Married life down under

It’s funny how life throws you a curve ball when you think you’re all done with them. I would have thought things would be smooth sailing again for me but last night my laptop died. As in, it just conked out while I was in the middle of playing Scrabble on Facebook. I don’t know if it’s the battery or something else.

I know it is nothing that serious but at this time we were hoping we can do away with the unexpected spending and concentrate on saving. So maybe I can do away with my laptop for now, but for how long? I guess this means J and I have to take turns again with using the desktop PC until that laptop gets fixed (if it ever does get fixed!). Otherwise, I may be looking again into buying another one.

Alright, enough moping. Time for me to get busy and do some more work on the PC (like read up on this Rochester personal injury lawyer) before hubby comes home.

After all the pressure and trials from work, I am glad we are finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. To start things off, I passed my driver’s exam yesterday! You cannot imagine the relief I felt once the examiner told me he was passing me yesterday. But I guess the picture on my driver’s licence (full licence, that is — not a P one by the way ) is proof enough of how happy I was having surpassed that nerve-wracking experience for the second time. This time though, I reaped positive results and am still over the moon about it!

Other than that, my practice audit application for my OT qualifications are well under way with a supervisor to guide me through. This is after several weeks of persuading management to get me a supervisor ASAP especially since a colleague has recently resigned. I am just crossing my fingers (and toes once again!) that I can submit this before the 1st of July.

That’s it for me so far. Have to brainstorm for some home makeovers (like transitioning from ceramic tile to timber, etc) in time for my mom and sisters’ visit in spring. I’ll try to update you guys as much as I can in the following weeks. Hope you all have a good week ahead!

In this busy life that I now lead, I am beginning to miss things which I used to do, namely cooking and blogging.

Truth is, as much as I want to cook dinner for us every night, it seems not possible anymore. By the time I come from work, all I really want to do is sleep. Though my job is not really involve much physical activity, all that mental stress can certainly give you a workout, it drains all your energy come dinnertime. I know some people’s appetite increases when they are tired, but not for me. So yeah, I admit that I am guilty sometimes of opening a can of sardines or corned beef when it’s one of those nights. Fortunately, my two companions here are not picky eaters so they will eat whatever’s on the table. Yes I do feel bad about it, so whenever I got days off, I cook a huge batch of a variety of dinner food, and just reheat it during the weekdays. And that for us works, and I guess for most busy families I know as well.

Speaking of busy, I better get some other things done too (like read up on breeches). It never ends.

Earlier this evening, I attended a farewell dinner for one of my workmates at Au Lac, a nice Vegetarian Thai restaurant in Dickson. We were all actually late for that booking as everyone was trying to finish all their paperwork at the office, it being the last day of the workweek, rushing off to close the office and turn on the wireless alarm.

Anyway, the place is bursting in the seams with customers. This workmate of mine is on a Vegan diet and she suggested the restaurant as it was her favorite, and she certainly isn’t alone on that one. But I am not surprised as the food there was very delicious! It was such a lovely food trip experience because I never realised that things like barbecued soy chicken on a skewer (just to name one) could taste that great.

Well, I am definitely going to bring the family there. I’m sure J will enjoy it as much as I did.