worthless

while savoring some couch snuggling..i asked lawrence..

"di na ba mahalaga yung time mo para sa kin? aba kailangan din naman kita kung pa'nong kailangan ka ng perfect world (the online game)."

lawrence: "yung time na kasama kita ay worthless."

i was rocked to the core. "anong worthless???"

lawrence looked puzzled and a bit scared. "di ba yun yung mga nasa card?"

okay..he meant priceless.

my dear lawrence...you are really funny at times.

i'm having a rockstar!

it's a baby boy for us!

last april 8, we went to the hospital for potchi's presentation (fyi, to know baby's overall condition - position, weight, heartbeat and gender of course).

aba, katatapat pa lang ultrasound device sa tyan ko e announce agad si doktora ng "boy"...baby boy si potchi. i swear i saw lawrence' face light up for he wanted a boy so much. "panalo sha," i said. natawa na lang si doktora. she knew we had a bet.

ako, oks lang naman although whenever i see baby girl outfits and accessories, naaaliw ako. but of course, long as healthy at normal si potchi, gender's the last issue.

so goodbye to lindrae sophia (for a baby girl sana)..law and i agreed to have another baby by 2012. hopefully, we'll have a girl by then.

now, we're just so happy and excited to see our potchi - our liam eliandre (from oasis' liam gallagher and eheads ely).

f-o-c-u----what's the next letter?

paid writing abiwitch. focus.

lately i've been browsing the net not for work or research but...tadah---ebay! and forums like girl talk wherein i get a lot of ideas about shopping and pregnancy:) (2 topics i'm into right now). all my closest buds know i'm no fashion-crazed. way back in college, i hardly press my clothes and wear the same jean for a week.

you guessed it right. i'm looking for diaper bags, cribs, clothes and all those stuff for potchi and me. it can be addictive i tell you. but fun!

so there. i could not help yenzi with our finances since i'm too knocked off with these stuff. as potchi's coming out gets nearer, i HOPE i can focus more on paid writing gigs so we can buy all those stuff i want.

what to do?

first off, since i can't totally eliminate my curiousity, i'll allow an hour or two for free browsing and spend the rest of my afternoon on projects.

two, i'll try to get better paying clients. since rockczar stopped asking for new articles, we've lost the budget for some bills.

three, i'll try to write more stuff for low-paying clients long as i have the time.

okay now. i feel less guilty.

bye second trimester

my tummy's bigger and rounder and potchi's kicking a lot these days. i was supposed to have an ultrasound since i'm already on my sixth month but doc heidi advised i go under one next month. said she needs an ultrasound report on my 30th week when i could possibly give birth already.

ambilis. parang kelan lang nung nag preg test ako. ngayon nasa first week na ko ng third trimester. can't wait to see our little potchi in the outside world :)

pentagram love spell might have really worked

even before the harry potter craze, i already decided to be abiwitch. not because it sounds cool but because i think i am. in fact i think everyone has the power to be one.

in highschool (and even after hehe) i used simple spells like:
- saying the name of the guy i like, tapping the pillow thrice and turning it over once before bedtime to make him dream of me too
- pricking his name on a sheet of paper and putting it under my pillow so he'd look for me

wahaha! crazy spells, i know and i'm not sure if those really worked at all or it was just my natural charm (whoa?!).

eniweis, i bought a book at booksale back in 2005. here it is----------->

it's a great book. entertaining at least if you don't believe in witchcraft. the author lilith mclelland is amusing. the spells are doable although some ingredients may be hard to find. the core lesson here is to do spells NOT to harm or affect the freewill of others BUT to bring love and peace into your life. so mistresses, you won't find a spell here for your lovers to leave their wives okay?

there are spells to find the person for you(for singles), to wrap up past feelings (good for people who can't forget their exes), to learn to trust your partner and others.

probably the most convenient spell (and the one i needed that time) was the pentagram love spell which required five days of meditation, votive candles, scents, stones and a homemade pentagram illustration.

the most amusing part about this spell is that yenzi and i met 2 months after spell completion and now we're happily married :) cousin fish tried that too and she's now engaged. happened too with love bumbie.

when i tell people about this, they either borrow the book or shrug it off like i just delivered a joke. i don't know how you guys solve your relationship problems and i would not recommend spells to be your universal problem solver either but if you're up for some fun and believes something good is on your way, you may try these love spells. goodluck!

