Weight Gain Denial

i recently had my prenatal checkup and my doctor said that i already reached my weight gain limit. i couldn't believe it. i thought i had a couple of allowance left.
the allowable weight gain of a pregnant woman should be around 20-30lbs.
i'm blaming the hospital's weighing scale for this. my baseline was 120 lbs and now my weight (according to that *&$#@%!!! weighing scale) is 150lbs. NO...NO...NO....
i've been regularly weighing myself and the last time i checked, that was a week before my checkup, i was 136lbs. see, 14 lbs short from the maximun 30lbs limit.
i weighed myself again and again and again after the checkup and according to OUR ol' trusting weighing scale i weigh only 143lbs.
*gulp* 7 more pounds til my limit.

This is me at 26 weeks preggy!

Since yesterday baby bear's kicks have been getting stronger and stronger. nakakaaliw. i can see my tummy twitch everytime he kicks. baby boy nga talaga ito. ang likot eh.

3 Things I Didn't Know About My Husband

Bong and I were bf/gf for 9 years.
Pero madami pa pala akong hindi nalalaman tungkol sa kanya!

1. HE SNORES. he brainwashed me into thinking that he snores when he's dead tired.
2. HE HOARDS THE BED. he sleeps in the middle of the bed o di kaya pa-diagonal kaya sa isang tabi lang ako ng kama nakakahiga.
3. HE CRAVES FOR CHICHIRYA AFTER MEALS. alam kong mahilig siya sa chichirya pero di ko akalain na talagang nagc-crave siya after a meal. ika nga parang dessert nya yung chichirya. ang favorite nya ay yung Clover chips.

Looking forward in discovering for more!

It's a Boy!

happy news! happy news!
i had my ultrasound last thursday and found out that my Baby Bear is a boy!
the first picture shows how big my baby has grown. while the second pix, the one with the small arrow, shows that my baby is a boy. the small arrow is actually pointing at his penis. figure it out already? the doctor/sonologist said that my baby has quite a long penis. hehehe....

trivia: we still don't have a name yet for the baby so for the meantime we call our little one Baby Bear. it's a shortcut for Baby Bernal--->Baby Bear-nal...gets?

my second happy news is that my 2 myomas, i call them maymay, has reduced in size! thank God!
so far it has been a smooth 21 weeks(5months and 1 week) for me. maymay was really asymptomatic so i wasn't really bothered. there are just 2 things that bother me:

1. low back pain
2. unpredictable bowel movement
   

my back just really aches and aches and aches....
while my excretory system doesn't have a fixed time when to poop. i usually end up always having wet wipes in my bag for emergencies when i'm caught in the mall. or if i don't feel the urge to poop it becomes really bothersome because my tummy gets really heavy and distended and i suddenly will walk like a penguin. hay, to think i'm only in my 5th month!

My Forecast for the Month of May

my brother brought home this Psychic Horoscope magazine and found my forecast for the month of May so amusing. swak na swak!

KABUHAYAN: Matatanggap mo na ngayon ang matagal mo nang hinihintay. Pamana sa isang kamag-anak o bayad ng matagal nang may utang.

Grabe, sana magkatotoo!!!! suntok sa buwan.

someone owes me money and it's been a year already. when i was in the thick of doing my wedding preparations this person asked me if i could led them some money. this person assured me that they will pay me by the end of the month. since i won't be needing the money yet in 5 months, i willingly lent them the amount that they needed. grabe wrong move. they haven't paid a penny since then.
now i need all the savings that i could get. my husband doesn't earn much and we'll be using mostly all of my savings. if this person would pay their utang now then my baby things, like stroller, crib, baby bottles and sterilizer, pampers, baby clothes and beddings would already be covered. it' s a big amount 'no it's like buying a 3-day package trip to hkg with disneyland tour for 2 people and may pocket money pa.

Ginisang Kamatis at Sibuyas

this is my newfound craving right now.

grabe... ang sarap-sarap!!! kahit kanin lang ang katapat!

if kimchi is for the koreans then ginisang kamatis at sibuyas is for me.


by the way credit goes to bong for preparing this dish with love.

My US Visa in 75 Minutes

i just got my passport with my renewed US tourist visa today. just had to wait for 3 working days for the delivery which was quite fast.
was surprised to see that i got a 10-year multiple visa.

i had my interview last may18. my scheduled interview was for 10am. i got to the embassy grounds at around 8:45am and submitted my application form together with my passport. they gave me a number and told me to just wait for my number to be called. as expected, there were a lot of people in the un-airconditioned waiting area and readied myself for the long wait. i even brought my What to Expect When Your Expecting book with me to keep me busy. after around 20 minutes in my seat i was surprised to hear my number being called. apparently i was going to the next station which was the electronic fingerprinting. after that they instructed me to go inside the building and go to window #1. at that window there were around 7 people on queue and later realized that it was the window for the interview process already. it was quite different from what i remembered from my previous visa interviews wherein inside the building we would have to wait again for a long time for our number to be called.
in line i got to meet a lady who was also renewing her visa to visit her children and her apos. she initially thought i was a doctor and was surprised to learn that i was already married. she said she would've had introduced me to her son who was guwapo(of course love your own).
the consul didn't ask much question nor did he ask for any documents. i guess they're quite lenient these days not unlike before, post 9/11 when they gave me a 1-year multiple visa even if i was already employed as an airline employee for 3 years.
after paying the courier service i was out of the embassy at around 10am. i was done in an hour and fifteen minutes! it was a far cry from previous interviews wherein it would take you around 3 hours to get it over with.

ha! with that over with i just have to wait for june8 for my husband's interview and it's off to san francisco for us!

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