So college is slowly killing me. Just kidding, it's not killing me but I've been really overwhelmed and today is only the FOURTH day of classes. I have to read a chapter for psychology, do some chem problems (which takes like 2 hours each), do a chem prelab, write an essay, and so lots and lots and tons and tons of reading. I can handle the work, but the reading! ahhh.. that is one thing I hardly did at Notre Dame. I read what was needed to be read, or I read sparknotes or something. But here at UCSC, I don't know what to expect yet, so I am actually doing EACH and EVERY assignment ahead of time, instead of procrastinating.

My Jonathan issue is slowly killing me as well. He's not causing me any problems or anything, but I can't stand the distance between us! Even though it's just a 40 minute drive, I can't see him every day like I used to. It's hard to communicate on the phone because long distance is not allowed on our dorm phone--unless you have a phone card (but I wasted mine already)--so the only time we talk is at night when his minutes are free. I don't see our relationship going down the drain or anything.. no no no.. I just miss him! I can't get used to this! And when I finally in San Jose, his stupid work makes him work stupid hours so the only time we can go out is like at 2am when we're both tired as hell. I guess it's better than not seeing him at all, but I miss living in San Jose when we lived 10 minutes away from each other! I miss you dammit.

Back to Santa Cruz.
So my Jonathan came to Santa Cruz again and he had lunch with Sher, Meg, and I. Since I had one more class before my day was over, he stayed in my dorm and played cs. I was falling asleep in the car on the way home because we were listening to some slow jams. Jonathan had to go straight to work so I napped on the couch. Jonathan and I went to Mercado to watch a midnight movie. He bought the tickets, the food, the drinks, and we were settled. For some reason, I was uncomfortable, cold, and sleepy, so I asked him if we could just go home. He hesitated for a while, but we did. Back at my house we watched TV and fell asleep on the floor. Jonathan claimed that I "hogged" all the space, but ummm.. it was the floor! We woke up early and picked up Sherilyn and Ellison and all of us headed to Ikea. We bought a lot more crap for our dorm. The way back was kind of funny because Sherilyn was getting pissed at Ellison for misplacing her student ID. We drove back to Ikea and as I opened my door so they could go back into the store, I see Sher's ID on the rug behind the passenger seat. After we dropped them off, Jonathan went to work AGAIN. So I stayed home and played with my new Ikea stuff. I painted all of the wooden picture frames pink and orange and I began to pack more of my shit. Jonathan dropped by again after work and picked up the stuff he left in my car at Ikea. After dropping his crap off at his apartment, he comes back to my house and we go to sleep right away. This time he didn't complain about me hogging anything. He wasn't there when I woke up because for the 3rd time, he had work. So I finished my homework and finished packing the rest of my crap. Right when Jonathan returned from work and family bonding time, we went to Walmart to buy some more last minute things. My sister tagged along because she wanted to see my dorm. So we get back today around 6ish and at 10 we finish fixing everything up. Last week when we moved in, it took us ONE hour (tops) to unpack and put everything in its place. While we're rearranging our room, my sister chats/plays cs and Jonathan naps on my bed. Then it was time to say goodbye to my lovely boyfriend and my lovely sister. Bleh.. I have class tomorrow.. and lots of homework coming up. College is pretty overwhelming.

