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Before I forget everything I did, I’ll blog about it.
I could easily just break each day up into one blog and pretend I posted it on the day that it happened, but fuck it. I’ll do this thing again where I label the day and shit.
Thursday: Typical summer session day. Went to class, took notes, etc. I got home, went online for a while and then got something to eat. When I came back on the computer, I refreshed Twitter found out Michael Jackson had died. That sucks, I thought. I also thought WTF? I leave the internet for like 15 minutes and Michael Jackson dies?! Wack. There were many grieving, and many making way-too-soon jokes about it. I guess I’ll post my view on it now. As a person in general, he did a lot of fishy things. All those accusations of molestation and shit, and the whole thing where he was swinging a baby from the window and who knows what else. What the fuck was that all about? Anyway… he was an amazing performer and pop culture icon. He was the king of fucking pop! I would even always say when there was a dispute about what song should be played that “you can never go wrong with Michael Jackson.” Ever. RIPMJ♥
Friday: Mom woke me up so I could start cleaning the house in case people came over. Well, a few rooms in it anyway. After that, I went to this salon nearby with my mom to check out hairstyles and stuff for Chava’s wedding. I didn’t find one that suited me, but whatever. At least my mom did. I kinda already knew how I wanted my hair to be anyway. Not so long after that, I went to get my nails done at this nail/spa place nearby. Gosh, I love where I live. All these places are just walking distance from my house. Anyway, Nery walked into the place when I was getting my nails done and I left with her when I was done, since we had already planned on going to the movies that day. We picked up Danny, then met up with Rick and his sisters in Hollywood. We watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at the Arclight. Movie-wise, it was okay I guess. Not the best movie in the world, but not as boring as others said it was. I mostly liked the effects and all that shit. It was pretty tight.
Saturday: I woke up at 6:30 ’cause my mother and I had appointments at the hair salon at 7am. Gosh, I looked so dead when I got there. Got my hair and make-up done there. Not much to say about that. After that, I pretty much just waited ’til it was time to get ready for Chava’s wedding.
We got to the church with a lot of time to spare. The ceremony itself was nice. Apparently the minister was a family friend or something and they surprised Cristina by having him marry her. My tio Ruben was singing with his group during the mass. That was cool too. Angie, Jay, and two of Cristina’s family members did some of the readings, and the minister joked a lot. It was cool.
The reception was fun too. My cousins from my dad’s side seemed to have a lot of fun, it was cute to watch. The food was spicy and the cake kicked ass. Woot. Also, they had these really cool liquor things on the table with Cristina and Chava’s names on them that everyone liked and many took home:
As for me, I was walking in heels the whole day for the first time. Boy, I sucked at it. Hahahaha. The day was fun, though. Congrats big brother and new sister in law!
Sunday: Despite the fact that the previous day had been long and left me a bit exhausted, I woke up early to help my mother with the food and stuff because people came over. I made two salads. I swear, that’s all mom ever makes me do when she tells me to help her cook. I just make salads. Sometimes rice too. Meh, I don’t mind. Anyway, a lot of family members came over for lunch or whatever. We had birria and chicken. At one point, mostly all the dudes and kids were in my living room watching the USA vs. Brazil soccer game. It looked something like this (except less blurry):
Later on, I went to the beach and Hollywood with my cousins from Colorado. It wasn’t as fun as I would’ve wanted it to be, but still pretty cool. It’s nice to get out of the house and go somewhere with people you don’t see very often.
Monday: I woke up thinking something along the lines of Awesome, History class got cancelled today. That means I only have one class! When I arrived to my Health class, though, I came to find that that class had also been canceled. I love it when that happens, even though there’s also the whole thought process I go through where I realize I could’ve just stayed home and not missed a thing. Hahaha. I stayed at school for a bit ’cause Zack texted me that his Sociology class got cancelled, so we hung out after he got out of his first class. We ate at Thai House (no surprise there). He threw up. We brushed our teeth. We met up with Dan. I swear, I don’t know if I can fully get into the habit of just saying ‘Dan.’ I actually typed ‘Daniel’ and then backspaced because I realized that if I wrote ‘Zack’ instead of ‘Zachary’ then I should write ‘Dan’ instead of ‘Daniel.’ Anyway… we went to Pasadena, just for the hell of it. It was pretty fun. Like usual, we went to Barnes & Noble, the Apple Store, Urban Outfitters, and a few other shops. Is it proper to call them shops? Or are they stores? Because when I call them shops, I picture like, more of a local family-owned little store. I felt kinda bad, though ’cause we kept physically hurting Dan. Pobresito.
