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Yey! It’s vacation time for the children and I which means I don’t need to wake up at the ungodly hour of 4am to cook for packed lunch. Although the children wanted to wake up much much earlier than 4am to go to the dawn masses, I doubt they’d even have the strength to open their eyes to do that. They’ve been sleeping later than usual since Thursday night.

We plan to visit my parents during this Christmas break and I’m sure a lot of families have plans to visit their families who are away from them. I got the hubby a discount voucher from an online seller for some car maintenance in anticipation of the travel we will do and I’m sure, people are gearing up to do motor home repairs, if they have not done that yet.

I’m just thankful we don’t have snows on the roads here so traveling is easy. But we have traffic, traffic and more traffic everywhere which is even worse, I think.

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I don’t know what it is with ube cake but my two younger children absolutely love it:

They like ube ice cream too by the way.

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Am surprised there are still “dead spots” in some areas and that includes our home. I still get those “No network available” or “select network access” reminders.

A dead spot is a zone within the range of a radio transmitter where little or no radio signal can be received.

And yes, there have been times I’ve almost missed appointments because there were no confirmation sms from my clients for the same reason that their sms replies were re-directed to their “Outbox” folder and not sent to me. Yeah, we have the same telco provider.

I remember how I use to go near the window on the side of the living room to be able to send an sms, LOL. Who would have thought there are still areas in the house that signals can’t reach. I think we need cell boosters or we need to change telco providers.

Sometimes it is frustrating to try to re-send messages only to read “Retry. Your message was not sent.”

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I don’t know if it’s just me but I think the Philippines has too many public holidays that holiday economics or RA 9492, “An Act Rationalizing the Celebration of National Holidays” is not something I would have approved if I was in Congress or Senate when it was approved (like I’d be there at all, lol)

BUT! moving the holidays to another day to promote a long weekend event is not something I would approve of. Imagine celebrating Independence Day on a different date? Duh? Thank God Good Friday, All Saints’ Day, Christmas and New Year are days that can’t be moved.

another BUT! for business owners, especially with the production and services companies, too many holidays are hurting their businesses, because they pay their employees extra when they need to go to work during holidays, IF they get these extra benefits at all.

Of course, the working people love holidays because it is the only during these days, save for their paid sick leaves (which I don’t have, sigh), that they get to rest and spend more time with their families. Save for national holidays, there are even regional holidays that merit another wave of holidays.

In European countries, a friend told me that if you live there, you have to buy the things you need because holiday means the stores are closed. But in this country, holiday means the malls are opened. Pity the employees who go to work and not spend time resting with their families.

Do they have extra compensation for that? I’m not sure because most of these sales person in malls are under 6-months contract which do not qualify them to get any benefits if at all. Tsk, tsk.

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We love fro-yo. I think this is far better than ice cream when it comes to health benefits though a scoop (or more!) of ice cream is one that I will never say “no” to.

Not only having fro-yo or frozen yogurt is the “in” thing, people flock to these places to conduct their businesses too. One time I heard someone pitching term life insurance rates to another. I was surprised of course, since most of these meetings usually happen in coffee shops.

I like fresh fruits on my fro-yo. Too bad this one had canned blueberries but it is nonetheless yummy.

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The season of gift-giving is finally here and I haven’t bought a single gift for giving yet. I mean, I have, for my children but to those outside my nuclear family, there’s none yet. Not even grocery stuff for my parents, maybe new books for my niece and pull up bars for my brother who wants to have a bigger bod.

These days I give gifts that are not too expensive but can be appreciated. Like baked goodies which I personally bake. These can be eaten and best of all, I labored to make these myself.

So there. Frankly, I don’t understand why people call me frugal because I give these things as gifts.

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