FEELING BLEH.

okok... well not really BLEH. Cause then that would be pretty depressing and well... I'm not depressed. I guess I'm just bored. Long day today and my highlights were 1) Finally reading the "EMILY OF NEW MOON" series by L.M. Montgomery and 2) Washing my car. Funny thing though is that this has been my first weekend off for a while and at first... i swore to myself that I was going to be this happy little homebody bum... and really I was. Friday... I went out to see "Lilo and Stitch" with Carlene (its a REALLY cute movie...I was crying during a lot of mushy parts... Carlene was upset that all the girl animated characters had CANKLES.) and then stayed home the rest of the day (well except to go get some more DVDs and ice cream) and I was fine with that. Today though... it was just so long... and hot... and bleeh. And I was home alone too a majority of the day... so double bleh. So you ask.. "Nicole.. you dummy.. why didn't you call anyone up to chill and kick it!" Well... I dunno.. figured everyone was busy... and like I said... it has been my first free weekend so I guess I was just savoring the whole "I don't need to do anything" atmosphere. Ok. I'm a psycho. Havent we been though this before?

Anyways... Hmmmmmm.... anything new or remotely interesting for me to blog about?

*crickets chirp*

Nevermind. ;) Maybe next time.

But on the bright side... my long awaited dinner with Keri, Tina, Marissa, Jp and Joey... that kept on getting postponed or I kept on canceling out of due to last minute family stuff is FINALLY happening tomorrow night. :) *pinky swear!* I will be there. If not.. you have permission to beat me mercilessly with a cellie. Oh. Except for JP cause he has fists of FURY. ;P

I just got back from Blockbuster getting some videos with Carlene... and apparently I'm probably the only person who has paid a LATE FEE for GLITTER. How sad... ;P

Well, I was browsing around and found this nifty site www.reasonablyclever.com and here is my self *lego* portrait...

if you don't see it, you can go HERE

Who Da Manny: OMG!
Who Da Manny: that is so u!

Hmmmm... I don't know about that. First of all.. I'm not yellow. (They had *tan* skin... but only for like the arms and legs... all the heads were yellow... and I'm kinda anal like that where I need to have everything even toned.) Nor do I have that much boob-age going on. But luckily I was able to find a pair of glasses that didn't make me look like a complete NERD. Anyhoo... so everyone go play. :) It totally amused me for a good 10 minutes...

And so... today it happened. Brandi finally gave me a key to the shop. At first... I was all YAY!! I GET ANOTHER SHINY KEY FOR MY KEYCHAIN... but then it hit me. I'm going to be alone at the shop more because she trusts me... and although knowing that I'm trusted, it really makes me happy... BUT... I drive myself insane when I'm at the shop all by myself, not to mention I'm incredibly lonely. Its me and the ants... and the flowers. Today, I was there... and I was scaring myself to death. I kept on imagining some crazy kidnapper coming and getting me... and since I'm the only one there, no one would hear my screams of terror. I kept on thinking that someone was behind me or sneaking into the office... And in my mind, I kept on seeing those MISSING signs at Walmart when you walk in and thinking.. OH MY GOSH.. THAT MIGHT BE ME. Yes... its very lonely at work... and Nicole is very crazy.

How tragic... the plant that I bought a month ago is dying. I must soak it in water to make up for the love that I haven't been giving it lately.

And so my summer of work and complete nerd-dom has offically started. Actually, all my summers are usually pretty nerdy. I stay at home and I get into my books. Rereading my favorite ones and rewatching movies that were made from books... you gotta love A&E. The past few days, I've been living in this imaginary world of kindred spirits and love... :) I just bought the ANNE OF GREEN GABLES movies at Walmart so I've this super exicted nerd who knows every line and drools over the way Gilbert says "I'm sORry". *sigh* Carlene (althought she probably won't admit it) and I used to watch this movie ALL THE LIVE LONG DAY when we were younger...and back in the day when VHS videos were expensive... I would just borrow it from the San Dimas library and watch it. Well, that was until I got fed up of returning it... so then I learned how to connect the 2 VCRS and copy the movies... unfortunantly, the picture on MY bootleg copy was so bad... it would go from EXTREME brightness to EXTREME darkness... but oh wells.. I have my very own copy now!! *YAY*

Did I mention that Jonathan Crombie as Gilbert is absolutely ADORABLE!!?!? I swear... I've loved him since I was 10 years old...

So I'm in this very happy lovey dovey mood. :) I swear... the movies and books always make me HAPPY not to mention feeling incredibly girly. :) There are so many parts that just make my heart flutter and teary-eyed... its so special... Even if I'm in the next room and I'm not watching it but can hear it... I know whats going on onscreen and I'll get emotional. :) Silly nerdy me. Its my summer goal to get all the books again because I believe my dad threw all my whole ANNE series away a while back. Sad huh...

I predict that I'll be obsessed with Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE next week. :) THAT ONE I copied off of the TV when they first showed it... its so ghetto it still has commerical breaks.

I think the funniest part of crushes is that exact moment when you realize that you do like someone... it can be a look and just a "woah... i LIKE him" or the feeling of nerves and girlish giddyness knowing that he's going to be somewhere... or my ultimate favorite moment is when you absolutely lose it and break down at the Cerritos mall as your friends wonder what the hell has happen to cool and calm you. :) That moment could be absolute terror... but looking back at them... it makes me laugh. And kinda dread the next crush that may come my way....

