A For Adorable...Not!

A - Available/Single? - Single...but waiting for Becks to take me.

B - Best Friend? - With an S. Lee Ann and Olivia.

C - Cake or Pie? Pie. Although cakes can get interesting sometimes, nothing beats even the most boring pie.

D - Drink Of Choice? Iced tea or pineapple juice.

E – Essential Item You Use Everyday? Gotta have my aloe lotion everyday--morning and night. And I don't go out without wearing the ring my mother gave me years ago--I feel naked without it.

F - Favourite Colour? Green, green, and more green.

G - Gummy Bears Or Worms? Neither really. I'm a chocoholic and that's it.

H - Hometown? - Tanjay City, the Phils.

I - Indulgence? Romance books...and t-shirts.

J - January Or February? February--only 28 or 29 days of work but the salary is still good for the whole month.

K - Kids & Their Names? None.

L - Life Is Incomplete Without? My family.

M - Marriage date? As soon as I find myself a groom.

N - Number Of Siblings? Two sisters that are twins.

O - Oranges Or Apples? Oranges, especially those cute little Mandarin ones.

P - Phobias/Fears? Snakes/Failure.

Q - Favourite Quote? "Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful." (Stole it right from Dylan, from whom I stole this whole thing. LOL!)

R - Reason to Smile? When I do a good deed without realizing it until after everything's all said and done...and not just bloghop but also do Neopets at work. Hahaha!

S - Season? Since we only have two here, I'd say the dry season--I love summer.

T - Tag people? Anyone who hasn't done this.

U - Unknown Fact About Me? That I'm on the hunt for Mr Right. (Believe at your own peril. LOL!)

V - Vegetable you don't like? Okra. Need I say more?

W - Worst Habit? I can be a real sloth when I want to.

X - X-rays You've Had? The chest ones during general physicals.

Y - Your Favourite Food? Pasta. Obviously, I walk right into the calorie-overload trap.

Z – Zodiac Sign? Leo.

I Haven't Keeled Over (Yet)!

Although it did seem like I just dropped off the face of the Earth.

I only posted one pathetic post in the last few weeks and I haven't bloghopped as much as I'd like to. Blame it on too much slothing about after the Holidays. But if you had the kind of Internet connection I had, you wouldn't be doing doing too much surfing either. If at all. Especially because Blogger just doesn't run on whatever bandwidth that's available. And since connections had been bad (and I use the term loosely) ever since the strong quake that hit Taiwan a few weeks back, I wasn't inclined to do much more than check my e-mails.

But the connections have been pretty much up to speed for a couple of days now so I don't wanna waste anymore time while I try to post some stuff as well as make up for the lost bloghopping days.

On top of my online to-do's before the month is out is to change the layouts of my other two blogs. I'll do that ASAP. I had been browsing for templates these last weeks since Blogger wouldn't run on the worse-than-crap speeds I'd been having.

But here's an online to-do I'd like to have an opinion on before I go ahead with it:

Should I or shouldn't I open a MySpace account?

Again. I'd have to deliberate on this further. After all, I have deleted two accounts in the last three years already. I got pretty bored with having the same friends in both my Myspace and Friedster networks; and since I had Friendster first, it was only natural that I keep it. I gotta admit it's not as good as MySpace but it's definitely improving. And there's that loyalty thing again. So I thought that if ever I open another MySpace account, I've to make sure that my friend list there isn't the identical to my Friendster's. So anyone who wouldn't mind an invite, please, stand up. I'd love to have more than two in that (new) list. LOL!

It's a good feeling to be back! And I haven't even posted my thoughts on the latest about Becks. I did tell Dee that I envy her. (Totally, girl.) The word is mum for now but here's something for Beckham fans who found their way here. It's really an old clip, done prior to Germany 2006 but if you haven't seen it then you'll have a definite laugh. I'm such a lazybutt to check out what the title of the show was but obviously it's a rip off of Punk'd. Enjoy!

Mastering Procastination

...or something like it. Or maybe it was just as attack of a blogging slump. Hence, my absence. Not that there wasn't anything to blog about, only that I just wasn't up to putting words together to form a cohesive thought. But I refuse to be sucked into a blackhole so I decided I gotta drop by sometime and get my ass back into bloglandia. So I guess sometime is now. Although I'm not up to all out bloghopping yet.

Yeah, there were another year and here's another one. (I admit the slump might still have been an aftereffect of the Holidays hungover--even if I didn't have a drop of alcohol during the celebrations!) I had a wonderful Holidays and the best thing about it was actually meeting up with old friends.

One was right before Christmas. I met up with my friend Ristie and her boyfriend--Ristie and I have been friends since we were twelve and the last time we saw each other was in 2003, when we graduated from college. And we also met up with Jake another classmate from high school and whom I last saw around Holiday season in 1999. Lee Ann, my best friend who I meet up as much as our scheds will allow, and Jan, the Starbucks monster, completed our party of six. It would have been a bigger crowd had we planned it in advance but it was a last-minute plan for a weekend lunch date if there was one. But we had the best time while having lunch as we talk about what everyone's busy with these days. And then Jan dragged us off to Starbucks. His treat. Yey! And there we had an even better time reminiscing about high school and wondering what out tenth-year anniversary reunion in two years time would be like. That was one fun afternoon!

And another afternoon to remember was when I met up my two bestest friends in the world, Lee Ann and Olivia, on the 23rd of December. I had ball in that little get-together, too! This time the food was on Olive and she couldn't even finish her spaghetti carbonarra. And I couldn't finish my mushroom pizza. But who better to bail us out than Lee. All three of us have always been good eaters, that much I can tell you. My stomach ached from the food as much as from so much laughter. We talked about a lot of things (which couldn't be helped since we have been friends for more than ten years now) ranging from Lee's woes of not wanting to go back to grad school in the next semester to, what's new?, Hollywood gossip (at which Olive had to shake her head and roll her eyes at us). Oh, it felt wonderful to be home and be among old friends again! This was my first Christmas in Oriental Negros in three years and I haven't been home in as many years. Being home rocked!