I’ve started a cheesy-and-not-so-cheesy-love-song fest on my Facebook page. Everyday until Valentine’s Day I will post some kind of love song that comes to mind. Some are my favorites, some I find funny and some hold special meanings for me. You can take your guess which category each song may fall in

I may not be the only one doing it because yesterday, I found a very cheesy one shared by someone else on Facebook. Unfortunately, it’s a Filipino song and not everyone may be able to understand it, but you’ll get the idea if you watch the video.

OK, so here’s what I’ve posted so far…
“It’s only words, and words are all I have, to take your heart away.” - Words by The BeeGees

“BECAUSE IT TAKES TWO TO WHISPER QUIETLY” - Vanilla Twilight by Owl City

This is the funny one I was talking about…
“Bangin ka ba kasi, nahuhulog na ako sayo” - Mahal Kita Kasi by Nicole Hyala
(translation: “Are you a cliff? because… I’m falling for you”) It’s funnier in Filipino. LOL!

And today’s lyrics:
“But tell me does she kiss, Like I used to kiss you? Does it feel the same…. When she calls your name? Somewhere deep inside, You must know I miss you But what can I say, Rules must be obeyed” - The Winner Takes it All by ABBA

I love Mama Mia! and even though she is not a singer, I think Meryl Streep performed this song with lots of emotion and singing to Pierce Brosnan… what could be more romantic? LOL!

To my good friend Jet, I LOVE YOU! This one’s for you he he!

A winter storm came through the Carolinas which started on Friday night. Snow fell through Saturday and now we are buried in snow! How exciting is that, eh? Well, when I say buried, take that with a lot of grains of salt especially if you live where snow is a regular occurrence. Don’t forget that we live in the South where any snow is a big event. So when we get almost a foot of snow, we consider that being ‘buried’.

We’ve been eagerly anticipating this snow since Wednesday when they started spraying the streets with the nasty anti-ice concoction. I was still at work around six o’clock on Friday evening when the snow started falling. When I saw the snow fall through my office window, you’d think a parade was going by! I was almost jumping up and down with glee and so was my office mate who eagerly came to the window with me. I hurriedly wrapped things up at work and headed home. As I was driving, the snow kept falling at a brisk pace. It was so pretty I had to take a video. I just love the look of snow coming at me and swirling around the car. It was beautiful! And I just found the coincidence so amusing that while I was enjoying the snow fall, the song ‘It never rains in California’ started playing on the radio! I just had to take a video. lol!

You can see other photos from this year’s snow on the Photobucket account above too.

So Saturday, we were housebound. We stayed home all day and now I understand why people mob the grocery stores right before a storm. These girls ate all darn day, and they ate mostly junk! They ate so many cookies and potato chips and other snacks that they weren’t really hungry come dinner time. We ended up having an almost midnight repast of yummy chicken and dumplings so that meant we stayed up even later than usual. It almost felt like Christmas!

This morning, the sun is out and it’s beautifully blinding outside! I just love snow! Especially if Monday is going to be a snow day and we don’t have to go to work or school. The girls are praying the roads won’t be cleared enough yet for the school buses to run and maybe they get a break from school. I’m praying for the same thing.

Did you know that when MP3 players are purchased as gifts, the majority of purchasers are moms? That finding emerged at the Mommy Tech summit at the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show.

But do you know about the potential risks? Kids often don’t know how to use audio technology safely and they can harm their hearing as a result. In fact, hearing loss among young people is reported to be on the rise and there are strong concerns that a generation of young people could end up with prevalent hearing loss.

“For some time, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has warned that hearing loss in the United States could rise significantly due to the misuse of personal audio technology,” ASHA President Tommie L. Robinson, Jr. explains. “Unfortunately, a report released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation cites some alarming trends about excessive entertainment media consumption among our nation’s children, indirectly supporting ASHA’s concerns. This should be a warning to parents that they must regulate children’s exposure and fully understand the potential health threats associated with misuse and over exposure to such technologies.”

“ASHA will continue to bring these issues to the forefront and appreciates the Kaiser Family Foundation’s contributions to the national dialogue,” Robinson adds.

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My girls are doing so much better than I was at their age, so I guess they’re not doing too badly and I’m not such a slacker mom after all. I was, however, a slacker student and I admit it.

We had a good laugh about my slackness today during dinner. My daughter Jade was debating whether to take another year of AP calculus and was wondering whether she would have to take two separate AP tests for each section… I guess her Calculus class is divided into AB section the first semester and CD section for the second semester… or something like that. I said, “Why are you asking me? I don’t know! You should ask your teacher. I didn’t even take calculus until I was already in college.” To which, she answered, “I was only thinking out loud, mom”. Yeah, well of course she was! I knew she wasn’t expecting a serious answer from me! What was I thinking!
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