I told ya! I'm back!

Just like what I posted a few seconds ago on my Beauty of Life blog, I'm back to blogging again. Honestly, I missed my blogs a lot, especially this one, cos this is my blog for my son. I can't believe I let you miss a lot of things about my son. Oh, he'd grown a lot now. There were so many things that I wish I would've put in here when they happened, but I wasn't able to find the time to make a post. Hopefully, starting today, I'd be able to update my readers and fellow mommies out there about the things I wanna share about my son.

I'll keep you guys posted, promise! I told you, I'm back! :P

Need to drive

I got a new job which means that I'm dealing with a lot of changes in my life which I kinda like. One change that I'm dealing with right now is driving. I never had driving experience. I never really wanted to drive coz I don't think I'd be able to know how until I decided that I need to full time job which means I need to drive myself to and from work.

Right now, I'm still learning how to drive and hopefully this month or next month, I'd be able to have a driver's license and own car. Also, I'm trying to search for an auto insurance that works for me, pricewise. Good thing that we can easily get an auto insurance quote insurancequotesus.com and compare which auto insurance companies has the best offer based on your own needs.

Temptation got me

Earlier I was really craving for pizza. So when my husband said that we'll gonna eat out for lunch after he picked me up from work, I was glad that he let me choose where to go. Of course, I suggested to have eat-all-you-cal pizza at Cici's. It didn't surprise him though. But each time I pig myself out like what I did earlier, I always feel guilty.

I always wanted to lose weight. I think about it but I just don't have enough will to do it for some reason. I wish my husband would criticize me how fat I am now but instead he always say that I will always look sexy to him. Sometimes I think that he's insulting. Of course I know he's not but I want to think that he thinks of me as fat. I know, I'm crazy!

Dieting and exercising are really hard for me coz I'm not used to it. I always eat a lot but I don't gain weight until I became a Mom.

I've heard about colon cleanse which is said to help cleaning out our colon from toxic that includes fats so it will help us to lose weight. I haven't tried it yet but it sounds interesting to me.

I just hope that one of these days, I'd really have the willpower to stick to losing weight and not let the temptations get me again, especially the cravings for junk foods! Ugh!

Grandparent's Day!

Yesterday, September 13 2009, was so-called Grandparent's Day. Honestly it was the first time I heard of it in my 25 years living in this earth, but, oh well.

Just like every Sunday, we visit my parents-in-law and once in a while their other Grandkids, Kevin and Keegan, stay in their house for a night of two if my in-law's will babysit them. So yesterday, it was a perfect Grandparents day for them coz all of their grandkids were there. And the kids had a playdate which doesn't happen that often.

Anyway, I'd like to share some pictures that I took yesterday. Hope y'all like it!


Keegan, Kevin, and my son, Abi, hugging each other


The kids reading stories with Grandpa and Grandma


..and my son, having fun with the mud puddle.

Taking a break

I'm so jealous with my parents-in-law coz they'll gonna go to Vegas this November to have a vacation. Vegas vacations are cool! I always wanted to be able to go there and see what it's like to be in the gambling capital of the US. But I won't go there to gamble, I'll just watch the shows, explore the place, and of course, have some fun. The thing is, I don't want to bring my son with me if I'll go to Vegas. I don't think that would be fun coz there's nothing there for him. But I still hope that I could go there one of these days.

What a relief!

I am one proud Mom to have a fully potty-trained 3-year-old. It was such a relief to have our kid potty for so many reasons and the most important one is you know that it's big step for their development. I was so glad that when I started potty training my son, he was more than ready and willing, so it wasn't that hard. Now, he goes to the bathroom, all by himself to do #1 and #2, without any help, except when he runs the water from faucet coz the faucet in his bathroom was clogged and so it's making weird sound when the water comes out from it. But we already have it replaced with Hansgrohe faucet, just earlier. Hopefully, he can do everything on his own now. Now, that's a relief! :-D

Gifts list

I think it's time for me to change the title of this blog now, or maybe not. This blog was named Starts at Two because I made this on the exact 2nd birthday of my son and I made this for him. But my son will be 3 a few days from now which means it'd this blog's 2nd anniversary. Wow, time really flew fast.

Anyway, I'm making a list of gifts that I want to give my son on his birthday. Last year, I gave him a piano and a laptop. I was just done looking online for some and I saw a lot of laptops now. Last year, there wasn't alot to choose from but he liked what I from him anyway.

