A look into Jessica's life

today was interesting. last night while driving home from clare's, mellany calls and asks if i'm willing to babysit mae mae in the morning. oh man..fat baby..cry baby. this kid, christmas eve, cried for almost 3 hours straight supposedly cause she got scared about something. this baby is always crying. and i actually agree to attempt to babysit her. so yeah. so 830 this morning i hear jac screaming that mae's here. so i wake up and head downstairs to meet mae and mellany. and of course begins the games of making mae think that we are gonna play so that her mom can slip out. brought back memories to when mellany had to do that for mellvin before. hah. so i take mae upstairs and mellany leaves. at first she seems captivated by jac's fish. but that doesn't last all that long. so then i take her into my room and turn on the disney channel for her. she watches for about 5 minutes then begins to cry. so i bring her to my fishes. and it keeps her attention for awhile. so then i bring her to the bed and we try to watch tv. not long later "the wiggles" starts. apparently its one of her fave shows on disney. its an interesting show..not!! oh well. but it keeps her quiet. i take out the little teddy bear thats in the mug near my tv and give it to mae. she likes it. she plays with the bear all by herself. i'm tired as it is. i didn't get to sleep til after 430am. and here i am at 9am trying to watch a 14 month old. great. but it turned out not the be all the difficult. for the most part she would cry just cause she was tired. she would play with my stereo remote, her pacifier, the teddy bear, another teddy bear that i had and just talk to herself. hah. then around 1130ish pam calls and she's gonna come over to watch the culture shock dvd. so i get up and at least brush my teeth so i don't kill the girl with my stank breath and start preparing mae mae some ramen as well. then pam arrives and i feed pam ramen and some tampico juice as jac and i try to feed mae mae. hah mae would constantly stare at pam as she ate her ramen. pam had to keep pointing out that mae had her own food. poor pam. couldn't eat in peace. haha. so then we start watching the culture shock dvd and every now and again mae would start dancing. hah. pam was laughing at me cause i needed to change mae's diaper and everytime i would try to lie her down she would stand up. so i kept asking "can i please change your dy-a-per?" hah. pam found it amusing that i was begging mae to change her diaper. hah. finally i got her to lie down and i changed her diaper. goober. then she started lying on my leg showing that she was really getting sleepy. so i opened my arms and she got into them and laid her head on my shoulder and she finally fell asleep around 1pm. yayee. so pam and i finished watching the dvd and talked a bit. then pam left around 130pm. thanks for coming by pam. sorry i was all grubby and babysitting and what not. hah. hope you enjoyed your lunch. heh. so then a little after pam left auntie tita arrived and then mae woke up and then they went home. so then i jumped in the shower and got ready. then around 245pm ali came over to chill a bit. haha. we hung out for about an hour or so. then when she left i went to the bank. yeah i know i just went to the bank the other day. but i cracked my atm card so i have to go to the branch and get money to last me til after the holiday. and i surely intend on going shopping even though i just bought shoes..AGAIN!! yayee shoes. anyhoo. so then i got some buffalo wings at wings and things and came home and ate them as jac picked at my food. so then i went upstairs and took a nap cause i feel like shit. still feel like shit. then i woke up around 10pm. started blogging and now i'm gonna get ready for work.

if i don't talk to you guys in time...HAPPY NEW YEAR!!...have a great and safe holiday!!....miss ya guys alot.

Angel remembered at 11:44:00 PM

first can i just express how much it sucks that i'm not getting better but instead getting worse and gaining symptoms. not only do i have a horrendous cough that i generally feel as though as any given moment i'm going to expel my lungs during the cough but now i also have a runny nose and sneezing fits. i am unable to have just a single sneeze but instead maintain a train of consecutive sneezes. auggh!!

monday
today was a really cool day. well it didn't start off that way. so i didn't get offline til after 2am cause i was chatting with rosemarie and carl. its scary to think of all the stuff that carl and i have in common. .:shiver:. but its cool. i got to peruse his collection of photo albums on imagestation. thanks again carl for letting me check those out..not that he'd read this but at least i put it out there. since i went to bed relatively late, one would think that i would sleep til at least 10am. however, you, and i, were wrong. i woke up at fricken 630am. i heard my parents get ready for work this morning. and i woke up in a coughing fit. so not cool. at least i was awake enough to talk to my dad about my tuition as he wrote out the check. so thats cool. however i was unable to return to the comfort of slumber. sucky. i kept tossing and turning and trying to sleep but my coughing had other plans. finally around like 830am i started to doze off again. but then i woke up at 9am. which is fine since i didn't know if clare was gonna call me then or not. no call. so then i doze off again. wake up at 10am. again i wait to see if clare calls. no call. so then i return to a brief slumber before finally waking up for good around 11am. so i got up and of course went online. read some blogs. found out that clare was up when i was up too. hah. its cool. so then i finally jump into the shower about 1145ish. when i get out of the shower i hear my cell phone and lo and behold its ms bagalso. so i tell her i have to run some errands then we'll meet up. so she starts getting ready and i finish getting ready and go to the bank and get gas. so then i head to clare's house. while driving down black mountain road back towards pq from mira mesa, my phone rings and it's ms bersamira. apparently her, her ate' and her dad are behind me. she just wanted to tell me that. hah. go ali. haha. so then i veer off onto the ted williams and head to clare's house. so i get there and she lets me in. oh man she greets me with her camera. luckily she didn't take any pictures. she just wanted to show me her new camera that she was gonna bring on journey to the mall. so clare shows me her room and what not. i get introduced to dexter the hermit crab. tiny lil fella. never seen a hermit crab before. so that was an experience. so then we head out. we decide to go have lunch first. oh yeah baby PHO. i've had a craving for that too. so we head to mira mesa and go to pho hoa cali. heh. clare couldn't quite understand the guys working there but i somehow did...hmm ok maybe i'm not laughing anymore. anyhoo. so we sit down and check out the menu. which turned out to be rather pointless since we basically ordered our own normal pho. so we order. when we were done ordering the waiter questioned me "what? no egg rolls?" WTF?? he fricken remembers what i order. usually when jac and i go to any pho restaurant we order our pho, thai iced teas, and an order of egg rolls. and this guy fricken remembered? i haven't been in there for quite awhile to. oh man. thats scary. i even told clare how freaked i was. oh man. so i was looking around the restaurant i noticed athena senar sitting on the other side. i didn't bother to say hi or anything. its all good. i had my back to her anyway so she wouldn't have known it was me. its cool. told clare about how i've know athena since kindergarden back in southside. hah. anyhoo. well the waiter for some reason screwed up our order with the people next to us. i think it was the manager came and figured out what had happened and then brought out our food. but when clare asked for forks and a straw the manager dude for some reason dipped her straw, which is still in the cover, in her water. huh? i don't know. so he brought her new water. ok. so then we eat our food. yummy. clare was making fun of me cause she says that i eat it all nice and neat. which i'm not exactly sure what she means by that. i was eating it the way quan taught me how the first time he took me for pho years ago. who knows. maybe since i was using chopsticks where as she was using a fork played a part. i don't know. ask her.hah. so after we were done with our wonderful food i payed and we got some candy then went on our way to utc. so we head to macy's so clare can find me some dresses to try on so she can take my picture. ha! none to be found for me. hah. so we start heading to robinson's may when i heard "hi clare" so i pointed it out and it turned out to be "glenn suka" spelling might be off. clare was surprised. hah. ok. so thats 1 for clare. so then they have their small talk and then we carry on our way. so robinson's may doesn't have anything for me either. clare is rather discouraged at this point. so then we walk around and try other stores and again to no avail. so we decide to head to north county faire. so we drive up to ncf and park then head to nordstroms to make use of the women's lounge. hah. however. before we make it there we stop at journeys to look at shoes. oh not good for jess. yup you guessed it. i bought shoes. clare just kept laughing at me the whole time. speaking of laughing she had this evil giggle that she kept doing as we walked around utc too. hmm. but yes my new phat farms make my already small feet look even smaller. haha. i like them though. heh. and they are black. and the logo is baby blue and so are the soles. not that you couldn't tell from the picture i posted. duh. anyhoo. yayee!! shoes are good. so that's 3 pairs of shoes in 5 week exactly. haha. yes. ok back to the "clare day" story. so we walk to different stores and while in macy's we run into "rosanne/a" sorry can't remember and her mom. so now thats 2 for clare. so we chat with them then go on our way. still no dresses. hah. so then we go to charlotte rousse so clare can look for shirts for clubbing and stuff. and we run into her friend "kandi" i think thats what her nametag read. sorry clare if i'm getting your friends' names wrong. so that is a total of 3 friends for clare. and technically 0 for jess. who's popular now ms bagalso? hah. yeah so we were unsuccessful in finding at least A dress for me to try on for clare. much disappointment for ms bagalso however feelings of happiness on my part. hah. at utc clare even accused me of telling all the stores to remove any dresses that might fit me so that i wouldn't have to try them on..yeah like i have that much power. hah. so we head home. we stop by jalapenos and order carne asada fries for clare and carne asada burrito for me. clare picks up the tab. thanks stalker. yeah. so after we get our order we go to clare's house to watch "forevermore" sorry you had to translate it for me. but its cool. you just gave me the gist and certain parts you actually translated dialogue. but i got it. good movie. i like. during the movie her mom and lil bro came home. so i got to meet the famous "jb". he's cute. yeah he's a fob. it was cute as clare would talk to him her accent would come out. just as mine would too. its all good though. i actually got to hear clare speak tagalog though. i really hadn't heard her before and she was on the phone talking to her nanay and jb. cool. haha "tampon"= "tabacco". haha thats funny. so after the movie we went into clare's room and looked through some of her photo albums. nice pictures. i got to see the mchs noisy gang when they were all youngins. hah. cute. then we went through her senior yearbook. well actually just the senior pictures and senior quotes. hah. then i came home to rest before work. but it was a fun filled day with my stalker. man i spent like 8 hours with her. and it was a blast. must do again. well we'll kinda do it again whenever you come over to take pictures of me in my own dresses since we couldn't find any dresses at the malls. thanks for the fun filled day clare.

when i got home i found out the culture shock dvd had arrived. so as i chatted with pam, ali and rhona i watched it. watched pam all over again.hah. watched switzerland..that performance still has me captivated. watched the formality/nyr collabo and funkanometry before jac came home and she watched the whole thing..i think since i left to go to work. hah.

it was a good day. although i'm ill i enjoyed it. sorry if i bugged ya clare with all my coughing and sneezing. oh yeah i had a sneezing fit while in charlotte rousse. hah. luckily for clare i was on the other side of the store so she could pretend like she didn't know the ill person. ahha.

til we meet again

Angel remembered at 3:49:00 AM

Sunday, December 28, 2003

greetings once again. welcome to jessica's story time. please take your seats and we'll begin. hahah. i doubt many people read my entries anymore since they are so long. its all good.

saturday
saturday was an extremely lazy day. i don't think i have ever been this lazy. but the entire was spent in my pjs. i never spend the entire day in pjs. i at least take a shower then put my pjs back on. but today i spent it from beginning to end in pjs. for the most part i was planted in front of the computers. yes there is an s there. i have my laptop adjacent to my desktop. most of the day was either chatting with ali and other people. i worked on some web stuff for many hours. yeah that was most of my day. trying to figure out what pictures to use and what to write under each set and add any captions if i wanted. had ali and carl check it out for me and tell me what was wrong. its all good though. kept me busy all day. that was the only productive thing i did all day. around 7pm jac's friends came over to have their gift exchange. and again i'm still in my pjs. so i chilled with them a tad. kept returning to my room. really wasn't in a social mood. so then later cousin and rich came by. again chilled only a tad with them. even cousin remarked about the fact that i was still in my pjs. hah. go cousin. then later they left and i said by to rich since he's leaving on monday to go back to jacksonville. so then i returned to my lair and continued working on website and chatting.

sunday
got up around 10am. we are suppose to be in san ysidro at quinn's house for panan's xmas party at noon. yeah i stayed in front of the pc til about 1pm. yeah i'm on time. hah. so then me, jac, and mom get ready. we start heading out around 2-230ish. so we get down to southside. basically everyone there are the same people that are at our small parties: the canonizados/dela cruzes, the domingos, and the reyes. later uncle noel, darlene and arthur and his sister and her family came from san jose. uncle mario came too. but still relatively the same people. yeah. jac, quinn, john, matt and marc tried to go to walmart to take pictures since my mom wants a group shot of them. but they came back after awhile cause apparently the people working were idiots. oh well next time. while they were gone auntie azon put on some cd she got from the philippines. and omg what is the first song on this cd...none other than "ocho ocho ocho". so the adults were trying to get the kids to do it. i heard the music and i was upstairs. i started walking down the stairs and as soon as i heard what it was i went right back upstairs. man o man can't i get away from this song. hehe. so later i was playing with mellvin and everyone had gotten the song in their head and he started doing it. or so i think he was. i never really saw what it is. i've seen auntie marie's version. i was suppose to watch it at rose's house but i just told her i could see it when in reality i couldn't. sorry. so then we played it again and mellvin did it for us. hah. i asked him where did he learn it from and he said that he learned it from the tv. which means TFC. ah my little fobby nephew. hah. not long after he crashed out and fell asleep buried in the pillows that we were sitting with on the couch. so then i went upstairs and watched tv. watched the celebrity poker showdown. then the gang returned from their idiot experience. we watched the ending then i went home cause my cough is killing me. i watched tv for about 10 minutes then turned on the radio and crashed out for a couple of hours. then i woke up and told my mom i need tuition money and now i'm here blogging. chatted a bit with nikki and rhona. yup. thats my day. the thrilling life i lead. hah.

til we meet again

wow this is a relatively short entry. dang. i must have been lazy.

