"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done..."

I think thas a great quote to end the year off with. It's true i have left this year with so many great projects left unfinished. Though ill talk bout them later. So the year is over and ive gone through all the emo cycles there are. Sorrow, joy, anger, excitement, emburrsment, contentment all of it ive somehow witnessed this yurr. Ive made some new friends, while developing closer relationships w/ol ones. As much as ive tried to serve more, i also learned the more trials and persecution came. I learned that you may try to be the nicest person in the world, only wanting to shurr GOd's love w/people you come across, but there are others who will get jealous, insecure and totally misjudge and interpret those intentions. So let me take a look back as these past 12 months and highlight the trials and joys of 2003.

January~2003 starts off pretty rough. Its like coming to class the first day and your instructor giving you an assement pop quiz/test. Same way w/God, exactly what happened to some of us at the very beginning of the year. THough w/His grace and mercy broken bones were able to be healed. Thas also the month we visited 3 different missions up in the central valley, great times for bonding w/community and great times praying together. FOr the first time UpRm formed the Ultimate Megaroom and rushed to aide of fellow uprmer strider.

February~The month of love, ahh yes we fell more in love w/Jesus during valentine's day. Spending valentines day w/your community and Jesus is the best valetines day present anyone could receieve. Flossing our uprm gear at the SOL sadies was a blast. I think this was the month of groovin.' Dancing to lisa lisa at SOL sadies, then at lyn²'s birfday party the dance competition. AHh yes sweat galore that month, i could probably of filled up a whole cup of all the sweat i broke out in over juss dancing and laughing. ha i know sick!

March~Ahh lent begins, for the first time ever in my life i decided to make a different type of lenten promise. Instead of sacraficing and giving up stuff like candy and sweets, i dedicated myself to getting up to go to mass @ 8am each day. I think i had messed up twice that whole season. I was quite proud of myself. THat same month Holy Spirit sat. was dabomb.com. I got to play the role of Jesus in the suicide skit. That was fun!

April~Youf Rally was fantizzle with our music min. performance. Following through w/fred's orders of bringing girls on stage to dance. Youf rally was d0peness. Thas the same month liwang had their spirit rally. Ha too bad i dont remember any of them that im friends w/now. Thas i think the same month we met mike g. and ju ju be. Yeah they had came ot jeanne's 21st birfday @ the spectrum. Thas the nite i ran into travis from blink 182. Mike has it on footage too! SOon before i knew it a dark cloud came upon me and i was in a dark place called, 'exile.'

May~I became involed w/the 1st ever SCRC young adult core ministry. Going to westco errweekend for mass and meetings. Thats the same month banne and i both received special gifts from GOd. Met a lady who was a answered prayer for bof of us that helped us realize wha we were called to do. Through all bad times comes good times. I was able to get out of exile and things were all good in the hood again. V2 was probably the biggest adventure of may. Confessions, buffets, dressing up, pictures and a whole lot more. Oh yeah and who couldve forgotten that special moment on the trip back home. I know i wont ever forget it.

June~Man birfdays and graduations galore! I dont think ive ever been to so many different graduations in one month. Accomplished another great one day mission adventure @ san juan cap. Pentecost picnic at my work was tizzight. Then oh man graduations one right after the other and birfdays too. That same month i decide to join in on something new, called SFC CLP. By GOd's grace SH was able to have their 1st ever Eucharistic Seminar. It brought a lot of people to come to know and love more the true meaning of the EUcharist.

July~Wha else can i say, except that i turned 21. The big isda finally becomes a real adult haha. The boys of the uprm taking me out for Fridays that nite. Getting sick and leaving a sweet strawberry smell in fred's curr. Not feeling well at all the very next day and having a bad headache for 2 days. Then being suprised later on with a suprise birfday party thrown by jennif! awww Then going to vegas w/the fam bam tribe and gambling till i was pretty much broke. Had an adult LSS for the first time in a while too. Small group people, but produced good fruits. HOw bout that nite after pat & oscars when errone was hyper like crazy and dancing till the cows came home.

August~Met a really cool group called, YFC that month and started to join up that ministry. I finished the SFC CLP and became a real member of the SFC ministry. Wow huh! OUr music ministry started to sing at the sun. masses for weeks straight subbing for the different groups that were on vacation. Reirich had his debutuan balll too that month, while i got into my first major car accident. SCRC came and gone, but it impacted so many young adults lives. Praise God was all we could say after a tiring but fruitful weekend.

Septemeber~Threw a suprise baby shower for jaymee, as she was preparing for the coming of baby joshua. My grandpa praise God turned 97 that month and God still continues to bless him. What a blessing it is to see all the great fruits he has blessed my family with. Like jaymee said, family must be really important if he lets you choose them. While with errone else you could choose.

October~SH had their first ever SH cafe, which was juss huge! We had people coming from all over to sing and praise God. It was juss so great to see all the different ministries come together to give all glory and praise to God. OCtober will always be a special month for me. God answered a certain prayer that i had asked for. He picked a rose from his garden and sent it down to me w/love. SH celebrated their 6th anniversary also. We coloborated w/a liwang and helped them w/their annual homeless outreach on skid row. Truly a humbling experience.

November~I volunteered my time helping out w/the special olympics. IT was real fun and a great experience. Again there was birfdays galore! I went to my first jars of clay concert also. THat was d0pe! NOvember started the planning of the 1st ever Spirit Games planned to be held in Aug. Seeing all these leaders from errwhurr come out to serve is like sitting at the table w/superheros. SH got to participate in liwang's benefit concert, now that was d0pe! Liwanag rocks the hizzouse! Thanksgiving was yummy!

December~Wow so were back at one, december. This has been an extremely busy month, especially this past week. Work was real hectic which took up 90% of my time. We did our 2nd annual caroling fundraiser which was a lot better then last yurr. IT was a month of service and bonding. IT made me realize how fun caroling was. The music, the dancing and the smiles on the people's faces. Saw the final conclusion to LOTR-REturn of the KIng 3x! Great movie, makes you look at a lot. The birf of Christ comes and provides a shinning light to us, reminding us to be that shinning light to others. To bring his birth into errone we come across, so they may know and love the joy he gives us.

SO thas my year run down for ya. As you can a lot of was accomplished, but the buck defienetly does stop hurr. There's a lot more left to do and i will keep on truckin until the job is completely done. I guess as the quote says, lets not focus on wha has been done already, but move our energy to wha needs to be done. So that's the lesson and goal for the new upcoming yurr. I must go for now, until then take curr and be safe today! I pray this new year will only bring out more great fruits for all of us!


The clock is ticking...

"Every move i make, i make w/you, you are my way Jesus..."im done, im out God bless!

"Walk on with hope in your heart...and you'll never walk alone."

THose pics from above were from the SOL formal from sunday. They were doing the 'ocho, ocho' song and dance. As you can see Lf & LoG were feelin it haha. It was funny cuz as part of the entertaiment for the evening, they had the SOL elders dancing to it. It was soo hillarious, im going to have post up the pics for that one too. Anyway, it seemed there was less people than last yurrs, but it was cool. We played a couple of games too, which kinda broke the ice. The newspaper game was funny, the same game we had played at elijiah's 2nd birfday party.

Dinner was the usual hotel/banquet food, the chicken w/steamed vegetables. Served w/mash potatoes and gravy. Unfortunately all they had missing was the rice pilaf. Oh yeah then we had salad that tasted real grass like. It was kinda nasty, they gave us dessert too, so we had cheesecake, that didnt taste the best either. bleh! They had these table center pieces with jars of candy inside. I got the big jar for donating the dollar at my table to play the game. woO! Our table wasnt very sociable. We had mix of LoC and Lf at my table. Leah and i talked a bit bout spirit games.

The dj was ehh it seemed like no one was really feelin him for a while. Things finally started to hype up a bit later on. I pretty much danced w/christy the whole nite. Only cuz my date didnt seemed like she wanted to do anything. She pretty much sat at the table the whole time and played w/her phone. Even some geeps from LF had asked her to grooove w/him, though she turned him down. THat was a bust...but i guess she got her groove back after her friend came in the last hour. Hmm, i didnt know we were allowed to invite extra guests for free of charge. Correct me if im wrong, but isn't that in a way almost like stealing a ticket?

Anyway, like i said Christy was coo, being she didnt have a date, we ended up juss kinda chillin together the rest of the nite. THe dj had later gone into a whole 80's mix and then that song 'lost in emotion' came on i started laughing. Only cuz thas the jam!! Lisa lisa cut the jam was one of the best 80's groups! I love 80's freestyle music juss cuz its so different from all the other types of music. Its gots its own vibe It gets you going and makes you want to move and groooooooooove.

Anyway, for the most part formal was great. I didnt take pics this yurr cuz there wasnt any real point to it. SOL is having a semi-formal valentine's dance in feb. It's $15 for dinner and dance, unlike the sadies they had last yurr which was fun. The young adult group thas forming at St. Philomena is putting together their first event which is valentine's dance also. I dont know if theyre charging either, so thas some good stuff to look forward too. I think SH should put together their own homecoming football game/dance. After all, it only makes sense since we do have our 'football team' now. haha OUr theme will be 'A Night on the Nile' SH homecoming dance 2004.

