MMMiii!

Lately, I’ve been checking out ukay-ukays (if I’m out during daylight) for handbags.

Yes, the girly handbags. I want to buy at least one. My sense of fashion is awful and the price really has to match. So until now, I still haven’t been able to buy one for myself.

And then Sarah sent me the invite for Handbag Planet’s launch on October 15 for free handbags. They’re going to be giving away 24 handbags in 24 hours on that day–absolutely free. No shipping and handling. It doesn’t even mention anything if you need to be in a certain country to avail of it. Wouldn’t it be nice to have one of these trendy bags for free?

I would! I really wish I would win. I saw one bag that I really liked and even if I don’t win it, if the price is right, I might seriously consider getting it. Or I’ll be looking all over the discount stores for something like it.

Sign up anyways! Won’t lose anything, might gain something!

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Corvettes are Sexy. Don’t you agree?

But Corvettes will never have a place in this country. Well… maybe in showrooms, or really mad rich filthy filthy rich car collectors. I want a corvette though. Although I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to afford one with my meager salary, but dreaming is free, right?

I’ll probably be dressing up my corvette or keep customizing it. I’ll be adding stuff like fancy stylish wheels or housing for the headlights. I’ll decorate it with stuff like wings maybe, like Ayu’s backpack… somehow.

Inside, I’ll make sure it’s got nice floormats with matching seatcovers and matching steering wheel cover and … well… and an uber cool dashboard–matching as well. I’ll probably end up having a set and I’ll go broke just prettifying my car.

To top it all that, I don’t drive at all.

I’ll have to live in the States for it to have meaning (or reality) and since http://www.corvetteguys.com ships out their parts for free this July, I’ll probably buy from that site.

Well, to sum it all up, my pet corvette will be like my baby Taba who is high maintenance because I buy all sorts of stuff for it without it giving me anything in return. Except maybe an empty pocket and a headache.

P.S. He (Taba) chewed on the other ear of my Sennheiser earphones (that he mangled a couple of days ago).

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Who ever said that being on Night Shift is healthy?
Who ever said that being on a different shift every month or every two weeks is healthy?
I don’t think anyone would.

Being on a shifting schedule is unhealthy, yes, but what kind of unhealthiness? Especially if you’re on Night Shift, and your schedule only changes with an 8-hour difference, but still basically at night?

While waiting for UnionBank to open this morning at Starbucks, I was so bored that I read the papers (Yes, OMG! I can read!). I just found out that the country is having a food shortage and that the Ifugao Rice Terraces was selected as a UN treasure or something and that they’re kind of renegotiating our country boundaries for the Kalayaan Group/Spratly Islands, and some other stuff. Well, the only one I really read on was the Ifugao Rice Terraces.

What caught my eye was an article about how being on Night Shift can cause sleep deprivation (no, really?) and the health problems that come with it. What really piqued my interest in the article was how people had a higher risk of obesity when they’re on Night Shift. Because you get more hungry often when you’re on Night Shift and something to do about your metabolism and body clock and what not. I do notice that always, after my shift, I’m so hungry. Like I’m starving. So I grab something to eat sometimes on the way home, and when I arrive home, I’m going to eat again because Mama cooked breakfast to me (I know I could say ‘no,’ but who the hell can say ‘no’ to Filipino breakfast?).

Double breakfast.

I also think feel that I’m getting a tad heavier. *sigh* *starts blaming getting fatter on Night Shift*

But anyways, there were tips on coping with Shift Work.

Coping with shift work

Sleep experts suggest various ways to cope with unusual work and sleep schedules.

