Appendicitis

The Week That Has Left Me, Weak, Vulnerable and Yet Still So Blessed.

November 21 - I came home from a flight. CCU. I was so upset. Crying like mad. For silly and big reasons. I did not understand why I cried cried and cried. The morning I woke up I spoke to L and G. I was crying to both of them. I feel that they wanted to laugh it off, my tantrums, but they did not and still put up with me, with the pep talk, despite of all my whines and cries. What good friends I have. Super blessed in this department. As per standard, when times like this happen, I needed to distract myself and so I did my brows and my eyeliner. I had pain in my abdomen and it was dull and bearable. In the afternoon I decided to go to the clinic since I will be travelling to New York, I needed some meds to take with me. Went to the clinic and was given meds for acidity. Alright then, good to go to NY! I miss my fam.

November 22. Fourteen and a half hours to get to NY. Flight was empty and we had a full row each to ourselves. It was great but the pain in my tummy was there, still dull, but just there. Arrived in New York. arrived in my sister's house thru UBER.

November 23, ER. I was told I had appendicitis. =(

Innovation Day Project

Gratitude Blog

Last night,  I spoke to a friend who encouraged me download an app called Bliss.  This app is an app where every day, it asks you or encourages you to list things you are happy about or grateful for on that day.

So since lock down, I have been listing or posting photos in that app what the are the things that made me smile of made me feel triumphant with small wins.

Small wins like for example, clearing up the To Do List in Julia's Google Class. I get rattled when I see the list become so long, day by day I think of ways to organise myself more and be productive during the day.

I found out that some of my colleagues from Manila came back and their return was arranged by our company. I was so so happy I told my close friends about it. I feel like this is a big WIN , a big answer to my prayer that we could get back on track. Knowing that my company took their employees back means that they have a positive outlook through all this. Oh well at least as for me that's how I looked at it.

When I started my day today, I said Ill start with a positive quote.

It's still EID Holiday and Julia does not have a class today. 

I watered my plants in the balcony and cleaned it too. There was a sandstorm yesterday.

 

I cooked Jajangmyeon for dinner.

 It wasn't as good as the first one I cooked but it was still good.

I also cooked Salmon Fish Head Soup.

Sinigang na Ulo Ulo it's called in Tagalog.

It's super super sour.

My mommy friend Che waving from her balcony when I delivered the Belly Chon.

On IG I posted that this was my last pair and that I regret not collecting more.

I have taken so may things for granted when there was abundance. I thought blessings will always flow.

I never ever thought that there will come a time that I will be grounded. It seemed like yesterday  as in BKK having a massage. =(

Really sad what's going on in the world, it is a mad world. and it really is like a complete reset of human lives. It is back to basics, knowing what really matters, whats important and what should be not be taken for granted.

Julia For Innovation Day.

Julia for innovation day of her school. So the assignment was to make a dress out of a recyclable material that would showcase ingenuity and creativity. I am seriously swamped with Julia's assignments week by week and I struggle day by day between home schooling, online google class,  looking for tenants, managing a business that has been non operational for 2 week now and the list goes on and on and on. More than physical exhaustion, my brain has not stopped. Calculation loss after loss after loss. and also keeping a list of the money I owe to the staff house landlord, to the owner of the commercial building where the spa is, to the Developers of my properties whom I owe monthly dues. Oh my gosh, my mind will explode. Okay, that got side tracked,  This dress is made out of paper wax from an old bag I have. The material is easy to manage so I decided to make it into a shmucked top. I think it's cute. Thank heavens, I spoke to one of my mommy friends her in my community and she said she actually has something that I could borrow! She made her daughter a tutu dress for the same purpose. It is made from a tulle cloth and the design are cuts from nespapers and magazines. =)

It turned out to be beautiful, another small win for me. =)

Yey!!! Today I harvested some mint from my balcony garden =)

And I made myself a Classic Mojito. So good =)

We also had pinakbet for dinner.

This bicol express is soooooo spicy.

Today I delivered in Muhaisnah and I realized that there are so many places in Dubai where we can live for cheaper rent. And the flats are so much bigger than what we have here in Ghoroob. Oh well.