Happy Birthday to me!

My birthday was last November 10, 6 days ago. I don't care if its late, I will still blog about it. You see, I never blog about my birthdays, and I thought I never will. There's just nothing special on my birthday, its only the day of my birth 23 years ago. I wonder how my mother feel when she gave birth to me. Oh well, I'm sure she was hurting but I was just wondering if she was happy to see me? Never mind the answer. All I know all mother is supposedly happy every time they give birth. I would, if it happens to me.

So my day started as normal. I drink my Sunny D, left and went to House of Lee to grab something for lunch. Drove to work and well, work for the entire 8 hours. It was boring. I try to erase from my mind that it is my birthday, my first birthday in America. But I guess I wasn't successful. Deep in my heart, I have a lot of expectations. Wish there's a lot of people that will greet me. Wish all my friends greet me. Wish my family greets me. Wish my husband surprises me. Wish i have gifts. Wish I have a party. Balloons, cakes, gifts, foods, drinks...friends....family.... Wish I will be treated special on that day.

Last year, I have a grandiose birthday bash. It was my last day in Bislig, where I grew up, so naturally, I threw a party. Most of my classmates, friends, neighbors and some relatives are there. There are at least 40 people who came. Yes, it was fun and that was the first time I had a real party. Our main dish was the lechon (roasted pig), that was slaughtered at the back of our house. It was my idea. It just brings back to my childhood memory when my father used to roast pig during our town fiesta. I just think its sweet but trust me, I don't enjoy the scream of that creature when it is slaughtered. I guess the thing that wasn't there was a birthday cake. I never had one since I was 11. I don't know why for some reason I don't have a cake. I just thought its not important. But I realized cake is a symbolism of birthday. Yes it is traditional but just by wishing before blowing the candle makes it special. It was a whole lot of fun although me and my family are exhausted preparing everything. But it payed off. I was again reunited with my classmates and friends and of course my whole family is there.

This time, there's nothing really fancy, although it is absolutely cheesy. It's funny because I've been giving cues to my husband what he should do on my birthday.It was j ust a joke but of course I expect he would actually do it. And he did! After work, I left the building, unlocked my car, and I saw a birthday cake on the passenger seat!! My husband showed up and he shouted HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! and he's holding a flower....it was very cheesy ye t its freakin' SWEET! He kissed me and he gave to me his special gift he's been hiding at his back...a NINTENDO DSi. I was shocked because I thought he would not buy it because we're broke but he did. But I wasn't really happily surprise when I saw it because I was thinking how much it cost and he said that he just want to make my birthday special since its my first birthday in Nebraska. I've been wanting to have DSi though because it has everything - from pictures to internet, from music to games. And now I have it. So I guess my material wishes came true and I can't ask anything more. We went to Perkin's to eat and after that, we went home. As I open the door in our bedroom, I saw a dress hanging on the wall. Right as I saw it, I know who gave it to me, my sister-in-law. It's a very lovely dress and I really like it. That was a real surprise because I did not expect it from her. I haven't talk to her that much because of our busy schedule but she remembered my birthday and the thought of giving me a dress is just a wonderful feeling. I can't describe how thankful I was.

Although all my expectations didn't came true, I can say that my birthday was amazing. Although I work and was sad half of the day (because i miss my family and friends from the Philippines), I can say that my birthday is full of joy. It's one of my best birthdays in my 23 years. The fact that those people, close or not close, remembered my birthday, just really made my day special.

Can drive legally

Wohoo!! after four months of practicing and four times trying, at last i got my driving "operators" license. i got it on October 26 and yesterday i got the driver license identification card. i am super duper happy and for the first time, i felt the real freedom in America.

so how come it took me awhile to get it? it is my nervousness that stop me from getting it. but i fought and change my strategy. if i can't get it by being nervous, then i will get it by being calm. just how easy it is!

so its been a week now that i'm driving by myself. so far so good. i am totally independent- i can go shopping (if i'm not broke), i can visit my friends (if i have friends), i can go to church and i can do whatever the hell i want. it is a bit scary but i know i will be used in driving and next time i will take the interstate in going to work. watch out speeders!

-xoxo ^_^

House of Lee

Last Saturday, we went to House of Lee. I was craving all week to eat there and we did. It's not only the food that i miss but my job as a waitress :( anyway, we had fun eating there. i had my favorite mongolian beef as always and aaron had mongolian grill. we have lots of side dishes including crab rangoon, egg drop soup, fried rice and egg roll. their crab rangoon is amazingly tasty. that's our top 1 favorite crab rangoon of all the chinese restaurants that we've gone to so far. my least favorite is the egg drop soup because of its sticky yellow texture, but the rest are superb. i love it there and i will never be tired of constantly going there.

this is where the mongolian buffet is, you got many choices between meat, veggies and sauces. it will take a while before you can get the perfect taste for yourself. it can be challenging sometimes. :)

this sizzling flat iron grill will amaze you when you watch the food being grilled. its fun!

so these are our food. i don't have room to eat all of these. lol

mmmmmmmmmmm that's all i can say.

new title for a new beginning

before i come up with the title of this blog, i asked my husband what is the spelling of "beginning". he said "two n's". oh, ok. i really suck on spelling but nevertheless i don't hate it. alright, lets begin. i changed my blog site's name (obviously) because the previous one was kinda nonsense and i think that this one is more focus on the bright side rather than the dark side. for some reason i keep on posting bitter blogs about my life and i noticed that every time i think about negative things, negative things happen. isn't it weird? anyway, i hope that this would be the new beggining, oh shit beginning (double n darling) and even though there are bad things happen, i will still blog about it, but i will focus on the happy things that will happen to me. i don't care at all if i sound very self centered, this is my site and if you hate it, then go f*ck yourself.

thank you
xoxo <----- wtf is that for?

