although i must admit that i am older, perhaps smarter and absolutely heavier, the first week of this month definitely was a great one for me. i've been living away from home for almost three months and nothing good happened until this week. i just knew that everything was about to change.

• july 2 & 3. birthday namin ng aking brother. my family decided to go visit the bustling streets of chicago to check the happenings and we were lucky to find out that there were so many things to do and places to visit. first stop for the first day was to climb the sears tower and to take a peek from the peak. second day, ang usapan, no diet! we will be having a big bite from the 'taste of chicago' at grant park. everyone was stuffed so we need to lighten up the load a little bit so we walked and walked and walked. we came across a lot of interesting people and stuffs and err..more food.
  

     

         

• july 4. fourth day of july, no fireworks for us to see. we were dead tired from the two-day adventure. i've decided to buy myself a present. i really didn't know what to get plus i'm having second thoughts whether i should keep my money or not. but i have to give moi a present. so i asked my mom to look around and came across with this..

• july 6. my first ever job interview. i had nothing to wear but eventually i came up with something semi-formal. i drove to the venue by myself with directions i got from google earth written in a sticky note. i got lost but managed to arrive on time. i applied for a part time position as a receptionist in a health club. this is the kind of job that i am not interested in but i must say that the free club membership sounds enticing. haha.. di pa ako tanggap. they told me that they will give me a call. (mas) okay lang kung hindi. hehe..

• july 7.back to my other part-time job. babysitting my mom's friend's kids for six long hours. it was tougher than i expected. kids are like robots. they do not feel tired anymore. keeping them from throwing tantrums was not the problem.. keeping my eyes open was. finally, i got home and got paid. yes.
  

 maybe it was true, what they say about 7.7.2007. my sister told me that it's a lucky day but i had a lucky week and i am so thankful for everything that happened to me these past few days.

i am hoping for more better days to come. =)