Cher Cabula

Living healthy for me means keeping up a healthy lifestyle, not just eating healthy food. I’ve started attending Yoga classes and I think that’s a good start. Yoga is a great way to detoxify my body and my spirit. (I will post a blog on this soon.) Well aside from yoga, I’ve been maintaining a healthy balanced diet with the occasional giving in on binges. (hehehe)

One thing more is I try to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. I used to hate drinking water, well at least more than necessary. Well now I’m keeping my resolve. Living healthy gives me more benefits in the long run and all I can see is more positive effects than negative. I encourage everyone to live a healthy lifestyle. It will make us appreciate living even more. I’m sure of it.

It’s been awhile since I’ve been kept busy by a new hobby. I guess my new hobby now is blogging! Yep, I’m now addicted to the world of blogging. And I’ve started something very ambitious. I’ve decided to keep 4 blogs, yep not one but FOUR! Talk about getting really “engaged” in a new hobby.

My Vox blog (http://lotuspixel.vox.com) is all about stuff that generally catch my interest. My posts here are usually anything under the sun! I love this blog host because when you are experiencing writer’s block, there’s always the trusty Question of the day (QOTD), Vox Hunt and Question of the Week feature to keep the juices running. This was my first blog and I’ve gotten quite a circle of friends here and the neighborhood is very friendly and welcoming too.

Creating Spaces (http://designercher.blogspot.com) is another blog I’ve started which I’ve decided to put all my Interior Design interests in. It’s still in progress, but I’ve finally managed to find the perfect blog template for it and I’ve also squeezed in a few posts. I still have to put in a few more entries to stabilize my category list but I think that it’s viewable in its current state.

Little Red Book (http://geekchicglam.blogspot.com) on the other hand is a blog centered on being a guide book for girls and women alike. Also another blog in progress but I’m really optimistic with my planned blog structure.

Lastly, ....cher (http://chercabula.blogspot.com) is another personal blog different from my Vox blog because I plan to keep my posts here more intimate and particular to who I am. It’s kind of sharing a little bit of who I am and what I do.

Well there’s my new hobby and I AM LOVING IT!

You should see my bookshelf. It’s stuffed with books I haven’t read yet. Most of them are in a series. I love collecting them, I just can’t find the time to read them. I usually read on my bed but because sometimes I’m so tired, I get to read only a page and then go right to sleep. I want to buy more books but now I have to restrain myself. I promise that I’ll not buy a new book unless I’ve gone through the ones I already own, and boy I know that’s going to be a long time.

Being an interior designer, I would love to have the chance to be able to design a place that I call my own. As of now, I’m still living with my parents. It’s usually the practice here that the kids leave home when they marry. Well, I think I’m still not going to get married. Hahaha sadly I’m still single. But I do want to get my own place though. I don’t need a big place yet because it will be just me and my dog. I still have financial assessments to do but hopefully when I get enough budget, I’ll be able to rent my own place and be able to furnish it. This goal isn’t going to be easy because I’m still paying off my car. But who knows, a big project might come my way and I’ll be able to afford paying the rent. That would be really nice.

I’ve really got to control my impulse buying and save my money for more important things. My impulse buying usually consists of sketch pads (because I love to draw), art materials, notebooks (can’t seem to resist designer notebooks) and random cute stuff (boohoo too tempting). Before, I had trouble making ends meet because aside from my impulse spending, I have to pay my car monthly dues. I’m usually left with little or nothing else to save. Luckily though, I’ve been granted a very significant raise. Well from my initial calculations, with my car monthly and gas expenses accounted for, if I minimize unnecessary shopping trips, I’ll be able to save enough per month and have enough money to buy a new phone and laptop by october. Yay that’s only a month from now. I have already marked it on my planner and I’m pretty excited. As of now, I’m still on the right track.

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
-Steve Jobs

Lately my life has been in the dumps. I feel like I’m losing control. Mainly because I have been faced with bad decisions and things haven’t really been going the way I’ve planned. But that’s life right? I have to be prepared for whatever it wants to throw at me. When I stumble, I need to get back up again. Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. Well I want to be able to live my life not because of resentment or just because I want to prove something to myself and to everyone else. I want to live my life because it’s worth living. Whatever I do, I affect everyone else I come in contact with and I want that to be good. I want be able to express passion in my life and in everything that I do so that I may continually inspire people around me. First thing I’ll do is retain some optimism.

I’ve already inquired about guitar lessons last week. I have yet to ask around for yoga classes. I’m trying to choose between the two or if my schedule permits I’ll be able to enroll in both. I’ve been wanting to learn how to play the guitar for a long time now. The classic guitar here at home is just gathering dust behind the door. I’ve been told it’s a good guitar. So I figured why let it go to waste.
Me wanting to enroll in yoga is backed up by the desire to feel at peace with myself and to be able to do something for my body of course. I have tried yoga before but I want to advance to another type, one that would increase my body’s flexibility more.
Well, I hope I’ll be able to squeeze in these classes during the weekends or after work. I really have a tight work schedule after all but it would be great to be doing something extra as well.

I can’t do much when there is a lot of clutter around me. I am not a slob, I usually like to keep things neat but sometimes when things get really busy and hectic, I don’t have enough time to keep everything in it’s proper place.

First thing on my list will be my work desk at home, right now all my magazines are dumped on top of it, there’s a no-nonsense pile of file folders and books on one corner.

Second will be my wardrobe closet. It’s stuffed with clothes and some of those I haven’t worn in months. I think I have to find time to sort through them and just keep the stuff that I still use and donate the others to a charity.

Third will be the clutter in my mind. I have so many hangups from disappointments in the past. I can’t go on living a new life when I’m still looking back. I have to identify these “mind clutter” and get rid of them permanently!

I am constantly under stress but I try not to show other people especially my workmates, how stressed I really am. I don’t panic or I don’t have uncontrollable outbursts either. But I do get burned out. When I’m burned out, I tend to go into a depressed state and I have trouble getting enough sleep at night. Stress really is very bad for the health. That’s why I’m putting it in my life list. Now I plan to do this by reading up on project management skills so that I’ll be able to delegate project priorities efficiently. I also have to improve my time management skill. I have to have a set goal of things to do for the day at the office so that I’ll know that I am accomplishing things and not stress about things I still need to do for the next day when I get home. Hopefully, with these in mind, I’ll be able to live stress free.

“When it comes to love, you need not fall but rather surrender, surrender to the idea that you must love yourself before you can love another. You must absolutely trust yourself before you can absolutely trust another and most importantly you must accept your flaws before you can accept the flaws of another.”
-Philosophy of Falling In-Love

After all these years and after all those relationships, maybe this was where I was failing. When I read this quote, these words struck home. Maybe I really loved myself less. Well now it’s high time that I gave some lovin’ for me. :-)

Don’t get me wrong, I really do love my job. I am an interior designer and my job entails really good coordination and planning skills plus the innate ability to conceptualize good and functional designs. My job can be very demanding sometimes and we are required to work beyond normal hours. It can also be very stressful and I’m more prone to burnouts. Satisfaction from my job takes a lot of weeks or months before it can be attained. I jotted this on my life list so that I can find satisfaction in the little things that I do with my job, by doing this I can feel fulfilled. Hopefully when I stay happy and satisfied, I’ll be more at ease and I’ll be more passionate with each project assigned to me. Less stress and less burnouts.