The weekend that was

I say, the best laid out plans...

...don't usually work out. LOL! I went home to my parents house last Saturday with this major plan to work on some scraps. So with my thinking cap on, my laptop and idea book in hand, DH with me to carry the heavy stuff (Thanks sweetie!), we trekked to my parents place in nearby QC. Alas! Upon arriving, my sister asked to borrow the laptop to work on a research project. As much as I love to scrap, I think my sister's school work comes first. lol! Well, inspite of not being able to scrap, I had a fun fun day with my mom and dad. We chatted the whole day and ate a lot! LOL!

i truly cherish every second with my family and I am thankful for the time given to us just to bond and all. No need for special occasions to see each other and talk. All we need is food, coffee and each other. :)

Sunday was a totally different story. I spent Saturday night downloading kits, papers and embellies. I was up til the wee hours of Sunday morning so needless to say, I slept half of the day Sunday, ate brunch and while trying to scrap at around noon, my eyes kept drifting shut! I couldn't keep these eyes open even for a second! I decided to sleep and sleep I did! LOL! Now, it's Monday morning and here I am just about done with scrapping. Just trying to journal what transpired during the weekend. :)

Oh and by the way, to all you digital scrappers out there, SSD has this really fun "look for the siggy" thing going on! Just look for the winning siggy on the SSD or DST forums and you get a gift from different designers of Sweet Shoppe Designs! I tell you, the gifts are really must-haves! So don't delay, this fabulous treat will end February 28. Go and visit the Sweet Shoppe Designs and DigiShopTalk forums now! Say hello if you're new. :)

And of course for some home-grown love, I'd like to say hello and welcome to my fellow Pinay Bebots who visits this blog! I tell you, the Bebots are a talented, beautiful bunch of ladies! You should see their layouts, they're awesome! So whether you're a new scrapper or a seasoned one, please join us! We're a fun, supportive and talented community!

I leave you guys with the 2 layouts I managed to finish during the weekend. Tomorrow's a start of another work week and I'm tasked to do some scheduling and forecasting so I might have my hands full in the next 5 days. Thanks for looking! :)

Credits Here

Credits Here

I want a new cell phone!

Okay so my mobile phone conked out and I am now unreachable. Sigh. Are my gadgets up on strike? :P

Anyway, so my phone died on me and would not turn back on. I'm thinking it's the battery cause no matter how I charge it, the phone remains dead. I couldn't find someone to borrow a battery from since we use different phone models. Sigh. I guess I should’ve listened to my friend when she told me this unit wasn't of good quality.

Anyway, so hubby tells me to just buy another cell phone. I told him I was still deciding about buying a new unit or just replacing the battery. He had a point when he said I’d be wasting my money buying a battery for a phone that’s not even of good quality. I hate it when he’s right. Heh! So went ahead and surfed the net to find good new cell phones and I saw Wirefly's cellphone offers. Man, they're tempting! I want the Blackberry Pearl (insert drool here) or the Pink RAZR! Woosh! I also want to get my niece one of those Disney phones. It looks cute! Perfect for a Disney fan like her.

Dang! Wirefly sure does pack a lot of stuff in their offers. As if the free phones weren’t tempting enough, check out their wide range of mobile providers! Plus, they have family plans at affordable prices to boot! Oh and check out their accessories page, it’s packed with a lot of stuff you need for your phone, even ring tones! No wonder they’re the number 1 seller of cellphones and wireless plans!

I think I'm going to have my phone plan cut off and get me one of those free phones offered at Wirefly or I could just have hubby use this plan and get me on of those Wirefly free phones. :)

I want this..

This is from Eve Recinella. I just love the soft colors. I love everything about it! I wish it's payday so I can buy it. I hope they'd accept my debit card though.

Okay so I have been downloading stuff since 3 hours ago,

Well, lest you think me as an obsessed digi-scrapper (I prefer digiscrapaholic, thank you! and btw, that phrase is from Aggie. Hi Aggie!) I am just excited to be scrapping. I'm planning to scrap the whole day without the distraction of the internet (i.e. new email reminders popping up, temptation to go to scrapping site etc..), I was so loaded last week that i had no time to scrap. The reason for the download mania is that I'm going to my parents place later (where I plan to scrap my heart out) and they have no internet connection so I am downloading all I can.

