Just My Rambling

Even though my little girl is almost 4, I have to go to the bathroom with her whenever she needs to wash her hands. It’s not that she is not capable of washing her own hands but she always has trouble turning on the faucet. My current faucet handle is very tight and hard to turn. Maybe I should look into those automatic sensor faucets like the ones in her preschool. If I have that in the house, I won’t have to make that many bathroom runs with her anymore.

The crazy travelling that we did this summer really took the travelling bug out of me, at least for a while. This morning was probably the first Saturday morning since summer that I woke up and didn’t have to rush to go anywhere or entertained anyone. We did go out to the Salmon Day Festival for a little bit but now we are all just lazing at home. It feels really good. I think that for this month I should just keep all my weekends free so that I can recuperate from the busyness of the weekdays. With all the rest, I won’t need the best acne treatment anymore.

These past couple of weeks has been a little stressful. Trying to adjust to Lil’ C’s school schedule and my new job has not been easy. Did I mention that her piano class is starting this week after a two month’s break? So that’s another thing that I have to add to my schedule. Luckily the piano school is only 10 minutes from my house; at least I won’t have to drive too far. Anyway, at this rate I am going, I am going to need acne treatment soon!!

Over the weekend, I took all my winter clothes out of storage to get ready for the cold winter. While rummaging through them, I found some baby clothes and baby bedding hidden among my winter clothes. I didn’t even realize I still had them. I thought I had given them all away but I guess I was wrong. Wonder what I should do with them? I wish I had found them before I had that garage sale last month. Looks like I will probably end up giving them away.

Lately Lil’ C has been fascinated with the stars, the sun and the moon. She has been asking me so many questions about them like where they came from, what they are made of, why they have light and many more. I think I really need to brush up on my knowledge of astronomy. Yesterday, she even asked me if we could buy the moon. Out of boredom, I checked the internet and to my surprise, you really can!! You can actually buy a piece of the moon by purchasing an officially authorized lunar land claim from Lunar International. Isn’t that interesting? I should check it out further.

Ever since school started, I am still trying to adjust to the new schedule and routine. Unfortunately that means my diet plan has gone haywire. I have not been able to make it to the gym at all these past 2 weeks! Aargh… I’d better buck up and get myself to the gym very soon and get back on my exercise plan before I get tempted to check out the diet pill reviews. After all, old-fashioned exercise is still the best.

All of Lil’C’s school and enrichment activities are in full swing this week. That means I have once again been relegated to my chauffeuring duties again. So far, it has been exhausting driving her from one school to another and from one activity to another. I think I might have to reduce some of her activities or I might just end up needing acne treatments from the stress of driving.

I guess I don’t really fully understand the real estate market. Everyday the news reports are reporting on the decline of the housing market and yet there are so many new constructions around my house. In fact, they started another new construction right behind my house last week. It is making my house so dusty that I think I need to buy an IQAir Purifier soon to prevent my hubby from getting his dust allergies. I just can’t wait for the constructions to be over. I am just curious how they are going to be able to sell all those new houses!

My husband works in the downtown area and everyone knows that parking in downtown in crazily expensive. It costs about $20 per day!! With the high parking and high gas price, he has been taking the bus to work. After all his company gives him a free bus pass, so why not use that instead of paying $30 a day for parking & gas. So far he loves the bus ride especially since he doesn’t have to fight traffic. The only complaint he has is that it is boring sitting on the bus with nothing to do. He can’t read a book on a moving vehicle due to motion sickness. That is why he has been thinking of listening to an audio book instead. That way he won’t get bored in the bus.

Everytime I go downtown, I can’t help but notice that there are a lot of new constructions going on. Some are residential but most of them are new office buildings. The list of vacant commercial real estate is so long nowadays, so it makes me wonder if they are going to be able to lease out all those office buildings or not. It will be such a waste if those nice buildings end up remaining vacant.