I love moments like this. Everything is still in my own little world.

I’m at peace.

With all the news about horrific road accidents the past few days, I feel like God is looking out for me.

I heard the squeaking noise whenever I stepped on the brakes and that got me worried. When I bought the fridge last Saturday, I heard and felt the tugging on my rear wheels whenever I released the brake pedal. I told myself I shouldn’t be driving my car anymore.

Monday was hectic because I was the only editor alive and everyone else was off because of Golden Week/Labor Day weekend off. Today was more relaxed so I finally was able to bring it to my go-to autoshop.

There you go, the rear brake shoe spring broke and it was scraping the brake drum. I have to have the brake drum replaced as well. The mechanic told me I can still drive my car since the front brake shoe spring, which is bigger, is still ok. They tested it and it worked fine so I can still go home.

I immediately ordered a set of brake shoe springs online and let the autoshop order the brake drum. I will have them installed on Saturday before I leave for the airport on the dawn of Sunday.

I won’t tempt fate. I’ll borrow my sister’s car for my coverage on Thursday.

Ah well, that’s all part of keeping a 20-year-old car with over 200,000 km on it.

Why am I not replacing it yet? Because I’m still hung up on having a solar power system on my rooftop. Still weighing my options.

I’m tired of ordering takeout. The other night we had pizza from Domino’s and I was so unhappy with it. I needed to eat real food.

Since I knew my new refrigerator would arrive this afternoon, I bought some greens that would last us until tomorrow. Then I will do a big grocery shopping tomorrow evening after work… If I finish early. 🥴

Last Friday I followed up my requests for meetings with people in Singapore and booked my hotel and plane ticket. Because I was so exhausted, I didn’t realize I typed my maiden name on my ticket instead of my legal married name which I haven’t used in 8 years. Now I had to jump through hoops to change it to my legal married name that matches my passport. Philippine Airlines is charging me USD 25 for that. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Good thing I mentioned this to one of my bffs, who was my travel partner to HCMC two weeks ago. She told me the Department of Foreign Affairs is allowing married women to change their passport name to their maiden name even without annulment. 🎉❤️

This is wonderful. However, I have to fix my birth certificate first because of a huge error my father made when he registered me. 🤦🏻‍♀️ This complication sprang up when the National Statistics Office was consolidating and digitizing records to become Philippine Statistics Authority and the agency flagged this to me. Long story short, I need to go to the Manila City Hall to fix this and I need a week off to do this because this entails a lot of back and forth between offices.

I will do this after my Kuala Lumpur trip in June.

I went to the SM Mall in another city and picked my fridge. I can’t last another month or another week without a fridge. But before that, I went ballistic on the local Panasonic service center and the service center hotline in Metro Manila. My patience has runneth over.

I wanted the pastel blue top-freezer model because it was slightly bigger and has a larger fridge-to-freezer ratio compared to this bottom-freezer model. However, they would have to pull it out of their central warehouse so it will take 7 business days before it can be delivered to me.

I can’t wait for another week. I’m so tired having no refrigerator for so long. 😭

The black one was available in their stockroom. There you go.

On the way home, I saw fruit vendors along the road and couldn’t resist the summer fuits.

I’m loving provincial life. Fresh food, fresh air, and more space to move around. ❤️

While I was on my way to Manila yesterday, I saw that our mountain has become colorful. Trees are blooming! In a few days, the fire/flame tree will become red and the road along Ayala Greenfield will be so alive. Acacia trees will also add color and add to our allergic misery.

It was quite hectic as I attended one AGM at Conrad. At the same time, I had to edit one or two stories because reporters are trying to meet the quota before the month ends.

Then we had to rush a story from the event. I was still editing a story while dealing with my boss at almost 10 pm. I left Starbucks in Makati at 10:30 pm when all is said and done.

So today I’m just dead.