Yeah...Okay, Sure

"And even if you are the last, you're not alone..."

KINDA EMPTY: It feels kinda of empty not working in the morning. Though it was nice being able to sleep in a little bit before all the phone call. Im so use to waking up by 8am to get ready for work by 930am, that its like wha do I do w/my time. I feel like what I did during my freshmen-sophmore years in high skool when I didnt drive or have a car. Kinda wander around the house trying to find somethign to do. Only this time, I actually can drive and have a car. I remember when I'd get hungry, I'd walk to get something to eat at mc donalds or walk to tower records to pick up the latest cd that juss woudl come out. You know me, if its something I like or want I have to have it the first day its out. The previous summers I'd have to be at work by 11am, so there were times where I'd kind of dread coming to work. Now it's a little bit of a different story. Anyway, yeah I need to start finding somethign to do in the morning time before I go crazy. If you know me, you know I can't still for too long.

IRVINE: Went to the spectrum with francis' and abe this afternoon. I was juss about to valet it, when I realized its a waste to pay for it, when there's plenty of parking in the structure. Bought a book by Padre Pio from barnes and noble. I was finally able to use my gift card that I got from work yay! FOr some reason I hate carrying a whole bunch of gift cards cuz there isn't anyroom in my wallet to keep them. Saw this hurley shirt I wanted to get at pac sun, but it wasn't something I really needed so I discarded that. However, I am looking for a dark blue type of shirt to match w/my denim dunks. Bought jamba juice, at the end of the trip, it's always refreshing to get on a hot day. It was juss nice at least doing something and getting out of the house.

THE NEW ASSITANT: After weeks of not having any extra help in the evening time, the new rectory assitant started today. I felt kinda bad cuz I was late, but oh well things happen. She's one of the leaders of the filipino cursillos daughter. Really cool, laid back, I'm going to enjoy working w/her. Its juss nice having someone to talk to again in the evening time. As much as I enjoyed kinda being alone it gets kinda old after a while. Its always overwhelming in the beginning to learn all the rules and things of the rectory. Tomorrow were going to go on a little tour of the different facilities here at the parish. Kinda show her around and intro her to the different parish leaders, if they're around. Ha I had already warned her bout mrs. doubtfire and her wicked ways ha, that was one of hte first things I had to do. ANd best of all were already myspace friends ha! Yeah, I'm going to enjoy having an assitant!

CORE MEETING: So we had the last core meeting before the transition of the new core. I guess for the core its big deal to them but it's not really much of difference being that they're goign to become peer mentors. At any rate, the st. vincent's room is becoming a little crowded, with the addition of the peer mentors, weekly core meetings for a while are going to be jam packed. Hopefully the same way the weekly meetings are going to be. The new core was off to a good start, planning out activties for the rest of the month of july. As I was sitting at the table it kinda gave me a flash back when I was in hs with the transition of leadership w/the current asb and the new asb. Maan I'm getting old, well not really but its going to be hard to believe imma be 24 oh my!

SUPERMAN SUCKS: I took the risk and went to the cerritos towne center to see if they still had tickets for the early showing of superman returns. Im sure plenty of people are currently watching it as I type right now. Suprisngly, kinda, it wasn't sold out for the 10 and 1030pm showing. I thought I had bought tickets for the 1030pm showing but I guess I was wrong cuz by 10pm the lights were going off and the previews were coming on. Anyway, the movie starts off with superman coming back to smallville. He goes back to metropolis and gets his old job back at hte daily planet he soon finds out that lois lane is engaged and has a son. Lex Luthor is free from jail and manages to inherit from this old lady a fortune. Lex Luthor finds superman's artic hide away and steals some of his crystals to use to create land masses. Superman comes back and starts saving the day. WEll the end goes like this, superman picks up one of the land masses and brings to space to destroy, but ends up letting go cuz of the kryptonite in it. He falls to teh ground and errone thinks that superman is dead. He ends up getting better and doesn't die after all. What he does is goes bcack to lois' to see the kid who ends up being his SON and then small talks it up w/lois. Afterwards then flies off and thas the end of the movie, where you see him flying. It's pretty whack in my opinion, he doesnt kick lex luthors ass or anything. Thas why I said superman sucks. Though you may want to watch it yourself anyway. Most of the people came out of the theatre dissapointed.


7 more days till my birfday!

"I must have super powers, rap 225 thousand hours..."im done, im out God bless!

Sparkels in the Air

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever..."

