It's Monday morning. And I'm home, surfing the net, uploading pictures, updating my dormant blog, reading Smoke and Mirrors of Neil Gaiman while my ailing computer tries to catch up with every mouseclick, alt+tab, and other keystroke.
I am on leave from work. For one week. One whole week. No work. No coding. No program comments. No technical investigations. No Eclipse, no Oracle, no EDC, not even Jabber. Ok, maybe I'll miss Jabber. Or specifically, the people whom I jab with. I've gotten used to greeting everyone good morning in Jabber.
The plan is to just break the monotony. Of course, that was not the official reason in my leave application. But I'm sure my team leads (Yes, that is supposed to be plural) would understand, even if I stated it that way. I've been working for over two years with no real vacation yet. I have no particular plans to travel this week. Besides, I feel it wouldn't really be fun without my travel buddies. And travel usually requires another vacation for rest. Me, I'm just going to stay at home. Catch up on my reading, my writing, my movie-watching. Catch my breath. Catch up with myself.
I was up at 5.30 this morning. But unlike other mornings, I was not in a hurry. Took a bath, read a couple of pages from one of the books I brought home. My Mama and I took a leisurely walk. We were in the quest of the best pancit palabok within a two-subdivision radius. We found it in a carinderia-slash-garage of Aling Fe. Best of all, only ten pesos! What a deal! :)
Walking back home, we passed by a roadside vegetable stand. While my Mama puttered around the cabbages, tomatoes, and what-have-you, I took pictures of the veggies. These are the same pictures I uploaded as an album in Multiply. I ended up lugging almost five kilos worth of vegetation. I just wanted fresh air, I got more than I bargained for - arm workout.
There's so much things I want to do this week. Meet up with old friends. Go finally see my dentist. Watch sunrises and sunsets. Take long walks by myself. Dusks. I don't know. It feels like I have this week to like my life and myself again. Reassure myself that I'm ok.
I'm thinking of it as a reboot. And I've just hit Ctrl+Alt+Del. (Aargh, I guess my vocabulary hasn't caught up with the whole concept yet.)
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