Owning a Home in Toronto

Oh – how I wish I can have a washroom like this in my future home – probably in my dreams.

Anyways – over the weekend Hub & I went out to look at an open house near where we live. Boy – you would not want to know the price of it. I was sort of expecting it to be at a price that we wouldn’t really like. I do want to live closer to families and friends. But sometimes what do you sacrifice? Would we want to sacrifice the distance or the stressfulness of mortgaging a home in the future? It’s not what I want – it’s the best for our family. Of course it’s much more convenient to get to places, see people, and run errands if we live closer but if we live further – the pro is – we get a bigger piece of land at a more affordable price. There’s pros and cons for both situation. Both is hard and I don’t even want to think about it right now – it will only add stress. Who knows what three years will bring right? Maybe Hub will double his salary? Maybe our investment will be doing fairly well? Maybe my online work will get to where I want it to be? Maybe the house market will go down?

Although – I’m such a planner and I like to plan things ahead. We seriously wouldn’t know how three years later would be like. I’m just very grateful to have a lovely place to live right now and that we can call home. Plus the little one can spend some quality time with his grandparents till he enters pre-school. I can stay at home and watch his growth while Hub goes to work.

Gestational Diabetes for Pregnant Women

I don’t think I’ve talked about this on this blog. But yes – I do have gestational diabetes and I found this out early December. Sucks to be me right now because I should be enjoying this pregnancy and just indulge in whatever I want right? But instead – I gotta watch what I eat. The problem is – I can’t consume too much carbohydrates because carbohydrates have a lot of sugar content. It was hard and tough the first few weeks! Especially with all these celebrations going on – how can I not eat good food right?

But I gotta do this for the baby! What do gestational diabetes patient gotta do? They gotta pinch their fingers four times a day for blood testing and record every meal we eat! YESSS! I’m in no joke – it doesn’t hurt that much but it’s quite annoying. Gestational diabetes would to away after I give birth to this baby. But for now – I just gotta watch what I eat! Do you have such a problem like this too?

Running out of space in the OFFICE!

Yep – that’s my office right there! Kind of messy but whenever I clean it up – the next day is a mess again. I can’t help it – there’s just too much stuff in there. No one goes into this office except myself and I just don’t understand how it can get into a mess so quickly! Even with three tables to work with??

Here’s table #1 – a mess eh? It’s my craft table with a bunch of crap on it right now and under this table has a little mini table to put things on. I just think I need more organizational storage space – so this mess will go away!

Table #2 – Another craft table.

& Finally – my work table where I spend hours on working on my blogs and online work. This table gets messy too when there’s too much table on it. But as you can see – I have an extra table on the bottom to put stuff. Yes – that’s like a total of 5 tables for me to put stuff on? It’s funny because I’m the only one that uses this office and hubby doesn’t even have his own office. Well – his office is in the living room coffee table with only his laptop.

Here’s a little so-called table to put other things on. Nothing related to work or crafty stuff. Just candles, phone, and picture.

Here”s a shelf for my printer and filing boxes. I got this over Christmas – sort of a Christmas present from my other half. I wanted a printer shelf for a long long time now. It’s a lot more organized than before.

Pretty big office but its a heck of a mess! I gotta start cleaning up before this little guy comes along – I won’t have ANY time to spend in the office when he’s here. I’ll probably be up in his room and upstairs living room most of the time. Yes – sacrifices of having a kid but that’s life eh? I’ll still be working at home but not in front of my office – I’ll probably be having my laptop upstairs while taking care of a crying baby. That reminds me – I have two months to enjoy my sleep, freedom and spending alone times with the husband.

Desktop is down again.

I’m quite frustrated when my desktop is down because that’s where I print my photos from for my scrapbook – which means I don’t get to work on it today. I think I should get a new desktop or get another laptop computers. But I still feel like desktop is the best to work at if I’m working at home. Laptops are different – the keyboard is just different and I have two laptops at home but I hardly work on it. I mostly use it for movies and tvb dramas. I’ll see if my hubby can fix this desktop or I’ll just invest in another one since this one I’m using is quite old. Any good recommendations?

