Remember December and 2010 (Day 339-365)

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS YEAR IS OVER!

Oh my god, they get faster and faster each year don't they?

This month was full of to-do's!

December

I got all my interning hours completed.

Played a percussion show.

Maria's boyfriend came here from texas to live with us for a while.

Got really into Telepopmusik

Wrote more songs! thanks to adam ;)

Got hit on massively by guys at school. huh??

Passed finals!

Vaccinated the puppies myself!

Bought christmas gifts!

Wrapped christmas gifts while Adam sang Day-O! hahah

Got into crocheting and made 2 scarves!

Christmas!

Tamales and rum cakes!

New years!!

December was so jam packed with things to accomplish but I got them all :) Speaking of accomplishments. How about we look back on my year? I know we can just read the previous posts, but here's my year in a nut-shell.

2010 has really been my year of firsts.

• Recorded my own music for the first time
• Played my first non-school show
• Pierced my nose
• got my first tattoo
• Turned 21!
• Met the love of my life
• Fell in love for the first time with my first and hopefully last boyfriend :)
• First long-distance relationship
• met some amazing new friends
• Lost an aunt for the first time
• Went to Cali for a day with Ash to see our friends in The Material
• Got my house painted
• put tile in my room
• minnie had puppies!
• Read some amazing books!
• Went to first friday for the first time
• Wrote lots of music
• fixed my car
• passed my finals
• became president of MECHA club
• Had my first clubbing experience
• Bought liquor for the first time though it wasn't for me lol
• considered some life-changing decisions
• went to shows
• cut my hair really short
• Learned to let go of things and people I didn't need in my life
• Made room for better things and people
• Fell even harder in love
• Look forward to rising in many aspects in 2011.

Cheers.

November's End (Days 336-338)

I interned today and was given a quick task to transfer some digital tape audio to the protools program lol basically listened to classical music for a half hour making sure there were no digital errors.

When I got home, vicky told me that her rooster was missing! hahaha we found him in the old dog house and ended up chasing him around the whole back yard until we finally got him back in the cage.

on the 30th I dropped my mom off at work and stopped at ACE Hardware store to pick up an air filter for the heater lol who does that at 8 in the morning? oh, me.

When I got to school I interned some more and learned a song for adam :D I hadn't heard the whole thing so I recorded it it as I learned it by ear ^.^ you can hear it here

November's over! :o went by fast and I'm excited for december because christmas is coming up!

Shutter Eyes. (Day 334)

Hello, Sunday.

Ashley came over today and we walked around my neighborhood to take photographs of orange objects for her assignment. We found little to nothing so we drove to my tia juanitas neighborhood. While walking through an alley, we found two kittens and immediately I recognized them to be my tia's lol. She and I beckoned it to come hither and when it did, ash carried it back to my tia's. I called to make sure she was home and she was so we dropped it off. Poor thing looked sick so hopefully she can be nursed back to health.

Going back into the alley, we saw the second kitty, who I assumed to be dead because it wasn't moving and ashley was like yes it is!! look it moved it's head! and I said no! it's just the wind lol but it turns out the kitty was alive. I believed it when it started getting up haha.

We took that one back to my tia's again and she said it was Zero. haha.

after that we finally started taking pictures :)

good day.

Writing. (Day 333)

Don't have much to report, other than I've been writing a lot of songs lately. six at once to be exact. :o lol

that is all!

Glendale Glitters! (Day 332)

Glendale Glitters started tonight! I went with my mom and vicky because maria wasn't feeling well, and met my tia Juanita and Albert there.

Bought a hot chocolate and walked around with Vicky and Fabian, then snacked on some food and fabian bought tornado fries! lol it's basically a potato swirled on a skewer. so coool!

again, no pictures because of my dumb phone. :(

I took adam with me lol he was here spiritually. I can't wait to really be with him on these nights. It'll be amazing!

We had a good time and ate kettle corn too. :)

Happy Thanksgiving! (Day 331)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I woke up today to the scent of turkey cooking, cornbread stuffing, and potatoes boiling. I received a beautiful text from adam as well and got a feeling this day would rule.

After watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, my family and I headed over to my Tia Lupe's for food and family time!

I took pictures, but unfortunately my picture messaging is out of order so I can't post any :/

We ate outside (only in Arizona) and had a nice time getting stuffed and laughing.

I was texting Adam the whole time and let him know how truly thankful I am for having him in my life. He really has changed it completely and for the better. I like when things go right in my life, and for a long time they were right. I felt complete with my music and family and friends, but since he's waltzed in this year, I couldn't be happier. Being single was something I loved and was used to my whole life, I never needed a boyfriend. But when I met him, I couldn't let go, or get him off my mind. There was something, everything about him that I was drawn to. Now that we are each other's own, I am full.

Full of love, full of joy, full of endearment, and full of food! :D I really love him a lot a lot and I hope this lasts because we're amazing together. I know that sounds cliche, but we really are. I'm an indecisive and uncertain person, but this, I am sure of. and that's huge.

Thankful:

For family

For friends

For health

For love

For Adam

For happiness

For life.

Autumn :) (Days 277-330)

I'm sorry I have to keep playing catch-up but it's so hard to post daily nowadays lol.

So here's another montage in words of October 2nd-November 24th.

October

I've been really involved in events at school. I helped the multicultural department make paper flowers for hispanic heritage month and have been running weekly meetings for MECHA.

I attended the hispanic women' conference with Jhannyn and my mom. It was amazing and so inspiring!

Adam and I are getting a lot closer now. :) He tells me all the time how much he loves me and I love saving his text messages sometimes because they're SO sweet. here's one from the 14th (warning: cheesy alert)

"I really do love you. I mean it when I say that you're rare to find because honestly I've had girlfriends that had at least one flaw and you don't have any. You're smart, funny, you love music, you're loveable, thoughful, have all the same interests and if we don't, we're not afraid to try :) I will never let you go because I lov3e you ^-^"

you see? god, he's so wonderful to me. he's wonderful in general.

Umm what else? oh yea we added each other on facebook, that was huge to me and he saw my photos and text me saying how beautiful I am and all these wonderful things that really made me blush :)

Halloween was okay, my dad had been in the hospital and we visited him which was nice. the girls and I went out the night before and dressed up in costume to go to a movie. we saw Paranormal Activity 2 o.o we shit our pants basically.

November

The first marked Adam and I's 2nd month together :D It's not once a month I realize how much I love him, but everyday. This day is only a marker in the timeline :)

I won a scholarship! I applied to the AACHE scholarship and won a $300 one and received it that week at the AACHE conference. my mom went and it was really nice.

I bought Halo Reach!! finallyyy lol.

bought some new tops at Ross.

