sharing my room

next tuesday will be a legendary day.  my husband is coming here - FOR GOOD.  i know it isn't easy for him to leave his room, his house, his friends, his car, his family.  it isn't easy taking away your comfort zone.  likewise, it isn't easy taking you away from your comfort zone.  but honey, we have to build our own comfort zone together.  it isn't easy for me too because this is the first time i'm sharing a room (and my life) with a "stranger", you know :) and we both have to adjust and we can't get  there unless we start now.

some 5 months ago, we got married, signed that piece of paper, and lived our separate lives just the same.  now where's the marriage there?  i could say i've had enough of long distance affairs and i'm feeling i'm getting too old for it, life is too short!  let's live our life to the fullest -- being TOGETHER.

here are a few preparations, as you requested:

a mat at the entrance of the door

and a matching one beside the bed so we could wipe off the dust before getting on the bed.  see that bin?  this is where we'll put your socks, as you requested too :)

on this site will rise (hehe) our tv.  it's a tv rack, alright, but it acts as a vanity drawer for now.  tv coming soon, i hope.  now we have to get a new kikay corner.  ps: keyla got all the stuff into a big mess!  it's not me!

a bedside table.  i was hesitant to buy the drawer i found in ikea.  it's a bit small so the table will do for now (batas militar, i know).

a computer/study table.  this one's all for you.  i could do without one, but as you requested, i got you one :) i know the chair's not ergonomically built and we already get backaches just by looking at it.  one by one, we'll get there.

a bench at the foot of the bed.  you said you wanted to have one, so here it is :)  i'm thinking of transferring it to the other side of the bed so we could sit on it when watching tv... let's see.

and the sacred resting place, the bed :)  oh, remember the quilt cover that mama gave us?  the one that's apparently a king size and wouldn't fit our quilt because we have a queen size?  i already altered it and now it fits perfectly! :)

and something to remind us of the happiest day of our lives.  that's an everlasting flower on the background.  got it from the bouquet you gave me the last time you were here.

i know you are sad for now, saying goodbye to your friends and family, saying goodbye to your single life, but beyond that "death" is a new life that we'll build together.  i will forever thank you for the sacrifice.  let's seal it all with a prayer that things will continue to be better.  after all, the best is yet to come.  God makes ALL things beautiful in His time :)

are you ready?  brace yourself!  let's be  A W E S O M E  together, sweetheart! 

byebye, baby tee!

i am such a sentimental freak.  some 6 years ago, i was sent to ohio for a one-month training.  those days were sweet.  weekends were spent visiting other filipino communities or going places or going shopping.  i don't really love shopping.  i rarely shop and i just buy clothes when i need them.  sometimes i need them and i still feel lazy to shop.  yahoo!

but since i was there and shops were everywhere, ok, i got a few items.  and by few, i really mean few!  i could even count the items i bought and i think of them more as souvenirs of good times.

there's this gap baby yellow tee for, ehem, kids - size 10.  i loved this shirt!  i know ate maj also bought one.  i was thinking i should have bought a dozen.  why didn't i?  it's very cute and comfy and fits me perfectly!  i wore it a lot when i went out.

after a few years, my favorite shirt became so losyang because of wear and tear.  she became so losyang that she was embarrassed to be seen in public and just wanted to stay home.  thus, she became a pambahay.

and now... i made a very hard decision... i am about to clean the house and i have no basahan.  baby gap is a very sound candidate because she is the oldest in the bunch.  she even has stretch marks!  poor baby tee.  she will now have a different purpose in life, and that is to make other things squeaky clean.

here is baby tee in her less glorious form.  sniff sniff.

iced green tea

when i was a kid, tang was the known brand for panghimagas orange juice and then came eight o 'clock.  and of course there was nestea iced lemon tea!  everything comes in powder and in tetra packs!  hehe.  nestea iced tea was a wonderful treat at home.  

one hot, summer day, we ran out of nestea (not that it was a staple at home.  as mentioned, it was just a treat.)  papa boiled some water, dumped in a few liption yellow tea bags, some sugar, calamansi, and tons of ice.  and it dawned on my childhood brain that iced tea is simply just "iced" tea!  yes, it was obvious, but i didn't know it was one and the same!  haha ang labo ko.  i was surprised at how it tasted so similar to nestea, and even better!  so there goes the history of how i came to know how iced tea is made. :)  well, the powdered iced tea is another story.

a few weeks ago, we didn't have juice on a hot day.  i used the same ingredients that my papa did, but as we don't have yellow tea, i used green tea.

verdict: hmmm... hindi masarap.  toinks!  

let's just stick to yellow tea, pokka even! :p

life's little surprises

2 weeks ago, we were not at our best.

you were there, i was here.

you think this way, i think otherwise.

you do the most "normal" things, i get upset.

every little thing is foul.

every little thing is magnified.

then i told myself a good movie with good friends is a good thing to do on a good, long weekend.  fine, do your stuff and i'll do mine (plus, i'm really excited over this movie... why not, it's thor!)  when was the last time i watched a movie?  all done, tickets were booked courtesy of elzie.  she even sent us the confirmation number.

then one of the most bizarre things happened.  elzie told us that due to "technical issues", our movie tickets were not booked.  ergo, movie date is cancelled.  fine.  "what about the confirmation number?" i thought.  being the gullible person that i am, i believed.  no doubt, no questions asked.

then came sunday.  i had to go to church alone.  kuya, april, and keyla went to a baby shower party.  i was feeling a little sad hearing mass alone, but i realized a me-time isn't that bad, and in fact it was very good.  i felt very peaceful, very one with my God.  after mass, i roamed around pasir ris west mall and looked for anything interesting i could find.

then i got a phone call from tita.  she was asking me where i was and what time i would be home.  odd, i thought.  tita never calls me, never asks where i am and what time i'll be home.  i told her i'm about 10 minutes away from home.

then i arrived home, the wonderful baby girl greeted me with cheerful shrieks and laughter.  i carried her and we went to my room.

then i found flowers on my bed.  who could be sending me flowers?  i asked tita but she didn't answer.  fine.  maybe those are from kuya.

then i found you at the door, with the biggest smile on your face, the warmest hug in the world, and one of the most priceless moments that halted time.

then i remembered again how you seldom give surprises but the ones that you execute are just the cutest and the sweetest.

then i'm reminded once again that i'm spending the rest of my life with you.  bati na tayo.  fine.  

PS: i missed thor.  it's a connivance.  a pleasant connivance :) life is wonderful.