Kasabay ng pagkalagas ng isa sa pamilya ay ang panahon ng tag-lagas dito sa Canada (Fall season).  Hindi pa namin alam na nawala na si Tiyong Pabling ng kuhanan ko ito gamit ang cellphone ko habang naglalakad sa kalyeng madalas kong daanan.

Naka Spaghetti strap pa ako, kunwari hindi ko nararamdaman yung dumadamping lamig sa hubad na bahagi ng katawan ko pero hindi ako nakatiis.  Isinuot ko ang sweat shirt na binaon ko bago ako umalis ng bahay.

Habang daan nakita ko ang isang squirrel na umaaligid aligid sa isang bahagi ng lupa sa labas ng soccer court, nagbubungkal ng lupa at naghahanap ng pagkain.  Iniisip ko, bakit ang hayop na ito ay kayang mamuhay mag-isa sa gitna ng lansangan…bakit ako hindi.

Sensya na.  Fall season kasi.  Panahon din ng pagsulpot ng depresyon.  Noong una, may nakapagsabi lang sa akin na marami ang nababaon sa depresyon kapag ganitong panahon, hindi ko alam na aatakihin din pala ako nito.

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Mackenzie and I could make a book together - in search for a green frog, we found a toad not just once but thrice - how was that for a title?

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This was the message I saw taped in Mike’s front door when I climbed the stairs to his cottage. I was surprised when I read this, I didn’t realize that he is this cordial person. I saw him twice, well this was the third time I saw him, the last time was in my birthday party that my uncle threw for me last year.

He called A First Nation in this country. The Indian people who were the very first souls that reached Canada. I only watched them in the movies, and now I even hibernated at his place together with my group for two days.

He loves to utter the words “This is my country” whenever we talk about what he can do (,and what he cannot), and then we will all be bursting into laugh.

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Last year, when I was not working yet my uncle and his family had a wonderful fishing day. It was my very first fishing to use a rod.

Living beside the river that goes to Manila Bay, my father was a fisherman in his younger days. I have never seen him doing that noble job but as I grow older, he used to have a small fishing boat and some friends works for him.

I told my father about my fishing and I want him to experience the pleasure of fishing without thinking how much he will earn just to put something on the table. Just plain fun.

This photo was taken last year, I also taking pictures along the lake. I hope to get some good images tomorrow.

See you on Monday night again!

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—–across the sea…to be near you…to be free….

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I saw this beside the pool this afternoon.  I was so excited grabbing my camera because this toad seem wants to play around, it didn’t even jump away from me when I was aiming my camera at him/her…whatever lol!

I so love my workplace; I described it like a zoo. Last time my employer catches a turkey from the bush, I got some pictures of it, but I was using my cell phone, so the images didn’t turn out well. If only I can take pictures of deer as close as this toad, that would be very pleasing.

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What is the difference between spending my weary Sunday afternoon inside my dreary room (which is looked like a dorm, my friend say) with cluttered books, baggy and some mails (not to mention the junk foods, drinks, strings of hairs that fell off my head -I am getting bald soon, me a bald lady, I can’t imagine how I am going to look like- and some personal belongings) and sitting in the shaded part of the park with my current reading and two bags of groceries and of course my undying point and shoot camera?

Because I was again, attacked by monstrous boredom - I compare him with Goliath, and I am David, ready to sling a stone to strike my opponent (monstrous boredom), but instead I hit the shower room, wear my once used jeans and I didn’t forget my shirt of course. I picked my book -the single women’s best friend according to one movie I have watched - and beat the humid weather and yet again, the lonesome street.

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I blogged about how I was so upset when this child called me idiot because I kept her toys while she was still playing with it. I admit that I was kind of distressed during my first few months working with the youngest daughter of my employer, the new environment was so different for me that I don’t know how to muddle through when I am with the three siblings, especially when all of them are gushed with rage (lol! As in I am feeling I am in the middle of war whenever they are fighting).

However, working with them for almost a year now is a work in progress, although I sometimes still having a hard time with this little girl, I know I can sway with her moods now.

She’s not calling me idiot anymore. There is yelling and screaming now and then but she knows when to stop when I say stop.

She sometimes calls me mom, and then she remembers I am her nanny. She called me step mom once that jolted me from my sit. Of course, if you say step mom, there’s only one that comes to my mind and that is the wicked step mom in the fairy tales, so I asked her to call me God Mother instead.

“Why are you calling me step mom/God mom anyway?” I asked her.

“Because you are just like my mom, you are feeding me, bath me, taking care of me, and you love me. I love you God mom.”

Today, she was so bored, I came to her, and she shoo me away. When I lay down in the laundry room, it puts a smile on her face and decided to join me. I say that we had fun playing Frisbee outside, and I asked her to join me playing basketball, she refused at first but join me after when she saw that I was having fun.

When I saw her turn in her bubbles, I grabbed my point and shoot camera and got some pictures of her. She is always a stunning model to me.

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I said that I have to move my butt from laziness. I feel so sluggish making a post after three consecutive sponsored posts; it is so unlikely of me if you’re going to ask some friends/readers about this whole blog monetizing changes in my site. A blogger who once thought that making my blog a business will corrupt my mind (pardon my little brain exposing my then thought.) Even so, I have to accept now that I enjoy it, when I see my PayPal account accumulate some bucks from advertisers.

I enjoy everything about it, except of course if I know nothing about the given task, it screwed up my mind, it seems like playing a 2500 piece of puzzle, It’s challenging though. I have to read the product or the sites first before I do the task and finding myself typing a blah blah blah in the end. Still, I have to be thankful because the advertisers accept the posts.

My next? That’s a big problem, what do I know about a hen party? But still I have to do that assignment, especially now that I intended to buy Nikon D60. I said, I want to get the camera by hook or by crook (insert a cynical smiley face here), and I don’t have anything in mind where to get the money to buy my next baby but doing some product or site review and maybe affiliation soon.

I’m doomed to pursue a business until I get my US$700. Wow! I just set a goal now, I can’t believe it.

Now I want to show you this photo I took yesterday afternoon, after playing in the trampoline, yes I played with them, and I did nothing but to scream while the big girl, Miranda, doing her usual gymnastic stunt in the trampoline. It just makes me believe that I am getting older and older; I can’t do the jump as higher as the kids do anymore and my knees are now complaining (Jesus! I want to cry.)

They asked me to change into a bathing suit after the trampoline fun and go straight to the pond, but I declined. I told them I’ll just watch them because I didn’t bring any bathing suit, I’m too shy to wear one, maybe some other time.

I could be better if I’ll post as  the photographer of a real action gymnast stunt by this pretty and surprising Miranda in the dock. She’s good, I wonder why she stopped attending her gymnastic class. What’s funny here is she did a lot of stunts in the dock but scared to touch the turtle with her feet while swimming in the pond.

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“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” - Pope John Paul II

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