A look into Jessica's life

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
happy birthday jasmine (oct. 26)
happy birthday auntie tita (oct. 27)
happy birthday sunny and julie (oct. 28)
happy birthday mae mae (oct. 30)
happy birthday nino crocket and niki (oct. 31)
happy birthday michelle (nov. 1)
happy birthday cristen (nov. 2)
happy birthday mellvin (nov. 5)
happy birthday lorelei (nov. 7)

*guess i'd write them all out since my format has changed to just summaries instead of day by day stuff. and i seem to take a week off inbtwn entries.

hmm whats new with me? nothing really. just dealing with the aftermath of the babyshower. its been a week and a day after and the gifts are still piled up in the corner of the garage. keep saying we are gonna go through them but we dont. soon though.

pains still come and go. wednesday night the baby was ony my siatic nerve again. grrr. it hurt to move even the most miniscule movement. which made sleeping just hell. she got on my nerve about 530pm and i couldn't sleep til after 2am cause it was hurting too much. dang. since then i only get slight pains on my right side. nothing like i experienced on wednesday.

went to the drs again on tuesday. finally gained enough weight to surpass my starting weight. but by only 2.5 lbs. we'll see this tuesday how much more i've gained. the drs appts now are just to monitor my blood pressure and aches. many women tend to get high blood pressure at the end of their pregnancies. but my has remained constant from the beginning. which is good. jer is going with me to this week's appt cause its schedule after his classes. cool.

friday jer and i went shopping for some baby stuff with all the target gcs that i got. we bought a swing. need to go through the list and see what else we need to buy. i know we need to buy the baby shampoo and other bath stuffs, her toothbrush, baby powder, etc. maybe i'll do that in a bit. any suggestions feel free to let me know. heh.

friday night shawn threw princess a surprise baby shower since hers got cancelled do to relatives arriving in las vegas. jer and i went. when we got there it was nikki and juni, cousin and corey and corey's 2 boys. finally got to meet cody and corey jr. they are all tall. and they still got years of growing to do. dang. we played some games. i didn't play the measuring with a ribbon one cause i was eating. nikki had hers way too small. it barely fit jer's waist. hah. then cousin had hers way too long. hah. good job. then we played baby bingo. nikki won the first round and cousin won the 2nd. go cousins. then it was the guys' turn. first they did the baby bottle drinking contest. sherwin just flat out gave up. jer, corey, corey jr and cody were just drinking hoping to finish. but juni was the master. he would shake it up then drink. he was finished long before most of the guys were even half way finished. then the guys had water balloons tied to their waists and they had to swing the balloons in order to move cups up the drive way. corey was funny. he was just way too tall. and sheena had given jer too much string so his hung near his calves. hah. but they both lost. heh. it was funny though.

well on tuesday night my mom dreamt that i gave birth and the dr said it was a boy. she told the doc to put it back cause we were suppose to have a girl and all the stuff we have is for a girl. ahha. then on thursday night, grace almost called me at 2am cause she dreamt that i had given birth and didn't tell her. she got to the hospital as i was being discharged. and she saw the baby wrapped in a blue blanket. asked why was it in blue and we told her it was a boy. so we had 2 dreams so far that the baby is a boy. hmmmm interesting. maybe it is after all. hah. i guess we'll see when the time comes.

yesterday, in general, was a busy day. my parents had the mmc reunion at noon, we had mellvin, jasmine and mae mae's bday at 2pm and camille's bday at 5pm. and before i got ready for the kids' party everyone was calling me up to bring things down. does it say delivery on my forehead. sheesh. and i was going by myself. the pregnant one had to bring down 4 chaffing dishes, and a mixture of foods. hmmm. so i got down there around 230pm. there was only 1 guest and her daughter. mae mae was sooo cute bouncing in the astro jump. she had no fears in that thing. when mellvin was her age he was petrified of it. shows how different ppl can be, even from the same family. i had to keep helping her and jasmine into the astro jump. cause theyd come out for some reason then want back in, but the ramp was too big for them to grab and hold their own on. then we filled the pinatas with candy. the girls, and a lil later mellvin, filled the spider man star. it was cute to watch the girls putting in the suckers and the candy. they would try their damnedest to get big handfuls of candy but it would only be like 3 candies. hah. so the few of us that were there ate. it was good. then after i ate i played with the kids a bit then headed out. but as i left rommel's parents arrived. so before i left there were only 5 guest there. wth? so i left and headed to mervyn's to look for something to wear for camille's since its hawaiian theme. i didn't think the shirt i wore for jenn's back in july would close, cause i wasn't showing then so i got a white tanktop to wear inside. also bought a pair of khaki pants since all i have were khaki capris. so i came home and changed to find out that the shirt closed after all. hah. go figure. so mom and dad came home and changed. found out that there weren't a lot of ppl at the kids party while they made their appearance either. when they got there the only change from my list was uncle tony. then auntie marie, uncle mon, nikki, juni, jac and jay arrived before mom and dad left. so i guess everyone is going in shifts. and jasmine and nancy had left to go to tj. hmm. so we headed to camille's in esco. hah when we got there rudy was at the door. he saw my stomach and freaked out. "when did that happen?" no one seemed to have told him that i was pregnant. when i told the legaspis he was playing with the kids. and i guess grema didn't show him the invitation before she sent the decline so he didn't know. he's funny. when we got there we found out that uncle tony, auntie azon and john were there too. so we sat with them. it was a nice turn out for camille's bday. the dinner was good. roast beef and gravy (although it was backwards, you passed the gravy before you got to the meat), chicken, salmon, potatoes, spinach salad, macaroni salad and bread. i just got the beef and gravy, chicken, macaroni and bread. i was greatly content with that. hah. after dinner there was entertainment from the family. camille did a hula dance to start it off. but grema was in the back of the hall guiding her. but camille made is so obvious she was watching someone that everyone turned to see and saw grema. auntie lorelei even took a picture of grema guiding. heh. then grace sang "hope you dance". we figured that its been 15 years since we heard grace sing. dang. then nick and grace had a skit worked out where nick was arnold the governator. he was funny. then they challenged him to dance. that was funny. at one point they asked the audience for suggestions and someone yelled out "ocho ocho". then they found the music for it and he started to do the "ocho ocho". i would love to see the real arnold try to do the "ocho ocho".hahah. then jenevieve did a dance routine. uncle ron and auntie norma did the tango. that was different and cool. then the finale was grema and grace dressed up in the 70s with wigs and stuff and did a medley of songs with routine. it was cool. then we came home. (mental note: camille, deandra, felicia...nick, brianna, danny...jenevieve, marissa, and natalie)

