The Two Week Wait...

Is over. :(

My body did a good job of tricking me into believing I was pregnant.  Sharp pains in the pelvic area? Check. Back pain? Check.  Hungry all the time?  Every minute!  Weird cravings?  Well, I had coco jam and cheese for breakfast.. how's that?

Then AF came.  End of story.

The thing is, the two week wait caused my hubby and I to panic (unnecessarily).  Refer to my post here.  Where will we get the money for another kid?  Will we have to start following a strict budget if a third one is along the way?  What about schooling?  Who among them will have to forego schooling?  Draw lots na lang?  :D Oh and the never ending yaya issues.  I am just beginning to envision a life with no househelp.  A third baby will bring us back to square one.

But deep down, I was a bit excited.  And a bit happy.  Okay, more than a bit happy.  Fine, I was giddy.  But worried.  But giddily happy!  The thought of another addition to our family was indeed very exciting!  A new baby to love, a new baby to fawn over... :(

Okay.. now back to regular programming.

My Songwriter

She sat down and happily hummed these lyrics, sung to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus"

"The mama on the bathtub goes poop, poop, poop
Poop, poop, poop.  Poop, poop, poop.
The mama on the bathtub goes poop, poop, poop
All through the town."

Awww. She loves me.

M

M, 2 years old, Shangri La Boracay

Says: ayadjuuu (I love you), ends most of her sentences with 'ha?' Like, "Wait for me, ha?"  "I wiwi first, ha?"  She sounds so cute when she says it.

Eats: anything, then tires of it quickly.  But her current favorites are noodles, pork chop and chicken. And styobeyis (strawberries).

Sings: The Glow (from the movie Tangled), Call Me Maybe

Loves:  copying faces she sees on her books, being tickled, giving kisses, saying HI to everybody in the house

Plays: with her achi's doll house when achi is not looking.

Why I did not vote today

Because I am not on the registered voter's list anymore. :(

I know I voted back in 2004, and I only missed the 2007 elections due to morning sickness.  So, I don't know why the government decided to remove me from the official voter's list.

Of course I only found out about this automatic-removal-of-name-from-list policy last 2010.  Out of the blue, I checked my name to see which precinct I was registered to, and was surprised and disappointed to see that I cannot vote anymore because I failed to vote (daw) for the last two elections.  Which irked me because I know for a fact that people who have been dead for decades still have their names on the list.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.  I should have registered a long time ago.  BUT,

1.  I'm tamad to do so.

2.  I don't like any of the candidates running.  Except for Bam.  And that's  only 1 out of 13 (or 12 ba) reasons for me to go out and vote. So no.  Not enough motivation.

3.  Reading stories like this.

I probably will not register again for the 2016 elections because hey, I heard Kris Aquino is running.  The elections are becoming a joke.