A slow simple life.
What if that was enough? What if I didn’t have to feel lazy or unaccomplished, unproductive or guilty for living a beautiful, quiet, gentle life?
What if being productive was waking up to see the sunrise and cooking a meal? Could that be okay?
If money wasn’t abundant but adequate for simple living. If restaurants were too far away to go to daily anyway. Maybe that’s okay too.
Side effects:
Today, I feel like giving up.
We signed ourselves up for too many things. Omg.
It all started last month because we went for our biannual dental appointment at PLQ. Because we rarely wake up early on Sunday mornings, it felt like such a luxury and we decided to walk around the mall.
We ended up signing up for MANGA DRAWING at an art studio and PIANO CLASSES.
Yes. Adults with kids pay for their children’s classes but we don’t so we spend money on ourselves! Why do people think they can convince me that having kids is a good idea?
But because of our impulsive decision and our fascination with learning new things.. my schedule is completely packed. I’m my own tiger mum omg.
Tues and Thursday mornings we have bouldering PT that start at 8am. At night, we have qigong (lol wtf was I thinking)
Wednesday nights I have piano lessons. C’s are in the daytime.
Sundays we attend art class, then we eat a light lunch and walk over to Singpost to boulder with friends.
I’ve also decided to bring in the gorgeous ceramics from Thailand and we’ll be putting them up for sale on IG. Need to figure out packaging and processes for that so we’ve been running around doing things for that.
All these on top of my regular teaching, regular marketing and promotions.. and managing work at my Mum’s. 🤦🏻♀️
What is going on, I don’t even know why I do this.
Today after teaching 4 back to back sessions, I passed out on the chair with my brain feeling like a different entity from my body.
In 2019, we got a flat!
In 2020, we expected to be picking dates, shortlisting guests, and kicking off our shoes with a dance party.
TOO Easy, I expected too little. 2020 is EVEN MORE AMAZING.
I get to have a legitimate excuse for “When is the wedding/housewarming?”
In 2019, LCube was fully funded and free for schools!
In 2020, I expected to see Clif lugging his game materials and getting a headache from prepubescent screaming.
NO WAY. Instead I get to watch Clif pick up a new skill and learn 3D modeling.. then proceed to create a new platform for teachers who want to create augmented reality content without coding skills, for free.
In 2019, I built a routine teaching schedule!
Err.. In 2020, I expected to carry on.
BUT THAT’S TOO LOW TECH. Instead I get to learn to be more comfortable talking and teaching Pilates to students through a computer. And I get to dedicate more time to my parents’ business.
And we’re only in April?! So much has happened!!
Dying might be painful
But death is only painful to the living.
I’ve been trying to clear my wardrobe in preparation of the big move out. Decided not to do two built ins because of my indecisiveness and inability to commit that extra space in the study so C and I only have ONE built in wardrobe between us in the master bedroom AND it’s smaller than my current wardrobe.
The plan is to buy one off the shelf if we need it – ideally we won’t – IF I am successful at whittling down my clothes. I have very little confidence that I will be able to do this but I just can’t commit to the second wardrobe until we move in and unpack. Perhaps a chest of drawers will do? Let’s see.
Eh how come it’s so hard to get rid of clothes?! I’ve even had Marie Kondo on Netflix to get myself in the mood but even after getting rid of two full bags, my wardrobe still looks pretty much the same leh.
I’ve been procrastinating on a few things for the house. Probably due to my own laziness and inability to commit to making big purchases.
We decided that we weren’t going to get a television, so that has helped us save on the cost of a TV and a console. We were keen to get a projector since we’re both part of the streaming generation anyway – but we had no idea how expensive projectors are!
Stumbled upon the Philips Picopix Max indiegogo campaign today and got my credit card out within 10 mins flat.
I don’t have good experiences with crowdfunding (looking at you, coolest cooler), but this is under Philips, and shouldn’t be so bad right?
Excited for this now. It supports Netflix, will connect with Philips HUE (though we don’t have any Hue bulbs yet), and has plans to integrate with Sonos speakers!