This has been the fastest year of my life. I can’t believe its already May, & its like the year is almost over. I guess I’m different from most people, coz time goes so fast for most when they’re having fun. For me, I tend to speed dial time & breeze through my days when I don’t particularly like what I’m experiencing at the moment, or I go through time in a daze coz I hanker and look forward to the time when things might get better. So F.U.N. could probably stand for, oh I don’t know, a fundamentally unhappy nightmare of a life. Or maybe I’m just being melodramatic, as always. Well, only a look back at how April was for me, can answer that.
Personal Goals
Spiritual- Only went to Church once this month. Had my first massage of the year – imagine! Maybe that’s why this year has not been such a blast. I do need more of my massages.
Mental- My 1st real USJR Doctoral Class (I was sick & absent last month) – wrote and directed training vignette with my classmates. HR and Industrial Relations class presentations and reports. Never realized Doctoral class was this easy.
Social- Haven't been going out much due to my current lovelife (hah!) problems. Just Holiday Plaza Rooftop with Discon Committee, & even that was just to eat & run.
Financial- Rethinking my coop finances and loans due to Coop Gen Assembly & Annual Dividends Distribution and Results. Explored other potential financial investments (meeting with Prulife & PhilamLife). Paid my life insurance, 1st quarterly payment. Feeling the brunt of paying Club Ultima payments though am still managing things. But there's something to be said for me getting a take home pay of less than 10K. I really must be doing something wrong.
Travel/Rest and Recreation- Didn’t really travel much, but had marathon CD watching for the first time, with Heroes, and Prison Break, and countless VCD movies. Spent Kadaugan holiday walking along downtown Cebu, Colon. Tripping lang.
My Roles
Mother- Holy Week holidays – spending time at home & at Club Ultima or Crown Regency swimming with the kids for so many times, swimming at Vano beach with family, Lower Hermag Fiesta & riding the ferris wheel with the kids. My son's many yaya's: the tomboy, Ate Merle, the one-day maid. Now Ate Jenn. I hope she stays.
Wife- Feeling nagged. His sniping, and side comments, and interrogative questions is getting to me. My nerves are getting frayed. I don't know how much more of this I can take. Really.
Work- Learned a new skill– what with attending an Integrated Mgt System Internal Auditors Training and conducting my first Internal IMS audit. Feeling bad due to feeling lost with Phil Measurements report delay and my own insecurities with working with my team, but there were ok times naman. Facilitated Completed Staff Work Training, & had a great time discussing the concept with supervisor participants.
Talents- Gave a talk on Employee Engagement at Southwestern University to MBA-Executives class. Loved their bouquet, certificate & personalized t-shirt tokens, as well as the sumptious lechon lunch. And they loved my talk! Not bad, considering I crammed final preparations.
Immediate Family- Ella's first year bday celebration in Jollibee. Talking with Ate Ethel for her bday & with Mom on the phone.
Toastmasters- Attended my first Taipan meeting of the year! And my only TM meeting for the month. I’ve taken such a hiatus from TM. Starting to get busy with Secretariat and Registration though.
Homemaker- I managed to clean & organize the music room during the Holy Week.Yehey!
This is all for April I guess. Am really just coping & living with it day by day. But am still OK.
