Oiche Samhain!
Sundown marks the beginning of All Hallow's Eve, or Hallow Evening, Hallow E'en. It seems that this is one of the few "holidays" that celebrates the eve and not the actual day. I like every holiday's eve better that I do the day. It's still exciting on the eve and after that it's just blase. So tomorrow is " all holy person's day" (hallowed be thy name... All Saints Day) but tonight is for those who aren't so holy. Belief says it's the night when ghosts and spirits can roam freely,-when the curtain that separates this world and the underworld is at its thinnest. That's why we dress up like ghoulies, so they can't tell us from what we truly are... flesh covered ghoulies. So enjoy your candies and everything else.
Now listen to this, Filipinos celebrate something similar to Mexicans' "dia del muerte" (araw ng mga patay) or day of the dead, ... oh I gotta edit that, "roman catholic filipinos" celebrate All Soul's Day, and I always believed that the mexicans' celebration as well as filipinos' to be a posthispanic thing, when they brought along their christian beliefs, but it turns out theirs (Mexicans) is prehispanic while Filipino's is posthipanic... although I'm sure someone could argue that. I remember as a kid having a "fiesta" and lighting candles and just having a merry old time. What I fail to remember are trips to the graveyard and prayers and mass. By the way, All Soul's Day lands on Nov. 2, though it should be more like Easter-type holidays that are dictated by the actual day rather than the date. (It's usually on a monday, because all saint's day should land on a sunday). But that's enough fact finding and checking for now. Most things above were found on google. (That's my disclaimer). Gotta run. I might be an astronaut for halloween! yay!!
Have a good night and a good rest of the week. I think my brother's going to be Super Mario. haha.
Me.
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Friday, October 29, 2004
What Was That?
Man, what did I eat last night? I had the worst, realistic nightmare of my life. I was at this place that was totally burned to the ground and there were these scary things that kept surrounding me and I'm not sure if they were ghosts or something else and then suddenly the realization of where I finally was. I'm not sure if one of them whispered it to me or I just found out on my own but I think I might have whispered in my sleep, "this is ground zero", and the things around me were the deads' ghosts, which freaked me out so much that I woke up, and in this state, half-awake and half-asleep, I could feel my hair standing on end and it was so cold, and my head spinning. I reached over for Rich and felt a solid mass in front of me and hugged him but it wouldn't stop so I started to pray and I got to the middle of my third "Our Father" when I really woke up and realized that my arm wasn't around anything but hanging in mid-air, hugging nothing, but my head had stopped buzzing and was clearer and I saw Rich a foot away from me and so I really hugged him that time and fell asleep. Freaky huh? Well all's well this morning. I think it was too many sweets before I went to bed. heh. Never again!
It's beautiful today. Hope you have a great weekend everyone! Safe trick-o-treating. I still have to make my costume for Sunday! Make sure you have your parents check your candy before you eat it!
Me.
Man, what did I eat last night? I had the worst, realistic nightmare of my life. I was at this place that was totally burned to the ground and there were these scary things that kept surrounding me and I'm not sure if they were ghosts or something else and then suddenly the realization of where I finally was. I'm not sure if one of them whispered it to me or I just found out on my own but I think I might have whispered in my sleep, "this is ground zero", and the things around me were the deads' ghosts, which freaked me out so much that I woke up, and in this state, half-awake and half-asleep, I could feel my hair standing on end and it was so cold, and my head spinning. I reached over for Rich and felt a solid mass in front of me and hugged him but it wouldn't stop so I started to pray and I got to the middle of my third "Our Father" when I really woke up and realized that my arm wasn't around anything but hanging in mid-air, hugging nothing, but my head had stopped buzzing and was clearer and I saw Rich a foot away from me and so I really hugged him that time and fell asleep. Freaky huh? Well all's well this morning. I think it was too many sweets before I went to bed. heh. Never again!
It's beautiful today. Hope you have a great weekend everyone! Safe trick-o-treating. I still have to make my costume for Sunday! Make sure you have your parents check your candy before you eat it!
Me.
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Anticlimactic
At dinner I mentioned to Rich that the Red Sox's win just seemed so anticlimactic. This morning, driving past the gas station I saw a guy dressed as a panda bear with a box around his waist that said "honk for the Red Sox" and of course there was a trill of horns from all directions. I didn't honk but I did give him a wave and a smile (i like pandas). Even the election outcome appears that it would be anticlimactic, I just regret that I have no guns... Everything that's happened in the past few weeks seemed anticlimactic.
