ok... for every crap day... theres like a hundred days of sheer bliss that make the crap day seem like it didn't exist at all. :) Today was definitely one of those days...

I got up early... and went to work. Today was a GREAT day at work because I got to actually make arrangements. :) YAAAY!! Its was pretty exciting sticking the flowers in the foam and making sure it looked just "perfect." OOoooo... I was a giddy little worker today.

Came home, took a shower, watched some TRADING SPACES, and got ready for Tina's bday dinner. :) I left... then came home because i forgot my camera. Left again... then came back home again because I forgot Tina's gift. Left once again.. but came back again because I forgot the book that Keri wanted to borrow. Finally leave and finally get to the restaurant.

I had sooo much fun! :) Got to see all of the old "table"... Keri, Tina, Mariss, Joey and JP... and then some (May.. *YAY* Jackson... *EH*). JP and Joey were drinking buddy-o-buddies as usual...JP was screaming our names outloud whenever we made a smartass comment and Joey was happily showing off his "easy eye" when really.. we just wanted to see his dialiatng nipples ;P Brett came and brought a couple of his roomies.. who were some pretty interesting characters. Jazz introduced himself to me like so:
Jazz: Hi... whats your name?
Nicole: Hi.. i'm Nicole...
Jazz: my name is James... I got no game... so I'll just stare at you. *stares*
... Andy... Andrew... UGh. forgot his name.. this guy who laughed by snorting his nose... THAT GUY... well he was a bit esscentric and well... kinda scared me. Screamed a lot and flailed his arms way too many times. ;P Brett was as cute as ever (hahah) and Sid got a "soft porn" pic with all the girlies cause... i dunno. it just happened.

In the end... i don't know if poor Tina was drunk or just really really tired. :) But I think we all had fun... us girls got to catch up a bit on each others lives and well... making smart ass gay comments about Joey and JP. :) There was a group of older ladies next to our table who were having a birthday dinner too... and when they got their bday pizookie... Brett yelled.. GO LAKERS. :) When it was Tina's turn... one of those little old ladies yelled GO LAKERS back. ;) *good times*

:P CRAP-TACULAR DAY!

ok... I lie.. it wasn't ALL to bad... but UGH.

So my car has been acting up AGAIN. Like everytime I START it or its in PARK or when I'm driving and I hit the breaks... it would do this horrible demonic jump... like it wants to throwup something. Thats it exactly... its like its gagging. So I admit... when it first happened, I just disregarded it... but it kept on getting worse and worse... and so it was like GAGGING ALL THE FREAKING TIME! So I decided today to go to the VW shop so that they can fix it.

I hate going to the dealer.. especially the one in Covina cause in the past, the guys who worked there were assholes (i think it may have to do with the way dad was probably harassing them and giving them a hard time... but HEY!! I'm not my dad!) and other that the inital problem.. something always goes wrong. One time I went there to get a light fixed... as I was leaving my window broke. Went back there to get my light fixed again... and when i came home it was still broken. Annoying stuff like that. Unfortunantly I had a feeling that my car-neglect was going to add up in this problem and I know that the Covina dealer is pretty much the cheapest place.. so I went there.

OK. SO... the electrical thingie in the engine was malfunctioned. And now they have to replace it. :/

Feeling already bad about the whole thing... I call my dad to confer about the payment of this. Well calling dad means that you automatically get a lecture on your carelessness and how driving the car is just about the worse thing you can do in the world. OH. Not to mention bills billls bills... And well... I'm not feeling any better after this conversation.

Did I mention I got there at 1pm?

5 hours later.. its done.

I stayed there the entire time.

Mom came by afterwork thinking that she was going to take me home... but we were told that it would be done by 5... and since it was already 4.. I'd stick around and wait out that last hour. She left to go to the clinic.

It was a hour and a half.

Hmmmmm... so happy point of my day? Actually, I did have one. :) I ran into Johnny! :) Yep... I told him about dinner tomorrow and he just might drop by and visit. :) Yay fun stuff...

Anyways, the car is WAY better now... :) I can totally feel this difference... it doesnt feel like its on the verge of exploding anymore. Thats a good thing.

OH and I just loooove Kathy.. :) *in that non-lesbian way of course* She totally made me smile with her whole shoutbox story. I miss her. :) Come down and play Kathy!!

its only 7pm... the day isn't over just yet so maybe things will get better? cross your fingers!! :)

Wow.. its going to be another blog about Joe.

