Well id like to Praise God for helping me wake up this morning, on time too in fact! You know how it is when youre really tired and when you wake up you juss kinda lay in bed for a while. Then you end up falling asleep after juss lying there. I guess its that feeling of laziness or something like that. Anyway, the souls in purgatory helped wake me up too, so thank you to them! I was telling banne last week how errtime i pray the rosary i always lift up for the souls in purgatory cuz say i do end up going there then i would like the people hurr on earth to pray for me.

Today was a tiring day for me, i havent worked a long day like this since the summer time. I dont know if id be able to work 7-6 straight 4 days a week, id get too tired everyday when i would come home. Its sooo cold now too when you go outside, praise God for heaters in the car! i got to work @ like 650am opened errthang up, by boss got there 15 min. after i did. I was really hoping he would let me go early since my other 2 coworkers told me they got to leave early. The day was really slow, i took down the big xmas tree decorations, as well as the other christmas decorations in the dept. Then i worked on making flyers for the winter programs coming up next week. Went home for lunch it was coo, cuz my boss told me to take my time since it was so dead. It sucked also cuz we had no internet...all day long!! Goes to show how depedent we are things.

Today at work made me realize how i can be very dependent on materialistic things of the world, especially now that im older. I know i shouldnt depend on those things cuz i cannot bring those things w/me when i leave this place. I cant say,"wait hol up God, im still trying to unplug my computer." I should concern myself more of praying and focusing on the prize, Jesus. Juss like how Jesus told that one guy if he wanted to follow him he must leave behind all his possesions, give them away to the poor. The guy had a difficult time trying to do that, it wasnt like, "here yall go...im out one!" Honestly, if Jesus asked me to do the same thing right now, id be in the same position where the man was, struggling to give away my earthly possesions. Though id really like to be at the point where i dont have to hesitate to give them all up and follow my Lord. So that's a goal for me to try and be at for the upcoming year.

Went to the velascos, w/mizike and kuya tonight. Watched them pack up as they prepare for their trip to the PI tomorrow evening. Please keep them and their families in your prayers as they travel. It was sad to see them leave, goodbyes can sometimes be the hardest things to say. I know they'll have a safe trip there, God will keep an eye out for them. I'd like to go to the pi too someday, it sounds like a lot of fun. Though i dont know if id be able to sit in the plane that long. I can barely sit in class for 2 hrs, let alone sit in a plane for almost a whole day!

I was reading the bible talk that was sent to me today. I really enjoy reading them cuz they feed me spirtiual food for thought. Today's really hit me cuz i know many people who probably struggle constantly w/the issue of
doubting God's exsitence or even doubting your own capabilties. No doubt, im sure weve all had this feeling at one time or another.Well when i read this verse, i felt like it was God talking to me, saying this,"“I have great confidence in you, I have great pride in you; I am filled with encouragement, I am overflowing with joy all the more…I rejoice, because I have confidence in you in every respect.” – 2 Corinthians 7:4,16

No matter what youve done or havent done, God still has trust in you, he still believes in you, loves you and has confidence in you. If you find difficulty in believig that, then go talk to a priest or maybe you need forgiveness through that powerful, wonderful sacarment of reconciliation. Or maybe you need to seek forgiveness from someone else or juss need a powerful boost in your spiritual prayer life, whatever it is this new year is the perfect time to start.

Start off w/a new hope, like mo rice said in his blog, put your thoughts into actions and dont take time for granted. YOu know i read that during the time of St. Paul it was like how it is now, constantly surrounded by tempation, struggle, sin, lust, fear and most of all self-doubt. No matter what though, St. Paul still believed that his people will get through it juss as God BELIEVE IN US.

Let’s not just “try” to get to Mass more frequently, or “try” to read the Bible more. Let’s just do it. I can do it, and so can you, because our Father created us both, and He believes in us more than we believe in ourselves. I hope with all of my heart that you’re with me. Like mo rice said we take time for granted, and stop making excuses up for ourselves to God. In the end, God didn't do that for us, nor should we do that to him.

I felt bad today cuz francis told me he found out that his ex had cheated on him. He went ovet there last nite trying ot get his cell phone back from her. I guess he got another phone and put under his name, but she wouldnt give it back to him. Gosh, how sad that has got to be a harsh break up. I felt that ever since they got together in the summer time, she brought down his spiritual development. At first i thought it was coo cuz he told me they would have quiet time together and read scripture while reflecting on it. Then they got lazy and stopped going to worship services and church. I told him that our struggles in life or "drama" we go through are nothing compared to all the pains and sufferings, Jesus endured for us on that cross. So through our sufferings it helps us to become closer to him. He understood my point, i hope he reflects upon it though and truly understand what it means. Wow i didnt plan on writing such a long entry, but like i said when you start typing its so hard to stop sometimes.

Thoughts for the day~
1. God is always rooting for you! he's up there at the top of the stadium holding that #1 foam hand cheering you on, w/Mama Mary and all the angels and saints!
2. Don't doubt yourself, remember "I have the strength for everything through him who empowers me."-Philippians 4:13
3. Keep your head up high and on eyes on the prize!
4. Try to stop making excuses up when God is trying to talk to you...no more "i'll try" or "i dont know" or "but..."

"Dear Lord would you shower my pain Let it rain, let it rain on me While I cherish the air I breathe I'm an angel, that can't soar, can't fly And I imagine the Lord knows why..." Have a safe and happy new year! im done...im out for two double zero! God bless! Ü lets start this new year off w/a bang!

whoa, whoa, whoa! what a busy day it was! i went to mass this morning, it was a good homily father brennan made today. It was about families, how we all think when we look at certain families and think "wow theyre so perfect and so loving and blah blah." Every family has their sufferings that they go through in life but when those times come you need to pray to the holy family(St. Joseph, Mama Mary & most of all Jesus.) the will help guide your family. THen he talked about New years, ask God what he wants your resoulution to be, not something negative like, "oh imma loose more weight." Stuff that you'll end up breaking within the next two days. I thought it was a great homily that made me think a lot.

Went home ate lunch did some stuff, then layed down for a little while. I was trying to finish my movie i rented, The barbershop. Im almost to the end of the movie, juss as i fell asleep. arch calls me asking me to go eat w/them and the soratorios @ this chinese buffet in stanton. I was so nice and peaceful too, in slumber. Despite the fact i had already eaten, i went anyway to meet them up. The foood was coo, a lot of different varities to choose from especially seafood. We were there for a while, cuz we couldnt stop eating. haha

After lunch arch, mizike, jay and i raced down to cerritos mall trying to help me pick something to wear for tonight. It was so crowded over there, then again when is it not? agh i hate rushing through the malls when im in a hurry, i get so irrtated and impatient. We went to macys and i couldnt find naything there. The store was torn up like no other, the lines were forever long. I was trying to look for a black turtle neck sweater. Then we went to robinsons may also. There selection was a little bit better, so i was able to find this black sweater w/cream cufs @ the end of the sleeves. I was bout to get it, but decided last min. not to. We saw kyle there too @ robinson;s may, i havent seen that foo in ages! haha Went to structure to see if there was something there, but then i thought ill find something @ home. I was too caught up trying to look impressionable and good, that i didnt think alreayd ive spent too much $$ on xmas.

Rushed home endlessly searchign through my closet to find something to wear for tonight. I wish i had more of dress up selection. I think i got rid of all my dress collar shrits from when i worked @ ross. that always happens you get of stuff that you dont think youll need later on, then it happens down the line you do end up needing it. Went to aj;s house to have her help me decide on what to wear. I end up wearing, black sweater, my guess collarlong sleve plaid cream and black shirt, w/docker khakis. I felt uncomfortable cuz i felt underdressed, so it was like ehh for a while. I hate being in a rush forreal!

I went to el capitan to meet up w/jl and mizike, man it felt like hs all over again. Like going to prom all over again, as if im back in hs. Jl looked really nice tonight, she wore this black dress w/this scarf she got from SCRC. Took some pictures over there, then we were off to the ball!

Mizike drove over to the embassy suites right next to the brea mall,in brea of course. now everytime i see that hotel im think of the formal. We got there around 630 or so, then we sat at our table juss looking through the program and saying our hellos to errone. Oxnard was there, man what a long drive for them! Carson was there too, as well as SOL daygo. My date, gail arrived like around id say like 7pm. We matched i guess for the most part, she wore black and i wore black. I didnt recongize her first thoughcuz of the hat she wore, it threw me off! haha
We took group pictures @ first w/my other community L & f in carson. haha Our pose was a "liturgical dance" type of pose. it was funny, i cant wait to see the pictures! then ours was d0pe! it was coo cuz the photographer was all cooperative and let us pose the way we wanted to. We did away w/the usual "hold me" type of pose, instead we had these flowers put on top of the bench and we looked out secretly as if we were "peeping toms." it was coo, it was her idea too so it was nice she was creative w/it.

After the pictures we went back to the table cuz they started to serve the salad for the dinner. We ate a little bit of that, then arrived our main course. the chicken, the rice pilaf and vegetables, i didnt touch the vegetables though. I hate mainly the chicken and the rice. Jl called the chicken, "baby chicken head." they gave us a whole small chicken to eat, i didnt like the black stuff that was stuffed inside of it though, it looked gross. During our dinner, man its already 120 i need to finish this and sleep for i have work @ 7am! SOL provided some entertainment during the dinner. They had the 3 ericks, perform a christmas song which was, the christmas song.(chestnuts roasting on a open fire.) Then we sang silent nite altogether, awwww haha Then they had an "precious moments" skit. they always bust out skits wherever they go! hahaha i told gail theyre gonna do the suicide skit cuz some of them had signs over their head.Then they had what i calledt the "kappa dance." haha Just some of them doing this montage of songs mixed together w/dancing. Like those frat dance performances you see @ clubs. They had a priest who was going to the PI say a few words, they had their elders do a dance too.

