Reflection Week 13

The time goes so fast, this weekly reflection has making me realized that we grow older every single minute and that time is so precious so we should grab every opportunity that could make us a better person. 

I have fallen in love with my life although I get busier with a new job and almost have no time to do other errands for home.  I feel like I am getting my life even more together than before and I feel so content when I get out from work every single day.  I am happier now.

Linh and Hang’s spa is right next to a grocery store, Publix.  They have fresh meats and vegetables every day.  If I am at the spa, I usually get out from there at 6pm everyday and 7pm on Sunday, it’s a perfect time for me to go to the Publix to do some grocery shopping for dinner of the day. 

I am a happy cook.  That is only because I usually do not cook when I am sad.  I like to walk around in my kitchen, humming a song and cooking my favorite dishes, sometimes from the recipes, but most of the time is out of my own imagination and creativity.  Recently I had promised my friends that I would post photos of my dishes.  In order to make my dishes presentable, I have bought some garnishment like cilantro and green onions to be kept in the fridge.  Too keep them fresh; I put them on a layer of paper towel in some containers.  It has been working great!  I am always happy when I do not have to throw away the food that have been gone bad after a period of time.  It’s not only wasting money, I feel guilty to waste food too.

1. Marriage: Cu has been very sweet lately because he said he wants to make me feel special for this month.  It’s MAY!  It’s my birth month!  He has been helping me a lot on the housework, but of course, he can never skip the time when he is on his computer every night after work and dinner.  But he really pays more attentions to my needs now, I hope every month is May!  Hehe

2. Health:  I had a very bad migraine last night at work.  First I thought it was because of the eyelashes extension that Linh (Lynn) did for me at the spa, my eyes were blurry and I saw stars.  It was the first time I had that images.  I couldn’t read the computer screen, and I couldn’t see my guests’ faces well.  I didn’t know that it was a migraine, and I told Somnang that I felt my eyes were acting weird.  Somnang said I should take those eyelashes down.  I thought if it was the eyelashes then I should let Lynn to take it off the next day.  But when the time went by, I felt the dizziness.  It got so bad that I had to tell the manager that I had to leave.  But the manager could not let me leave right away because she needed to make sure that she had enough servers on the floor.  Good thing that I had no guests that time, so I sat in the back room to rest but the dizziness feeling were getting worse.  My manager came to me to let me leave, she found out that I was really not looking good, she asked me how I felt, and she determined that it was a migraine as she always has it once a while too and her description of her experiences matched my symptoms totally.  I was shocked.  I always had migraine, but this time I couldn’t even recognize it because it was way too serious!  I put down my hair and loosen up my tie, I called Cu to pick me up although we lived so close to my work, he was on his computer, but he put down everything when he heard that I got a very serious migraine.  A lot of my co-workers came to talk to me to make sure if I was okay, I felt so headache and emotional and that I could pass out anytime soon, and my tears burst out after all the pains.  A few of my co-workers saw me, and they were worried.  Cu finally called me from the front of the restaurant, I left restaurant quickly so that nobody else could see my tears.  I was embarrassed with my emotion.  Cu brought Nini with him, she jumped to me and licked on my face.  They said dogs are human’s best friends, they can always tell when you are down.  We headed Wal-Mart to buy Excedrin migraine and picked up Somnang from work then headed home.  I took the pills and ate dinner, I felt better after dinner.  I must have been working a lot these days and had a very bad eating schedule.  I need to take care of my health!

3. House: Cu has been helping around with the housework, I feel touched.  If this is what he is doing for my birthday, I do appreciate it very much.  Thanks honey!

4. Financial: I haven’t heard from Cu talking about his business anymore, but I know that he is getting a raise from his career.  I am very happy and proud of him.  I am actually very proud of ourselves, we have been doing very good this year and it gets better and better every month passed by.  My brother wanted me to do a financial report for him so that he could give me some opinion on how to be on top of our financial plan.  I am excited about it but felt so lazy to do all the homework!  =P

5. Education:  Now that I have two jobs, Cu is afraid that I am getting too comfy with my income and will forget about my education plan.  He keeps reminding me from times to times.  But honey, can we worry about this later on, please?

6. Work/Career: I am trying to divide my times between working at restaurant and spa.  I have been very busy since very first day when I learned how to do nails.  The training was challenging, especially the teacher is my sister-in-law.  But things are not as bad as what I had expected, we are actually getting along very well at work.  I feel like I have gotten to know them better now. =)

7. Home (Malaysia): Mother’s Day is coming soon; I have been trying to find something to send to my mom.  I haven’t call home for days, I bet my mom must be missing me and expecting a call from me on the Mother’s Day.  I really want to give her a surprise.

8. Passport: Again, I haven’t called the consulate since last week.  I will try again tomorrow.

9. My Brother's Wedding:  My brother is in Hanoi now; he has been making a lot of money and pampering himself and his wife lately.  But he is a hard worker when he is at work.  I don’t blame him at all for a good cause of pampering himself.  I hope to see him soon!

10. Future: My focus right now is picking up a school and major.  I don’t know if I should go back to continue what I left behind or to go to different direction.  I was looking at the wedding planner brochure and felt very tempted to become a wedding planner.  Cu is going to yell at me again for my indecisive thinking.  But he has been very supportive in everything I do.  I know that deep inside, he cares for who I become.  He yells at me sometimes, but I know that it was out from good intention and actually his yelling doesn’t work at me all the times because I know that he was not seriously angry at me.  Hehe…  That is because he loves me! =P