Goddess, I Am.

I have tons of stuff to blog about. But, as always, there are a gazillion other things that need my focus right now, so the blogging will have to wait until I tick a few things off this week’s to-do list.

I can’t resist posting about the Moleskine contest over at Topaz Horizon’s, however. I love, love, loooove Moleskines, though I haven’t had one in years since my entire life now revolves around computers. It would be nice to own one again. Who knows? I might somehow find myself writing creatively again – something I haven’t done in a while. (This is what happens when you’re writing about mind-numbing stuff like microscopes and CPAP masks and a Frisco Dentist for a living.)

But I digress. Topaz Horizon and Avalon.ph are jointly giving away an extremely cool Moleskine Large Cahier Ruled Black Set of 3 AND an even cooler Php500 online gift certificate for the Avalon.ph site. I’ve got my eye on a couple of rare books on the site, so I hope I’ll win!

The contest ends tonight. By this time tomorrow, I will – hopefully – be shopping for a new book or two and confusing myself in the process.

Today, The Husband and myself are celebrating the second anniversary of our first date. I can’t believe it’s been two years already! It seems like only yesterday that I showed up half an hour late to our first date because I was stuck in a TOEIC exam room in Sukhumvit with a bunch of Thais, laboring under their English exams. They wouldn’t let me out until everyone else had finished their exams (even when I finished mine a full two hours earlier), plus they wouldn’t allow mobile phones inside the room, so the poor man thought I was going to stand him up.

Good thing he waited for me, though – probably because he was still happily browsing around the Sony Center in MBK! I shudder to think what my life would be like now, if he hadn’t. But then, I like to think that fate would’ve found to a way to bring us together, no matter what!

So here we are, two glorious years later. The whole relationship has been anything but smooth sailing, but we have weathered our storms together. We are firmly stuck together with (super) glue, and will remain so for as long as we both shall live.

I love you, Stephen Young. And I can’t tell you enough what an honor it is to be married to you.

Even if does mean getting my what’s left of my already stubby nose nibbled into oblivion for the next 50-odd years or so.

Our wedding was very unconventional. I come from a family that isn’t big on parties, so it’s no wonder that the whole thing ended up so disorganized, it made my daily morning hairstyle look very well-coiffed, indeed!

I didn’t have a proper color motif, for one thing. My cake was violet, my entourage wore just about any color they felt like wearing at the time, and my shoes were burgundy to match The Husband’s shirt.

For another, nobody (The Husband and myself, included) knew what we were supposed to be doing half the time. The program was put together at the very last minute, the host was exasperated, and the bloopers were plenty.

Needless to say, everyone loved every minute of it. Our wedding was fun and carefree and completely hilarious at times. Our 20-odd guests were mostly close family and friends, and there was just so much laughter and smiles all night that, really, the messiness just didn’t matter.

Probably one of my favorite things about our wedding was the extremely unique concept that we chose for our wedding invitations and giveaways.

For the invite, we wrapped a small dessert fork in shimmery burgundy. Tied in ribbons of gold and silver were the tags detailing the entourage, the venue details and a map. And why a fork? Read the text:

If you can’t read the text, it says:

“We’ve come to a fork in the road…

Join us in our journey to happy ever after.”

And if you haven’t already guessed, the giveaways were teaspoons wrapped in shimmery silver, along with a single Hershey’s Kiss.

The text might not be very clear, but it says:

“We thank you for coming with a SPOONFUL of kisses

to bless our beginning as Mr. and Mrs.!”

I think it’s cute, don’t you? The idea wasn’t entirely original, however. I found the spoon idea in some obscure site when I was looking for unique ideas for invites, and just took the fork idea from there. I figured it would be pretty cool. After all, not everyone can think of giving their guests an entire cutlery set on their own wedding.

Indeed, I do find myself lucky. Unlike other people who spend their weddings smiling until their faces hurt, entertaining guests they barely know, I knew my guests and loved them all, and my smile couldn’t have been more genuine. The happiest day of my life was, indeed, a happy one, and it’s a night I will cherish for the rest of my life.

Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince is showing today, and I am absolutely giddy with excitement! I am not, however, looking forward to watching Dumbledore die, but hey, that’s what tissues are for.

I don’t think I’ve been this excited to watch a movie since Wall-E last year (and that’s saying something because I love, love, love movies, so I’m always excited). I have great expectations from the sixth Harry Potter movie because if I had a favorite book of the series, the Half-Blood Prince would be it. I sure hope the movie won’t disappoint!

Speaking of Wall-E, why does it take ages for Pixar films to get released in Asia? I’ve been dying to watch Up for the longest time, but though it was released in the US months ago, we have to wait until August to see it here. So, for the moment, I’m consoling myself with Wall-E (yet again), which is by far my favorite Pixar flick (so far). I just can’t get enough of this little guy:

I love how he gives a little shake when he hops off his little green line. M-O (Microbe Obliterator) is so cute, I could just squeeze him! (Though how one is supposed to squeeze a hunk of metal without some sort of heavy machinery is beyond me.)

On a side note, in a perfect world, we’ll have robots to do the dirty jobs for us, while we lie on mobile lounge chairs and get fat. We won’t have to worry about getting them social security disability from Allsup, though we might want to stock up on spare parts from True Value for good measure.

But then again, if robots are like M-O and Wall-E and Eve, I might not have the heart to make them work because they reek of cuteness, plus I don’t want to get fat, so let’s scratch that perfect world scenario. Maybe we can have Harry Potter-esque wands and spell books, instead?

Double, double toil and trouble; could somebody please stop Iris’ babble? Like, now?

Many a blog post ago, I mentioned that I have a very unhealthy addiction: an addiction to laptops, of all things.

You’d think it’s one addiction that will be quelled for good when I finally got the Macbook of my dreams – and it probably would have, under normal circumstances. Unfortunately, my timing was all wrong. How wrong? Well, let’s just say I got my Gaius a mere few days before the new line of Macbooks came out: cheaper, more powerful, 20 times more fabulous, and absolute torture. To say that I was crushed would be an understatement.

Still, I love my Gaius to bits, and after all, a Mac IS a Mac, so I’m still one happy (albeit somewhat disgruntled) camper. Besides, I promised The Husband that I won’t buy another laptop for the next 3 years or so. Not only that, with the new Macbooks out in the market, my Gaius’ resale value has shot to shit, even when he’s only a little over a month old, so I couldn’t possibly afford another Macbook so soon.

Or could I?

Here’s the thing. My mother wants to buy a Mac. More accurately, she wants to buy MY Mac – just so I can have the chance to get a new one – because she’s awesome that way. Not only that, she wants to buy Gaius at practically the same price that I bought it for – something that literally nobody else in the entire world would do. That means I only have to shell out peanuts to get the new 13-inch Macbook Pro.

It’s a deal NOBODY in their right mind would pass up – and I’m definitely not THAT crazy! (That’ll be like ignoring a lifetime supply of whatever product the best night cream reviews are raving about when it’s being thrust into your hands.) So why don’t I just do it, like, NOW (when I’m absolutely dying to)?

My problem is I made a promise to The Husband. The man is absolutely touchy about money stuff, so this is a purchase that he’s not going to be happy about. The man is also infuriatingly stubborn, so he is not going to make this easy for me, even when I’ve got logic on my side.

At this point, I would absolutely kill for persuasive powers so good, I’ll put Philippine politicians to shame and have eagles pecking birdseed out of my hand. Maybe the extremely cool Acer laptop that I just bought for him as a second anniversary gift can also serve as a bribe. Or maybe I should just grovel on my knees and promise him a lifetime of servitude.

Wish me luck.