Thank you so much Izza

Last week, I Googled Oh my buhay and to my surprise I found OMB reader, Izza Lambino’s account of our personal encounter. She’s one of the winners of the soaps from Turkey. It just happened that her address is near ours and on that day, my driver made a wrong turn which brought us in front of their village’s gate. So I decided to drop-off the soap myself.

It’s been almost a year and I didn’t know that she wrote about it.

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Imported from Izza’s post:

Oh My Buhay Experience
I spend most of my time in front of the computer, tinkering with my phone, or flipping through my iPad. I love going online. Everybody knows that. I love reading blogs, specially funny ones. I love bloggers who have no pretensions; just share their daily activities, no big words or carefully constructed sentences, just plain candid.

I don’t really remember how I stumbled upon Annie Tan-Yee’s blog, Oh My Buhay (I think I was researching on a restaurant or something). But ever since I read that first entry, I was hooked. She has got to be the funniest, most adorable blogger I know. A loving wife, mom of two, and a business woman. PLUS, like me, she also wears dasters at home! I told Rach about my little obsession and she got hooked as well. We love reading about her travels, bargains, and stories about ipis and maids. Gaaah! I love her.

Imagine my excitement when she held a little contest for her readers. She wanted to give away olive oil soaps from her trip to Turkey, and all we had to do was like her page! I liked her page instantly.

Then one day, I opened my browser and found this:
I won!! I never win anything! I was jumping up and down! Sure she mispelled my name but who cares?? That’s me!! She instructed us WINNERS to email her our addresses. Of course I wasn’t just going to email her my address. I want to tell her so much more. I told her that Rach and I were HUUUGE fans, etc!

I wasn’t sure when my prize would arrive, but I forgot all about it because I was preoccupied with my dad’s condition. He was still in the hospital recovering from his stroke.

Then one day something totally unexpected happened.

Nic and I had just come home from the hospital. I was watching TV and Nic was fixing the bird bath in the garden, when I looked out the window and there she was!! Oh My Buhay in the flesh! She was in her car but her window was rolled down. Her driver was walking to our house with my prize. BUT I wasn’t going to let her leave without a picture. I started screaming and jumping up and down like a lunatic. I screamed, “Wait! Wait!” I got out of our house and approached her while muttering “OMG OMG OMG!”

She got out of her car and greeted me. We talked for a while, and I told her how much I love her and her stories. That I will probably cry the way she did when I bring my son to the airport for a 2-week vacation. Teehee. I hope she didn’t find me too creepy.

Thank you Ms. Annie! You are my cup of coffee in the morning! Never stop blogging and more power to you!

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Thank you Izza.  I  appreciate everything that you said.

I hope to see you again soon. Kiss your baby for me. Mwah!