Adam asked me if I think we went too fast in our relationship and i said define fast, he didn't think we did personally but he was worried that he made me say "i love you" before I was ready and I said oh no, I was sure I was ready to say it because I never say anything I don't mean :) He worried I'd be offended if he ever asked me something regarding our relationship that he was concerned about and I told him no, I want him to tell me these things because it's how we grow and learn, and make sure everything is working out :) He told me he loves me and that he always will, and as much as I want to say always, I just am soo afraid of an uncertain future so if I say I'll love him forever I worry that will become a lie in case something doesn't work out you know? it sucks. I do love him so very much though.

Stayed up playing xbox with adam and swank and I got bored so I took out the guitar and started playing. I hadn't realized they could hear me lol so we ended up having a jam session haha. I played a good number of songs and they were so relaxed. Swank hadnt heard the song I'd written for adam and so I played it and it made them both cry! I felt so touched.

Bought fabric to make adam a blanket and I got to sewing it immediately! My first blanket! it's gonna be bad ass. I cut up an old 1up shirt I had and sewed it on to the front, then sewed the back piece together and added the border, my mom helped me with that because satin is so hard to work with. heres the finished product!

I sent it along with the key to my heart necklace and a halo legends dvd. He got it and opened it while I was on the phone with him. omg such an awesome moment!!

Thanksgiving/Ashley's birthday is coming up!

21 CANDLES!! (Day 276)

October 1st 2010.

Happy Birthday to Me! Happy Birthday to Me!

I'm 21 today!

Holy crap. I'm 21 today.

So yay! it's friday and I have the whole weekend to celebrate. Today was pretty chill, felt like any other.

I woke up to a lovely text from Adam and he really made my day when he text me after class. I love him.

I had pizza wings and salad at home with the fam and tia juanita and ashley in the evening and afterward I did something crazy. no, not drink...

I got my first tattoo!!!

My sisters and Ashley and I went to club tattoo, but since we were early, went to the mall to kill some time.

We returned, and I started getting a liiitttlle nervous. But as soon as I got in the room, everything was good :)

TA DA!

"Where words fail...Music speaks." -Hans Christian Andersen.

Excited for tomorrow's plans! dancing!

Catch Up!...again. (Days 245-275) September post.

Sorry! I know what you're thinking. I thought this was a 365 too lol. But you know what? as much as I love documenting this year, I think it's been more worth my while actually living it. The past 2 months have been so great and I'm here to tell you all about it.

Weellll, remember when I talked about Adam, the boy I was majorly crushing on since july? I'm dating him now. :D I told our mutual friend Nate how I felt about Adam and he said to ask him out that night. There was no way I was going to do that because
A.) I didn't even know for sure if he felt the same way
B.) Would it ruin our friendship?
C.) I've never asked anyone out, how the hell am I supposed to do this?

Anyway, he talked to adam and that night, Adam asked me. :) He liked me from the start I learned later on ^.^

So that whole week was awesome. I'm a girlfriend! for the first time too.

On the 6th, Minnie had her puppies! we thought she was having 3....she had 7. I took adam through the whole experience :D

On the 8th, maria, viki, ashley and I went to see our friends in The Material. It was an awesome show as always and we had fun joking and talking with them.

Throughout the month I've been interning at school and having fun with it. :) Next month is my birthday!

MASSIVE POST. (Day 140-244)

OOOOKAAAY so I have about 100 days to catch up on here. Since I am not willing to post for each day up to now, I'm going to sum up the remainder of may-until today. I shall use a timeline

May
2nd- I have a new baby cousin! Venezia Giada is born!

16th- Baked 3 cakes with Ashley and Ruben (Coca Cola, Pineapple Upside Down, and Tres Leches :D yay) took some to cj afterwards.

18th- My tia Frances passed away. A very very emotional day for my family and I.

21-22nd- Had her services and funeral. A beautiful and mournful time. My sister and I sang a song for my uncle at the reception.

26th- Ate lunch with my sisters and mom at Sweet Tomatoes, took viki to cjs to mix music. Thinking a lot about my aunt.

27th- Went bowling for the first time with Ashley and Ruben. Good times! Ate sonic afterwards.

29th- Sticky's one year death-anniversary. <>

June
13th- Moved my stuff into the hallway to prepare for room construction tomorrow.

14th- Cj came over and tried to fix my floor up, and we failed epically haha. Tried leveling with concrete and it didn't work. at all.

22nd- Went with Ashley and Viki to the Rock Yourself To Sleep Tour to see TFT

24th- CALIFORNIA BOUND! Drove to LA with Ashley to go see our friends in The Material play the Rock Yourself To Sleep Tour. Fun road trip, sang in the car, met up with the band, enjoyed a great show, hung out after, met Keving the drummer, slept at the Mariott, and drove back home the next morning

25th- PSA conference, stayed at the hotel. relaxing times.

28th- Got a free month of XBOX Live to try out. So fun!!

July
- Getting more and more addicted to XBOX. Met some cool guys on Halo 3. Adam, Swank, Uchiha, Rayman, Rebel, and Swordsman are the ones I talk to the most. So far Adam's the coolest. he's not a douche lol.

13th- Bought Maggie Stiefvater's Linger! the sequel to her first book, Shiver.

17th- Got together with Jhannyn and some mecha members to have dinner. Ate hot dogs and hamburgers with pasta salad jhannyn made. Yummy!

-Really getting to know the guys a bit more, we're like bros. haha.

- Haven't seen cj in about 3 weeks, crazy.

22nd- Adam's Birthday! the guys and I wished him a good one.

25th- Carla's bithday!

29th ran out of live. :( need to buy another month.

August
-Enrolled for classes after taking the placement tests. Scored high! yay!
-I think I'm crushing on Adam. Seriously, he's really sweet, a total goofball and has such a bad ass personality. Wrap that up in adorable and voila, my ideal guy. We're such nerds together XD

2nd-Made cupcakes!

3rd-took dad to his appointment and my car died in a busy intersection!! had to push it to the walgreens nearby. On the way home, it died again!! D: horrible day.

5th- Saved a baby bird from the road. yay

6th- Writing a Machinima with the guys! so new to me I love it!

7th- Went to ranch market. omfg home!!

9th-12th began interning at school setting up all the new equipment in the lab. Excited for this semester!

14th Got my car fixed! Adam was making me laugh so hard while I waited at the shop. omg he r00lz. ^.^ p.s. I'm pretty sure he likes me too.

17th- Viki's 13th Birthday! had pizza and wings and salad for dinner. Tia Mary Lou, Tia Juanita and Ash came over for dinner. Went with ash and chin afterwards to get Ashley's micro dermal anchors. ouch!

20th- My car plates are suspended. fuck. In other new, ate at a burger shop called Freddy's with my sisters mom and varina's crew lol.

21st- Nerding out with Adam and Rayman, playing N64 while chatting on xbox haha.

23rd- Started school! parking is such a drag! classes were good though. text adam early to wish him a happy first day, he was stoked to go back haha. He loves education, kid is brilliant in more ways than one.