Angel remembered at 10:16:00 PM

Saturday, December 27, 2003

well its the day after christmas and yet it still doesn't feel as though we just celebrated christmas yesterday. except for all the eating and seeing of family, my day was rather usual.

so i got up around 11am christmas morning. what did i do? didn't go running down to the family to open gifts or anything. i got out of bed and went online. not any different than any other day. i did get an early text from rose at like 2am and got one from teresa at 11am. thus me waking up. thanks guys for the texts. anyhoo. so yeah went online and chatted with people seeing how their xmas going. so far no one had a great christmas. hmm interesting. but yeah. then mattie ims me and asks what time is he suppose to be here at my house for the family thang. so i go ask my parents to find out that this year its mom's side for brunch and dad's side for dinner. hmm interesting change of events. and i find out that we are suppose to be at nena's house at 1 and it's already noon. haha. thanks for telling us. so eventually i stop chatting and stuff and get ready. so we are all dressed and ready to go and we head to nena's. jac will meet us there later cause she has to make her appearance at arnell's family thing. so we get to nena's. katrina was there. haven't seen her in a long while. michelle was in town from new york too. chilled for awhile just stuffing seafood dip and crackers/chips in my mouth as i found out whats going on with katrina. so then nena decides to show us her new car, acura tsx. i went downstairs with everyone and my dad. but for some reason my dad and i never entered the garage to check out the car. go figure. so after being there for awhile as everyone checked it out, aida went upstairs and got her keys so we can check out their escalade xlt truck. its a nice color. that pearl while color. reminds me of rodney cabanban's old crx. hah. although i still feel that if you are gonna get an escalade then get an escalade if you are gonna get a truck then get a truck..the xlt is a waste of an escalade. ok that's my story and i'm sticking to it. but yeah. its cool. rachel has her own stereo in the backseat so she isn't subjected to her parent's funky music. haha. so then we went back upstairs. then jac arrived and katrina and i took her down to the garage to show her nena's car. this time i actually went into the garage. we started messing with the gps system in the car. it was funny. it was me in the driver's seat, katrina in the passenger seat and jac in the back. and we put in our addresses to see what directions they gave us and stuff. so then we found this option that you can scan the maps and just randomly pinpoint stuff. so jac and i start trying to pinpoint our house. and we find it. then we scan down to southside to find katrina's house and her taco shop and we actually pull it off. we try to find quinn's house in san ysidro. after many frustrated attempts we finally get it. but it lists us at 2950 instead of 2951. hah. its all good we figured it out. hah. we were in there messing with the car for so long. by the time we got back upstairs everyone had already started to eat. so we got our food. nice soft and tender prime rib. it was so tender that me and jac were cutting it with butter knifes. ya baby that was good. after i was done eating i raided their discount book and took some coupons out. ahha. i took the coupon for $25 off the magic mountain season passes. hell yeah a season pass for the same price of a single ticket from school. that's what i'm all about. took out the rockin baja lobster one too..ali we gotta take rose there!! hah.. maybe downtown? hint hint!!hehe. and i also took out the vans coupon. 20% off a pair of shoes. hell yeah. i'm all about the shoes. so then jac, katrina and i chilled in nena's room watching will and grace. then we headed home cause we still needed to clean before everyone came over. so then we got home and matt, marc, lolo and inang were already here. so jac and i headed upstairs to clean our rooms. we got it enough so everyone can walk in. haha. of course my room was raided for the computer/internet. and i had both my desktop and my laptop up and running. heheeh. slowly everyone got here. so i was online for awhile then finally went downstairs and started eating after everyone else already started. so then after dinner we started playing bingo. ok let me just add something..before any food was even set up to eat the adults were already playing mahjong in the middle of the living room. dang people haven't even eaten yet and you guys are already playing. hah. ok back to the bingo stories. every year bingo is played. and uncle mon and auntie marie always have $$ for prizes. so yeah we can get loud. this is the first year that i have taken part in the games. i usually just hide myself upstairs. which i did again this year but we'll get back to that later. yeah it got competitive btwn john and jac. oh man they were competing. by the time i had given up on the bingo john had won 3 times, auntie azon had won twice, lolo, tatang and mellany had each won once. so then marc took over where i was sitting. i started heading upstairs when i thought i heard the doorbell. i looked at the door and saw a face but couldn't figure out who it was. so i opened the door and it was kristina. hah. so then i headed up to my lair and got online. had a cool chat with clare and ali, separately. again clare i'm sorry. clare and i made a date for monday to go shopping..sorta. i still can't believe i've agreed to try on dresses for you to take pictures of. i must really like you..hahhah. should be fun. and i'll be able to meet the famous jb too. cool. so yeah i ended up spending the rest of the evening in my room online. rose logged on and i was chatting with her. then quinn came in and to go with our "rosemarie's armpit" saga, i took pictures of quinn sending her greetings to rose. haha. i love my cousin. she always makes me laugh. she made rose laugh too. haha. good stuff. yeah so everyone left. then i started working on posting the pictures from the beach, rosemarie's memories, and our family xmas. then about 45 later i headed off to work. sucky. i hate my job, i hate my job, did i mention i hate my job. aauugghh!! and what made it worse was the i was unable to contain my coughing like i usually do before work so i was hacking for like the first 30 minutes of work. and i somehow fried my mp3 player. don't ask cause i sure as hell don't know. so hopefully on saturday quan and i can go exchange. hopefully!!

friday
so i get up roughly noon-ish. and of course i get online. hah. do see my pattern?!? chat with paul and nik. nice pictures paul. i really like the alien dj one. then i finally get ready and quan comes over and go eat at subway. eat our food and chat about some stuff for awhile then we start heading out. and as we are heading out nino and his gf are heading in. hah. i have a lot of hahs don't i. anyhoo. so quan goes home and i head up to san marcos to go to fry's to get quan some stuff. and i find "beautiful". i have been looking for this movie forever. and i finally find it. so after that shopping i head to ncf. went to happy feet and got my mom a pair since she liked mine that rose gave me. hah. then i went to anchor blue to replace the watch i had to return. i ended up finding a different one but similar to the style that i had gotten originally. quan says it doesn't really match me. and generally it doesn't cause its a completely different style than i'm used to. its a wide black leather band. its something you would see on paul not me. so yeah its gonna take a while to get used to. its a little more rock than i'm known for. but change is good. i like it. and if you don't..tough shit.haha. i also got me a nice little black corduroy purse. hah. i just got a purse for christmas and i already bought another one. .:shrugs:. what can i say? i like purses. its funny i'm so not a girly girl and yet my 2 fetishes are purses and shoes. haha. oh well. as i walked around the mall i ran in to jenn diaz. hah. so after wondering around some more i head home. and guess what i did..thats right i checked who was online. hah. then i took a nap for a bit. then quan came over then around 945pm we headed out for dinner. went to tgifridays. yummy. had the buffalo wings and broccoli cheese soup. quan had buffalo strips. yeah. again i started a certain conversation while we were eating out somewhere. i did that last week at denny's, earlier today at subway and now at tgif. i guess its just safer to have these conversations in public. hmm. while we were there i saw drew. i just never talked to him. so today, while eating out, i saw 3 csusm people. hah. so then quan brought me home and i went upstair and..........................and..................and..............got back online. hah. i began blogging. punita logged on and thanked me for her card. omg she read it to her entire family. i'm glad she liked it though. like i told her..and this goes to all of you that got one from me..i meant every word of it. so yeah that was cool. just chatted a bit with clare about our date on monday. oh man. i'm still in disbelief that i agreed to do this. oh man. omg. hehe.

well thats my life in its big nutshell. hope everyone had a decent if not good christmas. til we meet again.

Angel remembered at 12:31:00 AM

Thursday, December 25, 2003

MERRY CHRISTMAS YA'LL!!!

well its been a cool day and half i suppose. after finally getting off my lazy ass..again..i headed down to mission valley to find my watch. and i ended up buying 2 watches. hah. walked around a bit to check on the journal at after thoughts and try to find a jacket for my mom. but to no avail on both. maybe next time. so then i battle the traffic thats is northbound and head home. i'm suppose to clean the spare bedroom and i guess wrap the gifts. but when i get home my sis isn't home..big surprise there. but anyhoo. she left a note that her and arnell would clean up the room when they get home. fine with me. so i just hang out in my room. as usual. my dad comes home a bit later and tells me basically leftovers for dinner. i ain't having it. especially for my only meal of the day to be leftovers. come on now. especially since i haven't been home for the last couple of days during dinner time, who knows how old the leftovers are. so i call up quan and we plan to go eat around 8. so i channel surf and blog fix and aim chat til then. so then quan gets here around 8 and we head to kfc. yummy chicken. there is a young asian girl with her father eating next to us. it was so cute. she was totally just talking and talking and talking and her dad was listening so intently. it was cool. at one point it sounded like she was telling him a fable of sorts. it was really cute. well to me it was anyway. so then after eating quan and i went back to my house. my coughing began it's massive attack again. i was lying in bed just hacking up my lungs like there was no tomorrow. quan was lying behind me rubbing my back trying to soothe my coughing...that is in btwn him laughing at me for my coughs. after awhile he left and i took a nap before work. work went by kinda fast this time. i liked that. but as i tried to leave fricken kyrsten told me to go upstair with her. i was gonna be written up for excessive absences cause i had called in sick 3 times in the last 90 days. WTF!!!! she told me the dates and they didn't sound right so i questioned them. so she went into another office and brought out my file, i guess, and it turned out that clerical screwed up. if i call in sick 1 more time before the end of january then i'll be written up. WTH!! thats fine that they wanted to write me up..but on fricken christmas eve..fuck man. and you wonder why i hate my job. auugghh!!

wednesday
so its christmas eve. and i get up around 11am. still feel like shit. i don't think that's gonna go away anytime soon. oh well. so i start cleaning up the spare bedroom. well sorta. in the room are my photo albums and stuff. so i start perusing through them. i have like 9 so yea that took up some time. then i found a box of my sis' pictures and went through those too. yeah i'm really on the ball don't you think. found a picture of my sis at my dad's 50th bday party and it really didn't look like her. so i brought it upstairs to show her. she disagreed. oh well. so i go into my room and see ali and carl online. so i start chatting with them. yeah i'm really cleaning the room can't you tell. so after about an hour of that i finally head back downstairs to clean. i eventually finish up and even vacuumed the room. go me. i didn't really clean any other part of the downstairs though. oh well. so i call up donald and eileen and see if they are gonna be home so i can take the kids their gifts and they said yes. so i jump into the shower and get ready. it's already almost 3pm by the time i'm done getting ready. i told donald that i would be up in murrietta by around 4pm. sounds reasonable right?!? wrong. so i go and get gas and by the time i'm done with that it's already 330pm. since traffic is backed up already i head down pomerado road. oh yeah. 4pm hits and i have yet to see the freeway. haha. so i call eileen and tell her that i won't be there at 4pm..duh..she found it amusing as did i. hah. so eventually i get on the 15 north and head up to murrietta. i exit winchester around 445pm. i stop by the temecula promenade with the intent of exchanging one of the watches i bought yesterday cause the fricken second hand is stuck. however this anchor blue is out of that watch so i just get my money back. walk around the promenade a bit then head to donald and eileen's house which is just around the corner kinda. so i get there around 530pm just as eileen is also returning home from some last minute shopping. haha. so we go in and i greet donald and the kids: drake and olivia. they are so cute. anyway. donald showed me a bunch of pictures from iraq. that was cool to see. he had pictures of the babylonian ruins and what not. that was a sight to see. the architecture of these buildings and walls are remarkable. i got to see pictures of saddam international aiport, parts of one of his palaces. these are pictures you wouldn't normally get to see. there was some pictures of a platoon about to take over a building in iraq. i mean pictures of things you would hear on the news and stuff. i'm just glad my cousin was ok. so what was suppose to be a stop over to drop off gifts and what not ended up being a 2.5 hour hang session with my cousins. hah. i ended up eating dinner with them. we had pizza from michaels. its a local pizza place in temecula. that was cool. the pizza was ok too. just needed a little bit more tomato sauce we all agreed. haha. found out some interesting news though. i didn't know that eileen was still on a green card and what not. i knew she was from canada and what not but i thought that since donald was in the military and they just celebrated 10 year anniversary that she would have become a citizen during that time. but alas no she hasn't. she's contemplating it now since its hard for donald to get clearances since she's still considered an alien. hmm interesting stuff i tell ya. i also became a little more fluent in "drake" hah. basically i was able to understand more of my 3 year old nephews words. he doesn't fully pronunciate his words so its sometimes a bit hard to understand him. but it's cool. i remember when he wouldn't talk to anyone but his parents at all. my how they grow up. hah. so finally at 8pm i head home. i get home about 9pm to find out that we are spending xmas eve at inang and lolo's cause lolo isn't feeling well. thrilling. so i want to take a nap. quan wants to come chill for awhile so i go ahead and invite him over. so i'm lying in bed again hacking my lungs out when he arrives. i have my cough attack for the longest time. so then i get up and see messages from pam. she's wishing me a merry xmas. i start chatting with her online and we end up chatting on the phone instead. that was cool. we ended up chatting for like an hour. we were just talking about a bunch of random stuff. i'm glad pam and i are becoming better friends. she's a cool person..a little odd but who isnt right?!? hah..ya know i love ya pam. haha. so i finally get off the phone with pam at like 1115pm. chill with quan a little more then get ready and put on nice clothes..sorry clare no skirt or heels. a pair of black slacks and a burgandy sweater and some boots. so then i head over to inangs house. get there practically right at midnight. hah. the sisons are there too. so then i say hi to them and end up taking a million pictures with them. we had flashes coming from every corner. there were like 6 or 7 cameras going off all around us. it was fun. then the opening of the gifts commences. there was no rhyme or reason this year contrary to past years. basically it was find your own gifts and open them. i got some cool stuff. got some pjs from nikki and juni and my mom. hah. got some khaki dockers from my mom too for work. marc, for some reason, got me an al green cd. hmm interesting kid. got a thomas kinkade mug from mellvin and mae mae. got a pink sweater from auntie marie and uncle mon. i told her to pls exchange it for another color cause i don't wear pink. we'll see if that ever happens. got $$ of course. got a nice burberry-like purse from the sisons. i think grace is on a major purse kick. i got a purse from them for my bday. another one for xmas. jac and quinn both got purses also for xmas. hmmm. either that or grace just bought a bunch of purses and rodney is making her distribute. haha. its cool though. i do like purses. haha. maybe i'll use it tomorrow for xmas. theres an idea. for some reason uncle tony wrapped up an old piggy bank filled with coin, paper towels and a sock for me and nicole but the card read "to be opened only by nicole and jessica with extra caution" or something along those lines but it said it was from george w bush. TF??? first nikki unwrapped it and it turned out to be a kleenex box taped with fricken duct tape. and it said to be careful and that bin laden was inside. finally we opened the box to find the piggy bank inside. when we emptied the contents thats when we found all the paper towels and eventually the sock. only uncle tony i tell ya. after that we called vegas and hawaii. we ended up talking to hawaii first though. wished cy and joyce a merry christmas. then wished joyce a happy 27th birthday since she's a christmas baby. hah. we ended up talking to them for almost 30 minutes..on my cell phone..haha. its a good thing my battery was charged. after that we pretty much collected our stuff and headed home. got home and checked people's blogs. and now here i am finishing up my blog for the night.

