BBQ Filled Weekend

I made an interesting observation this weekend. My back pain becomes non-exhistant during Friday, Saturday and Sunday, then Monday morning… the pain starts up again. Hmm… I wonder!

What a weekend I’ve had. I had two BBQ’s on Saturday, and one on Sunday and this is how they went:

BBQ #1:
Aunts b-day, hung out with cousins, chatted up with aunts and played the kids. Then I found the only chair in the house where the AC hit just right… so I planted myself on the chair, and didn’t move, UNTIL my dirty aunt, pervertive uncle, and nasty cousin started talking about sex. That is when I said… f-this. I’m out!

BBQ #2:
Ivonne’s brother (Pablo)’s birthday/graduation/farewell party. Pablo turned 18 last week, graduated from High School 2 weeks ago, and in a few weeks, is off to the Navy. Anyway, his sisters, and mom threw him a pool side party (SIDE being the key word). Well everything was good until cake time, their tradition is that the birthday person takes a bite of the cake and as they are doing it, someone smashes their head into the cake. Well before he bit it he said… “who ever shoves my head, I’m throwing in the pool”. Of course Ivonne, had to push his head in the cake…so there he goes, picks her up and heads towards the pool. It was the funniest thing. She clung on to him like a baby monkey holding on to his mama… she was not letting go. So Pablo, being Pablo… continues to hold on to her… smoothly falls into the pool with Ivonne clung on to him. So then he hops out the pool and heads towards his other sister… and does the same. So here I am thinking… he won’t dare do that to me. I’m taller, bigger, no way he can pick me up. Well I was wrong. He picked me up… and all I remember after that, was me saying “my cell, my cell, it’s in my pocket” and having enough time to pull it out of my back pocket and tossing it on the table. After that, I was in the pool… fully dressed… nice. I gotta admit… it was much nicer in the pool than outside… and I am glad I had gym clothe in my truck to change into.

BBQ #3:
Minda’s birthday… she is crazy, bishop alumni are crazy, and her family is crazy! That is all I have to say.

All in all… a great weekend. Couldn’t have asked for a better one!

Catch Up

I woke up this morning thinking “Get Up… Get Up… (sigh) I get to wake up late tomorrow. I get to…” and then I realized, today is Thursday (not Friday). I’m so tired again. It seems like all my energy is depleted during the weekend, then Monday through Tuesday I have just bits of energy left, and by Hump day… I just want to stay in bed. I guess it’s better to deplete my energy doing what I want, rather than what I have to do.

Anyway, work has been really busy and school (al though the professor is rather kind), has definitely left me with a 1 page essay due every Tuesday (I know what you are thinking…. One page is not bad… right… well you try writing one page analyzing supply and demand…. Or how about profit maximizing and loss minimizing… yeah… that’s what I thought!)

Let’s see what else… I been making friends with Mark G. Really nice guy I work with. He kinda looks like Jesus but with curlier hair. Anyway… he is really nice, and he is always showing me his gadgets. He is a some sort of mad scientist in a way and is always building things and making things. It’s a great talent he has. God I wish I would have had that type of freedom he had growing up. Apparently his parents were hippies with careers. So they would be really supportive about his creative side. Neat I say!

So the waiter guy text me last night…. This is how the text-ersation (text conversation… I made that up right now… not bad....eh? eh?) went…

Him: hello?
Me: Hey… what’s up? How are ya?
Him: good how are you?
Me: good, thanks, did you just get out of work? (mind you it’s 11:45pm)
Him: no, chilling at a friends house, do you want to chill?
Me: Chill… when?
Him: right now
Me: Ha! Crazy! Sorry buddy I gotta get up early tomorrow..

He never wrote back. Now I wonder… could he really have thought that I was going to leave my house at practically midnight, with a guy I’ve only hung out with once? Hmmm… guess I’ll never know.

On the brightest of sides… I ran (literally) into Eric F. today. He is sooooo hot, only down side I see to this… is that he seem to be my height. GREAAATT!

Rock Climbing 101

I went rock climbing today. I loved it. It was so much fun. I"ve done it before, maybe about 4 years ago... but man was it as difficult as I remember it. Let me tell you all I remember from the first time I went was how one realizes how much one weighs. You see, although you push your self up with your legs, the majority of the "traveling" is done with your upper body. Your arms and abs, get a killer work out.

