Early Snow Days.

This is what I woke up to the other morning.  Yippeee!  I didn't go out and play in it though.. it was too damn cold!  Lol.  It wasn't enough snow to make a good-sized snowman either.  I'll hold out on my snowman for now.  It's been really cold and it doesn't look like the weather will let up very much this winter.  I'm expecting tons and tons of snow this season!  Yay.  I love snow.  I just can't stand being cold.  I am a walking contradiction.  At least I'm not dying of heatstroke like the rest of the kids in Hawaii.  Hahahah ;)


In other news.. anyone watch/hear the Broncos vs. Patriots game yesterday?  We're 5-0, b&tches!!  Who woulda thunk?  After a less than spectacular preseason, the Broncos have bounced back and keeping a 5 game winning streak.  Yesterday's game was a game of epic proportions.  The protege (Broncos coach, Josh McDaniels) pitted against the mentor (Patriots coach, Bill Belichick).  This game also had the potential to solidify the Broncos spot as an up-and-coming team this season, to quiet all the nay-sayers.  Of course, people will still hate, but what are you going to do?  I have to admit, I wasn't very optimistic about the team this season, but I remained hopeful.  We have a tough schedule ahead of us and I hope the Broncos continue to do well!  The offense and defense are looking pretty solid!  Cross your fingers for me that I win the Canon Sweepstakes so I can win a camera and shoot photos the Broncos on the sidelines!!  Hehe.


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I forgot to mention earlier, I think my brain is going crazy.  Last night by far showcased the weirdest dream I have ever had.  Peter & I had twins, a boy & a girl, I think.  They were half human, wait for it..., half dogs.  Yes, dogs.  They looked like regular babies, but with white, brown, & black hairs/fur.  I dreamt of going to a grad party of an 'online friend' who was pretty well off.  She denied access to people that were only invited to the 'formal' grad party since the 1st party was just for good friends.  At the formal party, she hired singers, young children, that created music by rubbing the rims of cups and singing along.  Think on the lines of church choir children & classical music.  The formal party turned into a theme park-ish kind of vibe by the shore.  There was a merry-go-round and a reggae band performing (if only I could remember that song!).  During the performance, beyond the cliff, a huge tidal wave started heading towards us.  We all managed the first set, but then an even bigger wave followed.... That as far as I remember. Weird.

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Saw the headline within minutes of it breaking the news...  "Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize."   Ever since then, Obama and everything nobel prize related became a trending topic on Twitter .  The story made front page on every search engine out there and every other news agency.  Facebook status' slowly trickled in congratulating the President, etc.


Now, I'm not really one for politics... let's just get that out there.  I choose not to get involved in discussions and don't have much of a passion for it.  I do however enjoy reading the news and be "in-the-know" about world happenings.  My first reaction to this news was give or take "What?  WTF?  He didn't even do anything yet!"  


Don't get me wrong, I voted for the guy, but... something struck me as awkward (?) or wrong (?) about this whole thing.  He is still in the infancy of his presidency, 10 months to be exact.  He's made great leaps and bounds in terms of foreign policy thus far, but we have yet to see the fruits of his labor.  What has he done to warrant this highly prestigious award?  He was nominated for the prize within 2 weeks of taking office.  Seriously?  I'll stay optimistic, but I think there were much more people deserving of this award.


This commentary by Aaron Miller - Commentary: Obama's prize doesn't 'feel right' - basically covers my whole thought process.  An excerpt from his closing...

"The award says more about the world's love affair with Barack Obama and its collective sigh of relief that George W. Bush is gone than it does about the president's substantive foreign policy accomplishments. And in the end, America doesn't want to be loved by the world; we want to be admired and respected, and that will depend not on celebrity, process or celebration that the Democrats are back in office, but on real foreign policy accomplishments."

First Snow.