Today is tuesday the 30th. Crap, that means I can’t use my TAP card tomorrow. I should renew that shit. Too bad I have no cash and don’t wanna use my own money.
Update — I actually came back to finish this blog because… I dunno what happened, but I never got a chance to finish. It is now wednesday. Boy, I’m a lagger. I guess I might as well let you know that I finished reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower today.
Also, I didn’t bother to proofread this. Sorry for the mistakes.
What I’ve been up to, I guess.
I haven’t posted a real blog since June 11th, so I figured I’d do an update right now. I actually have two blogs with actual topics that I’m thinking of writing sometime this week or next. Most likely next week because this one has been kinda busy (nevermind me having taken a two-hour nap today) and it’s only gonna get worse.
What have I been doing recently? Pretty much, mornings consist of me going to my summer classes. I’m taking Principles of Healthful Living (Health 11) and History of the Great Religions (History 7). They’re both really easy. Health tests are open-book for the first ten minutes or so and history quizzes are five questions every day. If I don’t pass both classes with A’s… then… I’m an idiot. Nah, not really. It probably just means I got really lazy at one point.
After class, I’ve either been 1. eating with Zack 2. hanging out with Luis or 3. going home and either a. eating and going online or b. eating and reading. Right now, I’m reading Looking for Alaska by John Green. (You might’ve figured out I got the arrangement of the first sentence in this paragraph from that book. Haha.) It arrived in the mail yesterday and I’ll probably finish it tonight. I’ll write a little review or something later, though.
Also, my brother Chava’s getting married in like three days! Holy shit. That’s pretty much the reason I doubt I’ll have time for writing blogs this week and weekend. That and I’ve been spending less and less time online recently. I’ve also been seeing people in real life a lot less. I don’t even know how I managed to do that.
Anyway, I’m gonna go finish reading Looking for Alaska now. x.
Recap o’ the week
Monday: I didn’t go to English because they were doing workshops for an essay that I haven’t started yet. (The one I’m supposed to be working on right now, at this very moment.) I spent that time slot in the library, actually working on my essay and Tweeting.
Zach and I didn’t do our stories for Journalism, so we ended up just going to Starbucks instead.
I told myself I would go to at least one class, so I went to Math. I got my test back with a fail and sat there for a bit contemplating my options. Daniel got a pretty low score too and after a few moments of thinking, talking, and considering the pros and cons, we decided to drop the class and just walked out. Then it dawned on me that I didn’t attend one full class that day. Also, I couldn’t get over the fact that I actually dropped a class. Fuck.
Somehow, I ended up hanging out with Zach and Daniel in Hollywood. (Zach ended up not going to Stats.) Pretty damn random, but it was an interesting experience. I think they got along pretty well. Their common grounds: laughing at my expense. Bastards.
This was probably one of my most eventful Mondays since I’ve started community college.
Tuesday: Took a test for Geography, blah. Journalism 105 was okay too. All we did was talk and watch a documentary about the advertising industry. Nothing out of the norm happened there. After class, I went to the MTC with Daniel. It was pretty fun. Made him try on an ugly shirt. Also, he liked a John shirt at PacSun. Ew. Came back home, and the rest was pretty damn normal.
Wednesday: I actually went to English. Boy, was it boring learning about citations and MLA and all that shit. Really, I could just Google it. Journalism was like it usually was. Not boring, not the funnest thing in the world. After class Zach and I went to Paco’s Tacos, where Tonanzin also met up with us. Somehow I ended up eating a burrito. I swear, I had planned on only buying a drink. I’m such a fatass. Anyway, we were there for a while just talking about stuff. Like, where the hell we’re gonna end up in the future and what people expect of us. Then we came back to my house and just chilled. Once they left, I internetted and then watched Scrubs. It wasn’t that great. Yeah.
