04.28.05,
Thursday:April 2005
04.28.05,
Thursday:
[07:35pm] Ack...it's non-stop...why am I getting increasingly busier and busier? This is scary. It's got to stop some time before everything explodes...! >_< Make it stop...!
I got a 96/100 on my SDC Observation Project...arg...I wanted an A+, the nerd that I am...! I have an average of about a 97% in there right now...must...end...with...an...A...muah ha ha...^_^ I still have to post my "essay" for the week, and I've actually been avoiding it a bit, because it takes a lot more thought that usual...
Meanwhile, I'm failing in terms of grading papers this week...I'd say that this is the first week of the entire year where I am so packed with stuff to do that I hadn't even graded a single paper since the start of the week...! They're all sitting in my yellow homework box, and it grows a bit each day...
The lesson went terribly haywire yesterday and part of today...at least it's mostly fixed...it wasn't the students fault - more of the lab instructions and the mesh of the concepts of converting units, calculating speed, and interpreting graphs at this new start of Physics. Six Flags is almost all taken care of...organizing 240 people can be hectic, but at least all I have left to do now is to get the chaperone group lists from the other teachers and assign buses...and...I'm sure there's more...
The block schedules for this state testing this week is awesome. I wish we had it...all the time...! ^_^
Anyways, besides work stuff...Goodbye DVD! He went to China last night, and should be off in Shanghai by now to start his new life. He'll be back in August, but for now, will be settling in another country, far away...and yes, as Calvin stated, the basketball scenery at RCAC will probably change a little. Maybe girls can be allowed to play now...! Ha ha...^_^ j/k j/k...we'll all miss David...! At least he'll be back for a bit in August! ^_^ A couple of us took him out to Macaroni Grill Tuesday night to say goodbye. I still have to keep to my belief that Macaroni Grill simply ain't that good when it comes to pasta...Olive Garden (which, hmm...I've not been there in a long time!) is still noticeably better in taste (I do have to say I like the atmosphere more at Macaroni Grill...the butcher paper tablecloth that we can draw on is awesome!), and so is Pasta Bravo...that beloved little chain of pasta shops that are NOT in Riverside County...yet. I'm still waiting for the President of Pasta Bravo to email me one day, telling me that "Yes! It's here!" ^_^ As a reminder for those that don't know or remember...I emailed the President, hee hee, and he emailed me back, because they were considering Corona anyways, and asked for which sites would be good in my 'hood, and why. Of course, I sent him a long list to help! ^_^ It's been a while. Maybe I scared him away...
Nonetheless, Cheesecake Factory is still #1! (I really do need to stop raving about it, huh?) ^_^
Okay...break is over...back to work...!
04.23.05,
Saturday:
[11:50pm] It's been a tiring day. But the rally was fun, and despite the craziness of this week...it helped me relax a bit more than I thought it would. Because God is that good...All the time! Yay! ^_^
I have a few pictures. Will be up soon. As for now...I'm finally home, showered and clean...and will start on the long list of things to do and finish for this weekend...
[10:42am] Went to Sutra Lounge last night for Mei-Chi's brithday dinner and party! =) Hip and happenin' place, though of course, it had to take a Mei-Chi (and Halvern) to get the dancin' started on the floor, hee hee...^_^
Met some new friends, mostly from Korea! ^_^ The soft-spoken and sweet Juliet...Jooni, who had the funnest shirt there and a neat name to boot...Jay, who spoke really good English even though he's from Korea (turns out he spent much of his life on the East Coast)...and Sharon, also Korean, but from the good ol' USA. =) Anna was one of those Korean-born Chinese, like Bobby, hee hee, and she could speak Korean and Mandarin, and understand Cantonese, so that was fun saying things every now and then. =) Duc, from the Christmas Party last year, was there, and took off earlier, as he was on call...at the airport, I think. A Chinese medicine doctor goes on call too! =) And of course, Shelton came with me too, to wish Mei-Chi Happy Birthday wishes and spot his broke girlfriend for the Tempura Rolls (eeeh, Grand Lux's and Yardhouse had better ones!) and Stuffed Pork Chops. =)
Anyways, it was fun sharing food with all my new friends, ha ha...^_^ Such fobby goodness - sharing food is a must in Asian cultures, I think. We're used to "family style dinners", and sharing food also is polite, allows you try things that you didn't get to order, and allows you to make new friends. =)
Ah, it's supposed to be one of the hottest place in OC...Sutra Lounge is just alright...the food wasn't THAT great, but good...and the weird unisex bathroom sink thing was...strange. I liked the couches and booths though - THAT was unique...and in particular, I liked the hand stamp. It looked like one of those henna-written type tatoos...but that would wash off later, ha ha. =) Dancing took a while to start off, because they had to take our table away to clear the floor, and eh...I guess I wasn't in a dancing mood. There was this one really hoochie-mama with long, long braids (extensions) and Britney Spears clad (not-clad?) clothing that was scaring me. >_<
All in all though, it was fun, and here are some of the pictures from last night! =) There are more from my new friends - just have to wait a bit for them. =)
Gotta get ready for rally...! ^_^
04.21.05,
Thursday:
[07:50pm] Woops, I forgot to post Sunday's Surprise Party Pics...hee hee...