25th- Saw CJ for the first time in two months. it was a bit awkward for me. I don't think of him in the same way anymore. Compared to Adam, he doesn't interest me like he used to. I realized a lot of things. Adam is so much more on my level. Respect is the biggest thing.

26th- Maria's 27th Birthday! also had pizza pasta and wings. fun times!

28th- Ate at Pei Wei with some of my aunts and my mom and sisters. Venezia joined us. she's adorable!

29th- Spent most of the night giving advice to a few of my guy friends. Are boys really that clueless?? lol glad I could help though.

Hey Mom, I Love You. (Day 139)

Happy Mother's Day!

My sisters and I gave my mom 2 bouqets of Roses and her favorite perfume before taking her to eat lunch at El Taquito, a mexican restaurant we hadn't been to in YEARS.

The place was so homey and comfortable, and the food was delicious! their chips and salsa are awesome btw. We ate so comfortably and my dad even had a tv to watch...of course.

We walked out so full, but so happy lol. Relaxed the rest of the day.
Mother's Day again tomorrow! ha.

Pomp & Circumstance (Day 138)

It's time!

Maria graduated from the University of Phoenix today with her bachelor's in Business Communication! yay! So happy for her.

So I woke up at 6:30 this morning and my fam was already running around the house getting things together for today. Maria was getting dressed, mom was hopping in the shower, viki was eating (surprise, surprise. ha.) and my dad was waking up. We were all ready about an hour later and drove over to the stadium at Westgate. It was so hot out! I wore a black satin dress and was trying not to sweat in it.

We met the rest of my family there and sat for a while before it started. my mom had already been crying lol so I hugged her. tears of joy of course.

The ceremony was nice and we cheered when her name was called. After it finished we readied ourselves to get out of the stadium and it took foreverrrr!



We got out of the parking lot eventually and headed for the reception "Tea Party" at CeeCee's downtown glendale. yay! but we were running late!....ahh!

Stopped at home for a sec to freshen up and heard that there were already people ariving at CeeCees so we hurried and got to the restaurant. Let the Madhatter's tea party commence!

We started with some lovely Raspberry Lemonade.



Then came the salad




and the main course was lemon pepper chicken breast with mashed potatoes and a croissant lol but it was too good, I forgot to take a picture of it.

Poor maria was running around the whole time, being a good hostess, but the party turned out great. CeeCee dressed as the red queen and I had my mad hatter's hat, while maria was Alice in her blue dress. Ashley took photos but I have yet to see them. There were also cute kool aid drinks in clear bottles that had "drink me" tabs and little cakes that said "eat me"

So proud of my sister. Yay for all her hard work!!

mirror pic. haha.

Finals & First Friday! (Day 137)

Today is the day: Part 1.

FINALS DUE!!!!

wow I'm so freaked and so relieved at the same time that today has finally arrived. I got to class early to put the finishing touches on my songs and burned my discs, turned my listening journal in and was out of there!

Well not exactly right away...I spent some time talking to CJ, Thom and Alex discussing summer pans and all that good stuff. Hopefuly I'll be seeing them during break! especially CJ since I got so used to coming over to record almost everyday for a month! We'll see though, sometimes people lose touch over break, but I hope that doesn't happen with us cause I enjoy spending time with him.

Did I just say that?

Anyway, speaking of spending time, he asked for the night off work to come to my First Friday performance tonight! I thought that was really sweet since I know he can't afford to be missing work, but it was good for him to take a little break at least, though I know he wanted to go to the event anyway.

So I got home and immediately started getting ready for the night, which i was way stoked for since I'd never been!

I brought the drum I held onto since wednesday and when we got there (my mom and viki went haha my biggest fans :D) we bumped into Ruben! he was on his way to go DJ at a coffee shop down the street and so we all walked together. We found where the rest of the ensemble was at and our set was fun! we played our "greatest hits" as Doug calls them and the audience enjoyed the music. CJ found us and he stood with my mom, viki, ruben and rubens friend (his set got cancelled).

After we finished up, my fam and cj walked with me down roosevelt to 1st street where I found Mike and Carissa setting up for the acoustic Boys & Frogs performance I said I'd help with. Turns out, they forgot the generator for the PA system so it ended up being totally acoustic haha. I played the african drum along with a guy named Gabriel who I just met tonight and we had a nice set! I was a bit woried at first because to be honest I'm not very familiar with their music other than what I've heard in the studio at school, but I was pretty good at improvising. Glad I could join them tonight! I can officially I've played in a band before haha.

I would've stayed for the few final songs, but I had to go because tomorrow's marias graduation!!

Still, I walked around for about a half hour and we saw the fireworks coming from the Diamondbacks stadium. I kept thinking of the Lizzie McGuire movie at that point when Lizzie and the Italian boy are watching the fireworks then hold hands, which would've been kind of cute if it were just us two but it was still a cool experience nonetheless, glad my mom and viki went to support :)

By 10pm we were ready to go, but CJ asked if I wanted to check out some studio that was giving tours tonight, and said we could drop my mom and viki off at home then he'd pick me up at my house to go. 0.0 LOL uh....

I wasn't entirey sure what to say at that point becuase Maria's graduation would be 12 hours from now and I woudn't want to be falling asleep at the ceremony, but I also didn't want to cancel on him.

My mom said it was okay as long as I asn't out toooo late so I told him yes. He'd never been to my house though and I had to give him directions. When he got here I suddenly got nervous because I'd never really hung out with him outside of school, or at night since he works, but I figured all would be well :)

We headed back toward FF, and when we were almost there, CJ realized we didn't invite ashley. haha wow that was out of nowhere! Anywho I gave her a call and she was about to shower but we told her to cut it short bc we were on our way already haha, she was like okay, and we picked her up then headed back downtown.

Wellll by the time we got there it was almost midnight, and basically everything was over with, and the shuttes to the studio were gone for the night. Oh well. We ended up eating at Denny's and called it a night. Still had fun though.

Graduation tomorrow!

The End Is Near...better Command S. (Day 136)

Had my DAW 2 Final exam today. I got 100%!!!!!!

YUSSSS. It was a timed exam and I got mine done in 6 minutes flat. I held the record for quickest, but I was beat out by a few others and then Thom in the end. CJ was like "pffft I can beat that" and who got 7 minutes? not I. hahah Excuses followed. mhmm...

Wish I could've go home as a celebration, buuuut unfortunately I still had tons of work to do before tomorrow. Adding the final touches and notes to my video project and mixing down as well as mastering, not to mention continuing the synth song i just started were on the to-do list. pretty much haha. eep!

I ended up working a 12hr studio day and got home suuuper exhausted. I was still tired from last night, I seriouslly feel like I'll break if I move an inch. Here's to tomorrow.

P.S. (Day 135)

Here's a quick little note I left on my tumblr about my life lately.

In Case You Were Wondering...

ShincoDeMayo. (Day 135)

Happy Cinco De Mayo....whatever that means.

haha.