Thursday: School, then Target with Daniel. Got home, took a nap. Family got here to celebrate mom’s birthday, so I bought her a cake. Spent the night talking to my siblings and their partners. It was rather funny learning the story of how Chava and Cristina met and all that shit, then planning the whole bachelor/bachelorette thing.
Today: Woke up, checked my phone for e-mails, showered. I was supposed to go to the beach with Zach and Tonanzin, but… I guess we ended up not going. Haha. Anyway, my alternate plan was to clean the living room and/or bathroom and then work on my essay for English 101. Instead, I sat down at the computer desk and now I feel too lazy to do anything else. Maybe I’ll get to that essay once I finish writing this blog. I don’t know yet.
Update: A lot happened during in the process of writing this blog. Now the plan is: hang out with Luis later. Cool. At this very moment, I’m on Skype with some BlogTV buddies. Killing time before Luis gets here to hang out.
Update #2: It’s friday night now. Luis and I went to Thai House (no surprise there) and later met up with Vincent. Went to Coldstone, and then saw Star Trek. It exceeded my expectations. Fucking awesome. I had a pretty cool Friday evening.
The downside: I didn’t work on my essay and now lost my motivation to do it.
Oh, it’s Gaby!
My little cousin Gaby is way awesome… sometimes. Lol, she decided to be featured in my BlogTV show today 
Click “Continue Reading” to watch the video. I couldn’t put it here because it automatically starts when someone opens the page. I hate when I go to a webpage and videos start automatically. It’s annoying. But maybe that’s just me.
Anyway… I’ll post some real blogs later. I actually have some topics in mind. I can’t really concentrate on anything when I have guests over.
I’m not sure what to call this
Yesterday was pretty chill. I watched Amelie in the morning. Such a cute movie. I went to the movies with Zachary after that. Like always, he had free AMC tickets. The thing that sucks about those is that the movie has to have been out for at least ten days in order to use those free movie tickets. Long story short (it isn’t really that long): We got tickets for Mall Cop, then ended up watching Fired Up and Confessions of a Shopaholic instead. Hahaha. We rule. Both movies were pretty darn funny. Typical stock characters and plot and all that, but I enjoyed the humor anyway. Then we saw Ricky working at Wetzel’s Pretzels. Boy, did his haircut look stupid.
I’m pretty damn full right now. My mom made birria. Fuck yeah! Before that, I was out with Cristina and her mom and sisters looking for bridesmaids dresses. We didn’t find one we all agreed on. Haha. Oh well.
Panthers out.
Pubic hairs on soap
Don’t leave your pubic hairs on the bar of soap that everyone uses. It’s disgusting. I mean, seriously. I had to use another bar of soap this morning because I don’t want to use one with pubes on it. It’s bad enough that you don’t shave or trim (clearly evident by the length of that hair), but if you’re gonna be cleaning your genital area with that bar of soap the least you can do is get rid of the evidence. That is, take your pubes off that soap!
Mothers and tampons [question]
Ladies.
Does your mom disapprove of tampon usage?
I didn’t know it was that big a deal to mine til today.
I was like “mom, can i have money to go buy pads? ’cause i’ve been using tampons lately and don’t feel like it anymore”
She was totally wtfing. Like, YOU USE THOSE? Blah blah blah, they’re not for young girls like you. They’re for older, mature ladies. Those things probably took your virginity away. You’re not supposed to wear tampons. How can you even stand being comfortable with something inside you like that?
I even told her i can barely even feel them and stuff and that i’ve been using them for quite a while now.
She just gave me a disgusted look.
I’m not even mad that she thinks a different way than I do.
I just found it interesting that she would make a big deal out of something that i think is nothing.
Apparently it’s really common of mothers to think that way, though.
I didn’t know that.
What about your mom?
Does she care about you using/not using tampons?
What do you think about tampon usage?
A new year.
This is my first post of 2007. =]
I might as well talk about new years’ eve.
It was pretty coo’.
I spent it with Nery, Chava, Ricky, Christina and my Grandma. hehe.
We mean bought stuff to munch on. Cheese, chips, sodas, peanuts, other random crap.
My Grandma cooked some posole. It was pretty good.
Oooh. We also made margaritas. They were aight.
Yeah… there’s not much else to say about that…
I really SHOULD be reading The Red Badge of Courage or doing a history outline…
