This break has also given me the chance to move in to the studio apartment I’ll be sharing with Luz. I start living there next week. We shopped for the things we needed last Monday. And it was like a mall walkathon. I met her around ten in the morning and we finished just when the malls are closing twelve hours later. The only times we got the chance to sit down was when we had breakfast, lunch, and dinner and the couple of minutes when we were in the cab and FX. No kidding. Imagine a calf muscle workout taken to the extreme. You’d think that we’d both be really worn out from all that, but it was fun because we had the chance to catch up. Besides, we both like walking. Although, after that much hours of walking, you’d think we’d reach a summit somewhere and not just the end of a taxi line.
Hunting for a suitable single bed took up a lot of our time. We hopped from mall to mall, store to store looking for an affordable and decent bed. Did any of you know that single beds can cost as much as P14,000? It’s as if the bed can transform to something else during the night. The weirdest incident during this whole bed quest was when one furniture clerk eyed us disbelievingly when he told us that they do not sell single sized beds. It’s as if he was wondering what’s wrong with us still looking for single beds when everyone else our age were already looking for queen or king sized ones, and - gasp! - maybe even cribs.
Anyway, I settled for a single bed frame made of black metal and dark wood. I can’t wait to move in so I could use it and of course, to spare myself from hours at the FX queue and in traffic. I still get to go home every weekends, so it’d be cool. Not-so-total independence. Somewhat pathetic, but at least not so overwhelming.
This week also gives me the chance to hang out with my siblings. We go shopping, watch DVD’s until the wee hours of the morning, make home-made pizza, and eat midnight snacks. Mama complains she doesn’t get the TV series we always watch, but then she starts playing Free Cell or Text Twist in the computer and promptly forgets about us. We don’t have household help right now so we take turns washing dishes, folding laundry, feed the askals.
It’s nice being home. I miss being with my family and seeing them without rushing off to work or without being too tired from work.
This whole bumming around thing will end soon so I’m making the most out of it by solving kakuro puzzles, tying my hair in pigtails and braiding them, and of course, boring you with my blog updates.
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