It’s a long weekend! We have two paid holidays. Yehey! And it’s a rainy one. We have a storm here which means non-stop rain again. So I’ve been thinking of things to do at home. Here’s what I have on my list! Maybe it can help you too.
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General cleaning – Get up early and do the laundry! This is the first thing I did this morning. Clean up! Holidays are perfect opportunity to just relax, and it'll feel better to chill inside a clean house right? You can also move around your furniture or try a new decoration for your bedroom. Change your bed sheets and curtains. And most of all, don't forget to clean up your closet! Say goodbye to your usual messy room!
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Movie time! – Go out for a while and rent videos. Try old movies you’ve just heard of before but never really had a chance to watch. It's okay to be a couch potato on holidays!
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| Couch potato! |
If you want to have a good laugh, rent movies like these:
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Be creative – Start your scrapbook. This way you can also linger at your good days. Memories of childhood and old friends. Grab the photos and put it in a scrapbook. What's good with a scrapbook is you can compile old papers you didn't want to throw because of it's sentimental value, it'll not look like a trash anymore. You can also put your certificates of achievement or your travel photos. Your creativity side will surely be enhanced with this activity. It'll be fun!
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Read a good book - You may not be a bookworm, but why not try for a change? Come on grab a book, it wouldn't hurt! In fact, any book can help expand your vocabulary and creative writing abilities. If you're not in the mood to read a whole book, try reading books with inspirational short stories. I recommend these:
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Love your own! – Take a good look of yourself in the mirror. You think you need a haircut? You need beauty remedies? Review your skin. Discover about new beauty products and how it can make you glow. I heard
The Body Shop products gives really good results. I'm not a beauty expert, visit
Love Skin Best on my blogroll. (
Yes I'm promoting your blog bez! Hehe!)
6. Take a picture! – Take a picture of your house. This is a place where you go home everyday but maybe you haven't really looked around. I took a photo of our humble house! I didn't wanna take pictures inside, it's messy! HAHA
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| Front elevation of our house. HAHA |
7. Family time! - Maybe you haven't talk to your grannies for sometime. Why not spend an hour listening to their life stories, like how was their life way back or maybe their love story! You know grannies love talking to their grandchildren, but we tend to get bored or irritated with their old fashion ways right? It's time to appreciate them, you'll never know until when they'll be around. You can call relatives abroad, they love calls from home! It'll help them cope with homesickness. Bond with your siblings! Have a good talk about their studies, work or love life! And of course, spend some time talking to your parents. If you're not really that close with them, start the connection now! Family will always be your family!
Remember to spend your time wisely! It might be a while before you'll have more time off again!
Something I wrote when I was in high school. This is a typical sophomore’s view on living life simple but happy. (Sorry for the redundant words, I was just 13. HAHA.) Right, It could all be so simple.
A person who gets to wake up in the morning, east three meals just enough for his health, enjoy night outs with friends and manages to get back to bed safe and sound, ready to face the next day is obviously blessed. So if he would demand how pitiful his life is, then that person has completely lost track of the word "HAPPINESS".
Every time we feel like we've been given too much burden, we start asking why the world seems to be sinking us down. Is that too much torture for you? Wake up. It may not be the end of anything for you. What kind of happiness were you looking for anyway?
Sometimes, it takes a tragic experience to cause someone to take a closer look at the good things in life. It takes a lost of something for you to see what you got. It's not about having what you want, but learning to want what you have.
Happiness can be found in the simpler moments of joy in life. The power of thinking positive can make you feel how easy it is to put yourself on cloud nine in an instant. So give yourself a sunnier state of mind. Laughing your heart out with friends all day long doing a whole lot of nothing gives you joy. Of course, it's so overwhelming to know you have those people who can spend a whole lazy day with you without getting bored. Having something that gives you joy gives you a sense of well-being.
Life is all about stringing the little things that leaves you feeling radiant. The simple things that makes everything seem so easy. Think about this and you might just laugh at yourself picturing how crazy you go desperately craving for something then to realize that you already have all you can ever ask for all along.
"Just keep the things you love about your whole life. All the negative of the past are done, finished; you are not the same person as you were then, so why keep putting them in your story if they make you feel bad? You don't have to dig negative things out of you from the past. Just don't put them in your story anymore."
An excerpt from the book by Rhonda Byrne, The Power, which I received as a birthday gift last year. The book is all about living positively and taking all the negative thoughts away.
You won't learn to move on if you keep looking back. Try forgetting sometimes. Don’t worry, you’ll never really forget, but at least teach yourself to stop thinking about it. Past are just memories, and that’s all they are. Why not think of the other things or people in your present life? Instead of reminiscing moments with the person who chose to leave you. Learn to accept that some people you want in your life can completely live without you. They might have changed you, and they've changed you to become a stronger whole. So you can face the next day, with or without them.
Last year I went through a difficult time, a heart breaking one and I totally feel thankful for it now. 2010 was a year of learning for me. So thank you 2010! Thank you for putting my heart in vain and letting me feel so much pain. Thank you for waking me up with sadness and for the tears on my pillow every single night. Thank you for starting my year alone while I'm hopelessly hopeless. 2010 has been great! Pains were actually blessing in disguise. Every month I felt confused but stronger. Thanks so much for the friends that kept me laughing. Every strength and courage 2010 made me grow up a lot more. I found other things that could make me smile. I saw hope and more love. Things have changed a lot last year and it continues this year. My wounds were healed and my smile are even bigger! I'm so much cheerful and in love! And you'll always stay wonderful Jesus! My faith is even stronger now.
This book really helps. I recommend you read it too. We are all in a fast changing world and it just keeps spinning. So keep moving! Let’s stay motivated people!
