right now

I feel like an awful friend.





















this isn't my fault.

College : Week 1

What do I have to say about my Week 1 experience as a college student? Well first off, I do not miss high school. I don't miss the bells ringing, the stupid people in the halls, multiple classes, stupid people, humidity, crowded halls of stupid people...and so forth. It's nice having 1 class a day, 4 days out of the week. Plus, I have both fairly early in the day which leaves me a lot of time to...nap.

My classes are:
Monday/Wednesday 12-2:55p - English Composition 1 (Olma)
Tuesday/Thursday 9-10:55a - Elementary Algebra (Stockwell)

I'm really loving the English class. It's long, but it doesn't feel too drawn out. My friend Kim is there with me, and so far everything is pretty great. I really can't wait to get started on writing our first essay. My math class is...well, it's math to say the least. It's ridiculously simple (think 5th grade math) so I'm basically just taking it to get it out of the way. It's not that long of a class anyway, so I know it won't worry me. I have to say though. Even with going to a community college, this junk is EXPENSIVE. That alone makes me appreciate the free public high school(s) I went to.

So, so far so good. I'm not sure what will happen after December yet. I know I've stated my goals, but who's to say that's what will happen? Heck, this time last year I thought I was still going to Full Sail...hah.

ps. this is my 100th post of the year :)

sorry but,

NOUOSTSUJEKILTNODHEUPULLURGNIKUCFSTNAPPU

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There's drama (for lack of a better word) going on a my social circle. F this S.

"the soda exploded on a passenger"

We're on a layover in Indianapolis right now. These flight attendants are stupid. I can't believe I'm already on my way back home, it feels like a day ago that we left. I can't lie though...I'm excited to sleep in my own bed again! See you soon enough jax!

*editwut.

I'm lying on Amber's floor right now, watching the chris dvd. (just saw katie haha) my mom should be home soon...can't wait! amber and I won stuffed animals (2) out of the claw game machine at winn-dixie. oh, and we totally missed a hurrican/tropical storm? yeah, crazy.

*editwut#2.

It's around 2 am and I just hungout with Kristen and Trey and I just have to say...it's great to be home.

WEDDING

So it's about 10 am, and we're doing nothing...yet. We've been up since 5, I'm already tired and even though we all look pretty gorgeous right now, I'm ready to get this day over with already. The photographer is so stupid and cheesy, he's really annoying me. More later...

*Edit#1:
Its raining and a car just spun out in front of us, wooooah. We're almost at the church now, I'm excited!!

*Edit#2:
Church just ended. The ceremony was so pretty and emotion-filled. I'm so happy Yelisa and Frank are finally married!! I hated having to see 'him' there, but I survived. Oh, and I still hate the photographer, but the video guy is really cute hah.

*Edit#3:
I'M BORED. We're waiting for the reception to start now...1 more hour! Where are my hor devoirs?!

Edit#4
Party is overrr. We're on our way home now. The reception was awesome and yesss, I danced AND caught the bouquet! And I taught amber how to dance! The food was really EH but whatever. I'm glad this day is over and done, I'm beat. Also, there was a really cute bus boy that Amber was flailing over and Chrissy was dying laughing about it. I love my cousins! And for the record - I do not want anything to do with you, nor do I care to establish a 'relationship' When we left, that was for good.

Anyway. One last hooray for Y&F. I love seeing my family together and happy, and this month has been so amazing. See you tomorrow, Sunshine State!

ASDFGHJKL

I just saw the last person on the entire face of the planet that I would ever want to see. Thanks a TON northriverside mall. A million old emotions are filling me up. I'm enraged and I'm scared and I don't even want to be in this place anymore. Its time to run again. Its time for a change of plans.

*Edit:
I'm at the rehearsal (I hate spelling that word) dinner right now. Today was pretty stressful. I'm better now though, and I look cute ;) plus, the pizza is delicious here. Tomorrow is going to be more than eventful!

Why does it cost me $12 to see my own city?

SO! Today we (my mom vik amber and myself) went to lunch with two of my mom's really good friends, Lily and Esther. I LOVE MY MOMS FRIENDS. Lily can make me laugh for days on end, I absolutely adore that lady! Lunch was great too, can't beat that mexican cafeteria food! Anywho. After that we went to Jamba and cute boy started dying over Amber again. I got my last Acai of the trip (:[ ) and we walked ove rto the Sears Tower. So okay, here's my question: WHY DOES THIS ELEVATOR RIDE COST SO MUCH? Really, I just do not understand. I won' lie though, it was a sweet view, and I learned some cool facts...but I don't know about $10+ worth. Anywho. After that we walked down to Garret's, got a mixed bag and then went to the Target on Clark and Roosevelt. (which I absolutely love) I miss those cart escalators! After some wandering in there we headed home, which brings me to the end of today! Time to start packing soon...this trip ends in 3 days...

