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What I'd give to have this in the bedroom everyday,,,

Hubby, Little One, Teddy and Sheep-Sheep playing with Jakobo (the laptop) and cam.





Mommy gets to join (on cooking break) but camera doesn't like her.

Happy Thursday Morning

With humility, I confess. I am addicted to rain, cigarettes, coffee and friends.

Had a great rainy, breezy Thursday morning with Mother D. We talked about our shared love for geeks (and how the yummiest ones seem to be those that play Magic), Eat Bulaga, the imbecile who said that "English is the language of learning... Filipino is for the streets," fidelity (in romantic relationships), love and how it can never be selfless, some mean girls stealing/attempting to steal someone's boyfriend, Josie's return to the Philippines and how her India experience has prepared her for all types of corporate hell... I miss them. Too bad Kleyr wasn't able to join us.

I am a fulfilled life addict today.

Thanks to Starbucks for not being able to sustain its previously proclaimed non-smoking advocacy. The world loves sell-outs. A sector in society will always benefit from a corporation's hypocrisy. Oh the beauty of the consumerist world. Snicker... Snicker...


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Beginning today

I will strive to master the art of not caring about what you do and, more importantly, what you don't do.

THE HERMIT
http://www.telp.com/tarot/it/hermit.htm

The Hermit has left the warmth and comfort of the enclosing walls of home, left behind the bright and noisy room where friends talk, children play, and lovers embrace. He has journeyed out into the dark night with lantern and staff, to find a quiet spot to sit and read, to enter his own thoughts yet again.

Solitude can be beneficial. It can help us center, gain perspective, and introspect. Silence also allows for a special kind of connection with the divine. No longer surrounded by throngs of people and their urgent purposes, the Hermit hears the subtle, whispered messages of the cosmos. We also need time alone to heal ourselves after conflict or loss.

The Hermit's personality is strongly introverted, and this may shut him off from the intimacy he yearns for. He's eager to understand the words in his book, but fears understanding the people in his life. He wishes he could touch like the couple silhouetted in doorway of the house, but is immobilized by fear when he seeks to initiate a relationship. So he retreats from the challenge of reaching out, and withdraws, isolating himself in his private world instead. Solitude need not equate with loneliness, but it may, and often does. Perhaps the Hermit secretly wishes someone would follow him out into the silences, and embrace him there. He doesn't know how to ask for companionship, so he feels helpless in his isolation.

Even in the context of a relationship, the introverted personality of the Hermit can present difficulties. When stressed, he withdraws, and communication may break down as a result. He is uncomfortable with the immediacy and unpredictability of direct emotion, but can appreciate another's feelings if they are rendered in more objective, abstract tones, like the words in his book.

The Hermit can make many positive contributions to a relationship. He tends to have good self-knowledge, depth of character, and honesty. To bring these gifts into a healthy relationship, though, his energy must be blended with that of other, more extroverted archetypes, such as the Fool, the Magician, the Empress, the Lovers, or the Sun. If he does not connect with these energies himself, his partner may have to provide them, which can place a burden on the relationship.

The Hermit's intimacy is with his own thoughts, and with the secrets of the cosmos. Such intimacy-in-solitude is beautifully enriching, if he can overcome being trapped and limited by habitual aloneness.

Life would have been sweeter if women evolved from whales, not monkeys. The bigger, the rounder, the better. And who will need to worry about unwanted hair? Or sagging you-know-whats? Or stretch marks? Hay naku.

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