=) Fun weekend.

Friday, was a bad girl and played hookey from work. Instead, Beth picked me up and we drove over to Carries... and OFF TO THE OUTLETS with a goal of spending OBSCENE AMOUNTS OF MONEY. =) (ok.. not too obscene, just semi obscene) But poor Carrie was feeling ICKY after we went to ESPRIT. =( At least she was able to get a new suit there, purse, and shoes before she fell ill. =D

You know whats weird... there's a new Cal State.... CAL STATE CHANNEL ISLANDS?? There was a sign for it on the way to Camarillo... CSUCI?? Its located in VENTURA COUNTY... the VALLEY...how can it be an ISLAND?? I dunno... its weird.... AND on the way back, Beth and I were looking for the sign again to take a picture of it but *dum dum dum* nooo sign!! ERRIE huh... My theory is that CSUCI is the new Atlantis... it comes and goes and only a lucky few see it. WIERD!!

Anyhoo.. after our shopping excursion, Carrie (feeling better after many tylenol and a lil nap) and I go over to KIWINS convention and let me say... I FEEL OLD.. OH I FEEL SO OLD!!! It was awesome being there and all, but dude... I'm old!! It was soo cute though, the SL girls, for their business attires, all wore their dress uniforms!! Anyhoo, other than feeling ANCIENT.... we SAAed for the night, which was really REALLY boring. (sitting watching the door on friday night... and sitting and watching the all on saturday night. yay. ) But after all that, all the CKIers just chilled in the lobby of the hotel and that was pretty fun.

Saturday afternoon, Carrie, Beth, Joe and I were supposed to do the salsa workshop... and CHAOS ENSUED. They discovered that we werent professional (duh) and just went crazy. Sooo.. what we did was pump up the music and let them do their own thing for that LONGEST HOUR EVER!!

In between that and SAAing for that evening, us gals went over to the CRAP-O-RAMA mall and watched BRIDGET JONES (yes again... but COLIN FIRTH IS SOOOOOOOO DREAMY!! GRRRRRR! Its even better a second time around!) And when we get back to the hotel, Nicole has a really bad headache and konks out in the lounge When I wake up its time to SAA again. (yay.) OH... NOTE TO GUYS EVERYWHERE... DO NOT EVER WEAR ACOWBOY HAT WITH ZEBRA PRINT!!! THAT IS SOOOOO A NO NO!!! After SAAing, we go back to the lobby and play BATTLE OF THE SEXES CRANIUM; Beth, Carrie, and I versus Manny, Mike, Joe, and Ryan... We lost. =( (UGH... EVERYONE WAS REALLY TIRED AND DAMN THOSE CLUB CRANIUMS!!! ) Then it was off to Denny's and back to Carries for sleep.

Sunday afternoon, woke up and met up with Joe for lunch. After we went back to Carries for more sleep. Then Beth brought me home and I cleaned.

That was pretty much my weekend. =) Not all too wicked and wild... I'm sick now. =( Carrie and Beth were pretty ill during the weekend and I guess I caught whatever from them.

grateful things
1) I've said it once, I'll say it again... I'm soooo grateful for my friends who believe in me. It all means a lot of me and I don't know where I would be without you guys. *MUAH*
2) I'm grateful for Beth, who accidently left her box of tissue here... that box is now my best friend and is constantly at my side.
3) I'm grateful for 24 hour Sudafed... although I'm not all too sure that its working since I'm still feeling crap-tacular. But maybe it IS working and if I weren't taking it, Id feel 100 time worse... OH well... its better to think happy thoughts. =)

Yesterday was one of those exciting spontaneous days. =) Started off by going to school and helping out at our recruitment table. It was fun... BUT hella intimidating. The thing with tabling and trying to pass out fliers is that we're setting ourselves up for rejection. Keri and I had this goal of finding cute guys to join the club... but 1) cute guys were sparse and 2) once we didn find some.. we didn't talk to them cause helllloooo... cute guy and fear of rejection. So we kinda slowly approched him and handed them a flier without trying to look TOO EAGER. Oh well, can't say we didn't try.