Jonathan. Yeah I know this is like the gazillionth time I've blogged today, but dam, I only had ONE class today, I have NO hw, Jonathan's at work, and so this college girl has A LOT of free time on her hands (for now). So anyway, that's my lovely boyfriend. I wanted to blog about him because ever since I've moved here (last week), I've made a lot of realizations. I've observed many different couples in my lifetime, and I've also been in other relationships other than this one. I can honestly say that this is the REALEST one, and I guess the only REAL one, because come on now, the other ones were like bopper bops. Anyway, it still gets to me at times when I think about our history... and dam, we have LOTS of history. Sher and I are listening to slow jams and one of the tracks was "I don't wanna go on" by Innerlude, and I remembered dancing with Jonathan to the song in 7th grade. That was freakin 6 years ago! Not a lot of couples can say that. The fact that we broke up for almost 2 years gets to me sometimes, but I think during that time, we both grew up and appreciated each other even more. We both admitted to each other that even though we were in other relationships, the vision of "us" would come often. But now that we're back together, things have been GREAT. YES, we fight here and there, and YES, I MAY boss him around, but that's how our relationship works. But no one ever sees Jonathan's bad side because he's an all around great guy, but I have. So I'm not always the "bad guy" in this relationship. It's weird having this feeling for someone. I had these feelings for Jonathan when we were together at the end of middle school/beginning of highschool, but it was because he was my first boyfriend. It felt weird being with him for such a long time at such a young age because I freakin hit the jackpot the first try.. so I guess that's why I doubted us. But now, no more doubts. I appreciate him so much because I know for a fact that there is no other guy in the world who would treat me the way he treats me. He treats me like a princess (like how all girls deserve to be treated) and he's there for me when I need him. We know each other from the inside out--from favorite colors to the way we eat our food. We're so damn comfortable with each other that even though I look like crap sometimes (i.e. just getting out of bed), I know he'll still give me a hug. It's been hard not seeing him as a routine, but we're both managing. We talk on the phone everyday (and online), so it's still the same. I can't wait to see him tomorrow because he's picking me up from school and is taking me home to San Jose. That's another thing about Jonathan, he'll drive anywhere for anyone, especially me. He's not shady at all.. not even about gas, and I know that I can be shady with gas, because damn, that crap is expensive. But not my Jonathan. The only thing he complains about is his dirty glasses that I have to clean once in a while, but that's it. When he's dead tired, and I am in need of a ride home, he'll get up (grumpy) and take me home. Another thing I find quite amazing is that ever since we've been back together, I've never once paid for a movie.. well maybe once or twice when ATMs aren't accepted. He opens doors for me and walks me to my door after going out (well after some training). But all the materialistic stuff doesn't really matter, I just love him. I love the way he holds his fork to the way he plays the piano, from the way he gels his hair to the movement he does when he has a wedgie, from the way he puts his head on top of mine when we hug to the way he plays chess with my sister, from the way he farts after taking weight gainer to the way he sings along to john mayer songs in the car, from the way he plays counterstike to the way he uses his Axe body spray, from the comfortable way he picks my nose to the way he "works out", from the way he drools when he sleeps to the way he holds my hand, from the way he puts FINESS conditioner on his nothing hair to the way he moves around when he's hungry, from the way he laughs at me when I yell at him to the way he TRIES to get mad me. I can go on forever about him because he truly is the love of my life. He puts up with SO MUCH from me and I am sooooooooooooooo thankful for him. He's my best friend and my boyfriend. YES, I may comment on "hot boys" here and there, but no one could ever replace my Jonathan. He's never given me a reason to not trust him. He knows my deepest secrets and my pet peeves. I never have to worry about him judging me because he never has (since the first day we met when I was in 1st grade). We hardly ever say "I love you" to each other, but every time I hear it, it feels like the first time I heard those words from him. The tingly warm feeling and the butterflies still haven't gone away, and I hope they never will. I don't want to say that I'm going to be with him forever because A LOT can change from now until forever, but I know I wouldn't mind at all. But for now, I am COMPLETELY happy, and he's never given me a reason not to be. I love you Jonathan, you NOSEPICKER! I'm not trying to brag about my wonderful Jonathan, but I am and he is. If you've never been in one of these relationships, then you probably think I'm stupid.. eh well.

Dam I'm hella freakin tired right now. Sher and I worked out at the gym for about 40 minutes, ate dinner, then rushed to the community lounge in Mehgan's building to watch "Friends". I love that show. I'm going home tomorrow! whoohoo! I've missed San Jose, especially the boyfriend ;)

OOhh yeah, I had my FIRST college class today, Intro to Psychology, and it seems pretty ok. Ms Burson did a great job when I took Psych at ND. K.. time to get ready for bed because I have a 8am class in the morning.

ok. since i'm bored, i guess it's time to post pictures of the lovely dorm of the princesses.


so here's my lovely bed. sheels and i have matching bedsheets now!


this is the area in between our beds. we're thinking about putting a table where the carebears are.


Sherilyn's purple princess bed.


Here's my desk.. well part of it.


That's Sherilyn at her desk.


our lovely towels. guess which one belongs to who.


I just wanted to take another picture. So here's my rug.


and last but certainly not least.. UCSC condoms! it's kinda blurry because my hand was shaking while holding the webcam but you can see the yellow condom with the blue banana slug on the wrapper. haha.. i got this from the health center.. does your school have it's own kind of condoms? THE END FOR NOW.

HELL YEAH! I DID BETTER MY SECOND TIME AROUND!!!!!! A LOT BETTER! Math 19A whoop whoop! but I think I'm just gonna take 11A... I don't want to die my first year of college.

