I just thought I'd make this blog post, mainly to unburden and start chronicling the journey that is "Helping my SO Move Back Home During the Craziest Time of the Year."

My SO and I have known each other since we were 19 years old and studying in different universities on the same road in Manila. Somehow in our group of friends from college years, we were among those who kept in touch despite moves, career shifts, occasional falling outs, and just the drifting apart that happens with growing up. What definitely helped was that we were the two aspiring writers in the entire bunch, and had gotten in the habit of critiquing and helping each other with fiction. We're known as two people with very *interesting* senses of timing, as you will shortly see.

About two years ago he left to take a job overseas. We still stayed close despite his demanding 6 day workweek and the fact I was doing a strenuous internship at a hospital. After a hilarious and convoluted series of events involving several failed romantic confessions and nearly losing letters in the post, we realized that we had already been exclusively dating without quite realizing it---and so we decided to get together officially.

It has been a very eventful 5 months since that January day. We told both our immediate families about our relationship after 1 month, but only mentioned the status change on Facebook last April. Now our upcoming project is to help him move back home and get a job this August. It was a hard decision to make since pay back here at home isn't always promising, but it had to be done owing to his own health concerns and basically being too burned out.

I'm excited of course to close the distance and help him settle back home. It's going to be crazy though. Alongside the practicalities of closing the distance, I have to also work on my review for the biggest exam I have yet: the physicians' licensure. Then there's the possibility of running into my extended family since it's my grandma's birthday this August. Then of course there are all the events on his side---his own siblings and his parents are still getting through their own upheavals after all.

Wonderful timing indeed. Then again, this is us we are talking about, so this isn't surprising at all.