I ask that you please continue to keep my grandpa in your prayers. He has some kinda of infection which infected and slowed down the rest of his body. Praise God its nothing major. Thank you so much for all your support and prayers!


80's freestlye music rocks!

"Take me, Take me in your arms and dont you let me go..."im done, im out God bless!

"Tough times don't last, but tough people do..."

Praise GOd that my grandpa is alright and its nothing major. Please continue to pray for his healing, he has the flu and well you know how easy it is to catch that when youre old. Anyway, hurr is some pics from last nites winter formal. Ill write it bout more later on as for now, hurr enjoy these sample pics!

Jaymee: I always say that family is must be really important ...
Jaymee: b/c God lets you choose all your other relationships, but He choses them for you

Amen jaymee!




Thanks uPrM Crispy for a d0pe nite!

"TO dream the impossible dream..."im done, im out GOd bless!
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"My advice to you is...just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate..."

My gosh, i cant believe the year is almost gone. ITs already the 28th, and were only a couple days away from 04. Ill save my 03 month by month memories for later on, praise God for another great year though. Good news errone i found a formal date, JL is gonna go w/me. Yay! Charisse had made a community announcement tonite that i had needed an SOL Formal date. She;s so funny and crazy.

I had a great time w/heif today, we had gone out to eat the mac grill. I was upset cuz they ran out of crayons to doodle on the table with! How do you run out of crayons when its not even busy. OH man they had this really good sampler dessert that we both wanted to get but were too full. It looked really, really delicious. We decided next time well go back to the mac grill juss for that. I love being able to hang out w/heif. WE use to hang out a lot more when we use to work together. Now its hard cuz were bof so busy w/our things. THough i enjoy every opportunity i get to talk and be w/her. She's a great best friend!

Went to LF tonite, i had met up leo over thurr. It was his first time so i thought id be a good friend and accompany him. Dang, i gotta give big ups to the youf of that community. They were able to pull off a 1 day LSS and then on top of that still give all they had left to serve their community. Now thas hardcore right thurr, i dont even know id have that energy to that. Praise God though they still pushed themselves im sure as tired as they were.

WEll thas all for tonite, im exhausted probably from eating all day. Get rest its cold outside!!


BrrR its cold outside!

"No deceiving, it's official, I'm emotional..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"The moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries..."

2003 Year in Review

1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before?
A couple of different things, i shaved my head over the summer. I know thas not real exciting like sky diving or anything...i got pretty messed up on my birfday, went through a clp, asked GOd for a specific sign through the intercession of St. THerese and receieved it, participated on the SCRC young adult core...I also gave a talk at youf alpha, oh yeah and also being Jesus in the suicide skit, i had gone into exile hhaha put together pentecost picnic

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
i dont ever really make them

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Two people i know gave birf, first my cousin gave birf to a baby girl named brooklyn and pops and moms gave birf to a baby boy named joshua

4. Did anyone close to you die?
naw

5. What countries did you visit?
i went to korea again, no im kidding, its a joke!

6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?
More $$ haha jk a lot more retreats and teachings to help develop my spirituality better.

7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
there are actually more then one date that will be forever etched. Let's see july 5 when the boys of Upper room took me out to fridays. Ay yikes! haha july 8th ahh when jennif threw me a suprise birfday party @ D & Bs @ the block. how nice! Oct 3rd SH Cafe that totally repeaed good fruits, oct. 8th when God picked me a rose and sent it to me w/love. OH and may 25, thas unforgettable!


8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
hmm i guess being able to serve God in more than one location. Also putting together a summer camp curriculum for work last min.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Ahh...

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
the day after my birfday...bleh, how bout the nite when i was choking during caroling, does that count?!

11. What was the best thing you bought?
a new digicam!

14. Where did most of your money go?
Cuz im a fatty, it went to food. Then the rest went to gifts and clothes.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
SH Cafe cuz it was as angie would say dabomb.com yo!

16. What song will always remind you of 2003?
Im thinking right now hey ya juss cuz errone would always be singing thatsong

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
Happier or sadder? Happier...
Older or wiser? WISER
Thinner or fatter? FATTER
Richer or poorer? POORER

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
I wish I went to Daily Mass more... I wish I studied more...a lot more praying and discerning, saving

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
talking, spending, studying

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
well i spend half of my christmas w/fam bam tribe, then the other half w/fam friends. Yay!

21. Did you fall in love in 2003?
YEs i fell more in love w/Jesus!

22. How many one-night stands?
sick...how bout 0

24. What was your favorite TV program?
3rd watch

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Well not really hate, lets juss say theyre not on my buddy list no more and im not talkin bout AOL/AIM buddy list either!

26. What was the best book you read?
The Hidden power of kindness, read it! its really good

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
that i can sing the last line of 'one sweet day' really well...haha jk

28. What did you want and get?
an answered prayer to give me a spiritual boost, my ol SRE class on btoh tues. and thurs. Leslie and achie bof as great co-teachers, a trip to vegas, a new comp. a new digicam, more friends, yay!

29. What did you want and not get?
cant think of anything...

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Oh man i dont even remember half of the movies i saw this year. Id say antwone fisher that was really d0pe and Return of the King.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
my birfday was real memorable, it was a whole weekend filled w/great stuff. Went to my cousin's wedding that day, then having some good times w/uprm and ann at fridays. I ended up breaking a glass that nite of my birfday. Then on mon. jennif threw me a really memorable suprise party. WOw even Lf was thurr, that made it even better. Later on that week, my coworkers took me out to el torito for some drinks after work later that week. i turned 21 by the way...

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
a girlfriend who looked like mulan hah joking!

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003?
long sleeves and jeans.

34. What kept you sane?
Mass, Jesus, the bible and some good ol friends.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
hmm i dont know

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The RECALL election boo!

37. Who did you miss?
My friends from high school, seeing the uci kids

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Oh geez there's a number of great new people i met. Ill sum it up w/ju ju be! oh man this guy is the greatest person you can ever know. THen also meetnig all those really down to earf kids @ yfc and liwang.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003:
Forgive others juss the same God forgives you
Dont act on impulse, listen to other advice
Be that light of God's love to errone you encounter, even if it hurts.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
No man alive has ever witnessed struggles I survived
Prayin hard for better days, promise to hold on
Me and my dawgs ain't have a choice but to roll on


How bout you meet me halfway?

"Everytime I come around yo city Bling bling..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart..."

To think thas bout only half of all the grandchildren! If you look carefully, youll see my grandparents sitting in the middle of all those kids. Wow o wow or as jay would say 'ay yikes!' haha my family is juss getting bigger and bigger. THe houses we have all our family gatherings are juss seem to be too small. THough i totally praise God for a wonderful blessing of family. I mean He continues to only bless us with more and more. Its hard to believe that my grandpa is litreally 97 and is in super duper great health. Its hard to believe that it seems like erryear our family only gets bigger. Let's see there's about 6 grandchildren missing and 5 great-grandchildren missing. If you can see my grandma is holding the newest addition the newest great-grandchild in her arms. Meet baby brooklyn, only bout a month old. IN a couple weeks were going to down to LA for my grandpa's brother's 100 birfday. Ahh yes i love it!

So im pretty upset cuz its not sending out the last advent reflection/meditation emails. ITs been like that all day yesterday. Agh! its bugging me cuz thas thas the last one i need to get out and its already past Christmas and its not sending! Stupid AOl email thas why i hate sending out blind copy emails cuz they take forever to send and sometimes dont even send out at all! On top of that its soo darn time consuming also. So i guess from now on i wont be sending anymore blind copy emails cuz its too much of a hassle and i dont have the time to put up with it. OKay, now that im doine w/that, moving on...

The past couple days have been great, i know i havent been blogging. Time has been limited for me and i cant believe how fast Christmas has come and go. My oh my whurr does the time go yo?! Christmas eve day i had woken up a little bit earlier and went to cerritos to pick up some last min. gifts. Good thing the stores/mall wasnt TOO busy yet at that time. So i was in and out in a flash. Then i had gone out and traveled nurr and furr to attempt to drop off all the gifts. THough i only got 2 ouut of the wha 6 done?! Not bad i say, not bad. Went i had gone to the moyas, i had a nice talk w/tita bambi, she's so funny. I love the moya family! yay! Actually earlier that day, while dropping off the soratorio gifts, i ended up staying longer then expected. Leiliani had juss got out from taking a baf and asked me if i could play candy land w/her. Of course, who wouldnt want to miss out on a chance to play w/this 'heavent sent' little girl. So i extended my visit playing candy land.

Later on that night, i was invited to the velasco family Christmas party. The tita was thurr who we had split soda at, and the one whurr they had the hi-tech christmas tree. The one whurr i kinda bumped into. Food galore, oh man ive eaten so much this past month from caroling to juss christmas parties. Wow good thing im not on burr's project sexy, otherwise id end up being on wha i like to call 'project put it all back.' haha Though it does seem like i havent gain too much weight or juss havent gained weight at all. Oh well eating is great and no im not gluttony. At the velascos i was intro. to this really d0pe show called, 'the restaraunt.' Its real similiar to the real world or road rules, but this one is about a day in the life of a restaraunt owner. Really, really tight show! The food they show also is mmmm. Later on that night, i had gone to midnight mass w/francis. I think despite the fact he's protestant, he probably has a little bit of feelin wanting to be catholic. Im glad we were able to make it in perfect time, cuz yall know how midnight mass gets jam packed!

