I've said it once, I'll say it again... the elevators in Humanities are a deathtrap. I swear, everytime I get off of them, I fight the urge to get on my knees and kiss the floor as the door finally opens. Today, there only 3 of us in it and the whole thing just started shaking and creeking like crazy and I immediately grasped the sides waiting for the evil box to plummet to the ground, but nope.. all went well. When I got off, my fellow passengers got off as well and decided to use the stairs.

During my break today I decided to be impulsive and cut my hair. It turned out alright but I was a lil bit freaked cause the girl was being overly cautious about the whole procedure. (I guess its better to be OVERLY cautious rather than not cautious at all huh?) I dunno, she acted like it was her first time holding the scissors or something... But she was really friendly and wasn't all too pushy about having me buy products in order to maintain the perfect style... and most of all.. she didn't leave me with a horriffic bowl cut that would leave me in cowering in the dark for the next few months. It came out pretty well!! YAY!

my 3:
1) I'm grateful that Carrie FINALLY updated her blogger!!! YAY!! she sooo gets a sticker!!
2) I'm grateful that this day-quill is finally kicking in!!
3) I'm grateful that I had a good day at school.. and that the valet people didn't jack up my parking break last time where I had to hit that baby with my book... it came out alright!! =)

STC went pretty well... at least I think so. =) And to think I was stressing out over it...

It all started Friday afternoon... I met up with Carrie at SMART AND FINAL to go grocery shopping for STC.... it only took about 30 mins and afterward came home to drop the giant bags of salad in my fridge. Then we went to the ghetto WALMART to buy some candy for our workshops and some other girly stuff. We later then met up with Beth for dinner at Chilis and came back to my place to finish any last minute things we had to do. Joe and Mike came over to help/kick it... and around 2am.. Beth and I start to freak out... SOOOO we decide to take Joe and go to the 24 hour Walmart (non ghetto) were we pretty much find everything we need (including a $5 trashcan for the sodas!!) We get back around just in time for PIc to arrive and a lil nap before leaving to go to CSUF.

Wake up, take a shower, and turn into mini dictator to make sure we get to school on time. Get to school, put up signs, prepare, prepare, freak out, blow my nose, cough, consume cough drops, and sit at the table and welcome latecomers as opening session starts. 11pm rolls around and Jean and I drive over to the Pizza Hut to pick up the food (had the HARDEST time finding the place.... I swear!! I thought I was going crazy and there was no such thing as a Pizza Hut on Commonwealth... we had to call the place SEVERAL times to finally get it right. ) Steal a bunch of cheese and peppers (which no one ate.. but oh well) and then come back to school were i get to drive onto campus and pull up right next to McCarthy Hall (which is REALLY freaky... hellllooooo.. I'm driving on the sidewalk!) and everyone eats!! (YAY!!)

Clean up and shove anything thats left into the $5 trash can, which I dragged into the building with me. I had my workshop which was really fun despite not having as many people as I thought show up and learned some new games as well as taught them. I'm just really proud that I got my people in my workshop to kiss each other (hehehehe... it was AWESOME!!) because it was that ice breaker that I was afraid that no one would get into. But YAY!! It worked!!

Anyhoo, Carrie, Beth, Pic, and Manny came over after the whole thing and we all pretty much crashed. Poor Ryan came over to kick it, but everyone was so out that we didn't hear him knocking or ringing the doorbell. We finally wake up (well Pic, Beth, Manny and I) and play 10 fingers cause I dunno... we just did. We were bored??

My mom got back this morning from her ROAD RULES with her homies. One of her college frieinds bought a Winnabago and they drove off to Havasu for the weekend... None of the kids went this time and I bet they probably had more fun this time. =) When I called my mom just to check up on her, she was happily bragging that she was learning how to JET SKI. =D hehehehhe.. shes too cool.

the LIST!
1) I'm grateful for everyone who helped out this weekend... Christina for helping get the tables and telling me that driving my car on the sidewalk was ok; Jean for coming with me get the Pizza and finding the place; Beth for her last minute realization "LETS GO TO WALMART",and buying ice; Carrie and Mike for making sure I'm sane and for helping out with the signs and everyone else who just supported me... THANK YOU!! =) *muah*
2) I'm grateful that I was able to get the apartment clean before my mom got back....
3) I'm grateful for Carrie for giving me that DAY QUIL!!! YAY!!! Its working!!

