weekend welcome

I had a good weekend welcome last friday: 30 minutes shaved off the workday - so either i go home at 6PM (which i prefer), or i can arrive at 8:30 AM. i was so surprised when i exited the building and with sunset still at hand. it was all good - more time with karl, with my girls, and to shop. the much awaited increase has also arrived, though i have yet to see it made retroactive. and i have yet to receive an id for the health insurance.

after an early dinner (oddly enough at shakeys, trying to escape high prices at bellini's, and ending up with the same bill and not too stellar pizza, plus needing to order again for dessert at bellini's), karl and i headed to the corner ukay-ukay where i bought black boots for 300 bucks. not as shiny as my first choice, but what could i do?

at marikina shoe expo, karl was quite the pop kid - he knew at least one person from vintage pop, datelines and future prospects, plus peach's new winery/av production outfit. i think he should make friends with the italian paparazzi at bellini's and their harassed waiter. and their blind guitarist/vocalist.

we headed to bigskymind to watch bagetsafonik, narda, the enemy of the enemy, pedicab and boldstar. well we didn't actually watch, we just listened upstairs. i really liked boldstar. it was quite dizzying having so many people around - may, jjo, berns, val, rica, ramon, katwo, ceebee, hank, then to be introduced to a budding make-up artist joan and designer kate torralba - i'm just not used to it. always, always, it's better to pull one aside and talk intimately.

after all that spending, karl and i decided to just hang out at home the next day. everyone disappeared for a while, but sadly kiara and rein came back and couldn't stay away from the pc just to make those goddamn playlists. we tried watching spanglish, which was turning out to be really funny with good actors, but then our copy was fucked and we couldn't finish it. at least we were still able to have our cheap thrills.

i broke under pressure yesterday when i was faced with gorgeous pinstriped cuffed and tabbed puruntong from topshop which i just had to buy. i even wanted a frikkin' zimmerman suit, but that's just out of the question. i decided to forgo the long overdue facial, especially since my sister asked for my payment for our havaianas. how the hell did i get dragged into this?!?! i couldn't have sworn i swore not to buy them designer flipflops!

oh woe is me, there goes the salary increase!