I had an eye exam yesterday and I told my eye doctor that I thought the vision in my right eye got worse. So you know that big black machine they put on your eyes? Yeah.. he kept putting lenses and making my prescription stronger, but it did not work at all. Then he told me that the astigmatism in my right eye is A LOT worse than in my left eye.. and my prescription did not really change, it's just the fact that my astigmatism is really bad, so it won't really be clear anymore. Sad huh.. my vision is non-correctable in a way. I can't wait until I get my Lasik surgery so I don't have to worry about stupid glasses and contacts. After my eye exam, my mom bought my sister and I chicken bakes. At home, Leanna and I lounged around home watching TV and being fat asses. Then I started cleaning up my room. There was this box of jewelry and hair stuff under one of my tables that was never unpacked when we moved in, and I finally sorted it. I had a pile of my clothes and Jonathan's clothes in the middle of my room, but left to go to Valley Fair with Leanna and Jonathan to buy some pants at Hollister. When I got home, my mom wanted to go to Levitz to pick up the couches she bought. It was scary when we were driving home from there because I was paranoid that one of the couches were gonna fall out from the back of my aunt's truck. A neighbor helped Jonathan and my mom unload the couches while I ran around the house packing stuff for Leanna. Finally, we arrive at Sizzler's for Ashley's birthday dinner. Good stuff. We went back to their house to eat cake.. then headed home. We fixed the couches.. they're really comfy. Then, Jonathan, my mom, and I watched the Miss American Pageant. I continued and finished cleaning my room right after then finished up my essay and went to bed. Jonathan and I left for Santa Cruz this morning after trying to wake up 24990 times.. and I bought a book for music.. freakin $64.. ahh. I hate these stupid school books, so dam expensive.

Happy 14th Birthday Miss Ashley Nicole Respicio!

I had class all day on Thursday and I was fidgety during all of them because I couldn't wait to go home. Good thing Jonathan was there by the time I was done with my classes so we left right away for San Jose. My mom wanted to go pah-shal-ing, so we went to Great Mall to watch a movie.. the movie times sucked, so we just shopped around the mall for a bit then grabbed a satisfying dinner at Lee Noodle with Mommy, Leanna, and Chanel. At home, Jonathan, Leanna, and I fell asleep while watching "Zoolander". Friday was spent doing more errands with my mom and sister. She randomly wanted to go furniture shopping at Levitz and ended up spending a lot of money.. oh mommy. Then we went to Valley Fair so I could get my paycheck.. and did MORE shopping. We picked up my grandparents then headed for Our Lady of Peace. Back at home, I picked up my car and headed straight to work. I saw my lovely Lopez cousins while I was working..fun. Jonathan didn't get back to my house until around 5am because he was playing freakin Texas Holdem and won the pot of ONLY 12 bucks. Freakin 5 hours of playing for $12.. NOT worth it. Saturday we got a really rude awakening from my mother. Keep in mind that we slept around 5 or 6am. She went prancing into my room and screamed wake up kids!! oh everyone was cranky that morning. At around 10 or 11, Jonathan and I went to the Bank and re-opened my checking account, then went to Valley Fair again to shop at Hollister--I wanted to get my Triple A's. The shirts I bought had holes in them from the sensors, so we went to the Hollister at Oakridge to exchange them and get Cinnabon real quick. Jonathan went straight to work, then I went with my mom and sister to Target, and then to visit my loud cousins. We watched "Friends" for a while, went home, saw Lisa and Chris before I started work, then went to work again. Diana was there shopping..I miss that girl. It was another long night until 1am-ish.. or well, it wasn't long compared to how long we've worked before. I rushed home in hopes to get started on my essay, but didn't work. Jonathan came over and we got Wendy's. He wanted to play Mario Party with Leanna and Chanel.. so I said I would just "nap" until they were done, and then get started on my essay. Jonathan wakes me up around late 3am-ish and asks me if I still wanted to do my essay--f that! So we went to sleep. Mother came waltzing into the room again today with her loud loud voice.. ahh I HATE not sleeping! We had to get ready for the 5AM mass.. yes 5AM at MHT for Salubong. I was sooo grumpy and sleepy and hungry.. bleh.. but mass was good. It felt good to go to church. We got home around 7am, and I got started on my essay right away as Jonathan slept his ass off. I was getting irritated because he was snoring hella loud and all I wanted to do was sleep. I finally finished at 9am (I met my deadline!!! it was due at noon today) and posted it on the class website.. and straight to bed is where I went next. I woke up around 1pm.. got ready again.. then Jonathan and I went to my uncle Charlie's house and met up with my mom and sister and blah blah blah. Then we went to my cousins' grandma's house, but didn't stay long because Jonathan and I had to meet up with his mom and his sister at the movies. We watched "Passion of Christ".. very very good movie. I don't know why I didn't watch it sooner.. or well I do know why.. no time. But it was good. I'll talk more about it in my next post. After that, the four of us went to the driving range.. fun times. Back at their house, I finished up my homework that is due at midnight... and I am with auntie Zeny now while Jonathan and Joanne are at their uncle's house. I'm sleepy.

