Valen’s Vanity Square

It’s one day before Christmas and I should be in a jolly good mood now, right? Wrong! For the past few weeks I’ve been like living in hell, thanks to my neighbor!

I have no mood to think about whether to ask for a steam cleaner or a light-weight super wonder mob s a Christmas present. I have no mood to think where to dine on Christmas’ eve. I have no mood to play my favorite Christmas CDs. Thanks to my neighbor!

To be exact, a neighbor who is yet to move in next door. My neighbor, Mr B, I think he is so darn rich. He can afford to buy a house and not move in for more than a year! He said, “Oh, I was very busy with my business… we don’t want to move in hastily, my wife is very fussy and particular, she wants everything nicely done… we’ve bought our furniture looooong time ago, they are all now sitting in the warehouse…”

So 3 weeks ago, Mr B finally decided that he and his family want to move in before Chinese New Year. Hence, my  world of serenity and peace started to shatter and tumble down 3 weeks ago, and is still being shattered today! For 3 WHOLE WEEKS, renovation has been going on next door. Drilling, banging, hacking, hammering, knocking…. it’s like Mr B wanted the workers to tear down his house, perhaps mine too! The noise pollution is sooooo unbearable that it drove me nuttier than nuts!

I can’t stop you from stopping your workers to create noise pollution on weekdays, because, hey, weekdays are working days, right? Fine, I shall escape and take refuge at my mom’s place or in Starbucks. But what the fxxx, the drilling and banging continues on even weekends and public holidays, starting early in the morning! What is he thinking? Is he building a grand palace or something? Didn’t he know that people work in weekdays, and need to rest on weekends? What if there’s a baby staying in this house? Or a sick old woman that needs a lot of rest and quietness? Absolutely shittier than all animal shit added together!

I already hate my neighbor before they move in. The hatred is so intense that I even dreamed that my other neighbor also hated him. Merry Christmas and happy contributing to noise pollution, Mr B!

Just woke up from my beauty nap *yawn*… well, it’s not going to do much good for my skin though, coz I only went to bed 4 am this morning!

I was rushing to complete a writing assignment that was due today, but I got stuck in the middle of writing, didn’t quite understand what this speaker was trying to convey through his presentation! And the internet line was so darn slow, it really slowed down my online research. Whatever, I had done with the work by lunch today, that’s why I have the luxury to take the afternoon off for a ’skin repair’ sleep, haha!

Speaking of repair, now I remembered that the contractor worker was supposed to come to my house three days ago to replace the cracked tile in my bathroom! They came to mend the horrendous cracked walls 2 weeks ago, but they ran out of the matching tiles for the bathroom. And they were paid already! Hmmm, what are they thinking? That we would forget about it after they took our money? Jeez, have to remind hubby about this, if money is paid, work has to be completed!

I foresee myself to be a clumsy woman driver, if I ever drive, that is. Hubby has been nagging me to take up driving refresh lessons. His ideal ‘plan’ is so that I would drive him to work, drop him off at his office while I could go do grocery shopping or my facials, and then back to pick him up from work in the evening. Yeah, an ideal plan indeed. But I’m so enjoying my life as a passenger next to the driver’s seat, so I have no intention to become a driver myself, haha!

Hubby had tried to entice me by agreeing to pay the down payment for a second-hand car, but even I would agree, I don’t think he can’t do that now coz he may need to use that money to help my FIL buy HIS car. While it will be a second-hand car with affordable price, there are miscellaneous charges to take care as well (e.g. road tax, vehicle insurance), and those can accumulate to a significant sum. Luckily it will be just an ordinary sedan. I wonder how much is rv insurance for a recreational vehicle (like one of those mobile home buses), it must be an exorbitant sum!

Anyway, don’t think FIL will get his car soon, coz his fried noodle business is not doing well. It’s a problem of location. If he decides not to run his stall, then there’s no need to get a car. But that doesn’t mean that he’s given up his food business ‘empire’ plan, he’s making a new plan to sell his true secret recipe in another location next year. What an ambitious old man!

I’m a gal with many dreams. Dreams, as in those images you ’see’ when you sleep. Not those ambitious dreams like ‘I want to become the no.1 top selling self-published housewife’, or ‘I want to sail around the world for 100 days’.

I have all sorts of dreams, they can be very funny, adventurous, scary, exciting, thrilling, absurd, weird, sad, all at the same time. Sometime I woke up from a dream that was so ‘interesting’ that I wanted to just quickly fall asleep again to continue the dream. Haha! Of course, most dreams don’t make sense. They just reflect what I saw or experienced recently, especially if I had just watched some action-packed or horror movies.

That’s why I never care to decipher what my dreams are trying to tell me. What does it mean if I dreamed myself couldn’t find any exit signs and got lost in the beauty salon after my facial treatment? What does it mean if I took out my eyeball from my eye socket and put it back again? What does it mean if I went into a toilet and all the cubicles have no door? Haha!