On the way home upon dropping my friend off, dan from oxnard hit me up. Totally threw me off guard i was hoping it wasnt bad news bout his cousin. Being that i also sometimes talk to his cousin online from new york. Anyway, so dan hit me up juss to say Murry Christmas and how much he enjoys Servant's Heart. We were talking for a little bit bout all the tight stuff thas coming up. OF course i told him about the 'Spirit Games' also. That was really d0pe in fact it kinda made my day. Thas super thoughtfulness right thurr. Praise God, for great people!

Christmas, i had met up w/heif earlier that morning to do our gift exchange. Awww kawawa heif she's sick! WHich reminds me i started to get chills last nite and small symptoms of sickness. I hope i didnt catch anything from her. Besides that, there was tons of sick people yesterday at my aunt's house. Heif got me this really d0pe long sleeve guess shirt, cuz i love long sleeve and i love guess! yay for heif! Went to my aunts house and we ate tons of good food. Oh man we had so many desserts too. Man my cousin's girl gives the best massages! I can juss plop right up on her lap and she starts to massage my back. ITs great, it really is!!

I had left to go to boss lady and burrs house. I love hanging out at their house! Burr lets me wurr his burr slippers whenever i got thurr. THen i get to put my keys in the closet whurr the keys go. haha its so fun! AGain i ate and ate more and more great food. We had so much fun playing board games, the new trend coming in w/us. Playing board games! yay! First off we played scattagories, that was so fun. TIto jess is so freaking funny, trying to pass his made up words. Jesty had these words/items that ive never even heard of. Dang that guy is smart forreal. Then we played cranium conga, somehow fred won that one. Hmm, still kinda puzzled how he won that one being ninni kept feeed him monsters to add to his thing. That game was fun but its too short. I think the last one we played was the best. We played, 'Hear me out,' one of those never ending games. TIta linda even played w/us, shes a trip. hahaha 'THings you find in your wallet.' hahahaha i couldnt stop busting up.

Watched parts of the Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the ring. I have to spend a day to watch taht movie over again. I ended up falling asleep watching it. THough now i understand rotk a little bit better now. The guys went to go watch Rotk cuz burr and mike hadnt seen it either. AS much as i was tempted to go juss to hang out, it wouldve been my 4th time watching it and i thin i wouldve gone mad. haha I think ill have to wait till the dvd comes out then ill watch it again. Speaking of movies, i wanna watch mona lisa smile that looks cool! Later on upsturrs burr and i played tent neighbors w/leilanis tents. THe games him and i come up w/sometimes are so weird but turn out to be so fun. THen fred came along and he was the police that tried to arrest me. GOod times, good times i must say.

Anyway, so i guess thurrs my update for the past week. What can i say, GOd blessed me w/so many different great people in my life. I miss going caroling, errtime i hurr christmas songs it makes me want to dance and sing. When banne and i went shopping on mon. 'rocking around the Christmas tree' came on inside bath, bed, beyond, were so funny we were doing the actions to the song. YOu will get a sentimental feeling, when you hear, voices singing lets me jolly deck the halls w/boughs of holly. This past month has gone by so fast yet so much fun. From caroling, to shopping to juss daily convos. w/great people. I cant believe my weekends for next month are already pretty much booked. I need to get organizer pages refills.


To think all they had to say was, 'i do...'


I cant belive how fast this month has gone!

"It's a Gangsta Nation if you in you a G and the whole world influence by the b in the sea..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"And the Word became flesh..."-John 1:14

Sometime during the Christmas season go to the crib and
kneel for a moment in silent prayer. Meditate upon the mystery of God's
loving patience and then look at those outstretched hands that seemingly
demand so little.

They are the same hands, which, before being folded in death, demanded a
great deal! They are the hands that demanded holy silence from nature
itself as they were raised over the storm tossed waters of Galilee. They
are the hands which when placed upon blind eyes, deaf ears and withered
limbs brought sight, hearing and movement. Even life itself. They are the
hands which held and offered the first Sacred Host..."Take and eat, for
this is my body..." They are the hands which clasped together in prayer as
He prayed for us that we may find our unity in Him. They are the hands
which when fastened to a cross, embraced the whole body of humanity, past,
present and future in one supreme blessing.

By all means take the outstretched hand of the infant Saviour into your
hands. But as His hand grows larger and His grip grows stronger and the
wood of the crib becomes the wood of the cross, do not withdraw your hand
as though seeking a less demanding object for your love. Rather, tighten
your grip and savour the unimaginable peace and joy which comes with total
commitment, not just seasonal flirtation, but total commitment, to the
eternal Son of God.


Happy Birfday Jesus!


Murry Christmas to all and to a ll a goodnight!

"O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, CHrist the Lord..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"Faith is the bird that feels light and sings when the dawn is still dark..."

Im feelin that quote as i read it, the vision of lauryn hill singing the eye is on the sparrow came into mind. Great song, that fits with a great quote. Thas how we are called to be, to keep singing God's love song even if no one is out there listening to us. Even if people tell us to stop singing that love song, we gotta feel his light and let it shine through. Praise God for a very busy, tiring and yet productive day. I must say i am down to the last two people i need to get gifts for. The hard part and time consuming part is juss wrapping it. Agh! i hate wrapping, its okay illl find someone to do it for me. THe next part is writing out all the currds that go w/the gifts.

I picked up banne this morning and we headed out to the catholic book store. Though only to find out that it was closed! awww kawawa us! haha So we headed off to teh cerritos mall cuz i had to return something at robinsons may and do some shopping there. Anyway, the mall wasnt as bad as it was on sat. Yet it was still pretty busy, i ran into mitch lemos thurr, i havent seen that kid in ages. I almost didnt recgonize him. Banne bought bags of gifts, while most of mine were juss small gift currds. We were at the mall half of the day, ended it off w/a great lunch at cpk. I had not eaten thurr in forever! Yum! WEnt to best buy and wow the line isnt as intimidating as it looks. Wal mart was busy as always, im so glad i dont work thurr.

We had a great time at knotts burry farm! Despite the fact it seemed like we were being taken around in circles. haha With banne hurring how i went to all these different places, but only once. haha its one of those had to be thurr moments type things. We were talking bout our involvements w/different things in HS. Which led into hs memories like prom. I shurred w/her my jr. prom story and my ghett0ified senior prom. It was a really fun day and exciting one none the less. I love it! I was out shopping from like 10-830pm tonite and got it all done except for hmm i think one or two people. Craziness!

This past month God has given me a wake up call. With all the many people He has taken home w/him, its like wow life really is great. Juss imagine being perfectly healthy having a full schedule ahead of you the next day, then youre gone. For some it maybe totally cool for them while others like myself its kinda whoa. I still have plans to do hurr on earf for now. THough these past weeks, its showed me how to truly appreciate life. I must admit earlier i was feelin real angry. Well i wont get into it, but it sucks how some people are straight out fake. Oh well, those are the people i must pray for and love. Cuz as i stated in a previous entry id hate to die tomorrow and hold resentment in my heart. It juss sucks how people misterepret your intentions on wanting to share God's love w/them.

SH is juss greatness, i love my community, yes even in the struggles i love them. THeyre a great group of people to be with, all of them except for a couple haha jk...or as fred would say or am i ?!Weve all grown so much being w/each other that wow were getting old. We all bring so much to the community that if anyone of them would be gone SH wouldnt be the same. Leo told me juss hanging out w/us for one nite he had already felt like as if he was at home. Great guy that leo guy is so full of wisdom that he juss totally motivates me. His faith is juss so great that it lifts me up. I could use his faith as my torch in the dark thas how strong it is.

Funny thing tonite, banne called me and told me how well her interview went w/one of the kappa pledges. When we were at knotts the pledge called wanting to interview banne, but her phone was bout to die. ANyway, i asked banne so do they ask you typical kappa questions like 'howd you get into kappa? Whos your favorite kappa? If a kappa asked you to jump off a bridge would you?' THough when banne called me this morning, she told me how this pledge was like us somewaht. GOod catholikc pledge girl who helped the velaso sisters start up the youf group at holy fam. So the pledge knows jem. THas so crazy cool, tbere arent many kappas like that.

ANywya, im tired its been a long day. Praise God for all of you and you and you and you. Oh errone except...haha jk


I love hanging out at boss lady and burrs house!

"Sir i want to buy these shoes for my mama please..."im done, im out God bless!

"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons..."

I like this cuz it speaks out personally for me. Each day i wake up there's always a new gift waiting to be unwrapped. A new present God has given to me myself, as i wake up He hands it to me and says, 'This is for my son, enjoy it!' Its been pretty busy these past couple days but quite productive. I officially started my Christmas shopping yesterday and i got all of my main ones done. Geez, i dont think i ever want to start this late in the future. I guess juss cuz of the magintude of how busy i have been this month that it was impossible to go.

So yesterday we ended our caroling session. I actually really, really enjoyed it and am sad that its over. To see the happiness on these people faces whos houses we went to. You cant replace that, you cant replace the feeling that they had felt either. Praise GOd that my gosh He has extremely blessed SH w/so many great talents. We were all so live and feelin it this year, with each house we went to. The tagalog songs were killer for me but hey i think i did pretty well on the whole 'pasko' second voice part. haha Last nite it was so cute mizike's grandma was dancing with us. Then they fed us palabok, the second house was whoa!