hope everyone has/had a great christmas and got what they wanted and liked. have a good one everyone!!

Angel remembered at 2:38:00 AM

Tuesday, December 23, 2003

saturday was cool. after finally getting off my ass and this laptop i started getting ready for cousin's bbq. by the time jac and i got ready it was already like 3 something and the bbq started at 11am. hahah we lag. so we head to park and see rich and his friends. he points out where cousin and corey was and we head over there. so we are talking to them when angela comes around. so we are finally introduced to the infamous angela. haha. she's cool. so we chilled there for a couple of hours. jac played volleyball with angela and the guys and cousin and i started cleaning up and talking. it had been so long since we had talked. it was kinda nice. i gave her a rundown of the haps in my private life. she reassured me of some stuff. i miss my cousin. so around 530pm we all started heading out. rich, angela, corey, and cousin came by the house to see my parents and introduce angela. we showed some old pictures of rich. hah. it was just chill. cousin got ready to go out with lynn. then the rest of us headed over to cousin and rich's house. we had angela ride with us to prepare her for magic mountain. jac was driving. it was funny. so then we just hung out at cousin's house til the guys arrived. during this time jac was able to score the bottle of hennessy from uncle baby. hah. then we went into the garage and played some pool. i beat jac. yayee!! then angela and jac played. not sure who won though. can't remember. you can tell jac was playing "hennessy" style if you get my drift. haha. then all of rich's friends started to arrive. they ended up playing pool then they busted out the old skool nintendo and was playing tecmo football. rich even turned on the surround sound and they were playing on the big screen tv. yeah we ghetto. hahah. but it was cool hanging with cousin rich. and angela. especially since we rarely see him since he's in jacksonville florida being the navy man out there flying his helo. its all good though. i'm proud of my cousin. he's worked hard all his life. and he's out there doing well. and he has an awesome girlfriend that just compliments every part of him. i'm glad he found someone that he loves and adores as much as she loves and adores him. .:smile for ear to ear:. hah

sunday
hmm. what did i do sunday. oh i slept. this damn cough is killing me. my room looks like a fricken pharmacy. i have tylenol sore throat, vicks 44, robitussin dm, amoxicillan, and shit load of halls and i still can't break this cough. and when i get cold, it goes into overdrive. it really sucks. i hate this. everytime i get sick i get sick for a minimum of 3 months to as long as 9 months. that really sucks. i felt like shit all day. it wasn't til like 7pm that i realized that i was suppose to attend a brunch earlier for the target crew. that really sucked. sorry guys. when i finally did get out of bed i started working on christmas cards. worked on some of the noisy crew's cards. it took a long time cause i had to personalize each one cause they are the ones that have a cover but the inside is blank. and you are suppose to print out the inside. yeah. its hard. cause you have so much you want to say to these people but then you don't want to sound all cheesy and shit. its all good. i got most of them out of the way. (teresa if you are reading this..can i get your vegas addy pls..no one seems to have it) hopefully i'll finish all the ones i want to finish before xmas. sorry if i don't. but you guys are always in my thoughts and whatnot and love ya'll to death. ok. yeah.
finally found rosemarie. damn girl. i hadn't heard from her since friday. i had left her upteen messages and texts but no reply. when i finally found her she said she texted me back but i have yet to receive any text messages from her (even now and it's tuesday) thanks ali for worrying with me!! too bad she can't go with us tomorrow. it would have been fun. its all good though. so for the hour before work talked on the phone with rose. boy did she have a lot to tell me. oh man..GIRL SLOW DOWN WHEN YOU TALK!!!!! hahaha. then i went to work and yeah.

monday
oh yeah baby. got up at quarter to 7am. yeah yeah no school but still up. but so worth it. got ready and got jac up and she got ready then we headed to san marcos to cousin's house. then after getting all set and ready we headed out to valencia...MAGIC MOUNTAIN BABY!!!! i love that place. that's why i go every year...who ever reads this..if you are down to go to magic with me in march for my bday let me know!!!...so the 6 of us climb into corey's saturn vue and head out. it was corey driving, cousin in the front seat, me, angela and rich in the back seat and jac chillin with my mp3 player in the back of the suv. hah. it was cool though. we were all just talking and laughing and picking on cousin and angela. rich kept putting songs in our heads. and cousin was trying to tell us what song she hates.."i love it when you call right thurr!!" WTF??? cousin was combining 2 songs. she was trying to tell us how she hates "right thurr" by chingy but was mixing it up with big poppa. goober. so angela was trying to correct her especially since angela and her southern drawl from florida..haha. it was funny. talked about a whole bunch of shit. it was a cool and fun drive up there. then we stopped by in & out for breakfast. ya baby..breakfast of champions. hah. there were some interesting folks there. the lady that took my order looks like "dame edna". if you don't know who that i is i suggest you find out so you can understand how freaked out i was. haha. there was a guy at a table behind us that had a tattoo of eyes on the side of his head. yeah..and that was just the tip of the iceburg of the variety of people that inhabit this in & out. haha. always something interesting at this place when we go to magic mountain. thats why i love going there. haha. spice up my life. hah. anyhoo. so we get to mm and we find out that the park closes at 6pm. WTF?!? its winterbreak and you have limited hours. oh well its magic mountain. hah. since rich hasn't been there in a while and it's angela's first time we decide to hit up X first. hell yeah!! damn the wait was fricken 3 hours. after talking for about an hour and listening to my mp3 player a bit we bust the deck of cards from my purse...thanks diana for getting me hooked on card games and carrying a deck in my purse now..it was a life saver...so we played "screw your neighbor". oh man that was funny.."BAM!!" haha. we played that for like 2 hours. oh man. we got loud. well actually we got loud the whole day. it was a blast. talked to ali and rose for awhile while we waited in line for x too. yeah it was a long ass wait. but so worth it. X ROCKS!!!finally we got on the ride. after the ride we asked corey, rich and angela what did they think of the ride since it was their first time on it. "HELL YEAH THAT ROCKED!!" damn straight. haha. so then we headed to scream since it's the newest ride. um...we were only in line for like 5 minutes. is that foreshadowing or what. yeah the ride was kinda weak. we all expected more since it's the newest ride since x and dejavu. i liked the spiral part but yeah. i could say that it was weak since we just got off x but i've been to that park enough times to know that it was just weak period. oh well. so then we headed to goliath. hahah. that line was an hour and half. but of course we passed the time away playing "screw your neighbor", "bs"..which had to be stopped cause it went from 6 players down to 2..gee i wonder if you are bsing..hah, concentrations, word/song association, alibaba and the 40 thieves type game and random talking. we were so loud. people were staring at us from all over the line. haha. you know you are jealous that you aren't us.hah...but the ride was awesome. always is. haha. but again we got screwed by the same family in the fastlane/handicapp side. stupid family. i wonder though. they had someone with them who was in a wheelchair. and yet not once did they ride a ride. just the family with her did. hmmm. use and abuse i say. yeah then i had a fob moment. as we were heading down the exit i went to ask rich "whatd you think" however my words were "howd you think?" so yeah i got clowned and called a fob by my family. sheesh. haha. i guess its payback for ragging on rose's fobbiness. haha nah. hah. so after goliath we went back to scream to get our stuff. there was no line so we went on again. literally walked right into the ride. that how much of a no line there was. the park was closing too. its all good. the ride seemed faster this time around. but not enought to salvage my feeling of it. its cool though. hah. so then we got our stuff and began our interesting trek towards the exit. i forgot who, but one of us noticed the end of a snickers bar on the ground and then kicked it. the next thing we knew all of us were kicking this piece of candy all the way out of the park and up into the crowd waiting for the tram. haha. we are losers. and to think the youngest person in our group was angela at 19 and the oldest was corey at 32. hahah. yes we acted our age all day.hah. it was fun stuff though. great hanging with my cousins.
on our way home we stopped by newport beach and went to alejandros on 19th street. angela is all hooked on carne asada burritos now. she's gonna be all assed out when she goes back to florida tomorrow. they dont have this stuff over there. they don't have in & out either. she is loving it westcoast style. haha. so then after chillin there and stuff we headed back to cousins' house. we chilled there for a bit. man i was falling asleep. i was standing in the kitchen leaning on the counter trying to drink my pepsi..just regular no vanilla..falling asleep doing it. oh man i was tired. but so worth it. finally jac and i headed out and came home. chatted a bit with rose, joseph, diana, ali, and others. had my blog fix and then went to bed. got up a little before noon and began this long ass entry. its all good though. need to get ready and try to find me a watch at anchor blue. fell in love with the ones rose and i saw in murrietta. hopefully i can find ones down here in diego. but if necessary i have no problem going up there to get my watch. my present watch is doing some weird thing to my wrist/skin. need to change it. well thats my pseudo-plan for the day. anyone want to come with? didn't think so. ahaha..

til we meet again

Angel remembered at 12:10:00 PM

Saturday, December 20, 2003

continuation of my thursdays events..

so after rose was finally done with her test..ok that was interesting in itself. they weren't sure about their answers so they were spinning maurice's cell phone on the mouse pad to determine their answers. i'm not sure the logic in that one since the mouse pad wasn't really separated into 4 sections for the 4 possible answers...ok looney people. whatever works for ya..hah. they were getting loud though. haha. its all good. so when all was said and done we all headed out. rose came down to diego with me cause i needed to give her her pictures that i had developed from the camera i stole from her car. so we head to diego to drop off nik first. that was funny. rose gets on the phone in the back seat and is chatting with pam the entire drive home. nik and i are just talking about rose and making fun of her as though she isn't even in the car. it was funny though cause sometimes nik was answer or reply to things rose was saying to pam as though rose was talking to him instead..and many times rose's next comment would flow with what nik would say. it was a rather amusing drive down. haha. so as we are heading into poway, actually i don't know if we were invited or rose suggested, the plan changes to include stopping by pam's house in carmel mtn. so we drop off nik and then head to pam's house.

that was funny too. i had pam on the phone giving me directions and she tells me that she's gonna run outside so that i will know what house is hers. but as she is saying that i'm already turning into her driveway. so we just sit there, on the phone with her, waiting for her to come outside. all of sudden her garage opens and there we are waiting and she's laughing on the phone when she notices that there is a car in the driveway..haha. go pam!! it was cool chilling with her though. we first chill, literally..it was cold, outside by my car just talking about random stuff. like parents being fobby. hah. then pam offers us water. mmmm water..felt good on my dry ass coughy throat. then we meet her dad, justin. he was cool. then we work our way inside. we get a tour of the downstairs then plant ourselves in the family room, or i think thats what it is called. hah i can never remember which is which. oh well. back to the story. so we talk about a bunch of random stuff. it was cool. laughed about stupid stuff. had a brief serious talk with rose. wow no tears..haha. just kidding nining. its all good though. then rose happened to look up on the wall above the dining room and saw holes..pam found it so amusing that she told her dad about the "holes" that rose pointed out..they are actually windows near the master bedroom. hahah. you crack me up. so it was getting late and we still needed to pick up the pictures then get rose back home. her sis was already calling big time. anyhoo. so we head out. thanks for the water and m&ms pam..they were goooooood!!!

