An Answered Prayer?

Well, someone from the office must have read this OR maybe the angels must have answered back my office rants.

We're having a Christmas party cum exchange gifts today at lunchtime!

I hope we'll have a blast (not really).

P.S. Sorry guys and gals if I have not blogged regularly. It's just that I'm in a middle of a whirlwind right now. Just so much going on right now and I can't focus!

Anyways, Merry Christmas to you all in advance.

And so, Christmas is on its way!



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I can hear and see Christmas coming. At the office, each department has its own Christmas tree and decors. Most of them are having also the ever popular Christmas parties and gift-giving to secret Santas. I have volunteered myself to be a part of our media division’s party and gift-giving ceremonies because our own division is just so flaky icky dry when it comes to such events. I don’t blame them much. I do understand that due to religious affiliations, most of them do not celebrate the holiday season the way Christians do.

It’s just that, we are an advertising agency and we’re supposed to be an all-rounder when it comes to such festivities. Anyway, enough of the office rants.

For us Christians, it’s the most festive season of the year. The more I miss home because of this. I am a bit worried with my Mom (although she kept on reassuring me that she’ll be okay) since this is the first time that she’ll spend Noche Buena (Christmas Eve) to someone else’s home. My sisters have flown to US two days ago so it means my Mom is all alone. Although my younger brother is in the Philippines right now for his Christmas vacation, he’ll be spending most of his time with his wife’s family. Mom says that she’s planning to spend Christmas day with my brother’s in-laws. I hope she'll enjoy. I know that she misses us so much.

I’m just feeling sad that all of us in our family got separated at this family-oriented celebration. My Papa and two sisters are in the US, I am here in UAE, my brother and Mom in the Philippines.

I miss them so much.

I don’t want to be emotional and I’m still here in the office so I just can’t be seen crying here.

At home, it’s still very plain and gloomy. No Christmas decors or Christmas songs. We just moved in last Friday so it’s still a huge mess. Our shelving units and TV are not yet fixed. And we haven’t decided until now how to arrange the huge sofas (they took a lot of space in the living room). Another thing is we haven’t bought our dining table and chairs yet. And lastly and most importantly, our gas connection is not yet done, which means we can’t cook anything yet (except for the rice because we have a rice cooker anyway) and we just have to satisfy ourselves with oily icky take-aways for the next 5 or so days.

Give me another week or two. Or maybe just in time before Christmas, we’ll be able to finish everything.

Please wish me luck.

And for the rest of you, enjoy shopping for your gift list coz I don’t think I can do my own shopping anymore.

Remember me on your list okay? Haha!

Wishful Thinking

I’m back at work.

Not much backlog though, which is good. I mean there were lots of things to be done right at my table but I’ve finished them up in no time. It’s not an easy job. Not a difficult one either. I think I have just become comfortable that things have become very “routine-like”.

Being an accountant, life is the same every month at the office. Same transactions, same amounts, same payments, same instructions, same reports. It’s boring not because I don’t have enough workload but because no matter how much or how many transactions I will have on my hands, it’s still the same job over and over. In short, it’s still BORING!

I miss the challenges of auditing. But I don’t think I can come back to it. For more than 2 years, I’m stuck with a boring job and I feel that I’ve been left behind with what’s new and latest in the auditing world. I am no expert in this field. Yet, I am so eager to learn and grow in it.

But maybe I am not so eager now because I have to turn my time into something ultra-productive: a 9-hour day job, a mom to KA, a Femme Candy entrepreneur, a wife and a cook.

I have friends who have started taking up the CIA (Certified Internal Auditor) exam and they were doing great. They are single, they have money and they have TIME.

I dream to have another job that is more challenging but not too time-consuming as I need extra time to take care of our home and KA. But I do hope that it will be something not so-accounting but better pay. Haha!

That’s just me.