A Bit of Me (Me)

This Weeks Question: What’s your favorite weekend activity?


I sleep most of the times on a Saturday morning but since my sister has classes during Saturdays, I have to wake up and help my mom since she’s not feeling well lately. But when she leaves, I go back to bed and go back to dreamland.

This thread starts here: There's A book Weekly Meme


Anyway, what about you? What’s your favorite weekend activity?

My Chocolate Chip Cookies and An Article I'm Writing

I baked cookies this morning for my sister to bring to school for her snacks but we forgot to pack it so as usual, some of it ended being eaten by my brother, who ate, two cookies at a time. Looked like a sandwich. I slept too much again today. Lately, I've been very sleepy. I'm not sure why. Is this a sign of depression? I just hope not.

Then I began to read the autobiography of St. Therese (Little Flower) but being able to read the introduction, I had to stop. Many of what was written in this introduction contained a lot things that I have experienced or thought of - something like that so I want to write an article first before I continue reading it.

I won't be writing my own autobiography but I'll be writing in it some of my experiences in life in connection with my faith. My own experiences through my life with how I lived and live with God in my life and had this kind of communication with God , Mama Mary and the angels. I want to write down the lessons and messages God has told me. I want to see the differences of my faith (experiences) with what I will be reading in the book. I'm not saying I have a lot in common or a lot of differences with The Little Flower. I'm also not saying that I could be someone who's special or different from others because I'm just a normal human being - a sinner at that. I don't have premonitions or things like those. I'll just write how I communicate with God, mama Mary, and the angels and how they answer me back (through dreams or answers through personal experiences - loses and gains).

In short, I'll be writing an article about my own experiences about my faith and compare it with what's written in the book. I hope St. Therese wouldn't misunderstand what I'm doing but since I know God is with Her, she'll know for sure what I'm trying to do. Maybe I'll finish it by tomorrow or on Wednesday. I'll make sure of it so I can continue reading the book already.

I Want To Revive This Blog

Whoah! When was my last blog? I know... a very, very long time ago.

How's every blog doing now? Everybody still keep their blog alive but I haven't. And again, I want to revive it.

I've been busy with our vacation and many problems. I've been fully out of the blue lately, too because I've been confused with everything I have in my hands right now. I'm not really busy, it's just that my mood swings are kicking off again. 

I'm watching Korean TV series to get a new feel, a new flow of emotions so I can have new ideas on what to write about and how I'll write my new stories. And I've also been thinking what genre to write right now. And then there are my old stories/novel which I must edit, revise and re-write so I can turn them into a book or e-book, whatever's better.

Then my artistic instincts start to kick off, too and I had to sew these plushies which are two talking cats with magical powers, a fifteen year old girl and a sixteen year old boy who are all part of the new story I'm thinking of writing right now. It's adventure/fantasy genre. I'm not sure about it yet but I'm really into the idea right now.

And then there are also these books I have to read, learn, understand and reflect from. It's not that I'm obliged to but I'm making myself be obliged because these books are important to me. No sentimental values or reasons like that. It's just that I think I'm ought to read and learn them myself. Maybe it's because I miss studying in school or maybe there are other reasons. I'm not sure of. I just want to finish reading and studying them. I'll also be posting some reviews for those books after I read them or maybe after every chapter I can post some of my view/notions about those topics there.

And then there are my Catholic community related projects or plans which I'm not sure if I'll really be going through with. I need the approval of the majority of our members first. It's not that I'm not sure that they'll approve of my ideas but I'm not sure about myself if I can keep up if it's going to be approved.

Another is my beads and crafts tools and supplies which are still there for me to do. I've been planning on making accessories to sell but it seems there'll be no buyers if I make them so right now, they're just there in my shelf.

And a new hobby is added which is baking and since I'm not really good in it even how much effort I put in, I just can't stop trying to learn and practice more which takes a lot of time in a day.

With all of these, I don't know where to start. I made a schedule last month but I haven't followed it. But now, I'm trying to start with everything again. I'm starting with blogging right now and maybe everything will follow. I'll update on Goodreads and then I'll make articles against RH Bill which I'm also feeling is right to do now.

