and i thought i was being wise :-(

one of the things that you won’t get away from when you’re getting married (especially people you didn’t invite attending your wedding) is the fact that you’re going to receive two or more gifts of the same kind.  you’re going to get two rice cookers, three or more albums, two blenders, four sets of cutleries of different colors and different materials, six sets of glasses, three sets of cups and saucers, two sets of pots and pans, two sets of punch bowls (one plastic and one glass), and a variety of other knickknacks that don’t match.  not that am cataloging what we received during our wedding day, mind you, this is just a sample list.  hehehe.

anyhoo, it can be a huge nightmare, really, especially if you’re going to move into your own home, and you want all things color-coordinated.  but what can you do, really?  they’re gifts.  you can’t just throw them away or hide them forever under your closet.

but there’s one thing though that you can do with them…

…give them as wedding gifts to other couple’s who are getting married!

s’okay, bo and i were invited to attend a wedding tomorrow.  in fact, ninang ako, ninong si bo, so we have no excuse not to attend, really, and i do so want to skip it.  have so much work to do tomorrow that am really, really thinking of missing the whole thing.

since we have no way out of it, we quit complaining and just decided to…attend.  anyway, bo has to go to the farm tomorrow naman and, like i said, i have so many deadlines to meet, so we’re going to skip the reception na lang and come straight home after the wedding ceremony.  am glad though, it’s like hitting two birds with one stone.  one, we don’t have to miss the ceremony but we can go home early to *sigh* work, and two, we get to avoid pinning the tail on the donkey…ooopppsss!!!…pinning the money on her wedding dress for the pantomina.  ehehehe.

and since we’re both really, really, really short on cash right now, i decided to recycle.  all right…go ahead…call me stingy ’coz i am stingy, so sue me!  hehehe.

anyhoo, to make the story short, i took out the extra album i still have from our wedding day and was about to wrap it when, fortunately, i recognized that it was the box where i kept all the little envelopes and all the little cards we received during the big-m day.  so, of course, i removed them.  it would be very embarrassing to give the album as a wedding gift to the newlyweds and then they’ll discover a card tucked away saying “to gords and jinx, may you both have blah blah blah blah.”

so, yey!  one disaster avoided!

was really giving myself a big pat on the back and mentally clapping my hands in glee when i noticed a picture of gords sticking out from one of the pages.  now, i really have to check the pages one by one in case something else was stuck in there that would make it so glaringly obvious that it was…errrr…recycled.

nope, no more pics or cards or envelopes.  and no more…

…FUCK!!!!

in a very big handwriting written in blue pentel pen, these words were dominating the back cover of the freaking album!  on the back cover of what was going to be OUR gift to the couple tomorrow!

“to gordon and gina (who the freaking fuck is gina?!  my name is jinx! j-i-n-x!  hmmmm…..must be from gords’ side as my side knows who exactly is getting married…and knows exactly what her name is.)

may our good lord bless your marriage life, and be the center of your marriage.

from:  -=- won’t mention the name of the giver here, so pardon me.  hehehe -=-“

NNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

i have NOT seen this message when we opened the gift three years ago.  in fact, who writes on the back cover of an album, anyway????

fucking fuckity fuck fuck!!!

now, bo and i are going to be gift-less tomorrow, and it’s so freaking late to look for another gift, and anyway, that was the last wedding gift i have kept that gords and i won’t be using and was intending for such an occasion.

fuck it!  fuck it!  fuck it!

fu————-SHIT!!!!  shit! shIT!!  SHIT!!!

me (in a very panicky voice): gords, didn’t we give ******* the other album when they got married?!?!?!??!

gords (nodding his head): yep, why?

me (showing him the back of the album): goooorrdddsss!!!!!!

gords (laughing hysterically): you didn’t check it?

me (wiping sweat off my now very sweaty and very sticky forehead.  just had a bath, mind you): no, it didn’t cross my mind to check for any messages.  who would’ve thought?

yeah, who would’ve thought, right?  i sure didn’t, and look where it got me?  am freaking panicking here from thinking about a thousand “what-ifs!” and a thousand scenarios of what am going to say and what am going to do when i see the couple and they ASKED me about it.

oh, fuck!

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