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spilled on my shirt. i smell of coffee. sana taste central starts shipping outside mm soon. i could use that 20k trolley... in my dreams. local ikea warehouse, are you in the works? a white leaning/ladder bookcase might be purchased if and when. form and function. please do not run a fat blue cable in here. pangit . small victory when i convinced someone to get rid of a big black garbage bag full of very old and funky pillows na we'll never, ever use again. it was ugly and suffocating - it was on a shelf, the first thing you'd see - it sucked the joy and light out of me from the space. so, the room is nice and cool? thanks. it's true because we've been mindfully throwing clutter out; been doing it in small batches. it doesn't look like much but you can feel it. the end goal is to make it look clean, open and even pretty. it's a process. baby steps. diy. good decorating doesn't happen overnight.

11/24/13 sunday caught the free shipping deal on zalora philippines tonight, no minimum purchase required. sweet. x'mas gift-shopping is done. {package received 11/26. excellent.}  12/2/13 monday bought another year's av subscription for the machine last night. that's it, no more online purchases for the rest of this year {i hope}... unless it's something i really need... but no, i'm good. that's it. time flies. it's past 9 p.m. weather's been nice. we're not sweating. meralco bill's a b*tch: +700 just like that! nothing's changed, consumption's the same. a/c hasn't been touched this year. the chart they have printed on the bill, that spike, where did that come from?!? incredible.

nov. 8, 2013, friday getting ready for {what's being called} the worst typhoon of 2013 named yolanda. they put and secured covers over the veranda, and hid pots and pans that were on a long table at our outdoor kitchen. drinking water - check! food - check! batteries - check! transistor radio - check! flashlights - check! it's 5 p.m. it's raining and i hear gusts of wind. it's 9 p.m. the rain stopped but it's still very windy, very windy. temperature-wise, the long-stored balabal is fished out and now wrapped around my shoulders. nov. 9, 2013, saturday it rained again at dawn. it stopped by mid-morning. the sun came out. still windy. shower-burst in the afternoon. it's 9 p.m. a little windy. no rain. nov. 10, 2013, sunday yolanda moved on. we are ok but, sadly, many are not. donate to the philippine red cross

wanted to get someone their present before they fly off again because they're not coming home for christmas this year. found nice things online at quirks . made up my mind on: 2 gifts, 1 thing for the house and 1 thing for my wall. signed up last weekend. received the activation/invitation email monday . checked out and paid monday night . on tuesday before noon , received email asking if i wanted to pick another design or receive a refund for one item that was sold out -- i chose another design. tuesday evening , received tracking info. wednesday morning (today) the package is here! seamless transaction with quirks. excellent. quirks used xend. i believe packages sent through xend have been delivered to my house the next day. they're good.

Recent blood test results were normal apart from being slightly hypo on fasting blood sugar (that I was made to believe was not a cause for concern). The point is lipid profile was all good so we called it in to ask if it was ok to reduce the statin (been on 20mg od since March) but people were distracted on the phone so we didn't get straight answers. Now, me thinks I'll be on it for a very long time. Poor kidneys.

last week... someone's tablet froze and they asked me to fix it. "no problem," i said. i held the power button down until it shut off (pressed longer than 10 secs). they were relieved and grabbed the tablet. i said, "no, please wait." a few seconds later, it turned on by itself, good to go. "you can take it now," i said. hard restart. the bidet spray was dripping at the head. i unscrewed the head and squeezed the trigger. water gushed out, pushing rubber out too. so, the rubber was loose. we turned the water valve off. i gingerly patted the parts dry and tightly put it back together. we turned the water on. i held my breath, squeezed the trigger (water ran ok) and then released it (water stopped running). no leaks. high-five.

9/10/13 Tuesday Fudge it. Went ahead and ordered prescription eyeglasses online , last night. My poorly made one is stressing me out, breaking me out. 5:30 p.m. Winnie called from the shop to tell me that I need to change my order from mid-index to high-index lenses. I expected it. I was switching between the mid- and high-indexes last night because my prescription is in the high negatives. They'll let me know how much more it's going to cost me tomorrow. 9/11/13 Wednesday Winnie called and it will be 3000 on top of what i already shelled out. Excellent. It will be for the super-duper thin lenses, jargon is high-index 1-point-something. I asked them to email me the details. No more goggle lenses? Can't wait. 9/12/13 Thursday No acknowledgement of payment and email reply re:details of the extra charge so I called them. Payment was received and my order papers already sent to the lab, but she'll get back to me when they get the papers back. 9/17/13 Tuesday Rec

8.22.13 Thursday. Pissed off Turned computer on, booted, logged in, few minutes in, hardly started - nothing running really - when it restarted by itself. It booted ok. I didn't log in but clicked "restart" instead so it can fix itself. It, again, booted ok; logged in, saw prompt re:"recovered from serious error" report - typical report when it restarts itself. Then a few, maybe two, minutes later, it froze. Manual restart -- error, can't boot, system32 config missing, repair with os disk, etc. Manual restart again -- nada, no post: fan on, cpu light on; but no beeps, no display. Repeated off/on attempts produced same results: fan runs, no beeps, no display. No joy. (The man told me later that I shouldn't have kept turning it off/on. I'll keep that in mind next time.) Reminds me of last year but without cmos error: October 2012 cmos battery change and hardware cleaning when we discovered the mobo's bubbled capacitors. Recommendation back then

Two days of non-stop rain and we have floodwater in our street -- the water was high enough to get in part of our garage this morning but it went down before noon. Other places are sadly, badly affected: impassable roads, flooded homes, motorists needing rescue, households moving to emergency shelters. It's still raining right now but very lightly. They're calling this storm, Maring. It's dark, rainy and gloomy.