Transition to change

I've gotta say that I'm impressed with the fact that the past week or so we've had absolutely no power outages at home. Funny thing is it took some getting used to being home-bound instead of having a plan to leave the house when the power goes out. I'm not complaining so I guess you could say I'm happy. I can make dinner at home, relax and home, sleep when I want to sleep at home and overall, no more bitching from me.

....but I'm still worried that we only have these generators from Agrekko to help us til they start overheating, or there's a lack of funding for fuel. Until then....stay tuned.

Everyone needs a little R&R

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU TOOK A VACATION? This was a question posed to me by my doctor. I started to think about it and realized that it was in April 2007 when Floyd and I went to Palau. That was truly a vacation for the both of us, and an enjoyable one, too! My doctor was still waiting for an answer from me. I told him that it has been over a year and he said that I needed a break because my headaches are beyond headaches. They were now migraines! I was shocked.







Rest & Relaxation...that's what my body was craving for, but I kept ignoring it. I couldn't believe that my doctor actually told me that I NEED to rest and relax...oh and re-charge. He recommended a couple of things to help me relax: sleep, get a massage, read a book, watch DVDs and exercise (when weather permits).



DOCTOR: "You need to relax and rest."
ME: "Ok, so when can I go back to work?"



That's when I knew I had a serious problem. Even my doctor was shocked with my question! I guess I can't help it. I'm a hard working person and have a lot of responsibilities. I don't like knowing that others are doing my work while I'm out of the office (even if it's for good reasons). But the doctor reminded me of his diagnosis and told me that stress was not good for your body.



ME: "But I can handle my stress, Doc!"
DOCTOR: "You think you do, but your body is telling me otherwise and you need to rest!"



OMG! Was I a workaholic?!? After analyzing what I do and how I do it, I realized that I was. Unfortunately, that was my realization that my greatest weaknesses in my career is balancing work and personal life. I had to quit bringing work home and checking work e-mail from home. Quitting time was 5:00pm Monday-Friday and I had to learn how to practice that. I have a fresh, new start on Monday morning (when I go back to work). It's going to be hard to kick the habit, but I am going to try...for the sake of my health and my sanity.

adctd 2 txt...so he says

Meet my cellphone aka: "CELLY"

Cellphones have come a long way - serving as a tool for communicating with others on the go. It's used for more than just calling. Now you can take photos, send photos, download ringtones, surf the web and most of all, use it to text others.

Some people (like my dad) can't seem to grasp the concept of using text with cellphones. It's true though, learning how to text is like learning a new language. And that's just it, even when people text the "shortcut" way, I still find myself asking others what a text says.

Floyd says that I have a relationship with my phone and I have the 6th sense of knowing when I don't have my phone with me when I leave the house, or my office, or a party! Of course, I beg to differ because I'm just trying to make sure I have my phone with me at all times because god forbid that I get stranded on Isa Drive in the dark without my cellphone!!!

I've got to admit though, I probably do have this sub-concious relationship with my cellphone, but I'm not going to admit that I'm addicted to texting others. I mean, c'mon, it's the way to communicate now :)

Nothing stops my familia!

Today we celebrated my mom's 51st birthday.

I treated my family to a nice lunch at Tori Hide. As I looked around the table during lunch, it was nice to see my mom and talk to her about recent events and updating each other on what's going on. We enjoyed everyone's company over lunch.

Then I get a call around 4pm from my dad telling me that there is a last-minute happy hour for my mom's birthday at their place. I cracked up because I knew it was inevitable that we were gonna have a gathering because it was her birthday. So I get to my parent's house and it was pouring rain...everyone was in the BBQ pala-pala all cozy. Soon the crowd started getting bigger and we were still all in the pala-pala. I though to myself: NOTHING CAN STOP MY FAMILY FROM GETTING TOGETHER! And kinda laughed to myself. Everyone was talking, laughing and just having a great time. My mom was also enjoying herself, and that was all that mattered to me.

Then the power goes out! It wasn't until 15 minutes after the power outage did people begin to leave slowly one by one. Next thing you know, we were clearing the table and transferring things back into the house. Nevertheless, we all enjoyed ourselves and we were all happy.

I love my family!

Soothing Saipan Sunsets

Just wanted to share some photos I took of our beautiful sunsets here on Saipan:

I NEVER WIN!!!

So today I get to work to find out there's no power...lucky for us, we're one of the few government agencies that has a generator. It usually takes our landlord's assistant about 10 minutes to kick the generator on, but for some odd reason, he took longer today. Fifteen long minutes passed and still no generator on! All my morning make-up was starting to melt and my lip gloss wasn't so "glossy" anymore. Suddenly I see Renay (our landlord's assistant) and he's running to turn the generator on. "Sorry ma'am!" He said as he ran to the generator room aka: the men's restroom. I wonder if he saw the frustrated look on my face or how sweaty I was....at that point, I didn't care. I was just happy to hear that generator turn on.

So I go to my desk and start to situate myself to begin work. Pretty soon I'm feeling the sweat roll down my forehead because although the airconditioner was on, it was blowing out HOT AIR!!! I run to the thermostat to check on the temparature....it's on 76. Confused, but also out of pure irritation, I switch it to 65. Ten minutes pass and there's no change in room temperature. I then begin to ask my co-workers if it was just me or was it really warm. They said they were feeling pretty warm, too. My blood was boiling at this point. I was drenched in sweat, irritated as hell and feeling sticky from all the bath and body works lotion I put all over my body! 15 minutes later I find out that the landlord is getting the airconditioner looked at. I then re-located myself to another part of the office to do some work. It was nice and cool and I was able to work in a pleasant environment.

After lunch I decided to move back into my cubby-hole called an office and continue to do my work there because it felt cooler than before. BIG MISTAKE! Not long after I started to work, I realized that I couldn't concentrate on my work because it was warm and I was sweating...again! It was so bad that I found myself walking to other departments just to cool off. Then I receive a text that says the power may turn off at 6pm tonight.

I threw my hands up in the air. "OH I NEVER WIN!" I yelled in my office. I'm already hot and sweaty and it's going to continue when I get home. This really sucked eggs!!! I hate all these damn power outages! Amen.

DAMN POWER OUTAGES!!!

Okay, I know it's been a while since I posted something here, but let me tell you...I blame most of it on these damn power outages!!!

Initially when we started this load shedding, I could handle it because CUC was always on schedule with their scheduled power outages. But now it's just all gone down the drain! Schedule or no schedule, the power is bound to go out!

I can't even plan a nice dinner at home or plan to lounge at home in front of the TV because you never know when the power is going to go out. I hate the fact that I don't know what to do. It's like expecting the unexpected, but you know it's gonna happen so it's not really expected?!?!? If I'm at home, I'm bound to leave and go somewhere where there is power...where there is aircondition....where there is a hot, cooked meal....where I can lounge for a bit. According to my fiancee, he calls this FORCED ECONOMICS!!! And this is true! We find ourselves eating out more or watching all the movies at the theatre.

We've actually debated about purchasing a generator for our house. But we figured if the power situation changes, we'll be left with a generator without a purpose. Besides, I just found out that the new generators from the famous AGREKKO is finally on island last week. We'll see how soon it will be til we get our power fully restored! All the generators are expected to be installed, up and running by September 17th. Stay tuned....