Wow. LONG and tiring weekend. Mostly work. At night... played with friends and family. But yeah... it was mostly work.

Friday: Irvine Hilton. Spent the morning in the HOT and HUMID tent at the site. Oh my gosh... I seriously thought I was going to die it was so icky inside that thing. Had a pole crash down on my head. But the room looked absolutely beautiful. Really... Twinkle lights can make anything pretty. Afterwards, rushed home (not really RUSH due to ANNOYING traffic on the 91. I'm getting used to the 91... so when I see that the fastrak fee is over $3... then I know I'm screwed.), cleaned up and then went to Downtown Disney for dinner. Oh interesthing stuff....

Saturday: Met up at the shop for finishing touches on the flowers for the Ontario wedding... then drove over to Ontario Doubletree to set up. :) Spent 3 hours on my knees (don't go thinking your pervy thoughts Melissa!) tieing sashes to 220 chair covers. Luckily the ballroom had airconditioning so I really didn't mind. Actually, this wedding suprised me because when I was preparing the flowers... I thought that the bride was a bit psycho for her colors (pink, purple, fusha, and burgandy)... but in the end, it all came out really really well. Interesting. Anyways, afterwards, came home, cleaned up and drove over to Melissa's... and then over to Lisa's. :) I swear, I miss those girls so much... we should have camped out at Tams.... Anyways, I got to tell her my BIG news about an old "friend" of hers...and she told us her BIG news about an old "friend" of ours. (OH MY GOD!) We kidnapped Lisa and brought her over to Pico Rivera for Tita Choling's birthday party. I swear, those two... you'd think after how many years of attending these Concepcion functions.. they'd be used to everything by now. ;) The plates AND crazy drunkard Tito Romy speaking in tongue. ;) Brought Lisa back home and went to Blockbusters to rent Mariah Carey's "GLITTER" just for shits and giggles...

nicole: *smirking* soooo.. how many people have rented this movie?
blockbuster dude: Um... not really a lot. It's been out since January!
nicole: Oh my gosh... so if it doesn't come back... its not like you're going to miss it huh?
blockbuster dude: not really.
melissa: Is it free? At least you're not paying us to rent it.

came home and Carrie came over... and sadly enough... REALLY SADLY ENOUGH... We liked it. OH. AND WE ALL started to cry in the end. :( (I can't believe the end. I felt like I was cheated emotionally... WHHHHYYY!! *um... I hope I didn't ruin anything for you if you really wanted to watch it.*) Honestly, Mariah Carey wasn't SOOOO bad... Denise Richards is BAD. Mariah wasn't oscar worthy... but shes no Denise Richards. OH MY GOSH. DID I JUST SAY I WATCHED "GLITTER" AND LIKED IT? ;P No really.. I was pretty ok. Its better than CORKY ROMANO thats for sure. Yeah... so everyone must hold hands and support Mariah... ;) Get the "GLITTER" soundtrack! Drove Melissa back home and stayed up till like 6am just chatting with Carrie.. *boys of course... amongsts other things... ;)*

And so now I am blogging. ;) Today... I'll probably go to Holy Name for mass... but I'm not sure about my dinner plans for tonight because I think I need to spend some QT here at home mom and Carlene... but we'll see. I hate cancelling things at the last minute... *sigh*

So while I was out to dinner earlier tonight... I got a call from my mom who was having a shit fest because my bathroom shower drain was clogged. She proceeded to yell at me because it was of my carelessness about my hair that had caused it to be clogged. SHES CRAZY I TELL YOU. She wouldn't let me get a word in edgewise to let me explain that I had known about the clog, had been fighting it as much as I could with a wire hanger, and how I was waiting for it to drain entirely so that I can try out some of the remedys that I had found online. (a mixture of hotwater, vinegar, and baking soda) nor would she let me forget the fact that it was because of my irresponsibility that had cause the entire world to end. SO on the way home I stopped at Walmart to find a quickie-fix its. (oh and let me add got picked up by scary 40ish man who offered to show me his "pipe" EWWWW) I purchased one hair removing tool, a generic draino, a funnel, and a PEOPLE magazine (50 hottest Bachelor's edition. ;)) When I got home... I tried the hair tool.. and what do you know... it doesnt work because there isn't any hair. :P Fortunantly, the generic draino does it job within 30 minutes and I am a happy little wanna-be plumber. (not to mention immensely relieved. In her angry rant, she told me that it was my duty to call a plumber and to pay for the $100 hour that he would charge.) On the other hand, I'm sure that when I come face to face with her tomorrow... she'll still be pissy and will find another reason to yell at me. My guess it will be because ever since the dawn of time my room has been messy and why in tarnations can't I just be an obedient girl and clean. "You are a young lady... please present yourself and your room like one of a young lady's." OH wait... no thats my DAD's million dollar speech...

Perhaps I am the one who is amiss with everything at home. I really am the irresponsible one. There is a reason for her to yell at me... But I guess it just irks me that I've heard it so much and as much as I say I've changed... maybe in actuality, I really haven't. Man... thats sad.