What I was more excited for was my percussion concert tonight!

I had such a busy day!! Started with a super productive time in class. Ahh it's getting closer to deadline! 2 days to go and I'm still working on songs, plus helping CJ with one of his.
After class I went to Panda with my mom and came back to campus for dress rehearsal. Good thing I brought tonight's clothes this morning because I wouldn'tve had time to go home and come back.

Anyway, the show went great! I was a bit nervous about the opener which was Music For Cross Cultures. We had to do some crazy hand patterns on ourselves, but it went great :) My family came to support and I had a good time. Another Show this Friday! woo!

1am Voice. (Day 134)

Singing late at night is so much better than singing in other times of the day for some reason. For me anyway. I think it's because after a day's worth of vocalizing and communicating, eating and drinking, the voice will be somewhat worn out by night's arrival. Add melodic efforts and you've got what I call the 1am voice. It sounds faintly raspy, but doesn't break. There's a hint of dryness in it that adds soul to any song. You should try if you haven't already :)

Spastic Elastic. (Day 133)

Whew! worked hard in the MIDI lab today. Spent the majority, if not all my class time elastic audio'ing a track. Doing so is extremely time consuming and tedious, but once I got the swing of things, it went by quickly and was actually pretty entertaining.

I know I said my hands were taking a beating and all and I should probably rest them as much as I can outside of school, but I just can't stop playing. I listened to my iPod tonight and decided to learn Niia's rendition of "Bang Bang" by Nancy Sinatra on piano. and so I did. ;)

New Addition! (Day 132)

I have a new cousin today! My cousin Ronnie had her baby Venezia Giada in FL and she's a beaut! I have a pic my tia sent, but i was having trouble upoading it here.

So proud and happy for Ronnie. Congrats girl!

MAY 1st. (Day 131)

Goodbye April, Hello May.

I kicked off the month by waking up with one of the worst/best cow licks I've ever had. Yes, I took a picture, but won't post it haha. it's pretty sweet though.

Ha, so I went with my sisters to the mall (so old) to try and find Maria a dress for her graduation a week from today, but we had no luck. Instead, she bought a perfume at Macy's. While we were there, a rather flambouyant fella who was working in fragrance reminded me so much of Adam Lambert! I wanted to take a picture of that, but I would've seem like a weirdo, so too bad, but he was twin-worthy.

I tried on one of my favorite scents, Miss Cherie by Dior. <3 If it weren't so expensive right now, I'd totally get it.

P.S. (Day 130)

Oh! almost forgot. I went with Varina and my sisters to eat at a place called Il Primo. good food! It's italian, and we had pizza and wings. Afterward, we drove back to Varina's and while vicky and Miette played in one room, Maria, Varina and I had girl talk. I told them about something from earlier today and we spent a good hour discussing it. Normally, I keep things to myself, but this was a time where I needed their advice. Glad we talked, they gave me some good feedback to keep in mind.

TGIF!!! (Day 130)

It's Friday! I may not be in love, but I sure am happy today has finally arrived. It's been a busy week and I'm ready to unwind this weekend.

So far it's been a good day. My mom got off work early and viki didn't have school, so I brought her with me to class haha, she met CJ and Thom.

When class was over my mom viki and I went to pick ashley up from west, and she told me she'd already started walking home because apparently I took forever to go get her. uh...hello I had class.

I called her because I couldn't just let her walk all the way home, what if something happened? no way. So we picked her up and went to have lunch at Sprout's. She wasn't mad anymore but wasn't hungry either. We made her eat. haha. Otherwise, my mom said she could start walking again. LOL.

She may not know how to show thanks in person, but she posted on Twitter:

"My second famoree is awesome"

damn right. :)

I Can't Even... (Day 129)

Ugh. Today was one of those days. Stressful.

First of all, Spring is definitely here, these winds are strong enough to sail a car.

Secondly, it seems everyone on the road decided simultaneously that it's drive-like-a-maniac day.

Thirdly, there was so much to do at school today.

that is all.

Hang In There, Hands! (Day 128)

My hands are really taking a beating lately. I really started feeling it today when I went to percussion practice. We had a guest instructor during the african drum portion and it took about 45 minutes so by the end of it, my hands were on fire, tingling and cramping up. They'd been okay during the last few weeks, but I think I just used up whatever tolerance they had left in this one practice. Yea.

Anyway, the songs are sounding great, and I've got a concert + First Friday performance coming up in the next week! pretty freakin excited. stay tuned!

Jams & Hangs. (Day 127)

Today was awesome. Had DAW 2 and brought my guitar and bass to school again. Alex wanted to see the guitar so I took it out and he played a little ditty before giving it back lol. I started playing AJ Rafaels "She Was Mine" and he recognized it, came over and we ended up having an impromptu jam sesh where he learned the piano part via a youtube tutorial haha.

I picked ash up after school and took her to cjs with me so she could meet my new friend and so I could record guitar for his project. I did a few takes sitting in my favorite corner by the door and ash took pictures of me (of course) Here's one.

When my fingers began to fail me, I took a break and we all played some sega dreamcast and N64 haha. I'm glad ashley and cj got along, sometimes its weird introducing mutual friends, but it went well. :)

Like Seven Seconds From The Mid-Day Sun...(Day 126)

SO HOT OUT TODAY. that is all.

Lucky Me. (Day 125)

I was too busy girling out yesterday that I forgot to add I went to Culver's with my sisters and the Twi-Crew lol. It was super yummy! also, the cashier boy couldn't stop looking at me according to everyone hahaha. I asked Maria what she was giggling about and she's like the guy at the register likes youuuu lol! what?? I said and so when we walked outside to sit at a table, I noticed him staring from the corner of my eyes and maria watched too hahaha.

he was kind of cute, but eh lol not really for me.

Also, I found out from a certain someone that a certain other someone at school is mad crushing on me too. no it's not Alex. I was super surprised, and then shocked, and then weirded out. holy crap.

Haha, so anyway, CJ asked if I wanted to come watch a movie at his place tonight so I brought Tommy Boy since he'd never seen it, and we had some laughs cause that movie is hilarious! oh and during the movie he text me with a "Hello :)" haha I thought it was kind of cute since he knows I'm not really good at saying what I'm thinking, or vocalizing what I want to say.
So that was my sunday. Back to work tomorrow!

Finally The Magic Words! (Day 124)

I feel like such a girl right now. Remember when I said that I got the feeling CJ likes me? (post 108 or something like that). Well, we were texting last night and he was saying some really nice things about my musical talents and about me and whatnot and I said something like

"aw dude stop, you're too kind lol" and he replied,
"well cause I like you"

omgomgomg.

Did he really just admit it?! haha ah I knew it! as if it weren't already obvious or anything but still, I could tell. How cute lol. Oh and that's not all, he asked how I felt! :O truth is, I'm not entirely sure, this is all new to me, but I realized that most of the reason why I've been so nervous lately is not just due to finals, but because I get nerves around him! duh!