RELIVED: After weeks of being at the rectory on my own, with all the madness, a new person will finally be there to help me out. Ah yes, Im quite excited to see her start, I spoke to her over the phone a few times, and she's real nice. I first I felt she was kinda over qualified, being she's juss graduated from ucsb with a degree in sociology but I guess everyone needs somewhere to start. Im juss grateful they finally found someone, being there in the evenings trying to do errthang was juss killing me. Thas probably why I started to feel sick this past week. Work is going to become a lot more interesting within these next couple of days. ha

REGRETS: I had made plans to go back to work for stanton for the summer. At first it sound exciting, thinking Im going to need some type of income coming in. It's only for a month, however the more I started to think about it, the more I began to realize that I dont know if I want to do it anymore. Unfortunately, I can't really back out now being that I already committed. However, so far there's only 4 kids who have signed up, they're looking for at least minimum 12 kids to sign up. Sooo I'm crossing my fingers that no one will sign up and they'll have to cancel. Financially, I think I'll be alright, I get paid in 2 weeks and that'll cover for me for the rest of that month, and most of august. On top of that its not like I wont be working at the rectory anyway. Hopefully, it doesn't fall through, I am grateful though for the opportunity, to come back despite the fiasco of last summer.

LAGGING: Lately, Ive been lagging on the gifts part of it is juss laziness is getting them and the other half is juss procrastination. You know, when you put things off and put them off then it becomes too late, yeah I have a bad habit of doing that. I barely juss gave fred his gift on saturday, and I have boss lady's gift sitting here in room all ready to go to drop off. Then there's like 3 graduation gifts I ahve to get two of them Im going to combine w/their birfday. Then july there's tons of birfday celebrations. Ahh, well with skool being out now I'll have the time to not lag as much ha

FINAL DAYS: Thursday was the last day of skool, I completed my first year working at a skool. I went in to the principal's office on friday, juss letting her know how grateful that I am for her to giving me the chance to work at the skool. In the beginning it was tough, not knowing anyone, not realizing what kind of class I was going to be in, being one of the only few males there. However, I made it through the year and I passed with flying colors. Over the months I was able to adjust and in the end come out making some really great friends. I was telling rob that with errjob I've had, Ive been lucky enough to enjoy the people I work with. The last day was kinda sad, saying goodbye to the kids and hearing, 'goodbye teacher.' At any rate, its been a blast this year. I love working for the skool district, Im still learning how to budget the whole once a month pay check, but I do love getting days off like spring break, winter break, and other such holidays and not worry about having to work.

TOO FAST: What was it, wednesday I went out to go watch the fast and the furious part 3. It was alright, some interesting life lessons you can come out learning, if you catch them. A couple of the characters from that movie better luck tomorrow are in the tokyo drift. The music is pretty cool, the whole japanese sounds. The drifting and stunts were pretty d0pe, I wonder how mnay times it took them to get all that down. The main character looks almost exactly like paul walker, its kinda crazy. Man I still need to wathc nacho libre and clique, on top of that superman is coming up and im so falling behind on all these movies. Speaking of superman, I so want to watch it late tues. nite. I bet you people are going ot be lining up at like 7-8pm already.

BONFIRE: Saturday was a crazy day, there was juss tons of things going on. Worked all day, taking a 2.5 hr lunch break to eat w/the fam bam. I was a little worried at first then, I was like eh whatever, if mrs. doubtfire can take a 2 hr. lunch then so can I too. So I did juss that, came back and she was like 'where were you?!' I told her I was running errands, ha take that dont mess w/me! This saturday should be the last saturday I'll be working. Thank God, now I can actually sleep in. THough I must admit, Ive been pretty proud of myself, for making it by 9-930am. Anyway, after work went to francis' grad party at liberty, well barely made it to tail end of it. As tired as I was, I felt bad if I didnt go. When he texted me they were already cleaning up, I replied back w/I guess its too late to go now. Then he replies back, you can still come. So being the good advisor I am, I went to support the guy. After that attempted to take a nap then went over to hb for the bonfire. Its been a while since I've been to the beach. Good times catching up w/the cousin.

