Thinking Out Loud

I bought a new diary again. Hehe! I just felt like buying and this one caught my attention. The cover is soft and the pages inside look great! Paper’s thick and I can already see myself writing down stuff in it.

Or I just might keep this for a while and not write anything in it yet.

I am craving for ice cream right now! I want some Pistacchio with Walnuts or even a plain Vanilla Ice Cream with Caramel or Hot Fudge will do!

There are days when I suddenly crave for something sweet and cold. I am normally not a sweet and cold person. I seldom eat sweets as I get sore throats after. It’s the same with cold treats. But there are days when the craving gets too much so I succumb to it.

I have so many notebooks, journals and what-nots here in my space at home that my dad is threatening to throw it away already! I am creating a mess according to him and well, he doesn’t like it. Hehehe! Too bad for my dad I am a compulsive buyer when it comes to stuff that I really like. And that includes the notebooks and journals and papers and what-nots that he’s threatening to throw out!

Ha-ha-ha!

I hope to have a relaxing Sunday. I hope you will have one, too.

Happy Sunday everyone!

My cousin Bea wanted to get away from all the pressures at work. She decided that she wants some time alone so she went on a well-known resort even if there’s a typhoon in the country. She stayed there for seven days. When she came home, we can all see the happiness etched all over her. We thought that she managed to purge all the stress in her body. What we learned shocked us all… she’s totally, head-over-heels in love with a guy she just met!

He is the owner of the resort. Since Bea was the only guest, he personally welcomed her to the resort and attended to her needs even if there are resort personnel 24/7. He was from the city but he also went to the resort to relax. They spent countless hours together just talking and laughing and being carefree!

We were warning her that she just got carried away what with the two of them almost alone in the resort. But Bea just smiles. We really don’t have the heart to tell her to stop. You can see such wild abandon in her every move and she’s happy!

I think we all need that kind of happiness in our lives.

I actually envy her. I think I’m going to a resort the next time there’s a typhoon in the country! ;P

I don’t know with you but the friends that I got from high school are the ones I am the best of friends with until now. I have both boys and girls as friends and even though there are lulls in our communication, when we see each other again, it’s like we just talked yesterday! There are so many things to talk about and so many people we all know. They are also the ones who know me personally, even my family.

It took us a while to determine which of us are going to be the closest. There were so many of us in a group back in high school. But now, since some are already living with their own families abroad, four of us became really close. We regularly meet each other over lunch, dinner and coffee. We go to the mall and stroll around. We even went on an out of town trip once and stayed overnight in a hotel for a send off party to one of us.

I miss them so much when I don’t see them in two to three weeks. I am happy to tell you that we are going to see each other tomorrow night for dinner and coffee.

Can’t wait!

I plan to take things easy this weekend. I’ve been working almost every weekend since the year started and although I must admit that there were weekends spent tinkering online, I was still sitting in front of the computer rather than on a chaise lounge sipping a cold drink!

This weekend, that’s what I plan to do. Take things slow. Relax. Breathe. Stop working and focus on recharging for the next work week ahead.

This guy in my Facebook friends list keeps calling me by a different name. Instead of being annoyed with it, I kinda wait for it to happen again and again. I like it! It actually thrills me whenever he does that. It makes me want to start skipping and giggling!

I kept telling one of my friends that how come I didn’t notice him before?! Now that he’s thousand miles away…

I didn’t even notice how sensitive or good looking he is. How come it took me this long to notice?!?

Gaahhh

I am arranging old photographs. I will buy new albums, mini ones actually, where I will put the old photos in. I planned something like this last year but was unable to do so due to the amount of work I have. Now that I have some free time in my hands, might as well carry on with the plan and be done with it.

Everywhere I go I bring my journal with me. It’s not like I have a mega dramatic thing to write down on it. I just like having it with me wherever I go. It’s my security blanket, I guess. And a way for me to jot down ideas that come to mind out of nowhere. I get that a lot actually.

Where some persons bring a notepad with them or a piece of paper, I bring my small journal with me.

I’ve gone freelance since 2006, if I am not mistaken. My dad was totally against it. Mine was, and still is, the biggest income in the family. I was, still is, sending a sibling to school. If I suddenly quit the corporate world, we might find ourselves facing a drought of some kind.

But I took the risk. For the first time in my life, I listened to my gut. It was time to quit the corporate world, even temporarily. I did and I believe I can now say that it paid off!

I’ve gone freelance and I found happiness and joy in my work. Finally, I’ve found the perfect balance in my day and night. I am actually a nocturnal person. Just imagine what happened to me when I was forced to go to work at 8 in the morning… chaos in my system! I was almost always late for work. Normal sleep time for me is between 3 and 4 in the morning. If I wanted to go to work on time, I had to wake up around half past 5. Since I couldn’t, I was tardy all the time! Since I’ve gone freelance, my work schedule is always in between those hours I am more efficient and effective. No more working forcibly on hours I would rather use in sleep.

Listen to your gut. That’s what I will advise you if you are planning to follow my lead. Listen to your gut and talk your plans through with your family. It’s for the best.

I admit I am weird. I admit as much. What can I say? I’ve been like this since I was a little kid. I have a thing for a lot of stuff. Keyboard sounds, coffee mugs, certain positions of things on my desk, the angle of my chair and desk, the grainy feel of dust, and a whole lot more!

Plus, did I tell you that for some reason I can write better on a Notepad? Yup, the Notepad which is a basic tool included in an Office software.

So here I am writing this post in a Notepad and have I mentioned already that I was able to write a very lost essay about my brother using this tool?