Geeky side revealed

There's school today. Skipped. After two weeks of exams and with holidays JUST around the corner, not having the studying mood...

Nice to skip, eh? Can't do it often though. Must go tomorrow. Class photo! Ker-chek!

Don't think I'd be doing anything productive during holidays. Like surf net... and the Altador Cup Tournament of Neopets! No, seriously. I like. NEOPETS. My dirty little secret. Well not so secret anymore.

My team won last year. Krawk Island. Sigh. Does anyone even play neopets anymore? It's been 5 years I've played! :O

And then, there's also Pokemon:

Get the HeartGold version. And then there's a new version coming out. Black and White. 0.0

AND THEN, I SHOULD ALSO MAKE MY TAMAGOTCHI COME BACK ALIVE:

There's Tamagotchi Colour, but the Japs still hadn't decide to make an English version. Hmph!

When we immerse ourselves in entertainment like videogames and TV it's like being in a virtual world. And doing stuff in the virtual world is unproductive, of course.

I shall also sew and draw, for the sake of my ambition.

Now that I think about it, I don't want to sit wasting my time. OK. Fashion designer. I need to get out the sewing machine.

I LOVE THE HOLIDAYS.

Wifely steps

Today marks my first stint as a guest blogger! When the sunny and inspiring Toni of Wifely Steps asked me to write a guest post to celebrate the 7th anniversary of her marriage (and by extension, her blog), I leapt at the opportunity.

The theme was, naturally, "Wifely Steps." There were so many things I could have written about, but one thing I was sure about was that nobody needed to hear marriage advice from a newlywed 28 year-old. So I wrote about the first wifely step I ever took. It was a wonderful opportunity for me to reflect on the journey and remind myself of my choice. Sharing what I wrote with Marlon got me a googly-eyed look, a big bear hug and a whispered "Thank you" - all of which were nice too.

Reposting from Toni's blog (different pics there)!

Deepa's Wifely Steps

I’ll let you in on a secret. The biggest wifely step I ever took was precisely two months and twenty-five days before I became my husband’s wife.

The diamond ring was on my finger, the wedding date was set, the honeymoon flights had been booked – and so had my one-way ticket to Singapore. Marlon, who had gotten a kick-ass job in Singapore, had been based there for the entire four years we’d been dating. Since we both agreed that the Singapore dollar would give us a better financial head start in our shared life, the moment we had gotten engaged, moving there became a foregone conclusion.

The thing was, I didn’t want to move. I loved my life. I had a career that made me creatively fulfilled, ecstatically happy and financially rewarded, a tight-knit family of females with whom I shared everything, and a large, loving and irreplaceable network of friends (a choir, actually) made my life sparkling and vibrant.

Unlike many Filipinos who would leap at the chance to live and work abroad, I was staunchly in love with life in the Philippines – with our people, our beaches, our Salcedo markets and Cubao Expos and cheap finds at Landmark, and damned if I was going to give it up to start from scratch, jobless and friendless, in a country about the size of Quezon City.

Marlon and I with the Singapore skyline

But when I said yes to Marlon’s proposal, I – by default, almost – also said yes to Singapore. We were overjoyed at the prospect that we were finally going to be together after four years of physical separation, but there were trepidations underneath the happy surface. I was not too excited about being lonely and financially dependent (at least until I got a job). Marlon was worried that I was someday going to resent him for being the reason for the disappearance of my wonderful life.

After a while, I realized I had said yes without really making a choice. And that beyond putting on a brave face, what I really had to do to start our new life together with no fears, no doubts, was simply… choose.

So on October 4th, 2007, only two months and twenty-five days before our wedding date, I really, truly and freely chose to move to Singapore. I wrote Marlon this letter, excerpts of which I will share with you.

