Its Almost Thanksgiving!

And Time to Eat lovely, yummy Turkey :-)

Time to reconnect with family and friends.

Time to shop (if you are into that sort of thing, not me though)

Time to sit down, and be thankful :-)

and what am I thankful for?

- an amazing past 11 months
- wonderful family and close friends who have been there for me, and will continue to be there for me
- a new nephew (my sister gave birth recently)
- new friends, and great friendships forged in the past couple of months
- my health
- my love
- my awesome museum-training class at Balboa Park
- the sunshine
- good Guinness
- Obama winning the election
- other new squishy babies courtesy of friends who (or their wives/partners/gf) gave birth to in the past 4 months
- Golden Spoon


Happy Thanksgiving !!!

P.S. What are you thankful for?

A "hug" HNT

What's better than a great, big hug??

Why, a Nekkid Hug :-) A hug without worrying about the clothes, a hug of full skin-to-skin contact, a nice, great, big, naked HUG!

I like to sneak up on my man from behind when he is changing into his work clothes, and steal a hug from him (all this while I am fresh from the shower, tee hee) although my HNT hug was more of the attack from the front-type hug ;-)



I am sending out free cyberhugs to y'all (not naked though, ehe) and a very Happy HNT!!



PS for more Nekkid hugs, pics, etc, simply click on my link ;-)

Thanksgiving Oversight

stupid silly me.

I didnt realize that thanksgiving was less than a week or so away.

and in order for my detox to fully be effective, I have to do it a minimum of two weeks, which obviously overlaps Thanksgiving day.

Stupid, Silly Me !

I have decided to postpone it to December 1...

The First Day

this is it.

the first day of my 10 days - 2 wks of detox.

Quite unfortunate that I had to do it right before thanksgiving.

But I really feel that I need to do this as I feel the need to cleanse my body.

so yeah, First Day, here we go !

a "Protest" HNT

As happy as I am that Obama won by a landslide in the recent elections, I am still very deeply upset that in my own state, democracy and the ideals of equality havent worked out too well. What am talking about? I am talking about the passage of Proposition 8, which effectively makes gay marriages illegal. The only reason why this proposition even got on the ballot was because of backward-thinking religious zealots who feel that the only right union is between a man and a woman. They forget that marriage was created not for love, but for financial union.

Its ironic that in California, the touted state of fair-mindedness and forward thinking, such a proposition could pass. Goes to show that mayhap Californians may not be as open as the stereotype places them to be.

I have been involving myself in local "Repeal Prop 8" rallies, protests and marches, with my next one this Sat where we march to the County Administration Building. I hope that you help me in my cause, and also enjoy my own Protest HNT :



Happy HNT! and help Repeal Prop 8 !

P.S. HNT-curious? click on my link yo ;-)

detox

Thanksgiving is coming up, and I am nowhere near my projected goal of my weight. Of course, it doesn't help that I have a boyfriend who likes feeding me, a financial crisis that has pinching my wallet, and said wallet has told me to stop paying for capoeira lessons, which, in the past was my main work-out source ( I mean, 2 hours of intense Brazilian martial arts, three times a week, seriously??) I feel really unhealthy and tired, and want to cleanse myself...

A few months ago I tried my hand at the lemon detox diet. I never got past the third day. This time , this coming Sunday, with the help of my boyfriend (and his empty fridge) I will start on it again, and finish just before thanksgiving. I will also record my progress everyday starting Sunday.

hopefully I will be more successful this time.

To My Friends

hey there ! hope you are doing well, its been definitely a minute, and we should connect soon... I am writing you because I have come to very important and very interesting point in my life. Almost a year ago, my heart was slowly and surely being broken,and I had to make a great many changes (including change of environment from Portland to San Diego), and a re-growing of myself. I thank you for being part of that positive change, and of being an awesome friend :-D

I am asking for your guidance and understanding as my heart has found another to love. Not just my heart, but my intellect, my soul , my everything , believes that it has finally found its complement, its friend, its mentor, its student, my companion for life. The only setback is that we have only known each other less than 3 months, but we have both definitely agreed to spend the rest of our lives together.

I have never been so sure about anyone in my life, and it scares me just a little. Everything points to our joining, our moving in together, our eventual marriage (we have talked about marriage in length).

Logical me tells me to wait if I want to, I should. This is where you come in. I would appreciate your thoughts, your opinion on such an important decision. Hope your day is going well and hope to hear from you soon :-)

You just KNOW

My yesterday's post hinted at a personal issue that came up and affected my Thursday mood. I am still reverberating a bit from it, and dont know if I even want to talk about it in detail, as it is extremely personal, but knowing me, I will probably give a full discourse sometime in three months....

