ITS ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!! yay!! =D well.. i've been happily enjoying my first week of VACATION!! =D mostly.. ive been spending the night at my dads and finishing my christmas shopping!! (Manny!! you are going to LOVE your gift.. just take care of it and it won't die!) soo.. yes! very excited for christmas!! with all the presents under the light magic structure... it almost looks like a real tree!! =D

yesterday i went to the mall and movies with melissa...first we got some BOBA!! =D and then we saw MISS CONGENIALITY which was cute... *you think im GORGEOUS!! you want to KISS ME!* heheheh... so... yes.. id reccomend it... Benjamin Bratt is a HOTTIE! after that we went over to my sister's lil shindig at my dads... kicked it for a bit.. felt incredbily old and NORMAL.. =) (hehehe.. her friends are pretty hyper... yes.. i know i can be hyper at times.. but they are ALL like that... and in a giant groups.. so it was LOUD.) so then we went to walmart around 11ish. ok.. you think that around 11pm.. walmart would be pretty empty.. but NOOOOOO.. it was freakin crowded!! seriously!! we were LOOKING for a parking space cause it was sooo crowded! insane! we looked at yarn and got all excited cause they had free patterns and went through a whole... "I CAN MAKE THIS" phrase. =) really i can!! so yes... i conquered crocheting.. and now im going to learn how to KNIT! hehehe.. my vacation hobby.

well.. my mom has offically started moving. kinda crazy considering that we dont have to move till the 10th of january. but i guess its better now rather than procrastinating till the last minute. mom is getting excited cause she saw the perfect doghouse for fred! hehehheheh... she said something about windows... good to know that the dog will be well off while i'll be cramped in my TINY room!! ugh.. i dont know how im going to fit everything in there.. my room right now is small and the new one is going to me SMALLER?? eek! well.. we'll see. im working on trying to get a twin bed cause my full bed right now is probably going to take up the WHOLE space. plus with a twin bed... theres a lot of cute sheets i can get! =D

hmmmm.. what are my plans for christmas? well.. usually my family celebrates christmas eve together.. we go to mass... and then at midnight.. we open our presents. =) back when i was young... it was all about the nintendo and playing CONTRA, TETRIS, and SUPER MARIO BROTHERS until it was time to open the gifts. *sigh* memories.... this year i think its just going to be my mom, my dad, carlene and i... cause my other cousins are going up north... and my aunt and uncle are in the philippines. still.. i think its going to be a great christmas. =)

it seems like im going to be repeating GRATEFUL things... but hey its christmas!! and these are the things that are important to me during the holidays.. so LAY OFF! =)
1) im grateful for Christmas.... I love everything about it.
2) im grateful for my family and friends.... even the ones i havent seen or talked to in a while... its good to know that you guys are there and that i can always turn to you for support.
3) im grateful for the "little things." you know.. that person who smiled at you... or the guy who held the door for you... or the dude in the car in front of you who actually puts on his signal when he's switching into your lane... small things like that make life worthwile.

so on friday, I got my paycheck and did some more christmas shopping, and then it tooke me almost 2 hours to get to UCLA to hang out with joe, carrie, and beth! but it was OODLES of fun! We went to 3rd street for dinner @ this really nice italian restaurant and everyone got a bit tipsy on the tiramasu! (sooo good but DAMN it was strong!) There we conversed about out past extracurricular activites and figured that we'd make a very interesting band! Then we went SHOPPING! it was more like WINDOW SHOPPING and BROWSING since a lot of the shops were closing and since we couldn't spend $ on ourselves since our goal was CHRISTMAS GIFTS. after all the excitment of santa monica (um joe... CHANGE THE NAME OF YOUR FUTURE KID!! you can't CALL it.. and we both can't have the same name... I WONT ALLOW IT! =p) we went back to carries for a mini slumber party... joe conked out and beth, carrie and i went to the grocery for SMORES supplies and strawberry quick! had some kick ass chats about relationships and what we want in men... and weddings... and... all that fun girl stuff!

ooooooOO... i got my first christmas gift from carrie on friday too.. guess what it was!?!? it was a LANCE puppet doll!! its sooo cute and i took it out of the box and i can make it dance! (somewhat... more like jump up and down and make it walk like a retard!) its soo wickedly cool.. but last night it kinda scared me cause my light was making some weird noise.... and i thought that my puppet came to life and was making the noise... i dunno.. i couldnt sleep for a while. curse my freakish imagination!