Time went by so fast, when youre so filled w/the holy spirit. Thats totally how i felt, cuz i couldnt stop sweating(i knwo sounds gross.) but forreal i kept having to whipe my forehead off. I had a hard time getting into the music cuz they started off playign a lot of country songs, the ones where you electric slide to. I tried to relearn but i couldnt get it i guess. I remember doing it all the time during PE for elementary skool, wha happened! Then they had the macarena playing then they went into this whole 70's period. With ymca and other such 70 type of songs. Then you had the big 80's w/girls juss wanna have fun, and all that kinda fun songs! im suprised they didnt play any 80's freestyle, too bad they didnt. I honestly think the devil tried to ruin errone;s fun cuz they had a lot of probs w/the music. Finally the last hour they got it under control, the devil wasnt bout to ruin all the fun. i mainly chilled w/carson and danced w/them. Theyre a trip! juss lookign @ them makes me tired, charisse man she's wild! haha i can imagine wha she looks like when theyre all clubbin together! wooo the djs took you back to the days when you were kid, w/the whole early 90's mix. Posion, ishesa, every little step i take, shake your butt all those booty dancing type of songs. haha i couldnt stop dancing throughout the stage, i juss had the holy spirit take control hahaha i was dancing w/charisse for a while too, hahaha

The last hour i think was the best part of the evening, all the dancing cuz the music was loud enough and finally under control. It was a very christ centered event, cuz you could tell errone was there to help celebrate Jesus' birfday in a fun special way. Nothing really went wrong, errone was feelin the nite, dancing and eating. We took a lot of different pictures for the evening, im anxious to see wha they turned out to be. I missed my own community tonight though too bad they couldnt be there to join in on the fesitivity. I got to know my date, gail better cuz whenever id go there to carson we never really talked much. She's a creative, d0pe person, very grooooooovy!

Well thas my evening, i think i filled in most of the details. Jl, mizike and i had a lot fun together. it was really, really nice! We even got special gifts, these honey type of corn flakes and this HOly spirit w/hands right behind it. We all joined hands @ the very end of the nite to end the evening in prayer, which was another great thing bout the nite. Thas it for now...till next time!

Thoughts for the day~
1. Pick your outfit ahead of time and not wait last min.
2. Talk to people and get to know people you dont normally talk to or know very well.
3. Pray to the holy family for their help.
4. Know that insecurties are bound to fade.
5. Get out and be crazy and wild sometimes, im sure it gives God a real crack up to see us all dance and what not.

"Every little step i take, you will be there, every little step i make we'll be together..." haha $5 for whoever can tell me the artist of the song, the year it came out and the title of it! (joke lang bout the $5 part, im too poor right now to give anyone $5! haha you could still try and guess though!) Ü thas it, im done...im out God bless!
pray for me so that ill wake up tomorrow, and either im sore cuz i danced too much or im hungry cuz im feeing cramps! haha

Man i messed up on one of my entries and now it ruined my whole flow. The entry you see below was suppose to go for fri. not sat. to make a long story short, i jacked it up by accident this morning. Now im missing an entry for friday...boo!!

Well despite that i jacked up on the blog, it was a pretty festive day you could say. It felt really nice to sleep in again, i was able to sleep till 11am. woo! i was watching this pretty good show when i woke up this morning on tv about th Holy land. it was on ewtn, they gave a tour on all the different locations/settings that took place during the passion of Jesus. I shouldve tapped it, but by the time i turned the tv on the show was already too much in to tape.

Went to watch Maid in manthattan w/pretty much errone. We watched it in fullerton @ the amc there. The movie was pretty good, well i thought it was at least. Of course it was predicitable, juss like many of the other "chick flick" movies, but i enjoyed it. The movie was about a maid who works as a maid(hence the word 'maid')in this hotel. Well while working there, she runs into this assembly man who is running for a US senate position. marissa who is played by JL puts up this front pretending to be someone else, they fall in love and blah blah blah. They end up living happily ever after, the END! wooo! it was coo, cuz i mean he ended up going for her despite who she was and what she did. So that was a good lesson to learn, its not quite often you see that, in today's society. i still wanna see drumline before they take out of the theatres.

We ate @ supermex right after the movie, ive never really boughten food from there. It was pretty good, i had beef taquitos w/rice and beans. A good time for conversation, and catching up. I ended up doing a "karaoke" thing w/boss lady and lyn lyn. The theme was movie soundtracks, so we were singing all these songs from movies, like beauty and the beast, mulan, cinderella, etc etc. It was fun, which led to a mini karoakoe nite later on @ the soratorios.

Went to return the snowboard @ the sports chalet @ the LbTc. I dont like going there during the weekends in the evening, it gets too busy and crowded there. Then it ends up taking forever to get out of the parkng lot too. So many people watching movies and stuff like that. The last movie i saw there was black hawk down, which was like last year. It seems soo long ago, well it kinda was. Gosh how quickly time passes us by.

Its so cool to hear that a very young friend of mine who has cancer is doing pretty well right now. He told me that his cancer is pretty stable right now, which means it hasnt been spreading! Praise GOD!!!!!! Goes to show how powerful prayer is. ive been really praying hard for him too, cuz he has it so hard. So young and has a hard time understanding. I was really happy to hear that, in fact it made my day! Gosh God is so wonderful!

Went to the soratorios for karaoke nite there, it was pretty fun. We sang mostly all slow jam songs from all over time. It was cool we all pretty much sang all these different songs. it gets pretty tiring after a while though singing all these different songs and waht not. After we watched banne's bday party, the whole caroling, singing and dancing. It felt like it was juss yesterday that happened! we were looking @ old photo albums of boss lady and her life. it made me end up going home to look for old pics too haha i dont know i dont really have an album majority of my pictures are all on disk. Its funny cuz she ended up knowing people i never knew she knew. Like francis' brother and his friend os, what a small world it is! its crazy running into people who knew the same people you did. boss lady also had a whole album of kuya and her, wow they have so many memories together.

Speaking of people, i ran into cece today @ lincoln video. It was crazy cuz when we worked @ ross together we became i guess somewhat close friends. Then after i quit, we kinda lost touch for a while. We'd see each other @ skool and have small talk but thas bout it. Its weird to think how she graduated a year before me, but yet is younger than me. she graduated HS @ 16, i think she went to skool early thas why. She told me how she's been on and off w/this other guy i had gone to hs with. i dont know i think thas kinda unhealthy, but whatever floats your boat or finds your lost remote!

Finished chapter 4 in the kindness book, onto chapter 5! wooo! ive learned a lot from this book. Here is some food for thought bout anger. Three easy remedies against anger:
1. Diversion-check anger immediately by diverting your mind to some other object and do not speak a word.
2. Prayer-imitate the apostles when they beheld the tempest @ the sea, and have recourse to God, for it belongs to Him alone to restore peace to your soul.
3. Counterattack-should you feel that anger has already gained a foothold in your heart, do whatever you can to regain your composure.

Well tomorrow is the formal, im sure it'll be one groooooooovy nite. even though my "savage" arms are sore, ill still dance! hahaha

"so tell me what you want, what you really, really, really want, i tell you what i want, what i really, really, really want.i wanna, i wanna, i wanna, i wanna really zig zag ah." im done...im out God bless!

The day after christmas, wow i cant believe how fast it went already. I can remember juss counting down all the holiday festivities @ work. Now it christmas is already over...time sure does go by quickly.

Today was a pretty kick back, usually it is anyway after christmas. Cleaned up the house a little bit, put all the decorations away, took out the christmas tree and that stuff. I was planning on returning some stuff @ the mall, but i didnt get the chance too, plus im sure it was jam packed too. Went to lunch w/mizike, we were gonna go to karutas but then it was closed. So we ended up juss going to mcdonalds, it was coo simple, fast and cheap too!

After that i ended up getting a haircut. I over heard this one young guy next to me talk about how he broke his foot and hes been in a cast since thanksgiving weekend. i guess he went w/a friend up to the dessert for the weekend and then they met up w/some guys and they asked if he wanted to go offroading. So they get into the truck and he ends up gettign pushed out. The lady kept telling him how he shouldnt of trust those people and how she never trusts anyone. Like if she goes out on a date then she doesnt meet up @ their house and they drive seperately and stuff like that. Makes sense though, people are crazy and sick today, you cant trust people too easily. Especially in this time and age, its hard. I guess i wouldnt of expected someone to juss push me out of a truck either. Oh well sucks for him, i guess he learned a valuable lesson that day. haha

We went to sports challet to get the gear for the snowboarding trip. I didnt realize how expensive renting the equipment was. They check to see if they have $300 on your credit card that way if you damage the board or forget to return it then they charge you. I saw an old friend of mine that i went to jr. high with, i havent seen her in a while.

My computer keeps like tripping for some reason. I think cuz ive been signed on forever since i got home from the mtns. Thats pretty much all i rented was the board cuz i got all the other equipment. Went to help kuya get ready for tomorrow @ his house, then he came w/me to mine to help me get stuff to sleep @ archies. I could tell he was really exhausted cuz he fell on asleep on my bed, on kuya bear. haha then we went to archies and watched lilo & stich. I like that movie, we were talking bout they all had huge noses and how lilo's sister had thick legs for a cartoon character.

Im on chapter 4 in the kindness book, the topic is controling your anger. Some food for thought, "For instance, you may use bitter words agaisnt another person, not in order to correct or help, but only to hurt that person for the sake of revenge; or you may become peevish and bear grudges in an effort to get back at somebody." i should go and restart the computer cuz its trippin!

Thoughts for the day~
1. When you become angry w/someone or frurstrated trying saying outlout or silently, "God bless you."
2. Be careful who you trust, be aware of everyone you meet
3. Snowboarding is an expensive sport! haha

"Rap Stephen King, rock bling, Like neon lights, we gon' be alright..."im done...im out God bless! wow this was a short entry for today! haha

Today was another great day, i think it was especially d0pe cuz i was able to really admire and take it all of God's beautiful creations! Praise God for another wonderful, exciting fun-filled day! Ü

Woke up @ archies at around 530am, it was coo cuz i wasnt tired tired, i mean yeah i couldve slept in some more but i was cool. We got ready packed up and stuff then left on our way to anaheim hills to pick up reirich. it was so cold outside...brrrr. Its always so cold in the morning now, gosh imagine if you were homeless and had to find some place juss to keep warm. ahh thas why i say count your blessings errday! were so fortunate to be able to antcipate to sleep in warm beds w/warm sheets and a warm snug house w/a warm loving family. I think that would be the best gift anyone could recieve on christmas.