So I said I liked him too, and saying that to each other made everything feel so much easier to communicate. To me anyway, cause at least that uncertainty is vamoosh and we're being honest now. :)

He was really surprised I felt the same lol, and in a way so did I because I've known some guys that have had a small crush on me but I've never liked them back, or gave them a chance because I wasn't interested. With him it's different somehow. I can't explain it, and it's so weird that he isn't normally the type of guy I'd go after because I usually like white guys haha, and he's hispanic, but doesn't speak spanish. He doesn't have the rock star hair I usually swoon over in most guys nor the style that catches my eye, but I'm interested in him nonetheless. why?
I'd like to know too. Life is odd, and God works in mysterious ways, and then again, we had a class together last semester and had no clue til the end of the semester when we met for a minute. Then he sits at the station next to mine, not for the sake of sitting next to me, but because he had that station the semester before, and I sit at mine for the same reason. Coincidence? I dunno...

I'm curious to see where this will go, but for now, I'm glad we're friends. and that he 'fessed up. haha. ~.^

What I Did Today. (Day 123)

1. Visited my Tia Frances in the hospital. My whole family went because she got really sick again :(

2. Saw the new Eclipse trailer on Oprah while at the hospital.

3.Discovered a norweigan girl band on youtube and loved one of their songs for it uniquness so much that I learned it on guitar haha.

4. Thought about him. uh ohz! lol ^.^

5. Learned that he thought about me when I didn't get to visit today since I was at the hospital. aw.

6. Also learned that SB1070 passed. ugh.

that's all.

Earth Day (122)

Simple day. Went to school and then had a fresh lunch from Sprout's with Ashley.

It's nice out. I might grab the guitar and go sing mother nature a song. :)

Uh. (Day 121)

I forgot what I did today. lol. (I'm writing this weeks later btw, that explains it.)

TWLOHA. (Day 120)

Where's your Love?

Dun Dun DUUUN. (Day 110)

Wow. Today I was supposed to tackle vocals for my cover song, but that ended up being a total fail because of my shyness for singing in front of anyone other than a select few took over my vocal chords lol. I brought ashley for support, but even then it was hard to sing. I think it partly has to do with not wanting to sing in front of CJ cause:
A) I haven't known him as long as ashley.
B) I think he likes me
C) I'm starting to care what he thinks :x

ohmy, maybe I'll get a chance to do it tomorrow on campus. eeep.

Time Flies When You're Jamming. (Day 109)

Class seemed rather short, but I suppose that's what happens when you record because I did a few takes of bass for World Of Chances and next thing I knew, class was over lol. I spent some time in the lab and then headed over to CJ's for a bit to work on my listening journal. He played music on his itunes and I wrote about some of them since it was a change from my music and one of the songs that came on was from a band I'd never heard of called Westbound Train I really liked it and went home with it stuck in my head for the rest of the day lol. It's called "Cheers! The World's Almost Over"

Movie Sunday! (Day 108)

Got up pretty early this morning to go see Date Night with my girls, and while on the way to the theatre, saw a couple walking and the girl was wearing a The Material tote like mine! woo! I about stuck my head out the window and yelled something awesome haha.

The movie was hilarious, and cherry coke tasted amazing now that I can drink it again lol.

Straightening my hair before bed and getting excited to track bass tomorrow!

Record Store Days! (Day 107)

Oh what a fun day! My sisters and I went to a few places to find a textbook that she needs for a class, and ended up buying records instead haha.

We stopped at a neat little used bookstore that had old records and sheet music too, so I bought a Chopin piece for 1.00! here are some of the many vinyl they had.

crates upon crates. I felt like I was home looking through my dads records. :)

Next, we went to Zia Records and found out it was Record Store Day! how funny, we had no idea yet made it one. Musicians just know. haha.

I bought She & Him's Vol. 1 album and my sisters got some No Doubt, Sublime, Santana and Miley...

haha.

Excited to hear these when I get home!

Also, the girls and I picked my mom up and went to have dinner with my tia Josie at Pei Wei.

It was delicious as always. :)

btw, Happy Birthday Maika Maile!

Collabify! . . .is that even a word? (Day 106)

Class was short today and since I had time left over before having to go to CJs for more recording, I worked on a song this guy Clarence and I are doing for our collaboration and we got a lot accomplished! I showed him the piano part I wrote and he had lyrics ready to go! It was awesome, I also helped add some rhymes in and we should be recording it sometime next week.

I worked on some of my listening journal entries at cjs and then went home.

Why Thank You, I'm Flattered. (Day 105)

Hahah aww.

My new friends are so adorable, and funny. So I met this guy Alex in my class and he's a friend of CJ's (who I'm starting to get the vibe digs me haha. . .cj not alex lol) and while I was waiting for my mom to get out of work so we could go to lunch for a friend's birthday, the three of us went into a practice room and I played a bit of piano then Alex showed us a song he learned in piano class. Anyway, I sat on the floor while he played, and CJ asked if he could join me, so I said of course and he did, then alex started playing a new song I didn't recognize, which he dedicated to the both of us! uh...hahaha

He made up some lyrics with it which was really adorable, but awkward at the same time haha, and I can't remember the name, but if I find it on youtube or something I'll share!

oh man, the rest of semester should be interesting. lolz

btw, lunch was awesome! had china place. Delish.

Practice Practice! (Day 104)

I took my guitar track into protools today at school and found that I rushed a bit after I heard it with everything else in Logic and so I had to do some Elastic Audio'ing on my guitar track.

It sucks because I haven't had much practice with elastic audio yet so I might just have to re-record guitar. great.



In other news, I had percussion practice today for my upcoming concert in May and got to try out my new instrument, or at least its prototype haha. PVC pipes!


Excited to play the real thing!

Geetah. (Day 103)

I started recording guitar for my cover of "World of Chances" today! finally have my new capo and am ready to get down to business for these projects. I tracked at Cj's and thom engineered. I'm pretty happy with my takes so I'm gonna drop them into logic tomorrow!

I'm still really nervous though. I think I'm catching on to myself, but I'm kind of in denial right now. that last sentence made no sense, but I'll know what I mean soon enough. I need time. That also didn't make sense. Leave me alone. haha

Blowing Away! (Day 102)

So windy! Spring is definitely here, and the pollen be flying!

I've got to try not to let my allergies get the best of me, so I'm staying indoors.

I spoke with CJ and Thom today and let them know I have my new capo now! yay! I set up a time to record at cjs tomorrow. Let's hope all works out!

Nerves. (Day 101)

Hi my name is Nelly, Nervous Nelly.

Ahh I've been so jumpy lately! I don't know what's up with myself, seriously. I've been really nervous and I think finals are getting to me lol >.< I know I have time, but still!

Just gotta keep working on them. keep on truckin.

