Straight From the Heart

It’s halloween once again and it only means one thing to me, going to the store and buying my little boy his costume. I was thinking of not buying him one anymore but I thought I would be depriving  him of the excitement of dressing up and be a PowerRanger for a day. Or be Megatron, or be Optupus, I mean Optimus.

But personally I really don’t dig this halloween thing, I really don’t. It doesn’t make sense to me. I feel it’s such a wasteful spending. Some people spend too much on the halloween decors, on the treats, pumpkins, parties but all those are for what?   But I guess that’s their problem if they want to spend for this halloween.  :)

But back to the story,  after much deliberation John decided to be , tah-dah.. OPTIMUS!

The poor tot wanted desperately to be Spiderman but there were no more sizes for him. He was ready to quit already after going to four stores, but settled for Optimus before we decided to call it a day. 

After the halloween, I will still let him wear it for playing, just so I get my money’s worth. That’s 20 dollars too noh! 

I know, I’m silly..  :)

Yahoo! The letter from USCIS came in yesterday. I couldn’t help but shriek , my petition for my Mama to come here has been approved!

I have been praying for this , I told God to let it be approved on my birthday on October 11. The most amazing thing is , it got approved on September 11, a month before my birthday! Isn’t that amazing? I mean, He could have let it approved on the 10th or 12th but no, God specifically had it approved on the 11th, to remind me that He is granting my prayer a month before my birthday!

I feel so happy and so blessed!

I’ve already been a licensed driver since July 1st of this year but to tell you the truth, because of my fear of driving, I have not yet driven a car if my husband or my driving instructor isn’t beside me, or with me.

Not till last week though.

My husband’s work schedule got changed to 10am to 6pm so the three of us, my husband, my son and I can’t carpool anymore. Because of the new sked, I had no choice but to drive myself to work and to drop off and pick up my son at his daycare. It wasn’t easy confronting my fears as I am a first-time driver but I didn’t have much choice but to take this new challenge head on.

I absolutely think though that this was all God’s plan. He changed my husband’s sked so I will be forced to do this.  He knows that I have been putting off driving by myself ever since I got my driver’s license. But  I am not upset at all, though I was I admit , for about five minutes after my husband told me of the schedule change. But I guess being put in a tight spot where you had no choice is all I needed.  It was like getting a kick in the butt so I can get out there and get the courage to drive by myself.

Right now, I am still learning, I still feel apprehensive everytime I go out to drive but I then know that in time, I will all be alright.

I am until now waiting for the approval of my petition for my Mom to come here to the US. I don’t know what’s taking them so long to approve it since I have already sent all the papers that they possibly need. I am just so excited for my Mom to get here and all this waiting is such a damper. But I guess I cannot really do anything but wait patiently and know that the Lord knows the perfect time and moment for Mama to come here.

Anyway, does anyone know just how long a petition for a parent goes? I filed last July 1st and all I got was their receipt notice, no approval notice yet. I checked at the USCIS website, it says the processing takes 5 months. If  anybody knows anything can you share it with me, please ?

Ever since I got here in the US, the one thing that I really hate to do here is… shopping! Yes, you heard me right,  I absolutely hate shopping here, shopping for clothes that is.

I go to  department stores like  Macy, Sears, Mervyn’s, Kohl’s, Old Navy but I can’t find the style that I want. My husband always teases me when I try to shop because he knows that either I will end up with nothing or end up buying something that I will not be wearing at all.

I don’t know why shopping for clothes is such a chore for  me. But here are the things that I’ve noticed that makes shopping so tiresome for me. When shopping for a blouse or a top I get turned off because of the following reasons;

• the blouse length is too short, if I sit down something’s gonna show behind me.
• the sleeves are too tiny, it shows off my big arms.
• the necklines are too low and revealing, one wrong move will show my brassiere or something else.
• the materials are too clingy, like they’re the stretchable type and not cotton or if they are indeed cotton, they look like the prints will fade too easily.
• I can’t seem to get the right size .
• the styles are too frilly for me, I can’t find anything simple.
• the price isn’t right.

So I don’t know, is it just me or I have people on my side on this rant?