It's great to have friends you've known almost your entire life..especially when youre able to act and talk the way you want to their own family members as if they were one of your own.

So I took that from Jeremy's xanga, and he's soooo right. My weekend was well spent with the greatest friends I will ever have.. it just sucks that Lisa couldn't be with us. But anyway, like always, my weekend started Thursday night when Jonathan came over. We practically just spent time at the library researching for some projects we have and then watching Friends. Friday was another day of class and I got my midterm back for my Psych Stats class. But anyway, back in San Jose, Jonathan and I headed over to the Martin Luther King library right after dropping Sherilyn and Ellison off because Jonathan still needed books. After that, we went to Valley Fair and got my paycheck. I was pretty satisfied with it. My manager asked me to work that night, and since I didn't have anything to do til midnight, I agreed.. so Jonathan and I killed time before work by shopping and depositing my check. After work, we hung out at Jonathan's apartment until Jer came to pick us up. We headed over to the Oakland airport because Hansen was arriving with his girlfriend, Iliana. Grandma, Grandpa, and Abby were there too. So at 1am, we all ate an early/late breakfast at Denny's and went back home around 3am. Saturday morning, Jonathan and I watched Friends until he had to go to work. Later that afternoon, Jer, Hansen, and Iliana come by my house, then I drive us all to Oakridge since Hansen hasn't seen all the new stuff there. Of course, I did more shopping at Hollister and AE. Jer and Hansen wanted stuff from Hollister, so we go to Valley Fair to use my discount. After that, we pick up Tessa from her friend's house, hang out at QCup for a while, chat it up with Hansen's grandparents and aunt about when we were all young bucks at MHT, kill time before Jonathan got out of work at Jer's house by watching "Family Guy", then finally meet up with Jonathan and Joel at my house. There, we did some more talking and we finally leave for Emeryville at midnight for Joel's birthday get together at Mike's apartment. We played circle of death and then Mike and I played this high/low game. After that, I was just feeling queasy and I couldn't stand up anymore so I slept on the mattress thing with Charissa.. haha. Then I find myself sleeping on Joel's sleeping bag or whatever and Michael pours water on my jeans.. I was freezing, but I didn't really care. Gross, and then I ended up barfing into a trash can. Anyway, Jonathan told me that we didn't come back home til around 6am.. eek

I stole this from nate.. haha.. wow I look like shit!

It was nice being around more of the MHT extended family. This morning, I felt like craaaaap. It was the worst feeling in the world. I didn't get out of bed until around 2 or 3pm because that's how crappy I felt. Jonathan cooked me "breakfast", and I felt a little better after that. We spent the rest of the afternoon/evening watching more episodes of Friends until my mom came back from her trip to L.A. and when my cousins came over and got loud. After that we went to my aunt's house to do the rosary.. bought poster board at somewhere I forgot.. and now I'm here, bored because Jonathan's not here to entertain me. I'm supposed to be working on my projects and doing homework, but I just don't have the energy right now.. tomorrow I'll get crackin, for sure.

But anyway, despite the worst feeling I had this morning, my weekend was great because I spent great quality time with Hansen and Jeremy.. and got to know Iliana, who is really sweet and nice and cute.. and because I have a boyfriend who loves me and takes care of me even when I have "jungle hair" when I wake up in the morning.. and because I have a great understanding mother who has always guided me through EVERYTHING.. and just a great family overall. All of those people are my family, even if we aren't all blood related. We're family because we're able to do and say ANYTHING around each other without worrying about what they're thinking of you because they tell you straight up. We're family because we go out of the way for one another without expecting anything back. We're family because we take care of each other even when we're in Washington DC, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and San Jose. We're family because we can reminisce about our childhood and then just laugh about it. and lastly, we're family because no matter how much we can piss each other off at times, we're able to move on and love each other nonetheless; we accept each others flaws and we never resent one another. We stab each other in the front, as Hansen would put it. Anyway, I love you guys.. I've learned so much this weekend by just hanging out and even by just thinking at home by myself. Go MHT!!! (and I mean all of YOU because you all know how close we still are even if we don't talk every day or hang out every weekend like we used to)

OH and a Happy 19th Birthday to my Joshie!!!! (2/28) who probably won't be reading this since I changed my blog address.

