Rainy Days & Thursdays November 15, 2007

When I left the house for work last night it wasn’t raining - yet. Almost always when I get in the car and start the engine I open my window, of course, the engine’s not heated yet so I don’t turn on the aircon until I’ve drove a bit already. I stopped by a friendly neighborhood convenient store to buy cigarettes, so naturally I’ll have to close my window — but nooo it won’t close! The, uhm, motor’s getting jammed so the window won’t close all the way and the glass is not going in between the rubber around the window. At this point, it has already started drizzling. I was, ok, it’s not actually raining, a light drizzle won’t get thru the itty bitty space of the window. It takes me about an hour - hour and a half to get to work, depending on the traffic but with my schedule it’s always traffic - rush hour sucks. So, it starts to drizzle harder. The car’s constantly moving so I really didn’t get wet. I got to the office safe & dry.

This morning on my way home, it was drizzling again so that’s fine because I survived last night’s drive. I picked up M (same M from previous posts) at Medical City because a processor from the office was rushed to the hospital for abdominal pains (it wasn’t gas, wasn’t the appendix - it was on the opposite side anyway, and popping a pain reliever and putting a hot compress didn’t work either). She was injected a sedative (lucky! haha) and they needed to wait before blood & urine tests can be done so M & I decided that I’ll just pick her up and have breakfast. Before leaving the office I tried my darnest to pull up my window as close as it can so that it’ll at least reach the rubber.

When it rains, it pours. Turns out there’s a low pressure area or something somewhere; that’s why we suddenly have this heavy downpour even if there’s no typhoon coming. We decided to have breakfast at McDonald’s. I parked the car and again pulled at the window (by this time it was raining hard already) attempting to close out the small gap between glass & rubber. I figured it was ok already. While eating, it really rained hard. Subconsciously, I was thinking of my car window and sure that my seat was getting wet already since the car wasn’t moving the rain would just drip in. After eating, as soon as I got to the car and opened the door - whaddayaknow, the seat is wet. Good thing I have a small rag in the car so I just sat on that. I brought M back to the hospital and went on my merry way.

On the way home, it rained even harder! I didn’t think that it would get worse, but it did. Didn’t really get wet anymore because I closed the gap already but still, I’ll have to have the window fixed. So I went to an uncle’s (dad’s friend) shop to have it fixed but the mechanic wasn’t there yet so I just went home and made sure that the gap wasn’t there anymore.

I still enjoy driving in the rain.

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Our 13th month pay was credited today, together with our salary. Woopee! I borrowed P2,000 (rough estimate: $45.45) from M last week so when I checked how much salary I got, I withdrew 2k for her already. She treated me to breakfast though, so that’s nice. I ordered a Big Breakfast (1 sausage, scrambled eggs then muffin or rice - I had rice) plus a hash brown, hehe. Oh and hot chocolate too since it’s raining.

I just finished reading Killjoy by Julie Garwood. I looove romance novels and this particular one, I’ve read twice already prior to my reading it recently, so this is the 3rd already. I’m like that, if I don’t have new book I read old ones. And if they’re old ones, I usually read 2 at a time since I know the story already I just like reading mushy romantic stuff all over again, hehe.

Can’t wait for the weekend!