first pics of the year...

as promised, here are the pics from new year :)

the holiday season that was...

i know i owe you some pictures of the holidays. it's taken me ages to post them so i decided to just create a slideshow (oh so lazy chie!). the holidays were the usual holidays we have, christmas being busier than new year...new year pics in the next post :)

make way for 2009

yup, it's a new year, literally and figuratively. well, as we say adios to '08 and hola to 2009, i'd like to say goodbye to bad luck and everything bad, negative and hopeless. i want, hope and above all, pray that 2009 will be a better year for my family and everyone reading this post. i pray that personally, it'll be the year that things start to get better for me in all aspects.

thank you to my family who never fails to pick-me-up everytime i talk to them or read their posts and messages here on balanced insanity. for my sister, who took me in for a couple of months, thank you for being a lifeline. i love you guys...

i say thank you to friends who have remained constant despite the squabbles and differences we went through. they say that you will know who your friends are when you go through difficult phases in your life. for my friends, especially the meanies, i know i'm a big pain in the ass and i give difficult an entirely different meaning when i'm in my not-so-nice moods but THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for staying with me.

for a Power unlike any other, THANK YOU for keeping that voice in my head and feeling in my heart that says "keep going"...don't ever let go of me....