A look into Jessica's life

interesting weekend i must say...

saturday:
well today was ate sheilah's surprise bday party. it was cool. they got her good. she had no idea that anything was happening or that mom, dad, nigel and seb were in town it was great. she had such a look of surprise and murder in her eyes. she was going to kill joy. it was tainted a bit by the fact that lida was a no show, but at the same time we all weren't surprised. MARCO IS THE MAN!!!! he is soooo coool. he wore a pair of underwear over his jeans and joy wrote happy 40th bday on the crotch and sheilah's big 40th on the butt. then we made it look like we were all just dancing in the garage and we got sheilah in the middle then as soon as we got her to sit in teh middle everyone dancing moved away then marco did is stuff. he started dancing all up on her like a stripper and then he revealed his underwear and started dancing close to her face. then he took off his overshirt so that you can see the underwear clearly and was dancing in front of her and grinding her and stuff. it was funny. ate' was sooooo beet red and it was hilarious. alea and i had some interesting conversations tonight. got to see what is in her mind concerning me. she thought i hated her. i never hated her. but at least things were cleared up in that sense. she got to see what/how i felt and how i think. so that's cool. jeremy rocks!!! i love talking to him. we talked a bit about great-nana's death and and his philosophy on death. which totally makes sense. it kinda helped though. i also drank tonight. that's a rarity in itself. not too much though. i had 2 smirnoff ice and a captain and coke. i smoked some today too. life has me all weirded out and shit. rachelle was there. that was odd. we got to meet her husband chris. it was kinda weird talking to her just because hearing her voice and stuff like that i kinda felt like i was back in high school. you know having conversations with rachelle and her boyfriend(husband in this case) and joy with her boyfriend(husband) and me on my own. it was like a future deja vu type thing. glad she's happy. she seemed cheery and stuff. her wedding pictures were beautiful. heavy as hell and these were only the civil wedding pictures. it will be interesting to see how heavy her church wedding pictures will be like. chris looks like ridel from pasacat though. he's a fob..he's only been here a few times before getting married so his pi accent is still a bit strong. and talking to rachelle i can hear her accent getting stronger too. how funny.afterwards came home to spend some time with quan. that was nice.

sunday:
have no energy whatsoever today. tried working on my spanish hw. that didn't go so well. took inang to costco. it's been awhile since i've been there. inang has no organization when it comes to going there. she was walking in every different direction and we backtracked sooo many times. geez woman. then i took nikki downtown to get her rent-a-car for her work in LA tomorrow. she got a malibu. that car looked too big for her. i couldn't see her head over her headrest. that was amusing. afterwards i tried working on my spanish hw til quan came over so we went to dinner. we went to denny's and i ate less than i should have since that was my only meal today. oh well. now here i am waiting for my ghiradelli double chocolate brownies to finish baking, doing my laundry and blogging. such an eventful life i lead. oh well.

til next time.

words of wisdom: first come the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, then the suffering

and people wonder why i'm afraid of marriage..sheesh

Angel remembered at 10:17:00 PM

Friday, September 27, 2002

so what has happened since last time?