We got to the moutains at around like id say 7-730am, it was already jam packed there too! man people were already waiting in line to get ready to board. I already some people sliding down the hill and what not. It was d0pe kuya and reirich were able to join us in the snowboarding festivities. originally they werent going to, but then they were able to rent out the stuff for a reasonable price. I paid $39 for the lift ticket, about $38 for the board rental, $25 for boots and pants and $15 for gloves...let me see what that all adds up to, $117 altogether. Wow a pretty niffty price there. it was fun though dont get me wrong. It was so cold up there too when we got to the mountains, then again why wouldnt it be since youre in the snow! haha

I went up the lift, w/arch the first time i had a hard time getting my boots into the board and putting it on. I felt like i was gonna fall or somethign cuz my boots felt loose, they were still a little bit thas why. So we get on the lift, i learned to keep my right foot under my left to help support the board as we went up the lift. Woo i didnt realize how high we were going, well its probably not high for most people since theyre all pro. I was looking at all the people going down as i was riding on the lift, man they do it so non-chalant, so smooth. Hopefully ill be like that sometime or the next time i go. Then i had a hard time getting off the lift, thas the two things i dont like, walking up to the lift, and getting off the lift. I always end up falling down when i get off, i dont know i havent caught on to that part of it yet.

All the guys pretty much showed me how to control the board and how to slow down and stop. I thought i wouldnt be able to control it, and i would end up going way too fast and end up hurting myself. it was kinda confusing the first time i went down, cuz i ended up goign down by myself. When i fell i saw reirich but then i didnt see him after i got up. i was still trying to learn how to get the hang of the whole thing. Then the rest of the times i caught on real fast.


I think i did pretty well for being it my first time. Yeah of course i fell a lot, but the whole time for some reason i had that, "Try again" song playing in my head. It mustve of been my inspiraton for the day or something. It was coo though, i went on my own pace pretty much, when i fell i got right back up on my feet and went down hill once more. Especially towards the end, whenever id fall i would juss push myself back up. Im suprised i didnt injure myself, i thought i would come home w/a sprang ankle or something. Praise God that i didnt though cuz that wouldve sucked! The final time i went up i had my mind on other things, and i ended up falling hard that time. I ended up landing on my stomach half down the hill, i was in pain for a little bit. I had these people stop to help me though, God was watching out for me! They helped me relax a little bit and juss calmed me down. Luckily, kuya wasnt too far behind and was able to help me too. He stayed w/me till i was able to catch my breath.

It was a good day to admire all of God's creations, especially when you go up on the lift. All the pure white snow, the colorful green pine trees. The sun was out, people were having fun, how wonderful is that! its nice juss to relax and enjoy the view God set out for us look at. So often were in a rush that we dont stop to take the time to enjoy nature, the whole wonder and beauty of it. I gotta try and remember that too.

We came around like 330, perfect timing too, cuz we kinda avoided the whole rush hour friday traffic. I was pretty knocked out too. Came home, checked my mail talked ot my momma for a little bit. I went to lay down for a while in my bed hoping to fall asleep right away. i didnt know it took me a while, it was coo though juss to relax in my bed and be nice and warm. I ended up falling asleep @ 5 and then i woke up @ 6pm to get ready for my coworkers surpise bday bash. i wanted to sleep in so moe, but it was time for me to get up.

I went to my coworkers suprise bday party, it was nice. she had no clue @ all that she was being thrown a party. There was a lot of people there, friends, family and stuff like that. Good food too, sandwhiches, snacks, nachos all that kinda coo stuff. It was funny, cuz her mom turned out the lights in the house, cuz we all thought they were here. So i was going outside to get something to drink and i didnt realize that someone closed the patio door. It was one of those see clear ones, the ones where they deceieve you. So as i was bout to go outside because it was dark i ran into the patio door. i didnt realize it was closed, haha i guess im blind or something.
its all good though cuz i didnt really hurt myself. Im juss accident prone maybe ha

I was talking to my coworkers friends, and they were talking bout their jobs.The two of them are interpreters for the deaf w/young kids. The stories they told me were surpising, i was shocked in a way. I was told like some of the teachers start to get upset w/the deaf kids interpretters trying to blame them if the child doesnt do their hw or doesnt pass a test and stuff like that. How weird is that, when the interpretter is juss the voice and hands for the deaf child. The lady told of this one story of how this girl passed hs w/3rd grade reading level, but get this she was able to get a scholarship to cal state dominguez Hills cuz she played soccer really well. They didnt care bout her reading level, but because she can play soccer really well. isnt that crazy?! man or some teacher juss end up passing the kid cuz they feel sorry for them. Its weird how are society can be, but yet i guess its not too suprising. oh well, speaking of kids though, kuya is d0pe! check it,
JPFish187: thanks for staying back w/me earlier today
blue83212: ohman no problem, i just watned to make sure you're ok
blue83212: you're my younger bro man
blue83212: gotta take care of ya hehe

Thoughts for the day~
1. Make sure you stretch before snowboarding!
2. Despite the fact it can get pretty costly, its a d0pe sport.
3. I learned im so out of shape!
4. Take time out to enjoy, the wonderful creations God has put out for us!
5. Bring knee pads when going snowboarding!

"Musi ques I sews on bews I pues a twos on que zat Pue zoo My kizzer Pous zigga ay zee." Im done, im out God bless!

whoa this is crazzzzy, im in this chatroom that i got invited into and there's a priest in here! whoa! im amazed, i never really knew priests go in chatrooms and talk. im tripping out right now!! Wow where;s banne! she wouldve loved this chatroom!! Wheers all the AOlers they wouldve liked this chatroom too! Well christmas turned out better than i expected it to be, so Praise God! it was pretty fun in fact.

We did the rosary today, like i said i got the confirmation i needed to hear bout praying it w/the family.It turned very well, in fact. The only is, we went a little too fast, but its okay Praise God we were able to even do it! This Christmas was a little bit different, being some of the annual traditions were broke. Usually we have it at my grandparent's house, we take family pictures in the front of the tree, eat, open presents then juss do whatevers. IT was different, i think God was really lookign out for us today. The rosary went well, the prayer we did before we ate was cool, my family was touched by the christmas version of 1 corinthians. We played bingo too. There was a lot of unity inside the family today, though not all of us were all there, but still it was nice. I won $5 and $5 gift certificate to mc donalds, that always comes in handy. I learned i dont need a new tv to hook up my dvd player, juss need a converter thingy. Praise God cuz errthang went really smoothly tonight. It was a great way to celebrate Jesus' birfday!

Lyn lyn and banne are such an inspiration to talk to online. Its really cool lyn lyn and i were juss talking bout how we woudlnt be where we are today w/o the help of God and the community. banne shared me w/how papa john had asked her to meditate on a vision on a flock of birds. The ones that together in a swift motion, liek a swarm of bees. She told me the birds were our community(SH), how she had to stay in the middle of us and be close otherwise she wouldnt be protected. It was so cool cuz she ended up actually seeing that in person, thas pretty much how she knew she needed to come back to us.
banne say: in real life...that's what made it so special
banne say: because it was something so natural and so ordinary that God used to bring me back to you (meaning the community.) Lyn lyn and i realized these are like the best group of friends one could ever have, were so blessed to have all of them in our lives.

Some thoughts from the book of kindness on suggestions on how to avoid greed, envy and jealously:
*Remember that your first purpose in life is to save your soul for heaven.
*Be Humbly submissive to God's will.
*Never Lose courage in the struggle against envy.
*Imitate the good qualities you find in others.
*Be kind to the person you envy.
*Remain close to God through continued prayer and the frequent reception of the sacaraments of penance and Holy Communion.
Juss some food for thought! I reccoment you buy the book, its really good!! "The Hidden Power of Kindness" By Father G. Lovasik.

Thoughts for the day~
*"An honest answer is the seighn of true friendship"
Proverbs 24:26
*"The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them"
John 15:13
*Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all thing, endures all things. Love never fails. Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust, but the gift of love will endure!

"There has to be a place better than this, in heaven." Im done, im out God bless!

hmm for some reason my burner isnt opening. Well i figured id make a summary of my day yesterday. Hopefully, ill be able to remember errthang. I woke up like around 10 or something like that, kinda cleaned up the house and my room a little bit to prepare for tomorrow.

Went to confession, ahh! i love the feeling after going to confession, i havent gone in like a month, so it felt good. Its like when you play in the mud for a while and you get really dirty, then you cant wait to take a shower! It was a nice confession too, Father Kevin, gave me some good advice. Helped me out a lot! Went to lunch with mizike, frrrrrrrrred, boss lady, reirich angeles, who else. Thas about it, had a nice xmas eve day lunch! ha

then went to cerritos mall w/reirch and mizike. As expected it was pretty busy and packed. Luckily, mizike had found front row parking! wooooooooooo I bought this shirt @ macys it's like a white one but like a vintage type of shirt. They had a light blue one too, so i was debating which one to get. It was $60, but it was nice material and what not. So why not you know?! haha Reirich had bought the bebe's some little christmas gifts, awww isnt that nice of him!

haha I got home like around, picked up the gifts from el captian. Might i add jeanne did quite an exceptional job wrapping them too! Ooh i got the new NAS cd too, im really feelin' the Thugz mansion song, the accoustitac version haha i was looking for the lyrics all day, but i couldnt really find them. Im still looking for the mystical remix to dont mess w/my man.

Got ready, went to mass @ 515pm, it was nice mass, it was quite crowded, but what do you expect xmas eve mass. Father Hussy was the celebrant for the mass, it was soo d0pe cuz he walked in carrying the baby Jesus to put into the manger. A great way to start the mass, like i had mentioned earlier he's such an inspirational priest. Through his homily, God gave me the confirmation needed to hear. See i had planned on doing the Rosary for Christmas, but some people in the family felt uncomfortable doing it. So during confession i had asked Father Kevin what he said, he told me it was a perfect time to do it. By mediating upon the Joyful Mysteries, it;s all about the birth of Christ! Then during the HOmily @ mass, Father had said the same homily again pretty much that he had said on Sunday. From there i realized God was telling me, "Yes my child, the Rosary is something needed for Christmas." Praise God! my doubts had quickly ended right there.

