Sign of Aging?

When my mum was 50s, she told me she feel old. She said the same thing when she was 60s and now she is in her 70s. I always thoughts, you should not say that you are old because once you think you are old, you are old. But we can't admit that when time past by, we really feel the difference we are not young anymore.

I am in Toronto for business. I had flew to the west for meeting several times before but the jet lag had never hit me so badly. I tried very hard to adjust the time, like not sleeping in the afternoon when I feel sleepily, I expose myself to the sun, I drank lots of water and eat less carb but no use. Even though I was awake but my mind goes blank in the afternoon. I find it so hard to concentrate and not able to really enjoy the people around me. In the past, meeting like this I was able to work through the day and night, check my mails and sometimes took conference calls.

I do not want to admit it but if this is not sign of aging, what is this then?

July is No Spending Month

June was a shopping season for Singapore. The crazy Singapore sales got tome and we bought quite a few things. My month credit card bill has been so high for the past 3 months and I did not save any cash. One day I work up and declared that July is a no spending month, which means we are not going to buy things that we do not need.

On the 4th day, I went shopping with D and I saw a set of pot was on big discount. I did not buy any pots or utensil when I moved in with D. I continue to use his pot and plates that he brought from Canada. The pot handlers were plastic and they couldn't survive the gas stove any longer. It starts to fall out and it can be dangerous. Is that a must for me to get the pot now, may be not but it was a a good discount and something I have been looking for long. At the end, I used gift voucher to buy the pots. It cost S$129 but since we do not want to spend S$21 unnecessary, I used credit card to pay $29 and used S$100 voucher which I got from colleagues for A's full moon.

I am still holding on not to buy things this month. I hope it can be a success.

Adult Time

D and I finally took time to date, after many complaints to them that our marriage was in danger. I may have over exaggerated but we absolutely needed to do something. Work and children had been keeping us very busy. Spending time together seems to be our last priority. Anyway, we had a good time on Saturday. We attended a church seminar in the morning, head down town to a nice Japanese restaurant for lunch, did some shopping, I had my massage and he went to sit around at coffee bean and waited for me, just like old days. I can't imagine how much I miss this kind of life. When will the kids grow up so that I can have this kind of life more often? I know many couple do this once a week to have some adult time together to maintain relationship. I hope D really set some time for me, not always travel, works and his family.