So the Lenten Season begins...
This will probably be the first time in my 18 years of life that I won't be going to church to get ashes. I mean, 1st through 8th grade, ashes were guaranteed since MHT always had liturgies, and even 9th through 12th grade, since ND also had liturgies every year. However, I no longer attend a Catholic institution, but I'll go to church on Friday right when I come home to good ol' San Jose. So, I have a few Lenten promises that I'm going to try and do for the betterment of myself and my life:

1. To not be too materialistic (i.e. cut down shopping, once/twice a week is way too much.. just bc money doesn't grow on trees, and I know that now).
2. To eat at "healthy" times (Jonathan and I have a habit of eating REALLLY fat foods at 1am).
3. To not be resentful towards anyone, no matter what.
4. To REALLY stick to my academic goals (sticking to the schedules I make for myself for assignments so I'm not stressing the last minute)
5. To not be too dependent.

hansen: i wont throw you away
hansen: i might not always agree with you
hansen: and i'll fight you
hansen: but you'll always be around and i wont just get rid of you like that
hansen: we're a family you know
hansen: lisa, jer, and us.. mht

I had a great weekend! Let's recap. Thursday evening, Jonathan came to Santa Cruz! We were gonna go to Border's to study (bc I had a midterm and he just had to study) but we got lazy and just studied in my dorm. Later on we watched "Friends" then I studied some more. Friday morning, I headed to class while Jonathan continued to sleep. Class was regular then we headed home to San Jose! We started watching Season 2 of Friends until I had to go to work. Work was regular.. folded clothes while listening to the music.. had small convos with fellow coworkers, etc. Jonathan picked me up and we started watching more episodes of Season 2 of Friends until we decided to go to bed.

Saturday morning, while Jonathan was at work, I cleaned my room and started packing for a little road trip to San Luis Obispo for Mardi Gras weekend and also to visit my Diana! People were supposed to come with Jonathan and I, but then didn't... but that didn't matter because it was fun with just us. Jonathan bought a medium pizza for himself and a bag of crazy bread for me.. and he wonders why he's been gaining weight. So then our 3 hour voyage began.. I ended up sleeping for about an hour.. but ANYWAY, we arrived at Cal Poly around 7ish and saw Diana's dorm. We did a lot of hanging out then went downtown to eat at a place called Firestone something.. my ABC burger was good. Diana asked, "why is it called an ABC burger.. there's Avocado, Bacon, and JACK Cheese?" She had a good point, but I think it would have sounded stupid if it was called an ABJ burger. So anyway, we did some more hanging around but with Maria, Emilio and Di's friend Cel. Finally, we headed to where the party was.. too bad they started partying toooo early so the cops already broke up all of the commotion before midnight! It was pretty crazy though.. we saw the SWAT team coming in on a jeep or hummer or whatever.. and the cops were wearing face masks bc they were throwing tear gas at people.. and they were also shooting people with rubber bullets. The street was covered with broken alcohol bottles bc people started throwing bottles and rocks at cop cars. There were also cops on horses that were blocking the roads, and they chased people who tried to go through. Anyway, let's see what else.. there were hella girls all ho-ed out.. you know, so it would be easier for them to flash boys for beads. I heard so many guys yelling, "show me your titties" to just anyone.. it was kinda funny. Oh yeah, it was raining too, but I think that made things more exciting since the party was going on outside. There were hundreds of college students just walking around drunk and making out and saying "let's have sex tonight".. it was pretty crazy! Oh yeah, and one last night, when we (Diana, Jonathan, Cel, Maria, Emilio, and I) were returning to the car, we heard/kinda saw people having sex in the bushes.. they were moaning and everything. Hmm.. oh yeah.. the WORST part of the night was when we had to take this secret way to enter the party street and we had to walk through MUD!!!!!!!! My pink boots got sooo dirty.. goodness =(. Ok so after the whole Mardi Gras in the street party thing, we headed to Diana's friends' hotel room, which was really a conference room. There were 12 of us, so we played 4 or 5 games of Mafia.. it was quite fun. Finally at 3am, we decided to go back to the dorms and sleep.