weekend:
well on saturday we went to great-nana's house to drop stuff off for tia armida to find that they had already started packing up her stuff. that pissed us off. the only reason we found out was because we were to drop off colored funeral mislets. tia armida, tio david, aida, rachel, carmen chavez, tido and mickey were all there. so jac, mom and i started going through the stuff that they had already packed up to see what we wanted. they were throwing out stuff that great-nana made, which SHOULD NOT be sold. so mom, jac and i got some figurines and stuff. it was weird to see the house so torn up, you know what i mean. i spent the last 27 yrs going there and seeing everything right where it was and now things were missing and packed up and stuff. of course we couldn't call carmen and armida and tell them what was happening so we started grabbing anything and everything. we figured that whatever we, carmen or armida didn't want we could always give it to others in our family or give it away..at least ours is done out of love. jaclyn got her NY snow globe that doesn't have any water in it anymore. i couldn't find the turtle that i know existed so instead i got my crab. we got our religious figures back that we gave great-nana that plays AVE MARIA that we got from the San Francisco Music Box Company. i got the cool wood clock that used to hang in the kitchen. it was all sticky but i got the stickiness to go away. afterwards we called armida and carmen and told them what was happening. we speculated that they didn't even tell Nana because her and tata were taking uncle fay and his wife to the bay area.so the next day armida met us at great-nana's to finish packing things up. by the time we got there they had completed great-nana's room and were working on the 2nd room. we got great-nana's picture stand that was next to her dresser and bed. we found a girl scout sash with the patches pinned waiting to be sewed in the drawer. we can't figure out who's it is because carmen chavez was a brownie but never a girl scout. for the most part i was the only girl scout and inang did my sash. well we got some of great-nana's jewelry. we found a small jade pendant that is similar to one of my pendants so i got that. mom got great-nana's watch, the one that she wore all the time. we got a new nativity scene that tia aurora made. except for some damn reason tia armida took the jesus, we have the 3 wise men, mary and joseph and she took the jesus..what a bitch. anyhoo. we asked for great-nana's dining table and they want us to make a monetary offer for it. what the hell is that. the gamboas got what ever they wanted without having to make any monetary bids. then armida asked for the patio set and again they wanted a monetary bid. after spending all afternoon packing things away we went home and armida and carmen came over to see what we got to see what they would like. carmen told me that the clock i got was from uncle george, tata's brother. so it was appropriate that i got the clock since it came from our side of the family. this whole thing IS really putting more and more distance btwn the family. it's almost as though great-nana was the only glue that we had.

monday:
didn't go to school again. my body hurt soooooo much from all the lifting and packing from the weekend. and then i went to work so by the time it came time to go to school i soooo was not for it. i ended feeling like the contact point for 2 speeding trains crashing. not good at all.
richie came over with chris oleas and visited us for a bit. he looks good. i wish we could have spent more time with him since we only get to see him once a year and now he's preparing to go out to sea for 6 months it will be a long while before we see him again. we usually see him during xmas/new years holiday but not this year.

tuesday:
today was mellany's 27th birthday. it was a busy day. first i had work, then a long day at school. then afterwards i had errands to run for mom and myself. then i had to go to nana's house for dinner with uncle fay and his wife. then had to rush to inangs for mellany's birthday gathering.
i got my spanish midterm back. i got a 97%. that's cool. one of my mistakes was that i can't add. i some how got that 11 plus 17 equals 38...duh it's 28. sheesh.
at nana's we found out that nana did know that they were packing up great-nana's belongings over the weekend. but she got tired of tia armida's attitude about her being the executor of the estate that nana told her that we didn't want anything.
at mellany's i found out that jasmine walks now. no one told me and when she just took off on me i freaked and yet everyone knew she was walking but me. at school i asked marc if he had said good bye to his nanang since she was leaving to the philippines that afternoon. he said yea but he seemed so carefree. so i asked him if he knew she wasn't coming back EVER and he looked at me confused. so i then explained to him that his nanang has been diagnosed with only 6 months to live and they were taking her to the philippines to die. he said that his dad told him that they were coming back in 2 weeks and i told him that his dad was returning but no one else. he said that that explained why everyone was coming over over the weekend crying and saying goodbye. marc had no idea. later i got an email from mom that auntie marie and auntie azon were on their way to LAX because the flight was cancelled and that nanang had a seizure while they were waiting. when i saw auntie azon at mellany's i asked where was her mom and she said "on the plane". then naning arrived with a new calculater, TI-83 plus silver edition. that thing is cool. i need to get one. it does all my stat stuff. it was funny seeing me, naning, nicole, and jac trying to figure out all the different features. because of everything i missed the season premier of gilmore girls..sucky man

wednesday:
took my stats midterm. i think i did ok. i was the first person to find out that there was a mistake on the first 2 questions. instead of having an A,B,C, or D option we had A,A,A, or A. then most of the class was already gone when i realized that the r for the regression line was wrong. when i pointed it out to the teacher he said that i was the first person to notice that mistake. go figure man.
nikki came over and checked out some of the stuff that we got from great-nana's house to see if there was anything she would want. she got a jewelry box and some broaches and stuff for her mom.

