A little treat

Had an uber-stressful day? Want Need a massage but don’t have the time or can’t get booked in your fave spa. Try this shower massage to tide you over.

A couple of tips: Do this for only a few minutes, else you might turn into a prune. Don’t let the water fall on your head as it may result to hair loss.

Happy Anniversary

5 years, 60 months or 4380 days (well, technically it’s more). Wow! I didn’t expect it to last this long. I can still remember the day when our paths crossed. And now, we’ve been together for more than 360 blog entries. Thanks =o)

Booked In

I’m ashamed to admit it but it’s been a while since I read a book (of course, not counting the reference ones I have to read in the office). Nowadays, I’m more into watching downloaded TV series on my laptop. Maybe because I’m a visual person but I also have a very active imagination. Sometimes the movies adapated from books don’t do justice to what I envisioned in my mind while reading it.

When I was in grade school, I was always in the library gobbling up all the fairy tale story books I could get my hands on. During high school, I read a lot of romance novels. When I started earning my own money, I parted with my hard-earned dinero just to buy the best-sellers in the book store.

Nowadays, I think I lost my passion for reading books. I still read, of course ——– newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc, but not books. I now want to rekindle my desire in reading whether soft or hard bound books. Call me old-school but e-books don’t count (don’t ask me why, it’s just is).

Oh, I still be watching my series. They’re not mutually exclusive. To start-off my resolution, I’m currently reading “Heaven is for Real” by Todd Burpo. Next on my list : Game of Thrones and Before Even After. =o)

Assignments

I’m apparently the go to gal when the kids’ of my friends have homework and they can’t answer them. I solve the problem if it’s mathematical or logic related. I search the Net for information regarding an obscure object, person or event for a report. I once helped a child create a diorama because her mom was sick and we (take note of the pronoun) got a grade 98 for our efforts.

But when somebody needs me to be a resource speaker or needs me to be interviewed as an expert, that’s where I draw the line. You know me — I’d rather work in the background and not be the star. So I just introduced them to another friend who can be more helpful than me.

Shy may be one of the last adjectives that can used in describing me but I am, well, sort of. A few would say I’m good in public speaking. I once hosted an event in a hotel with an audience of around 300 —- but that was a favor for a friend in dire need (I wasn’t also in my right mind when I acquiesced) and it was ages ago. Now the spotlight scare the living daylights out of me. I’d rather be incognito, the wind beneath someone’s wings, someone who works behind the scenes.

But who know’s? I may revert back to my gregarious personality in my early 20s. Naaahh! While revival may be hip nowadays, some things are best left in the past.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth

It’s been raining blessings again. But this time, it’s been popping left and right like zits on an oily face (sorry for the mental image). I still haven’t fully grasp a mighty gift from the heavens when another unexpected manna comes along. Again….. and again…. and yet again….Not to sound ungrateful but sometimes it leaves me befuddled. Knowing my track record, I’d be the first to admit that I don’t deserve these.

Most people I know only question matters when the situation is going bad for them. Not me. I throw questions in the wind as to why all these good things keep happening when clearly other people deserve it more than me. But as someone said —- don’t question it, just accept it and be thankful. Of which I am, so much so that I am also humbled by it.

Inadequate but heartfelt : Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.