Haven't really got a decent layout yet and tomorrow and the weekend will be busy so don't get your hopes up. I'll try to put a new poll up soon enough. Have a great night!
Me.
At dinner I mentioned to Rich that the Red Sox's win just seemed so anticlimactic. This morning, driving past the gas station I saw a guy dressed as a panda bear with a box around his waist that said "honk for the Red Sox" and of course there was a trill of horns from all directions. I didn't honk but I did give him a wave and a smile (i like pandas). Even the election outcome appears that it would be anticlimactic, I just regret that I have no guns... Everything that's happened in the past few weeks seemed anticlimactic.
Haven't really got a decent layout yet and tomorrow and the weekend will be busy so don't get your hopes up. I'll try to put a new poll up soon enough. Have a great night!
Me.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Layin' It Out
So tonight Rich shamed me into working on my new layout. Oops, sorry! I know I promised a new one but I've been busy with some stuff and didn't deliver. Hopefully I can hash one out tomorrow and throw it up for html and get one going. Eh, I'm a little slow, so sue me. And I know that on I.E. (internet explorer) the poll gets smushed all the way to the bottom but I haven't had a chance to fix it. It woulda been fixed sooner but no one in this duo uses microsoft products or m.s. internet browsers so as the saying goes, "outta sight, outta mind". Bear with me. Is it "bare" or "bear" with me? Hmm... damn these homonyms. Okay, tomorrow is a lunar eclipse and a full moon. I feel like howling. I think i'm affected by the moon. I feel really moody and distraught, for no apparent reason that I can see. But then I'm usually pretty mental. Mentally sharp... ouch. haha. Ooh snap! Gotta go.
Have a nice night and day (for tomorrow or if you're in the western hem.) I love full moons.
Me
So tonight Rich shamed me into working on my new layout. Oops, sorry! I know I promised a new one but I've been busy with some stuff and didn't deliver. Hopefully I can hash one out tomorrow and throw it up for html and get one going. Eh, I'm a little slow, so sue me. And I know that on I.E. (internet explorer) the poll gets smushed all the way to the bottom but I haven't had a chance to fix it. It woulda been fixed sooner but no one in this duo uses microsoft products or m.s. internet browsers so as the saying goes, "outta sight, outta mind". Bear with me. Is it "bare" or "bear" with me? Hmm... damn these homonyms. Okay, tomorrow is a lunar eclipse and a full moon. I feel like howling. I think i'm affected by the moon. I feel really moody and distraught, for no apparent reason that I can see. But then I'm usually pretty mental. Mentally sharp... ouch. haha. Ooh snap! Gotta go.
Have a nice night and day (for tomorrow or if you're in the western hem.) I love full moons.
Me
Monday, October 25, 2004
Soul'd Out
Sorry to bore you all with wedding stuff but that's the most recent item on my mind. I just wrote my mom a letter on the wedding being in Disney blah blah blah, note how I can't even defy her on the phone I gotta write her a letter... heehee. That's "issues". But anyway, it's all such a downward spiral because I can't just say "hey I want my wedding like this, this and this" I have to kowtow to my parents' desires. I was brought up with so much filial obedience/obligation that I can't even plan my wedding the way I want. Maybe I'd rather wait til I had a house of my own and maybe I want the wedding in my backyard, beneath the trees and the sky, closer to nature than to what my nurturers want. I imagined a September wedding, with white tents and lanterns hanging low on the trees. Hopefully this will be the last of their real dabbling, and I wont find them naming my children and expecting my firstborn son. Eh, it's all a sell out. I recall when I first met Rich I agreed to marrying him in the woods somewhere just us two. But what are ya gonna do? It seems my soul belongs to the people who conceived me. haha. Gotta run. Have a great rest of the week. Halloween's coming!!! Yay! And go vote in 8 days. See ya later.
Me.
Sorry to bore you all with wedding stuff but that's the most recent item on my mind. I just wrote my mom a letter on the wedding being in Disney blah blah blah, note how I can't even defy her on the phone I gotta write her a letter... heehee. That's "issues". But anyway, it's all such a downward spiral because I can't just say "hey I want my wedding like this, this and this" I have to kowtow to my parents' desires. I was brought up with so much filial obedience/obligation that I can't even plan my wedding the way I want. Maybe I'd rather wait til I had a house of my own and maybe I want the wedding in my backyard, beneath the trees and the sky, closer to nature than to what my nurturers want. I imagined a September wedding, with white tents and lanterns hanging low on the trees. Hopefully this will be the last of their real dabbling, and I wont find them naming my children and expecting my firstborn son. Eh, it's all a sell out. I recall when I first met Rich I agreed to marrying him in the woods somewhere just us two. But what are ya gonna do? It seems my soul belongs to the people who conceived me. haha. Gotta run. Have a great rest of the week. Halloween's coming!!! Yay! And go vote in 8 days. See ya later.