Overall great weekend. Lots of quality time with my family, Jonathan's family, and SHOPPPING. I got new bras, underwear, lotions, body sprays, and a credit card from Victoria Secret, a new wallet, a few purses, and clothes for summer. yay. ok.. no more shopping for another month or two or three. I need to learn how to save now. k bye. HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

I had a really long dinner with Michelle Tran and Sherilyn last night.. twas great! It took us about 20 minutes to eat, and 2 hours and 10 minutes to just talk. Mich and Sher brought up the idea how some people are still in their high school phase even though we've been in college for about 7 months now. It's amazing how high school was just last year.. like exactly a year ago today, I was probably stressing over some dumb shit like a worksheet for Econ or a new pair of shoes. Anyway.. it's 3:16pm and I have yet to go to my FIRST class of the day at 3:30. I love the schedule I made for myself this quarter. No school Mondays and Fridays!!! Classes start at 12 Tuesdays and Thursdays and 330 on Wednesdays. No wonder I'm starting to get lazy. On another note, I've been contemplating on what I'm going to do for housing next year. I'm living on campus right now, and I think it's a big waste of thousands of dollars. Well for me it is because I'm hardly ever here. I sleep in my dorm room tuesday and wednesday nights AND THAT'S IT. I dunno.. so I think next year, there's a big chance that I'm just gonna live at home with my mommy and sister. The commute to Santa Cruz isn't really that bad. I guess I have grown accustomed to it. Anyway, I have until April 19 to file for housing if I want to live on-campus next year. Ok, I'm off to class.

hi hubby bubby!

Today I woke up early so I could wake up snoring Jonathan who had class. He said he didn't "need" to go today, so I said fine and went back to sleep. When we woke up, we went to VF so I could buy some stuff at Hollister, La Vic for lunch, then home for a cat nap on the couch. I did hw for a while, then went to Costco with my mom and used my Costco card for the first time! Jonathan met up with us at my house, headed to Union City to visit my aunt and to get my belated bday money.. then back to Santa Cruz.

Lopez family reunion
Ok so maybe it wasn't an actual reunion, but I have been spending a lot of time with my Lopez side a lot lately and it has been great. I almost forgot how much fun I used to have with my cousins.. so much fun. I've been going to PJ and Neneng's house almost everyday to pray the novena and stuff. Friday night was my aunt's vigil and they did a great job with singing "A Song For Mama" with the guitar and the piano. Saturday morning/afternoon was my aunt's funeral. My cousins and I sang at the burial site. I'm going to miss my aunt a lot, and I'm also going to miss my cousins because I'm not going to see them everyday like I have been seeing them. And things with my dad have been great. I am so glad that he finally grew up after all of these years, but it does hurt sometimes when I see him because I miss the time when he and my mom were still married. But they've got a better relationship now than when they were married. Hmm what else.. I saw a whole bunch of my nieces and nephews!

School
Jonathan and my mom dropped me off in Santa Cruz just now. I'm feeling a little homesick because even though I had classes last week, I did not spend a night here in Santa Cruz (due to everything that was going on last week and because my class on wednesday did not start until this week). Oh well, thank goodness I only have a 3 day school week. I will be back home Thursday night.

Work
I was scheduled to work Saturday, but I had Joyce cover for me because I was at my family party after my aunt's funeral. Good thing I didn't work that Friday night because they worked til 7am!!! Sunday I worked til 230.. blah.

Monterey
My dearest boyfriend has been wonderful this past week. He's been helping me through this family thing and he has been telling me to think positively with the situation my dad is in right now. Anyway, he dropped me off at school Thursday morn.. I went to class from 12 to 6.. and he WAITED the entire time! Ok so we had dinner at school with Sher, Ryan, and Mich.. and we finally headed to Monterey. We didn't go there for any sort of occasion.. just for the hell of it I guess and because he wants to take advantage of his Hilton Hotels discounts. So anyway, we check into Double Tree (it was really beautiful) which was right on the wharf.. then walk around downtown for a while. We grab a "snack" at Taco Bell, then go back to the hotel and watch "Win A Date With Tad Hamilton".. aww it was so cute. We played some card games then fell asleep. It took us forever to get up.. but we finally did. We walked around the wharf, got some clam chowder, planned to go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium (but didn't bc we were lazy), went shopping in the souvenir shops, then headed home.

Cache Creek
Well I didn't go again, but the bf and Jeremy did along with the bf's friends. So I stayed home SATURDAY night with my mom.. it was great though. I love my mom. So yeah, Sunday morning at 8am, Jonathan comes home, climbs into bed with me, then starts snoring away.. so that was when I woke up. The next time I go to Cache Creek won't be for another 2 years because they changed the age already, effective today.

Church
There were babies all around Jonathan and I on Palm Sunday. We got to church late and left church early and while we were in church, there were babies distracting us. Jonathan kept making faces at them.. and there was one point where this baby boy stands in front of us and starts yelling at us.. haha. Oh babies. Speaking of babies, we also visited Jonathan's downstairs neighbors today and their newborn baby! His name is Logan and is only a week old.. ahh he is soooo cute. Today for the FIRST time, Jonathan talked about having kids.. TOGETHER.. haha. I thought it was funny because he can never talk about those kinds of things.. it makes him nervous or whatever. Just face it Jonathan, we're gonna end up together =). Oh yeah, and we went out for SUSHI right after church.. I can't even remember the last time he took me out for sushi (not counting new york).

hmm... oh yeah, I also went shopping a few times.. I got a Costco card.. oh yeah and I forgot to mention that last last week, I took out my navel ring and my tongue ring.. so I got no more piercings! Ok.. back to the dorm life (until Thursday). I'm so weak, I already miss my mom and my sister and Jonathan and just HOME. I'm seriously gonna contemplate whether or not to live here in Santa Cruz, or to just commute whenever I have classes, bc right now, dorming is a waste of money bc I'm only here 3 days out of the week.. and it's not even a FULL 3 days! ok bye.