Jonathan and I had to wake up early this morning bc Jonathan had work again, so we had to be home. I ended up sleeping practically the entire way home to San Jose.. sorry Jonathan! Back at home, we both plopped our bodies on my bed and slept until he had to go to work. I went to sleep again and woke up when I had to get ready for work. I made a quick detour to Hampton to feed my hungry bf, then I got gas, and went to VF. Work was regular again.. folded.. talked.. blah blah. There's school for me tomorrow =( but it's ok bc it's payday on friday =).

happy 20th birthday joel (on the 19th)! happy 19th birthday my dear lorelei (on the 21st)!!

So here I am back in Santa Cruz. Well, I enjoyed my longgg weekend that I made even longer for myself (by not going to biology yesterday). Jonathan decided to get a haircut on Monday, so he treated me out for a manicure during his haircut! We headed to Valley Fair AGAIN to shop and to get 2 Cinnabons and a small drink for 71 cents.. har har har. My schedule wasn't up yet for next week, but for this week, I have saturday off! whoohoo! When we got to my house, we just chilled for the rest of the night and went to bed. Jonathan had school again on tuesday.. so I cleaned my room and folded laundry in the meantime. It was my grandma's 74th birthday, so we spent the rest of the night at my grandparents' house eating, being loud, and watching American Idol with my cousins. This morning Jonathan was lagging in getting up.. he didn't want to take a shower because he was lazy!!!! dirrrrrrrrrrty. So we grabbed some McDonald's for the ride to Santa Cruz.. arrived.. he left to go straight to school.. and I went to class. School sucks.. I have a midterm on friday.


us at a late night trip to La Victoria on Sunday night. Thanks to my sis for taking/sending the pic.

So far, this long valentine's/president's weekend has been good to me. Friday, I went to class.. yadda yadda, then Jonathan came to pick me up in Santa Cruz to go back to San Jose. Hmm.. he went straight to work while I napped at home. Then, my mom was in the mood to go shopping, so we, my sister, and my grandma went to Valley Fair. We went to a whole bunch of stores and the favorite thing my mommy bought me was a new pink leather jacket! whoo.. Wilson's was having a biiiiiiiiig sale, so we all couldn't resist. At 9, I had to go to work. Work was regular.. Jonathan picked me up around 11-12ish and we headed straight to Mercado to watch "50 First Dates" at midnight. The movie was alright... it had some funny parts, but overall, I give it a C+/B-. So we went home and since it was technically valentine's day, we exchanged presents. I gave him the best card ever.. maybe I'll scan it.. and LOTS of other stuff as well. He gave me the Friends DVD Season 5. We were too sleepy to stay up and watch.. so we went to bed.

