surviving deployment: August 2008

HELLO EVERYBODY!!! IM here at our hotel with Jason.. We will go to the USEM tomorrow to get my MILITARY DEPENDENT ID.....
to be continue..

that Im going to see my long lost husband in less than 48 hours, I just finish talking to him and he confirmed his flight schedule to me. What a relief!!! whewww..
I can finally stop worrying about when he will be in Manila, im so thankful that he is on schedule and everything is working according to plan..

BTW my papa is going to fetch me and jaden at the airport tomorrow,
Ill keep you guys updated... im so overwelmed with emotions right now, its like this is the moment that I have been waiting and finally he is coming here.
Thank You Lord for what you have done to my family...

I got a chance to talk to Jason thru YM yesterday afternoon, he said that he is in Kuwait and is waiting for a briefing and his ticket to come here, He doesnt know yet what time and day he will arrive in Manila.
Tomorrow Jaden and I will be going to Manila, I will just wait for him there so we can spend more time together..

yesterday DH told me that hes leaving for bahgdad and then to kuwait where they will give him his ticket to come here.. he was suppose to leave 2 days later but the army is always inconsistent so he took off earlier than expected.
Now i bought another ticket from cebu pacific and im leaving on saturday instead.. urghhh............ whatever..
We will have to walk in at the USEM when hubby arrives in Manila, I dont want to wait until Sept. 17 for Jaden's appointment.
right now im waiting for his call, where could he be??? maybe he is stuck somewhere.. I told him to contact me as soon as he is in Kuwait...

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I have been waiting for ACS to call me since last week for my son's appearance at the USEM in Manila, so I decided to call them today and they told me that I gave them the wrong number, OK whatever.. I was so disappointed because I was hoping that they will schedule us on the first week of September but when I asked if we could have it on Sept. 3 they said there's no available schedule anymore and the next available appointment is on Sept. 17, well at least my husband is still here during those times.

Now I don't know if I will bring my son on Sunday to go to Manila.. hmm what do you think?? I already bought him a ticket and I'm thinking maybe I can re booked it when we will have to go again to Manila for his appearance.
hay this is so stressful!!!

OMG a few days to go and I will see my husband again, the anticipation is so stressful and mind blowing. In the past few day's I have been cleaning our house and rearranging the furniture.. LOL I'm quite excited.. next Sunday me and my son will be flying to manila.
I'm still worried about my son's CRBA and US passport because the embassy didn't call us yet for our appearance, I dunno why they have so many holiday this month... arggg
I also met someone from our city whos waiting for a call from the embassy we are praying that we will have the same interview date, I wont expect a call tomorrow because its a freaking holiday again on monday...

Watch my son's video he was trying to talk and recite a poem, I think it's very cute...
IM so PROUD of my JADEN...

you all know by now whats happening to our fellow Filipino in Lanao del norte area, I'm in full support of the all out war against MILF, they should be punished and held responsible for the blood shed, chaos and barbaric act that they have done 2 days ago, the government should not tolerate this...

My father is a retired Phil. Army and was assigned in Lanao last 2001, he was a driver of the CO they got ambushed by that MILF rebels and a shrapnel hit his arm, thank God it wasn't that serious (tapsing ra) coz he jumped out of the vehicle right on time and defended his life against the enemy. I would never forget that day, I couldn't imagine how the people of Lanao are suffering right now, my heart goes out to the innocent children and civilians who cant defend themselves. I really hope that the Govt. will act now and CRUSHED those MILF rebels!!!!

Cagayan de oro is a 3-4 hours away from Lanao, and we are going to celebrate our city fiesta 2 weeks from now, I think its better if I will just stay at home because they might take advantage of our occasion.

If you havent heard the news about the attack of MILF in Lanao, pls click HERE.

after nag pa cellophane (SAMARA & SADAKO)

paraffin wax n footspa

nag pa rebond? di shampoo lang yan.. :)

facial kuno...

