Still feeling icky. :( Actually, I'm trying to get better so that I can get even more sick at FTC... cause you know, its gonna be cold and possibly snowing and I'll probably get all hyper and happy that I'm out in the "wilderness" that I'll spend my time outdoors making snowangles (if there is snow) or just chilling with the bears at midnight.

:) the installation went really well considering all the last minute panicking due to the rain... but I think everyone had fun... :)

Hmmm, that day (er yester-yesterday) I had a wedding over in Palos Verdes at the really quaint La Vetra Inn. It was up on the hill and overlooked the ocean... perfect for the outdoor ceremony that was planned... unfortunantly the rain kinda ruined that view... but still everything came out beautiful, despite the hectic and rushed air that was in the air as everyone was setting up. It seriously felt like everything was going wrong... I had arrived an hour late due to the traffic, rain, AND the one girl whom I was supposed to carpool with didn't show up at the shop, we only had 2 hours to set up due to the fact that the hotel has an event before our function, and the candels in the centerpieces were getting too hot for our freshflowers and the beautiful lilies were getting singed. But luckily we finished with 10 minutes to spare... unfortunantly, outside the room, guests were already assembled so we had to go out the back door with our supplies, and carry them all to the otherside of the parking lot... IN THE RAIN. It seriously was the worse working conditions EVER!! But you know what, the wedding came out to be one of my absolute favorite ones so far because the setting was so intimate and everything was just beautiful. I also had my usual dreamy "romantic" moment where I just had to go "awwww... it doesn't matter if it rains... to this couple they have the world within each other!" Really... I did. But then I had to stop and decorate the cake table.

*leaving the site*
Nicole: Awww, I kinda wanted to see the brides...
Noelle: Brides?? Like 2 couples getting married?
Nicole: Noo.. more like one couple.. a lesbian couple
Noelle: OooOOo.. thats soooo cute!!
Doug: Maybe one day, you'll find your very own bride.

Anyways, once I got off, I rushed (in a cautious manner) over to Janelle (THANK YOU SO MUCH!! :) *MUAH*) for our Installation banquet. :) I swear... I LOVE MY CLUB... we're a small group but I think we all manage to do great things and have fun when we are all together. We had a little program for the new members (stickpeople slideshow, the "ceremony", etc) and then afterwards had a mini "dance" and karaoke. :) It felt like those high school parties when someone's parents were out of town and so you invited whoever to come on over and kick it... with a DJ. ;) Karaoke was OH so cheesy with Kristen's "Bringing it Home" singing, Mikie, Ryan, and Petey's very interesting rendition of "Nandito Ako", a disturbing "Copacabana" from Armando, we can't forget the giant group sing-a-long of "That's What Friends Are For" Hopefully everyone had fun... I know I did... even though Mikie TOOK Elvis... but then Steph got him back and I stopped crying. YAY!! Afterwards, Petey and Carrie and I had a little sumber party here *tee-hee* But great big THANK YOU's to everyone who came... :) You're the greatest and you completely and utterly ROCK.

Today, (er, yesterday) because of the working in the rain I woke to find my throat sore and my nose runny... yeep! Nicole is getting sick... but on a happy note, while I was walmart this afternoon getting some medicine, I got a call from my boss saying that didn't need me for the event today. :) So I stayed at Walmart a bit longer with Carrie and then we went to Mc Donalds to get HELLO KITTY HAPPY MEALS!! :) Yes... it IS the little things in life that make me happy... friends, family, sunshine, lollipops, flowers, puppies, jumping into puddles with sensible shoes on, good music, and hello kitty....

GWEN DIDN'T GET A ROSE!! Oh my goodness.. you know how heartbroken I was for her when he picked Brooke over her... Really. I was on the verge of tears because I thuoght that they were absolutely perfect for each other... *sigh* I dunno if I can watch "THE BACHELOR" anymore... oh wait.. I can. ;)

This week has been pretty busy with reading, school, work, and a LOT CKI due to the fact that our new member installation banquet is tonight. :) (ooOoOoOOOoooo... so if you wanna come... CALL ME!! Its gonna be a lot of fun... dinner, a program, and a dance!) This week was packed with general meetings, online board meetings, and real-life board meetings... but I think everything will be great tonight. :)

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE ROCKS MY WORLD!!