while we were at camille's we got a call from auntie tita telling us that mae mae was taken to the hospital cause she may have broken her elbow. thats all we were told. so later on i text mellany checking on mae mae and she said that her elbow was cracked. but thats all i got. then sometime after we got home jac came home. we told her so she called mellany to find out that mae mae fractured her elbow. she's in a temp cast for now. and on monday they have to call for a follow up to see whats gonna happen. =( and this happened on her actual bday. sucky. i hope she's ok though. and if her injury has anything to do with mellvin she better pok pok his head with her cast. that boy was running over her all yesterday while i was there. it didn't matter if they were in the astro jump or on concrete. he just bullies her down cause she's so small. even if it had nothing to do with that boy she should still beat his ass with the cast. hheheh. anyhoo. and oddly enough, i did not get grrr at jasmine the whole time i was there. i was actually playing around with her. weird huh?? anyhoo.

well as far as i know thats all i can think of that has happened over the week.

til we meet again

Angel remembered at 10:01:00 AM

Monday, October 25, 2004

greetings and salutations

well most of this past week involved cleaning and prepping for saturday's baby shower. and most of that time was spent in pain. from all the bending and what not i was hurting so bad. my lower back was killing me. and sometimes it would cause pains in my stomach. no major contractions this week. just the aches and pains.

rain!! i hate the rain. i've hated the rain since i was little. well at least we are out of our drought. but still. san diegans cant drive worth a damn in the rain. the only good thing is that i didn't have to drive much around, so i didnt have to deal with most of the wet stuff. the only real driving i had to do in the downpour was coming home from the drs. i had to stop by stater brothers to get dinner. ewww water in the socks. but it was close to home so it wasn't too bad.

garage..heh. i guess the sensors on my garage door are getting dirty cause it wouldn't close. after awhile of finagling (sp?) with it it finally shut. but i guess while mom and i were dealing with it she accidently locked dad's garage with the lock bar. the next morning he tried to open the garage and tore apart the garage opener and the garage door collapsed to the ground. it shook my room. but i didnt bother to find out what it was. it was an interesting wake up though. later on i found out what it was. until dad could fix it we had to have the garage open. which sucked as it rained. and it was kinda cold too, cause mom and i were in the garage sorting through all the boxes that had been stored in my garage from my room, jac's room, the spare bedroom, and mom's room during the painting, recarpeting and reorganizing. so much stuff. even with all the crap we through out we still have a lot.

tuesday i went to the drs. lost weight again. i was weighed a pound less than 2 weeks ago. but...this time i was wearing a jacket cause of the rain. normally i dont wear my jacket. so who knows what my real weight is. the np said that my weight is fine. and she told me a story about one of her friends who is in the same week i am and how she gained 65 lbs. wtf?? good lord. yeah i'll stick to my 13 lb loss and attempt to gain back. they checked me for dialation. ive only dialated to like 0.5 cm. kid doesn't pop out til 10 cm. so we got time. from here on out i go every week til she comes out. we are down to the wire now.

grace came over on tuesday after her interview and ate dinner and chilled with us. uncle mon happened to stop by after work cause ppl sent a gift to my mom, to wish her a get well soon. and it had lotions, magazines, chocolate, coffees, and a container of chocolate covered raisins. that was the first thing jac grabbed. so we were eating it as my mom looked in her basket and what not. then awhile later she saw the container of raisin as we were eating it and asked where did they come from. jac told her, her basket, and my mom didn't even know. jac took them so quickly my mom never saw. hah.

friday was so damn busy. grace,rodney, and kaile came over to help clean the house and get the tables and what not. dad and rodney set up the huge tent in the backyard. there is still so much to be done. all week i've had to finish decorating my room. hang up the puzzles, the precious moments poster we found in the garage, and picture frames. jer has still been bringing things up from the garage so i can sort them and put them....somewhere. luckily by friday all the decorating had been complete. well for the mean time anyways. jac had gotten the give aways from long beach last night. they are cute little angels. one is on one knee and the other is on both knees. so last night and today she worked on the labels for them.then at night auntie marie and uncle mon came over. still trying to clean and prep. auntie marie went and ordered the cake. uncle mon and i began working on the give aways. id open the boxes and prep the angels then he'd glue them to labels. then auntie marie and nikki would move them to the formal dining table. when all 204 of them were on the table nikki kept saying it was scary looking. she was talking about them getting up and walking around. someone has been watching too many halloween movies lately. hehe. when jac got home she saw the table with all the angels on them and said something similar. sheesh ppl.

