Trying to be Fit

It has been almost 2 weeks since I haven’t had my coffee in the mornings and at night. I’m actually sticking to vegetable juice for breakfast. But you know what,  tonight I’ll be finishing up some online work and I need to sleep late. It’s not that I’m not used to sleeping late but it’s just that I feel so sleepy now. But on the other hand, I’m don’t think coffee has even any effect for me. In short, I’m tempted to drink a mug of the Vietnamese coffee in our fridge.

I think I will give in this time. Just for once. I guess drinking coffee will make me in the mood to do my online work. I have to work doubly hard now since I’m saving for something. No, I’m not saving for Rebecca Minkoff handbags now but I’m saving for a trip. So, off to the kitchen I go!

The rain was so heavy the other day and our kitchen started to get flooded. There’s some problem in the drainage in the house and so even if it rains heavily for an hour or two, then water will start to rise.

So after experiencing that twice in our 8 month stay in this house, Hubby and I were determined to move out and look for a new house. This house that we’re staying is quite cheap and even if the house is not new but we love our neighborhood. But we don’t want to always get scared of getting flooded and it’s quite difficult to always move the cabinets and stuff from the kitchen when heavy rains come.

So,yesterday Hubby talked to our house owner and told him of our reason for moving out. Then just this morning he called back and begged us to stay. He promised to do everything he can to fix everything. And true enough this afternoon, he came with a man who will do the repairs.  The man came with all his gadgets, clamps, shovel and all. Then, he also called up the district and reported the drainage in our neighborhood. Tomorrow, they will come back and try to fix the back of the kitchen while the maintenance personnel from the district will fix the whole neighborhood’s drainage.

Hmm.. that was such a fast move from our house owner. I just hope and pray that everything will be fixed and we won’t experience flooding in our kitchen anymore.

I was excited to start back with my exercise routine a few days ago but I forgot that our computer was reformatted so, all my Jillian Michael’s work outs were deleted. I also forgot to make a copy of them before letting Hubby reformat it.

So, I downloaded a Bittorrent in our newly reformatted PC and also searched for some free torrents for Jillan Michael’s exercises. The download was too slow and I was wondering why it’s such since our connection has already been upgraded to 6MB. And only then, I found out the reason when I saw the virus alert from my PC. So, it seems the torrent that I downloaded contained some virus. Arrgghh!

We don’t have a good anti virus so, Hubby decided to reformat our PC again. Now, that everything is okay, I’m already quite hesitant to install the bitcomment and download the free torrents. Hmm.. What should I do?

If there’s one game that I got hooked to, it’ll be Zuma. I used to play this game when we were in the Philippines. This is my mom’s favorite game too.

Anyways, Zuma is a game that’s based on speed and alertness. You’ve got to be alert in shooting the balls with the same colors in order for them to disappear. The balls should not fall in the hole or else you’ll lose your life. If you have more time, you can also hit the gold coins when they appear so as to get bonus points. I normally don’t hit them anymore since I usually concentrate on the colored balls. But if they were real gold coins, I will surely take them and make them as my investments.

My Hubby washed our car last week and it’s back to it’s recognizable state again. But then, when he was washing the car, he noticed that our car has more scratches than ever. We’re wondering where and when those new scratches happened. It must be when we parked somewhere and a motorbike must have hit it or something. But anyways, getting our car scratched is not really a big deal for us. We have an old car with already a number of  existing dents and scratches, so getting a few more won’t make much of a difference. It’ll be nice though to do up our car a little bit like getting a new stylish rims and tires, or getting it repainted but then, it’s already quite old and maybe then it’ll even die its natural death in a few years time. So, I guess we’ll just have to our car be as it is, maintain it well by having it regularly checked at the shop. This car has really served us well and has been a great blessing for our family. But I guess we will also have to start praying for a new one so, that we can  still have a car even if this one will ‘die’ and be beyond repair.

I’ve been coffee free for a week now!  Congratulations to me! I never thought I could ‘break away’ from coffee, my favorite drink aside from coke. I wanted to put Caffeine free at the title but I guess I can’t do that since I had a Coke yesterday.

So, for breakfast I still drink 100% vegetable juice and rolled oats on soya milk ( without sugar) . Even if my breakfast isn’t as tasty as before, but I like it because I know that it’s a very healthy breakfast.

As mentioned earlier, I haven’t had my exercise for a long time. So for now, my weights and figure trimmer has become toys for my kids. They actually like to copy what I do with those fitness equipment. But I always have to immediately take away the weights from my li’l boy since I fear that it might fall on his feets. Those are 2 pound weights and would be very painful if it falls on your toes. It would seem like a gold bar has fallen on your toes. But I’m sure the gold bars would weight more than 2 lbs. They’re not just heavy but very precious metals that can be used for investments too.

Anyways, I hope I could get to use my weights and figure trimmer soon.

I used to have Jillian Michael’s exercise videos in my PC. But then, our computer got some problems so my Hubby reprogrammed our PC. I also forgot to make a copy of those videos so, I had to download them again so, I can start my regular exercise.

But then, I found out that the free torrent I download contains a virus! Arrghh.. So, now our PC is infected with a virus and I have to wait for my Hubby to come back home so, he can have it fixed. That means, I have to wait again for a few more days before I can start back with my exercise. ( Sigh!)

We just went to Central Department Store today. I was surprised of its new look as it has just been renovated. Even if the clothes and items at this Department store is quite expensive for me, but I do like going there. I like the smell of the sweet fragrances that meets me at the ground floor which is the perfume section. On the succeeding floors will be nicely designed and nicely arranged displays. Sometimes they have huge sales that can bring all the brand conscious people together to ‘panic buy’. This weekend is actually their midnight sale. There’s actually a very big event for the Buddhists this coming Sunday, so that explains the flocking of the tourists from Malaysia and Singapore and the crowd at the city center.

Anyways, Central for me is a good place to window shop and not for shopping. Firstly, I don’t have the budget for their expensive items and at the same time I’m not too particular with the brand names anyway. I still prefer to shop in night markets and night markets. If I just know where are the wholesale shops here in Hat Yai, I will surely go there to shop too. I’m aware that it’s really cheaper to buy things at wholesale price rather than retail price. Who knows, I can even make a business out of it. And speaking of wholesale, I just got to know a good site online that sells, wholesale handbags, western belts and wholesale jewelry.

Ephesians 2:14-15
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.

As wrong as it was, Rachel had to admit that being thin helped her fit in. She really wasn’t a different person now that she was thin, but people sure treated her that way. It was unbelievable that people were so biased against those who were fat. Rachel sighed a prayer of thankfulness to God that He had helped her lose weight. It was hard, being on the outside. Nobody likes being ostracized. She also prayed that God might make people see how unfair it was to judge others based on their appearance. If God could help Rachel lose weight, perhaps He could change the bigotry of some concerning obesity.

Today’s thought: Fat or skinny, I’m the same person inside!