For Better or Worse..

Unlucky 13? Nahh, more like whirlwind 13! ;-) I know I have not been updating this blog for quite some time now and it's all because of our hectic family life. After 4 years of marriage, we now have two kids-- and one is in her terrible twos stage. If you're a parent, you know what this entails, hehe! Also, we have just relocated temporarily to our country's capital. No family to help us with the kids, and no helpers or nannies as well. Between the 2 kids, the big move, and settling in, I really have no time to blog.

But just for today, I'll forgo a few minutes of sleep and blog! Why? Because today is our 156th couple monthsary a.k.a. 13th anniversary of our bf-gf relationship-- hurray for us! ^__^ And since my parents are not around to babysit our kids, we just brought them along to our dinner date earlier this evening (second pic: the collage). Yeah, not really very romantic, hehe! But it's all good coz we had an awesome fourth wedding anniversary a week ago sans the kids (first pic). See how beautiful we look? That's because we didn't have kids to watch over / feed / entertain while we reconnected as husband and wife :)

To my Labsie, my husband and father of my babies, I love you! Here's to more monthsaries and happy years together!

Sorry I have been MIA for the past 2 months. I've been busy with the newest social network in the block -- Google Plus! We also call it Google+ and G+ :) It was in closed beta (invite-only) since June 28, 2011 but this week, it opened to the public. Thus, here I am inviting you to join the world's best (IMHO) social network! See you there! ^__^

Hehehe! :p Seriously, you can tell who I am by going here: gplus.to/melissasolito ^__^ Everything that I am is on the right side of the ABOUT page. Thanks for being with me the past 30 days! Can't believe I finished a 30-day blogging challenge.. I hope it's a sign that I'm now able (and mature enough) to finish projects in a timely manner now that I'm 30 years old, married, and a mother to one toddler ;-) Thanks again Wilkin for coming up with this 30-Day Challenge!

My first immediate goal is to wean Iya, she has been breastfeeding (BF) for 16 months now and showing NO signs of slowing down! Which is weird since she's *finally* okay drinking non-human milk (from cup) and eats solid food very well. I don't know if she's just clinging to BF for comfort or she's just simply not yet ready to wean (I believe in baby-led weaning). This first goal of mine is the most important coz I can't proceed to my other future goals if this is not done.

After Iya is weaned, I will *finally* go into residency ~ this is the specialty training for medical doctors that usually lasts for 3-5 years, depending on the hospital and type of specialty chosen. I love anything related to the human nervous system (brain, spinal cord, etc) and would love to be a neurologist! But since I'm a very hands-on type of mom, I have to find a less busy / toxic / stressful specialty to train in so I would have time to be with Iya during her childhood :)

My ultimate goal is to keep our family intact, stay happily married to Labsie and to see Iya grow up to be a beautiful person inside and out. My other plans include going to space (!!!), go on a Disney cruise with my family, travel to the Old World and have enough money to pig out on their gustatory delights. YUM! Hehe!

This is easy! Hehe! Physically, I really like guys with big and brooding eyes, the kind that draws you in their depths. Labsie's eyes are like that, hehe! A strong looking body (but not really muscled) and nice smile also attracts me. But what attracts me most to a guy is his gift of gab, i.e. he can hold long-winded conversations with me. The topics? Anything under the sun! I don't like one-trick pony guys, like jocks who only talk about sports or nerds who just talk about books. I want to talk about anything and everything so it's best if you have many interests and passions ^__^

I'm not really sure if I have a fashion style coz I just wear what I want, with no regards to what's "uso" (popular) or what is "in". As long as it's comfortable, it fits me right and / or colored pink, I'll wear it. Hehe! I rarely buy my own clothes or shoes (though I'm quite addicted to buying stuff for our baby Iya, hehe) and my closet is a mishmash of high school grunge, college Iskolar ng Bayan look, dresses with wide / V-necks from my pregnancy and (still) breastfeeding days. I don't wear makeup, jewelries or any accessories. My ears, neck, arms, fingers are all bare. Yes, even my wedding ring I don't wear. I'm just not used to wearing anything on my body. If I had the choice, I'd go naked, hehe!

The most "fashionable thing" I've ever done was wear different colored shoes (neon orange and lime green) during my college days. I bet some of my schoolmates will remember that but not my name, LOL! My black prom dresses and pink debut gown were all bought off the rack from department stores (and they were all less than P700!). My debut gown has seen many uses ~ I used it in our save-the-date card pictorial, assorted formal occasions, and during my oath-taking as a professional medical doctor. I guess I can best describe my style as practical ~ my clothes have to be multipurpose. Words like casual, very individual (I'll wear hot pink or red pants, hehe), laidback and comfy also describes my fashion style. I guess you could say "I'm just not that into you fashion" ;-)

I rarely play my iPod (the old kind, 1st or 2nd gen, I think) or any other music player on shuffle. I prefer that the songs are ordered, with those the same themes playing one after the other. Yeah, I'm kinda OC that way. Even music, which is supposed to be a freeform art, should be ordered :p Anyway, the last time I played my iPod on shuffle, the first 10 songs that played are the following:

- Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat's "Lucky" ~ it was one of our wedding reception cocktail songs :)

- Norah Jones' "Come Away With Me" ~ I looove Norah's songs!! I wish she'll release an album again

- Eve 6's - "Here's To The Night‏" ~ one of my fave songs back in college, I used to play this continuously along with  Creed's "With Arms Wide Open" and Vertical Horizon's "Best I Ever Had". Yep, just 3 songs on loop whole day long :p

- Michael Buble's "Fever" ~ old school music!

- Shania Twain's "You're Still The One" 

- George Michael's "Careless Whisper" ~ really love this song! Til it turned into a sex scandal theme song c/o Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili :(

- Backstreet Boy's "Quit Playing Games with my Heart" ^_____^

- New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle"

- Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"

- Ronan Keating's "When You Say Nothing At All"