After mass, we had aj, grandpa, and grandma, lance and his mom over for dinner. mmm Dinner was good, we had good food and what not. I love my grandparents baked chicken, especially eating the juice w/rice! oOh! Then i had a wonderful chat w/Lance's mom. its great to be able to talk to someone who is also on fire bout their Faith. It was a very annointed talk, she told me how she;s been going to SCRC For a while and they usually rent a room out. I told her bout how i saw the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove that weekend. ahh A best experience ive ever had, a d0pe weekend too! She told me how she was looking for a church that perpetual adoration every day. We also talked about some other churches that are nice. Man its really cool to talk w/other people who are on fire bout their faith. That's proof, the catholic church is still strong! Praise God!

Went and dropped off the bebe's gifts @ their houses. I had a nice chat w/lyn lyn bout Father Hussy. Then i went to the mejias to get ready to go to Midnight Mass. it was packed we had to have mass in the hall. i really wanted to go to the church cuz its so nice in there. Then listening to the wonderful filipino choir. Father kevin's homily was good too, he talked about some stories about Christmas and what not. Then he ended it w/that love parody.
What else, what else to say hmmm. After mass el huego, mizike and i went to eat an early Christmas breakfast @ dennys. hahaha Get an early start to spend christmas w/family! well i think thas it that was my day xmas eve.
"There has to be a place better than this, in heaven So right before I sleep, dear God, what I'm askin Remember this face, save me a place, in thug's mansion..." im done...im out God bless!

First off this wont be a long entry, ill get into what i did yesterday later on in a second entry. Second off...you know what day it is! its JESUS is BIRFDAY!!! wooO! happy birfday JEsus Christ!!! May the Lord shine his ligh upon all of us this blessed day! Third, id like to share this inspirational parody i got from Father Mc Manus' Homily tonight.

1 Corinthians-A Christmas Version
If i decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not show love to my family, i'm just another decorator.

If i slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love to my family, I'm just another cook.

If i work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home and give all that i have to charity, but do not show love to my family, it profits me nothing.

If i trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday parties and sing in the choir's cantata but do not focus on Christ, i have missed the point.

Love stops the cooking to hug the child. Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the husband. Love is kind, though harried and tired. Love doesnt envy another's home that has coordinated Christmas china tables and linens. Love doesnt yell at the kids to get out of the way, but is thankful they are there to be in the way. Love doesnt give only to those who are able to give in return but rejoices in giving to those who cant.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all thing, endures all things. Love never fails. Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust, but the gift of love will endure!

Have a wonderful Christmas!
"Christ the savior is born." GOd bless!

Man i had a whole entry typed out earlier then i lost it! booooooooooooooooooooooooo that sucks. I thought id try to recap my day again since reirich is taknig forever to respond back to me haha i ended up waking up @ 7am this morinng cuz i couldnt sleep cuz it was too cold in the house. I ended up turning on the heater, hoping that would put me back to sleep. I hate it when youre almost alseep then you get interrupted, which results in not being able to go back to sleep. I had a pretty eventful, busy day today, it was fun though!

I went to gas first since i was very low on it. From there went to Leslie's to drop off her secret santa gift & collect the $$ she owed me. People dont know how to drive durnig the holidays, forreal! i almost got into 2 accidents today, both which wouldnt of been my fault. After leslie's went to ross to pick up the last min. christmas gift i had to get. Which means im officially now finished shopping! woo! Went home for a while to rest. Kuya's gift came in the mail today, so i wrapped that up, turned out to be he was near my house so i passed by there @ just tires.

He like the gift, in fact he ended up wearing it the rest of the day! woo! now he's really pharell hahaha. it was coo him and i had mini "at risk youth day." we went to rite aide and to the 99 cents store to get some stuff. The 99 cents store was packed! then again, when is that store not packed. i feel sorry for all those people who have to work there and clean up the huge amounts of messes. oh @ ross this one girl left to get me some change and she ended up leaving the register open a crack. This lady behind me who was like some kinda manager @ staples pointed it out to her. Thas juss plain dumb to leave the register and then leave it a crack open too. Someone couldve easily stole the $$ and ran off w/it.

Anyway, kuya and i went to the good guys in cerritos to get boss ladies sterohead put in. its really nice one too might i add! we were thinking it would take like 20-30 min. to get installed turned out the guy was done in like 10 min! talk about quickstyles huh! so we kinda browsed around the store looking for an mp3 player. Though we didnt get any. To make it look all nice we put the bow on the stero system face. He set the mood right too haha he had jagged edge's "lets get married" song playing when she would turn on the car. Then he left the christmas card on the seat. now lets all say together, "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" hahaha what a great guy! Ü

Came home for a little while, wrapped jen and romy's gfit. Since we were meeting up to have dinner and do our gift exchange. I hate wrapping gifts, i like getting them but the hard part is wrapping. I cant wrap for anything, so i let jeanne wrap my xmas gifts! wooo she likes wrapping gifts she told me! she was excited when i asked her to wrap mine! such a great friend! i have to remember to pick them up tomorrow afternoon.

Went w/boss lady and aela to costco in fullerton. Boss lady decided to get kuyas ps2 he;s been wanting for a while. That place was also messed up, i guess go figure what place isnt gonna be torn up. Boss lady got a good deal on the whole system. She was able to the whole system itself, w/2 controllers, memory card and 2 games wow! what a great gift. i felt like i was shopping w/my parents like you know how youd go w/your mom to get your dads then go w/your dad to get your moms. That kinda stuff haha it sounds weird i know. im glad im really close to both of them. Theyre both very good people whom i really respect and admire. Thas a type of realtionship where you know when the two of them met the angeles whispered "perfect!" sounds corny i know...

Went to eat w/romy, roc, and jen tonight @ marie callendars. I didnt eatc much cuz i was stilll kinda full from lunch time. i didnt want to eat really, but then if i didnt they wouldve pushed me to anyway. We also did our gift exchage too! romy got me this walking phone head set kinda. Where you can talk on the phone w/the ear piece and stuff. it was a bit suprised when i opened it, she said she didnt know what ot get me. Since i do like to talk on the phone a lot she said. it was nice to catch up and see wahs going on their lives. It feels good kinda not being there and listening to kids not behaving. ahh i think im perfect where i am at now, thas for sure!

Dropped off my gifts @ jeannes house for some wrappign! i owe her something for wrapping them. Like i said i cant wrap for anything, so ill let her make them look nice. i went to the velascos to drop off jem's gift. only babyvee and tito sal were home. She's leaving for the pi for a whie, she's going by herself tomorrow. SO please pray for her! its gonna suck cuz she's going to miss chrismas this year!

I got this weird email today from a girl named "katrina." she told me she's meet me before from her friends adn stuff. Then said i was cute and wanted to hook up w/me...blah blah blah i juss responded back by asking who her friends that supposedly mine too. I think its some kind of sick prank somoeone is trying to play. theyre juss bored w/their life and need something fufilling to do. I say go to confeessio & take the eucharist. Well i think thas all i can think of for now, my eyes are getting heavy. 1 more day till Jesus' birfday, thank you Lord for coming here as man. Praise you and thank you Lord!

Its nice to be a regular computer user and not have all these problems like i did before! im so happy thats over with. I juss need to find a monitor for my mac. oh i ran into an ol hs friend of mine, it was nice to see her again. I foudn out she was pregnant though, like 2 months. it looked like she was already starting to show. ahh thas scary to have a kid so young.

Thoughts for the day~
*PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!
*Be alert while driving, especially now.
*Friends are God's way of taking care of us...need i say more?

"The He smiled at me Pa rum pum pum pum Me and my drum..." im done...im out God bless!

Praise God, Praise God, Praise God!!!! He is so wonderful and great! Truly he is! This is has turned out to be a great day! So where do i begin? i always seem lost in the very beginning, i know i'll start with the mass!

I went to mass today @ 915, the usual time i go on sundays. We had another visiting priest @ our parish for the next couple weeks. He's a good motivational priest, his name is Father Hussy. Anyway, his homily was very annointed too! man so many people told him that too after mass. Something that really made me think was how he really emphasized this, "attitude of gratitude." Meaning, having an attitude of thankfulness, juss as the saints, Mama Mary, St. Joseph all had. That really stuck out in my mind, and especially cuz its the holiday season. We have so many things to be thankful for, showing gratitude. Another thing that hit me was how much he loved praying the Rosary. He kinda compared to like a jet plane. Hopefully i can get this right, its like at first you struggle juss like how you have beginning turbulence in the plane. Then when you finally get up their, errthang is juss smooth sailing. Juss like praying the Rosary, once you start itsallgood. He talked bout the 5 new mysteries of the Rosary too. So mass was really good today, especially the homily.

Drove out to newport beach to have brunch @ el torito for alex & karol's thing. The food was aiight, it was $15 to get in for an all you can eat buffet. They had your usual buffet mexican food, w/some extras. THey had the rice, soft tacos, enchilladas, then shrimp and fruit and other stuff. It was a nice family get together, Praise God cuz i got a good response from one of my aunt & uncle bout praying the Rosary on christmas. Banne gave me some great meditations to add w/the Rosary, so i will do that also. You figure, if we have time to sit around play games for 20-30 min. then we should at least have some time set aside for Rosary.

After brunch, i worked on gettign the house ready for this evenings main event. I also had to finish writing out my christmas cards for the evening. My mom wrapped my gifts last nite, that was cool. Jeanne said she would wrap mine for me, since she loves wrapping! haha Well i officially thought i was done w/shopping today, with all my xmas shopping. Apparently not, something came up today so it ended up pushing me back one gift. So tomorrow ill go to the mall and find something. Its coo, ill lift up for the souls in purgatory. Which reminds me i have to wrap my old bosses xmas gift to drop it off. I got her this coo little book from Wal mart, one of those religous inspirational ones, since i know she likes reading that stuff.

