grabe! napakahirap as in no exaggeration here (you may even want to ask my hubby) maghanap ng shoes ng bata!

i saw a lot of almost the same style. but the ones that i wouldn’t wear even if i stand just a feet high. plus, of course, we wouldn’t want to sacrifice comfort for beauty. you know what’s funny? there seemed to be tons of shoes for little boys. but the same chunky sandal-type for the little girls.

not sure if it was our location that made it difficult to find a good pair. i wonder if it’s this hard in the south.

maybe her foot size is just in the “betweens”, not too big nor too small. or maybe, being a 14-month old baby makes her too old for infant shoes but too young for young girls’ shoes.

i actually started looking for something quite unattainable, like ballet shoes in neutral color. then after an hour, i decided that it’s ok if it’s not in neutral color. after another hour, i decided ok not ballet shoes but closed flat shoes. then we went to nike, and saw a pair of gray rubber shoes.  hmmm, this is not flat but it’s closed. nah! the pair won’t match any of BG’s clothes.

then we saw a pair of flat open toe shoes, made of fabric. yes the type that little babies wear. this is definitely not what i had in mind. but i was too tired to even think twice. when i saw it, i put them on BG.

when i saw her walked in delight, i went straight to the cashier.

i don’t know why but i am so tempted to see sandy. maybe it’s fate that she’s always fully booked on sundays and mondays, my off days.

i noticed that not only men are obsessed with breasts, so do women!

every monday, our team holds a weekly meeting. and if you’re in the graveyard shift, you can just call in. now, there are only 2 guys in our team and one of them is very fond of the graveyard shift. hence, he’s the one who always calls in. the other guy informed that he’d be coming late from a dentist appointment.

most of the times, before the meeting proper, we talk about stuff aside from work. yes, simply known as chika. last monday, the topic was breasts. we went on and on about bra size, natural augmentation and body proportions.

then after sometime, we suddenly remembered that our male team mate has been on the call and been listening in on all our breasts stories. ^_^

shucks!

i have a friend who was complaining about her other friend insulting her for being a housewife. something to do with her “begging” for shopping money from her husband.

i thought about it for a while and finally told her that maybe this so-called friend got a lot of insecurities about being a (single) working mom.

who wouldn’t be delighted with free shopping money?
and you got all the time to take care of your kid, witness his/her every milestone. plus you will have so much time for hobbies like cooking/baking and photography/scrapbooks.

but it’s always good to have your own money. it’s fulfilling to know you’re growing as your own person and that your world doesn’t just revolve around your husband and kids.

still, it’s just cruel to insinuate that being one is better than the being the other.
some women are just happy to juggle between their family and careers.
some women are just happy to be full-time parents.
different folks, different strokes. period.

working in a fixed shift has its disadvantages. with me forever working on a saturday night, tsk tsk!

well i guess we could stick to our monthly pizza night at our place…or next door…or house infront of next door (boohoo! may boyps na, nakalimutan na tyo!) ok na din, mas tipid. and BG could join in the fun since sanay na nmn tyo walang pineapple tidbits ang free hawaiian delight. eh kung bumili na lang ako ng del monte tidbits ano?

this is good news to my MIL. why not? children’s parties are usually held on a saturday. and i’d be selfish not to let my daughter attend just because i can’t come. my MIL can do the mothering in my absence. she’d be thrilled. ang mga matching (read: same) clothes nmin ni BG, for sunday mass na lang.

i was actually given options this morning.

1. mon-fri 7am-4pm
2. tue-sat 3pm-12mn (extended to 1am most of the time)

i thought about it.

option 1 will let me have a normal life. it’s like a normal 8am-5pm job, just earlier. catch? no shift premium.

option 2 will let me bathe and feed BG in the morning plus i get shift premium. catch? no fun saturdays.

aaah, things a mother sacrifice for her baby. i feel so much better now. bring it on!

last sunday, we went to hear mass at 9am, as usual. after which we went to trinoma (used to hang around sm/the block) to have our family sunday lunch, as usual.

anyway, i saw the big hanging tarp saying that Zara is now open on the third level. so we went around to find the store. few steps away from Zara are Lacoste and Nine West. ugh! definitely a sinful area for me. Too bad this Zara branch doesn’t carry stuff for kids (unlike the Shangrila branch). Hay, seeing all their items made me wish for my christmas bonus be given soon.

i noticed that Marks & Spencer display their stuff on the window with the corresponding prices. this is a cool idea ‘coz people seemed to think that all their items are expensive. yes most, but not all are expensive. mind you, i bought a super chic round neck shirt from them at less than a thousand. wala pa nga atang 900 eh.

