Nicquee's Nook – Page 353

Blog Make-over

I’m loving my new and lighter page background! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Thanks to GIMP, my new image manipulation tool. It’s freeware so I don’t need to worry about licensing. I lost my pirated copy of Photoshop CS2 when I asked our IT to upgrade my OS to Windows XP from Windows 2000 last week.

Anyways, have you noticed my other add-ons?

Here are the other things I added to this blog: some are DIYs while the others are blogger widgets.

Store Banners
If you’re not aware, I have a little business hosted in multiply. We sell unbranded and branded disposable diapers at a much cheaper cost. I can attest to their quality as we also use the same diapers for our little princess. All our diapers have cloth-like back sheet cover, most have re-adjustable magic tape (velcro strap). Check us out and compare with the ones you’re using now.

Apart from diapers, we also sell gadgets – mobile phones (Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Blackberry, LG and iPhone), mp3 players, PSP, and digital cameras. Check our prices and we might have something that suits your budget.
Customized Blogger Banner
The Blogger logos found in the widget section are rather too small for my taste and my sidebar so I decided to create my own blogger badge. One of the DIYs that I super love!
Blog Roll
I didn’t know that I can create a Blog Roll without having to do it manually! Thanks to Blogger for this widget. I just did a minor tweaking to have a scrollbar for this list so that it will not take a lot of space. Want the same feature? Check out this blog.

I hope you like my improved blog site.

Recovered

Almost, but not all.

This is a follow up post to this. After two days of almost endless trying, I have somehow recovered those missing emails, partially. Thanks to my teammates who spared me some of their time as they compile the emails I need and created a PST file for me.

I have backed up the updated PST files already. They should be safe now.

Apart from retrieving some emails from my teammates, I am happy to announce that I finally bid goodbye to my old school (good thing it is still supported) Windows 2000 operating system. I’m now on XP.

I just finished importing my back up files and I’m ready for another day of work using this new machine.

By the way, our IT guys also installed Yahoo! messenger 9 to my machine. I wasn’t probably into it at home that I just realized just now, after so many months, that Yahoo! no longer allow those super customizable skins. The current skins are just SO SO! Some even look really awful! I hope developers out there create skins and more skins soon!

Words of a Two Year Old

This was supposed to be posted yesterday…

The past weekend went well. We had to go back in LP again after July 18 visit because we’re celebrating our Nanay Isay’s 85th birthday.

The birthday celebration was a blast! I met a cousin whom I last saw when he was just about 5 years old and I was… never mind. We were both part of our Tito Noel’s and Tita Chique’s bridal entourage.

Apart from Herbert, I also met my Kuyas, who both now have their own families! Quota na sila! Both of them have 2 kids already – a boy and a girl. Ours, it’s part of the roadmap.

We were in LP at around 1PM and the celebration officially started at around 7PM and ended at midnight. It was tiring but fun.

On our way to my mom’s place, I vowed that we’ll just sleep the whole Sunday morning. I know, I thought of that already. It has been two weeks since I last heard the Sunday mass. Bad. So we slept the whole morning. I woke up at 10AM because I had to go to the bathroom but I intend to go back to sleep. Unfortunately, both hubby and Ayex were already awake when I returned to our room.

Both hubby and I are still lying on the bed while Ayex sat beside hubby. We are still very lazy. After a while Ayex bluntly said Asan na yung bag ko?! (Where is my bag?). Tuwid na tuwid yung pagkasabi niya na talagang natawa kami! (She said it very clearly that we laughed out of amusement). She is referring to my used-to-be lunch bag/milk bag, which she now use as her toy storage. Ayex is really growing too fast that she has new words to say everyday.

Sunday went by. We killed the time by watching local channels as we don’t have cable TV in LP. Gab and I were supposed to go to the salon for some treatment but it started raining. Soon it was time to go home.

Good thing we left LP earlier than usual. By the time we reached Trinoma, it was raining very hard and traffic is jammed! We reached home safe. After dinner, we didn’t bother to watch TV anymore. Mon, Ayex and I lie on our bed while playing. Ayex was moving from side to side while saying random words. I can’t understand most of them as her voice is low. Then she said this loud and clear: Mahal ko si Mommy Nicquee (I love Mommy Nicquee). My heart melted. I asked what was that and she happily said it again.