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This is gonna be long so I hope I don't bore you with my blabber! Anyways, Hey! I just gave birth! And it's been a while.. again! I already posted this on my dayre but I figured I also post my experience here. I have no readers there. lol. So yeah.. here's the story~ It was friday.. I woke up by 7:40am something I think? Then I felt like I had a dysmenorrhea kind of pain but it was tolerable so I just ignored it. I figured it was braxton hicks 'coz I never thought I'd give birth early 'coz my OB kept telling me I won't be giving birth anytime soon. So yeah, after that I went straight to the bathroom and peed. Then I saw pink discharge with my pee!

I remember I had a lot of white discharge since thursday so I thought I'm about to give birth! So I went and searched baby center for answers but it didn't say 'if you saw pink discharge you're on labor etc.' so I just ignored it until I'm feeling pain around my lower back every 5mins. the pain was still tolerable so I didn't mind but decided to call the hospital then they told us to come so they can have me checked.

I remember while we're on our way to the hospital my husband was laughing at me while I'm in pain. He said he doesn't believe I'm going to give birth and he didn't imagine it'll be like this. He figured it'll be just like in the movies where the woman was screaming at her husband saying, 'Omg! Fuck! Am gonna give birth!' But it was never like that and I was just sitting calmly in the car and when the pain comes I could calmly tolerate it. Anyway, they had me checked and the doctor told me I'm 1cm open so they confined me already.

I immediately told my friends and family I'm being confined so almost all of 'em posted, 'Goodluck giving birth!' msgs on my wall which made my other friends who had babies give advice and tell me that I'm still not giving birth and it'll probably take days 'just like what happened to them' (Omg I hate that word.. 'just like me..', 'like what happened to me..' Pshh) Anyway, my hubs needs to get ready for work so he left the hospital by 1pm. I couldn't sleep so I just facebooked all day! Lol.

Plus they were checking my tummy from time to time so I couldn't sleep with me hearing *doki doki* from the machine. I also thought they're going to send me home by tomorrow because the nurse said I won't be giving birth anytime soon. Plus the pain kinda went away.. Instead of coming every 5mins. like in the morning, it went down to 10mins. but, by 10pm something.. The pain became stronger and stronger and from 10 mins. It went to 7-5mins. so as much as I wanted to sleep 'coz I was so tired and it was already 1am something.. I just couldn't sleep because of the pain. The nurse suggested I call my husband to keep me company and then they had me in the delivery room so I wouldn't disturb my roommates' sleep 'coz of me crying.. My husband came and then the pain became much stronger I told my husband to walk with me 'coz I felt like I could tolerate the pain more with me standing.. but that means I couldn't sleep which made me so irritable. I was literally shouting at all the nurses 'coz of the pain. Thinking about it now I was so embarassed with myself! Haha! From 1cm I opened up to 3cm by 1:30am something. Maybe because of the walking but after that I remember not walking anymore 'coz by 2-3am something I think I went by 5cm at that time and purposely broke my own water. The nurse kinda got mad at me 'coz she said it's not good for the baby and then she gave me medicine so my baby won't get infected or something 'coz nothing will protect him now after I broke my water.

I know you're bored but please keep on reading lol. As much as I want to keep up with breathing from the nose and go 'hoooooo..' all the time.. I ~~CAN'T~~ 'coz I just can't control not having to push and say 'Omfg it hurts! The fuck!!!' Literally I said those! I even told the nurse who was also busy with another woman giving birth to not leave my side tho my husband is with me 'coz I just couldn't handle the excruciating pain omg how can I describe it?! Like torture? Like my hips are being pulled off? Lol. Anyway, I just remember cursing for hours and telling everyone I'm in pain that I need medication! I need something to make the pain go away! Do a C section on me instead so I won't be able to feel anything 'coz I feel like dying! I also remember constantly calling all the nurses to have me checked how open I was.. I felt relieved when they told me I'm already 10cm open but I felt like crying at the same time..

'Coz it's EXTREMELY PAINFUL to push a baby out! The nurse advised me that if I want to push the baby out.. Making a sound won't work 'coz it'll just take more of my energy so I literally pushed my baby without a sound! Like omg! It's the hardest push I've ever done! The feels was like letting out a giant poo! But no poo came out of my butt luckily! Lol. By the time I was pushing I remember I almost felt like collapsing..

