Everything Under The Tropical Sun

Breaking our normal routine, instead of waiting for my husband to pick me up at work, I went to his office and waited for him the other day. I went straight to his desk, moved his laptop aside and cleared a space up for my own laptop. I do this every time I go to his office first because I know he’ll take forever to finish his work. He usually works about an hour… an hour and a half overtime every day. He usually has a very stressful day at work. The day he starts relaxing… is the day that the accounting department is going to start stressing out. So consensus says, it’s better that he gets stressed rather than the accounting department. Poor guy.

He has always turned to music to balance himself out. When he needs to get his adrenaline running, he’d usually pump up the volume and rock out to his favorite tracks. He’s always been into rock music and maybe it’s derivatives like punk, alternative… not really into heavy metal but he likes some tracks from that genre. Sure, he’d venture out to Hip Hop music but he’d always come back home to rock.

Imagine my shock and a bit of awe when I heard Con te partido blasting from his laptop. Opera music. Then classical music. My goodness! What ever happened to my husband?! Why would he… my own rocker… listen to classical music?! I mean… sure… he can appreciate practically all types of music… he does not discriminate and he has a mind so open that he’s hardly judgemental. But in the 7 years I’ve known him, I’ve never seen him listen to classical. I couldn’t help myself and started acting silly… acting like I was a conductor (there’s this cool Brazilian conductor we’ve seen perform on TV… so I was mimicking him)… he mentioned something about Bugs Bunny and we laughed.

Without having to ask him, he explained himself. Whenever he listens to rock nowadays, his heart starts pumping really hard and with his stress levels at work, it’s not helping him. Classical music keeps him calm and alert all throughout the day.

Hmm… good explanation. I can believe it. But… SHOCKING!!!

Ann, one of my best friends (I only have three), and her family are back home. They left for Manila two whole years ago and now they’re baaaaack!!! (Thank God! She is the only one who’s in the Philippines… the other two are in the U.S. and Dubai). Well, they’ve been back pretty much the same time Ivee quit smoking… about a month ago.

Anyway, I’m so happy! We’re not the most social couple but  just having Ann and Juno around makes me feel like my social calendar’s back on track when in fact, we just hang out at their home. These two people are the ultimate butterflies in the social scene. They’re in touch with practically everyone we know and they’re updated on what’s happening with everyone.

If you’ve noticed, I’ve added a new “colon” title to my blog entry: Monday Club. That’s because every Monday, Ann, Juno, my hubby and I would get together and have a certain food theme. Our first Monday was Japanese night. Which, I regret to tell you is about two weeks old when I posted it. Hey… I have to save some of my entries right?

So anyway… last week’s Monday club was cancelled because Ann wasn’t feeling well… Tonight’s Monday club is temporarily moved to tomorrow night (I know, A TUESDAY) because they have to buy school supplies for their kids. School is opening very very soon. It’ll be traffic in the streets of Cebu once again. Both our offices are located next to schools so it’ll be a while ’til we get to adjust to the traffic once more.

ANYWAY… they’re home!!! I’m happy… Juno’s happy… (not sure if Ann is  happy… the jury’s out on that one). I’m glad they’re home.