Dear Marlon,
This is what I see. I didn’t choose Singapore. 
I chose you. I chose to be with you… no matter what that looks like.
Starting out, that was all I really wanted. I realized now, I’m finally getting what I really want. 
Coming into this marriage, you are my biggest commitment. I’m not committed to where we’re going to live, what we’re going to do, how much we’re going to earn, what we’re going to do with it. I’m committed to you – my best friend, my partner, my husband, the one true love of my life. And I’m committed to being with you – finally, forever. With that commitment in place, the rest just follows. It’s just details. It’s just circumstances. So I can rattle around and drive myself nuts about circumstances. Or I can see that I’m finally getting something I want with all my heart. Something I said I’d have no matter what, damn the torpedoes. You. You in front of me on December 29, and by my side for the rest of my life.
So there’s nothing there for me to do, or be, just yet. That only means I haven’t created it yet – and that I still can. Thank you for giving me the space to do just that in our relationship. Thank you that my life as me, Deepa, doesn’t end when our marriage begins. Thank you, because I know creating my life and sharing it with you will be so much fun. Thank you, because whatever game I choose to play, having you on my team will enable to me to kick some serious ass.
Thank you, because who you are to me is someone who is worth it. Thank you for being such a beautiful person, in the face of whom a beautiful life is almost relatively easy to give up. Thank you for being the beautiful person who is the beginning of a beautiful life where I am moving to.
I love you. And I choose you.

Making a real choice freed me to be truly happy on our big day

To date, that has been my biggest wifely step, from which all my wifely steps have followed. Some of those subsequent steps have flowed with grace and ease while others have been taken in awkward fits and shaky starts. 

Some have been fun – like learning to cook, assisted by my husband the kitchen god, or buying him a Playstation 3 for Christmas (to the horror of many wife friends), or simply allowing myself the joy of saying “Yes” when my husband says to me, “Let me take care of you”, or easing into the role of obsessive-compulsive itinerary planner for every trip and holiday (and both of us being peripatetic travelers, believe me there have been a lot). 

Sharing childhood memories with Marlon at the Grand Place in Brussels

Others have been challenging and difficult – like this past weekend, when Marlon and I found ourselves having a “who-would-have-thought-we’d-ever-be-here?” moment at the Great Wall of China. I, the sleep-till-noon-sloth, pushed myself to complete the entire trek up the mountainside, climbing hundreds of steps on a stone staircase with practically a vertical incline in a dress and Chucks, because I knew there was nothing more my adrenaline junkie husband wanted than to reach the top of the Great Wall.

At the summit of last weekend's trek up the Great Wall of China

Starting my life as a wife began with a choice. And each wifely step I take every single day is just that, too – a choice. Even if the choice is inspired by my husband, or by our shared goals, or by my love for him or his love for me, the choice is always mine to make.

And I know I – and my wonderful husband – wouldn’t have it any other way.

Wedding Candles to Decorate Your Venue

Flowers can be a archetypal adornment for your bells venue, so why not use addition stuffs that are appropriately adorable and admirable to flowers. Bells candles are absolute addition for bells embellishments. They accord a abatement accent to the bells venue. They additionally accomplish an affordable costing compared to fabrics and flowers. There are several kinds of candles that you can use for your bells decorations. Some of them are tackled below:

Pillar candles accomplish a absolute choice. Best couples accept to use it because of its associated luck back it doesn't bake out easily. Colonnade candles aftermath an absorbing aftereffect and generates acceptable ablaze for anniversary table, appropriately there is no charge to use abounding candles. Colonnade candles are not alone absolute for centerpieces, they can additionally be acclimated on floors or about abroad in the venue. Couples adorable for a bulk able anniversary can absolutely opt for colonnade candles.

Tea ablaze candles are addition affectionate of bells candles that you can use for your venue. These candles actualize a altered atmosphere back it produces a fairy-like brightness. Tea ablaze candles can be put on the table. You can additionally use it to adorn the bathroom. Unlike to colonnade candles, tea ablaze bake easily. Thus, you charge to defended added of these in case some candles go out of light.

You can opt to use some votive candles for your bells favors. They accommodate abounding ablaze and looks adorable alike on the altered kinds of patterns and colors. Votive candles additionally accomplish a admirable present to guests. Simply accept them printed or engraved. Compared to any added kinds of candles, votive candles are safer to handle back they accept their alone holder, appropriately you don't accept to absorb addition bulk of money to buy some added holders. It is accurate that these candles may bulk added than the added kinds of candles, about this is aloof an antecedent impression. Having to apprehend that you are able to save money for the holder, you'll apprehend that the bulk is reasonable enough.

