Happiness Around the Corner

It's a Brand New Day

2009-03-04T05:25:00.000-08:00

Another new day and another fun at work. Since I just started joining the team of Corporate America so far I am loving it. Work is fun and I learn different things. Not only the process of the business I am working with but also this help me as well with my personal growth. Being expose dealing with different people and different situation help me understand and know how to deal with what is comming.

Daylight Saving Time Begins Today

2008-11-02T02:00:00.000-08:00

Let's Fall Back today. DST changed at 2am. If you haven't set your clock to jump backward yet do so from 200DST to 100 Standard Time.

Things to be Grateful

2008-07-29T23:22:00.000-07:00

List the different events and things that make you happy and thankful today:

1. Have a supportive, patient, understanding, kind, loving, God fearing husband.
2. Friends I can talk to in times of sadness and happiness.
3. My kitty for keeping me company during the day while hubby is at work.
4. Comfort and Shelter
5. Good Health
6. Computer to keep me in touch with my loved ones in the Philippines and my friends around the globe.
7. An Opp from SocialSpark.
8. Beautiful day.
9. That my husband appreciate my effort to cook dinner for him.
10. That he loved my new found French recipe for today.
12. We didn't have a single argument today.
13. Tasty food I cooked in less than an hour.
14. Got up early.
15. Fixed some billing problems.
16. Changed the Billing address to our On-line bill payment system.

How about you? Have you tried to lists down what made you happy and grateful today?

Getting Started

2008-07-27T17:57:00.000-07:00

Finally.. I am able to start my this blog of mine... I will be try to update this blog as often as I can.

Bolsa Chica Reserve

2008-07-15T14:02:00.000-07:00

June 7, 2008

After the Duathlon event in Huntington Beach, CA hubby, mingming and I was going to walk around the beach, so our mingming on the leash was ready to go. It was around 0930 or 1000 in the morning. When we were walking at about a few meters in the sandy beach one woman told us that there was a sign said "No Dogs Allowed" she also said that "Because it's a cat maybe it's okay". We were talking with the woman for a few minutes. When we had a few steps forward the lifeguard came out from his nest. He shouted, "No Dogs Allowed," including the woman we we all shouted back "It's a Cat!!" again... he shouted, "No Dogs Allowed". We thought that he didn't heard us, so we all shouted back the same thing "It's a Cat." The third time we were trading the same message, some people in the beach under the umbrella joined us to let him know that it's not a dog and it's a cat on the leash.

Finally, he shouted "That one too is not allowed in the sand". He also said, "No animals allowed in the sand".

Well I guess our teased worked out very well. I think that young man ran out of what he gonna say.

Later, we decided to drove by Bolsa Chica Reserve outside the beach. Michael and I walked around the ground while our mingming was relaxing inside the car.

Here are some pictures we took.

Seafood City in Mira Mesa, CA

2008-07-12T14:09:00.000-07:00

'I have to drive' Even though I am very nervous just thinking about driving in the freeway of San Diego, I need to get out the apartment. I don't want to be stuck in the apartment for days and really nothing much do but surf the net after doing my household chores. I finally used my husband's birthday present to me "Nuvi Garmin GPS". This really very helpful getting around new places and roads.

I went to Seafood City Grocery Store to buy something to cook for dinner. I bought fish and asked the attendant to fry them. I also had 1 fresh and cleaned fish for me to cook paksiw at home. I bought a few vegetables and fruits as well.

Good thing the road wasn't that busy. I was hoping the traffic wasn't supper bad, thankfully it wasn't. It only took me about 15 minutes drive from my apartment. I really have to start to get use driving around the busy road of California.

Vegetable Couscous

2008-07-09T13:50:00.000-07:00

Serves: 4

Fluffy dish will tickle your taste buds.

INGREDIENTS
1 small onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced and pressed
2 medium green bell peppers, chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup dry couscous
1-1/2 cups water
2 small tomatoes, cut into wedges

DIRECTIONS
1. Sauté onion, garlic and green pepper in oil in a large skillet until soft, then push to sides of pan.
2. In the center of the skillet, pour in the couscous. Add the water to the couscous, stirring gently. Top this mixture with tomato wedges and the cooked green peppers; cover pan for 3 minutes.
3. Add a little water and cook longer, if needed. Couscous should be light and fluffy.

NUTRITION INFO
Calories: 220
Fat: 4 g
Carbohydrates: 40 g
Protein: 6.5 g

Insomnia!!!

2008-07-07T14:15:00.000-07:00

What I am feeling right now is that I have "Insomnia". For the last few nights I just couldn't sleep early enough for me to get some good night sleep. I ended up sleeping too early!! I mean early in the morning somewhere between 230AM and 330AM sometimes around 4AM and the I got up between 8 and 9 in the morning same day.

Because I couldn't sleep 'till 3:00 in the morning I decided to pick up things in the apartment, clean the kitchen, do some dusting and other household chores that I can think of to keep myself busy. I wish I could vacuum at night, this is the only activity that is very inconsiderate for me to do because I am going to disturb a lot of people. So far keeping myself busy while am still awake it's working fine with me but keeping this late activity the same is not really working very well.

I don't know what's wrong with my body clock. I already forced myself to go to bed around 9 or 10 in the evening. Tried different tricks like counting numbers or counting sheep hoping this would help me sleep.

Any tricks you can advice to me to help me go to bed earlier? I prefer not to take any sleeping medications though.

For now... I have to go and do some other things. Hopefully I can get some input from you.

Later....

Insomnia!!!

2008-07-07T14:14:00.000-07:00

Duathalon Event

2008-07-07T14:12:00.000-07:00

June 7, 2008 It's Michael's Duathalon Day!!! (Swim and Run) A lot of people traveling from other cities to join the Duathlon & Triathlon. The ocean water was about 56 Degree Fahrenheit and some people (women and men) who joined the swim didn't even had wet suit. I was surprised that they made it swimming in cold water. I guess you're not going to feel that much cold if your blood is rushing through your veins. I was very happy that Michael did a very good job with the Duathlon because he only had 6 weeks of training before the event.

Duathalon Event

2008-07-07T14:11:00.000-07:00

Horse Radish leaves (Malunggay)

2008-07-05T13:50:00.000-07:00

About a week ago I went to Pacific Ocean Market to pick-up some grocery. The store is about 15-20 minutes drive from my house and pretty much have good vegetable, meat and seafood selections. I got very excited when I saw fresh Malunggay, eventhough it was a little bit expensive, I decided to grab one pack and just freeze the left over unused vegetable. I also got one whole bamboo shoots for my vegetable soup. The next day I made some bisayan soup mixed malunggay, bamboo shoots with fried fish. Me and my husban's dinner was excellent and very healthy. I had some leftover as well for my lunch the next day.

Officially Done w/ College Finally!!

2008-07-01T13:57:00.000-07:00

Metropolitan State College of Denver Spring 2008 Graduation

Finally!!! After a very long struggle with school I am finally done. I am very excited and very happy that I accomplished something. I am now officially a BS Accounting graduate! I've been waiting for this time to come and now finally I did it!!

What a relieve that I am not gonna in school for quite a while. Hopefully I can recover will all the stress I've been through soon.

I am now opening another chapter of my life. School is done and Hello job hunting.