What Simply Works!

The past few days, I tend to lose focus whenever I’m at the shopping center because of the huge discount sales going on.  Most of the stores are on half-off.  And in Australia, where everything is expensive, half-off is a big deal. Sure, the stores are just trying to get rid of wholesale apparel stocks but regardless, I’m not letting this crazy sale season pass me by.

My husband and I have ample insurance coverage for our kids.  But even with that, we’ve never talked about getting one to cover future funeral costs.  It’s kind of morbid to talk about, especially so that we’re relatively young.  But I know that eventually we need to discuss about it and decide on a coverage to get.  Of course, the primary reason for this is not to burden our kids or our families should the inevitable happen.

We received a notice a few days ago stating that our free game console (not sure if it’s xbox 360 or ps3) is ready for pick-up from the AU post.  We were a bit skeptical when we were offered a free console when we bought our LED TV but with notice, we are excited to play with it!  I hope it comes with free games, too.

Time surely flies fast.  It’s almost the end of June and in less than six months, we will be flying to Manila for our annual trip home.  In the coming years though, we are planning to spend major holidays elsewhere.  We have Japan, the US (organize a Branson vacation perhaps?), nearby New Zealand and Europe in our list of must-see places.  Yes, we live for family holidays and needless to say, we are looking forward to see all those places!

Even if my baby still wakes up 2 to 3 times through the night, I can feel that I’m slowly getting a bit of me time at home, which of course is at night time.  It’s because I’m no longer tied down to every hour, by the hour feeding.  No longer challenged to put him to sleep at night.  So as soon as I’m done with dinner, done with evening chores and have taken my vitamin supplements, I prepare my baby to sleep.  An hour later, I would kick back and get a bit of relaxation before I’m done for the day.

There’s just too much pressure on women to achieve a thin frame.  What with all the print and TV promotions conditioning our minds to do so.  Of course, this is not possible given that we all have different body types but others go the extreme and opt to go through expensive and risky surgery or take popular weight loss pills without really knowing if there are side effects (so better check reviews such as hydroxycut review).  I hope I won’t get to that point (or age) where I’ll be too conscious about my looks to a fault.

I am on my way to full recovery from last weeks sinusitis attack.   Thanks to our doctor who recommended strong medication that quickly put me back on my feet.  But the past nights, I still had headache episodes and at first I thought that it was my sinusitis again then I realize that I haven’t been clocking a good enough time to sleep.  By the time I finish my chores and my me-time (read as: internet time) at night, my little boy’s already awake for a feed and it goes on until the following morning.  Yes, wrinkles are becoming pretty obvious on my face and soon I’ll be searching the internet for prototype 37-c reviews and such.  But I hope my sleeping schedule improves soon, really soon.

Our house needs another major cleaning.  We had professional cleaners come to the house in March but two months later, our house looks a total mess again.  It’s already challenging to juggle time between two small kids and to add house chores in the equation is just impossible!  We can only manage to keep the kitchen, playarea, bedrooms and toilets tidied-up but the rest of the house are simply ignored.  Well, we have no choice.

I was having this horrible cold since last week and if before it just goes away without having to take medications, now it got really worse to the point that I was getting terrible migraine attacks!  After a quick check with the doctor, I found out I have sinusitis.  I am taking two types of meds and using a nasal spray and after a good nap this morning, I felt heaps better.  I haven’t been eating well since my cold started and I noticed I lost a bit of weight already (no need to worry about weight loss or diet pill side effects).  So I need to start eating well again to recover fully.

We’re expecting a stormy weekend and with that we need to prepare our household for (God forbid) potential brownouts or what not.  We don’t need items like clamps for the car but emergency stuff like rechargeable lamps and more batteries for our flash light.  This might be an exaggeration but we need to stock-up on food, too.  I hope and pray that nothing bad will happen and that the expected weather challenges will just wither away.

Lately, Tuesdays have become my grocery shopping and errands day.  It has been really breezy to do my marketing and other shopping errands because the newly built mall is just a few minute drive away and also because of the POS systems setup in almost all the stores.  I seldom need to pay cash and queue to pay for a long time.  Thanks to technology, it is benefiting busy moms like me.

Up to now the only beauty regimen (if I should call it that) I keep is cleaning my face with a dermatologist-recommended soap and applying moisturizer after.  It was minus the moisturizer even before we moved to Sydney.  That’s how lazy I am when it comes to looking after my skin.  But in time I know I will be hunting for a wrinkle remover as I see fine lines starting to appear.  I wonder what brand will work for my skin?

When we bought our TV a few weeks back, the store has a promotion of giving free personalized footballs with of course their company’s name stamped on it. We wanted to leave the ball behind at first because we didn’t think it will be useful for the kids but later on decided to bring it home. Now, as it is winter, it is sitting in our store room.  It will see its day in a few months’ time.

Every Tuesday is waste collection day in our suburb.  There is a calendar released by the council which dictates what type of waste (i.e. recyclable, compost, garbage) will be collected.  The bins are made of durable plastic material and are not stainless steel drums, which makes rolling them on the pavement out on the streets easier.  The collectors usually arrive early in the morning to make their rounds in the suburb.

It would be nice to visit a cheese factory one day.  We’ve been here in Sydney for almost two years but we haven’t visited one yet.  As I see it on TV, these factories usually have huge barrels of cheese arranged in rows and the aged cheese are simply cracked open once ready for distribution.  Hmm, I would love to have a taste of that!

There is so much variety of cheese here that we still have to try.  I know cheese is very fattening, but I don’t care.  I have no worry about indulging in something as yummy as cheese.  I’ll choose it over worrying about weight or thinking of buying adipex no prescription pills.

There is a new online backup service that allows gives free 2GB upon sign up.  Of course, I created an account immediately thinking that a free 2GB limit is too generous!  But after I signed up, they gave an offer of additional limit if you send invite to friends.  Hmm, I wonder how much more they will add to my account.

It must be the cold weather plus lack of sleep that’s causing my skin to show rough spots and small bumps particularly in my arms.  I have tried to religiously apply moisturizers but I see no improvement.  I’m afraid of seeing a dermatologist for this because I’m sure they will require me to get skin tests, etc and I don’t think it is needed.  It’s not as bad to require some sort of eczema treatment but I do hope the rough spots and pimple like growth in arms will go away, fast.

I admit that I was once was so conscious about my post-pregnancy figure but the busyness in my day to day life helped me keep my focus on the things that I need to get done.  But last Saturday afternoon, it took just one glance in the mirror to remind me that I need to lose my jelly belly.  It looked like I ate a hundred muffins in one sitting! Arrgh. I still prefer to lose it the natural way, with a healthy diet plus exercise, and I hope that will eventually bring back my flat stomach.  Because I never want to have to use apidexin or diet pills.

Our old Samsung LCD TV has finally been demoted and is now moved from the living room to our bedroom.  It served us well for the past three years and its power button started acting up lately.  But apart from that we liked every thing about it so we thought we’d buy another TV of the same brand.  Well, it turned out we liked another brand and so far we have no regrets.

I am working on a mini-project for our apartment that involves a major spring cleaning, putting up photo frames or canvasses on our bedroom walls and replacing some of our existing furniture.  Most of the stuff in our apartment has been with us for more than five years and it will be nice to give our house a bit of a refreshing change.  Our workstation needs a new computer table and shelf, small office furniture pieces that will fit in a small space.  I’m asking around also for reliable printers for a few family photos I want on canvass.  I hope I get to finish them all before the year ends.