its baby shower day. still so much cleaning left to do before the guest arrive. fricken inang called me at 740am to get her milk. grr. i had gone to bed late cause i was still working on my room. so around 8ish i got up and got her damn milk. then came home and tried to finish my sorting of the boxes that were still here. i had like 3 boxes left. auntie marie and uncle mon came over around 9ish. they worked on setting up the tables and stuff. auntie marie was cleaning the garage with mom and dad and making table arrangements. uncle mon was setting up canopies and tables and chairs in the backyard, as well as cleaning up the backyard. much to my amazement we got everything done by around 1ish. wow. so i rested and did my nails. esp cause i was hurting so bad. then i got ready around 2pm. and as i got finished getting ready ppl started arriving. wth? its 230pm and the shower starts at 3pm. heh. dad left at that time with rodney's expedition and picked up the food in national city. grace, jenn, rodney, kaile, jenn's bf, nikki and juni decorated the garage. then the baby shower really started. man on man. it was cool though. a lot of ppl showed. although 180 ppl rsvp-ed about 140 actually showed up. thats still a lot of ppl to inhabit this house. got to see some friends that i haven't seen in awhile : john and nino cabigon, and joy francisco and jimmy. from the noisy gang it was christa, rj, ali, punita, pam, jane pearl & chris, and trish. trish had her little niece louisa. she was so cute. and so chill. she got a lil antsy but otherwise she was willing to go with anyone. while we were eating rosemarie and jenn stopped by just to drop off their gift. we were all shocked to see them. heh. the food was good. we had fried rice, bbq pork, uncle mon made turkey, uncle baby made his roast beef, 2 pancits, chicken macaroni salad, fried chicken, calamari, battered chicken, and several desserts and i know im missing other entrees. everyone was eating and getting full. sounds good to me. heh. during the cake we announced the future god parents. since there were no candles for the cake cheryl and auntie marie made up their own song. so that there was some sort of fanfare during the cake. crazy ppl. not long after the cake was the opening of the gifts. oh man..it took like 2.5 hours. since i had already been logging in gifts on my laptop that ppl who couldn't attend had sent we used my laptop to continue to log the gifts instead of handwriting the gifts. my battery died cause it was taking so long to open the gifts. we had to get the plug to keep going. so much stuff. man. i mean i greatly appreciate it all. it was just sooo long. and i was starting to hurt from it. first jac was the logger..but she was getting upset cause she was missing out on texas holdem. so then jermiah took over. hah. after the gifts jermiah bought into the texas holdem with the family. hah. auntie marie kept calling jermiah jeremy. so everyone was calling him jeremy. rodney was telling him to get used to it cause it will stick. we told jer about how during rodney and grace's wedding the priest called him "rude-knee". and he still gets called that, over 20 years later. hahah. rommel ended up winning the pot in the end. i guess texas holdem is the new mahjongg. we did have 1 mahjongg table going though. but that only holds 4. where as we had 2 texas holdem tables going. 1 table was all of jac's friends and the 2nd one had the fam..auntie marie, mellany, rommel, juni, uncle mon, jermiah, auntie virgie, grace and john. hah. although it was a long day. it was a fun day. we saw ppl we haven't seen in awhile. got to hang out with friends. eat some good food. and just have fun. so it was nice. now we just have to clean up the house from all the chaos and sort through the gifts in the garage. they are just piled up in the corner of the garage.

oct 24th: Happy Birthday NANA and Camille!!
for nana's bday we went to dinner at barona. it was nana, tata, tom, nena, katrina, and us 4. katrina was so anxious to gamble. ahha. the food was good. well what i had anyways. i ate american..hehe..salisbury steak, mac and cheese, hot dog, mashed potatoes, salad and shrimp. haha. i guess i had too much ethnic food last night. hehe. i must have been thirsty cause i had like 4 glasses of iced tea. hmm. then afterwards we gambled a lil. i had no luck whatsoever. suck. i think aja stole my luck. hehe. oh well. i wanted to play cards: let it ride and war, but they were full and had ppl waiting. so i had to play slots. sucky. but after awhile my started to hurt again from all the walking and what not. so i followed mom for awhile as she played. damn that lady bugged. there was one machine my mom was on. and the chick next to her kept trying to tell my mom what to bet and what not. and they weren't even playing the same game. everytime my mom won something the chick would kinda announce it. wtf? mind your own damn business. sheesh. so then not long later we left and came home.

wow its been a busy week. still got stuff to do this week. as well as wait in anticipation for this kid's arrival. welp. i'll have baby shower pictures posted soon. i need to get them from uncle mon first.

til we meet again

Angel remembered at 9:53:00 AM

Sunday, October 17, 2004

well this entry is gonna have a different format..

well last night i went on my first date. hah that sounds funny cause i'm 29 years old and about to have my first kid, and i'm barely going on my first date. the story of my life huh.. anyhoo. last night jr came over and he was dressed up in black slacks and his mustard button down. so when he got here i' got up from my mini-nap after isabel's bday to get ready. i go through my closet trying to figure out what to wear. its either the dress i wore for graduation or the dress i wore for the panan reunion last july. considering there is more of a sleeve on the panan dress i choose that one. although i'm sure jer didn't mind considering it shows a lot more cleavage than the other dress. hehe. so i get dress and look for my earrings and necklace. found the earrings but not the necklace. oh well. i actually had to wear my heels without nylons, which is something i dont usually do, cause my belly can't handle it. heh. so then i finish getting ready and we head out. we head down to sports arena area. we go to olive garden. we figured if we go farther down in san diego we'd have less encounters of homecoming ppl since its homecoming up here. so we drive down there. there a mini mobs waiting outside. the wait is like 45 minutes to an hour. and as we walking in, a group of homecoming ppl are leaving. oops. so we decide to go across the street to black angus. which is fine with me. so we go across the street. heh. jer is very adament that he opens the car door for me tonight. so we go to leave the olive garden and i reach for the door. and he yells at me. he uses the excuse that pregnant women cant open car doors. hehe. what a dork. so we go across the street and park. we go inside. the wait is only like 10-15 minutes. sounds a lot better. so we sit in the lounge and wait for my name. so then they call my name and we are seated. so we look at the menu. i already know what i want..prime rib baby.. hehe. so our waiter comes. he reminds us of roy lee from asi. heh. so we order. i get my prime rib with garlic mashed potatoes and garden salad. jer orders top sirloin with firecracker fries and beef soup. it was cool cause jer really didn't care for his soup and the waiter was willing to get him something else in exchange. but jer declined. but it was cool that he was willing to get jer something he'd like. so we eat our dinner. grrr the table that in front of us was a huge family. and the little girl kept talking to one of the ladies. the problem was that the lady's name was jessica. so she kept saying "jessica...." "jess..." for like almost 20 minutes. grrr. and the little girl was directly in front of me. so i couldn't help by hear my name repeatedly. then when she finally stopped, we heard my name from behind us in another part of the restaurant. geez. anyways. dinner was good. so after dinner we went to belmont park. we walked around for abit then went into the arcade. we played the basketball game. hahah my game was glitched. i kept getting free games, and the scoring was off. i made 2 baskets and got a total of 18 pts. hahah. i was actually doing pretty good too. i was making most of my shots. its a lot easier to play that game in heels. heh. i have better shots. hah. jer played his helo game. after more ticket games and getting our prizes: bubbles and a styrofoam plane..we go and change into casual clothes. so we change and decide to go to la jolla cove. oh man it was dark there. there are no lights at the cove whats so ever except for where the seals are. the sounds of the waves crashing sounds like fireworks. pretty cool. so we walk over toward the lil hut by the beach. we sit there and chill. it wasn't too cold either. i thought it was suppose to be raining this weekend. heh. so we spent like half an hour there. then decided to come home. its past my bed time. hah. so we came home. we chilled and took a nap. heh. we fell asleep fast. we were lying there and then the next thing i know the alarm clock was going off. dang. so jer left. it was a cool night. and it wasn't planned cause it was a bday or an anniversary. it was planned just because. it was nice. it was fun. thanks jer. 143

