Working the Numbers

"Let sacrifice, not conveience, be the measure of your geneorsity..."

AMAZING: Its amazing, how many people share the same birfday as me. There's a total of 5 different people who's birfday lands on July 5th. I remember when I was younger I thought I was the only one who really had a birfday. During the skool year I hated how my birfday was in the summer time cuz I couldn't get the cool attention and little prizes the teacher gave out. At least my mom didnt have to worry about making any type of treats for my class ha. More and more each other, I find out who I end up sharing my birfday with. Oh yeah, add dubya to that mix too, I wonder wha he did and got for his birfday, probably weapons of mass destruction ha!

THE 4th: I was laying in my bed on the 4th in the morning realizing how each year the holidays w/the fam gets slimmer and slimmer. When I was younger, the 4th of July was always celebrated at my house cuz I had the pool(which I miss using). I always looked forward to my family coming over and juss swimming, chillin, eating, etc. We would have like a picnic style bbq in the front yard and juss chill all day. Then in the evening we would do the fireworks in the street, my cousins would create their macguyver picolo petes and blow up the whole neighborhood. After all the fireworks were done, we'd watch the ones coming from knott's berry farm either at my grandparent's backyard or from my house. THen by that time, errone is tired and ready to go home. Now errthang is so different, no one really gets together, some of my cousins have families now, so they all kinda do their own thing. Its kinda sad, I miss being together.

REGULAR DAY: Being that I didnt want to spend the entire 4th of July stuck at home, I went to the brea mall and walked around. Actually, looking for something to buy for my birfday, but didnt really find a whole lot. Sleepy and yet feeling spontaneous I went to krikorian and watched click, by myself. I kinda like watching movies alone, it's not really that bad, in fact I even ate popcorn bymyself too while watching ha. The movie was great, so many lessons you can take away from it. Basically the importance of spending time w/family, it brings me to the whole thing bout apppreciating people and thanking them while you can cuz they may not be around tomorrow. I try and do my best to show my appreciation to people let them know they're appreciated for all taht they do.

OFF THE HOOK: Ah Im starting to feel relieved now knowing that I wont be working for stanton this summer. Monday it felt like I was working all over again, it was there from like 2 freakin 6pm! Then having to rush to holy fam for a meeting to plan the retreat. ANyway, so it looks like I wont be working there for hte summer as originally planned. At the time I went in asking to be contracted out, I wasn't sure financially how I would be. Though, after putting in some research and thought, I figured I was going to be aokay. It looks like the daycam is going to go through anyway w/13 kids signed up. Yeah, I realized working a whole 8-4pm job at stanton then going to holy fam would kill me. Good thing no contract was made yet or anything of that sort, it made things easier to get away.

GAMES GALORE: After spending time w/the fam for dinner, went to my cousins for more fun. Played guesstures and taboo w/the hfya crew. Im pretty good at taboo, I have an easier time explaining verbally then I do physically. Tons of meat, the korean bbq was real good, and Im real picky bout the way its cooked too. My aunt cooks some bomb korean bbq, its the best, so I always use that to compare. Good times though playing the different games, the only thing that was missing was a magic mic. ha

UP EARLY: I wanted to make the most out of my birfday, so I woke up early and went to mass at 8am at spc, man I haven't been there in a while. I have noticed they're nifty new signs w/the dress code. That whole dress code sign sucks, cuz it pushes people away from wanting to come to church. I understand the importance of dress modestly, but at the same time, let's not push people away from going to church. Anyway, so I did the whole daily mass thing, which felt nice. The one thing taht was missing was lighting the candle, but I did that later on. So after mass, went to the car wash and got myself a nice car wash. It feels nice to have such a clean car again, especially the matts too got washed.

VENICE: After the car wash came home and searched forever to find someone to go w/me to venice beach. I juss wanted to get away from the normal stuff over here and do something different. Finally found nico who was able to go w/me and so picked him up and drove down to venice. THe weather was nice, not real hot smooth with a breeze going. Walked aroung the boardwalk for a while, picked up something to eat. The sand was nice and smooth, so it felt good on your feet. Walking around and juss admiring all the different thigns going on, made me feel so appreciative of wha I have. This is the part taht sucked I got back 3 mins. late to the parking meeter and I got a freakin $35 ticket. Hijole!! freakin $35! WEll on the back home I stopped by a church, St. AUgusutine, it's real nice. A gothic type look on the outside, real nice on the inside. Stopped in there to pray for a little bit, then lit myself a candle before leaving.

DINNER: I dont think I've ever spent so much time at a buffet before. From 5-9pm oh man thas 4 hours! The people at VIP buffet are real kind and nice, thas wha helped make the nite easier. Being that I know people would be late, I ate slowly, ha or more less in small incriments so I dont get full fast. People came from earliest 5 all the way to freakin almost 9pm. They made me a small lemon pie/type of cake and I got to blow out the candle. I wish others were able to make it but seeing errone there put a smile on my face. It was a great birfday after all, praise God!






SUM IT ALL UP: Sum errthang up...23 myspace comments, 19 text messages, 4 blog dedications, 34 friends celebrating your day at VIP buffet...




















PRICELESS!

Yay for a great day!

"Lost without you..."im done, im out God bless!