howell & abie

On my way home, I can’t help but eavesdrop on the conversation of the two passengers beside me. They were talking about stock options and how his investments doubled in just a couple of weeks.

I am really intrigued with how stock options work. I have always wanted to do an investment in stock options but I am always thinking twice since I don’t know how stocks work. All I understand is that you should know what market to invest your money so you will be sure of a high return on investment.

But how will I know if that market will be able to give me a good ROI? And that’s where Power Options comes in. Power Options is the software that I need to do the entire job for me – it gathers data and makes comparisons and reports on the best stock options trading to invest to. That way, I will be sure that I will be investing my money on a good market that will give me a good return on investment.

I am sure my husband will agree with my new investment discovery and will be happy that I am looking at investments options that will help us earn additional income.

I told myself that I have to finish my paper tonight. But since I got hold of my laptop, I have been busy checking out EuroCheapo sites to search for hotel accommodations in Europe. So does this mean I am already joining Howell for his trip and leave Bela for 3 weeks? Actually, the answer lies on the hands of the visa officer. LOL. I am almost 95% sure that I will be joining Howell for this trip and we will do a Euro tour but I am still waiting for my Schengen Visa. We had our interview last Monday and we have to wait for a minimum of 14 days for our visa to be processed. They took our passport so I thought that is a guarantee that our visa will be issued but as it turns out, they are collecting all the passports from the applicants and all applicants have to wait for 14 days for the processing of visa.

So I guess my final decision will be base on the result of our visa application. If I will be given a visa, then maybe I will join Howell for this trip and if not, then the answer is clear - maybe I am really not meant to have a Euro Tour this year.

A friend of mine has a husband who is addicted to fishing. He would usually save a weekend in a month to go fishing with friends and would often take out his fishing rod equipment and clean it. After a day spent fishing, he would come home and tell stories of the catch they made. Of course, he would still complain of how much recreational fishing is underdeveloped here. He would like to go to the US, specifically in Washington, just to experience fishing! He would pore over a washington fishing guide book and dream of going there. He would want to try going on a fishing trip with MegaBytes Guides Service. They are oregon fishing guides and washington fishing guides and have boats specifically made for fishing. He got so excited when he saw how large their catches were. The oregon fishing guide is great too.

It is said you need to book with them at least two to six months in advance. That's how booked they are.

A few weeks ago, we went to Tagaytay with my brother and his fiancée to check out their wedding reception venue. It made me reminisce the time when we were still preparing for our own wedding.

I was a hands-on bride to be then. I made sure that I am always at the top of things because we wanted our wedding to be something that reflects our personality. So all the choices, from the suppliers, to the flowers, and souvenirs, was personally hand picked by us.

One of the favorite things in my wedding is our souvenirs which we got from the Knot Wedding Shop. The Knot website has been my homepage while we were preparing for our wedding since their site provided lots of tips and ideas like unique wedding favor ideas that can truly help couples who are preparing for their wedding.

I gave the link of The Knot to my future sister in law as I am sure she will be able to get a lot of nice ideas and tips that they can use for their wedding.

Last night, I plan to finish all my tasks. I master with all my might to try not to sleep so I can finish all my tasks but I guess I am just too tired and even with one strong cup of coffee, I doze off to sleep after mid night.

I still have a lot to do and I have a deadline to meet. I only have a few hours left and I don’t know how I can squeeze all my tasks with the limited time that I have. I am so thankful since hubby is really very supportive and he has been helping me with my paperwork even though he has some paper work that he needs to finish too.

Oh well, I have to try hard. Of course I can just say no and just pass the opportunity but who wouldn’t want extra moolah right? LOL. So although my brain is toasted already and I can’t think of anymore topic to write, I still have to try. I just have to reward myself after this (I deserve it, this is really hard work. LOL).

I requested for bank certificates and history of bank transactions from my bank last week as it is a requirement for my application of a Schengen Visa. After studying my bank transactions, I realized that it has been years since I deposited my money in the bank and it did not earn that much.

Which got me into thinking that depositing money in bank is not a good way to invest money. If I want to really make use of my savings, then I should be investing it instead of just letting it sit in the bank.

So I did some research which led me to the site of Monex and I got really interested in investing in gold and silver coins. Precious metals are tangible assets that won’t depreciate with time and with the experienced agents of Monex, I am sure I will get the best deal in the market.

I will do some more reading so I can present this to my husband so we can finally be able to make a wise investment.

While I was waiting for Bela’s swimming class to finish last Saturday, I was able to use that spare time to call different Jollibee branches to inquire for their party package. I tried calling Jollibee Green Meadows, Ortigas-Roosevelt and Blue Wave and all of them have 140 – 200 capacity for their function room which is what I am looking for. So far, Jollibee Blue Wave is the best bet since it is the closest branch from Manila that has a big function room.

I panicked for a bit since the date that I was eyeing (November 15) for Bela’s party is already booked. I prefer November 15 since I initially thought that Mich’s Andie will celebrate her first birthday party on the 14th (November will be a very busy month for the MBAPs since most of the MBAP kids are born on this month so we have to coordinate our party dates. LOL). But thankfully, I confirmed from Mich that they will have Andie’s party on the 21st instead.

I pencil booked November 14 at Jollibee Blue Wave and I have until July 11 to pay the reservation fee. So I still have a few days to get convince hubby to have a party for Bela. LOL.

