EXPRESSING OUR GRATITUDE

I'm so glad we're almost done in arranging our stuff. We've been so busy last weekend in moving our stuff into our new place. We're so grateful for Uncle Steve and his wife Shannon for helping us out especially to our huge stuff. They've got this mini truck that could hold on to our bed and furniture. We're so grateful also to John and Michelle for helping us out for the moving stuff. They're all so nice and kind to us that they spend their time helping us to be able to move pretty easy. How lucky we are having such a kind Uncle and friends whom I could consider a true hearted people. It's really a good feeling knowing that someone really cares specially who is there when you need help.

PRETTY COLD DAY

I woke up today with a very cold morning and i kind of feel like winter is on already. They said that fall is just started today and I just heard from a friend of mine that it is snowing already in their area and it's not that far from here. And i thought it snows here in our area also but when I look outside, rain is sprinkling and not the snow. Oh I love rain but it is cold to go out right now. My mom in-law felt so cold but it's not that bad yet. I'm sure it will get worse on winter and everybody will hate it cause of the snow. It's because it's not safe to drive when snowing cause it's too slippery. Well I think I would like it cause I haven't play or make a snowman yet, toink. But one thing I don't like is that the cold really hurts my face specially my ears. We don't get much snow last year but I don't know for this year if it will be bad.

Oh well, I gotta have to start packing some of our stuff cause we're moving this weekend. I'm sure it's gonna be a long weekend and a lot of work to do. Oh boy, I really hate doing it and we all do but we have to. It's a good thing Uncle Steve and his wife and their 2 daughters will be helping us. We're so grateful for them that they offer their help for us. Anyway, I thought of doing my cross-stitch today cause it's cold and I don't get sweats. Mom and I bought yesterday a same color dress that needs to be done cause you need to make it in your own style. We both like the color so we bought it and I like to make it on my own style. For now, we still have to wait for my mom in- law's sewing machine to come. Her younger brother will be the one to bring it here from Ohio. She has three different kinds of sewing machine from old manual electric sewing machine to electric automatic sewing machine. I like sewing cause I've done it back then when I was on my high school days. I studied it for a year and I made different styles of clothes. For me, doing it is fun and I like it. But unfortunately, I forgot how to do it all cause it's been 8 years since I made it. Anyhow, I would like to start learning it over again and buy some stuff to help me learn how to make it.

GOT TO LEARN IT

We've had just got home from Walmart with my mother in-law. She bought some stuff for her blanket she's making. It is a lot of work cause she has to do knitting, cross-stitching, quilting and embroidery in that blanket alone. I am wondering if how long she could make it done cause it's a queen-size blanket. She also taught of me how to cross-stitch and she gave me a baby blanket that needs to be done but, for some reason 'til now I haven't done it yet. My laziness attacks me all the time and besides I hate doing it for now cause my hands keep sweating cause it's so warm. I had already started it and believe it or not, it's been 4 months since I had started it. My hubby keep asking me if how was it and I keep telling him too that I couldn't do it for now cause my hand keeps sweating. I told my mother in-law that probably I could finish it when I get pregnant, lol just kidding. As much as I wanted to finish it but I just hate doing it when my hands are wet. Well, I think I will finish that thing when the weather starts to cool off or when winter is on.

Anyway, I ask my mom in-law if she could accompany me to practice driving and she agreed as long as we reach to Walmart. I told her that we'd go first there before me practicing to drive. So we head to Walmart and bought her stuff. When we're heading to the car, she told me that I'm gonna have to drive on our way back home whether I like it or not cause she was so tired. Oh boy, I still couldn't do it cause I'm not good enough driving on the high way with tons of cars around. I'm not used to it still and I'm not comfortable doing it right at the moment either cause I'm scared if we get screwed with some other cars around. Besides I'm not good enough in parking and backing up the cars specially if there's a lot of cars that was park around. But she told this "how could you learn if you don't do it?" So without any words to hear from her, I did what she wanted to and she then told me what to do. I did a good job backing up the car and then after a short while she felt that I'm not comfortable still much more when the car behind us blow the horn of their car, she then told me to turn around the parking lot. It's a good thing that the other side of the parking lot isn't crowded so I keep turning until she decided to drive back home. She told me that I really need to learn to drive cause of the fact that she can't really do it as much as she wanted to. She gets tired easily even if it's just a few steps she makes. Oh well, I know I gotta have to learn driving so that I could drive her and anywhere I wanted to.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

