Congratulations To ME!!!
Hello my dear readers!
First off, I wanna say THANK YOU for reading my blog and for following (hoping..lol!) it. I just want you to know that…
I now have my new site! well, actually, it’s been running for a while now. But, yeah, was so busy to update this one and was very excited to start the new one. 
If you happen to be interested in reading my new blog, visit here: http://www.allaboutjoanmarie.com
See you there! 
Filling In
I’ve been meaning to update this blog and fill you in with the details. But, the time’s just too short for me to waste it. I’ve been very busy juggling and balancing every aspect of my life, lately. That is why blogging have never crossed my mind for quite a while already. Anyhoo, here I am again to fill you in and share to you a chunk of my life. Weepee!
Have I told you the results of my second round? I guess not. Well, anyway, I went to the doctor on the scheduled date and had my, so to speak, second round. I’m still not done with the medications. Still need to drink 120 tablets more and 60 tablets of another med. Whapack! BUT, the good thing is, I am getting better every day. Congratulations to me!
I made quite a number of friends too! I’ve added a lot more and updated my friends’ list (hehehe!:D). The people I disliked before or put a gap with, are actually my friends now. The saying really holds true “If you start treating people as people, they become people” and I am also glad to have them as my friends. I never thought they would be so sweet and kind. Lesson learned: don’t judge the book by its cover (such a cliche!)
I am loving my life these days. Everything seems to be falling into its rightful places. I know someday or sometime from now, it’s going to shake but why worry for tomorrow when the reality exists today, right? Life is just too short to waste in worrying about the future when I can have the present to savor.
Anyhoo (again), need to go. I’ll fill you in soon enough when I’m a bit free already and time’s not running out on my end. have a blast this month! -xoxo!
Hello and Goodbye
It is a common thing in life to meet someone and then say goodbye in the future. Don’t react. Life is always that way. You meet someone but then you need to let go of the other one. It is a matter of letting in and letting go for you can’t have everything in this world. Life needs to have a balance; sometimes you win, sometimes you lose; sometimes you cry, sometimes you laugh. And yes, it’s a cliche, I know.
However, hello and goodbye do not only pertain to the people you meet along the long and winding road, a lot of things can be applied also. It can be your work, your home, anything as long as you let go. That is the painful part of saying hello to a new world because eventually, there comes a point in time where you’re going to say goodbye.
I am currently experiencing this. I do not want to write it in details but I have said hello to something I have been dreaming. I was once happy for I got what I want in life. Yet, recently, I have just received a notification that my dreams have drifted away. I have come to say goodbye to it. So, thank you for that two months of experience. I did learn something from you. THANK YOU.
My emotions are mixed today. I am happy for my burden will be lighter but letting go of the thing I want most is a bit sad too. However, as I have said, life is really like this. It is a cycle…a way of life.
Tomorrow’s a Big Day!
The long wait is over. Tomorrow’s a big day – the judgement day as I shall call it.
I will be absent tomorrow for I need to go to the doctor. Finally, the day has arrived where I can say that I am again healthy or I am still having the illness. I still do not know it yet. All I know is that I feel better everyday; happier, in fact. Well, for tomorrow, this is how I’m going to have my day.
I will wake up early so I can be in the hospital early, too.
Meet the doctor and seek for advice.
Have my second round of Xray
Let the doctor evaluate it
If it’s not good, skin test will follow.
If it’s good, I’ll stop the medication
Whatever the outcome, I think I deserve to be happy and I will be, I know I will be. There’s nothing to be sad about, I think?
Where am I? How am I?
spending my days inside the room
Where am I? How am I?
Actually, I am still a bit groggy right now. Blame it on the medicines I take. Every time I take those medicines, it has never failed to make me feel groggy. I’ve been drugged! I feel like my brain if floating in my head. Sometimes it gives me pain, sometimes it makes me wonder if my brain is still there. I call my medicines as the wonder drugs (hahaha!) You want to know why? Because I always wonder when will this stop and if I still have my brain. And oh! I also wonder if I can still work with this kind of condition. I mean if I can still concentrate on my job.
I spend most of my days inside the four walls of our house. What I do? I usually wake up around 9 in the moring. I, then, eat my breakfast without even washing my face! After eating my breakfast, I will then drink the prescribed medicines. And then I would feel groggy for a while, drugged out! I will then face the computer, read a book, watch a movie or sometimes go back to sleep. Lunch will then arrive. Another meal to eat and another medicine to drink. Oh, I forgot to mention drinking milk has been one of my daily undertakings, which, I do not hate by the way. And yes, joan marie is drugged out again! hahaha! Good thing, when dinner time, medicines are not taken. I can eat it without having to drink yet another set of medicine. Me like it!
For almost two months of having this kind of life, I have become what we usually termed as “home buddy”. Yes, and I like it. I like staying at home already and be the couch potato once more.
I’m Up Again, Finally!