well the week has been kinda eh. my stomach has been in pain. the braxton-hick's contractions are coming more frequently and gaining strength. at one point we were getting nervous. i got 2 about 5 minutes apart. and they were painful. jer kept asking if we should go to the hospital. but it has to be like that for about an hour. then about 15-20 minutes i got another one and it brought me to tears. it was really bad. times like this i can't wait for her to be born already. heh. yeah but its been a crappy week with things like that. sometimes been having trouble breathing too cause of her leaning near my lungs.

tuesday was mom's bday. we had the fam come over dinner. cause dad had to go pick up alpie from lax we had to order food from beijing restaurant. so i went and got it. we had fried rice, beef and broccoli, chow mein and chicken. yummy. auntie tita brought taquitos and inang brought lumpias. grr jasmine. when am i not grr at that girl. she arrived already standoffish. i told her to go home cause i dont like her. cousin didn't realize how jasmine really is. but she got a taste of it tonight. mellvin, mae mae and jasmine kept coming into my room. cousin said that jasmine tried to get into aja's crib. wtf?? grrr. then i came into my room and i found a half eaten lumpia with the wrapper kinda breaking apart on the rug next to my laptop and a taquito, which marc stepped on and squirted out the contents. grr. everyone likes the crib. menchie and portia came too, besides the rest of jac's crew. auntie virgie and uncle baby came over too. of course there was a texas holdem tourney. the pot got to about 80 bucks. it was auntie virgie, jac, rommel, mellany, james ha, kuya james, auntie marie, uncle tony, and evil. marc didn't play cause he had a bball game. dang that thing went on and on. hah. finally about 1030pm auntie marie won the whole thing. heh. man, next weekend we are gonna need the long tables just for all the texas holdem. its a good thing we have 2 sets of chips...ours and rommel's. heh.

wednesday and thursday was spent mainly in pain. grr. wednesday princess and loli came over to visit. haha princess is still soooo much bigger than me. but it was cookl to see her. they ended up spending like 5 hours here. jer and princess finally got to meet. princess, loli and i ate my cocoa rice krispies. hah. it was cool. then after they left i got ready for lamaze. cousin came down to pick me up. we ate some food then headed to class. it was an ok class. we watched and learned about c-sections. some of the guys were squirming as they were pulling the kid out of the stomach. obviously the girls were squirming at the shot in the spine of anestesia. learned the "ah..hi" breathing. aja didn't like those. she kept tightening and kicking while we did that breathing. there are some weird positions to find pain relief during the contractions though.

friday
jer came over in the morning. it was a good morning. esp after the hell week and shitty night we had encountered last night. it was a good time spent together. so after he left i took a nap. then got up again. got ready to run some errands. so i went to the rec and got jer. we went to the bank and made those deposits then went to alejandros cause i was really craving a tostada. which is odd, cause i haven't had one in a long time. and i don't generally crave those. so i guess that would be my weirdest craving. hehe. so we got our food then went back to the rec to eat. jordan came and chilled with us as we ate. then justine and ac came around too. dude ac needs a brain. anyhoo. jer and jordan started to play football with the kids. so i was sitting and watching and i caught someone walking past me that looked really familiar but i wasn't sure. so i didn't say anything. so when jer was done i told him about it. so we walked around the pop warner parents to see if i could get a better look at her. and i still wasn't sure. so we walked away. then we watched the bigger kids practice. then went back to justine and ac. we tried to get justine to ask if was her..then ac said he would but didnt. so jer and i went back and i finally confronted her. and sure enough it was her. it was chi vo. christine's sister. hah. it was good to see her. dang andy is a big kid already. the last time i saw him he was like 4 and now he's gonna be 11. too bad i couldn't have seen allison. she was a baby when i last saw her and now she's gonna be 7. dang. it was cool to talk to chi again though. turns out that i have christine's contact info she just doesn't answer me. so i need to contact her. i want to see her daughter christa. but it was a good reunion. heh. so then came home and dad, jac, jay and i went to lucky seafood for dinner. we had pho. i really didn't care for it. it didn't taste right i guess. and most of my meat had major fat so i couldn't eat it. grr. so came home. the pho kinda upset my stomach. while we were eating my stomach was already getting solid and uncomfy. guess i won't be going there again. i'll stick to pho hoa cali and ca doa.

saturday
today was isabel's bday party. it started at 2. we got there about 245pm. tata was weird. i went to kiss him and he asked me if i knew him. so i told him no and went to walk away and he grabbed me. the astro jump that they had was different. it was like a jungle gym type. it was big and looked kinda cool. joanie and art and the kids came. we finally got to see the twins. they are so cute. and small. it was weird though. cause armida did all the kid stuff before we ate. so they played musical chairs then the pinata then we ate. um ok. so we didn't eat til like 430pm. it was cool. had carne asada and a hotdog. such a great combo. hahah. after we ate jac and i came home for our "dates" hah.

