Rain Turns Three

Of all the things that I have to thank for these days, foremost is to find Rain unshackled from the bondage of a nasal cannula, finally.

Since birth, the ambient air could not sufficiently keep his blood oxygenated, so we had to keep a tank in his room and keep him tied to it 24/7 at a certain pressure level. He consumed an average of two tanks on a weekly basis that I have already made inquiries about getting an oxygen concentrator. The cost jolted the bejesus out of me and had me resort to prayer instead.

Most of the time, he is confined inside their room. By the middle of his second month, the good doctor deemed him ready to get off the oxygen at an  interval of six hours. Last week, he was completely off it.

To mark this marvelous blessing, we celebrated by adding an expensive dessert and elaborate picture taking to complement a rather sparse dinner.

All is well.

The Key Conundrum

The thing about partnering with a very busy person is that you need to be constantly prepared. Weekends must be freed from routine to cover for the absence of the other. The storm last week saved me from taking the seemingly weekly trip to Silay for policing during regular shift and screening the applicants when the sun is up.

This week, I have no excuse to offer.

Since I was bushed from Thursday's activities which started with walking Choco to the Badminton venue (where Glen and Alexis were already, measuring the width of the court), fetching Summer and bringing her to the pool to watch the swimming competition, spending an unusually long lunch at Jade Restaurant with JD, Kz and Omil, swimming with the same bunch at the Hilltop Resort and updating my office desktop's OS into Windows 10, I was out of sorts when I woke up late this morning. With Coco to feed, laundry to wash, floors to mop and yard to sweep among other preparation for my night out of town, I honestly forgot to secure my house keys thereby managing to trap myself between a locked house door and a padlocked gate. Fortunately, I had my phone with me.

The first thing that came to mind was to ask sis for help but another naughty idea caught up with it and I ended up doing the latter.
I sent Glen a private message on Facebook of the circumstance. His unbelief was amusing I was afraid he'll ignore my SOS and leave me "imprisoned" until sis wakes up and rescue me herself. He said "How on earth did you let that happen?"

And so I waited. It seemed interminable. My relief was audible when I heard a trike stop by the gate. He opened the padlock himself before he handed me his keys for me to get mine inside the house. As I handed his namesakes for him to use for the day, he offered an excuse that it took him long to get a trike going my direction.

All is well.

Who doesn't love surprises?

That act of thoughtfulness nearly killed me. Yesterday, I stooped really low for a scoop of ice cream which I never got. Today was an improvement, by a vast margin.

It being a Friday, I had the office for myself and Ann who picked up where we left off last night with the bingo card production. In the hopes of fast tracking the generation of random number, I had Glen join us to figure out how the array formula works (making sense of it made me lose sleep last night).

It was a tough nut to crack that even with two programmers working on it, we still ended up using the classic Randbetween function and patiently manually replacing the duplicates.

The tedious activity was dotted with remarks that made everyone laugh at my expense. Well, there's nothing new to that.

As for me, I attended to my classes at the appointed hours of the morning.
When I came back down after my last class for the day, I found a cup of coffee sitting on Jen's desk. My heart began to constrict with disappointment at being left out again until he came down and asked in general why I wasn't given the drink. Apparently, the bevy was for me and everyone failed to mention it.

Every day holds a surprise and I'm loving it.

PMS

It's that time of the month when I find myself cranky at one time and quite a dear the next. With almost everything in place for the inspection, I now have plenty of time in my hands, most of which I spend playing online games or annoying Glen.

Luckily, his fans apparently have dwindled, I think he's bored that he frequents the office now, if only to annoy me

He had ice cream today which he started eating in front of me (Yesterday he had vegetable rolls which he shared only with Jen). This time I stood up and made the motions of taking it (or the remaining half of it), wrestling his arms to get to the prize, with the students, Jen, John and Kz looking on. Lol!

He started with biting ice cream off the cone. When I insisted though, he licked the whole thing. By that time, Kz and JD were ready to for some late lunch, I left him to finish his dessert.

And it pleases me much that however mundane, he does take time to look at whatever excel problem I come to bother myself with for the day 😊