Swept Away.

I woke up to a not so-”bright-sunshiny” day this morning. Apart from the gloomy weather outside, I woke up with a feeling of head heaviness because I wasn’t able to sleep at peace, occasionally getting up and constantly checking on my huffing and puffing laptop in between sleep at dawn. It’s also the reason why I wasn’t able to go online last night. I was supposed to work on a number of assignments at 7 pm last night but apparently, it performed a very slow scan disk check upon boot up that lasted for more than 6 hours until the husband decided to shut it down even the scan disk was not complete. This is quite surprising. I am certain that I shut it down properly earlier prior to my supposedly usage last night. I sort of did a spring cleaning of files in my My Docs folder yesterday morning, but other than that, I didn’t tinker any of the program files or whatsoever that’s why I’m wondering what caused this.

So please “Acerito”, don’t die on me please. You know very much that my online works are so very dependent on you. I thank you for the service you’ve been giving me in the last 2 years but please, don’t retire yet. Don’t make “tampo” on me when I joked on the husband that I want a new laptop for Christmas. That was just a joke, okay? You know very well that we can’t afford a big ticket purchase at this period because of the M Project plus we have other bills to settle next month like my term life insurance semi-annual bill. So please, bear with me for a while. We’ve already scheduled you an appointment with your “doctor” on Sunday to check what’s wrong and to give whatever you need to sustain your life. Pleaseeeee…hang on.

It took me a while before I noticed that my sidebar on the right looks different…some widgets are missing. I remember tinkering it the other day (or was it yesterday morning) when I removed my Adgitize code…so yes, it took me more than 24 hours before I noticed it. But sadly, my poor memory (blame it on the “gallons” of anesthesia) is not helping me because I can’t exactly recall the widgets that I’ve accidentally removed. The feedburner email subscription box, About Me, and MyBloglog..what else?

I have always said that this blog badly needs some redesigning, so I guess, it’s really wanting to have one soon. Let’s see if I’ll get some free time to manage this.

Hay…when can I ever manage my time effectively kaya?

I have mentioned recently that I’ve been blessed with a handful of online works since last week and since then, the more I’ve neglected the tasks that I have put off for so long.

There’s still Asher’s 1st birthday photobook that’s still just half-baked. I totally lost my creative mojos and I think, I have now forgotten how to digiscrap. I even can’t remember to which folder in my external hard disk have I saved the layouts. Asher turned 18 months last September 2 so it’s been half a year since the party and just 6 months to go before his second birthday and no 1st birthday party photobook still…bad!

Then I also initiated two new online projects the other week. Until now, I haven’t progressed to anything because I am too tied with the online tasks that flooded my way.

Asher’s monthly pictures printing also halted. I still have to go through my files to know which batch to upload now on Artscow.

Then there are mommy duties that I have to attend to. I can not just say “No” to Asher when he demands my breast milk at random times of the day. It’s a good thing though that he is now more playful and has become less dependent on me that’s why I can work in our room longer in deep concentration. We’re also lucky to have a doting Yayay Becca who looks after the little one while I work..she’s a blessing to us, really.

I’ve been meaning to give this blog a revamp but obviously, I haven’t changed a thing.

Hay… can I have an extra set of hands or can we add even just a couple of hours in a day to accommodate all these tasks?

So many things to do…so little time.

A very overused line and I think it will be more in the days and weeks to come. I am not complaining though because more work means more money. More money means more savings. More savings means the closer we get to that M Project. Yes, M Project…my motivation amidst this overwhelming feeling. Notice how I emphasized the M Project and didn’t use “more savings means more shopping money” like the way I used to.

The husband must be proud of the reformed me. Haha!

It’s 9:26 pm and here I am still busy working. Wanting to lie down already and retire the night but I have to stay up and wait for the husband who will be coming home late because of a company event that he has to attend. If I doze off now, I might not wake up to his knock later and he might sleep outside of the “kulambo”..well, literally, outside of the house. So there, I might as well make use of time now while I wait for him. My throat’s kinda sore and seemingly spells impending cough and colds, but I’m praying it won’t. I have loaded myself already with Vitamin C, drank and also gargled a lot of water moments ago. I hope those will help. M.U.S.T. N.O.T. get sick, for the kids’ sake.

