Socia-ble

I legitimately thought today was going to be bad. Like, straight up just horrible. But I actually managed to turn it around by the end, as luck would have it.

I woke up fairly early in the morning and made myself breakfast. I got to finally cook and eat that spicy cheese Buldak ramen I bought yesterday. I even made the perfect sunny side up egg to go along with it, and it was just pure heaven eating them, honestly. I was very proud of myself for making a good breakfast. I got to work and got a lot of morning tasks done in.

As for lunch, I had to walk for a bit to actually buy lunch and it was hot as hell outside. I just brought my earbuds and smartwatch there, without my phone, and it was a pretty nice commute (even though it was hell to walk through it). The food I got was really nice, though, the perfect way of cooking Bicol express. It had a lot of coconut milk mixed in, honestly really good. I tried to rest for a bit during lunchtime, and finished my work day by completing menial tasks.

When all was said and done, though, I felt mostly alone. I wasn't in a call, I was off on my own after that. I changed my Discord profile picture to something funny and I got into a long, fun conversation with Rachel. I also talked to Kai in the evening as well on Telegram, and also with one other person. But the highlight of my night was reconnecting with my old JS Prom partner from my senior year in high school.

She posted a pic of XG going on a world tour. I'm fairly interested in anything K-Pop and I've actually liked a few songs from XG. So we got to talking about K-Pop and the groups we both stan, we made jokes, and even caught up on our mutual friend groups since high school. Since I'm just engrossed in current pop culture, I got to talk a lot with her and she was pretty fun to talk to. I honestly was super relieved to know someone who watched Dune: Part Two and they even shared a meme from Dune. We talked about a lot of other things and I invited her to watch Wicked (2024) with me. It was a super fun conversation and it seriously brightened my mood for the day. By the end, she was grateful that we reconnected and it honestly warmed my heart. It's been such a long time since I've felt gratitude from someone and I just feel really happy.

To top it all off, I also did some miscellaneous stuff today like sign up for a Buddhist meditation lesson for April and I talked to LK throughout the day! I missed talking to LK so much and she was so fun to talk to as well. The amount of people I talked to today made me really happy, and how all those conversations flowed so smoothly made me really, really happy. Rachel even featured our convo in her IG Story, so I'm pretty thankful for that.

Today was really, really good. I know I'm extroverted but damn, I didn't know having such good conversations could help me feel so much better. I wish I could have more days like this. And, I completed 3 major things for my AWS exam this weekend.

Also, I just realized that I talked to my 2 prom partners from high school today. Those were all 9 and 10 years away! I knew I was good at maintaining connections, but damn, I'm impressed.