The Joys of Being Alone

There are so many people who are afraid of being alone. There are so many girls who are afraid of staying single all their lives. I am fortunate enough to have a family and a husband who loves me and I know who will be with me forever. But, I also enjoy being alone every once in a while. There are some things that single women take for granted. They don’t realize, they should do everything and anything they want before they get married and have kids because by then, they will find very little time for themselves.

I am alone during weekdays. My mom checks up on me from time to time but I spend the majority of my days cooped up in my bed for health reasons. I’m a girl who is always on the go in spite of her health condition but this year, my health really slowed me down. So instead of wallowing in despair and self-pity, I’ve learned to appreciate and be grateful for my alone time.

When I’m alone, I get to focus on my work. I have work on Saturdays but I always find it so hard to concentrate because my husband is around. Not that he is bugging me but I want to spend the time with him instead of working. Good thing he also has work on Saturday mornings but he always finishes ahead of me so I try my very best to speed up my work so that I can have some bonding time with him. I schedule my harder stuff during weekdays so that I can concentrate on them better. During weekends, I opt to work on the easy stuff.

I get to make lists, budgets, pay bills and do some financial stuff. I have no idea why I can’t do this when someone is around. I just feel that I need to focus to get everything right. My best ideas come when I’m alone so I guess that’s the reason.

sex and the city and the solitaire mystery, bitsandtreats

I can catch up on my reading. I have a lot of sealed books that I really must find the time to read. I bought these books 2 years ago when Fully Booked was on sale. I went crazy book shopping. I really need to make a dent on my library. Since I’m spending so much time at home alone, I’ve decided to tackle these books and give my brain some candy. By the way, Jostein Gaarder is one of my favorite authors. I also like to inject some chick lit every once in a while to keep some balance in my reading time. Jostein’s works are a bit heavy and hard to digest so I need to take a break once in a while.

Finally, I get to blog! My husband supports my blogging (he actually suggests topics from time to time and helps me with some stuff) but sometimes I just can’t write properly when he’s around. Well, I guess I need the space to photograph my stuff and I can’t do that when he’s hanging around.

There are other things that I enjoy doing when I’m alone such as having a DIY Spa Day. When my health gets better, I’ll probably eat in my favorite restaurants, watch chick flicks, do some shopping and hang out at Fully Booked alone. These are things that I can’t do with my husband. I can probably do them with some girlfriends but there are days when I just want to bask in the blissful feeling of being alone and being free to do anything I want.

Soul Notes: For Your Journal Tonight

Come sit with me for a while. I have my journal open, and tonight I’ve been thinking about something I suspect I do more often than I realize. I turn healing into another thing I need to accomplish. I want to know when I’ll be over something. When I’ll stop thinking about it. When something that hurt will finally stop hurting. When I’ll feel like myself again. And somewhere along the way, healing quietly becomes another deadline. Another invisible date on a calendar. Another thing I can somehow be late for. But maybe healing doesn’t work particularly well under project management. Maybe there are things I will understand quickly and things I’ll have to revisit again and again. Maybe I’ll feel completely fine one day and unexpectedly tender the next. That doesn’t mean I’ve gone backwards. It means I’m still moving through it. I remember one day, many years ago, when I had fibromyalgia. I lived in constant pain. I just couldn’t get a good day. And then one day, in the office...

Used to the Last Drop: The Ones I’d Already Told You About

There’s something particularly satisfying about finishing a product you’ve already written about. Not testing it. Not forming first impressions. Not wondering whether I’ll still like it three weeks from now. Finished. My Molang Honey sheet masks and this body scrub both made it all the way to the end. (Finally for the Molang sheet masks, right?) I’ve reviewed both before, so I won’t review them all over again here. But perhaps using something until there is nothing left to use is its own kind of review. Beauty products come through my bathroom rather frequently. Some are lovely for a week. Some get pushed to the back of a shelf. Some simply stop working for me. And then there are the ones that quietly disappear because I kept reaching for them. Maybe an empty container is the shortest review of all. I liked it enough to finish it. If you want to read my thought about these products, just type them on my search bar. —- With elegance and quiet fire, Lady E Founder, Glow by Lady E...

Part 1: I Finally Had Enough of My Dry Feet and Did Something About It

I have been annoyed with my feet for months. Not because there was anything particularly wrong with them. They were just dry . Really dry. And you know I have a problem with dryness (hello skin, lips). And somehow, despite noticing this constantly, I kept doing absolutely nothing about it. The moment that gets me every time is when I’m waiting for my son at piano class. I’ll sit down, cross my legs, look down at my slip-ons or sandals and there they are. My dry, flaky feet. Then I become painfully aware that there are other people sitting beside me who can probably see them too. 😂 Every time, I think, I really need to do something about this. And then piano class ends, life resumes, and apparently my feet are no longer part of my jurisdiction. Eventually, I had enough. I found this Mond’Sub Chamomile Foot Peeling Spray at KKV and decided that my poor neglected feet were finally getting some attention. The process wasn’t glamorous. There was peeling skin involved. There were bits...

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