ok.. I'm feeling really REALLY good... cause why you ask!?!! I'm going to be an AUNTIE!! =) YAY!!! My cousin Bombie and his wife Michelle are expecting... and its awesome cause he's always been like a big brother to me.. ( he taught me how to dance to THE JET'S CRUSH ON YOU) and I love them both so much. YAY!! CONGRATS GUYS!!

when you are in an elevator with another person whom you don't know.... should you say "bye" to them if you get off first?







p.s. I hate the mccarthy hall elevators... CREEPY!

*sigh* kinda in a weird funk today.... yesterday too. I dont know... just really tired and emotional for some reason. Yesterday, I found myself crying at the end of HOME ALONE. Decided to clean and do my laundry rather than go out shopping with my mom and sister.... I guess I just wanted some time out for myself. The weather isn't helping either.... ewww dark and gloomy outside.

I was walking out to my car today and found a snail in the middle of the sidewalk. I guess he was confused or something and came out when it was raining... and by the time it stopped raining he was 1/4 across and just kept on going. I kinda felt bad for it because pretty much now its a suicide mission since the kids next door would be coming home soon and would probably enjoy the crunching sensation of this lil snail's body underneath their shoe. So, I picked it up and placed him on the other side. YAY... consider that my good deed of the day. =D

Woah... just realized that more than month has gone by and I haven't given JR his usual shoutout. =) HIYA JR! (He's a bad ass... he's graduating this May and is going to join the REAL WORLD. Whooo.. when's the party!?!)

the list:
1) I'm grateful that I don't have board meetings at 12 anymore... SLEEP IN! =)
2) I'm happy for Carrie... =) yay!!
3) Bridget Jones this Friday!! Its been one of my favorite books for a while now... AND cutie Colin Firth is in it too! =)


OH! by the way... I have a joke!!
Where do kings put their armies??







In their sleevies!! =)







shut up... IT WAS FUNNY!

hellllloooo all! =)

Yesterday was Carlene's PCN and she was TERRIFF!! =) YAY!! I was screaming at the top of my lungs for her... the whole production was really great. =) The show was like an 80's version of Grease with the addition of crazy dwendies with an obsession for A-Team and Small Wonder following the main character around. The whole thing was just a bit long.... starting around 6:30pm and we left Long Beach around 11:30... so um.. yeah. =) but YAY!! I'm so proud of my sister!!

Afterwards, Carrie and I took Beth to the Hat for her first time, ate and chit chatted over there for a while. Then we went back to my place for a mini girls night where I kinda conked out around 3 and woke up again at 6 to find Carrie and Beth still chatting away. *Gee.. I wonder what they were talking about? HmMmmmMmM* HAHAHAHAHA...

Woke up this morning, Carrie and Beth went to their service project and I went to work... sold some tickets.... didn't screw up any accounts.. (yay!) met up with Carrie, Beth, and the whole Pomona gang for some thai food, Salamanca kept on calling and hanging up on Beth's cellie. (oOooO.. what bad asses.. =P) and Carrie managed to fabricate a relationship for me. (oh yay... ) Afterwards, we went to the glass and bead shop so Beth could make her mom a teacher necklace and ended up making a bracelet there for myself. Came back home and waited for someone to pick up someone... *ahem* =) Joe calls and we go get some boba and watch SPY KIDS...(which is a cute movie... lots of really cool gadgets!)... come back home and blog. You read.

things..
1) I'm grateful for awesome friends with great sense of humors!! =)
2) I'm grateful for my super talented sister... =) *muah*
3) I'm grateful for alarm clocks.... need to be on time!

CARRIE CHEN IS A DORK.


Dammit.. I can't change the font size!! Well.. just imagine it with like a 70pt font. =P

Yesterday was the most interesting day. It kinda makes me fear for today.. but so far its pretty good.

