Franz Marie Cruz’s Diary

my mom has superpowers. she knows, she smells, she does. 

last monday, i tried to wipe a chemical stain on the dashboard of her car with acetone, thinking it was a universal solvent. (hey, it’s what i use when i need to unglue my fingers from Supaglue.) and well it wasn’t ( a universal solvent, i mean).  3 days later, she opened that car and asked me why it smelled of acetone?!?! 

there was also this time when i borrowed her car for a day and she asked me when i got back where i went and why i used so much gas. i only drove to manila, had no ther side trips.  The next day, I borrowed her car again and ang bilin nya before i left was "wag masyadong malakas ang aircon".  And then i remembered, I turned the aircon up the day before. 

i don’t think i can hide anything from her. i once burned a small part of a carpet in our room in manila with the iron.  I tried to hid the burnt part under the bed.   she discovered it the following day.

what are her other superpowers? she makes crosstitch projects (we have 3 framed at home, she stopped when she had to wear glasses for presbyopia), sews curtains, table runners, pillowcases, makes beanbags, reupholsters some of the furniture here at home, does a bit of electrical work, drives like she’s always in a car chase, does the grocery twice a week, runs all sort of errands for my dad, me and my 2 brothers, delivers babies, holds her clinic 5 days a week, attends to 3 hospital regularly, goes on duties,  designed my prom dresses in HS, did my HE projects and attended my math contests when i was in gradeschool, took the board exams with 2 young kids….and i swear the list goes on.

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