on saturday, my mom and sister PULLED a guilt trip on me and make me go shopping and watch a movie with them... they said.. "nicole.. we dont see you anymore... oh.. you cant come out? well guess we are going to have fun together without you AGAIN" so yeah.. i felt bad and all.... cause then that meant i couldnt go see the christmas lights with keri, marissa, and tina. =( but they came over and we had our gift exchange. =) But its all good... my sister and i took my mom to get her first BOBA and she liked it!! and then we went to go see THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE which was REALLY REALLY CUTE!! unlike any other Disney movie.. very contemporary... HILARIOUS! =) GO SEE! GO SEE!! OH! and then saturday night.. i was watching IRON CHEF and there was a TIE!!! so they are going to go into OVERTIME next week i think.. HOW EXCITING!

and on SUNDAY... joe actually called me and WOKE ME UP! CRAZY!!! so then he came over and then we went to whittier for a DCM and we did the WHITTIER CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR SHOW!! =D that was soooo much fun!! we had to learn a mini dance and decorate a tree and i got to sing... it was AWESOME!!! and to think.. we learned it all at 11am and went on stage at 2:30 with not a lot of practice! COOL! =) after that... i went over to Narleens and we had a christmas/cast party.. it was DOPE! =) she got to see her wicked new studio that she built for us and had a really really fun gift exchange game! we also watched the video of the concert and yay!! i was such a DORK but oh well... =) what can i do... when i think im cool... i really am not... and when i think i am being a dork... im right on the money. GREAT. =) its all bueno.

***I know you're reading this KERI KLOCK!! =) HEY THERE MY FILIPINO HOMEGIRL!***

=) here's my grateful list!
1) im grateful for tina, marissa, and keri for being sooo understanding about saturday night.. =) sorry guys!! i really wanted to goooo!! but yes.... family first. =) we will do it again soon!! I PROMISE! we have till jan 29th!
2) im grateful for joe cause he soooooo nicely wrote CLEAN ME on my back window of my car.. so NOW i really really REALLY have to wash it now. =P BRAT!
3) im grateful im "taking a break" from work... so now i can go FIND A NEW JOB!!! CURSE MY SUPERVISOR!! she's evil.

Alrighty boys and girls... where are the parties cause NICOLE IS DONE WITH FINALS!!! =D BOOYA!! its very exciting... now i can just rest.. look for a new job.. work.. CKI... start packing for the move... clean... did i mention rest? yeah... so those are my plans for my 6 WEEK VACATION! yipee!!

well it was kinda sad today cause it was my last day for my music class and i really really really liked that class. my professor was constantly happy.. (i swear.. he's on prozac).. i made some really cool friends in that class... and most of all.. i got to sing with the accompanist!! =D it was awesome!! it was funny cause today for the final.. there was like 3 girls that sang REFLECTIONS from MULAN and they all were kinda fobby so they all pronounced it as "RE-FRES-ION".. but they all sang pretty good.. actually everyone was pretty good. *sigh* gosh.. im gonna miss that class. now i think my goal is to try to learn how to play the guitar... it would be AWESOME!!

hmmmm... so anything interesting since i last blogged? hmmmmm.... got somemore BOBA! (ULTIMATE STRESS RELIEF!!) i tried studying on tuesday but i got caugh up with this really cool movie on TMC... it was SUN VALLEY EXPRESS and it had Ester Williams and Van Johnson and it was REALLY REALLY good! =) gotta love those old time romances...