We started with the "easy" wall, but let me just say, there was nothing easy about it. At my first try at it, I made it half way, when I got back down... I realized I was dripping sweat. By my fourth time around, my tank was drenched. It was a lot of fun. The one things I keep thinking about though, is how hard it was to "let go". You see when you reach the top, or you just can't go any further, you are supposed to "sit back, and let go"... this (so the Staff said) would release you cables, and let you slide down. I just COULD NOT do it. I could not just let go I would climb down, or I would slide down against the wall. It was silly... but hey... it all takes time.

Hmmm, I wonder what that says about me?

(oh, and BTW... I never made it to the top... I made it about 80% to the top.... so I am going back Tuesday....I'm determined! he he he)

Story for the day:

So I am working on a project with blonde hair fiber. Well as usual when I have a pile of hair that gets thick enough so that I can't see the surface of the desk, I automatically sweep it off with my hand (usually without looking). Well today, when I was about to sweep it off, as my hand was about an inch of the table surface, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed the "blonde hair" move. As my eyes adjusted themselves, my hand pulled back, and I made the connection.... the "blonde hair".... was actually a yellow spider. I screamed... no wait... I squealed, jumped my arse about five feet away, squirming and dusting my shoulders off as if to get rid of the spider (who was actually still standing on the table... Waiting), it took me a few second to calm myself down and get this guy to go kill it. I was so freaked out. I couldn't get near that table for the rest of the day.

All I have to say is.. I'm not scared of the f'-ing spider. I was just caught off guard. Had it come to me head on... I would have shown it my shoe!-- Yeah! So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Dreams

Wierd Dream:

I dreamt that I was helping a woman watch a group of kids (like a birthday party, or something), well this one little girl who was about 4 or 5 years old was playing around and fell, face down. Well there was this guy there too, who helped her sit up and but the little girl kept crying and crying and this guy couldn't calm her down. So I walked over there, and asked her to show me where it hurt. Well the little girl pointed at her shins. Her shins were both broken to the point of being disformed. So I started to calm the little girl down and told her she needed to stay sitting until I got her some ice (and called her parents). So I left her with the guy and told him to not let her get up. Well when I came back with the ice bag in hand, the little girl was playing, running around.... I quickly picked her up and said "honey, you gotta sit down. You can't run around right now" and then put the ice on both her legs. Well the little girl had such a dissapointing look in her eyes.... -And then I woke up!

Funny Dream:

I dreamt that I was running through sprinklers. I could feel the nice cold water sprinkling on my face. It was so nice and cool... I loved it. It was refreshing.

So where is the funny part you ask... ahh yes... so my bed is positioned against the wall, which puts the only window in the room, on the right side of my bed. The window is low/wide enough so that it sits at level with my bed. Well since it's been really hot here the past couple of weeks, I have slept with the window wide open and the curtain pulled back. This lets in a nice breeze through out the night and in the early morning. Well apparently, last night/early this morning, there were thunderstorms and some showers through out the area. So you see the "sprinking water" I felt... it was actual RAIN! Ha ha ha!

Phew... Non-Stop Weekend...

Phew.. what a weekend. I feel like a stranger on here tonight... I'm sure the feeling will pass as I tell all my weekend stories.... so let me warn you... this might be a long post...

So, Thursday night my friends took me out to dinner... bless their little hearts. We had a great meal... even better dessert... and awesome wine. We made friends with the weighter, who apparently is on the road to becoming a fire fighter. Really nice guy... when he carded us for the wine he made a comment about how we were the same age, both born in 80. So through out dinner, he is really funny, and friendly... he kept talking about partying and what we were upt this weekend... well right after dinner he brings over one of those Special Birthday sundaes along with a couple other weighters and starts singing... nice.... it's a good thing it was dark in there, because I KNOW I turned red. Well after the dessert, he brought over the check and placed it next to me... and said "I put my number in there so we can all hang out". I thought cool... great. This helps my theory of Friend Expansion (more on that theory on another post). Anyway... I said, sure, we'll let you know what we do.

Now Friday comes along, and Amy had to watch JP so she was busy, but Ivonne, and I headed over to Manhattan beach... it was nice... warm enough to wear jeans, tank top, and flipflops and be ok. We grabed a sandwich and a drink from Starbucks, and just sat in front of the Starbucks... people watching. I love people watching... it's great!

Saturday came along... it was good too. Big BBQ with the family and friends... everything went well until my nephew (whos is 13 btw) started throwing a major tantrum. His dad was of course no where to be found... he was at the grocery store, so my other brother had to deal with him. They started screaming at each other... nice little family dram displayed... in front of my friends... and couple of co-workers. Oddly enough.. I wasn't embarassed. I just said... "when you witness this... it just means you are part of the family!" LOL A few friends and I headed to Hermosa after that for some dancing.... that was fun. I ran into a friend from High School and we met up with Jose... the weighter from the restaurant. It all went well not too bad. After that we grabbed some Jack In The Box for the late LATE night snack... and headed to bed at 3am-respectibly!

