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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.

Problems with Favorites using IE 7 on Vista

Thanks to hubby for sapphire and for setting up a wireless connection at home, I can work in any part of our house/room. Sapphire has been a great help for my mobility at home. I can work while putting Ayex to sleep, which happens most of the time I work at home.

Initially, I didn’t want to put Vista on sapphire because I heard a lot of negative feedback about it. But hubby won so sapphire has Vista.

Recently, I worked at home several times. Unlike here at the office where all the URLs I need to do my daily work are already bookmarked, at home, I have to rely on my browser’s history. So if I have or want to check an office URL that I haven’t visited so far, I have to guess it or ask the link from my colleagues. Then I remembered to start building my favorites/bookmarks list. Unfortunately, after trying to bookmark a page, I got an access denied error. At that time, I was already tired and didn’t want to research my issue anymore. I shut down sapphire and whine to my hubby. Hahahaha! Things I have to go through with Vista!

Last Sunday, I was online at hoe again. I remembered this problem. I went to Google and searched for my issue. I really think that searching is a skill. You get exactly what you need if you know what questions to ask. With one try, I found the answer to what I need. Below is what I did so I can finally bookmark the URLs I need.

Open the command prompt with Administrator access.
I only know how to open the default command prompt in Vista so I had to do another search in Google so I can do step 1. I found that pressing Ctrl + Shift + Enter after typing cmd in the Vista Start Run box instead of just hitting Enter does the trick. It worked perfectly for me because I like shortcuts. Thanks to Mr. Byte for the tip.
In the command line, I pasted this command: icacls X:pathtoFavorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low but did not hit Enter yet.
I have to change the X:pathto with the exact values. I checked my directories to see where my Favorites folder is located. Then in the command prompt, I modified the path to the correct one. After that, I hit Enter.

Vista processed my request and returned to the default C:Windowssystems32> after a while. Thanks to Microsoft forum for this command. It pays to read forum posts!
I opened a link from my browser’s history, tried to bookmark it and it worked! I was able to create a new folder inside my Favorites folder where I can save all my bookmarks. Hooray!!!

If you’re having the same problem, I hope this can help you. This is definitely easier to do than the export-import solution others suggested in the forum. Happy bookmarking!

Hep Hep Hooray!

Last night, as I was having my dose of television, I saw Ayex took her microphone. I thought she’s going to sing her heart out again, which she usually does at night-time when almost everyone at home and in our neighbor are already sleeping. She did that at a much later time.

She walked in this very funny way while saying echos – echos – hep hep horay! I understood that she is playing hep hep horay with me and Ate Jinky but I didn’t get what she’s saying before she says hep hep horay. She alternately points the mic to me and to Ate Jinky and we should say hep hep horay after her. Twice, Ate Jinky tried saying it with actions and Ayex almost poked her with the microphone! Bad girl!

So as she alternates between me and Ate Jinky, I asked Ate Jinky if she knows what Ayex is saying before the hep hep horay and even the walk she is doing. It turns out that it is how the game master acts as they play hep hep horay. And I went Ahhhhhhhh. Today, my sister, Toni, explained it to me better.

Confused? Cannot relate? Click here for the Wikipedia definition of the game. Want a more visual definition, watch the video below.