his birthday in pictures

thrusday night..28th of january



dinner at an oriental restaurant...with the bro and sis in law..(sorry, it was the waiter who took the photo)




indian restaurant this time ...friday night..




we love our indian food




group pic




and a karaoke party at tash's..saturday night..not part of his birthday celebration but it turned out that way, lol..

weather the weather

this photo was taken by my brother in law Alan on December 18,2009, when we asked him to let the telephone company people to come inside the house to put up the new internet connection.

imagine our suprise when he emailed this to me and adrian and we opened the email in the middle of relaxing with family at a resort in cebu.

we laughed because the image of our house wasnt that before we left. looking at the photo, adrian's car drowned in snow, and our garden barely recognizable. my family who just visited us a few weeks before, also couldnt believe the photo.

alan went on to describe that the snow went even worse a few days after.

we couldnt feel it from where we were sitting.

something that far was hard to imagine. and now im back here, well, its a different story altogether.



***

this is simply a random post.

just something id like to share. you know, one of those things that you love to talk about, but may not have any relevance to anyone at all.

but to me,it means something to me. that that day that i received that photo, i realized how thankful i was and that there was nowhere i wanted to be than in that resort, with my love ones.


***

right now its not snowing anymore, but were still at 2 degrees/4 degrees celcius most days..

the greyness still hanging about, the wetness after rainfall still evident.

but the sun..its shining right now inside my house.

and boy, ain't it warm.

mika missing + birthday excitement

*photo of myself and my cute niece Mika*



i really miss this babe..

i kept watching her video tucked nicely in my digicam. i have not downloaded it yet.

knowing my luck with computers, i just want it to be safe without getting it lost.



***

im supposed to be tucked in bed nicely right now, but not yet.

im secretly plotting my surprise to adrian tomorrow.

im also wrapping his presents (2 new books, which he wanted to buy for a long time but he couldnt be bothered to order).

ohhhh, i love birthdays..

especially those birthdays of people i love.

morning has broken

(photo: a lovely cottage we passed by during our hiking jaunt

in August, 2009,

Dove Dale,Peak District)




***


you know that feeling that someone just whacked you in the head with something hard and blunt? painful?...but not too painful to kill your lights out? well, thats how i felt the day this happened.

after all the assurances of my love ones that the cousin in question was out of order, i'm beginning to feel my breathing is coming on its normal rhythm, less of the short hard gasps i was experiencing that very day.

i guess, anger does that to me. i presume, it does to everyone.

just when you get over the anger, there is sadness. sadness, that you get a reminder about family squabbles, resentment and general bad feeling, which you just started to get over from.


and even more sadness, that its not over. yet.



***

after talking to people i love, i am reassured that the outburst of that cousin was because he has been having a bad time lately. (works, and family related).

i will give him that.


i also warned them that if the cousin's mom would come and visit, they should avoid small talks and getting entrapped into a conversation that might lead being misinterpreted.


sad,isnt it? that it has come to this?

its not family anymore, if you start to be careful and be wary about what you say to them.

definitely, you should be yourself with your relatives, and be able to share freely and laugh, and joke around, but when one has to tread carefully, i dont know if that is a kind of relationship i want to keep at all.


the signs are there..

one should move on.


***

the husband is turning a year older this thursday (28th). we are off to enjoy a meal at a fine dining chinese restaurant with Mark (my stepson), and my inlaws Anne and Alan.

on Friday night, we are celebrating his birthday with friends Glenn and Cheryl at our favourite indian hangout.

oh the joys of food!

something that always make me smile.

something to definitely make me smile.

a day off for my man

today i was told i shouldnt come in to the prison because theyre finishing off some requirements i need before i can do one-on-one client contact.

{UK prisons and hospitals are so particular with the safety of staff and inmates/patients}


so what am i to do?


go and grab the opportunity to go get something for Adrian, who is celebrating his birthday this week (28th).


here are some pics from the most generous man i know...

photos taken from the recent christmas fairies giftgiving at St.Johns community (december 2009)..

(PS: i still we all the fairies a report from the giftgiving...i will , promise!)
















it will be difficult to get something for someone who is always so giving of himself to me and my family,and to all those i love.