Theory of the day: David Blaine sold his soul to the devil so that he can freak people out with his "magic." The things he does just isn't natural. I'm telling you... its the work of the DARK SIDE. *DUM DUM DUUUMMM*

Hmmm.. anyhoo... life is pretty non-eventful. Mostly work and staying indoors cause of my vain fear of getting "dark" from the sun. (This is something my Nanang has instilled in me. When I was little, she would always scream "YOU'LL GET DARK!" at me whenever I went outside to play or swim... and now as I look back AND see the pictures of dark little me wearing NEON colors, I regret not wearing that stronger SPF sunscreeen or listening to her in the first place.) I've read pretty much everything on my bookshelf, everyone's blogs (PEOPLE... UPDATE MORE FREQUENTLY PLEASE!) and been browsings MATCH.com and realized that LAVALIFE.com makes being single and desperate look way more oh so trendy.

Work is good. :) I'm playing with flowers more which is pretty exciting. Thursday is gonna be the DAY though cause it will be my first time with FRESH flowers... AND I get to make bouquets with them. OOoOOOOOOOOOo... but this week has been extremely busy due to the fact that there's 3 weddings this weekend.. 2 of which are big and need a lot of flowers. SO my oh so neat and spiffy werehouse is now a jungle. Ahhhhhh. oh wells. ;)

My rooms smells really good due to these great candels that Angel and Jen gave me. ;) Its all vanilla-y... mmMMmmmm

Wow... today I was going through the files at work and found out that the wedding I'll be decorating on Friday will be for a girl that I went to St. Lucy's with.

And it made me think...

I wonder if she met her husband-to-be on MATCH.COM?

;)

Oh weirdness.

I was going through MATCH.COM... (not because I'm single and looking or anything... Jean had me check out some of these guys there... REALLY!) and I actually found a guy that I knew. Or had known. Whatevers.. it was a familiar face.

And it makes you think....

I wonder if he's had any luck with it?

I baked "banana bread" today. I put that in "quotations" because thats what it was supposed to be.

I swear, Blue Mountain's OOH BABY I LOVE YOUR WAY has been stalking me. Weirdness on the radio...

Well...lookie here... its Fathers' Day.. so HAPPY FATHERS DAY! Yep.

Its been an interesting and fun weekend. :) Friday, Luc FINALLY graduated from good ole Cal Poly Pomona. So I went to the ceremony with lucky wok and spoon in hand. (it was a spoon when I arrived.... but after being beaten mercilessly against the wok by certain overzealous gentlemen *ahem Petey and Joe* the spoon soon was reduced to a wooden STICK.) When they finally said Luc's name, Joanne, Petey, Joe and myself screamed bloodymurder and left our side of the audience with ringing ears. ;p It was GREAT! The school was PACKED with friends and families and everyone was having the hardest time finding each other.. thank God for Cell phones huh. Afterwards, went over to Salamanca's for a mini drunken celebratory get-together. Yeah... it was interesting... yep. Thats all I have to say about that. ;)

Yesterday, spent my whole day over in Ontario for June Board. It was LOOONG... but it was fun and we managed to get a lot of stuff done. :) For the oddest reason, flies kept on swarming around in our meeting room and so it became a mission for everyone to start swapping pads and papers against the wall and table in order to kill kill kill. OH! I also found out that a LOT of us girls are TRADING SPACES groupies and think Ty Pennington is the HOTTEST carpenter that ever sawed. ;) Dinner afterwards was a LOT of fun... our table was going pretty crazy with our talks on rainbows and such. ;) Later on, Pic, Helen, Reina, Tracy, and myself went to IKEA because 1) it was TAX FREE day 2) it was open till MIDNIGHT! 3) I had to get some picture frames for Carlene 4) IKEA! Hello... all around cheap cute home furnishings! We all got to see Pic in action because he started flattering the checkout girl and made her blush... and then later before leaving, he left a paper rose that he had made with a papertowel next to her. SLLIIICCCCKKK!! All happy and Ikea-ed out... we went over to Anaheim and went clubbing. :D (ahhh... the perks of being a non-voting member) HAHA! We were in awe (well not really AWE but more of a WOAH) of the girls going BUCK WILD up on the DJ booth and very much dissapointed when it was the guy's turn up on it. ;P But that was definitely a LOT of fun... especially after we got off the stage and found the part on the dance floor right underneath the air-conditioning. And "shycrazy" Helen just suprised us all. :) *GOOD TIMES*

Drove the kiddies back to their prospective hotels and dorms, came home and was sooooo freaking TIRED. But I had to wait up for Joe... and he finally came and made Carlene and myself watch his promo videos from Barkada... I'm sure they were very nice... but I was just really sleepy so I don't think I was paying attention much. :) Sorry Joe.

Woke up bright and early and drove back to Ontario for the LONGEST BOARD MEETING! OH wells, its all good. I'm really happy cause now I have some money for CKI south and also talking to Don Hull about getting Kiwanis to provide us lunch... so that will be cutting some cost! YAY!! :) Came home and napped... and now just waiting to go over to the Convelasant hospital to go visit Nanang and dad. More to come later? Well see...