Well Sher and I retook the math test again today because dam, we BARELY missed Calculus by missing a few problems. We both THINK we did better, so hopefully we did and we got into Calculus and not freakin PreCalc again. We walked around to find some of our classrooms to avoid getting lost the first week of school. ahh school starts tomorrow! But thank goodness I only have one tomorrow.. which is Psych that starts at 10 and ends at 12. After doing some hw and napping, we decided to go to the gym. After walking a million miles and going in circles, we finally find it. I think our sense of direction is getting better... HOPEFULLY! I talked to the boyfriend for a while and started crying because his friend who shall remain nameless is a fuckhead. Anyway, after burning the calories at the gym, Sher and I are gaining them back. That's a picture of our fridge filled with lots of goodies..(we got more stored away like a BIG BOX filled with food from our moms). Time to stuff our faces because the dining hall is CLOSED for tonight! AHHH!

UCSC Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Frolic
So the boys planned to come down and visit us again, so Sher and I ran around campus getting tickets, meals, and information about guests and visitors and parking and meal plans and blah blah blah. They were supposed to leave at 1, but Jonathan wanted to go to his next class to turn in some stuff, so I said sure because I didn't want him skipping his classes.. AND he said that he would leave at 3pm. But it was so typical of Jonathan to leave at 4pm.. a WHOLE hour after the time he said. So he picked up Ellison and instead of going to SC straight, they get freakin pizza. AND WE TOLD THEM NOT TO EAT BECAUSE WE ALREADY BOUGHT DINNER FOR THEM!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, by the time they arrived, Sher and I were pissed.. really pissed, so we had them follow us like lost puppies. We went to the OPERS Festival first to sign up for FSA then planned to go to the Frolic. Eventually, we all made up and everything was better. Sher and Ellison were still eating so Jonathan and I headed back to my dorm so I could change my shoes. The bus ride was freakin crazy! The driver drove hella fast and made sharp ass turns down and up the mountain.. right when we get to the dorm, I see Sher trying to come in through the window (what a nerd). Apparently, Ellison carried Sher on his back from where OPERS was all the way to College Ten.. haha.. dam! Finally, the four of us drove to the Boardwalk.. it was pretty and lively.. well in my opinion. I just love the beach. We went our separate ways for a while. So Jonathan and I got on that one ride that goes over the Boardwalk.. well it's not really a ride.. but it was pretty scary because your feet are dangling in air! Then we ride the Giant Dipper and dam.. I got kinda dizzy because it's been quite a while since the last time I rode a rollercoaster. Next we stopped at this bowling ball game. You know the one where you push the ball over that little hill and if it doesn't roll back then you win a prize. Well Jonathan got one roll, but we needed one more to get CHEERBEAR! After $3, freebee rolls from the worker, and the worker actually just stopping the ball, we get it! haha.. We started standing in line for Funnel Cake but it was too long so we just got Churros and Icees. We found Ellison and Sher and she got SHAREBEAR! Now we both have matching bears to put in our dorm. We wanted to go bowling, but it was an hour wait so we just went back to the dorm. Jonathan and I went driving around because Sherilyn didn't want to check her math score with all of us in the room.. we went back and the both of us made Precalc.. I guess that's ok, but we wanted Calculus. The boys raced to the car (with us on their backs) and Jonathan and I won.. whoop whoop. Then Sher and I were bored again so we visited Ryan, but he was already in his sleeping clothes.. so now we're back in our room missing our boyfriends.. but I know when we talk to them tonight, we're gonna be yelling at them.. oh well, it's all out of love! We love you boys and happy anniversary Jonathan (9/23)!!!!! happy anniversary to Sher and Ell too (9/24).

oh yeah.. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY JONATHANNNNN!!!!!!!! 5 years and 3 months since the first time we got together!

Sherilyn and I ran more errands today.. went to a Financial Aid meeting.. some Floor meetings.. picked up our last textbook at Slug Books.. and blah blah blah. OH yeah we took the Math Placement Test and oh my.. I surely forgot EVERYTHING I learned. My neck was aching after we took it.. there were 60 questions for 1.5 hours and I didn't even have enough time to finish. bleh whatever, I'll take it again until I'm satisfied with my score. Anyway, right after our RA meeting, our boyfriends came!!!!! ahh we were both so excited because the last time we saw them was on Friday when we moved in. So the four of us went to TACO BELL! Fast food never tasted so good then headed downtown. We were going to watch a movie, but then we didn't want the boys driving home too late.. so we went back to our dorm and took a short nap (yeah we're lazy asses). We finally got up and we showed them around campus.. well not really.. just to Mehgan and her roommate Diana's dorm. We walked the boys to the car, kissed them goodbye, then went back to Meg's dorm to watch "Love and Basketball". We were falling asleep on Meg's bed so we decided to go back to our dorms. Things are slowly getting better here at UCSC.. I'm enjoying it.

