* The first thing you need to do is to prepare yourself emotionally. Your house holds a lot of memories and selling a house can be heartbreaking for some people. Slowly try to dissociate yourself from your house. Remember that all your memories will go with you when you leave.
* If you are emotionally ready to sell your house, then it is time to de-clutter it! There are a lot of Austin homes for sale in the market and you want to sell your house for a good price. Remove all the junk you have acquired over the years and clean like you have never cleaned before.
* If there are some minor repairs that need to be done, it will be a good idea to do them now. Any buyer would prefer houses that do not need any work done. Also, houses that need some repairs sell for a lower price.
* The exterior and interior of your house are equally important to any prospective house buyer. Make sure that your yard is clean, the lawn is trimmed, and there are no junk and trash lying around outside.

Poor me.

It is sad how lacking our country is with regards to elderly care. Our tradition of having extended families into our care is good and have nice intentions, but we have to be realistic when we can no longer take care of our elders at home. It would be better to find them a find a nursing home.

There are a lot of different nursing home services that can be suited to your elderly. There are skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities and in-home health care. Skilled nursing facilities or SNFs are actually what you can call “mini-hospitals” as they provide an extensive range of services from dietary, medical, nursing, pharmaceutical, and activity services as well as support with day-to-day living functions such as dressing or bathing. Most elderly people with Alzheimer’s Disease would need this. The intermediate care facilities doesn’t always have access to licensed medical professionals but they are required by law to have them present at least eight hours a day.

(Sino kaya ang may balat sa pwet sa amin?)

Buti na lang mura lang magpagawa dito.
Nevertheless, we looked for a new machine yesterday plus a few other items in the appliance store. It is now in line from the million things we have got lined up to buy. So mga 2010 pwede na namin sya bilhen

Robinson’s Supermarket opened a few weeks ago. This one is in Tagaytay, right in front of Josephine’s, so it’s nearer (and of course nicer). The whole area I think will be a lot like Blue Wave – there’s going to be a coffee shop, some restaurants and on the second floor there is a dental clinic, a facial spa and holy moley, BPI! LOL (I can finally have a bank near me!). All of these are still closed save for the supermarket, Handyman, Shakey’s and the dental and facial clinics. Hopefully they can open by the end of the year.

We usually go to Waltermart to get groceries because it’s nearer than SM – now we can go to Tagaytay all the time and save on gas (and everything else).

There’s only two months left until Christmas! I still have a dozen plans to firm up. I need to decide what kind of decors we will have, our family clothes (we usually color coordinate on family dinners which actually happen around 5 times all around the holiday season), and lastly, our schedule. Since we live in the province, going to Manila can get expensive. So we need to cluster activities so we can save on gas. That’s why I am trying to research on activities I want the kids to see in Manila.

Plus we need to order the furniture and install wirings for the house. Im not really sure about the wires and the network Edil plans to use to connect the PC to the TV and have wi-fi and all (it involves used cisco wires I think) but I need to nag him about it too.