My boy is growing so fast. He will be 3 soon but it seems that it has just been yesterday when he was still so delicate and small. The way he looked the first I saw him in the labor room while I was fighting my drowsiness from the anesthesia they injected me is still fresh on my mind.

Thinking of him growing makes me sad and happy at the same time coz I know that there are alot in the world for him to see and make him a better person but time will come that he will have a life without me in it. And what makes me sad. I know I shouldn't be thinking about it yet but I really can't help myself.

Backing up files

It is such a pain in a butt to restore a computer! I tried it, not once or twice but a lot of times already. When we still have the old laptop, we keep having problem with it and the easiest way to solve it is to restore it. Take note, that was the easiest way but it wasn't easy at all. The hardest part about it is backing up the file which I never did coz since it's an old laptop, we didn't want to spend money on it coz we know that it will soon stop working (which finally did). That's why I was just the one trying to fix it instead of taking it to computer mechanics. I was never able to backup any file which made me lose a lot of files that I needed though not so important. But now that we have a new computer, I know how to find an online storage where I can save my files for backup in case we need to restore this.

Summer's ending already!

Time is really flying so fast. We are in the month of August now and before we know it, it'd be holiday season again, then year 2010! How's that?

That means summer is about to end again. In fact, at JCPenney, where I'm working at, winter clothes such as sweaters and thick jackets are already out. But I'm not ready to end the summer yet coz we still have alot of things planned to do that can only be done during summer. For this month alone, we'll go to the Circus. This would be the very first circus in real I'll ever see in my entire life. Schlitterbahn has taken a spot on our schedule too. Then, one of my friends invited me to a Florida vacations. I was never out of State yet so it'd be interesting. I just hope that everything fits on my schedule coz of course, I got a job and I can't just request off anytime I wanted too coz everyone has their own summer vacation plans *sigh*. So, I guess, I'd just better do the other things I can't do this year's summer on next summer, right?

Rearranging everything

My sister-in-law who is living with us is about to move out. So, me and hubby was planning on how are we going to rearrange the house now that Abi will gonna have his own room. I'll probably change almost everything inside the house, now that I have the freedom to do so and without worrying where to put everything coz all the things will be here and just all ours.

So I was looking around the house to start the plan and was shocked to see in one of our kitchen cabinets that is full of expired weight losss supplements [expiration date: 2007]. All of those were my sister-in-law's coz she went into a diet program before and for some reason stopped it. So all of her diet products had gone to waste. I talked to hubby about it and he said that he already talked to her about it and she said that she's still gonna use them coz they're still good but not as effective. But we doubt it very seriously. Anyway, those are one of the things that she's gonna take with her [hopefully] and we'd be able to make use of the space with all of other stuff from our wedding as a gift that we hadn't took from the box yet.

For now, I pretty much know where to put almost everything. I will probably do all the planning but of course, it'd still be both of our [me and hubby] decision about where everything should go. I'm so excited!

Working Mom

I have changed my status now. Instead of being a work-at-home Mom, I am now a working Mom. I finally got my employment authorization card [my Greencard as well] and got a job. My first day was a breakthrough for my 2-year-old coz it was the first that I was away from him and a different person taking care of him, my brother-in-law, Kevin. He got away from me couple of times but it was either, my husband, my parents-in-law, or my sister-in-law watch him. But never cried or whined for me while he was at Kevin's house. Of course, he had so much fun their too coz his cousins, Kevin's sons were there. In fact, each time I go to work, he would think that he's gonna be at Kevin's house.

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So after work, back to blogging again. Now that I am more exposed here, I guess I'll have more interesting things to share to you, so you better watch out! *wink*

Our Will-Be New Home

We are searching for a new, bigger home right now. Our home right now is just enough but really don't like our neighborhood. We wanted a nicer community and all. So we looked to see if we can find somewhere we really like.

We love our manufactured home, so we are looking for another same type of house, only bigger. We have a singlewide and we wanted a doublewide. So I looked online and found very nice houses at azchampion.com. Actually, I think I already found the one that I wanted, and for sure, hubby would approve too. Below is the floor plan.

I really like it coz it has a foyer, big living room, fireplace, hidden kitchen/dining, 3 bedrooms, and lots of features included.

