The sweetest thing

During the Father's Day dinner we hosted for our Lolo last night, we started talking about death. It was so random, I think it went a little like, "Pota, ang taas na ng gas! Oh by the way, would you like a white or blue casket when you die?" I think it was my Lolo's memorial plans that he's just finished paying for, which brought on the topic. It's funny how my family can discuss death like how we would talk about the weather.

Me: Lolo, pa-cremate ka na lang. Tapos ikakalat ko ashes mo sa mga favorite places mo. (I just watched Elizabethtown that day.)

Lolo: Ayaw ko, gusto ko ilibing.

Me: Hindi mo na naman mafi-feel kapag sinusunog ka na eh.

Lolo: Gusto ko magkasama kami ng lola mo.

Me: .... Aww.

He was talking about my grandmother, who died four years ago. I'm not trying to pull a gothic act here, I just thought it was really sweet how he said it. Like it was the most natural thing for them to be together even after death.

*Cue in silent tears while gazing out the window*

Turtle and the Butingtings

With all the nitty-gritties this past week and the weeks to come, everything just seemed to float away to the unknown when I came home from a really early calltime for work on a SUNDAY to find this:

If there are three people who can flick my happy switch on in an instant, it would have to be these uber makukulit tikes. (Of course, my dogs are on an entirely different level of love and happiness pa rin). My godson Turtle (or Miguel. The nickname I made for him when he was an infant just stuck to me for some reason) officially turns 1 today (whoop!), and there are Ysobel and Mateo who keep getting more and more hyper with each Sunday lunch at Lola's house. These three were the only kids at Turtle's merienda party this afternoon, but with all the ingay and kalikutan, they could've amounted to TEN kids. Ibang level na ang energy nila, it's quite a chore to keep up with them now... or baka naman shet, tumatanda lang kasi talaga ako? Hinde, it must be the Promil. I bet merong some kind of drug yun for kids that put them on a sugar high or something.

My, my, they're growing up too fast. It wasn't too long ago when I was writing about what cute little babies they all are for my first Love Thursday entry. Now, they're like little balls of tireless energy everywhere they go. Sunday lunch becomes the best part of the weekend because of them, and it gets even rowdier especially now that Turtle has officially started walking... and is now joining Ysobel and Matt-Matt in the chasing and screaming that is now the norm around the dining table. But even with all the noisy clutter of screeches and screams and wails here and there, I'd prefer no other sound than those. :)

Pappy-Taffy

I thought I wouldn't get to talk to my daddy-O today since I missed him during his and my mom's daily morning chat. But I finally caught him just now online, and absolutely loved the look on his face when I showed him my Father's Day gift via webcam (a Men's Health shirt I got from the All-Terrain Race), it was priceless. He's been wanting a Men's Health shirt of any kind for ages, so I'm really happy I got him one just in time (at dri-fit pa, why not). Now, the old chap can't wait to come home and try it on. Haha! Hope y'all had a blast with your dads today!

can anyone tell me where i can find...

Jim Sturgess?

Because I'm like, totally in love with him right now.

I watched Across the Universe over the weekend with my siblings (a rare occasion that we all sat through an entire movie together), and loved the whole thing. I thought he was really cute with the thick Brit accent and the rugged look going on from the beginning, but not until he sang one of my favorite Beatles songs, Something, did I realize that I want him to father my babies. Two words: WOTTA HOTTIE!

I didn't know he was also in The Other Boleyn Girl as the Boleyn brother, so I was ecstatic when I caught it on DVD in the same weekend, and his name jumped right out of the screen during the opening credits. No one else could possibly look cuter in an old English petticoat than how he did. Lurrrve him! So now I can't wait to catch 21, where he basically canoodles, sucks face, and exchanges a whole lotta body fluid with Kate Bosworth. Booooo.

three L's

Like how my girl Carrie says, girls flock to New York to find two L's: Labels and Love. I add one more L to that: Living the Sex and the City lifestyle. Haha!

The SATC movie did not disappoint at all, I loved every single minute of it. It's like watching an entire season packed in two hours. I miss miss miss the girls so much! It has been four years since SATC closed its curtains on HBO, and I can still remember how I'd spend late night marathons in front of the tube just watching them. I remember blogging about it in 2004 when I watched the finale and cried like a baby. Everything about SATC always spells F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S: from Carrie's Blahniks, to Charlotte's Upper East Side air, Miranda's lawyer-isms, even Samantha's nymphomaniac tendencies... which can spawn an entire movie of its own, come to think about it. It was love seeing the girls walking down the New York streets together again, and on the big screen, no less! I don't know any girl who wouldn't like this movie. Whoever doesn't, wag mo na ipagmalaki. Weird ka, yun lang. Haha!

"I love you, but I love me more"

Samantha has always been my favorite SATC character, and after she said this line, I found more reasons to love the gal. I love how she makes self-absorption feel so right. Just the way single, go-getting lay-dees roll!

I haven't blogged for such a long time, I don't even know how to write a closing statement properly now. So, the end?