It was a total waste of time. I could have spent those hours looking for Host/Hostess Jobs that I do not need – and thought it was time well-spent.

This means I won’t be going to the book signing.

I should have spent the afternoon reading Yancey or MacArthur. Le sigh. Mr. Sparks, what is happening? That wasn’t bittersweet. That sucked.

I have a lot of video projects lined up for this month. It’s been my dream to mobilize an audio-video team in my current workplace and it’s finally coming into fruition = slowly, but surely. It’s time to show our volunteers’ talents on the website.

I’m not hosting our videos in Youtube though because of so many methods available to download videos from youtube. I want to avoid that. I’ll probably use another host to protect our videos once we start working on them.

I’ve been wanting to buy Wreck This Journal for a long time. Probably as much as a lingerie freak would want to buy sexy bodystockings. But I am happy with my journal at the moment and I still have a couple of blank journals lined up at the moment – it’ll probably take years for me to use Wreck This Journal.

Oh well.

Having been single for the past 7 years, I am absolutely clueless on the concepts of modern dating…

Well, not absolutely since I do see my friends date. My personal decision to not date until I’m financially and emotionally stable hasn’t caused me to live a hermit-like lifestyle and crawl under a rock.

I don’t understand the concept of free dating, though. What exactly does free dating mean? Because I know that dating doesn’t usually come with the word free.

I’ve been looking for a nice pair of new headphones for a while. I still love Sennheiser, but I feel like I’d like to explore other brands…

Maybe Beats headphones? I don’t know. I still feel loyal to Sennheiser and JBL, but who knows?

But I probably won’t get a new one for a long time, what with my vet expenses and all.

Today, I applied for a credit card. I decided to get a reasonably low limit – I won’t mention what I consider low. I just want to learn to be responsible with my finances.

I won’t be buying a water pump with this card. I just plan to use the card to pay for emergency expenses and my yearly hosting payments.

I get my first credit card in 2-3 weeks.

Christmas is coming and I have been looking for good Christmas gifts.

Yes, people, Christmas in the Philippines starts in September. The “-ber” suffix pretty much signals the beginning of the holidays here.

I’ve been looking at buying group deals… like red envelope tv codes or cruises or bargain travel coupons from Groupon. Who knows?

I just don’t want to deal with the hassle of thinking of gifts this year.

Earlier last month, I attended a couple of personal finance seminars which led me to actually learning more about budgeting and whatnot.

I’ve started reading up on personal budgeting, the envelope method, the importance of honest tithes & offerings, and even… rfid credit cards. I don’t know what came over me.

I understand the value of this for people who are insane about credit cards, but I have never been a credit card person. I avoid debts as much as possible. In fact, the only debt I have right now is this cell phone I’m paying off.

Since we moved in, my mom has been immersed in accessorizing our new house. She’s been looking at garden soil, seeds, pebbles, compost tumblers, and other garden accessories. We have a pretty spacious backyard which doubles as garden so my mom’s excited about that.

All I want on that yard is grass so I can teach Lily to play fetch. Different strokes for different folks.

I’ve been looking at gaming computers for a while since I’ve been thinking of replacing mine. It’s a great resource, but I realized that I don’t really have the cash to fork over to pay for a new computer right now.

But whatever.

Please check more of my ramblings at Girl In Progress. This is me embarking on a different level of personal blogging.