Anyways, work is promising since yesterday. And I have to give myself a pat on the back for being able to overcome procrastination. It really feels great and rewarding when you’re dedicated and dead set to achieve something and you’re seeing your progress right away…although little by little..but at least, you’re moving and motivated more. Isn’t that great?

Foremost, I’m not claiming that my English grammar is perfect at all times.

I would just like to share one of the basic grammar errors that we often commit on constructing simple tense in the past form.

Basically, there are three ways in forming the past tense of an English verb:
1. the use of operator “did” plus the indicative
2. adding -ed or -d to the indicative, if the verb is regular or the special past tense form of certain verbs
3. putting the auxiliary of the continuous form in past tense

For Example:
1. You did laugh
2. You laughed
3. You were laughing

With emphasis on the first one, the use of the operator “did” must be added to a present tense form of the verb and not of its past tense.

Correct: You did laugh
Incorrect: You did laughed

Correct: I did not notice
Incorrect: I did not noticed

Correct: I did not swim
Incorrect: I did swam

Did is already a past tense in its form so making the indicative in its past form too would make it redundant.

So there, that’s our English Grammar Review 101.

I woke up to an eardrum-breaking tension outside the bedroom earlier this morning. Absolutely not a pleasant vibe to wake up to. It was almost enough to knock off my bright morning but before my day will get ruined by it, I CHOSE to soar above the negativity vibes it’s seemingly wanting to transmit to my senses.

I’m glad that I did. Now, I can say that it’s a nice morning after all.

A couple of good news (meaning $ opportunities) waiting in my inbox have empowered me further to stay cheerful and positive. I’ve never been this swamped with online works. If you have an idea of how unstable and inconsistent the type of my work is, you know that I am not complaining. In fact, I’m so much thankful for this downpour. So expect that in the next coming days, I won’t be seen that much over at Facebook and Twitter as I need to ward off the distractions so I can work steadily. Further, I’m currently working on two new online nooks to pave way for more “fishes to fry”. Setting them up is just time consuming and requires tremendous effort to make them worth reading and publishing in the blogosphere. I’ve just carefully studied and compared various web hosts and luckily, I found one that fits my requirements and of course, budget.

So here’s for a more cheerful and enterprising day ahead.

A couple..err make that three…good news brought a big smile on my face this morning as I turned on my lappy. Work is really doing good and I’m just thankful that it seems luck is on our side and everything’s going our way for that M thing. Now I just need to do my part, overcome laziness and work, work and work and enjoy what is given me.

I will also be as busy as a bee today. I’m expanding my online nooks for more moolah opportunities. Setting up a new one entails a lot of time, creativity and great mental powers. Soooo, wish me luck.

Here’s for more positivity on a great Tuesday morning.

For the longest time, I’ve been wanting to change and conduct a makeover on this blog. Foremost, I’d like to upgrade my wordpress platform..I’m still using version 2.5, way obsolete than the latest version 2.8.1. I’m missing a lot of cool features that would make my blogging a lot easier. In fact, I can no longer upload an image directly from my computer to my gallery that’s why I have to upload them first to my Flickr gallery just so I can add a picture. It certainly has its kinks now..I’m longing to a hitch-free blogging. Second, the theme and design needs a major revamp. I plan to change it to a simpler two-column or it could still be a three-column but the main body will have to be at the left most side. Third, I also need to do some link and widgets cleaning on the sidebar and seriously work this time on the optimization and regaining the page rank google once bestowed on this. I’ll be checking out later this Boston Search Engine Optimization service from BrandIdentityGuru.com. As for the wordpress upgrade, I’ll check out later if I can do that on my own. That is why I love the latest version wherein the upgrade is automatic. In the version I have now, I have to manually download and install it to my FTP files. I may be an internet junkie but I lack the know-how on these specific blogging aspects. Well, let’s see if I can pull this through on my own.

Today, you are restrained from opening your Facebook.

Hmmm, okay you are allowed to open it and read your friends’ status updates but absolutely NO opening of Typing Maniac, Bejeweled Blitz and Waka-Waka applications!

You have a handful of tasks to finish that are more rewarding and fruitful compared to the satisfaction of seeing your name on top of the scoreboard. Remember, those apps do not make the “ca-ching ca-ching” sound on your paypal wallet.

And if that’s not enough to motivate you, I bet this picture will:

Snagged from Freshome.