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Ricky Martin Is Out!

8/365 days of blogging. So he’s out! His last sentence on his announcement on his website says, “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.” If you ask me, there was nothing really shocking or surprising about it. I think it was pretty obvious [...]

Save The Date - The Final One

7/365 days of blogging. So we’ve finally decided on what save-the-date photo to use. I like having her photo in black and white against all the subtle colors around it. This was taken from She’s Full of Scrap’s kits. (It pays to have sisters in the business. My friend decided to have this printed [...]

Save The Date

6/365 days of blogging. So my friend’s daughter is turning 18 this September. She and her husband decided to give her a traditional Filipino 18th birthday called a cotillon or a debut. She’s asked me to help her because these parties have a tendency to be big. We’ve been planning it for about a year now. Since we’re [...]

“Why I Will Vote For Noynoy - Winnie Monsod” A Hoax!

5/365 days of blogging. So there was an email circulating recently about an article presumably written by Solita “Mareng Winnie” Monsod on why she will vote for Noynoy. I was supposed to publish it here but I wanted to put a link back to the original article so I looked around the internet. I saw replicates [...]

Rest In Peace, Kenny Rankin (1940 - 2009)

4/365 days of blogging. For you, Kenny. The icon of my youth, the singer whose songs captured my heart and was the soundtrack of memorable relationships. Your music will live on. May it really be Oh, So Peaceful where you are right now…

A New Blog Template

3/365 days of blogging. I made a nice blog template for a friend: She’s a very dear friend of mine and I’ve known her for a long time now. We met each other thru the internet when she and her husband were still in Singapore. And when they first moved to California, I was living there, too, [...]

I Hate Having A Cold

2/365 days of blogging. I hate having a cold. This is one affliction I always suffered from ever since I was a kid. And since I’m a regular “client” of it, I actually know if my cold is just going to be ordinary that would be gone by the end of the day or it’s the [...]

Post Christmas Post: The Christmas Tree

1/365 days of blogging. Since the last entry I have in here was when I was waiting for us to buy a tree, it’s but proper, I think, that I follow up on that entry and show you THE tree. I know… too late, eh? But what the heck, I need to blog about it [...]

When Are The Trees Coming?

I’ve been very busy the past couple of weeks. Christmas is just around the corner and I’m very excited! Hubbie and I are putting up our very first Christmas tree together. And being the obsessive person that I am, I would look at the internet no end on sample designs, how much it will end [...]

My Girls

I’ve been sooooo busy this summer. Since my husband and I got married, this might be the first summer that saw us really enjoying every day of it from beginning to end that it just went by so fast for us. We had a chance to go to Virginia, take a trip down to Florida [...]