Carrie, Beth, and Mike came down to help out and afterwards went down to Fashion Island for some lunch. Since that shopping center is REALLY REALLY ritzy, Beth and I adopted the names Buffy and Muffy and talked about our make believe chateaus in France to make ourselves worthy of shopping there. Mike and Carrie probably thought we were psychospaths for chatting about "how hard it is to find good help these days"... oh well... it was fun! I completely fell in love with the puppies at the pet store (soooooooo adorable) I wanted to take one home with me, but you can't get one for $30 and the cute thing was too big to fit into my purse. Beth wanted a bunny and proceeded to walk out of the store twitching her nose like one and acting bunny-like. Once again, Carrie and Mike slowed their pace and pretended to not know us. =P

Later, on a whim, we decided to go to Balboa Island for some ice cream and just to kick it at the beach. Then we took the ferry over to Newport Beach and played skeeball. (I SWEAR ITS ADDICTING!) Got some cheesy prizes (jumping plastic frogs) as momentos of our outting.

We resisted the temptation to get tatoos (maybe next time?) and came back to CSUF cause Mike had to go back and study for his midterms (eek!). So now its Beth, Carrie, and I left. Drove over to TGIF for some din din and stopped by a cruddy Marshalls (didnt need to buy anything though cause we're going to the outlets tomorrow! whoo!). Dinner was fun and we realized the irony of EVERTHING!! =) Afterwards we went to see "Josie and the Pussycats" which Carrie didn't like but Beth and I thought was cute. I was just enthralled with the ad placements... it was really clever!

Came home and slept.

Now I'm at work and I haven't messed up any accounts so far today!!! =) YAY!! (but I still have 20 mins here... *cross fingers!*) Things are slow, so I'm here at the geekbox blogging. =)

as usual...
1) I'm grateful for good parking yesterday and today. =)
2) I'm grateful that I finally got ball in the lil hole toy thingie at the discovery store... I swear.. I was a dork there NOT being able to get it. But.. YAY! I did!
3) I'm grateful for "good times" =) *If you're happy and you know it...*

Ok. Nicole has a new favorite movie to add to "Singing in the Rain," "Indiana Jones, and the Temple of Doom", and pretty much every Mel Brooks movie out there. Bridget Jones was AWESOME!! Mr. Darcy, you have captured my heart again. *sigh*

Sunday morning, met up with Bryan and Stephanie for the Brea Kiwanis Easter Egg hunt. Yes, it was extremely early (6 am!) but hey… free krispy kremes and coffee! Kiwanis was really smart for their hunt because they used plastic eggs AND they had us litter the field with a blanket of candy. It looked like a battlescene from Braveheart. Children lined the edge of the park with this bloodthirsty need for sugar in their eyes. And suddenly they were off - with parents cheering and telling them were to get the eggs. Once the park was clean, the kids lined up to receive their chocolate bunnies. It was my duty to stamp their hands and I swear, 6 out of every 10 would viciously rub their nose or something and then give me their hand to stamp. EWWWWWW… but still, they were all adorable.

That afternoon, mom and I went to the mall because mom was on this mission to find he perfect white cardigan. Ok, so we came home with a crepe pan, crepe mix, shoes, and a beige cardigan, but the white one was discovered eventually before we left. Got home in time to find Pic and Carrie getting ready for the UCR banquet. (my sister let them in…=D) Got to chat with them a good… 30 mins or so before they left.

Carrie came back later that night and we went over to Downtown Disney to go salsa clubbing, but Joe was hungry, so we went to Rainforest instead with his friend Jen from Washington and Salamanca and pals. It was cool just hanging out in that oh so wicked jungle atmosphere. Our waitor was something though… really weird. He screamed "YOU NEED KETCHUP" at me when he saw my naked french fries…. And he gave Joe this really look for dancing like Michael Jackson in the restaurant. Oh well… Everyone was tuckered out so there was no salsa-ing. Maybe next time??