Happy 2nd anniversary!

i know its too late for me to blog about our 2nd anniversary but i can't let it go by without blogging about it. it was the sweetest and perfect day ever! we went to COCO KEY RESORT and what else did we do? enjoying the warm splashing water! i enjoyed everything especially the pouring 200 gallons of water in a giant bucket. aside from that, we also went to sliding area. that was my first time sliding in a very long slide. it was actually intense at first because we went to the "scariest" slide there which is the barracuda. it is completely dark inside and very fast. that was our favorite slide i guess. my husband said that maybe i will like the roller coaster because it is kinda the same as that. but i don't know because thinking about roller coaster makes my nerve crack in fear. so anyway, we spent all day relaxing and enjoying. it was also the first time when i wear my two piece. i feel sexy even though my flabby stomach is jiggling and my ass wiggling (hey those words are synonym and at the same time in rhyme.lol) we are so much exhausted after swimming and of course our stomach is growling for food. so after spending 6 full hours in coco key, we went to El 7 (siete) Mares to eat. it is an authentic mexican sea food restaurant. omg, the food is so awesome and the ambience, fabulous! i love it there and i want to go back. i'm just sad because i did not bring my digicam that time so i can take a picture of the food and also the place. well, its okay because i brought my cellphone and i still took a pic but its crappy, very crappy. so here's our happy anniversary day.

this is my fritto tilapia

this is my husband's camarones rancheros, and its super hot, but super tastey.

COCO KEY RESORT

the day ended with a sweet smile and kisses. ^-^

Welcome back Rica

I welcome myself with this abandon blog. I've been trying to post one but for some reason I can't finish it. I have a lot of things to say but I can't compose such sentence that could fill in the whole month experience I had. Okay, I'll just stop being OA here. Actually I can enumerate the things I've been doing, including the most ridiculous thing I've ever done in my life, that almost led me to death. Now that's what we called over acting. lol.

i got a job! well, technically another job. or shall i say a real job? i am over with those dead end crappy jobs. i quit and i got way way better job than i ever had. i work full time and that means i make a lot more than before. but i'm not going to blog about this job because i might end up losing it (like those jobs i've been posting here). i just really hope i will not be laid off, or else i will go back to being broke again. the recession here is still going on. and for that, i can say, God bless America or may God bless America more?

so now that i got a job, i keep myself busy. i don't even have the time to check my emails or other internet errands. i feel kinda out of track of the cyber world. i miss it but its better than not having a job. i like the fact that i'm helping my husband paying bills, buying groceries and budgeting our money. now i'm doing the wife duty...not including duty in bed or as i call it, a housewife service.lol. but seriously, i'm digging it. the thing that sucks though is that I am dead tired. I can't do anymore dishes, laundry, make bed, clean the bedroom, and other housewife's responsibilities. that's the reason why i quit my other job (jimmy johns) so that i have time for all of that and of course more time for my husband and to myself. i really have to know how to manage my time. now i understand the qoutation "Time Is Gold". i thought it means you can find gold in time (literally) because when you find gold, it takes time. does that make sense? lol

so now comes the most ridiculous, awful, worst thing i've ever done here in America. i failed my driving test TWICE!!! well, the second one was not really that bad because we almost have a crash in the intesection...what the f*ck???!!! the driver instructor yelled at me to stop! you just really don't know what he sounded like. he was totally pissed off at me! yeah right, whatever...i know, i know, i'm totally stupid about that. but what can i do??? i'm so f*cking nervous that time. duh!! or maybe i am just plain stupid not being prepared for it. but seriously, i've been blaming myself for not being interested in getting the driver's license. i know the fact that i have to, but for some reason i don't feel like getting it. so whose to blame now? i think its my husband. its all his fault...no i'm just kidding. after what happened, i just cried and cried and of course was embarassed of the terrible thing that happened. like duh, i almost died there. poor me. huhuhu. now i'm being OA. anyway, i got over it, and now i can still say i am not ready to take the driving test. why? because i don't have time. i'm working 9 hours a day until 12 midnight. i don't know when is the right time but i'm pretty sure i will force my self to practice just to get rid of this thing. and i'm sure i will get this because it also affects our budget. the gas is very expensive and i can't let my husband take me to work driving at least 60 miles a day.

driving update

I've been driving for a total of 20 hours now and I can say I am doing way better. Although drifting in the interstate is a bit challenging, I can still manage to control it. The thing that really scares me is when I am at the right or left side of the semis (trucks). It feels like there is a gravity that pulls me towards them especially in the curving area. Its true that driving isn't that hard but when you are driving 70 mph, death is just across the street. I observe that driving here in U.S. is very fast. Try to convert 70 mph to kph. It would be at least 112 kph. Geez. But you have to drive here fast in order for you not to cause slow traffic or else the police will pull you over. The important is you just have to go with the flow. If the traffic is fast then you should also be fast and if its slow, then you should also slow. But you can't really see slow traffic in the interstate. Interstate is a major highway that connects or links major cities to the 48 states in the U.S. and this is also where we usually take whenever we go to far places because it is shorter. Not shorter as in the length of the highway but shorter in time because its fast. Its like a shortcut in some sort.

If I'm going to rate myself, it would be 3 over 5. I am still working on my parallel parking and reverse but other than that I am doing fine. Well, at least that's what my husband told me. lol. Anyway, I am thinking to get my license in the end of this month. So hopefully I will pass the driving test and I am free to go, anywhere and everywhere :)