football | Stories from the sidelines

I’m still love struck with how the game last night was played. It’s a fitting retirement for Messi, who is now elevated to Diego Maradona level.

I miss playing football. At least Twin I now understands why I love this sport because we watched it together last night and she was equally excited as I was. She said she is now interested in joining the girls’ team once we have transferred here in my hometown. I told my nephew, who teaches football under xxx team, that his cousin wants to join.

This sounds wonderful because they will be more exposed to team sports and more physical activities.

Meanwhile, my sister expressed her defiance against this government through the Christmas decor she installed in my mom’s house.

I plan to go back to QC on Dec 22 because Ate C will be leaving for her home province so I need to come back for the cats. In the meantime, I’m bringing something to read with me while I laze around my mom’s house.

*Kimchi wants to come. Photo by CallMeCreation.com*

I packed books this time as should be reading physical books instead of doom scrolling on social media. I missed reading but I get easily distracted now by my phone. I should have a digital detox and do analog things like drawing and reading. I’m a bad example for my girls. 🤦‍♀️

*This has been with me for quite some time and I never quite found the time to open my hoarded books. Photo by CallMeCreation.com*

We left QC at around past 10 pm tonight because we fetched my nephew, his gf, and my sis-in-law from Araneta Coliseum after the UP-Ateneo basketball game. Araneta Center was clogged with cars and traffic was terrible. It took us about an hour to extricate ourselves from there.

So tired.

*Two-hour massage before I drive off tomorrow to the South.*

I had done last-minute maintenance stuff before I subject myself to an hours-long drive to my hometown tomorrow. I just finished a two-hour massage c/o Zennya because I know my back will be frozen after the drive.

But before that, I needed to do car maintenance like what any responsible car owner should do.

*Engine oil flushing and change and other preventive maintenance checks. Photo by CallMeCreation.com*

*Car wash and interior vacuuming. Photo by CallMeCreation.com*

I gave Twin A my Tokyo-finds watercolor palette and now she’s trying them out. Twin I, on the other hand, was influenced to do the same but she is using the set that I bought for them from Lazada two years ago.

*Making art. Photo by CallMeCreation.com*

Will be bringing our bikes tomorrow and we will try to go to that pond at the back of a research facility on campus. Draw, grill hotdogs or chicken wings, and have a picnic.

But it’s rainy in the next few days 😑

Meanwhile, I’m just gonna watch the Messi and the rest of Argentina.