Today was good too. I slept in and was awakend by Amy's frantic call about how there was a dead bird on their front door and wanted a shovel to remove it. Her and Arminda were freeked out, and would not leave there house until someone moved that bird. I laughed... because I told her I had to take shower before I stepped outside. Well I ran a few errands and before I new it, it was at least 3 hours after Amy had called... so my mom and I drove over to their place... and helped them get rid of the bird (which btw was more like a dead finch). It was funny to see them being hosteges in their own home to a dead bird! HA! After that fiasco... I went down to Hermosa and met up with Oaktree. We had dinner at Hennesseys Tavern... good food... a little loud... but good food! It was fun, we kinda just chatted about all sorts of things. It's funny how different his neck of the woods sounds compared to mine... I"ll have to head down there some day. Oaktree I had fun. Thanks for my Birthday Dinner! We should do it again soon. :)

Well now I am off to finish laundry, and get ready for work tomorrow. Luckily?! I have a training, so it takes me from my usual work load. :)

Till the next post!

She's-uh My Birthday today.

Ever watched that episode of I Love Lucy, where she is in Italy (I believe) and she is celebrating her sons birthday, who is back in the US, and celebrates it with a bunch of Italian poor kids. Well one kid make up that it's his brithday because, he wants Lucy to buy him chocolate... so then he has a gang of like ten kids also claiming to be their birthdays because they want chocolate too. So then the guilt sinks in and all the kids give their chocolate back, because they know it's not their birthday... but there is one little girl, who refuses to give up her chocolate, because it's really her birthday. So her brother tells Lucy.

(in an Italian accent)

"Hey, what dooo u no, she's-uh really hur birfday today, too".

Well, anytime there is a birthday... I always think of this episode.

ANYWAY!

Thank You Shwan… Yes, today is my birfday.


So it is official! I am 26 years old. So all though I have been feeling crappy and out of sorts all week… I’ve decided to burry those feelings deep inside, and just embrace everything 26 has to offer.

My co-workers took me out to lunch. That was nice. One of them gave me advise, I must say… I will never forget. She said, “You will never look better than you look now”. GREEEEAAAAT! ;) GREAT!

Anyway… so my mom has BBQ planned for me on Saturday. She is too cute (sometimes), she even got up early and made me breakfast. Damn I wish I got that every day. So I think that one of the reasons I’ve been a little gloomy is because every birthday I’ve had… I’ve been single. No one to make a huge fuss over me being born (other than my mom and dad), no flowers, no special dinner… you know the whole 9 yards of “special” birthday celebration. Oh well…. I guess we’ll have to see what next year brings.

So let me reflect on my 25th Year of life.

It was ok.
I laughed a lot, I cried a bit, and I (think) I grew some (metaphorically speaking, that is). I must say it has been a busy year, with recent news of a life altering change from a close friend, my aunt and uncle divorcing, and a new baby in the family… I can only hope this coming year is just a tinsy bit brighter. Maybe… one more baby? A marriage proposal… hmmm… maybe even, my aunt and uncle getting back together? We’ll see.


Oh, and Shawn… unfortunately, I start school tonight… Economics. So all though, a drink would help me get through Econ quite well, I think I will have to save it for the weekend! I might even have more than 1! Thanks again ; )

Me llaman… Ms. Kraby Pantz

Yep… I’m going by Ms. Craby Pants today. Not sure what sparked it, but since this morning… I haven’t been in the most pleasant of moods. And thanks to the wonderful friends I have... they have called me on it. Thanks Heide for noticing, and for bringing it to my attention. I mean... how else would I know, if not by you telling me right?

So I have three theories as to why;
First: I’ve been getting up at 6am WITHOUT an a alarm clock. So, since I don’t need to get out of bed until 7am… I just lay in bed, wide eyed.. starring out the window for a whole hour.

Second: My brother asked me for a favor. But this favor puts me in a hard place…. (stupid family..jk)

Third: I’m turning 26!

Hmm… I don’t know which theory fits. What do you think?

I tend to shut down

My dad called Friday to wish me an early Happy Birthday (my birthday is not until Wednesday). He is so good at remembering. I usually try to call him on his birthday and fathers day, but it is so hard to get a hold of him. He still lives in Guatemala, and he is remarried, so I don’t have his home number. The only number I have is his work number. Well it was nice to hear from him and I am glad he called.