I had 2 what id like to call 'Near Death Experiences' within the past two days. Im exaggerating it wasnt that extreme but hey it was pretty close. Last nite during our second house as we started transitioning into our second tagalog song i started to cough. The coughing ended up turning into gagging, which ended up to be choking. See i was chewing gum while singing and my gum had evidently slipped down the throat. I kept coughing so bad that it wasnt coming out. At one point i almost had it then it went back down causing me to choke again. Finally i got it though i didnt spit it out, i still kept it and chewed it. haha Then today inside the car i had lawn chairs almost slide into my face. Luckily nothing happened, ahh my life is at risk haha

Caroling was a great way to help bring us back together. To really focus on sharing God's love and peace w/our brothers and sisters. I can totally see Him dancing to our tagalog songs w/the angels and saints in heaven. I wonder if there is anyone who can stand the maginitude of my claps. haha TOday we had our gift exchange we did it differently then last year. THough it was pretty fun and exciting. It seems like 'always w/wings' was the highlight gift this year, it went around 3x before the gift was dead. SO much good food, it felt like one of those classic holiday Tv shows. You know whurr errone is there and its like a big reunion. I ended up giving my gift to my mom, since well there was no real use for it on my part. I guess the best gifts dont always come in the big packages.

Im so full that oh man i can juss literally fall asleep. I saw Return of the King for the 3rd time today. Wow i dont think i need to see that movie ever again, well at least not for a long time. I can probably quote lines from the movie now. Its fun looking at other peoples expression on their faces as they watch the movie. They all look so serious like its life or death hurr. I need to get a hurrcut, though i juss need to get the sides and back faded. I think for now ill keep the top part its not too long. Anyway, i had the greatest time shopping at wal mart tonite, i got a lot of good deals on some gifts. Yay! I got a big majority of my shopping done. Its the wrapping part i hate! agh! Maybe ill ask jeanne if she'll want to wrap my gifts again like last year! haha


Ah the feeling of CHristmas coming, its great!

"You'll be lucky if you even get a slice of pizza, from me..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"To love God is something greater than to know Him..."

I need a haircut my hair is juss getting waaayyy too long. Burr wants me to shave it but i said no cuz its too cold to be have no hurr right now. I miss ya blog haha i havent blogged in a day! SO im going to have to catch up on whats going on. Errone loves that song by Bebo Norman, 'The Hammer Holds.' Gotta give big ups to leo for intro. me to that song. If you havent heard the song, i suggest you go and dload it. Im going to use that song for lent for a meditation for my SRE class. I heard Jei Fraxis sang it really well at auntie clarita's wedding. Crazy part is i heard that he didnt even have the song memorized and on top of that the sun was shinning too bright to see the lyrics. Praise God, that wow the Holy Spirit juss filled him love.

Let's see thurs. at work was juss totally chill. We had our annual Christmas party whurr we had lunch and gifts provided to us by city council. They gave us two christmas presents this yurr, a bonus check and the annual City Shirts. I dont like the CIty SHirts theyre ugly, i wish we had the polo ones like last year. I got a small bonus check but praise God cuz errlittle bit counts. I also got my raise that will take place the first of next year. Yay! FOr the gift exchange i got 2 tickets to the movies. Last yurr i got a dvd player that i dont really use cuz i dont got a tv in my room. haha After that the rest of the day was real chill.

Thurs. nite was our last SRE class for the yurr. I was proud that the kids rememberd errthang weve been covering for the past couple weeks relating ot advent. THe teacher had this really cool fisher price nativity set, so i used that to expand more on the rest of advent. VIsual aides are perfect to use for kids cuz it gives them a chance to understand it a little bit better. THey we had pizza too which was yum! We had so muhc left over though it was like whoa! Sandy was thinking of giving our class a seperate mass and reconciliation date only cuz it gets too long when mixed in w.the school age kids. On top of that my kids are older so theyre not into as much the whole action songs and singing. Praise God for a great year, i know this upcoming one will be even better!

I saw Return of the King for the second time last nite. It was sad that the 'King' that i know of wasnt thurr to celebrate it w/the rest of the fellowship. I know though he was with us in spirit. I know that this 'king' will rise and take his place whurr he knows he belongs. But until then, my prayers go out to him. That he may find the peace and comfort he is seeking in his own soul. "And ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart."-Jeremiah 29:13

Friday all day pretty much i was at Burr and boss lady's house waiting for furniture to come. Stupid wickes was late! agH!! BUrr made me a really good steak for breakast, yum yum! So i took a nap on the carpet and then i heard the doorbell which was loud! THe table guy comes to deliver the dinning room set. He asked me to help him, i said agh no im not being paid. haha no i helped him. THe dinning table looks nice. In a way ha i felt like i was on 'cast away.' ON this stranded island away from all civilization w/no one to talk to. haha Then finally when burr came we had fun playing some games! haha The day made out to be some good prayer time. Cant beat either!

Later on went to the soratorios and jaymee, jeanne, jl, boss lady and i were all do the macarena on stage for auntie vicki. haha It was pretty funny the song is though never ending! agh! if youre looking for a real work, ha that macarena will do it for ya. I watched errone do magic mic, magic mics, cant have a party w/o it! Ha! Then errone left to go caroling and i left to go to my department christmas party. I was there till like twelve and whoa that was a pretty exciting night. Got to catch up w/my old co worker and we juss couldnt stop laughing and laughing. MY head was kinda ringing by the end of the night. THey had good food there too! Yum! I love christmas parties theyre so fun! Filled w/a whole lot of love and more love.

GO out today and give someone a huge big hug and say, Jesus loves you yay!


Bring sunshine into the lives of others!

"Mistole hung where you can see, every couple tries to stop..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it..."

Ahh yes and im enjoying every single moment of that now. I was juss reading tonz's xanga, wow i miss those kidsters and UCI. Geez its been forever since ive gone over thurr. FOr the past couple wed. its been weird not driving out that way on a wed. nite. Anyway, i spent a wed. evening w/SLY up in the LBC. I figured id pay them a visit since i havent been over thurr in a long time. Great people, the youf are juss getting younger and younger errday. Praise God though theyre so ready to serve God.

Im still hyped up from the Return of the King last nite. That movie was so good that i couldnt help but talk bout it w/errone i talked to today. Juss how d0pe the battle scenes were and ahh! Im going ot see it again tomorrow nite. I cant wait till it comes out on DVD so then i can juss buy the whole triology set. Yay! My coworkers saw it early this morning too at the block and whoa they had a line. On top of that the movie was sold out! Good thing for good old bpc krikorian theatres. Having a theatre down here in BpC is so convient for us. For me its only a 5 min drive, compare to driving out to one of the amc theatres before. I was telling cyril and leo tonite that when i saw that scene w/that army of soliders at the front line, it made me think of each community that i know. Thas all of us thurr standing on that front line ready to fight off the evil of the world.

Work was really chill today, and i mean really chill. I had some more santa letters to answer and the rest of day i did nothing. Tomorrow is our big hoiday luncheon, were we do gift exchange, free lunch and ahh yes im hoping for that big holiday bonus! On top of that its pay day tomorrow, yay!!! I love pay days and im not talking bout the candy bars either. Woo i gotta start and finsih my holiday shopping by this weekend. Well i dont know bout this weekend being theres like 1000 places we have to go caroling to.

Exerpt from an email i received...good stuff!

Sometimes the TRUTH seems more than you and I can bear.
Sometimes the PAIN seems more than you and I can bear.
Sometimes the LOVE seems more than you and I can bear.
Sometimes the OUTCOME seems more than you and I can bear.
Sometimes the FEAR seems more than you and I can bear.
Sometimes the SACRIFICE seems more than you and I can bear.

Crazy thing is our Blessed MOther bore all these feelings. She BORE them when She bore HIM, so that He might BEAR fruit in us, and so that we might bear fruit in this world. Mary is the perfect example of how to live a life that is never boring. She didn’t know what would happen next, She just said “Yes� to God at that moment, and then kept saying yes to Him with every turn. She jumped in the seat of the roller coaster car, threw Her hands in the air and said “take me where you want to take me�…�may it be done to Me according to Thy will.�

Like any parent, Mary would have chosen, in an instant, to take the pain upon Herself, rather than watching Her child go through it. If you have children, you understand. If you don’t have children of your own…ask a parent, and see what they say.

Life takes on a different meaning in our humanity when we welcome in His divinity, like Mary did. Through the divine eyes of God, we view our lives from a timeless point of view, not from a temporary human perspective. YOUR life will be viewed much differently by people 2000 years from now, for instance, than you might presently view it. They might not see the hardships you went through or the struggles you had…kind of like when we look back at Biblical figures, like the way we look at our Mother Mary.

You will know the hardships, however, and so will God. You will also know the love and happiness, and so will God. And you will have a choice, maybe even today (though probably not with an angel) to answer and follow God’s call for you…

The choice you will make…now THAT is LIFE.


Go and watch Return of the king today!

"I love the way you be holdin me when I be listenin to Jodeci..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"The powerful play goes on. What will be your verse?"

