All That “Sugar Daddy”-talk

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The beginning of the year overwhelmed me with bills and other money worries and it got too much that I was already having anxiety attacks because of it. 

Before y’all get judgy on me, I’m not really bad in my finances. I usually spend within my means, not into buying things that are branded or expensive and I don’t borrow money from other people (see, when I was younger, I borrowed money from a relative and when I wasn’t able to pay on time she went and told our other relatives about it so that became a lesson to me not to do it again). 

But, yeah, I guess no matter how good you are in handling money matters, there will always be a time that bills would come one after the other and then another and another. Things like this can stress just about anyone and I know I’m not alone in this.  

Across the Multiverse

(SPOILERS AHEAD: I know not everyone has watched ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ because of the recent COVID surge so let this be a warning not to proceed further if you’re still planning to watch it.)

I reserved my ticket for the first day of showing (January 8) of ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ when Ayala Cinemas started pre-selling by the last week of December 2021. This was already delayed because foreign movies had to give way to local films because of the Metro Manila Film Festival.

Early Plot Twist

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So, I managed to not have COVID-19 since 2020 only to get it on the first week of 2022.

It started as an itchy throat by the end of December but nothing alarming. I chalked it up to having eaten something that irritated my throat. But the sensible part of me knew that I’d have to do something in case it worsens. So even if I was only having an itchy throat (not even painful) which kinda progressed to a dry cough, I already started wearing masks even while at home and kept my distance when I talk to my mom and the kids.