For some reasons, I thought X’mas was further away.  I hadn’t realised it’s next Monday.  Not until my man talked about X’mas dinner.

While we don’t celebrate X’mas in the religious sense, we have always tried to prepare something X’masy meal wise each year.  Usually, it’s homecooked stuff.

So the man sat down and listed the items to buy and prepare, very intently.  From appetizer, soup, main dish, side dish to dessert.  Since he’s going to do the bulk of the cooking, I just concurred with his inputs.  The only idea I contributed was to have baked chicken thighs so I’ll most probably only have to marinate that.  Heh.

But I’m happy.  Cos it’s starting to feel a lot more like X’mas now. 

I usually don’t bother to check out workout equipment because I know I’ll never want to use them.  I bought one eons ago and after using it for a month, it was left to be used as a clothes hanger. 

But yesterday I saw the Oto Flabelos and thought it looked kind of interesting.  So Gavin and I gave it a try and boy, it was FUN.  Just stand, press some buttons and JIGGLE away your fats.  Whoo…easy peasy…I like.  But one look at the price tag of $1480, I know I definitely can do with some jiggling on my own instead. 

And seriously, there are more creative ways to lose inches off my waist than paying that ridiculous amount to get my body shaking. 

Like some tips I got from this blog on fitness women such as parking further and walking more makes a lot of sense to me.  Especially since I usually forget where I park the car anyway.   And the tips on easy diet are also helpful, especially the one on never eat snacks right out of the bag, but buy snack foods in portion-controlled packages - and only eat one package at a time.  Ha.  If only I can eat them one at a time!

And this one I like best:

Infectious disease experts warn that from barbells to cardio machines, more gyms are hotbeds for the much-dreaded antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA infection, as sweaty people share equipment, exercise mats and locker rooms.

More reasons for me to not go to the gym for workouts.  YAY!

Never mind we’ll never get to build houses.  Never mind we’ll never get to own hotels.  

Who’s to say we can’t indulge in a moment of fantasy.  Who’s to say we can’t build castles in the air?

And who says money can’t buy happiness?  

Ours was bought over the weekend.  With fake money, notwithstanding.

As I sat him on my lap
As I cuddled him so close
As I rocked him back and forth
As I watched his gleeful eyes

Now I remember

As she sat me on her legs
As she held my hands so tight
As she rocked me up and down
As she watched my smiling eyes

Now I understand

The love my mum had felt for me
The love my mum had given me

Now I wonder

After years gone by
Will he ever remember this?

I’ve been overeating and am really getting fat.  My waistline now measures 28 inches!  But still, I could never resist this. 

Eating roti prata in a clean and air-conditioned stall smack right in the middle of a shopping mall.   The marble top tables look so squeaky clean.  And being able to enjoy the view of the man making rounds and rounds of prata while eating my plain and egg version was fun.  The best part was the cup of tea was huge, the size of those we find at Coffee Bean usually.  Not only that, everything tasted good.  At $2.80, it’s value for money.

That by the way, was my afternoon tea.  So do you believe me now that I say I’m putting on weight? 

I need to stop stuffing myself silly with all sorts of sweet and starchy food, although I really don’t know how. Maybe I should try try to get my hands on these curb your cravings Hoodia Patches.  It’s suppose to be 100% natural and uses Hoodia Gordonii from the Hoodia cactus which will minimize my cravings for sweets and other weight inducing food.  Just wear it and trick my brain to think that I’m not hungry anymore!  Then bingo! No more snacking. No more overwhelming desires for chocolates. No more all-consuming passion for tea and desserts.

Whoa…do I really want to do this to myself???