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Hubby decided to upgrade our four year old Xbox to the latest Kinect capable machine.
It's been a long long time since I went to the gym, so this little gift comes really timely! I used to be such a gym-junkie, hitting the machines three times a week, and going for yoga classes nearly every day. Midway through the pregnancy I decided to put my membership on hold, and lo-and-behold, by the time Paul arrived, I haven't even had the TIME to actually drive myself to the nearby park. Plus my office is so terribly far (from everywhere else), any efforts in trying to schedule a visit to the gym usually ends in futility.
And hey, the good news is, the Kinect works wonders. Eric says that this time around we're not going to hack the Box – he wants to go on XBox Live, so we're playing original all the way – so we've only got one game – the Kinect Adventures! But it's good enough for us. Just one hour in front of the idiot box, and I SWEAR you'll be drenched to your toes, especially when you level up, and it gets more complex, so do the physical requirements increase. I'm already ordering Dance Central , and there's that totally amazing FORZA Motorsport coming this year, so looks like there's plenty of fun to be had by all. And hey, with the Kinect in the house, I'm now considering NOT renewing my gym membership anymore and saving the dosh to take my kid with me for Baby Yoga lessons instead.
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So it's been 68 days since Jan 1, 2011 and I've finally found time to write about my little endeavour to participate in #project365.
If you didn't already know, #project365 is a photography project where you document a year of your life by taking a photo a day. Obviously in this generation of digital cameras and iphoneography, #project365 is now accessible to the masses, and the Internet is our best friend in allowing sharing of these recorded pictures with friends and strangers. And the cool thing is you don't even have to sign up with the website to participate.
Instagram, has made it even easier. And so I decided that for 2011, I would participate in the project, and do it in a pure Instagram mode.
Alas for me, and very bad mathematics, I've been terribly careless at the actual number of days, and while I take the photos every day, I've been an absolute klutz at labelling my photos in the right order. I compensate with the help of Flickr – by placing all the photos I've taken for the project under the same set, and then relabelling the photos accordingly.
The thing is I just have to remember to find time to log into flickr and reorganize the photos.?
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I never quite understood how blue Mondays can get until I arrived at Motherhood, and got an opportunity to make significant progress in my career. Both milestones happened at the same time and being the opportunist that I am, knowing that I only live once, I decided to take on the challenge and ever since, it has been a manic, frantic chase down life's journey.
Mondays I arrive at work wishing that the work day would quickly finish so that I can get home in time to spend more time with the baby.
Fridays I end work wishing that the weekend would slowly trickle, that time would still a little so that I can have more time with the baby.
Wishing for both is just impossible, if I want time with family to arrive quicker, then time, necessarily would speed past me, and every milisecond begins to zoom. Even if I willed myself to imagine that time with family happens in slow-motion, the truth is, my Mondays always come very very quickly. The fortunate thing for me is: because the conditions where I work is extremely fast-paced, the work-week is over in a blink of an eye.
*I have got to stop fighting this losing battle against time.
Filed under Love & relationships, Parenting & kids
Anyway, Eric's been away for ten days.
I know this sounds incredible, but since we started dating each other, this is actually the first time we've been apart for so long! In the days when we were courting, Eric would pop by my house every day - of course it helped that our parents houses were within the same neighbourhood. And even when both of us went on business trips, the longest we were apart were just a week – the most!
I was brave enough to take my baby for his MMR jabs, a day after Eric flew off, and then a day later realized that he could very well fall ill from the jab. So yes, our kid fell ill, now he's down with a runny nose, and it's absolutely no fun to be with him because it gets kinda depressing cleaning mucus and boogers after a while. Plus, Paul hates it when you try to dab his nose dries, he seems happier to stumble around with a leaky nose - go figure.
Being alone with baby (and the maid) with hubby away has led me to experience being a single mom for a while. And I must say, it certainly is no walk in the park. It's not easy handling work, taking care of the family, and making sure your children (and in my case, my toddler) stays happy and content while dealing with the troubles of life alone. Missing hubby adds to the challenge. Eric and I call each other several times during the day (when he's in town), and we're very used to bouncing our day-to-day lives off each other whenever we feel like it. But with him out of the country, we're more prudent with telephone calls, so we only get to hear from each other once a day – the most.
I have friends whose husband or wife works in a different state or a different country and they only get to meet once in a few months. Even more amazing is how single parents deal with bringing up family, managing career and overcoming pain and loss at the same time. The past week's experience has really given me whole new perspective and respect for what they have to go through. I'm really not sure if I can do this for a long time. The past ten days has taught me to be appreciative of what I have, and be grateful that we have each other nearby, 95% of the time.
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So yes, the hubs is out of town, but thank God for high-speed internet access, and FaceTime. It really doesn't matter that FaceTime only works with WiFi – whenever we travel we don't subscribe to data roaming anyway, and broadband access is usually available in most modern cities.
So at least, even when we're far away from each other, we still get to see each other every day.
I'm beginning to not like Eric's beard. Ahem, let's see what I can do about that.