ACCOMPLISHED: MOnday was a great day, despite the fact it was blazing hot. Ive was able to get out of the way a lot of errands that I needed to do. Like I said, I lag when it comes to taking care of errands, but when I get it started I'm on a roll. Due to stupid sinsues I couldnt exactly sleep in as I wouldve liked to. Freakin got up at 8am! I shouldve juss gone to the gym since no one was online that early. By 11am I finally got ready, went to stanton and took care of some stuff there for an hour. THey have 6 kids signed up so far, oh why?! ha After that dropped off boss lady's gift, dropped of some stories for leilani, dropped off junk at the savlation army, and I was pretty much almsot set to go. Came home for a little bit got ready and I was off again, to best buy and the mall to catch up grad. gifts. Tomorrow I need to get a car wash, its been calling for one for a while now. I love the feeling of getting things down and out of the way.

GRAD NITE: We had a mini grad. nite ceremony for youf min. I was expecting a lot more kids to show up, but oh well. The set up was cool, made it seem like some what of a real grad. ceremony. I put chairs to the side for all the advisors to sit as my 'dignitaries' ha. Then I shared a small commencement address speech of life lessons. Fun stuff it was! Afterwards we all went to denny's to eat and celebrate. Being the nite was still young, toni, her friend, myself, and my cousin went to drink it up at starbucks and play w/roaches. I so want to a do a photoshoot though, that'd be d0pe.















Yay firework stands are out!












"But does that make me crazy..."im done, im out God bless!

Finally!

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly..."

LOST: Last saturday, I had a whole blog entry written, detailed, and errthang. Then I lost it damn it! It was too much to have to rewrite and redo, so I decided to forget about it. Its funny I was printing out some blogs to put in my binder. WEll I labled this blog binder to go from January 1st to June 30th, anticipating it was going to be well a thick binder. So much for that concept, ha I haven't been blogging errday like I use to. Now a days, it's more like I have to force myself juss to catch up w/the people on here on whas going on. Probably not like a lot of people really read this anymore anyway. Oh well, here's my update for the week ha.

SOLVED: I think through errproblem, lies a solution we juss have to figure it out and find it. I also think that through errtrial and difficulty God provides. We juss have to be patient and let God's will be done. Though I do praise God that a certain situation that occurred, is over now. Its that whole trust thing, how much are you going to trust him. Life has its ups and downs, its perks and its dissapointments, I think thas wha makes life interesting. Without it, well life would be dull and boring.

CHANGED: THis past year a lot of things have changed, but a lot of good things have come out of those changes. Change, not the easiest thing to adjust to, but like I said great things can come out of it. So many different things have happened to me within this year, getting a two new jobs, learning the ropes on how things work there. Making new friends at both jobs, first at danbrook, being one of the few males, becoming good friends with my coworkers. At the rectory, well devloping good relationships w/many of the parishoners as well as parish org. leaders there. Its still getting use how holy family runs, but I'm slowly learning errthang. Switching from young adult to youth ministry, it took some time getting use to and I'm still learning and remembering to humble myself, but those kids, I love them. With SH, there was never really any stable youth, but being apart of UTC I found my passion working w/young people. Developing life long friendships w/the advisor team, and sharing experiences and lessons w/the youth there. It'll almost be a year since the switch from sPv to holy fam was made. Who would've ever thought leaving your comfort zone and taking a new risk.

MADE IT: Accomplished one of my life long goals, watching a taping of so you think you can dance...ha kidding, not life long but something Ive always wanted to do since last year. It juss was the timing was never right before. I wont go into details bout the trip, since I did that in my last entry before it got all erased. The trip down there isn't exactly worth all that driving when you really look at it. You do more time sitting and waiting then you do anything else. Besides that season 2 isnt all that great, it's always the first season that makes it worth watching. The trip in itself was fun, the grove, farmer's market, speed, pusoy dos, good company made all the day worth while.

BIRFDAY SHOUT OUTS: A very special birfday shout out going out to my dear friend boss lady. She was like my twin, always loved getting all wild n out. FUll of laughter and energy, she always there to help brighten up the day. She's always has taken care of me, and still continues to do so now. Ive learned so many different lessons from her, juss regarding life and parks & rec ha. Boss lady is my parks & rec idol haha Ill always remember taht first time she gave that talk w/banne at youf alpha season 1 and she was talking bout parks & rec and I didnt even know waht that was until later on ha. One of the greatest things bout boss lady is her kindness, yeah thas boss lady so giving of herself to others. I prasie God for great friends like her in my life. Happy birfday boss lady!


Summer is already here!

"ANd it wont leave me alone..." im done, im out God bless!

Spirals Spinning

"Sometimes the best art isnt immediately obvious. You might get it or even like it the first time you experience it. But, if you take a moment and give it another try, it might reach you in a way you never thought possible. It's a bold move to see again, read again, listen again..."

