7 Facts About Me
A while back, one of my blog friend Panda awarded me with “A Blog with Substance” award.
So since I accepted this award, I have to list 7 facts about me that you don’t know yet. 😀
1. For the first time since we got married about 4 years ago, yesterday and today was the first time Hubby K and I spent time being apart. He went to Las Vegas taking his mom and his “niece” (technically she’s his cousin’s daughter but in Asian culture, she’s considered as his niece). So my meals pretty much very simple (ie. lunch meal = dinner meal)
I had these steaks for my lunch and dinner today. Marinate was super simple: cumin, chipotle pepper, chili pepper, rosemary, tarragon, mixed peppercorn powder– YUM~!
2. When I was little, I got stitches on my forehead because when I was chasing a dog, the leash got tangled around my legs so I fell on a rocky road. I still remembered the blood flowing from my forehead and my parents had to lie me down on a table and one of my uncle did the stitch on my forehead.
3. Before having me, my mom had 2 miscarriages. If she didn’t, I might have 2 older siblings instead of 2 younger siblings.
4. My ultimate favorite meal combo always contain: veggie, protein and fat 😀 – Today’s no exception – steak in lettuce wraps with chopped avocado!
5. When I was younger, I used to think that I won’t get married because I couldn’t stand the idea of sharing my life with another person, but meeting Hubby K changed that perception.
6. As I am in between jobs now, I have a dilemma whether I should start pursuing another career path but it means I will have to go back to school again. Since both of us don’t have an income, I might have to hold this thought until one of us have a steady income. Ever since I’m starting Paleo, reading more health articles and such there’s a little voice telling me that I should pursue a degree in Nutrition but at the same time I fear I might end up hating it after it becomes a career. This actually happens to my current career. I chose design because I liked to draw etc, went to school for it but after it became my career I started to loathe it. In reality, a designer usually works in a marketing department, which we all know is the first department doing lay off if the company is not doing well. On the other hand, when the company is doing well, they work us to death. That’s what I have experienced and I know it might not apply to all designers out there. Or maybe I’m just not good enough.
7. I corrected at least 3-5 times on what to put for the last one. To follow up with number 6, you might notice that I do have a low self-esteem.
So I’m going to pass this award to EVERYONE who hasn’t done it! 😀 Please share your seven facts about you, either on your blog or in the comment! 😀
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Hi Jos,
yeah, I know how that thing with the job is like. I just quit my current job in an office to study nutrition. I have the same “fear” like you, might ending up hating it, but I believe it is right to listen to your heart. This is what my heart has been telling me for years now, and I finally got the courage and the money backround of course, to get started. – I will keep in touch and let you know. But – please – don’t give up on your desire to change jobs. At some point you will get unhappy.
Lots of love, love your blog,
Marion
Hi Marion,
Thanks for the encouragement and I’m looking forward to hear your experience. Currently the idea is still at the back of my mind, but I’m sure sooner later I might revisit it. Thanks for reading 🙂
Jos
Hi!
I’m so glad to hear this from someone who’s also in the same field and thank you for sharing your point of view. Seems like we mostly feel this way from time to time huh? For now, I’ll just go by the flow and see where I’m going to head next and I also agree with you that I don’t even see myself doing design for the rest of my life either. Thanks for commenting!
This was wonderful to read! I’ve done the seven things already, so I’ll tell you how I can relate to your seven things instead. 🙂
1. I’m not married, so my meals are very simple all the time. 😀
2. I never fell on my forehead, but I had my knees open several times.
3. My mom had one miscarriage before me and didn’t get pregnant again later. So there’s just me (as you now know an earlier had guessed already :)).
