I had to cook all the food I had been harboring in my fridge within the next 10 days so when I defrost it, I won’t have to worry about which food items I must keep in a cooler while being transported. One of the best ways to empty your fridge is cooking hotpot.
And yes, my dining table looks different now. I planed it manually to remove the bumps. I just bought a manual planer from Ace Hardware and did it as I remembered how my father did wood planing. Then I applied “oak” wallpaper that I bought from Lazada.
I also bought a surface protector from Lazada since my dining table gets a lot of use and abuse. It now matches my cabinets.
So after lunch, my girls and I went to a craft store/hobby center in Marikina where they sell high-quality yarns of all kinds.
They bought yarns that Twin I will use to knit and Twin A to crochet to make scarves and beanies for my older sister. She travels to more temperate zones than I do. This will occupy my kids for four months since 7th Grade in their new school won’t start until August.
Marikina is nice in some parts, not the downtown though, which has super narrow roads—a characteristic of old towns.
After this, we went straight to Ikea to buy new cutlery, dinner and kitchenware, Trones shoe cabinet (to be drilled outside my front door), a glass side table, and art/photo frames. I will bring all these to our tiny house on Tuesday where I will work the whole day.
I plan to bring books and other small items. I must also buy a huge bottle of liquid floor polisher and wood furniture polisher (for my bedroom floor) because I had hired my mom’s cleaner to prep my place before we move in on the 16th.
I had put some paintings in frames that I will give away to my TV reporter friend who really liked the flowers and the sunset in UP Diliman. A housewarming gift since they have just renovated their condo. I have the original photo of the sunset so recreating the painting won’t be a problem.
This last one is tough. My mom didn’t like it but my manager did. She was torn between this and the forest painting but in the end she took the latter. My APAC boss got the freehand yellow flowers.
Tomorrow I must finish the curtains for the girls’ bedroom because I plan to have the curtains up when we move in.