I LIKE: I found this quote on the back of my starbucks cup and I think it makes a lot of sense. Its true and says a lot bout life experiences. Often times were hesitant to try new things, our first reaction is very negative. Though I think w/certain things, they require taking risks and deserve second chances. When you listen to music, there are songs may not speak to us right away. Though after having hearing it again, it kinda sticks to you. God speaks to us sometimes in the most craziest ways, but thas whas so unique bout God.

PERFECT TIMING:
There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens.
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak.
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

THIS PAST WEEK: As I look on the jama juice cup thas thrown in the trash I see this tornado type coloration. Thas exactly how this week has been like a spiral. So many things going on at one time. Getting ready for the summer with graduations, birfdays, and more celebrations. An unexpected crazy thing happened this past week, however well Ill shed more light bout it later on. The skool year is finally winding down, us teachers can hardly wait. Im trying to position myself to work w/one of these teachers I've gotten to know this year. The principal told me that she wants to find somoene who can teach ballroom dancnig to the kids next year. WooO that'd be fun I want ot learn how to ballroom dance, fox trot, and errthang else. Anyway, each week becomes more and more interesting as the weeks go by.

PURIFICATION: I think certain situtations occur for a particular reason. Especially after things go so well, God throws certain wrenches into the mix. Hmm not to punish, no, but to see where we stand. Kinda like the story in Job, after pain and suffering, he still continues to give God his all. Through difficult times God asks us to still continue to come to him. To me, personally, I think its in those times where God is asking us to give ourselves completly to Him. Forgetting errthang else, leave it behind and juss give it to Him. At the same time, God can create beautiful things out of suffering and pain. I look back on this past year and all the different personal sturggles I've had yet, through each one of them God created something great out of it. We can use it for His greater glory or turn away from Him and go our own way. Roses can grow out of thorns if we allow God to do so.

75TH FESTIVITIES: Holy Family celebrated their 75th anniversary this past weekend. What a momentous celebration it was. I remember coming into the church last year and seeing the banner hanging outside the church. In my head I thought wow 75 years I wonder why they're adversiting it so early. Then I began to think wha it was going to be like that next year. A year later here I am...the mass was d0pe. It really shows the diversity and culture of holy family. The emphasis of creating a holy family in every home and I think as a parish community thas wha has been accomplished. Cardinal Mahoney has the most monotnous voice oh my gosh there's no change in tone in his voice. Besides that though mass was real cool. The family day was crazy hot and it felt like working summerfest. Praise God I didnt have to sit there and man the booth all day.

MY IMMORTAL: I know this song is pretty old, but I keep listening to it. Actually it sounds real emo, I know but there's juss something relaxing about this song. Makes me feel real calm and juss chill. Someone shared w/me bout how their's a guy in the background singing the high parts in opera. Everytime I hear the song, it reminds of that movie daredevil. For some reason I can picture myself driving in the pouring rain late at night, while this song is playing. Don't even really have a destination but I'm driving in search for something, or escaping something. All I know is that I like this song, and its real relaxing, perhaps thas why I have it on repeat.

BIG BANG: Speaking of music, I bought the new busta rhymes cd today. I saw it at target and it was on sale so I got it. There's a lot of guest apperances on the CD like rakewon, missy, q-tip and more. Busta was featured in this month's vibe magazine, which the article I still ahve to read. The album is pretty cool though for the most part. The touch it song really makes you want to juss go straight to the club and get buck ha! Buck ha thas gotta be the most dumbest word out for a dance. Buck showing facial expressions that make you look constipated while you dance. Anyway, yeaaah touch it- bring it - pay it - watch it -turn it - leave it - stop - format it.

BIRFDAY SHOUT OUTS: SOme more birfday shout outs to keep the month of celebrations rolling. You know it seems as my 'buddy list' grows so does the birfday list. Anyway, the first shout out going to fred, who has helped me out w/music this past year w/the youf min. Taking time out to help teach them songs for the anniversary and juss help guide them musically. Like I said before I'll never forget my fondest memories of this guy learning bout church doctrine and wha seperates catholics apart from protestants. The second shout out going to noreen, who has a voice like a seraphim. When you listen to her sing its like breathless! THen when you get the whole joyce, dee, and her singing at one time whoaaaaaa talk bout being blown away! This girl is can help turn a rainy day into one hot sunny day w/her bright smiles and cheery personality. I think if she was a carebear, she'd be sunshine bear or cheer bear, always sharing that fun and laughter w/errone. Oh yeah then there's ryanimay also, we cant forget this cool guy w/all the dance moves! May the Lord continue to bless the all of you!