I'll write again tomorrow if there'll be any progress with my sched.

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She's been bloging for 6 months straight and I just wish I've done the same. As you can see, I haven't been active in blogging again since I've been busy with many things especially that I'm still on vacation right now.

 

Okay, so being on vacation is no excuse to be inactive these past months (?), I admit but it's been so hectic and I really didn't have the energy and enthusiasm to write anything new.

I'll be blogging again, as I promised a few people/readers and myself once I get back to Jeddah. After I get settled in again. It's not easy having to go here and there every now and then and just write anything. I just like to write/blog when I'm in the mood and when I don't have other things in mind. 

Like right now that I'm busy thinking of the small business I want to establish, scrapbooking, making jewelries, paper arts and other crafts, rewriting the draft of the novel I wrote and going back to the reading challenges I've joined for this year. And there are so many more so I've been dumbfounded and stuck with everything that I was confused which I must do first so there.

*Sigh

I'll be back. I'll be back.

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Soulful Friday Week 1: What You Should Never Forget

I am a Roman Catholic Christian and I decided to put up a post regarding about being a loving and caring person, inspired by Bo Sanchez' weekly email to people who subscribe to their inspirational site at Kerygma Philippines. This weekly posy every Sunday will only be a copy of what his email to me contains. I hope it will give inspiration in your life. 


A little about Bo Sanchez:


Bo Sanchez is an author, preacher and lay evangelist in the Philippines. He started preaching at the age of 13 and wrote his first book when he was 20. He had published many books since then. He publishes a magazine known as "Kerygma." 




What You Should Never Forget


"I remember this day like it was yesterday.

This happened a couple of years ago.

I went home excited, mentally planning our Father-Son trip to the
mall. (Each week, I try to have a date with my boys. Sometimes
together. Sometimes separately. That day, I was going to have a date
with my eldest boy, Bene.)

But as I arrived home and stepped down of my car, my phone rang.

“Bo, are you already at the wedding?” my friend asked me.

“Huh? What wedding?” I asked.

“The wedding of Amina…”

Wham! It was like I was hit by a bat on the head. I totally forgot
about the wedding!

How can I now tell Bene? The little guy was so looking forward to our date.

When I entered the house, I greeted him and said, “I’ve got a
problem about our date …” I told him about the wedding.

That was when my wife said, “Son, can you go with Daddy to the
wedding? That’ll be your date.” (Thank God for my wise wife.)

A few minutes later, my son and I were riding the car in our
matching /barong tagalogs. /

It turned out that we were early for the wedding, so we walked to a
coffee shop beside the church, and talked and laughed together as he
ate his favorite cinnamon roll.

The wedding was superb! 

It was also a wonderful time for me to give mini-lectures to my
little pupil—in whispers at the back pew—on marriage, family, and
love. 

After the wedding, the reception was at the exclusive /Polo Club./ While waiting for the dinner to begin, we had a phenomenal time sitting down on the grass (yes, still in our /barongs/) under the canopy of stars—and chatted the night away.

“I don’t want to be a cowboy anymore, Daddy,” he said.

“No more?” This was a shock to me. It had been his declared
dream ever since he was two. In fact, his first word wasn’t
“mama”. It was “horse.” (I’m not kidding.)

He piped up, “I don’t want to be a Cowboy anymore. I just want
to ride horses for pleasure.”

“Okay. What do you want to be?”

“A businessman.” (Six-year old kids have a way of declaring
their dreams as though it’s as sure as the planet is round. I
wonder what age we lose that confidence?)

“That’s great. You can own a ranch. How many horses do you want
to own?”

“About ten,” he grinned.

“How will you earn to maintain the ranch?” I asked.

“Kids can ride my horses for P20 each…”

“Uh…, isn’t that a bit too cheap?”

“They can also feed my rabbits if they pay something. And I’ll
sell my customers snacks and have a restaurant in my ranch.”

“That’s fantastic.”

“My ranch will also have an imaginary forest.”

“A what?”

