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!!!

So the summer’s not over yet but it is for me. I’m back to my good ‘ol routine: Work and Home. Not much excitement will be coming my way ’til maybe the end of the year and it was good while it lasted. I had such a blast and we got our much needed break. I’m still a little hung over from the vacation but I’m good to go for another barrage of work ’til the end of the year.

To be honest, I’m having a hard time adjusting. I’ve been working hard before our vacation and seeing Neptune again brought back really good memories of my once carefree days. Which by the way led me to make a promise that I’ll have to put my future kid/s to work so that they won’t have a hard time adjusting to real life. Everything just came too easily for me back in the day.

Things will get easier and I’ll be able to fall back into my old routine soon and my splendid 2009 summer vacation will eventually become a distant reality. I don’t want to let go yet so I’ll be sharing (and re-living) that fateful vacation with you in the entries to come. I have enough ammo to last me through May. Right before the rainy season starts. Here I am. Back to my regular programming but still quite hung over from the vacation I’ve had. *sigh*

Well, I’m back at work and had a harrowing first day yesterday. But it’s still good news and I’m so happy to be back at work (I can’t believe that I just said that!). Really, I missed going to the office and the holiday just made me appreciate how good I have it. I don’t really have a complete game plan in terms of marketing and such but thankfully, we’ve had a wonderful first day. Plenty of work for the first quarter of the year. I just hope it won’t be THAT stressful (though a little stress makes life exciting).

I was hoping I would be able to do some general cleaning at home but since my dogs were shedding like crazy, I thought it pointless to do so. My OCD was ringing like crazy during the break but not enough to make me go mad. Just another item to add to my list of things to do.

Though my life is pretty much made up of chores, work stuff, and to do lists, somehow I don’t feel like I’m wasting my time.  Some part of me is fulfilled to be able to do these “mundane” acts of normalcy. I definitely appreciate the fact that I am able to give some sort of order to my life and having my husband help out makes me feel all the more appreciated. These are things that I just have to do but doesn’t really have to rule my life, right?

Work is another thing. I didn’t realize how fun it was to be surrounded by creative people. Though we don’t really joke around that much and we’re pretty responsible with our day to day to-do stuff, I feel that I finally belong to something I am particularly proud of and I guess I can safely say that I don’t have to work another day in life just because it simply doesn’t feel like it is.

This month is dedicated to the “I’m grateful for…” because I feel that in the beginning of the year, it is good to make an inventory of the things I feel blessed that I have. To help me keep a great outlook for the year that’s just begun and keep me grounded for they are not easy to come by.

I am grateful for my work. I’m happy that I’m back to my reality.