This is me today:
8 December 2015
Copyright Fiona C Yeo @ Cartoon Lagoon 2015
No, I haven't mustered the courage to cut off my long hair yet. I have it clipped up in a messy bun. It's getting too long but I wonder which hair stylist I should go to who won't make me regret cutting my hair! I do feel like chopping it all off but I know I will wake up the next moment and wish I could do the pretty low buns I like so much and of course the regret will set in big time. See, the problem with me is I love how those hair sprayed buns look but I dislike using hair spray. I find it smelly and sticky (when I perspire).
Each time I want to cut my hair, I will tell myself, just another month till Christmas, then it will be Chinese New Year, then some other event. But this time, it's because our 25th Wedding Anniversary is coming up very early next year and I was thinking of documenting it with a professional family photo. Vain moi has not decided if I would like to wear my hair long or short yet! Ah, such life changing decisions to make!
I tried to make a decision based on hubby's answer to my question. I asked him if he would still love me if I sported a really ugly short cut. He asked me if I would still love him if he was bald. Apparently we'd both still love each other regardless of the hairstyle. So his reply didn't help me at all. He did ask me to layer it as he thinks it's too thick and heavy now. I'm thinking I should lose more weight and then cut it short like during the time I was a young teacher.
Anyway, how is my weight loss coming along? It's been stable. That's a polite word for saying it is stuck! Stuck, stuck, stuck! It's not that I have been greedy. It's that I'm suffering from constipation! It's been like that since my surgery. I believe it is because I dare not 'strain' it and so if I'm not having a bad tummy ache, the stuff ain't movin'!
Today is also the last day of work. When I came into this employment, I was still a young woman with two very young children. I remember that my husband once sent my daughter to my office so that I could tie up her hair before he sent her to kindergarten! Well, that same daughter is now a senior at University. That's how long I have worked at this company.
I think God has been good. For whatever reason He had, He gave me the 3 weeks' worth of medical leave to rest and think of little. I had time to not think of work and I have to truthful; it was bliss! I had time to walk really slowly to the supermarket and THAT pleases me much! It takes very little to make me happy and walking the aisles of a supermarket is one of them. The housework well....it gave me a glimpse into what life will be for me from here on and it ain't all that fun when you take into account the cooking and cleaning that has to be done! When one is working, one has the excuse to have slipshod house making skills but when one is a full-time homemaker (well for the moment at least), one really doesn't have any good excuse to not be tip-top in housecleaning and it is definitely tiring (if my weekends are anything to go by)!
By the way, I've been quite distracted lately by Korean dramas (oh no!). Oh yes. It is exactly why I stayed away from it AND books for a long time. Once I get transported into another world, it is hard to wake me up! Hubs and I are a really funny couple. When everything has been said and done for the night, we will retire to our beds to 'relax'. By that, it means he will be watching his Manny Pacquiao matches and me, my Korean dramas. Perhaps that is a common occurrence, except that we both don't like to dorn our headphones! So you have the irritating boxing commentators and background cheering mixed with the beautiful Korean language of my Oppas and Unnis! We're both distracted for that hour or so and we find it so relaxing! LOL. Oh well, to each his own!
Cheers! Hope you all have a great week, peeps.