So there. I'll update you guys tomorrow on my layouts! CIao!

Updates

Sorry for being MIA for a while. There were a lot of issues the past few days and I couldn't keep up. There's still the issue here at home but I don't want to delve on that just yet. Another major thing was an issue at work. Sigh! Where do I even start?

Our company (company A) was bought out by another company (company B). They kept on saying it was a merger but the minute that it took effect, company B made sure we knew, in not so many words, that it was definitely a buy out. Our country manager often assured all of us that no significant change would happen, but is that even possible? Questions and uncertainty would often creep at the back of my mind. And I was right. Company B made a very unexpected announcemet last week, the Real Time Analyst position in our department would be removed and functions would be given over to the team managers. We were stumped when this was announced to us during the meeting. What's worse is that, they were only giving us until February 23 to train all the team managers then February 26, RTA functions would cease to exist. My brain went on indefinite pause at the time and all I could think of was "crap!" The only option company B gave us was that we look and apply for other positions within the company or leave. Take note though that we would need to go through the regular assessment process, all in less than 2 weeks. Another crap!

After the meeting, my manager and our senior manager pulled me and another colleague and told us we would not be affected as we will be laterally promoted. On one side of the coin I was happy I wasn't losing my job, but I was more sad thinking of my colleagues and the uncertainties they face. Everyone from the company was demoralized when they heard what happened. Who wouldn't? I mean, after our department who would be next right? Sigh.

The sad part is that Company B has not given any concrete communication as to what will happen. Everything is still blurry at this point. We are all at a loss. Right now the latest they sent was that all RTA-TM trainings be cancelled until further notice. It's nice but still no assurance of what will happen next. If I know any better, company B is just buying time so they would not need to shell out money for the severance pay. The management of that company has no LOGIC at all! No wonder they do not have CLIENTS. I mean the only reason they bought us was because of our company's expertise. Sheesh.

Oh well, I guess that's life. I'll give you guys an update if we get one soon.

On another note, I finished 2 -( yes 2!) Layouts today and I'm happy. Kenji LO is for a digital challenge at 2Peas while the other one was a calendar layout for my laptop.

CREDITS:

Layout of my baby Kenji :) This is my entry for the Two Peas in a Bucket weekly Digital Challenge: Diffuse Glow

Paper: Correen Silke We Paper wine, Overlay edge stacked mix

Embelishments: Shabby Princess Vintage Florals Rose Stamp , Rhona Farrer Heart Overlay

CREDITS:

Paper: Rhonna Farrer 2Ps Sweet

Embelishments: Shabby Princess Scarling Dinner Party Flower Yellow, Red and Cream; Shabby Princess Stitched X; Shabby Princess Scarling Dinner Party Pocket Tag;

Journaling: All my dreams came true when I met you

What do you do?

1. When someone very close to your heart frustrates you and yet you are deathly afraid of losing him?

2. When you feel like you're so bad thinking about your frustrations about him that you're afraid you're so ungrateful already, someone might take him away from you?

2.When you feel like you've done everything and yet it seems like the person isn't meeting you halfway? Or am I expecting too much?

3. When the company you work for was bought by another company and they are now removing your department cause it's not part of their organizational structure?

4. When you find out that you get to keep your job while people you have fun working with will lose theirs?

Blech! I am really in a confused state right now. So many things happening that I could not even keep up. Right now all I want to do is go somewhere far far away to have peace of mind - or at least claer my mind off things for a short while. But that's just it, you get to clear it for a while and when you're back, the same problems remain.

Aaaarggh!

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It's up! Whee!

Woohoo! Our connection's up and running na! :) Special shout out to our friend Lau for checking into this! We owe you one sis. :)

Okay, just a quickie post before I leave for work. Just wanted to upload my LO's :)

LO018_ZARAH

LO018_Zarah CREDITS:

Scrap Chic Studio's Bliss Mini Kit, Scrap Chic Studios Flurries Alpha,

Journaling: Your courage and strength never fails to amaze and inspire me. I have always been very conservative about voicing out my thoughts but you inspired me to speak out especially if it's the truth. I never thought that strength and beauty can be fused into one - until I met you. You're truly a beautiful person inside-out!