*sigh* still sick. I swear.. this SUCKS!!! I took my last 24 hour sudafed around 3ish.. so I should be fine until 3 tomorrow... EEK!! my throat feels icky and I'm still hacking away, but I'm scared to drink tea cause Narleen said its going to damage my voice and all... what a pickle huh. At least I have a brand new pack of cough drops and a new book was delivered today so I'll be pretty much content for the next few days...

had the most hilarious conversation with beth on the phone while on the shuttle... normally I would complain and bitch about how i think people who talk on the shuttle cause they are sooo irritating...and I think I ranked up there. So... we are talking about HALLMARK commericals and how they make us cry. The other day, in my ad class, the gray pupon man showed us some really effective ad campaigns and one of them was HALLMARK. And there was this one commerical with the one lady in her 30s getting ready to leave work early. Her co-worker askes her why shes so eager to leave.. and she responds that her brother is finally moving out. The co-worker then talks about how he remembers moving out when he was 18.. and askes how old her brother is and she replys "29." SOOOO.. the next scene is when she goes to her brothers apartment and we learn that he is mentally retarded... and he's sooo cute and excited that she there to visit him and hes giving her a tour of his place right?? And then they sit down for dinner and she gives him a hallmark card that say.. "IM PROUD OF YOU" and then he looks back at her and says...
"I'm proud of you too!!" *AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW* I swear, In class, you can hear all the girls sniffing away.... So i'm telling Beth about this commerical in the tram and I can feel myself tearing up and THEN she tells me about this other Hallmark commerical where there is this woman who is getting mail from her mailman and they look accross the street to see this lonely lady go check her mail only to find nothing.... so the lady feels bad and sends her son over with a hallmark card. Then the son comes back with a jar of jam and he says that the old lady was really happy and she had tears in her eyes!!! *AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW* So now I'm pretty much bawling in the shuttle but luckily theres only abour 7 other folks in there. *sigh*

hmmmm.... the LIST.
1) I'm grateful for my mom for making me some clam chowder soup and making me feel better.
2) I'm grateful for my boss for not going balistic on me when I made a cashiering mistake today. OOPS! =)
3) I'm grateful everyone wanting to kick ass for me... Jr imed me the other day to see if I was alright cause he read my blogger... and Beth and Carrie always calling me making she if I'm alright... and everyone!!! AWWWWW... *muah* thank you!!! =)

Today was not the best of days... nor was it the worse.

The bad.... lets just say that I'm not too happy about stuff. Basically, I found out some thing that pretty much shook my confidence within myself. Its hard to find out that what you though was your support isn't really what you think it was. I don't understand how someone can plan and revel my downfall when I haven't even taken the first step. I can't explain it....I'm just really hurt.

AND I'm still sick... (ewww)

But at least I had some UPs to make me feel better. Joe came to the meeting today and really helped me through the crap. Afterwards, Mike met up with us we made some signs for STC. In my ad class... got to meet the guy who came up with the Gray Pupon commericals (Pardon me sir... do you have any Gray Pupon?) and he was a really awesome speaker. He got my mind turning in what I really want to do my future. I finished "DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD" which was an AWESOME book and had me crying again last night. So yeah... although it started pretty icky... it got better.

I wish I had an idea of what is going on.

Grateful things... the usual.
1) I'm grateful that my group knows somewhat what we are doing for our project in Ad Writing. =) Some groups have NO idea and theres only 2 weeks left!!!
2) I'm grateful that Keri is thinking about becoming the Membership chair!!!! YAY!! YOU'LL BE AWESOME
3) I'm grateful that I dont have to deal with a certain evil person anymore... at least I hope so.

=) 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!!