Hanging By A Thread

7 / 19 / 112 / 24 / 14

I hibernated from the Internet days ago. I did not checked my emails and neglected my blogs because I told myself that I am sick. I can’t work. My mind is empty. I’ve been into different roller coasters and I’m hanging by a thread right now. I know this is not me. But situations that I am into right now turned me into somebody else, a weak person.

And at 3:00am, here I am.. tried to do things that I normally do while the kids and my husband are asleep. Blog, write, surf and read other blogs. But as I have said.. I tried. They just passed through my eyes. But in dame016‘s blog, there’s a line from one of her posts that caught my attention. It says: Lift up my worries to him and believe that He’ll do something about it. Give Him my burdens when I can no longer carry it all by myself.

It touched my heart. And I was reminded that there’s nobody who could ever be there for me at times like this but God. As much as I love reading your blog, thank you for this one sis. I will not force myself to work right now. I will sleep. And I will pray. And I will believe that He will make things better for me the moment I open my eyes tomorrow.

Girls’ Night Out

7 / 9 / 112 / 24 / 14

Despite the heavy rain last night, I still went out with my former colleagues after a day’s work. Hubby agreed to look after our two kids but he requested me to bring our youngest daughter to my mom. Armed with a long umbrella and dressed with a jacket and shorts I headed on to Sta.Lucia East in Cainta. Meeting place was actually at Starbucks at the back of Sta. Lucia but I had to meet first my other friend so we could go together at SB.

Its been years since we last saw each other so we talked about lots of things over chilled coffee without stirrer and instead it was accompanied by plastic straws. Hot coffee is really out of the picture nowadays since the rise of Starbucks and other coffee shops huh? We laughed hard upon looking back at the old times when we were all working in the same company. Of course we also talked about our present situation regarding our families, work and daily lives. It could have been more fun if all of us were able to come that night since one of us will be coming back to Qatar where she works and it will took months or years before we could see her again.

We call the night off at around 9pm and it was actually a relief for me. I knew my kids were still up and waiting for me. Before we bid goodbye, we had our pictures taken through our friend’s Samsung Galaxy phone err.. or is it a tablet? whatever, since no one brought a camera.

@Starbucks behind Sta. Lucia East Grand Mall

See you all girls again! I had a great time especially when I did the talking (lol!) and thanks for the treat too! Bon Voyage friend!

How to Avoid Distraction from Facebook

5 / 29 / 112 / 25 / 14

It’s an overwhelming feeling that I am actually earning money from my blogs and through the articles that I am writing for some of my clients. Although I am not an expert writer, they still avail of my services and people from different parts of the world are paying my blogs a visit.

There are times though that I get distracted by my work, kids, my hubby and some Social Networking Sites particularly Facebook. I’ll tell myself that I would just check what’s up with my friends for five minutes before I write and before I knew, that five minutes already turned into hours. Then I told myself that if I wanted to make writing as my mode of generating passive income, I have to create some disciplinary actions for myself in order to come up with decent articles and blog posts.

Well, of course I can’t set aside my family but I can when it comes to Facebook! Let me share you some tips on how I kept myself away from getting distracted because of Facebook:

1. I hide updates from my close friends. I started doing it I think two months ago. I did that to hold myself from commenting on their latest status post, photo uploads and other updates that will surely popped into my wall. It is time consuming and I’ll better go blog hopping instead. Perhaps that is why some of them actually sent me personal messages on why I am not even liking or commenting on their latest photos or status updates. They thought I am ignoring them. Partly that is true especially now that I am determined to earn more money from my online gigs. The only time I would pay them a visit is when I see notifications that they commented on my account or if they tagged some photos. That spared me from procrastination actually.

2. I seldom go online in Facebook chat. It’s another distraction when a message would suddenly popped and I will be obliged to reply just to show some respect. I would just check who’s online then go offline especially if my close friends are there to avoid further talk.

3. I usually delete all my actions history. It shows up on my profile and it can be a give-away hint to my FB friends that I am indeed online.

I know I’m losing a lot of socialization by doing these but it is for my own good too. I promised myself that after I meet my target earnings I would be active again in Facebook where it wouldn’t be a distraction anymore. As of now, I am just using my account to promote my blogs, articles on the web and my Story Book Mom’s Facebook Page.The best thing about it, through my geek-eyes, is that my work is finally getting done!

Heads Up About My New .COM

5 / 28 / 112 / 24 / 14

Yesterday, I finally decided to buy my own custom domain for the sake of taking my blog to the next level (naks!). Actually, what I meant with that is to further increase my chance of getting more online gigs. Having my own .com simply means I am serious in blogging and investing an amount of money for this is evident enough. I already announced this news to my Facebook friends and knowing that this post will appear on Story Book Mom’s Official Facebook Page, (I would appreciate it very much of you would LIKE it too!) I know it would seem redundant.

Posting this entry is actually for my followers and readers. If you have been following me or I am included to your blog lists, I am requesting you to change my URL from http://mdelacena.com to http://www.mdelacena.com I will also be changing my badge as soon as I find my collection of Digital Scrapbook freebies in CDs. I think I misplaced them when I did several number of CD burning in my cousin’s house after Holy Week.

As of now my blog’s status is still in transition but perhaps it won’t harm if you change those links now if you got time. Thank you and see you all around the blogosphere.

Going Back to Online Shopping Again

3 / 7 / 112 / 24 / 14

It’s been ages since I last shopped online especially in Multiply where I have my few trusted sellers. I thought I will be able to shop for some new clothes and accessories at Trinoma yesterday together with my friends but unfortunately, our date was cancelled.

Although I can drag hubby and our kids to the mall on a Sunday, I know it would be impossible ~~again~~ for me to look for stuff that I want. And so I remember to visit my Multiply account tonight and my eyes feasted on the latest products that my suki have in their online stores. I buy things there starting from clothes, sandals, accessories, bags, children and baby stuff and some home decorations too. However, I haven’t seen any Multiply sellers yet who offer products like Eco disposable plates or biodegradable utensils despite the swarm of items being offered and promoted there.

Upon reviving my interest in doing online shopping again, I am now checking one by one my fave online stores and preparing myself to haggle again:)

How about you? Do you prefer shopping online or walking-in to department stores?