• Regular hours: Keep the same sleep schedule on days off from work.
  • No really? It’s past five pm, going on sick six and I’m still awake. Although… I really should be waking up at this time on normal work days. I time myself. I try to sleep by 10am, not later than 11am. I wake up at 4pm, not later than 5pm. That’s on normal days, but today is my day off…
• Strategic napping: Studies show naps of 20 minutes to two hours — either just before a shift or during a shift — can improve alertness and performance at work.
  • Strategy? Like whenever I’m Sleeping at Work? I’m really trying to avoid that now. What I do is if I get done early with bath and dinner, I sleep until 5:30pm or 5:45pm.
• Bright light: Exposure to bright lights during the first half of a shift may help fight fatigue later in the shift.
  • I’m not really sure about this. It’s always usually bright there, so I don’t really know the difference if I started in a dark place or bright one.
• Light restriction: Avoiding bright lights in the morning (such as by wearing sunglasses on the way home and sleeping in a very dark room) can help night-shift workers sleep better during the day.
  • I think my mother noticed that I’m still really having a hard time sleeping in the day even after she put curtains on my windows to kind of reduce the sunlight so I could sleep, so she put on thicker
    curtains. I really love my mother. Now it’s dark … ish…. here, but it’s really a LOT of improvement. I just got hooked up on J-Drama what’s why I’m still awake, not because of the light.
  • I have these neat cheapo shades that I use a lot these days. I bought 2 expensive ones but they weren’t dark enough. One was P200 and the other one was P250. This uber neat shades was just P55. One can usually find the best buy in cheapo places like Dakki or Daisan or whatever you call it, or Uncle Ben’s Store… Ugh, I can’t remember. But it’s UBL sunglasses and I got it in a Japan Home+Dakki+Daisan(?) Store.
    
• Melatonin: Supplements can promote daytime sleep when taken an hour or two before bedtime.
  • Haven’t tried. Probably will not try.
• Modafinil: This medication, brand name Provigil, was approved in 2004 for the treatment of shift-related sleep disorder. Taken just before a shift, it can enhance alertness at night, studies have shown.
  • Haven’t tried. Probably will not try.
• Caffeine: Caffeine has been shown to counteract drops in performance levels at night.
  • I love coffee. Except that coffee hates me. I have hyper-acidity and coffee gives me diarrhea as well. But sometimes, I do feel the need, and sometimes it doesn’t really wake me up, but it’s good anyway.

Sources: Dr. Diane Boivin; American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
c/o Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times

Stolen from … Darn I forgot. I’m not even sure if it’s Manila Times. -_-;; But thank you, one of the local news papers. I do remember the page. It’s on E4.

The ones in italics are just my side comments. Don’t pay too much attention to them.

Anyway, my first thought of this was, “This should be shown to all Call Center Agents. This should be circulated so that we can all stay healthy.” A lot of my teammates have fallen ill and may resign because of health issues. It’s really sad.

So… to all you call center agents out there who are on shifting schedules or always on night shift, make sure that you get enough sleep.

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Lately, I’ve been hanging out in eBay. I’m getting frustrated not being able to get my money from PayPal because Xoom is being utterly stupid. Not that I’ve got a lot in my PayPal, but still… it would be nice to be actually touching them or seeing them take interest in my bank account, right?

So… I signed up for eBay! And I bought three things.

Silicone Skin Case for my Zen V Plus with lanyard and armband.

You’re probably thinking I’m crazy. The item is $1.00 but shipping is $9.49, a total of $10.49. If you convert that to peso, that’s still less than how much the silicone skin case will cost here. Including the arm band. So I’m still fine with that. It’ll just take about a month to get here plus red tape, so that’s two months… maybe.

Brand New Sennheiser CX300 Ear Canal Headphone Silver Black.

Actually, I wanted the black one, but stupid me didn’t notice that I bid on the Silver one. I emailed the person and asked him if he could send me the black one instead. I don’t know if it’s real or not, but it’s cheaper than the Phillips in-ear earphones that I’ve been eyeing for some time now. a LOT cheaper, and a LOT cheaper than it’s price in malls. I can’t spend my real money, so why not spend money that I can’t obtain? right?

And my last purchase…

Nodame Cantabile: Megumi’s Piano Pattern Tote Bag + Coin Purse

I don’t remember seeing Nodame with this coin purse, but what the heck. I’ve been wanting to buy a new bag and I don’t see anything that I like that is within my budget (my budget for a new bag is P150). Nothing I see, even in Ukay-Ukays, meet that budget and design that I want. So… I thought of getting the Nodame bag. And it’s … not very cheap, but good enough. It’s about 5 times my budget, but considering I didn’t really spend anything from my salary for these… s’all good.

