I rest, but I don't rust.

This pic was taken more than 2 years ago when I visited my hubby’s workplace. (At the time, we were just friends.) Not long after, I lost my bike. It wasn’t safe riding / owning a bike in HCMC.

I have to admit that I miss biking a lot. It’s been a lot of fun leisurely biking around the city. I miss the hardness of climbing up a tall bridge, or the fatigue of riding for long hours to a city suburb. It was all exercise!

So it’s time of the year my mind went crazy finding a cool gift for my hubby. Because the Valentine’s Day is coming soon. Yesterday, I decided to buy him a bottle of fragrance for men.

I bought him a Polo Blue 2 years ago just before our wedding, and it was good on him. It lasted long enough. I bought it out of a recommendation of a male friend without hesitating. My hubby liked it.

I hardly wear perfume, but I think this time I’ll buy something that I’ll love to wear myself as well. That means, I wanna buy a fragrance that both men and women can wear. I googled, and then I had the names of some brands.

The 2nd research led to so many sites that sell those brands. However, the prices vary. So I made a sheet to compare brands and prices and sites. Then I sorted them. Took quite a lot of time, but then I could decide what brands to buy at what sites.

Also, I wondered if there’d be any fake. Of course, the best way to choose a fragrance is go to the stores and smell the samples. Before, I also tried to smell fragrance samples while choosing a bottle for a female friend. After several many tries, I thought they were all the same. I guess this time I should prepare well before going to the stores.

I consulted basenotes.net, a website that gives me enough information of a fragrance brand, from its launch time to the notes. I think the top, middle, and base notes are very important when one needs to choose a fragrance. Or at least, I could guess if I’d like the smell or not.

Good luck to me on my way to choose the right fragrance. Damn, I’ve never been this picky before!

P.s.: This evening I just bought a bottle of Chrome by Azzaro. It was wrapped as a beautiful gift. I look forward to seeing how my hubby reacts when he opens it.

So I had this big project done in January 2012, and I loved how I did it. I used the website http://strongpasswordgenerator.com to generate passwords for many of my accounts of the Internet. And I have more than 60 accounts in total. The work took me nearly a day, and of course I wouldn’t remember all the passwords. But luckily, Google Chrome can remember some for me. Maybe you think I shouldn’t need a lot of passwords, but I’m a control freak. I think I’m better with crazy passwords.

It was a fun thing to do. And today, while looking back at it, I decide that a big project should be done every month. And for February, I think I’ll arrange my collection of makeup videos; maybe into better-named folders. Well, I’m not so sure right now about the how. But I’m sure I’ll arrange them. Will tell you later, okay?

Despite a little failure of my 2012 resolutions in January (thanks to the Tet holidays), I decided that February should be a new beginning.

So today I put my mind and time on something that was not related to housework. And I had a productive day.

I always make plans in my life, even for little stuff. I never start a day without looking at my Google calendar. Anyway, it’s fun that I can arrange stuff to be in the priority to-do list, and delay doing something. That’s the benefit of being a housewife.

At the end of the day, I figure out I’m a control freak. It’s scary! But I also figure out that being a housewife is all but boring.

So the holidays are over for so many people. They have gone back to work since yesterday. And as many people still complain about tiresome or sleepiness going to work after so many days off, I still feel the Tet isn’t over yet. I delayed the ceremony to farewell the Tet until the 7th day. (People did it on the 3rd day). I still count days by the Lunar calendar. And I know very well today is the 9th day of the first Lunar month of the year of Dragon.

Yesterday was a good day to start doing something, so I tried to send an email. But it went out twice in errors. Today isn’t a good day, so I delay doing something productive and just continue my reading. These historical romance books aren’t exactly what I should read because they ain’t good for the mind, but they are good enough for the heart in the meantime. The contents of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn remind me that life should be about love, and happiness.

Somehow I fell in love so fast that I didn’t know love didn’t mean living dependent on the partner. Now I learn that some distance is good.