Feb 2, 2024

In the morning, I had some work done and my workload for today seemed pretty light. I mostly coasted through some work items for today. I feel like I ate so much food today and my fullness from yesterday still wasn't gone.

In the afternoon, I was completing a task that I couldn't figure out. By evening, I was pretty much left alone doing my own things after work. Around 10 p.m., Meryll and I joined a call to watch Elemental (2023). We had planned this since last week but I had to meet Badet so it was rescheduled to today. It's been a few weeks since we last talked so we had a lot of stories to tell each other. We talked about a lot of things for the first hour, especially about work. I had my second account join the server and had the movie pulled up, but we were an hour in and we still haven't started the movie! It was funny because both of us were just talked a lot longer than the usual "hi, hello, how are you?" and then watched the film. Then Max joined in on the call once we saw that she was awake. It was pretty funny how she didn't have stable Internet and I was wheezing because of it. Max stays for a bit and we all talk about meeting up again on the 24th. It got to the point where it was around 11:50 or so and we 3 were still talking on Discord, just talking.

Max left shortly after that, Meryll and I laughed at how it was midnight and we hadn't watched the film yet. It's been 2 hours since we last planned to play the film but we were both caught up in talking and gossip. We eventually watched Elemental and it was a pretty cute film between 2 budding lovers. Going into it, I did not expect it to be a romance & comedy film. I was expecting it to be something along the lines of Up (2009), or The Incredibles (2004), or Monsters Inc (2001). It tugged on me a lot because I've been wanting a cute romance story in my own life, I want to magically meet someone new one day and have a fun, lighthearted romance with them. A few tears were shed from my side and Meryll had already seen the film, so nothing was new to her. One weird thing I noticed while watching was that I had to remind myself that I'm watching the film with Meryll and not with someone, which kind of surprised me. The film ended on a cute note and we talked a lot while watching the film. Meryll had a lot of insights and it was funny how alike were our thoughts throughout the film.

After watching and while the credits were rolling, we got to talk about other things and I even expressed some of my hidden frustrations about life and my current situation. It really has been a while since I talked to anyone about my problems and Meryll attentively listened with the problems I was carrying. It was really nice because all I wanted, recently, is just to be acknowledged. To have my struggles validated, and know that my frustrations are worth getting mad at. We talked for a bit more about her things and then I showed her the inner workings of my mood calendar.

All in all, it was really nice to have a friend to talk to, watch movies with, and also have a friend group that plans on doing more things in the future. It made for a really good day.