So i went and saw Lord of the Rings-Return of the King last nite. Actually it was a random impulse decision. I went to the bPc theatres at like 1130 taking a chance to see if there was still tickets available for the 12am showing. Sure enough there was a some tickets left. In fact the movie was showing in 3 theatres, which was really d0pe. So then the theatres were jam packed! Which probably isnt a suprise being that its the nite of the showing. Luckily though i saw my good ol friend arch who had a seat available next to him. THe movie started right at 1201am and there was no previews! whoa! Probably only cuz its a 3 hr movie. The movie talks bout the origin of gollum, i never knew he was human before! Craziness! Frodo baggins dies errone he cant part himself from the ring and it ends up getting killed by it. I had to go the bafroom really, really, really bad but luckily i was able to hold it to the very end. The end kinda drags on though, but its interesting.

YEsterday morning was really great cuz i woke up early and was able to take curr of all these errands i had to do. So praise God for a productive day. Work was a real chill day, being all our events are now over. I had tons of santa letters to answer, like i had packages of mail. Though i was able to get them all done and finsihed. yay! Got out 10 min. before 6 and then was gone again for youf alpha. Jaymee did a great job on her talk and it touched a lot of kids. HEr Jesus meditation had a lot of girls balling. I brought in some candy too as in incentive to get the kids singing. It actually worked out, cuz a lot of kids started to sing and get into it. Yess! My group was great, we had a lot of good convo. I cant wait till Holy Spirit Sat. and then i cant wait to give my talk! I have a whole 30 min. to use imma have to adjust it.

Prayer meeting was d0pe, our annual christmas party. When i got in they were singing christmas carols, i couldnt resist i had to run up thurr and join them! I love singing christmas carols!!! yay!!! LF was thurr to join us, thats so kind of them to come out. Imma try really hard to return the favor on sat. Maybe after our last caroling gig, ill go up thurr. They invited us to go carol for them! hahahaha thatd be funny. Had a super d0pe convo w/leo. We talked bout the 'Friendship Games' committee. Juss the feeling you get when youre sitting there at the table w/all these different 'countries' haha or rather communities. Its like the super friends! hahah Were all different super heros! YOu know a thought came into mind while watching Return of the King. Well during the battle scenes to protect land of Gondor, its like all these different communities were the soliders fighting the orcs or rather the devil. Ahh yes i love it!! I want to make a collection of different community shirts and then when i get real old put the different shirts in frames and place them on the hallway wall. hahaha

Starbucks was the place to chill at after prayer meeting. El Juego met up and joined us. HE bought me coffee too! yay!! AFterwards fred, el juego and i were doing r & b parking lot vokals.
Haha we were juss standing out in the middle of the starbucks parking lot singing all these r & b jams. The r & b flava for the week is 'one sweet day.' The people sitting at the outside tables were probably thinking were trying to be juss anotha one of those r & b asian groups. THough in all reality were not, haha were not even close to trying. Its more less juss fooling around and having fun. Yay!! Parking lot vokals are tight like a belt on stomach. haha Then the infamous verse...'Sorry i never told you...all i wanted to say...'

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." -Phillipians 4:6-7

O Father, I praise You that You understand my every sorrow and tear. I acknowledge my insufficiency to handle life's problems in my own strength. I gladly acknowledge my dependence upon You. May Your grace abound to meet my deepest needs. Sustain me as I wait upon You. Fill my heart with Your peace that passes all understanding. Thank You for Your rich provision for me this day. Amen.

I love it, i really do! Love what, love who you ask? I love Him of course! As one of my kids in my group said, 'Are you down w/G-O-D?'


Go and have an ice cream filled day! yay!

"We grow up learning to become self-reliant, but really we need to be God-reliant..."

No more finals ahh yes the skool year is finally over. I had today off which helped me get a lot of things i needed to do done. THough i still got a whole lota stuff left to do tomorrow morning before work. I gotta drop off these santa letters tomorrow to this skool in garden grove. THen go and find gifts for my kids at the catholic book store. WHat else do i got to do, oh i got a new refill air freshner for my curr. Now it smells fresssssh again! YOu know what song is totally d0pe, is 'Indian Flute.' Its by timabaland and magoo. The beat is gangsta yo, i think thas the new music trend now is using indian music as beats. I think its coo cuz it shows diversity through music.

Went to the lakewood mall today for the first time. Ive never been to that mall before. Its funny the type of ethnicites you see when you visit the different malls. WEll we all know cerrritos is juss filled w/asians. I think depending on the city the mall is in whatever the prominient culture is thas wha is inside the mall. ANyway, lakewood is a nice mall. I got leslie my SOL SRE aide a book on Blessed Teresa of calcutta. I got it for a really good price too! Im still looking for what to wurr for Christmas. Ive been to pretty much all the malls in the area and havent really found anything. Hopefully something will catch my eye soon. THis week should be pretty exciting, i get paid, christmas parties falore and more shopping to do. Yay!!

Alright, i must get going if i plan to have a productive morning. Making a list of things to do helps me out oh so much. Its a great way to keep yo self in check on being organized. SO much to do, so little time! 3 more work days left and counting at least all the major holiday events are over, well except for one. AH which reminds me i gotta do my eval too! Ill do that first thing in the morning. That way ill be prepard when i go in for work tomorrow. Then i gotta drop off those toys too at the daycurr. Man days like this i wish i had doubles!


Lets pray that ill have a productive morning!

"I’m a gigolo spendin’ lots a dough..."im done, im out God bless!

"We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box..."

Haha i had this ranDUMB thought the other day. I was telling arch bout it last nite. Well you know they have different type of 'blue' colors. Example electric blue, light blue, perwinkle blue etc. etc. Well i told arch they should make a color called, 'emo' blue. hahah thatd be funny, imagine youre coloring and some kid says 'can you hand me the emo blue crayon pleasE?' haha Why blue? cuz when youre sad or depressed then youre feeln blue. Therefore the crayon would be called, 'emo blue.'

I want a foot massage spa for christmas. ONly cuz im on my feet all day at work and well by the time i get home my feet are juss tired. YOu know how that goes being on your feet all day. Well maybe not cuz many people have a 'sit down' at a desk type of job. So if youre stumped on waht to get me for christmas, well there you have it! It doesnt cost that much either, its like $20 or even $15 if you get it on sale. I saw it for $15 at robisons may and there was another one for $20 at sears. I dont need to hardcore high-tech one juss a simple one to soak my feet and take out dem corns. haha jk forreal i aint got corns, that sick!

So i woke up this morning hoping for rain but i didnt get that. I woke up juss worn out! I had to work this morning, we had to help out w/the santa sirens. We go to the ghett0 neighborhood/apt. complexes of stanton and santa delivers presents. The kids line up and then they come to visit santa and then get a free christmas gift. We had like 5 different locations to go. THe first one was juss forever long, i thought the line would never end! agh! My boss' wife threw the 'god card' at me. haha It was actually funny, cuz she knew i was praying for rain. Then she said to me over the phone, 'now thas not very christian like now.' hahah

After lunch prayers were answered sorta. IT did rain but we didnt end up cancelling the santa sirens. agh! So hurr i am directing the traffic of the line in the rain. I guess God redirected my plans cuz he knew wha my intentions along w/my other coworkers were. Oh well, it wasnt that bad. I guess if the tables were turned i wouldve wanted Santa to come despite the fact if it was raining. YOu shouldve seen this one kid he was all decked out in this little suit. I asked him why he was so dressed up and he said he had to go watch some play afterwards. Though he really didnt want to go. haha The kids smiled and were excited as they were able to see santa and get a free gift. Which makes me smile knowing that they were able to have some sorta of Christmas. THoug some little kids were juss crying and crying and didnt want to see Santa at all.

Wish some kids would get that excited when they hurr bout God. Its exciting when the youf alpha kids start getting into the praise & worship songs. They start dancing and they never want the music to end. Thas wha i saw today w/the kids at the heavent sent youf mass. Their music min. is juss gangsta. The girls have some really hot vokals. They know how to makeitclap thas fo sho. I had changed right after work and went straight over to spOc for mass. Praise God i was able to make it on time. Some liwanag kids were thurr that was coo seeing them again. The fellowship after mass was juss bomb diggity! wooO we played the postmaster game which is the same game as the 'I love my neighbor' game. I was able to participate and i actually got left out in the middle. Then i played the bingo game too, i thought i had done really well, apparently not though. haha It was still great! Fun stuff, i tell ya!

Watching the youf get jumped and hyped up for God makes me want to get that hyped 10x even more. I could see already how fruitful this whole youf ministry is gonna be. The mass was a hit, the fellowship was great, theyre juss gonna be dying ot come back. I told banne these kids are pieces of fruit that God put together. Basically, a fruit salad, made by God himself. Ü Praise God for the young adults making a difference in these young teens lives. Im sure it means a lot to them. You could totally make a movie bout heaven sent. Each time i think of that name i think of the candy. Only cuz of heavent sent is the name of the candy store at teh block. Right next to Johnny Rockets in that area.

