Readying for the Birthday Swimming

I was literally blogging so fast to finish my 16 posts before I go to our midweek services. The tasks will be due tomorrow after midnight but I was rushing it because we’ll celebrate our Pastor’s birthday tomorrow at the resort capital. We’re heading to Calamba to where we reserved a private pool resort in Pansol to have a day of cooking, eating and swimming in the hot and cold water. It’s not actually that hot but just right for the body. Anyway you can have a choice whether you want it with a tinge of hot water or plain cold. We’re a returning customer plus it’s their peak season this period of the year so we’re able to secure discounted rate.

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The Old Folks’ Way of Investing on Gold

Online tasks are outpouring again and I was glad I stayed working after midnight because an hour or two after that shower of blessings came. I felt so blessed that right after I received a good amount of payment from them I was also given plenty of tasks again. It’s so good to receive payments for your hard work, it felt good inside to work hard for your money. Sleepless nights seem nothing at all when you finally have your payment for your work. My friends and I were talking about investing on some business or gold coins if our works continues to be like this because it spells big savings.

Hope we’ll be able to invest on tangible things also like that coins and other precious metals. Granny told me about the old folks storing gold in their secret cases which they preserve as a kind of investment for their kids’ future. That gold really got high appreciation over the years and some of the folks’ clan she mentioned is now living comfortably in our province. Could it be that they finally sold their ancestors’ gold now?

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Need to Buy Digicam’s Accessories

I’ve been browsing some sites for my Canon digicam’s accessories such as rechargeable batteries, camera case and memory card which I used for about two years now. My storage card suddenly gave up on me much to my dismay because I’m not yet ready to buy new gadgets this time of the month. I have to save my earnings for my kids’ quarterly tuition fees. I’m planning to buy them on my next salary when my budgetary expense is a bit low compared to this time. I really should discipline myself in buying my personal things which should be done only on extra money. It’s not my priority these days as there will be many birthdays to come and lots of expenses ahead of us.

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Overnight Work Experiences

I’m working up several tasks today that seem not to end at all. Of course it will if I finish it now so I’m using all my techniques and knowledge on how to think and type faster in the best possible way. I was just glad that I had an experience of working up a project that keeps us awake and alive for 3 days with just few hours of sleep that is if you can consider 2 hours a day sleep human enough lol! I really think that God in His own way let us experience hardship and pressure in life to prepare for something big. And if this outpouring of tasks continues I can say it’s going to be big.

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My Money Earns While I Save

I’m glad that I joined a well-known company cooperative which forced me to save a certain amount every payday in which total savings will be given this December. It’s also earning few bucks from within members’ activities. This way I can allot them for my kids’ tuition fees this coming summer. Ah it’s nice to spend your money wisely and if I’m smarter with budgeting I can save some for investment like purchasing gold coin for future profits to come. I learned that it appreciate values over the years and when my calculating mind computes my would-be profit I can say it’s really big. Wish I can save enough to materialize my plans.

My Mom has been teaching me a lot about handling money properly. I asked her if she has magic powers on budgeting as I’ve seen her doing wonders on our finances when Dad got sick for years. She only smiled at me and muttered none. But I can say her magic is working on me now.

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Thinking of Their Future

I’m planning to continue my membership with one insurance company I’ve been with for about 17 years. I already reached their minimum number of months for retirement benefits but DH and I talked about this thing and we decided to continue paying even for a smaller amount only. We’re still young and it will not hurt our budget to pay for the small amount that will keep us active to be qualified in some of their programs for active member. It has many benefits for active and retired members just like ssdi benefits. It will also add up to our accumulated premiums that will benefit us when we reached our retirement years. As parents with kids we’re thinking also of our kids’ future when we get older and this is one way of ensuring we’ll have something to give the.

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:Thursday Challenge: Outdoors-Picnic Grove

Thursday Challenge

"OUTDOORS" (Park, Beach, Campground, Picnic, Mountains,...)

We've visited Picnic Grove last June 12 for DH Discipleship Seminar together with half of our church brethren. The Picnic Grove Park is in Tagaytay City and has plenty of activities that you could do like sky watching, overlooking Taal Volcano, sightseeing, soaring up the heights by riding in zipline and cable car, horseback riding, picnic and many others. It was cooler there than in Manila and perfect for nature lover like me. The kids enjoyed the overlooking area, the park, the hanging bridge, the wide field open for kite flying, picnic, playing and so much more. They've been there when they were babies and toddlers but they enjoyed it more now because they're grown ups now.

It's just not like the past years that we've gone there. It's more beautiful there way back when DH and I are just planning to get married 14 years ago. We had a summer camp fellowship in the middle of the park and all the establishments we used were all abandoned now including some of the rooms by the cliff. It's still beautiful, quiet and serene but the magic is not there anymore. Or am I just expecting too much?

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Stylish and Quality Car Accessories

When you own a car you must instil in yourself a habit of taking good care of your car so it will also give you the service you want. There are many ways of ensuring your car’s good running condition. Two of the best ways I know are checking its parts regularly to prevent it from breaking down in the middle of your travel and maintaining its body to well polished good looks like the cars I’m seeing in the magazine. A good and well-maintained car will serve you better than the slightly abandoned ones. I said abandoned because some car owners don’t seem to care about learning few basics of car repairs or first-aid. Some that I know especially the busy working men don’t clean the interiors of their cars. And for me that’s a turn-off on the girls.

Well anyway there’s one important thing when you want to retain the distinctive style of your car and that’s buying some good stylish car accessories that fits your auto needs. When it comes to buying nice accessories you can trust CARiD to give you a wide range of online automotive accessories for both interior and exterior styling. You’re sure to find accessories that would give your car your required performance, support and stylish look. Visit their site and choose from among their products like dash kits, floor mats, carpets, car lights, spoilers, grille guards, wheels and many other accessories to cover your specific requirements.

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Lovely Garden

When we had few days vacation in MIL’s house in Montalban my eyes wandered at their garden because it has beautiful landscape. Good thing about it is that it’s all from the skills and efforts of husband’s brother only. I love those little stones which he formed to create small to bigger circle shapes with various colors and sizes. From my view of their landscaped garden it looks as if it’s created by a professional landscaper especially if big brother will put some nice landscape lighting at the side or front area. He planted some unique flower plants there so I had a chance to add those to my flower photo collection. Well I’ve taken some shots for future reference for our own garden at home if brother would have some free time for us.

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Top Droppers for July 2010

Dropper	# of drops
Fledgling Blogger	31
my kids are my world	30
Life's Tricky Situations	30
Take a coffee break...	29
A Simple Life	28
Life's sweets and spices	28
The Modern Mom	28
moms..... check nyo	28
Mommy's Little Corner	27
Yummy-as-can-be	27

Special thanks to my friends June for making it to the top on my 4 blogs and Liza for being my top consistent dropper.

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