'Coz I felt like I drained all the energy and power I have but because I really want to see him I pushed and pushed until finally, he came out! I literally saw the doc cut me so they could let his body out but the cut couldn't compare to the pain I felt when I was in labor. It was literally the only pain that was ever painful. Haruki, my baby going out of my vajayjay wasn't. It feels like I just let out a huge lump of menstruation lol.

Anyways, I was so happy I even high touched the nurse! All the pain and me feeling like collapsing went away! It's like all my energy instantly came back especially when I get to hold him and hear him cry! I was so happy when I saw him especially when all of 'em are saying that he looked just like me! I couldn't explain my happiness! My husband also! He is so happy he's now a dad! Kinda dissapointed tho 'coz Haruki didn't get anything from him except maybe his genitals lol.

He got everything from me! Big eyes, big nose and big lips! Lol. I never thought giving birth was a struggle I felt like apologizing over and over to my mom for becoming such a pain when I now know that she went thru the same struggle when she was giving birth to me. And to all parents. I never thought I'd say this but our parents deserves all the love and respect because they went through a lot for us.

As for me, I worked my butt off letting my baby out so I'm sure I'm going to give him all the love and care he deserves! I also think I'm gonna be a super protective mom but what can I do?? Anything for my baby! Hehe.. Anyway, here's Haruki or Haru! He's born on January 18 on exactly 9:36am weighing 3,184grams.

I was on labor for 13 hours! But I still look nice! Thanks to Camera360! lol.

Haru & Papa

I'm Haru! And I'm Erika's baby!

皆よろしくね！

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Christmas Party 2014 & My Surprise Baby Shower!

2014 Monday, January 12, 2015

I know it's late like 2014 late! lol. But I wanted to become more active in blogging mainly 'coz I'm bored and I'm pretty much done with all the organizing around the house and I'm just sick of playing Sims 3 everyday! So, here's a story of how my friends surprised me on our 'supposed' Christmas party and share pics of how happy we were! OKAY!

Me and my friends planned on celebrating our Christmas party on Dec. 28th yes, 28 because, here in Japan Christmas is no big holiday so they all have work on Christmas Day including my husband! So much for our first Christmas together as husband and wife! But, anyway.. we all planned on bringing our own food to the party oh and I forgot to say that we're just having a karaoke party 'coz that's what we like to do, get a room and go crazy inside that room. So anyway, I bought pizza to the party! I have no idea they're planning a party for me. I'm on my 36th week at the time so I'm not expecting for a baby shower. I didn't even plan one for myself because instead of using the money for the party I'd rather use it to buy baby stuff and stuff for our apartment. (That's how cheap I've become boo hoo..) So, when I opened the door they all yelled, 'SURPRISE!' And I'm like, wtf you guys had confetti on my fake lashes! lol. And in my mind I was like, wtf did they yell surprise for? Then when I'm done fixing my fake lashes I saw 'Haruki's Baby Shower' banner hanging on the wall and am like Kyaaa~! Omg they made a surprise baby shower for me and my baby! Huhu.. I've never felt so loved! lol~ Here are our pics and their effort and gifts~

Here's us lookin' oh so happy!

We're all happy for all the presents we got!

Me and my girl Vencie ♥

Me and my girl Nica! I was her secret santa ♥

Here's me and a bumpfie!

We were all required to wear red that day or else we have to pay ¥2,000.

I have no red sweater or anything red that'll fit me right now

so the ribbons on my back are the only 'red' I have on me! lol.

Me and my best guy friend Naoto ♥

Naoto was like, 'You lucky bitch!' lol.

Here's me and my forever crush Taki! lol.

He just got married aswell and he's also expecting a baby!

I'm so happy for him and his gf!

This is the secret santa present I got!

It's a fluffy warm scarf and my secret santa

was the guy I was crushing on like, for forever! Taki ♥ lol.

These are my shower gifts!

I really like the diaper cake/diaper center piece!

My friend who bakes put a lot of effort in it and I'm forever grateful!

Look Haru! You have nice god mothers/god fathers to be! Aren't you a lucky baby??

Time to go home! I had so much fun! Bye bye~!