so we head to costco. pick up her pictures. haha. nice. the ones of me need to be burned. but i know that ain't happening. there were some odd pictures in there. nik poking at rose's cheeks. rose playing with eric's hair. jane pearl's wierd attack on rose. all from the xmas party. hah. fun stuff. then we headed back to san marcos. we stop by starbucks so rose can get some coffee since she's falling asleep already and she wasn't even driving. i get my caramel apple cider.mmm so good. so then she does her thang..you did perfectly nining. i told you you can adapt to the situation. anyhoo..we get to the campus and rose gets in her car and heads home. i head home myself. i crash out until right before work.

auugghh work...i hate my job i hate my job did i mention that i hate my job. augghh. i feel like nik right now. i hate my job. sucky. i had to do domestics. which involves all the rugs, towels, pillows and such. and most of the stuff is fricken on the top shelves. ok i'm 4 foot 10inches and i'm having to stand atop 6 and 7 foot ladders and in some cases stand on shelves higher than that to retrieve boxes of fricken towels, rugs, pillows and such. WTF!!! so glad i only work 3 hour shifts. glad quan bought me my mp3 player to keep me at least somewhat content. dammit!!

friday
mostly slept today. except for the couple of hours that i was on the phone with rose working on her soc paper i slept. i finally got up around 330pm to start getting ready to run inang's errands, eat dinner with quan, then go to randy's later. so i go run inang's fricken errands. i swear this woman does not understand the concept of strikes. i've tried explaining it to her time and time again and she still sends me to vons and albertsons to get her stuff that is on sale. damn she's karepot(sp??) sorry my tagalog really sucks. btw that means stingy. anyway so i have to go to albertsons to buy her fricken diet pepsi. sheesh. so after i walk into their house and make a shitload of noise cause i know they are fricken deaf i finally walk up to the dinner table where lolo is eating and he doesn't notice i'm there til i plop the sodas on the table. wth!! inang is completely oblivious since she's on the couch eating watching something or another. she doesn't realize that i'm there til i walk back into the garage to get the time sheets for her. she meets me at the door saying she didn't even know i was there. man someone could rob them while they were in the house and they wouldn't know a damn thing. auggh!!

so then i head home and quan calls. we plan to eat btwn 630-7pm. ok fine. i go home and i chill with jac, portia and menchie for awhile. then i just hang out in my room til quan comes. he comes and we head out. so we go to mcdonalds since he's been craving mcdonalds for like 2 weeks now. the mcdonalds in pq has changed. the design and stuff. not really visually appealing for me. oh well i didn't design it and i don't usually go there. the guy that helped us was an idiot. he didn't know what the hell he was doing. auggh. [i've noticed that i have a lot of "auughh"s in this entry...hmmm] so we eat. i invite quan to join me at randy's if he so desires. he decides to join me. so we head to randy's house. it was randy, joseph...who shaved his head. not bald but has a thin layer of hair, teresa, clare, diana, and 2 of randy's friends. they are watching romeo must die. haha. joseph....you crack me up. i guess he didn't know what they were watching cause it wasn't til the line "sorry romeo you must die" came did it click for him..another CDB moment for joseph. haha. then fireboy arrived and couple of other of randy's friends. then we watched shoalin soccer. that was funny. poor teresa. hah. there was a character that kinda looked like mark. someone made a comment about one of the goalies looking like boa. haha. it was funny. after that we watched the tail end of the laker game. it was joseph, quan, randy and me. we all had the same reaction when kobe hit that last second 3pter. hahah. "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" hahah. so the rest of them headed for in and out and quan i headed home so i can get my car. that was not fun. we ended up getting into it. AUUGGHHH!! after that i head back and meet up with joseph, clare, teresa and diana at in and out. meet a couple of their friends. just chill and talk. then we all head out. be safe teresa!!! have fun with your vegas crew!!!

came home and went online for my blog fix. then talked to quan for a little bit then crashed out for the night. so here i am at 1125am blogging and needing to get ready for cousin's bbq that started 25 minutes ago. sucky. and kinda fightig with my sis about the car. my car keeps overheating so i can't drive mine. my dad told me to take my sis' car. my sis is suppose to be recouperating from her influenza anyway. whatever.

til we meet again.

Angel remembered at 11:28:00 AM

Thursday, December 18, 2003

you gotta love my cousin quinn..there are no buts about it..she always keeps you laughing..haha..

so sunday i was on inang detail. i had to take her to san ysidro so she can get her hair done. so i get up around 1230pm to get ready to take to southside. so i get to her house around 130pm. hah. yeah i lag. so i get there to find out that i have to take lolo to quinn's house. considering i got lost in my day dreams while driving down there i forgot to get on the 5 to drop off inang first. so i ended up dropping off lolo first. luckily, after the fiasco last time of inang not calling to make sure someone was gonna be home, i had marc make me a set of keys for his house. so we get to the house and lo and behold, no one is home. so i use my key to let us in. so we leave lolo then we head out to take inang. haha. so i drop her off. then i head to palomar avenue to hit the target to see if they have the organizers for rose and jenn. omg the chaos in that store. you can tell its one of the closest stores to the border cause it is just overwhelmed with people. but alas i didn't find what i was looking for. so then i head to the wal-mart at the promenade..oh man that was hell. but alas still no day planners. so i go to check on lolo. i find him hiding in the bathroom cause he was gonna try to scare me as i got into the house. but somehow that didn't work. haha. maybe next time lolo. i found him in a quiet house. no tv. wth?? it turns out that he didn't know how to work the remote and turn on the tv. so he was sitting in the house for like 45 minutes in silence. haha. dork. so i turn on the tv for him. he was a happy camper. so then i go back to the hair place to get inang. she's not even done. wtf??? geez. so i head to the mini mall down the street cause i remembered there was a hallmark over there...now that i think of it it's pretty sad that i kinda remembered what stores are over there since i haven't lived down here in over 13 years...so i head over there. as i'm walking into hallmark i start on a coughing frenzy. dammit!!! so i walk out and go back to my car to have something to drink..no alky hall but vanilla pepsi yayee!!..so once i have my cough in control i head down the walkway to the sav-on drug to get some cough medicine that rose's mom told me to take....tylenol...so i buy some tylenol sore throat and some cough drops. then i walk back into sav-on and again no organizers. guess i'm just not meant to find them. sheesh. so then i go back to the salon and pick up inang. we head back to quinn's house and now they are home. so i go upstairs and chill with quinn in marc/john's room. haha i miss that girl. so we go online after i tell her about inang and lolo from earlier. we check out nining's modeling pictures and quinn is just estactic about them. slightly disappointed that there aren't enough picture of her armpits. OMG i was laughing so damn hard from this whole thing. i so want to see this shirt that she wants to make for her. i texted nining and told that quinn was fascinated with her armpits and i got a text back that nining lol in the car. haha. later on i finally just called her and let them 2 of them talk. hahah i love my cousin's goofyness. so after quinn sat there and read my 8page story of my trip to vegas...damn i didn't realize it was 8 pages til i put it in word. damn i write alot. haha. i took inang and lolo home. i tried again to locate rose and jenn's organizers but to no avail. dammit.

monday
came to school to chill again. what else is new. can't really recall much of monday. hmmm..oh met nik's co-worker andrew. talked and chilled with him. it was just a chilled day i suppose. everyone was mainly worried about their upcoming finals and such. its all good.
later that night went to denny's with quan. was a rather solemn and serious outting. i basically asked him why did he want to still be with me? was it because he wants to be with me the person or maintain what he's been accustomed to? after talking throughout our meal it was finally decided that he would stop trying to get back with me. now we'll just be friends. no more friends with benefits or anything like that. itll be different. i hope it will be different. he later called and said how he feels bad about how he treated me and how he understands if i didn't forgive him or anything. we'll just have to wait and see.
stayed up til 230am helping rose with her paper. i can't believe i stayed up that long.

tuesday
got my ass up hella early. the plan was to pick up rose at school at 8am and then meet up with ali and jon at 830am. i'm on el norte parkway heading to school when i get a call about 750am. it was sleepy head rosemarie. do do didn't set her alarm correctly so she had just barely woke up. damn girl you are suppose to meet me in 10 minutes. so i decide to drive up to temecula and pick her groggy ass up. haha. so i get there roughly around 815am. i finally get a hold of ali as i near temecula to tell her about the change in plans due to someone not waking up. hahahahh i'm so gonna tear that into you. anyhoo. so i get to temecula and get to the house. rose is still slightly not ready. figures..so then we finally get all her crap together and leave the note for jenn then finally head out. i call ali and plan to meet at craven hall at 915am cause rose still needs to drop off her group paper. so finally around 930am, rose, ali, jon and myself finally start heading down to la jolla cove. we decide to stop in la jolla at costa verde again to get food. ironically we don't get any food. we go into bookstar instead. oh man we got stuck in one aisle forever. we found dream interpretation books, self help books and other random stuff. it was fun. haha. gonna get you that karma sutra book nining!!! hahah. or do you prefer the pop-up version? hahah..
so after our little reading session we head to the cove. there was a slight brown haze in air and across the water. but it was still all good. we plant ourselves under the same tree that rose and i sat under last time. it was cool. rose was taking pictures of ali and jon. ali studied while jon read his book. they were so cute. so then rose finally sat down and started writing in her journal and i crashed. didn't mean to fall asleep but i did. then when i finally woke up ali crashed out.haha. after ali woke up rose and i headed to the beach so that she can play in the water again. she tried to get me to join her in the water. not likely though. took some pictures that i have yet to dl to the pc. its all good though. so after rose was done being a big kid in the water we headed up to prospect. we drove around and looked for the sushi place on prospect...tadashi... we did find it. so i dropped them off then battled the horrendous parking situation in la jolla. i found a partial spot in front of a house on the side of the restaurant. i was partially parked in the red zone. oh fucking well. so i meet up with them at the restaurant. so we ordered. haha ali and rose have trouble with chopsticks. i tried teaching then how to do it. i kinda got rose situated. now i just need to get ali situated with the chopsticks. i ended up getting them the cheating chopsticks that has the rubberbands and paper to help them use it. haha. its all good. the food was good. i had tempura shrimp roll and fried gyoza. the rest of them had teriyaki beef and what not. the miso soup was good. i drank so much water. i think i had like 4 or 5 glasses of water. i never drink that much water. damn. so we left. it was getting late and in the note to jennifer we said rose would be back by like 3pm. so i ended up driving from la jolla to temecula in relative 45 minutes. oh man. the 3 of them conked out on me though. i'm fine with rose conking out cause she's afraid of my driving and i'm afraid of her little whimpers and what not. its all good though. i ended up waking up ali when i had to brake somewhat hard. i tried to convince her to go back to sleep but she wouldn't. so eventually we get to temecula. but man did i have to pee..after the 4 or 5 glasses of water and the long ass drive i needed to pee. so we all go into rose's house. so after i drop off her stuff in her room i head to the bathroom. jon and ali head upstairs to the piano and tinker with it a bit. so then rose gives them the tour of the house. jon and ali were amazed by rose's house. then jenn and their cousin jimmy come home. chill with jenn a bit then i somehow challenged jimmy to a race. haha. it didn't happen. maybe one of these days it will..southside vs northside racing..and he drives a toyota and he challenges my honda..wth?? hahah its all good jimmy. just make sure you invite me to your dance concert in january. i wanna see you dance. so while jenn and jimmy head back to chaparell to get jenn's dress i take a nap in rose's room and jon and ali watch finding nemo upstairs. while we were there rose got ready for jenn's concert. so after a mini nap and what not we start heading out. jimmy and jenn have since returned. we wish jenn good luck and then head out. so begins my drive down to san marcos to drop off jon and ali. then i head home. dammit i have to work again.

wednesday
i'm again on campus. my contact was killing my left eye. it just kept stinging and tearing. not only while i got ready but while i drove to school. man my eye was so small, red and stuff. sucky. so i make it to the dome. i see everyone as i approach the double doors. i first stop off at ali to wish her good luck. then i head over to the gang. i sit at the table by myself. i don't remove my sunglasses cause my eye is bugging. then pam comes around and asks if i'm crying too, meaning like rose. i then start to cry..damn you pam. i guess i was just in a blah mood at that moment. so pam offers to talk with me. i really liked talking to pam. she sounded just like me. it was funny. hey pam..i'm still thinking of that good quality..ahah. it helped though. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT PAM!! found out that pam, at first, wasn't too sure about being friends with me..but has since changed her mind. glad she did. but i don't blame you for being weary. its all good. so then i just chilled with nik while the psci crew took their final. we tried to figure out who was gonna come back first. i thought joseph would just cause he kept ditching. nik said it would be randy. we knew teresa wouldn't be first cause she would look over her final to be sure. we both figured that rose would be last. haha. so as we played cards..i win nik...we kept watching the door. eventually randy and teresa came back in. we found out the order of how everyone finished. nik won the first part..randy left first..then we both won about rose. hah. diana even got into it when she returned from her math final. haha. so then nik, rose, rhona and i hung out. ryan and adam filtered in throughout the time. hah. at one point it was just rhona and rose hanging out and i ended up in one of my lecture sessions about life. i had rose and rhona list out their goals and explained whats the difference about having things to accomplish and a schedule to accomplish them in. and a whole bunch of other stuff. sorry if i bored you rhona..and rose..since there were times it seemed that you would doze off. or maybe you are just tired of listening to my babble. whatever. so then after just hanging around we left. nik and i had rose drive us to our car. that was a chore. she had to clean up her car first. nik and i actually waited a couple of cars back for rose to finish the car for us. then we finally got in. she drove us to my car. I WAS GONNA TALK TO HER SOMEMORE AS I STOOD OUTSIDE THE CAR BUT NOOOOO!!!! SHE DEMANDED THAT I CLOSE THE DOOR!!! so then i slammed her door and headed to my car. she tried to summon me back but i wasn't gonna go back. she honked her horn at me..hey nining your honker works...but i didn't go back anyways. hah. so then nik got in the car and we headed home. we ended up along side rose at the light near the freeway. as we drove up, nik and i flipped her off. hahaha. for some reason she didn't decide to roll down her window until we were back in motion. yet while we did somewhat talk to her while we were still she left her window closed. i showed her that i stole her camera out of the car. i'll take it to be developed. hah. so then i dropped off nik at his house. then i went to costco to drop off rose's film. then i went home. talked to rose a bit on the phone then crashed out. again i didn't eat dinner. oops. later on quan stopped by and dropped off some vicks 44 for me, since the tylenol wasn't helping. sucky. carmen and my mom checked out quan's new car. they liked it. then he went home. didn't do much after that.

