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I already mentioned that one of our goals this year is to get a new vehicle or just get our jeep overhauled. I personally prefer the latter as the costs would just be the same so why not just get a new one (which looks a lot better, right?).

Well, the husband has had a change of heart and now wants to buy a motorcycle. He reasoned out that having one would make things easier for him as I always have him run out on errands a lot. With traffic, it would be faster. I flatly denied the request of course. I need to take care of his insurance, his accident insurance lest something bad happens to him. Plus where we live, traffic is practically non-existent!

The only upside to this is that motorcycle insurance is very affordable with Autonet Insurance. They even offer breakdown – they go to the recovery scene of the accident and arrange to pay call out fees and mileage charges needed to repair or assist with the vehicle. You get to have alternative travel assistance and emergency overnight accommodation if you are far. If you experience theft however, they have the tool insurance cover which will allow you to replace whichever was stolen!

10. Sony Network Sharing Camera
9. SanDisk Sansa TakeTV Video Player
8. Pantech Duo
7. Nike + iPod Sport Kit
6. Slingbox SOLO
5. Intel Penryn
4. ZINK Digital Camera/Printer
3. Microsoft Sync
2. Wii Fit & Wii Balance Board
1. Amazon Kindle

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It’s the fifth day of the year and the first working day at that, and you know what I did?

I napped. For FIVE hours. Not it is past my bedtime and I’m working. Switching timezones and sleeping schedules is not a good way to start the new year.

For one thing, I have so many things I need to do. Keeping an organized, efficient and full-functional house is on the very top of that to-do list. But I really have no energy to move my butt off my computer chair. Not that I’m not addicted to the web, because I am. I just really feel tired all the time. The only thing that aren’t really tired are my fingers and eye who do all the work more than 12 hours a day most of the time because of work.

Diet? What is on my diet? A close look at my diet will reveal I’m all gulping down diet sodas and overloading on sugar and caffeine. And I read somewhere it gives me false energy. I really need to eat more veggies to keep my mind as sharp as I want it to.

I need this green energy drink. It will give me 5 to 9 servings of green vegetables – the suggested daily allowance of a person. I should take it on an empty stomach though. I saw Joe Dillon in his video and he shared the EnergyFirst Program which he claims will let me get back on track – which I really want to do. NOW.

Now, if I want to lose weight, I’d consider getting this whey protein isolate vanilla shake that will give me energy and allow me to burn fat. It 100% lactose and cholesterol free which is all the better. Im so very much lactose intolerant!

I did a major boo boo earlier today. And I sense my husband is not going to make me forget.

I forgot our home keys when we went out for dinner. And he had no duplicates. And worse, my landlady was away on a holiday. I don’t think what can get any worse than that.

Luckily for us (and me, I should say), my landlady’s son went to her house to feed the dog and we were able to get the duplicate key. Or else, we will be freezing by our door and I’ll be dead meat once we get keys inside.

This has made me think about getting a keyless lock. You know the ones you see at the movies where people use their thumb’s fingerprint to open a door or scan their hand or eye to gain access to another room. Having a keyless lock would be so very cool and hi-tech, as my son would claim. The only thing that is making me reconsider getting a keyless lock for our house is its trial and error. It’s relatively new to the mass market and I don’t grasp the whole idea of fingerprint scanning. What if my fingerprint wasn’t clean on that day – will they eliminate dust particles? What if I have a very general fingerprint – will thieves and burglars be able to “fake” it?

I think I’ll stick to keys this time. And make sure to run triplicates and keep them in every purse I use.

Gelaskins are >3!

If only I am not on a shopping ban, I would have snatched these babies right up. I’m kinda wanting to change my pink Dell Inspiron 1525 and since it is impractical for me to change it when it is perfectly fine and working (and only a year old) – changing the cover would be like getting a new one – right?

I’m partial to these babies: 

Swan by Si Scott

Our phone has rang five times in a span of an hour and everytime we’d answer, the caller hangs up. Maybe the crazy loser has had too much to drink this New Year’s. I did a reverse phone number lookup and saw that the caller was from Boston – we don’t know anybody from there. Trace Phone Numbers is one of the convenient additions I have gotten ever since IDD was invented for phones! I called the loser up and guess what? He was a 55-year old man who was looking for pizza delivery! Does he think I’ll ever fall for that line?

To think I need to be so focused with work today. I want to finish everything today so we can clean the house tomorrow (ummm…yeah right :))

Back to work.

Let me just remind myself:

More work: More money.

And that means I can easily finish Goal No. 1 in less amount of time. I woke up after a three-hour nap (only had an hour’s worth of sleep last night) with a load of work from my “bosses”. While I know this means a lot of cashola, I can’t help but be overwhelmed. I haven’t taken a shower yet and our second room is more and more beginning to look like a laundry room and storage room because we have two big mountains of dirty laundry and almost a big box’s full of toys from presents this Christmas.

But again:
More work: More money.

Let the husband whine. We need cashola.

Today starts my new quest. A quest for effective diet pills. And I’m not joking on that part. Seriously though, I’m on the look out for the most effective pills because believe I’ve tried it all. Some were slightly effective, some were so bad, and some just let me hit plateau after taking it for three months.

I want something that is effective, would not have that much side effects and will suppress my humongous appetite. I guess I can find that pill in Lab88.com. It sells safe and effective diet pills to help you achieve your weight loss goals – and we are all looking for the effectiveness of it right?

I am so tired from all the eating this past holiday season. At one point, I so wanted to throw up and just NOT eat for an entire day – parties with overflowing food do that to me sometimes.

While talking to my cousin (over Christmas dinner), I was lamenting how hard it was to try losing weight now when as before, when I was younger, I’d just to crash diets and pop a few diet pills and I’d lose easily. Quickly and effortlessly. Apparently, that habit has damaged my metabolism, add to that my voracious appetite and I’m a goner :(. Now, I go on a healthy diet and I would be lucky to lose a pound a week! It is really important to start with a healthy lifestyle. I will try to exercise next week, maybe 15 minutes of walking - and see if that will help. I hope it helps.

I don’t do resolutions. I’d like to see them as goals. I think it is more attainable for someone like me who is goal-driven.

1. Money Goal
2. Travel Goal
3. Car Goal – not really a (new) car, but we plan to have the jeep covered and overhauled. It needs a lot of work.
4. Fitness Goal
5. Goal for my hobby and passion: Scrapbook life. Live the everyday. Print pages. No shopping for scrapbook kits – live with creative team stuff.
6. Family Goal: More patience with the kids. Make house a home, livable and cozy and organized. Learn to cook.
7. Wife Goal: Be a mistress to my husband. Spend alone time together at least twice a month.
8. Spiritual Goal: Pray often.
9. Self Goal: Study. Hit the books. Spend less time online.

And
10. Continue to choose to be happy.

We might just push through with the impossible dream after all.

That’s how the New Year will look like for us. House Plans will no longer be shelved and kept for future use. Instead, we will be poring over them like crazy.

I really hope our house plans will push through this year. If not this year, the year after next.
Country House Plans are our preference since we live in the suburbs and the husband is keen on getting a nice wide lot – plenty of room for gardening, with a lanai for entertaining.

The log home floor plans are what I am studying about next. I’m very interested in them because I love wood.

Whenever our plans go into fruition, I’m already claiming 2009 as my year. Again. I know it will. I will make it mine. I will make it happen.

Hope you had a great start for this year too.
Welcome 2009.