The Dante’s Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Take the Dante’s Divine Comedy Inferno Test

MWahahaha.

Now how did I end up in hell in the first place?

Gluttony: Low

Wrath: Very Low

Sloth: Medium

Envy: Very Low

Lust: Very Low

Pride: Very Low

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What Olivia Means

O is for Optimistic L is for Luscious I is for Intelligent V is for Vibrant I is for Irresistible A is for Animated

It’s scary how accurate this test is…

Your Love Life is Like Annie Hall

“A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.”You believe that love (if you even believe in love!) is a very complicated thing.Maybe love is pain. Or maybe it’s all a big therapy session. You’re still figuring it out. Your love style: Brainy and a bit neurotic Your Hollywood Ending Will Be: Realistic and reflective

What Movie Is Your Love Life Like?

My current obsession lately has been the fact that Andrea has yet to learn her ABC’s. Her lola, my MIL, gave her a collection of foam letters and my mother in law would try to teach her the names of the letters every once in a while. Andrea barely cooperates though and is more focused on throwing the letters away.

I have also started singing the ABC to her every morning when we go to my grandmother’s house. I sing it complete with the signs and Andrea would just ignore me. This afternoon, after a tiring day spent in the hospital and the car shop, I was focused on having Andrea at least say one letter.

I started with the letter A. She said that very easily…Then I went on the the letter B….she said B…then she said B again…then she said it twice…and then she started talking about babies and Jabibee..hmmm my child has my short attention span I guess. I was trying to move on to the letter C when she started saying “Eysh”….I barely understood what she was talking about so I asked again…she pointed to the monitor of the computer where a giant logo with the letter H (and 2 other letters) can be seen.

I was stunned. Could she possibly visually identify and orally express the letter H? Ruy brought her to the screen and asked her “Where’s the letter H?” and she happily pointed to the correct letter.

I felt as if my heart was about to burst with joy. I am an OA mom I know but I can’t get over the fact that Andrea now knows 2 letters (A and H).

She then looked at me and tried to motion/sign the letter H with her hands while saying “Eych”. 

I don’t know why it’s the letters A and H she remembers most…she seems to have skipped a few letters in between but that’s okay we have a few months left. My goal is for her to be able to sing the entire ABC song before Christmas and for her to be able to correctly identify all the letters by the time she’s 2.

Wish me luck!

(my MIL was so proud…hahaha…hats off to her, she has been the one tirelessly teaching Andrea so many things)

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Feeding My Baby 

My laptop’s been going crazy for days. I apparently have 13 threats in my pc. My ear phones aren’t working properly, my office chair lost one of it’s wheels and is now lopsided. My office desk has one drawer which won’t open properly. WHAT IS HAPPENING? It’s as if the heaven’s contrived to make sure I barely get any work done. I think I’ll have to start looking at better computer desks, anti virus softwares and computer chairs just to guarantee that I can keep working. Argh!

Things have been quite difficult lately. It’s really demotivating to have to trudge day after day after day wondering “What next? What else could possibly go wrong?”. It’s tiring and it’s really taking a toll on me.

I sometimes wonder why it has to be so hard. I am not really planning anything grand or anything bad. I just want to do things which will put my life and Andrea’s in order. I guess I’m still reaping the results of several bad decisions and missteps from the past. I just wish it were a little bit easier and simpler. I seriously have been setting my life on track and I’m working really hard to make sure this happens…but there are just too many problems that pop-up…sigh.

Looking at the big picture I know my problems are almost petty it’s not like my husband’s cheating or I’m in a job I hate or I’m suffering from mesothelioma. I know this in theory but it’s getting harder and harder to remember this fact.

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies.

FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY

I know of people who seem to be in love with love.

They associate love with the feeling of infatuation, the giddiness the goosebumps, the chills.

This is the kind of love we see in movies, the kind of love people write poems about. I don’t agree that this is love.

People have dubbed me as “bato”, “manhid”, too logical, cynical or even jaded because I don’t see love as they do.  I almost believed them.

I realized now that I do believe in love, but I know of love in a different way. I see this form of love everyday in different relationships and I am awed at how beautiful it is. I see it in so many ways:

• I see it in a couple with strong personalities who are both willing to look beyond the beliefs they’ve had since childhood to consider the possibility that maybe their partner’s point of view is right.
• It’s in a person who tries very hard to sugar coat what she needs to say in order for the partner not to get hurt.
• It’s when someone decides to leave everything comfortable and familiar in order to be in a place the other person is happy in.
• It’s when a person feels strongly that things are supposed to be done in a certain way but lets go because doing things the “wrong” way is very important to the other person.
• It’s when a person who’s used to having things done her way suddenly pauses to think about what the other person might think.
• It’s when a couple endures the pain and discomfort of arguing over a point knowing that this will make their relationship stronger.
• It’s when a person feels comfortable enough to be himself with another.
• It’s when a person tries out things he doesn’t particularly like because it pleases another.  
• It’s the security one gets when in a relationship

I see these in my relationship and in my friends’ and I realize that I like this kind of love better than any kilig I can get.