thursday:
had my biopsyc midterm. i had no clue on some of that. hopefully i got enough right to at least pass.
after school marc and i went to discount tires to find him tires. we found the ones that my dad told him to get from walmart for a couple of dollars cheaper. so marc took his car there. so i got home around 330pm. i called quan to see if he wanted to watch a movie. we were going to watch it later, so i told him to call me in about 30 minutes so i can take a nap. he called about an hour later and i said i wanted more sleep. so every so often we would call to see how i was and each time i was sleeping. needless to say we put off the movie til another day. i didn't get up til it was time for work at 230am. so i was in bed from 330pm through 230am. damn that's a long time.

friday:
well went to work. did my stuff. tired as hell. went home to find that mom and dad had already left for reno. about 45 minutes later mom calls saying that the hotels that they took numbers for to make reservations WHILE they are driving there were all booked. so i had to find them lodging for tonight. who the hell waits til on route to find lodging. about 45 minutes later i still couldn't find any occupancy in reno. so we decided to find them lodging in lake tahoe. i got them a room there. slept some more and now i'm here at joy's waiting for her to take a shower so we can go find some party stuff for sheilah's party tomorrow.

til we meet again

Angel remembered at 3:23:00 PM

Thursday, September 19, 2002

well here we go again

tuesday: Happy birthday LOLO!
lolo turned 83 today. we all went to his house for his bday. some of the guests were from Hope, where lolo and inang would go. we played with mellvin and jasmine. we went upstairs and watched tv. naning was watching gilmore girls, the season ending from last season and nikki and john were watching the weakest link. damn dude, on the weakest link the contestants were kids. the winner, who looked younger than john won $77,000. DAMN!!! most adults can barely make 10 grand on that show let alone 77 grand.

wednesday:
got bad news today. auntie fe called around quarter til 5 to tell us that lola shanang passed away in the philippines. first mom loses the woman that raised her for part of her life and now dad loses the woman that raised him in the same way. poor gracie, gayle called her in dallas to tell her and she was walking through wal-mart when gayle told her. that sucks. they think that lola shanang was also 93 yrs old like great-nana. ironic isn't it. dad is kinda wigging out, but on his own terms. he's trying to conceal his feelings but it isn't really working.
quan came over to fix mom's pc and upgrade it to xp. we went to compusa and got them a 30gb hdd for $39. that ain't bad at all.

thursday:
today was such a blah day. i didn't feel good at work so i left early. when i got home i had a slight fever. i missed my last 2 classes but went to biopsych since i missed 2 classes already. afterwards went to bubble tea in san marcos and then verified directions to armidas. afterwards i went to joy's house. hung out there for a bit. then came home and here i am.

til our paths meet

Angel remembered at 9:07:00 PM

Monday, September 16, 2002

such a long week has come and gone..both physically and emotionally.

sunday: called work..took the week off

monday:
went to school. hard to concentrate but tried anyway.

well today began all the preparations for Great-Nana's funeral. originally carmen and i were suppose to work on the obituary. so after school i came home and tried working on it. tried comparing what we wrote to what other obituaries said and for the most part ours seemed too simple. was waiting for tia armida to call me back with the actual funeral arrangements since the obituary needs to be submitted 2 days prior to print. and i was running out of time. finally we got the call and found out that the rosary/viewing is going to be held on thursday, armida's bday, and the funeral will be on friday. was also told that the mortuary took care of the obituary so i didn't need to take care of it anymore.
i had to send out emails to family and friends announcing great-nana's passing and funeral arrangements. went to kinko's and picked up the enlarged picture of great-nana that mom ordered. when mom took the picture out of the bag she began to tear. it is a good picture of her.

after taking inang on an endless list of errands that originally was only to the bank, mom jac and i went shopping for clothes for the rosary and funeral. of course jac took forever..at forever 21 at that. so jac was taken cared of for the most part.