thursday
well got up somewhat early. started cleaning my room. hmm. interesting. so then i headed up to campus around 1130am. originally the plan was for rose to come to my house..but of course that didn't plan out cause she had made plans without thinking...again. whatever. so i first stop by smacc to give cathy her apsa greeting card then i go to srl to drop off christy's. then i stop by the c store and get a drink. talk to mike a bit and wish him fun and happy holidays since he leaves for PI tomorrow. then i head to the computer lab. i first walk in and don't see rose. but i do see nik. i talk to him a bit and he tells me rose is in red..how rude. so i walk into the other and see a blob of red and recognize the hat. so i walk up behind her and blow in her ear..haha made her jump. so nik comes back to where we are and the 2 of us walk to rose's car to get the organizers to return it. then we head back to rose in the lab. we end up chilling there with her and maurice. i end up helping maurice figure out what classes to take and what not. haha. its all good. so here we are at 325pm still in the lab just chilling. nik is playing odd games online, i'm blogging and rose and maurice are taking their online quiz. such a productive day isn't it. ahha

til we meet again

Angel remembered at 1:32:00 PM

Sunday, December 14, 2003

well i must say my friday was interesting..to say the least.

so my alarm goes off at 645am so i can go chill with the friday noisy crew early. but i hear my sis getting ready...WTH?? my sis has been sick forever and and day why would she be getting up and what not. then my mom comes into my room and tells me that both of my parents are taking my sis to the er cause her fever won't break..i never really undertstood that phrase but oh well. so after they left i got up and get ready and head to the campus. i enter the first parking lot and intend on parking near the front of the lot since it's a friday when i happen to glance at the back lane of the parking lot and lo and behold i see the green mitsubishi gs sport parked all alone. so after my initial laugh attack cause i know exactly why rosemarie parked there..i went ahead and parked next to her. haha.

so then i head up to the dome. of course only a small portion of the gang is there. so of course i just chilled. we got to meet pam's boytoy cause he was there with the rb avid. early on after rose arrived randy again witnessed one of our notorious "lesbian" moments. haha randy you know you like it..haha. i'm surprised you didn't write all about it and make it more explicit than it was...all i did was kiss rose on the cheek as she laid her head on my shoulder.hah. while she was in the cougar corner getting food and stuff, i had had randy hide rose's phone in his side pant pocket to see if she would notice..let me just tell you now, no she didn't. anyhoo. randy was gonna be leaving soon so i needed to get it from him. so we were sitting at one of the double tables in the middle of the dome, it was me on the outside sitting next to rose. joseph was caddycorner to the table then randy was at the head of the table and directly across from rose was nimitz. so i leaned across roses legs to get to randy. so randy was trying to figit so he can get the phone out and not let rose see it. since i wasn't paying attention, joseph grabbed my side, so of course i kinda screamed and squirmed. so of course that apparently gave the green light for rose and nimitz to jump in. so rose grabbed my sides just the same then nimitz leaned over the table and smacked me in the ass. since i was being attacked, luckily in time to grab the phone, i ended up falling off rose's lap onto the ground. sheesh people. hahha.. its all good. precious had some tarot cards and read our past, present and future. rose's made sense for the most part. mine on the other hand was a little confusing. hmm oh well i guess. christina mcdonald chilled with us too. she learned how to play super speed from joseph and randy. hah i think i heard she even won against randy .haha.

so after horsing around with everyone and just being dorks rose and i head out to her house. can i pls just let you know how fricken slow this chick drives. omg i was falling asleep. i finally had to challenge her to get her to speed up. but she did then all was well. haha. we got to her house and went online for awhile. she made me salisbury steak..microwave style..haha too bad i kept ignoring it so was cold again by the time i ate it..but it was good nonetheless. i reminded me of mchs days..mmmm salisbury steak and pasta. i miss that..ok back to present day..yeah so then around 230 we decide to head out to watch honey. since the closest theatre was in murrietta we chilled at the mall til the 420pm showing. it was interesting being in that mall. there really wasn't much to do there but chill in the mall. haha. its all good. kept looking at shoes..meng o meng i need pure black shoes. hmmm adidas, nike, skecher, pumas...hmmm. hah. we went into spencers. love that store. hah. found some interesting stuff..to say the least..haha. so after awhile of wondering around we went to the theatre. of course we fought as to who would pay..haha nining listen to your ate' when she says she'll pay..hah..so we go in and get our drinks then go into the auditorium. we get there a little early so we are just chatting. then slowly these groups of girls start walking in all laughing and being loud and shtuff. oh man. there were these 3 girls that sat in the row directly behind us and were just giggling so rose, unbeknownst to me..so don't say i had anything to do with it...started to imitate them. so then i started laughing at her and then she started laughing normal cause i was laughing..ya you get the point. haha. so then we ended up just as loud of them..ahah sucka..its all good "sometimes the risks your most afraid of, are the ones that are most worthwhile"..here you go nining..anyhoo so yeah we watched the movie. i like it..even the 2nd time around. haha. so after the movie we walked around the mall again. thanks for the bracelet nining. no worries about the whole paying fiasco..its an honest mistake. haha. yeah so we did the mall thing again for a bit. then we headed home. ended up, for reasons i really don't want to get into, staying up in temecula instead of coming home after the movie like planned.

i ended up meeting a couple of jennifer's friends. they probably think i'm psycho since for the most of their time at the house i was on the phone either with quan or later with jenae. not to mention the whole jumping around in frustration thing i did. but yeah. then rose and jenn's cousin, shitoke mushrooms i can't recall his name..oops..jimmy? yikes..anyhoo, came by too. we talked about liza back in our high school days..haha. its all good. i'm glad she's doing what she loves to do. so then jenn, friends, and cousin headed to the party and rose and i chilled in her room. talked, looked at pictures and some old journal stuff. then jenn came home and she joined us in rose's room. we talked for awhile. then their mom called them..the last thing i remember hearing was "ok you guys be careful" then i heard the alarm get set. so then the girls returned to the room smiling and said that" i guess you are staying here the night ate'" their mom forgot that i was there. haha. which was fine cause i really didn't want to come home, i was already comfy on the bed under the blanket and tired. so i didn't argue. so it ended up being me, rose and jenn on rose's bed for the night. hah. i found out that i can't sleep on my left side/facing the left direction. throughout the night i generally had trouble sleeping. so most of the night i just watched rose and jenn sleep. it was rather entertaining though. haha. repeatedly i had to block rose's face from being elbowed by jenn. i swear that practically everytime i opened my eyes i was having to react and stop the collision. haha. both of them relay what is happening in their dreams into the normal world. haha. jenn talks and acts out in her sleep...haha the praying and the "what?" w/hand gesture..ahah..and rose mainly just had a coy little giggle. watching them made want to be in their dreams to see what they were reacting to. hahha. then around 615am their mom came into the room after checking jenn's room and not finding her there. so when she came into rose's room there jenn was but so was i. haha. oops..haha. so then we all went back to sleep after auntie left for work...later when we woke up i told them of what i witnessed as they slept. haha hilarious stuff man. i told rose that i was "lock down" with her..haha...literally. hah. it was a cool night though. i had a blast. and i got to see a different part of rose's life. and get a first hand taste of her family dynamic. it was cool.

finally around 10-ish i headed home. i got home a little before 11am, i talked to jac about her influenza and stuff. as i was getting ready to jump into the shower my cell rings and its richie. he was calling me from florida to see whats up and make sure i knew about his bbq thats coming up when he comes to visit. we are gonna be able to finally meet angela. woo hoo. hah. so then i jumped into the shower and got ready to go to valley center for sofia's bday party at noon. a little before noon quan arrived and we headed up. got to see art and joanie and finally meet the twins. too bad they are already 14 months old.haha. so after the family thing we went shopping for his bday gift since the old fart turned 29 about an hour or so ago..HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU OLD FART!!! god i love the fact that your bday comes 3 months before mine.haha.we didn't end up buying anything anyway.haha. so then we stopped by starbucks and i got my caramel apple cider. mmmm yummy me like me like...hah. then we came home. i was sooooo tired from the lack of sleep at rose's house that i kept dosing off. esp since now i was able to face in the right, directionally speaking, direction. haha. so then after quan left i kinda relaxed. i had my blog fix and i was chatting with pe-o-ples. hahha. started working on rose's blog layout. i didn't post it when i was done cause there were a couple of parts that i needed from her so i can post it out there. hah. so she finally called me and we talked and i finished up all the parts of her blog and posted it. haha. so here i am and its 115am getting ready to crash out and finally done blogging..hhaha..

til we meet again!!

Angel remembered at 1:15:00 AM

Saturday, December 13, 2003

i love comments like this..i get all warm and fuzzy inside...

heyC L A R Esays: thank you/
heyC L A R Esays: you are greatness :D

~thank you very much clare!!! you, too, are greatness!!!!

Angel remembered at 8:10:00 PM

Friday, December 12, 2003

ok first of all..contrary to popular belief..i do not talk to rosemarie with the intent of making her cry. it just happens that we discuss topics that make her emotional. i felt like such a monster when trish came into the car saying that i made rosemarie cry again. sheesh. I DO NOT MAKE HER CRY INTENTIONALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sheesh. maybe i shouldn't talk to her anymore in public.

anyhoo. my loser self missed the noisy gang so much that i went to school today to be with them. although the 2 days i stayed away i was sick i wanted to be with them desperately. it felt really good to see everyone and hug everyone. although diana was sick and asleep she at least acknowledged that i was there. it was cool to receive ali's text as i was walking into craven asking when was i arriving on campus. when i texted her back saying i was in the elevator she responded "yay" i felt so loved. then to see everyone kinda smile when i arrived gave me warm and fuzzies inside. from what i've gathered from chatting with ali and teresa, i was missed as much as i missed everyone else. thats kinda cool. when i decided to keep my distance from the group and let you guys study i just figured, ya rose would miss me, but i wouldn't have really been a second thought in your guys mind. you guys would be occupied with finals and final papers and projects and stuff. i just figured that as far as you guys were concerned i was just the lazy bum that just stayed in her seat day in and day out as you guys went along your day. i don't know. i guess my view of me being the loser that i am, i just figured you guys just kinda put up with me..ya know?!? no need to answer that. its rather rhetorical. thank you guys though.

so yea i chilled at school today. like i said above it felt good. when i got there it was jane pearl, janerosa, diana, randy, ali and teresa. so i worked my way around and hugged everyone..well i kinda leaned on diana for the hug since she was sleeping. i got into a conversation with janerosa about pharmacy school and shared with her the info that i had gotten when quan was in pharmacy school. so that was kinda cool. then borasy arrive then rose came over with trish and nik. of course i get plummeled(sp?) by rose. but that was to be expected. i got a hug from borasy too. so then after figuring our the costco thing with trish she runs off to computer lab. we started going through borasy's quote book that diana gave her about a peaceful life. me and ali found all these cool quotes for rose. hah. i had my flavia day planner so i can collect more addresses for xmas cards and there were quotes inside there too. when rose arrived we started pointing out the quotes then next thing i knew me and borasy were listing quotes in rose's journal. hah. so now there are 2 pages of just straight quotes. haha. i passed around my day planner to those that i still needed addresses from..which i still need more to get. basically my time there was spent playing super speed with trish, ali and randy, love/status with randy, rose, shea, trish, ali, and borasy, fortune telling with randy and ali, watching shea finally open his secret santa gift from nimitz, and mike and trish playing outside in the rain. heheh i was half right..trish did come in and hug someone..but instead of it being me she hugged ali. hahaha. but mike took care of that mix up by hugging me with his wet jacket. then i sent mike and trish to hug rose.hahah she didn't know they were playing outside in the rain. hahahah.

so around 4pm rose and i head to costco to get the supplies for the salsa posada that apsa is suppose to supply. as i'm driving into the parking lot i notice cristen and hailey...ok this is my big loser moment...i tell cristen to wait for us to get out of the car. i walk up "ok i'm a loser and i haven't called you since you gave birth and i didn't forget your birthday. i still have your birthday card at home" ok..hailey was born in august and i haven't talked to cristen since she gave birth. i had yet to see this baby. and now this baby is 4 months old. cristen's bday was november 2nd and i bought her bday card before halloween so i can send it off. but her birthday came and went and the card is still sitting in my room unsigned and obviously unmailed. great friend i am. and to think i was the maid of honor at her wedding..and he's my retarded twin...you had to work at the theatre with us to understand that one. but yeah i'm just a dork for not getting in touch with her to apologize or anything. but she later said that there are several of our "friends" that have yet to get in contact with her since giving birth. at least i talked to her after she gave birth. hah. but it was good to see her and hailey. god she's so big already and starting to teeth and this girl is only 4 months old. hah. oh man. speed demon. hah.