The best for bells candles appear in advanced selection. Bells candles may appear in altered sizes, shapes, and colors. Although I accept that best brace who are allotment bells candles for their accession will best acceptable accede the bulk of money that they will accept to spend, they should not balloon to accede the account and acumen of their choice.

Baptism

I'VE DONE IT!!!!!!!!! :D
Baptism's done.

I don't remember waking up at 6 something this year. Only took 8 minutes to get ready! Spent about an hour waiting before leaving BSD, though.

Sleepy. Slept like a pig on the way home.

Wisma Eagles is big. Got dunk in a pool for a second, then change clothes. Gave short testimony.

It's nice to be "officially" Christian.

Still sleepy, thou. I can't take naps. :( If I do I'd have a 3 hour nap for the least. If that happens it'll be hard for me to sleep at night. MONDAYS. Monday Blues. Bleurgh

Paintball

Today was tiring. In a good way.

Paintball at Tanamerah. Hot. Humid. Rained at the end. Soaked.

Face mask. Vest. Marker. BANG!




24 people. 5 matches. I skipped 2 matches though, because I was lazy. Ashamedly so.
Some of the people who paid deposit didn't show up. Dunno.

Had to wait for Kula. Our organizer apparently overslept.

Dylan wearing Kwok Shien's earphones. I freaked when Kwok Shien went "YO! YO! YO!!!" wearing those headphones. SERIOUSLY.


Worst injuries of the day:

James got Nazri by the neck. Poor guy. He didn't seem to notice it was that bad, though. Only when he looked at the photo. He was like, "Omg, are you serious?".


Desmond slid and got his knee scrapped.

I left unscathed, because I'm a pussy playing paintball. I was hiding by the tree the whole time. Bullets whizzed by. Got hit once in the leg, didn't feel much because it was far away, but the bullet did burst on my pants.

I admire Nicole for being good in sports and all these stuffs.

Went home with 9 people in Theng Seng's car. 6 in the backseat! Squashed with Kar Man in shotgun. Bet Ping Kuang would love to trade places with me. Lol. It was fun though.



I wish I could sleep and wake up at my own accord for tonight. Have to get up at 7, though.
Tomorrow is the day! Baptism!

Off into the Sunset!

Tomorrow we finally leave for Charleston, South Carolina!! I might not have much time to blog because I'll be driving 9 hours a day or so.. but I'll try to take pictures at all the most exciting spots and post them here!

If I could wear pink (the color of a particularly beautiful sunset) from head-to-toe tomorrow, I think I would. As the sun sets on my time as a Californian I am so grateful for all I've learned in the last five years but I can't wait for my new adventure to begin.

Off into the Sunset by ejrodefer featuring Coach bags

Just for fun, here are a few of the things I've learned in California:

1. I learned how to be a yoga teacher. This was one of my biggest goals when I moved here for an internship I thought was going to last for 9 months. :)

2. An appreciation for Mexican food, and a new favorite fruit—the smooth, mushy, marvelous avocado

3. I can now have an intelligent conversation with successful people. I used to get nervous and say dumb things, but now I know people are just people and we're all just doing our best.

4. I can now stand on my head, balance my whole weight on my hands, and defy gravity. That's pretty awesome.

5. Most important of all, I think I've learned how to be more compassionate, more patient, and more understanding. (Anyone who's ever stood in line in one of those Oakland grocery stores on a Sunday knows exactly what I'm talking about!)

Happy (kinda) Anniversary!

Three years ago today was my first date with my sweetheart. It was oh sooo exciting, starting off with ice skating with my best friend (everyone else bailed out last minute), then off to a family birthday party (yeah, on the first "date"), then back to his parents house to watch the Jazz game (oh what fun...), and then a whole late night of talking on the couch (where he kissed me first! I know, kissed me on the first date, what kinda girl did he think I was!). I saw him every single day after that first date, until after we got married. It was perfect.

In the last three years, we've lived in three places, bought a house, gone to Scipio at least 6 times, built and sewed almost everything we own, gotten a puppy, the list goes on and on. And now we're having a baby :)

Thank you lover for making these three years so awesome! Couldn't be happy without you!