Wow... long day.. but it was good one. ;) Went to work in the morning... rushed home... cleaned up the guest room and bathroom... got ready... and rushed to the grocery to buy some flowers for Jen-Jen... stayed there for 30 minutes because apparently Ayala had their graduation as well today and everyone and their mother was getting balloons... rushed over to Tito Nanding's to meet up with Carlene and John's Jen... and we speeded away to the Bonita for the graduation. ;) Carlene and I had this maliciious intention to try to humiliate her by being obnoxious cousins... but I think that we weren't TOO bad. ;) We had brought POTS, PANS, and GIANTS SPOONS to the ceremony. YEP. THE CHEAPEST AND ROWDIEST NOISEMAKER EVER!! When she walked by us at the processional... I think that the audience around us knew that it was OVER because we proceeded to scream and bang our pots and pans... when we did... one homie behind us in the stands pointed and laughed and said. "OH MY GOSH!! THEY BROUGHT THEIR KITCHEN!" Tita Jane was hiding behind her program as we were doing it... and Tita Lagring kept on laughing... so I'm assuming that everyone enjoyed it. ;) BUT sad thing is we made some really FANTASTIC signs like "JEN JEN IS MY COUSIN!" or "JEN JEN IS SMRT!" and "JEN JEN RAWKS" ... but the school had this NO SIGN.. NO BANNERS.. NO FUN rule.. so we had to put them in the dumpster next to the entrance. (but we did go back and dig them out afterwards.) We even had an excuse just incase they were going to confiscate our pots and pans... we were ready to tell them that Jen was about to embark on this fabulous journey to culinary school. ;)

Anyways, so there was my not-so-little cousin graduating. I FELT OLD. But I was incredibly happy for her. She's going to be awesome in whatever she does in the future. Well more pots were banged as Jen went up and gave the class "Farewell Speech" and then banged once again and ever so ferociously as she went to get her diploma. :) WHen it was all done... unlike last year when we bombarded JR with his hula skirt and coconut shell bra... we just handed her the pots and pans... and made her pose with them in all her pictures with the family. Not to mention a lot of screaming and jumpiing around like maniacs.

So... 3 hours in the sun and no water makes Nicole a very crazy and thirsty girl. But since we were going to have dinner... Carlene, John's Jen and I decided that it would be better if we didn't stroll into the restaurnt with giant slurpees... so we quietly suck on our own saliva and go slightly insane. We seriously started drooling when we passed a waterbed shop.

John's Jen: We should go inside.
Nicole: And what... start sucking on a matress?
John's Jen: Yeah... but say that we want to listen to the ocean inside.

Well... we made it to the restaurant alive... ;) At least we finally got our waters... in fact the waitress just handed us a pitcher cause we just kept on downing glass after glass like a herd of crazed camels. The rest of the family came and we had a lot of fun just eating and talking and making fun of JR.

JR: Eww.. That stuff is NASTY!
Nicole: So is that a GOOD NASTY or a BAD NASTY? Knowing you... its " I LIKE it NASTY like that!"

*pshaw... OLIVE GARDEN MY ASS!* Bombie and Michelle came and brough baby Alicia who is just tooo freaking adorable. ;) She can grab cheerios in her hand.. but gets frustrated cause she can't figure out the process of ungrasping to let it go just yet. TOO CUTE! Dinner was pretty good... Jen re-delivered her speech for those who weren't able to make it to the ceremony... and according to her and my fortune cookie.. "I WILL RECIEVE A COMPLIMENT FROM A STRANGER ON FRIDAY IN BED." Carlene's fortune told her to promote literacy by buying more fortune cookies.

Yeah... so it was a good night. ;) Drove to Chino Hills and got some dessert with Carlene over at Starbucks and chit chatted about boys... ;) and then came home to find Tito Manoy, Tita Connie, Butch, AJ and Amabel down for the weekend visiting. :) YAY MORE FAMILY! Well not the entire weekend... them and Carlene and mom are gonna go to Vegas.. while I stay home and go to JUNE BOARD. ;) YAY! It should be fun!

ok. :) I'm bored.. so welcome to the random crap of the moment thats going on in Nicole's mind...

I need to meet some new guys. I guess you can say I'm coming out of my shell *relationships wise* and I'm going to put myself to the test. No more waiting around for me... I'm going to take some initiative.

Uh huh.

No really I am. ;)

Hmmmmm... ok so myself and couple of gal-pals are gonna go clubbing next weekend and we're gonna try to meet some new guys. OK. No offense to the ones I already know and love cause they're my homies and all *daps* I just wanna try some new things. Its just that we can't be all wicked and wild with them much cause they aren't AS wicked and wild as we'd like them to be. Plus I already know them... Its just weird trying to be all "cutesy and flirty with intentions" to guys you already know...You know what I mean? Also we see them on what... at least a weekly basis and so trying to pull off some stunt in which we try to pick up on them would be too weird. I don't want to hear "oh remember the time when Nicole picked up on me" cause things like that really embarass me. In 6th grade.. the whole class found out i had a huge crush on Paul Sheilds. At girl scout camp... they used chant "Pauly Wog" to me all the time... and the thought of my embarassment always makes me blush. *stop laughing Keri*

But I'm happy to say that I got some fun advice from WhoDaPimp Manny... :) Lines that are MANNY-APPROVED. ;)

Ok. I think I've been watching too much SEX and the CITY. I'm have this freaky sense of woman empowerment coming over me.

You like? *winky wink*

WHAT AM I SAYING?