April 10th-Blah. (Day 100)

I pretty much spent the entire day lounging at home doing nothing haha. Vicky spent the whole day with our friends and went to a bbq in the evening.

I practiced guitar and worked on the song, making time to look up a song CJ suggested I hear in case I were to help him on a project for school. Turns out, he's into ska! pretty awesome.

Maria and I went to guitar center so I could finally get a new capo, woo! Michael's was in the same plaza so we stopped by and I bought a cute Nintendo Star tin filled with little candy stars!

We had planned on seeing Lights in concert tonight for a reeeeeallly long time, and even had tickets bought and ready to go, but it was just one of those days where we didn't feel like going to overly populated places lol. So we skipped it. Plus, it was at Marquee, a really sketchy/lame venue so that added to the reasons not to go.

Instead, we went to pick vicky up in the evening and stayed watching Drillbit Taylor. When we got home, ashley came over and we ended up having a jam session in my room, lol I taught her the bass part to the song I'm working on.

April 9th- Hang outs! (Day 99)

This evening I went to dinner with my sisters and some friends of ours. We had originally planned to go to Olive Garden, but it was ridiculously packed so we skipped it and went to Culver's instead.

I'd never eaten there before, but let me tell you their food is amazing!! I totally rate it higher than In N Out. Seriously.

We went to Goodwill afterwards in search of random tea cups for maria's grad party and were pretty successful! There was a car show going on outside and I took a picture of a really cute Betty Boop themed car. :)

We spent some time at our friend's house chillin and went home, leaving vicky to have a sleepover with Miette :)

Session! (Day 98)

I've been having trouble recording guitar in class since it kept distorting on me upon hook-up so an aquaintance/friend of mine offered to record me at his place and I learned that the problem was that the battery on it was dead. Ha.

I got a replacement battery, but since my capo is still missing, the buzz on it was still pretty audible because I made a capo out of a pencil and rubber bands. womp.

Anyway I had fun and the guy who's place I was recording at (CJ) made some tea so that was nice.

I'm definitely gonna have to get a capo this weekend. -.-

Fun! (Day 97)

Class was good today, I worked on some piano part for a guy who asked me to compose something for his song (one of the final requirements is to collab) and also had trouble concentrating because the guys, specifically Thom and CJ, were being silly, which in turn made me laugh. ha.

After class I watched the room for about 10 minutes until the intern came back and talked with Thom, CJ, and Alex about our projects. When they asked me what I was working on, I told them I was covering a song and of course they asked to hear me play and sing it, which immediately froze me over lol. I didn't go through with it because A) my "capo" sucks, and B) Hell no! I can't even record with another person in the room! haha.

However, I scheduled a recording date for the main studio tomorrow, and I think that should help me a lot since I'd be in a more private environment, and if I were to record vocals then, I'd be more comfortable.

I was too late for the MEChA meeting, but I still met with the members of the club outside the SU. The International Festival was being held there and a latin group was playing so we danced and had a good time! My mom joined us on her lunch break, and we bought some cool bracelets from the jamaican booth. :)

Damned If I Do, Damned If I Don't! (Day 96)

Ahh, I hate my shyness sometimes! I had the perfect opportunity to track, but even though there were only 2 people in the lab, I couldn't bring myself to strum. Why???

I guess it doesn't matter anyway cause the guitar is still crapping out on me when I play for more than 5 minutes. It's not my cable, that's for sure.

Fail. (Day 95)

Again, I haven't found my capo yet, so I'm suffering with my home made one haha. I used a pencil and a shitload of rubber bands, but no mater what, it's still sounding flat. Ughhhh. When am I gonna get to track? there's only so much time left!

Happy Easter! (Day 94)

Happy Bunny Day! haha, 

or happy eat-what-you-want-that-you-couldn't-have-for-two-months-day!

orr Happy Jesus returns day! rofl.

Whatever you make of it, I hope you enjoy. I'll be going to the movies this morning and heading over to my aunt's for lunch later. Have a good one! peace.

April 3rd. (Day 93)

I stayed over at my aunt's last night to take care of her and since today was her birthday, my family and I took her out for breakfast at IHOP. yum!

While we were there, we noticed a family sitting nearby had a son who looked like Embry from New Moon! haha talk about nerd status! check it out.

Breakfast was delicious. Later on, the girls and I went to Kinkos to make Maria's graduation party invitations and they turned out super cute!

Easter is tomorrow and I'll finally get to have sweets again!

Hallelujah!

MASSIVE POST. (Days 87-92)

I've gotten behind in posting lately, I'm about two weeks behind. so basically the week of March 29th to the friday of that week (April 2nd) consisted of me trying to focus on both the Cesar Chavez event and my final projects. 

On Tuesday that week I went to various stores with Jhannyn and picked up groceries for the event. I was exhausted, and got real tan lol. 

Wednesday was the event at school and it was a successful celebration! we had food and drinks and guest speakers join us.

The rest of the week kind of sucked and involved a lot of me b-essing my assignments. whoops.

That was about it for that week haha.

Saturday Soaps! (Day 86)

Nope, not soaps as in soap operas (ew) but real soaps!

Maria bought some glycerin and scented oils and mouldes to make some soap so we did and it was quite relaxing! they smell great and it was a fun process. Maria's been real crafty lately.

Womp. Womp. (Day 85)

So I tried recording today, only to find that my capo was missing and couldn't record guitar. It sucked. Now I have to look for it, and if i don't find it I'll have to get a new one. Maybe I'll make my own...

Drum It Up! (Day 84)

I had a nice percussion performance this evening in the courtyard of the campus and played a few songs for about an hour and a half. It was very casual and comfortable. We performed, and on the songs I wasn't on, I went and grabbed some pizza that was being served for free by Student Life. awesome right? it was nice. A lot of people showed up (hello, free food and music, what's better than dinner and a show? haha) and I saw a few friends who came to watch. It was a nice time. :)

oh and earlier I tried recording some guitar, but it started to distort so I had to cancel.

Oh, Pretty Woman. (Day 83)

I tried recording some guitar today but ended up not having time so I worked on a piano piece one of the guys in class asked me to compose for his song instead. I came up with a little melody and he liked it so I'll try to record a rough version this week and get that going for him so I can focus on my other stuff.

After class was over I went to my mom's office and passed some chill, kinda hippie guys singing and playing guitar and various instruments and I thought they looked so relaxed! I kind of wanted to join in haha. Oh and when I walked back to the music building later on these other dudes were playing random songs on guitars outside and as I passed by they burst into the pretty woman riff and were half singing and half humming the lyrics. I tried not to laugh lol.

When I returned to school later on for percussion practice I took a picture of the sunset while driving.

Autotune & Automation (Day 82)

So I'm learning more about how to automate things in a recording, such as adjust the volume at a certain spot so when I play it back it'll repeat the volume change I made exactly and, well, typing it out it sounds complicated but you hear it all the time though you don't realize it lol.