SENYUM SATU SEDEKAH

Nowadays,aku tak tahu kenapa ramai sgt orang zaman sekarang yang susah betul nk senyum. padahal bukannya nk kena keluar duit pun. tp tu la orang sekarang ni,terlalu kedekut nk bersedekah. duduk umah satu blok tp bila dlm satu lif takde langsung nk senyum apatah lgi nk bertegur-sapa. entah apa sebab yang susah sgt nk senyum pun tak tau la,adakah mereka yg taknak senyum ni takde gigi ataupun mulut busuk??entahlah...

sebenarnya aku pun tak tau apa nk cakap lagi,yang aku tau aku suka tengok gambar anakku,Adli Muhaimin ni senyum. ingat senang ke nak amik gambar bdk senyum,time diorang tido sambil mimpi indah la baru dapat amik gambar. hehehe... so people out there,rajinkan lah muka tu untuk senyum. tak susah dan tak kena bayar pun kalau senyum ni and kalau senyum ni buat orang tak dapat dosa sebab mengata orang yg tak balas senyuman.

cuba tgk anak aku ni senyum,kan cantik!!! ceh,perasan je......

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so jangan kedekut senyum tau....

assalamualaikum.

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Colorful Maternity Dresses: Comfortable and Stylish

Ah, hot days of summer are here again. Summer season is a tough time for pregnant woman. But just chill out, there are many ways to keep cool this season. Colorful maternity dresses are an excellent way to stay cool in these sunny days. These colorful and stylish maternity dresses will beat the heat in style. If you are pregnant and will soon become a mom, then before purchasing your dresses you should take in to consideration some important points.

Colorful dresses are a great option for women who wish to remain comfortable and cool during her pregnancy period. There are plenty of maternity dresses for summer available in market. They come with exquisite patterns, bold colors, beautiful designs and comfy fabrics. These dresses are versatile and you can pair them with any flip flop or sandal. You should choose dresses in such a way that they should not be too tight for you.

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Maternal America Maternity Front Twist Dress:

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May flowers

We planted our front garden this year. After ripping the old plants out (they were mostly dead), we added a bunch of dirt to mound the area, cut out the sod so that it was curvy, and added sprinklers. Then we planted, planted, planted! It was so much work, and took our whole Saturday up, but it looks so much better now.
And if that wasn't enough, we decided on the next Saturday to extend the garden in the front to wrap the whole front yard, not just the house :) So there was another Saturday full of removing grass, adding sprinklers, shoveling and mounding dirt, and planting! It looks so pretty now, and as one girl in our class said "our yard is the nicest in the whole circle!" (and that's saying a lot!)

Wedding Candy Buffet Ideas

When cerebration about innovative, fun, and acclaimed bells favors, a abundant way to sweeten up your appropriate day is with a bells bonbon buffet. A bonbon cafe presents your bells guests with an array of adorable treats to accept from. All they accept to do is aces out the ones they like, and being them into provided bonbon containers. Now, you accept a bells betrayal that is memorable, original, and one that absolutely caters to your guests' tastes.

When ambience up a bonbon buffet, you can either stick to your bells blush schemes, or use a altered one altogether. There absolutely is no absolute to what you can do. First off, set up a table with nice containers that can affectation your candies. You may additionally adorn the bonbon cafe with flowers, ribbons, and candles.

Be artistic with your bonbon selections! Accept some lollipops, bonbon necklaces, adhering bears, and more. You can accept as abounding bonbon varieties as you like. Also, adapt betrayal bags, baby jars, or boxes which your guests can ample up with their candies of choice.

Here is a acceptable tip about chocolate: try to action amber selections that are in shells or wrappers, instead of the truffle types that may tend to abate or cook back larboard out of the container. Acceptable examples of favorites to add to your bells bonbon cafe are Kisses, Hugs, M&Ms, or different Hershey's mini-bars. However, depending on the akin of clamminess or the temperature at your bells banquet, amber covered raisins or cherries can additionally assignment well.

Remember, the possibilities are amaranthine back it comes to bells bonbon cafe ideas. You can consistently add bonbon brands that accept consistently been your favorites, as a way of administration a allotment of yourself with your guests. For sure, they will bethink your bright bells as able-bodied as admire and adore their candied giveaways!

Meditation: Beneficial for New Mom-to-be

It's a common myth that meditation is a worship or prayer. But it is not so. Meditation means awareness. Whatever is done with awareness is meditation, realizing our breath is meditation, listening to birds is meditation. Until activities are free from distraction to mind, they are effective meditation. Meditation describes a state of consciousness, when mind is free from scattered thoughts and various patterns. Meditation is always good for expectant mothers.

