Long Weekend

Today we are celebrating All Saints’ Day, and since it is also a Monday this gave way for us to have a three-straight day off. To a person who’s trying to keep herself busy (I think I am referring to myself, hehehe), doing nothing and just letting the time pass is such a boring thing.

I am too lazy to go out and drive. I’m not in the mood to read. I can’t even find a nice TV program to watch. I’m not in my element to talk to people, chat with them or text them. So what am I going to do?

I babysit my niece Joy-Joy, oh man she’s so likot! She likes to walk but she can’t do that unless you hold her two hands. Imagine chasing her with my spinal cord bent while balancing my walk for she directs the motion. I like it when a baby sleeps while I cuddle her. But not with Joy-Joy, she can’t sleep unless she’s in her crib. I sang all the nursery songs I know, but still she won’t sleep while I’m holding her. One time we played without me needing to “exercise”. What I mean is, she’s playing while she sits on my lap. She’s playing peek-a-boo with her cousin, Ryan. She’ s so cute when she does that thing, covering her eyes with her palms and then smiling as she takes off her hands. This morning while we were watching TV (which was also the time that I was forcing her to sleep through my lullaby songs), she saw this commercial with a kid telling story about his dad. I find it so amusing when Joy-joy said “Papa” when she saw the same vehicle as her dad’s. She can understand the commercial! Joy-joy is just one year old. The simplicity of her mind and the naivety of her understanding made me smile.

I can’t babysit for one hour, so I have many idle times. Good thing a friend lent a DVD of The Book of Eli movie. I’ve watched it and since the copy is pirated, I still watched it in black and white! Haha, talking about boredom. The plot was simple yet the lesson was profound. Admittedly, I didn’t even know that there was a movie such as that.

And since the movie is just less than a two-hour show, I was back to nothing. And then I opened my laptop, and guess what? I did some work! Whew! Well, that “some” word was exaggerated, hehe. I just opened my business mails and replied to some. I’m just careful not to do a lot for as to still keep some for tomorrow’s work. Haha!

Finally, to keep the time running, I decided to create a blog. And that’s it. Now I will look for some things to do and hopefully have some productivity out of my long vacation.