I can’t afford premium moisturizing product like natura bisse or adovia but at least I do make my own moisturizing mask out of honey and lemon juice. Well, I’d say that it doesn’t work as perfectly as the above mentioned products but it left my skin smooth for a short while.

Despite all that I still suffer from dry skin. Well, perhaps in the end I can just blame it on my genetics.

days was all about waking up in the morning, go to work, pick up child, be with family, go to bed and the cycle continues the next day.

I used to try out playing guitar (my Fender is still up the cupboard waiting for me) and dreaming of an electric guitar one day – a epiphone goth les paul studio electric guitar perhaps.

Then I tried crochet because I thought I can self teach myself how to crochet better than to self teach myself playing a guitar. I did it actually, and completed a few projects. But it takes a lot of patience and time too. So that too I had stopped but my love for it hasn’t died.

I’m just glad that at least I can still keep up with a little language self study here and there – while travelling to and from work, or during work breaks. That and meditation. So at the moment, I have my language study and my meditation to keep life balanced for myself. That I don’t breakdown in the end feeling like I didn’t do anything to improve myself.

I’ve been doing some meditating for sometime now, and I feel that I see problems differently. They are as difficult as before, but I learn to look at them calmly. It is as if suddenly it appears no point getting all worked up because that won’t help solve anything.

I’m still at the early stages of meditation. However I do hope to make it a permanent aspect in my daily life.

This is what I am currently reading : The magic power of your mind. I read this book a few years back. Well, started reading it at least but didn’t finish it. Now I am already half through and I think I will be able to finish it this time.

We all know or have some knowledge about how our minds can do wonders. But little understand and even less know how to utilise the minds to their full potential. Although I am quite content with my life currently, but I have to admit there are things that I would like to improve – mostly myself.Hence my hope to recondition the way I think, meditate more, enhance spiritually.

The past few days I’ve been trying to meditate more and more. Most of the time right before I go off to bed. I realize that for the past couple of days, I’ve stopped waking up in the middle of the night like I used to before. It’s not that I got myself a new memory foam mattress or anything like that, so I’m quite sure that my sleeping soundly through out the night may be attributed to the short meditations I do right before sleep. I cannot really confirm it, but I will continue to do what I’m doing.

Eat well, exercise more and calmer feelings, these are my new year’s resolution.

Need to get these fat burning. For the past few days, I’ve only been eating light breakfast and lunch and skipping dinner. Well, eating biscuits with a cup of cocoa instead of the normal dinner. After feeling all stuffed up for first few days I think I’m feeling a little lighter now.

Perhaps it is also time to do window shopping before life gets back into the “work and back home, and start all over again the next day” routine. Burn away the calorie walking and looking for after Christmas sales. Got to look for some nice warm fleece jackets for spring.

Starting Monday next week, I’ll be bringing my pedometer along with me the entire day. 10,000 steps 5 days a week would definitely help me burn some calories.

Well, they say it would take from a couple to 3 months to get rid of festive weight gain – depending on the diet that you do that is – so I am not entirely worried about the weight staying for a long time. My new year hope and wish is that, I would reach 49 kg.

Another 2 more days to go till we say goodbye to 2011 for good. It’s the time of the year when some would ask what’s my New year resolution is. Well, for starters, there are those past years resolution to get over with. Anyway, I sure hope that 2012 would be a better year for us all. 2011 has been an eventful year globally and personally for myself.

My resolution is simple and had always been the same every year – Try to do better. So far I think I’m not doing to shabby. Though there is always room for much improvement.

Happy New Year!!

I yet to try snowboarding and skiing though. But I will eventually one day. Just reading about one of those burton snowboards makes me feel like trying out the sport already. However, for this winter, I would like to try out ice skating first.

I had been journaling since in my early teens. Though unfortunately, I destroyed most of them (since I move houses too often to keep track and I don’t want people to read my diaries by accident). I started journaling early this year and had kept on doing so faithfully till now. I write down my irritations, my dreams and my hopes most of the time – like when I’m going to get that unknown rv financing that would allow us to travel around Europe in an RV perhaps. Or my dream of having my own daycare. etc.

It’s my shrink, my vision board, my counselor all in one.

However if it doesn’t heal in 3 weeks time (I’m giving it a bit more time), I think I may need to visit a doctor soon to find out why it isn’t healing.

The pedometer is still working but I am thinking of getting something that can be connected to a computer software and keep records directly onto the pc. Well, I told my husband that he can look at garden gifts and health gifts, for this Christmas, so maybe this is what I would get this year.