Best of 2007
Di lang tv at radio shows ang may year-enders. Ako rin. Here’s my own list of the year’s “bests,” both in the good and bad category. It’s my tribute to the amazing roller-coaster that was 2007.
Best Purchase – Our New House
And most expensive, too, because the spending never ends (and never will, as most homeowners tell me). This 3-level townhouse, however, is our biggest and best investment so far. We moved in end of September and just started painting (not me though – I’m banned from paint fumes), furnishing and decorating the house. We have 2 floors down, with the first and second floors 90% done. By done, I mean furnished – we still need to add a few details like décor, artwork and lighting to complete the look. Third floor will probably be completed by Jan 08 – and then we can start having people over for housewarming.
Best Big Change – Baby boy on the Way
From the moment we learned we’re having a baby, everything changed, not to mention the way my belly has gotten bigger every single minute. I get treated differently by the people around me – and I’m not complaining at all, because I always get some form of positive reaction and special treatment from strangers. It’s the biggest change, too. And we know the changing will never end from this point onward.
Best Movie – Our Baby’s Ultrasound
It’s totally a short movie, but even with Transformers and Harry Potter coming out last summer, it’s the best I’ve seen all year-round. The last ultrasound we saw so far was a few months back, when we found out our baby is a boy, and when we saw how healthy and “naughty” he is, grabbing his tiny weenie as we were looking at him. But sabi nga nung isang co-worker ko, that’s just instinct at work: PROTECT IT FROM PEEPING TOMS (kami daw yun)!
Best Music – Grateful
My cousin Julianne came up with a beautiful soulful album that I was very lucky to receive from Uncle Phil and Auntie Rica when they came to visit us here in LA a few months back. I have since showcased her album to my co-workers. Syempre love your own. I’m so proud of you, Julz!
Best Underground Move – My Annual Performance Review
Not that it was the best for me, but it’s the best manipulative move I’ve ever seen in my entire corporate life. My department’s used my ka-OC-han for the past year, and because they decided they needed me to do more analytical, organizational and excel-related projects, they took away all creative projects (i.e.: any writing project even if I was hired as a “copywriter”) since I came back from my 2-week morning sickness leave in September. Then they gave me one kind of project with no direction whatsoever and turned it around to reflect negatively on me – according to them, it was my chance to make a plan, kasi walang planning ang department namin, as if that’s my job and not that of the management/executives to steer the ship. Apparently, the way I work “doesn’t work well with the dynamics of this company.” So true. I can’t work ass-backwards. So they spun my annual review to reflect one thing: that I suck as a copywriter/creative person and that I’m better use to them as a “marketing analyst.” Take it or leave it, daw. So pagbalik ko next year, I’m no longer a copywriter, but a marketing analyst who will create a system to track our coming online marketing efforts that they JUST decided to do. By the way, they hired another copywriter just about a month ago, pandagdag daw sa team of writers – ayun pala ipapalit sa akin. And that’s why I give her the award for “best scheming bitch” ever.
Best Vacation – 2-night Stay at Surf and Sand Spa Resort
I’ve had a few vacations this year, but our last hurrah as a couple definitely takes the cake. I am writing this in the middle of a very laid-back, relaxing trip with my husband for 2 days at a spa resort here in
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