Reality Check

A friend’s facebook posted: “What would you do with 1 million dollars?”

My reply: Invest!

When you think about it nowadays – one million dollar isn’t much because houses nowadays cost a million unless you move up north. The area I’m living in cost over a million and it’s just crazy. Comparing to years ago – this house I’m currently living in is half the price. The house market is going a bit crazy and it scares me. Scares me to think of what the future holds for our family with surviving on one income. It’s not that I don’t want to think about it – but it’s on my mind. Giving our child the best things and education in life is a must. I guess the best thing to do right now is save as much as we can now and worry about the rest later.

What do you do when you have high expectations and you can’t lower your expectations? Work harder. Sometimes I question if the road I’m walking is right – but I gotta believe in it. It works for others and it’ll eventually work for me. As my mentor said “Rome wasn’t built in a day” – everything takes time to built up. I just feel like I’ve been thinking a lot and rushing through things lately. Gotta slow down and take it step by step.

Believe in God.

I love massages!

This evening I went for an one hour massage! Let me tell you – it was heaven. I really needed the massage because my entire body was aching and some says its due to pregnancy but I really don’t know what the reason was. I’m glad my hubby’s job is 100% covered with massage therapy – now I can just go for a massage whenever I want. It’s just part of pampering myself and it’s too bad my hubby doesn’t enjoy it as much as I do. He doesn’t like being touched by strangers.

Organizing the closet

I bought these at Winners a couple weeks ago and I still haven’t gotten the chance in cleaning/organizing the closet. We renovated our living area since March and even made an extra closet for our stuff. All I’ve been doing is cramming things in and it’s not even organized. I wanna do this before the wedding. So after the wedding – I can just go out and look for a job without worrying about anything around the house. Looks like I gotta find time this week to get things organized and neat! These baskets I got at Winners were $10.00 each and its huge. They have different colors too but this is my favorite color of all times! Time to get cracking.

Dentist are EXPENSIVE

I’m really paranoid as of lately because two weeks ago – I’ve been to the dentist getting my teeth cleaned and one of my cavity fixed. Guess how much that cost my wallet? $350.00 for 2 hours! Crazy or not? I know taking care of yourself is important but this is a big price to pay for – I’m so glad within 5-6 months I’ll be getting my dentist, medical drugs, and optical all covered with my hubby’s insurance. Paying 20% is better than paying 100%. I’ve been paranoid with eating sweet food as of lately because I don’t want to spend another couple hundred bucks at the dentist. It’s all about taking care of my teeth now! FLOSS!!! No more eating a lot of sweet stuff!

Condo or a House?

At this time of life – he’s settle with a condo because I talk him out of it and he doesn’t want to think like it’s an investment – but now I’m thinking the other way around because of the “SPACE” is so limited. What am I going to do? All I know is – a condo can’t give me a huge kitchen that I wanted with the perfect kitchen appliances and when it comes down to kitchen sinks – I’m very picky and particular of what I want too. I hope in 2 to 3 years when we are really looking for our own place – we won’t drive our agent nuts!

Feeling Horrible

I have exactly 1.5 days left before I leave for my lovely vacation – but today – I got absolutely NOTHING done on the list (look above). I woke up at 10:30AM to take a bath and look at door knobs online for an hour. I had lunch and I felt so lazy after it. I couldn’t get myself off the bed and turn on the desktop to start my online work today!! What a lazy girl eh?? I even fell asleep around 3:30pm and the nap felt so great.

I feel very – unproductive today when I have a LONG list of things to do – there is no way I will be finish by tomorrow and my online work comes first!! Scheduling posts and finishing work!! Than packing and laundry – gosh, I really need a maid to do all this for me. Okay – I’m joking. I just need to be more productive tomorrow!!!