HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY to my sister!
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Tuesday and I feel pummeled already. Still computerless so instead of being home 2 hours ago, I'm still nursing goosebumps in the library. I just finished digesting a case which I was planning to do in half an hour but thanks to a schizophrenic and aging computer...everything was obliterated.
I have 10 minutes so I might as well make proper use of the 40 pesos I'll end up paying.I have always been thankful for being blessed with the best(est) friends ever. I am sure everybody feels the same way but I'd like to believe my friends are a notch above the rest.
These past few weekends, I have been running around like a headless chicken but I am amazed that I never seem to run short of steam...I always seem to have just enough. Or maybe, even a little more than needed.
I was puttering around on Saturday, reading case after case when I decided I was going to have a 30-minute break in the mall. If I didn't stop, I knew I was going to explode at some point. Living within a stone's throw of a mall can either be a blessing or a curse.
Then Martian (my friend formerly known as Banana) called me on my cell when I was on a queue in National Bookstore. "San ka?" she asked. I was wondering why her voice seemed to echo. I told her where I was and I retorted "Bat asan ka ba?" To my surprise, she and Em were outside my door, wondering why I did not even bother to open up. If I could be in two places at once that problem would have been solved.
It was great to see them both again after a LONG time (well, except for Martian coz I see her almost every Sunday). They were a little sore because their surprise was spoiled but I could not care less. They were both shopping thanks to their paychecks (huhuhuhu for me!) and I was surprised when Em gave me plastic bag with something inside. I peered into the bag and I saw a huge bucket of popcorn! Caramel! I can consume bags of Oishi caramel popcorn but this was the REAL STUFF! I could almost smell it! :)
But besides the popcorn, I never realized how much I missed these girls and my other friends as well. I sometimes feel like I'm trapped in a drum, dropped in the middle of the Marianas trench with oxygen supply and made to emerge 50 something years later. It gets a little lonely and a little depressing but at some point, someone drops by to refuel the oxygen tank and give me a hug.
Thanks Martian and Em! Wag ako sanayin!
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Ooohh it's 6 pm! Gotta go! But before that...last hirit!
Two years ago, my niece Cherlyze lost her twin brother. But last Saturday, all of us realized she was meant to be a big sister...to Cienna (born September 11th).
