Angel

It was quite a year from me, a lot of changes, a lot of adjustments, so let me racap my life for the past year.

January

- Came back after a six weeks vacation from the US.

- Resigned from SMART Communications, the company I have worked for, for 4 years and 3 months.  This is my first formal job which I resented during the first half of my stay, but when I was already leaving, my heart couldn’t take the pain, I have grown to love my job and my colleagues that If I didn’t have to leave, am sure to be still working there at this time.

February

- Got married (see my blog at http://www.katecent.blogspot.com).  Getting married was so stressful that I shed off all the weight I gained from vacationing from Nov-Dec 2005.  It was the biggest event I planned in my entire life and I am glad that we pulled it off.  Being married was so overwhelming that I couldn’t help but cry several times from the preparation to the reception. 

March

- Went to our honeymoon of course =).

- Left my country, my life as I was used to it and my family to embrace my new life.  It was the hardest thing I had to do in my 25 years of existence, leaving my country and the way I lived was hard enough, my friends can attest as to how I love my mother land and how happy I am living my life, but leaving my family, it was heartbreaking.  I couldn’t get myself to say my goodbyes, I know it was not permanent, but I love my family so much that I don’t know if I can live 8,000 miles away from them for who knows how long.  In the end, I embraced the fact that I am now married and have a new life ahead of me with the one I love.

-  Started a new life with Bong, my loving husband.  It was hard at the start, a whole new adjustment for me and for both of us.  As we all know, I am not really well known for being a homebody as I can be always seen at the mall, gym or at the cafe.  Somehow I learned to cope with doing household chores and being alone at the apartment during the day except on weekends when my hubby would take me to malls, parks or other tourist spots.

April

- I had a mild depression probably because of the everyday routines of doing nothing but chores, hehe.  Seriously, I had trouble letting go of my life as it was before.

- Hubby and I celebrated our annivesary (boyfriend-girlfriend) at Asheville, NC.

May-June

- celebrated my 1st birthday away from my parents and siblings but I had 2 months of celebrating it as hubby’s bday present, it’s a different way of celebrating my birthday, but it was a very happy one.

July

- I had one of my poems published for the 2nd time in a coffee table book, I was so happy because unlike the 1st time, I was able to buy the book now.

- We moved to another apartment and got so stressed that I gained at least 5 lbs from binging. 

- My sister gave birth to her son, Johan Ezekiel, first pamangkin in our family and we are just so excited to see him when we go home in the Philippines this year.

August-October

- We moved to Shreveport, Louisiana for hubby’s work but left our things behind in Raleigh.  It was a difficult adjust for both of us, the weather was terrible and our first hotel room was so cramped.  Luckily, by mid-September we were able to move to a better hotel.

- Gained 10 lbs. Our 1st hotel didn’t have a kitchen so all we had to eat were microwavable frozen dinners not to mention we oftentimes eat out at Chinese Buffets or Buffets in Casinos which are by the way plentiful in the Shreveport area.

- My sister in law gave birth to her daughter, Izzy, after seven years of waiting, God gave them a gift.

November-December

- We moved back to Raleigh and are now sharing an apartment with Enyel and Irene.

-  Lost 14 lbs probably in the process of moving here and there.

-  Happy to finally be back here in our first home in US with a lovely weather and great friends.

-  Happy to finally have my hubby for the whole two months to myself because he didn’t have project at that time.  He really needed the break from all the stress from work and I am on the verge of losing my sanity from being by myself most of the time.

So there, my 2006 in a not so nutshell… =)

It was a very important year for me, there have been a lot of changes, a lot of adjustments, but what’s important is the lessons I have learned from all of these experiences, and that hubby and I are together.