taking it easy

this week has been quite different. i'm used to being on the go, keeping my schedule busy. 

unfortunately, last tuesday, my body said "take a break". i scraped my knee. i could not bend my knee very well, so i could not go to the gym for the whole week (can't do Body Balance! waaah!) then i got a fit of major dizziness (i was already at the office by this time). everything sounded far away, like there was something blocking my eardrums. then i perspired a lot. so i had to hail a cab and get my ass back home to rest.

so my tuesday was basically this - went to the office, got sick, went back home, slept for 3 hrs, woke up at 1:30PM, ate instant noodles (my first meal of the day), ironed some clothes (see? i could not not do anything! i have to do something), made some microwaveable fudge brownies with cream cheese, slept for 2.5 more hours, had dinner (BON CHON!), did some groceries, did my manicure, vacuumed the house, watched Naruto on cartoon network, then went back to sleep.

for the past weeks, i've been doing a lot of pondering. too much mental and emotional stress can wear me out. so my bad day is like a wake up call to me. it reminded me to take it easy. that the Lord will provide for me. if it is meant to be, it will happen. if not, then i'm still thankful. either way, i have crossed out one item from my bucket list, and that's something to be damn proud of :D

for now, i'm happy watching Naruto (gah astig talaga! sana mag shippuden na!) and reading fiction (a hardbound book from one of my fave authors that i got for Php99.00! yahooo!) while sipping my 50% sugar Taro Pudding Milk Tea with Extra Pearl, and meeting up with friends. YEAHBAH!

more! more!

presenting my tiny library :D 

i still have a couple more left in QC though (about 3 novels and 5-7 short novels), which i am too lazy to pick up. maybe if i get myself a nice shelf, i'd let them join their sister/brother books right here.

i have my favorites, like Passport Diaries (which i got in a booksale in chicago... for $2. waahaha!! approx 100pesos for a great  hard bound book! panis!) and Savannah Breeze and a lot of the short novels. however, these 2 are quite special. these are gifts to me. thank you thank you!

breezy read

another chillax & fun read for me :) i finished reading Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews a few days ago. can you guess why i enjoyed reading it? that's right! it's all about a successful businesswoman (not multinational company extravagant level. but successful enough to earn her own businesses and real estate. so yeah, she's more realistic to me.), Bebe (pronounced as BayBay) Loudermilk, being screwed BIG TIME by this handsome, smooth-talking, flirty con guy. and then getting back at him (with the help of her granddad, antique-addict bestfriend, and innkeeper/fisherman /plumber/carpenter/mechanic guy) bwahaha >:) it's a classic example of being pushed and falling down (as in down in the dumps), and then getting back at your feet to chase that guy and put him right where he belongs. and realizing in the end what the important things in life are.

savannah breeze is fast-paced, so you don't get bored reading it. the story is set in an urban town and then in a beach-y place with marinas and boats and decks and sun everywhere. diba relaxing na kaagad?

so there. i bought another book from Booksale last night wahoo! I just love that shop 8-> lots of books for 30% of the original price hihihi :D and do you know how i pick a book to buy? i don't look at the author. i look for a pink/violet/lavender/mint green/whatever-girly-color cover. hahah stupid, i know :)) but it makes filtering easier. "black cover? nope. dark red? nah. white? next." haha! and then i check the back cover for the one-liner reviews and story "trailer". if it is well-written and if it sounds interesting, then that's a find for me :) i'm starting to build my little chick-lit library at home (oh yeah, i have 2 wwe books din pala). they're all stacked in my neon green picnic basket. hmm, if i could just find the perfect shelf for those books...

i want more weeknights like this

what does a pondering little lady do when something comes up at work and she stays a couple of minutes longer -- just long enough to know that she won't be able to have a bike for spinning class, thus, making her miss gym altogether?

what else? go to a comfy coffeeshop, have some double vanilla tea latte and read her new chick-lit while subconsciously enjoying the "waters of march" background music.

now this is how you should spend weeknights :) so relaxing, i don't even want to go home anymore :)

love, rosie

wahoo! last week i was able to finish reading my 3rd chick-lit for the month. it's Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern (who is, by the way, the daughter of Ireland's prime minister. what a lucky woman!)

i am quite impressed. here's a book where all you read are letters, greeting cards, email messages and chat logs. and yet you get the whole story. amazing! as in the only narration that you'll read is found in the epilogue, but you still picture everything - where they are, how the years have gone by, etc etc. it's like disney's wall-e where all that wall-e says is "eeve-ahhh" but you still get it.

anyway, as for the story per se, it is cute :) although it kind of sucks that it took decades (marriages and kids and divorces included) before the realization hit rosie (the main character). but all in all, it was good. a light, easy, chillax read. perfect to read in a comfy coffee shop, or in bed, with a cup of coffee :)

sunday randomness

i treated mom and danny and ronel and ate ditas to yoshinoya for lunch today. thank you danny & ronel for cleaning my vacuum and my industrial fan! thank you thank you! now my vacuum is ready for more bad-ass dust obliteration! bwahaha!

i spent the afternoon in megamall. i bought a ticket to the sherlock holmes movie. but i was about 2 hours early, so i went to powerbooks and got myself a new book to read :D ok, so it's not a political or philosophical or some deep sh*t book. i got a light romantic fiction - Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern. but at least i'm reading haha! the 3rd fiction i've purchased in half a month :)

then i went to the foodcourt and had a snack. i got taro naicha bubble tea and a ham & cheese on wheat wrap from plato wraps. both i haven't tried before. hmm... good discoveries, i should say!

then the sherlock holmes movie. it was... ok. not quite avatar-astig, but it wasn't bad either.

on my way home i passed by toy kingdom and they had this cute barbie display. of course i remembered my fellow evils and toy collectors ate ja & mik haha!

then i passed by 7/11 to get my coffee. they have a new flavor - banana cappuccino. weird, i know. hmm... weird talaga ang lasa. i still prefer my usual french vanilla. oks! time for some book reading!

confessions of a non-shopaholic

call me outdated, but yeah, i was just able to finish reading Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella recently. and i also wasn't able to watch the movie (boo!)

ok. can i say that it was a stressful read? it was! sorry, but i was personally annoyed at rebecca bloomwood (the book's main character) for the most part. i mean, of course almost every woman would LOVE to shop and buy all these glamorous branded stuff. and it's ok to splurge every now and then. but seriously, would you die if you won't be able to get that Denny & George discounted scarf? or would you instantly love a bowl that you previously found hideous just because it appeared in a magazine? or would you force yourself to like a guy just because he is worth $25 million? (ok, so maybe some would actually do this, but nevertheless!) oh, and all the palusot she had to come up with to save her neck. and the pa-impress pero style bulok antics? stressful, i tell you.

buti nalang she was able to do some good in the end. i was hoping though that sophie kinsella would dwell more on the "fighting for what's right" part instead of rebecca's palpak-ness. well, maybe she did it for character build-up, i don't know.

i do admire sophie kinsella (Madeleine Wickham in real life) in one thing though. she is previously a financial journalist, and now she's writing kikay chick-lits! oooh astig! i wish i'd be able to do that too!