And That's A Wrap!

"It is not the actual physical exertion that counts toward a man's progress, nor the nature of the task, but the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken..."

ALL DONE: So what felt like months of planning, but only took a month is actually over. No more wednesday meetings, ahh all over. Things didnt exactly turn out the way I wanted to but its alright, I can't always expect things to turn out perfectly. In the end errthang was alright, the decorations were nice, the memorabila table was real creative, plenty of food to go around-tons of pizza. The battles was worth it, I dont know if I'd want to go through it again ha but it was good. Yesterday was juss oneo of those days, where you juss looked at the calendar thought how are you ever gonna make it through the day. However, God never leaves his people abandoned. He always gives you His grace to carry on, even through all the pain and struggles. Sometimes we juss have to learn to let go of our own pride, in order to make more room for the spirit to grow inside of us.

CHOIR SHOW: Thursday, toni and I went to kennedy's choir show, thought I'd show my support to some of my kennedy kids. It was real cute, it brought me back to the days of watching my sister's choir shows. The dramaitc dance moves, the corny little moves, ahh yeah I love it. Towards the end of the first half I was started to get real sleepy, sometimes I hate watching the solos cuz they can be real boring. Im more less a group performance type of person, yeaaah some of them were real funny. Toni and kept laughing the whole time cuz it was too cute. Nico and allen on their under the sea performance...classic! Then the 'kiss the girl' one was real cute as well. We bought flowers for the two of them, as well as one of my confirmation student's as well. It always feels good when you have people out there supporting you in what you do.

WASTE: Since the night was still young, we met up w/my cousin @ starbucks on beach. This time the visit was more pleasant being that I wasn't getting sick. So I sat there and attempted to work on my talk, while he was uploading all the video clips from the youf min. By the time starbucks closed, we moved our adventure to molcs me thinking he needed an outlet, only finding out no one was really hungry. On top of that I'm getting tired of mexican food, too much aresinos. Well since no one was hungry, we wanted to get a drink to celebrate the end of toni's finals ha! Moved to the party to bjs in brea, but by the time we got there it was almost 1am, the last had juss past. Oh why?! Wha was left to do? Freakin 330! Yeah I know, but wha the heck mine as well. Had to pay a $5 cover charge, for only like 30-45min. stay cuz they were closing! Its cool though, it was worth the free corona, and besides that toni went home w/3 nice long stem roses. Oh what a nite...

ALL DAY: Friday evening spent the whole nite at the rectory putting together my talk and errthang else for the confirmation retreat on sat. While at the same time getting programs ran off and put together for the youf min. anniversary. Yeah it felt like one of those all niters, but it really wasnt. I think we were done close to 1230am or before that. Poor jan was going through stomach motions that nite...eh one feeling I definitely do not miss. By the time I finished up, I needed some alone time so I stopped by the Blessed sacrament @ sPv. Ran into mo who skurred me as he was coming out. Anyway, nice quiet time juss preparing myself spiritually for errthang was about to come. Especially being two big things happening in one day, not to mention outside things going on ex. apologetics workshop @ UCI. I felt refreshed and tired as hell coming out, but it was much needed.

CONFIRMATION RETREAT: I was suppose to be @ sPv to meet w/sandy prior @ 7am, but I knew that wasn't going to work. Didn't get to sPv till almost freakin 8am! Oh well, at least I was still made it. Even though the retreat had to have been the most unorganized retreat full of different test inbetween, it seemed fruitful. For the most part, the kids seemed to enjoy themselves, and my kids were even well behaved...wow thas a first! It gave me an opportunity however to get to know some of them more. Allow myself to be a little more kick back then I normally am on tuesday nite. Even though they've become my crosses to carry, they're alright. I felt unprepared and unorganized w/my talk, but it seemed like the kids liked it. They tripped out w/some er more less mark anthony's analogies of the different characers and the gifts. One good thing is that one of the kids in felipe's class wants to be part of the youf min @ holy fam. Yay for more souls! He saw my little video clip I used and he was motivated to want to get involve w/a youf group. Its stuff like that that makes you look up and say 'Praise God!'

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: Rushed home and got ready to get to mass @ 5pm. The fun juss doesn't end! I felt so sleepy at mass, but I did my best to keep awake. There wasn't as many people as I was hoping for, but oh well it was still fun. It was great seeing some ol kids who hadn't come to a meeting in a while. Conversations that kinda open your eyes and make you say, 'praise God.' Yeah, I had a couple of those w/chie and jan-michael. I was told tonite that when you recieve a rose or give a rose, sometimes there's thorns that come along with. Even w/all those thorns though, there's still that beautiful creation. Its juss funny switching from two different parishes, the environment is so different. Watching the slide show brought back a rush of memories from all kinds of different things. NOt even only holy fam stuff but also SH stuff as well. Wow all that seemed so long ago, but it wasn't this has been one crazy journey.

WELCOME BACK: Alaine's back for a week, it's her spring break. Some of us came together for dinner to celebrate her 'return.' ha! Errtime I see her, I still find it hard to believe she's in college already. All the endless conversations we'd have on the phone together. THe adventures of going to brea mall or juss going to eat. Im glad to see though she's still the same, and nothing has changed. YOu know there people out there who go away and they come back a brand new person. Or those type of people who even though they leave, when they come back you can pick up right where you left off w/o any akwardness. Anyway its nice that she's back in town again! yay for friend!


Man easter is almost hurr!

"This is our fate, i'm yours..."im done, im out God bless!