If you wanna see more manufactured or mobile homes, just visit your website that there's a lot to choose from.

Hate pimples!

Personally, I consider myself a little vain. I always freak out with zits. So I always have my acne creams with me. Without acne means confidence for me. Most effective acne creams are a little bit expensive but you can find affordable ones that works as great.

I have a friend who used to have a lot of pimples on her face but was able to get rid of her pimples after she used Acnetix. An all-natural acne cream that contains tea tree oil, white willow extract, and green tea which are the most common ingredients for skin remedies. Since I've heard about the product, I searched it online and found getacnetreatments.com that provides information and reviews about acne treatment products. I found out there that Acnetix is one of those affordable acne creams that may work just like the expensive ones.

So if you have acne problems, don't let it to be your problem forever. Use a product that would eliminate it.

Barney's I Love You

I just realized that my son has favorite song now. And it goes like this,
I love you You love me
We're a happy family
With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you.
Won't you say you love me too

Does it sound familiar? Yes, of course coz it's the I Love You song by the infamous purple dinosaur, Barney. Who kids doesn't like that song, right? My son is not a Barney fan but he adores him and he loves this song so much. He likes me singing it to him while we're rolling on the bed. I so love the way he exclaims "Let's do that again!" each time I finish the song. I always love times like that!

Laptop works again

I am so glad that finally our laptop is working again. This thing hadn't been working for a few months coz it's overheating. But luckily I found a helpful site that gave me the solution to our laptop problem.

Basically, all I did is clean the fan of the laptop to make sure that it is working properly. Though there's not that much dust in it. But I guess what really solved the problem is when I adjusted the processor speed under the power save mode of the power saver properties. It was originally set to maximum and I now have it to middle. I am pretty sure that did the trick.

We will get a new computer soon though coz this laptop has been really really old already and I guess it's time for it to take a break. This was actually from my hubby's dad and he had it for quite sometime now too. But I wanted to get desktop coz it won't have the overheating problem like what we had with our laptop. Plus I firmly believe that desktops have more power than any laptops.

SoOoOo Sweet!

I am so proud of my son! Not being bias here, but he is the sweetest kid I've ever known in my entire life. Though sometimes a nuisance but he is still adorable, really adorable that I can't help myself admire him so much. I can't believe having a perfect angel in my life. Of course, I always know that he is a sweet boy but something triggered me to post it in here.

I slept in the wrong side of the bed the other night and woke up yesterday morning in a different world. My husband said something that made me break down. So my son came running to me, saying, "What's wrong Mommy?". He was staring at me while my tears are falling and innocently said, "Are you crying Mommy?". I tried to hide my tears coz I never wanted him to see me weak but it's hard coz he was trying hard to look at my face while asking me if everything's okay. Though it was already obvious that I was crying, I still answered him, "No, nothing's wrong. Mommy's not crying.". Then he said, "Are you whining?". That made me chuckle coz I wasn't whining but I was sobbing.

Yesterday was my husband's off and he needs to get out to do something important. Usually I'd go with him but I told him that time that I'd rather stay. So he decided to take Abi with him. It was yesterday, when one of the few times that he got separated from me physically. Before he left me, my son went to me and ask me if I wanna go. When I said no, he was begging me to go with them but I already made up my mind to stay while I put myself back for that day. It was just really a one hell of a morning.

About couple of hours after they left, Andy, my husband called me coz somebody wanted to talk to me. It was Abi. Andy told me that he was asking where I am and said that he missed me. Abi didn't talk that much though. After being gone for almost 4 hours, they finally went home to pick me up coz we need to do our grocery shopping. They just waited for me at the car while I was getting ready. Then the first thing Abi said once he saw me was, "Did you miss US Mommy? Did you miss Daddy and Abi while we're going out? Because you're crying and whining". I said, "Yes, of course, I missed you both and I am not crying anymore". And that same question of his was asked to me about 20 times that day. He just wanted to make sure that I really did miss them.

That was yesterday. Now let me tell you what happened today, I mean tonight.

