Break Time!

Looks recently yes a lot….

Hala2 never mind loosing weight, and shaping up… It is the feeling of freshness that gets into you even after hours at a gym class.

I’ve always been a member at gyms, and I just totally got sick of treadmills and bicycles, so I tried something new. They call them classes! Classes such as RPM, Body attack, Body Combat, Body Pump, Body Jam, and Body Balance.

Let me give you a brief summary of each as they were to me and you could also get use of them too.

These classes are all associated with music which gives you a great push!!!! The instructors are trained to keep you going! Sometimes they are tooo mean but hey atleast as they keep you moving then you like them!

After Gym, you go home and feel so fresh!

So where is my money going? I have tried remembering what I spent and write them down as an attempt to try understand what is happening. I tried earlier putting a certain budget and trying to stick to it… never worked! I went around and asked my friends… MAN WHERE is all this money going? With a laugh everyone says heyyy join the club. Whether they were males or females, I seriously got the same response, and it seems like a real problem around. “Oh my God” I say to myself. Do I have issues? One day (hopefully) I would be responsible of a home and family and would have to know how to manage my own home.

Am I going to be a good housewife, one just like my mom? A woman who can run a family well and knows where when and how to spend? One that would bare her husband’s financial situation and live with it no matter what they were. My dad was commenting that day about the way I spend and was telling me that I should be careful with where this is going and that I buy useless stuff at many times. He said a sentence that hit me right into he brain “ You can work now, you can afford all the stuff you THINK you need right now, but one day maybe you wont even have the health to work and maybe at some time you wont have anyone around you to help you out, so start thinking about your life.” Ever since then and I have been trying to manage my money, and hey it is working. From a person who had NOTHING at the end of every month now I actually SAVE money. I’m so proud of me J

I can’t say I used to be a shopaholic, since I wasn’t very extreme, but it always starts somewhere. I hope no one has this problem, but it is a trend. Marketing, advertising, credit cards, lifestyle, boredom, loneliness, anger, materialism, stress, depression, and many many other reasons behind shopaholics. It is interesting to know that 90% of shopaholics are women. Men, on the other hand, are not excluded. Who needs a playstation1, Playstation 2, X-box, and X-box 360 IN THE SAME HOUSE! Girls: we really DON’T need 7 black pairs of shoes and 3 browns, 2 whites, and OTHER J. Part of curing yourself is realizing you have a problem.

Here are some links to interesting readings on the topic I have came across.

http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/31/pf/shopaholics/

http://web.mit.edu/cultureshock/fa2003/essays/prachi.html

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/05/shopaholic.html

http://www.carolthecoach.com/articles/addiction/shopaholism.htm

You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. (why would anyone wanna do that aslan)

Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.

No one knows where Mozart is buried. (ya 7araaaaaaam)

According to a 1995 survey, 7 out of 10 British dogs get Christmas gifts from their doting owners. ( leh ya rabbi ma khala2teneesh kalb)

The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

Chocolate manufacturers use 40 percent of the world's almonds. ( That’s why they taste that good)

Androphobia is a fear of men. ( he3he3he3)

Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.

"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.

The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

The world's tallest mountains, the Himalayas, are also the fastest growing. Their growth - about half an inch a year — is caused by the pressure exerted by two of the earth's continental plates (the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate) pushing against one another.

The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America. (wa ne3ma al akhlaq)

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7. ( ekhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%. 

Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.  ( Men are always disappointing J)