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59/365: Retail Theraphy in action

Marie Montanez De Luna — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:55:40 +0000

I’ve been feeling a bit down since Friday, so a little pick me up is needed. I’ve trolled around Amazon to see if there are interesting gadgets I can buy, but ended up buying only $34 worth of stuff. None of them really exciting.

Meanwhile, I’ve been complaining to my girl friends about how much these bags cost, and how I just can’t get myself to spend that kind of moolah on a bag. Well, today is the day, I don’t mind spending those hard earned money my friend. Off I went to the outlet mall, and grabbed not just one but TWO of these beauties.

Yeah, this felt good!

Let’s hope my practical side never wisens up to my impulsive side and regret this purchase. After all, I just learned that Coach stores have an open return policy (no day limit!).

58/365: Just another Saturday with the girls

Marie Montanez De Luna — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:57:40 +0000

It’s been 3 weeks since X attended swimming class! We missed the Feb. 6 class when I flew back from a red eye flight from SFO and classes have been cancelled the two weekends after that. So, today – she woke up excited to go swimming. Y woke up early too, so I brought her with us to the rec center to prepare her when it’s her turn to go swimming. It’s true what they say, practice makes perfect and after three weeks of being out of the water, X reverted back to being scared of it *sigh*. We also learned that Y, got bored watching :)

After class, we all trekked to McD’s for some french fries (X had quesadilla from Chipotle) and some fun time in their play area.

A day with my girls

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57/365: XYZ Portraits – by Daddy

Marie Montanez De Luna — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:51:44 +0000

I’ve taken a picture of this wall before and posted it on my facebook wall, and I am using it again for today’s photo of the day.

Portraits of X, Y and Z - by Daddy

Hubby makes these around the time the kids were 2 months old. He’d take a portrait I’ve taken and draw them on canvas. He’s a talented artist, that guy.

56/365: Goodbye War room

Marie Montanez De Luna — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:43:58 +0000

X was back in school today having fully recovered from her Tuesday sickness. Similarly, I am back in the office with my team since we have a commitment to deliver our project by end of day today.

We have been in this war room for a solid two weeks now, working in close proximity with each other and generally doing awesome work. The timelines were tight (our proposal asked for 6 weeks) and the requirements had a lot of holes. Despite those though – the team did an amazing job completing the tasks on by our commited time. Today’s photo is dedicated to the team, and since we will be out of this war room by tomorrow, we are saying good bye to the space.

We're sorry to see you go, but we'd go crazy if we stay longer :)

Dear War Room,

We’re sorry to see you go, but we’d go crazy if we stay longer :)

Team

52/365: Chichiria Time

Marie Montanez De Luna — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:08:11 +0000

Today’s photo of the day is brought to you by Chippy, Cheese Curls and Boy Bawang. As the girls and I treck up the bedroom to start winding down for the day, I felt an urge for some chichiria. So I raided our cabinet and found that it’s been newly stocked. Awesome!

Chippy, Cheese Curls and Boy Bawang, oh my!

51/365: Funtime at Jump Zone

Marie Montanez De Luna — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:57:28 +0000

We woke up today excited for X’s swimming class. There was no class last week, and we missed the week before that (When I came back from San Francisco). When we got there, we learn that the class was cancelled because a meet was scheduled. Bummer, we were looking forward to some swimming time.

At lunch, we packed everyone up to attend a birthday party at the Jump Zone. XYZ enjoyed themselves and had fun! Had a couple of photos but especially loved this one of Z. He’s a bit mesmerized by this funny mirror and he kept on looking at himself on it. One time, I caught him doing this!

I'm so cute!

And I don’t blame him. I kiss him everytime I see him too. He’s just soooo cute :)

50/365: Mangoes

Marie Montanez De Luna — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:50:48 +0000

Got home late with no photos taken. Which is weird, because I have my camera and I had lots of interesting photos to take at work, but for some reason – I can’t find the time to take those photos. So, at home in the bedroom with the girls, I again have to find something. Tonight, it’s mangoes. This is not a very good shot, but I want to talk about mangoes :)

Mangoes

These are not the popular Philippine mangoes. These are what’s closer to what’s called indian mangoes in the Philippines, but I think is really closer to Mexican mangoes here. The batch we got from the grocery this week was really good. Sweet and crunchy. And when we get them that way, EVERYONE wants one. These are normally for me, but I can’t eat one with X and Y wanting their share. If Z is still awake, he wants some too and when hubby is home, he steals some himself. The funny thing is no one else asks for them! They just want to eat them when they see me eating them. Isn’t that weird?

49/365: Cobweb

Marie Montanez De Luna — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:22:12 +0000

Been trying to get an inspiration for today’s photo all night. A colleague gave me a good idea of taking a photo of the Pizza oven after we had after work drinks at the Italian place but I wanted to get moving and be at the train station. So, now I’m in one of those nights where I am stuck trying to find inspiration inside the bedroom.

Tonight’s subject came from my end table lamp shade. I’ve actually seen this in the past and remembered tonight that I’ve been looking for a web to take pictures of. This one under one of the lamp shades looked interesting. What do you think?

Spider Web

I liked this one because of the detail on the web. It’s not silky and perfect, but feels like one of those halloween fake ones. LOL.

48/365: Sweetheart candies

Marie Montanez De Luna — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:10:59 +0000

I know Valentines day is over – but everywhere around the house, we continue to have reminders and everyday, X eats something from her Valentines treat bag from school. I was having a conversation in the office, and a colleague mentioned that he found the phrase “Tweet me” in one of these sweetheart candies.

So, curious – I grabbed X’s box of candies and started going thru each one to find “Tweet me” for the photo of the day. I found “XOXOXO”, but unfortunately didn’t find “Tweet me”. I did find something that said “weet _e” but it wasn’t printed clearly and could have been “Sweet Pea” for all I know!

"Tweet me", where are you?

If you find “Tweet me” or something equally modern, reply and share! :)

Totally out of topic, X tells me: “Mommy, XOXOXO kisses!”. Where did she get that?!

47/365: Back to the grind

Marie Montanez De Luna — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:59:03 +0000

I love long weekends, and today is the first day back from the long weekend. The problem with long weekends is that you get swamped on your first day back. And such is my day today.

It was also my birthday yesterday, and today, my team mates are treating me out to lunch. Got a photo of the whole team at the table (well, our server did), but I am not using that as photo of the day. Instead, I am using a boring photo of one of our rooms in the office.

"Splash"y Lounge

This room used to be a closet used by our IT to store spare keyboards, cables, etc. It’s a utility room. But then, the company started growing and room became sparse that the closet became a “war” room. We actually was just using this as a war room for one of our projects before a bigger one opened up and we moved there. Then, facilities came over, painted the room and this is the next incarnation of the room. It is now referred to as the Lounge and is a good place for an informal conversations and meetings. Don’t know that anyone actually has time to watch TV or play the Wii though. Hee.

The downside? It’s right beside the men’s rest room. “Splash” indeed :)