Back from the dead again

Posted on 02/07/2019 by admin

Maricaban, Batangas, Philippines. This photo is a property of callmecreation.com and is on @callmecreation on Instagram

A colleague and I were talking about making our own side hustles to 1) earn extra bucks and/or 2) break from the soul-sucking work that we have. Editing always reduced me to tears but it seems like I am destined to do this job. I have been doing this since 2008. I need some kind of release.

And also some way to earn some extra dough. Some years ago, a friend offered me a writing gig, which is a weekly column for one of the local business dailies here. I wasn’t sure about it since I may run out of things to write about.

I am going to rectify this by practicing on this blog. When I’m confident and brave enough (as I will be a target of criticisms and whatnot) I will take that offer.

Getting it together

It has almost been a year since that tumultuous event that rocked my world 💔. I don’t know how I was able to get through it all but I did. Thanks to the special people 💕 in my life that kept me afloat.

The last few months were better; I was able to pull myself together and had fallen into a steady rhythm. My household is coming together as well.

I love coming home to my home. I don’t own it but it’s mine. My girls have settled down as well.

Money may be tight but we’re getting by.

God has not forsaken me, inspite of it all. ❤️

Raison d’ etre

Posted on 08/05/2019 by admin

*Angono, Rizal. Photo by CallMeCreation.com*

There are reasons why you have people in your life, even though they may have just lingered for just a bit and flew away. Once you have realized what those reasons are, maybe it’s a bit easier to let them go.

As my friend said:

Someone once told me to try to just leave it to fate. If magkikita kayo, then magkikita. If hindi na, hindi na…itapon sa langit.
(Someone once told me to try to just leave it to fate. If you will meet again, then you will meet again somehow. If not, then…you throw it back to heaven)

So itapon na lang sa langit (so will I just throw it back to heaven)?

All wrong

Posted on 29/10/2018 by admin

Everything about this set-up on my staircase landing is all wrong. The shelf is off-center and it’s sloping (shoddy work from a carpenter). But it doesn’t matter, my Totoro collection is still cute anyway.

Little by little

Posted on 22/10/2018 by admin

My home is taking shape, little by little. I will be filling up this wall with paitings to make up for the sparse furnishings.

I’m still figuring out where to put this.

I also made a reading nook/hideaway for my girls in one huge closet in my room.

With a sizeable bookshelf above.

And my girls put up their own wall decorations to personalize their space.

I have all the time in the world to make this apartment my own. No rush. It has to be just right.

Dying day

Posted on 06/10/2018 by admin

I love sunsets. They are a reminder that even a chapter closes, another one opens.

I may not know what will come my way but I am sure that He will always have my back. What I have been through the past months had been tough but I will definitely come out stronger and wiser.

I am stumbling. I am weak. But I can always pick up myself and continue fighting. I need to survive.

Changes

Posted on 04/10/2018 by admin

It has been months since I last logged in here. So many life-changing events happened all at the same time. All I could do was to go with the flow and never look back. No turning back.

Related to that was my hunt for a liveable apartment near my girls’ school. It was a bit rundown but it had potential. When the landlady fixed it up, it looked promising.

I had requested a light blue paint for the closets. Stupid me, I forgot to give them a sample of the shade I wanted. Now I ended up with a Tiffany egg blue.