Hello fellow bloggers/readers! it’s been a while since i’ve written. i haven’t realized it took me this long to update my blog again. probably because those days i hid from the world because i was a bit down. but, no worries, i’m up again. i guess laying still won’t help me that’s why i’m getting up already! whoa! congratulations to me! =)
one of the reasons why i laid still was because of my health condition. i guess i haven’t handled it well and yeah, sulk down. but, hey! it’s still not too late. i, by the way, have pulmonary tuberculosis and the spot has gone to more than 3cm in diameter. yes, you’ve read it right. it’s big enough that’s why the doctor advised me to rest and have full blast medication. i’m in treatment, still but slowly recovering. i don’t spit blood no more which is a good sign and have been drinking lots of milk also! i’m a very good patient, yah know! =)
anyway, i’m going to have my second round of skin testing this coming April to see if I still have the PTB and to see if the spot becomes smaller by that time. I do hope it would. I hate this condition but yeah, I can’t do anything anymore except to follow what the doctor says.
currently, i’m doing fine. i feel healthy each day though lately i’ve been having occasional dry cough but still managing to eliminate the bacteria inside my lungs. someone told me i’m gaining more meat thus more weight! kudos! coz you see, i’m very thin! it’s a good sign that i’m gaining already at least there’s a light and a big possibility that i’ll be well and ptb-free this april. help me pray, though.
thanks for the prayers!
this is my latest pic...see?i'm up again and happy!
troubled
sometimes you have to think back
sometimes life can be a bit rough. it may throw a stone at you in times where you’re unready. it may also shake the foundation you’ve set for yourself. and right at this moment, that’s what’s happening to me. Read the rest of this entry »
something to ponder on from the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
I have read about this book and I really love the story. Mitch Albom really stirred and comforted the readers. Nice. Very nice. For those of you who haven’t read this one yet or for those who have read yet missed a point, I’ll leave you with some of the lessons I’ve learned in this book.
* all endings are also beginnings.
* no stories sits by itself. sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.
* when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.
* the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.
* people often belittle the place where they were born. but heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. and heaven itself has many steps.
* people think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. but scenery without solace is meaningless.
* the greatest gift from god is to let you understand what happened in your life and have it explained.
* when you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished
* fathers can ruin their sons
* fairness does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die young
* strangers are just family you have yet to come to know
* no life is a waste. the only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone
* war could bond men like magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too.
* dying? not the end of everything. we think it is. but what happens on earth is only the beginning.
* he wakes up the next morning and he has a fresh new world to work with, butu he has something else, too. he has his yesterday.
* heaven is when you get to make sense of your yesterdays
* sacrifice is a part of life. it’s supposed to be. it’s not something to regret. it’s something to aspire to.
* sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. you’re just passing it to someone else.
* our eyes are different. what you see ain’t what i see
* all parents damage their children. it cannot be helped. youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
* sons will adore their fathers through even the worst behavior. it is how they learn devotion. before he can devote himself to god or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.
* you have peace when you make it with yourself
* parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. they move on. they move away. the moments that used to define them – a mother’s approval, a father’s nod – are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. it is until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
* better to be loyal to one another
* silence is rarely a refuge
* holding anger is a poison. it eats you from inside. we think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. but hatred is a curved blade. and the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
* no one is born with anger
* people say the “find” love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. but love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. what people find then is a certain love
* love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. but sometimes, under the angry heat of lie, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending its roots, keeping itself alive.
* lost love is still love
* life has to end. love doesn’t
* silence is worse when you know it won’t be broken
* it is never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary
* each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one
I hope you’ve read those that i have listed. They were all from the book. If you have time, read the book and enjoy!
despite of it all, i need to work
Have you ever get the feeling where you’re too tired to work or jump out of the bed and just curl up and enjoy the warmth of the blanky? Well, I have and it’s not good.
The rain is nonstop this week. Sun hasn’t shown yet and because of this, I get the feeling of tiredness. Every time I wake up early in the morning to go to work, I always catch myself nagging. I still want to sleep or just lay down on my bed cuddling my pillow and curling under the warmth of my blanky. The weather is making me lazy, actually. All I want to do is to slump and be a couch potato like I’ve always been. Maybe that’s the answer why I am a bit grumpy in the morning. (hehe)
But, the good side of me won; the responsible side, that is. I came to think that if I skip work, what will I spend until the next month’s pay day? How will I be able to earn? Will I even have good credentials if I quit? Darn. Responsibility governed over me. That’s why, despite of the laziness and tiredness I feel, I need to work. No matter how much I nag, still, I have no escape from work. tsk!
My Corporate Personality
The office required us to take this test. Here is my result.=)
Many years ago there was a period of time that is often casually called “Medieval.” It was a time, so the story tellers tell us, of tiny kingdoms, brave knights and ferocious dragons.
Transportation and travel were both crude and difficult, usually necessitating that each kingdom be as self sufficient and self reliant as possible. So it was very important that within each kingdom all the major crafts and professions of the day were ably represented to insure the survival of the kingdom. In the English language we still see remnants of some occupations in the familiar surnames such as Smith, Carpenter, Miller and Baker to name just a few. Read the rest of this entry »