My hubby just got back from USEM in Baghdad and received his new passport, he lost or misplace his previous passport while he was moving out and placing his belongings in a storage facility because they were about to be deployed. He only find out when he was in Iraq that its not on his thing's, he said he might left it in the storage.. I was so angry when he told me about this, I didn't talk to him for a week. He need a passport to come here anyway I'm happy that he finally got it, he can come home very very soon!!!!!!!!!!! yehey!!!
hep hep, hurray!!! :)

of shopping to much, I cant resist to buy thing's online..
this is my latest item from multiply, this is pre order and bought from the states. My Hav's Life is a Bitch :) exclusive from Saks Fifth Avenue a limited edition designed by Bobbi Brown the good thing about this is $1 from each purchase goes out to charity.

I'm also planning to put up an online store in multiply, I have some few Levis that I bought from Manila and my mama is selling it to her friends on installment basis, so I'm thinking it might be nice if I sell it online since its on cash basis. Its still under construction, I'm gonna keep you guys updated...

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Ive been busy this past few days because we have some family friends staying at home for several days, since my sister is in Talakag to do her 48 hours Hospital duty my mum decided to sleep in my house with that family friend. They were sleeping at our sala near the door, at 4 am my mum wake up coz she needs to pee, then she heard that some one is trying to open the gate slowly so it made that squeaking sound, she was curious and waited what will happen and thought that it was just my neighbor, then she heard footsteps towards our door, my mum saw a guy wearing a hooded jacket and wearing a camouflage short and was holding our doorknob from outside trying to open our door, then my mum shouted UNSAY TUYO NIMO DONG? ( what do u want)..
the guy suddenly run as fast as he could and disappeared in the darkness.
OH My goodness when mama told me about this when i wake up I got so scared, sometimes it is only me and Jaden staying here and there are times that I forgot to look the door, its really terrifying knowing that there are some bad people that lives around this place. I already knew that there are kawatan(thief) here because some of our neighbor's rooster got stolen last year and my Jansport backpack is lost when I left it outside after I washed it in the morning.
But this one is different, imagine he wants to get inside my house, ang lakas ng loob ng walang hiya.. I always thought that ang mga akyat bahay uses the backdoor or window para pumasok sa bahay, hmm thing's have change na pala..
I told my mama sana she turned on the lights outside so she could recognize the guy's face who tried to break in, but she said she got scared also..
My mama is really an ANGEL to us.. Thank GOD we're safe.

you are probably wondering why the picture posted below is so big, I did resize the pic but SS didn't approve my post so I change it back to its original size. I'll have to wait and see if they are going to accept my post now, I was such in a hurry doing that opp because I was away, shopping for several hours and when I checked my email I have been reserved for the opp, I submitted the post 10 minutes before deadline and i was notified to edit my post (Post did not contain required assets.Missing asset: /uploads/socialspark/public/assets/314/exederm_3_step_system.jpg
You may fix and resubmit your post until 2008-08-18 12:00:15 EST.) almost 2 minutes to go until it will expire .. whew!!!
btw i know my english sucks but what can i do yan lang ang kaya ng power's ko.. hehehehe.. :)

My husband is suffering from eczema while he is in Iraq, he always complains how itchy it was and I told him to go see a medic and let them examine his stinky feet but as always he was being stubborn and didn't seek help until his feet was bleeding so the finding's was eczema and provided him with an ointment for his skin condition, now his feet doesn't itch anymore, I always reminded him to use clean socks before putting on his boots. My husband told me that Eczema is very common skin disease among the soldiers over there, I guess because of their working condition plus the weather.
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I'm so mad at my husband right now because he is so stupid he cant even mail me the forms correctly, I don't know what to do in order for him to understand that I needed those paper for our son's passport but he is so stubborn and very IMMATURE!!!
Instead of sulking here at home I'm gonna go shopping and pamper my self, yup that's right JASON I'm going to spend your money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't care if you ever come here I'm not talking to you................
GROW UP!

