Blog Life

1 month in our home :)
Little Celebration on Friday night: One month in our new home!
So for dinner we had chicken noodles, and chopsuey and to make it a little bit special, I bought grilled chicken from the deli.
Time does pass by so fast when you’re busy. In one month, we were able to do significant little things to our place in order to make it feel like home day after day—and in our hearts, it is home already. A place that we look forward to going home at the end of a busy day at work.
lunch at Jo's place
Saturday Lunch Celebration

Get-together of three Plurk buddies now turned good friends and neighbors Jo, Pen and yours truly. Jo invited us to her home for lunch in order to wish Pen well on her forthcoming wedding in the Phils. See story and photos here.
So what’s so special about your weekend?
Have a blessed week to all!

Blog revamp? Yes.

With the new home of our own comes bigger responsibilities and more stories to share, so the Charmed Wife is now writing about tips, solutions and great finds for the home. The Charmed Wife is also writing of her kitchen adventures and misadventures.

Blog advertising? No…and maybe.

No, products featured here are things I discovered thru supermarket shopping, recommendation from friends and online surfing so I’m sharing all my domestic adventures to you.

Maybe…it could be advertising only if a company will ask me to write about their product. If it is paid advertising: (1) I will surely mention in my entries that it is paid advertising and (2) I have tried the product and sincerely believe/trust the product. I will never compromise my opinion and judgement only because of monetary rewards.

Whatever product I feature here in my blog, that is because it works/worked for me. My experience may not be parallel to yours, some results may vary for each and every household so I won’t take responsibility for any brouhaha that happens when you use a product that I feature here.

Will the Charmed Wife still write about her Travel and Food Adventures?

Definitely yes!! A charmed life will never be complete without travel and food adventures because there is ALWAYS learning in travel and food.

What about personal life experiences?

Yes, but only on a minimal level. The Charmed Wife will still write about her milestones and misadventures only if it will result to learning for the reader–WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE GOAL. For a time, the Charmed Wife felt exploited because instead of getting the learning from sharing her milestones, heartaches and tough learnings, she felt that some readers judged her in an unfairly manner.

There are two “A Wife’s Charmed Life” websites (Multiply and Blogspot versions), what website do we “Bookmark” or add to our “Favorites”?

Since last month, The Charmed Wife has turned her entries at Multiply for her network’s viewing only. However, photo albums in Multiply are still and will always be viewed by everyone.

The Charmed Wife is only maintaining her Multiply site only because she cannot leave the friendships she had made with her Multiply buddies.

Whatever is written and published in her Multiply account is viewable in Blogspot. A lot of readers had the notion that the Charmed Wife is keeping “secrets” via Multiply because it has been made “un-viewable” to non-Multipliers but that has never happened. My entries has always had a duplicate in Blogspot.

The Charmed Wife also has plans of going thru her Multiply contacts to see who hasn’t visited her for the past six months. She plans to cut back on her Multiply contacts since most of them do not really visit her Multiply site. Family members and friends will not be included in the cut-back. The good news is that the Charmed Wife will now approve invites ONLY if the inviter gives her a very good reason on why she should add her (saying “Hi, how are you?” doesn’t count).

In conclusion, “A Wife’s Charmed Life”‘s official site is

http://awifescharmedlife.blogspot.com

So please bookmark or add to your Favorites.

This has been eating up my mind lately.

I’ve been thinking of creating a new website where I would write down loveletters to my soon-t-be kids. Weird ba???

I have this habit of writing letters to people who can’t read yet (like my godsons/goddaughters) so I’m thinking why not do it for my future kids too? Plus, it could be an avenue for transcibing our preparation for parenthood.

Another website to maintain…BUT…IF I do this, IF we are blessed with kids in the future…WHEN my kids are able to read…the joy of seeing them read what I wrote for them even if they’re non-existent yet would be PRICELESS.

Postscript: I forgot my glasses…it’s a home so it would be difficult for me to read today.

I had a long day at work today. Been working on September trainings then all of a sudden, a training program scheduled tomorrow got cancelled. The “ineedtogetthingsdonebeforeigohome” rush gave me a headache, I thought I was going to pass out. The worst part of all was I wasn’t able to go home on time (I missed my bus!) even if I tried my best to run after it.

And so I decided to just wait for husband to come out from work so we can have dinner before going home. While waiting, I walked leisurely to Chinatown. The walk made me feel better. The weather was just right today, not too cold anymore as Spring is just around the corner (oh well, during the day it’s not as cold but during early mornings it’s still very much winter!). The cool breeze relaxed me, did wonders to the headache. Went inside one of my favorite Asian Video Store and looked at Korean DVDs. I can’t find what I was looking for coz there’s just too many, I can’t seem to focus. Will definitely come back soon.

From Chinatown I walked towards George Street and there I met up with husband infront of Pepper Lunch. I’ve been craving for Pepper Lunch since last week. Hindi yata ako makatagal nang di kumakain ng Pepper Lunch! This time I ordered the Kawakara Loin Steak. It’s a bit spicier than the Tokusen, Shimofuri or Hitokuchi. I liked it too. It would have to be my 2nd favorite now…my 1st being the Tokusen (Rib Eye Steak). The husband ordered the Cut Steak and Hamburger–he always orders from the combination menu. We were so hungry we had 2 cups of rice each.

During dinner, husband and I talked about my latest misadventures at work and of a friendship lost over the net. Hayyyy life. Ganun talaga. People come and people go.

Anyway, I also told him that I was happy I was able to publish my Fr. Fernando Suarez story and that it got featured in whatsikat.com. For a moment it was there, but now, it’s gone–I don’t know how long it stayed there…I don’t even know how it got there in the first place! The husband enlightened me on how it got there though when I told him about it.

Good thing, I captured it via Print Screen 🙂 Souvenir! I had a feeling it won’t stay there long.

It’s under the “Discover a New Blog” Category…6th to last of the links there. Aliw lang ako :). Finally, all the hard work I’m putting into blogging/writing is paying off. Salamat talaga sa lahat ng nagbabasa at sumubaybay.

Today was a mixture of a good and bad day…of misfortunes turned into blessings. I may have a had a hard time at work today but at least I got to spend time with husband after work to break the monotonous go-home-after-work habit.

Hope you had a Tutti Frutti Tuesday too!

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