Well… those are my first eBay purchases. I hope I don’t get addicted and spend too much. The things I usually see have to come from overseas, and knowing how this country’s postage system works, these things will probably arrive past my birthday. *crossing fingers*

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So… how many months have I been working? At work, I have to wear business casual most of the time (except for weekends), and sure I’ve got some slacks. I’ve got one really nice one, one so so, and another one… well… another one which will have to do most of the time.

I wear the three of them in constant rotation. Sometimes just one of them for the whole week when I need to (My shift is Saturday to Wednesday, so I only wear slacks thrice a week… for this month, that is. and last month).

And well… I guess it doesn’t really matter much since it’s just black, but sometimes I wish I had more than one good slacks. I brought this up with my mother and sure enough, she offered me some classy maternity jeans. I know I’m really big and all… *sigh*

BUT ANYWAY… I’m not really into clothes or fashion or what not. I hardly care about how I look. Heck, sometimes a whole week or two passes before I even comb my nice, long, straight black hair which doesn’t tangle much (I mean, comb with a comb. My fingers do the job most of the time, but that’s not really combing, is it?)

I think I’ll go out and get a new pair of slacks tomorrow. *sigh* I hope I Could find a cheap one. Really. It really depresses me sometimes when I go and buy clothes, and they just don’t fit. I know I should diet or something… so that buying clothes won’t depress me anymore. But…

There are good things in life that are just hard to give up. Like noodles.

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I keep forgetting to go to the custom wear sports shop. I’m supposed to be taking care of the ACHGM-DIE Jacket but I keep forgetting. Sometimes I wish we could just get a website that does imprinted promotional products and have our logo and stuff printed and we’d just have it shipped all over the world, but that seems kind of expensive. If I have it made here, all we need to pay for is the jacket, the tailor, and shipping and handling.

But I’m so lazyyyy I need to go to the post office as well to get an estimate on how much the jackets s/h would cost. orz ….

I also want to have that jacket ASAP!

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Dine and Jam again today!

What to wear what to wear >_>

The amigas are going to be complete tonight as well. I think I’m going to wear some fashion jewelry like those earrings Sara gave me last time. They’re pretty nice. I think I need to iron some clothes as well… Aaaahh what to wear???

But I’m going to be crewing tonight I think… So I can’t wear my 3-inch heels, or else I’d be dead before the night is over. I’m pretty excited!

AAAHHH That reminds me, I need to burn Nodame drama I think. x_x

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During my first week as a student teacher, I kept wearing formal clothes–pretty blouse, slacks, 3 inch high closed leather shoes.

This week, I didn’t wear anything that needed ironing (except that one shirt that was really badly rumpled that Mama ordered me to iron it or she’ll iron it with me wearing it).

Because I suddenly have more “decent” clothes that need to be hangered, I’m using my closet more often now than for the past 4 years. My closet has some sort of under cabinet lighting but for some reason, it doesn’t work. Faulty wiring somewhere, because the .. lightbulb holder thingie has been replaced more than once. It works for a while, then doesn’t work anymore. I’ve kind of given up on it already.

But now, it has become a little harder because I need the clothes there and I couldn’t see them properly, so I have to pull out each one of them a little into the light, and put them back, getting them rumpled even after I spent a loooong time ironing.

I NEED TO GET IT FIXED!

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Tomorrow night is Dine & Jam night once again. Once again, I don’t have anything special to wear. Not that I need to dress or go to a prom and would need the advice written about ugly prom dresses… But I would like to wear something really presentable. Like what I would wear to my Student Teaching classes starting June.

I’ve started buying clothes little by little… slowly. Too slow, in fact. I’ve only bought a week and a half’s worth of really presentable clothes. Six blouses to be exact. And two slacks. I was hoping I would get the job I applied for a couple of weeks ago sooner so I could actually buy clothes.

Maybe I’ll wear that button-up shirt I bought before… I’ll have to iron again. OMG. I’ve ironed clothes twice for this month already… after not doing that since high school.

Ahh~~ How nostalgic. I’d be up at 4 or 5 in the morning because I still had to iron my uniform, plus do homework and stuff. XD

Anyway…. Dine & Jam tomorrow. I’m gonna get fat again. :[

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