Happenings for the past 1 week

Haven't been writing this past week. It's not that I'm busy or something. Just that there's so much things to do in so little time. Every night, when I went home after work, I'm always asking myself, "blog? scrap? surf?". I usually choose to scrap and/or surf the net, but it's mostly scrapping related. Wow, think I'm obsessed with this hobby!

Okay, happenings over the past week in summarised point form:

• Had my first ever crop session with the TSL members on Saturday. A nice expat lady, Selena hosted the crop. Her apartment spacious enough to accommodate 3 oblong tables, which she borrowed from the serviced apartment management. Sis went along with me and we had a nice time scrapping, without disturbance and lots of guidance! Had lots of fun! Managed to finish 2 LOs.
  
  After the crop, we went to SDU and registered our basic/masters class for scrapbooking! Special rate for TSL members, we only need to pay $223 instead of the usual $280. Will be taking the lessons with Sis, every thursday afternoon for the whole of August. The course is about the fundamentals of scrapbooking and the different ways to achieve certain LO style etc. I'm so looking forward to it. And there's bound to be some "damage" when we stepped into a scrapbook store, I spent about $50 at Laine's. Bought the MM hybrid inks for my clear stamp. I stupidly used the cat's eye chalk on my beloved doodled brackets stamps and it's now got a permanent ink stain there, heart pain.

• Lucky Tara gets to try real gelato for the first time, with my permission, albeit a reluctant one. I'm very strict about what she eats and I usually omit overly sweet stuff from her diet. No candies, no ice-creams, no chocolates. If it ain't healthy, it ain't for my kid. So it's no salty snacks, and no fast food, except for the burger bun. I'm a firm believer of junk food = badly behaved unhealthy kid. No one seems to agree on this point except for Bob, cos we watched the Jamie Oliver's “Jamie's School Dinner” together. And it totally changed our perceptive towards giving Tara junk food.

• I splurged on a magazine that I don't need. I usually buy scrapping related magazines but this one comes with nice butterflies and flowers stamps! So I had to get it right? It cost me $13.90 for a copy and took me 5 mins to read from cover to cover. What a waste.

• Did a greeting card for a card challenge posted on TSL. Sis told me it looked like handbag. And I managed to put in the final embellishments for my scrapping tool box. I slept at almost 6am last Friday night just to get this toolbox done, cos I don't have any toolbox and I need to bring one for the crop session. Deviation from my normal style of sweet and flowery designs. This one is bold and colourful but I love it!
  
  
  
• Recently, Tara’s starting to sprint in a funny-duracell-bunny kind of way. Managed to capture it on video. But it's quite shaky cos I'm running after her at the same time. It's really cute to see her run like that. Always gets quite a few onlookers amused and laughing away.

• Took the MRT to work for the first time this morning. It's surprisingly fast and I reached office within half hour of getting on the train. Boarded at Boon Lay and alighted at Queenstown. Oh, I had to take a cab from the MRT station to my office cos I don't know which bus goes where. And I know I won't like the distance I have to walk from the bus stop to my office. I thought I forgot to bring my yellowing EZ link card and bought a single trip ticket at the station. Realised my yellowing card is in my purse and promptly topped up $30. How do I feel about the MRT trip? Hmmz, it's off peak hours when I boarded the train, so I'm able to get a nice seat and read my book for the whole trip. Nice, I would say. Allows me to catch up on my reading. I gotta take the train home later too. Bob's not free to pick me, or I guess, he's trying to get me used to taking a train and buses.