missing this

I actually missed blogging. There’s something about blabbering online where your inane thoughts could be heard/read by people who do not concern you or you do not care for that is both liberating and encouraging. But lately, there really wasn’t much to say. I’d hate just popping in and ruining people’s Christmas just because the Christmas spirit failed to land on me and random boring moments of my life hardly even rate a word or a sentence to bore you to death with.

Anyway, a new year is fast approaching. I still feel like that kid who just graduated from high school drifting through life as if everything is just a game or a brief preoccupation while waiting for ‘life’ to start. Earlier this evening, I was with high school friends and it struck me how much everything seemed to have changed while everything remained the same as well. We’re the same people but we’re already different persons on our own. It’s like looking back at who I was, living it again, just that it’s not me anymore. I don’t know what I’m saying… I’m probably just figuring out after a looong, long time, I actually grew up.

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A freaky story… I have this officemate at work that I usually tease of being crazy (hint: her name rhymes with the word) and it’s uncanny how much we have in common.

(AN: I don’t know how to continue with the ‘She’s crazy; I’m normal’ line of reasoning while pointing out how eerily alike we are… just let it be said, I’m very much normal)

Well actually, I do tend to tease everyone who even vaguely understands me a bit crazy. Not to say anything detrimental about my own thought processes, but then I try and play at being weird and funky and it would take natural ability in being abnormal to actually get what I’m saying, so that would mean everyone who somehow relate to this inane thought processes should very much fear for their mental stability.

Anyway, my first day on the call floor for this team, I was posted to listen to her. I’m usually pretty tame with new people but then we somehow clicked while joking around. She said to a co-TL ‘she’s weird, can we keep her’ which brought me laughing. Anyway, (I should refrain from overusing that word) we usually get to hang out after work eating exaggeratedly late breakfast. That was when we realized the first quirk we shared… we both love cheeseburger meal from McDonalds and have the same unique way of sandwiching fries in our burgers. The horror of having something in common! Again, I point out I am normal! The mere fact that we get each other is disturbing enough! Not to mention that I seem to be her kid’s intellectual equal (he’s 8y/o) and his playmate each time he sees me (I swear, that kid probably thinks we are the same age – though he seems to be more intelligent. He throws a lego at me, I throw the lego right back at him…). But aside from that, some other quirks we have in common (or at least those that i'd admit to… hahaha) :

- we both prefer caramel sundae to chocolate

- we both prefer salty pretzels instead of the nauseatingly sweet ones

- we both hate pinoy spaghetti and prefer the sour, tomato-ey pasta

- we both loathe taking in medicine even when sick

- we both love mustard though lots of people hate it

I’m trying to think of more (that you, invisible audience who have probably fled with concern to your sanity, would understand or that I could explain without a bloody nose) without being too freaked out to just pass out cold here (the fact that I am sick doesn’t really help things) but I’m too woozy to continue. The mere fact that our brains seem to share the same wavelength is something to be panicked about… but it sometimes seems that we have the same brain! She couldn’t very well be a clone of me or I of her, the world would not stand such monstrosity… but as I said, it is freaky.

Maybe she’s me when I grow up.

Now THAT is one SCARY thought.

(I’m exaggerating. It happens. And it is so much fun to use parenthesized comments (it’s a bit much don’t you think?). are you sure your sanity is still safe?)