I woke up today and found a text from Peter stating, "It's Snowing!! Love you."  It was freezing once I gathered the strength to get out of bed.  30 minutes passed since Peter initially texted me, but I was hopeful.  Unfortunately, I MISSED THE SNOW!  I was pretty disappointed.  Luckily, the snow gods decided to be gracious and granted me another snowfall later in the afternoon.  SO much snow was falling and in big chunks!  I managed to snap some photos, but they just didn't do the scene justice.  I really hoped it would just keep snowing and that the snow would stick to the ground.  Oh well, perhaps next time.  I just really want to make a snowman.  I have a huge front yard just waiting to college all that snowy goodness!


In other news, I posted on Twitter that I managed to tether my G1 phone to Peter's laptop in order to access the internet.  Essentially, I turned my G1 into a portable modem, which was nice!  I should've done that earlier and it was so simple!  The connection however wasn't THAT fast at all.  I thought it was normal at first, but after more research, things weren't adding up!  I finally figured out that my phone is connected to the EDGE network, not the higher speed 3G network.  UGH!  I checked T-mobile's coverage and I am well within range of the 3G network.  I played around with the settings, etc.  still on EDGE.  Now I am thinking it's my SIM.  Yes, old SIM works fine, I get internet, etc. etc. but not 3G.  I just never noticed since well, I broke the damn phone within 2 weeks of using it.  That's the only other possible factor I can think of since someone else had the same issue.  My SIM is about 7 (maybe 8) years old!  Definitely time for an upgrade.  I've been with T-mobile for almost 11 years.  Crazy!  My promo period is about to end with them in a couple of weeks... I'm itching to get the myTouch.  Maybe for Christmas?  Hehe.  Or I'll just try to win it :)


Speaking of sweepstakes.. I think I'm going to enter THIS sweep.  Considering NO ONE followed the rules/directions, I think I got pretty good chances at the prize(s)!  LOL.  I figure it'll be a fun way to present my photos from London anyhow.  It'll be like a coffee table book of sorts.  I just need to order the kit to get started.  I was chuckling the whole time while looking at the entries.  The sweep will be done at the end of the month, so chances are good!

Fried Brains. Annoying kids.

It took me 3 days to finish this blog... lol.  Having it saved as a "draft" finally got me to finish it.  Now I have to change all the dates/tense to the present .. or past.  I was meaning to update this blog on Sunday/Monday morning, but I didn't get around to finishing.


My brain was completely fried from trying to think in Tagalog for a couple of hours on Sunday night.  Haha.  I sent an extremely long e-mail in response to a friend!  I had a good laugh writing all those stories up though.  The dramas in life are only dramas for the moment.  After time passes, we can look back not with contempt, but with a sigh of relief.  You can finally laugh at those moments. At least, I can!  Yeah, I'm probably completely mindf&cked from all of it, but hey I'm still standing.


Anyway, we didn't end up going to the hot springs on Sunday.  Sad face :(  It was just really cold and Peter didn't feel like driving all the way down.  Boo!  So we chilled.  Peter got a text from his good friend Lance saying that their other friend Pascall moved up to Greeley for school.  Pascall called Peter & we made plans to meet up at Hobnobber to watch the Broncos vs. Cowboys game.  Everyone was preparing themselves for the impending slaughter.  It was completely empty at Hobnobber!  Haha.  I finally got to satisfy my craving and ordered some fish & chips and Peter got a side of garlic fries.  Their fries, paired with loads of malt vinegar, is to die for!  Love it!  We ate, chilled, & watched the whole game.  Elaine joined us for the last quarter.  Much to all of our surprise, the Broncos won!  Yeah, baby.  4-0!  4 better than what everyone predicted!  Take that!  Haha.


Pascall came over to our house afterwards to hangout.  Turns out, we lives just a stones throw away from our house.  Like... you can see our house from his window!  Lol.  Imagine that.  What are the chances?  Peter's good friend lived so close to us for the past month and he didn't even know it!  Crazy.  I'm sure Peter was glad he finally got to hang out with people other than me.  Haha!  I'm happy I finally have someone to smoke hookah with :))  We smoked hookah and played rock band up until Pascall had to go.


