dolls

i usually stay late at the office but today i was rushing our supplier to go home, telling him, "birthday ng pamangkin kong manika."

he tries to correct me with "manika ng pamangkin."

but i reiterate it really is, "pamangkin na manika."

i explain to him that my sister has two dolls whom she considers our kin. these are trixie and noel, names derived from the names of my real, human niece and nephew.

today is the first anniversary of their arrival at my parents' house and today is the day my sister considers as their first birthday. (this sister is a regular, normal, sane person. she's so sane she actually edits publications of their office.)

last night, she was egging me to buy a gift for the dolls. i go, i'm going to bring home food for their birthday but not a gift-gift. i said i couldn't imagine myself buying stuff for the dolls themselves. at least food, it will be eaten by real persons.

i don't know what it is about these dolls that drives our normally sensible family to do seemingly crazy stuff.

my sister, who does not wash a single piece of her own clothing, takes the time and exerts the effort to wash the dolls' clothes : }

last year, my other sister bought them gifts for christmas.

then my mom and my aunt, with no special occasion whatsoever, bothered to check out clothes for them one time they went shopping. so there they were, looking at kiddie clothes, making comments that this one's somewhat big, this one loose, etc. when the vendor tells them, "it's ok... kids grow fast anyway."

they chuckle and tell her, "they're not going to grow -> they're dolls."

: }

ooops

my sister was giving my nephew a shirt.  he wouldn't take it.

she showed it to me.  it had a rice stalk design. i said, "i like that."

she smiles, then flips it, displaying a "Pangulong Gloria" printed on the back.  huh??? pass.

my nephew goes, "i don't like gloria."

hmmm... so young and yet politically aware.

then he adds.  "i like noli."

ooops...

unafraid

i show my niece the ghost at raffles place CCTV clip and she shivered.  i did, too, the first time i saw it and again this time.

my nephew arrives and we both show it to him, too.  unlike us girls, he reacts to the supposedly scary part with an oh-so-cool, "kampanerang kuba??  hindi naman nakakatakot."  ->  'hunchback bell ringer??  not scary.'

years back, my dad thought of scaring off the neighborhood kids who liked to roam around by telling them there's a really, really big dog in the area.  instead of backing off, the kids got excited saying, 'c'mon, c'mon, let's go check the dog...'

these kids are brave... : }

sexy

this morning, i attended our usual monday flag ceremony and, whoa!!!  the presentation was far from usual!  there were three young ladies in skin tight pants doing a fire dance.  as in, one of them was swirling a string on each hand with balls of fire at the end.  so daring!  and sexy.  i love sexy!!!

don't get me wrong.  i am all-woman, all-girlie, all-feminine but i really, really appreciate a good female shape.  i don't like the skinny types.  i like the fleshy ones with curves.

now it's not just the torso i admire.  i also like the lower limbs.  i have an officemate with really good legs.  one time, i saw her going up the stairs.  instead of turning right to my office, i turned right up the stairs, and followed her up, so happy just looking at her legs  :)

another time at the house, i was taken aback when my husband came rushing to the dirty kitchen, calling me to the living room, because some voluptuous celebrity was dancing on tv in some skimpy outfit.  he knew i'd like that, ha-ha-ha

the deed amused me, but touched me so as well.  i was thinking, some other guy would have remained glued to the tv to savor the sight, this one remembered me and bothered to fetch me so i too could watch the show.

well, yes... "there were moments of gold and there were flashes of light"...

the right thing at the right time

an aunt who came back from a US vacation gave me a wallet this evening.  whoa!  just what i needed... and wanted.

my wallet got soiled by foodstuff sometime back.  i cleaned it with alcohol.  instead of getting back to its previous condition, it turned yucky and tacky : }

i've been looking around for a replacement for the longest time, but i haven't found one to my liking.  my requirements are simple (or are they?):

-  it has to have not just a bill but also a coin holder

-  it has to be a regular foldable wallet, not the clutch-type the width of a bill.

-  it has to have a holder for my ATM, credit and rewards cards

-  it has to be plain.  no logos or prints whatsoever.

-  it has to be brownish or shades thereof.  not black, not red, not some other color.

the wallet my aunt gave me met all of the above and more.  it hit my taste-target bullseye.  i am so happy and so thankful  : )

a couple of months back, i was supposed to buy rubber shoes for our province's annual mountain climb.  just before the weekend i was scheduled to go shopping, a friend of my mom's who also came from a US vacation brought back for me, guess what?  rubber shoes!  with matching socks to boot.  just a few days later and i would have bought a pair already!  then i would have two pairs.  i don't really need more than one as i wear sneakers only once a year, only during the annual mountain climb.

time and time again things of this sort have happened to me.  they reaffirm what i've realized long ago:

-  when God takes time in giving you something, it's because He's preparing something better than what you want or expect

- God is neither early nor late.  He is always just in time.

so reassuring... : )