I don’t know what it is with Farm Town that turns me into one addicted Face Book member. LOL. Yup, I logged in to Face Book just so I can play Farm Town and I am so happy because I got promoted again and I am now Level 9 – Popular Farmer. This means I can give cows as gifts to my friends and buy Silo. But I am still so far from reaching my goal of earning 70,000 coins so I will be able to purchase my first Farm House. LOL.

I promise you should give Farm Town a try and I bet you will be as addicted to this game as I am (I heard Judy Santos plays this game too. LOL. I wish I can add her as my neighbor).

Who would have thought that despite our very busy schedule (both Howell and I have our own sideline aside from our day job) that we would still be able to go back to school and hopefully be able to finish our masters.

Thanks to the online university degree program, we have a chance again to finally finish our masters degree. Just like what the speaker during the student’s orientation had mentioned, with online degree, we will be able to spend less time traveling to go to the campus and so we will be able to spend more time studying. This is the perfect choice for those who live a very busy lifestyle (like us) since we can study at our own pace at the comforts of our own home.

We are now on our first semester (still surviving), but hope this time we will be able to finally obtain our masters degree.

So will I be joining Howell for his trip to Germany? Still haven’t decided yet. My reservation has been extended again until July 10 so I still have until Friday to decide. But my colleagues have been convincing me to go as they all can’t wait to receive invitation baby shower from us for our next baby.

realized that I can’t wait for baby number two also. My daughter is growing up so fast and I am sure she is ready to distribute shower invitations and become the elder sister for her baby brother (yes we are hoping for a baby boy for our second child).

I can still remember when I had Bela, my friends organized baby showers for me complete with invitations shower, souvenirs and of course a lot of good food. And it really made us so happy because we felt how much our friends and relatives our anticipating the birth of our first born.

We are planning for baby number tow this year so I am sure, it won’t be long before I need to look for Baby Invitations again.

I know I should be posting this on Bela’s blog but since I need fillers for this blog, I decided to post it here:

Conversations with Bela

Attending mass.

Me: Bela say thank you to Jesus for giving you your mom and dad, and your lolo, lola…..
Bela: Yes. Teacher says, God is great. God is good. God gives us food.

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Me: Bela let’s go to Mercury. We need to buy your milk.
Bela: Ok, we will go to Mercury only mom. Church is close today
(She said this because we always go to Mercury Drug right after Sunday mass.)
Me: Yes Bela. We will only go to Mercury today. We go to Church on Sundays.
Bela (singing): There are seven days, there are seven days, there are seven days in a week. Sunday – Monday – Tuesday – Wednesday – Thursday – Friday – Saturday.

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Ever since classes begun, Bela will go to bed anytime between 8-10 PM and will wake up around 6-7 AM just in time before we leave for work. So every morning we have to think of ways so she will allow us to leave her with yaya.

Bela: Mommy don’t leave me. I love you, I love you. Don’t go to the office.
Me: I will be back, I promise. I just have to go to the office to work so I will be able to get money to buy your toys (though I don’t think it is a good thing to encourage her to buy toys but I am already running late and I need to think of a fast way to be able to get out of the house. LOL)
Bela: No mommy, don’t get money in the office. Just get money in your wallet. You have money there.

Another concern that I have on why I am having second thoughts in joining Howell for his Euro trip is that we have a lot of papers that is due for submission on those dates that we will be away. So it is either, we will do the papers way ahead of schedule so we can submit it before we leave. Or we will bring all our books and reading materials while we travel and look for some Internet connection in the middle of our city tour to submit our assignments and papers. If this is the case, then I really have to buy one of those netbooks like this cute HP mini netbook so it will be lightweight and it will not be so bulky especially we will be moving from one city to the next. Or another option is we will just not submit our paper and we will just enjoy our vacation, then let fate decide on what our grades will be for the three subjects that we are enrolled in. LOL.

I am still not 100% decided if I will go with Howell to Germany but we will be applying for our Schengen Visa. It will be our interview on Monday and it is only today that I started to prepare for the documents and the other requirements that we will be needing for the interview. But I am glad that I was able to obtain all the papers that I need including the travel insurance which is one of the requirements to obtain a Schengen Visa.

I hate visa interviews. It always gives me butterflies in my stomach. I got denied when I first applied for a US visa and since then, applying for any type of visa is a really stressful thing for me (I will really need my wrinkle cream as I am really so stress out).

But thankfully, I have a lot of colleagues who applied for a Schengen Visa already and so I was able to get some tips from them. Hopefully it will be enough (partnered with more research that I will be doing later) to convince the visa officer to give me a visa. Otherwise, then maybe it is a sign that I should not leave Bela and I will just stay here in Manila with her. LOL.

Bela and hubby has been obsessing about the new toy that comes with Mc Donald’s Happy meal. Yesterday, hubby fetched me from work and while he was waiting for me, he decided to drop by at Mc Donald’s and that’s when he saw the Ice Age 3 toy that comes with the happy meal. So he ordered 3 Happy Meals to get the Ice Age toy for Bela. Manny the Mammoth toy is no longer available in the Mc Donald’s branch where Howell ate so we even Drive Thru another branch to get Manny because according to Howell, he has to get it on the first day of release otherwise, we might have a hard time looking for it.

But hubby’s effort was all worth it as Bela went gaga over her toys. We were not able to buy Sid the slot to complete the three major characters in the original Ice Age movie and so Bela was looking for it. So Howell’s solution, 8-MCDO. Yup, we ordered for delivery since we will be working late anyways and we are a little hungry already. Hopefully they have the Sid character. And what I love about this delivery is I paid for it using my Citimobile. With just one text, I was able to pay for my orders. Cool….