[06:36pm] By my very nature, I'm a "doing" person. I like to do things, make sure things are planned out and take care of, way ahead of time. So like for this Saturday's Youth Rally, honestly, I knew the kids were not ready. The Youth only concentrated on the rock star stuff (singing, basically), but not really on anything else - the only time they did any planning was the two times I got them together, and other than that - lists were not emailed, flyers were neglected so other churches didn't really know about it, other than the few emails I sent out to the other REACh leaders, and nobody has stepped up to take over this or that game, activity, planning, etc. I know they're busy with this or that - but honestly, if you do know me, you know I've been busier than all of them combined...yes, I know people handle time management differently...but really, it really is all about priority...like, as busy as they are, they really like praise, and will do it and spend hours and hours practicing for it, even to the point of taking over the College/Career Praise. This is a good thing, but the energy is only driven towards certain things, and nothing else unless someone takes charge. I let them plan and take charge, but there's no follow-through. I REALLY wanted to step in, because it hurts to see things simply not done well, but I'm supposed to step back, and not get all stressed over it, which I will. Thus Ed Lu's advice: "If they fail, they fail." I'm not sure how it will go on Saturday - not a single church is coming, as they RSVP'ed "No", and only one individual has actually replied to say he's going - whether or not that represents his church, that remains ambiguous.
Either way...nothing done in God's glory is ever wasted. So rejoice I will anyways...=)
I brought our scale to school today, to use for a lab. The kids broke it, so I bought a new one - I'm making the school pay for it. They owe me. Grrr. And like, today, the secretary got an email from the coordinator of this Math and Science Day, who said, well, it's okay, blah blah, he'll still take the late check, and so the secretary is acting like I was throwing a fuss for nothing! Not that she's acting it, but every time she saw me, it's like she would bring it up - that the guy would have taken the late check, and that it was still going to be okay, and that I didn't really have to send that $5000 check (which includes: draining my checking account, transfering money from my savings account, and borrow money from my mom).
What a...a...oy, I don't even know what to label these kind of people! >_<
I'm hungry, tired, and haven't read at all this week for my online class, nor made my giant discussion entry for this week. I'm supposed to figure out what else I can do for this youth rally without stepping too much into it. I'm supposed to lesson plan and rearrange some ideas for tomorrow. I'm supposed to be calm and level-headed, and motivated to really do all the junk I'm supposed to do, and be happy and nice to everyone because that's what they expect. I'm supposed to be an understanding teacher and mentor, even when all the kids that somehow are a part of my life don't always appreciate - nor are aware - of how much I put in. Am I putting in too much? Is it really not worth it?
At least I'm supposed to go to Mei-Chi's birthday dinner tomorrow at the very hip Sutra Lounge, hee hee, which has its ups and downs. Ups: seeing Mei-Chi again, hanging out with her, and Shelton too, since he will come with me! Downs: It ain't a cheap place, and I'm completely broke, and I haven't gone present-shopping yet. I know I don't HAVE to get a gift...but I only see her once or twice a year...AND I forgot to bring her Christmas gift last time I hung out with her...oy...