potchi is now 24 weeks!

you see, i am over-excited.

although my tummy has not showed much bulge (according to the oldies) , i think potchi is doing well. he/she kicks regularly and my weight gain is normal. ang problema ko lang ngayon ay yung legs ko na madalas mangalay. yenzi said it also happens to him dahil tumaba din sha hehe..

i can imagine the little one who maybe 11 inches by now at mejo inip na sa tyan ko. i think he's like lawrence in a lot of ways. pag kasi ine-expect mo ang sipa nya, aba ayaw nya lalo na pag hindi ako. mahiyain ata si potchi. or suplado. very much like his father.

i always pray potchi will come out as a healthy baby. one thing about motherhood is that you do get paranoid, especially if you're like me who's digesting a lot of pregnancy articles and forums. nanghihina ako everytime i read stories that the baby died whether inside the womb or after birth even if you took every precaution. my take is that i'd just do my best to have a healthy pregnancy and the rest is god's will.

btw, next week i'll have my ultrasound!

my hubby is a video game addict

the hardest part about being married to yenzi is having to sit back and watch his back while he's playing video games for hours. the best part is that it is his only black spot.

his current flame named perfect world has been the subject of my frequent melodramas for the past weeks. some of you might say it's very petty. believe me, i believe kahlil gibran when he wrote there should be space in a couple's togetherness but yenzi works 12 hours a day plus 4 hours travel, sleeps for 6 hours, eats/uses the bathroom for say an hour and spends the remaining 3 hours on gaming. have you noticed when's my time? don't let me run his sked on rest days.

being the witch that i am, i am surprised i haven't spliced our internet line. remember everquest? eyup, i was amazed how many relationships were ruined because of video game addiction. well of course, i'm just paranoid. i am still confident that yenzi loves me so much more than all mmorpg and game consoles combined.

"unless he's all yours..."

i'm no saint when it comes to relationships. but i do learn from mistakes. and so i hope that today, as my cous-friend carrie (not her real name..hehe) celebrates her birthday, she'd get slammed in the head for dating a total jerk. ouch.

the guy i'm talking about has a longtime girlfriend overseas while he's sneaking in with carrie. carrie has been single for a long time now and i do understand that time tick tacks really fast.

i can't imagine how many single women feel the pressure of this couple-crazed world but i hope we'd value ourselves high no matter what. my hubby yenzi also had a girlfriend back when we started going out. when he told me about her, i immediately shut him out even if he said they were on the verge of breaking up (fyi,men always say that). yes, i was single then , just came out of a series of frustrated dates and i reaaalllly liked him...but i swear i turned him down.

would you believe, after two days, he made himself completely available. so please carrie don't fret. the right one will come so they say.

to rip a line from He's Just Not That Into You (which i lent you but you didn't read) --unless he's all yours...he's still hers.

absolutely. definitely. positively.

i wish i had started this blog earlier, like when little potchi inside my tummy first showed on home pregnancy kit.

it was october 25, 2006. i already suspected i am pregnant with all those hunger pangs and feeling tired blues but since i'm scared of frustration (if i wasn't), i decided not to expect that i'm expecting :)

kaya mag-isa kong isinagawa ang preg test. i used the blue cross test strip i bought ages ago. mag-e-expire na nga ata. ang bilis, seconds lang nag-appear agad yung 2 lines. mejo duda nga ko kasi ang bilis. baka kako mali kasi mura lang yung kit tapos mag-e-expire pa. so i bought another one sa mercury naman which i intended to use the next morning.

that night excited ako pag-uwi ni hubby pero di ko muna sinabi. napansin niya pala yung box ng kit.

yenzi: ano resulta?

me: ha? tingnan mo na lang.

tapos super paliwanag na ko na huwag muna mag-expect at baka hindi talaga achoochoo.

pagka-umaga, nag-test ako bago pumasok si hubby sa office. at eto nga:

Wee!

This layout is sooo me, don't you agree?

This is one reason why I can't help but start this new blog. Anyways, I feel like there are so many things happ'ning to me and I need to scribble it on a new pad. Somehow the old friendster blog does not fit anymore and kitchenwitch at wordpress is more of my professional page.

So let's kick off my 29th year with more musings and cooking, raves and rants!

-W-