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Listening to Your Body

Have you ever wondered why you have the sniffles every morning? Coupled with that you also have a blinding headache upon waking up.

Have you ever wondered why your stomach does not seem to agree with certain food that you eat and that digestion or lack of it can be felt after eating?

Are you stressed? Do you have need to sleep more often, crave for food and feel weak?

Do you always feel tired and every part of your body seem painful?

Do you need to lose weight but resort to eating food that will make you gain even more weight?

Perhaps you should listen to what your body tells you.

Consulting the doctors about these may ease your doubts whether you are having some sort of a condition like migraine, ulcer, fibromyalgia, hypertension or even PMS.

“Health is wealth” as we always hear people say. Guess what, it is true.

Just A Few Weeks to go Before Christmas

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Shopping has never been the same a few weeks before (or maybe after) Christmas so sign up to the link below and tell your (online) shopping stories/experiences and win prizes:

http://www.shopandconfess.com/index.php/contest/member/register/

Please make sure to refer back to me: http://greenbucks.info when you sign up.

I have read several stories in the site and some had me in stitches 😀

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Lots of people have already started with their Christmas shopping. I know of some people who are done with theirs as I write this post.

Its just a few weeks before Christmas and everything seems to be hurrying by. The days are getting shorter. The people are hurrying to and fro.

There is something about Christmas really that makes one feel frantic. Perhaps it is because its that time of the year when reports have to be filed, work has to be completed, shopping has to be done to avoid crowds and traffic jams.

Since the advent of the internet, shopping can now be done in a breeze. How? Through online shopping of course.

There is no need to brave through the crowds, wait in line to pay and deal with kids who think the mall is their playground online shopping is done. Shopping in the comfort of one’s own home has never been better.

I still haven’t thought of anything yet to give to my husband but I am thinking he might appreciate getting something like this to start working on his carpentry skills:

Wishful thinking 😀

Maynilad Service is a Joke

I have written about how we have been having so much difficulty with our Maynilad water services (or lack of it) in this post I wrote a few months ago.

Last month, we had an abundance of water supply. I was happy I didn’t need to get water from our faucet outside the front door and at last, our bathroom faucets finally has water! During those glorious weeks I was able to wash clothes in the washing machine that has been just a drier for clothes washed outside. I was able to mop the floors. I thoroughly enjoyed scrubbing both bathrooms for there was plenty of water from 1pm till 9pm.

There was no water in the kitchen and bathrooms’ faucets nor in the shower but that’s fine with me. I thought this would go on for a long time until we got this:

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October Was When I Officially Started My Blog

Yes, it was one cool October day when I officially started my special education blog, Teacher Julie. I was blogging then, using free blogging platform and I was maintaining three. Hah, quite toxic for me since the contents were just the same. Never would I thought that putting contents in three blogs would just prep my blogging behavior now that I am maintaining three four active personal blogs. That excludes my blog for my homeschooling children and the group blog about parenting.

Starting a blog then was something alien to me because being used to free blogging platforms, I did not particularly know how to start from scratch. The terms CMS, web hosting, and some technical terms were baffling. Truth is, up to now I really have no idea how to propagate a blog because it is THE hubby who does that for me.

First I had to have some web hosting tutorials which I got from my husband who patiently taught me how to go through the WordPress buttons. He didn’t know a thing about blogging then too, even if he is in Information Technology so he had to read a lot of web hosting articles.

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I Want to Try Baking Again

I participate in the Food Friday food photo meme every Friday in my other GreenBucks blog which I feature food that we have had, either bought and eaten in a restaurant or prepared and cooked at home.

If I have enough time, I would prefer trying new recipes for my family instead of the usual food preparation that we have for our daily meals.

One thing that I would want to try would be baking.

We do bake sometimes but we just use the ready-mix cookie recipes in boxes so I do not particularly enjoy these because the mix is just too sweet. Matter of fact I have a container of brownie mixture waiting to be baked. I would rather do some measuring and mixing even if I have to buy the materials for this.

I have always been fascinated with baking, having enrolled in a baking course one summer many, many years ago. I have tried doing chiffon cake, cookies, mango pie, dough for pizza and siopao and a host of other things like making sugar flowers and decorating celebratory cakes.

One thing that I would like to try would be muffins and cupcakes for my children’s snacks. Loaf bread would be nice too, as well as cornbread dressing or maybe, pandesal.

No, I do not want to be a pastry chef because that would probably be the farthest thing in my mind. I just want to try to do things from scratch so that I can serve healthier food for my family.

And besides, serving warm and freshly baked goodies would be great, isn’t it?