CUSTOMER SERVICE: About month ago when I was looking for something to wear for confirmation I went to the express in brea mall. WHen I went there I think it was one the best customer service experiences I've ever had. I came in, I was greeted and automatically asked if I needed assitance. The associate there who was helping me, was real friendly(no he wasn't gay even though many of the guys who work there are) juss made conversation w/me and juss making sure i was alright. He shared w/me how when he had gone to hollister he had a real bad experience there w/customer service. So from that point on he told himself if he ever got a job doing retail he'd be different. When I went to go pay I filled out a customer appreication job, juss so his bosses know he done a great job w/helping a customer out.

LESSONS LEARNED: When tempted to judge another person in their sin or failing, remember when you also fell and turned away from God in your weakness. Everyone is given the chance to start over, so when tempted to condemn, pray for their conversion/reversion. Yeah something Im trying to focus on learning right now. As easy as it is to throw the first stone over stupid people's mistakes, I have to learn to juss pray for them. This whole thing bout second chances is what God continues to give us each day. Through His mercy and love, each time we fall, he offers us his hand to come back to him. Juss like in the suicide skit, the girl falls through all the ugliest sins, but yet there is God holding out his hands ready to accept us back. God is love and through His love that we still continue to be ticking today. So I guess its a lesson learned, rather then judge/condemn a person for their actions pray for their conversion.


Praise God for mercy and forgiveness!

"Who you know that got a flow this sick..."im done, im out God bless!

Number One

"Lets us love, since that is all our hearts were made for..."

RECOVERING: Im still tired from all the weekend fesitivies. I was tempted to juss call in sick and sleep in and chill. Too bad my dad's retired ha and I cant exactly quite do that. Its always tempting to call in sick being that you dont have to speak directly to your boss. In stanton I was always afraid of calling in sick. In fact I think I've only called in over there maybe twice the most. Yeah thas the nice thing bout workingn for the skool you dont have to directly speak to your boss when calling in sick. I didnt even get a chance to take a nap cuz I was constantly on the go. Oh well there's only two more weeks left in the year I can do this.

SERVING: Sometimes the hard part bout serving is you expect stuff in return. I guess that doesnt juss go w/serving general life lessons. I remember Mother Teresa had a poem that went something like the work you do today maybe forgotten tomorrow, continue to do good anyway. I had a small convo w/rob today bout doing stuff for others. Rarely do we have real serious heart to heart convos but this small was a good reminder to myself. Even though its hard not to get discouraged, bitter, and other dark feelings, we juss gotta remind ourselves that if God can let go and continue to give us life despite the fact were unfaithful then we should be able to do the same. Lesson leanred not to have expectations of anything or anyone cuz in the end you may only set yourself up for a dissapointment. However, as rob told me let that be your cross you have to carry. Offer it up to God and continue to pray for those crosses you have to carry.

KICK OFF NITE: Youf ministry had their kick off nite for the youf rally tonite and wow I was quite impressed. Its funny how God allows things to work out. Last week we were kinda stressing trying to figure out where to hold the kick off being we got kicked out of the hall. The meeting room was too small and st. joseph's center was being occupied. Well God always allows things to work for the better. I called Tito Rudy and he was kind enough to let us have the St. Joseph's center for this week and errthagn worked out. It was great to see old faces as well parental support. The meeting was really fruitful and I praise God for such a strong ministry we have going. Before it all started there was this kid who was playing some praise & worship songs on the piano wow I couldnt stop singing. He even knew Jesus the sweetest name of all song! Totally brought back memories to SH days singing them songs on tues. evening. This youf rally is really coming along I'm excited.

COOL GUY: I took w/me tonite this cool guy named jay, who went w/us to the youf day at congress. Ive been trying to get him to come since freakin march! Praise God he finally came today, so that was cool. We had a interesting convo bout trends and styles of today. The guy is cool cuz he lives near me off of knott and cerritos. Whas even cooler bout the kid is that his birfday is the day before mine! ha I was amazed when he told me, Im finding out more and more people who have july birfdays. Its almost like a straight, you have cherry's birfday on the 2nd, abe's is on the 3rd, then jay's on the 4th, and mine on the 5th! WoooO! Then you have the some more july bifdays the week after w/my cousin, coy, then jennifer, reirich, jei franxis...sheesh its packed w/celebrations! July is an awesome month!

