X-plan

My dear girls, in spite some of us had vacation already on the beach and had already the opportunity to show the world our good-built shape, we still have to think about next vacation already! Truly saying after Egypt I didn't get weight what I was very afraid of most, but kilos are dangerous. But I stopped my training for two weeks. So now I'm going to write X-plan for myself and if some of u need inspiration - u can take something from it. I'll just remark something: I don't visit gym or public courses for some reasons and do all training at home. I just bought many DVD's with great variety of sport activity.
1 week: rehabilitation. All power training 1/2 of power!!!
Monday: yoga (1 hour). Tuesday: power training 1/2 program (ABC, legs and arms). Wednesday: yoga with fitness ball. Thursday: power training 1/2 program (ABC and arms). Friday: ballet + ABC exercises. Saturday: strip-dance + Pilates. Sunday: yoga stretching.
2 week: regular training
Monday: power training full program (ABC, legs and arms). Tuesday: yoga (1 hour). Wednesday: strip-dance + Pilates. Thursday: power training full program (ABC and arms). Friday: yoga with fitness ball. Saturday: ballet + ABC exercises Sunday: yoga stretching.
Wish myself good luck and for u my dear girls.
P.s. don't forget about light food, not eating after 18.00, more drinking water and good sleep. :-)

I am relaxed...

Egypt

Well, we came back from Egypt with my husband. We have been 1 time there. So what we can say about our vacation?.... It's pretty good, but second time to go to Sharm El Sheih is not worth it.
It's 40 C degrees there, but the water in the sea was not so warm in the morning. The hotel Tropicana Rosetta was good and service was very nice. The food in a restaurant was not varietal but it was plenty of it. I's surprised but they have some problems with fruit - very poor - only bananas, orange and melon. There where very tasteful sweets, which i miss now in the mornings drinking coffee. The hotel had 4 swimming pools, 1 restaurant, couple cafes and bars. Our room was cleaned good every day, towels has been changing also every day. The Red sea is amazing full of different fishes, but there where corals which was concentrated with fishes. That's something!!! So it's a good relax, but 11-14 days it's more than enough, caz after that it can be boring already.
During our vacation we managed to visit Cairo, taste carting and Moto-Safari excursion. But about this I'll write later. So don't walk away so far ) The interesting is just starting...

Friday!!!

Hooo... At last this hot working week finished. Before my vacation my boss decided to kill me with quantity of work. And today, the day of leaving, my mind hardly realize what it suppose to think about - still think about what job I left at work and how they gonna work without me ) Only after we left the car at parking and where walking home with husband I felt some kind of the beginning of my vacation. So now I have just 4 hours to fix myself and pack my bags. So in 4 hours I call for taxi and go to railway station up to Moscow, and tomorrow 3pm we have flight. So guys I'm gonna miss my blog and my readers, but I'll be back soon and promise to share all my emotions about Egypt ) I'm short of time!!!! Buy-buy! :-)

Perfect day scheduling

I think everyone sometimes dreams. Everyone wish to be surrounded with luxury without paying for it with loosing health and friends, getting stress and loneliness. But yesterday while doing manicure in the evening (it's Sunday and I always do all these "girls things" Sunday evening for following week) I's dreaming about perfect
scheduling for myself. So here it is:

5 am -5.30 am: to wake up from hands masseur who'd have the key from my apartment and who opens the door himself and early in the morning would come to wake me up. It's so beautiful to wake up like that!






5.30 - 6.00 am: fresh morning coffee and leaving apartment











6.00 - 7.00 am: visiting swimming pool, morning training in a gym, or morning yoga classes which help u to feel urself the whole day fresh, active and self-confident. It's good to visit group classes which help u not to be lazy, but the group suppose to be from just couple people when u can enjoy company, a little bit atmosphere of competition (but a little bit!) and at the same time space in a room.

7.00 - 7.30 am: light breakfast an a French style - a cup of strong coffee without sugar, a tasteful kruasan with gem, reading a morning newspaper or listening news on TV.









7.30 - 9.00 am: visiting saloon, where anybody will make me hair style and make up. It's so great when anybody work at ur beauty! ) Actually it's hard to fix ur hair by urself. So a professional will do it much better. Also it's one more reason to feel urself in a luxury.








9.00am - 1.00pm: 2.00pm - 5.00pm: working hard, solving problems, meetings with partners, making appointments, preparing documents.






1.00-2.00pm: having dinner in a good restaurant girlfriends, talking about women things and sex, discussing plans for weekend, sharing problems at job, dreaming about vacation together, remembering some diets and receipts, giving advices about shopping and shops addresses, discussing men and flirting with another waiter )


6.00pm - 8.00pm: visiting SPA saloon, where u can stay alone and forget about all stress u had during the day, where all peaces pf ur body relax and enjoy taking care of urself. After have light dinner, or instead of saloon light shopping, or gym, or solarium, meeting with beauty master. So it will depend on my mood.







