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IF you’re too busy, you can’t even buy groceries despite the fact that the fridge is already empty, as in nothing in there, not even a single teeny weeny leaf of malunggay, and the cupboard is also empty, as in no more canned goods, not even a single bean of pork and beans, then you are absolutely, as in major major major busy.

Thus, we had a Jollibee breakfast last Saturday morning.

But miracles do happen. I smiled through it all. I was smiling on Thursday, smiling on Friday, smiling on Saturday. And I have to thank again our Team Building facilitator Maria Christina Itchon Concepcion for my new-found patience. Thanks much, Tina!

Yes, new-found. Meaning, it never existed before. Hahaha!

Without that patience, I would have… Hmmm. Let’s not talk na lang about what I would have done to some people’s necks.

But there’s something about total acceptance that makes everything easier to cope with. Let go of all your expectations and if a minute good thing happens, you’re happy.

And I’m so happy September 5 is over! Yehey!

Now, who else is happy? Senator Bongbong Marcos who’s running for president? Or is he not? I don’t mean he’s not happy. I mean he may not be running for president. But it’s more likely he’s running. Or is he not? Hahay.

Mr. Frozen is now considering having Marcos as his vice presidentiable. If this news came out in the ’70s and ’80s when Marcos meant the elder Marcos, this would have sent you into a coma until Mr. Frozen’s feeling had passed.

Mr. Frozen was a street parliamentarian who defended Pinoys against the elder Marcos’ alleged abuses, so for him to say now that the younger Marcos may become his vice presidentiable is like listening to Miss Piggy say she and Kermit have gone their separate ways. Wait, that’s not the same, no? But still, Miss Piggy and Kermit are no longer in a relationship? Get outta here! How could that happen? But it did and it has continued to stay that way, no thanks to their show’s executive producer Bill Prady who thought of the idea after watching an interview of the couple.

Yes, an interview starring Kermit and Miss Piggy where, according to Prady: “Just listening to it, I said it sounds like they broke up. They’re being really evasive. Then Bob Kushell said, ‘What if they’re broken up?’ and it seemed to make sense with what I saw when they were interviewed. It seemed like that couple that was putting up a public face but there was something going on.”

And, yes, he was still talking about Kermit and Miss Piggy.

Kushell is a producer and writer who’s also with The Muppets which may not look like a serious show but it does require a lot of work to keep it going, so that even Miss Piggy’s relationship with Kermit has garnered a high score in their hierarchy of priorities.

In a post on Facebook last August 5, Miss Piggy said, “After careful thought, thoughtful consideration and considerable squabbling, Kermit and moi made the difficult decision to terminate our romantic relationship. We will continue to work together on television and in all media now known or hereafter devised, in perpetuity, throughout the universe. However, our personal lives are now distinct and separate, and we will be seeing other people, pigs, frogs, et al. This is our only comment on this private matter. Thank you for your understanding.”

Kermit also posted the same statement on his FB account the day before, but with “Miss Piggy and I” instead of “Kermit and moi.”

Seriously? Yup, seriously.

Kermit is now dating Denise, a much slimmer version of Miss Piggy. Have had too much of Miss Piggy’s karate chops and fats I guess. So he looked for the slimmer–and younger?–piggy. Oh, men.

Meanwhile, gotta buy some pork chops to fill the fridge. And pork and beans for the cupboard.