According to the famous groundhog, punxsutawney phil, there will be about 6 more weeks of cold weather because he saw his shadow.

I don’t know whether it would also apply to Europe, but according to  local  weather forecasters, cold weather will be with us for at least 2-3 weeks more. Anyhow, doesn’t Punxsutawney look cute?? Interesting name, maybe I’d give our next hamster a name like that.

To be frank, I am really looking forward to spring and then summer. Thinking about doing a thorough spring cleaning - beat the carpets in the open air, wash and change the curtains, dismantle and clean the sconce lightings, air the mattresses, etc.

I like snow but I think I had about enough of it for now. Can’t wait for summer as well, for our bbq parties.

When I was just staring at the calendar on the wall in front of me, I realized that it was around this time three years ago that we were getting ready for a nearly 6 thousand miles journey.  Our big move. We were busy packing, busy calling up moving companies to obtain moving quotes, busy calling up insurance companies for health and term insurance rates that I may need to get, meeting up friends and family members for the last time before we leave, etc. It was tough, emotionally, physically, and financially. But we are a little wiser from the experience.

Again, this year, we may have to do the same thing. Another big move and hopefully the last one to a place we can really call “home”.

My job search is progressing rather slow at the moment. Looking at the requirements that most jobs here need, make me wonder whether it is a good idea to continue looking or just consider self-employing myself. Self-employing myself means that I just continue to tutor.

When I look at most of my friends who are working for years now and having a career, I must admit, I do feel a little jealous. Though I am sure that some of them are envious of me for being able to be a stay at home mother. In my case, it is not that I am ungrateful that I am able to stay home with my daughter for nearly 5 years. But our financial situation doesn’t allow me to be comfortable and feel secure.

I suppose what I should do now is just tutor and at the same time not to give up on my job search.

When those in the US hear the term Black Friday,they would relate it to intensive shopping. When I first read the term my first thought was that, something bad must have happened on that day. But later learnt that it was the Friday following the Thanksgiving holidays in America. It is the day when people do their Christmas shopping because it is the time when they can find the best bargains.

As I had searched the history of this term, I found out that, it happened to be first used in 1869. It was used to call the day when the stock market was a major disaster.  But that doesn’t answer why the term is related to intensive holiday shopping right?

Now, as to why the term ‘black friday’ related to holiday shopping, is because on that day it is the time when the retailers making profit during the holiday season. In the times when people don’t use computers to keep their accounts, obviously they keep their books by hand. They usually use red ink to write down the loss, while they indicate profit with black ink. Hence, came the term, ‘in the red’ for making loss, or ‘in the black’ for making profit.

So Black Friday is the day when the retailers make lots of profit.

Most people who rely on the internet to obtain information, they would definitely have used wikipedia before. It is an online encyclopedia where users can contribute and share information on various subjects. In other words, it is an information website by users, for users.

We can find just about any information on wikipedia, including that of medical topics. However, today I have found another wikipedia-like website that specializes on medical information. The website is called, Ask Dr Wiki - askdrwiki.com. You would be able to find subject on acute abdominal pain to Mesothelioma cancer.

It is just great. Another source of information!

End of last year, my husband and I decided that this year would be the perfect year for us to make serious plans for our big move. Both my husband and I aren’t getting any younger and so is our little girl. She is growing up. If now isn’t the time, then when?

So currently I am in charge of collecting information on Scotland. Yes, we chose Scotland to be our potential next home. Why? because of the nature, the currently low population (about 5 million. Don’t really like crowded places) and also the education system for our girl. Whether it is a good choice or not, we will know when we’re there.

If you have been moving between countries yourself, most probably you would know how confusing it can be when it comes to collecting infomation about a place you’ve never even set foot in. You have to make decisions based of what people say or advice - which, I must say,  isn’t all that bad compared to no advice or information at all.

Therefore right now, I’m just reading about the law, the living costs, places that is good to stay, not forgetting to check online life insurance quotations, housing rentals, car prices, employment opportunities etc. Not easy, but it’s exciting.

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Sideeffectsofdietpills.net is a website dedicated to bring you information on diet pills and what side effects they may have if you consume them - adipril, hoodiadrene, lipovox, 7 day slimming pill side effects, and much more. They have collected all the information you may need to know, to save you from having to scour the internet for the much need information before you even try to buy any sort of diet pills.

After a week of reading and searching for a laptop to replace my dear PC that died on me last week, I finally orered a Pink Dell Inspiron 1545 today.

I already know what laptop I wanted ever since last year. It was just that, the specs and the price range that’s within my budget that I needed to look for. Nevertheless, despite knowing what I wanted, it wasn’t any easier for me to choose the right laptop as it would be for me to look for the right herbal weight loss products that would be safe enough for me to consume. It all took so much time to learn about this and that - the processor, the video card, the memory etc.

The laptop is something that I’d like to use for years. So I hope that my choice is a good one. Most importantly, right now, I’m glat that I don’t have to read more about laptop or PC specifications.

I’m still waiting for a job proposal to either be accepted or rejected. I’ve been waiting for more than 2 weeks now. Honestly I do feel a little nervous and hope that the answer would come soon. If its accepted, I’d be very happy,if it isn’t then at least I can move on with my life sooner and continue with my plan.

Though I try to be positive, but I can’t help feeling a little gloomy due to how slow things are going. I wish there some sort of ointment that you can use to get rid of this depressive feeling. Something like those joint pain relief ointment advertisements you see on tv. Just rub the ointment and the pain just goes away in an instant.

All I can do for now is just wait on.

It was last month when I wrote a post regarding myself trying out the Nivea creme in the blue tin for my extremely dry skin. I’ve been using the cream for a month now. Every single day. The cream is just great and I’m just thankful that finally I have found something to help me handle my dry skin and not cause major break outs while being so affordable. Well, I still have a one or two break outs but not as much as I would expect or what I would usually have to endure with other moisturizing creams.

So has my journey to finding the ultimate moisturizing cream has ended? Hopefully. It happened before that a cream may work for me for some time and after a while it loses its effect. I’m not sure why but sure hope this cream would be ‘the’ moisturizing cream for me for a long time. I really do feel for people who have major skin problems, when it is hard to find the for the right facial acne treatment,body acne treatment, eczema or other skin problems. It really can be so frustrating. And when something finally does work on your skin you’d really feel like you’re on top of the world.

I really do wish that some day there will be this one ultimate cream that will just work miracles on any type of skin.