GOODBYE, NOVEMBER

This last week has been unbelievably frenzied for me because all the tasks that I kept shoving into the back burner had caught up on me and forced me to move really quick. As always, trust me to put off everything I don’t like to do until the very end. Thank God, it’s over! Here’s what made my last week of November very hectic.

But here are what made it interesting too:

1. Eight more books of the OT that my team has translated were published in Kalanguya (although I have yet to see the new books.)
2. My very good friend D (known to most of you as Layad or Fongakhan) spent a week and a day with B and me. We had a good time catching up on our gossip J but most specially, she helped me finish my academic work so that I was able to turn them in on time.
3. My nephew turned 8 and we invited him over to dinner. We had his favorite spaghetti and ice cream (though super lamig na sa Vizcaya) and D made a yummy dessert out of Graham biscuits, fruit cocktail, cream and milk.
4. Early Sunday morning (2-4AM), D and I walked to town to wait for the Cable Tours—a bus that travels from Manila to Bontoc. Both of us are nearsighted, and so the bus has to be at a certain distance before we can read its sign. Anyway, many Victorys, Baliwags and Floridas came and gone but Cable tours is nowhere in sight. So we just kept talking and waiting. D was telling some stories and I was listening to her while keeping vigilant for the bus. D’s story was towards the most interesting part and then a bus came. When it’s approximately 15 ft or so away from me, I read the name of the bus “Cable, Bontoc.” When I heard my voice, only then did it register that it’s the one we’ve been waiting for. But I waved it down too late that it just rolled pass us. We went back to the house again. I slept until late morning that B almost had to pour water on me to wake me up. I was late in church. That night, D and I waited for 2AM again, and went out to wait for that darn bus. Same thing happened. That was Ok with me cuz D and I can spend more time talking but probably not with D’s mom. Ngayon nga lang naman nakauwi ang anak eh sa kaibigan pa magtatagal! J On Monday morning, I went to sleep at 6AM, and was still in dreamland when D left at around 8. What a visit, sis! Sorry for not saying goodbye! J
5. I played volleyball after months (maybe a year) of not subjecting myself to any active exercise. Three days later, I still felt like I fought Wesley Snipes… so maybe it’s time to do some strength training again…

With that, I said goodbye to November, the shortest month of this year for me.