Wow. Was that a somewhat boring game or what? Hmmm... or maybe its just me. I was WAY more excited when the Lakers won the Western Conference last week. The Kings really gave them a fight. Anyways, I was listening to it for the first 3 quarters on my computer courtesy of Lakers.com BUT the really cool part was that one of their listening language options was tagalog! Well the announcer wasn't speaking in tagalog throughout the whole game... he'd make a majority of his comments with his fobby english accent ("Go SHOCK-KEEL!" or "BanHorn shooooots!") and every so often he'd scream in tagalog. (MALIT! wrong) I guess it was the emotional tagalog commentary. That was my game highlight. :)

Been going crazy over here with nails, wire, clips and pictures. :) Still in the process of decorating my walls so at least they won't seem too "pink" (if thats possible.) Last night I was up on my bed pounding nails into the wall with toy blocks because I couldn't for the life of me find the hammer in the garage. I gave up. Luckily I found a cute $3 hammer at Walmart that works better than the alphabet blocks today. Oh my gosh... this Walmart that they had built in Chino is HUBANGEOUS!! It seriously the motherload Walmart... its all shiny and brand new... and OVERWHELMINGLY HUGE! Its all pretty exciting. ;)

:) After going with Carlene to IKEA and deciding that I should get some frames to properly preserve and display my kodaks... I sorted through my recent CKI pictures and decided to scan some of the ones where 1) people look nice and won't be angry at me for putting it up 2) people look somewhat silly and oh wells... they did it in public there shouldn't be anything wrong with me putting it up and 3) it just brings back the warm fuzzies. :) So ENJOY!

:) Just got home from "family birthday dinner" with my parents over at Benihannas... Carlene and Mom are pretty "happy" because of the sake... I stayed away from it. The fear of hell on earth will keep me from drinking for a while. Anyways, dinner was good. I felt like I was in a tv taping for IRON CHEF. Our chef was doing some wicked things with the knife and onion! I could totally see my mom's mind churning on how she probably can incorporate all those smooth moves with the grill here for the next Orogo Family Clambake. :) Anyways, I started to freak everytime I would hear the tamborine of the "birthday crew" of waitresses because I really don't like birthday "fanfare". But by the end of dinner... lo and behold there were those freaking tamborines. Carlene and Mom were gone by the time so they were singing pretty loud and when they got lyrics to the japanese version of IF YOURE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT... it was OVER. I should have our oh so happy family picture up here soon. ;) Aren't you excited??

And just like last year, I celebrated June 9th with my head facing down into a toliet. :P Let's hope this doesn't become a ritual. The room stopped spinning like 2 hours ago. bleh.

Anyways, my birthday was a lot of fun. Although I had to drive to downtown LA in the afternoon for work and then drive back with horrible traffic, the evening came and everything got better. ;)

My intention was to have a get-together, just have some of the people who I love in my life, to come over and hang out... and thats it. But I guess you would say that it kinda turned into a party? I dunno... it was interesting. From ZOOLANDER, to Darren's Dance Grooves to a LOT of Mikie's special shots.... WOW. I think I was getting a kick of watching everyone interact with each other. Did I mention that I just love my cousins? HAHAHAHA... my little cousin Jen was going all buck wild dancing in the living room and I think everyone might think Angel is this "lost child" cause she was walking around the house asking people for cigarettes. Actually, everyone was being pretty crazy...Mikie and Melissa had a very memorable body-roll-off. The guys were acting "gay" as usual... which prompted Angel to turn to me and ask if they were seriously gay. HAHAHAAH... Since I didn't have any candles... Beth make me blow one candle out 7 times... I think she would have kept on going.. 22 times might have made me pass out. :) yeah.. I'm just grateful that I remember everything cause it really was all priceless. It was awesome.

Big big thanks to EVERYONE for a greeeaat birthday! :) *MUAH MUAH MUAH*

Great googlily mooglily oogiliy boogiliy!! I'm 22!! In 3 years... I'll be able to rent a car without the extra "i dont trust this young person driving a rental car fee" and when I'm 35... I COULD... well if I wanted to... run for Presidency of the United States. Nah. But its an option... ;)

Ever since the dawn of time with this computer, there has always been complaints about my keyboard and mouse because they are extremely annoying. If people came over and used the computer.... I would always hear excessive pounding on the keyboard or like when Carlene would use it... she would SLAM the mouse cause it would be lame and retarded. But now.. ITS ALL OVER. ;) Carlene didn't get me a puppy like I had wanted for my birthday... but she got me a brand new mouse and keyboard. OH MY GOODNESS!! its CORDLESS! The keyboard is super duper quiet... it feels like I'm typing on a cloud! OooooOoO.. and the mouse... I don't have to slam on it to have my way with it and it has one of those scroll wheelie thingies. :) OoOOOOoo... how exciting huh.

OH!! Anyone who wants to see the JOE PHOTO MONTAGE... come on over tomorrow around 7ish. ;P Free admission.

One thing I've noticed about bloggers is that authors definitely write for an audience... and the audience does not want to be known. On occasion, you'll get one or 2 people (ok.. maybe 3 of your friends) who say straight out "I read your blogger" or they totally steal your thunder when you're telling a story about a recent happening and they interrupt you by saying "Oh yeah... I read that in your blogger." But generally, people don't want it to be known that they read your stuff. How do I know this... well.. I do it myself. I really hate those IMchaos thingie cause its like a DEAD give-away that you're a stalker. Yeah... sure for the person who has it.. its all fun and dandy. You feel like you're the most popular girl in school and everyone wants to know the "real" you. And well for the reader who gets caught... its like "DAMMIT! Now they know that I'm curious and somewhat care about their life!" OH and its really bad when you have a crush on someone who has it cause you just wanna see that MAYBE... just maybe he or she will slip and say something that you WANT to read and interpret for your own personal pleasure.. so you check it every hour.. on the hour... and when you get caught its like you might as well just go up to the person in real life and scream "I LOVE YOU!" (um... this really doesn't pertain to me... really. THATS all over and done with. Ha?) I guess its just weird. I write this... I publish this... and still I'm suprised that people read this. You know what I'm getting at? Yes? No? Not really? Say something!!

