Overnight Sensation

Over the last month I've been spending a lot of time at my best friend Tristan's house. It's been a veritable renaissance of our relationship. Not quite pajama parties, it does involve sleepovers or, as we call them in Filipino parlance, "overnights" (as in overnight stays).

I realize that with my wedding coming soon (December 10th, with the great and awesome and utterly adorable Alecon) , spending my time like this with friends would be highly improbable; making this particular stretch even more precious.

Looking back at my adolescence and extended adolescence (I'm still there I think), I realize that I've spent quite a number of nights sleeping in other people's houses. I've had the privilege of having generous friends (especially back in college when I began to have friends who lived in other parts of the city) especially Nick and Patrick. After school I found myself bunking over other friends' house for leisure and sometimes project-related purposes (gaming, mostly) - Nico's, Gino's, Aljor's, and Mon's.

Isn't it quite wonderful to have been made to feel at home, in so many different homes?

When I'm not sleeping over at Tristan's, I'm spending my nights sleeping over at Alecon's. Of course I can only write this here because I don't think my future mother-in-law (Leticia), reads my blog. How do I get to sleep at Alecon's place despite the conservative vigilance of her mother?

Like with most heists to supposedly secure premises, it's an inside job. Alecon sneaks me in after midnight when her parents are asleep, then hustles me to sleep in a vacant maids' quarters. Her parents seem to swallow the story that I come in around 4-5 AM, but as to how can they (both parents are lawyers like their daughter) possibly believe that - it sure beats me.

Soon enough, I won't have to sleep over at Alecon's because I'll be moving in. After we get married she said she wouldn't be too averse to my doing slumber parties with Tristan - perhaps then I could have friends over and host my own. I've always wanted to be generous, everyday gives me new opportunities to be so.