settling down part deux

Over dinner (again) my sweetie and I ventured into the conversation of settling down and being "boring". We reminisced about the days when everyday was a party day, always out till the wee hours of the morning, partying like there's no tomorrow. We'd be in Makati, at some exclusive party, or just chillin' in Eastwood. Somehow, after hooking up, we've morphed into this boring couple who prefers staying in to partying.

What the **** happened?

So we tried to dissect the whole phenom by tracing the reason why we were at these parties in the first place. Admittedly, our "contacts" were then also single, and living the nightlife; hence, the invitations were rampant.Nowadays they have their own thing, and some of them , after learning about ius hooking up, preferredto give us more tim,e with each otehr. Also, these days, work has increased, if not doubled, that after such a stressful day, all i want to do is have a good meal and curl up in bed. Another culprit was the fact that since Jason and I hooked up, we much rather spend time with each other than with anyone else.

So what happens now? We've become this couple notorious for being "party poopers" (we actually bypassed a thing at Eastwood for dinner), and this has got to stop! :-P We've made tentative plans for tonight to "stop the madness" --- dinner, spa with Melissa then drinks and a night out to town. That'll put an end to this! (insert maniacal laughter here)

As of this time, i am still racking my brains to do something that involves more people. Hopefully the spa thing later will rejuvenate me and give me some ideas...

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Adaw sang Kalag

It's been an interesting All Souls' for me this year. This being my first to celebrate Lolo's passing on, almost everybody from my mom's side of the family came home. My lola was beautiful as ever, my titas and titos boisterous as always, and my cousins, well, they keep multipying. As of this time i think i have more than 35 cousins from my mom's side of the family (we have some party every christmas, i can tell you that!)

I sympathize with my lola. I'm missing Lolo Kiddy so badly sometimes that i feel like crying everytime i see something that makes me remember him. My lola had several incidents like this since she came back from the US --- one time she saw my dad coming over and thought it was lolo Kiddy (yep, my dad is balding) and started crying when she found out later that it wasn't him. *sniff* Seeing his picture makes me cry sometimes...

I miss you Lolo.

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Since i brought Jason along, we had to do the customary thing --- get to know the family (immediate) and the "family" (extended). My folks and bros were cool about it, warmly welcoming him. Unfortunately, when it came to the night of All Souls (when he gets to meet the extended peeps) he got sick and had to stay home. Poor baby! As much as i enjoyed my night with my cousins and family, i felt bad he had to stay home and miss all that. After all, he met some of my cousins earlier and they were pretty happy to meet him.

It was interesting how curious my extended family got about him. My other cousin, who also brought her new bf along, got to be picked on all night (something that i was kinda dreading should i bring Jason along). So it eventually came down to the talk of who's dating who and all that jazz as the night progressed. It's weird, how this was taking place. As much as i wanted everybody to meet him (of course, the proud girlfriend, hahah) I was dreading the whole "interrogation" process my uncles seem to have a kick out of. I'm just glad my dad and mom were so nice to him. :-)

I'm sure if my lolo was still around he'd like him.

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