R&R

 I promise to blog more often to de-stress and so here I am.Work is not so busy due to the holidays which is such a breather. I think I really should have that much needed R and R. I love vacations because I get to read more often and watch more movies.

Recharge.

I just finished reading Neil Gaiman's Fortunately, the Milk e-book and yes I realized it was a children's book due to the cool illustrations. As expected, it was filled with drawings so I think I really picked the wrong book from the bookstore lol. I was deceived by its quirky book cover. Nevertheless, t'was pretty entertaining.

The story went like this, the kids were left home with the Daddy and they ran out of milk for the cereal (for the kids) and milk for the tea (for the Dad). The Dad bought one from the nearest grocery but he was eventually kidnapped by aliens. He met Stegosaurus, wumpires (vampires), a talking volcano etc.

My brain turned lopsided and thank God the weirdness ended sooner than I expected. The book contained just few pages thus it's finished even before I realized. It was crazy really. I just then realized upon skimming through the credits that Neil writes books for kiddos as well. Oh now I know hehe. I loved The Ocean at the end of the lane seriously and I didn't know his queer imagination extends to kids books.

Then be it.

New Read: The face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney (Suspense/Mystery)

I have started reading this one and yes it is promising as it's a story about kidnapped kids and their photos at the back of milk cartons. I mean yeah what if the family you grew up with isn't your real family right? Anyways, it's gonna be a long read because it's sort of a five set book kinda like a sequel I guess all with interesting book covers so I will blog about them once I finished all five of them (and I promise I will) :)

I hope to have ample time to read because my brain is asking for food as she's afraid of turning sedentary.

Aesthetics.

sorry for the scare, yeah
my hair is THIS long :D

I went to Tony and Jackey (yes, the Korean hair salon) the other day to get my hair rebonded for the nth2 time. I do this every year to keep my long hair straight and shiny. I went to David's salon to compare how much they charge and I was surprised that they charge 50% more compared to Tony?? What a rip off? I mean I've had my hair rebonded at David's MANY times and they don't normally charge this much. I tried Tony and Jackey last year and I was really happy with the result because the rebond effect did not lapse until about the 8th month as oppose to David's which only last for about 6 months and my head feels really heavy after my hair endured the ironing process with David's which is the opposite at T&J's, my hair felt so light and looked naturally shiny after. I just don't get it why David's charge that much. I seriously now prefer Tony and Jackey price wise and quality wise.

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Hello December

Oh hello December! I promise to write as frequent as I could this month. I was just extremely busy lately due to the early Christmas shopping spree and appointment with my endocrinologist. I now have a new endocrinologist because the previous one seems to be the only one where I live thus it's such a pain setting up an appointment. 


Health is Wealth...

  

As I always say, I hate hospitals but, I am happy with my new Endoc because he answers all my questions as honest as possible. I was advised to cease taking my vitamins for the time being to see if my body will respond better to meds. Since he's an Internists at the same time, I was also advised that, I take other tests other than the usual blood test (FT4, TSH)  to also check my cholesterol level and come back after a month which I did. My blood test turned out fine, everything is normal so my only concern now is to rid off the muscle cramps and reduce any signs of hypothyroidism as it can no longer be totally eradicated. My Endoc eventually increased my dosage and advised that It's really all up to me how I would control my intake. I asked how come my muscle cramps seemed terrible whenever I am stressed out and I feel depressed at times for no reason at all. He responded that the reason behind that it's 'cuz my body is releasing insufficient hormones for my activities thus explains the depression and muscle cramps. That, I have to increase my dosage to address the lack of. I just then realized how odd my life would be from now on, I now have to gauge how many dosage (of hormone replacement meds) I have to take whilst my body is supposedly doing that job for me,  a lifetime side effect of my RAI (radioactive iodine treatment). I once stopped taking Levothyroxine without telling my Endoc but It didn't do me any good. I gained weight so fast and my muscle cramps came back plus the depression. I tried understanding my condition for as much as I could but It was really difficult without any aid from my Doctor. So far so good, I am taking my meds religiously and I have no plans of stopping because I don't want to go through the same ordeal I went through before. I really felt like an emotional wreck without my meds so I guess I shouldn't self medicate because battling against any thyroid related disorder  is serious. I think taking my meds before I go to bed did all the trick so I don't feel sleepy and tired that much during the day.

 I finally finished reading the last book from the Winterhaven Trilogy by Kristi Cook called “Eternal” (Winterhaven #3). Sorry to be such a spoiler.

Aidan, Violet and friends went to Paris after their high school graduation to celebrate and fight the bad vampires to restore the Tribunal. The battle against the bad vamps was a success except Aidan took the serum which was handed to him by Matthew (Violet's 'Megved'). Matthew perfected the serum and carefully instructed Violet that she must inject the serum to Aidan's no matter what. Violet was totally hesitant but she still managed to inject the serum to Aidan thus he resurrected, now a human being. Matthew unfortunately died. Violet was distraught with Matthew's death, he needed to die for Aidan to live. Violet in the long run met her Sabbath family and their Megved counterparts. The End. I thought, the Winterhaven trilogy was  entertaining.

photo courtesy
of google images

Next read: Another one of Neil Gaiman novels called Fortunately, the Milk. 

It's 20 days to go before Christmas...

Speaking of the holidays, My lovely make up brushes came in through mail last week! I purposely ordered a month early for Christmas as it's a reward for myself (for working so damn hard) and for my sister. It was a 12 piece brush set btw and is a good alternative for the really expensive ones. 

sunflowers for Mum :)

something for my sweet
tooth :)

Sunflowers in bloom
They're such a pretty sight to behold. 

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