oOooO.. get this.. nicole is going to have to find a new job. my job now is cool but my supervisor is TOTALLY screwing me over!! ok.. so i gave her my availability for finals week and the week after and what did i get?? a total of 8 HOURS.. for the 2 weeks!!! insane!! and the thing is.. i was the SECOND person to give her my schedule... im 4th on the list of seniority... and the new *family friend of the supervisor* girl got 16 hours.. in ONE WEEK! completely unfair. so.. yes.. im going to quit that job ASAP and go scouting for a new one. =) sooo if anyone is hiring.. contact me ASAP! =D

anything else?? hehehhe.. oOOoO.. carrie sent me this REALLY REALLY cool picture of lance! http://nsyncit.com/shop/anim/comeon.gif check it out. =D all i gotta say... I LOVE LANCE!! grrrrrrrrrr.. =) yes...i am going to marry him... well... hopefully.. first i gotta meet him and we have to fall madly in love with each other.. *sigh* its going to be beautiful... and our shotgun vegas wedding... so if any of my friends get a call and its me asking them to be in vegas in 4 hours.. you know what its for. =D

ok.. its been a while since ive done it.. but here are my grateful 3!
1) im grateful for my tita maria... she's the realtor who helped us find an apartment and shes been super helpful!! she totally made my mom cry yesterday cause she bought my mom a washer for the new apartment and shes been completely awesome when it came to finding the perfect place for us AND fred. =D yay!! she even took me to the apartment to make sure that i liked it and that i was happy with it.. so.. YAY TITA MARIA! THANK YOU!! =)
2) im grateful for carrie cause she sent me that picture of lance. hahahaha. i swear. its HYPNOTIZING!! as carrie would say.. *GOOD GOSHNESS!*
3) im grateful for target and their cute christmas cards!! i swear.. i was searching and searching for the perfect christmas cards and VO'LIA..they were there!
4) im grateful for book buyback.. yes... it completey JIPS you cause you can spend $50 on a book and you get only $10 back.. but hey.. its $10 for christmas gifts or gas!!
5) im grateful that FINALS ARE OVER!!! DONE WITH!!! FINISHED!!! soooo... wheres the party again!?!?!

so.. the "tree" isnt as bad anymore. my mom added some garlands and decorations and now it just looks like a barren tree with very strong green lights. =) yay! anyhoo.. while my mom was doing that.. i was off studying... =) thats pretty much all i can do since finals are this week! CRAP! I even missed the COSCA christmas party! =( sorry guys!! I really wanted to go and see the family but UGH.. school.
ok.. i just wanted to say HI to all for now and i'll update later once hell week is over. =)
1) im grateful the "tree" isnt as ugly as before.
2) im grateful for my computer or else i would have to write out all those crappy study guides.
3) im grateful for the holiday season.. yay christmas and yay break from school!

ok... whoever came up with the whole concept of ICE SKATING should be crucified. so yesterday, i went to the foothill DCM at the pasadena skating center. it was my VERY FIRST TIME on ice skates and it was awful.. just plain awful. like... who came up with the concept of putting metal rods on your shoes and going on ICE. isnt walking on ice easier?? i understand the concept on putting wheels on your feel hence the SKATES.. but ICE SKATES?!?! hellooo?? i swear.. it must have been some really bored MOUNTAIN PEOPLE who came up with such an idea. but at least i didnt fall on my ass. yay!! i just kinda looked like a DORK clinging to the sides of the wall screaming for help with my frizzy hair (damn that cold weather). and it didnt really help much with carrie threatening about not being about to get home and telling me that lance is on the other side of the rink and i in all my dorky ice glory must go get him, or beth suddenly becoming the ice coach from HELL... (she got evil.. AHAHAHAHA) or lan coming up next to me as i pitifully waddled on ice and SCREAMING at me.. i dunno.. never again... unless LANCE really really was there.. or i was getting a good amount of money to get on the ice... but yeah.. what an experience.

my mom just got home with our christmas tree. well. its not exactly a TREE. its more of a modern interpretation of a tree. its green lights in an upward spiral.. ok. so i was dissapointed. it doesnt have that christmasy pine smell or i can't get all pissed cause theres dried pine needles on the ground... but... ITS NOT A REAL CHRISTMAS TREE!! *sigh*... but i understand where she is coming from though... it was $2 cheaper than a real tree... and we can reuse it. *UGH* great. i have that green spiral for LIFE. yay... maybe i can pass that electric monstrocity to my grandchildren so they can say "what the hell!??!lets get a real tree!! why does she hate us so?" hehehe.. actually.. its not too bad. =)

lesson of the day.. stay away from INTERNET PYRAMID SCHEMES!!!