“An imaginary forest. Parents will be afraid if their kids go to a
real forest with real animals. So I’ll make an imaginary forest with
robotic animals—even some legendary creatures like dinosaurs,
unicorns, mermaids,...”

“Mermaids?”

“Yes, because there’ll be a lake in my ranch. With a shipwreck.
Kids can also visit the shipwreck.”

After planning for his future, we got our plates and stood in front
of the buffet table for the entire evening. Because the food was so
fabulous, we didn’t bother to sit down. That night, he ate seven
sticks of barbecue and I gobbled up 50% of the European cheeses
there. 

In other words, my date with Bene was a ball. 

If I didn’t have a weekly date with him, how will I know about his
dreams? I would have missed hearing that he didn’t want to be a
Cowboy anymore, that he wanted an imaginary forest, robotic animals,
a lake and a shipwreck for kids to visit and have fun…

I was even more convinced of my family goals when I read the
frightening statistics from David Perdew about “fatherless kids”.

According to statistics, children from a fatherless home are:

· Five times more likely to commit suicide
· Thirty-two times more likely to run away
· Twenty times more likely to have behavioral disorders
· Fourteen times more likely to commit rape (this applies to boys)
· Nine times more likely to drop out of high school
· Ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances
· Nine times more likely to end up in a charitable institution
· Twenty times more likely to end up in prison for a long period of
time


Fathers—and mothers—your kids need you.
David Perdew says we either pay now or pay later.
And when you pay later, it always costs more.

I suggest you pay now."

Have a fantastic 2011—especially with your family.


May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez

PS. */Never Forget Your Family./* Except for God, nothing else is
more important.


I hope with "Soulful Friday", you can reflect for a few minutes about what's going with your life and learn lessons not only for yourself but for your love for God and for others.


You can leave a comment about your reflection or how you felt or things as such. Good afternoon! :)

ENQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW WEEK 24

No, I am not a new Tabloid Reporter, but it is a feature so 

that we can all get to know each other better.  

This feature will be open from Thursday at 12:01 A.M. and close on Monday at 11:59 P.M. to allow those that want to participate over the weekend the opportunity to do so when they have more time.  So you may want to check back on Tuesday or check the previous week's link on Thursday to view everyone's answers.

Links to all previous can be found by clicking the Enquiring Minds Want To Know page in the right sidebar for those who missed a week or two and want to catch up on everyone's answers.  To do that please link up using the actual post link  instead of the link to your entire blog so people can find your "Enquiring" posts easier. 

If you are just joining this feature 

WELCOME!!!!! 

We all become friends/followers but most of us will never meet in person, this feature is to help us all get to know each other better.

Each Thursday I will post 3 questions for you to answer 

that you can copy and post on your blog with your answers. 

You don’t have to be a blogger to participate either. I will be using a Linky List for the blogs to use to participate and follow each other around to get to know each other, but if you are not a blogger just answer the questions in the comment section following the post on your favorite blog. Please feel free to click on the links and visit other blogs too.  

This way we not only get to know other bloggers, 

we get to know our followers too.

I am really excited about this meme 

and hope many more people will join the fun!!!!!

Are you interested?

Please forgive me for Question #1, 

but you all know I live in Wisconsin 
so I just have to ask.

WEEK 24 QUESTIONS and MY ANSWERS

1. Did you watch the Super Bowl? If yes, which part did you like the best, the game, the halftime show, the commercials and did you notice the mistake made with the National Anthem?

No. I'm not really into this stuff. 

2. I joined a new meme this week called "Monday's Music Moves Me", this month's theme is love songs, Do you have a favorite love song?

Yeah, I think I do. I listen to a lot of love songs but for this specific month, I love listening to Eternal Flame.

3. How many blog challenges have you entered this year?

For now, I have joined 6 or 7, I think.

Now be sure to copy and paste the information and your answers into your blog, then come back to link up, so we can come to your blog and read your answers.

I hope you will come back to this meme every week and tell your friends so we can all get to know each other better and get the answers to all the questions 

Enquiring Minds Want To Know.