How to Spend Rainy Holidays at Home

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.

1.      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!

2.      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!

Couch potato!

If you want to have a good laugh, rent movies like these:

 

3.      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!

 

4.      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:

 

5.      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

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!

You Learn!

I’d like to share this poem by Veronica A. Shofstall. I totally love the poem and I have no idea who the author is. I’ve searched and I found on bio of her, just the poem. Please inform me if you happen to get info about her. I think she’s a great writer and I’d love to read more of her writings.

After a while I've learned that people really do come and go. They may leave you with a broken heart but also with a life lesson you’ll carry along as you move on. I've learned that if you’ve been hurt; don’t curse the person who caused the pain. As the phrase from movie My Sassy Girl goes “The pain goes away sooner than you think.” You may hate them for a while but eventually when you start feeling good again, you’ll forget the hurt and that should come with forgiveness. After a while I've learned that forgiveness is the best thing you can give to someone. They may ask for it or they may not, but give it still. It’ll be your advantage. It’ll cleanse your heart and soul, it releases anger and it turns tears into smiles!

So after a while of getting through this crazy life, what did you learn? Share! I’d be glad to know.

Here's a song by Alanis Morisette called "You Learn"

Head over feet!

Love may not always be the way you want it, but it’s always at its best the way you need it. There’s just this someone you won’t resist to love. I just read that one of my friends turned from being single to In a relationship. Though I really don’t know about her beau, I felt happy for them just knowing they’re in love! So here’s a post about love. Nothing new about its wide definition instead I just want to share with you these lovely couples I admire.

1. Tjay and Pao - My bestfriend and her boyfriend for five years now. These two I've known since childhood in Dubai and who knew they would end up together? I was surprised but totally happy about it! 

2. Zy and Nan - My cousin and her long time boyfriend. these two shared a quite long distance relationship when my cousin was studying college in Manila and they're still together up to now!

3. Berna and Arch. Rodel - My manager Mam Berna and her now husband Architect Rodel. They just celebrated their first wedding anniversary this month. They now have a cute Mikaella and another baby soon to come out! so happy for them!

4. Kuya and Pey - Again my brother and sister in law, of course they're one of the most wonderful couples i know!

And my favorite couple of all time:

5. Mama and Papa - These lovely couple brought me to this world! For better or for worse, they keep our family together, contented and happy!

I admire these couples because they’ve shared love for years now. But love doesn’t depend on how long you’ve been together. It’s about how much you can do for someone’s happiness. It’s when you learn to be unselfish. If you just keep your heart open, love will definitely hit you! The next thing you know, you’re already head over feet in love with the much unexpected person.

As for me, love is when you’re too scared of what’s next and too excited of where it will take you. And nothing will really matter; just the feeling of love and you’ll be willing to take any chances. It’s always a risk, so choose the love that will be worthy of you.

So simple.

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.

Be positive with The Power

"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!

Stress outbreak!

Thank God it's friday! Tomorrow’s a peaceful and relaxing Saturday because of a beautiful fact, it’s my day off! Finally! I feel so exhausted, my eyes needs a long sleep. This last two weeks I’ve been soaked up into too much work. Bunch of mark-up drawings, and late night overtimes. Really late.

I've been working for three years straight at age 20 (I should be studying..) I've worked for different companies and I always put all the effort I can. I’m this young office girl determined to make a career in design and construction industry. Ready to mingle in this corporate world. I always work hard. I've learned a lot from engineers and architects and I've earned knowledge and good attitude towards work. See I love working, it’s addictive. And it feels good because I know I’m always turning into someone better every time I learn. But the downside, my savings are not improving! I don’t know if there’s a problem with my budgeting. I wish I can spend my salary into clothes and travel, but I don’t. I help my parents and there’s no question with that. I feel like there’s always something else to pay for. And I wish I could have saved more. It’s really hard to spend your money when you worked hard for it. So while you still have allowance from your parents, enjoy them, really!

I totally need a good rest this weekend. More drawings are about to arrive next week which means long hours of work again and more stress. That’s also why I don’t blog on weekdays, but I always find time to check blogs I follow during lunch breaks at work. Especially my best friend’s blog, LOVE SKIN BEST. Check it out on my blog roll.

So I love my job and I love working for HBA design. Not everyone have this opportunity to work for an international big time interior design company. And I’m lucky. I’m positive I’m on the stepping stone of the professional career I want to achieve. So for those busy working girls out there, instead of stressing ourselves, let’s just be thankful for our job. And take a good rest at least once a week.

Here’s a song I’ve been needing to hear to relax and to match the positive view I need. My idea of heaven. Happy listening! Good night guys, sleep well!