Saturday (VALENTINE'S DAY) morning, my sister went in my room to wake us up.. then my mom. She pulled the blankets and told us to eat. We all got ready, Fatima came over.. then we all headed to their second to last bball game. My sister's came was soo good, they were up the first two quarters by 6 points.. by the 3rd quarter they wre ALMOST caught up, and by the fourth quarter, they were tied and with a minute left, the other team scored then time ran out.. boo. My sister got fouled out of the game too with 3 minutes left. We stayed and watched the boys' game and the same crap happened to them too.. they lost by one basket in the fourth quarter. My sister and her friend gave their valentines valentine presents.. then we all went home. Jonathan and I both had work =( but he said he had a surprise for me after =). Anyways.. at home, I watched DVDs with my sister and her friends.. then I went with my mom to take them to Great Mall. We were gonna watch a movie, but I had to be at work.. so after buying movie tickets, my mom dropped me off at work again. Work went by really quickly bc it was only for 2 hours.. Diana dropped me off at Jonathan's work bc he wasn't off yet. When I got there, I found out that he was done with work.. that sneaky liar. He grabs my hand and takes me to one of their suites at his hotel. When I walk in, I swear I was in a movie.. there was music playing, a candle lit dinner prepared for us, rose petals scattered everywhere with candles lighting everything up, and roses for me all over the bed (don't think dirty!). Jonathan was out of breath because he said he was running around getting everything ready for me before I got there, and I got there a little early. But yeah.. our late night dinner was great.. the music.. the atmosphere.. everything was perfect. Gosh.. I started getting a little teary because of him. He told me that while he was working, he had a guest at the hotel go out and buy candles!! and he had his cousin pick up the food and get the flowers and stuff. He even took stuff from around the hotel to liven things up in the room.. haha. Man, I love my Jonathan.. I'm glad that I had someone like him to share valentine's day with (this would be our 5th valentine's day together.. but I'll talk about that later on). Anyway, he's great, he's the best.. So he put all the stuff he took from the hotel back in their places... cleaned up the candles and rose petals.. and we headed back to my house. We stayed up until 5am just watching Friends.. it doesn't sound fun, but it really was. We both fell asleep downstairs.

Sunday morning, I woke up helllllla early to the sound of my mom cooking breakfast.. I was still sooooo sleepy, so I went upstairs to my room and slept.. haha, I left Jonathan downstairs by himself. Anyway, everyone ate breakfast while I was upstairs sleeping.. apparently, no one knew where I was so they were hella calling my cell phone. Jonathan walks into my room and says "what the". We spend the rest of the morning/part of afternoon watching Friends again. Then we go to Oakridge to exchange stuff. It was great because we both didn't have work! So, we got the best deal at Cinnabon.. 97 cents for 2 regular cinnabons and a medium raspberry iced tea. Wanna know how we did it? You can ask Lisa because she taught me. So, we went to his apartment to get his computer to bring to his sister. I met his new GIRL roommate who not only shares the apartment with him and his cousin, but their ROOM too. hrrrm. She was getting freaked out because she found out that there was a coffin wherehouse thing near by.. and she said she was gonna move out if there was a cemetary.. and while Jonathan and his cousin were trying to convince her that it was far, IIIIII on the other hand kept saying how it was close and how I'd be freaked out and yadda yadda.. hopefully that will work =).. haha. But then again, it doesn't really matter because Jonathan is hardly at his apartment anyway.. so I guess it's ok. Oh yeah, I met his newest roommate who will be living in the other room.. he's cool. OK so then we went to Jonathan's house and said hi to his mom and sister. He hooked up the comp in Joanne's room and auntie Zeny fed us and baked peanut butter cookies. Then we went back to my house to watch my sister because my mom went to Cache Creek for the night. Jonathan and I finished watching the entire 5th season.. so we started watching the special features.. haha. It was late again, so we went to bed.

So that's it so far.. I'll update soon on the rest of my weekend! I'm not going back to Santa Cruz until Wednesday! whoohoo!

