I should be hating christmas
It’s exactly a month before Christmas and I’m a bit worried. I’m about to reach “broke status” when it comes to my savings the past few weeks, and my ATM is not a bit well too. It’s this time of the year when you get involved into so much exchange gifts you don’t realize you don’t have the money to buy gifts anymore. Add to these the many things I have to pay before Christmas time including the org jacket, my share in the laptop payment and the water supply in the dormitory. Geez. Lord help me.
I should be hating Christmas. You see, I’m the kuripot type. I’m not so much into giving gifts to people, except, of course, when I get involved in different exchange gifts stuff. I make it a point that I have at least a hundred pesos by midweek from my allowance. My strategy is that I leave the hundred at home so I won’t be able to spend it. Aside from that, I really keep my budget real tight during school days, opting for the cheaper food houses (i.e. Lutong Bahay) during lunch breaks and dinner. I also refrain from buying in-between meals. I know it’s a bit exage, but I make it a point that I reward myself whenever I have a lot of savings during a particular week through treating myself to some iced white choco-mocha espresso from Starbucks (love the caffeine and sugar overload) or fine dining in Katips resto (I recently dined at Kitaro with the org’s dinner group – kimmy, eli, con, ter, flau – and had a lot of time. And a lot money spent too. Haha). I was right when I told Ter and Con that night who my counterpart in the TV show “Let’s Go!” is. It’s Mike—the brainy, Scrooge-y, alaskador guy.
Well, talking about being alaskador, I think I went overboard the past week, especially last Friday. I feel that I pissed off Patty big time when I started dissing Gian’s (from Philippine Idol) “Bakit Pa Ba?” performance after the org’s GA, and then went on last Friday afternoon. It was just my opinion, but I think I should’ve shut my mouth up. Patty’s really crazy (uhmm… well, that’s an understatement) over the dude and I should’ve not spoiled her extremely-happy-mood-coz-of-Gian that day. Lesson learned.
Going back, Christmas is also the time of the year when everyone gains a lot of weight because of Noche Buena overeating. Call me metrosexual, extremely vain, bading, diet-conscious or whatever, but I just hate gaining weight. I hate getting my stomach really big even more. I dunno why. Maybe it’s just that I already went through that obesity stage in my life that I don’t want to cross the same river twice again. I’ve been eating just wheat bread and low fat milk for breakfast (and even lunch) the past few days just to cut off the weight I gained due too so much bumming during the sem break. I even went jogging with Con and Ter Friday morning to get myself some badly needed exercise. And here comes Christmas with the promise of so much food to eat and so much fats to take in. Geez. I should really be hating Christmas.
But why would I? Christmas is simply the happiest season of the year. Budget and diet be damned. I’m celebrating the Yuletide season in the best way I can.
