Start spreading the news.. da da da.. I'm leaving today.. da da da.. Just to be a part of it.. New York! New York!
So I am finally leaving. This Washington DC/New York has been my biggest headache these past 2 weeks. But finally, things are all set. Hansen and I aren't fighting anymore, our plane tickets our set, the hotel reservations are set, the tickets for the bus from DC to NY are all set, and my bags are all set. Jonathan's bags aren't packed yet but I'm in the process of doing so right now because if he did it himself, he'd end up forgetting underwear and socks and everything else he needed. So yeah, those will be set in no time. Anyway, this will be an interesting birthday for me. My first time being away from my mom, sister, and the rest of my family! Also the first time not eating pancit (because I doubt we're gonna eat pancit there). Ok so here's to a wonderful trip! Great way to start off my spring break.

p.s. happy st. patricks day!

I had my very last classes of the winter quarter on friday and it was just such a relief to be done.. then later that night I went to Applebees for dinner with Sher, Ellison, Eileen, Sheila, Henessey, and Jonathan. Jonathan and I went home so I could study for finals and while he played counterstrike.. I didn't study because I wanted to sleep, so we watched Friends until we fell asleep. Saturday morning I started studying (but not for long) then distracted myself with home stuff. I stopped by Hampton Inn for a while to say hello to Jonathan before heading off to work. The store was soooo messy but it was cool because MICAELA was there to keep me company! Yup, Mic my dear friend since 2nd grade to now is my co-worker... didn't stay too long thisi time.. went home.. was gonna study, but didn't went to bed. Sunday Jonathan and I went to church.. went to lunch at Happi House with Joanne.. picked up a book at home so I could study at the other home.. hung out at Jonathan's house.. did the rosary bc of the Virgin Mary.. studied some more in Joanne's room.. then went home and took a nap. When I woke up, I packed for SC.. went to SC.. did last minute cramming for my first final while Jonathan played CS and guitar.. and went to bed. Monday I woke up the earliest ever.. 7am!!!! Took my psychological statistics final at 8am.. I think I did pretty good.. then I studied for the rest of the night for BIOLOGY.. took breaks to watch tv, eat, and talk on the phone.. continued biology until I fell asleep. This morning I woke up, studied some more.. went to brunch with Sher and Meg.. did more bio cramming.. then took the final... I PASSSSSED. Thank you Jesus that I'm not getting a bad grade in the class! Hmm.. after that I had only 3 hours to study for my Human Sexuality final.. so I did more last minute cramming.. finally took it and took me only 20 minutes. It wasn't so bad.. for sure I passed. Jonathan and Jeremy came to pick me up for SPRING BREAK!!!! but first we headed to slug books to sell back my books, but it was CLOSED. Instead, Jonathan and Jeremy grabbed a bunch of the free stickers from the bookstore and put one on this girl's car. Well she saw, and as we were backing out of the parking space, she put the sticker on Jonathan's car.. haha.. hmm then we all hung out in our neighbor Ben's room (not Ben Davis) and listened to them "jam" on the guitar and drums.. quite entertaining.. then went to dinner with Sher.. hung out some more.. then finally headed home to San Jose. So I talked things out with my oldest friend in the world, Hansen, and now our DC/NY trip is SET. Soooooo tonight I must pack because we're leaving tomorrow.

interesting fact for today: Males produce ONE THOUSAND sperm a second while females release only ONE egg a month. So if you're a male, you produced 5,000 sperm just reading that sentence.. 7,000, 8,000.. haha

ANYWAY, I had my VERY last class of Human Sexuality today =( and Biology =). Jonathan is here and we went to the beach for a bit.. then played some arcade games. Anyway, it's pretty loud here on my floor bc our neighbor (the cute guy) has a drum set, while the other has an electric guitar or something. OH YEAH, I was also in the cute guy's dorm room today for a bit because he was showing me his streaking tapes.. haha. Maybe I'll tell you the story sometime.. oh wait, I blogged about it below entitled "A Night at the Roxbury". Ok time for FRIENDS!

Patience is the key.
Soooo I've been stressing out on this stupid hotel business for our trip to New York for the past few days. I thought we had it all figured out when Jonathan finalized the reservations today at Double Tree Times Square, but noo, it's only a 3 star hotel, and some people were just not satisfied. Blah.. I hate how money gets in the way of everything. I mean, Jonathan, Jeremy, and I could pay however much Hansen wanted us to, it's just we worked for that money, and we want to spend it on something practical. We don't want to pay hella money to just SLEEP for 2 nights. If we asked our mommys and daddys to pay for everything.. then yeah, we wouldn't have a problem, but we're so old now.. like seriously, I realized a long time ago that I couldn't live off of my mom forever.. and it's ME out of all people who realized that. I mean, our parents are always willing to pay for our shit, but we just don't want that anymore. It's time to grow up. ANYWAY, back to what I wanted to write about: PATIENCE. Thank goodness I didn't lose my cool.. and good things happen to people who don't lose their cool.. well that's what I think. So now, Jonathan, Jeremy, Nate, and I will not be paying the million dollars they are paying, even though we're staying in the same exact hotel, but in different hotel rooms. Let's just say we're good with negotiation, and I would like to thank the W New York Times Square staff for being good with us. Hansen is lucky that I love him, otherwise, I would be throwing one of my famous tantrums at him right now. I'm going to be nice for Hansen.. ok the end.

p.s. it's not really a million dollars, I just like to exaggerate. Maybe when I'm older and a CEO of a company, I won't care about spending whatever money on 5 star hotels, but for now, since I'm only 18 (19 in 9 days!!!), I don't care about being ghetto and negotiating prices and looking out for special promotions.

This just in.
Jonathan booked more reservations! Our destination: Monterey, Ca. Yeah, it's not really anywhere "special" or out of the ordinary because we can go there anytime.. but who cares. It'll just be us.. spending the night on April 1st, then spending the next day all day at the beach. Something else to look forward to, I love you boyfriend! Oh yeah, the cute guy came into our dorm today bc his internet wasn't working, so he had to use ours to finish hw or whatever. I asked him about the whole dancing thing in my human sexuality class yesterday.. he laughed and looked embarassed then continued to use my laptop.

daryl posted this a long time ago.. well a few days ago, but I wanted to save it:

jules has been one of my best, if not best, female friends from notre dame in san jose. we really got nothing in common but we're actually kinda similar. for example, she's really girly and does really girly stuff. on the other hand, i'm not girly and i'm not all into girly stuff. i'm into wu-tang bitch. but we're really outspoken, she might be as much of a nsync fan as i'm a wu-tang fan, we rarely take shit from anybody, and so on. i've always felt comfortable talking to her about anything. the guys give her a lot of shit but it's only because we know she can take a joke and she's always cool about it.