Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Yesterday, one of my plants died. I then wondered how many more will have to give their lives up before I realize that I’m not really a green thumb and that I should probably forget about having these suicidal green things in my house. When I confessed my lack of discipline in watering the plants to a friend, she exclaimed: How can you forget to water them??? I cannot drink myself without remembering to water my own plants first. After all, think of how thirsty they’ll get! I guess I’m too busy quenching my own thirst to remember to feed decorations along the house. Huh!

It wasnt my fault that the stupid plant died in the first place. My faithful maid, who by the way, waters the plants herself without being told (probably cause she knows the final fate of the plants otherwise) stayed on leave for an extended period of time. She finally got back yesterday and the rest was history.

I’ve attracted so many comments from friends, acquaintances and strangers about the lack of my watering skills, call it apathy if you will; that I’m now beginning to resent these plants that I so lovingly bought many months ago. As it is, the ants outside the house got to many of them and a few were martyred by these white things that look like powder but actually lay eggs inside the plant. Just like in the AVP movies.

As I write this, I look back to this day gone by and realize that I put my day off from office to good use – ranting about unwanted things in the house. And now, the sky turns darker as I speak. The solar eclipse’s along the way and I’ve already called up all my relatives to tell them not to look at the sun directly. The sky’s cloudy and my sight goes dim, I have to stop for the night. Winkie stood in the doorway, I heard the door bell ring. And I was thinking to myself, why the hell am I beginning to sound like a doomsday song???