Earlier today when my mom called, I cried to her telling her about how dumb some of the people are here. I told her how much I hated being on my own.. and she basically told me to suck it up because it's almost the real world. But seriously, some of the people here still think they're in highschool. But as the day went by, things got SOOOO MUCH BETTER. All of the people on our floor finally moved in today, so it's not so lonely and the people are really nice. We kept our door open and they walked in and introduced themselves.. pretty cool. Sher and I did some shopping at the Bookstore then went back to our dorm. We were getting fed up with the maintenence people not answering their phone because we still needed my ethernet plug to be fixed--so we fixed it ourselves. We went to our neighbors and got a screw driver and we fixed it! So now the both of us can go online at the same time.

We just got back from Slug Fest.. the first gathering for all the UCSC students. It was kinda boring at first, but then it turned out pretty fun. We ate, danced, drank water, and watched other people make fools out of themselves. A lot of sorority girls were trying to get us interested.. we'll see about that. We met LOTS of new people who actually stayed and had conversations with us.. blah blah blah.. I'm tired now so I'm gonna call my lovely boyfriend before I go to bed.

Last night, Sherilyn and I stayed up til almost 3am talking about highschool. Highschool is an experience I will never ever forget.. it really was the best four years of my life (so far). I made a lot of friendships.. some worked and some didn't work.. but everything that has happened, happened for a reason. We talked about friendships.. and I guess you can say that the both of us were "sellouts" this summer because all we did was go out with our boyfriends exclusively, and not really our friends, but shoot.. we would have spent more time with them if it were possible. We spent every day of highschool with our friends.. THIS summer was the only one we had with our boyfriends before going away for college.

Anyway, I guess you can say we were kind of hurt by a few things we read online last night.

You know someone is your true friend if you're able to pick up from where you left off, no matter how much time has passed you by. A single moment shouldn't change everything.. I think it's the bigger picture that really matters. I guess what I'm saying is that when I think of highschool (as a whole), I remember ALL of my friends, not just the FEW I spent with during the summer.

So to everyone who has been a part of my highschool life, thank you. If I never talk to you again, then good luck with your life. There are a few of you I truly will miss. EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON

Day 2 @ Santa Cruz
I don't really feel like blogging about our adventures about today, but I guess it's getting better. There are a whole bunch of snobby ass bitches that I want to kick in the face, but other than that, it's cool. If I didn't have Sherilyn, I'd probably be dying right now. The both of us are missing our boyfriends terribly so they're going to visit us on Monday (THEY BETTER!!!!!). The highlight of our day was going out of campus and to 7-11! It was freakin hot like a mother, so we bought SLURPEES! Oh yeah and more highlights were seeing some people we knew.. Dianne and Michelle visited and we showed them our dorm. Meg stopped by with Mike who came to drop off her laptop.. we visited her too and made fun of her big basin of food. And we went to Oakes to visit Ben.. their dorms look so much older than ours, but it seems more friendly there. K I'm tired, I don't want to blog anymore.

UCSC HERE I AM!
Sherilyn and I moved into our dorm today.. it's really spacious. We thought that our dorm was on the 5th floor, but it's actually the very bottom floor that we're not on the FIRST floor, we're on the ZERO-TH floor. Yes, floor 0.. haha. I guess it's kinda cool if you think about it.. but we're 2 out of the 3 freshmen on this floor because the others are transfer students who didn't move in yet. So yeah, it's REALLY QUIET. At least the bathroom is nextdoor to us and we don't have to share it with a lot of people.

But anyway, before settling in, my mom, grandma, jonathan, sher's parents, and ellison helped us with the clothes and just helped us to settle in. We walked them all to the shuttle bus and said our goodbyes. Finally our independence started.. we took the bus BY OURSELVES to the bookstore and made it there safely.. but on the way back there was a problem. We ended up taking 2 different buses (after going around in a circle) before returning to our dorm. Sher stole a bus schedule that was taped to a bulletin board. At the bookstore, we bought our books (hella expensive) and looked around... yadda yadda. Back at our dorm we did more rearranging for a few hours.. got pretty bored. Then we had some icebreakers with the people on floor zero and the first floor (we all have the same RA whos pretty cool).. ate dinner at the bbq.. then went to this meeting with all of college ten (where we're staying). I'm too tired to type anymore.

But I guess I'll type some more. So right now I'm back in my dorm room and Sher is plopped on her bed. It's a freakin friday night and we're going to bed SOON.. ahhh. I'm going crazy.. and I'm hungry and thirsty.. but we can't do anything cus we don't have a fridge yet.. and we can't call long distance on our dorm phone and we went through HELL in just connecting to the internet- we used gum, tape, and tweezers in order to get connected. eh.. I don't want to explain. Maybe I'll post some pictures later but for now it's time to sleep because I'm tired.

