What a year!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! Another year is over but 2008 was a year of good and bad memories that I will always treasure. Here are the highlights of my 2008:

Jan 1st, 2008: Ge broke his arm from arm wrestling. What a way to start the year huh Ge??
Feb 2008: Celebrated Valentines day with Ge as a "couple".
April and May 2008: Ge bought his new townhouse and I moved in with him end of May. I also run my first 5K at the Human Race.

June 2008: I went to St. Thomas and St. John, the US Virgin Islands with my sis, bro and Janice to work on my tan.
July 2008: Celebrated my 28th birthday and my 1 year anniversary at Roche. My family also welcomed Natalie (my bro's gf daughter) and celebrated her 3rd birthday. We miss her.

August 2008: My sister, Jorge and Rich run the SF half marathon.
September 2008: Went to Orlando,Florida to visit Epcot and Animal Kingdom with Ge.

October 2008: Celebrated mom's 5 years anniversary at St. Rose to a cowboy themed party..yeehaaaa!!!. I also signed up for a personal trainer and after 16 hard core sessions, I went 1 pants size down and I can wear S and XS size now.
November 2008: Hosted the annual "FAM Thanksgiving" at Ge's townhouse. I also run the 5K SV Turkey Trot. And of course, Twilight movie came out.

December 2008: MERRY XMAS!!!. Our First Christmas at Ge's house and we put up our first xmas tree. Also, my cousin Bryan finally proposed to my soon-to-be-cousin Jayne. The engagement is a big deal for us coz nobody is getting married in my family.

New Year's Resolutions

So I decided to write my New Year's Resolutions and I hope to be able to achieve some of it. Here it goes:

1. Workout consistently and push myself hard-errrr!!!
2. Continue to eat healthy.
3. Save $$$$$. No more withdrawing of money from my "real savings account".hahaha.
4. Get out of debt. Thanks to automatic payments and cutting off the cards, I think I'll be fine by the end of the year.
5. Get promoted from work. I know I deserved it....hahaha... I hope my boss is reading this.
6. Learn another language.
7. Take my Central Service Technician certificate so I can have a back up and be able to work in a hospital. I took the class 3 years ago but I just did not have the time to review and take the certification (I was taking upper division classes at Cal State, working swing shift and taking the Central Service class on Saturdays). Since I have free time to study again, I'm giving it a shot and I'm aiming to take the test by February!!!
8. Travel more.......only if I have $$$.
9. Enjoy life and avoid stress.
10. BE HAPPY!!!!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Xmas everyone!!!! I hope you all had a wonderful xmas. I got to spend some time with my family and my mom actually took a day off on the 25th, so that made xmas special this year. I also got to see my cousins and just hang out with them. Natalie came by and visit and collected her gifts..hahaha..we were hoping she can stay longer but 30 mins was good enough since we haven't seen her for 2 months... I got some really nice presents and want to thank my santas this year !!!.. Ge got me some cute gifts this year..THANKS alot honey!! and to everyone who gave us some gifts. Thanks for your thoughtfulness!!

Family Time

Last Friday, we all took the day off and spent some "family" time together. We went to California Academy of Science and took dad to see the Golden Gate bridge. In our good 10 years of stay here in the US, my dad has never been to the Golden Gate bridge. He was a tourist that day. It was so nice to spend some time with the family since we all work different days and hours so we rarely have time to see each other. And now that I moved out, I know they really do miss me...hehehe.. I felt like a kid again that day. My mom esp. hecka took care of us esp. food wise. She bought us whatever food we want to eat in (we ate at the cafe in Academy of Science and I highly recommend it) and she even packed mini empanadas and some drinks just in case we get hungry. I'm so glad that we got to do some family bonding last Friday and will most definitely do it again. I can't wait for our mother-daughter bonding vacation in Hawaii Feb. of next year.

Bite me!!!

Swoon.... I'm so inlove with Edward Cullen right now!!!. I have to admit that I did not find him gorgeous when I watched the movie, but after reading "Midnight Sun", I just find him so interesting and sexy.lol. I stayed up until 2 a.m. last night and Omigosh!, this is so weird but I dreamed about him and freakn Ge woke me up coz it's already 7:30 a.m and I need to get ready. Ugh!, he ruined my Edward dream. I cant' wait for the next movie, and the 3rd, and the 4th..I hope Stephenie Meyer will finish Midnight sun, I like Edward Cullen as the storyteller...

GemsTV

I'm so obsessed with GemsTV!!!. I swear, this is my fave show and I freakn know the channel on top of my head Comcast (channel 77) and DirectTV (channel 226)..lol..When I get home from work, I would watch the show and even though I'm tired and a little bit sleepy, I stay awake coz they might show my soon-to-be yellow diamond ring. GemsTV is a reverse auction meaning, the prices goes down (the start price and start quantity is the middle picture) and everybody pays the lowest price (the picture on the very top). So regardless if you call first and say the price is still $308 and if no one is confirming, the price goes down to $250, you pay that final low price. I promise myself that I will buy one jewelry one of these days or Ge, you know the channel, so watch it and bid for that yellow diamond ring!!..THANKS!!!

Happy Anniversary!!!

My lover surprised me today with roses and a cute little card for our 1st year anniversary...I felt so guilty coz I did not even get him a card (I sent him ecard which he deleted without even reading it). Happy anniversary honey!!!...I really appreciate your thoughtfulness today.. I ♥ you!!!...

We are feeling the spirit of Xmas!!!

We finally put up our first xmas tree and decorated the house. We are mos definitely feelin' the spirit of xmas now. I was surprised how helpful Ge was esp. with the decorating the tree. I wonder what Santa will get me for christmas????