Pregnancy is most precious time for a woman. Apart from love and care provided by family, it is important for expectant mother to balance personal, physical and mental happiness. Meditation is a perfect blend and solution for this. Meditation is an amazing technique to make connection to the unborn baby. It's an overall soothing experience and also enhances growth of foetus.



Here are some tips for new mothers on how to start with meditation:

Find time and space: Meditation is difficult to begin as you need to be free from work and you need to concentrate. So, to make things easier, it is important to find time when you are alone or free from family and friends, and a space in which you feel comfortable. The correct posture for mediation is sitting on floor with your spine and head straight but you may find it comfortable to begin meditating while lying down, or sitting up in a chair for support. You can also place a pillow under your lower back for support. Whichever position is comfortable for you, choose that but make sure your spine and head are straight.

Take a breathe: The first step of meditation is breathing. To warm up, close your eyes and take a few deep breathes. Once you start feeling relax, breathe out while concentrating on movement of your belly as you inhale or exhale. Making noise is a better way to focus. So, it's good practice to breathe in with “so” and out with “hum” sound. This will help you to hold your breath for longer period.

Affirm and focus: Don't get discouraged if you find it difficult to concentrate, give time to adjust and keep focusing on your breathe movements. If you really find difficulty in focusing, then you can focus on any object say candle or picture and you can think of the image while your eyes are closed. Other way is to count from one to ten when you exhale.

So, find your little corner of world and make sure you give yourself and baby ample amount of time.
After all, meditating during pregnancy is like making bond with your baby who will fill your world with joy.

Ah-Ha Moment

I used to look at yogis in amazing poses and think to myself, "Wow! I could NEVER do that!" Then, I'd go home later, and try it just to be sure. In the very beginning of my practice, I would feel bad about myself for falling so short. Then, as I learned more about yoga, I learned the art of laughing at myself.

This past weekend, however, I think I reached a new level of understanding when it comes to advanced yoga poses. For the first time I was able to bend over in Prasarita Padottonasana, interlace my fingers, bring them over over my head, and actually touch the floor—all by myself!

This is one of those poses I'd seen pictures of, tried, and failed miserably at many times in the past. And I don't think my shoulders or hamstrings have opened anymore since a few months ago... I was just lucky enough to work with a teacher who showed me (through a few very awesome physical and verbal adjustments) the trick to getting my hands to the floor. You have to round your spine just a little. This is something I NEVER would've figured out on my own without the guidance of my teacher several months ago.

And that, my friends, is why we need yoga teachers. Sure, I learned how to get deeper into a pose. But, more important, was the lesson I learned about the practice months later. The advanced poses are more about developing the know-how and awareness than they are about your body's abilities. (And they really are within reach if you just have a teacher who will show you.)

I am humbled to have been able to work with such amazing teachers in my years as a yogi... My practice is a testament to their talents, not my own.

Image Source: AshtangaNews.com

Centerpieces For Weddings

In any bells accession party, bells centerpieces comedy a actual important role in free the affection of the affair and it is additionally a absorption of the aftertaste of the couple. Afore affective on to a final plan for centerpieces for weddings, you charge accede the affair of the bells and additionally your budget. You can additionally argue a florist or a bells artist to get some avant-garde ideas. But your abstraction charge go with the affair of the wedding. But you should not anguish if you accept a bound budget. There are abounding bargain account accessible which can absolutely accomplish accomplished centerpieces for your weddings. In addition, you charge additionally accede what blazon of ambience you are attractive for and additionally what admeasurement of tables you are activity to use in the reception.

Depending on your account and affair you can accept a lot of account for centerpieces in bells reception. You can adorn it with flowers. Though abounding flowers are accessible in the market, afore allotment a annual you charge see that it is accessible in that division and it apparel your budget. Abounding bargain flowers are accessible in the bazaar that may clothing your account and additionally the affair of the wedding.

You can additionally accomplish the centerpieces with fruits. You can adorn them with ablaze fruits that may attending great. If you can add fruits like citrus, it has got a admirable aroma and your guests will absolutely feel charmed. The fruits can be kept as a accomplished or they can be cut and busy in pieces. The able blush aggregate of the fruits may present a actual affected atmosphere to the wedding.

