Director of Entertainment

It’s year-end, the time of the year where schools are off and I am stuck with my girls for the whole day, forsix long weeks, oh dear…….

Normally, we would go off for our yearly holidays, but it’s different this year. My very conservative husband is “scared off” by the global depression, and for once we are stuck…..bored stiff………. in Kuala Lumpur. We are trying to limit our travels to places within the region, restricting all kinds of temptations for any long haul trips…….. in anticipation of a long, painful slowdown in global economies. 

Last week I went to the movies twice. I sat through High School Musical 3, got a full account of what I missed out in the first two installments from my Troy star-strucked 7 year old. When it was time for Madagascar 2, I dragged David along, since he was the one who imposed the travel ban. Halfway through the movie, I was bored – I am not an animal lover, it was harder than I thought to get excited about a group of animals in Africa!

Hm……..I feel hopeless of my current situation, where I virtually lost all of “my time” from 7am till 6pm, where my girls should be at school. I will be stuck with them for the next 5 weeks, will need to prepare lunch on top of dinner, and arrange for daily activities. I feel like a Director of Entertainment without salary. Good thing my older girl will be going off to the Children Adventure Camp at Outward Bound School soon. I will have one off my shoulders. Argggghh….. just can’t wait for the school holidays to be over soon.

Tagged… out of a rut?

I was tagged (my first) by Emily of Mimosa’s Diary, a timely one to get me out of my rut. Yeah, I was stuck in a “sticky rut” for the past 2 weeks. Not sure whether you guys have similar experiences, but at times, I just simply get into this mode of “couldn’t care less about what is happening around me” and will be in my pyjamas for the entire day, drag my feet around the house and lie lateral on my bed while channel surfing! A typical temperamental Pisces?

Here are 7 random facts about me;

1. I am a hyper-active, need to be outdoors, and always on the go person, who is forced to be a stay-at-home-mum. My other half is convinced this caused my “sticky rut”.
2. I get bored easily with “motherly activities” like coffee mornings, and much prefer to spend time with, actually can’t live without, my Macbook, PSP and Wii Sport.
3. I decided to take up baking last year after I stumbled onto Florence’s awesome blog, with her original, tried and tested recipes. Her failproof recipes gave me the confidence to bake, and the chance to enjoy myself doing it. If you have not visited her blog, go on, hop over now.
4. Cooking is my latest hobby – initially as a catalyst to improve my eating habits, but I am hooked to it now. I have been cooking 5 days a weeks for the past month, the only activity during my “rut period”. Simply amazing by my standards! Hats off to my mentors.
5. I bought Veganomicon,  under Liz’s influence, tried a couple of its recipes and liked them alot. Now my family is worried sick that I would force them to be a vegan. Haha!
6. I celebrated my 11th Wedding Anniversary this year with a sensitive and loving man who “eats and sleep” the stock market, so much so that my girls learnt about the Dow Jones Indices even before they could talk!
7. My two girls are world apart in terms of character, elder one an introvert and brainy, while the younger one an extrovert and artsy just like me.

I am quite sure that while I was stuck in my rut, all the blogs that I visit regularly (the best of the best) would have completed this tag. Thus I will not be passing this to anyone else.