We don’t find happiness. We make it.
Tuesday. Choose-day.
I’m still sleepy after only having a three-hour sleep. By the way, today’s my work anniversary, marking my first year working from home for this UK-based agency hiring personnel from the academe.
In hindsight, I remembered my previous company and how it was like to work back onsite. Every day was (I’d say) fun although the stress will always be there. It was fun remembering that I went down for a smoke with people from different departments. That stint was so fun each department has a representative, yeaaaa, each and every department! Some of these people are the ones I happily call friends now. We had the funniest and wittiest conversations at “Narnia”. It’s unbelievably a different world in the middle of the Ortigas CBD. I should have taken a photo of it for remembrance. LOL.
Fast forward to how work life is these days, it has gotten some kind of boring. WFH indeed has its own perks and cons. No traffic jams, no extra expense for dining or coffee after work and no close monitoring from either the boss or the “know-it-all” co-worker who always want to stand out like as if her life depends on it. Cons, perhaps, it’s more like the feeling separating work from home. I have to work while still tending to the needs of my children at the same time. I’d get tired mentally but also, I’d get tired from doing all the housework all together. Maybe this is me, the single mom, who does not have anybody to lean on to for these things.
Nonetheless, I still feel blessed to have a job that pays the bills and the rest of our needs. I also have the best Pinoy boss who takes care of me and the team tirelessly, always looking after us making sure everything is alright. TYL.
Anyways, I have wanted to pick up a new hobby in the last few months. Sometimes, I get tired of watching tv and being a couch potato during my free time. I thought about doing my ornamental plant gardening seriously, but I don’t want to clean up after the stray cats who would periodically visit my service area and dig my plants. I wanted to do diamond painting but I think it might not be for me since my eyes don’t have 20-20 vision anymore and that might be a primary requirement. This is parked for now as I would still want to do this maybe in the next few months. I’m happy to be writing on this online journal, sharing my random thoughts because it isn’t just to keep my mind off things but also to make this as one of my hobbies (wow!!). I also want to go back to reading novels just that for now, I don’t have the bandwidth to do that since I want to finish reading a book in one go. Then I came across something that I want to try. Paint by numbers. Don’t get me wrong, I was never good at drawing or painting or anything. But I thought it would be easier to do it if there are numbers to guide me for the paints that I will use. I’ve tried doing some parts (you’ll see the photo of my unfinished canvass below) and lo and behold, it looks like a 3rd grader was working on it. But since this is new to me, I want to continue doing it. My sons though continue to bother me too while I paint - - I feel so cool saying that I’m painting haha.
I wonder what other things I can share in the next few days. But just so you know, this journal helps me keep my sanity. I don’t get any judgment while I share what I have in mind.
This is me today and thank you for putting up with me again.
So see you again soon, journal.
