As you can see, the entry before this was authored by my daughter. She used to run my other blogspot account but not anymore eversince she got a nasty comment from one sick guy. I was actually apprehensive about letting her have her own blog being 10. There's just a lot of perverts out there preying on kids. I guess this works better -- sharing a blog especially when there are days that my brain just dont work and she can pinch hit for me. I'll be moving her posts from that account to here someday soon.

 

             Hi this is Aurora Shepard's daughter Marielle and boy do I have big news to tell. Me and my mom are sharing this blog!!!! Since I don't have my own blog I can share a blog  . This is so great kinda of having my own blog.

Now that wera sharing I have something really cool to tell. To many kids it's off the hook. My friends Emma and Jaya were so exited when we first heard about the Hannah Montana best of both world's 3-d concert and we were all talking about it.

Emma's mom which me and Jaya both call Ms. Andrea had an awesome idea of buying tickets and then when we all get home from school we can go to the 3-d concert and then after that me and Jaya can spend the night at Emma's.

We three have evrything planned out and we can't wait to go.When it's all done the next day when I come home I'll put some of the pics I have and show you I can not wait till it's all over and show you.

If you want you can give me messages and comments about my posts just like you do with my mom.  See you later. 

... and it feels so good as I always love the rain. I like the sound of it. It's gloomy and it makes me nostalgic. Memories. Memories.

Temperature has gone up too, from 32 deg F last night now it's 44. I can do a lot more things when I'm not frozen cold. It was cold yesterday and I was glued to the couch almost the whole day while wrapped up in a huge warm blanket. I was either watching TV, reading or eating. Pretty much I was in my laziest self yesterday.

Twice I checked if I had any opps at all. PPP had this opp for grilled chicken requiring video but nah, I'm not up for video post. Besides, where am I gonna get a grilled chicken for props? Then surprisingly I got an email each from Sponsored Reviews and Blogsverize notifying me of an opp. 

My PR is still sunk at the bottom of nowhere. Heard some bloggers are getting better PRs lately. Good for you guys .

What do you do when someone apparently is still mad at you? When it comes to conflict with other people I always say that I only get bothered if the other person is someone I care about. And it's true. We dont want to lose the friendship or the special relationship you have with the person. It hurts me to know that I've hurt him or her. It doesnt matter whose fault it was. Once you have that exchange of hurtful words more likely than not, the relationship breaks apart. And when it's broken Lord only knows when it's gonna mend.

Trying not to end up in breaking up, I always try my best not to say anything and be as understanding as I can. Even if I'm no longer happy. It helps that I'm not the confronational type. But the problem is the pain and anger I feel is just brewing up and boiling up inside me until I cant hold it no more. Then the ugly part happens. With angry tears and cold hands I say the things the person never wants to hear from me. It's too late. It's out. No taking it back. Then I feel sorry and walk out from his sight. I keep my silence for a very long time.

Thinking back what happened I rationalize...it wasnt my fault. That was just my reaction to what he did. In fact a delayed reaction because I waited for a positive change. Like I said it doesnt matter whose fault it was because the person thinks he didnt do anything wrong! That it was the other way around. It's really funny sometimes how all of a sudden you find yourself saying "it was so bad of me to do that." Then you start to feel sorry and guilty.

I believe time heals all wounds. Sometimes it's best to let the smoke clear a little bit. Then try to feel if it's the right time to face the person again so you can say sorry. I tried this not so long ago becausse it's been 2 years. And I've missed that person. Not talking to her like we used to was really odd and painful. She hurt me and I hurt her too. It's not important anymore who hurt who first.

I sent some feelers that I'm already okay and I want to mend things between us. But she's not ready. I need to give her more time.  And I'm praying about it. I just hope she hasnt decided not to make me part of her life anymore.

It seems like this blog has been so neglected by me because my last post was on new year's eve. This is my second blog and it's quite hard maintaining two. Although I like this one better for being unalduterated with paid posts. Well not yet. I'm thinking if I really should turn this into another paid blog like my other blog. When google shot the page ranks of webbloggers down to zero I kinda got disappointed and discouraged. I mean what's the point if I cant make as much money anymore? Not that I made so much. I was a novice in paid blogging when google did that.

I wish I can make ways to remedy the situation of my other blog. I've been reading a lot of how to's. How to increase your traffic. How to submit your site to directories. How to make better back links. But my mind can only understand so much of all those technical stuff. Well, I think I can do it but it's just so time consuming. It's ok if I dont have other things to do. My world doesnt exactly revolve around this computer.  But I enjoy blogging. I like writing out my thoughts and feelings even if I know there's hardly anyone who's interested to know. So pretty much this blog is staying around for quite awhile.

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We are the girls in black. We had to wear all-black attire two Sundays ago for our Silent Praise choir in church. Silent Praise is a choir wherein we dont sing the song but instead interpret it using sign language. The Silent Praise choir was for the deaf and mute members of the church.

We had to wear dark clothes to show just the movement of our hands. We interpreted  "Mary Did You Know?" as early Christmas presentation of the church.

These photos were taken while waiting for Dean who had to stop somewhere to gas up his van. The kids and I goofed around the front yard to ward off boredom.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?  Wrapping paper because I enjoy preparing the gifts that way, unless I run out of boxes. That's when I make gift bags.

2. Real tree or Artificial?  Artificial tree because it's a lot more practical.

3. When do you put up the tree? Right after Thanksgiving Day.

4. When do you take the tree down? Probably after the New Year's Day.

5. Do you like egg nog? Yuck.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Dolls