all alone in the office, i decided to listen to carly rae's "call me maybe" (and had in on loop, lol). yeah, i guess those pretty girls (i only recognize dyosa anne curtis there, lol) who lip-synched this song had me singing and setting my ring tone to this tune. :))
anyway. white cutting away the office stuff i just had out of the printer, i grew a bit hungry... so i took out my week-long 'baon' - longa (haha!! kato bitaw biskwit nga naay lunga oi..). there i was, munching and cutting away, when thoughts of my dear husband start clouding my head.. (char!)
kidding aside, right before i left my cutting papers and crunchy longa, i felt SUPER DUPER LUCKY to have mcloy as my husband... see, the memories that came to me were the time when we are at our lowest of low (to date). it was when we were sent here in libungan to start working, and as you know, government employees would have to wait (a long time, it seems) before could be compensated for services rendered - and by that, i mean we would have to wait for our appointment to be received by the office we are working at before we could receive any salary. so, if you think about it, it wasn't that bad, in our case, about five to six months of waiting. and truthfully, it would have been okay, we had a "financer" (my mom, lol) at that time, so we just wait for our allowance, and get by each day.
but things were a little more complicated, at that time, i gave birth though C-section, so that alone meant a lot of moola... not to mention the baby's needs - milk, diaper, etc; and of course, mine, too - vitamins, supplements, etc. i have mentioned that we were still not receiving out salary during this time, so we could not afford to have a yaya just yet... and as i just had a C-section, i just can't move around like nothing happened. and my mom has limitations, too. she can't possibly support my 4 siblings and my family (with a newborn at that).
i can't possibly enumerate the things that we've been through... haha!! but i thank the Lord for sending mcloy my way and i that mcloy for accepting my marriage proposal (hahaha!!!). it's not everyday that you would find someone who would get coonut from the tree and opening it (even if he doesn't know how to, but tried anyway), and helping you make bukayo out of it. you wouldn't just come accross someone who would eat your home-cooked bukayo, and have it AS breakfast, luch and dinner because you don't have money to buy rice and ulam... :)) you would as lucky as me if you could marry someone who would pick the banana heart and learn to slice it into little pieces with you (pathetic, i know), and make bola-bola out of it, and is so game to eat the same bola-bola over and over until all the banana hearts in your area has been cut and cooked (by you) already. you would also thank the Lord if come accross someone who would wake up at 3am with you, slice and dice vegetables with you, cook and wrap the vegetables, and fry them to make lumpia with you, and then go to the office and sell the lumpia both of you made just to have money for the next day... :))
i know it seems so shallow and everything, but for someone who isn't accustomed to these things, they are a big deal... and to have someone with you, experiencing the same thing, but not giving up on you - that's priceless. for everything else, there's mastercard. (haha!)
luv u, lab!! :))
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