NIcknames

For Pat, and everyone else who may find this interesting...

Yacel - how I'm called by my most of the people who know me (childhood playmates, close relatives, colleagues, schoolmates, orgmates, friends)
Yaz - close friends
Roselle - professors, acquaintances, some friends from elementary and high school, or mom when I haven't been a good girl
Baby - mom, without the moods
Honey - mom, on lambing mode
Kikai - mom and her friends
Pukingking - ONLY my Lolo and Lola call me this!!!
Ate Tingting - my super lovable little cousins and their parents
Bonj - my gorgeous KALBO girls
Bonjskie - Kay
Bonjita - Kathy
Ate Yace - Benjo
Te Ya - roommates Joie and Eleiza
Tabachingching/Tabaching/Tabz (depending upon my "inflation rate") - those unfortunate visually impaired guys (Allan, Bars, Ozie)
Fatfat - Patpat (Erikson), he's obviously visually impaired as well
Baby Sis - my one and only Brother Bear Kietly
Hasel - Eszard's Tiyo Maning (he must have learned of what a hassle I can be sometimes, hehe..)
Mahal - my mahal

Dilemma

To go, or not to go?
To KEM's outing/applicants' Final Rites, that is...

This has been one helluva sem, and I have been so looking forward to moments of rest and recreation. This outing would have been the perfect chance. Plus, as Buddy Committee Head I would really want to be there as our buddies, 40 plus of them, take their final step and officially become part of the KEM family.

However, going to the FR would mean not being with my Eszard on his birthday!!! And the day after, I'm already bound to fly home for a 2-week vacation.

Decisions... Decisions...

Why does it often have to be so hard to arrive at one?
It pains me to make this choice. He may not say it, I know it pains him more.
(Speaking of pains, the outing expenses also hurt my budget!)

But I know he understands. My obligations come first. He knows that. It has ALWAYS been that way (from EC term, and all). It is the right thing to do I know, but I just don't feel right. I just hope this outing is worth all the sacrifices.