Counting Good days

Life normally passes us by and we do not even notice. Is it July 2011 already? How have all the other days passed so quickly?

I felt a need to write something on my blog today because it is one of those 'good' days worth recording. Well, today is my hubby's 55th birthday. It has been many, many years since his first heart attack and subsequent triple by-pass. I'm thankful that he is in reasonably good health. He still looks forward to his twice a week badminton. Only yeaterday, he climbed our mango tree to prune it after the last fruiting.

So today we celebrated his birthday as a family.

It is just a simple meal, followed by cake and durians. I think my hubby is happy that we can celebrate thus.

Another thing that made this a 'good' day is that some months ago, my microwave-convection oven went bonkers. First the microwave stopped functioning. We were informed that repairing the microwave was not worth it. Best to get a new one since nowadays they don't cost much. The unit we have cost us about 2500RM at that time. So off we went to get a microwave for slightly more than 300RM. The convection function was still running well enough to allow me to do all my bakings. Then about 2 months ago my pizzas refused to cook in the convection oven though all lights were on. I was left with uncooked pizzas. The next day we went off to get a new convection oven. This was a rather big one but nowadays the price of electronic stuff is comparatively so low. We were going to sell the old microwave-convection oven to the recycling-collector. None turned up for some days when usually so many of them would be touring the housing area with their vans and loud-speakers. So, stuck with that bulky unit on the porch, I decided to send it to that Sharp shop at Kompleks Kancut. I was told that they may be able to get the convection function working but if anything is wrong with the microwave megatron it would not be worthwhile to repair the microwave function. Okay, I'll get it done if cost is reasonable. No harm having a stand-by convection oven. If nothing can be done or it's too expensive, I'll just leave it there at the shop and they can do what they like with it. In that way I got that unit off my porch.

To cut a long story short, this morning I received a call from Mr Kang, the Sharp shop-owner, telling me that the microwave, convection, grill and combination functions of my unit are all functioning properly again. The cost? 150RM. Wonderful. Now in my kitchen, I've got my microwave-convection-grill-combi oven, a fairly new microwave oven and a new dual-rack convection oven. Hah...I can run a bakery if I want to.

Today, I still went out to buy the birthday cake for my hubby ! Ironically? That's what 'good' days are all about. I can bake a cake if I want to ... but I don't have to if I don't want to. The choice is mine.

And that is what I've enjoyed most since retiring from being a government-employed school teacher. I have the freedom to choose what I want to do with my time.