This is a movie of which I thought a very different kind of drama life story. We've had just watched this movie yesterday with my mother in-law. We borrowed this from our friend Debbie cause I've had just watched most of our movies already. She loves drama story movie and she got tons of it that's why I thought of borrowing some of it cause I like drama movies too. At first it was kind of confusing cause the character of the movie isn't really acting the show instead, it was just a story of her life back then and never told her daughter.

Daisy an old woman, who is hospitalized due to her illness, has a daughter and never told her about the true story of her life back then. She told her a story about a blind man who was a scientist, married with one son. His son was in service and got killed in the 1st world war. When he knew about his son was killed, he experimented this huge clock but it moved backward instead of forward. The people ask him why his clock moving backward and then he told them about the reason why he did that. He wants to have his son back and then the environment started to change backward. Daisy stop there and then she let her daughter read the book about Benjamin Button.

He was born under unusual circumstances, which means he was born in his eighties and ages backward. His mother died when she give birth to him and his father couldn't accept him cause he was so ugly (old face baby). His father brought him to the senior citizen house and put on the first stair and leave him. He was found by lady name Quennie who is a care taker of the house, and her boyfriend. When Quennie saw his face, she felt pity for him and said 'oh poor ugly baby' and then she held him in her arms. She asks the doctor who visited there to check the babies health cause he was different. The doctor told her that the baby has a short time to survive cause of his old looks. Quennie decided to keep the baby and told everybody in the house that they're gonna have a baby for a while cause she thought that the baby won't live any longer. She named him Benjamin and took a good care of him.

Luckily, Benjamin survived until he grew up but couldn't walk cause he was so old. He acts like a child but his looks were not and the people couldn't believe that his age is so young. He really loves Quennie cause he thought that it was his real mother and she treated him as her own son. He grew and meets a girl named Daisy and got attracted to her. They became friends and play together most of the times. He also meets an old woman who is just moved into their senior citizen house and teaches him how to play piano. As he grew older (his age), his body keep changing into better than worst like he can walk. He leave the house and found a job as a sailor and still him and Daisy were friends and promise her to send some pictures where he had been to. He meets a woman and felt in love with her and had some good moments with her but suddenly she left him. He has no idea that Daisy was in love with him before he left and still thinks of him every now and then.

After several years that he left, he came back to his home and Quennie didn't recognize him cause he looks very different when he left them. When he meet Daisy, she too didn't recognize him cause he looks younger than before. Daisy became a ballet dancer and was so popular and got a boyfriend but didn't love him cause it was him (Benjamin) whom she felt in love with for so many years. She didn't know that he too felt attracted to her the very first time they meet back then but didn't tell her. And now that they meet again, he thought of not to let go off his feelings to her and want her so badly. On the other side, his mother Quennie died after a short while. They decided to live together and she got pregnant with him. He was so worried if their baby will be like him; who was born old and ages backward. After she give birth to their daughter, he was so glad that the baby is normal. But for some reason, he leaves them and goes everywhere and never came back.

Everything happened in his life, he wrote it in his diary book. After so many years that he's gone, he came back to see them and Daisy got married to another man. Their daughter has grown already but has no idea that he was her dad cause Daisy didn't tell her anything about him cause she was so mad of him leaving. Daisy introduce him to her husband and their daughter as a friend. He looks more younger than before like a teenager but still in love with her. After they meet, Daisy didn't hear from him until she received a mail from the people in the senior citizen house where he grew up. The mail was about Benjamin found in an old building by the police and didn't remember who he was so they send him in his home. All they found was his diary book and some of his clothes. After reading the mail, she immediately went to his home and there she saw him playing on the piano but he was so much younger than the last time they meet.