Me.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Baseball Revelation
Oh my god, I might be the last one who finally saw this, but if Houston wins their series and goes up against the Red Sox in the World Series that would be Kerry (Massachusetts) against Bush (Texas). Whoever wins will win the presidency. In that case, Go Red Sox! hahaha. Isn't that nutty?
Gotta go.
Me
Oh my god, I might be the last one who finally saw this, but if Houston wins their series and goes up against the Red Sox in the World Series that would be Kerry (Massachusetts) against Bush (Texas). Whoever wins will win the presidency. In that case, Go Red Sox! hahaha. Isn't that nutty?
Gotta go.
Me
Headaches!
I can't fuggin' believe the Yankees lost!! They were turning cars over at Fenway Park and just going crazy. Hey man, ya won, good for you. I'll take Artie Lange's point of view, "good for the Red Sox, good for Boston, go nuts!" I just gotta add, the last time you were in the World Series was '86 (when my bro was born) and you lost to the Mets. Also don't say "ooh look at the big pay checks they were handing out to the Yankees, $125 million, but the Red Sox beat you good" because the R. Sox gets $120 million and it took you nearly ten years to get to the World Series. Don't wanna sound like sour grapes... go sox!?
Talked to mom last night, for a good while, and I can't believe she's planning a fuggin' huge wedding for me. She and dad! She fuggin' has a list of all the people she wants to invite, she wants me to pick my bridesmaids or maid of honor (though she named two people), she wants them to wear fuschia!!!!!! fuggin' fuschia!! who's fuggin' wedding is this? I don't want to have it there, I'm not getting married at a Catholic church... but ya know how it is with Filipinos, Fugg!! haha she even said "well in the Phils you're not really married until you're married under the eyes of God" shayt!. Hey man, God's welcome to witness my wedding, just doesn't have to be a Catholic God doin' it. I come to find out dad's been buying my "plates" for years now. ughh! I thought the bride and groom pick out the pattern? Now I have a whole set ready for me. Don't get me wrong, I don't give a fugg about plates... thanks for the ones you're giving me.? Oh my effin' God, it's become a headache and a nightmare. Mom also added she wants it in June. (I want it in September... but she'll probably win out). I told her it seems as if she's more excited over it than I am and she agreed, and a plus for all the aunts who kept telling me to give them time to "lose weight" (Aunty Susie) my mom scheduled it for 2006! Yay...?.
Hey lemme throw something out there, just an idea to place on the table, would you guys be willing to fly down to Florida for a Walt Disney World wedding? For a weekend? Rich and I discussed it somewhat and we'd "have" it at Disney's Pavilion, overlooking the water. I think his parents are willing to pay for a bit of it. Now I just have to crush mom's dream of having a big NY wedding. haha. But this way I wont have to have it at (dad's suggestion) the fuggin' Yonkers Regency. God how tacky would that be? I almost reached through the phone and smacked them all upside the head. Almost! I'm still a good, parent-fearing, Filipina. If we have it at Disney, we might be able to separate the wheat from the chaff, in other words, we'll see who really wants to see me married and who just wants free food and dancing. haha. Now I gotta go sit them down before they do something stupid like put a down payment on something or God forbid some "place" they want their, I mean "my", wedding at.
Wow it's strange, I thought they'd be calm and cool about it but they're running around like chickens with their heads cut off. I guess the word "wedding" gets people crazy. Sorta like the sight of a diamond engagement ring makes me flutter just a tad. ahaha. just kidding... or am i? Tell it walking sweetheart. Oh by the way, someone told Aunty Marlette that our very own Julienne was next in line for the wedding and she exclaimed "not until she's finished with nursing!!" haha. Speaking of Julienne, hey! I mailed your letter yesterday.
Oh just to add another "oy vey", they told me not to get pregnant before the 2006 wedding. Thanks guys... way to watch out for me. UGHHHHHHH!! Haha and Aunty Helen Tip. wants to come down to Florida to visit me, seems she has timeshare there. hahaha Lalalala... not happening.... lalala. Okay I'm going to the kitchen to eat my feelings. haha (SNL reference). Oh just to clarify, we're getting married at a civil blah blah in April but the big wedding is in 2006. joy.