IN DA CORNFIELDS!

So this morning we went to the final dress fittings. That was quick and easy. What wasn't so quick and easy? Going to freaking the middle of nowhere Illinois, that's what. HOLY SHEESH CHEESE, DID YOU GUYS REALLLLLLLLY NEED TO MOVE OUT THAT FAR?! We were seriously almost in Iowa, gosh. After about 3 hours of driving we got to his house, stood in AW at his humungous tv, then I dashed down to the computer to buy tai tickets. Then we listened to bmth and other junk, ate some chips and salsa, and sat around. Then we took polaroids in front of the corn. Then we ate yummy tostadas! Then everyone went jumping in the trampoline, except for me, but then I did and almost died. THANKS AMBER. After that I attenpted to catch a lightning bug but miserably failed. Then we played with glowsticks!!! Throwing them in the night sky is AWESOME, try it sometime. THEN I SAW THE BIG DIPPER! That was seriously so cool. Then we ate ice cream sandwiches. And then we left :( Cheese is my favorite person you guys just DO. NOT. UNDERSTAND. I love you Cheeeeeese! (even if you live forever away.)

WEEEEE!

We're on our way to Nicole's house! So happy to see another one of my favorite girls in the world! Afterwards we're going to woodfield. YES!

*edit. we just spent about an hour in walmart with nicole making fun of the jobros. heck yes.

You stupid little retard!

HA!
We're at Toni's still, watching Drop Dead, Gorgeous. I love this movie. We saw Juno earlier, I can't believe it took me that long to see it! It was great of course. Toni's mom made us the best pancakes, and we've just sort of been chilling since.
Last night we saw Phelps win his 8th medal, so awesomeee. I love that guy. Phelps addict since 2004 babyyyy. I'm actually amazed at how much Olympics we've been able to watch. I was scared we'd miss them. We actually saw 7 /8 of his swims too, go us!
Anyway, after that we talked for a while which I REALLY love more than typing to Toni cause that's all we do! Don't get me wrong, I love our novels, but actually being able to TALK to my best friend is nice too :)
We're leaving soon...going back home is going to be nice, mostly cause I get to see my mommy. But Sheboygan is so quiet, I love it. I might just have to come back up for a visit!

Train ride

Amber and I are on our Amtrack train to Milwaukee right now. To be honest, we ALMOST missed it. We got up at noon today...our alarm was set for NINE. Sheesh. We were obviously dead tired. It was funny becasue my mom woke us up and I totally wasn't expecting her, so I was sort of lost for a minute haha. Anyway, she drove us to Union Station, we dashed to the train, and found out we actually did have some time to like...eat or pee or something, but we didn't. So now we're hungry but about halfway there. Toni, here I come!!

OH! My mom surprised me with a 55-200mm lens, ah! I loveeee it (and her of course!) Edit later probably.


Hello, edit!
so we're at Earth Fest right now, in Sheboygan. We got to the train station, Toni and her mom picked us up, and we drove up to Sheboygan. It's SO pretty here!! Toni then drove us around looking for a place to eat...we finally ended up at the Weather Center. Jacksonville needs a place like that! It was sort of pricey, but realllly delicious. Then we went back to Toni's, watch some TV, and then now here we are. There are SO many hippies here, hahah. Anyway, Love Muffin is just starting, I sort of can't believe I'm seeing them (haha...only Toni will get this) anddd yeah! They sound good, and the weather is nice, and I'm SO glad to be here. Thank you Toni!

friends for the weekend

It's 2*Sweet day! I'm excited to see them here again. It's been over 2 years! Katie should be here soon to pick us up, I'll edit later with all the happenings!

EDITZ #1
So Mojoe's is...different. There's food...and black lights...and yeah. Chicago kids are so weird. Anyway. There's a billion bands playing tonight, we're just waiting around for the sweets. Yeah. My back light is being stupid.

EDITZ #2.
OH MY GOD MY BACK LIGHT IS GONE :(

EDITZ #3.
So I'm struggling to type this in the little light I have from streetlights, gah. The show was great, seeing 2*S with a crowd is SO nice. Then we sat outside of Taco Bell and ate, yay for loitering! Now Katie is taking us home. We're kindaaaa late haha, oh well. I'm so angry about my dumb light. I can't see anything!!!

EDITZ #4
KATIE JUST GAVE ME THE BEST LATE GIFT EVER!!! Haha. My mom comes tomorrow, YES! And I leave for Sheboygan, double YES!

wow

It's 4pm. We've done NOTHING today but watch TV, curl our hair, and eat bread. It's been a wasted day, but staying home is nice too. Cheese is coming over later, I'm so excited to see him. And we're going to Jamba later! HOLLA.

bbq

I saw a bunch of people I didn't care to today, but I also saw Keeley! and Lisa! and YMIJAN!!! Finally! And it was for well more than just 90 minutes. We went to Keeley's end of summer bbq, which got rained on, but was cute anyway. Seeing LP people that I never liked was weird. Eating bagel chips was fun. And then we went home. Lovingggg this trip so much.

