I'm Back! Hello 2007!

It’s been weeks since my last entry and I feel bad having missed writing entries about special occasions such as Christmas, New Year, my birthday and Valentine’s Day. Oh well, though late, why not make up for it, right? So here goes. My succeeding entries, starting with this one, will focus on the many thoughts, realizations and learning I had from these events.

New Year 2007. We ushered the New Year cooped up at our house in Libis unlike last year when we spent it in Tagaytay. This year your dad and I decided in order to bring in good luck to our home and family, we need to be in Libis and welcome the New Year at our very own house. So we did just that. I marinated some steaks and had yayi grill them. I cooked gravy and soup but naturally, your dad had to come in and recook everything. Hehehe. Not that the food I cooked wasn’t great but only because your dad’s standards were just too damn high! (woooo…excuses!). Anyway, we also had 13 different kinds of fruits set out as we believed this would bring us good luck for the year or so the Chinese say.

So there, our new year was quite uneventful although it’s not really different from the past New Years I’ve had. For as long as I could remember, even when I was still single, our family rarely celebrates New Year with a bang. No fireworks, no grand parties. Your ingkong would turn the volume up on all our stereos and honk on the cars’ horns and after we eat our simple media noche. That’s how simple we usher in New Year. The one thing though that I did the first time this particular new year was list down my new year’s resolutions. I was never a believer of this tradition but I decided to do one as I have goals I set for myself that I so badly want to accomplish this year. Hopefully, this list could be a constant reminder that would prod me to turn my wishes to reality. The following are the top 2 on my list!

Lose 20 lbs by November (tied up with this of course is not gain any additional pound!)Again, I still haven’t completely lost all the pounds I gained while I was pregnant with you (yes, I’m still blaming my fat ass on you! Hehe). But this is not to say I never did anything to lose weight. In fact, as soon as I knew my scar from the caesarian operation was healed, I enrolled myself in Fitness First. I did go to the gym for some months 4 times a week, running on treadmill and bicycle machine, doing crunches and weights, making sure I spend at least an hour exercising. But then I decided to stop because I realized my going to the gym after work took away precious time that I could have spent with you. During the time when I was an avid gym goer, I get home at 10 pm when you were already asleep. I wasn’t able to play with you or cuddle you and that for me was just too much sacrifice for losing unwanted pounds and so I suspended my gym membership. Until now I have the same sentiments. I still rather go straight home so I could play with you which meant I have to find other ways to lose weight. I am still in the process of finding the best formula for this one but in the meantime I have already cut down my food intake with hope that I could once again fit in my old clothes and wear a bikini this summer!

Start driving againI actually learned to drive when I was in 3^rd year college. Unfortunately, I didn’t immediately immerse myself in it and so I was never able to practice and perfect the skill. And then the fact that I got myself a driver soon after college didn’t intensify my desire to actually start driving. Although I did find myself driving myself to work quite a number of times before but the fact that I lack confidence in my driving, I had to leave our house for Makati at 530 am to be sure there won’t be other vehicles in the road with me while I am driving. Pathetic right? And to think I should have found driving easy at that time since I was driving a Fiat Uno which was not far from a bump car! But no, because of fear, I stuck with relying on a driver. But now that I am a mom, I would so love to start driving again as I want to be able to run my errands without having to rely on your dad and not to mention of course so I could drive myself to work already. Then eventually, I would want to be the one to drive you to school and pick you up from wherever. Haaay…I just need to build my confidence really as I already know the basics (except maybe parking? Hehe). Hmmm….I think this calls for another session with Mr. A1 or Mr. Socialites. I can just imagine the bewilderment on my would-be-instructor’s face when he finds out that his student is an actual license holder! Hahaha. Blame it on LTO fixers.

So there. Those are just 2 of my New Year's resolution. I will keep you posted on my progress but as early as now, I am confident that by the end of the year, I would have accomplished these goals. This, my dear, is the power of positive thinking. I just need to believe it will happen, and it will.