You can additionally adorn the tables with vegetables in the aforementioned manner. You can accomplish altered designs application the vegetables and actualize abounding admirable centerpieces for your wedding. This is absolutely an bargain idea, but at the aforementioned time, will add adorableness to your bedfellow tables. For this purpose, you can accept asparagus, artichoke or alike blooming beans.

Using candles is addition admirable abstraction of decorating the centerpieces of weddings. Candle is such a admirable advantage that it goes forth with any account or any taste. It helps to actualize a actual adventurous atmosphere, if the bells takes abode in the evening. If the bells anteroom is dimly lit and if you can add some flowers to the decoration, again application candles as centerpieces will accept a continued abiding appulse on your guests.

But you can accomplish abundant centerpieces if you are planning to get affiliated in fall. The acclimate is air-conditioned and you can get a lot of admirable flowers at that time. If you are planning a bank ancillary accession party, the centerpiece colors accept to be ablaze and vibrant. It is astute to use sunflowers as the focus annual and can accept some carnations and aureate rod to add added colors. If it is a Mexican affair accession food, you can add some peppers that may go able-bodied with the centerpiece design.

bright new morning

dolls, how fast does time fly? no?

i honestly experience some kind of time lapse situation here.

went from crazy to yesterday within a blink.

i cried, i cheered, i feared, i laughed.

and yeah, all of this simultaneous.

of course.

life is the most stunning drug.

and hell no, i wouldnt change a damned thing.

hope you are all well!

keep it uppp

love

eszter

i wear: hat, dress, jacket: h&m, earrings: topshop, rings+bracelets: ebay, presents, from somewhere. shoes: meow/jeff campbell/nastygal

Grow old with me

Today I saw a couple
The wife over 80
Sitting on a wheelchair
The husband took her to the cafe
Took a handkerchief and dabbed it upon her wife's eyes
And fed her
Both of them watch the world go by
Sated, for they have lived theirs


Sigh. In between a million dollars and growing old with a loving husband,
I'd choose the latter at any given time.

But, it's a bit of crap finding Mr.Right.
Finding someone who fits a list of requirements.

Committed to Elizabeth Gilbert

When I was little, I wanted to be just like Lois Lane from The New Adventures of Superman when I grew up, so I studied journalism and became a newspaper reporter. Well, being a newspaper reporter isn't really so much fun in real life. Teri Hatcher moved on to be a character I don't have any interest in mimicking on Desperate Housewives. And I needed a new strong, funny writer to look up to. Enter Elizabeth Gilbert.

I want to be Elizabeth Gilbert. Who doesn't? She's smart, witty, funny, wrote a wildly successful memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, and she even got to meet Oprah! (I don't know much about her fashion sense and I'm annoyed as heck that I can't seem to find her active Twitter account. But that doesn't change the fact that if I could have dinner with any person alive I'd choose her.)

So when her new book, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, came out I bought the hard cover, which is something I NEVER do. After Eat, Pray, Love, the woman could've titled her book Big Pile of Poo and I still would've bought the hardcover--and I'd venture to guess thousands of other women yogis would have too. I digress.

So it pains me to say that while there are many things about Committed that I liked, it was missing some of the personality and charisma of Eat, Pray, Love. I learned much by the thorough discussion on marriage in the Western world, and it definitely left me thinking about my own ideas about marriage and my relationship. While there were a few funny personal narratives, most of the book I just kept feeling like I had been magically telleported back to my college days and was reading a text book from a Women's Lit class.

My assessment: Gilbert found herself (and found love) while she was writing Eat, Pray, Love.. and that just happens to be loads more entertaining than a story about the happily ever after. But that just makes me want to invite her to be my dinner guest even more so I can learn her secrets.

Did you read it? What did you think?

Drawing

I like to draw. But sometimes I look at my old drawings and cringe, because they don't look good. Now I'll see if I'll cringe at these years later. :)

I used to draw "unartistically". For about 8 years I think? Seriously.

But I'm improving. :D

And I had 10 hours of sleep, yum.

Why, teens are programmed to sleep and wake later, but school leaves us no choice. Not that I spend time wisely when I'm at home, though.