Tonight was really great, Praise God for my other family! you know that quote that errone kept quoting for a while from Lilo & stitch. The one that goes, "ohana means family, family means no gets left behind or forgotten." That really pertains to us i think, we always look out for each other and for our own best interests juss like uPrM. i think that also really applies to the guys of uPRm also. ill get into that later on though. So we ate, there was so much good food and a lot of fun. The gift exchange turned out really well also! boss lady and i were kinda thinking of ways on how we were gonna conduct the exchange part. it turned out errone had a lot of fun with the whole giving clues on who your person was! i really love my community each and errone of them. The guesssing game was fun! I ended up being the 3rd one to go up. thanks jeanne for my gift! its sooooooo handy, and the candy mmmmmmmm. Jem who is my prayer buddy was my secret santa, she got this quilt my mom made for her. THough its not quite done but shell get before xmas. We played Mafia for like 2 and a half rounds, the last one we never end up continuing @ aelas house. Though it ended up being jeanne and i who was mafia! hahah it was funny we kept pushing the blame on jay and anne. I was really glad to see errone's smiling faces tonight. It meant a lot, we have so much fun together. What another great way to spend christmas, and to celebrate Christ's coming.

Went to aelas to chill, our uPrm trip for the snow is all pretty much planned out. I feel the unity within us when were all together. Its not often that all 6 of us come together, we have the greatest times. its coo cuz were juss ourselves, dont need to impress anyone. Its like we can say the stupidest things and still have the best time together. it was funny, we were talking bout the dentist and the optometrist today. THese guys are so d0pe cuz i mean so many times in life we find ourselves straying from the best realtionships we found in time. SO often we end up loosing touch w/people cuz of busy times and complications in life. Or people say it takes real drama to happen in order to find your true friends. its sad that one has to go through pain and hurt juss ti know who will stand to their word when they say, "ill be there for you." These guys have helped me w/so much in juss the little amount of time ive known them. We pick each other up when we fall or when we fail to succeed. We can talk about everything in life. Help bring each other to the higher level, not occupied w/the real world. I dont see dollar signs when i look into their eyes, i see Jesus' eyes through them!

Praise God i got my computer fixed and no problems...so far! haha Its so much easier and nicer, i had few minor set problems trying to get AOL started, but Praise God he got me through it! I also found a for sure date to go the SOL formal. No more stressing or figuring out what to do. Wow so many praise reports to give. Banne and i had a nice little chit chat online, she's soo great! she helped me understand my frustrations w/people. here ill share her wonderful thoughts. She says my entries are long too! hahahahaha
bannesay: maybe because by allowing Jesus to shine through you, His Light illuminates their souls and makes them see stuff within them that they'd rather hide
JPFish187: wow
JPFish187: i never thought bout that
Banne Say: we all have dark corners in our souls
JPFish187: oh yeah
Banne say: so it's not that you're trying to show off or act holier
Banne say: you're just letting God be who He is through you
Banne say: but they don't realize that and they just blame you for making them feel uncomfortable....cuz they really can't understand why they feel so...convicted?
JPFish187: yeah i try to

THoughts for the day~
*Patience goes a long way!
*Community=unity=U & I, i love them!!!
*Keep your eyes on the prize, the Eucharist
*uPrM...a friendship that is priceless!
*Continue to let Jesus' let shine through YOU, unto others!
*Attitude with Gratitude
*Pray the ROSARY!!!!
"To take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally. Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me." im done...im out God Bless! sorry for such a long entry! haha

Im tired, what a day it has been! i woke up @ like 10, laid in bed for a while watching tv. i thought i would officially be done w/my xmas shopping today, apparently not. 1 more to go, which should be fairly easy being im getting the person a gift card. I went to the buena park mall today, to drop off some lumpia for my sisters potluck @ work. Then i went to a couple stores in there, trying to finish up some last minute shopping. i ran into aela there, juss like myself she was trying to finish her shopping. I was able to get something for my cousin there, so i did accomplish something. I also ran into an old former coworker @ ross, actually she still works there. Gosh shes been there forever since the store first opened in aug. of 1999. Thas like 3 years, going on 4! i asked her how long she was planning to stay there, she said she was going to see what happens after the holidays. She's been through all different kinds of management there too. She only got the job, to keep herself from being bored @ home. Which is good, she's a really swe3t, nice lady, errtime she's always so supportive and happy. Where's kuya he was on then he signed off.
We got satellite installed in our tvs today, no more cable for us. Were stil trying to get the hang of it though. I guess its coo, there isnt anything whoa bout it. In fact we were having problems w/it already. At least we still have ewtn on there! thas tight, cuz i they always have interesting programs on there.SOmetimes i like to pray the rosary w/it. I went to wal-mart to get attempt to try to finish the leftover people i had on my list. It was so hectic there cuz i went to the one in cerritos. THe lines were packed, it was crowded, though i did get what i wanted to get. Then i forgot something right after i walked out the door, i was almost just going ot wait till tomorrow, but i decided i mine as well since i was there already. Praise God, cuz i was in and out really quick. THen i went to best buy to see if i could get a gift card there, but the line was too long, it went around the store like a snake. i wasnt bout to wait forever in line for a only one small item. So i said, ill juss go somewhere else tomorrow.
I went home got ready and left to go to carson for Love & faith's xmas party. There was a lot of people there! wooo they had St. Lucy's prayer group as well as Holy innocence's group there. so many people and good food, what a great way to celebrate JEsus' birfday. One of their elders has xmas lesson that she told us. Hopefully i can remember the general idea/point of the talk.
She told this story of this little girl who was watching her mom wrapping presents, then she asked her mom, "did you remember to wrap Jesus' gift too mommy?" i guess the mom juss kinda stared @ her, giving her a blank response. The lady said some other good stuff, but i forgot but i do remember this point. "Are we being bethelems for the manager?" Are we ready to for Christ to come? i thought it was something really good to think about. THey had some coo entertainment there as well. i left early though cuz i was getting tired.
I met up w/gang @ fridays @ the block, as usual the place was busy. I didnt eat, juss had some water, actually i take that back, i ate the rest of jeanne's dessert. haha It was good, juss a time to fellowship w/one another, a way to kick of winter break. i was kinda out of it, cuz i was tired from the whole day. I really think when i drive too much i get tired, cuz i was getting sleepy driving over to carson tonight.
I gotta write my xmas cards tomorrow, i guess my family and i are going to el torito after church for kuya alex's thing. its $15 though per person to eat, it all you can eat though. they better have some good food for $15! i dont wanna go though, i have stuff i need to get done before the gift exchange. Like write xmas cards, and pick up around the house. Its so hard to find some good xmas cards with good powerful messages. YOu know i realized today that certain people i know of, hmm how do i put it. Well i told some of my friends this today, but some people arent looking @ the big picture, instead they focus in only on wha is seen through their eyes. Which is wrong!
I finished chapter 2 last nite in my kindness book.it was a really powerful one talking bout passing judgements on others. Which im very guilty of. I learned this though, "if you are faced with such difficulities, remember the following considerations:"
*Do not allow pride to cloud your vision.
*Recall your own faults.
*Appreciate differences between people.
*Remember your duty as a genuine Christian.
All those deal with passing judgement on others, i wont go into detail bout what each of them mean cuz im sure you could do it on your own. I hope this upcoming new year will be another great one, filled with a lot of love. Im going to try and become spirtiually stronger. Not let the devil try to distract me on wha the real goal is. Especially this upcoming week, im sure the devil has some tricks up his bag ready to pull out on us. I hope we'll be able to recgonize his attacks and conquer them w/prayer. i really like what jaymee said in the last paragraph in her blog entry for today bout the world is what you make of it. What she said is really true, so many people i know "bathe & soak" in their problems and sufferings, wanting nothing else but sorrow and attention. Or when things arent going the way they want them to, they tend to get disgusted with life and wish theirs would end. God has given each and errone of us, an important gift. Why waste it and trash it, when we could be cherishing it and loving it. Radiate cheerfulness cuz cheerfulness is found in hope and through your actions you can foster that cheer! So many people seek comfort for attention, but yet like jaymee said who comforted Christ on the cross? We didnt, thats for sure! But yet no matter what we do, he is still there for us. Some spiritual food for thought there.
I want to go snowboarding next week, but i dont think i have the $$ to go. its cool, there will always be other times! its gonna suck not working all next week. Looks like no more shopping for me for a while that is!
Mama Mary thank you for your prayers everyday, for your continual support and guidance!
Pray this:
A Godly Meditation~
Give me grace, good Lord, to set the world at nought, to set my mind fast upon you and not to hand upon the blast of men's mouths. To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldy company, little and little utterly to cast off the world, and rid my mind of the business thereof. Not to long to hear of any wordly thing, but that the hearing of wordly fantasies may be to me displeasant. Gladly to be thinking of God, busily to labor to love him. To know my own vitilty and wretchedness, to humble and meeken myself under the mighty hand of God, to bewail my sins passed; for the purging of them, patiently to suffer adversity. Gladly to bear my purgatory here, to be joyful of tribulations, to walk that narrow way that leads to life. To bear that cross with Christ, to have the last thing-death-in remebrance, to have ever before my eye death, that is ever at hand; to make death no stranger to me; to forsee and consider the everlasting fire of hell; to pray pardon before the judge comes. To have contiunually in mind the passion Christ suffered for me; for his benefits incessantly to give hhim thanks, to buy the time again that i before have lost. To abstain from vain confabulations, to eschew light foolish mirth and gladness; to cut off unncessary recreations. Of wordly substance, friends, liberty, life and all, to set the loss at nought for the winning of Christ. To think my worst enemies my best friends, for the brethen of Jospeh could ever have done with so much good with their love and favor as they did him with their malice and hatred.
"Come and behold him born the king of angels..." Im done...im out, God bless!

a funny thing happened juss a little bit ago, i was trying ot get to Fred's blog to see any updated tags on his tagboard, turned out God redirected me to another random person's blog where i found this...i think God wanted me to share this w/errone that is why he redirected me to it. I hope you enjoy juss as much as i have!

THE LEGEND OF THE THREE TREES
Once upon a time three trees were standing tall dreaming what they'd like to be if trees can dream at all.
One tree said "Someday I hope to be a treasure chest. I could be filled with gold and precious gems. I would become famous and everyone would see the beauty."
The second tree said, "Someday I will be a mighty ship. I will take kings and queens across the waters and sail to the corners of the world.
The third tree said, "I want to grow to be the tallest and straightest tree in the forest. People will see how tall I am and when they look up I will point them to God.

