neither your place nor mine

guy calls and wants to visit me at the house this weekend...

no way...  no guys allowed at my place...

why???

because.  period.

i'll help you with your laundry...

no need.

hmmm...

he then invites me to his place instead.  (he lives alone.)

huh?!  i wouldn't let you go to my place, why would i go to yours?

i just want to show you the place.

eh?!  no, thanks...  i don't go to guys' houses unless it's their birthday.  AND there's a party AND there are many people around.

not quite the same

my sister will be renting out her place.  she's had it for more than ten years and she's barely even occupied it.  stuff and fixtures just deteriorate and go out of order because of disuse.

well, this morning she had a caller.  my sister was telling her she couldn't show her the place because she's going there next weekend yet.  guess what, the prospective tenant wanted to reserve the place, offering even a one-year contract, without even seeing the interior.

my sister was telling her to check out the house first.

the caller was saying she has seen the gate and the facade and she's already fine with it.

they were going back and forth trying to convince each other on the phone and, being the owner, my sister won out.

that is the right outcome, i would say.  i am not at all convinced of the caller's stand.

not necessarily about the house but about life in general, you don't make certain judgments and decisions without checking out certain things.  just because you like something from the outside does not mean you'll like it from the inside as well.  things are different from the outside looking in...

good and bad

it's a saturday and i'm not doing laundry.  i didn't go home to my place last night (i slept over at my parents' place) thinking the party i'll be attending is today.  ' turns out it's tomorrow.  now i have a whole day to relax...

sometimes a mistake has its rewards... : )

it has its payback, too, though...  next week i'll be tackling twice my normal laundry... : }

finding me, yo ; )

guy says he's been moving around market! market! (my haunt, haha) wishing to bump into me again...

oh...  there is a method to this thing...  just check out facebook / foursquare to find out where i am...  i post a lot, you see...  not always though... and sometimes i check in when i'm already about to leave the place...

hmmm...  you have to be either quick or lucky...  ; )

technology detox

i forgot my phones yesterday...

i went to estrel's and i wasn't able to check in at foursquare...

there was a considerate driver and i wasn't able to do a facebook status update...

i wasn't able to read my texts right away...

i wasn't able to make unlimited same-network calls...

i survived though...  but was ridiculously happy when i finally got hold of my phones again...

i made a comment in facebook that 'maybe we should go on tech detox every once in a while... ; )'

guess what, someone replied challenging me to a week-long cell detox...

ooops...  i wimped out...  : }

day-long tech detox, ok...  deliberate week-long one, uhm, i'll reserve that for when i unintentionally leave my phones that long...  ; )