ULTIMATE COMBO: There's this new song out w/kanye west and pharrell called number 1. WOw it's freakin d0pe, talk bout the ultimate combination right there. If you get chance look for it on myspace. I love the lyrics to the song too cuz theyre juss so fresh! I cant wait for the new pharrell album to come out at the end of july. The songs in that album are going to be freakin tight. I cna juss see myself now buying it that tuesday it comes out. Make sure you check out that song and listen to the lyics, it'll bring music to your ears!


11 moe days of work left!

"I'mma FedEx my love and have you sign for my heart..."im done, im out God bless!

An Eventful Evening

"Of all prayers, the Rosary is the most beautiful and the richest in grace; of all it is the one most pleasing to Mary, the Virgin most holy..."

BUSY DAY: Yesterday was a crazy, first off I was so tired still from the debut, then having to work all day was killer. I had planned on attending baby jacob's baptism, and well I was real dissapointed I couldnt go. It also sucked working on saturdays again w/no one to talk to or really nothing to do. Most of my work is completely done until Hope comes back to go over calendar dates. Saturday I felt like I was hoping from place to place trying to get errwhurr on time. Ha Im still in the process of learning there's only 24 hrs. in a day and sometimes you cant get errthang done in that time frame. So right after worked I rushed over to the moyas thinking errone was still going to be thurr. Apparently I was wrong, the party was over by the time I got thurr. Aww kawawa meee!

GALA DINNER: WOw I never expected the dinner to be so fancy and poofy. Tons of people there jam packed, I think errtable was filled. I had to go all out and a wear a suit cuz well it was juss that darn fancy. We got there in pretty good timing, shared a table w/the young adults and some camera guy from RTA studios. I told abby I felt like I was a presdential ball or a fundraiser ha. Fr. JOhnny came in and started it off w/his wha I like to call 'state of the parish' address, followed by the opening toast. The band was great I thought, they played errthang from ballroom to salsa to 70's...wow. Dinner was pretty good, I ate a lot, drank a lot wine...yeahhh I had myself a grand ol time!

BIRFDAY SHOUT OUTS: First off happy birfday to Mother Church, as we celebrate this feast of pentecost let us thank God for another year of church perseverance. Fr. Vic used the gala as analogy in his homily today bout coming together and working together for the betterment of the church. The church continues to struggle, but always rises from it. At mass after communion they sang the spirit song and wow it brought back a rush of memories. I really felt that spirit today. Another bifday shout out going to Mark Poblete, this guy has gone through a lot within this past year. I've only know the guy for a short time but man he's got a lot of strength. Having to face such a difficult uphill battle and yet staying strong through it all. God was totally watching out for this guy thas fo sho. He survived and persevered despite all the pain and suffering. Happy birfday man, may you continue to be blessed in all that you do!

ALL DAY: Spent the entire day it felt like at church. Well it was pretty much like the whole entire day. ALmost late to mass trying to get the songs to go on my ipod. Didnt get to sit where I normally sit booo...oh well I still had a good seat, but I juss hate not being able to sit in 'my spot.' Lunch at wing stop w/a couple of the kids and jaime, we attempted to get two 35 pieces and wow we almost conquered it too. I think I've tried almost every flava they have over there at wingstop now. The atmoic ones are juss too freakin hot oohh maan, taht was killer. My favorite are the lemon pepper and garlic parmsean.

NEW CORE: On top of eating at wing stop we interviewed and discerned our new core all in one day. Yeah we're crazy youf ministry advisors we are...haha The interviews were long and althrough they got tiring towards the end, I praise God that these kids decided to give their yes to help serve in this youf ministry. Praise God for the many fruits we've blossomed in this year alone...this is juss the beginnig. I know that w/God's grace we'll only continue to produce more fruits and impact more younger people. One of the things taht was said during the interviews that convicted me was when it was talked bout giving glory to God. The question was, 'in your own words what does Ad majorem dei gloriam mean to you? For the greater glory of God.' The respone was, 'if you're serving your brothers and sisters, then you're serving Him, and that puts a smile on His face.' I couldnt of found a better way to put it. Praise God!


Happy birfday church!

"Ill go wherever you may go..."im done, im out God bless!

A Month of Madness

"When you feel invited to remain in silence at our Lord's feet like Magdalene, just looking at him with your heart, without saying anything, dont cast about for any thoughts or reasonings, but just remain in loving adoration..."

