Back to Reality

Lito&Pia
Originally uploaded by MadMuse.

After a nice break in Florida for Thanksgiving and a niece's wedding, we are now back to reality - back to our hectic work schedule and to living in our house, out of the boxes that we have yet to unpack.

At my request, Lito Villareal obliged and flew to Florida to sing "The Prayer" with me for the wedding. We started singing together when we were in our teens. And now, decades later, it's nice to know that we still share, not only the same musical chemistry, but the same ridiculous sense of humor like before. Yes, many things in life change, but some things remain the same. That's very comforting - kind of like a nice, King-sized pillow - kind of like Lito. :)

Maraming Salamat

It's been a wild couple of months - home-buying, business trip, moving, unpacking and trying to settle in our new home while still trying to live and do the day-to-day stuff. It's been quite a ride! We're not even finished unpacking, and we're off in a couple of days to sunny Florida for Thanksgiving and a family wedding. Truthfully, I would rather stay and finish settling into the house just because I hate leaving things in disarray - but family commitments are a priority. Some of them anyway. :) Besides, I've asked an old friend to sing with me in the wedding. It's been at least seven years since Lito Villareal and I sang and were onstage together in Manila. It will be great to sing again with an old friend, especially one whom I think has one of the best singing voices I've ever heard.

Hubby and I have a lot to be thankful for this coming holiday. Year 6 has been packed with blessings - pressed down, shaken together and running over. That goes, as well, for our gratitude to God, close family and friends who have been and are with us all throughout.

Maraming Salamat talaga! :)

Going Offline

Okay, folks. Since Comcast did not come through with their promise to get us connected with cable and internet yesterday, we're not sure when they are going to get around to it. In the meantime, I am going offline and will try to get settled into our new place as soon as possible. Hopefully, it won't be too long until we're back online.

Hope to catch you all then!

Done Deal

It's a done deal! A few days ago, we closed on our house and got our keys. We are now officially slaves of the Bank for the next 30 years. Never did I think that I would be happy to be enslaved. :)

Yesterday, we went to Home Depot to buy a few appliances that the house was still missing. Today, we lined up at 7:30 am for an hour and a half to get into the Crate and Barrel warehouse sale a few towns away. We managed to snag a nice, big dining table for a quarter of the original price. Yeah, it has a few scratches but it's nothing that a table runner can't hide. We picked out a few more things and tore ourselves away. There were a few other pieces that we would have wanted to get but we decided that we had spent enough. It was totally out of our usual spending pattern that the bank actually called us after we got home to verify our purchases!

And now, to pack. I wish we could fast-forward and skip the entire thing. It's the part of this entire process that I would rather do without!