And despite the fact that everything sounds sucky, there are a million good things, and not only am I supposed to enjoy them...I really do...and not only am I supposed to look on the bright side of things, and the good that come out of the situations I'm put in, and how it brings glory to Him...I actually really do see and am happy with that part of things...
I should be telling certain people off, for being inefficient, incompetent, not following through, not appreciating what they're given or the things I do and/or have done for so long in the past...and yet...does it matter? Would it make a difference? Besides, who am I? I'm not perfect. I do things well, and I know that - but I'm not perfect. So I have no right to tell people what they should be doing. But it certainly feels like I should be telling them off. But I don't, because...I don't know...saying hurtful things don't help...being so negative doesn't change things...Anyways.
I'm too weird. =P Or too nice. Or too naive.
04.20.05,
Wednesday:
[07:22pm] What is WRONG with the place I work at?? LET ME TELL YOU!!! Arg! Cuz I'm dang-angry and as Mel would say, "effing" pissed off. >_<
Of course, I'm home, hearing downstairs from my mom (she's talking loudly to anyone that will listen to her at the dinner table - I stuffed food down my throat and left) about how stupid I am, how I don't know anything, and am simply being taken advantage of, and that I shouldn't have had to put any money in. True, I shouldn't have. But if I didn't do it, and nobody is willing to do it, then it only hurts the students - they wouldn't be able to go to Six Flags at all - and how is that a good thing??? It's only good to those that are selfish and not willing to help the kids learn and enjoy learning. Unfortunately, there are too many of those type of people around. =P
What happened? What happened you ask??? So you know we're going to Six Flags, for Math and Science Day. I collected the ticket money more than a month ago, and after everything was checked off and taken care of, submitted it to the office - the secretary, mind you - three weeks ago. She said she'd take care of the $4,700 check before Spring Break, and since I didn't hear about it, thought it was all done and well.
Today, after school, around 4 something, she calls me and asked if she was to send it to the address that's on the payment slip (duh, it only says "Send Check To: ..."!), and I was like, hoooooold on...you didn't mail it already??? It had to be postmarked by TODAY in order for us to even get the tickets! She thought it was today to get the discounted price...she obviously didn't read the slip with the address on it...oy...*rolls eyes...beats table...kicks chair* I asked if there was ANY way it could be postmarked today - via regular mail, fed ex, ANYTHING, and the only response is that everything's already closed, and that she's doing all she can to call and email the guy, but getting nothing...and of course, freakin' LD who only protects her and does JACK is not any help at all...
As there was no way to get the money in legally (because she submitted the request for the check late, the district didn't give her the check, and she doesn't even HAVE it...the school cannot write their own checks), the only way to do it was to get someone to write a check for the total cost, and mail it at the post office before 6pm (of which at this time, it was nearing 5pm). The secretary didn't have enough in her checking account, and supposedly, LD said he didn't either. What the heck? This guy freakin' drives a Lexus - and NOT one of those certified pre-own ones either. =P Plus, he's the PRINCIPAL. I'm sure there's SOME way for him to get it. So it's just me. And of COURSE I'll do it, because if I don't, all the hard work that the kids have put in selling tickets and washing cars, and planning to come to wash cars this Saturday, and taking care of all the paperwork...all that hard work would HONESTLY have been wasted and for absolutely nothing at all. And because it matters to ME that the kids have this opportunity - something that they've all been waiting for for the entire year...which to them, is like their whole lives, right? Heh heh. Anyways, I'm pissed and in tears because I'm frustrated at the incompetence of these people who are ruining it for everyone, and I can't actually YELL at them and TELL them that they really ARE that incompetent and stupid and lazy and selfish and everything else I want to say to them (I could, but that goes against my own ethics...grrrr...rrrraaaawwwwrrrr! >_<), and of course, I bring up...that though it's like the worse time for it...LD hasn't written me that letter of rec that I wanted at the start of the year, to simply update my files (letters need to be within 3 years, and it's been more than that since I've last gotten a letter) - not that was I applying anywhere...
One could defend LD, saying it wasn't his fault, and that it was just the secretary's fault...but see, this has happened in the past with other teachers. LD knows she's unreliable. And LD himself, as the leader, takes a big part of the blame, and I will blame him also for not looking over the paper carefully (it honestly wasn't a giant payment slip - a small slip of paper that stated amount, number of tickets, postmark date, and where to mail it to.). So he gets no defense whatsoever.