I like this show, "She's Got The Look", that is aired every Thursday, at 9:00PM. Yesterday, I missed the show coz we went swimming at night and I was confident that it will be replayed at 11:00PM just like last week. But when 11:00 came, no She's Got The Look. Of course, I was so disappointed. But thankfully, it had another replay earlier so I was glad I was able to watch it. But when I switch the channel from Noggin (my son's favorite channel) with my son's favorite "Jack's Big Music Show" show on, he got so upset. So I explained to him that I only have one show every week. I often watch TV. I only watch my favorite shows and that's it. He stopped crying and totally understand what I told him. Then after my show, I switched it back to his show, then he came to me with a worried look while saying, "I'm sorry Mommy". I asked, "What are you sorry for?". He said, "Your show". Then I said with a smile in my heart, "No, you don't need to be sorry coz you were so good for letting me watch my show". Then he smiled.

Awwww! My 2-year-old is acting older than 2 now. He is starting to show care, love, and sympathy for other people which is a very good thing. I can't wait to see him grow as a good person, like his Dad, but at the same time, I don't want him to grow yet, I wanted him to be always my baby coz I know that time will come, he wouldn't let me call him a baby anymore. Ugh! The painful thought of him leaving us and starting to stand on his own feet. I know, all I need to do is enjoy the moment while I can still take care of him and play with him and teach him the goodness of life while he grows. Oh! My son is the greatest blessing I ever had in my entire life.

Short doctor visit

Finally I had my medical exam for my greencard application done last week. Tomorrow, we'll go back to the doctor to picked up the form and submit it to USCIS.

The exam went well and fast which is to be expected coz I don't have any health problems, so far and hopefully never. The doctor's only comment is about my teeth. I have couple of cavities that needs to be taken care of as soon as possible before it becomes a problem. So he referred me to a Plano Dentist as one of the best one he know. Other than that, I'm good to go.

The working laptop

I'm so glad that finally, our laptop is working again. It has not been working properly for a few months. I thought I already did my best to fix but I was wrong. One day I was surfing online and just happened to saw a forum that discussed the same problem we have with our laptop--turns off automatically without any warning. It was mentioned that the common cause for such problem is just overheating. So I did the suggestions posted in that forum and it truly worked. Now, it's my turn to share with you on how I fixed our laptop.

First, I opened its cover and check if the fan is full of dust and wasn't performing properly. The fan in our laptop is a little bit dusty but it was still running normally. It's not making any weird noises and such. But I still cleaned it anyhow. I also cleaned the inner part of the laptop to get rid of more dust. Then, I found another suggestion in the forum that if it would've been posted earlier, I should've done it first before I opened up my laptop, but oh well. Anyway, what he said and I did is adjust the processor performance. By default, it is set to maximum, so I set it to middle. After that, our laptop has been working properly again.

Now, I am able to update my blogs regularly and do more online activities coz I don't worry about the laptop shutting down on me in the middle of whatever I'm doing and it was so annoying. So, if you have the same problem as mine with your laptop. You may try doing that things I did and it may work for you too.

My jobhunt

It has been 3 weeks since and I got my employment authorization card that proves my eligibility to work in the US. I have been searching jobs since I got it and guess what, I still don't have a job up to now. I'm wondering what could have been wrong. What's sad is there are lots of open jobs in our area (Austin, TX) and I applied for every jobs that I think I qualified but up to know, I didn't have a single interview yet. But I'm not giving up any hopes. My husband said it's too early for that.

Most of the jobs that I am looking for is in line with customer service coz that is where I am experienced at. I worked in a call center for two years where we troubleshoot networking devices and provide 100% customer satisfaction, for 2 years. I also worked as cashier in a department store where we are also required to render great customer satisfaction while we operate POS systems.

Those are my only jobs so far though and I have them back in the Philippines. Now I am hunting for my very first job here in the US. I don't think it's easy, but like I said, I am not giving up at all. Just wish me luck!

Using up lots of memory

Our laptop is starting to slow down its speed again. I always hate it whenever it happens coz it affects everything I'm doing online that requires Java application and such. I already know the reason why it slows down though, it doesn't have enough memory to accommodate my files.

I'm trying to minimize my downloads and files being saved in the computer but it's just so hard when you have a lot of online endeavor and things seem to be easier done in the computer than any other things such as making documents, searching something, etc. That's why I need to have a stock of memory sticks so that I can just save my files in it rather than in the computer. Then I won't need to use up my computer's memory.

So, since my birthday is coming up. I put memory stick as one of my birthday wishlist. Hint, hint, hint!