Archive for March, 2008

He arose!


easter Thanks to Christ I get yet another holiday!

Technically today’s my Friday and I should be glad; I feel a little tingly but I’m not all there yet because my day doesn’t end until after 9:30PM. I’m debating ditching my last obligation – it’ll be so easy to just not show up except I’d be crippled with debilitating guilt for the next couple of days, it’s just not worth it.

Isn’t it something that Easter here already? It’s like we weren’t looking and it sneaked up on us.

Easter isn’t one of my favourite holidays, my childhood memories of Easter are very different from what I see now; there were no fluffy bunnies, chocolate or pastel coloured eggs or baskets.

We attended a lot of church services with harrowing sermons.

The concept of Easter scared me a little as a child; one minute he was a baby in the manger, come-to-save-us-all and a few months later he’s being nailed to a cross. It was all very confusing.

There were no presents, wise men or stars! Instead there’s blood and thorns and angry mobs and damning declarations.

After my grandmother death when I was seven, I became morbidly fascinated with His ‘resurrection’

I wondered what she’d have to show to convince us she’d indeed ‘Risen’

Posted March 20th, 2008 in Life. Tagged: , .

Allergies


I wish I’d hear voices in my head. Not voices urging me to harm myself or others; but voices of wisdom, caution and humour.

I’ve become an unwilling participant in a rather annoying night time ritual.

In the past couple of days, I’ve been waking up at around 4:45AM – this isn’t planned but I could probably set my clock to it.

It starts with a sudden and delirious urge to sneeze, then comes the itchy throat, itchy watery red eyes – soon the sneezing takes over in multiple successions.

My allergies have been waking me up at dawn and it’s relentless!

I don’t know why this is happening; I’ve blamed everything from my incredible magical tea to my pillow cases. On some days I’m convinced I’m allergic to my co-workers.

Yesterday I tried OTC allergy medication (that may or may not cause renal and or hepatic impairment – oh goody!), Last night I tried my Saje Allergy release, this is comforting enough – but the effects are not lasting.

It normally takes me about an hour to get back to sleep again.

I’ve had a lot of time to think though… I swear I’d be a genius if it weren’t for the day and night thing.

I came up with a very plausible theory. I sleep with my windows open and just outside my window is a garden – I suspect it’s about to bloom – you know, with it being spring and all. That must be it, because I can’t for the life of me come up with another reason why I keep waking up at 4:45AM everyday in allergy hell.

View outside bedroom

Here’s a picture of the beautiful garden outside my bedroom; this was taken back in May 2003 – it’s not looking like this now so I’d say it wakes up at 4:45 every morning to work at being pretty again.

Posted March 13th, 2008 in Daily. Tagged: .

Back with a whimper


I don’t have scientific proof (yet) but I do believe there’s strong correlation between my blogging and running.

I tend to blog at the same rate I run; hence when I’m not writing chances are I’m not running either.

I’ve stopped making excuses for my new sedentary life, it’s gotten too ridiculous – the good thing is I’ve managed to lose 10lbs through portion control/bento lunches. mosaic2033180

Bento lunches have saved my life, It’s become my passion – I tend to pack lunches for every where I go now, not just for work. It’s been fun fun fun!

I’m hoping to lose another 10lbs by May 1st. For months I was convinced my scale was broken, there was no way I’d gained 20lbs, I didn’t feel that heavy.

I had a little hiccup last week. I can’t even begin to say how evil Daim is! Good thing I can only get it from Ikea. I lay in bed popping one piece after the other until the whole (very large) bag’s gone.

I’m deliberating running the half marathon again this year, I’d like to better my time.

Posted March 11th, 2008 in Bento, Food. Tagged: , , .

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