Rewind: January 2024

I know it’s cliche but it still blows my. mind every time I write one of these entries because I know that an entire month has gone by (yet again! it keeps happening) and I take stock of what I’ve done with my days. And for January, a lot of things happened.

LOVING

Celebrating friends is something I love doing and so kicking off the birthdays for the year is Denise. I’m so glad we were able to get together before all the trips got hectic and everyone is flying (i.e so long Erica, singapore will miss you!). I’m also really happy that I got some 1-on-1 time with the birthday girl because I do love my smaller group settings.

Chetna was also in town for a hot second and I’m so grateful that Ami hosted us in her lovely place with Maxence. And it was the first time we hung out since Ami got engaged and so it was super lovely to catch up with everyone and eat really yummy Thai food that I definitely over-indulged in. It’s been really nice seeing everyone even for a bit.

Working On

As I’ve waxed poetic time and time again in this blog because that’s all I ever do, I really am trying to get into being good about exercise better. And if it takes taking gym selfies to prove it to myself that I’m doing this, then so be it. I still need to get a hang of inserting these things in my days that are now much later in bed time because of work calls but I also want to make sure that I’m doing things I like and I’ve narrowed it down to Pilates, Strength Training and Swimming as priority and Yoga and Running as my back-up plans if I still have energy and so far so good.

Feeling

I’ve always known that i wast a bit of a paranoid person but it definitely got to full blown anxiety when Taylor told me wanted to go to Moscow in January. Given his US citizen status and a bit of a rebel, I was definitely worried about how this would all turn out for him. As much as I wanted to go, my Filipino passport just couldn’t take the risk of not being let into the US in June when Paola gets married because I have a russian stamp. And so I did what I knew best, found someone to hang out with in Russia. And thanks to Ami, who got me to Lydia who got me Timothy, I could rest easy knowing that Taylor knew at least one person in Moscow. And the relief I felt when he got back in one piece (even after getting detained at Moscow immigration for one hour when he arrived), cannot be compared. I’m so glad he made it out safe and enjoyed himself.