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i may have heard someone say, "lechon." this was some hours ago. i don't think i imagined it. someone did just fly in from cebu so lechon in the house is possible. i wasn't paying attention then. happy thursday!

Hello. Been eyeing human heart nature 's all-natural citronella bug spray. Have complained about mosquitoes a lot already. Wanted to try something other than Off! Got most of the facts down based on reviews before buying it: that it's an effective mosquito/bug repellent, it's a serum and the bottle head's a pump - not a spray (the product name needs to be changed, no?), it moisturizes, might need to get used to its smell at first, what else? Oh yes, they deliver. Wonderful! Ordered online and paid-for Sunday night . Received email that order was shipped Tuesday afternoon . And today (Thursday) ... [insert voila sound] I decided to stock up. LOL Very affordable too. They use table rates for shipping. These 4, 50 ml babies cost me a total of 394 pesos (including 49.11 for shipping). Sweet. I'd buy from human heart nature [dot] com again. Yes, I would.

... am looking forward to breakfast. ... might need sleep aid if this goes on any longer. On a different note, it's raining. Been raining all night.

Someone bought a pad of stick-on tats. Goofed around. This one's already peeling off.

shakey's delivery. basket of belgian fries and solo spicy buffalo wings. what you see here is 1/3 of everything. just 1/3. oh yeah!!! of course, i shared. buffalo wings (the solo pack) has 6 pieces and dip. the basket of belgian fries... box was filled with it! has two containers of dip too. there was a lot of potato, very good! the person who took my call was confused. i was going to have the fries for the first time kasi so asked if it came with dip. Parang-ganito-ang-usap-di-word-for-word script: Me: Ung belgian fries, may kasama syang dip? Rep: Wala po. [ nag- hesitate ng konti ] Me: Ah, so ako nang bahala kung gusto kong i-ketchup o anuman ung fries? Rep: Yes. Me: Pero may lasa na sya? Rep: Yes. Me: Ah, OK. toinks! LOL If the fries were seasoned, i didn't taste it. It needed dip, and it came with dip. It wasn't like the mojos that could do without it. Shakey's basket of belgian fries + solo spicy buffalo wings + 1.5L Coke zero = 417 pesos.

... in sweet and sour sauce earlier. Pineapple and carrot bits. Y-U-M.

i've bookmarked downforeveryoneorjustme.com , this isn't a good sign. It's stressful. When someone pays for an online product, you expect that the provider's looking out for it. But when its server is down a week, you sweat. It's out of your hands, apart from emailing support - nada, zip, nothing you can do. Oh, you can pray they get it fixed on their side soon too; i can do that. Anything to keep checking it on 'downforeveryone...'

Been slow for mturk-ing. My preferred requesters haven't placed many hits up for the past 2 weeks - uncharacteristic compared to the previous months. Amazon's Mturk has been putting itself out there (they've got their own twitter, finally) and gathering more requesters. Still, there are many that are scammers - same story. [Sigh] Minefield. I have mentioned this before but, again, if you're doing mturk use the third-party forum, turker nation as a guide. As for my mturk rewards (gift certificate balance), it's down -- mostly used up last month when someone from the US said that they'll be coming to the PH for vacation. I went loco and shopped till my gc balance was single digit. I went for a few small things till I got my total purchases up (way over, actually) to get free shipping. Finally have the stuff on my wish-list. Nice.

i'm confused. If someone asks, which is the better/simplest answer to mean an adult who's had myositis since she was a kid? * juvenile-onset myositis ; childhood-onset myositis* Last major flare up was 10 years ago. Second to the last major one was at time of diagnosis (but I had symptoms years before the diagnosis so I couldn't remember exactly when it started). Hopefully, i haven't given away my age, tee-hee! Notably, it's moving past the coincidental 10-years-in-between-terrible-flare-ups period and... nothing. I feel like celebrating. I braced myself, been extra careful too... Still am. Shouldn't get too excited. Last time i checked it's still an idiot... Err, i mean, it's 'idiopathic.' Small consolation is that most probably, I wouldn't die because of it, just with it. Right, woop-dee-doo! *updated 15-Feb-2013

It's been raining since morning. It's nice and cool. I slept in, woke up under a pillow and blanket. Feels great. Someone told me they went in to check if i was okay (still alive, i thought). They saw the pillow move, that i was still breathing and left me alone to sleep some more. I slept so well this time. Ah, this is so nice. Feels great.

A few months ago, i bought a tp-link wifi dongle for the desktop 'cause i planned to move it, far from the router, so far that the ethernet cable isn't long enough to reach it. But we couldn't get the computer table out the door so, no-go on that. Now, i have a wifi usb dongle that i don't need and it's a good-quality piece too. Heck, it's not going to go bad and i don't regret buying it because... It came with a 3-foot usb extension cable that i needed (and have been looking for for two years)! I didn't know that it came with the package while i was shopping for the dongle. Was wonderfully strange how that worked out. No more stooping to the side of the cpu to plug in usb's, for me.