Kate of Project Blog by Kate - ME, Mommy Kate

This was posted as intro in my multiply site, an inspiration from blogs that I have read. I have also posted this is my facebook account but ended up posting less cause it has character limit.

I wrote this way back 2008 and as I post this in my project blog, I have updated, edited some using different font color but still maintaining the original one in black font. And as I was reading it through to update, I can’t help but smile and laugh at some items. Truly how one change over time… I really believe that “CHANGE is the only CONSTANT thing in this world”.

In this project blog, as I pointed out in my first post, I will share with you my life... my thoughts... my becoming of a wife, my becoming a mother and a parent... my becoming of my own self... Know me more...

103 116 things about me and counting...

1. I am left-handed but dominantly right-handed in almost other things

2. I am first born (Do I act like one? Yay! Lemme ask my sibs)

3. I am an Ilocana – born and raised in Laoag City – but have been living in Manila since 1997 - but thinking and rethinking of moving back and live the provincial life *wink*

4. But I usually go home to Laoag to take a “breather” (when I was still in school)

5. I was an achiever and an honor student in my schooldays (yay! pressure…)

6. I am a Registered Nutritionist-Dietitian – but sometimes I don’t watch what I eat (teehee! Guilty as Charged)

7. But I do intend to live a healthy lifestyle now for my son and my family

8. I am married and love my husband and son dearly!

9. I got married in 2007 and had baby in 2008

10. I think my son is adorable! He looks like me. (Hah! I am gwapo if I happen to be a man haha! Stage mom here!)

11. I have the same birth date with my husband

12. I don’t cook but I love cooking pasta during special occasions (but not doing it lately – too lazy… I can buy though yay!)

13. I love traveling – though I haven’t gone outside the Philippines (oh, would love to do that!) - and I do have a list where I want to go!

14. I don’t like eating sushi and sashimi but I do eat kinilaw – ilocano version

15. I am amazed at the Chocolate Hills in Bohol (and love to go back there again)

16. I would love to go to Palawan, Camiguin and Davao

17. I am compulsive buyer – if I have moolah!

18. I love window shopping

19. I love browsing thru multiply and online stores

20. I am getting hooked with online shopping and window shopping – most especially for my son (but now am starting to shop for moi!)

21. And since I don’t frequent mall now, I resort to online shopping (Teehee! Excuses!) - I love going to malls now that my son is bigger, it’s his playground! And I can do my window shopping (again!)

22. Most of the things I bought online are baby things and cloths - and bags and shoes (for me! Fetish!)

23. I love browsing just about anything in the internet

24. I am talkative – but I do get my quiet times – sometimes…

25. I love singing and dancing – now I get to use them with my baby when putting him to sleep and entertaining him (when he starts getting fussy) - with increased levels of performance now since I have to be animated when playing with my toddler (geesh!)

26. I am a frustrated band singer (haha!)

27. I enjoy videoke!!! (Show time!)

28. I love breastfeeding my baby - and we are almost 26 months and still counting!

29. And I love the time we spend together – love love the bonding!

30. I’ve learned to do other things while breastfeeding my baby (you’ll be surprised!)

31. I’ve also learned other things to do while expressing my milk in the office… - just got liberated from milk expression! Yey! But the experience was all WORTH it!

32. I love babywearing – I feel close to my baby when I do this – and I would like to become advocate on this - I don’t wear my baby anymore cause he’s big already, but I still want to continue to advocate for it

33. I wish more moms will wear their babies.

34. I believe in attachment parenting.

35. I was able to climb a mountain – but I don’t know if I will do it again

36. I am afraid of snakes – even the sight of it makes me creep - yes, even if it is just in the television

37. I love reading books – when I have the luxury of time; but I really love books!

38. I love writing articles – when I have the luxury of time (oh, I would love to stretch time so I can do all these things)

39. I had a notebook of poems when I was in high school (sort of dedicated to someone haha! I purposely lost the notebook)

40. I love watching movies – I can go on all day watching! =)

41. I can watch TV all day long too! But I have to learn now not to spend so much time watching TV so my son will not grow with it - still trying to learn but have moderated it (somehow)