Today I saw this commercial that had autotune in it (I'm sure you all know what that is by now, a nice studio effect jacked to ridiculous preportions) and though I greatly dislike the overuse of it these days, I laughed. I'd show it but it gets annoying lol so you can look up the auto tuned bud lite commercial.

Back To Life, Back To Reality (Day 81)

Ah back to the routine lol. Went to studio class but didn't get much done, so hopefully tomorrow will be better!

Spring Break Day 7 (Day 80)

Woke up early this morning for round 2 of the movies, and got to catch the morning showing of Our Family Wedding. It was hilarious! definitely laughed a lot. :)

Spent the afternoon lounging outside my house eating popscicles and reading in the shade. Perfect. :)

Gonna watch the premiere of Gene Simmons Family Jewels tonight!

Spring Break Day 6 (Day 79)

Today was a little more mellow. I got up early to take my aunt to the doctor's and didn't get home in time to go see a movie with the girs before noon. We didn't catch the early showing of Our Family Wedding, but since we had gone anyway, we decided to watch Alice In Wonderland, something vicky had been wanting to see for quite sometime now.

We all loved it and of course, we weren't disappointed because, hello, Tim Burton directed.
I was especially captivated by the special effects, and even more by the film score that (of course) Danny Elfman composed, because he is one of my favorites. EVER.

Pei Wei was our lunch spot, er, dinner spot since it was 5 when we went, but nonetheless we enjoyed, and came home for a calm evening. I continued reading, and want to write some more.

Spring Break Day 5 (Day 78)

Where did I go today? where didn't I go is the question!

Today was awesome. My mom, the girls and I went to Discount Tire Co. and got ourselves some fine wheels for our cars :D yay.

Afterwards, we went to Sprouts and enjoyed sandwhiches. Jesusfreakinchrist they were amazing! It was even better since they were only like 3.99 (Deal!)

From there we headed to Home depot. to look at tile for my room and came up with nada. Instead, we bought flowers from the garden center. Though I wish I could buy them all, we got pictures. :)

Ice cream was next on the list since we missed it last night and uhh was it delicious (especially since I hadn't had any sweets in like a month. whoops!). 

On our way back to the car, some weird folks approached us, a girl and guy and the girl was freaking out asking for a ride since she and her brother were running from her crazed boyfriend. We didn't have any room in the car, but she insisted she didn't care whether she had to go in the trunk. She just wanted to get away. Long story short, we didn't give them the ride. Of course, we felt bad but in this insane world, you can't be too cautious.

Maria needed a cover for her new phone so we went to the mall and ended up getting covers for all our phones :) 

It's been a blessed week.

Spring Break day 4 (Day 77)

Things I did today:

Slept in til 12.

Hung out with Ash at home.

Took Maria to get a new phone.

Went to Ross (bought some noice jean capris)

Tried on dresses.

Went for ice cream.

Didn't get ice cream.

Went to Japan Express.

Went home.

Ash came back.

Typed this. 

:)

Spring Break Day 3 (Day 76)

Pei Wei! that's what today was about for me :)

I got together with some friends from school for a night of fun at dinner, and I'm so glad we did because they had never eaten there before! I was surprised, but they loved the food and we ended up having a lot of laughs.

We definitely need to do this more often. :D

Oh and Maria made Enchiladas tonight too, I tried one when I got home and it was Booommmb!

We'll see what tomorrow has in store.

Spring Break Day 2 (Day 75)

Went out to Ultimate Electronics today and Maria purchased a new digital camera!

It was on sale for 80 bucks and we opened it immediately to document our week so far. :)

We stopped at Del Taco for lunch and devoured some shredded beef tacos and cheese crisps. Yum!

 

Barnes & Noble was our next stop, only because I wanted to go there so badly. I bought Hush, Hush (like I'd said at the time I bought Shiver) and enjoyed Starbucks. There's something about bookstores that relax me. I could spend hours there.

When we got home, I saw the neighbor buying corn from the Corn Man that rides his bike and squeaks a bell lol. My sisters and I all looked at each other and ended up buying a delicious mango. The man cut it into petals like a flower, and added chili powder and lemon juice. If you guys haven't eaten one of these ever, I suggest you find a Corn Man and get one!!

Spring Break Day 1 (Day 74)

Today was the first day of Spring Break!

Though the usual list of activities during this school-free week involves partying and drinking and whatnot, I'm spending my time at home! :)

Don't call me a party pooper, cause I never party! haha. I watched Coneheads with my sisters and popped popcorn. I was pretty much a couch potato. Tomorow should involve outings!

Sweet Solitude. (Day 74) Pt. 1

I'm aware Monday isn't over yet, it hasn't even really begun, but I'm still awake and thinking.

Why do I make myself so unreachable? In regards to guys, that is.

To answer answer that without sounding complicated would be a miracle because this is me we're talking about, and that rarely happens. I'm gonna try to keep it simple though, here's my "status":

Single but unavailable, yet so available. However, distant although within reach.

I tried. I really did. I was gonna stop at "unavailable" but that wasn't good enough for me, sorry. haha. There's always more that defines me, and I sometimes wish I could keep it short, but the list grows as I do. Maybe that's why I'm single, I'm too deep. Do all guys really like shallow, simple-minded girls? Oh, to be simple-minded. What's that like?

I'll never know, that's for damn sure. I think way too much, analyze my thoughts, and the words of others too often for my own good, I tend to find symbolism in a lot of things and stay up late...thinking.

This post isn't a cry for a boyfriend though, ohh no, no. I don't even know if Iwant to date right now. I'm trying to figure myself out, and get my career in gear. I'm going to college, studying Audio Production (Music and audio recording to be specific), getting kick-ass grades, and having a good time being me at the moment. Of course, I do think about what it'd be like if I had a special someone right now. I'm a Libra, a sign ruled by the planet of Love, enough said. . .

. . .But if I did have someone, I think my life would be different. This is where I try to put the thought out of my head and pretend that I want to be single forever. I like my life as it is, me living with my family and hanging with my sisters 24/7, going to shows with my best pal, making music in and out of school, and being platonic friends with guys, like I've always been.

I don't think it would be that way if I were committed to someone. I'd probably be living on my own (or with said person if the relationship were that serious), spending the majority of my time with them, you, know, couple things. I'd be less involved with my sisters, probably distracted away from school, distracted away from my music D: and busy being "in love". Though the love part sounds beautiful, I don't think I'm ready yet. I don't want to adjust my life just yet. Does that make me selfish? I try to be as selfless as possibly possible, but I think I may just be selfish in the love sector. I don't know, honestly, I don't.

I want someone, why? because I want to experience giving my heart away to them, and receiving theirs in return. I want to beam, like I do when I hear my favorite music play or write, or when I appreciate beautiful art. I want to actually experience romance first hand, and not just in books or movies. Like the lyric goes, "I want someone to love me for who I am" I really do.

