Archive for December, 2009

There is this debate among environmental conscious people regarding which is greener or environmentally friendly – the paper towels or the hand dryers?

At first thought I would say the hand dryers are greener. Well, with paper towels you would use once and you throw it away, while with hand dryers the machine is reusable. Further more hand dryer manufacturers are making their hand dryers energy efficient.

However, I came across a video on youtube where Karen Jones from Secrets of Living Lightly shares her view on which is greener.

According to her, it all depends. If there are 2 possible choices to choose from – either the paper towel or the hand dryer there are criteria that will determine which one is better. Check out the video to find out what she recommends.

We just had an offer to work somewhere outside of the city. It has always been a dream of ours to live somewhere where there is less traffic and the air is better. Well it isn’t an Outer Banks vacation, but we feel really excited!

We’ve submitted our proposals on how we would want the deal to be, and let’s see whether it would be accepted. Till then, we’d keep our fingers cross.

A good friend emailed me a url of a really interesting website – thisiswhyyourefat.com. If you cannot guess already, the site is filled with mouth-watering,fat rich food pictures. The pictures are submitted by readers from everywhere.

<photo via thisiswhyyourefat.com>

Looking at a double coronary burger, I wonder how many hours one would need to exercise just to burn all those calories away?

Nevertheless, I just got to admit,many of the  food in the website does look wonderfully yummy…

Well, I’m quite sure if I like to eat these sort of rich food, a fat burner would be my close companion.

Now that Christmas is over for most of us, we move on to looking forward to New Year. Soon we’ll say goodbye 2009 and hello 2010. Some people have this list that they call, “New Year’s resolution” which most of the time never accomplished, and bring forward to the next year all the time.  :D

For me? It was a long time ago since I last had a New Year’s resolution. I know I never keep them. So I just go with the flow. Do my best and be better everyday.  It’s a little less pressure that way. Well, different people, different ways of doing it or viewing resolutions. I like it the way I do it.

Anyhow the weather seems a lot milder this week. No snow showers, and the temperature went up, and it is warmer. Hopefully that we will be greeted by the New Year with a nice weather. Good thing too since we need to go out and shop for school and office supplies to start the new year.

I posted earlier today about my father-in-law being in the hospital right now. It was at first difficulty of breathing because there was too much liquid or water in his body that prevented his lungs from working properly.

Later today, my mother-in-law informed us that a new problem emerged. Thrombosis. His blood is thick and clotting that it is blocking his blood vessels. Tomorrow they are going to do a thorough examination on his condition.

*sigh* All the troubles in the world. Just fortunate that he gets medical treatment and all paid for. A wake up all for us to prepare ourselves with an affordable health insurance because we never know when we may need one.

It is indeed not a welcomed news. Even more so since we will be celebrating Christmas next week. Just hope that my father-in-law would get better soon and allowed to be discharged from the hospital and be with the family by Christmas.

My father in law underwent an open heart surgery last September. He had a slow recovery after that but was always weak since then.  It was  day before yesterday he was admitted to the hospital again due to difficulty in breathing.

It was then that we all the family members asked each other whether we all know something about CPR just in case. None of us really know how. I suppose many of us, without realizing how important it is to know CPR, just take it for granted until we are in a situation when CPR is needed.

Below is a video on how to do CPR and also using an AED – Automated External Defibrillators.

There are many more videos on how to do CPR on youtube.

I have dry skin and the cold weather that we are having right now isn’t making it any better at all. In fact, made it worse due to the heaters, as well as the warm showers I take.

I have tried so many creams and lotions. The worse part is having to find the right one for my facial skin. Not only they can be dry and flaky, but acne prone as well. Imagine that. So if I use a creamy or greasy enough moisturizer, it would help the dryness but my skin would break out. But if I use an acne treatment, it would be extremely dry at the spot where I applied it.

I just bought Nivea creme in a blue tin 2 days ago. It is good. So far the dryness is slowly dissappearing, but I’m just afraid that acnes would follow.  I’m not talking about 1 or 2 pimples but many tiny ones. Just hope that won’t happen.

I’ve been crocheting for about 3-4 weeks now and loving it a lot. Though I have to say that it does wear my patience at times having to unravel the yarn every time I make mistakes – and I sure do make lots and lots of mistakes.

I have one project in progress at the moment. Making a round table mat. I used up a skein of yarn and need to buy another. I thought of just checking ebay to find cheaper yarns. They do have just about anything sold there – well except maybe Anilox roll, I know, I checked. But then is it really worth it to buy there a ball of yarn? Perhaps if I buy in bulk. So I won’t be getting any yarns through ebay. I just may buy a set of various sized crochet hooks there.

I think for about 6 dollars I can make a nice table mat. Crochet surely isn’t an expensive hobby right?

You may have heard the saying, “the hand that gives is better than the hand that receives”. Years ago I didn’t really understand why it should be so because it is always better to be on the receiving end when it comes to presents, right? Well, it is right. But the feeling is the same if not even more wonderful when you give and the reward would be, to see the happiness of the person whom you gave the presents to. That is exactly what I love about giving presents. To see the happy smile.

I have been thinking about what sort of gifts to get my husband, daughter and family members. Hoping to get them presents that really like or would find very useful.  I’ve got all the presents for them all ready. Can’t wait for Christmas to come.

P/s: got to prepare with some appetite suppressant too with all the food to be eaten on Christmas day. I really don’t need the extra weight.

Today, again we went out to do a little bit more Christmas shopping. Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year. It is not only the receiving of gifts that is great, but the choosing, the buying and wrapping of gifts for others.

As a child in the 80′s, I remember loving Christmas commercials on tv a lot. Nowadays, with youtube, you can watch all sorts of classics and bring back all those memories. Below are 1984 toy’s ur us commercial, 1988 circuit city commercial, and 1983 Mcdonald commercial.

Just feel like a kid all over again.