tuesday:
tried school again and didn't last all day. went to joy's house and sat there talking with joy and ronnie. asked them both to attend the funeral with me as my back up. joy and i ended going to my house and working on the mislet for the rosary..which according to tia armida, the mortuary was going to take care of and they don't. why can't she just listen to us. so joy and i wrote it based on the info mom was able to collect. after that we all went to mervyn's to look for clothes for the funeral and rosary. i got 2 outifts and so did mom. at least that is all taken cared of.

wednesday:
today was somewhat of a chill day. we had no funeral arrangements to take care of. that was weird.

thursday: happy birthday Armida
missed biopsych again.oh well. stopped by work to make sure i had a job and make sure that i get scheduled next week. should be ok. met up with mom, jac, carmen and armida to take armida out for her bday before the rosary. even though the rosary wasn't scheduled til 7pm they allowed some of the family to come in and have some private time with great-nana before hand. so we went to daphne's greek restaurant in mira mesa near edwards. everyone ordered gyros and fries except me. i had the chicken salad. it was funny. when we got there there were no tables with umbrellas available since we had to sit outside. jaclyn saw one leaning next to the window of the starbucks so she went and got the umbrella. a guy that was sitting nearby saw her and offered to help. so he started setting up the umbrella for her. then they realized that they didn't have a peg to keep the umbrella so jaclyn gave him her lip liner. so we ate our lunch and tried to be as cheerie as possible. when we went to leave we almost forgot jac's lip liner. so we headed down to El Camino Mortuary-Benbough Chapel. when we got there the casket was open, contrary to great-nana's wishes. tia armida got them to keep the casket open just for a little bit just so we can see her and say goodbye before the rest of the family arrived. we got there around 2:30pm and they sealed the casket at 3:00pm. great-nana looked good. for the most part she looked as she once did, prior to getting sick. all they were missing was her earrings. she even had her glasses on. we were given 2 small pieces of paper to write some messages to great-nana and they were placed in her casket. we said our final face to face goodbyes and they closed the casket for the very last time. needless to say, we all cried. after that mom, carmen, armida, nana, carmen chavez, tia armida, jac and i started helping the funeral director arrange all the flower arrangements that were sent for great-nana. that took forever. around 3:45 we headed home. mom, jac and i made a stop by the post office to get the mail from the po box. when we got home we found armida and carmen sitting outside in the explorer. they decided to come hang with us before the rosary. we all just talked and stuff. then around 5:45-ish we headed back to the mortuary. not long after arriving we got more flower arrangements and the funeral director and myself starting working on those. de ja vu man. well the rosary started late. the deacon never showed up but a nun was there to do the services. and she was great. she did the rosary in both english and spanish alternating btwn the two. after the rosary, crockett read a eulogy that we wrote. it was kinda lame but that's just my opinion. at one point he mentioned about him being clumsy and dropping a steak on the floor and great-nana picking it up and making him a new one. after his eulogy he proceeded to knock over some of the flower arrangements. i guess some things never change.after that, my mom asked and she went up and read the life story we wrote for the mislet. everyone loved what we wrote about her. that was good. afterwards as everyone was coming up to talk to us i happened to look at the back of the chapel and saw uncle g. that was a shock. the bastard decides the night of great-nana's rosary to make an appearance after he left auntie donna and the kids. now he's married again and he acts like nothing is wrong..what a dumbass.