42. But I like watching PBA live than in the television

43. I love bowling

44. I don’t like watching war movies – and I hate it when my husband watch one in my presence (hehe!)

45. I honestly believe when I was a kid that babies come from a factory (really!)

46. I read Nancy Drew when I was in my grade school – and wished to become a detective after it

47. I read almost all Sidney Sheldon’s novel when I was in high school

48. And like anyone dreaming for their own life’s romance, I got hooked reading novels by Judith McNaught, and Julie Garwood and the likes when I was in college

49. I loved reading love stories of dukes and duchess then… anything royalty

50. I sipped raw native eggs when I was a kid (Eeeww… I don’t know why I did that) - and now I recall, not just native ones, even the white ones…

51. I sneaked out of the house when I was a kid just to join my friends to play and do some other things… and stay late at night (my bad!) – imagine, climbing off the wall and the house just to get inside unnoticed

52. I had a puppy love and was certainly head over heels about him – now, I can say I have outgrew it (ahem…)

53. I married my first boyfriend – and love him dearly

54. I loved Biochemistry when I was in college - even though others were silently cursing it

55. I loved role playing when I was a kid

56. I would love to become a Stay-At-Home Mom or a Work-At-Home Mom (I wish!)

57. I would like to become a breastfeeding advocate and counselor - I am now!!! Happy!

58. I am a member of The Breastfeeding Club and would love to become part of other breastfeeding groups

59. I love watching billboards along EDSA and South Super Highway (its like watching TV, hehe!)

60. I am guilty for procrastinating on several things (oh, almost…)

61. But if I REALLY like something or love what I am doing – procrastinating is out of the question

62. I don’t like putting on make-up (call it laziness hehe!) – started when I got pregnant and I thought I would start putting on again after giving birth – but never really did =p (oh well, am starting again… yay!) - putting on make–up now, yes! but usually don’t do retouch…

63. But I would love to try and learn how to put make up – really a good make-up

64. I love shoes and bags!!! Its some-kind-of-a-fetish (but when I became a mom – diaper bags and nursing blouses!) Teeeheee! (restraining myself!) - now I am back to shoes and bags!!! Urgh!

65. I never really had a serious “beautification” routine… too lazy to do it (oh wait, had one but never really lasted haha! Just because I was preparing for my wedding, that’s it!) - have three steps now, improvement teehee! Three steps: wash, toner, moisturize

66. I appreciated my mom more and love her even more when I became a mother

67. I love the beach! Who cares if I get scorched under the sun hehe! - even with the skin tone I have

68. But I never really learned how to swim (yay!)

69. I don’t know how to drive (my dad did not teach me; afraid I will take the car out and bump it somewhere) - but I really would love to learn how

70. I would love to start a business – but haven’t decided what

71. I am sort of fickle-minded =p

72. I love walking, walking, walking! (but please not in heels or else I will freak out)

73. I thought then that one of my bestfriends is an angel (promise! I was like in my teens at that time)

74. I love watching news, and Bubble Gang Banana Split, Disney Playhouse (don’t ask), National Geographic, Discovery Channel (cause it’s what my husband usually watch) and teleseryes!!! Haha!

75. I love pizza and pasta… I usually go to Sbarro, Pizzeria, Piadina (latest discovery, Ponzo’s in Magallanes! You should try!)

76. I love going to Enchanted Kingdom, Star City, and the likes =p

77. I’m afraid to try slides in pools – since I don’t know how to swim

78. But I loved the slides in Splash Island when I went there in 1997 – what? They’ve got “salbabidas” for heaven’s sake, and the water was shallow – now who’s afraid haha! (teehee!) - wait, is Splash still open?