Soon a group of woodsmen came upon the trees. When one came to the first tree they said, "This looks like a strong tree, I think I should be able to sell the wood to a carpenter"; and he began cutting it down. The tree was happy, because he knew that the carpenter would make him into a treasure chest.

At the second tree a woodsman said, "This looks like a strong tree, I should be able to sell it to the shipyard." The second tree was happy because he knew he was on his way to becoming a mighty ship.

When the woodsmen came upon the third tree, the tree was frightened because he knew that if they cut him down his dreams would not come true. But they did.

When the first tree arrived at the carpenters, he was made into a feed box for animals. He was then placed in a barn and filled with hay. This was not at all what he had hoped for.

The second tree was fashioned into a small fishing boat. His dreams of becoming a mighty ship to carry the Kings and Queens to all parts of the World had come to an end. This was not the future he had dreamed of.

The third tree was cut into two large pieces and left alone in a large storage shed -- his dreams were dashed.

Years later a man and a young woman came to seek shelter in the stable where the manger fed the livestock. The young woman gave birth to a son named Jesus and they placed the him on the hay in the feed box that was made from the first tree. In a moment the tree knew that it held the greatest treasure of all time -- our Saviour!

Later still, a group of men following the Master got into a fishing boat which was made from the second tree. The Master was so tired He soon went to sleep. While they were out on the water, a great storm arose -- the others woke the sleeping teacher who stood and said, "Peace be still " and the storm stopped. It was then that this tree knew that he carried the King of Kings.

Not much later soldiers came and got the two large timbers of the third tree out of storage. They lashed those pieces together and formed the most cruel instrument of torture and death ever devised a Roman cross. Soon to the horror of this tree the Master nailed upon it and raised high in the air to die at the top of a hill. Once He was dead they took his body away to a stone tomb where it was buried. But when Sunday came, and the Master rose from the grave suddenly what had been a symbol of torture and death was transformed into a symbol of sacrifice and victory. The cross became the tallest tree in the world and has ever since pointed people to God.

None of the three trees got exactly what they asked for but all their dreams came true.

Prayer: Thank you Jesus for both the manger and the cross. Your birth and your death that led to new life. How wonderful you are! Amen.

"Long lay the world in sin and error pining 'Til He appeared and the soul felt its worth. A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious morn!" im done...im out GOd bless!

Praise God for he has blessed me with another wonderful day. i wanna say this before i forget, there are so many different types of prayers out there, novenas, rosaries, chaplets etc. which are all very important. BUt i think one think many people like myself included tend to forget, is juss waking up errmorning and say, "thank you Lord for waking me up." imma try something a little bit different to see if itll flow better, im going to make todays entry in paragraphs.

Ive been thinking a lot within the past couple hours and i realized that many of my friends and family are going through a lot right now. Many of them are suffering and have been endlessy tyring to fight that tough battle w/the devil. I pray and i pray that they will have the strength to persevere, cuz i know they can. The devil will do all he can to try and win the battle. Especially now, since he knows Jesus' brifday is coming up real soon. "O my GOd, you have treated us with so much love. Help us to realize what a great Good you really are. Never allow us to forget your goodness and love." God is so good, man he has done so many great things in my life that i can never stop praising and shouting his name. Thas why i give all glory and honor to him for he has truly blessed me with many different things

I went to Dineylan(as mizike calls it) and california adventure today w/kuya and mizike. I never been to califronia adventure so it was fun, fun, fun! As kuya stated in his blog it was quite a chillful day haha so we suffered in the cold cuz we didnt wear any jackets. We ate first, as usual the food was expensive, i ate too much though haha ive been eating a lot lately. Mizikes friend got us in fo free to both parks, so as we were walking w/her over to her ride, she gave us a mini tour of the mini park. It was funny, cuz kuya asked bout something they were building and she told us they were making a replica of the 0911. THey had 2 buildings looking like the twin towers and she told us a plane was goign to come crashing err 30 min. She was only messing though, i like her sense of humor its quite funny. I read in the kindness book that having a sense humor is good and not always being so ehh all the time. "But a sense of humor will keep you from taking this passing world too seriously, because you will see how foolish such sadness is in the light of the truth that you have an immortal soul destined one day to enjoy the riches of heaven." understand? good! moving on with that in mind, we went on the "California screamin" that was a d0pe ride! hahaha the three of us couldt stop laughing, especially kuya hahahaha. towards the end of the ride i was like bleh! hahahahahha but i didnt throw up though, then we went on star tours. THis one guy well you know how you wait in front of the doors till they open to let you in to the ship. well this one guy i think got too excited and tried to open the door himself. hahah i showed mizike and kuya, we both ended up laughing hahahahah. Then we saw Santa, i waved to him and he was like "screw you buddy!" hahahahahha then on the way walking back, i saw Mrs. Claus in the parade i waved to her as well and she said the same thing ot me! haha maan! haha jk haha no they didnt say that but i was telling mizike and kuya itd be funny if they accidenty slipped one day and said it! hahahahahhahahaha Star tours was aiight, the same ol same ol, the line went fast though. Space mountain i think did it for me, cuz after that i felt dizzy kinda the rest of the day. It was still d0pe. imagine if i ended up throwing up in the dark, people would be like "hey whered that come from?" hahaha oh man we did a lot of walking today i thikn thas hwy the 3 of us are kinda tired or are tired. I didnt go on thunder mtn cuz i figured if i did, then id be gone for the rest of the day and i didnt want that to happen. Indiana Jones was fun, on the way out some guy was acting like monkey or a gorilla to these people taking the boat cruise. haha looking @ him reminded me of someone i know. hahahahaha it was fun a day @ the happiest/merriest place on earth!

Oh in the car, well i left my phone in the car and when i got in i had 3 missed calls and vmail. SO i check it, and i find a # which i dont recgonize. THen i listen to the vmail and im puzzled cuz iddint recongize the girl's voice. i ended up getting setting myself up for a dissapointment, cuz i got excited thinking the girl was somone else. hahahahahaha I have mizike listen to it and he tells me its jaymee, so i call her back and leave her vmail. When i got home my jaymee calls me and tells me she didnt understand my vmail and i come to find out it wasnt her who called me and left me the strange vmail. Well i call the # that i didnt recgonize finally and it was the creative imaginations office, so i put two and two together and its jeanne! haha usually jeanne tells me its her when she leaves me vmails, but this time she didnt. hahaha i got excited twice thinking it mightve been this other person, but then how wouldve she gotten my #. i took a nap cuz i had a headache from the rides.

Went to apologetics tonight, and learned more about Mama Mary. Good topic tonight, cuz many of our other brothers and sisters really have questions and doubt Mama Mary. But she's soo d0pe, i really love her cuz she helps send up my prayers up to her son. Ive been lagging on sending out her daily prayers, i should start doing them agai soon. Oh Father Grace said something good tonight. He said he doesnt care what other people might say or feel bout Mama Mary. IT doesnt matter to him, he doesnt care cuz what they say is not going to damage his faith in what he believes or feels about her. We shouldnt let them deter us from believing what we want to. I thought that was a really good point.

I was up till like 3am this morning going through some old mail, man the memories oh boy. i had some ol skool pics to kuya. haha wow how quicky time passes by. Mizike, fred and el huego went to go see Twin towers though i dindt go cuz i had apologetics. I wanna see drum line though, that looks like a d0pe movie. As i was reading this one story last nite or this morning i was really convicted by what the message of it was. So with that in mind during the break @ apologetics i went to visit Jesus tonight, and i asked him for some healing that;s really needed right now. I know he'll get these people through their trials, he never abandons us!

LEssons learned today:
1. BRing a jacket when its cold out, even if the sun might be out, but if the clouds look grey...ehh bring it!
2. Who cares what others may say or feel bout certain things like Mama Mary. ITs not going to convert me or damage how i feel about her.
3. Always remember there is a lot walking @ dineyland! haha

PRaise GOd for i found these Cds i thought i had lost! i found them in my trunk tonight! ha woo!

"The nails in your hands, the nail in your feet, they tell me how much you love me,the throns on your face they tell me how you bore so much shame to love me. When the heavens pass away all your stars will still remain and forever they will say just how much you love me so i love to say, forever my love, forever my heart, forever my life is yours, forever my love forever my heart, forever my life is yours its yours..." im done...im out God bless!

All your life you are told the things you cannot do.
All your life they will say you're not good enough
Or strong enough or talented enough.
They'll say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight
Or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this.
THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no
Until all the no's become m e a n i n g l e s s .
All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
They will tell you no
AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES.

