Since the earthquake here in bicolandia on Friday night, we’ve been experiencing after-shocks.

It’s really weird. I’m still dizzy! It’s like every hour or so, there are tremors.

I didn’t sleep the whole night last night. I’ve gained my strength and I have been bouncing back over the weekend with my still existing online commitments. This morning at around 11 am, I was finally dozing off in front of my computer while sitting down, in the middle of a blog post. Ha ha!

Weird feeling too, I thought I was dreaming. So I told my mother I really gotta grab some sleep while I still can, so she watched over Raine. It’s Monday but a National Holiday here, so the school boys are home.

Last Saturday, we did another rearrangement in the house. I had the tv removed from this space where I have the computer and our bed too. Raine and I are still co-sleeping in my old twin bed. (I gotta do something about that too, very soon!) Then an improvised divider was placed to separate us from the rest of the house.  At least we have a little privacy, in a house that’s like an eternal open house to close neighbors and yeah..what can I say? The relatives!

I don’t want any more chismis that’s all. If somebody have a problem with me or my mother, just tell us right in our faces and I’ll deal with it straight in your face too. Well, I haven’t really gone out beyond the bounds of what’s ours here in the more than two years that Raine and I are home, still people can find a way of gossiping their hearts out.

Well anyway…all my little ‘misfortunes’ I’ve got only myself to blame. I fall down and rise up…for my sake and my little family’s sake here that I care about. It’s not because I gotta save my face and what other people might think about or say about me.

Life is tough and each and everyone of us have our struggles. That doesn’t mean one is doing better than the other. One’s problem could be finding the right acne product while other could be finding the right formula to get rich. That doesn’t mean the first is no big deal than the later. It’s all a matter of relativity after all. ;-)

Everyone of us have our own little battles and ghosts to exorcise. We just try to do the best we can, even if most of the time your best may not be good enough.

I still do my best anyway. Even if it is only swaying over the trembling grounds just to keep from fumbling over. We’ll see how many aftershocks we get tonight ’til sun up.