till we meet again...

in approximately 5 hours dee, my mom, and i will be on PAL heading to the motherland. it's going to be the first time for me to be back "home". still don't know what to expect. i'm sure things are going to be totally different. i'm really not looking forward to the flight though. 15 hours on a plane is just a bit long for me and i really don't know how i'm going to handle it. taking charter flights to LA and SF are no prob. 1.5 hours max. haha. the longest i've been on a flight was about 6.5 hours and that was going to the east coast. and i was serioulsy dying. i was so irritated and restless. anyway, besides the flight i'm really excited, my mom is excited, and dee is as well.

please pray for us and for our journey. we will all see you guys soon. take care and God bless!

Happy Easter to you all!

STRIKE

from march 21-march 31 my hospital will be on strike #3. luckily i'll be in the philippines not worrying about it. since i'm scheduled for vacation i still get paid. unfortunately, tons of my co-workers will be affected. i'm totally against crossing the picket line for several reasons. but i definitely don't look down on those who do choose to cross. many of these nurses are carrying multiple mortgages, caring for their spouses and their children. losing 10 days of work as a nurse can cause a huge hit to one's financial status.

our union is still fighting for better patient safety issues, retirement benefits, and a couple of other things. i'm praying that there will soon be resolution between our union and sutter health. strikes don't benefit anyone, so the sooner things get resolved the better!

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another night of no sleep. well, i actually slept from 1230 to 330 and have been up since. tried to sleep but was wide awake with my eyes closed, tried watching friends and now i'm wide awake. freakin aye! so now i'm trying to tire myself out by blogging. so if you all haven't checked out both of dee's blog lately, a lot of things have been going on. first of all, we are still trying to figure out whether or not to buy a place before getting married. it's so hard to not look at places right now with all the price drops. in the last couple of weeks we've taken a look at several places and have been researching on the net for places around the bay area. we both want to have a place of our own by the time we get married, but we also want to have an awesome wedding with as many people there as we could afford. getting a place now may affect that and may even postpone the wedding a bit. dee and i really want to get married in 2009. so within the last couple of weeks i've been going back and forth. house vs. wedding: 1) house first, wedding postponed 2) wedding first, house postponed 3) house and wedding with no postponement (am i even spelling that right?) which may require another job. the latter is very much possible but i don't know how well i'll do with that. i'm tired enough as it is working at my hospital so i don't know how i will do with another job requiring an extra 4 shifts a month. i know it doesn't sound much, but working an extra night at the hospital feels like 3 days. so what i've actually been doing is working extra hours at the hospital and seeing whether or not the funds would be enough to get a place by summertime and have enough dollar bills to cover the wedding. so there you go. my head is spinning. don't know which direction to take. i'm being inpatient. i always want things done as of yesterday. anyway...

so check out dee's blog cause she also posted something about APERTURA which is one of our favorite potential photographers for the wedding. they are freaking talented. check it out and if you have time try and respond to dee's request. this may help us out in the whole planning process of our house vs. wedding! thanks all.