so then after the whole costco thing rose and i head back to the dome to pick everyone up to collect supplies and deliver them. so i send rosemarie into the dome to get everyone. apparently rose entered the dome all down and depressed or something cause trish asked her if i made her cry again. and the girl said yes!!! so trish came out first and got into the car saying "so you made rosemarie cry again huh?!?" WTF????? when did this happen? i know i brought her to tears in the dome when we were talking about rex. but when else did i make her cry? oh man. so when trish, rose, andrew and ali piled into the car i asked rose when did i make her cry again. she said that she cried in the dome during the rex conversation..that's the only one i remember her crying at. she slightly misheard trish's question. sheesh give me a complex why don't you?!? so we headed down to the parking lot and dropped off trish and got her supplies and the 4 of us left headed to the field house to drop them off. so ali and i took all the stuff in while rose and andrew finished eating andrew's left overs from stir fresh. so as ali and i are heading back to the car i kinda start running towards the car..that was until ali's comment "omg jess is running?" SHUDDUP!! just because i detest exercise and stairs that doesn't me that i am incapable of exercising or exhibiting exercises. sheesh meng. hah. its cool ali just teasing you. yeah so i was huffing and puffing..not from the running but from the comment made about me running as we got into the car. hahahaha. so then we dropped off ali at her car and then dropped off rose at her car...i was giggling soooooo much cause i seriously thought rose was gonna leave the food ontop of her car. hahah. ask andrew just how bad i had the giggles. my giggles were so loud that rose actually heard me giggling from her car. oops. so after she gets settled in and i fix her glasses AGAIN i have her follow me down a different route so she can just jump on the 15 and not worry about the 78. hey andrew...what does it mean when the person you are following turns on their signal to turn left but changes lanes to the right...and keeps their signal on? hahahh... btw rose..take your phone out of your purse so when we call you to tell you to stay in the left lane you'll know. haha. so after the 15 connectors and we go our separate ways andrew and i head home. we have an interesting conversation about family dynamics. poor guy. when he gets out of the car we make sure that he finally takes princess' dvd player that she won. haha. oh man we lag on giving it to her. hah. its all good.

after that i go to big lots and get inang her xmas tree and decorations. go to seafood city to get spaghetti noodles and pick up han's latest issue of asia newspaper. then go home and log on. chat with ali, nimitz and teresa for awhile. then go eat. afterwards i chat a bit more and talk to rose on the phone. talked to her...actually more like listened to her read quotes from the "love" book that diana gave her. then went to work. during my break i checked up on rose to see if she was still on the phone with putz. haha yeah you knew i was just checking to see if you were still on the phone..haha.
anyhoo its now 417am and i need to get some sleep if i'm gonna get up in a couple of hours and go chill with the gang at school again..haha i'm a dork who goes to school just to hang with cool, noisy people..hahah. i love it!!

til we meet again!!

Angel remembered at 3:47:00 AM

Wednesday, December 10, 2003

yeah i'm a loser. i miss the noisy gang so much and its only been 2 days since i've been with them. i'm gonna go up there tomorrow and chill cause i miss them and i have to give andrew the dvd player for princess and randy his gc from saturday.

~my conversation with teresa~
j marie rabbit: yeah i'm a dork
ChYnEzAn6L: its ok
ChYnEzAn6L: dorks are cool

i feel so loved. teresa know just what to say..haha..

Angel remembered at 9:05:00 PM

Tuesday, December 09, 2003

even though its only been a couple of days since i've blogged its been over a week of days that i haven't blogged about. i guess now that i have time on my hands i can attempt to catch up. i just don't think i can remember everything. haha

~ today~
just been sick all day. my throat is sore and very scratchy. and i've been hacking all day. well i was hacking all last night too.

now begins the recap..

saturday 11/29
well i got up this morning and went to dee's and had her cut my hair. so now my hair is back up to my shoulders again. i forgot how light it feels when its this short. i cut a good chunk off. really didn't say much to anyone that i was gonna cut again. on the drive down from vegas i called dee and made the appt. i must say though it is a interesting way to determine if people really pay attention. see how many people notice i cut it. its just like last time. i mean granted when i originally cut my hair short EVERYONE noticed. it went from being below my ass to the middle of my back. then the next time i cut it went from the small of my back all the way up to my shoulders. so those were drastic enough to notice. but this time my hair was in the middle of my upper back and was being cut to my shoulders. so we'll see.
after i cut my hair i had to run errands for inang....whoo hooo thrilling..can you just hear the sarcasm?!?. so i go over and drop off all that she wanted me to do and she didn't even notice my hair. especially the fact that i had it down. lately at school i was wearing down, which the more i think about it you should have been able to tell that my hair has changed lengths since it doesn't hang over my shoulders and arms and what not. whatever she's inang. so then i go home and wait for quan to come over so we can attempt to take the tables and chairs back to armida's house. chatted a bit with ali and rose. told them i cut my hair and what not. so there are gonna be some people on campus that will know. hah. finally quan arrives and shows me that they finally traded in the damn jeep...if you didn't know...I COMPLETELY HATE HIS JEEP!!!! and he got a 2004 honda accord. its a nice car and a nice color. i just don't like the tail. its tooooooo round. looks like they ran out of steel so they rounded it off to accommodate. anyhoo. he sees my hair. of course he says its too short cause he prefers long hair. hah. we don't end up going to armida's but we do pile all the chairs and tables into my accord. damn i didn't know i could fit that much stuff and that size into my accord. i fit 3 long tables and 9 chairs. so after we stuff my car we jump into his and head down to comp usa to look at mp3 players, for us, and a game for him. i really didn't like the mp3 players at comp usa. they were fricken huge. they were like the size of the old skool tape walkmans. no like. so we headed down to frys. it turned out that they had mp3 players on sale too. and they were creative, the same company that makes our computer sound cards. we looked at the different ones and i decided that i didn't need a 20 gig like quan does. so i opted for a 256mb. i don't listen to that many songs at any given time. and it turned out that there were 2 rebates (1 instant and 1 mail in) associated with my player. so that knocked off 60 bucks. yayee!! so we go and pay for the players. .:singing:. i got a player i got a player..ok enough. after frys we head down to hazard center to ginza and have japanese food. i was kinda craving sushi and stuff and i got quan to agree to go. i probably looked like a pig. i hadn't eaten all do so i ordered shrimp tempura roll ~ crunchy, pizza roll and an order of shrimp tempura appetizer. and all quan had was a chicken teriyaki bowl. hah. he ended up eating some of the shimp tempura roll and shrimp tempura with me. that shocked me cause i thought he hated sushi. its just not on his fave list he says. that was something new. hah. it was good food though. yummy yummy. so we went home.

sunday
quan came back over and headed up to valley center to drop off the tables and chairs. yeah i know they live in the boonies. so we played with the rugrats for a little bit then unloaded the car and went on our way. we stopped by costco so i can pick up the last of the mabuhay pictures. now i just have to scan them all. i still had to go down to la mesa to nana's house to help jac and mom help nana box up all the figurings and china and what not in all the curriers around the house since they are redoing their floor and carpet. oh man. i was glad i had my mp3 player. hah. i knew the 4 curriers we were packing up were full but i didn't realize just how full they are. oh man. it felt like i was rolling up newspaper forever. when i got there nana offered me a sandwhich and i told her no tomatoes cause i don't like tomatoes. and when she brought me my sandwhich, what was inside? tomatoes. haha. its cool nana. haha. it was a good sandwhich though. so we spent like the next 4 hours wrapping up stuff and boxing it. and we still didn't finish. we had to stop cause we ran out of boxes. my mom went outside to have a cigarette and noticed that she was leaking something from her car. so she had tata check it out. they then called my dad and he said there was something wrong with the cap on the water pump or something like that. but when he came down to see for himself it turned out to be something else. her water hose was leaking. so we had AAA come tow it to the house. then we ate dinner. then after jac and i washed dishes we left.

monday
ok begins the test of who will notice my hair. hah. so i finally get to campus around 930ish and as i am walking towards the dome i run into clare, teresa and jane pearl. i say hi to them and hug them and they tell me they are gonna check out jane pearl's new house. cool. have fun. no one notices.. ahha. so i get into the dome and see rose with trish and nik. oh man. rose comes running up to me and knocks the air out of me. she smacks right into my chest to hug me that i can't breathe for a moment and of course causes pain to my upper body. hah. oh meng girl you have far more strength than it seems. hah. rose knew about my hair so she checks it out. trish notices it and so does nik. trish says i look younger and slimmer. cool. nik, on the other hand, says i look shorter. i'm trying to figure that out. don't know. i thought longer hair makes you look shorter and shorter hair makes you look taller. i don't know its nik. hah. so then we head upstairs to set up for tabling. oh gee tabling again. this time we sold xmas cards. we had randy buy a bunch of cheap (as in price not quality mind you) cards at big lots and we sold each one for a quarter. so again my days are spent in founder's plaza selling something and chillin with the apsa crew/noisy crew. asi has some stuff going on on the the plaza for the students. they have free popcorn and massages for the students. so ali and trish go over and get massages. hah. at 1, rose, mike, trish, lex and i head over to albertaco to possibly meet up with brannigan. loser didn't even show up. its all good we had fun eating and what not. hah. so then we headed back to school so that rose and mike can go to their 230 classes. trish, lex and i head up to carlsbad to do some shopping..SHOES!!!!!!!!!!!!! heheh. yes jess goes shoe shopping. we go to adidas first. and lo and behold their friend albert from tagalog class is there. he works there and he hooks us up with his family discount. 50% off baby. wooooohoooo. so trish and i start looking at shoes and stuff and find a pair of baby blue adidas. yes..blue...aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh and with albert's discount its only like 20 bucks. hah. they are baby blue with the adidas stripes dark blue. after the adidas store we walked around some more looking at other stores and what not. then we went into puma. oh yeah baby. i like me some puma. hah. maybe thats why i do go to csusm. the cougar kinda looks like the puma. anyhoo. found a nice pair of pumas. they are canvas and they are someone dark blue and the puma stripe is baby blue. they kinda look like adidas. hah. yayee!!! finally i got some shoes. i also bought a dark blue with baby blue P-U-M-A on it. ahhhh..purse and shoes. i'm a happy camper. we walked around some more then headed back to campus cause of the executive meeting we had. right before we got to school we stopped by starbucks. mmmmm hot cinnamon apple cider. love it. so then we go back to school and the dome. for the most part everyone was there. clare suddenly notices that my hair was short. haha. go clare. its all good though. hahaahha. so the meeting happens and afterwards we just chill and talk and stuff. then we go home.

tuesday / wednesday
just mainly hung out at the table. of course we danced and what not. hah. what else is new, huh?!? on one of these days they were playing with the stress ball again and throwing it over the trees in the center of founders plaza. well it got stuck in one of the trees. so we were all trying to get it down and stuff. and the sorority next to us was being the bitchy and snobby as usually. of course there were leaves falling on them from the ball hitting the branches and what not. and sometimes the ball would fall short of where trish and ali were. auughh. well when it got stuck it was someone's smart idea to use a full water bottle to try to knock the ball out of the tree. ok that might not have been the best thing to use. hah. well eventually it fell near the sorority and busted open on some of the girls..hahaa. oops. aha. we ended up getting the ball down the next day .hahah.

thursday
tabled even more. ahha. the apsa meeting was real quick but we spent the rest of the time telling stories and drawing on the chalkboard. hah. we were dorks. its all good. after the meeting i went and got the stuff for the white rose gift. went to cousin's house to work on it. damn roses had to be to damn thick to close the frame. its all good we finally got it so at least the smaller rose fit. then i rushed back to campus for the FCC meeting. randy, arien, tina and i went. thanks randy for coming with me. it was a good turn out. we had usd, ucsd, state, and cal state. we also had reps from the new magazine makibaka. they asked for trish's contact info to interview her for their premiere issue. go trish..haha. we've also been asked to boycott wal-mart. in seattle they had a costume of a mail-order bride. the image had tattered clothing covered in postage stamps being worn by an asian girl in tears. thats just wrong. so if you read this pls boycott wal-mart. thanks. then i rushed home since i had to work at 11pm...which didn't happen...on my drive home i was on the phone with rose when i suddenly started screaming into the phone. i got a sharp pain in my lower left side of my back that just kept getting worse and worse. oh man i hurt. i finally got home and laid in bed for a bit and talked more to rose til the pain subsided enough for me to go to work at midnight. so not cool.

friday
i went to school and chilled with whoever was there for awhile. gave the white rose gift. haha. after that. i really don't remember. sucky. i can remember what i did the rest of the week but i can't remember what i did this day. guess i really didn't do anything important. hmmm. interesting. now i remember why i couldn't think of what i did...its cause i was dealing with my mom's holiday party for her union. hah. jac and i had to bring all this stuff to acapulcos in old town for my mom. the food was good though. beans, rice, enchiladas, tostadas, chicken, buffalo wings, chips and salsa. it was very good. hah.

