Malapit na!!!! 1 year and 6 months na lang uwi na ako! Woohhoo! (grr! ang tagal pa non, by that time mag 1-one year old na si baby)

1 + 1

Georgia has been telling the world so I decided to post this reserve entry (kahit di pa ako sure).

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Perhaps I believed in Purita, the rip-off manghuhula (psychic) who told me its a definite yes that I’ll get pregnant on May albeit a year later than what she told me (I remember feeling scared that it would come true last year because I’m was not reaadddyyy yet!) , or maybe it was my high temperature that wouldn’t seem to ebb away or maybe it was my overly sore breast that had me convinced I was pregnant.

I was 2 days late when I took the pregnancy test, a very very faint line came up which had me convinced that I was hallucinating. You see, while I was convinced that I was pregnant, I was also convinced that I’m not (how confusing can my mind get, huh?) because I had a stroke of bad-luck when we went to a casino in Atlantic City, NJ, there’s a saying that, pregnant women are lucky, well I was not, I lost $40 on those stupid slot machines, so I convinced myself that I was not. (Gawd! I’m such a terrible sentence structurer. LOL!) I drank coffee (a lot),drank nyquil and anti-histamine, applied steroids on my poison ivy rash, drank a bottle or two of alcohol, drank one humongous glass of Margarita at Friday’s and walked more than 5 miles for 2 successive days. *bad mommy*.

I wasn’t convinced with the test because I bought it for $1, and a test that cheap just isn’t believable plus I’ve heard of false positives so I bought another set of HPT tests from Target and what do you know, it has the same result. Yiek wouldn’t even believe me and I myself am in denial so I let it pass for a few days and took another test again, this time the 2nd line was glaring pink. So there, I’m pregnant. I wanted to do a hangman and let all of you guess, or do a smart “copy and paste in word, change font, change font size” sort of thing or do a “K-i-s-s-i-n-g- on a tree” rhyme but I decided to just keep it simple.

Now, I’m feeling tired all the time and confused if I’m ready or not. My mother though is more excited than I am and sent me links to read. Thoughts of, “will I ever survive this?” is creeping up and how in world will we manage, with a baby in tow and both of us working (quitting is not a option). I’m pretty much a survivor (sings “I’m a survivor, I’m a go getter”) so I know we can make this work, its just the thinking of “how” that’s giving me the headache.

The good thing is that I don’t have morning sickness, no nausea and vomitting and I’m feeling pretty much like my old self so hurrah for that! Now, I am longing for my fix of coffee and other stuff which are a no-no for me. Ang dami namang bawal .

evidence nyaks! (click image to enlarge)

To Ria and Cedric (Dan)

One of my close friend, Ria just got hitched yesterday and I couldn’t be happier for both of them. ‘Ika nga it’s a match made from heaven, how I wish I was there to witness their dying proclamation of love but alas I’m in a land far far away. Since the wedding is finish, I can now share this video message that I made “with love” for Ria and Dan, am not sure if they really showed it in their reception, sana hindi na kasi kakahiya hehe.

Click here for the video.

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maybe i was really sleepy while blogging this, I wrote “much in heaven” instead of match made in heaven. hahaha!