Never ride in the car with Joe. You will feel like your life is slowly wasting away. Seriously. He puts his car on cruise control... 67mph at first... then it was 65... and then to really piss me off.. it went down to 55.. hahahaha.. he drives like my dad... REALLY REALLY SLOW. He even went as far to turn off the radio so that we can "talk." The sign says to go 65MPH... so Joe goes 65. MY usual 20 minute drive to Riverside took about 40 minutes. Basically, the whole ride back was me being exceptionally smart-assy. : ) Screaming "TAKE ME WITH YOU" to cars going 70... remarking on the fact that at 65 he can dance like crazy but he can't drive at 80 with both hands on the wheel... telling him that the cops are going to pull him over and give him a thurmbs up for being overly cautious... etc. For me, when people go slow on the freeway and I'm behind them and people are passing me up.. I feel as if I'm missing something. I'm not saying you should speed like a demon on crack... but just GO WITH THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC. :) Thats on the freeway... when he's on surface streets.. he's a MANIC. I think I almost puked in the parking lot of Cal Poly. :P

Joe: The sign didn't say STOP. So I didn't
Nicole: You weren't looking for a stop sign.. you were looking for a MPH sign to see how fast you're allowed to go in the parking lot.

Wait.. why were we in Riverside? Well Joe, Steph and myself drove (slowly) over there to go to the UCR meeting... and then afterwards chilled at Petey's to watch the Laker game. *teardrop* It was pretty funny because we got free food from these 2 guys who were carrying a deli platter at the commons at UCR.. and I guess they saw Joe eying it and getting all drooly and puppy dog faced... so they just gave him the whole thing. Yep. Pretty bad ass. So there we were... eating free roast beef, drinking warm lemon pepsi, and watching the Lakers lose. Talk about STRESSED! At halftime... we looked at Petey's baby pictures... awww so cute! ;) We were really hoping that the Lakers would win...and so that when Petey goes to the game on Friday... they would win... and he would get to be part of the "riots" if they were to happen. But noo.. it didn't happen. *sniff* Ok.. lets not talk about this....

OK.. so now I'm offically excited for ICON. :) I have my plane ticket booked and I think I found my roomies for the whole shebang. :) YAAY! Plus we're gonna get there a few days early so that we can go to DISNEYWORLD! :Sooooo exciting. Now I just need to figure out how I can pack the George Forman grill and Brita water filter... hmmmmm...

oh my gosh... there are these damn cats ourside... and they fight like EVERY night. They sound like a couple of babies crying... but they're cats!! OH.. there's a couple of owls who are like hooting like crazy in the morning. Its pretty scary cause its not like "hoo hoo hoo" its more like "HooHohOhOhOOhOhOhOhOhHOoHooo" like they are getting it on in the tree. Ewwww.

Had an pretty emotional night tonight... I really don't know what to say... which is what I guess is a problem because I'm always searching for the right thing to say and I can't at the moment. I'm not making sense am I... . :/ Hmmmm... it should be ok... I hope so. UGH.

Ahhhh.. Memorial Day... its like the official start of SUMMER! :) Yaay summer!

:) Today, I cleaned out the spa with Michael... and then fell into it. *dont ask* Mom had the day off so she BBQed like CRAZY and so Chelle, Dielle, and Joe came over and we had a feeding frenzy and watched ZOOLANDER for like the 100th time. I love that movie... I was watching it last night with Michael... except we were watching it with Ben Stiller's comments so that made it just a bit more interesting.

Joe got a bit freaked out by Carlene cause she actually made a "JOE PHOTO MONTAGE" on the fridge since she was going through my pictures and found a lot of him. Its pretty freaking hilarious... he has his own special corner of our refridgerator. I think there are actually more pictures of him up there than of Mom, Carlene or myself. :) Carlene actually wanted to blow the whole thing up and maybe use it to cover the ENTIRE fridge.. but that might be a bit much. Sooo.. if you wanna see the famous JOE PHOTO MONTAGE.. come on over. Admission is $1. (Joe... you'll get 25% of the profits.)

Darn those sappy love songs... they totally make you sappy along with it. ;) They're pretty... they're romantic... they're pretty much the whole embodiment of what you want when you fall in love... and they make you hopeful that it will actually happen to you. Damn them all to hell. :P Not really. :) Perhaps I'm moody and emotional because I just finished re-reading one of my favorite romance novels... You know a book is good when you get that flutter in your chest at certain parts (I'm not talking about the sex parts because really once you read one.. you've read them all... its the same old stuff. Plus they arent THAT romantic...in fact they're funny... don't tell me you wouldn't laugh after reading "As we embrace, I feel his ministerial love wand rising with desire beneath his chasuble, and unable to resist, we make torrid, sanctified love on the cold cement floor." Oh please.)... but this one is just full of those chest-fluttering moments. The moments where he realizes that he LOVES her and would fight dragons for her... *sigh* I'm lame. ;P

Have you ever woken up from a dream and just get so confused because it just seemed so real? And you wish to God it was "real life" cause that dream was just sooooo great? I've been having dreams like that the past few days... I'm not going to go into detail as to what the dreams entail due to the fact that I don't want people to go.. "Oh that Nicole... she's a dreaming WHORE!" but they've been pretty terriffic and I get all sad when I wake up in the morning and discover that it all wasn't real... Yeah... some parts of it were pretty extreme (hmmm... almost falling into a giant river of orange soda and iguanas.... ewww... is there supposed to be a sign behind that!?!?) but other parts were fun and happy. I feel like Dorothy after she wakes up from her OZ dream... I turn around and I just wanna say "Woah.. I had this dream... and YOU were in it...", "Hahahah.. I can't believe what you did!", or "Damn.. you were GOOD in my dream..." ;)

Just a thought.