Peter popped in Matrix: Reloaded afterwards and we both fell asleep while watching.  I finally woke up during the end of the 2nd time Matrix played on DVD player.  Lol.  I couldn't sleep afterwards and stayed up till 4:40am to write that e-mail!  Grrr... unexpected naps are NOT good for me.  I'm still trying to recover back to my old sleeping schedule ever since we stayed up to watch "City of God" 2 weeks ago.



I totally woke up late on Monday.  We ended up cleaning around the house.  It was another cold day, so there wasn't much we could do.  Pascall came over again and we headed to Pitcher's to watch the Vikings vs. Packers game.  The Vikings were looking pretty good!  We didn't stay to finish the game, but the Vikings ended up winning.  Good job Brett Favre!


It's now Wednesday and I want to write up all these cover letters and send out as many resumes as I can by the end of the week.  I still can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.  Haha.  Hopefully something will come up soon because I'm going crazy just staying home all the time.


Not to mention, there's TWO families living below us.  That's 7 people in a 2 bedroom basement unit.  Small confined area with 2 YOUNG kids & a small yappy chihuahua = hell.  I seriously am starting to not like kids MORE AND MORE.  I've never liked them and this isn't helping.  I'm really starting to question if I could ever love kids like parents do?!  They're pretty freakin` annoying.  Screaming all day, pounding on the walls, crying, yelling mother... I REALLY want to let my dogs loose on them so they can instill the fear!!  Maybe they'll shut the hell up for once.  Having more people downstairs is also causing our electric bill to go up (we 1/2 the bill).  Totally not cool.


A new family also moved into the house next door.  They're f&cking loud as hell too!!!  The dad cusses at his children.  The mother was talking so loud at 8AM.  They were banging and moving things all morning.  The kids were screaming at the top of their lungs.  I caught them taunting my dogs.  Ooo those little bastards.  They think they're so sneaky behind our wood fence.  I watched Zeus walk over to the corner & I heard the kid go, "Oh he's here now." & right then I yelled "HEY!" and made my voice sound REALLY mean.  Hahah.  F&cking kids.  I need to let my dogs out in the front yard and see how big Zeus really is.  They'll think he's a wolf!  If only I could get my dogs to be mean and eat those little monsters.


I'm totally not a happy camper.  I can't stand noise.  I can't stand kids.  I don't recall ever being that loud or disrespectful.  I'm pretty sure I was scared out of my mind of my mom/dad or elders in general.  Is that an Asian thing?  Lol.  Shit.  Pray that I find a job soon before I go crazy.

Shakefire Rocks My Socks

I'm playing an all-night contest thing on Shakefire.com  ... I've won a bunch of super random things so far, so I want to keep track of what I've won so I know what I can look forward to.  Haha.  Here's the list so far.

• Dark Knight collector pin set
• Tale of the Despereaux lunch box
• Pink Super Bad trucker hat
• Shorts Frisbee
• Leather GHOST RIDER wallet with chain
  
• Speed Racer pins
• Random movie shirt
• Push Play hat
• The Ugly Truth wife beater (L)
• Back To The Future Blue Fanny Pack

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Awww & the night ended prematurely :(  They were experiencing massive hits to the site and the server couldn't handle all the traffic. Darn!  I did manage to scoop up a decent amount of prizes though :)  I had a lot of fun playing!  Hehe.  Can't wait till they all get here!  I'm especially excited for my lunch box :D

