tribute to lazy days

One of the things I like most in life is having lazy days.

 

Lazy days are when you get up late in the morning, with nothing big planned, when you just mope around and let the time pass by.

 

Lazy days are best spent in the company of s.o.’s and good friends. You wake up, have breakfast, sip coffee, talk about anything under the sun, walk around in pajamas and do nothing. Play a record or two, watch a game on TV, basically do anything that doesn’t require any brain effort.

 

Here are my top 6 lazy day memories.

 

6. In high school, when there is a storm and classes are suspended, lazy day classics begin. Surprisingly, on days like those, people wake up more vibrantly and relatively start the day earlier.  Walk around in campus wearing sleepwear and slippers (pat pat slippers club), eat spaghetti soup and stroll along campus. Occasionally, you have to urge to put a pocket full of leaves or flowers on your pockets to “surprise-shower” on the hair of your friend. Sometimes you get to wander around next to the gym to pick sunflowers for someone special…(hehe. ;-))

5. Circa 1993-1994, spend overnight with friends at Peng’s and wake up lazily after a night of “pseudo” drinking, and shrieks and conversations, have breakfast and sit around and wait for enough energy to take a bath and travel back to campus.

4. Circa 1997-1998, spend a summer overnight at Maita’s Katips apartment. Wake up drunk and groggy. Walk in sleepwear and slippers and order take-out at Mcdo Katipunan. With all the Ateneo and Miriam colegialas giving you the eye. Is it because the service counter attendants always raise their voice a little louder when they ask back, “ So you ordered 1 Singles meal and 5 packs of extra rice?”…You nod and go back and eat Maui’s adobo to your hearts content.

3. Circa 1998-2000, lazy days at UP. Eat at beach house and tambay at the sunken garden. The highlight of your day is getting asked for isaw or coffee or an early beer at ISMED.

2. From 2000 and onwards, Maui’s place. Wake up after a party or DEM night-outs, have brunch. Lazily sit around and intellectually discuss everything from F1 to tennis, to girls and movies, to conspiracies and adventures. Forget that it’s not the weekend, and skip work. Just talk and find yourself too lazy to even go out and watch a movie. Comfort a heartbroken soul. Encourage one to leave the crappy job. Sulk about the stresses at work and just share laughs and gossip.

1. Cubi apartment 2006-2008. Wake up late. While I clean the car, loml makes breakfast. Spend the day adoring each other, and just stay in. Watch an old movie or two.

 

Just this weekend I found myself having one of those days. I only went out yesterday to go to mass. And today, I don’t even have the energy to go out and get groceries. Writing this in my pajamas still. Having a chocolate muffin and coffee for lunch. Listening to all the songs and making mixtapes in my head.

 

I hope we never run out of lazy days, wherever we are in the world, and whomever we spend them with.

 

Sunday, August 10, 2008

11:44:58 AM