Life has been kind to me

It's past midnight and I'm sitting alone at McDonald's nearby my house.

With my laptop on and McD's Radio is playing on the speaker. In front of me, there's a young couple and the girlfriend sprayed too much of perfume that I found quite bothersome.

I don't feel great with my current body. I'm feeling so fat. I have bloated tummy yet I don't have any solid motivation to lose weight seriously.

I am surprised to saw my previous post back in 2021. I did visit this blog once in a while.

I feel like maybe I should start journaling again.

I think maybe I should.

I want to express my thoughts and feelings but I want to keep it discreet at the same time? 

Anyway, I have so many plans for this month but have so little money.

Is that all? My monologue for tonight?

I will come back here again once I have my thoughts organized. I'm currently in a good place. I'm grateful for that and everyday I count my blessings.

Alhamdulillah.

Bonnie's Ringworm Treatment Day 1

Since today we only got one Airbnb unit to clean, I asked my husband to go and do it alone because I don't feel like going to work today. Plus, the condition of our messy kitchen bothers me alot. I really need to clean it up today.

The kitchen wasn't THAT messy or dirty but I haven't got a chance to do proper cleaning since two weeks ago because we were too caught up with our packed working schedule. My husband did help washing the dishes but his level of cleanliness is not up to my standard. Upon checking, I found few missed spots on the utensils and the plates. Hence, I need to wash them again. I also cleaned up the kitchen stove and washed the kitchen sink. I wish I could do more but I need to give my cat, Bonnie a bath with a special anti-fungal soap. 

After done cleaning the kitchen, I gave Bonnie a bath. I really hope this soap will help to treat the skin infection and at least kill the bacteria that lies on the skin surface. So, how does Bonnie, a house and indoor cat got infected with ringworm (kurap)? This is due to my husband's careless mistake for petting a random stray cat with kurap. Well, of course the bacteria got into his hands and he didn't wash hands when returning from outside and held Bonnie ignorantly. Pfft.

In the beginning of infection, his body temperature was warmer than usual for few days then I noticed something was off with his ears. (I love to kiss his ears. That's how I spotted the changes). The next thing I knew, the fur began to fell off and ringworm lesion began to appear. We brought him to see a veterinar at a government hospital but the injection didn't seem to work so I resorted to buy medicine through Shopee and gave him proper treatment - oral, soap and topical cream. Sigh. I miss kissing him and I knew Bonnie longing for it too. Bonnie is a very manja cat. He is affectionate and loves to be caress. He likes to kiss me on my mouth and nose but I need to avoid from doing that because my skin is sensitive and prone to get infected with skin related bacteria and virus. Poor my baby. He must've been missing my caress badly. 

Later at night, I gave him the oral medication by crushing the tablet and mix it with soft food and re-apply the topical cream. He had to sleep with Elizabethan collar tonight. It's day one of proper treatment and I'm hoping to see positive result by 10th day.

Reusing glass bottles

Since I started to live on my own, I've becoming more creative in reusing certain containers. I'm also getting fancy with glass bottles, glass jars and tin jars.

Today I will be sharing how I reuse the unused glass bottles and turn it into oil dispensers.

Two months ago, we bought Bickford's premium cordials and once it finished, I removed the label and cleaned the bottle. In order for me to turn this into oil dispenser, I'm gonna need oil pour spout.

We bought Peach Iced Tea flavour and it tasted really good! 

Looks fancy, right?

In the beginning, I wanted to buy one from Lazada or Shopee. The price is super cheap but since I'm thrifty, I don't think so the shipping fee is worth it. Some more, I wouldn't know whether the nozzle size fits the bottle opening perfectly or not. Then, I realized that each of olive oil bottle sold in supermarket comes with an oil stopper and I knew my Mom uses olive oil in her cooking and boy, she keeps all the unused glass bottles too. Then, I tried to fit in one of the oil stoppers into my Bickford bottle and it fitted perfectly!

Then, I used the funnel to pour the cooking oil into this bottle

Oh, you must have been wondering why do I need to store my cooking oil inside this glass bottle? Because my husband taught me to purchase Minyak Masak Bersubsidi that is being sold for RM2.50 in 1 kilogram packet. We just started to live on our own anyway, so I guess this cooking oil is fine.

Thank you former government for this initiative!

I reused the Olive Oil bottle to store the remaining of 250ml cooking oil.

As for the glass bottle that doesn't have the cap, I'm turning it into a flower vase just like what I did to that perfume bottle.

At the end of the day, I feel great not only because I managed to save RM60.00 (average price for 500ml Glass Oil Dispenser is RM30.00) but to reduce my ecological footprint as well!

I'm slowly but surely adapting to these 3R activities for a better planet. In fact, my husband and I have started to bring our own shopping bags and in recent grocery shopping trips, we successfully did it without purchasing a single supermarket plastic bag.