As years goes by, Benjamin gets younger and younger and Daisy took care of him like her own child. Until he changes into a baby and she held him into her arms watching him close his eyes and died. It was very hurtful for her cause she really love him with all her heart and watching him changing everyday and in his death was so painful to her. Her daughter knew that it was her who is their baby and didn't told her anything until she read the story of her father's life. Like I said it was very odd and sad movie and very long.

I LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE ME

I love the way you hold me

I felt so protected in any danger

Your touch turns me on

And melts my heart so deeply



Your love and care for me

really inspires me

Sometimes I ask myself

am I just dreaming?

But when I woke up

You are there hugging me

Like no one could steal me away



Everyday you remind me

of how precious your love for me

Dear you are such a man to me

Like I couldn't ask for more cause

I love the way you love me

OUR LITTLE FUN WAS INDEED VALUABLE

We had no plans for our Sunday weekend until we received a call from Uncle Steve. They were heading to the amusement park called Heritage Square. They ask us if we'd like to come with them to the amusement park and have some fun there. I've never been there yet so we decided to come with them. They come by and pick us on their way to save us some gas on our car. They have this pretty good size car so everybody could fit in. We reach there at exactly 12 0'clock in the afternoon and Meagan was hungry so everybody decided to eat the lunch except me. I had just taken my breakfast-lunch when they called us and I don't feel hungry yet so I just eat an ice cream.

After then we went to this long slide from the side of the mountains. I feel like a kind of scared cause it's a long slide and I've never done it since but my husband told me that I would be alright. Oh boy, there comes another challenge for me. So what a heck, I'll do it and enjoy. Besides, it doesn't look so scary unlike the roller coaster but I like it though. I just took on the slow slide for the first timer cause on the other side is so fast. Oh it was really fun and cool; I like to ride it again. But I choose not to cause if I'll do it again, I'm gonna pay for the second time. Shannon and her daughter Meagan ride for another one and we just wait for them. My husband took some pictures for them.

After that we went down to try some other stuff before we leave. My husband seen this portrait studio and thought of trying doing our wedding picture in an old western wedding culture. And I thought it's kinda cool so I'd like to do it also. Besides we don't have any wedding pictures yet cause we just took our wedding in the court. Our plan is to have a second wedding in my homeland with some of his family and my family too. Anyway, it was my husband's fantasy to have our wedding pictures look so old western culture wedding, black and white and most of all our suit is in the early 19th hundred. In fact, it was my first time wearing a wedding dress and i felt happy doing it cause for me, it's one of our memorable days in our life. Even if it was not a real one but still it's worth of a try. We both really like it cause it's cool and gorgeous.

FINALLY WE FOUND ONE

We've been pretty much busy today looking for an apartment that best suit to our needs. My mother in-law will be staying with us but I don't know for sure if it's forever or just for a while, so we need 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. As we're trying to look for some apartments that were less expensive, I feel kind of frustrated cause we didn't find one. Most of them were only have 1 bathroom and were located on the 2nd-3rd floor and don't have a washer/dryer inside. For me having a washer/dryer inside is the important one cause I don't like to go in the laundry area bringing all of our dirty clothes. It's a lot of work for me and I don't like to do it either. My mother in-law isn't good to take a lot of stairs so ground floor is the best for us. We try to look for like four apartments but unfortunately it's not what we're looking for cause it doesn't fit to what we need.



Luckily, a leasing officer in that last apartment that we went told us that they have a sister apartment that was just nearby. She said that their sister apartment is more spacious and has some available room that fits to what were looking for. She gave us their brochure and we headed there immediately to see if we can get one as soon as possible. We look at their apartment and it's really cool so we decided right away that were gonna apply for a residency there. The price is awesome and we got a discount for look and see; it means that you look and decided that day to apply for a residency in their apartment. I really like their apartment cause they have this awesome views from the mountains. It's on the ground floor so we don't need to worry mom, they have 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, they have washer/dryer inside, the kitchen is nice, and it's not that far from the shopping center. Oh I'm so glad we found what we're looking for and hope that they're gonna approve our application for residency soon.