More Sponsors!

This contest is getting me all excited! Here I am at exactly 11:53 pm typing away. Forget sleep! I am blogging! Hehehehe!.

Anyway, here's the list of secondary sponsors for Bambie's My Thoughts, My Heart, My Turf First Anniversary Contest. Check them out!

Chris Chronicles - 2,000 EC credits

Cornyman's Blog Reviews - 2,000 EC credits

Cornyman's Money Blog - 1,000 EC + 10 x Spikes from CMF Ads worth 1$ (250 visitors)

Earn Money Online with Red - 2 months AD space

Earth Friendly Momma - 1,000 EC credits

Fashion Explorer - 1,000 EC credits

Gene + Experiments - 1 month AD space

Health and Beauty Diva - 1,000 EC credits

Her and History - 1,000 EC credits

Here Anything Goes - 1,000 EC credits

Home Buddies - AD spaces in her PR3, PR2, and PR1 blogs

I Empower Myself - 1 month 125x125 AD space

Inspirational Insights - 2,000 EC credits

Life Can't Wait - 1,000 EC credits

Life of a Filipina Blogger - 1,000 EC credits

Liza's Online Journal - 1,000 EC credits + 1 month 125x125 AD space

Mariuca Wishing on a Falling Star - 1,000 EC credits

Mariuca's Perfume Gallery - 1,000 EC credits

Meow Diaries - 1,000 EC credits

Moms Write Stuff - 1,000 EC credits

My Daily Thoughts and Ramblings - 2 months AD space (winner can opt to have 1 250x125 AD or 2 125x125 AD)

My Journey to Life - 1 month AD space

Pinkville - 1 month 125x125 AD space

Proud Mommy and Wifey - 1,000 EC credits + 1 month 125x125 Ad space

Runaway Blogger - 1,000 EC credits

Samantha’s Own - 2,000 EC credits

Simple Pero Rock - 1 month AD space and 2,000 EC credits

Spread the Word - 1 month 125x125 AD space

Tasty Exploration - 1,000 EC credits

Teaching Moments - 1,000 EC credits

The One Minute Guide - 1,000 EC + 10 x Spikes from CMF Ads worth 1$ (250 visitors)

The Pinay Blogger at Home - 1,000 EC credits

Up Now and What's Next - 1 month 125x125 Ad space

Wonderful World of Peachy - 1,000 EC credits + 1 month AD space

My first!

The school year finally ended yesterday with the fourth quarter final exams. It was all so timely coz I get to spend my first wedding anniversary goofing around with my husband. Right now, he is on the bed drafting the layout of our first ever dream pole house. He keeps asking about living room size and arguing about where the bathrooms should be. I cannot believe he wants each room to have a bathroom!! Geez..

I did not want to argue anymore coz this day is supposed to be special. So while I'm being ignored, I surfed through my blog and remembered a cool contest Kikamz told me about. I've always wanted to join a blog contest. My blog is around 5 years old but its never gotten past the point of dropping entrecards. And now that summer is here and no graduate school to think of, I' going to be a real blogoholic (if there's such a term). So I officially declare that I am joining a cool contest being sponsored by Bambie. Her blog's turning 1 and my marriage is turning 1 too so isn't it a cool coincidence? Hehe.

I've been thinking about joining since last week and the mechanics look really easy for a neophyte like me. I wish I could sponsor my own contest soon. The blogging world is really, truly alive! What an amazing way to connect and have more friends!

Here are the contest sponsors and their fabulous prizes. Awesome!

A Woman Remembers - 1,000 EC credits, 1 month AD space and $5.00

Azumi...Lil Dolly Princess - $5.00

Best Vacation Places - $5.00

Brisbane Hotels

- $5.00

Diva Fabulosa - $5.00

From this Side - 3,000 EC credits

Girls Rule! - $5.00

Just About Anything - $5.00

Live for Life - 4,000 EC credits and 2 months AD space

Living Life to the Fullest - $5.00 + 1,000 EC credits

Momma Wannabe - $5.00

My So-Called World - $5.00 + 1 month AD space

Niko's Blog - $5.00

Stalking Minds - $5.00

The Hunger Games Trilogy - 3,000 EC credits

The Mommy Journey - 5,000 EC credits

The Snoring Queen - 5,000 EC credits

Travelin' with Marie - 8"x8", 20-page Photobook ($20.00 value) and two 1 month AD spaces

Wahmaholic - Wordpress or Blogger template based on the winner's choice of theme and color

The more the merrier so join now!

love happens, actually

March 21, 2009 Spring Equinox

The impossible happened exactly a year ago on the first day of spring.

