I forgot to mention that I blogged for 2 years already! Happy blogversary to me…ha..ha..ha…! Actually, the blogversary happened last December 15 and I totally forgotten about it. Hyzyd was just barely a month old at that time and I started blogging at school during lunch breaks. I think it ran for about 4 months before we had our own computer and internet connection . I don’t know where I got the energy to blog and write about 2 posts in a day before! I had so much motivation to blog, so eager to learn and so hungry to earn friends!

I first enjoyed joining blog contests and felt the thrill of winning. After a year, I started to smell the sweet scent of virtual money released to my account. I delighted in cashing out from my PayPal account to my bank account and buy those blue shoes and party dress I’ve been saving for. To top it all, I earned virtual friends that stays with me through thick and thin- the Marce Club! I thank you Marce Kaye, Niko, Jade, Seiko, Pehpot, Liz, Yami, Mye, Kikamz, Chris, and Fedhz for your friendship. It isn’t often that I say this, but I wanted to thank you all for being such good friends. You are always around when I need you, always willing to listen when I need to talk. You are one of the most important people in my life, and when I count my blessings I always think of you. You were always around to lend a hand and tell a joke. I appreciate that more than you know.

The past year was very hard on me. I tried to squeeze in blogging to my already hectic schedule . As if it wasn’t enough, what on earth am I eating that I got the balls to create 9 blogs in all (6 are still on their vegetative state) ! Blogging is hyper-addictive once you started reaping the fruits of your labor. How did I manage blogging without affecting my career, my role and duty as a wife and a mom and as a friend? I managed to wake up as early as 3:00 a.m. to blog and write my online posts. When I wake up, I don’t readily face the computer. I take time to pray , read and meditate on God’s Word. I couldn’t do a thing without making God as my first priority. It would consume about 30 minutes. After personal devotion, that’s the time I face my work of the day. I see to it that I stopped working when the clock struck 5:00. I need to prepare our breakfast and other things for school.

Our computer is in our bedroom so when I woke up at 3:00 am, the only light I have is our “House lamp” . Switching on the fluorescent lights would wake Hyzyd . I don’t have enough light in my working space that’s why I’m asking my hubby to install pendant lighting fixtures. Lamps take up valuable space on tables and counters. With pendants, they are hanging high out of the way. I won’t have to worry about them being knocked over (I’m clumsy most of the time:)).

I think 2-3 pendant light fixtures above are enough to provide more lighting in my task areas every time I worked at dawn or late at night .

This is what I used to say to my single girl friends whom I encouraged to blog ” if I could find to blog, then so are you! “