I'm thinking - I really should just apply elsewhere, especially if LD, who has been here longer than any other principal has actually been at a school site, plans on staying. Plus he's nicer and/or more supportive this year, in some ways, and I'm not sure what it is - but it seems like a good year to get a letter of rec. Plus, it's not my year to be evaluated, so he can't say anything else anyways. =P
Anyways, so I wrote out a check that will bounce unless I get some help from my parents. Isn't this STUPID?
It's stupid because it isn't even my fault, and somehow, I'm the one dropping in the money, and I don't see my so-called fearless leader even step up to do anything about it, other than say "Sorry", to cover his secretary's butt. =P Money IS an issue - it's a lot - but at the same time, that's not the core of my frustration. The core of it comes down to people not doing what they're supposed to do, and in result, causing grief on more than one other - at LEAST 230 students plus me. Dude, if I was their mother...!!!
Gosh, these kids better enjoy Six Flags and not cause any problems there. They have NO idea what trouble it was to get them to go...blood, sweat and tears indeed. =Þ
So angry still...but at least it has given me energy to grade these papers...ha ha...
Don't ask me to go out to play until I get reimbursed...I'll literally be broke until then. =P
Drats. Internet is down. Can't post this till later. =P
04.19.05,
Tuesday:
[07:25pm] Happy Birthday Elaine!!! ^_^ And Happy Birthday Ralm!!! (yesterday) ^_^
Two wonderful birthdays, back to back! ^_^
It's been hectic. In fact, I'm really tired, and kept wanting to sleep while driving home. Oy, but I have a few more things to do tonight, as usual. =P
Last Saturday - At the Car Wash Fundraiser (we earned a total of about $740 some dollars so far! We even have one more car wash day left!) from 8am until 4pm. I stopped by a garage sale on the way there and picked up a cool cot type chair for $1! ^_^ Anyways, car wash was...good at times...but crazy in the end...lots of wet people...cool cars...good times...and two or three unhappy customers out of the 100 or so cars that I'm sure washed. =P With up to 60 kids at a time, it was hard to manage, but it's even going to be more hectic this coming Saturday, I'm sure. I won't be there though, ha ha...that's for the other teachers to handle. ^_^
After the Car Wash, I went home, changed, and went to RH to have dinner at Seafood Village with Shelton, Derrick, David, Simon, Gordon, my bro, and Pastor and Doris. We thought that we'd get free food, ha ha...but as it turned out, we all split on the bill...=) It WAS good food though! =) Home late...slept late...
Come Sunday: Church // CCF for Gilbert's (and James', Thomas', and Ralm's too!) Surprise Party. We told Gilbert to come at 7pm, and what does he do??? Show up at 6:10am! Oy! So we all had to pretend nobody was home, stare at Kevin Y and Maybelle as they were coming up the sidewalk and tried to shoo them away from Gilbert (only he saw them already), make a dozen phone calls to find a way to distract him...only for him to think he saw Melody's car, DID, and FOLLOWED HER, while HONKING his car at her! She was frantic and was calling me about what to do - she had the balloons in her car even! She was smart, smart, smart though - she took him to Starbuck's for a bit until it was time to come back, so that the rest of us could show up, hide and wait for him with the giant card and cake, hee hee...Also home late, slept late...!
What a Monday at work - more stuff that students shared with me...so many all of a sudden! Is it the change in weather? One student who is usually happy, outgoing and good-natured was extremely disrespectful and rude and everything horrible with me during class, so I held him after. As it turns out, a million things are going on - from the usual girlfriend drama, to certain things happening at home, a relative dying, and just too much for a 13 year old to handle. Sigh. After I got home from work, I left with my bro to meet up with Fred, Jamie, James, Karen, Kevin, and David as a "farewell dinner" to DVD at the Elephant Bar. You know what was funny? When I left, yeah, I was full, but I wasn't BLOATED. And neither was my bro! If you pay good money for food, don't you expect to be bloated when you leave??? Hee hee. Oh well...but yeah, the food didn't impress me so much - it was good, but nothing like Cheesecake Factory. Which, - OHHHH! - is open in Victoria Gardens now! YES! ^_^ (AND an Urban Outfitters as well. I haven't been to VG since...December, I think...time to visit it again...hee hee...)