Oh yeah, so I was thinking back on my past valentine's day experiences.. this one has been one of the very best so far.. I think last year's is still #1. So.. as far back as I can remember, in 7th grade at the 7th/8th grade valentine's dance.. I remember waiting for cool Jonathan to ask me to dance.. but did he? noooooope, not at all. So I stopped liking him after that.. humph! It's so weird because our valentine's dance was on FRIDAY THE 13TH and VDAY was SATURDAY.. just like this year! So 6 years ago, on friday the 13th of february, Jonathan and I did NOT dance.. haha. In 8th grade, obviously, things worked out with Jonathan and I because we were together by then. On Valentine's day, we went to watch "She's All That" at Mercado along with other people (i.e. Lisa, Hansen, Jeremy, etc). I gave him some candy hearts.. haha. In 9th grade, valentine's day fell on a weekday, so we both had school.. but that didn't stop my Jonathan! He had his mom (har har) drive him to my house so he could drop off his valentine's present for me. It was this CD he made of some of our songs and songs I liked.. the front cover of the CD had a collage of our pictures.. and inside, more pictures, and on the CD itself it said, "JON and JULE" with the song titles and stuff. On the back.. there was a poem that made me cry!!! I gave him a huuuuuuge card and some other goodies. The next day, I brought my CD to school.. do any of you girls remember that? haha.. we were all hyped up because burned CDs weren't really in back then.. so getting one was great! Sophomore year, Jonathan and I weren't together anymore by valentine's day =(. But I spent it with Diana and Jenna.. we cleaned Jenna's room and girl talked and stuff.. it was pretty good. Junior year, still no Jonathan =(. I remember some of the girls and I heading over to Bellarmine so we could all just hang out as friends. Senior year (last year) was grrrrrrrrrrrrreat. I received lots of valentine cards from my friends and even some roses from a secret admirer. I was the driver that day (actually, everyday but anyway), Jenna, Diana, Angela and I first went to Bellarmine so we could help Jenna decorate Daryl's car.. When he got out of school, she jumped out of my car and greeted him a happy valentine's day. So 1 down.. Jenna stayed with Daryl. Diana, Angela, and I then went to Party City because Diana needed some stuff for Villiard.. I decided to get some surprises for Jonathan because although we were not together at the time, we were on talking terms, and I knew he was working. Anyway, we go to Villiard's house.. decorate his room.. and Angela and I hide in his parents' room while Diana hides in his closets. Stupid Villiard saw us decorating from his window.. that spoiler! Hmm.. then Angie and I go to PCN practice. After I was done, Linn and Romel accompanied me to go and surprise Jonathan.. I totally chickened out! I think you all know the story and stuff so no need in repeating. So anyway, I surprise him.. blah blah.. he gives me a hug.. I have a sleepover with Sherilyn at Linn's house.. haha.. and later that night, Jonathan picks me up and we talk forever about everything we missed when we weren't together. It was great.. that entire weekend was great! Shoot.. I don't think we would have gotten back together if it weren't for valentine's day! I LOVE YOU HONEYBEEEEEE!!!

Ok long entry.. if you read all of this.. you must have been bored.

I took the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) today in my Human Sexuality class, which rates my masculity/femininity and I scored a 5.8 for femininity and a 4.6 for masculinity, meaning I am a woman! yay. A 4.9+ in either category means I'm either a woman or a man.. but if I scored below a 4.9 in either category, that means I don't identify with either gender, and scoring 4.9+ on both means I am something.. I forget. Oh well. I'm going home tomorrow! psh.. and forget you dissers, I know who my true friends are.. the ones who really care.

EvO wUn (9:38:41 PM): no matter what....jeremy will always be my girlfriend

My Hansen finally has a girlfriend!!!!! and she's cute too! I've known Hansen since I was four years old and I went to school with him from 1st to 8th grade.. throughout highschool we've kept in touch.. and now in college, he has a REAL girlfriend other than Jeremy!!!!! yay!

an update just for you Leanna.
THURSDAY
-Jonathan came to the dorm and hung out with Sher and I
-drove around campus
-played Texas Holdem (just us). I was up 4 new shirts from, but I lost all but 1 when Friends came on (our deadline to stop), but I wanted to win back some shirts, but instead, I ended up owing him 1 meal.
-packed for home
-bed

FRIDAY
-class.. regular
-home to San Jose with Jonathan, Meg, and Sher
-napped at home with Meg
-cousins came over for the rosary.. but I had to leave for work
-work with Meg 9 til 1am.. EXHAUSTED! Everyone was already delirious

SATURDAY
-Leanna's game at MHT with mom and Jonathan
-Jonathan went to work then came back an hour later
-Valley Fair to shop.. stupid manager Jena gave me wrong discounts on all the crap I bought.. saw Rich & Charisse
-Jonathan's apartment to pick up clothes and stuff
-dropped off at Lisa's house while Jonathan went back to work again
-Oakridge.. shopped.. returned some Hollister stuff.. shopped some more
-girl talked with Lisa at home
-cousins were loud again
-Jonathan came back from work
-bed
-NO WORK!

