What Made My Day Today

During lunch yesterday, I was telling my good friend Lei about how I realized how tiring being a wifey could be, to which she replied with, "Ang galing mo nga e!"

My usual workday starts at 6am and ends well, about 9pm-ish. When I wake up, I fix breakfast and/or lunch for Jax because he doesn't eat ALL DAY unless there's something to just re-heat in the microwave. At around 7:30am, off I go to work where I have to finish everything in 8 hrs (no overtime pleeeease!). When I get home, I prepare our dinner and cap the day with tidying up the house.

Tiring. Super.

What then, you ask, made my day? I came home with all the dishes I left this morning neatly washed and piled exactly the way I want it - by Jax! Definitely a first.

I couldn't take the smile off my face and rushed to hubby's side to give him a hug. Not only because he made my life easier today but more importantly, I can really feel how much my baby's changed for me... for us. I know he's trying to be the best husband he could possibly be.

Thank you, hubbybabi. Thanks for making me happy more and more each day. :)

Random Lists

Stuff I've always wanted to do recently but never got to (because I'm either too lazy or busy):

1. Re-organize photos and mp3's in Reese, my Zen Vision: M
2. Sort our 3000+ wedding photos to pick only 200 (imagine how hard that is!) so our photographer could start making our coffee table book and video
3. Transfer important files from Yoyo (my old laptop) to my new one (ooh I still have to think of a name for this one! *wink!*)
4. Update all my ID's with my new last name
5. Clean-up my yahoo and gmail inbox
6. Label and organize the condiments area in our kitchen - where I keep all my secret spices (feeling expert! hehe)
7. Try at least one of the home service massages being offered in the weekly brochures we find hanging in our gate
   

Things I think we need for the house (or we could never get enough of) but always forget to buy when we're out shopping (or too cheap to get for ourselves - hehe):

1. Additional electric fan for our "walk-in closet"
2. Glass for our dining table
3. Curtains!!!
4. More pillowcases
5. Home scents - potpourri, sheet sprays, etc.
6. Hangers
   
7. Full-length mirror
8. Adaptor for Reese's speakers
9. More picture frames

Dishes I'd like to try to cook in the coming weeks:

1. Beef steak
2. Carbonara
3. Kare-kare (yep, wish me luck!)
4. Chicken ala Kiev
5. Buffalo wings
   

Sigh. It's going to be an even busier month ahead. I think I'm just gonna be happy to make it through alive. Have a great week, everyone! :)

Cold Summer Nights

It's been raining all week (and I mean ALL WEEK!) and it's starting to make me sad. I like it when it rains, but only when you have the license to crawl under the sheets and sleep all day. Oh well. I guess summer is over (either that or the weather is really getting super weird). I hope plans for La Union next month with the girls is still a go though.

Now let me figure out how we're supposed to dry the clothes from the washing machine..

More Discoveries

Six months into married life and I don't know where to start describing the things I have learned so far (there's so many of them!). From the top of my head:

1. I can now cook. Well, not like a pro, but definitely waaaay past the thank-God-for-microwave-and-food-delivery stage back when I was still single. I am now able to prepare pork sinigang, nilagang baka, pochero, pininyahang baboy, beef guisado, tinolang manok, adobo, and pork steak AND have Jax eat it! (Meaning, it's at least edible! - hahahaha) But seriously, hubby says I'm getting better each time. Yeyyy! ;)
   
2. Keeping your own house is really different - you get more OC. My room at our house used to be messy most of the time but now? Oh no no no kalat please!!! I suddenly developed a neat freak in me! I never thought cleaning the house could take up so much of my weekend time. Everything just has to be in order and spotless - throw pillows, carpets, sink, tables, cabinets, and the list goes on...
   
3. Marriage equals compromise, especially when you have very little common ground. Getting used to always making decisions together when you've always been accustomed to doing things your way may take a while, and that's where meeting half way comes in handy. That goes even with the seemingly unimportant "issues" - like in choosing what to watch on TV, where to spend holidays, how to arrange furniture, etc. You always have to come up with a win-somehow-win situation.
   
4. Nothing beats praying and reading the Bible together. Hearing what is in the hearts of each other creates a wonderful connection between two souls. It's an amazing feeling that God makes us experience - a more "tangible" manifestation of genuine love.
   

I could write more but it would probably take me 20 years or so so this should do for now. I have read this somewhere but I might have rolled my eyes on this but right now this just sums up how I'm feeling:

You know how sometimes you'd rather stay awake than sleep because reality is better than your dreams? That's how I am when I'm with you. Like now.

Aaaaw. I hope superhubby and I stay this way for a really, really, really long time. ;)

The Beginning of Our Ever After

Confession #1: I'm still not over our wedding. How do I know? I still browse through our pictures at least twice a week! Here's a glimpse to our wonderful union last October 16, 2008, held in Eagle Ridge Golf & Country Club: (All photos c/o our official photographer, Smart Shot Studio.)

Captured moments during the preps, ceremony, and reception.
Flashback AVP - served as our opening billboard.
Same-day edit, shown during the reception.
Our e-session taken in Subic last June 2008.

We were also featured as one of Lito Genilo's personal favorites in 2008!

Coming up next (hopefully): Our trash the dress session! ;)

My New Baby

It's been exactly 3 months and 22 days since I became Almay Viado-Lacambra. Honestly, it feels longer than that. There are so many changes happening in my life right now, both expected and unexpected, that sometimes it gets so overwhelming. Like I said, each day is an opportunity to discover something new about me and my husband - new quirks, new habits, new expectations... While there's so much to work on, more than anything, I would say we're making the most out of this period in our married life, the "just us" stage.

Why superwifey? One of my very good friends called me this while we were chatting a few days ago. I was complaining telling her how there's so much to do at home and I realized that yeah, I'm a trying hard super-wifey! Hahaha! I'm never the domesticated type so just imagine the major transition I had (am) to go through. The list of things to clean/cook/wash never seems to get short but I'm quite surprised at myself that I'm starting to actually enjoy it. Just last week, AJ and I had this conversation:

Almay: We never got to send out our (wedding) thank you cards, noh?
AJ: Cuz you're too lazy to do those na.
Almay: There's always so much household chores to do kasi.
AJ: I told you. We should get a maid.
Almay: Nah, it's ok. Happy naman akong pagsilbihan ka e.
AJ: Really? (and then he held my hand)

Just like that, and I understood he meant that he appreciates all that I do for him. What better motivation to be the best superwifey there is than to see your hubby happy?

There's just so much more to share about my life as a new spouse, so until I have a real, live, tiny human being crying out to squeeze milk out of my body, this blog is my new baby. ;)