sweet.

i can't remember the last time i actually sat down on the sofa and just watched E! News or something (yes, yes, i watch E! in my spare time, judge me all you want).

having a baby is an incredible thing but it's definitely hard work. especially, when you're someone like me, who insists on cooking homemade food to make sure it's healthy and making lactation cookies cos my milk supply is slightly decreasing and bringing jigglyboo out for a swim or to the park and all sorts of stuff - all this while managing a full-time job and working with a limited monthly budget - things really ARE getting expensive! i suppose everyone has their own challenges, but those are mine, personally.

anyway, jigglyboo is almost 4 months now and since a yoga instructor friend recommended i rest til after i passed the 3-months-mark, i've only started going to weekly classes this month. guess i'm lucky, cos outside classes can cost me like, rm40/class but the office offers classes at a subsidized rate of rm40/month (which obviously works out to rm10/class). untung, alhamdulillah. it's a one-hour class during lunchtime, so that means that i have to rush a bit on tuesdays and gobble up my lunch or eat a sandwich at my table at 2pm, post-class.

one of my best friends is doing this rocktober thingy with her colleagues - it sounds fun, but i've always sucked doing things with only youtube guidance. i did tara stiles workouts for awhile, but i always end up cheating out of the hard poses haha. i guess i'm just the kind of person who needs human presence :/

i used to take bodybalance classes a couple of years back. at my old uni, they had a walk-in policy of like 10 dollars per class, so i always went to those. bodybalance classes are normally set to a series of songs (and they change up the routines and songs every few months) - i attended it during the period where the script's "breakeven" song was the lead song - which has led me to always associate "breakeven" to working out haha.

anyways, there aren't that many places that offer bodybalance classes in kl, and for the ones that do, they're a part of a gym. after two unsucessful gym membership stints, i just refuse to sign up for another gym membership. i know, it works for some people, it's just not for me. i guess i like to mix things up - right now, i'm doing yoga, then once i get my upper body strength back i'll go back to climbing. and maybe once i have time (and money) to actually go find an outfit, i'll go swimming again. just don't ask me to run! R keeps going on and on (and on) about how he needs a running partner, well, too bad, cos i just hate running. it's boring, it's repetitive, and i hate it. i know a lot of people say that running helps them clear their minds - all i think when i go running is "when is this torture going to end??" hahaha, i know what you're thinking. zip it.

oh well.

we're off to R's hometown this weekend for a lil kenduri. i think this is jigglboo's second time going back. she's only been to my hometown once for her aqiqah. the girl is a kl girl, i guess, haha - she spends most of her time here cos my family's always in kl anyway and R's family comes to visit occasionally.

jigglyboo can baby talk now. i think she's going to be quite the talker. she even gets angry at people now, haha.

gotta get home early today and start on my second batch of lactation cookies!