sunday
after such a good and long night, since jer went home at 230am i slept til like 1140ish. i had my mini wakes to roll over and stuff. but nothing too bad. it was nice. to kinda have a night of sleep. got up and checked email and having been blogging ever since. its time to get some food in this tummy of mine.

til we meet again

Angel remembered at 1:45:00 PM

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

hows it going? good..heheh..

thursday continued..
hmmm what did i do. oh yeah we went to dinner..ok so i had some errands to run in the late afternoon. went to bobalicious and got boba for me and jer. then stopped by the rec to give jer his drink. barely had a chance to say hi to him cause he was playing. said hi then bye. met up with the fam then had to drive since mom and dad didn't know how to get there. so the 4 of pile into my car and head up to valley center to have dinner at the zarza residence. and since we didnt leave til like 5 we took a round about way up. im sure dad was confused. hehe. oh well. so then we got to auntie and uncle's house. its the first time that ive been there since they moved in. jac and i saw the house while they were building it. mom and dad had never been there at all. so after a tedious drive, just cause it sucks to be driving for a long time and being pregnant. so yeah. we got there and their house is extremely huge. its 5 acres of land. and huge ass house. we got to meet their new dog lucky. hes an italian greyhound. so he's kinda like a mini greyhound. heh. so we go eat, while watching the texas hold em tourney on tv. their table is extremely high.take effort to get up in the chairs. hah. but the food was a lot and good. jac kept eating and eating...did i mention eating. heh. we had steak, shrimp, rice, chicken and broccoli, cucumbers in a vinegerette type sauce, camote, and something else..i can't remember. then for dessert we had banana splits. yummy. so yeah we were full. afterwards we looked at pictures of noel and cecelia's daughter and where they live in germany. it was cool. then we headed home. dad drove this time. we passed palomar hospital so i pointed it out that thats where i'll be giving birth so they'll know. so i came home chatted then took a nap then went to my final shift at target before maternity leave. did my thing at work. looked at some winnie the pooh sheets and stuff cause the more i thought about it, if ppl are gonna be seeing the crib i should put a sheet on it. so yeah.

friday
jer woke me up. gotta love those days. so we chilled. mom and carmen left for nashville. had to run some inang errands. stopped by the rec to say hi and get jer. saw joan and jason there. talked to joan a bit about her pregnancy. hah. justine..its ok to defend against joan. hahah.so then we went to inang's. nikki was there doing her 2nd job as lolo's official back scratcher. hahah. so finally inang got ready. then we took her to the bank. while inang went to the bank jer and i went to the liquor store across the parking lot. jer got his yoohoo. hehe. then we stopped by sav on. dang i swear inang got lost or something. took her forever. it finally got to the point that jer and i went inside to finally look for her. and she barely had anything in her basket. wth?? so we dropped off jer back at the rec then i took inang home. then i went to rodrigos and got myself carne asada chips. yummy. got home around the same time as jac. so of course i ended up splitting my dinner with her. afterwards i wasn't feeling to well. what else is new right? so yeah. later on that night jer came over. we were gonna go to the westview game. but then i realized it was their homecoming. and i didn't think i could handle sitting in the bleachers that long. so we decided to skip the game. we hung out here for awhile. then we went to target. did some baby shopping. got the sheets for the crib. jer went gift shopping again. eheh. got aladdin on dvd. yuppers. so then we went to jamba juice in carmel mtn. ran into homer. it was good to see him. glad he's doing well. haha he didn't know i was expecting. and he was telling us that trish and the crew just told him that jer and i were together. he didn't know. hahah. go homer. heh. so then afterwards we went to nickel city. grr. i was sucking at the ticket games. jer ended up winning most of our tickets. ahah. that racing game we played sucked. but yeah. so then we came home. so that was our chilled night.

saturday
the beginning of dad's destruction. dad worked on my cable. stapling it to the wall. but unfortunately he managed to break the angel that jer got me for my bday. we got the pieces so we are gonna try to glue her back together. then i asked him to adjust the shelves that my speakers for my stereo are on. they are uneven, one screw didn't make it through the shelf, instead it sits on top of the screw. my dad had the ladder leaning on my wall and he managed to knock it over while moving along the floor. and the ladder landed on my laptop. luckily no damage. sheesh. then he worked on my closet track. the only thing he didn't screw up. later on i found a crack on my alarm clock too. so yeah.

sunday
continued destruction from my dad. so he worked on my blinds today. it took him almost 2 hours to install the blinds on my small window. he messed up the drilling. then kept kinda cutting/hurting himself. then he worked on my big window's blinds. almost knocked my lamp. ive had this lamp since i was little. luckily he managed to do that with little destruction. then he installed the curtain rod so jac can make curtains for my room. so then i cleaned up my room and vaccumed all the sawdust that my dad managed to get all over the room. then jer came over and chilled with me for awhile. then he left. later on dad went to pick up mom and carmen from the airport.

monday
got up and ran inang errands and went to target to get mom's bday gift. jac and i got her an mp3 player. since she travels so much and stuff. figured it will give her something to listen to in the airport and plane. we'll see when she opens it in a few hours. so then jer came over after school. he fixed my dvd player. now i got color. haah. we checked out the aladdin dvd. they edited out "jasmine take off your clothes" i figured theyd put more stuff in not take out. haah. saw the jessica simpson and nick lachey video for a whole new world. then he left. helped mom start to clean the spare room for dad's cousin's wife that is arriving tomorrow. dang we found stuff. old dresses and formals. found my mestiza dresses from when i was in 1st and 2nd grade. hah. found negatives for my baby pictures and mom and dad's wedding. jer came over and helped out for a bit. then he left. then we ate dinner. helped out a bit more. then i couldnt handle anymore. so i just chatted with ppl for awhile. and here i am blogging. now i'll go to bed.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

