Last Saturday we sent the in-laws to the airport. They’ve gone for their long long L.O.N.G vacation yet again. They don’t do this very often but when they do, they are off for a pretty long while. Selfishly, this will mean that I will be inconvenienced because I won’t have my ad hoc sitter around. On the other hand, they have a life too, which is what it should be if you’re living your old age. I mean, I don’t think it is fair to tie them down and have them re-live their young adult life of having to care for young kids, with commitments and all. After all, the kids don’t belong to them, theirs are all grown up. So, yeah, am pretty glad they have this time off and they can be with their other kids to enjoy the end of the year with. I am hoping they’ll have gorgeous weather this time.

Ash wasn’t too happy though. She wanted to follow her grandparents and she wanted to go to her aunty’s house ‘for a while only’. Poor kid doesn’t understand that it’s not a matter of ‘for a while only’, it’s a matter of lots of $$ involved and her aunt’s place is very very far away. She won’t be able to take being away from us for far too long. She’s not there..yet. We skyped with them yesterday (I am in love with this conference calling service) and she showed her aunties and uncles plus cousins all her paraphernalias. She was happy for a while and once everyone said good-bye, she was sad again.

As much as we would like to go visit them every holiday, it’s just not that feasible because it’s just too expensive. When we strike the lottery perhaps but not for a while at least. Which is why I say skype is the best invention…EVER!! She can talk and see their reaction all at the same time. The best thing if you ask me.

Wow..imagine if you are Willy Wonka and had all the chocolate-making machine…I think you would have thought u died and gone to heaven or something. Anyway, it was a dream I had a couple of nights ago when I was sick in bed and couldn’t move, couldn’t do much literally except just sleep. Seeing as how I slept so much, never this much ever since I had kids, I dreamt alot also. And this was one of them.

It felt so real. Except that Johnny Depp wasn’t around and I didn’t even bother go look for him. All I did was marvel at the chocolates and wondered how this magnificent machine worked. I just went into it, deeper and deeper whilst dipping my fingers into those yummy liquified chocs. Man, I think if Alice could make herself shoot up instantly, I think eating all those choc will make me instantly balloon then. But, of course — never fear because there’s always appetite control substance to help you to control your intake anyways..WHAT?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!! throw them away!! hehe..Who can ever resist chocolates?

It is never to early to plan for Christmas..never. Even if you’re celebrating a mock Christmas like we are because the girls like the idea of celebrating Christmas.

We kind of do the whole thing : the mandatory Christmas tree with presents underneath, dinner. Although, dinner for us is on Christmas Day itself where after dinner we get to open all the presents. heheh. It’s what Ash been looking forward to all year and all day that day. It wasn’t difficult telling her to wait for everyone to arrive before opening the presents, but I could tell that she really tried very hard not to tear open them.

Now, the only headache that beckons is the fact that I don’t know what to get for my Dad. He’s such a fussy pot when it comes to stuff. Someone suggested to get him one of those michael kors watches but frankly, I would much rather give him money or something so he can go buy whatever he wants..heheh.

How do you spend your holiday? We spent it cleaning up our home. Spring cleaning more like it. The maids were not around the past couple of weeks and so we have to do the cleaning by ourselves today. Sucks but someone’s gotta do the dirty job. I honestly need cleaning gear. And I don’t mean only gloves but the full space-suit. I really need it. The dirt is killing me. Perhaps I should begin with an equestrian helmets for a start.

This is the time where it will be most appropriate to begin reflecting on your life, what you’ve done, what you’ve achieved and what you plan to do.

As for me, all I have done is learn to do the house chores a little faster than the year before. LOL. Well true since I do not have a proper job, rather I have some would call it “donkey job”. So, I’ve ridden or been a donkey for the past 5 years. Don’t you think I should be promoted now and let someone else ride the donkey or be the donkey?

Anyway, what I plan on doing is start thinking of how I want to renovate my home. I mean, we’ve got some idea but haven’t actually thought about it in great detail because we weren’t completely sure if we had the cash to do it. Besides, we wanted to put aside something for something else to have some kind of effect. Now that, that is done with, we can do what we were meant to do. For instance, affordable centerpieces for thanksgiving. Now, that will be something I need to get done pretty soon.

Wow. Fancy that ranking for Federer! I mean, if I need some getting used to, what about him?

Well, lets not speculate if he’s “coming back” with a bang, or what tricks he has up his sleeves. I mean, I think we have seen him at his best for a long time now and it is time to move on. Time to accept that he’s only human, people will eventually catch up, this was bound to happen eventually. Nothing should surprise anyone since the greats of yester-years had their ups n downs as well. Besides, haven’t you heard of ‘what goes up, must come down’? And we should not wish for him to win all the time or play the game that he used to all the time. Even though secretly, that is what we want.

Anyway, I think many of us have talked about Fed’s decline, what he needs to do…etc. I think we should stop and find that other champion to root for. Although, admittedly, it’s not going to be easy. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack, a pure fiji apple (or was that fuji?). We just need to, for our spirit and our soul, and to give poor Fed a much needed break from all our un-seen pressure.

We are looking for a printer for our home use. One with amazing photo colour for my photos, a scanner and document printing feature. I have a HP digital printer at the moment but it lacks the photo colour. I wonder if Samsung is any good when it comes to printing? I know their handphone series aren’t too bad; hubby used to own one yonks ago. Come to think of it, *I* used to own one myself. Complete with all it’s Samsung accessories. I had rarely any problems with it except for the battery life – it’s too short. It burns quite quickly. We’ll be on the look-out for one pretty soon. I mean, it’s not ultimate but we do need one.