R I O T!

Today we saw Paramore. All I have to say is:

GREAT SHOW!
I LOVE PHANTOM PLANET!
I'M GOING TO BE IN A DVD!

I'm so beat. We're walking to Walgreen's right now. I'm so gross smelling!

Alvarez

Today was a very relaxed day. It started at around 10, as normal, and we didn't plan on doing much. We decided on going to Bacci's again, with Sara this time to catch up. It was SO great to see Sara. I've known her since I was 3 (that's 15 years people!), we are literally like sisters. So we walked over to Bacci, inconveniently behind Maria, whom neither of us wanted to see. So we ate, caught up, the whole 9 yards. She joined the MArines, that really caught me off guard, but sh'es my best friend, so I support her 100%. Afterwards, neither of us were doing anything so we decided to go to Sara's. HOLY MOLEY her house is amazing. It's totally remodeled and it looks like it's out of a magazine, so nice. We all sat and played gamboys for a good hour +. It was so awesome. Then we watched Batman on bootleg! Couldn't get any better, could it?! I'm loving being home!

On the way to the Cute show...

UHG. Why didn't anyone tell me about this drama with the Red line on weekends and having to take the brown line and blah blah blah. I need to get to the Metro now people, NOW. I'll update later with post show info.

SO. Show's over and now we're sitting in McD's. We got to the Metro at liek 2:30...a freaking enourmous line was waiting for us, that was a w e s o m e. (not) Anyway, we waited, ate some food from that hotdog stand across the street, passed out all my promo (WOOOOOH!) and waited some more. Right before doors Katie got there, I was glad to see a familiar face amongst a crowd of strangers. We went in and we re in the 2nd-ish row. Vik had a fanboy behind her watching her play Tetris haha, and Amber and I had a crazy weird girl in front of us. And she smelled, uhg. Anyway, Chicago crowds are OBNOXIOUS, just saying. And GOD, the Metro's sound is really horrible. (I love Jax venues, sorry to say) Danger Radio was good, Ace was good, Power(suck)space was.....jesus. I almost HATE how much I love their ep but how tragic they are. I'm not getting into this, whatever. Cute was good. I love them, whatever. The crowd was ridiculous. Afterwards, I got the DR cd, and I said hi to Chris. Mostly cause my mom told me too since I hadn't said hi to Anthony. Now we're at McDonald's and Katie and Amber are heckling Powerspace. FUN STUFF.

"My balls look like raisens"

Just got home from eating 2 bean and cheese gorditas at Taconazo, yyuuuummm. I seriously thought I wouldn't be able to finish them, they were ENORMOUS. That place was always my favorite...when I ate meat :( Oh well...

Today was really great. We didn't do anything all morning, but our evening was quite eventful. After it rained for a whole 30 seconds, we jumped on the Western Bus. Then after being starred at by Mexicans (no offense, but really, it was gross) we got on the Cermak bus to State St. There we walked through the sketchiest neighborhood ever to Reggie's for the Anthony Green show. Person L was on when we got there, but it was still really early on the set. The venue was really nice. There were fans on the ceiling...why don't we have that?!Anyway, Person L was great. I felt like I was cheating since I got to see Kenny outside of The Starting Line, haha. Next up was Good Old War. Oh my gosh those harmonies were amazing! I didn't know how I'd like their live show, but I loved it. I'm glad I get to see them again in Orlando. Then the man of the night...Anthony Green! We all know how much I love his man and how I promise he'll be my father one day. He had a LONG set, and he did it well. Plus, the Circa cover was a nice bonus :) We waited to see if he'd come out afterwards, but he didn't. Instead we almost saw some frat boys fight, had some GREAT cheese fries at the weirdest gyro place ever, and saw a bunch of FREAKY kids waiting for the Wizardwrock show. Overall, a great night!

"Its about the size of a torso"

Today was really chill. Meghan came over for about an hour and we got to catch up. It was really nice to see a really old friend (6 years Megz!) and talk about old stupid stuff and things I've missed. After she left we walked out fancy selves over to Bacci for some Jumbo Slices and free internets! We were there til just after 8...now we're home and watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics. These Chinese people are insane man. I'm just waiting for Phelps ;)

