Back to the Grind

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish..."

COLD & GLOOMY: I like the weather like it's been the past couple of days. The cold air setting in, the gloomy skies ah makes for a perfect winter weather. The days where its juss the perfect time to sit at home and watch movies all day. Drink up some nice hot chocolate and juss make plans to stay inside all day. Those are the days that are probably the most restful, when you dont have to worry bout taking care of anything. Ahh winter is defiently making its way here!

HOLIDAY SEASON: Went to the cerritos mall this afternoon and as I was passing by the 'bath & body work store' they had in their window, 'it's begining to look a lot like...' painted with a nice red christmas ornament. I cant believe how fast the christmas seasons is approaching. The past week, I've been listening to the 'ave maria' in my car and it made me really think of christmas. Im excited for december to come, to go christmas shopping, christmas card writing, wrapping gifts, going place to place. Making your list of who you need to get, and then crossing it off the person you finished buying for. Most of all sitting at midnight mass, I wonder how its gonna be like this year at sPv. Then after Christmas, its 2006 whoa!

FUN TIMES: Friday nite, I went to jay's place in westco for his kick back. I got there at 10pm and I was expecting it to be loud and juss crunk. Well, when I got there it was kinda funny his aunt opened the door wide open as if she was expecting me or something. For a moment there, I wasnt sure if I was taking part in a scary movie or something. Anyway, the place ended up being real chill, real mellow, I guess I came after the hype was over. At any rate, the hype came back later on that nite. Learned how to play a new games called, '10 fingers' ha pretty interesting. Getting food at some burger place that took an hour to get cuz of these high skoolers and their freakin homecoming! Great times that nite, even though I didnt sleep til pretty much almost 4am.

FRIENDSHIP GAMES: Woke up at 11am on saturday which was nice, to really get to sleep in. Stayed home til I decided to go to friendship games. I didnt really want to go alone, but I couldnt find anyone that could go w/me so alas I went independently. When I got there they had security and popos there blocking the main entrance. Apparently, in order to get in you had ot have a blue wristband. Unfortunately, they werent giving them out anymore either. Well, I didnt want to waste a whole trip for nothing, so I decided to search. I figured there had to be another way to get in, even though Im sure they had erravaible entrance way blocked. After walking around for a good 10 min. I found a way to get in! I went to the side of the building and there were these stone things I could hop on to get to the gap in the gate. Success, I found my way in and it was pretty interesting. I came at the pretty much tail end of the day, but its juss crazy how people spend the whole day there and go all out representing their group. Watching all that made me think of spirit games for next year already ha

HEMAN SEASON ONE: My mom and sister had found at target my fav childhood cartoon...heman on dvd. Ive been waiting forever to see if they'd ever come out w/something like that. ANyway, I ended up buying it and it brought back so many childhood memories. Im glad to see them bring back and make into the dvds the ol skool shows. I saw they had season 2 and the greatest episodes version also. Im going to have to buy those too and add the my collection. I love ol skool cartoons like thundercats and all them that they dont show anymore.

EVERYONE HAS IT: I think almost everyone has a myspace now. Its funny how addicting it can get though, well I guess if you let it. For example, I'll start on one persons page then you see their friends and you find out they know certain people that you never knew they knew. Then it becomes one page after another. Finally, after realizing how much time youve spent on the freakin thing you end up getting tired. ha Anyway, I was on it tonite and guess who I found on there? http://www.myspace.com/melodelight yeah thas right melody from so you think you can dance remade her myspace page ha wow she's hot. I also found this guy whos in my geology class on there too ha

NOT THE SAME: Went to mass at sPv today, well I went at 1215pm. Its been a while since I've gone to mass there at that time. Fr. Ted is pretty strict, I was watching him talk to the altar servers as he was giving communion to them. Like he was giving them communion and he was tellling them to come forward and they I guess werent doing it so I could tell he was getting upset at them. I dont think sPv will ever be the same anymore, and Im sure many of the parishoners probably feel the same way. The warmth and hospitality seems to be missing. I always remember fr. kevin would be at the doors of the church greeting people, whether it was him celebrating mass or not. I get this impression these new priests are trying to whip the parish into shape and distance themselves away from being as active/involved. I dont know thas wha I see from the outside. It was cute though there were all these little new altar servers at mass and then 2 big guys who probably were the leaders of the pack. Sitting there watching them the small altar servers looked like jedi knights in training like small kids. ha

BARN DANCE: Went to the barn dance at holy fam last nite, it was pretty fun. The food was pretty good, and they gave you a lot. The best part was probably juss the dancing, it was cool how we all danced together in the group. Arch and them got errone going w/'hip hop line dancing' ha it was fun watching them. Then achie and I tried to win the twist contest, but we lost to the elderly couple. Agh I didnt win any prizes at all! We had competition w/the younger coouple who was winning all the prizes and even the dances. It felt like a homecoming dance at holy fam, it was like the theme was 'barn dance' and you had dancing, food, and a king and queen. Good times, good times! The party soon followed to fridays for some more fun w/arch, chie, vee, and me trying to come up with oxymorons ha.

ALL CONNECTED: Fr. Ted was talking bout in his homily today bout being all connected in some way. He gave the example of our bishop who knows the pope and some of the staff at the vatican, and the bishop shepherds the priests in the orange diocese who all know the bishop pretty well. It made me think of friendster ha how it shows you how you're connected to that person. THen it tells you how many degrees of seperation there are in your friends list. Its interesting looking at that kind of stuff. I wish myspace had that where it would tell you how youre connected to that person and who else you know is connected.

the months almost over!

"The first time ever I saw your face..."im done, im out God bless!