I am exhausted right now, but at least I am finally done packing. I have 8 things that need to be CARRIED up to the FIFTH floor tomorrow morning.. those 8 things are a hamper full of bedsheets and pillows, a suitcase full of clothes, a duffel bag full of more pillows/stuffed animals/toiletrees, backpack with school supplies, shoulder bag for laptop stuff, a box with my printer/radio/clock, another bag full of shoes and flipflops, and one last bag with my bedsheets. It's going to be a bitch carrying all of that since there are no elevators (according to Mehgan).

Jonathan and I did A LOT of last minute shopping today too before packing. We went to Frys, Target, and Walmart.. and one last cotillion practice (for now). I guess I'm going to sleep now since Jonathan is already knocked out on my bed but I have to wake him up soon because the poor dear has work until 6am! good night!

I had a pretty long day yesterday. Jonathan picked me up around 4 and we headed to the Bart station in Fremont. I NEEDED food so we made a quick detour to kfc and got some popcorn chicken. We took bart and got off on balboa park where sfcc is and Nate hooked us up with dinner for a quarter! We went back to the bart station and got off where we had to take a bus to pacbell park. There were lots of people there at the game and we got pretty good seats. I was uncomfortable though because I had nothing to lean on. Barry Bonds hit a ball over the stadium wall and into the water, and a person who was in a boat on the water straight up dove into the water to get the ball.. pretty crazy. We left during the top of the 9th inning to avoid the traffic, but there were 2042904382394 other people doing just the same thing, so it didn't really work. The Giants won and we took a free busride to the bart station.. when we got on bart we saw Anthony who was just coming home from school.. it was 10 at night too. He showed us some shortcuts and we got home a little faster. Then Jonathan and I picked up Sherilyn and headed to Jaysen's for our big sleepover, but they weren't there yet so we went back to Sher's. I drove back to Jaysen's and it took foreverrrrr getting to his house from the maingate, but we found it just fine. Sher and I stole Josh's couch so he had to sleep on the floor. Sher transferred to the floor later on that night so I got the couch to myself. The boys played Madden then watched "Dumb and Dumber". I fell asleep towards the middle of it around 4am. I woke up at 8am because everyone was awake.. I wanted to sleeep so baddddddd but it was too bright at his house so I just stayed awake. We ate cereal, played jenga, watched the boys play Madden, and ALMOST watched "Saved by the Bell" but Daryl broke the TV. After lounging around, the boys wanted to swim, so us girls just watched them and Sher's dad came to pick us up. Now I'm at home.. I should be packing since I'm leaving in the morning, but I think I'm gonna go catch up on my sleep.



I'm going to miss you all!!! Good luck to all of you during your first year at UCSC..whoohoo (Sher, Ben, Vivian, Michelle, Dianne, Mehgan), UCB (Linn), UCD (Joshie), UCI (Jenna, Michelle, Daryl, Kristian, Blanco, Lou), UCLA (Jaysen), Stanford (Barry), SCU (Jenn, Dick, Chris Nug, Mariel), USF (Chris Lic, Jeremy, Nicole), SJSU (Eileen, Remy), Evergeen (Sheila), De Anza (Henessey, Dominick, Lisa, Chris, and a shit load of you), Academy of Art (Cesar), CalPoly Pomona (Angie), and CalPoly SLO (Diana).

My dear bubby left his wireless card in my laptop so I get to use it! whoohoo! So I had a lot of time on my hands today since my significant other was at school.. so I watched TLC all day long.. "A Makeover Story" "A Dating Story" "Second Chance" and "Perfect Proposal". I gave myself a french manicure too.. I was that bored. Later on I got dropped off at cotillion practice and went on a voyage with Lisa, Kim, and Angie to Jollibee (which just opened today). We were hoping to buy food there for cotillion practice but it was an hour wait and we had to get a ticket with a number in order to wait in line.. pretty crazy so we decided to get kfc/taco bell for dinner. We practiced.. fun times.. Jonathan came.. more practice.. ate dinner. Back at my house I FINALLY started to pack while Jonathan laid on my bed watching me (thanks!). Oh wait, but he did help me fold SOME clothes. I managed to pack my clothes and shoes. I think I overpacked but you can never have too much. Hopefully tomorrow I can go school supply/toiletree/last minute shopping. I was lucky that "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" was on again, so I made Jonathan watch it with me and he was pretty entertained! Now he is gone and I am bored.