SUNDAY
-King Egg Roll with Jonathan bc he was hungry
-cleaned room
-did hw
-Jonathan went to work
-went to Eastridge with sister.. it was soooo empty! But I had fun buying valentine stuff =)
-got valentine stuff together
-packed stuff for SC
-work from 6 to 2am!!!!! everyone was delirious again.. I was even more exausted, but at least I'm getting a big paycheck.
-Jonathan came!
-cleaned room
-finished packing up
-ate
-bed

MONDAY
-mom woke us up early at 7am
-woke up again 720
-woke up again 740
-finally got up at 8am
-arrived in sc at 9am
-napped
-nothing anymore!

I'm taking a break from studying for my Biology midterm.. there are so many dam distractions here. First of all, I was distracted for many hours bc I thought, "well, I have 23 hours until the midterm, so I have PLENTY of time to study".. then, when I FINALLY started studying with Benny and Meggy, American Idol went on, so I was distracted for another hour. Then, the bf called, but he was doing hw too, so I was distracted again, but for just 10 minutes or so. But now, the cute guy on our floor is having an argument with his gf and boy are they loud, well just her.. haha. So Sher and I were distracted again bc we're nosey asses.. and I am STILL distracted. Oh well, when I wake up tomorrow morning, I'll have about 2-4 more hours to study. I'll do OK..

So I just got back from San Jose. I didn't go to class bc I was still sick and it was raining pretty dam hard, so my mom told Jonathan and I to not go to SC anymore. I pretty much spent the entire day sleeping bc I was knocked out by that flu medicine I took, then I picked my sister up from school. Jonathan came over for a while.. we watched "Grease", then my little cousins came over, then those people with Our Lady of Fatima. We prayed the rosary and right after, Jonathan and I left for Santa Cruz. Oh yeah, it was pretty funny right before we were gonna leave bc Jonathan and my cousin Charlie couldn't find their shoes. My mom put them outside or whatever.. so I guess someone stole them.. haha. But yah, Jonathan knows it's just karma kicking him in the ass =) Anyway, we made a quick detour to his apartment to get his glasses and Raymond came along. I already wanna go home.. this place will never be home to me. It's ok, Jonathan is coming on Thursday.. yay!

Happy 19th Birthday Daryl! Happy anniversary Jonathan!

Great peaceful weekend.
FRIDAY
-class from 930am to 310pm
-Jonathan paid off his handicapped parking ticket (the VERY last one.. no more stress honeybeeee.. $275 for handicapped parking ticket + $127 for speeding ticket plus $25 times 10+ for parking w/o a permit at UCSC.. someone can do the math)
-back to San Jose
-shopped at VF/picked up first paycheck with Jonathan
-Leanna's bball game @ Sacred Heart
-shopped again at VF before work
-work
-Krissie's bday get together.. fun with the paddle we got for Charlene.. looking back on MHT memories with Mike, Nate, and Jonathan
-sleeeep

SATURDAY
-Leanna's bball game @ St. Catherine's
-long nap
-shopped.. kinda before work
-work with DIANA!!!
-Marcel's house to watch the boys play Hold'em
-wait for Jonathan to get out of work
-Mercado with Jonathan to watch a midnight movie, "The Butterfly Effect" and saw Joyce, Ron, Chris Laroya, and significant others
-sleeeeep

SUNDAY
-went with Jonathan to bring Joanne to PCN practice
-sleeeep
-Jonathan came over right before work and watched "Grease" and finished watching it with sister
-picked up Joanne and brought her to talk to her SSP sponsor
-went home just in time for the HALFTIME show with Justin and Janet's boob.. viola:


-watched "Erin Brokavich" with sister
-SHOULD be studying for midterm, but not.. so i'm waiting for honeybee to get out of work

Tomorrow is the start of another week in Santa Cruz.. hurry up SPRING BREAK!!!