When i have time, i do take time to browse through the newspaper.  It’s not the same thing reading articles online and really holding on to material and settled comfortably in your chair or couch.  Last April 7, i got interested with this health article by Tetta Matera on the benefits of Exercise.  She entitled her write-up “It Ain’t Enough to be sknny, you gotta be Healthy.  The article is long and i don’t have the plan of copying the whole article word for word because i need time to check on some home insurance quote for my cousin who really have to see the dentist today. She told me that since i will be in office with the internet connection so she asked me the favor to do it for her. I will print them out later.

I am on and off from the gym even though I have a lot of unwanted fats to lose – really lose if i want myself to be fit.  Been doing on and off gyms for less than a year already (i was into it before and stopped it for more than a year and i just gone back last December) because i fall to Ms. Matera’s thought – i lacked the focus. She said:

Exercise is a commitment, not a hobby. A lot of people exercise at one point in their lives, failed miserably and gave up eventually without any long-term benefit because they did not make exercise a regular part of their lives.

I think so she is right. If we made “eating” an integral part of our living life, then i guess we should make “exercise” as part of our daily life, too.   She gave out the following practical tips on how to be healthy fit:

• Have the right motivation and stay focused (i am slowly into this since December)
• Start slow but set goals ( i have lost 10 pounds from December to March and i hope to lost the same amount 3 months later)
• Wear the right shoes and clothes ( i bet i don’t have the right shoes but still am enjoying my gym time)
• Warm up, cool down.
• Drink and eat right (I am trying to do this right)
• Listen to your body
• Make exercise a regular component of your lifestyle (I vow to seriously do this from now on)

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Aside from the piano practice and lessons she is having several times a week i’ve been wanting for my daughter to have a summer job.  Some of her classmates told her about selling health books but I dunno if they pushed through their plan.  I know it is not easy to sell textbooks from one house to another so i don’t like to push her.  I am just waiting when they themselves decide that they are going out to work.  I love their idea of having a summer job than just playing and doing nothing the whole summer.

You won’t believe it, right? Well, I am a hot sauce! lol!  why?  Here’s why:

You are the life of any party, because you’re so good at bringing people out of their shell.   You have a knack for helping people happily embrace their true selves. You are ambitious, driven, and fearless. You love taking risks.  Your taste in food is 100% adventurous.  You’re up for sampling any exotic cuisine or someone’s kitchen experiments.  You live for trying new things, and you get sick of eating the same food (even if it’s very delicious).

I am not really a party person but i can manage when I am in one. Am a boring partyer. I am more of a listener and host than an entertainer. Talking of hot sauce, i hate spicy because i don’t enjoy my food if it’s too spicy. Some said, anything spicy can lose weight. I really doubt because i haven’t tried it. Maybe if i will try it then i will not need to undergo super pump 250 reviews anymore because i want to be fit by eating spicy meals. They told me that i should make the chinese, japanese and indian women who are very slim because their food is generally spicy. Hmmm i still have to think it over. Having hemorrhoids runs in the family so i want to prevent having one myself.

I can remember one day, we ate something very spicy and there was no milk around to pacify it until my tears fall.  I ended up grabbing the shake that was nearest me thinking the cold could make it better.   I told myself, never again will i eat anything that is too spicy.

…then am off to home.  I was away from home since morning time.  I went out to be at the gym and after gym i went online until brown out caught me online.  I went home to the dorm to keep my laundry and decided i just take a bath before going down.  But after taking a bath, i tried to fold the laundry and i find myself sleepy.  I slept for several hours.  Went down almost 3 pm and then the power came back.  I checked the internet connection, it’s working so now am still here.   I should be going home in awhile.

Do you have problems with bad breath?  I know of some who really have bad breaths.  I am not sure if it’s just the like of oral hygiene or they really have stomach ailments that is uncurable anymore.  So maybe they have to check out online the available bad breath treatment . Bad breath is a serious dilemma so a person should find means to be treated.  Personally, in spite of the regular dental visits and regular oral hygiene, i still find myself experiencing bad breath especially when i wake up after a long sleep in the night.  But this problem is only temporary because it just go away after brushing my teeth.

That has been proven by research and we have proven it at home too when we had our cats.  In the dorm, we have a visiting puppy and every time i see after long hours at work, i can just smile and giggle with the puppy.  We have an environment here that is great for pets to exercise.  This campus here is a non-smoking campus so it’s healthy for everyone to roam around.  Patients and watchers do keep respect the policy so i bet they only use e cigarette when they are in campuses like ours. I know that there are many non-smoking establishments all over the world that is why the creation of e-cigarette. I really wonder which is more dangerous to the health? Real cigarettes or e-cigarettes? I bet both are non are friendly to users after long years of use. Right?

