can you believe i just got home a few minutes ago?
that's the only thing I hate about having a late
(8:30p or 9:00p) session at the spa.
i spent a total of 35 minutes just sitting there waiting
for the BART to arrive.
Add on an additional 45 minute train ride
and what do you get?
me coming home in the middle of the night. grrrrrrrr!!!!

adobo and rice on HWY 5
in my tired state I was going to give up packing altogether tonight,
but somehow my second wind just blew in.
'loaded some clothes in the washer and will start
folding the clean ones after this blog.

I made a list of things to pack on my way to and from work today.
As usual, it is scattered like my brain.
But at least it's all right there in front of me.
I have no excuse for forgetting anything.

'Gonna bring some cooking stuff
since we don't want to spend too much money
on food.
well, it's mostly me that's on a budget, but
damn, it's kinda fun to cook corned beef and rice
right there in your hotel room!

When we would go on trips as a kid,
that was just normal.
Shoot, my mom brought everything:
a wok (for cooking stuff like corned beef),
a rice cooker (for cooking rice...and hard boiled eggs),
an electric kettle to heat up water (for our Cup O' Noodle Soups)
...everything!

Sometimes, my mom would prepare the food in advance.
We had this cool food container that was stackable.
Hence, you could have fried fish on one level and longanisa or
fried chicken on another.
It was quite the thing to have.
If not that, a good ol tupperware full of adobo did just fine.

As a kid, I often thought this whole
"bring your filipino kitchen on the road with you" thing
was pretty ghetto.
I mean, all the other traveling kids and their parents were
going through the drive-throughs ordering fries and a burger,
or buying a slurpy from the mini mart at the gas station
while I sat at the concrete table at one of the rest stops
eating my rice and adobo in the middle of
freakin' highway 5...

Ahhh...how naive i was then.
Nowadays i'd even consider bringing my damn
toaster to my hotel room! ;)

spoke too soon
but, alas, my second wind is slowly dying.
got...to...get...s o m e....s h u t e y e

zzzzzzzzz (drool) zzzzzzz