Just wondering... why did Olive Oyle always choose Popeye over Brutus/Bluto? I'm not defending Brutus/Bluto because he NEVER could understand the concept of "no means no" with Olive... and really that relationship right there would be worthy to be on Dr. Phil... But Olive Oyle was such a tease... I mean she'd lure both guys to her and the flirt with Brutus... and the he gets frisky and she freaks out... and the freakshow Popeye (whos ALWAYS hiding a stash of spinach in his shirt... whats up with that? Why spinach? Why not a granola bar? Its less bulky. Is spinach like Popeye's CRACK?) comes to the rescue. Popeye's body was all dispportioned, he was a smoker, rarely smiled, was incoherant a majority of the time, and he has this really errie cackle. I imagine that he would grind his teeth while sleeping... that would be annoying. Wouldn't you think that if Brutus/Bluto got cleaned up and took some "gentlemen" classes... he'd be worthy enough to take home to the parents?

And I think the overwhelming consensus right now is that Nicole really needs to get out the house more often... no?

*on the gay club*
Kathy: Its like waving a carrot infront of a ravenous rabbit...
Nicole: its actually more like waving a PLASTIC carrot... no bites... its only good to look at.

Kathy: So I took the lollipop out of my mouth and I gave it to him.. and he put it in his mouth.
Nicole: OH MY GOSH!! Thats so romantic!! Did you guys go out to a spaghetti dinner afterwards and did he roll a meatball onto your plate with his nose???

Nicole: You should ask him if he wears a shirt underneath his fireman's uniform... like yellow pants, suspenders, and a barechest??
Kathy: Whats with you and these ghetto-ass questions??

By the way... Kathy is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much more cuter than I am.... AND she has bigger boobs. :) For reals!!

OH! My mom wanted to go return the *smut* DVD today... but then I reminded her that she probably would have to fill out forms and if theres anything more embarassing than buying a DVD called "the puppetry of penis"... its returning it. She agreed and decided that its gonna be a keeper in our library of DVDs. (BTW... it really isn't porn. They actually had a featurette of this show on HBO's REAL SEX... and it was found in the COMEDY section of DVDs as opposed to the covered ADULT/PORNO section... so she really isn't THAT freaky.)

Masquerade was fun!!

The night started when I went to Steph's to meet up with Joe, Son, Anthony, Kristen, Janelle, and Ryan... and I swear... EVERYONE was just looking soooo gorgeous and cute!! :) It seriously was adorable because it felt like high school again with the "couples" taking pictures... we were about to take some girl group shots... guy group shots... and then everyone on the stairs shots... :) Anyways, around 7:45, we were OFF to San Diego!

In my car, we were jamming to my oh so WICKED mix of old school booty "gold digging girls" and old school ghetto "endo smoke" cds, as well as talking to Mikie on the cellie and trying to figure out WHERE on the 5 he was in correlation to us... we finally arrived (as predicted) at 9pm in SD. The orginial plan was to go to Cheesecake Factory for dinner, but the wait was too long. So instead, we walked across the way to the Crocodile Cafe where there wasn't a wait time. I dunno if the food was exactly "great" (don't ask Joe what he thought of it) but hey, we all had fun.

I sorta got lost on my way to the boat... but luckily we all finally got to the dock and the *porn name sounded boat* THE LORD HORNBLOWER. (Kristen and Anthony thought that the Boat was the giant ASS Carnival cruise ship right next to it... but nooope.) :) It was so great! I know I see a lot of my friends on an common basis... but I was SERIOUSLY really happy to see everyone that night. I don't know why... maybe it was just the thrill of being with them in a place aside from here. I was suprised to see Carrie there since I was convinced that she wasn't gonna come... but YAAAY! And Robert was there complete with his "ICE!" (next time you need to spell out SCANDALOUS) ;) After a wait out on the dock and several confusions as to where the line to board the boat was, we finally got on the boat (where I immediently took off my cute but "oh so painful" shoes and we were off!!