friday:
today is the funeral. we went to tia armida's to ride in the limos. when we arrived at St. John of the Cross church, nikki g and i were taken up to the alter so we could be schooled on how to do our respective readings during the funeral. at the same time jac and rachel were taken to be school on the offerings and i was suppose to go there too but i had to be schooled by jaclyn. some of mom's co-workers came to the funeral. uncle mon, auntie marie, and nicole went. i was waiting for joy and ron but i didn't see them. it came time for the funeral. the pall bearers were dad, crockett, mickey, tio david, tido, and tom. the priest came down and blessed the casket and the pall bearers rolled the casket to the front of the pews and the family followed. we sat on both sides. in my pew was aida, david, rachel, jac and armida. it came time for me to go read. i was nervous but i got through it. i looked at the people in the pews but really didn't see them. when i went to sit down i saw joy and ron sitting a couple of rows behind me. that was reassuring. the funeral proceeded. father brockhouse, a white guy, tried having the mass in both english and spanish. that was interesting. during the communion jac started crying and i started tearing because of her. then at the end of the funeral we followed the casket outside to the hearse. when i turned around i saw joy and ron and i saw ron full of tears and that's when i lost it. i just broke down and started balling in joy's arms. after a bit of that i was fine for the time being. after that we started passing out maps to the cemetary and to the reception at tia armida's house. then we got into the limos and followed the hearse to Holy Cross Cemetary. we got out and it was weird to see the site since i have seen this site my entire life with great-tata already buried there and always see great-nana's name and bday there but no death date and now we were actually burying her. it was odd. the father that performed the burial service did it in mainly spanish which was nice. then we placed pink roses on great-nana's casket. joy and ron went around passing out the roses for us. jac and i had wished that they lowered her casket into the ground before we left but they had asked not to do that until we left. jac and i needed that closure. afterwards we went to tia armidas. the food was ok. joy and ron came and ate with me. uncle g showed up with his wife to introduce us to her. he just has fucked up timing. anyhoo. joy and ron left around 2pm since they had appointments to attain to. armida, carmen, jac and i left around 330pm and went to party city to get stuff for mom's bday party. then we took carmen home and then we chilled at the house. then not long after coming home mom and dad arrived. then i just went on with my day.

saturday: Happy birthday Matt!
well today is mattie's 18th birthday. what a man now. so during the afternoon i took jac to get her haircut while i went to work to get my paycheck and check on my schedule. they didn't pay me for my 7 hours vacation time but sandy took care of it for me. then jac and i headed to escondido to tilly's to get matt his gifts. we got him an oneal button down shirt and a dcshoes tshirt from mom and dad. jac got herself a jean skirt and i got myself 2 paul frank shirts. then we went to north county fair and got matt blue canvas converse all stars from me and jac. we put on the card that marc is not allowed to wear or borrow or touch them. hhehe.
finally we got to matt's party. it was ok. we aren't so cheap looking anymore. since everyone bought the chaffing dishes from costco we look all rich and slick now at the parties. chilled with the aranas/sisons for awhile. they were telling me the story about auntie fe after her mri on friday. she was scaring one of the patients in the waiting room about the drugs they gave her to calm down for the mri and such. then as they were walking to the car auntie fe was explaining the sounds that she heard in the mri and she was embarrassing jenn and gracie. i only stayed a couple of hours there. most of the time everyone was inside watching the de la hoya fight. james/mellany brought the black box so lolo could watch the fight. it was an ok day.

sunday:
had planned to catch up on my homework but that didn't happen. we got a call around noon from pete telling us that armida was rushed to the hospital and if we could go up and watch the girls so he can go to the hospital. so jac, mom and i headed up. pete and mom went to the hospital and jac and i stayed with the girls. they were funny. they are growing up. we all took naps. which was good because jac and i were really sleepy. about 3 hours later armida came home. she strained her saiatic (sp?) nerve. she's out on leave for 3 weeks. yikes.

monday:
well today is the first day to actually grieve..i don't know it is weird.

