Recap

{via the creative mint}

I thought I did nothing this week, so I make a list.

=Monday=

Display goods and then bought something from Bobbi Brown :P

Dinner: meat ball pasta. Finished in ultra speed (before husband arrived home) in order to compensate the guilt of spending at Bobbi Brown!

=Tuesday=

Vacuuming and cleaning, attend opening cocktail party (morning in apron and night in lovely grey frock from Urban Outfitter.)

=Wednesday=

More housework, grocery shopping

trail for new creations

Dinner 西湖牛肉豆腐 ／ 炒菜

=Thursday=

Housework and laundry

Feeling tired just research

Dinner 日式牛肉飯 ／ 蕃茄青瓜沙律

=Friday=

Grocery shopping and laundry

Feeling sick and go Dr.

Dinner: chicken and pepper pasta with white sauce

=Saturday=

Sicker... sleep and have food delivery

Laundry!!! There are only 2 persons why I am doing laundry all the time.

=Sunday=

Pretend to be healthy, woke up at 7am and looked for pain killer.

Went lunch and had a comforting Green Tea Latte. Love the mood of Christmas in Starbucks. But still feeling sick.

Diner food delivery by husband.

More vege, less carbs

{photo by me: cucumber and lamb curry}

I recently felt exhausted and depressed very often. (Or most of my life :P) Previously doctor has advised me to intake more food in all terms and sodium. I am a lazy cook such that I had have lots of fast food meals to fulfill doctor's wish. Hamburgers got lots of sodium!

Things are better. I feel less dizzy. But there is another problem, I am puffy and lack of energy. So I change my diet again... a revolutionary one. I try my best to prepare my meal every day. It is a challenge when you are alone at home. Meals are not the top priority. Preparing a one-person portion takes lots of work.

For my health sake, I am doing it, hopefully, for long term. I will be a housewife (maybe) the rest of my life, I cannot have fast food forever.

Buying food is so much easier. (That is why you have to pay more!) You can just eat and then do other things. I discover I have been cooking and washing the whole day as following,

Breakfast / Lunch

Fried egg and toast, a cup of tea - 10 mins

Eat - 10 mins

Washing dishes - 10 mins

Snack

Cut an orange - 3 mins

Eat it - 4 mins

Wash again - 5 mins

Dinner

Prepare and roasted turkey - 45mins

Prepare salad, cut tomato / onion and smash avocado - 20 mins

Serve and eat - 30mins

Wash again!!!! - 25mins

Very often, I think I am not that full after the dishing...

Rush Rush

10:30am breakfast, replied emails and updated store, hand made a trail bracelet

12pm go supermarket, unpack

2pm start cleaning home, laundry and ironing

And it is almost 4pm. I am just in time to sit and have a cup of tea. And I am ready to prepare tonight's dinner very soon. The beef has been taken out from the freezer before I went out.

Sometimes I spend the whole day doing housework. Sometimes I just make jewelry until my hubby finished work and head out for dinner.

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Out apartment in Edinburgh is confirmed yesterday. I can undertake more preparation work e.g. planning trips (Paris is a must, and maybe some lovely Scottish villages!? Any suggestions?). I have discovered this website for packing. It is so useful that the list is customized which I found out I may need to bring some rubbish bags and laundry detergent (!!!!) for my upcoming trips.

Homemade Jam

C loves to have jam and butter sandwiches every morning. Recently, we ran out of jam. Instead of buying a new jar, I handmade some strawberry jam for him.

It is not that hard. Just slow cooking the fresh fruit pulp with equal portion of sugar and do not stir it too much at the meantime. I have bought some lovely jam jar from $10 store and potted the jam. A pack of strawberry makes 2 yummy jars of these.