✿Violets Murmur ✿✿♫

I'm not much for celebrating my birthdays but I do get excited when presented with such adorable holidays,  especially those that let the little kid in me be excited about dressing up and looking for all sorts of scares. So yes, I like Halloween... even though Filipinos don't originally celebrate it... and some of the people I know actually frown upon the practice. :P But hey, I love it because for one day, at least, acting like a kid is somehow excusable. Hahaha! Sadly though, I have no party to go to this year. Also, I don't feel like celebrating -- not that I'm much of a party person on ordinary days, mind you. I'm a determined wallflower. Fortunately, I did have an early Halloween treat. I got to go to Parkmall's Horror Park! Yay! It was so much fun! They really do have cool scares. And the "monsters" were so game, they come out and deliver their frights with such perfect timing that I actually screamed hysterically a couple of times. An...

Just created my first ever knitting design -- cable-stitched fingerless gloves! Yay! Here's the short of it... I just resigned from my latest regular office job and am currently catching up on all the hobbies I've sorely missed when I was still frantic with ridiculously impossible quotas and tear-inducing deadlines. So, here I am... going back to my knitting, crocheting, reading, and telly-watching -- not to mention my blogging. Finished 5 books, caught up on my TV shows, and found all my crafting tools from my poorly organized box... just last month. Have also been able to get my lappie fixed and got most of my personal errands done... except for a couple or so. Not bad eh? But the thing I'm most proud of accomplishing lately is that I finally got to create my own knitting pattern design... something that actually required more than plain straight lines. Hehe. Et voila! Got the idea from a friend who was suffering from an over-enthusiastic air conditioning applia...

I have taken this journal for granted so badly lately that I have actually been doubtful about posting anything new. It's almost the middle of the year and this is just my first post. So embarrassing. o.O But hey, this is a special occasion and I just wanted to post a shout out to some of the most amazing people in the world... moms. Moms at our church were serenaded by some of the kids I used to teach art to. They were so adorable. ^_^ Awesome WFC Moms My beautiful godmother, Mommy Helen. And of course, I can't leave out my wonderful mama... who I miss very very very much! Even Google got into the spirit of things with this cute doodle. Happy Mother's Day to all mom, mums, mamas, madres, mères, and mga ina! *bow* Since I don't have enough dough to send flowers to my mom and sisters... opted for a virtual one instead. (spied this at church, too. haha)

I'm a pretty reactive person, but I've been trying to minimize it on print for the past years because I've ruined past blogs because of them. Yes, I tended to rant...  a lot. When I made this one, I made a promise to myself that I would try to avoid it this time. Sometimes though, you just have to speak up because choosing not to might be more of a travesty. That's exactly how I felt when I wrote the one below. And yes, I really did send this to his FB account as a private message. I bet they disregarded this as some insignificant garbage from an equally insignificant pesky Cebuana. Well yes, I am a "nobody", if you really think about it. I am just a blogger (which are a dime a dozen, these days) who likes to write online, mostly about food... sometimes about things she's passionate about. I have no grand delusions about being a great "somebody"... or "anybody". But I AM a FILIPINO... and a tax payer... and no I didn't vote for him....

This surprised me when I pressed "home" on my net browser.  Strange, but cute. ^_^ Grazie, Google! I guess? And no, I still don't celebrate it. Haha!

as endearing as the fluffiest bunny rabbit munching on a carrot or a husky puppy tilting its head while giving you that "Am I cute or what?" look. Hahaha! And no, I'm not saying you're a bunny rabbit or a husky puppy, Maria Myka. That's just my long-winded version of saying you're super cute when you're excited about a cup of coffee--mind you, it was one humongous cup. I would've been equally happy myself if I had the moolah to spare for one. :P And yes, that's exactly how I feel about this delightfully yummy beverage myself. You and I are definitely kindred spirits, girly girl. Haha! Your eyes practically turned into hearts, Myka. Swearz! ^_^

Yes, these adorable people with their adorable tunes have been lately plaguing my head... some stuff on my everyday playlist... tunes I get to listen to every day. See what I just did there? And yes, the Grammar Nazi in me strikes again. It rears its ugly head, arm, and foot once in a while, I tell you. Yep, I'm an advocate of the Oxford comma. So sue me! :P One of my all-time faves... Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars A recently discovered treasure from an old love... Sara Bareilles' Brave An amazingly lovely cover of a song I wasn't able to appreciate before this... Sara Bareilles' cover of Beyonce's All The Single Ladies Some of my many faves from my long-time crushie... Jason Wade *sigh* Lifehouse's All In, Broken, and Blind Some tunes from a cute artist I just discovered a few months ago... Kina Grannis' In Your Arms and The One You Say Goodnight To An addictive earworm I'd gladly be addicted to every now and then... The ...