LO019_Sisters

LO019_Sister CREDITS:

Shabby Princess SM Piece a cake page, Shabby Princess Scarling Dinner Party Embelishments, Shabby Princess Pink Dot Ribbon

What's up with the slowness BRO?

Our SmartBRO internet connection has been acting up since last night, BOO! I hate this. The connection is suuuuper sloooooooow! I swear. slower than dial up! One page will take like an hour to fully load! I wonder what's wrong. I have to wait until later cause hubby has to call them up to check.

Oh well, because of that, I was able to do 2 layouts, BUT, since there's a connection issue, I could not post it yet. Hmph! Oh, and so you guys know, it took 45 minutes for this "Write Post" page to load. 'nuff said.

Calling SMART, this is not supposed to be how Broadband works!

Simplify

I wish I had more time to scrap. Dang! I am just starting this new hobby and yet I couldn't find the time to do it aargh!

I hate being in the midshift, I can't do anything anymore! I get up out of bed and I get ready for work and go home from work, check my mails (cause GMAIL is blocked here in the office BOO!) and then off to dreamland.

It's funny how all of us are given the same amount of time and yet when I'm on the midshift, I feel like I lack time to do all the things I want to do. Heh! I guess I need to simplify my life, organize it and maybe then I'd find more time to do the things I really want to do - those that really matter anyway. :)

Friday Blues

It's a Friday and I'm here in the office. I've things to do but somehow my mind sorts of flies. One time I'm doing schedules and the next thing I know, I'm day dreaming about stuff already. Heh! I decided to blog to get this out of my system and focus on what I need to do.

I am thinking about our current living situation. You see, we live with my in laws (ever since we got married). Personally, I didn't want to live there. It has always been my dream to live independently. I never got the chance to do that when I was single because my dad would not hear of it. But when we were planning on getting married, I tried my best to convince hubby that we need to have a place of our own. Much to my dismay, hubby would not have any of it either. :(

There are a lot of things going on in that house these past few months that makes me want to really move out immediately! Financially, they're in a slump. I say "they" because I do not want to have anything to do with what's causing their financial slump. I mean I work and work hard for me and hubby and whatever I earn, I earn for us.

Lest you think I am some selfish snob, please, hear me out first. I did not think this way before. Heck, I even bought groceries for the house, share in whatever bills that needs to be paid, buy household items to replace broken ones, give them money for whatever extra they need, and lend them money when they needed. All these even when my MIL gets all of my husband's salary every pay day (even up until now). I didn't mind because honestly, hubby's pay from government work isn't that much and I considered it as our share in the household expenses. But towards the middle of 2006, I noticed that they always lack the money for everything. Utility bills go unpaid and result in disconnection, food being bought in the market isn't enough, sometimes we would end up eating canned goods. I analyzed things and thought, everyone in the house is working, earning and giving their share (well except for one), why the lack?

That was when I decided to do my investigation. I will not disclose the details (hehe), but here's what I found out. The parasite inside the house was causing all of the the financial slump. Man, I am just so pissed off with this guy. Ever since I found out what he was doing, I stopped giving money - it was only being given to him. I stopped lending them money too as most of the time I am not paid back. I stopped buying groceries too as this guy would bring several grocery items to his girl friends house (gawd!). I turned our room into a mini studio. I bought all the things me and my husband needs (with his permission of course, he was pissed off too when he found out.), and we only buy stuff for the 2 of us now. That explains why there was a need for me to learn how to cook hehehe.

I just wish that person ( and his parents too) would come to his senses. You are a parasite and you know that. Wake up man! You take money from everyone and you do not have even the slightest bit of shame. You let your mom ask or borrow money from who knows who, you steal, you lie and everyone in that house is affected by your actions. I don't want to be bitter but right now all I feel is hatred towards you. I don't even want to see your face and when I do, my blood boils! Stop talking to me or one day I might just blurt out how I hate you. Stop lying about having work and all that crap because we are not stupid. Sheesh! Enough ranting.

Okay, the only consolation I have is hubby now agrees that we are moving out. But that's another story for another post =P