Heath Ledger died today

and only 28. what a waste. he was a great actor. sigh. young hollywood's not so fabulous after all. =(

know that all these too shall pass

When you get home from work, you watch tv, chuckle at the dancer wanna-be's on "you think you can dance," then you go to bed at night with a list of tomorrows to-do's swirling in your head. You never expect to be jolted out of sleep by a phone call telling you that something happened to somebody near and dear to your heart. Mark's dad had a mild stroke this morning. He's currently being treated in St. Joseph's Providence and he's going to stay there for another 24-48 hours. Please pray for him and his speedy recovery =(

i'm in hell

work SSUUUCCCCKKKSSS! everything went wrong today, or should i say, yesterday since it's already 1am now? sigh. tomorrow errr today is another day. i better get some sleep before i start losing my mind (or i think i lost it already! lmao). i miss: lori, damon, suzy, and my sisters kate and isang and my nephews and nieces who don't live that far from me but we still don't see each other as often as i'd like. =(

flash backward

i just realized i had some photos still at draft mode -- the ones that i transferred over from my shutterfly. those were the days when all i had was my 3.2 megapixel casio exislim which i adore so much since i can just stick it in my purse and go. but quality-wise you really can't compare it to an 8 megapixel SLR. i'm thinking about getting a small one though -- a canon elph like isang's and alice's. but i have no budget for it...maybe i'll get it with mark's rewards points heeheehee!

power scare

it's raining, it's pouring. we were happily watching blades of glory when the lights flicker, we hear a weird sound, then no power. power came up again mark and i leapt to our feets. mark says: "put your shoes on babe" -- my first instinct was to check on vaughn. lights flicker again, weird muffled exploding noise, power goes out and goes back up again. i grab our flashlights from the cabinets, a match, my tea light candles and told mark to kill our power. so we sit in darkness as i write this [thank God my laptop is fully charged lol] and now i hear sirens wailing, getting closer. we were ready to call 911 but i think somebody beat us to it...not sure what's going on but i think the heavy rain is causing some short circuits in the power supply.

oh, lights are back up again. hopefully the fire fighters fixed whatever is causing this weirdness. i swore to myself i'm buying an emergency kit for situations like this. STRESS!