This is how my desk looks like for the past 24 hours or so. I’ve been busy setting up meetings, filling up my calendar for my trip to SG in a few weeks. I need to justify the cost of being there despite the fact that 1) I head the region and we would be hosting a conference; 2) my office is there.

It’s really ridiculous. It’s not my fault that the parent firm/owner is highly leveraged that they’re being stingy in so many ways. I had to defend why I need to fly on a Sunday instead of a Monday (to save on hotel booking). I said, even if I take the earliest flight on a Monday, half of the day is already gone because I would be able to get out of the airport at almost noon. I would also be battling sleeplessness since I have to drive to the airport at 1:30 am so I can have enough time to deal with the long queue at immigration in NAIA. I booked Philippine Airlines so I don’t have to deal with the horrible queues at Terminal 3.

I have a million and one things to do.

The daily househelp next door finally took Tuxedo kitty home. She is the first to be adopted in the litter of five. Before I had let her go, I administered deworming medicine to her along with her siblings. I gave her new owner the rest of the medicine since she needed to take that again twice, two weeks apart. I’ll just buy another bottle for the rest of the litter.

Her cries were so pitiful as she was taken away in the cat carrier I lent her new owner. She can no longer play with her siblings 😢. But adoption is the best option for these kitties because I cannot have them all inside my tiny house.

Meanwhile, I administered antiparasitic medicine topically on the adult cats as prescribed by the vet who spayed Ampon. For my indoor cats, Sushi and Kimchi, they only needed to have this every three months (good, because it’s pricey) but for the outdoor cat, Ampon, this needs to be a monthly thing.

😩 It’s costly to keep animals healthy. But as they say, single women collect cats as they grow older. I don’t know why.

Maybe because cats love me back whereas human males just use me and then discard me once my usefulness has expired. 🤷🏻‍♀️