I'm always in front of my computer after doing all of my household chores, I surf the net, shop online, read interesting articles or just write on my blog. Ive notice that most of the time I feel wrist pain and back aches or usually my right hand becomes numb from scrolling the mouse, it is so irritating and it really hurts when this things happen to me.
When I read about this opp I found out the I'm suffering from Carpal Tunnel syndrome which is a medical condition in which the median nerve is compressed at the wrist, leading to pain, paresthesias, and muscle weakness in the forearm and hand, I also learned that this is more common to women than men. Well I hope that I can have something to protect myself from acquiring this condition.
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I think smartglove is better for carpal tunnel relief than taking pain relievers because they have side effects to our body.

I booked my flight going to Manila using a travel agency yesterday, I bought a round trip ticket for me and a one way ticket for my hubby from MNL-CDO, after I paid everything I inform them that my son is also travelling with me, he is less than two years so I thought that Jaden's airfare would be free but this lady told me that PAL doesn't offer free airfares for infant. I wanted to yell at her but I don't want to make a scene, I asked if can just cancel my booking's but they have to take a 400 pesos per person for cancellation fee before refunding my money wtf! so I ended up buying tickets for my son too, and take note its the same amount as adults passenger, the worst part is that Jaden wont have his own seat going to Manila because of PAL's policy blah. blah, blah...
Last month we flew with PAL too but originally we bought our tickets from Air Philippines they have the same owner, our flight was cancelled and we were transferred to PAL, we didn't have any problems at all my son's airfare was free.
I was really careless and wasnt myself yesterday, I didnt even know that Cebu pacific has a promo... huhuhuh
lesson learned: dont rush thing's, read the airlines policy first and I dont want to book another ticket from Limbros travel agency again, ill go straight to PAL ticketing office in divisoria, hay naku I guess im super duper excited, kaya nangyari to!

I've been trying to transfer my income from SS to my paypal account in the past few months but I couldn't figure it out, BIG Thanks to JOY she helped me withdraw funds from socialspark now I have $100 on my paypal account. It felt good that I'm actually earning through blogging, well i hope there will be more opps to come and gain more friends at the same time!!!

I went to visit my OB last Friday to get a depo-povera shot in preparation of my hubby's up coming R&R. I didn't know that it would be very painful as if I was getting a HEPA Vaccine, I'm not afraid of needles or anything and I was used to get a lot of shot as a Nursing student before but this shot is the worst of all. I couldn't even lift my son for 2 days, I suffered from back pain, I keep waking up at and was very weak in the past few days.
The good news is I'm OK now, its better safe than sorry... hehehehe :) so here I am writing this blog just to update you guys. LOLZ

We attended a mass earlier today at Limketkai Center and then I let Jaden play at the worlds of fun until he got tired and fell asleep. I did some shopping for clothes, almost all of the stores in ketkai are on SALE, Our City Fiesta is fast approaching so I guess that explain the BIG SALE. After we had lunch my sister and I decided to watch a movie and let my mum take care of Jaden. We watched MUMMY 3: tomb of the Dragon Emperor its fun and exciting movie but I was a little disappointed because Rachel Weisz was not in the movie anymore, I prefer her being the wife of Brendan Frasier in that film.

WOW YEHEY!! its August....... 3 weeks and a few days to go and Jason will be here. July is gone which means another month down, hay naku Im supee duper EXCITED to the highest level!!! heheheh :)
He's been in Iraq for 10 months now, its his time to take on a much needed break away from the sandbox I can feel that he is so tired,lonely and depressed.
Well as a wife all I can do is cheer him up and I always tell him about Jaden coz it makes him happy... Oh boy our life is not really easy, its tough I cant believe we have gone this far and encountered difficulties along the way but Im holding on, Im sticking around because this is such a wonderful place to be.
Baby hang in there we will be together soon!!!

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