FN Blog - Seven heads are better than one!

Without a doubt, this holiday there will be a lot of naughtiness in the air and I am not spared from this. The dizziness of December makes me volatile since there are lots of deadlines to be met before the 15th, dinners from so many corporate Christmas parties, and not to mention the perks of receiving gifts at the end of the event.

And perks are admittedly the core of all my naughtiness, because these gift-perks make me lazy to do my Christmas shopping—so I end up recycling them. This practically kills the romance of the gift-buying spree of the season. To most of us, the process of personally picking gifts and wrapping them makes this season so special to us. And this season I will beg for your pardon if you get recycled gifts. However, it’s the thought that counts, right?

For the Christmas program at nursery school, I was cast as “mommy” in our production of “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” It was a pretty meaty role, and I remember wearing a little floral duster as I rendezvoused with jolly ol’ St. Nick by the Christmas tree.

Two things about this incident stand out in my memory. The first was that Santa, played by a classmate whom we shall call Georgy Porgy, was supposed to give me a peck on the cheek. But he ended up kissing me on the lips! I really don’t know if I’m making this up, but I distinctly remember vigorously wiping my lips with the back of my hand right after he committed the crime of stealing my first kiss. (Years later, another classmate told me, “Ah si Georgy? Naghuhubad ‘yun tuwing absent ka eh!” I filed that revelation under “too much information.”)
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