Take me to the zoo that's got chimpanzees
Tell me on a Sunday please...
-Andrew Llyod Webber
Wow... I went to the zoo... I got to see chimpanzees... And it is a Sunday... now I just have to be told something of semi-vital importance and the song will be complete!

My day started when Carlene came home and pounced on my bed... waking me up from this pretty crazy but happy dream. ;) Got up and got ready while her and Michael made some breakfast... and then it was off to San Diego!! *yay*

The car ride was LONG... but entertaining since Michal brought his motherload book of cds so it was a sing-a-long all throughout that hour and a half or so... "one, two, three, four... come on baby say you love me five, six, seven times... " After Stevie Wonder's I Just Called to Say I Love You (which I might say is a groovy inspiring song... I was sooo close to calling up all my friends and putting up the phone to the speakers and scream.. "I DO LOVE YOU!" but nah... that would be too weird.), as well as the entire Janet Cd... we were finally there... the San Diego Zoo! But there was one obstacle for us... parking. It seemed like everyone and their mother decided to go to the zoo that day... and well it isn't like disneyland parking.. its more like the first day at school parking where you have to babysit lanes and follow people around hoping that they are leaving... well we did all that but nothing was happening... so Mom decided to make up her own spot. She's such a rebel.

The zoo was GREAT! :) Yeah, it was crowded... but it was still fun. I think the last time we had gone to the zoo was when my cousins Paul and Kristine came to visit from the Philippines back in '84... so everything was a real treat. Hmmmmm... where do I start... well we got to see tigers... monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees... PANDAS (yay! we saw the baby panda!! sooo cute!), deer-dog thingies, elephants, gazelles, lots and lots and lots of birds (where Carlene performed her own bird mating call that went a bit like "MICHAEL... COME HERE!"), Kangaroos, GIRAFFES, gophers.... yeah.. there were a lot of animals. It was just lots and lots of fun... not to mention lots and lots of walking... but its all good.

Carlene: I don't know about the zoo man... all the animals stink.

Tired, hungry, and convinced that we smelled like the animals... we decided to drive down to old town San Diego to get some dinner. So we finally get there (thanks jean for directions!) and we settle on this Mexican restaurant... and we order drinks. Well Nicole hasn't eaten anything the entire day and silly her orders a Margarita... and well.. Nicole gets pretty tipsy. :) Heeeey.. it wasn't only me.. it was Mom too. :P Dinner was delicious, they had some live music serenading us... the day was just perfect. Since mom was slighty intoxicated... she makes Michael drive home and I knock out in the back. :) Fun stuff...

It was a crazy night... I'm definitely tired and I really should get some sleep since I get to go to the ZOO tomorrow... but hey... its my blogger. And I'm a psycho like that.

Anyways, just got back from the OCC Pajama Jam... and it was awesome. :) I had a real good time over there... it was your typical CKI banquet with a twist.. they did the whole program backwards... very a la "MOMENTO" which was pretty funny. I WENT SHOPPING!! :) Carrie and I went halfers on Mikie at the auction so I think we're probably gonna make him wash our car without his shirt and play in the water for our viewing pleasure. hahaha.. nah. Stop crying Mikie. The DJ was dope and everyone was on the dancefloor...(including an inflatable dinosaur... Petey's new gal-pal) The dance was definitely interesting... poor Joe was mad when everyone started pressuring and pushing him to dance to "Pop"... and I think Mondo was smoking some kind of crack cause... he was.. hmmm.. how do you say... "freaky". Yep. Thats it. *gasp* (it was kinda cute!) ;) Later on, we brainstormed these TERRIFFIC ideas to make Hailes the pimp at ICON. :) Cal-Nev-Halies?? Ooooh yeeeah....

Well afterwards, Mikie and Lan took your usual CKI afterparty to another level.. they got a NICE ASS hotel room at the Embassy Suites in Costa Mesa and brought along the "magic bag." Since its like 3am and I'm here blogging... you probably can come to the conclusion that I didn't stay very long cause.. well I gotta wake up early to go to the ZOO! But while I was there, it was very chill despite the harassment of hotel managers on ocassion.. I met some new people and meeting new people is always a good thing isnt it?? *duh*