January [ in pictures ]

Ok so this post was initially typed out on Monday but I feel terribly sick on Tuesday, like three infections at a go according to the docs and I had fever and vomited  and all D: Since then I've been trying to recover and to feel more in the mood of doing things so I'm finally posting the below!

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Yikes! It's already halfway into Feb! Time seriously always passes so fast -.- Yet at the same time, what happened a month ago didn't feel all that recent. Maybe it's a sign of ageing D:

2016 started off on a pretty good note and January was in general a pretty awesome month! Had a great time planning and celebrating Daddy Li's birthday. I always love planning surprises so I was glad that almost everything went according to plan. Plus an added bonus was that I managed to pull it off despite it being so last minute! Heh. I know, I procrastinate a hell lot and I always end up getting so stressed with trying to perfect everything all at the last minute. Can't complain cos I only have myself to blame. I hate how I have all that initial time and I just spend it exploring my options and doing a whole lot of thinking about it then I don't actually get anything done until I really have to do something about it >.< Seriously a damn bad habit, and I think I really need to do something about it!

Ok back to Jan! Alot of the month was spent spring cleaning and for CNY..and at the same time organising and changing up my storage solutions. In fact, all of that dragged on to Feb cos as usual I started on this really late heh. Lots of procrastinating + I had valid reasons cos I was busy for the first part of Jan birthday planning + busy looking after Kaitlin while the hubs took a short trip out of the +65 with his friends. Well, the entire house hasn't been cleaned inside out and while I decluttered quite a fair bit I think there's still more to clean and declutter. But I'm taking a break from all of that now cos it was so draining. I'm a hoarder and an extremely sentimental person so decluttering isn't really my thing. Well there's the fun part of prepping for CNY though! The shopping for decor and snacks + clothes and all!

Ah yes, while the husband was away from SG, I realised alot of things about myself which I think was great. I thought I would be extra meh that he wasn't around and was enjoying himself but nope! In fact I did miss him but none of those I miss him till I feel like it's the end of the world kind of feelings, and in fact I felt that it was good to have that distance. Even though we stay in the same home and see each other everyday, we actually don't spend alot of time together. Most of the time we are just doing our own things when we have time to ourselves. So in actual fact it would be like enough time apart, but I guess physical distance makes a difference as well. Tbh, nothing much changed when he came back except for the first 12 hours lol. But yeah, point is I realised that I've matured a whole lot from say 5 years ago which is a definitely a good thing, and I'm more independent too! I've always been quite a dependent person even though *coughs* my horoscope says that I'm an independent person and all but I really don't think I am and I've always felt that it's something I needed to work on. I have never tried to work on being independent, but I guess it's a natural thing that happens when you grow older. I guess this can be considered one of the perks of growing old hur.

So well that was Jan! Oh and I still haven't sat down to think about my resolutions! How did that happen?!! Yeah I also don't know cos I just realised that last night when I was thinking about doing this blog post but yeah. I guess life was just too busy for me to pause and and have some thinking time to myself, cos really when I can relax and unwind I just like chilling in front of my computer screen watching videos. So yes! Feb!! I shall try to find some time to myself to think about all of that and more cos really even though I've realised it and said it a thousand times..time really passes by way too fast!