Happy Thoughts

Okay, so the past week had been great! I spent a lot of quality time with my brother-in-law Edwin and his wife Bingbing (who I happened to be friends with since 5th grade!)...We had a blast, eating, singing, and behaving like teenagers dancing at El C with our friends... (The same circle who's been there for my hubby and me when we were just starting).  Today though,  some things took a sharp turn.  Oh it has nothing to do with my bro, haha.  But things made me so sad today. Really rock-bottom sad.  I know this too will pass but you know how it is when things just seem to be the end of the world. I'm just trying to think happy thoughts right now.  Somehow, they help me pull through all the time, really!  So what kind of happy thoughts am I thinking of? I stored some pretty good ones in my memory bank for emergency, specifically for times like this! Let me see...first would be, when Aldred said "Finally, you're the ONE. I love you and I want you to be my wife." That made me cry buckets...What else? Oh, yeah, me and my friend Merv many years back in Manila during one of my first times driving around the city, I actually reached several places twice in a row ("Hey Clarisse, didn't we see this same statue an hour ago?")...we were laughing so hard that he actually told me to remember that day whenever I'm sad (here you go, Merv, I remembered!). What else, oh, my famous "Caroline thoughts".  I will always remember that teaching year with her as my student.  She sure left me with so much memories I couldn't even count them.  But that one memory that always brings a smile to my face is when she said "Teacher C, I love you more than you love me" and I said "No, Caroline, I love you more than you love me".  And she said "But Teacher C, I love you 155 thousand times! See, I love you more than you love me". 

SEE, I FEEL BETTER ALREADY...

Tough cookies don't crumble...

Lately, life has posed a lot of nerve-wracking challenges for me, which threw me into a rollercoaster of emotional ups and downs.  I'm not about to go through the nitty-gritty details of my life (as always...you know how much I abhor gossip), but what I do want to say is that I think I'm coming out tougher than ever.  And to think I have always thought I can already give Andres Bonifacio a run for his money! My friends always said I am a tough cookie.  I'm just happy to have finally proven that, once again.  Maybe it's my infectious optimism about life, or my Brady Bunch family tree, or just pure luck.  Or well, maybe, it's what I have learned in stick-fighting / Arnis...the stronger you blow, the more painful the hand feels, but eventually it goes away, and if you just keep fighting, it will be all worth it. I'm just happy with myself.  I'm happy with the journey God blesses me with.  My heart is overflowing with love.  And I can laugh and play and dance whenever I please.   But it sure doesn't take away the fact that things are making me tougher than I already am.  I remembered my favorite line in A Few Good Men, as said by Colonel Jessep (Jack Nicholson)... ''I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash a badge, and make me nervous.''  Why did I put that here?  Simply because that is soooo ME!

 

Liars Got To Hell

that's all...

Ok here we go...

Wow. Talk about first times! This is my first time to BLOG, but come to think of it, most of my close friends know about "Angella's Thought for the Day" (That's me!). Yup, that everyday message I used to pass on back in those days when unlimited text messaging was free...and maybe way before this Blog fever even caught up.  It's 3 am, AS USUAL and I'm not sleepy.  I have long been waiting for a great opportunity to start my Blog.  I envisioned it to be grand, but ok, here we go! Nothing.  No fireworks, no drumroll.  Just me, sitting here by myself, missing my hubby. So lonely... HAHAHA!!!! ;O) Gotcha! I'm actually just tripping, I'm okay and happy.  Yes, I do miss hubby but 1 more month and I'll be back in his arms. Woohoo!!!.  I just can't wait.

Seriously now...wow, so this is what it feels like to be on the patient's couch.  I'm just so used to being the Shrink, sorting things out for others, that I forget how it feels to be listened to...or analyzed (which I hate)...well...strange...(I MISS MAY ANN).  So this is how it feels to talk to me! Just jokin'. But well yeah, whoever you are reading this, you're my shrink now, you have this tall order to keep me sane in bad times, stay with me in sad times, and most of all, laugh with me during the best of times.  I leave you no choice.  NiTeY-NiTeY!!! ;)

PS. I have a 3-day old extra piercing on my right ear (the cartilage part)...it still hurts.  Can't wait to wear the bling! ;)