I better share to you the photo of our puppy turned little dog. He arrived at our friend’s home a very wee thing but now, he is almost as long as half our limbs.

- oink oink in a very playful mood with baby john that is why he is not looking up at me. -

Hmmm who? Me! Me! hahaha  Oh well, i am overweight.  I took a quiz and answered I stand 64 inches and i weight 180 pounds.  The answer is OVERWEIGHT.  Overweight!  I wonder when did i start being overweight?

I already forgot…but the good news is that, i already lost 10 pounds from December up to the present.  I have a goal of losing another 10 in the next two months. i wish i have my own exercise equipment so that i can do it anytime. But while i still don’t have it in my own home, the gym will do for now.

I missed the gym for the last 3 days because we were so busy here.  Hopefully next week, i will be back to my routine.

But am online from the net bar.  I just need to because i know i have joined the Friday memes last Friday but failed to leave the links at the main blog.  The internet connection was already out before i called it a day.  Friday work is just until 3 pm but if there are much to do so i often leave the office at 4 pm. I was browsing through Outer Banks vacation rental because i want to see what my cousin was talking about then page just gave me an error result. Reason? Internet connection cut.

Last weekend i ate a lot of ice cream.  Then by Monday i already had sore throat.  So Tuesday i did not eat more ice cream anymore.  Thursday evening, i just can’t resist the temptation, i ate a glassful of ice cream again!  The result now?  I got a stuffy nose and sore throat?  Yes, sore throat is still here.

Wish me luck, i need to finish my tasks now and then go home and rest.

My throat hurts because my tonsils are inflamed!  REason? I just had so much sweets during the weekend until the birthday of my nephew the other day and yesterday i also had a glass of buko salad.  For sure my tonsils screamed for rest that is why am in pain to swallow now.  Am just praying that i won’t have URTI during the weekend.

Because i was not feeling very well since yesterday, i’ve already gobbled several Ascorbic acid and hopefully it will help.  Am still active but is experiencing some body pains.  With this pain, i feel like not doing my laundry tonight.  ‘The sink in our bathroom needs fixing so it’s not so comfy to do the laundry because the sink might fall of anytime.  How i wish the replacement would be one like the stone sinks i saw online.  They look so cool and neat, too!

They are so adorable.  Better check out their whole catalogue because they have so many that you will have a hard time which is so nice.

Let me share too a photo of my friend’s son enjoying an ice cream -

Now am wondering if Prince’s tonsils are also inflamed.  Prince here is enjoying a Durian flavor ice cream. (Dirty ice cream)

I felt being under the weather these past many days.  I tried to alter my moods by going to the gym and also watching nice movies but still i can feel the shadow.

Right now in the dormitory there are two students who are now positive with chicken pox so that means i will  have another set of new sick roommates.  Argh! for the past 2 weeks a sick student was roomed in with me because i was already done with chicken pox.  Yesterday, I admitted one dormitorian and this morning she was diagnosed to have Typhoid based on the lab test.  Oh my gosh, am just scared all dormitorians will be sick soon.  Closing exercises is just a couple of weeks away and i hope the graduating students will not be sick.  We encouraged those who were not yet affected to take some profilaxes or maybe using a protective clothing will help them being prevented from the viral spread.

I really don’t have a good rest since i started working in the dormitory.  I found out that even though am already immune with the chicken pox virus, there is still a possibility of recurrence but on a milder but still a scary case called shingles.   So last night, deep inside, i almost want to cry — i wanna go home.

Dimple is already done with chicken pox but the possibility of acquiring shingles was so much in my mind that i was really mad at her for spending the weekend with me in the dormitory.   Maybe next week i will really beg her not to come so that she will be prevented from any viral disease because her graduation day is just 2 weekends away.

My friend Daf and Don were married on Valentine’s day last year.  So this year, to commemorate their first year anniversary and of course the to celebrate their love, they went on a weekend honeymoon trip to Cebu City.  They spent 2 nights at a very posh hotel – and she described the whole trip as heavenly!

Thanks to 5 star hotel category, their honeymoon suite was really a nice room for lovers that they did not have a hard time creating a romantic effect on the setting they love to do – be it rooming in dinner, relaxing time and shower time.  Daf brought along with them her favorite floating candles with her favorite aroma oil.  Because of very nice shower enclosures their shower moments was very romantic!  They had bubble bath with their love theme song playing in the background.  She said the celebration was more and more intimate and full of romance compared to their first honeymoon last year.  This was like their ideal honeymoon, she added.

I guess their wedding prep stressed them so much that in during their first honeymoon night – they just cuddled together and fall into a deep sleep after everyone left as some close friends came by to wish them happiness.

As i listened to her recounting her worth sharing moments (all moments were worth sharing you know but there’s details that calls for still privacy), i too get excited and can feel the romance in the air.