4. That’s my ultimate food combo, too – and I *have* to try out lettuce wraps! 😀
5. Hahaha, I still think that way, but I also hope to meet somebody who changes that one day!
6. Interestingly, I never chose an artistic / creative career (I had thought about design myself when I was younger) for the reason that I thought I might come to hate it or couldn’t be creative on demand. With psychology, it’s not like this at all because the stuff just fascinates me, and I can imagine to deal with it as my field of research. However, what I wanted to say is that – at least for me – there’s a difference between liking a certain activity (like drawing) or having a certain interest (like nutrition) when you make it the basis of your job. I’ve found that it’s easier for me ground my regular job on something I have an interest in and like to read and talk (or write) about, while when you ground it on an activity you like, it’s either very hard as a free-lancer, or can be very frustrating as an employee (because you have to draw things you don’t feel like drawing etc). With the first, though, you can are more free to choose your field of profession according to what you like. So, if you already know that you hate you old job and get tummy pain when thinking about getting back into it, it may be an interesting option to use your current life situation to make a shift to another field, e.g. by studying nutrition and focusing on Paleo nutrition as a nutrition counselor or something like that. Given the general health decline of society as a whole, I believe that this field is a growing branch, and it’s important to have people who educate and tell the truth about the foods we eat on a daily basis. But please don’t get me wrong – I don’t want to talk you into something! In the end, it’s important how you feel about it. Please just don’t do one thing (and I say this with regard to 7., because I was the same): If your feeling says no with the argument that you won’t be able to do it, then do it anyway. Because if you want it, you’ll be able to, and I believe you’d bring the right mixture of competence, empathy, and dedication to be good at a job like that.
7. I know this very well from myself. (Sometimes I’ve said that I was born without self-esteem, and the world wasn’t so friendly to teach me in my childhood and adolescence.) In a way, my various health problems – especially the salivary gland infection which really got me to my limits – were the kick in the butt I needed to realize that I actually *can* handle a lot. Without that, I believe I’d never had started psychology, which I’d been interested in before but didn’t do because I thought I wouldn’t be able to do it. I also didn’t start to play the piano at age 17 already because I believed I was too old then and wouldn’t be able to learn it properly anymore – duh! – so I needed to get 25 to finally start, when my suffering and being angry with myself from *not* playing reached a peak. So you see, I’m an expert in self-impairment due to low self-esteem. 😀 But I’ve somehow managed to get some eventually, and this was by learning things I consider valuable (piano, psychology) and thus making them a part of me, which made me become more valuable in my own eyes as well. (Sounds strange, but worked.)
I can just say that or me, you are a very precious person, and I’m very happy I’ve met you through your blog. You are more reserved than others of my blogging friends, but the better I know you, the more I feel we’re friends. And you didn’t have to tell with words about yourself, because the way you blog also told me some important things about you: your loyalty with reading and commenting on my blog, your kindness when you send me the seaweed (all finished off by now 😀 – they were so good, and I’ll try to recreate that at home soon!), your devotion to care well for yourself and your husband, and your commitment to make everything as good as you can do. You seem like a very honest and decent person to me, and I wish there were more people like that.
Hi Kath! As usual your comments always make my day and I’m totally happy to meet you thru this blog world. Seriously I really appreciate this deep comments of yours. By reading your posts from time to time, I really like how you put it in psychology point of views and I also learning a lot more about it. And I’m totally glad you like the seaweed snacks that I sent you (totally addicting) and after I finished my own stash (trying realllly hard not to devour bags after bags in one sitting!), I might wanna experiment to replicate it myself. Again, I’m really thankful for your support on my blog as well and as being my blog friend 😀
I think we all get low on ourselves from time to time, but you’re awesome and shouldn’t feel that way. I think working for a corporation makes us all feel like a number instead of a person and doubt our abilities. Maybe you should freelance and be your own boss?
Thank you! 😀
aww don’t have low self esteem! you are a total worthwhile individual so start believing more in yourself! i always remind myself if i thought i would fail at something, would i ever try anything at all? so i try to put away all self doubt and just go for it! you have a loving husband and family! enjoy every moment 🙂
Thanks for the encouragement! 😀 I’m really trying hard not to let these things get to me!