The Journey. It’s Mine. [My personal take on love, life, parenting and blogging.]

A arrived in LB 2 months ago. First of all to visit me and second of all to fix a problematic database system at W. He’s been working at home most of the time to do that though, as opposed to me working on-Site on a daily basis. Fortunately I work regular shifts and get Saturdays and Sundays off. But then sometimes weekends aren’t enough to recharge and unwind. I’m still under treatment for my thyroid problem and and so I naturally get tired easily than normal.

Moreover, the anti-thyroid agent I’m taking lowers my immunity making me more prone to infections than the average person. Still I try to counter that by taking vitamins religiously, eating right and getting enough rest and sleep the best way I can. However, some stuff do get me down sometimes, like recently I had the flu and this week a nasty cough has been brewing — making me spend this Sunday in bed with lots of fluid intake and yes, enough cough medicine that made me groggy the whole day.

I’ve been meaning to blog and maybe do some accutane reviews. But it has always been a case of ‘the spirit is willing but the body just isn’t stepping up to it’.

Anyways, A went to Manila early this morning to attend to some personal business. It’s past 530 pm and realized I haven’t eaten a decent meal yet. Oh well, time to get out of this box of an apartment and go get myself an all-in-one-lunch-and-dinner (and that much-needed pedicure that kept getting postponed for weeks!).

Are you into diet pills? And have you found the diet pills that work? My friend Mildred is reselling Japanese slimming pills. As what is common in most diet pills, she has not experienced palpitations and diarrhea. In the process she has lost 11 lbs in 18 days.

What will happen is you will lose your bulk of your appetite and will be needing to drink lots and lots of water. Well I haven’t tried it as I am on a lot of medication these days. After all, my current target is to gain more weight.

Wanna try?

If you are interested, check out my my friends on Facebook and look for Mildred Aguilar.

A has been complaining about the heat and the humidity in the Philippines. A week in the tropics hasn’t acclimatized his temperate-used body. He almost suffered from flu last week.

Then I realized that our apartment in the city is really like a huge oven (outdoor chaise lounges not withstanding!) despite 2 desk fans on maximum speed. Even heavy downpours aren’t enough to cool down the hot temperature inside the house.Well I’ll just give him a few more days and he’ll most probably have A/C installed here. That, or totally move out of here to go back to where he came from where it’s a lot cooler even in mid-summer.

When A/C happens around here, it’s the electric bill that I’ll be complaining about for sure. He he he.

Naka 1 month na sa thyroid problem. So far lumiit ang goiter. So another 2 months ulit na gamutan. Maximum daw 6 months. Depending on the response.

I’m really happy I’m not needing surgery. Since my c-section I’m kinda afraid going under the knife again. I’m happy too that I won’t be looking for natural acne treatments anytime soon.

Halos maloka ako na tatlumpo’t-isang oras walang kuryente. Ngayon humahagalpak naman ako sa kakatawa. Dun ba naman sa isa kong sinulatan tungkol sa kalusugan eh merong nagtanong: ano daw ba ang mga sintomas ng kanyang hinihinalang sakit dahil nahihirapan daw siyang umihi?!

Duh?! (Haller?! — sabi nga ni Reynz) Eh nakapaglagay ka nga ng katanungan sa ilalim ng artikulong iyon, eh di siguro naman eh may kakayahan kang hanapin sa ‘mundong abot ng dulo ng mga daliri mo’ ang mga sintomas ng sakit na yan. O kaya naman eh i-text ang iyong manggagamot, di baga?!

SUSME. Gusto ko na talagang sagutin ng: kuyang…maglaga ka ng dahon ng bayabas at gawin mong tsa-a ang katas. Palagay ko makaka-ihi ka na nyan! BWAHAHAHAHA.

Naloka na yata ako dahil kay pareng frank. Pero nasa wisyo pa naman siguro ako dahil alam ko pa rin na walang sintido kumon ang taong nagsulat nyan. Hayyyy….dapat binabaril na lang ang mga ganyan! HA HA HA HA. Patawarin ako ng diyos. Sino ang hindi mababaliw sa mga ganyan?! Buti na lang matagal na akong baliw. He he he.

At almost 35, and I’ve yet to find the best acne treatment!

But I never really had acnes, you know. I just started having pimples since I entered college. I guess I am kinda a late bloomer in this matter.

I’ve always had just occasional pimples on certain times of the month and I often have the little white/black heads. That’s just what I get for having perennially oily face.

I’ve tried all the antibacterial facial wash i can get in the local supermarket, but I really had the best results using the Moor Allure Naturals cleanser and toner. I got the whole set for free in January, but I’ve yet to purchase a new one. Hmmm…maybe soon I should get those?

I used to believe so!

But I grew up accepting the fact that there are just things in the world, in this life, that are out my hands. Who’s got everything in their hands anyway?

Fate? Destiny? God? Whatever you call it, there are just some things that we have no control of.

Also, I used to have a drug treatment against anything — against common maladies at least. Like colds, coughs, headaches, body pains, menstrual cramps, etc. I’ve always said: “that’s why medicines were invented/discovered”!

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I am not a sickly person, even in my college days. In fact, I have just been confined in the hospital 3 times my whole life:

• In college, I was confined in the infirmary once when after a lambanog drinking spree in a creek in Sta. Monica, San Pablo City behind one brod’s house…I was burning in fever. My friend G panicked and sent me to the infirmary. I guess she felt guilty because she’s the one who woke me up in my dorm bunk one Saturday morning to tell me the guys were waiting outside in a car. So I took a quick shower, got ready and all, and off we went. Because of that, I stayed two nights in the infirmary due to tonsilo-pharyngitis.
• The second time of hospital confinement was when Raine was born in 2002. This was the first time IV was hooked on me (and I guess catheter too, yikes!) and Raine was delivered by C-section.
• Third time was due again to tonsilo-pharyngitis (again!) when Raine was 6 months old. I was alone in LB because then, Raine was here in bicol with my parents.

So, there was never anything in my medicine cabinet. Heck, I never even had a medicine cabinet. But let me just use the word - medicine cabinet - as a symbol, okey? It could be your fridge or something, where you keep all of the medicines anyway.

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