OKAY! Drama Time! Eh ehem.. I just wanna say that I'm so blessed I have friends like them. 2014 has been one of the happiest years of my life and even happier because my friends gave me a memorable pre-year end party memory that I'll remember and be grateful for forever! THANK YOU FRIENDS! Especially to my besties, Nica and Vencie! ♥

Thanks you guys! ♥

Anyway, to make this post long because I want it to be a readful lol. 2013-2014 have made me forever busy! That's why I have no time to blog at all. I didn't have the time to share all the wonderful things that has happened to my life! How much weight I gained and how I got a handsome bf and how he became my husband lol. I 'promise' that I'll be more active in blogging from now on because, I don't think I'll be that busy unlike before. See you on my next post~!

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How I Save Our Money 2015

2015 Saturday, January 10, 2015

Hey guys! Happy Holidays! Aaand Happy New Year!

I know you guys probably received a lot of cash this year! (From collecting otoshidama s or in the Philippines 'pamasko'!) So, why not start off with money saving tips from me! lol. Tho I'm no money saving expert..

Since my husband is the only one working in our household, I really need to step my 'budget game' up! This 'budget plan' is only for the two of us tho. The baby is not included yet. I will update once I get a hang of budgeting while we have a baby around. Okay, here it goes~

My husband's salary is ¥200,000 or $2,000. Sometimes he'll have good months sometimes he'll have ~~meh~~ months. But, I only concentrate on ¥200,000 monthly. When he receives let's say, ¥250,000 this month I WILL ~~NEVER~~ TOUCH the extra ¥50,000 because we may use it for when he has ~~bad~~ or ~~meh~~ months where he'll only receive probably about ¥150,000 or we can save it directly to our savings account. So, ¥200,000 it is!

With the ¥200,000 I only withraw ¥150,000 or $1,500 because I save the remaining ¥50,000 for our cellphone, gas and water bills. So with the ¥150,000~

BILLS: ¥80,000 or $800
FOOD/GROCERIES: ¥40,000 or $400
OUR ALLOWANCE: ¥20,000 or $200
CAR GASOLINE: ¥10,000 or $100

We have ¥80,000 under bills because we need to pay for our credit card expenses aswell, which is around ¥30,000 but once we're done paying for that which I think is by February we can add the extra ¥30,000 for when one of our bills went up, for our food/groceries, if we want to get something for the car or we can save it!

We each get ¥10,000 or $100 for our 'blow money'. We can do whatever we want with this money but once we ran out of our 'blow money' even though the month has not yet ended it officially means we're ~~broke~~ until the next payday! lol. I usually spend my 'blow money' on stuff we need for the house because I'm a sahw and pregnant.. I don't go out much so I really don't need 'blow money'. However, we also deduct the things we need for the house under food/groceries especially when we need to pay a lot for our bills.

As for the car insurance that we have to pay yearly, our car loans or if something ever happens to our car we have an 'emergency fund'. My husband's company automatically deducts ¥20,000 or $200 from his salary to transfer onto his bank account where you can't freely withraw money from. My husband is required to sign some papers first before he can withraw money from that bank. Cool huh?!

Our insurance and the apartment we're living in is also covered by his company. His company automatically deducts from his salary our insurance and apartment expenses 'coz we live under his company's apartment. In Japanese it's called 'ryou' or in tagalog, 'pabahay'.

Now I don't have to worry about all that difficult, brain melting numbers! All I need to worry and manage is our budget and saving for our future!

So here are my MONEY SAVING TIPS FOR YOU:

PAY YOURSELF FIRST ~ I've heard this from everyone and I think it's the most effective. Everytime you receive your salary the rule is to save 10% of your income onto your savings fund. But it doesn't matter whatever cost you want to 'pay yourself' the important thing is you saved that money ahead so you won't be able to spend it later on. This is a lot more effective rather than saving what is left from your money. In our case since ¥200,000 is just enough for us, we may only 'pay ourselves' when my husband receives good months or when he gets his bonus. In this case, we can only save up what's left of our money for the month and the ¥500s we get to save for our piggy bank.

MEAL PLANNING ~ We always think of what we want to eat for the week ahead of time so I know what we only need to buy and no food goes to waste. We go grocery shopping every week so I don't know about you but some of you probably go bulk buying. Like my aunt she goes grocery shopping and buys food for the whole month! That plan will probably work if you folks have deep freezers which unfortunately, we don't have. I think buying groceries for the whole month will save you tons of money but that just wouldn't work for us. Plus, we like our fruits and veggies fresh so grocery shopping weekly suits us best!