I don't want someone, why not? because I don't like negativity, and with every relationship comes negativity at some point. I wouldn't want to fight or argue, or bicker. I don't want to fear that they have a lack of communication, or fear that they might be unfaithful. I wouldn't want to experience a horrible rejection or letdown either. I'm just not quite ready to expand my heart, though mentally I have been for quite sometime now.

It's like skydiving. The ascent makes you stoked that you got yourself to go through with it, and you want to spring out at any second, but when you've reached the altitude to jump, there's no turning back, you've gotta jump and suddenly you're scared to death and you might just shit your pants. What if your parachute doesn't open? In my case, the ascent has been my life up to now, and while climbing, I've seen some possible opportunities to jump, but didn't because it wasn't time. At this point I've gotten stoked and prepared to fall (in love), but now that I'm at the level to jump, I'm hesitating. I don't want to because I fear I won't be caught in time, I could hit the bottom and shatter. Who will catch me?

It's all about timing isn't it? feck. I'm always talking about how time takes over my life. It's inevitable. I guess to answer my own question, I'm waiting for the right guy, the right time to jump. I think the reason I haven't dated up to this point is because I want to give my whole, intact heart to the person who's my soulmate, who's worth it, who gets me and is even the same way as I am. I need someone who's complicated enough to understand how I work, but simple enough to pull me aside every now and then and say "hey, it's alright, it'll be okay" Note that I said simple, not simple-minded ;) I want him to be family-oriented and mature, but silly, funny, random, and nerdy. I know he's out there somewhere.

He's most likely a musician. hah, go figure. Maybe when we do cross paths, I'll be ready, and old enough. Somehow I know every piece of this puzzle I call my life will fall neatly into place. I've gotta have faith in that.

For now, I like being solo, I'm young, and I'm used to it. In the same sense I'm not entirely alone, I'm blessed enough to be surrounded by people who love/like me anyway: family, friends, classmates. Right now, that's beyond good enough. :)

Couch Potato. (Day 73)

My day in a nutshell: TV, lunch, tv, dishes, tv, trash, and more tv.

Ugh, I hardly ever watch the tele anymore but there wasn't much to do today. Definitely a lazy sunday, but I'm glad I got to relax. Oh and I'm pumped that I get to sleep in tomorrow! Spring Break! yuss.

Maria and I spent the remainder of the evening watching Celebrity Apprentice (which we've never seen) and ended up staying tuned in for the whole 2 hours haha. What's even funnier is that my mom was in my room watching 16 & Pregnant. what's wrong with this picture? ha.

Man, I better be more active tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Hangs. (Day 72)

Went to Chin's house today to hang out and watch movies for her birthday! Ginger went, as did Ashley, Nick, and Logan....and his didgeridoo. ha.

We saw Fight Club, which I hadn't seen before. Chin made brownies (but I didn't have any thanks to crap Lent. whoops, I mean Lent.) and we ate popped corn that was real good! I got her an iTunes gift card, and a birthday card that was Transformers themed. aww yeah. Go Bumblebee!

It was a good time, though I had to leave a little earlier. I enjoyed while I was there, and glad to have gone :)

Happy Birthday Yunchin!

Double-Take. (Day 71)

Sooo. . .

I had my last day of class before Spring Break today, and just for the hell of it, wore the new black wedge sandals I got a week ago. It took a bit of self-debate to finally decide to wear them, seeing as I'm already 5'8''. Nonetheless, I thought, "what the hell" it's the last day of class for a week anyway, might as well play up my outfit for a bit of change hah. It took a little getting used to, but since they were solid wedges, I didn't have any problem walking in them. :) It helped amp up my black jean and off-the-shoulder "Doors" shirt (which I cut up myself) ensemble quite a bit!

I received some nice compliments throughout the day, but got more double-takes from dudes around campus than anything else. It weirded me out a little, since I'm not used to such attention, being "one of the guys" in my audio classes and whatnot, and made me look in other directions when I felt the gazes (shy much?). Anyway, I guess in girl's world that's good, right? soo...thanks...guys...

...but to add my two cents: I'm not something to be stared at, like an object for viewing pleasure. Unless you have reason to; for instance, if I had something on my face, or if you had something to say to me that could spark my attention and result in good conversation, that'd be fine with me, maybe. haha.

To Self: Why do I make myself so unreachable? 

I wish I could answer that. Single but unavailable, yet so available, however, distant although within reach.

This is me.

Grays. (Day 70)

I don't really have much to say about the day, other than I went to a meeting on campus despite the fact I had no class. Got some stuff done for the upcoming event I mentioned last time, and I'm feeling good about our plans once again.

Oh, and by the way, I heat-styled my hair this evening and completely forgot about the fact that I have a ton of gray hairs at the back of my head. Hahah, seems ridiculous to have them at my age, but perhaps it has something to do with me being an old soul? Maybe I think too much. My previous posts support that 100%

Father Time Is One Strict Bastard. (Day 69)

I try to meet the deadlines, but you can't seem to cut me a break.

I plan in advance, and do everything it takes.

The walls keep closing in no matter how fast I try to go,

You're always faster, and I'm always slow.

But I won't give in, I'll keep it up.

You'll gain on me, I know you will

And give me that push so I don't stand still.

After all, how can the world keep turning as fast as it is

If we're not constantly running to make it spin?

Tick Tock, Goes the Clock.

-Angela-

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So I've been working super hard with my fellow MEChA Club members in trying to get our Cesar Chavez event all set to go for the 31st of this month, and after weeks of planning, we were finally ready to submit our expenditure request only to find it's kind of too late. Ugh this sucks ass. It's like there's never enough time for anything lately. We're not gonna give up yet though! time for alternatives! :D haha.

FECK.

Can You Dig It? (Day 68)

I had my Protools exam today and aced it with 100% I'm so happy. I was a little worried at first because I was going to be required to demonstrate how to set up certain things like an effects loop on an Aux return using sends (confusing ish for a gal!) haha. Anyway, I managed to remember everything without having studied (whoops), but I got it. :)

Here's the sunset:



ANDDD a piece of dead bamboo + roots that I pulled from my yard. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you....Edward Scissor Plant! :o

Suddenly Monday. (Day 67)

Oh my, my. It's Monday already? wow, time is going so fast lately. Ususally I'd say crap, but right now I'm cool with it because spring break is next week! I'm glad, but I kinda think I'll miss school :x pretend I didn't say that just now.

I saw a blimp today--yea I'm changing the subject--and took a picture!

Typewriter. (Day 66)

Dear Internet,

I've been typing this story l came up with on Friday and it's taking over my soulll! I admit, it's really entertaining, but completely time consuming. I don't mind it, but I should be planning final projects for recording class right now! haha.

Uhhh...oh well. It's a nice change. Granted, I'm still writing, but in a different sense. It's new for me. I might even want to look into publishing this bad boy. Maybe I'll be one of those one-hit-wonders...but in literature. What would we call that?