And how did that evening end? Home late, slept late...again...
So needless to say, I'm tired. But at least it was a test day today, hee hee. =)
News for today - One mom called me and didn't want me to call her about her son making fun of others, being disrespectful, calling others names, yelling in class, and simply, all those crazy things that he does. She doesn't want to deal with it, and simply wants me to send him to the office, and wants to know WHY I bother calling her about it, because there's nothing she wants to do about it, that if he wants to fail, he'll fail, and so on and son on...and when I tried to explain to her that I was always calling and emailing because she should know what's going on with him in the classroom and what-not, she hung up on me. Bleah. No WONDER that kid is so messed up. =P
However, there is really good news as well - one of my students asked me to be one of her madrinas for her quinceanera!!! Ahhhh! I'm so excited!!! I've never been a madrina, ha ha...such an honor...! Me! A madrina! In a quinceanera!
04.13.05,
Wednesday:
[06:35pm] Oh, fine fine...if you insist...Happy Birthday Gilbert! Heh heh.
I woke up so tired today, and have been tired all day...not enough sleep last night perhaps, or, a long, long Socratic-type staff meeting. Good information actually, though at the same time...long-winded...! Last night was the Star Party at our school! SOOO much fun, though disappointed that one of the other science teachers didn't bother to show up or let me know that he wasn't going to show...nor any administrators...it was just Hofer, Magana and I. Yep...school support...but either way, the kids had an awesome time checking out sunspots and the sun earlier, and the moon, Orion's nebula, various stars and constellations, Saturn and Jupiter, during the night. =) We couldn't have done it without David and Ramone's help - these two custodians are always doing whatever they can to help out - they're AWESOME! I had dinner with Elissia at Chipotle - mmm! I like it...there will have to be a next time!!! ^_^ I also got to see her little son, Alex...who acted shy the whole time until his dad came - then he was nuts, climbing all over Elissia and pushing food into her mouth and such, hee hee. =)
Ack...still lots of things to do tonight...maybe I'll leave grading for another time...and just read for my class and hopefully, read for book club too!
Bleah, Site Council Meeting 7am on Friday, and then Book Club after work...makes for a long day...plus the Car Wash on Saturday morning. And sometime in between then, I'm supposed to be figuring out all this senseless, practically-useless Edusoft tests. =P
After work, I simply had to go to the gym, to just wake up a little, so while on the elliptical, I was watching the news (the other TV had Elmidate on it - SOOO raunchy! My goodness, what is this world coming to???) and saw news of that white pontiac, whose driver was on the way to Bible study and got killed while driving, and the passenger, who is at the hospital and can't even describe who it was that shot them...followed by news of someone else being shot in the car by someone else...followed by a 15-month old baby who was shot and killed as a result of a gang fight...
All this news is so depressing...and it's sad...it's the world we live in...though there is still good and Goodness in the world, and for that reason, it makes all of our existences worthwhile.
Plus, it's time to eat - my mom's cooking is ALWAYS worthwhile! =)
04.09.05,
Saturday:
[11:40am] Warning: Candidly mushy entry about to begin! So before you choose to read on further, think: Can you, and do you, want to handle it? It is about love, by the way. ^_^
I am so utterly, completely, unequivocally (and am I using this word correctly? Not too sure, but in my own mind, in my own language, yes, heh heh!) in love, in love, in love! And it’s crazy, to think that I never thought it could happen. Yes, always in the back of my head, it was something that may have not been real, and there was always that doubt – that same doubt I heard the girls say when they were over here for the Winter Camp Fundraiser while watching Princess Diaries 2 - that such love is impossible and unreal nowadays, because where in the world can one find someone that is so wonderful??? Hope always existed, and I gave it a chance, but it never seemed real.
