Life Update #1

• My car wouldn't start even after trying to jump it using Gabe's car. RIP battery. Had to get a new one from Costco and my brother helped me install it. My car is alive again yay!

• Daniel made me bread from scratch on Thursday :) Thank you so much! It was huge and so fluffy, loved it! Very tasty, crunchy, and professional looking. He is so talented at baking and can't wait to try more of his baked goods in the future!

• Recently bought around $60 worth of stuff on Ulta because I wanted the free 12 piece hydration samplers. It was too good of an opportunity to pass. I wanted to try out different products to see if it works for my skin before paying full price for it. Excited to try it all out! Definitely not buying anymore skincare products for a few months.

• Summer hours started on May 29th at work which means that I will only have to work half day for every other Fridays till end of August. Nice little perk that the company is doing for their employees. I am loving it and have been trying to utilize that time to be more productive. 

• At work, Summer Mile Challenge is starting in July and last through the end of August. It is a challenge where you run/walk for at least a mile or bike for at least 3 miles everyday. If we complete each week we get entered into a raffle for a giftcard or something and if we complete the challenge we are entered into this big raffle for a $50 giftcard. I actually started walking at least 2 miles everyday since last Wednesday (June 24th), except for today where I only walked for about 1.8 miles. My longest walk was 4.54 miles on Friday where I walked to Next Adventure to help Gabe exchange something. That was a long and tiring walk since it was so hot and sunny outside. Let's see how long I can keep this up hahaha...really hoping that I will be able to complete this challenge.

• Gabe and I finished season 3 of The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu! Ah it is so good and I can't wait till season 4 is out. Would really recommend the show.

• So I have been working on my Lion Painting By Numbers and making slow and steady progress. Trying to do all the light colors first and then move onto the darker ones. Realized that so far two of the colors are pretty much identical to another color. One of the number is supposed to be a light neon green but it is almost exactly the same shade as another green/number. Another one of the number is supposed to be a semi-dark pink but it is pretty much the same shade as another pink/number. Ughh so frustrated! I looked at reviews and photos online, it seemed like other people got the correct colors. Sigh, just hope that in the end it will still turn out well.

• Got the opportunity to learn Power BI, a data and analytics reporting tool, at work. Self teaching it because there is no one to train me. It is so cool and so much easier/better than creating reports on Excel. I am really enjoying it so far.

• Started playing chess on Chess.com with Jimmy and Austin. Yay more people to play with. Before I was just playing with Sheshank and Cameron (my co-worker). Whoever wants to play chess with me make a Chess.com and add me (KoalaTeaa) please.