Just a bean's life

• Pink Tartan anything
• Massimo Dutti shoes
• Judith & Charles dresses

(2/3 are Canadian!  True patriot looooove!)

Move over, BCBG.  You been pwn’d.

Wouldn’t be right to start off the new year without mentioning some kind of a plan for twenty thirteen.  We are, after all, entering the post end-of-world era.  Any planning we get to do now is a BONUS, like the $20 bill I found in my winter coat pocket the other day.  (tee-hee!)

Here are BEAN’s achievables, because I think I still have an ounce of optimism in me:

• Recuperate financially by sticking with the household budget: Cause dude, wedding&reno ate up what was in my wallet and licked it clean.  Gross.  Maybe I need a new wallet.. but that would nullify this very goal.  Dang, this task is already proving to be difficult.
• Be a pleasant wife, especially in the morning: I’m generally an okay-amicable person, but my behaviour can get a bit hairy during the early part of a.m.  I will give my best effort to keep positive in the morning, even when my body tries to dismiss the smiley brainwaves my head struggles to produce in the first place.
• Re-establish my rhythm of living: A predictable creature of habit am I, or at least used to be in my previous life.  I find comfort in pattern and regularities, especially in how I spend my time.  Now that I have additional agenda items like completing household chores and surviving bio-terrorist attacks with the husband unit, bean time has dramatically decreased.  I still wish to be productive in whatever time I have left for myself, please.
• Stay in touch:  My homies, I miss yous.

• kayak
• stand-up paddleboard
• pushing each other into the water
• bruises all over my arms and legs
• Settlers of Catan until 3am
• junk food and lots of beer

Oh good times.  Now I have to focus on “being a proper lady” for the next 2 months.  Wish me luck

認識我的人大概也知道我沒有飲咖啡的習慣。一來咖啡因令我手震身震心都震，二來我不明白為什麼要把苦的東西放進口裡。真的有那麼好喝嗎？ 好像是攞「苦」嚟身多些！但最近幾天因為種種原因，我喝了幾次coffee。我想我開始領悟到咖啡的魔法。它的吸引力不來自本身的味道，而是喝下去有一種已成長的感覺。咖啡的苦澀好像把人生的甜美更加提高。嘴裡雖然是苦苦的，心里却是期待著，盼望著。

黑咖啡苦得美妙!

It doesn’t feel so great when you try your hardest at something and the results don’t pan out according to the efforts you’ve put in.  It sometimes feels like I’m launching shots at the dark, with no feedback on whether I am even at least aiming in the right direction.

The effort doesn’t really count, especially when I am starting to lose interest in caring about the process intrinsically.  At the end of the day, what keeps me going is momentum.  Thank God I am hardwired to keep things moving along.  It’s a good thing I don’t know what stop means.

.. to the Rock I cling!