Last weekend update of the summer.
Jonathan and I made yet another voyage on Friday to Ikea so he could buy stuff for his apartment. Afterwards, we made our usual trip to McDonald's after shopping at Ikea and went back to his place. We assembled that desk of his which took a lot of hard work, but we did it! Later that night, I picked up Sheila and the both of us went to Applebees for Diana's goodbye dinner. There were lots of people and not a lot of seating available, but everything turned out fine. Diana, Sherilyn, Sheila, Henessey, Eileen, and I stayed outside of Applebees for 2 hours just talking and catching up. It felt like the old times we had at ND just laughing until our tummies hurt and not caring how loud we were. I HOPE YOU'RE HAVING A GREAT TIME in SLO DIANA! I LOVE YOU!

Saturday morning I had cotillion practice. Right when I arrived, there was a little workshop going on. We were making placecards for Lisa's cotillion.. really intricate and detailed placecards. So a few of us in the court had to trace 120 paper dresses, shoes and silver rectangles, 240 paper placecards, and 84 tiaras.. then we had to cut EACH and EVERY one out.. then came the gluing, more cutting, and the best part, the glitter! I wish I had a picture of the placecards, but if you're lucky enough to be invited, then you'll see them. We managed to make all 240 placecards and FINISH them.. now that's skill. We practiced some chacha and swing.. but it was mostly "workshop" time. I went back home and Jonathan picked me up right when he got out of work. We ran some errands and headed to Michael's 21st birthday party (happy birthday mike). We sat outside the entire time and just talked with people.. doesn't sound that exciting but I had fun. Then Jonathan, Joel, and I went back to Lisa's house to meet up with Lisa, Chris, Mike I, and Angie before watching "Cabin Fever". It was a very disturbing movie, but it was good I guess.

I ran more errands with Jonathan on Sunday, but we went to church. We planned to go to Mercado and watch a movie, but instead we rented some movies and watched them back at my house.

Today I called Sheila right when I woke up (happy 18th birthday sheee shee!) then forced Jonathan out of bed. We had plans to eat breakfast at IHOP since we haven't done that in a while, but it was 1pm by the time he picked me up so we ate SUSHI! Surprisingly, I didn't eat as much sushi as I usually would, but then I got a lot of extra things like salad, soup, and mochi ice cream. After that Jonathan wanted to go to the Guitar Center.. the way he looks at the guitars and the way he plays is so adorable that I wish I had a million dollars so I could buy him every single guitar he wanted. Later that night, we went back to his apartment because of this CutCo presentation. His cousin/roommate Raymon spent $150 on knives.. pretty crazy.. but those knives are pretty crazy. They're crazy because his other cousin/roommate cut himself somehow.. his fault but still looked pretty painful. I watched "Paradise Hotel" before leaving then my dearest, bubby brought me home. I talked to my OTHER dearest, Diana.. the college life is treating her well.

Stupid Jonathan
I guess this boy is really special because here I go about to blog about him again. So our story began late this afternoon when Jonathan decided to make a copy of the key to his new apartment. We headed over to the Jamba Juice in McCarthy Rance because his cousin Justin, who works there and is also his roommate, had a key to make a copy out of. The three of us head over to Walmart to get a duplicate key. Jonathan grabs his new blue apartment key and is excited like a little boy in a toystore filled with G.I. Joe and Power Rangers. Just like a little boy, he drops everything but his new toy (the key) and we head out of the store. When we got to the car, Jonathan asks me for the car keys.. I didn't have them! We check in my purse, in his pockets.. they were no where to be found. Jonathan concludes that he left the keys in the trunk of his car so he calls his mom to come. The two of us head back into Walmart to double check that key counter where he got his duplicate key made, and what do we find? Not only his car keys, but his cell phone as well nicely sitting on top of the counter. We tell his mom not to come anymore. We ended up wasting about an hour.. an hour which we could have used to eat our yummy burritos from La Victoria.

Independent Jonathan
Yesterday I helped Jonathan move into his new apartment with his 2 cousins. First, we carried his mattress into the car then packed his clothes into a hamper, into a suitcase, and in random places in the car. Then we brought his pictures, STUFFED ANIMALS (well from me of course), shoes, and other things we thought he would need. We didn't bother packing EVERYTHING because his mom is making him visit every Sunday. You can tell by the look in her eyes that she didn't want him to move. She kept asking him why he was in a rush to move out, but he's been planning to over these past weeks. We made quick detours here and there and finally arrived at the apartment. The room was in need of rearranging since Jonathan's bed was going to be moved in. I let those boys take care of that while I watched "Paradise Hotel". Once the room was settled (3 hours later), I helped Jonathan make his bed, fold all of his clothes (including some holey underwear =) haha), and then finally rest. Jonathan dropped me off around 130am. I felt pretty weird because Jonathan would get 234098234092834092348 phone calls if he were to come home around that time. Anyway, I was pooped when I came home, so I hit the sack right away. Today, we've got more moving to do. In a way, it's pretty exciting!