til next time

Angel remembered at 9:57:00 PM

Sunday, September 08, 2002

a very sad day

this morning we got a call from armida that great-nana had passed away. obviously it was heart wrenching to hear that. about 15-20 minutes later we got another call from carmen telling us that hospice was letting us come down and say our goodbyes to great-nana. so mom and threw on some clothes and we went down to hospice. when we got there nana,tata, nena, tom, carmen chavez, tido, tia armida, aida, tio carlos, and carmen were there already. they kept great-nana exactly how she passed in her sleep. so we got to see her peaceful and what seemed like asleep. we were there for almost 3 hours. the hospice chaplain came and held a service in her room with us there. right as the mass ended armida showed up. and she lost it when she saw great-nana. i had been tearing most of the time but it wasn't until armida reacted did i even make a sound with my tears. after the service tia armida went and notified the mortuary that great-nana had passed and they could come get her. a little while later jaclyn called saying that she was home from her appt. so we gave her directions and told her to haul ass down there so she could say goodbye and be able to see her one last time since the funeral is going to be closed casket as per great-nana's request. during that wait we started working on the obituary and other plans. we all decided that we are not going to bury her on thursday because that's armida's bday. we don't want that hanging over her every year. so then the mortuary people arrived and jac hadn't arrived yet. so we called jac and it turned out that she was only a few blocks away. so we asked the people from the mortuary if they can hold off long enough for jac to arrive and she say her goodbyes. they agreed. so i went outside and waited for jac.when she got there i told her where to go and i parked her car. so jac went in and said her goodbyes with mom and nana. then jac came out and we all waited in the lobby for the mortuary person to finish with great-nana. then they rolled her out on a stretcher and had her covered with a blanket so no one can see her as they passed through the hospice to the waiting van outside. it was hard watching them roll her out. that's when everyone lost it. so we followed her out a bit later.
somehow i ended up in charge of the obituary announcement. my mom was in charge of enlarging her picture for the services. we are now just waiting for schedules for the wakes and funeral services. we've been calling family members all day. it's kinda odd ya know.
when we came home we were all in numb state. jac started playing games on the pc. mom started watching tv. i started watching tv and doing my nails. the rest of the day has been like that. i mean we got home around 5-ish and here we are at 1130pm and we are still just kinda going on with life but still distant. it's hard to explain.

til we meet again

Angel remembered at 11:25:00 PM

Thursday, September 05, 2002

well you might say that a lot has happened in the past couple of days.

monday:
just worked on my room a bit more. prepped for the first day of school. auugghhh!!!

tuesday:
started school. for the most part it went ok. it sucks that i have sooooo much downtime on tuesdays and thursdays. i have spanish 101 from 8am-850am, then i have down time for about and hour from 850-10am, then i have social psyc from 10-1115am, then downtime again for almost 2 hours from 1115am-1pm, then i have biopsyc from 1pm-215. that's just way too much down time. especially at the beginning of the semester because there is no hw to do or anything. so the first break i talked to joy on the phone as i ate my bagel sandwhich. then during the 2nd break i talked to her again as i walked to my car to switch out my books. then i ate a sandwhich in the dome then chilled in the computer lab with marlino. how fun is that?!?
when i got home from school my mom was home and i asked her why she was home. she said she got some bad news and they sent her home. the news was that there was a meeting btwn great-nana's kids and the doctor and it was decided that they would discontinue her dialysis, place her in a hospice, and let nature take it's course and let her pass. they speculate that she'll pass in 6-8 weeks. i agree with my dad that she won't last that long. great-nana is no longer a person anymore. she is soo far into her dementia that she has no real rembrance of who she once was. she has no control over her bodily functions. her hallucinations are more frequent and last longer. she has become too much for anyone to handle anymore. even the youngest of her children has practically dropped her several times because she is a handful. so i got home around 230pm. a couple of hours later we got a call that she had already been admitted into a hospice near mercy hospital. mom has decided that it's up to me and jaclyn as to whether or not we want to see her. part of me does but at the same time part of me doesn't. like they argued before, why taint our memories of her with an image of someone who's shell we know but that's it. she wouldn't know us from a stranger anyway. we'll just have to wait and see.
as we were getting ready to sit down to dinner my phone rang. it was cristen and larry. larry was calling to thank me for the bday card and target gc that i got him. then he told me the bad news. cristen had miscarried. which sucks since they really want to start a family and they were both sooo excited about it. but unfortunately it is not that uncommon the miscarry the first pregnancy. i'm sure they will bounce back and before we know it they'll have a bunch of little larrys and cristens running around.heheh
quan came over and worked on jac's pc. we got a new hdd and installed windows xp on it. it's a bit slow but that's cool. we started transfering mom and dad's files over to my pc so i can burn them and we can change out their hdds and get them running on xp too.

