Blue Monday - Swing

It’s time to post for our Blue Monday meme hosted by Smiling Sally. Here’s my entry for this week, a white swing. I so love to put this in our yard but until now there’s no available stock at the furniture store that I visited few weeks ago. They have swing but I don’t like the style, so I will just wait until this design is available. Oh! Wait, can you spot the blue?

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Saturday 9: Half the Man I Used to Be

Saturday 9: Half the Man I Used to Be

1. Do you feel that you are essentially the same person that your were ten years ago?
Ans: No. I was down ten years ago but I was able to stand again on my own and now I am totally different.

2. Is there something that you have to give all or nothing to?
Ans: I will give everything I can for my children for I don’t want them to experience the life that I had when I was a kid.

3. Have you ever gambled? What have you bet on and for how much?
Ans: Yes. I played mahjong (Chinese game), Lotto, Keno, and Bingo. For lotto, Keno and Bingo, it is just 1 game a week. For mahjong, we sometimes play on weekends or on holiday only.

4. Can you sleep anywhere or does it have to be in a bed?
Ans: Wow! I can’t sleep anywhere. I can’t even sleep on a bed that is not mine.

5. Tell us about the most disastrous or embarrassing first impression you've ever made on someone.
Ans: My first conversation with cross-eyed woman. I don’t know where to look at her and I also don’t know if she was looking at me. So, it was really hard to talk with her.

6. Do you have a memorable "ripped clothing" moment in your life? No? How about in someone else's?
Ans: No, but I experienced an unzipped zipper of my skirt and somebody handed me a note that my zipper was open.

7. What's changed on your blog since its inception? ...a redo? ...a change of pace? ...or is it about the same?
Ans: I changed the layout with the help of my friend and I bought my own domain.

8. If you could travel back in time and whisper something to yourself ten years ago, what would it be?
Ans: Don’t listen to him, he’s a great liar.

9. Okay, let's have it! What's the craziest, most impulsive thing you've ever done?
Ans: Driving without a license.

Have a great weekend everyone. If you want to join or want to read more answers, just click the badge above. Thanks to Crazy Sam for hosting this meme.

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Nostaligia Thursday - Photograph

The Dias Family...Greg and Dhemz, Buddy and Akesha

Last week I was not able to post my entry. I had no time to write any article for my blogs because it was my son’s periodical test. Everyday we reviewed his lessons. Aside from his school periodical test, I also had bad internet connections. I went to internet café just to post an article. Anyhow here’s my short entry for this week.

This Mom’s Place blog was created in December 2008. A few months later, I gained lots of friends and one of them designed my blog’s template for no cost at all. She also designed my badges, and when ever I got trouble with my blogs, she’s the one who always there for me. Last Christmas, she sent me a gift, so sweet, as sweet as those chocolates she sent. She also included her family picture and this family picture of her is the most important and memorable to me. I will bring this picture, wherever I go. Janjan loves the picture too because of Buddy and Akesha lol. He said Buddy is handsome and Akesha is pretty. Wow! I have no idea what’s in his mind when he was looking at the picture. I am very thankful that I met this lovely young mother inside and outside here in the blogsophere. I just wish I will meet her and her family in the future. And this person is no other than, author of My Life Perception and Inspiration, The Dias Family, Savour ‘d Flavour, and more. Her name is Dhemz. And to Dhemz, hugs and kisses from me! 2 thumbs up for you!

For more exciting and memorable posts, visit Nostalgic Marveling hosted by Rose.

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August Top 10 Droppers

Huge Thanks to ALL my droppers and here are my Top 10 droppers for the month of August.

Urban Art Blog 31

T-Shirt Reviews 31

Guitarbench.com 31

my kids are my world 31

Art Shout! 31

Jh3riz24 30

comatised 30

Things We Share 30

Urban Art by Paul Baines 29

Teen Suicide Talk 29

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Life is Good Award

I thank these two beautiful ladies Shydub of Simply Happy Life and Josie of Josie’s Files for giving this award to me. Kisses for both of you mommies. Anyway, here are the rules of this award.

Rules:

1. Answer the 10 questions.
2. Give this award to six other bloggers
3. Link back to the person who gave this award.
4. Let them know about the award.

Here you go;

1. If you blog anonymously, are you happy doing it that way; if you are not anonymous do you wish you had started out anonymously so you could be anonymous now? No, never. Why should I hide my beauty?

2. Describe one incident that shows your inner stubborn side. When I asked the thing she borrowed but she insisted that she returned it already.

3. What do you see when you really look at yourself in the mirror? I am still beautiful inside and outside.

4. What is your favorite summer cold drink? Ice cold Tea

5. When you take time for yourself, what do you do? Beauty Salon of course

6. Is there something you still want to accomplish in your life? What is it? Yeah, If I see my kids with a degree, that would be a big accomplishment.

7. When you attended school, were you the class clown, the class overachiever, the class shy person, or always ditching school? Waaaaaaa None of the above but I am always center of attraction both boys and girls.

8. If you close your eyes and want to visualize a very poignant moment in your life, what do you see? I saw myself alone at the recovery room.

9. Is it easy for you to share your true self in your blog or are you more comfortable writing posts about other people or events. I would rather like to share all my experiences bad or good, funny or embarrassing. I just want to be true to everybody.

10. If you had the choice to sit and read or talk on the phone, which would you do and why? I am not a reader…if I read a newspaper; I will read the headlines but not the details. Talking non-sense, I would rather like to sleep and talking over the phone, probably yes but not too long.

So now I’m passing it to all my friends here.

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Blue Monday

This is my entry for this week meme.

My nephew, niece and their neighbors

My nephew, obviously the only boy in the group and my niece wearing blue swimsuit were having fun with their neighbors on a small inflatable pool. They started soaking, playing on the water early in the morning. I got there in their house early in the afternoon and they were still there playing, and when I saw that the inflatable pool was blue, I took out my camera and that was it. Ha ha! The kids love to play on the water especially if the weather is so hot.

Thanks again to Smiling Sally for this meme.

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National Heroes Day - August 30

The Palace has declared August 30 a non-working holiday.

August 30 is a holiday. Yohoo! It falls on a Monday, so, Janjan has no school and I don’t need to wake up early too. That is really great! ha ha!

National Heroes Day, celebrated yearly every last Monday of August, and this year it falls on August 30.

For regular holidays, employees who report to work receive 200 percent basic wage for the first eight hours, plus an additional 30 percent of the per-hour rate for the succeeding hours counted as overtime.

For special non-working holidays, employees get 130 percent of the daily rate for the first eight hours with additional 30 percent hourly rate for overtime.

Arroyo observed holiday economics through Republic Act 9492, which sought to drive domestic tourism. Under the said law, when a holiday falls on a Wednesday, it will be observed on Monday of the same week. But if the holiday falls on a weekend, it will be observed the following Monday.

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