VIRGIN DREAMS
dreaming outside the box24 hours & the rest of my life
Today is the day & I almost forgot… I’ve decided to join the challenge and honestly, I don’t get anything for it (except for slightly cleaner lungs), but I thought this would be a good moment to seize the opportunity and quit… Forever is the plan this time… (like all the other times…)
So in order to join the challenge, you just need to fill in a couple of questions and in return, a few Dutch celebs will do something that make them wet their pants. I challenged Dennis, who will get into a plane and do stunts. The others would be washing windows (hmm…) and do something with snakes (boring…) so yeah… 24 hours… I received a text as a reminder last night and I thought… Well good, I almost finished my pack anyway… Hahah… Except for one, but maybe it’s a good thing to throw it away… Good for my mental state regarding smoking… Have to admit, it hurts a bit to throw away a perfectly good ciggarette, but yeah… So it hurts, who cares, I’ve had worse…
So another 14 hours and 22 min and the rest of my life… You read on a lot of support websites about how to quit smoking and a lot of questions that you should ask yourself… Why do you wanna quit? Advice on why you should quit, etc. Honestly I don’t like to read all those reasons, it’s like a mirror and I know very well why I do and why I don’t want to quit. But when I think about it, all my reasons for quitting are a bit… Well… For the long run and indirectly focused on me..
I wanna quit, because I want to improve my chances on my december run, my spring run and eventually the NY marathon… I want to quit, because the smokers lung I saw at the BODIES exhibition scared the hell out of me (yes, it pops into my mind every time I light a cigg) and I want to quit, because some day, and this is waaaayyy on the long run, I want to have a family and I need a healthy body for that…
So enough talking and pondering about quitting and how and why and bla… I will quit this time! Hahah.. According to one website, I shouldn’t say “I want to quit”, but I should say “I quit smoking”. Good one huh…
*smoke free* muah
coffee & ciggs… again…
no i can’t… no i won’t… no i don’t want to… i don’t have time for this…
darn you grey’s anatomy ost, you make me feel all restless again… or is it the amount of coffee & ciggs i have consumed in the past 3 hours…?
update:
- project living room magic is almost done, old furniture & floor is out, new floor will be done today. now we have a week left to move everything back in. so happy with all the new space… and props to my bro & friends for doing all of this
- work is killing… soooo busy but loving it at the same time… yes my work & i share a love&hate relationship…
- btw; to give myself a thumbs up for all the work i did, i treated myself by wearing my lovely red armani shoeshoessssss hahaha…
- gosh i smoke again… and the weather or my work don’t allow me to continue running, but i still have a run coming up in december.. oh well, either way i will beat my old time… no worries…
- what else what else… i booked a holiday for february… something to look forward to yaay…
i need to goooo… continue work… too much to do for today… *sigh*
Project Living Room Magic
It’s just been 4 days and I think renovating our house will go just as smooth.. Sort of.
It’s been ages that we have changed the carpet, painted the walls and well.. Do pretty much everything around the house! So when my mom came up with the plan to paint and put in another floor, we were all pretty much excited… More excitement: we can do it all during the month that she is away! Don’t get me wrong, I love my mom, but she will stand between all the trash that can go and my siblings and I. So yeah, now that she’s gone, we can move, store and throw away whatever is necessary
4 days ago, I started to pack all the… Well, pretty much all the memories that we have in boxes. A lot of things came up, such as a learning game we used to play soooo much called Loco, my old Chinese porcelain doll, souvenirs from my previous primary school, my dinner set i got when i had my first communion, very very old cartoon books from Turtles and My Little Pony, old photo albums from both my parents… And this list can go on and on, because every time I took something to put in a box, it took me at least 5 minutes to mesmerize over it..
I have plenty of bad memories from my childhood, but also plenty happy ones…
Anyway, so all that’s left now in the living room is the dining table, 4 chairs, the coffee table and a HUGE cabinet which is still stuffed with all kinds of things I need to get packed before Friday… Impossible? No, well at least not without some music, internet and my laptop next to me…
We’ve already made some pictures for my mom, I think she will scream if she saw this now… But how we’re gonna make it… Very VERY pretty… She will love it… Our gift to our mommy 
p.s. We’re focusin now on the living room, but the next project will be all the other rooms in the house woohoo can’t wait, coz me and cleaning… haha
housewifey
Since my beloved mother flew away for a month holiday back in Indonesia, I have been (sadly sometimes..) all alone in the house. However, this loneliness is only noticeable during the evenings, when I come home from work, hungry and realizing (almost every day) that I still have to cook… Even though I hate to do this sometimes, and hate it even more when I eat so late (sometimes after 8…), I have missed this a lot too. Remembering the days that I lived alone, cooked alone, ate alone… And now, I can do it all over again. Have to say, playing my own housewife, not so bad…
Vitamin water part deux
I am not a fan.
I tried the Dutch Vitamin Water. From the 6 flavors, I tried 3: Fit (apple/golden kiwi), Multifit (mango/guave) and Balance (lime/lychee) in that order. It went from good to bad to worse…
I already said that the first was pretty mwaah… Like the drink got too much water added to it. Well with the mango (i didn’t taste mango, i tasted exactly what it says: multifit yurgh) it was even worse… And with the Balance… Whatever, I got completely out of balance! Lime isn’t my favorite flavor anyway in drinks, but I had hoped it would contain more lychee… Guess again!
Gross… And I haven’t even had the time yet to go into the supermarkets and see how much this overrated drink costs… No more for me! It was fun drinking it for free, but I sure don’t want to pay for it! This really shows how big the influence can be of a good marketing and advertising strategy… And how easily consumers are when it comes to ‘healthy’ products…
But regarding the product: I can buy apple juice and add tap water to it myself thank you very much. However, there were 3 bottles left of the Fit flavor and I’m a sucker for everything that contains apple or an apple flavor… Guess who finished all 3 of them in 3 days?! And I still don’t know why I did that, slightly addicted to it maybe..? Guess that will be over now that there are no more bottles left in the office fridge… Back to good ol’ Spa Blauw!
My advice to you… Just get yourself some regular water & fresh fruit, it might help now that days get darker, colder & rainier…
