Life has a funny way of working out for you. It's beautiful, isn't it? It's even more precious when it's most unexpected.

As you all know, I'm struggling just to make ends meet. What with a family to support and a sister to put through college... Also, I've made a commitment to be more diligent in my tithing. And so, little luxuries have had to take a backseat. So when I learned about the local staging of Legally Blonde The Musical, I was disappointed and I knew I had to miss out. I couldn't spare the Php 1,000+ to pay for a ticket.

Last night, I received a text message from my aunt asking me if I was with my mom. Apparently, she'd been trying to call but my mom's phone was out of bounds. Due to the Luzon-wide blackout, my mom hadn't had the chance to recharge her phone's battery. I had to lend her my phone so she could call her sister.

And now we have 5 tickets to see Legally Blonde on Saturday night!

According to my aunt, she bought the tickets for her family, but it turns out that none of them could make it. And aside from herself, the only one who really wanted to see it anyway was my cousin Adi. So she bought 2 tickets to the matinee showing, and gave the 5 extra tickets to us!

So last night, amidst our dark living room, I squealed in delight and flailed with Aia, who also was dying to see the show. She also pointed out to me how lucky we were since we were already planning on saving up to buy tickets for ourselves with what little money we had. Now we don't have to spend anything.

Awesome. <3

And so, before sleeping last night, I watched the DVD of Legally Blonde The Musical until my laptop decided to run out of battery.

Because I have a huge window that looms over my bed - which wouldn’t close because our house is freaking old - I had to evacuate to the living room last night and ended up sleeping with two other people on our sofa. My bed is now drenched. So dear Basyang, please leave. I want to sleep on my own bed tonight. Thank you.

Nicely done ad for the Season 10 American Idol auditions.

But the fact that they actually have to advertise the auditions, shows a dwindling confidence in their capacity to attract a talent pool for this last season. No more Simon Cowell to judge your every little flaw, y’all.

 
They tell me it's not so much about the destination but about the journey. I get that. I really do. And I'm trying to enjoy my journey as much as I can. I'm learning and laughing, singing and crying, loving and losing. I'm filling up my experience bank with centavos and pesos that will someday amount to millions. I will have amassed so much.

But, my destination worries me. And I cannot help but obsess about the future. Which is futile, I know. There's really no point in stressing over something I have no total control over. All I can do is work on the here and now and pray that it brings me somewhere I can be happy and content.

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But how long will it take me to see even a glimpse of that happily ever after?

It's been awhile since I've used blogger, and so I've purged all my old posts and revamped this whole blog. And though I may spend more time on tumblr - due to it's convenience and reblog function - I hope to be able to consistently update this site.

Sadly, I've been writing less and less now. Life has been redundant to the point of mundane, and there really isn't much that excites or irritates me now. I'm basically a shriveled up soul in a quickly-fattening body. Writing, which used to help me swim through the monotonous drumming of my daily life, has now become too tedious for my humdrum mind. It's a shame, really.

Ah well. I sense change coming. I'm crossing my fingers. This may very well be the first step towards that change.