The Road to 40 Day 74/365: Office visit Tuesday

Another rainy day on this day, but at least we got to leave the house for a bit and visit Che’s office.

Vino uncharacteristically woke up at around 7am despite sleeping around 12 midnight the night before. He tried to sleep more, but he was wide awake already and just got up.

I got up to cook breakfast, some corned beef and eggs. Che and I have been trying to order Jollibee breakfast meals for the past couple of days, but for some reason, it’s always unavailable.

If she did get to order, she wanted the corned beef. So I did the next best thing by cooking it at home.

We could have accomplished a lot of things after we woke up this early, but with the rain and all, we just lounged at home while Che went to work. I wanted to do something at least, since we decided to lock ourselves in the day before.

I was making plans to drive to Ortigas, but Che asked if we could have lunch together. Of course, I scrapped that Ortigas plan to make sure Che eats lunch. Otherwise, she’d just go on to work instead of finding something to eat.

We visited the “fortress” that was Six/Neo. Registering to go upstairs proved to be more difficult than asking my parents’ permission to go out as a teenager.

As it was lunchtime, theere was practically no one in the office. We had a quick catchup while having lunch, and Vino being his kolokoy self.

We’ve visited Che’s workplaces before, which I think is a good chance for Vino to see his mom in action not just at home, and to see that it’s not only us who see how amazing she is. On the flipside, I want her officemates to see how healthy and happy we are to remind them that she has a life beyond the incredible things that she does.

After leaving the office, Vino and I wanted to visit The Mind Museum, so we walked over to it. Unfortunately, it was closed. No reason given or notice posted, it’s just closed. I thought it would have been nice since there wasn’t that much of a crowd, but maybe it’s the same reason why they decided not to open.

I thought of pushing through with the Ortigas plan but figured we could just watch a movie at the nearby mall.

Smurfs was on deck, and we had just enough time to make the 2:15pm screening. We got popcorn for Vino and a Jamaican patty for me and off we went.

We got in super early, so no one was there yet. There weren’t a lot of spaces left in the middle part so we settled for two seats on the side.

Don’t get me wrong, the movie had its funny moments. Vino was laughing a lot and kept looking at me for reactions. However, the tito in me had to get his sleep. I was in and out of the movie, with Vino asking me to wake up a few times.

After we got through the movie, we went to the supermarket for some ingredients. Between tinola and sinigang, I got a unanimous tinola vote.

As I was prepping the dish, Vino was playing on his tablet. At some point, the music from his tablet was steady, and he wasn’t doing his streamer reactions. When I looked, he was knocked out sleeping. I guess waking up early caught up with him.

Che and I had dinner and let Vino sleep in. We watched the Korean drama S-Line just to keep up with the times. It has six episodes and we were able to watch the first three.

Vino was still sleeping soundly at 9pm, but we had to wake him up otherwise he’d wake up at midnight looking for food.

Che slept a bit early, while I waited for Vino to either crash by himself of be told to sleep already.

It’s a privilege to be looking for something to do while most of the city is flooded, but honestly, I only worry about things that I can control. I understand what’s happening, but I can’t pretend I’m not doing what I’m doing just because it’s “insensitive” for people who are not in a good place right now.

We can’t always be in a good place. I can’t write based on where people are in their lives, because this is practically my online diary for the year.

I don’t flaunt my privilege, I am just sharing my story. I hope you understand that I can’t be looking out the window feeling sad for everyone or brave floods looking for people to help. I can’t be a hero, but I can be a dad and a husband, which I am doing now.

If you’re here and you reached this part, then I guess you’re not offended yet. Thank you for having interest in little glimpses of our lives. I hope we get to talk soon so I can listen to your stories as well.

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