saturday
well i got up and went shopping. still needed to get my secret santa gifts. hah. trish also went shopping so we were on the phone helping eachother whereever we were. haha. thanks trish. hah. so i got christa her stuff. had to keep stopping myself from shopping for other people cause i still needed to get christa her gift. haha. oh well. maybe next time. hah. so afterwards i went home and worked on some stuff. then around 445/5 trish and paul came over. after i wrapped the rest of christa's gift we all headed out. we went to ralphs to get salads and stuff for the party the headed to punita's for the party. OMG her house is huge. its nice too. we had a great turn out. we had like 40 some people there.
~this is just the apsa group. this did not include all the friends and whatnot that we still had all around the house~ it was cool. i ended up meeting, again, han's friend yuo. it turned out that she's old friends of punita. haha. its a small world. it was cool. everyone was just hanging around and chillin. we saw the cutest video of punita when she was like 7 years old. rj's brother found it while they were getting a tour of the house and snuck it downstairs. he popped it in and rewinded it and then we had punita come down and sit and watch and he put it on. it was her ice skating for a show. oh so cute. we were laughing so hard..well i know for a fact i was cause my abs hurt so much. oh man. you were such a little cutie punita. aha. yuo and i went to pick up the pizzas at dominos down the street. ok, we ordered 10 pizzas and the bill was $88.79. and punita wrote that on the post it for us too. but she only gave us 80 bucks. hmmm..let me think.. a bill of over 80 bucks and only 80 bucks to spend. hmm. we had some coupons that came with the pizzas that yuo was able to get them to use for us. haha. its all good punita. hah. we still love you. when we got back we saw a chair in the middle of the living room and rj was bringing punita over there to sit. the next thing we knew rj's brother geronimo was starting to give punita a lap dance. haha. so then we got all the people from apsa that was involved in the secret santa exchange into the the other room to take care of business. i love my precious moments figure arckay thank you very much. and i love my happy feet nining!!! we played taboo. oh man punita. i never knew you had that much competition within you. "JUST PASS IT!!!" oh man. haha. total humiliation ensued later on my part during the game compliments of trish and rose!!! YOU ARE DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyhoo. it was fun. then we played truth or dare jenga. oh man that was fun. haha trish had to lick off chocolate icing from earl's arm. hah. i had to give a raspberry to nimitz on his stomach. aha. ali and fireboy had to switch shirts. chris actually fit into ali's shirt. and it looked good on him. thats just not right. hahah..its cool. it was a fun night. it was nice to watch everyone have fun and hang out without all the cliques and what not. it was cool.

sunday
i got home from punita's at 230am. talked on the phone with rose til like 330am. then crashed most of the day. hah. i really don't recall doing much this day. and considering all that i did on saturday i don't think i did much of anything.

monday
well it was my last day on campus. it was kinda sad. i hung out with everyone and worked on jane pearl's papers like i said i would. i'm odd i like editing people's papers. hah. so yeah i just sat my ass down at the table and talked to everyone and chilled one last time for the semester. it was kinda nice and chill. i wish i could have seen everyone. but rhona was sick, so her and andrew didn't come up to campus. i didn't see trish at all. shea didn't come around cause he was ::cough cough:: sick. it was funny. ali was telling jessica and shar about kristine. and they were plotting stuff. and i took off running to high 5 jessica. haha. so then i came back to the table and ali and explained kristine to the gang. so not cool. rose was right. we should send kristine to her house. hah. it was a cool day though.
i was talking to rose on the phone when we realized just how small the world is btwn me and rose. her sis' best friend is jenae suarez, joy's niece; basically my niece too. hah. yea so i decided to 3way rose, me and joy. poor rose she kept getting confused cause joy and i sounded alike. haha. we were laughing so hard. haha. it was fun. haha.

one last message to the noisy gang: thanks everyone for putting up with me all semester. good luck on your finals and i'll see you guys next year!!!

til we meet again.

Angel remembered at 3:10:00 PM

Sunday, December 07, 2003

ok teresa here goes my vegas stories
~ this entry is gonna be very long...with the way i describe just about everything and a lot happened..be prepared~

FIRST AND FOREMOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WAS A BIG DORK AND FOB ON THIS DAMN TRIP!!! I NEED TO GET OUT MORE!!!

ok so its now 8pm on wednesday and my mom and finally get our shit together and packed in my accord and begin our journey to vegas. lazy me didn't get gas on my way home from school..actually figured mom would pay for my gas hahah..so we decide to stop by the ampm off east valley parkway. as i'm driving up there princess calls to see where we are and it turns out that they are only a couple of exits behind us. so we decide to all meet at the gas station since my mom and i have never driven to their house in vegas...granted i was in 8th grade the one and only time i was in vegas and that was for a potty break as we drove to nebraska..so vegas is a whole new world for me..hah. ok dork moment #1...so we get out gas and papa nick, princess, shawn and lorelei (loli) drive up. we all get some food and drinks and what not. i begin my "shawn has a big head" jokes and pick ons..haha. come on shawn you know its all out of love. hahha. my mom and papa nick are smokers, and the rest of us aren't. so princess suggests that papa nick and my mom ride together and her, shawn and loli ride with me. i agree that it would be better that each car have someone that knows where they are going in it. ::hidden agenda: youngins in my car, elders in other..hahhaha go nining!!!:: so shawn grabs loli in her car seat (btw she's 4 yrs old) and moves her to my car and princess gets their stuff and brings in my car. so once we are all settled we go on our way. i thought i drove fast..damn papa nick. i would love to see jac and papa nick race. hahah. so we are driving along and what not. princess and i are just talking. its funny how we can always find something to talk about haha. we did a lot of reminiscing and what not but it's all good. miss chillin with my cow-sin. so we are driving and driving and driving and driving ..did i mention driving. i haven't driven this far since i stopped visiting quan in stockton back in 2001. ok.. dork moment #2...most of the freeway strip is unlit. there are random trees everywhere and because of the darkness and what not i keep thinking these damn trees are random clouds of smoke. and i actually tell princess of my misconceptions..maybe that should be dork moment #3. hah. so the rest of the time any tree is called smoke. hah. loli conks out early in the trip, which i'm glad i don't think i could have dealt with her yapping and being loli for 6 hours in a confined car. sorry princess but you know your daughter gets to me. shawn is funny he conks out just the same. but every so often he wakes up and starts singing to the music. startles me but its funny. cause imagine just hearing 2 female voices talking and laughing with music just in the background, we didn't have it that loud cause we were into our conversation, when all of a sudden you get a deep manly voice singing. hahha you crack me up shawn. he did this intermittenly throughout the whole drive. for most of the drive i am following papa nick. at one point i lead but he takes over not long after. and, i'm not sure how, but i completely lost him. its a good thing i had princess and shawn in my car. so we hit some retarded traffic on a 2 lane each way strip. see a lot of "smoke" but thats about it. my mom calls to see where we are. i don't know where the hell i am so i ask her if she sees any signs so that i can kinda gage were we are from them. she tells me that she doesn't see any. then papa nick chimes in and says he sees a blue sign..it says "CALL BOX" haha dork. so i call him a smart ass and my mom relays the message. so then we say that we are about to pass an accident, that is on the other side, that has a shit load of cops. she said that she just passed about 5 minutes ago. so we are still talking when princess says that she sees the call box that papa nick saw. so i tell my mom and papa nicks says, "now who is the smart ass? hahah" i tell him it was princess. haha. i guess its a sapanza thang huh?!?hahhaha. princess says she gotta wee so we try to figure out where to exit. we end up exiting somewhere in death valley i was told. it has a huge ass thermometer. [correction: it was baker that we stopped in..thanks teresa]so we go to the dennys there and do our business. CAN YOU SAY FUCKING COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh damn its freezing. you would think you would see snow already. well based on what temp i'm used to. so we are running to and from the dennys and cars. so princess and i get out of the bathroom and there is this guy standing there without a fricken jacket..HELLO MCFLY!! and he is asking us why is it so damn cold inside the restaurant. could it be that you are moron and aren't wearing a jacket?!? so princess and i start outside and we are first kinda walking and the guy is following us. WTF!! so then we start sprinting off and hes still following us finally we take off for the car and veers off somewhere else. i ask princess if he's a friend of hers..haha. she said no that he was my friend. strange peoples i tell ya. so off again we go. as we are getting on the freeway i get a view of the thermometer..HELLO??? 39 degrees..thats not right...feels like below zero to a diego girl like me.. but damn thats cold nonetheless. so eventually we start entering nevada/las vegas. we hit the nevada landing first. interesting. things are a lot brighter here. hah. so we keep driving and we start approaching the strip area. princess points out the luxor's beam to me. dang thats bright. isn't that one of the things that can be seen from space?!? as we get closer and closer to the strip it keeps getting brighter and brigher cause of all the lights. i seriously want to see the electricity bill for this place. hah. so we drive past the strip and keep heading along to the sapanza house. they are right outside the strip. eventually we make it. yayee!! so we unload the cars and get into the warm house. ahhahah. greet auntie chaning and nanay. its a nice house that they have. soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much bigger than the small thing they had out in chula and that house had 14 people living it and this huge house now has at most 6. haha. its all good.
so we chill for a bit then decide to head down to suncoast to eat. ok, its 230am and we are gonna go eat steak and eggs. apparently this is a staple in vegas. so we get there and here is a huge posse of security guards trying to get rid of this one belligerent guy. he is screaming and cussing on the top of his lungs about nothing at all. i guess...anyhoo so we go into the casino...yayee!! the first casino i walk into in vegas that i'm allowed in. hah. so we walk over to the cafe/restaurant. damn steak and eggs for a buck 99. can't be that. so after waiting a bit we walk in. as i'm walking in there is a guy that looks very familiar to me. he looks like teresa's friend alex that we met in LA. but i wasn't sure if it was him. so the rest of the time we were there i kept staring at the back of head like that was gonna help me. dork moment #3. i was really tempted to call teresa and have her find out if it was him for me..but it was like almost 3 in the morning. and i'm sure she wouldn't have cared at that hour. i don't know if this is normal. but it took forever for us to be served and what not. we were seated around 2:45am. but our order wasn't taken til after 3am. and thats cause we finally talked to the supervisor. well actually we weren't the only ones talking to the supervisor. the table next to us had waited for like 45 minutes for their food still. so the supervisor pulled a waitress from another part of the restaurant to take our order. luckily our food only took 15 minutes to arrive. but it was yummy!!! definitely worth eating at such an odd hour of the day/morning. hahah. so around 4ish princess, shawn and i leave auntie chaning and my mom to gamble and we head home. tired meng. so we get home and crash out. haha