9.00pm - 10.00pm: romantic evening with my husband - light supper for him (for me just fruit), discussing previous day and sharing problems, making mutual plans for "tomorrow" and of cause - making beautiful love , full of passion and fire. Being honest - I adore him! After we'll get tired after long and deep ) sex - falling asleep...


Oh, that's I dream about. So here I face not only with money problem, but working time of such saloons, gyms, and swimmings.

Fashion Night

I was waiting for this weekend so much cuz it's the last one before my leaving for Egypt for vacation. So I was planning to stay home this weekend and to pack my bags. But on Friday my husband brought two invitations for Fashion Party which was promised to be interesting and something unusual for Minsk. The guy who gave us these invitations told us there will be fashion performance with naked girls on stage in a national shoes called "valenki" which usually people wear in a village at winter. But designers styled them somehow. So after work on Friday we went there. All this meeting was organized in a National Beauty School where models take classes. So my mood was not so good at the beginning: 1) I was confused what to put on (it's fashion party so i had choice - or to feel comfortable or to look good, so i choose something medium); 2) i was tired after work, especially my husband who was driving the whole day and i felt so sorry about him and for my asking him to stay he was refusing cuz he promised me this party; 3) and i knew that we'll be there alone we didn't know anybody there. But we went.
So in general we liked it. There where good looking and glamor people, mostly up to 25-30, girls where different for any taste ) But over there they proposed such a sour champaign which i don't like (i prefer half sweet) and pineapple. The room was too tight for so many people and no conditions! It's so hot there that people tried to go out all the time. There where so many photographers and journalists, so it's hard to see anything, especially shoes. Not good light performance and too loud music, but as far as we didn't have any plans for evening we didn't regret about coming there. It was going to be disco there but we didn't feel like staying there in that hot room.

Rope course

Couple weeks ago I was at Rope course with colleges from job. Our boss organized that for making more friendly atmosphere in company between workers (though relationships are very good between us anyway). Besides he had a birthday and decided to celebrate it at nature. So it took us 1 day. We met around 9 in the morning up to 6pm. So as soon as we came there we were divided to 2 teams and went to competition. All tasks consisted with rope - to pass it without touching. Rather interesting, and they call it Business training which help to trust ur partner, and develop team mentality. So here'r some photos:

Bath

I think that taking a bath is one of the best ways stress after hard working day to go away. It's so pleasant to relax there, with candle light and soap bubbles with a glass of cold juice or champaign or with a cup of coffee with ice cream. Also to turn on a light music in a lounge style. In this case u should do everything to make ur body, mind and soul to relax. Also it's good to use aroma oils.
So run a warm bath and ensure the door and windows are closed. When the tub is sufficiently filled, add up to 10 drops of essential oil to the water, circulating it throughout. As the oil is moved, the scent will rise with the steam of the water.

Now get in, take your time, and enjoy the wonderful aroma while you soak!

Recipe for a Relaxing and Calming Bath:

* 2 drops Lavender
* 2 drops Bergamot
* 2 drops Cedarwood

Recipe to relieve Nervousness:

* 6 drops Geranium
* 4 drops Basil

Recipe for Insomnia:

* 4 drops Chamomile
* 2 drops Lavender
* 2 drops Neroli
* 2 drops Marjoram

Recipe for an Energizing Bath:

* 3 drops Rosemary
* 2 drops Lemon
* 2 drops Frankincense

Ur choice - career or family?...

Today was the most busy working-day in my accounting life.... I'm squeezed as a lemon actually. But after work, analyzing my day, i catch myself at interesting reflection... But I'll start from the beginning.

I work in a company as an accountant. One month ago our Chief Accountant left the company and I stayed alone. Nobody showed me anything, so I had to learn everything just by myself. But our company is small and actually i didn't like the conditions over there. So i also told my boss that i'm gonna leave, but we gave each other time: for him to find another one; for me - to find another job. So it one month passed since our talk. It's considered we leave each other May, 30. So me and my husband were making plans for vacations for June, cuz i was thinking to have vacation for June and then since July to find another job.

We decided to visit Egypt. So i was corresponding with my friend from Egypt about our meeting there, we were searching the best proposals of trips in Internet during the months, we visited even the travel agency in different city about that business. I bought swimsuit, spent 5 hours for that! And in general I haven't been vacation for 2 years already. At last we didn't have honeymoon with my husband since we got married. So all this pleasant troubles made our mood better.