SO, I got to school. (With me so far?) I parked in the boonies (as usual) and had to take the shuttle to get to the main part of campus (as usual). So, here I am... sitting happily in the shuttle. (la la la la la =D) I'm sitting in the back where next to me is a space for the handicapped ramp. The shuttle is full and everyone is happy. (la la la la la =D). The seats are made of this vinyl fabric and aren't usually slippery. (that was forshadowing.) Anyhoo... drive drive driving when suddenly the driver makes a fast sharp turn, and I slip off my seat onto the ground with a high pitched yelp.



Let us have a moment of silence for Nicole has a completely new embarassing moment.



BACK TO ME ON THE GROUND.... so theres this gasp in the shuttle... and I completely bust up giggling at the whole insanity of the situation. One really nice guy picks my bookbag off of me and helps me up to my seat as everyone else is looking at me like I'm a complete psychopath. Finally, my stop. (YAY) I get off the shuttle and the driver is very apologetic about his stunt. "Its alright," I reply, "stuff like this happens to me all the time."

Off to work, were right after settling in, the fire alarm goes off around the entire campus and everyone is being evacuated. There's thousands of people just wandering the campus and I'm next to the the theater kids who are lying on the ground pretending they are victims of natural disaster. I noticed this really cute guy who was around my vicinity, but he started laughing this most unattractive heckle that I had to get away.

It was a V. busy when I got back to work and stayed v. busy during my whole shift. My supervisor was very happy with me and felt sorry about the whole shuttle-faling-on-my-butt incident that she gave me a lolipop before I went home.

Anyhoo, studied at school for a bit and then went to target. I got home in time to watch the David Copperfield magic special where afterwards I told my mom that I was quitting school so that I can be a magician's assistant. She said cool... just as long as I'm able to zap her to Hawaii at a moment's notice. *Note to self: call David Copperfield and see if he has any openings for assistants.*

So, that was my interesting day yesterday. I got to school today and WALKED. =)

the usual.. MY GRATEFUL LIST!
1) I'm grateful for Bryan and his new board. =) They are going to do a KICK ASS job this year!
2) I'm grateful for AIM... its cheaper than using the telephone, you can talk to more than one person at a time, AND away messages! =D
3) I'm grateful that there was NO ONE on the shuttle that I knew. *whew!*

Back to school. Yay. (sarcasm at its finest)

Hmmm... so Nicole, what did you do on your spring break?

Wednesday, Tina and I took Keri to Ikea for her first time AND had her try
boba also. =) Ok,, so I don't think she enjoyed the boba much... but Ikea
was fun! =) Afterwards, we met up with Marissa and had a crafty night where
we got to play with paints, burn CD's., and watch Bring It On. =D

Thursday, work. It was another dead silent day... except for the fact that
my supervisor brought in her dog "Tuppence" to the office and this poor thing
was constantly attaking my computer because she thought her squeektoy was
trapped inside. So that kept things interesting for 2 out of the 5 hours.
After work, came home and cleaned out the fridge because my mom was giving it
away to one of her friends who was moving to vegas... and taking the old
fridge out of storage. BUT when the old fridge came, we realized that my dad
didn't defrost it or anything so the thing was GREEN!! (EWWWWWW!!) The inside
was just covered with mildew and mold... (UGH!) and when they were bringing
it inside, a whole bunch of lining fell to the floor... so I was sent out to
the GHETTO walmart to get a new vacuum bag OH as well as get some dinner and
buy my mom some meatballs from price club. So my frist trip was price
club.. where I was standing behind a gang of bulk shoppers who had EVERYTHING
and a bag of chips in their carts where I only had my bag of meatballs.
(Where's the 3 is a crowd line!!) An hour later, I was off to the walmart
where once again, one vacuum bag... vs. merchandise galore with no express
checkout. ACCCKK!! Anyhoo.. I survived but ended up at McDonalds for 30
mins in the DRIVE THRU because... I dunno. I still can't figure that one
out. Well back home, my mom is scouring this domain of creepy bacteria and
things are just INSANE. I realize that I got the WRONG vacuum bag!!!
CURSES!!!