Mango is still closed. And i saw on the map that Dorothy Perkins is located at 2008 which I couldn’t find though.

sheeesh…level so sinful.

i was told that i will enjoy 2 WFH days on the new team (because employees on that building do). all the while, i thought weekends are not counted.

but this morning, i was told otherwise. i have misunderstood what i was told. 2 WFH days including the weekends. so sad. meaning i have to be in the office 3x a week. boo!

today, BG is now officially a toddler. as in no longer an infant. why? she now upgraded from NAN 2 H.A. to Promil Kid.

yes yes, i too do not believe in claims of intelligence on milk intake. i believe my kid will get her smarts on environment, upbringing, exposure and of course, genes (lucky you BG ahem!)

side kwento: when i was still with my previous employer, i can recite the binary equivalent of a number in seconds. as in you tell me a number then i’ll tell you right away the binary equivalent. woohoo! yabang ko noh?

ayan, namiss ko tuloy yung feeling na toxic ka sa work then you’re trying to squeeze your brains out for an external media device to communicate with the head unit. hay kakamiss tuloy ang mga product specs in kanji.

side kwento uli: naglead ako ng quality control project duon which helps us engineers read specs in kanji more efficiently. ayun nanalo nmn yung project in japan. kala nila ang galing ko mg nihonggo, d nila alam kinabisado ko yung buong presentation in nihonggo.

namimiss ko din maruo text editor, pati paggawa namin ng macro ni vic sa maruo. astig d b? gumagawa ka ng macro na ang instruction ng syntax eh naka-japanese? namimiss ko na din signal generator, takasago (tama ba?) at oscilloscope. pati na din documentations ng project planning, design (ang walang katapusang pagawa ng flowcharts), coding at testing.

catch? low pay for such stretch of cerebral functions. tsk tsk!

Last friday, the team had dinner together (considering we have different shifts) sort of despedida for me. No it’s not mushy (just not my thing) but it’s good. Or it made me feel good in some way.

My manager talked to me and informed me that we will have a different position/item starting november 1st. Sounds kinda cool, just in time coz that would be my first anniversary with the company.

No there’s no corresponding salary increase. boo!

Now, the new position has its advantages. For one, employees will have a higher market value. and the other, i guess, income bracket becomes wider. Which, come to think of it, becomes its disadvantage too. Coz you see, if the bracket widens, the next level will be much more difficult to attain. don’t you think?

Geez, I wonder if an online degree help me up another level.

my hubby texted me yesterday afternoon that my daughter is sick. news like this makes me restless. good thing i was already on my way home. i asked the yaya and maid what happened that day. i left home (around 10am) she was perfectly fine. they said she just took her noon time nap and when she woke up, she was unenergetic and quiet.

last night, she woke up every so often. and when she was sleeping, i googled “fever, cold hands and feet”. wrong move. i got paranoid seeing all the results there. so paranoid i wasn’t able to sleep. i just watched BG as she slept.

then this morning, my hubby’s lola chatted with me over breakfast. saying she’s staying here “para magpagaling” so i kinda gulp down my breakfast to finish asap then asked the maid, “ano nangyari between pag alis ko at matulog si BG? nakipaglaro ba sya kay lola?” and as i have suspected, yes BG did. so there! nahawa sya ng trangkaso kay lola, hindi ito meningitis or something alarming. hay kakapraning mg google ha!

i should keep that in mind.

when i ate carbonara and one small slice of pizza for lunch, i should have not eaten that juicy (er, oily?) chicken for dinner. it could have saved me from twitching in pain the next day. i could have not been in bed for the next 2 days. 

gall stones are just the pits.