"Jingle bells, my foot smells, I haven't washed my hair...stinky armpits, mossy teeth but I don't really care..hey! Jingle bells, jingle bells, smell me if you dare, I've contracted UTI from last night's underwear."
What did I find in my loot bag this year? An Apple keyboard, a speaker set, a hardbound journal, a set of mocha-colored towels and a big fat check, out of which came my new pair of jeans, a teal-colored shirt and a pair of Hush Puppies mock-maryjanes.
Our family get-together at my mom's house went on till 2:30 AM on Christmas day. By that time all the elderly members (me included) were about to pass out from serious need of sleep and the soporific properties of my mother's excellent chicken galantina. Three-year old Kukob, on the other hand, was kept wide awake by the play-dough set I gave him, the dark horse amongst the dozen other gifts he received this year that cost a whole lot more than the P249 I spent, and weren't clumsily wrapped in promotional Christmas wrapping paper from Surf detergent. He ignored pretty much everything else except my play-dough kit, and that puts me way up in the Cool Ninang Index.
Instead of spending Christmas day lounging around the house and having the Noche Buena leftovers for breakfast, lunch and dinner, we piled into my sister-in-law Ana's brother's nifty black Accord and went on a joyride that began in UP, meandered through Morato and finally ended at the Gloria Maris on Wilson Street in a 7-dish pileup of dimsum and Yang Chow rice. Burp. Merry Christmas!!
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So...let me get this right...your cat has monthly bloodwork? How do I get that insurance program? lol..I havent had a checkup in over a year.
ReplyDeleteI take it you were enamored with this particular doctor that your mother called about?
You have 2 years over me for being an old fart/spinster so take it easy on that term...I'm still not finished denying that I'm an adult. And another thing..I wasnt after your knickers, it was the socks. C'mon, it was dark. You need better lighting.
(j/k, i havent been on mainland since Aug)
Hey jd, didn't get to read your comment till today. One loses interest in blogging when still on dial-up access. But alleluia! I'm on dsl at last, courtesy of Bayantel and the extra beans in my paycheck this year.
ReplyDeleteYes, my cat gets regular blood tests to monitor his kidney and his liver, and I pay for it through the nose. He's old and he used to live at my mother's house. He got really sick last year and I took him away to live with me.
Was I enamored with the doctor? Let's put it this way. I had a reaaaaally baaaad crush on the man, and I would have liked to jump his bones if he turned out to be single.
If you haven't been on the mainland since August, where might you be?
The Spratley islands?
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