I have juss so much to do that i finally made a list of errthang i needed to get done this week. THough ive only been able to cross one out of the 12 things on thurr. YOu know i still havent even started my shopping, yet have i made my list of the people whom im getting gifts for. Im really late this yurr probably cuz ive juss been so busy w/errthang. I have tomorrow off which is great! ITll give me time to catch up on some stuff that ive been wanting or meaning to do. I need to buy christmas cards too. Im real picky on the cards i get, i dont juss buy any kind. I usually liek the ones w/scripture verses on it. Anyway, great stuff they capture sadaam woo finally. One down, one to go. OKay well i gotta go study for my final tomorrow. PRay for me that i do well. Pray that i can find an SOL formal date also.


Heavent Sent are pieces of fruit sent from heaven! haha

"She says the bible is all that she reads..."im done, im out God bless!

"At Mass you become a walking manger, as Christ rests and breathes within you..."

I was checking my email and i got the weekly 'life teen' email. Well the verse Matthew 2:11. I wont put the verse down, this way it challenges you to get up and read it yourself. Anyway, I learned a couple of things through that verse. First off, i learned that St. Francis of Assisi was the first one to put the whole 'nativity scene' idea together. The cool thing bout the whole idea was that St. Francis used real people to make this nativity scene. UNlike today whurr its made out of glass, plastic, etc. The other thing i learned is the nativity scene shouldnt be used juss a 'reflection' something not to be juss admired, but something we as christians are suppose enter into. IT is also something we do enter into as catholics at each and every mass. The nativity scene is something to be experienced juss like mass. Mass isnt some christmas play or passion play, it is truly Jesus come right into the midst of our lives, calling us near to him.

So we all play a part in the natvity scene, from time to time we all are one of the different characters that make up this scene. Though which character best describes who you are? I look at my nativity set and realize that at one point or another, I’ve felt like just about every character I see there.

Sometimes I proclaim Christ’s presence with passion and authority, like the angel.
Sometimes I bow before Christ, offering Him (my) gifts, like the “Wise Guys.”
Sometimes I seek Jesus and just sit, humbly gazing at His wonder, like the shepherds.
Sometimes I feel like the star who says nothing but exists to point toward Christ.
Sometimes I feel like the hay, getting trampled and stepped on by everyone around me.
Sometimes I see Christ’s truth as something in this world that I’d do anything to protect,
just like St. Joseph.
Sometimes I am so close to Christ, I can almost feel the joy of His birth or the pain of His death, just like the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Sometimes I am so stubborn around Christ, that I look more like the ox.
And then there’s the times that I’m not only stubborn, but that I’m stupid around Christ…those are the times that I feel like a dumb…donkey.

In actuality, the character you most “relate to” can change from year to year, day to day and hour to hour, because life, like the Nativity scene and like the Mass, is meant to be experienced, not just observed. Who are you today in relation to Jesus? Who do you want to be?
Who is He calling you to be? Because the fact is, just like every person and animal in that set…He wants you close to Him. He always has and He always will.

These past couple days have been really fun and exciting. Friday, i watched love dont cost a thing w/arch and babyvee. For those who dont know, its a ghett0 version of the whole movie, 'cant buy me love.' I thought the movie was pretty cool. If youre not dying to see it for some reason like i was then wait till dvd. It teaches you the valuable lesson of juss being who you are cuz thas tehy way God created you. Then later on that nite i was at work for our annual 'Kids Night OUt.' Oh man it got way hectic later on there was 40 kids and 3 staff. I had a btoehr and sister who were battling. It was pretty fun to watch that. Then one was tryin to holler and this oteher little girl. He be trying to get the little girl's digits. Oh man kids these days...

As tired as i was and as much as i wanted to change my mind, my mother and i, did that holiday shopping spree. They didnt really need anyone thurr till a little before 8 cuz 8 was when it started. Agh, i couldve slept in a extra hour! Anyway, so all these families and volunteers met up at the bp mall. We were told to take a family and go help them pick out shoes at payless then we had a $100 to spend at sears. My mom worked together as a team and we got a whole family. A little boy and older sister and the mom. We went to payless and that didnt take too long. The part at sears took a long time, my own 'hijo' for the day went shopping.

IT was fun cuz i got to practice for hopefully when i take my own kids shopping later on. My hijo was real picky when it came to clothes. I realized after a while he likes to wear a lot of red. Anyway, we picked out a few pants, and i had him try it on to make sure they fit around the waist. Then we got a lot of long sleeve shirts and a hooded sweater. The girl got a lot too, though if we went over the $100 we as the sponsors had teh choice to pay the differnece or take some items out. Together the family we had went over $7, but my mom paid the difference. Heck, what's $7 you know?! After shopping they had pictures w/santa and some more gifts.
The sad part was leaving them, it was like awww. After the whole 2 hours of bonding. Praise God though cuz it was well worf it and im glad i was able to help out.
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WEnt caroling at the convalescent home that was really fun. THe seniors thurr juss totally loved it. There was this one senior who really loved it and kept talking ot us. IM sure it juss warms their heart when they see young people come over and sing to them. Especially those who dont have really anyone to go and visit them. I wish i had more tiem to go and maybe help out a convalescent home. Ah my schedule is busy as it is now. Then we went to the moyas and we had juss oodles of fun over thurr. We were add libbing coreography as we were going a long. Fun stuff! Then afterwards, tito jess, jesty, fred and i were had a moon light christmas music lounge for a while. Then it ended up becoming a secular songs. haha Fred and i can do 'One sweet day' now, haha you should hurr us its pretty tight!!!

Then afterwards we went to velasco's cousin;s house and we sang over thurr. Im always at the end of the line whurr i hardly have any space. I almost knocked over the christmas tree, and then i accidently jabbed jeanne in the chest.(oops! sorry!) THey gave us drinks over at their cousins, with soda and burr. Along w/peanuts and crackers. They totally enjoyed our company ttheir i think. Afterwards we ended the nite singing @ the soratorios for bannes birfday. WE had a audience w/tita linda, lyn lyn, jei franxis, leo and kappa girls. That was really d0pe, you start to really get into whole singing christmas carols.

IT felt really, really good being w/the communtiy and juss straight out fellowshipping together. Ahh juss like ol times, forreal! We played the one word song game and this time weve expanded our song list. Instead of limitings our songs to juss Shout to the Lord and The Nails in your hands, weve tried, heart of worship, O Magnify and Lord I lift your name on high. From there we juss went all out singing all kinds of different praise & worship songs. Then juss singing all kinds of juss random songs we know. Jei Franxis sang the hammer holds song for errone. It put me at peace as i was listening to him play and sing the song. Then el juego sang that song 'comfortable,' and that was really comfortable. hahaha Then we all sang the chorus to i'll be cuz thas all we knew. haha Good way to spend the holidays, its as if Jesus was juss getting down up in heaven. As the Lord looked down upon us from heaven he smiled and said, 'Those songs are gangsta, yall continue to keep it real!' haha

Lord provides good times, moments of juss pure laughter and comedy. Memories that well never seem to forget. The same ol jokes and stuff that juss never seem to get old. And that my friends, is the best part of being of the company of good friends. THough we use the same materials over and over again, there is juss never one dull moment. Especially when we all juss chill like we did tonite. Im glad jei franxis and leo were able to kick it w/us tonite. Theyre really coo people who love to praise the Lord juss the way we do. Praise God for blessing each of SH w/special talents, special gifts and juss wonderful personalities. With each person making SH even more special as a whole. I love it!

Pray for rain so i may not have to work tomorrow, please! ah im worn out w/all this work stuff!


Happy Birfday Banne!

"Sorry, ive never told you, assumed youd always be there...'im done, im out God bless!

"You must be the change you want to see in the world..."

The love that youre looking for by 98 Degrees of the Jesus Soundtrack

Lonely, that's not how we're meant to be
But looking in your eyes i see
A heart that was abandoned
By a world that used to show you love
You feel like you're the only one
Whose day begins without the sun
You're left to turn and face it all alone

Well, i know sometimes it seems as if
Fate has done you wrong
But if you look inside your heart
You'll find the strength to carry on

You've got to leave it all behind you
Break through those lonely chains that bind you
'cause love's not far away, it's gonna find your heart someday
And when you feel it's warmth surround you
You'll realize that love has found you
So turn away your fears
'cause the love that you've been looking for is here

Suddenly, your broken heart begins to see
A love that lasts eternally
Just look ahead and never ever let a single tear drop from your eye
It breaks my heart to see you cry
The pain that haunts you every night
Because of all the emptiness inside

Well, i know sometimes it seems as if your heart is caving in
But if we look inside the soul we'll find the love we have within

I know sometimes when things go wrong
You search for strength carry on
But all we need to take control
Is the love within my soul
'cause you know that love will find a way
To reach your heart again someday
You must believe it's true
Now all you have to do ?

I love that song! i used that as part of my lesson in SRE last nite. This song could actually be a song used for Christmas. I was able to relate the lyrics to the old Christmas story bout scrooge. WE all know how scrooge was a very materialistic type of person. VEry into wealth and possesions, the song talks bout not being bound my materialistic objects. We also know that scoorge was a very cold hearted man. He was afraid to let love come inside of his heart. Finally when he was able to let that love come inside of him and the feelng he felt was indescriable.