Last night, Jared called me and asked if I wanted to accompany him to a 'Party' .. guess he didn't want to be the only old fart there.  Haha!  i didn't have anything planned so I agreed.  He picked me up and we hung out at Kara & KeiLyn's for a bit.  Brendan guys' met up with us there as well.  We just conversed over some drinks & a few shots before heading out to Marcus'.  Peter brought over the doggies while he was out running for a little bit.  They were so excited to be outside!  Haha.  After that we headed over to Marcus' and just chilled, smoked some hookah (love!), and caught up with some friends.  All in all, it was a pretty fun night.  The parties these days in good ol' Greeley simply just don't compare to the ragers of back in the day ;)

The noise outside woke me up bright and early this morning and I had a really hard time going back to sleep.  I didn't drink enough water last night, so I had a headache!  Sleep couldn't come soon enough.  Thankfully, I managed to sleep off any signs of a hangover.  I was so hungry this afternoon, I ended up cooking some pork adobo!  I must say, I think I'm actually getting the hang of cooking.  My mother always made it look so easy and made it SOUND easy as well.  Perhaps I was just never confident in my abilities to cook?  I did have quite a few disasters early on.. especially with things being WAY TOO SALTY!  Now, I think things have changed.  My adobo tasted fairly similar to hers!!  I couldn't be more happier.  I just need to get a few more ingredients to make it exact!  

Well.. now, I'm not quite sure what to do with myself.  Peter should be coming home soon, so I suppose I'll just bum around till then.  We'll be heading to the hot springs tomorrow!

Dragon Scales

Dragon Scales is a complex color straight out of a fairy tale. Terracotta-brown base is illuminated with mystical green glitter particles! This color makes an amazing eyeliner when applied wet!

Contents: Mica, Iron Oxide, Glitter, Secret Ingredient.

via Lime Crime Makeup 

Isn't this color just absolutely amazing?!?  Oh man, I want this so bad!  I'm in love with the color and the shine.  Make-up doesn't normally catch my fancy, but there's just something so alluring and sexy about this color.  I actually fell in love with quite a few Lime Crime Makeup colors.  The creator is all about adding a splash of color into your life.  Totally awesome.  I'll have to put this on my future purchase list, along with all the panda items in my previous posts ;)


In other news, Peter & I changed our weekend plans.  Actually, he did.  On Sunday, we're going to head down to Denver to see his mom & sister.  Then we'll all head to the hot springs together in the mountains.  That will be an interesting family get together, I suppose.  Haha.  I have never been to the hot springs before, but it's a place I considered taking my family when they were up here last May.  I'm looking forward to it!  I get to see the mountains in all it's Autumn glory and take tons of photos!  Hehe.  I've never really gotten to see all the pretty changing colors in mass amounts (like a whole mountainside!) so it'll be awesome!  Oh & yes, the hot springs, that will be nice too.  What do I wear?  My two piece bathing suit?  I wonder if that's too scantily clad for Peter's mom?  Lol.  Man, it's just crazy how many natural hot springs there are here in Colorado.  I'd say, next to Hawaii, Colorado was a great choice to be my home away from home!

Attitude of Silence

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.  Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."  

-Mahatma Gandhi

One reason why I simply must have a fully converted IR camera-- the photos are irresistibly beautiful.  Image via: tavelkyosoba.  With IR, photographs turn out so whimsical, almost dream like.  It literally captures the unseen beauty in nature, the very essence of life.  Mother Earth is such a wonderful thing, don't you agree?

Oh & I happened to change the address/title of my blog.  It is now http://maisoli.blogspot.com ... I came across the term while doing some random reading last night.  I like the ring to it and it's much shorter than the previous title.  Mai Soli = Never Alone.  I like it.  It can either really creepy or really comforting ;)

In any case, most of today was spent working on a website and converting .pdf's to .docs and then back to .pdf's once I got them all uniform and in the same template.  Quite a long, arduous task.  I had to take a break from it a few times.  Ah, I still have to do some research for another client & reply to all these other e-mails/potential clients.  Hopefully I get more work done tomorrow.  I see it's going to be a cold cold day in Colorado!  I might just want to snuggle up in bed all day :)