Eat, drink and be married!

I am in sucha severe backlog of posts, sometimes I wish time would stop for me to complete all these jumbled updates. Here's a post written quite awhile ago, our musings which still crack me up. 



14 WEEKS

Today you turn 14 weeks, the size of a lemon and the app says you start to grow peach fuzz all over!

Momma and Dadda had a talk about pairing you with a dear friend's son - the assumption is, if you are a girl! Then I joked about how Dadda would be super protective and follow you on your first date. And if anyone dares to break your heart, he will punch them.

*At the point, tears well up and I blame nothing but the hormones*

16 WEEKS

Momma made her first purchase for you this week -  it's a lightbox!!! I think I'm more excited than anyone else about this box...which will be featured in all photography sessions...think baby styling and all the cutesy stuff.

Dadda thinks I'm bonkers when I go gaga over baby moccasins and even a baby teepee for your stuffed toys. He says maybe you won't like to wear shoes. Hurhur.
 
Then comes the eternal debate of how we want you to look like - Mommy's eyes, Daddy's nose and lips that are an in between. AND Daddy says that looks like Mr Potato. =_="""" Momma is not impressed.

How are you inside? I choked on my own saliva and ended up coughing till I nearly puked - Grandma says it must have felt like tornado inside with these thunderous sounds up above. We already look forward to meeting you in July...now will it come quick?

21 WEEKS

I cried because the expectations of impending parenthood proved a bit too much to bear, and dadda was away for most of the month. The things that your grandparents do so selflessly for us - and grandma says these are the things I will do for you next time.

*tap starts running again*

What if we aren't good enough parents? What if this and that and...argh, the hormones.

23 WEEKS

Dadda made me laugh so hard when I asked him why pregnancy isn't for men -

1. Men are pussies when it comes to pain
2. Men will eat more shit than women during pregnancy
3. If men get constipated during pregnancy, their assholes will be ripped apart when they finally shit

Talk about sacrifices all for you, this tiny human being. And the sweetest moment came when he said for Momma he will be up for pregnancy. CHEY! hahaha...better than naught since it is biologically impossible anyway.

24 WEEKS

Deciding on your name. I always thought Gabriel would have been ideal but somehow that did not materialize eventually.

30 WEEKS

The rage of "Descendants of the Sun" was still high, so high that the IN thing now was to have DOTS-theemed pre-wedding shoots and I joked with the Hubba about having a themed maternity shoot and he responded quite plainly,

"But we are having the Descendence of the SON."

"...." And I very much wanted to strangle him alive with a comment like that.

With the influx of online shopping, purchasing shopping vouchers has become part of the online experience as well. Buying group deals for dining, adventure and travel is passe, buying vouchers online is the way to go these days. On more than one occasion did I buy vouchers online and somehow, these occasions end up learning lessons for me.

Mail, lost in the lallang

I jumped onto the wagon when Robinsons ran a tie up with one of the leading voucher companies making the vouchers cheaper than cheap. Plus they could be used during a sale and with all the mental calculations I did, it was a deal not to be missed.

And I made a deal almost instantaneously, even faster than swiping my card totalling up to slightly under $200.

Then it never arrived. Not one week, or two or a month later. It got lost in the mail and subsequent exchanges with the voucher company, they cited that our leading mail company had gotten a signoff from "someone" who conveniently claimed the vouchers as its own.

So where did my damned vouchers go? With the wind and lallang. Thankfully I was able to dispute the payment, PHEW!

A case of being a cheapo

Yet another leading voucher decided to tempt me again with Famous Amos cookies AND concurrently run a promotion of a 10% off with a minimum purchase of $50.

The promotion went $32 for $40 worth of vouchers. In order to qualify for the 10%, I had to buy $80 worth and the whole time I was focussing on the extra 10%.

It all happened too fast and bam, the voucher code was not applicable and I was $64 richer in chocolate chip cookies.


Christmas grinch is me

Christmas ranks high in my list of favourite seasons of the year, I love to give and of course love even more being gifted. The greatest season pet peeves however belong to people who make wishlists that are...

1) Out of the listed budget
2) Give budgets that are ridiculously insincere (Tell me how does a $2 budget work?)

To point 1. I have a group of friends who are generous with their budgets so every year it's pegged at SGD 50. It is essential I point out the currency because within the same group, this friend would only wish for vouchers which in my opinion is perfectly fine because you get what you want and it will be utilised to its maximum unlike hand creams which could lie alongside 10 other hand creams in the dresser.

Then this friend points us to the website where the vouchers can be bought and on top of all the trouble trying to buy it, they are only available in USD. Minimum vouchers come in 50 and 100.

I am only thankful the currency is not in francs.

I am not about to dissuade the purchase of online vouchers because I have had alot of joy buying vouchers and the above should serve just for your reading pleasure and of course, laughter.