I will not bother to understand these dreams of mine, but I will tell it like a story to hubby, for entertainment. Somehow it’s weird that hubby doesn’t seem to have dreams when he sleep. Or, he never remembers any of them. He just sleeps like a piece of dead wood, so dead that he never goes into dreamland. Haha!

Today is my ’stress’ day. I need to get some work done for a client. Although I don’t have to submit it until Friday afternoon, but I only have today to work on it.

You see, tomorrow is my facial day, so I will spend most of my time in the shopping mall. As for Friday, I have to get my house organized and cleaned up because parents in law are coming for dinner this weekend.

Speaking of cleaning the house, I think I better start planning for Chinese New Year, haha! I know, it’s still like 3-4 months away, but there’s a lot to do if you were lazy like me, a housewife that doesn’t do her housework regularly, haha! To make things worse, I have one busy husband who has no time to mend the cracks on the wall of our bedroom. He has bought the crack filler thing but has had no time to get on it. Even after he filled up all the cracks, we have to repaint the walls. Gosh, I felt tired already by just thinking of it. And we have to get this done before CNY! It seems like we have got a lot of time huh? But you know how time flies, right? And how weekends can just go passing in a snap without you even noticing…

Besides this major task, we need to get ready new curtains, a new chair to replace the broken one in the study room, pots and plants for our front yard, matching cushions for our sofa, etc. Luckily we don’t have a home theater system, otherwise we might also need to get new mounts for the TV and audio system.

Jeez, I think my stress level has just increased by several notches!

It’s okay, I will get through the day anyhow. And before I go to bed tonight, I will relax in my lavender facial mask and look forward to tomorrow’s facial.

Jeez, what have I eaten wrong? My stomach has not been feeling well since yesterday. It’s as if something is grinding inside and I always hear weird sound coming from my belly, haha!

I’m having this semi-diarrhea episodes. It’s not truly a diarrhea, just that the stool is softer than usual. And have to do it at least a couple of times a day.

Actually, I don’t mind if this carry on for another day, so that I can rid off all the waste from my body and shed off some pounds! (I already felt that my tummy is slightly flatter now.) There is no need to look up for top weight loss pills, or perform any detoxification program, coz my body knows how to run its own natural detoxification process. Haha!

But I still wonder what was it that I ate wrong. Was it the kiwi, or the instant coffee? The kiwi was really sweet and juicy, it musn’t be it! I want to eat it again this afternoon. Perhaps it’s the coffee. So should I skip coffee or not today?

I will be ’stranded’ at home this whole week!

Hubby has a hectic schedule this week, and I will be cooking and having dinner alone for two evenings, and late dinner with hubby at home for another two. Hubby is also tied up with with a training course during the weekend. That means, no shopping malls for me for the rest of the week! Well, that’s good I suppose, coz I won’t have the chance to spend money. Haha! (Still dangerous though, as there’s something called online shopping! :P)

But things are so much settled now; at least I have a home to stay in and do whatever I want when hubby is not around. Unlike when we were in Penang, I had to travel along with hubby whenever he had to be away for a couple of nights. During those days I really wished that I had one of those mobile homes, where everything I need would be right there traveling with me, including my bed and TV, and I didn’t have to worry about packing and unpacking all the time.

For now, I have to plan how I am going to spend my week while hubby is occupied by his own activities.

Just like wearing fashionable accessories to match what we are wearing, we women who enjoy driving also love adding auto accessories to our vehicle. Of course, our definition of auto accessories is very different from the guys’. Haha!

We love fun, fancy and artful auto accessories to add a personal touch to the machine we drive to work and to shopping every day. Items such as automobile decals with floral or heart prints, and cute seat, steering wheel and safety belt covers with popular cartoon characters, are normally seen in a lady’s car. So when we drive around in the city, we can tell ourselves that we are the most sassy and stylish lady driver in the town. Haha!

As for the men, their favorite auto accessories are always rims for the wheels, dashboard kits, spoilers and billet grills. Those items cost so much more than our decals and seat belt covers. So who said only women are big spenders? ;P

I have been living like a pig for the past 2 days. Haha! Thanks to the medicine I’m taking.

As mentioned in my previous post, I am having cough. Though the fever came and go one day, I felt feverish again the next day. To be on the safe side, I went to see doctor. If it was H1N1, than I rather got diagnosed earlier than later!

Fortunately, it wasn’t anything like that. I had some kind of throat infection, that’s why it’s itchy and a little swollen. I was on the verge of catching a flu though, said the doctor. So the medicines I got are mainly for my cough and throat infection. Since I told the doctor I’m not working, he gave me medicines that cause drowsiness. That’s why I couldn’t work or even surf the internet these couple of days, except to sleep and eat.

Luckily I’m not working as an insurance agent, otherwise I would have lost my clients. Imagine, should they call me up to inquire for a home insurance quote or life insurance plan, how could my spinning head do an accurate calculations on the quotes?

The effects of the medicines are quite long lasting. I didn’t take any medicine this morning, but the grogginess from the dose I took last night seem to linger until now. Jeez, I must stop typing now and go lie down on the sofa!