NYE

waiting for midnight, to ring in the new year 2014 and i am hammered. i singlehandedly downed a bottle of champagne. and i have a major buzz an hour away from midnight.

2013 has been a good year. going back in the Phils made up most of the entire year. it was half a year of preparation and 3 weeks in the Phils. the odds were with us, as the biggest typhoon in the country happened while we were there.but other than that, it was good albeit not what i planned for. the typhoon just did a major curveball on that trip.

but 2013 is a good year mainly because i was back at work, and being back at work and taking over a new position, something that i know i am good at. when i went back to work in feb 4, 2013, i was told that the guy who replaced me will not go anywhere and i was aghast.. this japanese accountant knows more than what i know and he is taking over my job and not leaving. i dont even know what i was there for.i was struggling for a month or two till Mark left and i took over his job, then I was promoted to a 5-day work week and i felt good about it.

human was we are, i felt ripped. I am at work from 8-5 yet the other guy comes to work from 11-4 and we are paid the same. my boss doesnt care what i do and i have no way of validating what i do. it feels weird. i want to be productive yet i dont know how,

i dont care anymore but here's what i hope for 2014:

1. get driver's license
2. get back to school
3. get henley
4. get the kids to montessori school
5. get debt-less
6. get better health
7. get happpier marriage
8. get better paying job

Today is the first day of the year...

TODAY is the first day of the year. It's good that New Year serves as a symbolic time to start new beginnings. 

Today is the first day of the year and we didn't go anywhere. I had New Year's day planned in months.. I wanted to have brunch at Fort Garry Hotel just like what Kevin and I did last year. Then I changed my mind upon realising that it will take much $$$ to take a party of four ( including the in laws). So a Chinese buffet came to mind since that's considered a "feast" for white people. (insert all stereotyping jokes, LOL).

Today is the first day of the year but then the unavoidable happened, despite vaccines and flu shots, the LOs contacted their Dada's colds three days ago. On top of that, the weather is a mean bastard with unforgivable below freezing temperature. Even getting inside a freezer is warmer than going outside!

Today is the first day of the year, yet it wasn't my ideal way of welcoming the new year but it wasn't bad either. The LOs were kinda cranky and crabby, thanks to their colds but other than that they're their usual self. I've been hoping that they would start walking before I go back to work. Walking for me is just a BIG milestone that I want to be the first to witness it. Some kind of a reward for all the momma work that I did for the last year. But, nature doesn't hurry but it will make things done. Emma has been taking couple of steps and last New year's eve was the longest she took, 4 steps!! Happy Happy Momma. I gotta feeling that MILESTONE is just around the corner.. say two-week time frame.

Today is the first day of the year and I am committing myself to write more. WRITE DAILY. write everyday. This is for personal consumption. It is easier to look back when you can actually JUST BACK READ your life. Easier to point out some mistakes too. 

2013

I made a lot of feeble attempts to write everyday for this blog but as you can see, to no avail. My LOs have been sleeping through the night after three days of sleep training. Indeed, I can say, It was one of the best parenting decisions I made. 

I have a lot of things to write about. They are all under "drafts". Now that I gained my life back after 7pm, I still dont have the energy to squeeze whatever brain juices left from a day's momma work. Sophia and Emma are so active eager beaver now that they will not let you rest nor sit down. The fun part is here and so is the tiring part. Guess my body aged so much in a span of a 11 months that working playing with babies is such  a labour-intensive exercise already.

What better way to usher the year than to write about it. It's 30 past 12, we just rung in the new year here in central time zone. I rung in the new year in my pjs munching on dried out french fries and a litre of coke. I had crab cakes, calamaris and nachos but nothing sort of fancy like what is expected of a Media Noche in the Philippines. We would've gone to a new year's eve party but the kids are not alright and teething is the culprit. I feel so helpless whenever they cough/sniffles. I just hope this is just part of the teething phase and nothing serious.

I am excited and anxious for this year. After a year of staying at home, I will be back to work in a month's time. It's just a MAJOR adjustment, what with daycare, winter, babies. It's too much to take in so I am bracing myself. I can't help but be anxious, I worry for my babies. They will have a hard time too being hauled early morning in below freezing temperature and stay with other kids. I know I know. But this is our life now. There's no nanny or grandnanny who would do the babysitting duties. We have to make do with what we got and I am still lucky enough to have found a daycare just minutes away from our place. More than anything else, it's the weather that sucks. It's hard enough to wake up early in the morning let alone a chilly cold seeping through your bones. que sera sera. Just have the positive attitude that things will work out good.

In two weeks time, we will start our trial run at the daycare..... Which means, I have to get my ass off in the morning with the kids for two weeks till they get used to their new "environment". Two weeks. Maan. this is it. But having survived childbirth... this is nothing. HA!

2013 means going home too. We need to while the babies are still free. My passport will expire in January 2014 so I need to go home mid 2013 so I dont have to go to Ottawa just to have it renewed.

OTT-- I just dont get it Philippines. Manitoba has the highest number of Filipinos in the entire Canada. Heck, Tagalog is even the second spoken language here. Why can't we have our own consulate??? 

So 2013, let's turn around this anxiety into excitement. I dont do new year's resolutions anymore. I rephrased it to aims and goals.( which is technically the same thing hahaha).

1. to be less indulgent. underindulgence?
2. to be frugal. (see number 1)
3. to worry less, pray more.
4. to be a couponer. ( see number 2. lol)
5. to learn BAKING.