Bull Runner's Bestfriend - Samsung Galaxy Tab

Samsung Galaxy Tab Life 2.0 helps Bull Runner Jaymie Pizarro balance her family life and active lifestyle as a runner and graphic designer.

Goodbye memories

My laptop crashed. Or more likely my hard drive did. I've been wary of my laptop's condition for some time now. It's been awfully noisy and prompts me all the time that I have low disk space. It's been warning me but I didn't listen. Until it crashed one day and I lost everything. Everything. Thousands of original (and only) copies of digital photographs of Offspring since birth, years worth of documents, mp3s, movies and scanned images.  I know we should have upgraded into 500gb hard drive years ago but we neglected to do so. Now it's gone and there's nothing we can do to retrieve those files.

Gadgets for the mom

Hello there! It's been so long since I last posted here. Nothing new here, just trying to wean Una from breastfeeding. It's a slow process but we're getting there. The reason I've been neglecting this blog for the past month is that I got addicted into reading urban fantasy books. GoodReads is a great site where one can read book reviews from real book lovers. Vampire is the recent theme for my book list. 

Do you have an account there or any other book related website?

Another thing that's keeping this mom busy is my new Nintendo DS Lite. I have to thank DK for that. Imagine my shock when I woke up one morning with the box of DS Lite beside my pillow. Let's just say I am one happy mommah! 

I don't have that much games yet, God forbid, DS games will be my downfall for their prices!

Our recent purchase would be our wireless mouse. It's our 4th mouse, let's hope that this will last longer than the other ones we had. Our first mouse was an A4Tech USB retractable mouse, Una had a lot of fun playing with the pulley of that mouse. Same with the other two that we bought this time in CD-R King, on the cheaper side (only P180 for retractable mouse) but both had short life span. Hopefully with this new one, we will have our money's worth because it is quite expensive for my taste.

 You must agree, it's really cute, yes?

Crying over spilled milk

Literally. I thought it would be the end of my future blogging career. And it all started with introducing Una to drinking formula milk.

I've been breastfeeding Una for 17 months now and was planned to start weaning her as soon as she turned one this January. But we have one big problem. Una doesn't want to feed from a bottle, even if it's expressed milk in the bottle. She's always been the Miss Grab-Mommy's-Boobs-Whenever-I'm-Hungry. Recently, she's been extra cranky whenever I stop her from watching too much cartoons (I blame her Dada for that) and she intentionally bit one of my boobs, intentionally if I may add. Only then that I really pursued of stopping her with breastfeeding. With that in mind, DK and I bought Gain Plus Advance and gave her a dose. She's a bit hesitant but we're able to finish all of it. Just so you know, Una doesn't want to drink on her Avent bottle. She used to with a soft spout with her water but still not with milk. She's then used a tumbler straw for her water but still won't drink with milk. I gave the milk to her in a cup and she drank it all like a champion. Makes me proud of her small achievement, even rewarded with a burp from my little girl!

So when she asked for a second dosage, I was ecstatic and gave her another. Only this time, we made a mistake of giving it to her near the laptop and then bam! Milk spilled on the laptop's screen and it blacked out! I was so scared but DK and I we're able to at least contain the spillage. He immediately removed the battery and wiped it clean. It took roughly two hours of letting it dry and tried turning it on. Fortunately, it worked on my last attempt. Wow! I just cannot imagine my life without the laptop. All of my documents and downloaded files. Thank God it's only minor.

For now on, DK and I decided that there will be no more food and drinks allowed near the laptop.

Image credit: radarxlove