SAVE 'EM GOLD COINS ~ I don't know about your country but here in Japan we have ¥500 which looks like these:I like to pretend I'm a leprechaun and collect gold coins! Hehehe.. everytime we go shopping and I receive these which is pretty rare 'coz I usually get ¥100s from change. I always immediately put it inside my Rilakkuma bank because if it ever stayed on my wallet, tendency I might spend it. You will never miss it and it's easy to save instead of ¥100s because you need those almost everyday. Within just a year you'll never notice that you have atleast saved up to almost ¥300,000 or $3,000. My mom does this all the time and she's the one who actually inspired me to start collecting ¥500s. She once told me and I'm not even kidding that she saved up to ¥700,000 within just a year from saving these ¥500 beauties! Holy cow!

SAVE ALL THE EXTRA ~ This is not the ideal way of saving but this is how I usually keep money because ¥200,000 is just enough for us. Everytime I withraw money from the atm and there's still money left from last month be it only ¥1,000 or $10, I always set it aside (except for coins). I don't deposit it in the bank immediately but I just set it aside for a while, keep it in another wallet. That way, I can always use it for when my husband receives ~~meh~~ months so we don't have to withraw money from our savings account. Or whenever it reaches up to a ¥10,000 - ¥20,000 and we have no use for it 'coz hubby gets good months it goes in the bank!

NEVER USE A CREDIT CARD ~ If you're ever planning on getting one I suggest YOU STOP YOUR FOOLISHNESS RIGHT NOW! lol. I don't recommend getting a ~~demon~~ card especially if your the type of person who has ~~NO CONTROL~~ which was ME before. You will never save money when you get a card. In our case, we only use our card for important stuff like furnitures we have to get from the internet ('coz it's a lot cheaper) but, we never use it for shopping for clothes or for the things WE WANT. It's better to shop with cash so you'd only get what you really really want instead of a card where there's a possibility that you might also get something you will never even use! BELIEVE ME! I've been that fool before. And good thing our ~~demon~~ card only limits us up to ¥100,000 only.

I think that's about all the tips I can give you. I hope they're helpful! I've slightly tweaked a lot of the things I said from the previous 'Japanese Ver.' of my post 'coz it's really difficult to translate in english back again. lol. So here is my opinion on:

THE WONDERS OF SAVING MONEY~

NUMBER ONE reason why I want to save money and why you should too is because I WANT TO INVEST IN A HOUSE! If you're like me who dreams of getting their own house I suggest you save, save, SAVE! Here in Japan, getting a house is no joke. It takes atleast 30+ years for you to pay full price for a house! And it's not even a mansion, it's just a normal looking house! We'll be 60+ years old by the time we're done! Omg. So I thought if we could atleast save enough money to pay half for the house, we only get to pay 15 years of loan which is not so bad right?

WEDDING ~ We never had a ceremony so we're saving for ours! If you plan on getting married, you and your partner should SAVE for your future or if your single just save for your own future. lol. (Wtf am I saying? Really?)

TRAVEL ~ Everyone wants to travel! If you dream of travelling like us, what better way to pursue your dreams? Save your dough, bro! lol.

YOU'LL NEVER LIVE IN A NURSING/RETIREMENT HOME ~ If you saved enough money for your future.. you'll never live there! Plus, you don't need your future children for support. They can peacefully live there own lives without you being a bother. Uh oh! No offense but for me, PERSONALLY when I grow old I would never want to bother my future children to take care of me.. I don't want to be a burden. That's just me, okay?!

NEVER HAVE TO BORROW MONEY FROM PEOPLE ~ No offense again, not that I have something againts people who borrow money! But wouldn't it be nice to have enough money for your own that whenever something comes up you never have to bother borrowing from other people ever? Again, that's just me, y'know!

I guess that's it you guys! I am personally not good with numbers so I guess these are the easiest tips I can give you with budgeting and saving money. I've tried listing everything which what my grandma does and believe me, ain't nobody got time for that s***! Plus, it will stress you out! lol. So I hope these tips are helpful you guys! BYE!

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