Woah... it was a semi-nightmareish day at work. Let me explain...

Apparently, on Tuesday night, one of the water pipes exploded, hence flooding the entirely office and warehouse. So today, it was a LOT of cleaning up and reorganizing... not to mention prepareing for a wedding on Saturday. The warehouse is already somewhat small... and with all the extra stuff from the office drying off in there... rolling the already pained 50 yards of fabric in an even more cramped space wasn't pretty. *shudder* I guess that was the worse of it though. Once we arranged it so that there was a bit more room, it wasn't so bad. The LOUD air blowers were like heavy duty LOUD airconditiong and hey... I can spool ribbon like no tomorrow. ;)

Actually, when I first got to work, there were 2 men waiting outside the office. Being the naive romantic that I am, I seriously thought they were a gay couple who wanted twinkle lights and drapery for their ceremony. But in reality, they were there to clean up the water mess. My bad.

And I guess me sleeping at 4am wasn't the brightest of ideas since a certain so and so kept me up till the break of dawn chit chatting away. ;P

Anyhoo... I developed a new crush. ;) Move over Conan... I just recently found Wil Wheaton's website and he's so gosh darn cute, quirky,*sigh* and pretty damn hilarious. Funny thing, since I don't watch STAR TREK... I don't know what he's talking about most of the time... but I think I do... sorta. But his writing is so charming and dorky and *sigh* he's adorable.

:) im having this happy high... please please don't ruin it...

I just got home from having dinner with Jr for his birthday... :) I love my cousins... (gosh.. I'm just about loving EVERYONE huh... ;) YAY!) We went over to Buca and seriously got stuffed. JR was breathing hard as usual after a big meal... (back in the days of family meals, Jr and Tita Lagring would have these eat-offs to see how many times they can go visit a buffet. Sure Tita Lagring can easily out eat JR... but JR would always try to make at least 7 visits... ahhhh.. memories..) It was funny cause he brought his new girlfriend of the month... and I'm sorry.. she was a ditz. She got in a fight with Jen because she thought veal was deer and how she didn't want to eat Bambi... hahahaha... it was very interesting.

Afterwards, went over to Tito Nanding's place for coffee and to watch BRIDGET JONES DIARY... ;) Angel was there and she had this brain-teaser toy thingie... like it was wood and string and you have to get the hoop out of the whole thing (it looks like a giant cat toy). Apparently she got it as a challange from a friend and so to proove how smart she is.. she gave it to us so that we can figure it out and she can take the credit. (she IS the smartest girl in the family... ;)) Anyways, first it went to Carlene who threated to kill Angel if it really was a cat toy... she gave up after 10 minutes... then it went to John.... he had it for like 30 minutes but no luck... then it went to Jen... still... nothing. Then it got to me... and what do you know.. :) I GOT IT!! :D Ok.. I'm not saying I'm a genius or anything... but yeah. (ooooooO.. she's getting cocky!) So I had to teach Angel how to do it again and how to put it all together so that she can wow her friends in the morning... Oh my gosh.. I just love them so much. :) Angel and Jennifer can always make me laugh. Actually Angel and Carlene are the same... the're both the younger sisters and they're both pretty bossy to the older sisters and Jen and myself are the older sisters who take it. Its amazing how creative those 2 girls are... I think there really is some sort of creative gene in the Concepcion DNA cause its just really amazing how we are all this way.

Anyways, I'm just happy that I had this great night with my cousins. :) And its not going to end.. its going to be the WEEK of COUSIN LOVE... :) They're gonna come over on Saturday... and Thursday is Jen's graduation.. so more family! YAY FAMILY! :)

Theres bunch of kids outside racing on their bikes. There's one kid on his bike, but its not like a normal bike. Its one of those tiny bikes. like the ones clowns use. He's peddling and peddling but isn't going very fast and in fact, he's in last place. But he's beaming and yelling like he's the champion.

That totally made me smile just now.

:/ I had a icky night... but my friends made it better for me. I really don't like to vent my problems much... but there a few who do get the whole "extent" of my frustrations... so thank you very much for listening. And thanks to people who just made my night for the silly chitchats... :) and I just LOVE my dear sister Carlene who had one line to get me out of my funk.

carlene is nice: YOURE MESSING WITH THE WRONG CONCEPCION!

I love her sooo much. Actually I'm loving all my friends... I don't know what I would do without them. Probably go into this sad sad sad funk where I would just read sad romance novels and eat lots of ice cream....

KitCheNsync222: do you feel any better?
spaznik: bleeeh... but not AS crappy as before.
KitCheNsync222: YAY!
KitCheNsync222: did you find ice cream? :-)
spaznik: :-) yes.. there was a little bit of rocky road left.
KitCheNsync222: ohhh, yummy...marshmallows, almonds, and chocolate, oh my!
KitCheNsync222: :-)
spaznik: yeeeep... its like the perfect ice cream.
KitCheNsync222: *drool*
KitCheNsync222: i think i'm gonna get ice cream tomorrow.
KitCheNsync222: ahhaahha.
spaznik: hahahahaha... ice cream makes everyone happy...
spaznik: id marry ice cream if it were a real person...
spaznik: but thats just too weird.

