Books…check. (Yes, I have it in hard cover and paper back. Tee-hee.)

Calendar…check.

Entertainment Weekly copies…check.

The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion…check.

Do you think it’s too much if I got a shirt, too? Hahaha. Ok, I’ll just hold off buying one until prices are slashed to an irresistable price. $19.99 is a bit too much.

I can’t wait for Friday when the movie finally hits the theaters. I still haven’t figured out how I’m going to watch it but it doesn’t really matter because I intend to see it even if it means going by myself. I’m obviously a fan of the book, bordering on obsessed but not so obsessed that I’m overly affected by who’s playing whom in the movie. After all, it’s just a movie. I do hope the movie version is good and that the actors do justice to their respective roles. Otherwise, I fear Twilight fans might burn them at the stake, which is practically what some of them did to Stephenie Meyer when they didn’t find Breaking Dawn (the last book in the series) much to their liking. Oh well. Needless to say, I’m cheering for everyone in and behind the movie.

Here’s the final movie trailer, in case you’ve kinda been buried under a rock the last couple of weeks.

You want some behind the scenes footage?  Here’s one. Spoiler alert though. :)  Then again, if you’ve read the book, you already know what’s going to happen…you just don’t know how it’s going to be executed in the movie.

Four more days.  We can do this Twilighters and Twihards!  For the meantime, let’s do some cool down exercises to normalize our heartbeats.  Deap breaths now..inhale..exhale.

Have a great week ahead, y’all!

What do you think? *wink*

Have a great week, y’all!

It’s been a while since my last Abby Talk entry.  Abby, at 4 years old, speaks at the speed of lightning and with her twang, Hubby and I sometimes have a hard time understanding her.  Curious and inquisitive, she has so many questions about oh so many things, some of which she would ask over and over again, even after I’ve answered them over and over again, too.

Allow me to share with you, some of my amusing exchanges with Abby.  Enjoy!

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SMART

I was putting Abby to sleep when Hubby accidentally sat on Abby’s Hannah Montana doll on a nearby armchair.  The doll started singing.

Abby: What was that?

Me: Daddy sat on your doll.

Abby: If you sit on a doll, it will break.

Me: You’re right.  How did you become so smart?

Abby: Because I think!

Manang-mana talaga sa ina ang anak ko! Hahaha! *wink*

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BABIES

May I just mention that Abby used to not want to have a baby.  Then again, a lot of her classmates have baby sisters and brothers whom she sees during pick-up and drop off times.

Abby: Mommy,  I want a baby.

Me: Not yet.  We’re not yet ready.

Abby: I’m ready (to have a sister/brother)!

Me: I’m not!  We have to save money first.

Abby: Why?  To buy a baby?

If only it were that simple!  We would have this conversation over and over again.  Sometimes, she’ll ask, “Can we have five?”. I almost fainted the first time she said that.  Sometimes, it’s  “Can we have twins?”.  I’ve now stopped watching John & Kate Plus 8, just so the funny ideas will stop.  *wink*

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SHARING…or the lack thereof

Last Saturday, Hubby and Abby bought lunch from a Vietnamese restaurant.  Before leaving the house, I reminded Hubby to buy fresh spring rolls, which Abby loves so much.  There are two pieces in one order.  The following conversation transpired while we were opening the boxes of food at the dining table…

Abby: Look Mommy, we bought spring rolls! Yey, spring rolls!

Me: Yes, Daddy bought those for you.

Abby: There’s two, Mommy.  I’ll share with you.  One for me and one for you.

Me: What about Daddy?

Abby  pauses for a few seconds…

Abby: Daddy will eat something else.

Awww.  My poor Hubby!

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AGING

This happened while I was getting Abby ready for bed…

Me:  I love you, Abby.

Abby:  I love you, too, Mommy.

Me:  Will you still love me when I’m old.

Abby:  Like Mimi? (Peace, Mimi!)

Me: Mimi’s not old.  (Hee hee.) Will you love me when I’m old and wrinkly like a raisin?

Abby:  No.

Me:  No?

Abby:  Why will you get old?

Me:  Because people get old.   Every time you have a birthday, you get older. Will you love me when I have white hair and wrinkly skin like a raisin?

Abby:  Don’t become a raisin, Mommy! (And she gives me her cutest pout.)

Haaay. =)

That’s all the Abby Talk I have for you…for now.

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Moving on…

It’s no secret that I do SPs (sponsored posts) in my other blogs.  One assignment I recently got required me to do a video or slideshow showcasing their product, which are freshwater pearls.  I was sent a pearl necklace to be used for the video.  The advertiser specifically requested that the video not look like your usual jewelry ad.  A couple of my Plurk buddies have already seen this video here (Thank you, Meeya!)  and I want to share my handy work with you as well.  Oh, and just so we’re clear, I won’t get paid for showing the video here.  Hee hee.  So this blog is still “clean” and SP free!  *wink*

What do you think?  Don’t be too harsh, ok?!  I don’t handle criticism very well.  Hahaha!