and heres the LIST!
1) im grateful cause we ARE moving so we get to KEEP fred!! =D yay!!!! soooooooo happy!!! can't wait.. he needs a bath first but its do-able!
2) im grateful that i was able to say i went skating (somewhat) and i really dont have to do it ever again cause i can say that ive done it already and i know what HELL it is.
3) im grateful for free parking at old town pasadena.. cause afterwards when we went to the ice rink.. we had to pay $7 for parking!!! get this... $7 parking for the first 16 hours?!?! like i was planning to stay there for 16 hours!! insane!!

yesterday started off good... i went to work.. got there in time.. YAY... had some apple cider.. had my last meeting for the semester... =) happy cause joe came and visited and then we went to go get some boba. it was good to spend some time with joe considering that he's just too damn popular... =P got back to school and went to class. then i came home.. got a very ICKY PHONE CALL.. and then i was pretty much STRESSED and UPSET from 6-8. But luckily chrissy and carrie were able to make me feel better. =) THANKS GUYS!!! *muah*

well.. it looks like im going to be moving again.. so if anyone would like to come and help.. CALL ME! =) actually... i dont know if its happening FOR SURE yet.... but i would like it to happen. the new apartment is in pomona (heheheh.. its kinda across the street from KG!) and it has a bigger kichen, bigger living room... but i'd have a smaller bedroom. but you know what.. its all bueno cause then we get to keep fred with us.. and REALLY REALLY miss him.. so yay for FRED! but if it does happen... we would be moving during christmas and new years and im going to have to dissemble my desk and bed and go through that whole moving hassle again. but at least we get fred, its a bit closer to school.. (a very small bit but its better than living in chino!), and cheaper. so... come on over and lets have a MOVE PARTY!! *cross fingers* that it all works out. =)

yay.. next week is finals!! and then WHOOO!! BREAK! cant wait.. gotta love the cal state 6 week vacation. sorry CPP... hehehe.. damn those quarter systems. so i guess i can count that as one of my grateful things for the day...

hmmmm... ok.. so for the rest....
2) im grateful my mom... i know i always am grateful for her..but she works soo hard for my sister and i... i dunno how she does it sometimes. she really is my hero... and shes way too hip!! (she loves lance too!)
3) im grateful for those computer labs at school... =) Plus there are some cute guys who work in the lab... *ahem* prince charming.

hehehe.. today... i discovered that sexy voice guy is like the FLIPINO LANCE!! hahaha.. ok.. so this is how the whole story begins. last week in class, tina and i were just being ourselves when i overheard this chick talk about the NSYNC concert. so then of course.. i had to turn around and talk to her about it.. and then SEXY VOICE GUY (this dude in our class who has this really really deep voice... he's cool and friendly) started doing the ITS GONNA BE ME DANCE.. and well. everyone was laughing cause he was good. =D ok.. so then after class, tina and i finally got to know sexy voice guy's name cause we were all waiting for the elevator. its patrick. OK.. so then off we went on our seperate ways. so then today.. i got to school early.. (FOR ONCE) and i was waiting for the elevator when sexy voice guy comes and so i tell him to watch the billboard awards cause NSYNC was going to be hosting... and then hes telling me how he knows the dance cold cause of how he was auditioning for this filipino wannabe boyband thingie.. and so.. since he has a low sexy voice...tina and i now call him the SEXY VOICE GUY A.K.A. THE FILIPINO LANCE. yes.. i know it probably would be easier if we call him patrick... but isnt the other name much more interesting??

ok.. cant write too long.. need to go study and this is my BREAK. =) yay. i hear its best to study in 20 min intervals while taking 5 min breaks. so im writing like LIGHTNING! =) so lets just go straight into my grateful things:
1) im grateful for all those leave that are on the ground at school along that titan walk.. its sooo cool to walk through them. reminds me of when i was a kid and would pile them up and jump into them.. but would get hurt cause the piles weren't high enough and underneath was concrete... but still.. its absolutely beautiful. if we can't have snow in southern california... falling leaves will do.
2) im greatful for staplers and safety pins... my pants felt like they were falling off today.. so i had to pin and staple them or else i would have put on a REAL show in my music class.
3) im grateful that i haven't gotten sick yet..KNOCK ON WOOD!!! but if i were to get sick sometime this week or next week.. EEK!! more stress i DONT need..and how irritating is it when you are taking a test and you have those darn sniffles!!!

wowie.. very tired. lloooong and busy weekend.
breakdown-
Friday:i watched the teletubbies make tubby custard while sitting for ONE HOUR at the hospital while waiting to take some tests. good gracious.. they must have said the phraise TUBBY CUSTARD over a thousand times!! and it was the ONLY thing they said! when i got home.. my mom thought it would be funny if she stood behind the door and scare me to death. HA. after that.. i cleaned. =) yay... very proud cause i got creative with my photographs and made use of the ribbons and paperclips that i had.

