Everything Under The Tropical Sun

Ahh… a glorious vacation away from the daily hustle and bustle of what would normally be a day full of phone calls, emails, or meetings. Don’t get me wrong. I love what I do in the office but it’s just so nice to catch up on my reading, spend the day at home and do some organizing that’s been bugging me for months now: organizing our growing DVD collection, organizing the files in my external hard drive… basically things that I usually fore go on a usual working day.

I had a very very pleasant Christmas with my family. We didn’t really catch up on much really but just being around them gives me a feeling of comfort only families can do. Sure, we’ve had our squabbles and our petty bad feelings toward each other… What family doesn’t have any of those? But around Christmas, forgiveness is always abundant. Many things are forgotten and all is forgiven (until the next round, that is.).

My husband had to go to work today but it’s still okay. It’s just the production department that came in and it’s actually fun for him. Though having us in the back of our heads isn’t really entirely relaxing (he checks up on us here at home), he was still able to cook dinner when he got home. A clear indicator that he wasn’t so stressed at work.

I thought I was going to get sick, too. But thankfully, I didn’t do anything that’s particularly taxing and I got to sleep. Sleep… I’ve forgotten how sweet it could be. During working weeks, I normally take sleep for granted and because I have nothing to worry about the next day, my dreams nowadays are sweet and not filled with usual dreams about work (though I get my great ideas during the time before I wake up… I just hope I remember them half of the time).

I know I’ll be rejuvenated by the time we start work on the January 5. It’ll be a new year and it’ll be time to roll up my sleeves and get down to business. But for the meantime, I have a week to enjoy this glorious vacation to do whatever I please, to catch up with my reading, to dream sweet dreams. I hope you’re all enjoying your vacations as much as I am!

I’m doing a quick post from my mom’s house just to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a great Christmas and Noche Buenas (for those of you from the Philippines and maybe Spain) with your families.

I’m sure I’ll have a lot of “ammo” to write about after the holidays. Hehehehe! I’m sure spending time with you families this holiday season would most likely provide you with funny stories for years to come…

Again, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

I am ashamed to say that I am a creature of habit. So much so that I really hate the little things changing on me. Just like upgrading to a newer version of wordpress.

Sure, I understand that they like checking on their software and updating it as soon as a bug is found. I understand that all these upgrades are to my benefit. But they really messed up with my last theme just because it was no longer compatible with the newer wordpress version. I could live with that because it’s the theme developer’s responsibility to keep the theme up to date to accommodate the new wordpress version.

Now, imagine my surprise when they changed the whole interface of wordpress. No longer are the tag and the category fields are where they used to be which is right below the text box. They moved all the buttons around! Such bullies! Just because they’re THE software to use by bloggers they can change their interface with little or no consequence. Let’s all face it, they’ve designed a nifty software which makes our lives a whole lot easier.

There must be some bugs still because as I am typing this, it feels like there’s a delay with the keys pressed and when it appears on screen. *Sigh* I hate little changes like this when I’ve already gotten used to where to click that it comes out as muscle memory. Now, I have to adjust my life around yet another wordpress upgrade. *sigh*

It was our 3rd year wedding anniversary yesterday. We didn’t really do anything. We took the fastcraft (a fast ferry boat) to Ormoc. It’s about 2 hours 30 minutes ride from Cebu. Boy! It was cold but I was sweating like crazy. They announced that it’d be “moderate to rough” seas out but they didn’t say it was during the whole duration of the trip!

The whole time I was trying to relax… taking deep breaths to calm my gag reflex. I’d look out to sea but it didn’t help… look at the TV monitor, it was worse… Closed my eyes, I wanted to jump ship! Part of me was wishing we were still near shore because I’d readily jump over board than suffer more of the swinging and swaying of the boat.

If only it wasn’t for a dear client, I would have left the terminal as soon as they announced that the ride would be undesirable. So yes, everyone… on our anniversary, my husband and I went to see a client. Story of our life. If it wasn’t this particular client, we wouldn’t have given a damn. She’s cool, no hang ups, nothing. Her favorite word is “widow-widow” –> meaning playing things by ear. That’s what she did with her business. She made most of her decisions by ear. Now, she commissioned us to help her professionalize by re-branding herself. A “make-over” of sorts as she works towards turning her food business into a franchise.

It didn’t feel like work. It usually doesn’t when working for a great client. It wasn’t really a bad way to spend our anniversary. As a couple, we weren’t really that big on celebrating dates. On our birthdays we would usually just have a simple (but very very yummy, mind you) dinner with close family and friends… or we’d simply sleep in and enjoy each other’s company.

Aside from the rough sea trip (going and coming back… what a nightmare!), all in all, I’d say we celebrated our anniversary in our true couple fashion: simple, productive and we were with each other.

It’s the middle of December already and we have not… I repeat, HAVE NOT gone to check out the yoga place near our house. I was so ecstatic to be able to enroll my husband to yoga. My positive attitude didn’t falter even when Kara-Leah of Prana Flow NZ commented that it’s one thing for one to say something and it’s quite another to actually do it.

Right now, I’d have to agree with her. She’s a yoga instructor and her partner isn’t enrolling in any of her yoga classes. Isn’t practicing, period. So I’m resigned to the fact that maybe my husband might just be agreeing with me simply to shut my big mouth up. I don’t usually nag but yoga was something that turned me into a broken record.

So yeah, maybe Kara’s right. Or maybe it’s because it’s the holidays and so many things are going on. I’m still keeping my fingers crossed that we’ll be able to go during the first week on January. If not… well, I’ll go ahead and do my thing. I don’t care whether he comes or not anymore. He’ll just suffer the consequences like: late dinner, large belly, no meat, large belly, no wife to accompany him home, large belly… (ya get it, hubby?! — he reads this blog.) Hehehehe.