And yet, it’s real! My goodness, how wonderfully real it is! Worth waiting so long for, indeed. =) Only a little over 5 months so far? That’s it??? It feels more like a lifetime! Okay, maybe so because we met back in…um…1985-ish? Heh heh...but still! And the crazy thing is, I didn’t think such a thing was possible because of past relationships – in each, there was either something wrong, or something missing, or the wrong timing, and each time, I’d wonder, is it me? Is there something wrong with me, or my head? Was it all just mental? Is love just a twist of chemicals in the brain at just the right time, and nothing else? Of course, this messed up world doesn’t help – divorces, unhappy marriages, abusive relationships…left and right…all the time…all over the place…! Teaching in public school only opened my eyes more to that – my goodness, how we all need His Perfect Love…that Love that doesn’t change…!
It’s as real as it can be, and it does exist, and there’s no other way to describe it than how you would imagine it to be in a fairy tale. No no, not those silly love-at-first-sight Disney stories, like (and as much as I like the cartoons, it just ain’t as right…but then again, I could be wrong – I’m a little on the practical side.) in The Little Mermaid or Sleeping Beauty (to wake up and just decide that that’s it???). But the FEELING of just KNOWING without a doubt that this is IT. It is so completely different from infatuation, from just being comfortable in a set relationship, from momentary thoughts of complete selflessness. Who is at the center? At one time, a long time ago, I thought I might be in love – but I wasn’t. I never said it, because I always had to think and think and think – was it really love? How would I say it? And it was because it wasn’t that I never thought of how to say it, or be convicted that it really was. It was just selfishness (that someone actually liked me and told me – and such things are always nice to hear) and selflessness – that I thought my world could revolve around this guy, and that would bring me happy feelings forever. But it wasn’t true – God wasn’t in the right picture, and actually, wasn’t in the picture at all. To be selfless and willing to give up many things for one person is not love. People are simply inherently imperfect, and if everything revolved around that one person – my goodness, how the world would crash down on you! And such is what a large part of the world lives in. To be separated from the “one true love”, and be forever in the depths of despair until he/she returns…bah…how pathetic is that? Almost funny, to one extent. =)
But to hold Christ as the center of all things – to hold fast in Someone that does not change, that IS perfect…to have your identity and being and self stored in such a Thing, allows you to be who you are, but based on Someone that would not let you down, no matter what. Such a relationship takes time – and am I fully there yet? My goodness, I’m only 26 – I’m sure there’s more of me to grow, as short as I may be. =) But I do know that it’s pretty solid, and that it continues to grow…and without it, I would be a very different Gummychild. And such a relationship between Him and I allows for a relationship between me and well…him. =)
Y’all know my prayer – that He would guard my heart until the right time and right person would come along…and yet, after other relationships (of which they will not be named, as it’s not my right to dispel such things online to whoever chooses to read this! Though, without a doubt, those relationships too, were meant to be, but for other reasons. Without a doubt, God had a reason for letting them be, and such good reasons they are! I’m sure I only see one side of it, but I know that God doesn’t do things for one side only…He had a plan for all involved.), for me to not think it’s possible…and then God, in His infinite wisdom, decides to simply *BAM* - knock that feeling of knowing straight iinto my heart and soul and mind. I was like, woahh…what the…??? But there it was! And after a bit of struggling to simply accept what He had in mind, relishing and enjoying what He has set out for me is only a wonderful bit of what He has in mind for all of us in the future - one day that may or may not be so far away for the entire population of us as people, as people that really do exist as souls outside of our physical bodies.
So is it worth it to wait along for something that you may think would never happen? Certainly! Is it worth it to hold your trust in Him? Certainly! Should you be depressed now, if you have not found yours, if you’re still waiting, if it seems that it will never happen? No! No, no, and again, no! I’ve been there, done that, ha ha, and it only causes more stress on yourself - stress that doesn’t even have to exist, that probably won’t alter the universe, no matter how you feel. Attitude, my friends – for yourself, my goodness. ^_^ Face the world with what you have, use what talents you have been given, and serve Him in whatever ways you can. Grow first in you, in your relationship with Him. Do what you gotta do for now, but hold on to that faith that there is something wonderful in store for you.
