Happy Birthday, Ma!

September 24, 2009 by annadulcekelly.

Mama’s birthday, obviously.

I am not a lazy blogger, I just did not really have the time to blog.  Now I am done with school.  I am still working at the same two places I was at when I wrote last, although the “expanding my role” thing did not shake out.  I’m just as glad.  I did work my way up to assistant teacher at the other place.

The year is close to ending and I am so verrrrrrrrrry tired.  I finished a year of school, hopefully with a 4.0 GPA…or something close to it.  I am waiting for my diploma and transcript.  It was pretty hectic and right now I just want to relax so I asked for fewer hours at least for October at the Y.  I am now officially a US citizen with a certificate and a passport to show for it…and a short video of parts of the oath-taking ceremony I had my husband record for me.  I have just started working out somewhat regularly after work.  I am going back to the Philippines for 3 weeks in December, so I figured I should at least lose a couple of pounds before I gain 20.

I have 2 external hard drives that crashed.  I know I had a bunch of things on those drives that I don’t have backed up somewhere else but my pictures are all safe.  Whatever I lost, I lost; that’s just the way it is.  I am waiting for SDHC card prices to go down a bit more.  I think that solid-state drives are a lot more dependable.  I actually backed up my photos online before the drive crashed, and now I’m downloading them back onto my hard drive.  I am sure I have most of them on CDs or DVDs somewhere in this jungle of a room.

I am still undecided on how long a break I will be taking–one or two quarters.  I am thinking one quarter should be enough, but with how fast time seems to fly, I am worried that when I get to the end of that break (a few days after I get back from my trip) it would feel like I did not get much rest.  So I’m thinking I’ll take 2 quarters off.  Either way, I’m taking a break.  Me being me, I was getting pretty tired of school by the end of it.  It did not help that I had to go up to campus for one of them once a week, at night…and then had to work early the next morning.  I was not happy with that but I just kept telling myself it was a temporary situation…and now it’s over.

So…I have student loans…and more to come.  I thought I owed Dad money for car repairs but he said I don’t owe him anything…which meant I had more cash stashed for pocket money for the trip (YAY!).

I am sooooooo looking forward to eating a lot when I get back there.  Let’s see…mangoes (green and ripe), pork BBQ (not quite the same, even at the Asian stores), Cabalen, Red Ribbon, queso-flavored ice cream, mango nectar, fresh fish and seafood (cheap too), Shakey’s, some restaurant that serves snake…and whatever is there at the places I hope to visit.  I am sure there are a lot more that I can’t think of just now.

I am just so tired.  So I think I’ll rest some more now.  I don’t feel like writing much; I just realized that I hadn’t written since the start of the year.

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