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Tuesday

Got my Twitter account restored. I’ve been contacting Twitter support for months with ZERO response until Elon Musk came in and in less than 30 seconds, was able to login with a new confirmed email address. The guy’s a TWAT, but he must be doing something right, like firing incompetent, sanctimonious Twitter staff who can’t even solve simple technical issues.

Happy Thanksgiving

An American colleague gave me a can, but with everyone dieting- and not really liking pumpkin as a sweet dish- I’ll just save it for Christmas

Have you put up your tree yet?

I thought I was an all-rounded creative, design genius, but apparently, that’s not true. I can’t even bring to life, the Christmas tree of my fantasies which this year is meant to be ‘Bird Forest Extravaganza’- this little fellow made of discarded feathers and styrofoam will do.

When the economy is hurting

Plant a tomato…

When the economy is hurting

Buy yourself some Prada…

The Weekend (in images)

I like browsing through antique stores but I haven’t really been keen on buying anything. I don’t like used stuff in general (unless it’s family stuff) and more so if they were stranger’s possessions.

Day out (in images)

Part of the weekend (in images)

Essentials

Went to Costco with Toni and Washington and this time, Lay’s Potato chips were available. I got FIVE bags and the kids got toilet stacks of toilet paper

Painting using a grid

I’ve never tried it because I don’t really paint or draw, but I’m trying again. And just as I suspected, you can upload your image to a website where it does the grid for you.

Prep

The usual butcher (online) where we get our meats had a sale on pork belly ($24 when it’s normally $30 a kilo) so I got some and it turns out, there was a catch. The pork had a higher ratio of fat over meat- but there was a silver lining to this. Instead of slow-roasting the whole thing which I normally do, I ended up with three lots; one for just crackling, one for adobo (pork and chicken) and the 3rd lit for grilling.

Plants need care

M who does the garden said that the small lime tree was being attacked by small white insects. I’m oblivious to these things and we wouldnt have know otherwise if all of us were garden idiots. So we got some spray to deal with the fuckers.

Saturday (in images)

Saturday morning (in images)

Early this morning, I was woken up by the cat meowing loudly in the spare bedroom we’ve christened the budoir- a walk-in closet of sorts, the racks now groaning with winter coats and jackets, the floor, three rows deep with shoes. She was clearly looking for something, and without my glasses, I couldn't make anything out on the dark, hairy rug. And then I almost stepped on it, my big toe touching something (still) warm; it was a small wax-eye with that distinct while colouring around its eyes and that dusting of pistachio green on its head, wing-tips, and tail.

It was literally the early bird getting caught by a cat.

Lily has a bell around her neck so it’s either she’s clever and the birds are dumb or the birds are clever, but she’s cleverer. Or she could also be cunning- an adjective that is a step above clever. There are so many ways of looking at it, but does it matter which one is more accurate? Or truer?

It’s too early in the day to mull over these things so you just take a breath and to realise that you need to see the fundamentals; this is the nature of cats, and birds are prey in the hierarchy of things.

The sun’s out (in spite of weather predictions to the contrary) with a nice stiff breeze so you can do the laundry. You woke up early so now you have time to replant the blue cypress that hasn’t been liking its pot. You can work on that presentation due Monday. You can do the pork butt, 3 kilos split into two generous portions, one for Korean barbecue and the other for a pulled-meat recipe. So I did all these all before 9:30am.

Life is a combination of circumstance and the choices you make to work with these and sometimes, you don’t need to be as clever as Lily the cat.

You just have to do it.

The week

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