79. I love Boracay! (haha! Feeling! Been there once pa lang haha!) - and Bohol!

80. I would love to go to Amanpulo…  - and Santorini… and the list goes on…

81. I’m afraid to try the banana boat (chicken!)

82. I hate watching horror movies

83. I have hard time sleeping after watching those kinds of movies

84. I’d rather join Big Brother than be a part of Survivor or Fear Factor (ahehe!) - chicken!

85. I would love to start a blog site… really would love to have one… - and working on it now! Yay! *clap, clap*

86. I grew up with books; I had a volume of Dr. Seuss’ books then. Don’t know where my mom put it. (Gone with the wind! Haha!)

87. I love watching concerts (well, I’m on leave for those just yet… motherhood becomes me. Teehee!) - and I am back in the game!!! I can go out for longer hours already. YAY! Though, I chose what type of concerts to see =)

88. I love going through the baby section of SM and Rustan’s (hehe!) and Babyland (my husband too!) - that was when I was pregnant and my baby was still young but we still go there but more often now in appliance and home section (wishing!!!)

89. I’m still wondering what my life would have become if I didn’t get marry early (wait, is 26 early already?)

90. But I love my life now – a wife and a mom! Wouldn’t trade it for other… (oh well, still wondering about #89 haha! Just a thought, it wouldn’t hurt ei? ;)

91. I love reading the newspaper – first, the headline; next, entertainment haha!

92. I want to have a whole new wardrobe, new sets of sandals and shoes! (Huh! Wishful thinking!)

93. If I want to buy something, I think about it 10 times over if I really need it and if it’s worth it – then buy it eventually haha!

94. I’m getting good at making PowerPoint presentations (don’t ask why)

95. I love texting…

96. And at one point, I got addicted using my mobile phone in browsing the internet (Boy! My phone bill suffered!)

97. I got addicted to Friendster but got over it eventually… (or more like because I don’t have my own internet connection hehe! – got lazy to go to internet cafe) - and now with facebook and twitter… sweesh! All the technology now… I even have smartphones so I can use wifi anywhere haha!

98. I got stretch marks when I was pregnant…

99. I gave my two-piece swimsuits to my sis since I refuse to use them now because of my stretch marks … buuhhuu! But I’ll still use swimsuits which will cover those priceless marks! Teehhee!

100. I drink milk every morning and rarely drink coffee (should be with lots of creamer!)… only during meetings where milk is not usually served. - am getting back with lots of coffee now teehee! and choco drink =)

101. I would love to have my own house and car (who does not?!) - and a beach house, house in Tagaytay, and so the list goes on… ;)

102. I thank God for email and internet!

103. I would love to become more adventurous with dressing up… (literally, from head to toe!)

And here’s an addition to my list…

104. I want to become tech-savvy or at least semi =)

105.  I want to be good in internet – I just know the “simple” things

106. I get so bad with juggling things sometimes…

107. I love watching my toddler play… its crazy and fun!

108. I love it when he talks, I think he has lisp… but I hope he outgrows it (do you outgrow such?)

109. Loving twitter now…

110. I still don’t get why T so loves to watch UFC and boxing… or do men really like these kinds?

111. A wishlist is currently working on my mind (and I refuse to write about it yet) and am planning to have a post on it

112. Reading blogs of “some” people have inspired and are inspiring me now with how my blog will go (am keeping my fingers crossed)

113. I want would love to go to Disneyland =p

114. I want to travel around the world!

115. I want to have lots and lots of accessories… I am dreaming of charmed bracelets, layered or charmed necklaces, bangles, earrings… ok I am stopping now… =p

116. I know I have more to discover for myself…

If anyone's reading this, how about introducing yourself? i want to know the people who will read or just happen to read my blog =) would love to get to know you...




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ps. have not done with the links (highlighted words) yet -- have partially done actually and i pressed on to something and poof! the post i was working on for more than an hour is gone! urgh! and double urgh! oh well... sigh! will work on it tomorrow, i guess...

pps. (update) done with links but cant get some of the highlights out, don't know why. i placed highlights before to note myself that i should put a link on it...
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update: I have changed my blog's name to Mommy Kate blogs. Most of my posts are mommy-related, hence, change of name. hope you, dear readers continue to be with me as I journey through life, as a mom, as a wife and as a woman. thank you!

xoxo, mommy kate