NEVER ENDS: The celebrations never seem to stop, juss when you think there's a little bit of break there isnt. ha Not that its all that bad, but sometimes it becomes never ending. I wish there was those times where you could juss easily take a vacation. Obviously that wont be happening exactly anytime soon ha. June is packed and I can forsee July being the same exact way. I was checking out my calendar for this month and oh man there are times at the end of my day I sit wonder where did my day go? Anyway, I guess I'd rather be busy then doing nothing at all. I clearly remember those days alright.

LOOKING BACK: I was browing through my blog archives from last June and wow a lot has changed in one year. One year ago I was starting my new assignment for the summer at stanton, trying to build up a summer program at old daycare center. HOW or now the Holy Family Young Adult Ministry was juss starting off. Now look the ministry is growing, unexpected new leaders stepped up, I'm serving with the youf ministry and made some wonderful friends there. I must say though that first evening of songs and prayers was unforgettable! One memorable experience that I dont think any of us will forget. The Augustians at sPv were packing their things and getting to depart like illegal immigrants ha to their new homes. One year ago...maaan time quickly changes things. Memories pass by in a camera flash. Thas why I loooove taking pictures, juss saving those memories.

GOOD TIMES: Last nite was a pre celebration party for rob. In attendance was mike, fred, yaz, jei, and reirich. I wasn't planning on drinking and well it didnt exactly end up that way. 3 irish car bombs later made out for one heck of a good times! It was cool seeing reirich there, I havent seen him nor talked to him a while. I kinda missed the guy ha Anyway, then we partied in the parking lot till the clock struck 12 to officially wish rob a warm happy birfday! Turns out rob wasn't the only one celebrating a birfday there too that nite. Another guy sitting behind us was celebrating his birfday also. In fact he got the whole birfday speel w/ice cream and song. Our server told us his birfday was on saturday and he was turning 21, man who doesn't better who hasn't already heard the tale of my 21st birfday. That was one nite to remember alright...

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: ITs weird how God places you in certains areas taht are unexpected. Working at danbrook, this past year has opened my mind ot a lot of different things. Its almost like working in stanton all over again, with the tons of low income families, the gangsta kids, and errthang else. The skool is the lowest and poorest skool in the district, hence why they have so many behavior problem kids. I was talking w/the principal today and I shared w/her how I want to help do something w/these kids. In some way help them but I dont know how. Apparently the PTA has no $$. and the city well who knows wha they're doing. All these kids need is some type of intervention something to keep them busy. Their parents are well either a) have too many kids to keep track of b) work like no other juss to survive c) juss dont care at all. The skurry part is its partly not their fault for the way they are, it's society and as society gets worse so are these problematic children. So whas the solution? Thas the hard thing to figure out.
CATCHING UP: Christy and I had a nice conversation online the other nite. It was one of those unexpected random IMS but never the less it was fun. Caught up on whas going on in our lives, and ministry life. I remember when she use to come around all the time, ha well same way when I use to be active in their community. Those were the days alright, LF on saturday evenings followed by fun at wingstop or taps right after prayer meeting. ANyway, those kinda help brighten up your day, the unexpected stuff.

THE DEBUT: Jackie's Debut was pretty fun, I've only really been to one debut. I thought being that I was working till 730pm I was ogoing to miss most of it, but I came there right on time! On top of that I got perfect parking as well! A lot of lag time inbetween each thing, I hate lag time cuz I want things to go back to back to back, but its aiight. THe dj sucked he played a lot of ol skool r & b stuff, like ruff endz and wha not. Then took it back to kool and the gang w/celebrate good times. Oh and he didnt have promiiscus girl wha the heck? How can you not have a lot of the new modern day stuff. ANyway, I never knew they did moderns at debuts. It was funny cuz it looked like they were starting off as a skit and I told toni, yeah I bet its going to start off as a skit, and sure enough I was right. Ha all in all I had good time, I wanted to sweat and I did juss that. Mallory and I had fun pretending to salsa haha and I looked like almost exactly the way I wanted minus the gold chain and shinny shoes.





Summer is coming!

"Wu tang if this is where the hip hop is..."im done, im out GOd bless!

It's Been A Long One

"The imitation of Mary includes the imintation of Christ because Mary is the first christian to follow Christ...Indeed, that is why the imitation of Mary is not only relevant to women but to all Christians..."

