Mom’s BodyBlog

Cats or girls??

Cats :

unrolled a roll of tissue still in the dispenser in their bathroom and brought the free end all the way to the living room…yeah….long "ribbon" to play with!!!!!  Punished them by keeping them confined in the bathroom!!!!

Girls :

younger one hollered & reprimanded me.  She went on to the Windows Media Center & played some songs, clicked on the slide show…"Mummy, your nude pictures are here!!! The ones of you showing your butt only with your g-strings!!!"  Argh….I guess I have to remove them into my external hard drive.

:(

Looks like I have to remember to put on my panties before I take progress pics of my rear.  I keep getting my pics removed cos I was wearing thongs or g-strings. 

My kitchen is all dirty & oily.  But I am not gonna get paranoid about it.  I can clean up during the weekend.    I am happy to say I have cooked 4 dinners in two weeks and that is quite an achievement for one who hasn’t cooked for more than a year.  Not only that.  The first dinner I cooked, my elder girl turned up her nose at the food.  I had to make her a sandwich.  The second one I cooked, she attempted to eat some..still not much.  Yesterday, I prepared the food and put the hot plate on the dinner table and made them cook.  She turned her nose at the tenderloin butterflied fillets I prepared.  Had to defrost a pack of cod fish fingers.  Tonight she had no complaints.  My younger girl had no complaints all the way cos she was the one who insisted that mummy cooks at home.

Looks like I am picking up steam …

Looks like I am not only getting more normal …

Looks like I am getting more things done…

And I am pretty satisfied about what I have done so far.   Like the walks I have had this week.  Although there isn’t much to crow about, I did walk 5km on Monday, 4km on Tuesday, 3 km yesterday & today. 

I hope I am really on my way to recovery….

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.  J. Krishnamurti

All you need is love. John Lennon

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. Romain Rolland

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.  Thomas Robert Dewar

A heart that loves is always young. Greek Proverb

But I have seen thee And thou art enough.  G. Moore 

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.  Sarah Bernhardt 

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  Mencius

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. Winnie the Pooh

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. George Sand

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was choice, falling in love with you was beyond my control

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle

The heart has its reasons that reason does not know. Pascal

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom.Anais Nin

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara DeAngelis

Love, like a river, will cut a new path Whenever it meets an obstacle. Crystal Middlemas

Greater Love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends. Jesus

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. Eden Ahbez

It’s not that I can’t live without you…it’s just that I don’t even want to try.

It’s better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.’ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.  Ralph Connor

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.  Charles Caleb Colton

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.  Tim McGraw

Hold a true friend with both your hands.  Nigerian Proverb

My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life. Lee Iacocca

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.  Anon

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.  Anon

If you walk in front of me, I may not follow. If you walk behind me, I may not lead. If you walk beside me, I will be your friend. Albert Camus   

Today my girlfriend & I began a new routine.  The last couple of years we walked 5km every Wednesday.  Today we walked 5km and we are gonna walk 5 km every single week day (unless something unavoidable turns up) right after we drop our kids off to school.

I would like to think that this is gonna be fasted cardio but nay, my body is not built to run on empty so I take a protein shake before I leave the house.  I would certainly pass out on my poor friend if I went empty cos as it is I still do have problems getting up early.  (Yup, I blacked out in the kitchen this morning.)  Early morning drop offs is usually not my routine but since I have to get up early & my little girls love having mummy send them to school, why not??  It is on the way, anyway. 

Today I heard some bad sad news.  An acquaintance I have known for more than 15 years had been diagnosed to have clinical depression months back.  At one point his wife had asked me about my experience and I had offered to gather some online information for them on the matter.  I made a detailed compilation knowing how tough it was at that stage.

A mutual friend of ours gave me a shock this afternoon when she told me he was being admitted to the mental hospital for shock therapy, for psychosis.  He has lost more than 20 kgs in a short time and when she saw him yesterday he was being treated for dehydration cos he didn’t wanna eat or drink.  It sent chills down my spine cos I was like that about a year ago.  I am sad cos he has reached that point where shock therapy is required.

I have already lost an older brother just a few years ago to what I conclude as severe depression without ever being diagnosed.  For me, I realized I was gong down the same path when I started doing the things my brother did during his last years and yes, I went out to search for a psychiatrist on my own.  Initially I was in denial but when my health started to go and I didn’t care anymore about life, I knew I had to go and get help for help will not walk up to me and knock at my door.  And I am glad I did.

But I am also sad for him.

I was getting bored of the usual routine cos my gym is right there in my office and I didn’t wanna work.  So I decided I didn’t wanna see the work computer either.  I took my workout right out into the garden just like I did a few days ago when I went all out to saw & prune that huge bouganvillae tree.  Those branches were about 4 inches thick ….but I managed, and this time I managed without getting scratched by those dreaded thorns. 

Today I did whole lot of heavy pruning on the high hedge.  Good thing it was high cos it not only meant working my arms but stretching out to reach as well.  I wasn’t satisfied with that so I did some shovelling, courtesy of the dogs…who are intent on digging holes and "eating" & chewing up everything.  Today I found out they managed to squash an aluminum dish and tear apart another aluminum piece.  Then I carried on to do some weeding & cut grass with a pair of shears.  Just the corners & nooks.

Did anyone realize that weeding & pruning works the whole body, with the bending, squatting  and all??  :p

with my girls at school I would get some peace & quiet at work.  Looks like they made sure there were substitutes!!!!

  And here, Cosy makes herself comfortable.  Must be the cold from continuous rain outside.  Even mummy refuses to change into her signature short shorts!!!

I didn’t believe my eyes when I saw scraps of white paper on the ground when I got up this morning!!!  Sandy & Sunny decided to open my mail for me.  What was left of my pap’s smear which came in by mail was just enough to tell me there was nothing to worry about.  It was still wet & soggy from rain and presumably from their yucky saliva so I left the bits on a garden stool to dry.  When I came back from breakfast, I discovered everything disappeared!!!!

looks like it is changing.  I mean, it was always sorta ok but now I noted slightly more definition…a bit of my " girly " back giving way to something slightly more muscular & stronger looking…