It’s always weird to me how people can tell when there is something on my mind. Apparently I shut down. At least that is what both my brother and dad said. Sometime last week my brother called me at work and asked if everything was ok. I said Yeah… and asked him why… he said… “you seem quiet lately”. Now if you ask my friends, they will tell you I am mellow and quiet, so I’m now sure how much quieter I get when the wheels in my head are turning but, then when my dad called, he also asked what was wrong. And again, I said nothing… why? And he said you just sound quiet.

Well I guess to confess… my truck is running weird, it’s trembling, and I imagine it will be a couple of grand to get it fixed, I’m turning 26 in a few days. Rowsie needs to go to the vet, she has some hot spots on her paws, and a goopy eye, and of course, I don’t have the time and her vet is closed on Saturday and Sunday. Did I mention I’m turning 26? I invited my cousins from Guatemala over to visit in December… and I haven’t started saving at all. Oh and did I mention I’m turning 26? (I’m afraid I’m getting old).

I know… I know… It will all work it’s self out. But sometimes, it’s hard not to worry about it.

Random Moments of Memories

For the third time this week, I have been pre-occupied with a task and a random memory pops into my head. Usually it's been a smell or a certain feel, but the past three times, it has been randomness, no smell, no feel... nothing that relates to my memory in any way shape or form.

I was sitting in my desk earlier working on my notes when out of no where I remembered this random moment where I was walking down a narrow street in Spain, I can't remember the name of the street, but I remembered the buildings were tall, dark, and muggy looking. I snapped out of it within a few seconds and "shook" it off.

What is that? What is that that makes one remember or revert back to a certain time or place in our lives?

Good Times... Good Times

What are good times for if not to remeniss and laugh at.... right?

I lost my phone this weekend. I hate losing my phone. I've only lost it one other time... it's such a pain... to have to re establish your phone list... your restaurant list, your emergency numbers... my reminders... oh man this is going to be a pain. I hope someone is honest enough to return it... lets cross our fingers!

Well I had an ok weekend... one memorable night...So to spare you of all the detailed boardom that would develop this story, I will leave you with bullet points:

• Arrive at Amys at 9:30pm Monday night
• Finished first Smirnoff Iced by 10pm
• Half way through 2nd Smirnoff and waiting for Van Cab on the curb by 10:30
• Met and shared a cab with Steve, Trouble, and Woody by 10:45
• 11pm arrive at Hermosa
• 11:15 get into Sangrias
• 11:30 get drink #1 and dance
• Between 12 and 1:30am... drink #2, and 3, dance a few more times... we ran into Steve Trouble, and Woody... I exchanged numbers with Mark, and closed Sangria down. Walked out with Ross while Amy and him exchanged numbers..
• 1:45ish we ran into Trouble, Woody, and Steve then walked together to hail a cab.
• 2:15 Wooddy found us a Cab... Trouble threw a tantrum so he got left behind
• 2:30 arrive back at Amys house... Woody made more drinks and we all lounged, and laughed.
• 3:30 I realized my phone was gone...

I think trouble took it... but that is just my theory!

Funny Moment

It has been a busy couple of days. I took Friday off because I wanted to relax and take it easy, lay out by the pool with the dogs and maybe even squeeze in dip in the pool. Well I was way wrong. I ended up cleaning, doing laundry, and just doing the small things that I don't normally get to do. I also went to a wine bar in Santa Monica called Bodega Wine Bar. It was nice, I finally found a wine that I like, Riesling Dr. L. It was soooo good. I'm on a hunt to find out where they sell it. I believe it is a white wine. Anyway... the place was nice... it had a Sex In The City look to it.. Oh and it was damn hot in there. I swear by midnight I was so ready to split.

So it hit me today. I think I might be getting to old to be baby sitting. Seriously. I was sitting there babysitting two little girls earlier... and I thought... I'm going to be 26! I can't babysit anymore... really! I just can't! :) Well, we'll see how long that lasts.

I did have a funny moment with the six year old I was watching. All the female readers will get a kick out of this.

So we are having dinner and this is how the conversation went-

Girl: I want my neighbor Charles to come over

Me: No Charles can't come over.... wait isnt Charles your crush

Girl: (smirks) Yes

Me: Oh... then yeah.. he still can't come over

Girl: He told me he was moving

Me: Where is he moving to?

Girl: Oh he's not moving, he just lied to me, but I still like him... even if he lies

Me: Oh

Damn... it starts so young!