Saturday: convention meeting (its going to be GOOD!! get your flapper costumes ready!), christmas shopped (yay.. but still have a lot more to do. eek there was sooo many people at the mall.. i was in line just for ONE gift for my sister..GRACIOUS!), manny cooked dinner (suprisingly it was good... makes carrie and i wonder if he actually cooked it... or was it pic?? or did they just buy it and stuck it in a pot and pretended to serve it to us... hmmmm... do i smell a CONSPIRACY!?!), baked brownies at mannys (but there was no measuring cup cause mannys mom is bionic) , went to ucla, went to bellflower to pick up my car, went to 24 hour walmart had some applepie and french fries with carrie (as well as got to play with the toys and look at some weird bunny slippers), watched NSYNC tapes (grrrrr.. dear santa. ive been a very good girl. all i want for christmas is LANCE!!).. went to sleep. 4am.

Sunday: 7am woke up (actually.. woke up at 7:15... but the alarm went off at 7), went to school, almost died in car with bryan cause hes a maniac (he doesnt seem to realize that when you get to the curves while climbing a mountain.. you have to SLOW DOWN), picked mistletoe (tackled one bushel all by myself with the saw!), carrie and stepenie were poking me with branched while saying IM NOT TOUCHING YOU (just evil), came back to school (alive... once again.. bryan's driving), ate at taco bell, and then went to target. ok.. then MADNESS ensued. we had our mistletoe packing and UGH... yeah.. it was very stressing. especially when i had my advisor on my case and my boards case about EVERYTHING. it was pretty harsh. i mean.. theres only so much that we can do. i personally think we had things organized... but once we started getting barked at... it went psycho. *ugh*.. nooooo. no.. i wont get into this or else im going to be pounding hard on my keys and im going to be frustrated again... so then we finished the packaging and it was cool cause then all the other CKIers just all sat around and reminisced about old cheesy 80's movies afterwards, had to go pick up my mom at huntington beach but by then i was DEAD tired and my mom insisted that she drive back.

ok... so yeah.. that was my weekend.. i think it all began last night... but yeah.. im STRESSED. last night took a lot out of me... and next week is going to drain even more. great. get ready... im going to be looking my absolute CRAPPIEST until the 15th.

well.. in all this *UGH*-ness... i think its best i come up with my grateful list so that i be a bit more cheerful. actually.. im not as ICKY as i was before. after class.. i went to get some strawberry boba and when i got home... started to put up the christmas lights. =) yay christmas!
1) im grateful for my great friends. =) you guys are the bestest! thanks to carrie and tina for going out and buying all the baggies and helping with EVERYTHING!!! also.. thanks for my lance sticker.. =D i love him so and i know you guys pretty much GABLED to get him =) thanks to bryan and stephanie... you guys are so awesome!! =) thanks to fat for falling out of the tree to get that misletoe! thanks to kathy and kyle for helping pick and for helping when all that mad counting counfusion was happening. thanks to tina ming for coming out of the blue.. shes alive! =) thanks to laura and CSULB for helping salavage the salvage misletoe thus everyone got what they needed. thanks to justin for helping out at the tsu and not slapping me for all the extra requests we had. thanks to chrissy for all her help with the registration and all her support. what would i have done without you guys!! what would i have done without everyone who helped yesterday night??? THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!! It really means a lot.. even those who were just nice to me or told me good job.. it all means soo much. *HUGS*
2) im grateful that i didnt have to drive much this weekend.. poor baby... needs a rest too.. needs a BATH very badly as well... he's going to reach 50,000 sometime this month... good gracious!!
3) im grateful that theres only ONE week left! need a break. need a break. need a break.