thursday
oh meng...worse way to wake up. around 730am (mind you we didn't get home and to bed til after 4am) loli runs into my room, since it's normally princess' room, looking for princess and shawn. of course its me and not them. so she runs out. i crash out again..but when i do get up for real around 930 its cause of P-A-I-N!!! my damn right calf tightens up again and i have a huge cramp in it. OMG the pain. i start yelling for loli since she's running around so that she can get princess. after about 10 minutes of rolling on the bed in pain and calling for loli, my pain subsides enough for me to wander the upstairs looking for princess. i find her in kuya ken's room and have her come to my room. she starts massaging the muscle but all i feel is pain and not relief. sucky meng. eventually majority of the knot disapates but i'm still left with pain and discomfort. i tried to get up and put pressure on my leg to get a photo album just a few steps away and it hurt too much. meng or meng. so i end up just lying there with princess and loli waiting for the pain to completely subside. damn leg!!! eventually it does. while this is going on princess asks me what time did our mom's come home. "our mom's came home? when?" princess just looked at me. it was already like 10am and our moms had yet to return. oh meng. haha. after awhile we head downstairs. papa nick hadn't slept all night cause he was tinkering with his new surround sound system and installing everything. as well as waiting for the girls to return. shawn is getting worried that they aren't gonna get home in time to make thanksgiving dinner. haha. damn shawn. we are chilling downstairs when the door bell rings at 11am. i go to answer the door and lo and behold its the moms. i answer the door in the most fobbiest accent i can possibly muster up "Ay sus do you know what time it is? where have you been?" hahah. ok dork moment#4. haha. so the stories start about their gambling excursion and what not. hahha. so then auntie chaning kinda makes us some breakfast/lunch. yummy chicken, rice and pancit. princess and i get ready and head out to albertsons (yayee!! no strike in vegas) to get pies and other stuff for thanksgiving dinner.
so princess and i are walking around the albertsons getting our stuff. we go down the alcohol aisle to get stuff for their margaritas and i get stuff for my malibu bay breeze..yummmy!!!...a bottle happens to catch my eye. kahlua has a drink called "KUYA" yeah baby!!. we didn't buy it though. haha. i decide that we should buy some shrimp and have shrimp scampi. ohhhhhh heaven. hah. so we go to pay. (disclaimer: princess is my 23 almost 24 year old cousin. she is taller than me but she doesn't look all that much older than me.) so first its princess paying. her bill is kinda high and she pays with 20s and 10s and such. while she's paying i catch a glimpse of a slot room right there in the store. WTF!!! so i tell her "you guys were kidding that there are slot machines in the stores down here"..ok so that shows you that shes been here and i haven't. ok...so we find out that one of the pies is a buy 1 get 1 free. so after princess pays she goes back into the main store to get the free pie. and while she's doing this i get rung up. i ask the cashier if she can break a 100 cause thats all i have and my bill is like 20 bucks. she says " oh yeah i'll just give you back the money your mom just gave me since she paid with 20s and 10s." WTF!!!! my mom? princess is my mom? oh meng. so i finished my transaction and the cashier left cause we were her last customers. i waited for princess and i told her what had happened. she put her arm around me and said "come on daughter to go to far away" hahah. i was like what the hell was that. my mom?!? i told princess that i knew that her chemo kinda aged her but come one..to be my mom. she would have been negative 5 when she gave birth to me. stupid people!! haha. so when we got back i was telling everyone the story. i saw loli looking a princess so i ran up to princess and said " my mommy" of course that pissed her off. ahhah. i'm so evil. so we all begin working on thanksgiving dinner.
the plan, well from my perspective, was that princess was gonna make the shrimp scampi since its so easy. ya know, jess don't cook. hah. but somehow that plan backfired on me. i ended up cooking it. haha. they were making fun of me cause they have never seen me cook. sucka..yeah so that just added to my list of firsts for this thanksgiving. hah. i'm a loser. anyhoo. so we are all just having fun. i play go fish for awhile with loli..ok what the hell am i doing? i'm playing go fish with a 4 yr old. oh well. nothing else to do i suppose. of course i cheated cause i had to help her with her cards. but i didn let her win a couple of times. hey shuddup!! after getting bored real fast from that i snuck upstairs and went online to see who was around and read blogs. yayee!!! need my blog fix. hah..ok that is definitely a dork moment #5. so i posted and gave my thanks to everyone worth thanking and stuff. wrote a private message to rose and some thoughts that were on my mind. hhaha..then i think i wasted all my free text messages sending out massive happy thanksgiving texts to everyone. haha. yeah ok dork moment #6 was me screwing up and sending a response to trish to like 15 other people instead of trish. yeah i'm a loser for that one. thanks to all of ya that responded back. i felt/feel loved. so after my blog fix and dork moment i return downstairs and begin to help again. thats when i got dooped into cooking the shrimp scampi. how rude.
finally dinner is ready. we start setting up the table and such. we bring nanay out of her room so she can eat with us. she loves the fact that we are all there to celebrate and eat with her. she's the reason that we are there. who knows how many more holidays she has left. so whatever it takes, my mom and i are down. so we take pictures and stuff with nanay and the family. its so cool. we have this huge table full of food and its surrounded by loving people. it was such an awesome feeling being there. just read my thanksgiving entry and it might make better sense of my feelings. so we all sit down. i can't believe i'm sitting down with EVERYONE at the same table for this holiday. that is such an oddity for me. oh man was the food good. we had turkey with stuffing, another stuffying, pork chops, mashed potatoes with gravy, cranberries(which i didn't eat), shrimp scampi, rolls/pan de sol, and several types of filipino desserts:ube, puto, and some others. yummy yummy. it was soooo good. i was soooo full by the end. then after dinner we had apple and pumpkin pie with ice cream. while we were eating dessert and stuff princess was singing kareoke and loli,papa nick, and shawn would sing some every so often. auntie chaning didn't sing though. i miss hearing her sing. so i got my laptop..yes i brought my laptop with me, and i connected the digital camera to it and dl the pictures we had taken before dinner. so then i set it up like a slide show and we all checked them out. then i gave nanay the laptop since her wheelchair didn't fit where i was sitting so she can see the pictures too. she was smiling. yayee go me. so while nanay was watching the slide show with loli princess started making the margaritas. so i took that as my cue to start making me my malibu bay breeze. you'd be so proud cousin!!!. so i gave my drink to princess to taste and she like it. she offered it to auntie chaning. " no i don't want any, (takes a sip), umm maybe later i'll have one of these." hahha you are funny auntie. i give it to my mom to taste and she liked it too. haha. mmmmm malibu bay breezes. so we are all talking and whatnot. we decide that princess and shawn are gonna take me out and show me vegas. ya baby!! so we get dressed and head out for the strip.
oh man. the strip is so bright. it was so weird to be there. i mean i've heard about the strip and seen it in shows and movies and now here i am right in the middle. i'm seeing the mirage, mgm grand, ny ny, paris, bellagio, venetian, excalibur, etc. so we decide to park at the bellagio and walk the strip from there. the streets are a bit confusing though. its a good thing princess was driving cause i didn't quite get it. so we get to the bellagio. we walk in and...my first casino that i'm gonna gamble in what do i do..i go pee. haha. gee how my life repeats itself. dork moment #7. so we are walking into the bellagio and there is this garden area that is totally decorated and stuff. it was cool. we saw a wedding party there. the bride her in dress and the brides maids with her and the groom and some grooms men. i think we might have been in the background of the groom's picture that one of the groomsmen took. oops. our bad. so we get into the casino. dang. so after i do my business i actually sit down and start playing a slot. now i can say i've gambled in vegas!!!! haha. yeah so after losing like the loser i am we head out. and we catch the tail end of one of the water shows right outside the bellagio. but another starts up a couple of minutes later. wow that was awesome. took some pictures and stuff. right below us were some rocks with blue lights around it. i wanted that blue light. hah. so after the water show we head out to the main strip. i don't get it. its fricken colder than hell outside and people have their newborns, infants and what not out there in this weather. hello mcfly?!? anyhoo. so we head over to alladin. its cool. i can't remember now if i played or not. but afterwards began out tourist thang. princess started taking my picture outside of the different casinos we went to. well we didn't exactly take a picture outside of the alladin more on the side with the paris balloon in the background. so then we went to other casinos and stuff. as we were walking we were bombarded with all these guys trying to give us ads and what not for strip shows and prostitution since its legal in vegas. eww. anyhoo. you can rent nice ass cars down on the strip. so we took a picture of shawn with a viper. hahah thats collective dork moment#8. although its probably number 9 since we are doing the tourist thing with the pictures. ahha. i notice that there are a lot of asian walking the strip. it almost felt like i was back in the philippines with all the asians that i saw. i later found out from teresa that there was a chinese concert that night. haha. so i became a fob and stuff. so we are walking to the mgm grand. " i want to go to that mugum grand. the one wid the ano? the cat?" hahah ok dork moment #10. haha that was funny. so we go in. there is a big stage right there in the middle and some band is playing. ok. but as we pass the stage area i hear the drummer going off on his own. he was playing rhythms and tempos that weren't even close to the ones that the rest of the band was playing. sheesh such a disgrace to the drumming profession. haha. so we walk further into the casino and since for apsa we went to family feud i figured the family feud slot machine would be lucky for me. so shawn walks around and princess sits next to me to just chill and i play. i get a text from rose about putz so i call her and talk to her while playing. haha. dork #11 for being in vegas and gambling and still sit on the phone. haha. sure enough the family feud game was lucky. i won a little over 60 bucks. cool beans. so shawn goes and cashes out my winning ticket and we decide to head to ny ny. as we are heading upstairs at mgm there is a bench with a huge monkey/gorilla on it like the mcdonalds one in walmart in poway. princess wanted me to take a picture with it. uh can we say hell no.haha. i think even rose was trying to get me to take a picture too since i still had her on the phone. as we got to the top floor it was cool. the top of the restaurant that the gorilla was in front of had a rain forest scene with rain and all. it was cool. so we head to the bridge that connects mgm to ny ny and we take pictures. i take one where excalibur is behind me and then another with the statue of liberty from ny ny is in the back. a guy jumped in randomly when we were taking the latter picture but he jumped out before the picture was taken. i so would have taken it with him hah. oh well next time na lang. so we walk in front of the ny ny and notice off to the right is a huge marquee with the zumanity billboard from cirque de soliel. so i take a picture in front of it then i take a picture of princess and shawn imitating the image. haha. dork moment #12 for even thinking of doing that. hah. so we go into ny ny. wow. nice. they had CSI shirts. but i wanted a beanie but they didn't have any. oh well. no beanie. so we walked around and we found coyote ugly. cool. they had a souvenier shop in front. so i got cousin a tshirt but i have yet to give it her. i keep forgetting. hah. so we go into the casino. we walked around the whole thing. nice. i like it. i don't remember actually gambling there though. haha. i was saving my money for let it ride at circus circus. love that game. oh more on that later. so after touring ny ny we head back to bellagio. guess what i have to do again...haha. as we are walking back to the parking lot from the front we take an electric walkway. and there is music playing. shawn starts randomly dancing on it. hahah what a goober. so as we head down the stairs there is a huge bellagio sign on the building and princess takes my picture there. haha. we get back in the car and head to circus circus. yayee!! as we are driving towards circus circus i see my first chapel. then it hits me that i hadn't seen any other chapels as we drove around. i could have sworn they were as common as abc stores are in hawaii. hmmm. who knows. so we go into circus circus. dang that place is crowded. not just from people but from machines too. i see my let it ride table and break my other hundred to 20s and sit down to play. everyone on the table is male. and older. and boy was i being stared at. oh grow up dumbasses. so while i'm playing i am trying to explain and teach the game to shawn. we had watched people play at mgm but he didn't quite get it since it was close up and stuff. so my first hand was 2 pair. so that was cool. then the 2nd hand i got a straight, baby!!! yeah music played for me, since i got a higher hand than 2 pair, and yeah the mad dog looks from the guys at the table. hahah sucka. princess happened to come up at that time too. so when i got paid i gave her 75 bucks in chips and told her to hold on to them for me til i was done playing so i knew id have money later .haha. shawn was enjoying it. so then he jumped in the game too. its a cool game. i love no thought games. haha. yeah so i sat there for quite awhile. hah. shawn came and went every so often as i played. i saw another wedding couple in this casino. she's all in her wedding dress and he's in a tux walking around the casino. haha. gotta love it. ahah. so after awhile, and i lost the excess chips i had, i cashed in my chips that i gave princess and we headed home. it was already like 230am and we had been out since like 8pm. after we got home the moms and papa nick headed out. haha. so then i slept. ohhh sleep is good.

friday
around 930am my mom came in and woke me up. wow they didn't stay out as long as before. hah. so i get up and get ready and start repacking since we have to head out soon since i have to work at midnight and princess has to work at 830pm back in diego. so after i'm done repacking i head downstairs for thanksgiving breakfast..basically everything we ate last night was breakfast. haha. it was still good food. oh man. i was stuffed. haha. so we packed up the car and auntie chaning made us all our baons.(sp??) and we headed out. bye bye vegas. it was cool though cause loli stayed with papa nick and is gonna ride with him back to diego. so it was mom, princess, shawn and me in the car. we headed out around 1130am. so we are driving and what not. we decide to stop by the outlets in nevada landing. so we get there about noon-ish, or so. my mom is driving. so we find a parking stall and the next thing i know i'm going "oy" fob style cause my mom fricken hit the car in the stall ahead of her. hello mother!! it was just a tap but dude its my car. haha. my mom wanted to leave them a message that said that hey were kissed by an angel since my license plate says anggel. doh!! i wouldn't let her. so we go in and completely forgetting that its the day after thanksgiving. hi sales..and mass people. this outlook seemed expensive though. they had coach, burberry and stuff like that. hello? but it had gap and quicksilver, and of course shoes!!!. yes that was my focus from the get go. i actually had 150 bucks on me and i haven't bought shoes is a long time. S-H-O-E-S!!! haha. and they had a skecher outlet there too. yayee!! i didn't really find anything to buy there. ::sniff:: tried reebok but nothing. went into the quicksilver store to check out the roxy stuff. oh yeah baby 40% off everything !!! found me a nice dark blue roxy zipper hoody. yay me!! i tried to find a yellow one for rose to go with her "YELLOW!!" outburst from the meeting..if you don't know what i'm talking about read randy's blogs..but the yellow i really didn't like so none for her. oh man the line. there were only 2 cash registers. hello!!! so yeah i spent like 30 minutes in line. oh well it was worth my jacket. hehe. so after i was done buying my jacket and belts that i decided to get at the register i met up with everyone else. princess got shawn a nice lee jacket for like 80 bucks that was originally like 300. gotta love sales. so we head to the casino cause my mom wanted to get some munchies before we left. so my mom and i go in and princess and shawn head to the gap. we ended up playing machines. i fricken won another 60 bucks. go me its your birthday.. oh that comment deserves a dork moment number. but i can't remember what number i'm on now. so just make a mental tally. i cash out when we see princess and shawn coming back in. stupid me didn't realize that there was no ticket dispense so fricken quarters start dropping down. oh man. so i cup up my quarters and head over to the cashier. while in line my mom asks for a 20 from me to see if she can get some of my luck. so she goes over and plays the same type of machine as i was on. when i cash out i go over and watch my mom and sure enough she wins. she won 75 bucks. hey meng..thats my luck .haha. its all good. she's the one that gave me my gambling money anyway. haha. so she cashes out and we head out to the car. so we begin our trek back to diego. keep sleeping and what not throughout the drive. its all good. i gotta work later and so does princess. she takes naps throughout..and of course sleepy head shawn does just like the drive up. hah. once back in cali we stop at peggy sue's diner. that place was cool. the food was good. i loved my chocolate shake. mmmmchocolate.. we went into the little soda shop that they have in there. they had some cool candy. i bought the cigarette looking gum and the cinnamin toothpicks. haha. ah such a throwback to childhood. gotta love it. after we ate and checked out stuff we headed home again. we got down to chula around 8pm and princess was to be at work at 830pm. so just in time. we get home around 9ish and then i head to work at 1145pm. oh man i was tired. its all good though. well worth it.

vegas was a blast. chillin with the sapanzas was cool too. i'm glad i got to have my first experience in the vegas environment with them. they made if so much more enjoyable and memorable.

well that was my vegas trip..i was gonna say in a nutshell but that is one hella big shell. ahah. hope you enjoy it!! sorry its long..but i forewarned you guys!!

til we meet again

Angel remembered at 5:00:00 PM

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