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DAY 16TH: GUILTY PLEASURE – Instead of posting chocolate as my guilty pleasure, I figured today is the day to share that I like CW’s The Vampire Diaries. The truth is, I fought for a while not to get sucked into any vampire series because I really can not stand the Twilight series. Seriously, I abhor the Bella character. She’s the most worthless female character I’ve ever seen in a movie. The only reason I watched Twilight was out of curiosity because a lot of people were talking about the book and the movie. I wanted to know why. Although I felt like I’ve wasted hours watching 2 movies, I’m still glad I did. I can justify why I don’t like the female character, Haha.

Anyhoooooooooo so back to the The Vampire Diaries. As much as I love Paul Wesley(Stefan) whom I watched in CBS soap opera GUIDING LIGHT, and the Wolf Lake(CBS/UPN), I really was adamant in not watching a vampire series. But then a couple of weeks ago while flipping Netflix I keep seeing TVD. So I was like “yah know, we’re paying for this thing, I might as well watch what’s in here.” So I started to watch and ended up liking it. There goes the story of my new guilty pleasure. My husband came home the other day from work and asked if I’m still watching it. I told him not to judge me coz I’m only taking advantage of the money we’re paying Netflix, haha. I’m really hooked on TVP and if you’re wondering, YES, I’m with TEAM STEFAN. Oh, and that TVD is way better than Twilight, and I happen to like the female character Elena even though I really wish she’d just stop playing those two brothers along. Must be nice, Hah!

February 4th: YOU. And since I’m being a narcissist today, I created a pop-art of myself. You can have me in red, blue, green, and purple. In my world, my emotions can be any of those tones at any given time. I’m not ashamed to admit it. I’m definitely proud of it.

Refer to this post for Photo-A-Day Challenge. Let me know if you’re doing this too so I can visit your blog.

I saw this Photo-A-Day Challenge for the whole month of Feb from a Turbo Fire buddy. I decided to do it so here it is. Since I’m starting on day 3, I’ll just post day 1 to 3 so tomorrow I’ll be all caught up with the dates. If you’re doing this too please let me know so I can visit your blog.

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I can’t believe I actually did it. I completed NaBloPoMo. A whole month of blogging. This is the 2nd time I’ve completed NaBloPoMo and I think I’ve joined 5 times so far. So for the last day, I’ll answer the last prompt.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
What did you learn from doing NaBloPoMo?

Hmmm, I’ve learned to be even more committed in the blogging process. It was hard to keep blogging everyday in my personal blog. And this has been happening to me in the past 3 years now. I could churn out 3-5 blog posts a day in other niched blogs but when it comes to here, I feel restricted most of the times. I don’t feel like sharing more about my life anymore. I have a lot to say about news and stuff but I usually stop myself from blurting out things in fear of being judged by people I don’t know which totally contradicts my tagline –watch out, she bites-. And I have been into this blogging thing for a long time that I feel like I’ve shared more than I should have online throughout the years. That’s the dilemma in blogging these days. Sometimes it’s better to just do it in 140 characters via Twitter or Facebook then be done with it.

So it was really hard to come up with things to blog about for 30 days. But I stuck to it and really wanted to finish this challenge. I ‘m happy about that.

For 2012, I’m thinking about really living up to my tagline. Perhaps, but I’m not promising anything. I might bite more than what I’ve bitten in the past 3 years. Maybe that will get me more readers coz truth of the matter is, I’ve babbled here for a month and I can count in my left hand how many people visited to comment, Haha. Thank you to those who visited me from time to time. So what I’m saying is, maybe I should be more controversial. Ehhh, we’ll see.

So long NaBloPoMo. See you again next year!

Describe a favorite place. Focus on how that place affects your sense of taste, touch, sight, sound, or smell. (Guest Post by Adrienne McDonnell, author of The Doctor and the Diva)

I don’t want to go all romantic and poetic in answering this NaBloPoMo Prompt but I think for a change I would. I could just easily say San Diego California but that would be a given. I could also say New York coz even though I complained a lot during winter time while shoving 3-5 inches of snow for the 8 years that we’ve lived there, it has a special spot in my heart and I am really really excited to move back there.

For this question, I’m going to say that my favorite place is the space I occupy when my husband and I are hugging or when cuddling for the night. Especially when there are stuff bothering me or stressing the heck out of me. I feel safe and comfortable in that space. I believe everything will be OK like my husband reminds me all the time. There’s a reason why I’m stressing about something. I might not see it the next day but I will definitely see whatever that reason is in a month or 2. It always gives me perspective in life. My husband doesn’t need to say a word when I’m in that space and crying about a problem. As long as his arms are wrapped around me I know that space will always be my home.

This space will always be a special place and I never want to go to bed at night without being in it.

I was terrified to go on DWTS, but facing my fear and overcoming it has been an incredible experience. Have you faced fears and overcome them?(by Ricki Lake)

My biggest fear is heights. My hands are sweaty and I can hear my heart beating really really really loud just thinking about heights. Fortunately, I haven’t encountered a height that I haven’t faced. Yah know, regular stairs and stuff, Haha. But one day I want to try a zip line or bungee jumping, or visit the Eiffel Tower and Empire State Building. I believe these are pretty high places that I know I’ll be so scared to do or visit but I want to get over this fear coz I know I’d feel so much better once I face the fear. Besides, it would be stupid of me not to enjoy the experience, right? Listen to me all brave and arrogant. Just imagine me hanging onto my husband’s shoulder or screaming my head off, especially on that zip line and while doing the bungee jump. It’s going to be a blast!!

NaBloPoMo gives out daily writing prompts which helps out a lot when thinking about what to write on a daily basis. For day 3 the prompt asks: Can you listen to music and write? What song did you hear today?

My answer is YES.

Music is my buddy when I find myself needing to meet deadlines or concentrate on writing for a few hours. I even sing along as loud as I can while  thoughts are running in my head and my fingers are busy tapping away at the keyboard.

I didn’t listen to any songs today though but Kelly Clarkson’s new album is in the CD player right now which I listened to on repeat last week while doing some work.

Before Kelly Clarkson, the CDs on rotation were from Bruno Mars, Norah Jones, Adele, Britney Spears, and Lady Gaga. Sometimes I would just tune in to the music channels on Direct TV. I like to listen to Top 40 songs, sing along and sometimes shake my booty albeit sitting down. How I do that, I don’t know. I just do.

It’s a good thing that my husband’s office is located in our bedroom so he doesn’t have to listen to the pop music when he’s doing his own thing.

For now, this is the Halloween picture for 2011. Funny how I was wondering if my son should wear a costume this year weeks ago. Obviously we buckled down and said sure why not. Emma Lyn was supposed to be Minnie Mouse but she didn’t want to wear her costume AT ALL. It was stressful trying to convince her to put her costume on. It was already raining when I took this picture and it poured hard by the time we got our first trick-or-treaters. Those kids didn’t mind though. They were soaked wearing coats over their costume but hey, Halloween is Halloween.  Scott took the kids out and I stayed home to give out the candies. Emma just stayed in the car since she wasn’t wearing her costume anyway. She didn’t care at all. She just wanted the candies, I guess.

I had a cool idea of a picture of her with the SCREAM costume behind her but that didn’t happen yesterday. My son said we could do it today hoping of course that his sister would cooperate this time around. Wish me luck.