July Tweets

Just random  tweets of how life has been down under.

* 10 days after house inspection, we received notice that our rent is now up to 20S/week.  Me thinks  it is about time to really consider saving up for a place of our own. <pressuring myself crazy once again and the cycle never ends. teehee>

* oh, happy news… a. Former LandLady JD now in Cebu for 3 months vacay.  i’m envious!   b. Its official, MaiMai S is now a nurse.  getting Closer closer closer to all that she wishes for.  i’m enviouser! c. The Wong boys featured in Y101’s roommates and Cebu Daily News. (i’m doing the salsa for them!)  totally enviousest.

* Insoy will start to sit NCEA exams for Math in November.  We have started the tutorials 2 nights ago and it was bloody hell. In a perfect world, Insoy would not fear Math and I would have the patience of a saint. (saving the rants for november, that is if i have been saved from a heart attack)

*Software Testing project on the go. I need a lot of practice to learn this skill. I am a softie when it comes to breaking code. Killing me softly. arghh.

*Secret project under way. Crossing fingers and toes and knees that this earns us a trip to Cebu. Please Lord! I will go easier on Insoy. *gulp*

* Black, brown and dark violet ponchos. What was the hub thinking? Can you please pretty please do another Salvation Army slash Red Cross slash Hospice rummage for merino turtle necks in red, yellow and mint green ? I need colors too. *wink*

* The youngest one insists that basketball shoes are different from walking shoes are different from everyday shoes are different from soccer shoes… Puhlease! Why can’t they just invent one shoe for all sports and why does he have to join so many clubs? He would rather walk barefoot under the rain than get his basketball shoes wet. Someone please take me out of this shoe obsession curse,  it is cancerous and gets worst down the next generation. I am now strung up on collecting discount cards from shoe shops because 4 months is now the longest time for a pair to be usable around my boys. *scratching kili kili*

*I am liking more Farmtown and Yoville gifts. and overjoyed and singing alleluiah to find Grace, Rose, Fil and Wanchai now on FB. virtual reunion it is.

*I miss Cebu. The yearnings have never stopped. Daddy, Mommy, Micmic…ohkay, Spike our dog too. If I can’t come home soon, please do visit me instead. I just need to smell you. *sniff*

*10 pounds heavier (last time i checked)  and growing… walking some more to take off the extras. pfft! … And thankful. always thankful everyday for tomorrows.

The Day that Was

Yesterday, I took a leave.

Woke up at 7:30 am and didn’t waste time to dismantle the dip pans from the oven and do the cleaning. I had 9 more hours until the owner of our flat comes and says what she needed to say after her inspection.

After the oven, I did the floors, the garden, the rooms, the carpet, the laundry and lastly the toilet and bath. Oh, I dusted the tables and even “exit moulded” all the window seals and top of the kitchen cupboards. I was on a schedule. I was seriously thinking of making a career of it.

After taking a shower, I decided it was time to eat my lunch at 3:30 pm. Talk about uptight. =)

The kids came home. They were careful not to disturb the OC cleanliness of the flat. They tiptoed to their rooms and sat on their beds waiting for Ms Jenny to arrive.

Then the hub came and he took his spot at the living room sofa waiting…

Ms. Jenny arrived on time. She took off her shoes from the kitchen door where she entered and instantly check if the ceiling had moulds. Inspected every inch of the windows. She was single, and reminded me so much of Micmic (my sister).   The way she scrutinized objects. She admired how clean the flat was and that she couldn’t believe she once lived here. She was impressed by the decors that made it looked spacious. (or the lack of it…) She immediately went to the garden to check on her plants and then went to each room and lingered at the bathroom.

It helped that I am a bathroom obsessed person like she was. She said I cleaned it better than she would have done it. Ahem.

Roland was still plastered on the sofa when she told the agent that she was very impressed with how clean the house was and that she expects to see us another year and a year after that. She thanked us for paying the rent on time always and that to let her know if we needed anything fixed. She was very happy, I could tell.

She said she was going to do another inspection in 6 months and the agent will be doing another one in 3 months. I don’t care. I just felt so relieved and gratified.

And so to celebrate, the hub cooked sweet and sour pork for dinner. I had a feast. I overstayed at the dinner table, feeling stuffed and satisfied of the day that was.

Me thinks, my emotions does rub off on the hub and kids because they too were relieved that the day was finally over and my worries have left the front door. Madam Castaneda (my grade 6 english teacher) calls it ‘Cancerous’.

Over Re-acting

The real estate agent handling our rental has advised that the owner wants to meet us on the 21st of July. The letter was sent one month ago and this has kept me worried no end. I have obsessed over this ‘cloud of uncertainty’ looming. The ‘what ifs’ I have been brooding over have been a torture for me these days.

I have nagged the hub to do the curtains and the carpets. He went all out to even change the dining table arrangement.

I have looked at rent signs along our area just in case the owner decides to reclaim her flat. I have looked into current interest rates (wishing I would win the Lotto first) in case she wants to sell the flat to us.

The reality that we can’t afford anything is making me flip out even more.

We live in a small flat in a very quite neighborhood. The children walks to school. I love that the garden allows the kids to run around. Obviously I don’t want to move. Not yet. We are not ready for it.

One week to go and I can’t wait to find out what the purpose of the meeting is all about. The agent doesn’t have a clue either.

So what do I do? I blog hop, revise our Software Testing case study presentation every night by adding new slides (I can hear my team mates go ‘What the f..k?’), FaceBook-tasking, even checked out awesome pieces of art from http://beadsypieces.multiply.com/

This crazy busy-ness is feeding the torment I have inflicted upon myself.

I need all the diversion I could get before I get crushed to find out there was really nothing to be worried about. It will validate a lot of things I already know about me. Yes, I am OA, dugay ra.