Turning into Kids Again

I am turning into a kid again. If you are one of those like me, a stay at home mom whose kids live and breathe the television and have no other television to spare. You would know that Mickey and Minnie celebrated their birthday last November 18. There was an 'honest' series of tv shows yesterday and that there's Alien Swarm (Ben 10) premieres on tv as of the moment. You would also know that there was a Disney Pixar Movie Magic back to back.

Finally, I got to watch Wall-E, a movie featured as top pick in Tuesday's Couch Potatoes.
I'm trying to post pictures. My pc won't allow me.
Oh well. I got to enjoy The Incredibles, Wall-E, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, just caught Monsters Inc. and got to introduce these characters to my kids.

Oh, High School Musical 3 is going to be shown on Dec.5. Plus every 2 pm on Monday to Friday you get to watch Disney Original Movies like Cadet Kelly, Princess Protection Program and so much more on Disney Channel.

Tempted!

I've deleted all my other blogs. I'm only left with one. Rereading one of my favorite blogs - Just About Anything and her journey to personalizing her templates made me want to redo my whole blog again. I'm itching to just dump the rest of what I've done and go for it. But, I'm holding back. Instead I want to open a whole lot of other blogs again and just try the templates there, one by one. I found a great list of resources for 'scrapbook' feel templates which I prefer rather than the technical ones.

For Blogger templates:

• Almost Ready Blogs 
  
• April Showers
  
• Banners by Lyndsay
• Berries and Cream Blog Design
• Better in Pink 
  
• Blog Makeovers by Tara
  
• Chic and Sassy Designs
• Delicious Design Studio
• Design Girl
• Designed by Lara
  
• Designer Blogs by Erin
  
• Designs by Splat
• Eight Crazy Designs
• Emily June
• Indiechick Designs
  
• LeeLou Blog Desgin
• Lunastone Designs
• My Pixel Creations
• Paradise Blog Design 
  
• Premades for a Purpose
• Rainy Day Templates
  
• Restored 316 Designs
• Rich Gifts Graphics
• Sherbet Blossom Designs
  
• Shabby Creations Designs
• Simply Delightful Blog Designs
  
• Simply Yours Designs
• Smitten Blog Designs
• SNS Blog Design
• Sour Apple Studio
• Splendid Sparrow
  
• Split Decisionz
• Strossgirl's Blog Designs
• Templates by Tenille
  
• The Design Parlor
• The Posh Box 
  
• The Trendy Mommy Blog Designs

For Wordpress premades:

• Better in Pink 
  
• Creative Girl Studio
• Delicious Design Studio 
  
• Designed by Lara
  
• Emily June
• LunaStone Designs
  
• Miss Pennington
• Splendid Sparrow
• The Design Parlor

I'm so so tempted.

One more thing. I found a great tutorial site and hundreds of wonderful fonts at www.kevinandamanda.com. You guys should go and visit.

Real Drama at Home

Life is so hard nowadays. My mom hired a housepainter to paint newly refurbished ceilings. Our family driver actually did the hiring. He found a painter from one of those who usually worked in our house. Long story short, before the end of the afternoon, one cellphone went missing. Fortunately, it's not mine or my mom's. Though I wonder if anyone would be interested in getting a motorola phone with no bluetooth or no memory card, just a really creepy camera and doesn't even make a sound. I'm losing my point.
Upon the discovery that a cellphone was missing, we all went looking for it and avoided pointing fingers first. The shocking part was the phone wasn't ringing even if it was fully charged so everyone became suspicious. There was only one suspect since there was only 1 stranger among us. The family driver searched high and low from areas where they worked and lo and behold, he found the phone unit but not the battery or the back cover. He confronted the housepainter and was interrogated. By the 4th time the question was asked, he finally admitted to taking the phone. My mom asked the driver to get the person who recommended the housepainter. Calmly explained that what he did was wrong. That had he not done that, there were other opportunities for work in our house because repairs and painting jobs are fairly a regular thing if your house is 20 years old.
Sad to say, he used his 1 year old child as an excuse. That he was doing it for his kid. It's just sad. No one is safe anymore. You give a man an honest job, he was going to get paid and he screws it up by taking something from us. He lived on the street where my aunt lived. He knows my aunt and cousins. It's disheartening that something like that could happen. It's also scary to just let a stranger into your house when you expect them to do honest work and they end up stealing from you.
Lucky for us that we discovered the phone missing almost right after it was taken. Perhaps, it was also a mistake to have left it to a place easily accessible. I think the housepainter thought that everyone in the house were strangers and that the place was busy enough that a phone that went missing would go unnoticed. That was his mistake. We knew that no one in their right mind would take that phone except him.

Winner of the $12 Giveaway

Chris of  Mommy Journey wins!

Contest Entries Tallied as Follows

1. ASHLEY B. 1
2. MIXTY 1 
3. CHRIS 1
4. CHRIS 2
5. CHRIS 3
   
6. NIKO  1
7. NIKO 2
8. NIKO 3
9. NIKO 4
10. SHERRY 1
11. SHERRY 2
12. SHERRY 3
13. SHERRY 4
14. SHERRY 5
15. AMANDA 1
16. TIFFY 1
17. TIFFY 2
18. TIFFY 3
19. TIFFY 4
20. TIFFY 5
21. CHERYL 1
22. GALE
    
23. GRACE 1
24. LLEHN 1
25. LLEHN 2
26. PARAJUNKEE 1
    
27. PARAJUNKEE 2
    

The $12 Contest-CLOSED!

I'm partial to 7 and 12. Since my kids are born on those dates.
Here's the deal.


The Letters That I'll Never Send is a meme hosted in this blog. It's a meme that involves writing about a certain topic/whimsy/person that I thought of. Each week it has a different theme.

So far, the themes has been as follows:

•  To The Man of My Life
• Dear Future Self
• To my Eldest Child
• To my Favorite Author
• Thank you
• Missing You!
• To Someone who Changed my Life
• To a Singer/Band
• To Someone Like Me/Disaster Struck
• Free for All

To make things simpler and stop other people from making my head spin...  




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QUALIFIED ENTRIES:

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2. MIXTY - 1 POINT
   
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4. NIKO - 4 POINTS
5. SHERRY - 5 POINTS
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TCP: Animals Rule!

Whenever I think of animal movies, I always cry. I don't think there was an animal movie which didn't touch a chord with me. Except perhaps Jaws and those animals that turn too large and turn on those who fed and took great care of them.

I don't remember this movie but when I first read the topic it was all I could think about as a movie to present. The unforgettable thing about this movie is that this is the first animal movie I ever watched that I could remember where I knew I cried buckets!

Here's a clip if you don't remember what I'm talking about.

Letters That I'll Never Send: I Encourage You...

Dearest Winnie,

        You've embarked on one of the greatest adventures in life. You've just gotten married and you're now going to be a Mom. A little person is growing inside of you. I can imagine the difficulties that you will be facing. The life you have as you know it will certainly change. Your priorities must change too. Life will be hard, but I believe in you. I really do. I think you have a big chance in changing your life for the better even if life has thrown you a lot of curveballs. Or else, I hope I'll be able to help in the change that will come to your life. As I promised long ago, perhaps when I own my own business. You have exceptional skills in the kitchen. You've learned the secrets of the trade. I hope that if I can't help you, you be able to put that skill into good use. I am supposed to encourage. I hope that you try to dream. When you dream, dream Big and equip yourself for whatever journey you must take. I'll be missing you. I hope Mak doesn't bring you too far.