I know that it’s a couple of days late, but it’s the thought that counts, yes? I thought so.
1. I finally got a job. Sure, it’s not what I was hoping to get, but I’ll do that sickeningly optimistic thing and vies this as my first lesson in adulthood: you can’t always get what you want. I’m sure it’ll all work itself out right in the end.
2. I just finished reading, or re-reading in this case, my book of the month: Neil Gaiman’s Stardust. I just read it last year but I re-read it because I chickened out of reading Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. I love that it still managed to get me to feel the same feelings I felt when I first cracked it open.
3. I now got to meet a lot of new people and thus my sociability skills have been put to the test. After one whole year of living as a recluse in the comfort of my own walls, I now have to, on a daily basis, live with two complete strangers and mingle with forty newly nursing graduates.
4. My reading Saunders is actually progressing. After how many months of staring at the damned book sitting on top of my desk, I’ve finally found the strength and fortitude to go through the chapters while I sit in during lectures.
5. I got to interact with my old professors in a way that I’ve never done before. It’s one of those undefined perks that I have with this job, I guess; they treat me as sort of their equal now and they divulge more information now, sometimes way too much for my liking.
5. I’m still one signature away from my Intravenous License. Arg that silly staff nurse for taking two whole weeks off from work, thus making me wait two more weeks for that golden signature.
6. My brother’s on full karir mode now, and I can’t hold it against him without looking like a brat. So I do what I do best: snap at him. I think he’s sort of reduced to a cowering ball of blubber whenever I’m inside the room because I think he still doesn’t know what irks me so.
7. I got to treat myself to half a day’s worth of pampering on the last day of April with Ayzee. We were spent because we were off in a wild goose chase earlier that day so we decided to get our eyebrows done, get a foot spa and get our nails done. Uber fun and I’ll be sure to do it again.
8. I actually got my first ever pay, sort of. Well Aprils 15 and 16 were my days off but my bosses asked me to check something out at PRC. When we saw each other on the 17th lo and behold, they handed me a glittering 500-peso bill for my troubles. Coolness. And the first thing I bought? A steaming cup of coffee from McDonald’s, of course.
9. I finished my 40-day coffee abstinence. I honestly didn’t think that I’d last that long, but I did. Huh.
10. I bonded with a whole new group of cousins this month. It was unfortunate that I wasn’t able to go to their mini-reunion last April 18th, but I’m sure there’ll be a next time.
11. I’m still waiting for the arrival of my NMAT result. I don’t know if I should be worried at the fact that I’m not at all worrying about it.
It’s been a pretty eventful month and it’s mostly because of this new job. Hey, thank goodness for small favors, right?
