July 11, 2010

There are times when I wonder how the hell Ruy and I ended up together cause we’re so freaking different. Today made me realize what a great match we are. Here’s our conversation:

Liv: I don’t want to be like…what do you call that again? The fan that’s so obsessed

Liv: (Very frustrated) Ano ba, what the hell’s wrong with me? I’ve been having such a hard time verbalizing my thoughts today.

Ruy: I have that effect on people. (Opens his arms) Behold!

OMG. I couldn’t stop laughing, I wasn’t even able to come up with a retort! How priceless.

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We cooked side-by-side today. It was nice. I had a silent “awww” moment, then I realized “damn, how takaw can you get that you get kilig at the thought of preparing food together”

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Yes, today I felt kilig. Don’t know why really. Nice to feel something like that even if this is already our 10th year as a couple.

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Ruy loves Andrea to death but he was never consistent with the time he spent with her. UNTIL THIS WEEK. Every night he would devote focused time and attention to Andrea and Andrea is having the time of her life.

I think that’s what made me kilig. Seeing someone so tough looking make silly faces and use the highest of pitches to entertain his daughter is just priceless. You girls can keep your men with 6-pack abs and chiseled good looks. This is exactly what I want, thank you very much.

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I love Ruy’s family. I really do. I feel blessed about having 2 families now.

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Ruy’s been trying to call my mom “Mommy”…it seems so awkward but I’m trying not to laugh at him.

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We are not all lovey-dovey. We’ve been arguing a lot. Minor stuff that I can’t even share with people cause they will chastize me for blowing things out of proportion…hey Ruy does that too!

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A lot of experts say that you shouldn’t go to bed mad at each other. I go to bed annoyed at Ruy all the time. I wake up forgetting I was annoyed and then everyone’s okay again. True story.

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Sometimes I argue with Ruy just out of habit I think.

This is how I blog. ALWAYS.

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My friend of 19 years proposed a project that we can work on together. Here’s the interesting thing she asked that we meet cause she had a proposition for me. I told Ruy that I knew what she was going to propose and that I’m afraid it’s not going to work out.

The Olivia she knows from school is VERY DIFFERENT from the working Olivia. When I work I’m demanding, detailed, strategic and almost compulsive about certain things. I make lists about making lists. I get frustrated when things don’t happen when they’re supposed to happen. She has never met this Olivia. The Olivia from school is kooky, flaky, happy-go-lucky. The kind of person the Olivia at work cannot get along with.

Ruy told me to give it a try. Maybe it’s going to work out. I sure hope so.

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This got me thinking about how I was at work. One time a good friend of mine at work said that I can be very assertive which doesn’t go over well with most Filipinos. I think he’s just being polite, I think he might have meant pushy.

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I love my new job. I love how I can pace myself. I love my boss. I love the idea behind the company.

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I love that I’m earning again. I also love how the amount of work I do is directly proportional to the compensation I receive.  I hope this lasts quite a bit.

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Now that I’ve been out of the corporate world for a year, I can’t imagine having to face that kind of drama, back-stabbing and shit again.