What is significant about said issue is how it gave rise to an epiphany. A very serious, and somewhat scary epiphany, though it is infinitely wonderful in its generalization.

It hit me out of the blue, like a mental lightning bolt, that my significant other just might be the ONE.

You know, the one who you see yourself spending the rest of your life with.

The one who you see growing old with, the one whose babies I would be proud and happy to carry and nurture with, the ONE.

Of course, logical, practical me came out with her arguments: you've known each other less than three months, its too soon, its the honeymoon phase, all those endorphins from sex are addling your brain, etc....

seriously, I just KNOW. From the guts of my soul, the beat of my heart, and even in the back of the mind of logical, practical me, I just KNOW.

And its a little scary to be 110% sure about such a thing.

Post-Election HNT

I am having a mild case of the post-election blues. I simply do not know what to do with myself. No more juicy reads on the huffington post about the ridiculousness of Sarah Palin, no more nervous checking the daily polls, no more....

It has left me with a lethargism (is that even a word?), and coupled with a personal issue that came up last night, lent to a very moody pic for HNT.



I still can greet y'all a Happy HNT though :-)


PS for more HNT fun, simply click on these words to the left of my blog. They are "Half-Nekkid Thursdays" ;-)

Yes We Can

And WE did :-D tears of joy, hope and happiness brimmed in my eyes as I watched our president-elect Barack during his speech. Such inspiration, such fortitude and such promise shone forth in his words that one must truly believe that he is the man for the job :-)

and now, just two more months of Bush, and we are READY TO LAUNCH !

A Nervous Excitement

I am Ridiculously Excited. Ever so often, I click on my secret window on my PC to check on the polls, and ever so often I offer up another round of prayers to the one above that this day be a dream come true for those who want and need REAL Change. This is a historical day and to be able to witness it is quite amazing to me.

I do regret that I wont be as much a part of it as I want to. You see, I am not allowed to vote. I do not have that right. why?

I am but a resident alien, a legal immigrant, a green card holder. I was born in the Philippines, though I grew up here, and attained my green card status early on. Alas, I was of the kind that loves to travel, and travel I did, thinking that it wouldnt put harm on my quest to becoming a full-fledged American citizen. I thought wrong, the day I went in to submit my application to become an American citizen. Since I had been going in and out of the country so long and so frequently, I didnt have enough solid years to show that I lived in the US for sure. I was told that I needed to stay put for another three to four years, then I could submit my application. I was allowed to travel, but only for up to two weeks at a time.

I know, bummer.

2010 is when I get to apply, and hopefully, get sworn in as a full-fledged American citizen. And come 2012, I will be able to vote :-D

So yes, if you are an American citizen, please exercise your right to vote, I know I would if I was.

Change is A-Coming !!

Of Rain and Election 08

I woke up this morning to the wonderful and fresh smell of water in the air. The smell stayed with me as I started on my road back to fitness-land with a quick jog of at least 20 minutes. The air felt smooth as I breathed it in and breathed it out, and I felt like I had wings that could grasp the microscopic droplets and bear me on towards the rain-filled clouds slowly making their way to San Diego.

I do love rain. I love the feel of it against my face, I love how it makes all the colors looks vibrant, and I love its many moods. There is fat rain, tiny rain, sunny rain, gentle rain, grumpy rain and angry rain. I . just. love. rain.

On the other hand, I do not love how San Diegans seem to turn into complete ninkompoops when there is the slightest hint of rain on the roads. I mean, seriously! your cars are built to handle...even...rain! So dont crawl on the road like a sloth, and turn on your high beams like its San Francisco fog day. Just. Drive. You did read the driver's manual right? you did practice driving?? *sigh*

Speaking of ninkompoops, I hope that Americans when they vote tomorrow, dont turn into one and vote for another Bush-style administration, because that is what we are going to get if one votes for the McCain-Palin ticket.... I seriously will not be able to sleep a wink until all the votes are in, and counted :-D I have already been invited to several viewing parties across San Diego for election, a couple of which I will not go to as they ostensibly are for the Red ticket. Alas, San Diego is a pretty RED city, with smatterings of blue here and there...

I am going to go die-hard Catholic-style prayer tonight till the end of this week though for an Obama-Biden administration :-D

in the meantime, please VOTE ! :-D