til we meet again

Angel remembered at 1:51:00 AM

Thursday, October 07, 2004

well hello ya'll. haha

saturday continued...
so we finally made it john's. we got there and john had his friends there and sheila. wow. haha. it was kinda weird though. cause usually marc's friends and quinn's friends are there too. but not this time. it was all john's. so needless to say there were only a few. aha. since usually its quinn's friends that take up the most space.. hah hi quinn!! hah. jasmine is such a snob i swear. auntie marie and uncle mon brought inang and lolo down. so lolo was in his wheelchair. they called the kids in the backyard to come kiss lolo. mellvin came running in and did just that. and at first jasmine followed. but as soon as saw why mellvin was running inside she just looked at lolo and turned around and went back outside. the rest of the night i kept getting in her face. haha. first i kept grabbing her face and she would whine and squirm. then later on she was in the door way btwn the garage and the house. she was just standing there. so i stood directly behind her. didn't touch her..didn't say anything to her. but just stayed right there. she started to hit me with her jacket/vest in the face. and i just continued to stand there. pissed her off. hahahah. sucka!! mellvin is so...lack of a better term..makolit. he's doesn't listen. he seems to do things just to piss ppl off. like auntie tita, uncle rolly, auntie marivic and mom were playing mahjongg. and mellvin would walk up in the middle of the game and take one of auntie tita's cards. not the flowers, but one of her main pieces. then he'd run. i grabbed him and made him give it back. and i lectured him. well as much as you can lecture a 5 year old. he wasn't too happy that i foiled his plans though. i'm just such a bitch huh..hahah. oh well. haha jac was funny. there was a tray of squid and octopus kilowin. and we were sitting around it. jay said he wanted some of the pumpkin seeds that were next to jac. so she went to open it and it splattered everywhere. haha. a grip of it ended up inside the tray. nikki tried scooping out as much as she could. but auntie marie got some of the kilowin. we warned her that she might find seeds inside. and sure enough she did. haha. we said it was jac's new recipe. haha. i went home early cause my stomach wasn't cooperating with me. i was hurting and feeling uncomfy. it was quite the drive home feeling like crap though.

sunday
just tried to relax. my stomach was still kinda eh. dad made cornbeef and eggs. i told jac and she actually got out of bed just to eat my dad's cooking. hahah. later on jer came over and chilled with me. he connected my tv cable. its ghetto right now. its just draping down from the ceiling and around my bed. you have to walk over my cord as you walk into the room. my dad needs to staple gun it to the wall. otherwise it was a chill day.

monday
happy birthday don don!!
jer came over early morning. we chilled for a couple of hours. then got ready and we headed to school for his spanish class. man i wasn't feeling good. got really lightheaded while getting ready. luckily jer was there for me to grab on to cause i almost fell over. so we head out. i wasn't feeling all that good and what not all morning and in the car. jer kept asking me if he's should take me to the hospital. hah. not yet.parking sucked. we ended up parking in the meters at chavez. so he went to class and i went to advising to see what i need to do about petitioning for spring 05. that was quick. so i went to the dome. saw randy and said hi. then got myself some snapple and munchos. sat down at a table and read more of "the wedding". should be done soon. usually i only read it in waiting rooms either for my appts or for inang and lolo's. so it takes awhile. heh. so then i started to head back to arts to meet up with jer. was walking down the stairs near the elevators when i heard a familiar laugh. i look out by the stairs next to the library and see teresa waiting on the top. so i headed down and said hi. told her and adam how i heard teresa's laugh on the 4th floor of craven. haha. so i talked to her for awhile. then jer called and met us at the planter. then we left. on our way home we stopped off at mcdonalds. i started to get the shakes while were in line. wtf is going with me man? grr. so we got our order then headed home. so we were sitting in front of the tv eating. i went to take a sip of our drink. and for some reason instead of it going down it went up my nose then out my nose. just in case you guys ever wondered..orange hi-c hurts coming out your nose. i dont know what the hell happened. it wasn't even like i was laughing at the time i drank. although it kinda looked like it since i was laughing by the time it fully came out my nose. but yeah. not cool. so then we relaxed. we were both falling asleep. but he had to leave and get jar. so i went upstairs and took a nap. got woken up by inang wanting to go to her friends house. so i had to take her to pq and her friend's house. then i came home. jay, jac and i were hungry. and since the parentals were out..we had to find dinner. we ended up ordering food from tgif. my order was right. jac's got jacked. and part of jays was off too. oh well. at least i got my broccoli cheese soup. been craving that all day. i think i just really wanted soup and a thick soup cause i felt like shit. so got that and ate it then came upstairs and chatted and what not.

tuesday
again felt kinda eh. but got up cause i had to go the bank then to the drs. so went to the drs. took my vitals. i finally gained back all the weight i lost throughout this pregnancy. so i'm back at my starting weight. hah. thats 13lbs that i lost in 6 months and gained back in the course of 2 months. dang this kid gains weight fast. hah. it will be interesting to see my weight after she's born. so yeah. in 2 weeks at my next appt they are gonna check to see if i've started to dialate. times counting down now for her arrival. its kinda surreal. but exciting at the same time.so then i got gas for my empty car then headed home. jer arrived right after. my parents came home after us. made us some sammiches then just chilled. then i met up with jer at the rec after. saw justine, athena, jordan and ac. dang that kid bugs. and he wonders why he gets into fights. and he kept trying to tell me stories but kept screwing them up. and for some reason he kept throwing his flaming hot cheetos at justine. what a dork. jer played 21 and an actual game. when i got there i noticed he was wearing a sleeveless shirt. never saw him where one of those before. me and justine were talking about all of jer's tan lines. his farmer tan on his arms, the shorts tan on his calves, his brace tan on his ankle and then his sock tan. haha. when i got home jac said that my parents went to get the crib. oh ok. i thought they were getting it tomorrow. cool with me. nana and tata agreed to buy the crib and mattress. cool. so then they came home with it. then mom, dad, jac, jay and i went to hunan for dinner. jac was jac. thats all i could say. ahha. food actually didnt upset my stomach as much as it has been during this pregnancy. went to work later on. again got light headed and the shakes. went home early.