Anyways, Melissa is back... :) YAAAAY!! I'll put the Madonna CD in the car and let's go crusing! *GOOD TIMES*
*on another girl from SL getting married...*
Babae112: what?!
Babae112: OMG
Babae112: i feel so fucking behind!
spaznik: hahah.. yeah... NO SHIT
Babae112: shit man
Babae112: imma have to get a mail order husband!
spaznik: maybe we can find a 2 for 1 deal..
Babae112: yeah no shit
Babae112: or some hot twins
Babae112: ooohhhh
spaznik: where is this? www.mailorderhusbandsforthedesperatesinglechick.com?
Babae112: oh shit
Babae112: u didn't
spaznik: hahahah. I DID.
Babae112: ew
Babae112: it didn't display
spaznik: it was a JOKE dork

So although my night started crappy.. It got way better. :) Yep...

*note* woah... notice how both quotes had some sort of reference to marriage?? EEEK. I'm not even going to remark on that cause 1) it may look as if I'm desperate 2) it may make me feel desperate 3) I'm ALL woman.. I don't need a MAN... but it would be nice... ewwwww... lets stop right there.

Wow... was that a good game or what?? I was on the verge of puking during overtime because I was so stressed out... Carlene and I were yelling at the top of our lungs and waving our arms and legs for just about everything... but hey at least the Lakers won. :) YAY!! I have to admit though that the Kings gave them a good fight. Poor Bibby... Carlene kept on screaming "WHAT THE FUCK!! There's no "I" in TEAM!!" for him. Also in the end... when NBC was interviewing Bibby... asking him how he felt now that he had just lost, etc... and he's answering.. and then here comes Kobe into the interview. Carlene then screamed for Bibby "First you STOLE my series... now you STEAL my INTERVIEW?!?!:" Crazy... It was funny cause it was the 3 of us watching it... but Mom has this habit of thinking that the Lakers are going to lose all the time. She's a total fan... but she's always convinced that they are going to loose. When I started watching the game during the second quarter... I asked her what the score was. She simply said that the Laker's were losing. When I asked by how much... she said "By One Point." I don't think she understands the concept of "catching up." Anyways, so she went upstairs at halftime cause she "couldn't take it anymore" but every so often up until the end of the game... Carlene and I would hear her scream obscentites and yell every so often. It was like there was a high pitched ghost in the house who was rooting for the Lakers. ;)

Afterwards, Carlene and I went over to TGIF's to go celebrate Chelle's graduation with Tracy, Dielle, Jill, and Joe G at the good ole HAPPY HOUR! ;) *good times* hahahahahha... I think I've said it before.. but i'll just say it again... but Carlene is pretty much the only one who can properly embarass me. Usually, if people start picking on me *in that joking sense* my smart-ass instinct comes out and I can easily turn tables or still walk away without feeling too silly... but Carlene can just get to me. I guess in the same way, I can do it too with her... its one of the *perks* of being sisters. I won't say what she did cause its just silly and probably a lot of you have already heard it already... but I think that if i were to put it down somewhere... she would use it as more ammunition. hahahahahahah... oh my. Anyways, back to TGIF... it was fun... ;)

Psst.. Joe's a psycho... and I should mention that Carlene loves to make fun of him as well.. ;)

EclipseJMR: wathca doin
Auto response from spaznik: KIDNAPPED!
EclipseJMR: you were
EclipseJMR: OH NO!!!!!!!!!!
EclipseJMR: someone call the police
EclipseJMR: Nicole's been kidnapped by the bear from the san diego zoo
EclipseJMR: that damn bear
EclipseJMR: why can't they just put a club on it's fence
EclipseJMR: that way it won't get out .. the only way is if it had a saw just likeon the info-mercials
EclipseJMR: but bears can't use saws so they can't escape
EclipseJMR: NICOLE>>>>hang on
EclipseJMR: if you can hear me
EclipseJMR: don't let the bear eat you
EclipseJMR: i'm gonna eat that bear
EclipseJMR: there i go again
EclipseJMR: by eating the bear it's like eating you
EclipseJMR: and i'll be convicted of eating a person...ewww
EclipseJMR: just hnag on
EclipseJMR: i'm calling emergency
EclipseJMR: 191
EclipseJMR: no
EclipseJMR: 119
EclipseJMR: that's sound right
EclipseJMR: (5 minutes later)
EclipseJMR: ok..they're on their way to save you
EclipseJMR: when you IM me back..i know they saved you since you're back at home
EclipseJMR: ok..i'll let them do their job'
spaznik: YOU FUCKING LOSER.... its me CARLENE YOUR PHOTO MONTAGE LOVER~!
EclipseJMR: hahah
EclipseJMR: whattup
spaznik: DONT BE LEAVING 26 MESSAGES!
spaznik: GET A BLOGSPOT!
EclipseJMR: why should i leave 27
spaznik: oh wait... you have one!
EclipseJMR: i have one
EclipseJMR: hahah
spaznik: go write about your bear over on your blogger then

:) Thanks Joe for caring... But I'm perfectly fine. Silly silly Joe...