Praise God for a wonderful day! its been a great week, and i really, really praise God for it! He has blessed me w/so much this past year, its been a great year for me. Truly i am very lucky to be where i am now, he has a really put me back on track. Soo where do i start, pops needs to update his blog cuz all he has now is "blah blah blah..." he told me to stay tuned to find out when he'll make another entry. Work was d0pe today, by the time i got there, errone was in council chambers, eating. We had food catored, i dotn know where though. It was the rice pilaf, vegetables, chicken, tamales. What a combo w/the tamales huh?! haha im currently listening to the "life goes on." its a coo song, so after that we had a raffle. There was a lot of nice gifts, all donated too! SOme of them was $50 to fish co and mac grill, another one on a harbor cruise, gameboy advance, some other stuff too. Well it was funny cuz my co workers and i were sitting @ the table talking bout each prize we wanted. When the raffled off the gameboy advance my coworkers was like oOoH i want that! ha next thing you know they call her name, then the next one was a DVD player, i was like oh i want that one! haha i didnt even hear my name get called and next thing you know its me who wins it! Then my other co worker wanted the 4 not 2 tickets to see the Mighty Ducks, she ended up getting that too! haha how weird, the tickets were $15 each she was like i guess i wont be seeing the game. hahahaha then i told her, i was going to sell on my DVD player on the streets, she told me i was ghett0 hahahahahaha I finished answering the rest of the Santa Letters. THere was a grip today! oh man! After lunch i went w/my boss to go pick up his car in bellflower, on our way over there, we stopped by this new Catolic CHurch, St. Dominic Savlo. wow that church is sooo nice!! You walk in and you see the cruficied Jesus on one side of the Cross, on the other side was the Risen Jesus. THen you had the HOly Water right in the middle, on the sides was Mama Mary, St. JOhn Bosco, Jesus w/children, and a couple others. Oh what was also cool, their advent wreath well they had each of the 4 candles, placed in the different sides of the church. After we went to the small but nice Eucharistic Chapel 24 hrs perpetual adoration!!! man! how d0pe is that!!! on that side note, my boss told me his pastor @ his church doesnt really believe in that! he told me thas one thing he's kinda disgusted about. I told him how can you be a priest and not believe in perpetual adoration!! geez! Went back to work, for an open house dessert reception back into council chambers. There was some good desserts there! I really like my job, its great cuz we all know eahc other, and we feel comfortable and stuff. Also its cool, cuz im able to share my faith w/other people. For my gift exchange @ work, we played "dirty santas." MEaning once you get a gift you can steal it from someone else. Look jeanne isnt ghosting online today! haha Father brennan told me today, "Ja$on, blessed are you among women!" hahha he;s a trip, i love father Brennan! Back to my gift exchange @ work. I won @ first this, oreo maker thing but i ended up getting it jacked from me! I ended up getting a $20 gift card to wal-mart. i was kinda dissapointed cuzi wanted you know the oreo maker, but i guess wal-mart is coo. Went home for a bit after work, then went to SRE. COuple weeks ago i gave the kids hw, and i told them they had to go & visit Jesus @ the blessed Sacarment. THen she goes, i tried to open that big roudn GOld thing but i couldnt. I thought that was funny, haha then anothero f them told me she wanted to get her mass card signed but there was nobody there. haha kids fill me w/laughter, especially yougner ones. Its raining again, man i like listening to the rain in bed. I wish my spa was working @ the moment. mmm nice and relaxing. Looks like JL will be going w/mizike to formal, lucky her! as for me ahhh my search for flava continues. I think its really growning cold too, this sucks! "Tell me have you seen her? have you seen her? tell me have you seen her? As another day comes to an end, im lookin for a letter or something, anything that you wouldve seen with all the people i know, im still a lonely man. YOu know its funny i thought i had her in the palm of my hand." haha have you seen my SOL formal date? hahaha that was corny, i know. I was readning errone's daily blog tonight. Some people havent updated theirs yet. Kuya & fred did already, i read ericas and she put beb this beb that beb beb beb beb...i think imma kill myself! hahahha went to chillis after SRE w/boss lady and kuya, aela, atche, babyvee, fred, john and el huego. Jeanne decided to split a awesome blossom, well it was too salty for us. i told the waiter, he was coo w/it he didnt even charge us for it! so i ddint waste any $$! yesss! i must finish my shopping this weekend, cuz next week the malls will be jam packed! i dont know what else to put on here, Jeanne told me a funny story tonight bout her past hahahah i couldnt stop laughing. Everytime it rains now i think of the song, by ja rule and Mary j bliege Rainy days. Well juss that one line bout how Ja doesnt mind the rain, it kinda feels like hes drowning n the Lord's pain. Id be d0pe if there was a catholic hip hop artits haha. last nite i was going through OLd emails from my senior year. For those of you who have AOL, you can save all your email to your personal filing cabinet. all the mail you send and receive you can do with. So i was reading all this email thas been saved since the end of my senior year till like now practically. wow, i sounded dumb back then! haha i dont know wha else to say, blah blah. Jhen's blogging days are over. i think ill end here, i need to look a couple things up on the web, that ive been meaning to do, but ive been forgetting. Pray for my guys! im glad skool is over now, for those who have finals, man that sucks for you! "a girl starts walkin, guys start gaukin, sits down next to you and starts talking says she wants to dance cuz she likes to groove, so cmon fatso and just bust a move..." im done im out GOd bless!

well what a day this has been! im pretty tired right now but i shall blog! as i was telling jaymee this morning, it seems like errone is hoping on to the blog train! its like the lyrics to the gap commercial but instead it goes...people all over the community, join in, dial up and blog in! hahaha okay that was corny i know, it was still funny though. Where do begin, i was on till like almost 230, trying to help jaymee out w/her blog. I woke up @ 10am and i was cold, but it was nice to juss lay back in bed and relax. CHecked my mail, then i was talking to jaymee for a while. dang so many people hit up her tagboard and she juss started her blog today! geez! i got gas, then went to pick up aj and my sister went shopping @ the block, though i didnt find anything there. I kinda had a feeling i really wouldnt either, i ended up eating a grip @ rubios. Walked off then went home for a little bit, then i was off again to anaheim hills. I met up w/reirich @ his nice, but cooold house! hahahaha we went to the tyler mall i got a lot of shopping done today. oh before i forget i took "kuya bear" out of the car this morning, he kinda lost his smell. it smelt really good when i opened it. i told jayme that, she goes sick! thinking that i had said i slept w/the bear last nite! hahahahahahah thas funny, but that would be sick man im like 20 and to sleep w/that huge bear! haha anyway moving back to the reirich's house, he has a really nice house, and man is it ever up in the hills. You can practically see the whole world from his driveway haha jk his parents are d0pe too, in fact his dad invited my community to their simbgayan or somethign like that. the staircase in his house, reminded me like the one in the movie "she's all that" well now that i think about theyre both two totalyl different styles. I finally got my best friend soemthing today, i finished my family's xmas shopping...i think for the most part that is. haha i gotta few more people to get stuff for, i need to go back to trader joes. Tomorrow is our xmas luncheon for work, then were having a dessert reception/gift exchange too. My mom wrapped up all my gifts for my coworkers for tomorrow, i hope they like them. Theyre nothing big, theyre really simple gifts. The mall was pretty packed tonight, so many people there. oH! they had this d0pe store inside the mall, i forgot what it was called. ANyway, its a christan store, like w/all kinds of christian clothes with music, books, jewelry. I never really seen like a store kinda aimed for "youth." it was quite an interesting thing to see. We did a lot of walking inside the mall, it tooks us almost an hour to get there from his house cuz of all the traffic. So we went back and juss chilled. He showed me this folder w/all these different photo maker type of pictures on there. It was like trading cards but pictures hahaha I remember those days, when like photo makers was the biggest thing to do. wearing the like nike or addidas or reebok windbreaker type of jackets. haha oh man the days, that was when i was in jr high! hahah i remember wed hire photomakers as our dance photographers for jr. high that is! haha ahh the memories. Reirich is bed is hard too, i told him, man your bed is hard. He goes is it? maybe thas why i have such a bad back. Its like the story of Goldilocks and three bears...if you feel my rhythym. haha he also told me today @ the mall, that he has a rule, if he catches me looking @ a girl then i have to go and talk to her. Luckily, there wasnt any that was like wow! haha he told me his mini testimony on the long car ride up to the mall today as well. Kristina said my blog entries were long. errone says that though, i dont know its kinda addiciting when you start typing up your day. Its like once you start you cant stop, the next thing you know its like 6am! hahaha jk but forreal once you start typing you cant stop. i dont know what else to say, its been a weird day for many of us tonight.i didnt get called into work today, which was a good thing. I praise God cuz we get to the rosary @ my house on xmas w/my whole family. It should be interesting, weve never really prayed prayed like that as a WHOLE. What a better gift to give to Jesus then to offer up a rosary. LAst nite was a great way to help kick off JEsus birfday, two of no prayer meeting. Its gonna be kinda weird, in away. Im planning to go to Liawang the 14th of next month. Im thinking that maybe hte onyl time ill get to go and check their community out. Im planning on going to carson too on sat. for their xmas party. Theyre playing american idol over there that'll be funny to see. You know i was thinking today, its one thing to write out how you feel on here but then to write out your most prviate thoughts emotions, for errone and the whole world to see, well i think thas too much. I talked ot francis today online, he asked how come i didnt go on sat. I told him how i cant drop errthang for them cuz they call last min and wanna chill. He told me his gf broke up w/him, i felt bad but i told maybe it was best. They were always fighting too, over the smallest things. Everytime i asked how they were doing he said they got into a fight and then id say again?!! then he said yeah i know. I told him that if GOd really wanted them to be together, then im sure they wouldve worked out their problems. Well its about 1am, and i think i shall end here for tonight. "Par-ties! Hey, and funky beats, ha-hah Do you know what that means? It's twelve o'clock, and the party just don't stop..."im done...im out, GOd bless!