LONG DAYS: Its days like today where I wish I had my pool running, so I can hold my ipod in one hand, and then sip on my whatever drink in the other. Ha ahh yes them summer days are coming up real soon. Our pool was never heated so it would be around this time where I'd literally 'test the waters' to see if it was warm enough to go in. What would end up happening is I'd jump right in and jump right out. Now my pool has become a skateboard park ha well not really but I think it'd work out that way.

JOB INTERVIEWS: Going to job interviews can always be nerve wrecking, especially when you dont know wha the other people are really thinking bout. Then afterwards the whole 'I should've said this and that' speel. Well this time I get to be on the another side of the table and interview people. Were hiring some blood in at the rectory and so I get to help decide and pick who I want. I've never sat in on a job interview so it should be a quite interesting. Hopefully they're going to be cool enough and easy going enough. Yeaaah cuz you juss need that kind of attitude working at the rectory...oh yeah and an agressive one too if I might add.

TAKE THE LEAD: Finally after 3 month of trying to watch that movie again, I was able to see it again! ha Praise God for $1 movie theatres that offer good movies to watch still! Got off work early and picked up elizabeth to go watch it. Its kinda funny cuz ever since I've known her, her and I have never really chilled before. It would always be in group sessions, so today was cool. The movie theatre wasnt exactly packed, but had a small amount of people there. The lights went on and I saw all these old ladies ha. Even though elizabeth didnt think the movie was all that, I still liked it. I juss like all teh dancing and music of it all. Ive been wanting to learn salsa for a while now. I had seen 24 hr fitness has a class I think, but now that I come to think of it, maybe I can ask my old spansih teacher to teach me ha. Salsa dancing is hot cuz it has all those hardcore moves. Im over all the geting buck, crunk, and all that jazz, I juss wanna salsa and maybe some ballroom and fox trot ha

SUICIDE SKIT: No matter how many times I've done the skit, I still cant seem to get all the cues memorized. For some reason Im always having to refer to the script. Were redoing the suicide skit for the youf rally this year, however adding an extra twist to it. The goal is to learn it by the end of next week so that way it's already done and out of the way. Ive been in the process of teaching it and it's going well for the most part. By the end of next week we should have it all set to go. One thing is fo sho, it doesnt matter how many times you've done it or seen it, it always brings back those same feelings.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: I must say as cory as that movie, it kinda gains on you. Im really almost tempted to buy the dvd. On the website it has the coreography for some of the dances. I was dancing al ong w/the video myself last nite n my room. The songs are pretty catchy and they look so fun doing all the stuff. So it makes you want to juss bust out and sing/dance to the msuic. Yeaah you should watch it yourself like I said it'll make yo uwant to get up off your seat and dance w/the music. Even my first graders know the lyrics to the songs. One of the kids goes to me, 'Mr. Jason I like the get your head in the game.' haha

ATTITUDE: Someone's attitude says a lot, you come in and people can already sometimes read whas wrong w/you. One thing that's interesting is taht sometimes no matter how much you think you left hs drama behind it always manages to still be there. You know the whole thing when people pout and are upset for no real apparent reason. Yeah, I'm sure we've all been there and done that before. ANyway the point is taht stuff get tiring real fast and easy. The expression is true, 'attitude is everything.'

BUSY WEEKEND: This month is going to be freakin crazy, especially this weekend. Im going to be constantly on the go w/one place after the other. Good thing thursday nite SRE is finally over and I dont have to worry about that anymore. Friday nite is work and work, then gotta go home get ready fo jackie's debut. Im glad its not that far juss around the corner from me. I need to find myself some white suspenders though. Hmm looks like it's time for another shopping trip! ha Oh I need to get my shirt and pants dry cleaned also for this weekend also maan! Saturday is jacob's baptism, followed by the 75th anniversary gala dinner. Praise God that he made sundays a day of rest...The fun never ends forrrrrrrrrrrreal!

BIFDAY SHOUT OUTS: BIrfday shout out going to jackie, my rectory coworker. I dont really know what to say bout jackie ha well oh well at any rate, she's having a debut on friday and may she continue to be blessed in all that she does. Man I remember wha it was like turning 18. I cant believe imma be 24 in a month. Next is birfday shout out going to my brotha rob. This guy has down a lot for me this past year, well not that he hasn't done a lot in the past ha. I can always count on this guy to help me out. Granted we haven't hung out as much as before, but we still keep our daily online convos and thas wha counts! haha Anyway my friends happy birfday to you this is your day!! In the words of NKOTB, 'age is juss a number so dont you stop having fun...'






"Whatever will be..."im done, im out God bless!