“Why, Mommy, why,” my daughter Twin I asked. Why do you keep on writing? Why do you keep on blogging when no one reads it anyway? Why do you keep on writing on your notebooks? Why?

Because it’s all I know how to do. I’m writing a book about nothing. But believe me, my dear child, when I’m already gone, you will come back to all these things that I wrote because you will miss me. You will hear my voice from these virtual pages. You will download all the contents so you can bring me back.

Of course, she does not understand yet. It will hit them hard when the time comes I’m no longer here.

I almost gave up on blogging during my digital detox, when I was questioning all the things I had been doing.

But why did I come back? I don’t know. My words are like my threads to make a tapestry. It is my art that I create for myself.

It is a long weekend but I may have to take a one-hour call on Monday. But let’s see how we will spend the weekend…Of course, everybody will be going to the provinces and be stuck in traffic. So I guess my girls and I would just go further south just to avoid the Metro Manila crowd that would be descending upon us.

I had a pressure cooker Friday as I started with an early interview as the guy is somewhere in the US (Pacific Standard Time). Then my boss refused to approve my reimbursement for my bookings to HK since the event is yet to happen. I argued that the plane, Airport Express, and everything else I booked are already on my credit card bill. Of course I simply refuse to carry that on my balance because it’s work-related. Our accounting staff said we can invoice as long as it is already on the credit card bill. I don’t understand; I had been doing this for 9 years already. She still wasn’t approving it. I chatted with our accounting staff and asked her if I would still get my reimbursement since I already sent my cc bill; she said, don’t worry, I will still process it. 🥴

I always had trouble with this manager regarding so many things. 🤦🏻‍♀️ When I fly to Seoul, I won’t drop by her office to keep my anxiety down.

Speaking of Seoul, while I was on digital detox, my kids requested this:

And my veggies that we used to wrap the meat are:

And we had leftovers for dinner, so I made this:

And last night I was still fuming about my boss, I needed something that my hands could do to relax me and drive away the tension.

I made pillow cases by hand.