today was a pretty good today! Work was pretty fun, we set up for the senior holiday luncheon, wasnt that much to really do. I made friends w/some of the filipina seniors there, one of them told me im like her grandson...awww isnt that swe3t! THen i had this other lady tell me all bout her family and stuff like that. Speaking of seniors, this one wrote "Santa" a letter asking for some food cuz she has galucoma and takes some medication errday, it was sad. Oh man, the holiday luncheon was one of those events where you need to pre-register. So this homeless lady comes all up in there wanting food, so i told her that she need to be pre-registered, well she didnt like that idea and went off on me. Then one of the seniors said juss to let her stay and theyll serve her. Then when they were serving food, she tried to jack the other seniors litte gifts. I caught her too and i told her she couldnt do that, she didnt like me cuz i had my eye on her. It was fun during clean up, i was dancing to the feliz navid w/my co worker. I was messing aroudn todya on the stage and i was tap dancing and then the seniors were clapping @ me! hahaha it was funny. We had these group of other seniors called the raquets(rockets) come and daNCE for our seniors. Wow for seniors thye have a lot of energy. They were pretty good though. This other senior got into w/my boss today cuz she tried to bring her dog into the community center so my boss told her no pets. She went off on him and she didnt wanna put her dog away in the car, it was pretty funny. im glad im off tomorrow cuz i dont got work on the big xmas tree w/the rest of them. Hopefully they wont call me either...i got off work @ 2, then went ot the daycare to give jen something. After went to the westminister malll, ended up only buying myself something. AFter i go out i was frantically going up and down the parking lots looking for my car. I looked for 30 min almost for it, Praise God jaymee helped me kept my cool and stuff. It end up being i parked on the other side of the lot, i was really scared too. I think all the searching maybe tired cuz on my way i was feeling really sleepy. I had to pick up some stuff @ the market & 99 cents store too. I did a lot of driving, i think when i drive a lot or long distance i get sleepy and tired. I returned my books for the semester today, i got almost $80 back which is good. The line @ the 99 cents store and the market tonight was forever long! i hate it when theres like 1000 people in 2 lines 500 each and there's only 2 cashiers! its like geez open up another one, please! i hate rushing and thas what i was doing tonigh. I shouldnt of gone to the mall then i wouldve been able to get some stuff done. I felt bad for boss lady cuz i was really unprepared w/the games tonight and i felt like i had to keeping asking her should we do it this way or do it that way? Went to pick up pizza @ ciros, went home to get some stuff then went to churhc. I had a long chat w/my class bout if theyre actually serious to make their confirmation. THey dont turn in their hw especially mass cards. i told them i dont give them much to do, i understand they have social lives however, they have to make a commitement to themselves and JEsus. I havent read them yet, im curious to see what they said. We had our xmas party today, there was a lot of chips and drinks. Then after i went to prayer group, it was d0pe! i dont think i did too well w/the games, i need practice w/it. A lot of leftover food! wooo carson was there, they brought popeyes! mmm i won a white big teddy bear from the gift exchange. i told robby imma call it "kuya bear" hahahaha I finally met joey, didnt talk that much though to him. Im planning on taking a microsoft access class w/kuya this spring @ nite. it could come in handy in the future. I told him when he has his own house, imma be there like 15/7 hahaha, then he said this: blue83212: hahhahahaha
blue83212: sure!
blue83212: i'll cook
woo! hahaha i made up a new word by accident today hahahaha i didnt even realize i had said it too. MIzike knows what i mean. im still looking for a back up for formal, im thinkin if my friend says no then ehh i dont think imma go. Its God's will then, that i dont go. One of my kids told me tonight they went to mass on sun @ 1045 and if i wanted i could ask "brother Maurice" since he saw her! haha thought thatwas funny. Jaymee is having blogging probs! haha she's trying ot start one, but is having difficulty. Whoa 2 nite in a row reirich signs off before me, usually its the opposite! hahaha well im kinda mad about something, but thas a whole nother story itself. Ill go into it later today. Im jumping from subject to subject here though, haha i was dancing a lot tonight during the xmas carols, it was fun. I was juss getting warmed up thought. Well i should go, i gotta get kuyas blog up and working! haha I love my community!! "This here's a family affair, the family is here
Everybody put your hands in the air." im done...im out GOd bless!

Today ill get back my regular computer all updated w/cool programs and what not! woo im excited!!! PRaise GOd for people like antonio. TOday is also the last day of all of our holidays programs @ work! yesss! Yesterday was a pretty eventful day. i dropped my mom off @ work this morning, then went to class to take my final to end the semester. I wanted to return my books, but the window said be back in 20 min. i left cuz i didnt have 20 min to spare due to prior lunch engagements! I depoisted this check and got some $$ to meet up w/the la mirada guys to eat lunch @ carl's jr. After lunch i had gone home since i had a little bit of time to spare, it was raining like no other outside. It was sleepy weather today, i felt like calling in sick today too. I didnt though of course, im too scared to call in sick! I went to work, it was pretty kinda kick backish type of day. Both of my supervisors were out, so i was at ease to do things the way i wanted to. I like that feeling of kicking back, talked ot reirich pretty much all work day. I had to wrap some candy and pnuts then tie them, for the senior holiday luncheon. Then i had to put some chairs in the theatre dressing room. i got off work @ 6pm, then i went home to eat. I finally updated my confirmation classes grades and stuff. But then when i tried to print it, i found i had no ink left in the cartridge! ahH! I ended up going w/kuya to the cerritos mall to start his xmas shopping and to continue w/mine. i thought i had my list w/me, but i didnt. i dont know where it went...oh well. We played this guessing game in the car, it was really hard!!! man it took me the whole trip home from the mall to finally figure it out. From inside the mall till we almost got to my house, he took the long way too! I come home and end up going to my best friend jays house to drop off a "house warming" gift hahaha. Left there @ 1030, then i was talking ot john or jeanne on the phone for a while. We had a nice little chat bout how exciting and fun it was last nite @ the soratorios. SHe said she couldnt stop talking bout it at work today. I had to tell her when her finals were cuz i guess her instructor never told them. She's always an enjoyable person to talk to in person or on the phone. I was snapped @ earlier online but someone else. i was simply only asking questions, i think the person got fed up w/me or something. As i was bout to take a shower,i learned that the wind mustve knocked out the hotwater. i go outside in the rain try to reheat on my own, though i cannot get it to work. Im the type of person who has to shower in the morning and evening. Anyway, as i weigh out my opitions i end up going over to my grandma's house to shower @ their facility, so i get in my car and drive over to riverside to use their shower. hahaha jk no im exageratting again haha. Actually, they only live around the corner, so i walked over there to shower. It felt so nice and relaxing too! I juss finished eating this sandwhich, my mother makes the best sandwhiches. i know this person who hmm i should say is straight out dumb. it sounds mean, but this person is doing stuff now, that isnt healthy and i think the person should seek help. I mean of course ill pray for the person, but this also person is also doing to seek attention. I mean why else would the person advertise what theyre doing, but yet tell people to leave them be...ahh these people need GOd in their lives they need to learn how to trust in him. OH well theyll do what they wanna do though..."I'm an angel, that can't soar, can't fly And I imagine the Lord knows why..."im done, im out GOd bless!

wow, where do i start? there's juss sooo many thoughts running through my head right now. I dont know really where to start. Well i went to mass of course then i had gone w/aj to trader joes after @ the cerritos towne center. Ive never been there before, its quite an interesting store. I was able to get a lot of xmas shopping done there. I jusst have some more here and there that ill need to finish up. its 1am already and i have my final which i have yet to study for today. After tues. then i think im freeeeee for a while woo! We had a "fix computer" session today @ my house. Antonio and mizike came over, mizike had to get a hard drive and sound card put in. I on the other hand, had to get a whole new operating system put in. Well cuz of the time, antonio juss took my computer home to work on it @ his casa. Which is a lot easier for him cuz he has all the necessary tools for it and stuff. Aela called me @ like 5 pm asking me to help them sing cuz they were low on singers. So antonio and i, went the velasco house to practice the regular xmas songs. After we felt comfortable we headed over to this one house to sinnnnnnnng. It went really well, being we didnt have piano and only the geetar to work with. I think we all did really well, so from there we went to the soratorios. I think being there was the grand finale for the evening. Many people were touched tonight, you could tell the Holy Spirit was truly in our midsts that evening. We all kinda chilled for a while, talked here and there, did a little this and that. We prayed and ate before we started the prayer. Then we had the "PRayer to GOd our Father." I never done that prayer before nor have i heard so it was quite interesting. We prayed the Rosary but instead of praying to MamA Mary, we prayed to GOd our Father. Its like the same as praying the regular rosary, but instead one Our Father @ the beginning of each decade its a "Hail Mary" then instead of 10 Hail Marys, its "10 Our Fathers" Then we say the Glory be then Angel of God and some other prayer @ the end of each decade. So after the prayer, we had some entertainment in honor of Banne's birfday. We finished the rest of the songs, but the girls ended up doing it w/style and rythym haha. it was one of those "oh what a nite." Then we had some polynesian dancers go up on stage to "shake it fast." hahaha It was soo much fun, kuya, pops, best friend jay, and arch(dotn have a special nickname for him...yet.) went up there to on stage to bust a groove. The cool thing bout the caroling, was well i forgot to mention this previously, but reirich brought some friends from his church to come carol w/us. They were pretty cool people, (hurr reirich i mentioned them as you said i probably would.) IN fact it was d0pe cuz one of them here name was jocelle, well during the 2nd half of the caroling she got down w/the rest of the girls. haha she helped them "rock the party" haha IT was really nice, cuz banne said she was coming back to prayer meeting after a couple months of not being there. i got excited when she made the announcement, cuz shes a major asset to our community. This weekend a lot had gone on i think...to me i see it as a weekend of "preperation." A way to really prepare for Christ's coming and how else to do that better then do spend quality time with "Christ centeted" people. I felt bad last nite, cuz francis hit me up and told me they were gonna eat @ the block for tom's birfday. Well by the time he called me, i was @ the cerritos towne center w/mizike. I told id see what i would do, he kinda tried to make me feel bad. BUt i mean i couldnt drop my plans juss for them. oh my its 130 and im still not done! haha anyway, i didnt go and iwasnt bout to bone out on mizike either cuz thats messed up. PLus they always make plans last min. so thats there fault too @ the same time. they cant expect me to drop wha im doing juss for them. Also the drives too long anyway from cerritos to the block...man! its like going to the bay area from OC haha jk im exagerrating. So my search for formal flava goes on...i have a back up plan i juss got ask a couple of people first. Reirich is getting antsy to read this entry for tonight...it was really cool how he said this tonight: " rangeles122: i never got to thank you for allowing me to go caroling with u guys and inviting me to prayer meetings. It has truly been a blessing meeting all of u. I know God did this to me for a reason. and I really needed it. I'm thankful that uve welcomed me to ur community. So THANK YOU." that was coo, it made me feel good. So this past weekend was all bout friendship...which i juss found this quote which made a lot of sense bout myself and who i am today. "the quality of ur life depends on how you love the things you do how you do the things you love." Im very grateful for my community and i wonder a lot where would i be w/o them. Especially tonight, it felt like this is gonna sound corny but its true...it was like one of those happy xmas scenes you would see on tv like in the "brady bunch" or in a soap opera. Being around errone tonight, made me feel happy, made me think how my big family kinda use to be and how were so far apart of being like that now. WOw this is especially long tonight, well i must get rest for a long day tomorrow...pray for me please for my final! thanks! thas all i can think of tonight. OH wait since im on the subject of bonding and stuff, i was listeining to this one CD i burnt and the song "Graduation" came on, a song which was dedicated the class of 00(which was the year i graduated.) i was like wow, how quickly times change the song made me feel sad too. I almost lost my whole entry for tonight, i got scared! i wouldve been pissed if i did! oOOh! "Through the years we all will be together..." im done...im out God Bless!