With that, I wish you all a wonderful weekend!  Cheers!

Where FB stands for Facebook, EB for eye ball and Weebee, well, that needs no explanation. :)  Having said that, let me announce to the whole world that we just found ourselves some new friends *insert “Weebee!” here*  Filipino friends at that!  It all started with a message I left on cousin Millie’s Facebook wall last Thursday:  “

Belated happy birthday to Alyssa! Hugs and kisses from all of us here in Austin! Mmmwah!

A few minutes later, I got a message in my FB inbox from Lori, a friend of wonder twin sisters Millie (wife of Hubby’s first cousin, Monty) and Carrie, who happen to be living in Austin as well.  Lori was just telling me how glad she was that her former classmates Millie and Carrie “know” someone in Austin.  I was surprised, too, to find out that Millie and Carrie know someone other than our family of three here in Austin.  The next day, I sent Lori an email, too, telling her where I am exactly.  And guess what, we live in the same community!  Just a stone’s throw away from each other!  The emails led to live chats and then to an actual phone call, an impromptu invitation to Lica’s (Lori’s daughter) 7th birthday party scheduled the following day, and finally, an eyeball after I picked up Abby from school last Friday.  All these happened in a matter of three hours or so last Friday.  As I told Carrie, ang bilis ng mga pangyayari!  Not that I’m complaining!  Hee hee.  We, of course, accepted the invitation to Lica’s party.

For the first time in the more than one year that we’ve been living in Texas, we attended a kiddie party exactly the way we know kiddie parties to be…fun-filled and food-filled, too (think pancit, dinuguan, fried chicken, at marami pang iba!)  Hee hee.  With Lica’s guests numbering over 70, it was the most number of Filipinos we’ve seen gathered in one place here in the US since we moved here!  If you’ve read the book The Host, I tell you, I felt what Wanderer/Melanie must have felt when she discovered a cave-full of humans!  Hahaha!

The best part is meeting and being welcomed by a warm and friendly bunch of people.  It would have been nice if we had the chance to meet and mingle with everybody but that would be stretching our luck far too much.  Hubby and I met about 4 or 5 other couples who also live in our community.  We didn’t realize there were so many Filipinos practically next door to us.  Gosh, we really don’t get out much…well, we do, but… :D  Abby made some new friends, too, friends whom, hopefully, she will see again and again and again.

Hubby and I went home with silly smiles on her face.  We teased each other about having new friends, “Uuuy, may friends ka na!”.  :P  Hubby may have friends from work but it is I who actually has friends (Bet and Ate Aileen) that we hang out with.  So the joke’s more on Hubby than me!

What a difference several days make!  I’ve made more friends since my last blog entry!  When you’re living thousands of miles away from everything familiar, you just can’t not welcome anything or anyone that brings you a tad closer to home.  Thank you, God, for a most wonderful weekend miracle!

To Lori and Chris, Alet and Edwin, Weng and Andre, Michelle and Andrew and Camille and Art, we say thank you, for a very warm welcome.  It was such great pleasure meeting all of you and we had a truly wonderful time.

Unfortunately, blogging moment as it was, I didn’t get to take pictures.  Just believe when I say that I didn’t make any of these up. *wink*

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Moving on to other things…

To the five people who subscribe to my feeds, you may have noticed that my feeds are now  the full text of my entries, unlike before when you get but a few sentences of a blog entry.  Truth be told, I had self serving motives for having summarized feeds.  I thought a summarized feed will lure subscribers to visit my site, which is tantamount to hits.  Hee hee.  I apologize for that.  I guess I’ve matured after a little over three years of blogging.  I have finally seen the light!

I only realized the beauty of full feeds these past few weeks when I’ve been very busy.  I like being able to read the entries of blogs I subscribe to without having to leave my feed reader (Bloglines).  Between you and me, I have a tendency to skip blogs with summarized feeds and visit them at a later time.  I’m sorry about that, too. :D  It’s the classic case of having so many things to do with so little time.

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I’ve got more stories for you tomorrow.  For now, I wish you all a great new week ahead!  Cheers!

I’m very much available!  Here’s a sample of my work…

Puwede na ‘di ba?  It’s a pony, by the way.  Hee hee.  And here’s my happy customer…

We had a face/arm painting session this afternoon.  It’s Abby’s reward for a time-out free week in school.  Now that we have the tools of the face painting trade, I promised Abby a session for every time-out free day.  A bigger reward for a time-out free week, of course, still stands.

Have a great week ahead!  Cheers!