Lost Without You The Remix

"A lamp is not lighted by itself, so the human soul does not give light to itself but calls out to God: " You indeed, O Lord, give light to my lamp..."

COMMON THEME: I think the common theme I've been hearing for the past month is to count your blessings. So much to be grateful and thankful for its amazing all the things I've been blessed with. Fr. Johnny mentioned it again in his homily bout really counting your blessings. The whole beatitudes it's all a matter of 'attitude.' Not only counting your blessings and recognizing them but also sharing them w/others. Jesus is an example of this, coming to us being in poverty, where he could've came to us rich, but yet humbled himself showing us that were not of this world. Being example of Him and not of what the world teaches us. The challenge is asking ourselves, 'what can I share so that my blessings can be multiplied.'

LE CREPERIE: Sunday, I was taken to the Le Creperie w/rem and anna on sunday. We were suppose to go to roscoses cuz anna, who's from texas has never been there but ended up at le crepiere. Oh man the place was real good, I had this la madame that had this triple sandwhich with turkey, cheese, egg. tomatoe, and garlic fries. The best part however was the company, Rem's a real cool person to chill with. Real good conversation bout church stuff and it was one of those conversations that I haven't had w/someone in a long time. Afterwards, she took me to first street where they had a couple of them urban stores. They had some nice dunks there, but maan too expensive! Ended up settling for an LRG shirt, there's this jacket that I want but the past couple of places I've seen it, they only have a size large booo! Anyway, it was real nice afternoon, perfect weather, fantastic food, and juss great company!

COINCIDENCE: I went to mass yesterday, first time I went ot daily mass in a long time. In fact its the first time I went to daily mass at sPv in long time. The first reading was bout Cain and Abel how Cain was jealous of Abel and ended up killing his brother. Later on I realized that tonite's youf group meeting was based on siblings. Ha whatta coincidence! Despite Fr. Antonio's lack of english, his homily was real simple-we're all created in the image and likeness of God, and not to fill out hearts with evil as Cain did. Going to daily mass you get this sense of fulfillment-y0u come out feeling good. I'm thinking of making that my Lenten promise, to make myself physically and spiritually fit during the next 40 days.

HALF DAY: Saturday, I decided to take a half day at work. I've been working so much that I haven't really had a break. In fact the past week I had worked Sunday-Saturday-pretty exhausting. It was real nice being home early on Saturday had the chance to take a nap, to eat lunch, and juss chill. I don't even remember when was the last time I really had a Saturday to myself. Yet my assistant kept calling me, sometimes I wonder why I even hired him. He's been there since October you'd think he'd know what to do already. It can real frustrating sometimes, but I'm learning my lesson. Putting aside personal and business is sometime he still doesn't understand but then again he's young and it's his first real job.

BUSY WEEKEND: I have a real busy weekend ahead, I'm still debating what I'm planning to do for Saturday. I may take Saturday day off or juss go half day again. There's juss so much going on this month and yet I can't believe it's almost over already! Heif's engagement/housewarming party is on Saturday all the way out in lake elsinore. Kind of feel obligated to go cuz well it's my best friend. Yet there's also a funeral, I feel obligated to go to as well. I guess it all depends on what time my cousin is going to go to autocrave. Maybe I can end up doing all three after all. Autocrave is after all from 12pm-12am, I have a feeling I'm going to end up seeing a lot of people I know there.

THE ROOTS: Last Saturday I went to the roots, jill scott, lupe fiasco, and akon concert at the gibson amphitheater. Yeaaaha the concert was crackin! Good stuff! The Roots were crazzy, especially during their entrance they had this whole hmm like southern style jazz. I dont' really know any of their new stuff but it was cool. Akon seemed real short, he sounds the same way in person than he does when he sings. Lupe, well what can I say about him, you know he holds it down! I wasn't too into the whole Jill Scott, so I ended up sitting down for that one. Though the rest of the concert was tight! For some reason apart of me was expecting it to be real ghetto, I was wrong. It would've been d0pe if there was some surprise guest but there wasn't. I want to go to like a john legend concert that'd be freakin awesome! On the way out it started to rain! Good thing we got preferred parking otherwise we would've had a long way to walk!

LESSONS LEARNED: So Ive learned within the past 6 months, not to hire people you're close with to work with you. Especially if you have to be their boss, well okay maybe its okay as long as the person you're hiring is mature enough. Yeah, I thought having someone to work under me would be kinda cool...you know having my own personal assistant. Um Yeah no, not when you've known that person for a long time. Most of the time I get along pretty well w/my assistant but there are times we juss crash cuz he takes advantage of the system. Oh well, I guess juss pray that better times are ahead. We had this long convo bout jobs tonite, he's juss too young and inexperienced to understand how the work world works.

NEW GUY: There's this new guy who recently got hired as long term sub. He's pretty coo guy, juss finished his credential program at CSULB so now he's doing sub work. Most of the skool is filled with female teachers, and not that it's bad but its also nice to have someone of the same sex to talk to. Oh man last year I was the only male in the lounge so I'd end up hearing stories from giving birth to sex to wow juss about how a woman's body works. Yeah it's a real riot at work sometimes. That guy must be some like hardcore health person cuz wow I feel such a fatty compared to what he eats. Usually on Thursdays, we all go out to eat. Today we went to Mc Donalds and he got a salad, water, and a club chicken sandwhich. Eating across from him I felt like a fatty fatty ha Yeah so Im more motivated to go on that lenten diet. Maybe I will pick up that ll book after all ha. Oh yeah then last week, I made friends w/this older filipino man who juss got hired as an aide. Nice guy, he juss came from manila in May so I guess this is his second job. Yay for making new friends at work.

LOST: I rarely watch tv in the evening times cuz Im usually not at home. On top of that I dont have a tv in my room. My parents keeping asking if I want one, but I'd rather not. Then when I do watch tv, it's normally in the afternoon for a good two hours from 1-3pm to watch my soaps ha. Well within the past couple of months there are certain shows I've gotten into. For example the office I love that show! Then Smallville, I like watching that, I spent a whole saturday at work watching all of season 6. Well now I think I'm starting to get into watching Lost now. I dont know wha it is, but the past two episodes have kind of caught my attention. Now it's juss finding and making the time to catch up watching all season 1 and 2, along with the rest of season 3! Good thing there's these long weekends coming up! Its funny cuz we talk bout it at work sometimes, and errone's been offering me their season 1 and 2 dvds to watch.

DISORGANIZED WEDDING: There was this couple who had their rehearsal tonite inside the church...oh man whatta mess. I feel bad for the future groom cuz his future wife is a real snapper! Then they don't even have music for their wedding. Apparently the bride called a couple of people on the wedding musicians and singers list and they never got back to her then she was too busy to follow up w/them. Well first how do you plan to call people the week of your wedding and ask them to play for you. Then how do you get too busy to forget to plan these things out. So then during the practice, a lot of their wedding party seemed missing or wasn't exactly there. All I gotta say, is that on Saturday it's going to be on real interesting wedding. I'll be glad when that wedding is over cuz maaan she's called over and over and over again. On an interesting note, I was trying to book another wedding for this couple and as I was looking over the church calendar the next available day for a wedding isnt until June! How crazy is that! These weddings are getting booked fast!


Lent is coming up!

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