The boat circled the harbor while everyone was dancing the night away for a good cause. On the top floor, there was Karaoke... Some peak performances I got to witness were: Petey and Robert rapped "baby got back" while Kristen and I chanted "L.A. face with an Oakland Booty" (which I learned was the backround for that song last time we did go to Elvis!?), Ryan and Petey did "Gin and Juice", Carrie and Alice did Britney Spears "Crazy", Mondo sang "Born to be Wild" and saved himself by having screaming "come on everyone!" and having the floor sing along with him... Mikie entertained with his rendition of Frank Sinatra's "I Got You Under My Skin"... and as an "prep"... Kristen kicked ass singing "Last Dance" and I got to play with the "Shoop Shoop Song." ;)

Downstairs, after all the karaoke madness, we all stuck on the dancefloor (given that that the DJ played a good song). OK... number one thing I've noticed lately is that the moment Britney Spear's "I'm A Slave For You" comes on... girls will GO BUCK WILD. I think its the beat... but put on a normal song on and girls will dance normally... but once you hear that beat... its OVER and this "inner stripping sexpot" is released. And I think guys know this because they pretty much stay on the dance floor and watch us go insane. :) Oh wells.. its a GOOD song. ;)

At 3am, the boat docked and the dance was over.. or so we thought. :) We got off the boat and crossed the street for a mini after-party over at Mikie's car. *gheeetttoooo* But the cops came and people started to disburst. It was time to go home... so I followed Carrie, Steph follwed me and we went to a nearby Jack In the Box to get some "energy" food... got on the road... and an hour later... we were home. (cause I'm good like that. ;)) My passengers in my car were sleeping 20 minutes into the ride, so I kept myself awake by SINGING AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS to oldies. ;) Dropped off the kids at Stephs and drove home... were I pretty much contemplated if I should just sleep in my car on the driveway.. but I mustered up the energy to get inside the house and into my bed.

~*~ and thus completes my Masquerade ball experience~*~ GREAT JOB JEAN and UCSD CKI!!

This afternoon, was awaken by Carlene... washed cars... and went to Frys where my mom was extremely embarassed for buying a "smutt* DVD (aka the Puppetry of Penis) but still got it anyhow for her upcoming Christmas party with her gal-pals. Oh my.... Melissa came over and we watched Amelie and munched on leftover Halloween candy. :) *good "chill* times...

Its November 2. Do you know what today is?? Happy All Saints Day!! :) Now everyone needs to go dress up like their favorite Saint and sing "When the Saints Go Marching In." That's what you did in the Second grade at Holy Name.... :) Ahhhh.. memories...

Today was a really good day despite only having about 3 1/2 hours of sleep the night before... We had the last day of our "Bake Sale" week at school... and Anthony and I manned the table for it today. :) By 11, we were practically begging people just to TAKE the brownies and cookies cause we were pretty much tired and just wanted to leave already. But, its all good.. we made $$$ and now we have transportation to FTC! :) WHoohooo!! Sure beats walking... ha ha ha?

So I had made reservations at the Getty for the LA Enkanto concert at 7:30pm... I needed to be there by 7pm... I left around 5pm thinking "hey! I can get there by 6pm and check out the Dorothea Lange exhibit before the concert! Good deal!" But nooooope... I did leave around 5pm, but the traffic on the 60 was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad that an hour into my "drive" I still hadn't passed the 605 yet. (I seriously was freaking out and screaming out my frustrations at the top of my lungs... I really wasn't a pretty sight.) Luckily Carlene arrived at the museum first and when I finally met up with her and Joe at 7:15pm... she had checked in and had my sticker for me. :) The concert was really chill and laid back... but it definitely had its moments with some really thought provoking pieces. :) I think that's the best way to describe it... I really liked it. :)

