Sharing with all of you my Digital Dreamboards.
I hope I inspire you with my positivity! Cheers!
Happy Friday!
Let’s all do the Happy Dance, okay, those who like the Harlem Shake, do as you please hee hee! (AND…one piece of advice, if you’re stressed, find custom stress balls and squeeze out those stressors away!)
“Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew.” –Julio Cortázar
Snagged this meme from my friend, Aggie.
I think I’d be doing this more often in this blog.
Outside my window…
is a gloomy and wet day. We initially planned to tag along with TGL who will be working today and have a mall-date with MLS but instead, I decided to stay home and blog. Let’s see if the weather will be better once TGL is off from work.
I am thinking…that my meditation has been helping me in staying positive.
I am thankful for…good health and my boys.
From the kitchen…unwashed dishes and some defrosted meat waiting to be cooked.
I am wearing…my new purple pants and a gray cardigan.
I am creating…entries here nonstop!
I am reading…just my morning devotional prayers. No time to read books lately.
I am hoping…for the biggest blessing we have been waiting for to come middle of this year, at the most.
Around the house…MLS is playing Minecraft Xbox and chatting nonstop by himself.
One of my favorite things…all of my Victoria’s Secret body butter and lotions hee hee.
A few plans for the rest of the week…Hmmmm, haven’t planned anything yet except to work and perhaps upload our Disneyworld photos in FB, FINALLY!
A picture I love:
Back to running at least 5k 2-3x/week and so far, this is not bad for my 1st 5K run. Oh and I lost a couple of lbs already. I know that Zumba alone cannot rid off the 10lbs, I had to add running to my cardio list. Have a good weekend everyone!
Super super late entry.
I have an excuse, February was such a short month and so I’ve been caught up with life! Not to mention that TGL turned 36 this month and MLS was rushed to the emergency, he was so sick this month. Some viral flu. Can’t wait for Winter to be truly over!
Anyhoo, here goes my list: (+ kennedy half dollar we invested this month!)
Oscars has always been my February highlight. I’m just extremely glad that dear TGL enjoys watching it with me. I am no critic nor do I am an expert on fashion but I just love compiling my own best-dressed list. If you are a follower of my beauty blog, I always have my Oscars’ best faces-entry posted a tad late hee hee 
. For this year, I noticed that the make-up trend was nude lipstick with dramatic eyes equals fresh faces! Here are my favorites:
As for my best-dressed, I have 10. Here goes, in no particular order.
Then, there were a lot of online discussions why people are now loving JLaw over Anne Hathaway. Seriously, I used to really really like Anne Hathaway but I guess after hearing her speeches and interviews, I would remain to be her fan as an actress. But I have to admit that Jennifer Lawrence’s personality is growing on me. Now, that says a lot about my change of heart with Anne Hathaway. Curious? Watch this!
“Get rid of anything that isn’t useful.
Clutter weighs you down in many ways.”
When my folks left almost 3 weeks ago, I did a lot of cleaning up which concluded with a lot of decluttering. My greatest challenge is the small closet that keeps my accessories, bags, and clothes including some kept Winter clothes not just mine but my 2 boys as well, not to mention my boy’s cheap vibraslap. I had to make a plan and that plan is to make sure to reorganize my clothes according to season. This means reorganizing it every couple of months as the weather here can be quite erratic. Yes, I am OC like that. I just want to make sure I maximize the usage of my clothes both old and some, new as I do not plan to shop any more clothes nor bags until the end of the year (including make-up, YES!). Simplicity and Minimalism Version 2.0, that’s me hee hee 
. Then, it dawned on me how I wear almost the same stuff every single weekend, every single weekday, looks like I have been rotating my clothes bi-monthly, yes, every 2 weeks. How boring? Probably because every morning and weekends, I have no time to think about what to wear anymore. Now, I understand why those fashion bloggers would post their Monthly Lookbook Inspirations and so I followed suit!
I am Back!
…back to reality.
…back to the grind.
…back to the old me and inspired!
I am actually writing this on the 1st day of February but for posterity’s sake, I back-dated it to January 31. Just had to emphasize that.
Anyhoo, I’ve been back to work for a week now but it took me really hard to adjust without my folks around the home, back to doing housechores (particularly, cooking and meal-planning, yikes!), re-organized our home as the other room was shared with my folks and my closet with my mom. So much had to be cleaned up and finally, our home is back to its serene cleanliness plus a very deafening silence at times.
It was hard getting back to our old ‘normal’ because in the middle of all these adjustments, we got hit by the nasty East Coast flu bug! First it was MLS, then me and finally , TGL. You can just imagine how bad the situation was at home for 2 weeks, we literally survived with food take-outs and deliveries. It was a first-timer for us as we never really get sick often, especially me and TGL. Most of the time, it would be just the lil’ boy but not all 3 of us, all at the same time! I guess after 5 years of Winter here, our bodies finally caved in and got hit! The upside of this is the fact that finally, TGL is officially convinced that West Coast is the place to be. Warmer, Happier, Closer to friends, family and home, err 12 hours away via plane. At least, my folks won’t have a hard time traveling to and fro, transferring planes with an almost travel time of 24+hrs. That, and I can just imagine how easy and economical it is to plan a trip home annually (me, day-dreaming hee hee).
I’m rambling but I just had to inject this: I never really felt this place is our home even if we’ve been here for 5 years. I felt that we had to be here for 5 (going on 6) years to mature, to learn and grow up. It was a good start-up place for newbies immigrants like us but nothing close to settling. Hopefully 2013 is the year that our plans to relocate to the West Coast will materialize, please pray with us!
To sum it up, I had a rough start this year not to mention that I’ve officially gained 8lbs! But that would not break my optimism for 2013. Let’s begin by listing my happy thoughts for January 2013.
There will always be something that can sour your day. All you can control is your own response. Don’t lose your joy. -Joel Osteen
How was your January?
Ok, i’m outta here, gotta check this inetsoft.com for a reporting engine.