Alrighty, hope the rest of your week is absolutely, fabulously amazing. Or it can just be good. heh. Somebody give me some good news, or just make me laugh!!! Ooh too late, Artie Lange beat ya to it. haha.
Alright, alright, just needed to write it all down and get it out of my system. I'm outta here.
Me.
P.S. My fuggin' cousins aren't come down to see me!! They want me to go see them on Sunday!!! And I am not!!
I can't fuggin' believe the Yankees lost!! They were turning cars over at Fenway Park and just going crazy. Hey man, ya won, good for you. I'll take Artie Lange's point of view, "good for the Red Sox, good for Boston, go nuts!" I just gotta add, the last time you were in the World Series was '86 (when my bro was born) and you lost to the Mets. Also don't say "ooh look at the big pay checks they were handing out to the Yankees, $125 million, but the Red Sox beat you good" because the R. Sox gets $120 million and it took you nearly ten years to get to the World Series. Don't wanna sound like sour grapes... go sox!?
Talked to mom last night, for a good while, and I can't believe she's planning a fuggin' huge wedding for me. She and dad! She fuggin' has a list of all the people she wants to invite, she wants me to pick my bridesmaids or maid of honor (though she named two people), she wants them to wear fuschia!!!!!! fuggin' fuschia!! who's fuggin' wedding is this? I don't want to have it there, I'm not getting married at a Catholic church... but ya know how it is with Filipinos, Fugg!! haha she even said "well in the Phils you're not really married until you're married under the eyes of God" shayt!. Hey man, God's welcome to witness my wedding, just doesn't have to be a Catholic God doin' it. I come to find out dad's been buying my "plates" for years now. ughh! I thought the bride and groom pick out the pattern? Now I have a whole set ready for me. Don't get me wrong, I don't give a fugg about plates... thanks for the ones you're giving me.? Oh my effin' God, it's become a headache and a nightmare. Mom also added she wants it in June. (I want it in September... but she'll probably win out). I told her it seems as if she's more excited over it than I am and she agreed, and a plus for all the aunts who kept telling me to give them time to "lose weight" (Aunty Susie) my mom scheduled it for 2006! Yay...?.
Hey lemme throw something out there, just an idea to place on the table, would you guys be willing to fly down to Florida for a Walt Disney World wedding? For a weekend? Rich and I discussed it somewhat and we'd "have" it at Disney's Pavilion, overlooking the water. I think his parents are willing to pay for a bit of it. Now I just have to crush mom's dream of having a big NY wedding. haha. But this way I wont have to have it at (dad's suggestion) the fuggin' Yonkers Regency. God how tacky would that be? I almost reached through the phone and smacked them all upside the head. Almost! I'm still a good, parent-fearing, Filipina. If we have it at Disney, we might be able to separate the wheat from the chaff, in other words, we'll see who really wants to see me married and who just wants free food and dancing. haha. Now I gotta go sit them down before they do something stupid like put a down payment on something or God forbid some "place" they want their, I mean "my", wedding at.
Wow it's strange, I thought they'd be calm and cool about it but they're running around like chickens with their heads cut off. I guess the word "wedding" gets people crazy. Sorta like the sight of a diamond engagement ring makes me flutter just a tad. ahaha. just kidding... or am i? Tell it walking sweetheart. Oh by the way, someone told Aunty Marlette that our very own Julienne was next in line for the wedding and she exclaimed "not until she's finished with nursing!!" haha. Speaking of Julienne, hey! I mailed your letter yesterday.
Oh just to add another "oy vey", they told me not to get pregnant before the 2006 wedding. Thanks guys... way to watch out for me. UGHHHHHHH!! Haha and Aunty Helen Tip. wants to come down to Florida to visit me, seems she has timeshare there. hahaha Lalalala... not happening.... lalala. Okay I'm going to the kitchen to eat my feelings. haha (SNL reference). Oh just to clarify, we're getting married at a civil blah blah in April but the big wedding is in 2006. joy.
Alrighty, hope the rest of your week is absolutely, fabulously amazing. Or it can just be good. heh. Somebody give me some good news, or just make me laugh!!! Ooh too late, Artie Lange beat ya to it. haha.
Alright, alright, just needed to write it all down and get it out of my system. I'm outta here.
Me.
P.S. My fuggin' cousins aren't come down to see me!! They want me to go see them on Sunday!!! And I am not!!