Sunday morning, was 10 minutes late for mass and severely punished. We had to park over in the boonies of the school next to St Paul's and had to stand waaaaaaay in the sardine packed front corridor of the church. We slowly inched our way up and now are standing next to the holy water fountain. Carrie (who my mom adopted for the weekend) is trying to turn off her cellie when I hear a "clang clang clang SPLASH" and a "gasp" from the folks surrounding us. Carrie's phone has been baptized and shes on the ground fishing it out. Poor thing… at least its blessed now. =) There was this cutest lil girl (probably around 2) who just went up to a lil boy her age and kissed him. It was soo cute and innocent… but I bet her family will never let her forget about it. "Remember that Easter when you started macking down with that strange boy in church?" It will be an embarrassing moment that will probably live in infamy even if she doesn’t remember.

Tita Bambot, Chelle, and Melissa came over for lunch and eventually Joe, whom is probably just using our friendship to get to my mom's cooking. Ok, just gotta say that I've been living in Pomona for 4 months now and he's been over many times, but silly Joe went over to my old place in Chino Hills….he's a dork. =) Anyhoo, back to Easter, we veged in front of the telly and basically quoted lines from movies the whole day. Suprisingly enough, we didn’t bust out with the karaoke!! =)

Later that evening went over to my dad's… but traffic was crappy and I had a midterm on Monday, so I really didn’t stay long. Got to see some of the cousins for a moment and then came home to hit the books.

Test was CAKE. =)

I am grateful for…
1) A really good Easter. I don't think I've had a EXTREMELY HAPPY EASTER for the past years. And this was just really great… it was special. =)
2) Knowing my stuff for my midterm. =) Also, for the guy who lent me a pencil…
3) For finding my car…. I totally lost it yesterday and was wandering the parking lot for 30 mins!!

Today was a beautiful day! It was bright and sunny, and everyone was oh so happy!! =) When I took my break, I seriously could smell the flowers outside. Work was laid back, my supervisor brought in her waffle iron and mixed us up a batch of strawberries and waffles!! It was delicious... I thought that when she told me that she was going to bring waffles on friday, she'd bring a box of eggos and a toster. But to actually make it from scratch!!?!? Wowie.... =)

To add to my happy day, I got off of work early (YAY) and then took baby to get a car wash (DOUBLE YAY!) It was getting pretty dirty... Carlene said that it didn't even look black anymore, more like an shady gray. But now its all clean and has that new car scent thanks to the spiffy air freshner at the car wash.

Now, I'm just waiting for Carlene to come home.. and then Mom, Carlene, and I are going to watch BRIDGET JONES!! (TRIPLE YAY!) I swear, I've been waiting for this movie to come out for the longest time. If you haven't read the book yet.. you really really should! Even guys... its hilarious.... I'd lend my own copy out, but my sister hasn't finished it yet. =( But still... gooooo read... or watch the movie..... its has Colin Firth!!

Since I probably won't be able to blog until after Easter... HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!! =) Also, instead of writing my usual grateful things.... here are lyrics to an inspiring song that I feel is appropraite for the holiday. Its from Jaci Valascuez, who is a really awesome Christian singer and its one of my favorite songs from her. =)

Flower in the Rain

You are the One; there's no one else
Who lifts me up
And gives me water from the well
But there's a hole
That seems to drain it all away
And once again I'm left in fear and doubt
When all my strength is crying out

So here I am again
Willing to be opened up and broken like a flower in the rain
Tell me what have I to do
To die and then be raised
To reach beyond the pain
Like a flower in the rain

The evil wind, it blows a storm
To rock my world
Just when I think I'm safe and warm
I'm led astray far too easily
It's always hard for me to say I'm wrong
Until I know I can't go on

Lord, You have searched me
And know when I sleep and when I rise
You're familiar with all my ways
Even the darkness will shine
Like the day
When you look into my heart

*muah*

BRIDGET JONES TOMORROW!!!

My mom gave me 3 lil words of advice on the topic of men yesterday.
“Don’t be picky.”

But that doesn’t mean I’m going to run off with the first guy who has a penis and opposable thumbs. If that were the case, I’d be off ice skating with any perverted creep.

