online shopping

I was at Buy.com the other day to look for unlocked cellular phones. I want to buy one I can use to put a sim card with a roaming number in so I can send text messages to my relatives in PI for just a peso instead of paying twenty cents per outgoing and incoming text messages. I found a few that are promising but they are still on the higher price but then it is not surprising considering I am looking for a quad band phone. So I will have to save a few more dollars because what I have right now is already appropriated in bills and savings. While I was at their website I read about their "green study" where a study claim that shopping online consumes less energy and reduces carbon monoxide emission. I don't know if this is true but I do shop online and I hope I am helping in my own little way. But, it does not solve my immediate problem, money to buy the phone I like to own.

we cancelled

We were invited to attend the stepdaughter's son's birthday party today and we talked about going but decided to cancel at the last minute. We had things to do and a cranky child to appease so it was not really wise to go. I really wanted to go though for the little man because the party was at Chuck E. Cheese. Well, maybe we can go on the child's next birthday. Today was just not our day to attend a party.

just married

A cousin got married about a month ago and I only knew it when I found her pictures in Facebook. When we get the chance to talk I asked her why out of probably over a hundred wedding invitations nothing came in our mailbox. She said if she sent us an invitation we would not have attended anyway since she was married in Antipolo in the Philippines while we are in the US. She did have a point. I was just teasing her though and I know she knew it. She had a dream-like wedding in white and green and her siblings and their mom were present. The rest of the relatives were not able to attend though because of the distance but I am sure she enjoyed her wedding day. Perhaps we will invite her when the husband and I decide to get married again in Leyte where relatives and friends will serve as witness.

dilemma

Because of my plan to lose weight and a dream to wear my pre-pregnancy jeans, I spent weeks looking for a fitness equipment that is well-suited for my plan. I did it online and in stores. I had to compare specs and prices and personal preference and before I even decided for one ( I was partial to the tread mill) the husband and I decided to get pregnant again. Now I might not even buy any no matter how I want it because I don't think I can use it until after I give birth. Well, maybe I can use it while waiting to get pregnant but I don't know how it will work yet. I may have to ask my OB when I visit her. It is a dilemma I have right now. What to do? I just hope I can control myself and not gain too much while pregnant or else that will be double the pounds that I have to get rid of. The weight loss plan has to take a back seat for right now.

giveaways

We are asked to go to the stepdaughter's house to get the bedside table she wants to give us. We will get it because we know she will throw it away should we take a long time to claim it. She bought new furniture so she is either giving away or throwing away her old stuff. We will see what else she has got for us. We never know, she might give us one of her tv stands which we can use for the little man's room. I don't mind using somebody else cast-off as long as it still look decent enough. And knowing the stepdaughter, the furniture should still be in good shape because she has a tendency to buy things when she wants them not because she needs them which is an advantage for us :)

it came!

My passport is here! It came five weeks and three days after I submitted the forms. The husband and I are happy. Now we can start planning our next step. And now I can stop complaining about the people who work at the embassy, lol. What we need to do now is save up enough money so we can visit my parents in Leyte. I hope we will get to use this passport this year. If not then maybe next year :)

still waiting

I have been impatiently waiting for my new passport to come so I have been checking our mailbox every single day for five weeks now. I was told it will get here in five weeks but still has not come. I am getting impatient already. That one document is one of the things we are waiting and then we can wrap things up here and move out. But it is taking its sweet time coming. Instead of the passport I get life insurance and payday loan offers in the mail. I already asked the husband to call the Philippine embassy by the middle of the week next week should the passport not come yet. He can ask the questions because we found out that people working at the embassy are nicer when they talk to Americans than their fellow Filipinos. Anyway, I still have today and tomorrow left for the mail to run this week.

clean!

I finally finished vacuuming the carpet and what's good is I did a little dusting too. That is easy to accomplish when you don't have much space to clean and the little man was busy with his own thing. Now I can be online while waiting for the laundry to get done. Yes, I realized there were enough dirty clothes to wash so I did it instead of waiting a few more days. Anyway, like what I said, the little man has pretty much kept to himself this morning. He played with his toys in his room and when he got tired with that he ran to his computer where he is now watching videos of Wheels on the Bus over and over again. I noticed he has been sneezing a lot though. This does not bode well for me. I hope he will not get sick. I have been sneezing a lot too but mine I think is caused by allergy because it has not developed into a cold. I even thought about buying allergy relief but I always forget once the sneezing stops. Maybe this is all just due to tree pollens? Who knows? Well, I hope this is not symptoms of common cold or else I will be in a mess again.