OUT OF SHAPE

Yesterday, my mom gave our dog Dot-Dot (aka Didat) a nice bath. She smelled so clean and fresh so we let her inside the house. She was hyperactive as usual, and acted all endearing so that we couldn't help but be compelled to rub her belly (manipulative little squirt! ∪･ω･∪). We just practically played with her the whole night, and fed her bread and spicy nori snacks which she totally enjoyed. When we were about to sleep, we didn't want to take her outside to her space. So my mom placed her in a box, and we leashed her in my bedroom. Didat was so well-behaved the entire night and didn't poop or pee in her box at all. What a nice doggie! “ヽ(´▽｀)ノ”

My mom and I have long been planning to go walking/jogging, but all we do is plan and not wake up early.(∪｡∪)｡｡｡zzz But today, we finally pushed through with it, and guess what?! We took Didat with us!!! The squirt was ecstatic to get out of the house and walk around the rotunda with us. However after 15-20minutes, I could see that her tongue was already out, and she was drooling!!! But she still persisted on with a most energetic spirit. After more than 30minutes, we decided to cut short our exercise cos Didat was starting to tire, so we headed back. Less than three blocks away from our apartment, the little squirt suddenly plopped on the ground exhausted, and my mom had no choice but to carry her. Didat was totally happy to get home and she immediately lapped some water before planking flat on the floor.

Since it's rare for me to be up so early, I figured I'd make good use of my time. So I did the laundry, finished a book, watched the last two episodes of Natsuyuki Rendezvous, and made a quick sketch. Then in the afternoon, I went to the dentist (but he didn't extract my tooth yet, boo!), then to the mall, then to my GLC class in church. I didn't really plan on going online tonight but I needed to see some manga pages by Suoh and Kurohiko. Figured I'd end this fruitful day with a blog entry to make it even more productive. 

I'm learning from GLC that I need to be wise in using my time, especially to develop myself spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally and relationally to be more Christ-like. I need this kind of lifestyle change. To set my priorities straight, wake up early, take care of my health, accomplish many things, be more disciplined. I really like this feeling. So starting this week, I've stopped playing Facebook games so that I can do more important stuffs. I'm trying to be more conscious of what I'm doing, reading, eating and how I spend my time, and I know it's going to be difficult to change cos I have this tendency to get awfully distracted and spend hours in front of the PC doing just about anything but accomplishing nothing. I have to change that. Like my dog, I'm so out of shape in many aspects of my life, but I'm confident that with the right attitude, mentality and motivation, I can get right back on track. ♪(┌・。・)┌ 

"No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way". (Hebrews 12:11 NLT)

SARDINES AND STICKERS

I don't usually eat in the mornings, but since we have free meals at my current workplace, I felt obliged to have my breakfast after my duty. Later on, the other doctors told me that I can actually convert said meal to something else, like a bottle of softdrinks or bags of junk foods as long as it's worth Php30. Unfortunately, I can't change it to cash. After thinking long and hard, I decided to convert my breakfast to canned goods, for the following reasons: (1) We can eat them at home, (2) We can feed them to our dog, and (3) I can skip breakfast and skip the calories. After further analysis, I decided to get sardines because I get to take home 2 cans of these instead of 1 can of corned beef. And so bringing home 2 cans of sardines after work has been the usual practice for me lately, but when I looked up the kitchen cupboard today...

ZOMBBQ!! Sardines, much?!?

Earlier I was browsing through some food blogs and got inspired to make myself a sandwich for lunch. I took some bread, spread some cheesy goodness, and tossed in some spicy sardines. I don't know if you can actually add cheese to sardines, but I thought it tasted heavenly~

Cheesy Sardines Sandwich + Hot Coffee = LUNCH!

Other weird foodstuffs I actually "invented" and love to eat are Peanut-Butter-and-Cheese Sandwich and Plain-Bread-Dipped-in-Water. Yeeeaaahh, the latter sounds kinda gross(?), I guess, cos it tastes bland and the bread ends up all soggy. But I have been eating that as snack since I was a kid. (ー。ー゛)

On another note, remember those invitations I was making for my friend?

I actually finished them last week, and they have already been distributed! My friend really likes them, and she just spent less than Php300 on these. I'm just so grateful for my boyfriend's help and photoshop powers, and also just really thankful that I got to find the perfect pink board paper and pink envelopes. I had 35 of these printed out at nearby internet cafe, and since there was still a huge space in the paper I used for the name stickers, so I thought, why not throw in some random google images to print? And so I ended up with these...

<3 <3 <3

Today is actually the seventh birthday of our uber-hyperactive "pai-pai" dog, 

and I would just like to end this post with her picture~