Free Nights

Today was very adventurous! We continued our 10am wakeup ritual and we were going to get really cute and all that jazz, but only Vik did. Amber and I are lazy obviously. So we headed downtown, ate at La Cocina which BY THE WAY has no AC. Lame. Anyway, the food was good, and then we walked over to my favorite intersection (Adams & State) to start some shopping. Amber was experiencing a horrible migraine so that kind of killed the fun, but we still trecked on. I got some tank tops at Old Navy, we wandered around XXI and H&M for a while, and then we sat in the grass at Millennium Park. Amber took a 15 minute nap and then woke up good as new! We then found a dollar and bought some soft drinks. I finally saw the bean!! It's crazy how that park wasn't done til after I left. There was a band playing where I saw Butch Walker in 2005. Crazy old memories. After the required pictures in the Bean, we walked through the garden, had some Green Tea Lemon POP, and then watched kids play in that water thing with the freaky faces. We went to the Art Museum after that since nights were free, and I really enjoyed myself. I haven't been there since about 5th grade, but I still remembered a lot of the paintings. Then we walked forever and a day down State St. to the Chicago Theatre to take pictures of the red sign. Then we took the Red line to the Brown line to the Blue line. Sheesh. We got home well after 9 and now it's like midnight and my feet hurt. Time to snooze!

Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!

Today was sooo hottttt uhg. But still no humidity, so that's awesome. Today started with the 38 Bus. It used to be the 17 or 7 or something. And it used to take me all the way to Lincoln Park. Well not so much anymore it seems. We ended up in downtown on Randolph and like Clark or something. I had my mom look it up and we ended up taking the green line to the brown line, and then the Sedgewick bus to a stop close to LPHS. Seeing my old school was really hard. It made me angry and feel everything I felt that last time I was there in 2005. I missed it so much these past years, and seeing it now made me feel like such an outsider. I'd do a lot to have Englewood replaced with Lincoln Park on my class ring.

Anyway. We went to Allende (ahhhh the memories!) and had some really great food and waited for Dan. I miss my favorite gay! After some chit chat, we walked over to the zoo, where we bumped into Cecilia. Kinda weird seeing really old friends. Anywho, the zoo was fun, hot, hot, and I really like Polar Bears, and it was hot. Amber and I got some frozen lemonades that were really good, and now we're on our way home.

I know I've said it a million times, and I'll just keep saying it... I love being home!

Oh siblings...

Can't live with them, can't live without them, huh? Today Vik and I argued. A lot. Then Amber and I went and got bus cards and went downtown. I got really emotional seeing everything again. We went to Jamba and there was this adorable boy starring at Amber in her pigtails, it was so cute. Then we went to Rock Records. It felt like home! It still smells the same, and the 2 dudes have probably been there forever, who knows. We took a million years, but we finally decided on The Starting Line and Thrice. Then we looked for a restroom which we finally found in Subway. After buying chips and sharing a 6 inch (haha) we headed back home. And now we're on the train. I'm falling in love with this city again.

"There's some strangers in the back..."

Today we went to church. Of course it was the Spanish mass. I don't mind it all that much because well...I understand what's going on. I wish we could've taken Amber to the English mass though. Maybe some other Sunday we're here. Afterwards we went to OCB! I'll admit it wasn't the best one I've ever been to, but it so beats Golden Corral. Even the prices are better! We went to Target afterwards, got some necessities, and then we came back home. We got bored and decided to go out to the back yard and Vik made a movie of Amber floating. It was pretty cool. The dirty nose picking kids upstairs (yeah, where I lived ALL. MY. LIFE.) watched us and bothered us a little, and then homegurl thought she was so great and tried to tell my grandma that some strange white girls had gotten in her backyard (CAUSE IT TOTALLY MAKES SENSE RIGHT?!) and were doing whatever. SO SORRY SWEETIE, YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE NOW. Anyway, now we're just sitting outside doing nothing. I'm loving this weather.

Warped Day 3 isn't happening

Right now I'm sitting in my aunt's car on the way home from Vik's dress fitting. Today has gone well - the dress fit, seeing Yelisa in her dress was amazing, and her condo is super nice. Plus we had Portillo's! But today definitely did not go according to plan. About an hour south right now, Warped Tour is taking place. We aren't there thanks to a bunch of confusion and Tinley Park being so stupid and far away. Whatever, we're still alive. Now I'm reading Star to catch up on old celeb gossip and then tonight we're going to Church.

I can see the skyline right now. I love it.

*edit

So Amber Vik and I just got blessed and prayed for. I guess you had to be there, but it was really amusing. I love my church, don't get me wrong, but under the circumstances (all spanish and amber not being a catholic and all...) it's was hard not to giggle. Time for some Tres Leches!

Polk & Western

Best hot dogs ever. No, I didn't eat one, but that doesn't matter. Going there reminded me of summers growning up. It hasn't changed and I love that. The french fry sandwich was amazing of course.

The neighborhood is the same but still really different. I don't know everyone on the block anymore, there's new buildings and condos everywhere, but I'm still getting the same vibe. I love being home.

Tonight we're going to Neuvo Leon in Pilsen!

*edit

The Pilsen neighborhood has changed. The yuppies are taking over!