Of Weddings and Eternity

To the most fun couple we know

We thank you for allowing us to be part of this joyous occasion.

Cheers to Amour and Beth's beautiful wedding rites

and to a more fun-filled and laughter filled life together!

Moving from A to B and stuck in between

Wow.

Today, I won the Laziest Person Alive award.

It's the city's charter day and even though most are still reeling from the Independence Day Holiday (with all the Makibaka, Maki-isa activities), it meant nothing more to me than an additional day to make this weekend worthwhile.

What does Charter Day even mean in the first place?

Crap.

That's how utterly insignificant my political awareness has been lately.

Today, I spent 6 whole hours absolutely prostate in bed, without a shower, without a comb or a thought. lolz and it was the most relaxing, most liberating feeling in such a long time!

I have been feeling THIS tired the past weeks, for God knows what, and the thoughts of just lounging in the sun or making pancakes while Norah Jones is playing on an early morning (not rushing sunny side ups because I am running late for work again) keep running in my mind.

And I keep on re-drawing my plans, finding a way to move the "retirement" plans few years - no, few decades earlier!  Simply because, I feel like I want to stay at home and just make breakfasts.

I keep making multiple choices - re-arranging my long term plans and summing them all (or discarding the ones in place) with a few out of this world options:

A. Sell all my assets (what assets?!) and pay off all my financial obligations, take a backpack (and a lil backpack) and embark on a remarkable around the world journey with little one.

B. Invest - and resign from my job and take on a no-brainer, no effort  near the house kind of work and get paid minimum wage. At least, it's just a day - in, day out kinda thing.

C. Sell something, build a little house in the mountain, plant vegetables and corn, make pancake breakfasts and camote, and become a full time mom to lil gurl (so how do I pay her tuition again?!)

D. weellll. suck it up. Wait for my annulment to come out, get the stuff done, and embark on a new phase by the time I hit 3-0. (So far, I AM still on schedule! what's my problem again?)

Man, This has got to be past-quarter life crisis, I am sure of it.

So, in my attempt to discover the ISSUES that I keep coming up with, I tried a different approach this time.
I have traded the inner-self discussions with nothing; I switched from contemplating to just chilling; Overthinking to Just Letting Go.

And so today, on my first day of this really long journey, I wasted spent the entire day in Pajamas, watching Narnia with Coco and ate melted marshmallows over Koko Crunch.

Since Cuzn T is here for the long weekend, we also spent the day doing art projects - mixing water color paintings with cut-outs and drawings and lining them up against the garden wall just for the heck of it.

We ate overcooked milk pancakes and boiled sab-a, overly sour adobo, and of course, Jollibee Chicken Joy.

AND we re-discovered the art of palanay; It is freedom from all the stress, the self-imposed pressure and the never-ending must-do's;

It's being free from the worldly wants that keep multiplying exponentially; the timelines that we diligently follow, and frankly, it's also being temporarily free from the rat race we call a lot of things.

As the sun sinks at the horizon, I finally understood the main reason why the nation takes time to celebrate Independence Day and charter days - it's to give us overworked (lolz), underpaid (yes) laborers our much needed day-off :D

To collect ourselves that have seemingly spread thin trying to make ends meet

And maybe, in this short of a holiday, earn back a piece of that sanity we hold on to most dear too!