My mother woke me up bright and early as we made our way to the oral surgeon's office. They took an x-ray of my teeth, made me take out ALL of my jewelry, and showed me a 9 minute video about wisdom teeth. After all of that mumbo jumbo and getting scared out of my mind, I am told that I am no longer getting the teeth pulled due to some insurance complications! What a relief. I got back in the car with my mom still scared, but I realized that there was nothing to be scared of! But then I got scared again that she's rescheduling my appointment in December when I come home for winter vacation. dammit.

I found this a few weeks ago when I was cleaning my room. It brought back a lot of memories. It was written sophomore year on April 9, 2001.. also the same year Jonathan and I broke up for good. The assignment was to write down random words that popped into mind first then choose 50 to write a poem with just those words. I love this poem because it sums up our relationship and our break up and the way I still felt about him afterwards. I dunno, you enjoy.

FLAME
tender lips, soft eyes
sun, stars, night skies

blue tears, pink hearts
me, you drifted a p a r t

exhilarating smile
very long while

tangible touch
just enough

eternal promise always, broken
somber words quietly spoken

lost hope, compassion
first love, no real reason

love, lonelieness, life
angel of mine
orange conflagration

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEREMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went out to lunch with Jenn and Diana today. It was the best because guess where we went to eat lunch at? NOTRE DAME!!!!! Our beloved Alma Mater. We ate chicken taquitos in the the oh so memorable SLC. I said hi to Mrs Riley and saw a picture of her NEW homeroom in her office today =( But it's ok because we'll always be her first homeroom. So after we went to Mehgan's house to visit and Genevieve was there! We just talked in Meg's room for a while and caught up. I miss those girl days.

The highlight of my day was when Jonathan was yelling at me. It was so unlike him and kinda cute so I just laughed while he was yelilng at me.. then he laughed.. and then no more yelling.

I'm getting my wisdom teeth pulled tomorrow morning at 9am. Please pray for me.

Friday was a bad day. Someone and I got into a fight which led us to walking out on Diana Villiard Ellison and Sherilyn during "The Order". If I go into detail, someone might get mad. We talked for a while then went to pick up Joanne and her bf at the ND mixer. It brought back a lot of memories. Too bad highschool is over for me, but I'm sure going to miss getting beautified for mixers and formals.. especially slow dancing with someone special. In N Out was our next stop because we were hungry.

Saturday began pretty bad again. A lot of unecessary things were said.. but in the end things got better. Father Kevin came to our house early in the morning to bless all of the rooms, the front and backyard, and our cars. It's a nice feeling in a way. Then some of my friends started showing up then my family. Before my family showed up though, Sheila, Rems, Ei, Di, and Villiard headed over to Gothic and we left with one new tongue pierced buddy--Ei. Now it's Rem's and Di's turn.. haha yeah right. Those two are (a direct quote from Sheila) "pussies". We went back to my house warming/going away party and a little more people were there. We spent the night playing 13, watching DVDs, sitting around, talking, eating, the regular stuff my friends and I do when we're together. Jonathan came after work and did some more card playing and tv watching. After all of my friends left, I watched "Bad Boys 2" and fell asleep until Jonathan woke me up. We hung out then called it a night.

Today I did nothing, and I probably will do nothing. I woke up and some of my relatives were still here.. I guess they were playing cards all night. Anyway, someone is acting up again, so I don't know what to do anymore. But then again, everything is always my fault anyways.

My day started at 7am with my mother, aunt, and I headed over to Half Moon Bay for my grandma's funeral.. a grandma on my mom's side, but not my mom's mom. Anyway, It was nice seeing some relatives I haven't seen in a while.. and they ALL said the same exact thing to me: "Nonette! Is that you? You're so big now!" It was kinda funny because I haven't grown since the 5th grade. I was exhausted by the time I came home so I napped on the couch until Jonathan came over. We napped/watched tv then headed to cotillion practice. It was pretty fun because we were doing some hard swing moves. Then Jonathan, Joel, Lisa, and I took a fieldtrip to McDonald's. We had exactly $50 to spend, and we spent $49.05.. dam we're good. Most of us watched "Temptation Island 3" then Jonathan and I left right after and played 13 with my sister.

I slept in my sister's room last night because I was a little freaked out from "Freddy vs Jason". Jonathan brought me to McDonalds when he came home from yoga class then we picked up our sisters and brought them home. Wow today was boring, I just went online and took a nap and watched "Paradise Hotel".