Friday, after sleeping pretty late after the fridge ordeal, I woke up at the
break of dawn to take my mom to work because she was off to Vegas for the
weekend with her homies. Got home, took the car to get its oil changed. Off
to the airport to pick up Miss Carrie... went over to 3rd street.... and
finally Key Club Convention. This was my first Key Club Convention and WOW.
A lot of activity. It was pretty cool...we just sold different key club
merchandise (who needs key club air freshner?). Felt bad because I left Fred
here at home, so came home and attempted to clean the apartment.

On Saturday, brought Fred over to Carlene's so that she can babysit him and
returned to the convention for more supply sales. YAY. 5 hours later, we
were done with that and were planning dinner. The guys wanted to go to
HOOTERS and Carrie, Beth, and I really didn't want to go and feel inadequate
during our meal, so we decided to walk the pier and have dinner down there.
V. good idea. =) We went to TEQULIA JACKS which had some really good
mexican food. =) As well as a cute waitor who was a qualified "guacologist"
and speedy service. After dinner, we walked around and made fools of
ourselves at the hat shop, beth got fondled by some drunk dude who was going
to run off with my camera, and went crazy with the picture machines. Then we
returned to the convention center to SAA. blah blah blah.. (won't write about
it because frankly, it wasn't all that interesting.) and crashed over in
Carries room. Actually... NOT CRASH more like just talk in bed about... OH
BUT OF COURSE... GUYS. It was fun... =) yeah.

Today, woke up and went over to Carlene's to pick up Fred. Did some shopping
and we had lunch over at this really good whole in the wall taco place.
Rushed home, went to walmart to get the RIGHT vacuum bag, getting ready to
clean.. and YAY mom is home. =) Cleaned a bit, and then conked out. Woke up
to find that Mulder is alive but decomposing. YAY?

Ok.. this is a lot. So rather than my greatful things, I got a poem from
Chelle via email chain letter. its cute. =)


I AM THANKFUL FOR ......

THE PARTNER WHO HOGS THE COVERS EVERY NIGHT,
BECAUSE HE/SHE IS NOT OUT WITH SOMEONE ELSE.

THE TEENAGER WHO IS NOT DOING DISHES
BUT IS WATCHING TV, BECAUSE THAT MEANS
HE/SHE IS AT HOME AND NOT ON THE STREETS.

FOR THE TAXES THAT I PAY, BECAUSE IT
MEANS THAT I, AM EMPLOYED.

FOR THE MESS TO CLEAN AFTER A PARTY,
BECAUSE IT MEANS THAT I HAVE BEEN
SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS.

FOR THE CLOTHES THAT FIT A LITTLE TOO
SNUG, BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE ENOUGH
TO EAT.

FOR MY SHADOW THAT WATCHES ME
WORK, BECAUSE IT MEANS I, AM IN
THE SUNSHINE.

FOR A LAWN THAT NEEDS MOWING,
WINDOWS THAT NEED CLEANING, AND
GUTTERS THAT NEED FIXING, BECAUSE
IT MEANS I HAVE A HOME.

FOR ALL THE COMPLAINING I HEAR ABOUT
THE GOVERNMENT, BECAUSE IT MEANS
THAT WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

FOR THE PARKING SPOT I FIND AT THE FAR
END OF THE PARKING LOT, BECAUSE IT
MEANS I AM CAPABLE OF WALKING AND
THAT I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH TRANSPORTATION.

FOR MY HUGE HEATING
BILL, BECAUSE IT
MEANS I, AM WARM.

FOR THE LADY BEHIND ME IN CHURCH
THAT SINGS OFF KEY, BECAUSE IT MEANS
THAT I CAN HEAR.

FOR THE PILE OF LAUNDRY AND IRONING,
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE CLOTHES TO WEAR.

FOR WEARINESS AND ACHING MUSCLES
AT THE END OF THE DAY, BECAUSE IT
MEANS I HAVE BEEN CAPABLE OF WORKING HARD.

FOR THE ALARM THAT GOES OF IN THE
EARLY MORNING HOURS, BECAUSE IT
MEANS THAT I AM ALIVE.

AND FINALLY.......

FOR TOO MUCH E-MAIL, BECAUSE IT
MEANS I HAVE FRIENDS WHO ARE
THINKING OF ME.