My husband is part of the PTO in our daughter’s school. I get to hear him wine about being an officer. He is not quite good with that. He always tells me. I assured him that I will always be behind him with all of this since it’s for our daughter’s sake. One of the things that they do is of course to raise funds for the school. There has been a lot of school fundraiser activity that they did. PTO fundraisers are always fun especially if everybody will cooperate most especially the kids. PTO Today can help a lot in getting ideas on fund raising. Being a leader at work, thinking about it seems easy for me. But for my husband, it was always a challenge for him to lead. But there are a lot of helpful resources that is available online. I told him that it may be challenge for him but once this is all done, he will be so proud of himself and will add more to his confidence that he can do it. In life, you don’t get all the easy tasks. Sometimes, we also get the tough ones. But if we quit without trying, then it’s like accepting the fact that we lose. So the choice is really up to us now.

Modern Furniture is something that I wanted to have. But more than that, I wanted to have a home. I may have everything in our house, but if I don’t have peace, love and harmony in our house, that would still not compliment everything. An absence in any of my loved ones would bring so much sadness in our home and no expensive furniture could replace that. I was watching Glee and in one of their episode, I was touched by Home. A house would not be a home without love and the person you love living in it. So now, I have reduced my standard of having a beautiful home. It’s not about the furniture but it’s the people living in it. The kind of love you share with each other. The happiness you have having each other around is what matters. Wherever there is laughter ringing, someone smiling someone dreaming, we can live together there, because love will be our home. Wherever there is children shouting and playing, no matter how messy your house will be after, we can live together there because love will be our home. This is easier said than done. And it takes a lot of patience though. But at the end of the day, when you lay down your bed before you go to sleep, you think. Do I have everything I want or have everything I need? Then it would not be hard anymore.

My friends commented that people at work are slowly getting slimmer. Its either they are in love, they are sick, they are desperate to get a boyfriend or they are on a diet. It’s like the latest fad at work. Even guys are planning to go on jogging, badminton, gym and like to get those unwanted fats out. It’s a good fad though. It encourages me to do the same. In that case, I don’t need to get that best weight loss pills. Or should I still?

I need a break. There has been a lot of stress in work these past few days. There were deliverables and audits left and right. I had to deal with agents that has problems in motivating themselves to come to work. That’s also apart from the family crises that we are facing right now. I wanted to book myself to a caravan park and just enjoy one whole day with me, myself and I. It seems selfish, but I really need time to be alone. I wanted to be somewhere where I can only see beautiful things. Where I can be myself without worrying on what the person beside me would say. I can be crazy and mad for a day. Do things that I have not done for a long time. Run around, sing, shout, dance and just be free. Sometimes, I long for these moments where I will not worry about a single thing. And most of all, where I can contemplate, laugh at those mistakes I’ve made, get scared and be brave again in just a snap. In other words, I wanted to crawl out of my system even for just 5 minutes. And when I have my fill, then I’d be ready to be back to reality again.

Give and it shall come back to you. I always believe in that. I know of somebody that could be a living testimony of this principle. Because of the couple’s generosity, what used to be a simple home has now become an awe inspiring house that is still by the way open to friends not because they wanted to show off their Quoizel lighting but because they accommodate us everytime we have a band practice for church. And that includes a sumptuouse meal everytime. Thanks to you.

Losing a pound per day seems impossible. I am running out of time. I committed to eat half of my normal intake daily. If the due date arrives and I still have these excess fats, then let it be. Confidence starts from how I look, yes its true. But at the end of the day, it’s still about the talent that I have and giving my all when I’m already on that stage. My hcg diet would still be of help though. Now that I still have time.

May is a very busy month for me. There is our Company Outing and my family is reunited after a very long time. So I can’t help it but take pictures as many as I can to keep the memory alive. Its good I have an online backup to keep all my files. I believe it’s the safest way to keep them.

I suddenly became a match maker when one of my close friends asked me if I have a single friend that is open to dating. I know of a few so I gave him their numbers. I kid around and told him “Go and get to know them. But don’t marry them tomorrow.” There are some people who take life seriously and think that if a guy asks you for a date, you’re going to marry him the next day. You can actually try to meet black people and date them. Get to enjoy yourselves in the getting to know them better. Once you’re ready, you can move on to the next stage. Eventually you will get there. Just hang on singles and don’t rush. It’s not a matter of who will be the first to get married but a matter of who will end up happily married.

At wok, I used to handle 18 people under me. Now that we are short staff, I only have 11 subordinates. Though they are fewer than what I used to handle, still checking up on each and every one of them still takes time. They are all having different desktops and most of the time they sit away from each other. So when I need to check and monitor them, I sometimes do remote. Good thing our company has a good remote desktop software. It really makes work a little easier. I can see what my agents are doing while on the phone. What tools they used or sometimes if they are accessing some unrelated sites. Without this, I could not imagine myself running from one station to the other. It would kill a lot of my time. Time management is important for me. Though there are a lot of deliverables at work, I can still finish them on time. Though most of the time, I beat deadlines. I have an organizer and I follow strictly my schedule. I coach, mentor, monitor, audit, listen to calls, root cause analysis, action planning, create initiatives for the team, check or scrub my peoples time punches, serve memos, attend admin hearing, operations meeting with management, calibration sessions, motivates people, performance review, take escalated calls and a lot, lot more…

I am an only child. I don’t have any full biological siblings. But I have half brothers and sisters from my father but not from my mother. Though I have half siblings from my father, still I am the eldest. That means the pressure still falls on me. So if anything would happen to my parents especially with my mom, I will be alone facing it. Of course I have relatives around but what I mean is I would practically be facing tough decisions on my own. My parents are not getting any younger. I am not also blessed with big property or money that I can rely in case something happens to them. It makes me think once in a while that it could have been better if I have a brother or a sister to share the burden with. I am not complaining or anything, but I am slowly feeling the pressure seeing both my parents getting older. Do I need to get funeral insurance for them to assist me when the time comes? How about if they get sick? But I guess I am just acting like a worry freak here. Sometimes you just can’t help it but think about this every now and then especially if you are caught in a dilemma of being an only child.