But today my boss proposed me to stay and he gonna increase my salary. Well, i would like to stay, cuz in my position (i don't have experience enough) it's not bad salary. But he just can't find another accountant who would satisfy him (just as a person) and our office is situated far away from city. I asked him about the possibility to take vacation in June as I planed, but his answer was more "no" than "yes" (he's in hurry and we didn't finish).

So now I think what i suppose to do. I've never thought that this global question as what to choose - family or career - I will ever be deciding. I always thought that I'll deal with both that things easy. But now I understand that sometimes circumstances doesn't let u do it easy. So i just really do not know what to do. I understand my boss' position (he can't leave the only accountant for vacation) and just don't want to change my family plans, especially if it concerns my husband and his time also.

What to do? What to choose?...

Oh, Sunday...

Today is Sunday and the thought about that makes the mood better. It's so pleasant to open the eyes and see the sunshine out of the window... to pull all the body laying in a bad, being lazy to yawn... and after all to say to urself - A GREAT THINGS R WAITING FOR U, BABY, WAKE UP! - and kissed husband to get up...
I love these days, when nobody hurries u up. After u get up to walk to the bathroom to wash ur face and to take a warm big man bathroom-robe and put on big funny slippers with cow head :-) To open the window in a bedroom to feel fresh air and to go to the kitchen to prepare very strong coffee with lemon without sugar with a small piece of 80% chocolate. After that to light the first sigaret and feel urself the boss of ur own life. This feeling comes in working days very seldom cuz all the time u have to do something for somebody, u don't have time even to think about that, u r slave of ur boss, ur job, circumstances, wishes of other people, etc. But when u off - u have this kind of freedom which u the whole week miss so much about.
In these days u stay alone with urself and u can devote all ur time to ur hobbies, to the things u love to do, just to have a rest.
Actually I always thought (and even now do) that having 2 days off i should spend them active way - shopping, friends, parties, movies, cafes or restaurants, clubs, some sport activities etc. While my husband prefer to stay home and do nothing. But writing this page i just asked myself - what makes me to move all the time - my need for communication with people and friends, the thoughts that if i do nothing i miss something in my life OR the fair to stay alone with myself when different thoughts about my life comes? Honestly guys, can't answer now. But probably now i started understanding my husband's position about spending time at weekend.
I'd love to know how u guys spend ur offs? R u trying to do all things including fun during working week and be lazy at offs OR u just work 5 days so hard and fix all private things at offs?

Falling asleep

How many times early in the morning, before to get up and go to work, we, being sleepy and lazy, dreaming about coming back home and falling asleep...
So now, when the hard working day is over, before to go to bed, let urself to leave all negative emotions behind u. It's not good to sit at the computer up to deep night and then to fall asleep right away on the table. Ur mind and eyes r not relaxing during the night!!!! So devote urself just couple minutes of relaxation. Turn off the light, take couple candles, u may put on some pleasant soft music... sit in a comfortable position, close ur eyes and start breathing deep. I'm not telling u the technology of meditation, I just propose u the method of sweet dreams. So think only about positive moments of past day, or better imagine: u r a free bird, flying above the ocean.... try to feel some fresh drops of ocean water, and u'r flying as high as u want. And u'r surrounded only with the sky and ocean. Feel the air... feel the water... feel this freedom of ur imagination.... and breath deep... Don't think about future day and plans, don't think about past troubles. Just u'r a free bird. Right here in ur world, right in this moments u'r FREE FROM ANYTHING. And guys, believe me or not, just let urself to try ur imagination, and 10-15 minutes before falling asleep will refresh ur mind and present u such a sweet dream ))) So, have a good dreams )

The beauty of life....

It's so beautiful to live when u can breath free, when u can do wherever u wish and nobody and nothing can stop u. U get some drops of this freedom... Couple months ago i felt as if my mind was going to blow! Too much stress at work, my boss all the time was bathering me, some troubles in relationships at work, not satisfied salary and office is very far away from home. So it made me down and depressed. I noticed that sometimes after work I wanted to drink couple cocktails. It's seems to me I was smoking non-stop. I opened the eyes in the morning and was realizing how much I don't want to go to work Until once I decided (and realized) I'M A FREE PERSON. I think it's Leonora Ruzvelt said "Nobody will disrespect u if u'll let him to do that". So I decided to change the job, and as soon as I said it to myself - I could breath free. I saw that the spring already came, that the trees already green. My God, being depressed I couldn't even notice that! And in spite I still work in the same place (up to 05/30/07) my eyes has been opened. Now I'm not afraid not to get the job. I'm free, free from fairs, I believe the God will give me the chance and opportunity to come in right time, in right place and to right people. That's it. U should never be tolerant if u understand objective reasons of ur bad mood and unsatisfaction. It concerns everything, not only job. To live free all the time we have to risk. So just do it to become happy.
I'm free. I'm happy...