A Homemaker’s Diary

It suddenly reminds me that my body clock is ticking.

It’s not that I’m thinking of reproducing, haha! but it’s just somehow it reminds me that many people ( old people ) thought that being the same age as your spouse will bring intimacy problem later in life.

Is it true?

Seriously I have some doubt when it comes to such matter.

I know many men who married someone younger but still complain that the wives lost the interest after having 2 or 3 children.

Some lost it while being pregnant with first child and never get the intense feeling again.

Do age really counts?

I have no right to give any word of wisdom because I have not had any experience with such problem, I hope I will never get to seek for help in such areas, ever!

But to all the wiser (older, heh) people out there, do you mind sharing how do you keep it alive say like after 30 years of marriage?

If you were given the choice to be a career minded mom with a high profile job or a working mom that stays at home doing all the unglamorous house chores such as hanging the laundry in the sun every day, which choice would you choose?

I know a few people that prefer being at work and left their children to be taken care by nanny and maid at home. I also knew a certain group that have no choice but to stay at home since the cost of daycare exceeds the budget of their households.

I have no say about this because I’m not a mom, yes I used to be a full-time employed worker too and now a homemaker, but I only take care of my hubby and myself. Share your plight and opinion. I would like to hear them!
(PHOTO TAKEN FROM BIGFOTO.COM)

Have you check how much it cost for a top on the market cell phone now? The latest I check it is around RM4k..huhu..and do you know how much it means to have RM4000 in your pocket?

Let me list down what I can do with RM4000:

*Pay 20 months of electricity bills since my electricity bill is around RM200 per month ( although there’s only 2 of us living in this house, we use air cond almost 24 hours and we let the computer on all the time, we are computer geeks!)

*Pay for 8 months of car installments (we only have a small car since we would like to save on the petrol)

*Pay for 10 months of petrol budget ( I calculated the petrol budget every month is around RM300++ provided we don’t go anywhere far from KL and the areas around it)

So would you spend your 2-month salary for a phone just to keep up with the latest phone craze and gadget mania?

(This is just my assumption that every readers to my blog earn at least RM2000 per month as executive)

I have not consider that your nett salary after deduction will be less than RM2000..knowing the EPF, SOCSO, PCB deduction, bla bla!

So how much would you pay for a handphone?

An expat friend forwarded an email today that has a lot of button badge images. Some are freaking slutty which is not suitable for my local, gentleman readers. You see, I’m a nice, proper lady so I don’t insult people with bitchy remarks..haha!

I don’t swear either because I hate swearing words, it’s just degrading and could do nothing to improve the already low self-esteem of the stupid people you swear to..haha!

Anyway, while waiting for my chicken stock to cool down in the pot (I’m making chicken rice today, so you can read it in my CintaRasa.com blog tomorrow..haha!), I just want to share this badge with you guys and girls.

It really says what I think about house cleaning. So for those cleaning freaks out there, don’t get insulted because I think there’s more in life than having a super-duper spic and span house. Oh, if you wonder how the term comes, quoting from Wikipedia:

Spic and Span is a major U.S. brand of all-purpose household cleanser, invented by a housewife named Elizabeth Mcdonald in Saginaw, Michigan around 1930.

Hope you’ll have your own brand of household cleanser one day!

I read about Lavender Tea in OrganicParade.com few weeks ago and I thought I would give it a try. I was having a great problem with my sleeping disorder that time to the extent that sometimes I can’t fall asleep at night at all and have to resort to sleep in the afternoon instead.

Whenever I think about lavender I always think about L’occitane Lavender products or Body Shop Lavender Aromatheraphy. I never imagine the taste of lavender tea in my mouth..huhu..

So I went to a local hypermarket ( I was having a get together dinner with a bunch of friends that night at The Chicken Rice’s Shop) and since there is no such thing as lavender tea on the shelves, I ended up buying this Dilmah camomile tea.

I made a cup that night but still nothing. I was wide awake until 8am the next morning and was asleep at 2pm. Miraculously after 2 weeks my sleeping disorder problem cured itself. In fact I am now a normal morning person. Oh, I didn’t drink the camomile tea again after that night. Must be my aging hormon problem that induce my sleeping problem..haha!