So it's been a pretty long labor day weekend. Jonathan touched up on it a bit but let's see.. FRIDAY morning, Jonathan and I headed to the new Ikea in Palo Alto to meet up with my aunt. It was pretty crazy and chaotic there. First of all, there were security people making us park at the wayyyyyyy back on top of the roof, second, everyone in Ikea had to evacuate due to a false fire alarm, so there were lots of people standing outside with Ikea bags. Lastly, the lines were "dmv" lines like Jonathan said. My aunt bought me all the new stuff for my room and just some stuff for my dorm. We had a chance to get our entire purchase for free, but the people behind us got the yellow pom pom.. eh well. After Ikea, Jonathan and I assembled a desk, a table, and some other "assembly required" stuff. Later that night, Jonathan and I headed to his cousin Raymond's party, and also his future apartment. We ate, played 13 with some people, then headed to Joel's for his little get together at his house. Jonathan and I watched people play circle of death, had some drinks, then went home. He stayed the night at my house because his parents were out of town, and my mom and step dad were getting ready to leave to LA.

SATURDAY morning we were up bright and early because Jonathan had work at 7am. After he left, I went back to sleep for a while then woke up about an hour later. My mom and step dad left for LA, so my sister and I just chilled at home. I rearranged my room then Jonathan picked us up and we went to Great Mall to drop off Joanne and her friends, and so I could buy a quick outfit for the twins' cotillion. The cotillion was adorable because it was a double cotillion at the Double Tree! Afterwards, we made some detours to check up on his sister, then we went back to my house and fell asleep in my sister's room.

SUNDAY, Jonathan, Leanna, and I ate cereal, then Jonathan cooked bacon for Leanna. His parents were expected to arrive, so he had to pick up his sis and spend quality time with them. Jonathan came back, but I was napping in my sister's room drooling away. Before I knew it, we were both sleeping. It was too late to go to church, so we watched cable and Jonathan went home. Finally my mother came home, but it was too late for me to go out.

MONDAY morning, I went to Ikea again with my mom, sister, and Jonathan, but the trip wasn't for me, it was for my sister because she needed new stuff for her room. It was 100 times more chaotic than when we went on friday.. it was almost impossible to walk everywhere, and the lines were even longer. Look at Jonathan's entry below for more details. But thanks again Jonathan for saving my mommy $80 with that 35% discount for having a student ID. We were there for about 3 or 4 hours. We all wanted to go home, but my sister needed stuff at Walmart, but we ended up staying longer because we did more room shopping. My mom bought Jonathan and I these $8 phones that have caller ID.. good deal. I thought our day was over, but NOOO, my mom wanted to pick my cousins up from ther aunts house because they were home alone, and their parents were stuck in LA traffic, so in my mom's Montero, there was her, my sister and skinny cousin in the front passenger seat, then me, Jonathan, Ashley, Charlie, and Charlette in the back because the trunk area was packed from the Ikea and Walmart stuff. Home Sweet Home finally, and Jonathan just went back to his house because he was tired. My cousins, sister, and I spent the rest of the night assembling desks, drawers, stools, tables, lights, etc. It was pretty fun, some quality family bonding time. They finally left, and I went straight to bed right after I talked to Jonathan for a bit on the phone. But I had some killer cramps that stopped me from sleeping.

Today I got my rag, but on a happier note, Jonathan and I have officially been back together for 6 months! I love you bubby! haha. So I spent the entire day rearranging my room and my sister's room. Jonathan came by during his 3 hour gap because I begged him too. We got some Taco Bell for me, hung out for a while, then I dropped him off at school because parking there sucks. I headed to cotillion practice and 14 or more people were there! A big surprise! Jonathan got a ride to Lisa's from his friend and we learned more for swing.. it's so fun! We had dinner.. went back to my house and I cleaned up my room while Jonathan fiddled with the wireless DSL, then Jonathan, Leanna, and I watched our bootleg copy of "Freddy vs. Jason: which is pretty good. Now I must call my bubby before he falls asleep or starts playing cs.

ikea is the best place. the only 2 things that top the emerville one is- one, they give you alphabet cookies while patiently waiting in the "dmv" line of ikea and second, its not emeryville. today, we purchased many items for jule's dorm, room and random things she just bought because it looked "cute". she wanted me there because of the discount they offered for prestigious college students, like me. with little hesitation, i went because it is jule and she will give me the illocano look if i don't. so i went and they saved 80 bucks. its always fun there. i feel like a kid, even though i still look like one. they had many kiddy toys for me to play with and i had my amusement time. ATTENTION: the hotdogs were only 65 cents. i wanted to bring my piggy bank but it was too late. i'll go there next time and use my piggy bank change to buy as many hotdogs i can get. so after we bought the useless stuff, i mean.-- we bought 6 hotdogs. yum.