TODAY.

My feet hurts like hell, like I’ve been on community walk for the past five days (when really all we did was watch movies, ride taxis, talk about socially uncomfortable topics and hang out in NB 203 for our social hygiene clinic duty) and like I’ve been on ICU duty with nursing process and case presentation on the same week. I haven’t but we’ll get on that later.

Today, I woke up at about 7:30 AM. We were supposed to have a competency exam at 8. I panicked but time was on my side. I was able to take the exam which, upon the prompting of a description, I would call funny. Because, it is. Some parts were impossible to answer and some were what-do-you-think-of-me-STUPID questions. The last part was beyond hilarious where they made us write application letters. We probably got it down pat from the way we had to do absolutely perfect application letters in our Nursing Leadership and Management class.

We had to meet for seminar and we brainstormed once again for a speaker (ASDFGHJKL.) After that, Kai, Careen, Irvin, and I had our graduation pictures taken (MAKEUPCAKEGRR) and we had a late lunch at Pizza Hut. Aien joined us because we wanted to watch The Vow on SM City.

We hurriedly left after lunch (since I have a 4pm curfew hahaha) and as we arrived in SM City, Pintakasi was on Cinema #8 and The Vow was still in Davao. My dreambook (as opposed to dreamboy) (oh hey it’s Valentimes) was nowhere to be seen in NBS but I left my number with them just in case. There were no prom-mable dresses in sight. Progress was really not present there. Unless, you count Nylon magazine for me and a Meg Cabot book for Aien as progress.

We rode the jeep to Alta Moda to further our prom dress research. That was where the real problem started. I don’t understand why Aien is still not used to cigarette heels after four years of having to wear them. We had to walk up to the second floor and be drowned in enormous ball gowns and cocktail gowns with no one to help us but one unhelpful slightly cranky girl who actually only helped us ONCE. (I’m sorry for the run-on.)

We left in pain (physically) and we walked to San Ag so we can ride a jeep to Atrium. I tried on some day dresses for tomorrow’s event and I also tried to dissuade Aien from eating at McDo. I don’t really want to be the one responsible for the utter dismemberment of her New Year’s Resolution—in all caps, yes.

We, again, walked to Amigo so we can eat at Blue Jay. It was a great way to end the day mostly due to the wifi, the comfy seats, and the lack of red paper hearts with stuffed toys dangling off them.

We didn’t accomplish anything at all but it was really fun to make fun of ourselves for certain things lacking in our lives (certain things and not necessarily people) and just eat our worries away (both figuratively and literally.)

On both bright and dark busy days, this is all just what we need: to run around searching for the perfect prom dress in heels. I mean, to de-stress.