fully Booked.

I took the day off.

I planned to spend the day with Pito. I did. But Pito has been terribly quiet for the past few days, it was driving me crazy. His eyes were drooping. He won't eat a thing and is asleep most of the time. When he's awake, he just sits lazily, looking very tired, his head slightly leaning to one side.

I am worried sick. I'm not at all used to his being silent almost all the time. I'm glad that he was starting to feel better before he got to bed. He definitely should feel better. We're celebrating his second birthday tomorrow. No kiddie parties this time. Just lunch at Leslie's with the whole family plus Archie. It will break my heart to see Pito not in the mood for some fun due to some stupid pneumonia. I wouldn't like that.

Since Pito spent most of the day in bed, and since I was still feeling tired from the long drive to Batangas City yesterday, I decided to do the famous catching up on sleep over the weekend thing. For a moment there I thought it was doing wonders but then I started to feel rather gloomy. I felt the urge to get up and do something. I bailed myself out of doing my homework and downloaded New Moon instead. I've just finished Twilight last Wednesday, finished it in fifteen hours so Archie and I can finally watch the movie after class on Thursday. Since then I've been wanting to finish all four books of the Twilight Saga. Unfortunately, since I am definitely one of the very few late bloomers who heard about the book ages ago but had just found time to read it since the movie is coming out, I had to pay the price. Now that I finally urged myself to understand this obsession every other readers have, I am having difficulty finding the books in bookstores! Now I feel like I'm in a trance. I haven't finished New Moon yet and I'm already thinking about the next book. And the next.

Yeah.
I feel like I'm in a trance.
I feel this really strong urge to click the Publish Post button right away and get back to New Moon.
Yeah. I am in a trance.
Now I feel like I would happily oblige.

My Crate Escape.

I am back for a moment. :)

I'll be back to school for my twelve noon class later on so while I'm having my three hour break, I decided to do something decent. It was a toss between reviewing my notes and blogging. Obviously, the latter won by a landslide. That would be two votes out of two since I only have two hands.
I just don't want my blog to feel rather left out. No, I didn't become Victor Van Dort's corpse bride. It's just that I am currently caught in my own whirlwind of school works and another 200 hours of internship and thesis and technical study and pre - board exam review during Saturdays. As much as I wanted to post something here before I forget the details of what I was going to write, I couldn't find the time. School has just been consuming all my time and energy.
There were few times I have been able to sneak away. Too bad some didn't last long. Before long Pito would either appear carrying a Walt Disney book or drag me outside to buy candy. Reading to Pito has become one of our cutest bonding moments. I try to teach him new words but he's just head over heels in love with Mickey Mouse whom he calls Wickey Mouse. I once tried to introduce Minnie Mouse to him. His efforts showed but Wickey Mouse has clearly won his heart.

Pito: (pointing to Minnie Mouse) Wickey Mouse!
Arnee: No. It's Minnie Mouse. Minnie.
Pito: Minnie Mouse?
Arnee: Yup! Minnie Mouse!
Pito: (happily) Minnie Wickey Mouse!

He was so happy while saying Minnie Wickey Mouse over and over again. It was like he had just found his new bestfriend.

So each morning, eventhough I'm almost late for school or the office, I would happily oblige whenever he sits beside me with a new Walt Disney book wide open while saying "Basa tayo!". The Walt Disney set, composed of books 1-18 were mine when I was young. Now I feel very proud that Pito has become so inclined to books. Thank you so much Wickey, I mean, Mickey Mouse! (wink)

Some of the very few times I managed to sneak away were mostly spent with Archie. We're either at the mall, the movie house or in my house watching DVD.

Still together! Still lost!

Skipper: We've lost engine one.
Private: And engine two is no longer on fire.
Kowalski:[on the microphone] This is your captain speaking. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we will be landing immediately.
[everyone claps]
Kowalski: Tha bad news is we're crash landing.

Last week , I dragged him into the movie house to watch Madagascar 2. As expected, we were laughing our heads off the whole time. I loved the first movie and I was crazy about this one too. :) Archie and I were among the four people who didn't come with kids. Everybody else was toting along little kids! It was fun seeing that they actually made seeing the movie a family affair. The movie wouldn't be the same without little kiddie faces lighting up once their parents finally got hold of their movie tickets. It was remarkable. As soon as the lights went out, I was laughing my heart out along with everybody else. :)

Lo and Behold!

... the new me.
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Yes, I am currently undergoing a transformation. Thanks to the countless sleepless nights and to the very few non-sleepless nights characterized by my 3 hours of sleep a day, I am about to become... (drum roll) a corpse bride.
Not that I'm getting married anytime soon. It's just that I'm currently dealing with a serious case of eye bags and being on my first day back to school does not contribute much on my plan to take action. There's just so much to do, so much to learn and so many things to deal with. Perhaps what keep us going is the fact that the end is drawing near and we are (hopefully) graduating!
This is it.
Welcome to our final semester. Now the only thing left to do is to leave no room for mistakes and make sure that the 'final' semester stays just that.

final(adj.)- last, concluding, finishing, ultimate, closing, end