I guess I’m just waiting for the right guy to come along… someone who can accept all my strange quirks and characteristics and say “How cute she is…. I wanna spend the rest of my life with her!” A guy who can get along with my family and friends and who won’t mind my gassy dog. Someone who’s just as sarcastic as I am, spontaneous, smart, funny, optimistic, romantic… has no horns or wandering eyes… can assemble IKEA furniture with ease… just someone who, the moment he walks into a room… life will just seem brighter. (ok.. I know you all wanna do it… so… “AWWWWWWW!)

Ok.. enough of this sap. =)

I’ve been working the window at work lately and I’m really getting the hang of it. =) My advisor is really cool and isn’t as formidable as she was during my first weeks. She’s really sweet and down to earth. The other girls I work with are super nice, but they mainly talk to each other about theater stuff… so I’m the quiet one. (Weird, I’m the “quiet one”… kinda like 8th grade all over again.) Overall, I’m enjoying it!

Yesterday, I went to my CKI meeting. This was my second meeting as a regular member and it feels weird not running it. I’ve been doing it for what… 2 years now?? So its like letting my baby go off into the world. =) So far Bryan, Lamar, Fat, and Stephanie are going a GREAT job and I’m really excited for this upcoming year. Joe, Salamanca-Salamanca, and Javier came to the meeting also, and afterwards we went over to Baja Fresh for lunch. Joe was sorely disappointed that his “Burrito Ultimo” wasn’t as ultimate as he thought, because when Mike came out with his “Dos Manos”, the “Ultimo” was put to shame. =) It was pretty hilarious. Also, Mike kept on asking how my “friend” was and I told him that my “friend” was fine. =P

They dropped my back at school where I finished my homework, and I went to class. I met up with my “friend” Carrie for dinner and boba where we chatted for a while because service was so bad and it just took a LOOONG time to actually get our check. But it was all good, she was telling be about her *ahem* Saturday night… sounded like fun Carrie! =)

My grateful list:
1) I’m grateful for the titan shuttle driver. Every morning, he’s the happiest guy and will actually STOP and WAIT for me as I flail my arms while running through the parking lot. =)
2) I’m grateful for Frankie and his homies for playing hip hop in the quad every Thursdays. I can hear the music when I have the window open at work, and if I squint, I can see folks dancing. It bring some sort of excitement in the oh so quiet box office.
3) I’m grateful for friends who believe in me.

Pet peeve of the day: Watching craft shows, and witnessing the folks in them make really UGLY things. It makes you think... "How the hell did this person get their own show!" Of course, Martha Stewart is allowed to have an ugly craft once and a while, but to have an entire show dedicated to the making of ugly crafts?? Come on now. Oooo.. and it really makes me cringe when I see them paint over perfectly fine walls or descrate them with horriffic wallpaper with FISHES or stencils on steroids!

Anyhoo... back to the happy. It was one of those BLAH days today. Went to work. Sold tickets and managed only mess up ONE account. (YAY!) Came home and went over to the ghetto walmart with my sister. Did you know that Secret has new scents for their deodorants called "OPTIMISM" and "AMBITION"?? Kinda weird, as if "POWDER SCENT" and "SHOWER FRESH" weren't good enough. OH WELL.... came back home and read. =) yay! Day complete.

Have I gushed lately on how much I love napster?? The song is "Fixing a Broken Heart" by Indecent Obsession (yeah... its an dorky name for a group.. oh well.) Theres also an newer version by Azn Dreamers (another dorky name... so they are guys, who have dreams, and can't spell Asain correctly. um.. yeah.) Just disregard the names and download the song... =) Its really REALLY pretty. I remember hearing this in high school on one of my friend's "slow jams" tape and its just awesome. =)

my GRATEFUL list. =) (as usual)
1) I'm grateful I found my cellie... I almost died today when I couldn't find it at school... but lo and behold, it was here at home in my coat pocket. =) WICKED!
2) I'm grateful for cheap slippers at Old Navy... and they're cute too! =)
3) I'm grateful its ALMOST SUMMER!! Hurry up!