Where did my January go? I can’t believe that it is already February and the first month of 2012 pass by just like that. This made me realize that in just a few months, we will be celebrating our first year of paying the monthly amortization for the dream house that we bought. And I realized that my husband is correct, time will just fly and before we know it, we are through paying our debt for our housing loan.

I remember that it was December of last year when we sealed the deal with the previous owner of the house. We started packing our stuff last April as the previous owner promised that we can move in by June.

But there has been a problem with the processing of their visa that their scheduled departure got delayed for 2 months. So when we moved in last September, our boxes has been lying around our old house for months now that when we started unpacking them, hubby discovered that cockroaches started to thrive inside the box.

Of course hubby doesn’t want to bring in those pests in our new home that he contacted Houston Pest Control right away so they can identify where the cockroaches can enter and where they will nest so they can remedy it before we started to bring our boxes from our old house to our new one.

And we are glad we decided to contact Houston Pest Control, as at least we won’t start our new life in our new home surrounded by pests.

I am glad that my kids take after their dad his love for music. My husband has a talent when it comes to singing and so he tries to instill the love for music to our kids that he surrounds them with all kinds of musical instruments from percussion, string, and more.

In every party that our family hosted, our guests would always look forward to the song number of Bela and Howell. The two will practice weeks before the event so they can give a total entertainment for our guests.

Bela will be having a rockstar themed party for her 7th birthday and as early as now, the stage daddy is already conceptualizing the performance that they will be doing for our guests. It has to be special as it is a special event, 7th birthday, that as early as now hubby is already listing the instruments and gadgets that they will need like the electric guitar, the beat box, the marshall jcm800, which he will either purchase or rent so they will have hard core instrument for a stellar performance.

Hubby and Bela is excited for their performance. I guess they are both entertainers by heart so they always find joy whenever they receive a great cheer from the crowd that they serenaded.

This is as a super delayed post. I have a lot of backlog stories that I need to blog about but I have been very busy lately. I haven’t even uploaded pictures of our Christmas and Year’s celebration.

Last January 2, both hubby and I are off from work as we are both on a holiday as declared by our offices in lieu of January 1 holiday. I have long wanted to go to Tagaytay but I know how heavy is the traffic going there during weekends on a holiday season so we always end up postponing our trip.

But since the rest of the country is working on January 2 (except for those who took a leave), we figured that it is the best time to go to Tagaytay. And as what we expected, there is no heavy traffic going there that it only took us less than 2 hours drive to reach Tagaytay.

We head straight to Jospehine’s for lunch, as what we are accustomed to do:

Then we went to the area near Taal Vista where the kids can go horse back riding and biking:

Of course our day trip in Tagaytay will not be complete without dropping at Bag of Beans for our favorite hot chocolate and pancakes.

Tagaytay is really one place that I never grew tired of. It will always be our family's quick getaway retreat.

I always believe in the sacredness of marriage vows that is why I am always in shock every time I hear news of showbiz personalities breaking up or filing a divorce. Just like when I learned of the separation of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries only after less than 3 months of getting married.

And now the most recent one that got me affected was the separation of model and Project Runway host Heidi Klum with Grammy Award singer Seal.

Picture snagged from People.com

Well actually, I find them to be a really odd couple and I really don’t follow news about them as much as I follow other Hollywood stars but still I got shocked when I learned of the news as I thought that they are so much in love. You can see eat from the way they look into each other, their public display of affection and the like and so I thought (again), that they are one of the few Hollywood couples that will really last.

But sadly after almost 7 years of marriage, they are calling it quits. Some are saying that the reason for their separation was Seal’s anger issues (which I am sure can be remedied if he will get help from treatments centers who can help him with anger management much like addiction treatment centers who help people who are suffering from drug and alcohol addiction).

They started their married life with a sweet proposal from Seal in a specially built igloo on a 14,000-ft.-high glacier in Whistler, B.C and so it is tragic to hear that this nice beginning with just end up with a divorce.

Oh well, I guess Hollywood life, especially married life, can be really complicated that is why Hollywood stars are having a hard time coping with it that sometimes and sadly, it is their relationship that suffers

Lipstick.

For the past weeks, this has been the topic of conversation amongst my group of friends in twitter – what brand, what shade, what hue, etc are just some of the questions that we asked our makeup guru, Ems.

I am not really into make up but I think it is time for me to start putting make up again that is why I joined them when they went shopping in Mac online. How I wish I can learn how to beautify myself.

But if I have the time, I would like to try to attend a makeup class in Regency Beauty Institute, a Nashville cosmetology school. Regency is one of the fastest growing beauty schools in the country. They only started with 2 branches and now they have 80 schools across different states.

They provide great hands-on training to their students as their campuses reflect high tech salons so their students will get nothing but the best training.

I will be getting the lipstick that I bought from my friend next week and I can’t wait to try them on. Who knows, even if I am a late bloomer, makeup might be something that will really interest me.

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