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.