Who would have thought that I would readily march down a church aisle and commit my life to a person two decades my senior and who comes from an island in another part of the pacific?

Who would have thought I would leave my mountains and stars and silence to be cooped up in closet apartment with a man who can't stop talking?

Who would have thought that I would dare to go home when the sun is still up and leave the familiar comfort of my XUHS cubicle and buy fish from the street market?

Who would have thought that I would get the courage necessary to sell oil and sugar and hand sanitizers in school?

Who would have thought I could ride a bike for 20 kilometers to keep a dedicated biker company?

Who would have thought I could go to bed with a stomach filled with green leafies and just mango, mango and mango?

Who would have thought I could actually enjoy going to graduate school after school?

Geez, who would have thought I would enjoy married life this much to want 350 years more! Hahaha!

I want to tell you a secret.

I never did picture myself getting married. Nor did I ever picture myself doing the things I just mentioned.

When my friends talk of walking down the aisle, I would dream of more mountains to cross and islands to explore.

When my friends talk of having kids, I would remember the annoying kids I teach and feel sorry for their parents.

When my friends talk of going home early to feed the baby and take care of hubby, I just feel annoyed that they could so limit their universe.

When my friends talk about troubles at home, I smile smugly and say "mirisi!"

Like some independent and naive thirty and single know-it-all with a bad case of wanderlust, marriage for me was a trip to nowhere. So there I was with happy thoughts of never growing up and hopping around the world on borrowed money when the fellow up in the clouds threw me the biggest punch.

Love happened.

Oh he did it subtly by making sure I would have no inkling what he's up to. He sent me a 50 something guy who claimed to be 45, had a string of gorgeous girlfriends, been around the world too many times than I ever could in a hundred years, and no blue eyes. It wasn't love at first sight at all. It was more like, hurry up and go back to where you came from so I can be with my students.

What person in her right mind would enter into a relationship with that? Or, what person in his right mind would want a relationship with me?

But that's why I call my blog "one never knows". It's because I'm crazy like my God. Hahahaha! I decided to call his dare and claimed this person as mine. I claimed him and dared God to take him back.

He did not. I can see him smiling smugly in the clouds with a twinkle in his eyes. And all he said was, Trust Me.

So love happened and I made a choice. 365 days later, I am now glad I trusted God. Coz instead of the "nowhere marriage" I pictured, my daily life has been so full of amazing and hilarious adventures. There is no boring day with Charlie. It's either we fight or we laugh. Hahaha! There are struggles but they are tempered with acceptance and understanding. There is a lot of fear but it is caressed by the gentle hands of comfort and faith. There are tears sometimes but they are easily wiped away by a hug or a blooper. There's still a lot of unknown, but there is also the knowledge that Someone willed this. Someone loved me enough to know what's good for me, for us.

To my dearest husband, you are a gift. A true treasure I have been blessed with. Thank you for 365 days of love and laughter. Happy anniversary, boo!

a typical evening on the second floor

Teasing...

So what's a kris kringle again?

It's a donut.

Hahahahaha!

Oh I know! Its a prenzel!

What?

A prenzel?

You mean pretzel!

Justification...

I've always thought that prenzel is better than pretzel. It just sounds better, you know.

Ok.

There are three kinds of prenzels. One is twisted, the other is straight and another one is bent.

Ok.

You know, like a small case.

What's a small case?

A small letter.

You mean lower case!

More justification...

Shals, nobody uses "lower case"! If you go to the airport, are you gonna carry a small case or a lower case?

But a small case is an object and a lower case is a letter!

You're full of baloney.

Hahaha!