wednesday:
school was ok. luckily mondays and wednesdays my 2 classes are back to back so i go straight from 8-1050am. so that isn't too bad.
i went to the doctors for my annual hell tests..but that's ok. during the normal weight and blood pressure taking stage it was brought to my attention that since my last visit last july i have lost 14lbs. i was shocked to hear that. i mean i didn't even realize that. so that was good to hear. after that i just slept then while watching american idol i did my spanish hw. yeah kelly won. i liked her more than justin. he was just too jazzy and mellow for mainstream pop stardom. kelly's voice is better anyway. ok that's my 2 cents on that one.

thursday:
well here i am at school in the middle of my 1st break. woke up a little late and got to class a couple of minutes late. instead of waiting for the elevators i actually walked up both flights of stairs in front of university hall to get to class. i essentially walked 4 stories up on stairs. the first flight was about 3 stories of craven hall then the 1 flight from first to second floor of university hall. by the time i got to class i was waaaayyy out of breath and sweating like hell. i didn't stop sweating around my face and neck for about a good 10 minutes..GOD I HATE STAIRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyhoo. well gonna hit the bathroom then head to social psyc.

till we meet again.

Angel remembered at 9:33:00 AM

Sunday, September 01, 2002

well here it is the september 1st already. the last sunday of summer break. if tomorrow wasn't a holiday i would be beginning school already, luckily i have 1 more day to get ready for my hard ass year of school. hopefully i will do well despite the difficult classes i have registered for.

what has happened in the last week..let me think, let me think...

really, nothing has happened...

monday:
cousin came over to drop off my dvds that she borrowed and get a copy of one of our pasacat videos to see the full routine for binasuan for rich's aunt/uncle's anniversary thing on friday. so we scanned through some pasacat tapes til we found one that showed most of the routine. it turned out to be the one from extravaganza '92 when tagabili was done. so cousin was fast forwarding through the tape and stopped to check where it was and it happened to be during tagabili. and she just happened to stop it as joy had her dramatic death scene. so that was kinda cool. while cousin was searching the tapes i was burning her a binasuan cd.

tuesday:
jac and i went to csusm to get jac's school thing situated. we chilled at joy's for a bit first. jac broke out in hives or something. she had bumps all over her face. she was really itchy. i kept sneezing. then while joy was playing with onyx, he tore up my leg with his claws. i now have a gnarly scar across my left leg. that puppy had a lot of blood coming out though. i was surprised to see how red the q-tip was that i was using to put ointment on it.
at csusm we found out that we are allowed to take off 1 semester no problem, no questions asked. the only thing is we lose our priority registration date the following semester. so that was cool to know. so jac just needs to register during open registration for spring semester.
after that we were hungry so we drove around san marcos trying to see if anything looked appetizing when jac mentioned old spaghetti factory, which happened to be right next to the campus. so as we drove back in that direction we called cousin to see if she wanted to join us for dinner. she said she had plans with rich but would come and chill with us a bit. so jac and i ate and near the end cousin arrived. jac had chicken fettucini and i had spaghetti with meatballs. both tasted good. after eating we went and checked out cousin's new house. it is nice and big. jac and i had stopped by before getting to joy's house and we probably looked funny because we were peaking through windows and stuff since no one was home. we decided to check out the backyard. i opened the gate and suddenly remembered that they have a dog, when i saw the dog house. the dog was ok. needless to say we didn't go all the way into the backyard. so when we did go and check out the backyard when they were home, the dog didn't bark at us. he had recognized us from earlier. cousin's room is sooo huge. she has her big ass bed, a single person couch thingy, and a lounger with ottoman all in her room with space btwn them all. we are still trying to figure out why auntie virgie has a desk in her closet. oh well..
jac decided that she wanted to rearrange her room. so i disconnected her pc and helped her move the tv and stuff out into the hallway. but that's as far as that got.

