my January in fast forward

It's been more than a month since I got out of my shell and breathed hard for what seemed to be eternity in cyberzone. I am back and missed blogging more than anything. Both my Facebook and Friendster accounts had been lethargic and I just had to get back and see what was happening online.
The real world seem to pull me hard in more ways than one. I thought I could just skip a few things here and there but I told myself that there will be no more shortcuts this time. If I have to work hard for something I wanted, I might as well take whatever's needed with a lot of determination and perseverance to get it, without stepping on people's toes.
My current job had been a real stress for a whole month! Studying to get the right control, system and hot keys, memorizing scripts and the trick of hand-eye coordination had been eating my sanity. Whew!
I get up at 5 in the morning on a Monday then sleep when I get home at 2pm, after which I get up at midnight where I study then get ready by 5am. I never had this kind of rigorous training in my entire career! When weekend hits, me and my co-workers go to a watering hole, I usually down 2 bottles which I normally wouldn't do and pretend I'm drunk so I could go home, puke, take a shower and doze off.
My parents, mom most specially, is encouraging me to leave Manila for a few months and go to Baguio to have myself get medical attention but the stubborn girl that I was, I needed to settle a lot of things here first before anything else. My brother was getting a computer here and my mom finally bought one for herself and was sweetly bribing me to own it only if I work in Baguio.
A few days ago I got Cher to waste the whole afternoon. I bought my well-deserved Twilight series paperback books at Fully Booked and we headed straight to Alan's grill where we finished off an entire bucket. Cher, being the drama princess that she was, looked at me in exaggerated horror as I took big gulps of my beer and talked about the pressure of work, family, leaving Manila and friends. She listened to me patiently as she took out the remaining bottles in the beer bucket. I noticed I haven't eaten the whole day so my mind swirled and everything just looked lopsided from where I was sitting. I haven't had a chance of getting a really nice decent meal since I started this work and five pounds bid me farewell and left me with two loosely-fitted jeans. When I came home I finished New Moon in less than three hours, I was about to get the next book but the roosters outside crowed like crazy signalling that it was early morning.
I also went out with one of my best friends Tina, where we spend the night munching on pizza and gossiped about the past. I asked her: "What is one of the most important thing a person has ever done that was influenced by you?" and Tina had answered in a i'm-fit-for-the-job-and-I-speak-in-Starbucks-english serious kind of way, when she asked me the same question I told her that I was proud of my sister because she was influenced on how I ate my butter-flavored Nagaraya cracking the shell and taking the peanuts out. Like eating butong pakwan only opposite. She laughed at me and understood most of our conversation weren't making sense but we were having a great time.
2009 is scarier than I thought but I'm willing to face it with all the strength I could muster --- Bring it on!