Just got home from Joe's PCN.. :) It was AWESOME!! :) Joe had like a total of 5 lines that he delivered PERFECTLY! All the girlies were drooling over his lines... ;) He also was very good at his dance... HOT DAMN! OoOOo.. and DEVOTION was there!!! :) hahahaha.. actually, they were pretty kick ass... nice acoustic thing going on... their last song was this harsh bitter "bitch.. you broke my heart" kind of song... but it was still nice. :) Afterwards, Carrie and I were hanging outside the stage door just so that we can try to get a picture with them... but we were too shy to go up to them. At least we got to breathe the same air as them. *sigh* Actually, it was pretty hilarious cause we were sitting next to a bunch of crazy students and parents who had smart ass comments for just about everything... it was GREAT! When there was a fight scene... this one guy kept on screaming "USE THE FORCE" and now I know that everyone in the audience was a huge Laker fan because "GO LAKERS" was yelled at different times during the play as well. There was also this one Filipino empowerment scene where everyon in the audience was yelling MABUHAY!! :) Pretty dope.

Later on, went to BJs to get some dinner... and the whole PCN cast was there also. (AND DEVOTION!! OooOOOO.. we were eating in the same building as DEVOTION!!) Joe was flying around from table to table mingling and being his sociable self... where Carrie and I sat and ate... and pondered about relationships and men. *as always* ;) The main question was "if boys say that they join CKI for the girls... and if like all girls are like us and are wanting a relationship of some sort... why aren't there more hookups?" Joe said that its because we don't interclub as much anymore... I can see that as being true. Actually, Joe gave us TERRIFFIC advice on guys... and we shall see if it will work when we all go to Florida in August. HAHAHAHAAH. OoooO.. YEAH. ;)

*Joe is trying to wipe off his stage makeup at the restaurant.. he looks like hes crying.."
Waitress: Oh MY GOSH!! Are you ok??
Joe; Yeah.. I'm fine... I'm just taking off my make up.
*silence*
Joe: Noooo.. its not what you think
*silence*
Joe: I was in this show... they put it on me...
Waitress: Oh.. ok...
Nicole: He's a drag queen. He just finished his performance.
Waitress: OHHHHHHHH.
Joe: NOOOOOOOO!!

:) I'm all red and sunburnt from the sun.. but oh wells. :)

Today, pretty much spent the day down in Long Beach... because 1) Emily was graduating (walking but really graduating is graduating) and 2) it was Laura's birthday. So I drove down there early so that I can make some confetti at Lauras. :) We went ABSOLUTELY crazy with the confetti... we FILLED a shopping paperbag with it. We went over to CSULB and found Emily and mad leied her... ;) Later on as she was walking with all the other graduates... we were going CRAZY throwing confetti into the air. The thing is that the wind was going against us.. and while we lightly sprinkled the graduates... we were covered with all that damn confetti. Confetti on my clothes... confetti in my hair... confetti in my BRA... confetti in my shoe.. confetti sticking on my skin... it wasn't very pleasant. hahaha.. but it was damn fun. We actually emptied our bag.. and when the graduates were in their seats... we did the ghetto thing and picked it up again... HEY! Its RECYCLING!!

The ceremony was nice... LONG.. but nice. It was hot and sunny... and not a lot of shade. :/ We didn't see Steven Speilburg... he graduated at 9am... we were there at 1. Afterwards they marched out again.. (MORE CONFETTI!) and we met up with Emily's family. We finally met her boyfriend, Larry, who's adorable. ;) Took lots and lots of pictures... and then went to the reception for some food.

Well I mentioned that it was Laura's birthday... so Vivian, Melody, and I took her out to dinner over at this Mexican restaurant in front ot Live Bait... it was so hilarious... we were planning that for whoever would graduate next... instead of giving candy or flower leis... we'd make FOOD leis. You know... put in some soda... maybe a can of corn beef... spam... a lunchable... etc... since the ceremonies are so long and the graduate would get hungry eventually. That idea actually branched into more inventive ideas that involved George Formen grills, a tent, and opening a club called "CLUB WILDERNESS:".. but its just something you should have been there to get. ;)

Later on.. it was time. We needed to watch the Laker game... so we drove over to Yankee Doodle and watched it there... WOW. KICK ASS GAME. The whole place was going crazy... YEEP. :P LAKERS BABEEEEE!!

Went back to Laura's place where her roomies already had a party going.. and chilled there where Emily and Larry met us up. HAHAHA... it wasn't your usual girl interrogating... it was more of us girls asking him if he had any friends.

Laura: Soooo... Larry you got any friends I can meet?
Nicole: Yeah... anyone who would be interested in a frisky gemini?
Larry: Hmmmm... actually I do... but they're like married already.
Vivian: Do you have any nerdy friends? I like nerdy guys?
Larry: Well... I have single friends... but...
Vivian: ... there's a reason why they are single?
Larry: Yeah. I was looking for a nice way to say it.
Vivian: that was a nice way.. I said it with a smile.

Laura: Soooooo.. Larry how about these friends of yours?
Nicole: Why don't you have a mixer or something... you invite your single friends and we'll come over...
Laura: HAHA. Yeah right... like we're going to sit down in a circle with name tags and Larry is going to explain to us the first ice breaker.

Gosh... we're sounding pretty desperate arent we? HAHAH.. nah.. its more like jealous cause Emily is glowing and we just want a bit of that glow on our own faces. (and it doesn't mean you're sunburnt.) But we're happy for her.. :)

Anyways... I still have confetti in my clothes and its itching like crazy. I'm gonna go take care of that.