A Homemaker’s Diary

I have no idea what goes on in this head of mine, but lately I don’t have the urge to spend or shop (well, except for the weekly groceries and the monthly magazines). The only thing that I need to buy now is the baby crib and all the necessary items to fill up the crib, and that’s it.

And perhaps for me – nursing bra, maternity pad and nursing attire. But don’t get me wrong, I still love window shopping, checking out stuffs on the Internet like tudung, household appliances, Corelle set, Tupperware but just for the sake of feeding the curiosity of what’s in the market, any good offer or discount.

Maybe I’m getting old and more prudent when it comes to money these days. Or maybe with this pregnancy I just not being myself.

Oh, the only entertaining stuffs that I am willing to spend my money on will be movie DVDs. That’s because it is more comfortable watching movie at home nowadays than going out to cinema. At least I can pause and go for toilet break every now and then..haha!

I’ve been meaning to update this blog since last weekend, but I don’t know why it seems so hard to do so. Maybe because of a few unhappy things I heard and received..what a life these days, the up and down, happy and sad, annoying and heart broken news seems to be all mixed up.

But I know this phase will pass and things will get back to normal happy days onwards. I’m going to the clinic for the glucose test most probably tomorrow (hubby got time off from his boss in US) since the result takes time and I can only see the gynae for check up after that. Well, that leaves next week since the gynae will be on leave this Friday and Saturday.

I have 2 invitations for open house this Sunday and another one end of this month. I’m sorry to all friends who are waiting for my own open house invitation, I won’t be able to do one this year. Even the routine daily chores seems to be very taxing for me these days. I have to stop, lie down and sit for a while every time I need to finish cleaning up the dishes and cook the normal easy dinner.

Can’t wait for the baby to pop out and get back my energetic self..heh! BTW, I cook nasi ayam today since we had Johnny’s last night. I didn’t get my meal of rice yesterday so I have to get a good one today. I’m still waiting for Hubby to come home after his usual weekly meeting with the US and Prague team so that we can have dinner together.

Oh, I finally found the recipe for baked kek lapis masam manis..yeay! Hopefully I can get all the ingredients by this weekend so that I can bake one next week..heh!

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Thursday was a better day for me, at least I feel that way. A friend stopped by after running her business errand, brought lunch with her knowing that I hardly have anything to eat for lunch..haha! I reheated the Raya leftover dishes for her, we chatted and then Hubby came home with fever and cold, must be the burden of working too hard these past few weeks.

I decided to make biskut mazola for hubby, thought of buying the ready made in Jusco, but amusingly most of the kuih raya were no longer available. Maybe people bought them for their coming open house, I don’t know..huhu..oh, I never know that the corn oil is so expensive, a bottle of 1.1litre is priced at RM15++. Since I was already in Jusco I bought groceries and KFC for dinner.

After watching the usual Lock and Load series on StarWorld, I managed to make about a jar of biskut mazola and Hubby said it tastes good when he sampled the first batch hot from the oven..heh! It was really tedious to finish up all the dough into the size of a marble, and I only used like 200g of flour. No wonder they sell the ready made cookies so expensive these days, must be the extra charge for their workmanship..haha!

Oh, I got 2 students confirming that they are coming for this Sunday class. Just nice for the color of the dip solution I still have and the amount of thinner available. Most of the old dip solutions were already hardened. Some are still usable but I will need a lot more thinner to dilute them. Oh, I watched Friends With Money after baking those cookies. It was a good movie for my standard, the usual drama of life but not too heavy.

Well, I guess I’m off to bed as I need to practise sleeping in a bit early as I will have morning classes this weekend. See you guys later and Happy Friday! 🙂