Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Sept.3, 2013
It is the 3rd day of this brand new month!
My energy level is waning a bit. It is telling me something.
Slow down. Rework how I am doing things. Several days now, I have been
skipping breakfast...still touted to be the most important meal of the day.
This morning, I had my hot coffee in the kitchen with Marina
while she ate her cereals with me by the miniature ref and me by the sink. She
sitting on the coleman ice chest of last Saturday’s activity and me on Ruel’s
handy man work- miniature bench.
It was so calming to feel the warmth of the honey sweetened
drink reach my stomach and made me feel good and cozy.
I felt like being a bit philosophical with her then leading
to being spiritual in my early morning talk. I hope it touched her inner core
as much as my kafe.
Last night while we were about to end our rosary, Dennis
calls on Ruel’s celphone. He is our neighbour on the 2nd floor of
the right wing of this building. We were already in the hail Holy Queen part.
Ruel says, Dennis is inviting us to view a just vacated unit on the 2nd
floor of our wing. Out we went a little later. By the parking area, Edna and Sasha, his wife
and daughter joined us. Up we trooped.
The unit #9 was 2x more spacious than our unit. The previous
tenant was not very careful with cleanliness maybe that is why there were a lot
of small pests that went on a reproduction spree and have ballooned it’s colony
there. Yaykss!
Coming back to our unit, I tell Ruel, I have already
embraced our small space and just before we started the rosary, I was telling him
for the maybe nth time, of my home transforming projects. I am sure, he could
not help but notice my eagerness and excitement! Not, impatience..but just my
looking forward to it and cant help talking about it trip.
Even the first time, Dennis and Edna invited us upstairs to
their wing to check out a neighbor’s
unit who was planning to vacate, and I
saw how spacious their units were, I still went back to my initial nesting instincts.
I have already invested a lot emotionally to our unit. I have dreamed dreams
about how it will look like in one years time, I have salivated at the wealth
of transforming options with it...I cannot just discard them in a whims notice.
Besides, QRS 400 is like what P4,000 a month. In 10 months,
that is P40,000!!!
Maybe to some people reading this, it is like, What? Get the
bigger space! Move out. Move in, now!
No!
I am for downsizing.
I am for paring down to essentials.
Yes, I am for, living below our means. Not within. But,
below it.
Perhaps, by now, I told Ruel, in one of our conversations
about prioritizing projects here, you
should know by now, I am not living by Madonna’s song of being a materialistic
girl.
When we were planning our wedding 12 years ago, I asked him, how much is
your budget? I said, ok, I will work on half.
And so, we did.
2 years ago, Ruel
said, electronics here are so cheap.
Would you want me to bring you home a 32” flat screen tv for Christmas? I said,
no. Give it to someone else.
Last year, he said, shall I buy you a gadget that plays more
than 6000 karaoke songs, I said, no again, give it to someone else.
Now, again, today, as he comes home, he says, let us call Vinnod. Let us try to haggle a better price
than the asking for the unit. I said, am
ok here. Besides, that unit has 2 very
small windows looking into a small space of concrete designed to add
ventilation to the units. Not for scenery or anything. You see nothing at all.
I like our unit. My window by the foyer gives me the view of
the sky, the date tree tops, birds that come to perch on the grills, and a cat
crawling from the nearby spout now and then to catch me by surprise at what is
moving within my vision, as I squint and
stare into cyberspace as I type my blog and am caught in a moment of pause.
I am ok here.
I have embraced this small yet sacred space and will make
the best of it for the time being
because I am trying to practice time tested principles that less is more, more
than less of the time.
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