For the Love of Running

I love to run.  Before you get any false impressions, I'm not really a good runner.  I just run at my own pace and I think that is good enough.  

Running teaches me to push myself to the limits and seeing how far I can go.  There are times when I feel tired and I just want to stop, but there is this voice inside me telling me to go forward.

Running gives me that feeling of being carefree.  When I run, I don't think about anything, I just enjoy the feel of the wind on my face and take in all the beauty around me.

Sometimes, running is my form of escape, or I run when I need to burn up calories from over eating, but most times I run simply because I love to.  

Sadly, I have not been able to join fun runs and marathons lately,  the last time I joined was around February of this year.  Although I can run at Abellana or I.T park whenever I want to, joining fun runs is more exciting for me!  I miss those kinds of events and I look forward to going back soon.

New Experiment: Flower Arrangement

This started out when I was scouting for a centerpiece for our table.  I was looking for ready made flower arrangements and I thought that it would probably be cheaper if I just made it myself.  I already had an idea of what I wanted, so I bought the vase and the flowers and just started putting them all together and came up with something nice.  I actually enjoyed making it and I'm already planning of doing my next flower arrangement project.  A friend told me I can start a business out of it, but I know that flower arrangement is not just putting the flowers together in a vase, there are different techniques and styles that one needs to learn in order to be professional in that field.  But for now, I'm just enjoying this new found interest, if I intend to make a career or a business out of it, we'll never know.

My Flower Garden-Project

I have always wanted to have a flower garden.  I used to imagine a backyard where I could just relax while being surrounded by flowers of different colors.  But living in an apartment complex, I kind of had a hard time picturing how my garden would turn out because there was no space for me to grow a garden.  So I had been putting off that plan for a while, until recently while I was scouting for my daughters fabric for her uniform. I happen to pass by Carbon market and saw all the plants for sale.  I talked to the lady who was selling the plants and she actually had me convinced to finally start with my garden project.  Since I could not actually make a garden in our compound, I chose the area in front of our unit as my starting point. I bought plastic flower pots and started with small flower plants (forget-me-not, a mini-rose and three other plants which names I could not remember).  After putting the plants in their respective pots, I was pretty much excited with the thought of seeing them grow each day.  Our house looked prettier with all the flowers aligned up front.

My Favorite Hobby

Reading is my favorite past time.  It has always been a hobby of mine that started when I was a kid.  From comic books, to Nancy Drews, Sweet Dreams and Sweet Valley High, and then I started to read  from authors like Sidney Sheldon, Judith McNaught, Nora Roberts and Danielle Steel.

A second hobby developed out of my love for reading, I also started to collect books, magazines and novels.  I remember having a book shelf at home with all my Sweet Dreams, Sweet Valley High and Danielle Steel novels alphabetically arranged according to title.  I also had a collection of Seventeen and Cosmopolitan magazines.  I would save up my allowance to buy myself a book or magazine at least once a week from the Booksale store that opened in Tacloban.  

 

 When I was about to transfer to Manila, I had to clean up my stuff and had to give some of them away, which included the novels and magazines I dearly treasured all these years.  A friend suggested I sell them to a book rental store downtown, in that way instead of rotting away and being eaten by termites in our "bodega". it would still be a source of joy to book lovers like me.  So some of my books went to that book rental store, some I gave away, but a few I kept with me, including my Danielle Steel novels which has traveled with me from Manila to Cebu where I am now currently based.  I am still a D.S. novel collector, but I also have a couple of e-books from other authors I store in my PC.  I don't think I would ever outgrow my love for reading, it's amazing how words can inspire you, take you to places you could only dream of going, it widens your imagination, make you laugh and cry at times.  Reading feeds the mind and nourishes the soul.