wednesday
felt a tad better. when jer came over after school we put the crib together. that was interesting. its smaller than i imagined. its a winnie the pooh 4 in 1 crib. so she'll have a bed for years to come. so then jer left. my dad put the mobile together and connected it to the crib. then jer came back and him and my dad tried to bring it upstairs. we had to take it partially apart to get it up the stairs. then when they got to my room door, it turned out that the frame was too wide. so we ended up taking the whole thing apart. haha. so then jer and i put it back together. so we put the crib together twice. hah. put all our kids in the crib too. hah. all compliments of jer. hah. but pbj is still mine. so then mom and jac came back from the eye doctors. and we showed them the crib. when jac found out that it has a vibration mechanism she started to ask what was the max weight. cause she may start sleeping in it. ahha.

click on picture to see pictures of the room.

then during dinner cousin came over. scared the shit out of us cause she slipped in through the garage in the dark. hah. so she chilled here. we were suppose to go to lamaze but i wasn't feeling well. and i was in a lot of pain. my back was killing me. so after dinner cousin and i watched hawaii and jac get ready to go out. ahah. cousin was surprised at what jac does. so after hawaii cousin left. i just chatted then went to sleep.

thursday
well i still hurt. not just my back but sometimes my stomach too. eh. so just been blogging here and in the baby blog. gonna relax now and hope my back will stop hurting.

til we meet again

Angel remembered at 10:48:00 AM

Saturday, October 02, 2004

wow its been a busy week. lets see if i can even remember half of it.

saturday cont..
so uncle finished the painting. makes the room look different. he even painted the door frames and doors. so they kinda match everything else. the closet is the only odd colored thing in the room, well besides the gold door knobs. but anyways. mom finished putting up the precious moments banner around the room. so uncle started to bring the dressers up in to the room. then he had to leave. jer had arrived just after uncle brought the dressers up by himself. hah. i told him jer was coming. heh. so after he left jer brought up some more furniture. slowly this room will come together i suppose. after jer left..hmm what did we do? shrug. oh well.

sunday
hmmmm. probably just worked on the room. i really can't remember. oh man. but i do know i'm hurting. with all the bending and what not from working on the room is starting to cause havoc on my back.

monday
HAPPY 5TH MONTH ANNIVERSARY JERMIAH!!
happy birthday uncle mon
so i went to the campus today. picked up jer and we went to ihop for breakfast. i actually ate a lot. wow. i had french toast, egg, and 2 sausages. i surprised myself. jer had pancakes, eggs, and sausage. afterwards we went to the bank so i can deposit money. then off to wal mart on nordahl to look for a stand for my phones and what not. well we didn't find what i wanted over there. oh well. then we went back to campus. saw clare, ali, randy, andrew, paul, and nik. then across the dome was jeannette and lawrence. so jer and i went to talk to them. jeannette is sooo cute. she was so excited about the baby. haha. it was nice talking to them. so then they went to class and jer and i headed back out so i can drop him off at chavez plaza. hahaha nice walk jer..hahahhahhahah. so then i headed out on errands.i stopped by the drs office to get my disability papers back from the dr. then came the shopping. so first i went to kmart in carmel mtn to see if i could find a precious moment light switch cause we seemed to have lost the outlet covers and the light switch covers for my room. but alas, there were none. and they didn't have the stand i wanted either. so then i went across the street to home depot. i found the outlet covers. then i found a light switch cover, for my type of switch, that you can design it yourself. it has a plastic clear cover that you can put your wallpaper in so that it matches the room. cool. so after i picked those i went to find a new closet track. not the full length tracks just the little plastic piece that keeps the doors aligned on the ground. mine broke a long time ago. think i got the right one. ehe. then i headed to target. found out there is another form that the dr has to sign for my maternity leave. oops. oh well. called jer and had him meet me at target so he can carry the stand that i saw while i was at work earlier. so while waiting for him i drank my icee. then he arrived and we went and got the stand. ended up getting a different one that i had originally chosen. its cool though. this one has a door and 1 more shelf. so we went to pay. then we came home. just chilled cause i was tired and hurting. so then he left to get jar. came back later. bought me my air freshner refill for our anniversary. ahah. i got him one last month. hah. we are dorks i know. while he was gone, after much struggle, i finally got the light cover opened so i can attempt to put something in it. damn that thing was hard. jac, jay and i all were trying. sheesh. we were trying to open it while us 3 and mom were in jac's room looking online at the leucadia site. finally gonna try it out. so while we waited for our food i got the damn thing open. decided to take a part of the precious moments banner and use that for the light switch. since the middle is occupied by the light switch itself i couldn't put any of the pictures of the precious moments in there. so i used the outter frames of 2 of the pictures to make the frame. so at least it has the borders and what not. so it matches that. then our food arrived. my fettucine alfredo with chicken was good. couldn't finish it though. although i usually don't finish my alfredo. so its ok. then jer arrived. so then i put him to work and he built the stand. brought more stuff up into the room to sort and organize. then he left.just worked more on the room.

tuesday
happy anniversary to my parents
worked on the room. time is running out. dad comes home thursday night. so did that all day. just trying to organize stuff. and figure out what i have. its kinda hard though cause the only time we can bring boxes up is when jer is over. poor guy is having to work hard these past few weeks helping getting this room done. but i appreciate it. thank you!! 143. so when jer came he brought more furniture and boxes up. so did that all day. god i hurt. btwn this room and work i'm killing my back.went out to dinner for mom and dad's wedding anniversary even though dad is in the philippines. hah. we went to the butcher shop in kearny. it was me, jac, mom and jenlyn. it was cool. the food was good but the service was lacking. i had prime rib, garlic mashed potatoes and shrimp scampi. so i ate all of that..well half of my potatoes. but we also had appetizers: potato skins with bacon, cheese and chives, fried calamari, zucchini, and shrimp, and then a ceasar salad. so yeah i ate a lot. which was good on one hand but maybe not good on the other. cause all day i was having trouble breathing. so then to have my stomach that full didn't help either. by the end i was having so much trouble breathing that it was affecting my muscles. they were hurting. so i ended up calling in sick.