Or in some ways the song relates to ourselves, how there are times whurr we feel lonely and hurt. How we get rejected by the world when we put our hopes into it. Yet here is someone who is always thurr for us, always thurr for us, loving us everlasting. ANyway, if you get a chance dload that osng cuz its off the hizzle my nizzle. hahaha I think tomorrow morning imma go and do that bp mall thing. Whurr we take the kids shopping for clothes and shoes. haha fred and i were talking bout that. Theyll ask me if they can get that shirt and then ill say 'agh! no you cant that too expensive.' OR then theyll ask for shoes, then ill say agh no theyre too big for you. hahaha


To another long and eventful long weekend!

"And then there was music and wonderful roses..."im done, im out God bless!

"Those who bring sunshine into the light of others cannot keep it from themselves..."

THis is the formal picture gail and i took last yurr @ sol winter formal. yay! Im feelin cuz its totally different from the normal 'hol me' pose. Thas some creativity right thurr, right thurr! Anyway, why i posted that is cuz its time to look for another SOL formal date. Last nite i had totally d0pe convo. w/two people i use to go to hs with. Man ive only graduated 3 yurrs but it seems like its 10. My friend keturah was telling me bout some of my friends and how they pregnant now. Another girl i went ot hs is getting murried, actually the other girl who is pregnant is getting murried to. Shes also graduating from SDSU. Wow, crazzy stuff. THough i do often wonder how errone else is getting along. I hardly talk to anyone from hs now, sometimes i run across them in stores or whurrever. A lot of them i found on friendster, yay friendster!! Geez, i wonder wha its gonna be like 10 yurrs from now. It reminds me of that ol song by vitamin C called graduation. The song that was dedicated to the class of 2000.

Wow a lot of cities are loosing tons of money thanks to the stupid govenor who repealed the car tax. Now many cities are gonna be laying off employees cuz they wont be able to afford keeping them. Praise God though my city is pretty good shape, we aint loosing too much compared to other cities. Praise God were such a small city too that we wont have to lay anyone off. In fact at least my dept. is good for the next 3 yurrs. The city juss hired a new director of Public Works, well be hiring some employees for the new community center opening late spring/early summer. On top of that were hiring for a building inspector and part time parking control. Our city is juss gonna continue to grow good fruits. IM juss thankful i still have a job despite the many mistakes ive made. The crashing of the truck, the supposedly not 'locking the doors,' etc. Other places i probably wouldve been fired.

The other day i had a picnic lunch w/burr and boss lady in their new cozy home. It was fun we ate KFc w/rice while watching one my favorite movies, the debut! yay!!! Good times, good times! So many different things are coming up, i forget whas goign on now. Last nite was the first nite i didnt go to irvine. Ha Only cuz theyre all taking finals right now. My last final is on mon. which i also have off. yay! Though im working pretty much the entire weekend like last weekend. Im working on fri. nite and then sun. 8-4pm. Our chamber of commerece does 'Santa Sirens' erryurr and we drop off gifts to the less forunate families. Then Sat. they have this Christmas gift give away for also needy families. I love how my city is so giving, we have so many different organizations that always look out for the best of the community. Thas probably one of the reasons God put me whurr i am at now as far as work wise. I didnt see or hurr anything like that while working in cypress.

Well thas all i gotta say for today! Enjoy your day and really, really praise God for the blessings he has given you. Even the ones that arent yet revealed for errnew day is a blessing. Smile and how bout bring a little sunshine into the light of others. Lets reveal God's love to errone we meet, even those who we may hate and despise. Let's be friends! As that song goes, 'cmon people smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now.' Remember giving the gift of love endures over errthang.


I love the City of Stanton!

"Where are you Christmas, why can't I find you , why have you gone away..."im done, im out GOd bless!

"Charity unites us to God... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect."


So a couple of my kids at work did a performace for the breakfast w/santa. They read the ol skool story, 'The night before Christmas." I told them if they performed i would give them a suprise. Monday comes and were talking bout the suprise and wha theyre gonna get. I told them i was going to buy them lunch and drop it off at their skool. That was gonna be my gift of gratitude to them. They on the other hand had something else mind. They were hoping that i was gonna go to the pound or animal shelter and pick em up a dog. I was quite suprised they were thinking of that type of prize. I told them no that i wasnt going to get them a dog. They threw the emo/favor card at me. Telling me how skurry it was for them to go on stage to perform and blah blah. This is all they want and theyll never ask me anything else again. We ended up negoitating a small bag of chips each. hahaha Its coo w/me i dont mind at all, i didnt have to pay for anything.

Later on these other girls are in the other room juss kinda hanging out chillin. One of the girls is sittin on the carpet and all of sudden i see her putting on deodarant. I said, 'bri, wha are you doing?!' She said to me, 'mr. ja$on, my dad said i had to start using deodrant.' She's saying this to me as shes putting it on. I said okay well how bout next time you go do that stuff in the bathroom, not out thurr so errone can see you. Oh man my kids are hillarious at work, the things they say, the things they do. I guess thas wha makes work interesting each day cuz they always have something to say. I dont think there is ever a dull moment w/those kids. I tell ya, even though they bug the heck out of me, i still gots love for them.

Youf Alpha was great, i love my group and i think were slowly starting to let the ice melt. Its getting there and they slowly respond. Errthang takes time and i juss gotta be patient. I guess i rather have that then jaymees group, the group that interrupts her and doesnt listen. haha The girls are more willing to shurr then the guys. Though i hvae a couple of guys who share. IM going to copy liz and take a picture w/my class next tues. I love my class! One of my kids in my group and in my class has this really, and i mean really deep voice. Its funny, cuz its so deep that its hard to hurr him at times. Ah yes i love it!


I love youf alpha!

"Its a hardknock life for us, its a hard knock life for us..."im done, im out God bless!

"You never lose by loving. you only lose by holding back..."

I thought id shurr this little poem, i got last christmas. Some of you may have remember it from one of the emails i sent out last year. ANyway its a great christmas reflection and wha not.

1 Corinthians-A Christmas Version

If i decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not have show love to my family, I'm just another decroator.

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 i have to charity, but do not show 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 cantana 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 hurried and tired. Love doesnt envy another's home that has coordinated Christmas china and table linens. Love doesnt yell at the kids to get out of their 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 things, endures all things. Love never fails. Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust, but giving the gift of love will endure.

LAst nite i was holding a polaroid picture and i was shaking it! hahaha Give a little this Christmas, give a little bit of your love to those who need it. Even to those who may not need it, give it to those who you even dislike or even may hate. Love never stops giving, juss like our Lord his arms are always wide open. Ready to embrace each and everyone one of us in his arms of love.
So wha are you waiting for and start spreading love today!

BUrr and i made our own version to deck the halls. haha it goes something like this...

Tis the season not ot be emo fa la la la la la

Wipe the turr and blow your nose fa la la la la

Follow me and try to smile fa la la la la la

While i tell you bout a girl named carol fa la la la la la la


Whas your favorite Christmas song?!

"Someday after we have mastered the winds, the waves, and gravity...we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in the history of the world humankind will have discovered fire..."

Today was another busy day, ha when am i not busy!? Tomorrow i must go back to the crowded malls(after i go to mass of course)and fetch my sister a birfday gift. I dont even know exactly yet wha im gonna get her. Maybe ill juss get her coal and wrap it in a small box! hahah thatd be funny, yet sad. Agh as much as i like going shopping i also hate it cuz its so crowded and hot. So anyway thas whur ill be tomorrow evening. I want a foot spa, cuz its days like these whurr i wish i can juss rest my feet in water. I wish our spa was working, that sounds relaxing also! Maybe during the winter ill have a 'spa party' haha you how in the summer people have 'pool parties.' Well mine would be the spa since the pool is way too cold to swim in this time of the year.

Went to mass this morning i was real tired. I woke up and i saw that it had rained. THroughout the day it was sprinkling and drizzling. i didnt even hurr the raindrops falling from the rooftop. Ha oh well maybe tomorrow morning. Came home then spent the afternoon shopping w/fam bam tribe inside the brea mall. I was trying to look for some christmas gurr. Though i didnt find anything, well last min. i found this nice quicksilver sweater at robisons may. It was $60, i figured ill make that the last thing if i cant find anything else. Like errother mall on a weekend, it was packed!

Afterwards changed and drove over to laguna hills for the SFC christmas party. Man the palce was freakin far! It was at some club house, it wasnt hard to find. The place was real nice, it kinda reminded me of the annex over in carson. THe club house had a pool so they also had showers and sauna. Lots of people came, though i dont know a lot of the sfcers in the souf. I was able to participate in the group presentation. Ours won the most inspirational, the other two groups some other ones. The other two were funny though. REg and i were talking bout how we couldve made our skit ghett0! haha it wouldve been funny while we sang 'joy to the world,' if her and i stopped and went, 'Yo check it! This is the remix...joy pump it up pump it up!' hahahah

It was 10 freaking bucks to get inside the place. Then they were charging to take pictures in front of the christmas tree. Well it was donation but you know wha i mean. Reg and i were saying they shoulve had some kind of raffle. That wouldve been fun, each person had to bring a unwrapped gift also. The food was good, i ate jeannes left overs ha im such a heifer! Then some of the household leaders put together some kind of movie skit which i didnt understand. It looked like some tagalog movie. haha it was pretty funny. Then at the end thurr was music and dancing, they played dancing queen then went to some tagalog songs. Dang it! once again i didndt understand wha was going on. ha i couldnt even sing the songs! ha Tanya was thurr and so was arlene and celestino so that was coo, i had some peeps to talk to. Had a hard time finding the 5n but i made it. Man i always seem to get misguided when its raining.

