Ready for another lovely year
2007 was a lovely rollercoaster ride for me, by far my favorite year of my entire existence…I’m sitting here now in front of my home office looking at the goals I’ve pasted on my wall, I love the fact that I accomplished the things that I wanted done this year…
It is the year I turned a year older and I took it without complaint, I loved being 25, I look in the mirror each day and I see a woman facing me, no longer a skinny girl staring back at me, it must be the yoga, gym and dancing classes I took this year…this coming year I am planning to go pesco-vegan, I know I can do it and I will ☺, I still need a little nudge on the smoking habit, I quit but I went back, it still sickens me though…
I met a lot of new characters this year, mostly mature people, creative and happy with their lives, people who inspired me to do so many things in life and live each day with purpose, this coming year I will use the things I learned to expand the dash in my life. The ‘dash’, I came across this book while in Hong Kong last year, it says, when we die, a few letters and words are inscribed on the tomb stone, our name, some stuff about being a daughter, friend, and all that, then there’s the date of our birth, a dash and the date of our death. What defines our entire life is the dash and we do what we can to make that small line colorful and meaningful.
Anyway, I loved the little dashes I made this year, I went back to my creative roots and started joining workshops again, sketching on the empty sketch pads that managed to gather up dirt in one corner of my wall…I will be fixing all of them in the coming months to show to public, I’m so excited I need to finish them fast…also, finally got my website to fill up with all the things I’ve created in the five years I’ve spent in the magazine industry, this year I hope to finish the design and content already.
As of last year I am married to two commitments and hopeful for many more years together— a girlfriend and a boyfriend, my trusty girlfriend, my lesbian Mac book pro (don’t worry baby I will not replace you just yet) who made money for me this year, with so many projects, digital imaging campaigns, 2 books (and more to follow), calendars, posters, international brochures, local brochures, cards, invites, stage designs, logos, and so many vector graphics…she’s my friend who stays with me 24 hours a day. Who sees me when I’m groggy, cranky, and happy…and then there’s my needy boyfriend-my 2door blue car, which brought me to more than 1000km already in the few weeks that I got it. Drove him alone to Nueva Ecija back and forth, brought him to Marikina, Tagaytay, and my little adventure in Parañaque. God, he can be a little needy but I’m in love and it’s teaching me to pay more attention to my poor navigation skills and I don’t get drunk on parties anymore cuz I have to be sane when I drive home. So far, I bumped him to two cars already, managed to blew a tire on the road, and to date, I got stopped by a traffic enforcer for swerving but managed to smile my way out of it.
As for a real love affair good luck to that, but this year I’m thinking why not, maybe a little peek to break the wall won’t hurt much…hmmm I just got to work on liking the ‘bagets.’ no more of them ☺ last year I managed to get a reputation for being an old maid who like younger girls, hahaha, not cute! Oh yeah, last year was also the year I had my face titled as a lesbian on the newspaper, haha, and for some reason no one back home got hold of it. It would have saved me already from all the questioning… this year I will remain as one, and I still don’t see why I should hide it. I’m happy and I’m gay! Loud and proud, until some knight manage to sweep me off my feet…we’ll see if I got the bones for that…for now, I’m still ok with the muses, and I still got to find some more who will inspire me and hopefully land to the keeper, life is worthless after all if you have no one to share it with…hahaha it still grosses me in some way…hmmm I’ll get a plant first then let’s see if I can nurture it for a month…
The beginning of last year started with a rough start, having been hospitalized and missing on so many important things in life but the months that followed proved to be worth every second of my waking moment. I was watching National Geographic during the holidays and there was a commercial about the hours we spent on life…it says we spent almost 25 years of our lives sleeping, how many more years watching TV and 19 days looking for the remote and so many more sitting on traffic, the rest of the years spent on work and so much more work, so we only have so little time to actually spend it on living, it got me off the couch instantly…how scary the thought that we live each day and we spend so little to actually live it…looking at my 101 list of things to do in life so far I’ve ticked major parts that I want and there are so many more for me to do… so many more people to meet, lovely lips to kiss and a few to keep, so many aspects of life to conquer, so many places to go to, and so many new music to dance to each day…