wednesday
more work on the room. dang. jer came over and helped and what not. but only once. =( but its cool. he's been a great help. so then later i got ready and went to lamaze. we got a tour of the birthing floor and rooms. pretty interesting. the rooms actually look somewhat comfortable. if a hospital room can be comfortable. haha. but everything happens in the room. and we also learned of hospital procedures for the birth and what not. basically the baby doesn't leave the sight of myself or a family member at all except for 3 scenarios. 1) there is a complication and they have to take her to pediatrics icu. 2) if its a boy and we have him circumsized. 3) if we opt for the hearing test. then its just the drs and the baby. but the family member is near by for all 3. so thats pretty cool. and the babies have sensors on them while in the are in the hospital so that if someone tries to leave the floor with them it sets off alarms. and if a hospital employee can't vouch for why the alarm set off..the ENTIRE hospital goes on lock down. dang. so that was cool.

thursday
well we are down to the wire. gotta get the house and the room ready. dad comes home tonight. mom and jac are picking him up from the lax tonight at 730pm. so jer came and brought more of the important stuff up. i swear just when it seems like ive progressed there is more crap else where that contradicts that idea. but i know i'm progressing. sheesh. so jer left and later came back. worked on the room. mom and jac left. tried relaxing a bit with jer cause i was in so much pain and discomfort from everything. but it was nice to have a quiet moment with jer for like the first time in awhile. giggles and tears. haha. been a long time. so then jer left and i was finally able to get the room presentable by like 10ish. dang. luckily my dad was delayed 2 hours. so that gave me extra time. then got ready for work at 11pm. still needed to shower and what not. dang its been a long day.
oh man. lately i've been saying that i have a feeling that the baby is gonna be born in october not november. stuff that we are learning about in the lamaze class that pertains to the body preparing for the delivery i've already been going through. and stuff like that. well today at work. i mean for the last couple of months i've been having contractions. that is normal. they are called braxton-hicks. but they are considered weak. and usually i can still walk and talk and chew gum and other stuff during them. well i'm sure if i wanted to i could do all that but gives you an idea of how they are just there. well around 2am i got a contraction that HURT LIKE HELL and usually the b-h ones are just my abdomen. not this one. my entire stomach and pelvic region all constricted. i couldn't move. i tried to walk but couldnt. was just breathing out of my mouth til the pain subsided. it was like 15-30 seconds. oh man i was dying. then i got another one of those about 15 minutes later. i only had 2. but still. i think this kid wants out soon. hopefully she doesn't come before the babyshower cause we didn't buy any baby furniture to see what we get from the babyshower. hopefully that doesn't work against us.

friday
happy 16th birthday john john!!
got woken up by jer. yayee!! hah. chilled. then he left. i got ready and went on errands again. saw trish driving into park village as i was leaving. just waved at eachother. one of these days i'll give her her visor. hah. went back up to the drs to get the target paperwork signed. and wouldn't you know it the dr is not coming in today. but we figured out that the nurse practioner can sign. and the one on duty is mine, kristen. so that was cool. so she signed it and it states that i go on leave starting october 11th. thats cool. cause i have an appt on tuesday and i was gonna ask her to pull me off work cause its killing me now. its getting harder and harder to bed or even climb the ladder. it takes me so long to do my job now cause i'm not as mobile as before. but now i dont have to ask her since she signed my paperwork for a week from monday. heh. then i went to target and turned it in. while was waiting for them to find michelle, who takes care of that stuff, i saw teresa and clare walking up to the registers. so i waited for them to pay then we said hi to eachother and stuff. so that was kinda cool. after i dealth with target i went and finally got my car washed. that car hadn't been washed since before the accident. and that was early august. so yeah..caked on stuff. so nice to have a clean car again. haha. it was funny watching the ppl that were drying the car. they kept trying to open the door that won't open repeatedly. its like no one would tell the other that it doesn't open. was kinda amusing. haha. so then i came home. finally saw dad. he scared me. as i walked into the house i was talking to jac who was on the couch and dad came up behind me. saw the baptismal outfit that auntie cora ballon got the baby. its nice. just no shoes. so gotta find her shoes when it gets closer to the baptismal. i swear the stuff my dad buys you would have thought he's never been to the philippines. he bought coaster sets, caribao figures and stuff like that. luckily i got the car washed cause my dad said he needs to take my car later to take inang and lolo to lolo's drs appt. cause we still have the expedition and its too high for lolo and inang to get in. and kuya has the bmw. see how things happen for a reason. ahha. jay made us brunch. he made cornbeef with onion and eggs. i only ate a bit cause i couldn't eat anymore. i got full easily. thanks jay. so then i came upstairs and relaxed after the chaotic week we just had. dad came in and had me transfer his pictures from the memory card to his computer. had some really nice pictures of sunsets though. i should post a couple. mom, dad and i were messing with the pictures that dad was kinda late to take lolo to the drs. hah. good job. so then i just napped and what not. then around 645pm jer came over. we ate kfc with the fam. then we went to mira mesa's football game. saw rachel, jenni and carrese there. got to see the band perform. was cool. mira mesa beat serra 45-7. dang. and when we went to the el camino game the score was similar. hah. maybe next week we'll go to westview's home game so i can see adrianne's band. we'll see. so far thats the plan. then we came home and put the ppr (prep pigskin report) flyer into our album cause we were asked, as well as other ppl, to call with the final score of the game. which we did. well actually i made jer do. ahha. but when he watched the ppr they screwed up the score and said mm won 35-7. so someone must have called in before us with a different score. although he said, while watching ppr, that mc lost 45-7 so if that isn't their score maybe someone mixed up the mm and mc scores. who knows.

saturday
happy birthday kristina!!
so this morning has just been spent blogging. haha. had trouble sleeping. and i woke up at one point with my knee bent, and when i went to straighten it i was hurting. it took a long time before i could straighten it. wth?? so i guess i slept wrong on it or something. oh well. gonna find food now. i wonder what time we are suppose to be in southside for john's bday. hmmm. oh well. we'll get there eventually. hah.

well thats my week in review. hope everyone is doing good. hi justine!! heard you were asking about me. hah. hopefully starting next week i'll be going back to visit the rec and stuff. so yeah. have fun ya'll.

til our paths cross again

Angel remembered at 12:02:00 PM

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