Afterwards, we were sooo hungry, so we drove down to Santa Monica where according to the preacher-guy on 3rd St... We're gonna go to hell. Oh my.... well at least we'll all be together. :) Had a late dinner and walked around the area... Decided that Joe can probably pull off a burlap sack if it truly were "trendy", checked out the street performers who seriously were ALL on "30 Seconds to Fame", Carlene dug through EVERY bin to find the perfect "homies" over at Puzzle Zoo... and later decided that it was more fun to try to get them in the vending machine (???)... and I got 2 new books at Borders as well as had an interesting discussion with the clerk on the new Christina Aguliera cd.
Borders lady store closing announcment: "Its 11:54. What are you still doing here?"

Tomorrow, (er Today...) its MASQUERADE and I recieved oh so happy news on my voicemail earlier tonight... I HAVE THE DAY OFF!! :) You know what that means... sweet glorious sleeping I get to catch up on! :) *big obnoxious YAAAY*

Nicole's Halloween Blog

Halloween started off like a normal day. Went to work, where I rolled a LOT of fabric and painted a bunch of centerpieces (and my foot) brown... You know... same old same old. :) The offical "Halloween" part came when I got dressed in my costume (I got the cute french maid costume.. complete with a feather duster! ;)) It was getting dark and I realized that we didn't have enough candy for all the neighborhood kids, so went to K-mart where last minute Halloween candy was only $1.49 and crazy adults were filling their carts to the brim with it.

Anyways, came home, gave out some candy to the early trick or treaters, and then leave to go to Stephanies for some CKI trick or treating. :) Its been a while since I've gushed my love for my club.. so I'll do it now. I just love my club... :) They're too cute... Everyone (excpet Son) got dressed up and the vibe was great and everyone was having fun... :) We got a lot of canned food donations, clothes, AND even got cash from some houses!! *pst* it was my group of Anthony, Jennilee, and Stephanie that had really good luck with the houses.. ;) Some of the houses were really sweet and gave us candy too! ;)

After trick or treating, Janelle and myself jammed over to Diamond Bar to meet up with Janelle's sister Janine... and then off to Pasadena to pick up Eileen... and then it was OFF TO WEST HOLLYWOOD!! :) Or so we thought... Sunset Blvd was a b*tch. It seriously took us 2 hours to get from LA to La Cienega Blvd... and when we finally got there, it was just too crowded and finding parking was nearly impossible. But all was not lost... we got to scope out the local scenary and pleathora of totally ingeneous costumes roaming the streets. :) Well, after figuring out that there was NO way in tarnation that we were gonna get to the carnival, we decided to back to the Hollywood to go clubbing. We arrived at the Hollywood Ahtletic Club for "Tigerheat" at 1am after an addition hour in Sunset Traffic... :D Woah... TIGERHEAT? YEEEP!! I got to go to a GAY CLUB!! hahahahahahah.... it seriously was SOOOO MUCH FUN!! And at the same time.. oh so very frustrating because every guy there was just gorgeous (not to mention half naked) and well... they were all gay. Sadness... but other than the whole "gay... I'm not gonna find anyone there" factor... it was such an experience. The club itself reminded me a lot of that one club Motions in Florida... you know *if you were there* with the giant TV and videos playing and all... A gay club on halloween.. Wow. :) SO i was surrounded by tons of drag queens (good portion dressed up like Christina Aguliera because it was a promotion night for her new CD) and like I mentioned before half naked/bared chested guys... guys dressed up like extremly SEXY sailors, priests, boy scouts, firemen, cowboys, indians.... yeah.. there was a LOT of skin. (no sexy Indiana Jones costumes... but then again... its a Gay club) Janelle and I were having "oh my gosh can I touch you" fascinations.... OH!! A guy said that I was beautiful....but i thought it was a girl dressed up as a guy... so i was kinda freaked.. but Janine said it really was a guy. He was gay though... but it was still nice. :) Anyways, yeah definitely an experience....