Monday, December 8, 2025

Last night I took my Diphenhydramine and Zopiclona tablets and went to bed at 10pm. I quickly fell asleep, got up once at 4:15 (still heard fireworks), finally waking/getting up at 6:45.

Today is another holiday, Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

I left the apt at 8:30 and found Smartfit not as busy as usual. I completed my workout including 16 minutes on the treadmill reaching a pulse rate of 121 bpm so maybe I’m improving. By the time I left, the gym was as busy as usual.

I had a latte in Ganso y Castor while going through my cellphone.

I caught the squirrel on video taking the peanut.

And again when it returned to look for another

Anthony informed me there will be more fireworks tonight. I left at 10:30 and returned to the apt.

At noon we took a Didi to Arkadia mall for 12,500 pesos (probably so cheap because there wasn’t any heavy traffic).

Just inside the main entrance Teresa saw Olivia restaurant and decided we’ll eat there. Surprisingly, she ordered a plate of garlic bread as an appetizer (I think she thought it was just going to be a couple pieces – it was more like naan bread the size of a medium pizza).

 It was very good but when they brought our entrees, meatball pasta for her and pasta ragu for me both included 2 pieces of bread.

(Who is this woman and what have you done with my wife?) We shared a bottle of water and the check came to 115,378 pesos ($31), including the usual 10% tip.

I let Teresa work on her latest bracelet project while I went up to have something printed. I took the nearest elevator up to the 5^th floor but my end of the hall was separated from the end I needed by a Smartfit. I had to take the elevator down to the 4^th floor walk to the end of the hall and take the elevator from there up to the 5^th floor. Unfortunately, the copy center was closed, probably for the holiday.

I stopped in the restroom on my way back to the restaurant. Teresa stopped in Decathlon but I don’t know what she was looking for. We left the mall and walked across the street to Pricesmart where we bought 3 turkey breasts, a 3-pack of Sensodyne toothpaste, a large package of blueberries and some vegetables for 396,205 pesos ($105.50). At the top of the escalator a Pricesmart employee took our cart down the escalator and to the taxi area where one was waiting for us. We returned to the apt for 16,000 pesos.

I took a 30-minute nap and it rained a little while I was sleeping.

I finished season 4 of Downton Abbey, only 1 season to go.

Today I walked 5,765 steps; much better.

 

FUNNY