Saturday, January 29, 2011

finally!


I have lost count of the months since I last stepped on a treadmill. It may even be close to one year. I don't remember going to the gym since the operation. But finally, I ended the treadmill hiatus. I walked and ran today! Yay!

The exercise resumption came on the heels of another "finally". This development which finally happened made me realize I need more energy to tackle, first, the decision-making before me and then, the demands of that decision. I have been praying for this and now it is here, praying for guidance in making a decision.

Prayer and exercise! They're great for body and soul. I need to do more of them and regularly.

Monday, January 17, 2011

the first few days of 2011

Since my last post was in October, I haven't greeted this blog a happy New Year. Yes, time flies, another year's over and a new one has begun (this line's from a song, right?). Looking back at the posts last year, while I am pretty pleased that I did more posts in 2010 relative to the previous years, I did not hit my target of having at least one post per month. There were months especially the last two of the year, when I had nada. Not trying to make excuses but November and December were crazy. The craziness spilled over the first two weeks of this New Year but things are slowing down a bit, hence this post on the accomplishments of the last few days.

Last weekend, hubby brought his team to Tagaytay which gave me a chance to declutter our home after the holidays. I managed to fill one large reusable grocery bag with knickknacks accumulated last year.


The following day, when hubby got home we did grocery shopping and I found these cute apples which went into the grocery cart and are now in the wooden bowl on top of our bookshelf. The wooden bowl was used to be filled with decorative pebbles but I wanted something new and something more fresh, more useful or edible to go in the bowl. I emptied it when I did spring cleaning the day before supermarketing not knowing specifically what would go in it. So seeing the little red apples were inspired.

And since red is the designated color of the New Year, the apples are perfect. Happy New Year everyone! May the apples represent the bounty that this year has in store for all of us.