Will heading to a bar to pick up a hottie or two hurry up that fate? Probably not. First of all, think of the type of people that usually go there – if that is what you are looking for, then fine, no problems, right? (I’m not saying that you can’t meet your soulmate there…but it’s proooobably not likely if it’s not what you want for a long time to come, you know?) But if it’s not what you’re looking for, then you’re in the wrong place, and like Sarai making Abram sleep with Hagar to hurry up a son for herself because His timing didn’t match hers, it’s just going to cause a bit of problems before a promise can and will be fulfilled.
And this kind of love? It is something that is completely indescribable, but something that you just know, in the depths of your heart and mind and soul, as much as Jeffrie has told me about Al, and how it’s something you just…know. It’s not about outwardly attractions, like Orlando Bloom in Pirates, nor the hot, cachondo-ness of Jet Li in his younger days, hee hee, but something much deeper – as if the souls have been intertwined as friends forever, as lifelong soulmates are meant to be, so that the physical self can grow old and happy together, hand in hand, sitting on a rocking stool on the front porch, reminiscing the days of yore.
Muah ha ha…this feels like one of Paul’s letters (Corinthians? Timothy? Ephesians? Heh heh…). ^_^
04.07.05, Thursday:
[07:39pm] It's been a nice week so far! =) Though currently, I think I am afflicted with a mild case of food poisoning. That, or it was all the milk in last night's mashed potatoes. =( I woke up at Rosalyn's this morning with a slight headache (which could have just happened from sleeping on a couch, right? I had woken up several times in the night and felt the headache and thought it was just that), feeling nauseated and with an uncomfortable stomach (as if I was going to throw up - ick!), so instead of going to work with her as planned, I slept an extra hour and when I felt good enough, drove back home. Me and that porcelain chamber in the house have become better friends today. =Þ
But anyways, besides that, it's been a chillin' week!
04.04.05, Monday:
[08:45am] Back from Vegas! A fun and chillin' weekend to kick off Spring Break for me, hee hee. =)
Though it wasn't too bad, there was a bit of traffic the way up. Luckily, our stomachs were quite ready for the drive, stuffed with Chili's baby back ribs, fajitas and hot wings. ^_^ We got there around midnight, tired and sleepy eyed from the drive. The next morning, we went to dim sum - we were the first patrons in the parking lot! We weren't the first inside though - others that got there were standing around the front door, constantly eyeing the inside, waiting for them to open their doors, hee hee...=) After dim sum, we visited the Las Vegas Outlets, meandering and shopping a bit, until it was time to go to a double-baby shower at LWCC. The Baby Shower was actually fun! Instead of the usual stuff, there were some games, including "Smell the Poop"...which involved diaper sniffing and candy. =) After the shower, we went to an Indoor Swap Meet, which was full of everything under the sun: birds, puppies, snakes and lizards, as well as purses, jewelry (rhinestone thongs?!? Only in Vegas...sigh...), clothes, shoes, paintings, food, nun chucks and cane swords. Yes, cane swords - quite tempting, hee hee...^_^
That night, we had a BBQ at the Yuen's, Hong-Kong style! Everyone basically has skewered marinaded meats - chicken wings, short ribs, pork chop - and roasted it over the fire, glazing it with honey, while sitting and chillin'. Workin' for the food - quite a fun way to eat! Though after, to speed things up, they used the grill rack to cook the rest up. =) After, Kevin, Shelton, and I went carousing at the movies - we watched Hostage. I've never heard of it until then...and it was really good! Full of suspense, and highly recommended! ^_^
Sunday highlights - Sunday Service and Lunch at LWCC // Flamingos and Penguins (and colorful ducks, giant catfish and carp!) and Flamingo Hilton // Caesar's Palace Viale Raspberry Sorbet // Bellagio spring flowers set-up // late afternoon nap // Makino's for dinner // drive home...full of karaoke...hee hee...^_^
I came in the house to notice that the bird cage wasn't in the house - as it turns out, Friday night, Birdie escaped! =( He/she hasn't come back, though the cage is left outside for now. It's been a few days, and likely that this red-butted parrot won't survive...so sad...if anything, I'm more sad for my dad. =( So if you've seen Birdie, let us know...=P
I just got info for my online class. I need the book - it starts today! =P UCR...sends things a little late...but anyways, yeah, I suppose I'll be online a bit during break eh?
Spring Break it is!