I found out arlene is a rec leader also for the city of malibu. WOw thas so cool someone else who understands recreation. Ha now i know understand all those years when people would ask boss lady whas recreation? Oh man i went to albertsons to get cash before going to sfc christmas party and i ran into my ol hs spanish teacher in the check out line! hahah Which is totally crazy cuz that girl and i were juss talking bout how i guess she got a nose iob over the summer. So hurr i am checking out her nose, it was quite red. I thought that was totally hilarious to see your ol hs teacher at the market. We did the small chit-chat.

YOu know wha else is funny, cypress college is on friendster! haha no im not on the list, i saw it on someone elses. Check it people actually wrote testimonials for the skool too and theyre all positive. Imagine if someone wrote on thurr, so i hate professor smith who teaches eng 101 totally dont take his class. haha or dont take such such class cuz the instructor sucks butt! or wouldnt it be funny if there was actually professors on the friendster list, haha that would be funny.

Well being today is the feast of the immaculate conception, dont forget to go to mass! The thought for the day: How should life be? Just the way it is, that's how! What a hard time most of us have accepting the way it is or reality. If you find yourself pointing out your difficulty as to how life should be, then your not dealing with reality. Rather we should be working for how things could be, and not how we think they should be.

"Let it be done to me as you say." Luke 1:38



Alma Redemptoris Mater
Loving Mother of the Redeemer,
gate of heaven, star of the sea,
assist your people who have fallen yet strive to rise again.
To the wonderment of nature you bore your Creator,
yet remained a virgin after as before.
You who received Gabriel's joyful greeting,
have pity on us poor sinners. AMEN



Happy One Year Fredberg!

"Its like rain on your wedding day..."im done, im out God bless!

"To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much we put in the doing, that makes our offering something beautiful for God..."

Yesterday i was juss extremely tired and man i dont know how im suprised i managed to get through the day. We had our breakfast w/santa event at work that was juss crazzzy! The event went really well. THough i was beginning to feel overwhelmed cuz i was given so many different responsibilites. So many people were coming in and out that we had to bring in more tables and chairs. The breakfast was good, the entertainment was great and the people who came enjoyed themselves. The kings came, elijiah was fussing in the santa line cuz he saw some other kids dinosaurs. He wanted to play w/those toys, but fortunately i was able to calm him down. He's so cute, i told him well see Santa and Santa will give him dinosaurs. In order to do that, he had to stand in line and behave. He said, 'okkay.'

Went home and i was so exhausted being i had only 4 hrs of sleep. I know thas my fault for going out and coming home so late. It was well worf it though! So i came home and slept for a like an hour, i was so tired still. THough i had to meet up w/jaymee and liz for youf alpha music min. Liz was like a half hour late, agh! We finished our line up tenatively. Its gonna be great! I need to get a calendar or organzier pages for next year. Things are already starting to be planned and i aint got a calendar to write them things down. Its always hard to find the exact type of organzier refills that will fit your own.

Went caroling at the velasco home and it was juss tons of fun. It felt really heart warming for some reason juss singing and bringing the love of Jesus' joy into their homes. She bought tons of cheeseburgers, too bad i had ate before we went caroling. Otherwise i wouldve gobbled them all up! haha I had a great time playing barbie meets burbie in the car. Ninni gets kick out of the whole 'no, no, no, im burbie' line. haha she always tells burbie, 'youre barbie.' haha The little girl was juss full of giggle last nite. WE took a picture together w/santa yesterday too. Imma post it on my blog when i get from work tomorrow.

I watched honey by myself last nite at the bPc theatres. Errone else wanted to watch the samuari but i cant get myself into that. Besides the fact that jessica alba looked oh so good in the movie. It was inspiration to me bout working w/youf. Juss how the youf have so much potential and how watchign them movitate me by watching them to strive to become a better christian. I guess if you see the movie, then youll understand why. I think thas one of the things i got out of the movie. Is juss how much the youf can be inspiring. I love it!

When i came out of the movie, there was this girl who said to me 'hey ol western person.' I ended up going over thurr to talk her. Turns out she gradutated juss last year. Making her a freshmen when i was a senior. Oh my! We were standing there for about 20 min. talking bout western. The different changes, the teachers who are there and the teachers who arent. Ahh HS i miss those days erronce in a while. Thas crazy she remembered me, i didnt even know her! But it was a really nice convo. besides it kept me busy while i waited for teh guys to get out of the movie.

WEll thas it for now, ill be blogging really soon again! I got to see burr again yesterday yay!!! haha


Go watch Honey in theatres now!

"The radio plays our favorite song, that is why it keeps me holding on..."im done, im out God bless!

"You cannot be half a saint. You must be a whole saint or none at all..."

This quote stuck out to me and i really like it. Im pretty sure ill use it for my SRE classes. Im looking for the 1 cor Christmas version, the one i got at midnight mass last year. I think i have to go through the folder of junk to find it. AGh! i hate going through that cuz theres so much stuff. Anyway, not a whole lot to say about yesterday. I worked in the afternoon to get the hall set up for the breakfast w/santa. I didnt expect it to take as long as it did but oh well. I tripped the alarm in the hall when i went inside. I didnt even hur it go off. One of the public works guys ended up coming by to work and told me. Then the sheriff came also, and he ended up taking down my info. uh oh...

Went over to sPc for confession, geez i havent been there in a while. I need to get myself on track on going back to daily mass. After confession, went over to uci for first friday yfc novena and mass. Wasnt a whole lot of people thurr im sure cuz of finals and errthang else. It was great though, we prayed the rosary. Each person did one mystery and offered it up for the g4g. The Gold 4 Gold rally which i talked bout a while ago. You know the whole goal of getting yfc in all fifty states. We had the rally inside the elh hall whurr the benefit concert was. Aww memories! Speaking of benefit concert, i juss took those posters from it out of my car yestreday. I need to hang them up in my room someplace.

Ha gerald is so freakin funny, one talented guy thas fo sho. He did all these voice impressions, he did gollum from lotr. It sounded so real too, hahah Then he started to do Harry Potter impressions then he was doing 'hey ya.' Later on when we all went to the spectrum to 'attempt' to watch a movie, he goes, 'errone lets keep it g-rated hurr. ive never watched an r rated movie before in my life and i dont intend to make it a first tonite.' hahahahaha Inside we were doing pick up lines, and he was like 'if i were honey, would you be my whinnie the pooh?' haha im actually laughing to myself as i type this. Theyre so funny! Paul is funny also, oh man him and his jokes, i cant get enough. We all attempted to watch a movie at the spectrum but we didnt it. The guys didnt want to watch honey. All the other movies was already showing their last showing. The Last Samauri was sold out. That movie doesnt seem too appealing to me only cuz i cant see Tom cruise being some kind of samauri.

I was reading angie's blog and i was laughing at her quotes from the week. Those folks over at uci are so funny. Angie and her tounge tricks, id post it on hurr but then shed kill me. Ha Leo and his tight freestyle rhymes that he randomly makes up. Tonz and her juss randomness. Dante and his deep voice and people making fun of him. Monica my dumpster buddy yay! ha randells hurr is growing now, wow. Kristel fama, mark anthony, ed and all them peeps theyre all so funny. All bearing a special love for God, and a special way of serving God to others. ITs like captin planet, they have them rings that represent something great. Saints in the making...! I cant wait to see the spirit games with millions more of special people!


I thought this was funny! hahah



T'was the night before Christmas
and all through the town
Not a sign of Baby Jesus
was anywhere to be found.

The people were all busy
with Christmas time chores
Like decorating and baking,
and shopping in stores.

No one sang "Away in a manger,
no crib for a bed".
Instead, they sang of Santa
dressed-up in bright red.

Mama watched Martha Stewart,
Papa drank beer from a tap.
As hour upon hour
the presents they'd wrap

When what from the T.V.
did they suddenly hear?
'Cept an ad.. which told
of a big sale at Sears.

So away to the mall
they all flew like a flash...
Buying things on credit...
and others with cash!

And, as they made their way home
From their trip to the mall,
Did they think about Jesus?
Oh, no... not at all.

Their lives were so busy
with their Christmas time things
No time to remember
Christ Jesus, the King.

There were presents to wrap
and cookies to bake.
How could they stop and remember
who died for their sake?

To pray to the Savior...
they had no time to stop.
Because they needed more time
to "Shop til they dropped!"

On Wal-mart! On K-mart!
On Target! On Penney's!
On Hallmark! On Zales!
A quick lunch at Denny's

From the big stores downtown
to the stores at the mall
They would dash away, dash away,
and visit them all!

And up on the roof,
there arose such a clatter
As grandpa hung icicle lights
up on his brand new stepladder.

He hung lights that would flash.
He hung lights that would twirl.
Yet, he never once prayed to Jesus...
Light of the World.

Christ's eyes... how they twinkle!
Christ's Spirit... how merry!
Christ's love... how enormous!
All our burdens... He'll carry!

So instead of being busy,
overworked, and uptight
Let's put Christ back in Christmas
and enjoy some good nights!


To the moon!

"Well, i know sometimes it seems as if your heart is caving in, But if we look inside the soul we'll find the love we have within..."im done, im out GOd bless!