wednesday:
i was suppose to meet joy for lunch so i took jac along with me. we ate at little tokyo. that was good. have yet to eat a fastfood hamburger at this point. then we went down to mission valley and chilled there for awhile. we went to victoria secrets for joy to return something and make some payment. jac looked for bras and i was looking at the pjs. nothing was really appealing. so i still have yet to use the gc that i got from ate fe and kids for my bday. we also went into the japanese anime store. that was kinda cool all 3 of found something of interest. then we got pretzels from auntie anne's next door. that was good. then joy headed downtown to meet up with jeremy to check on a gig site and jac and i headed to mesa to get jac's books for school. that was a pain. they changed it a little since i went there. they don't have book lists anymore. now you look for your subject then compare your crn to the labels. that kinda sucked because some teachers had multiple books for their classes and some didn't so you got confused when it said that it was book x of y when in reality that didn't pertain to you. jac's philosophy class has so many books required for it. she has more books than i do. hers cost about what mine did too. yikes.
when we got home my mom asked me why didn't i rearrange my room like jaclyn does all the time. i told her that my dresser was too big and i didn't think there was plug behind it. my dad happened to walk into the room as i said that so i asked him if there was a plug and he said yes. so then i started thinking about it. i found out that my dresser can fit on the other wall. so i decided that i would try to rearrange my room.

thursday:
marc came over. he answered the phone and it happened to be a prospective employer for jac calling to set up an interview. marc turned around and asked her if he could get a job too. so then the lady started giving marc a pre-lim phone interview. i called jac while he was on the phone to let her know that they were calling and tell her what marc was doing. jac heard marc asking questions and answering other ones on the phone. so marc has an interview set up for the 2nd week of school. one one hand i'm glad marc took the initiative to try to get himself a job but on the other hand he could have jeopardized jaclyn's chances. we dont know if there are any ramifications yet because jac hasn't been able to get in touch with them yet.
called cousin rich for his bday. talked to him for awhile. that was cool. he's going to try to get some leave in september before he leaves for 6 months on westpac on october 1st. maybe he'll be able to be in ports with cy and juni and they can meet and chill.
i began measuring out my room and my furniture trying to figure out what i want to do with the room. it just so happened that joy called. i asked her what she was doing on friday and told her what my plan was. she said that she would try to finish her stuff so she can help me out. this should be interesting.

friday:
well it's moving day..moving shtuff around that is. so joy came over and we started moving things. i had decided just to scoot my desk down the wall since it was connected throught he plate that ron had installed from the ceiling with my network cable and my tv cable. so we are going along cracking up and being dorks and trying to work on the room when joy points out that how did i intend on connecting my tv cable to my tv if they were now on opposite sides of the room. duh?!? i thought about the network cable but completely forgot about the tv cable. so we called ron and he so graciously was willing to come down after we finished moving everything to reroute my cable. what a dork i am. so we worked on it some more. then when we got the tv and stereo all situated we realized that it was kinda cluttered. so then joy called on ron again asking if he would be willing to contruct a shelf for my speakers above the tv. which again he agreed. cool. so we got all the furniture situated and ron came over and did all his things. it was such a long day. i had worked before from 3am-730am, then slept for about 2 hours then had to go pick up inang and lolo from the doctors office, then slept about an hour before joy called to see what the plan was for the rearranging. by the time i even got into bed it was already after 11pm. then i couldn't sleep because now the foot of my bed is the head and so my body is sooo discombobulated from being turned around. i think i got about 30 minutes sleep before i had to go to work.

while we were rearrranging the room ate sheilah called for joy. she was calling to tell her that mr. pagaduan had passed away on wednesday and that the funeral is scheduled for saturday. nigel and seb were heading down for the funeral. nigel and jessica pagaduan had been best friends since middle school and june and joanne were like one of the first friends i had a mchs. we were sorry to hear of his passing.

saturday:
since i hurt so much from moving and got no sleep i only worked til 7am instead of staying longer and helping out the girls. i just had to energy and my body ached.
worked on the room some more. so much to do. damn...still couldn't sleep. i was up til after 1am. luckily i didn't have to work.

sunday:
IT IS HOT AS HELL!!! still working on my room. not much left. which is good.

that's all for now..til our paths meet again.

Angel remembered at 4:59:00 PM

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