Freestyle Rockin

"Let us faithfully transmit to posterity the example of virtue which we have received from our forefathers..."

BABIES: First off happy 1st birfday jacob! Soo today at Jacob's party I felt like I was in a room full of babies this afternoon, well yeah I pretty much was. Every where I turned there was a baby left then right, right then left. If not babies then someone who was pregnant with a baby! Ha Wow...anyway, so I was moved this afternoon. Well I was on the couch holding jenn and dave's baby ethan and all of a sudden he fell asleep in my arms, on my lap. It reminded me of that picture I've seen of baby falling asleep in the palm of God's hand. Looking at the kid I was juss filled with something indescribable. Then got me thinking how sad it is that people would want to dump these innocent beings, beings that God has created or want to get rid of them. In the end it made me realize how precious our life is, and how loving our God is. Then there was noreen's baby mikalyla who was soo cute, I got to hold her a little bit. She'd cry wanting to go back to noreen, then lean over as if she wanted to go back to me. Later on I was at Elizabeth's house and her niece sarah, such the happiest little baby. Didnt cry when I picked her up was soo chill. Her big blue eyes juss kept staring at me. Wow I love babies! ha

FORMAL: The youth ministry is putting on this spring formal dance next month. Its suppose to be masquerade ball at the quest learning center cafe. ALl proceeds will help support all our upcoming projects for the rest of the year. The tickets are only $35.00 woOo which will include meal and dancing. I kinda always wanted to go to a masquerade ball doing the whole dressing up and wearing masks. Anyway. if you're interested in going let me know! Yeah it's going to be fun so buy tickets! Help support the kids who will be the future leaders of the church.

LONG DAY: Man this day has been forever long. Mass at 11am, its nice to have the hook ups. There's this really nice lady who errweek saves my seat for abby and I. I always have to sit in the same pew each week, its juss my seat. You know Fr. Antony's homilies have been getting pretty long. Anyway stayed after till 1215pm mass to help promote with HFYA. Then went to the moyas where there was no parking for jacob's party. Good seeing everyone again, it was juss like old times, except now errone has kids. Left around 430ish to hit up donna's birfday shindig at her house. Which meant more food and good times. Played taboo and I looove that game, I think I bought that last year. Its pretty fun to play when you have a big group of people. Stayed at donna's till bout 6ish then left back to church for one loooooooong adviser meeting. Wow, I really juss want to take a couple of days off.

DEBUT: At the beginning of the month I had gone ot the one of the youf's debut at the knott's resort. Man the last time I was there was for my senior breakfast which was almost 7 years ago! Anyway, it was cute cuz in the beginning they did this whole waltz routine and they took it from the roger and hammerstine's cinderella. Though it was the brandy and palo something version. THen her modern was pretty hardcore too only cuz she had this one choreographer who is some type of professional. Yeah it was like stuff you'd see in a music video pretty awesome. Oh yeah then I had to lead the invocation since Fr. Vic couldn't make it...I was so nervous. The part that I hate bout debuts is the roses, candles. and treasures and stuff. That can be sooo long that its like aghhh move on already!

EXACTLY NEEDED: On Friday I was planning on going to watch dead silence with fred but that didnt end up working out. Though we got drinks at fridays and wow I was feelin pretty good after that. Talk bout knowing exactly wha to get after a long work week. There long beach long island is pretty good. Then the waitress messed up on the drink order and I ended up getting another long island for free! Two long islands after one long week of work was juss what I needed. Oh yeah on top of taht watching the intense laker game that went into over time with the lakers winning it!

SPRING CLEANING: I left work early Saturday afternoon which was nice. Came home and I cleaned my room. From dusty my desk and dresser to vacuuming and shinning the tiles on my floor. It was one of those 'accomplished' type of feelings, that feels good knowing you were productive. I need a bigger closet, there's soo much clothes in there that I cant even really move the hangers. One of those walk in closets would be nice! I got a rid of a bunch of old clothes to try and make room to move around stuff. Maybe one of these days Ill attempt to try and rearrange my entire closet. Spring break Id like to repaint my room and juss rearrange errthang. Yeah, thas whole other project in itself though!

REACHING OUT: Yesterday after mass one of the parishioners who's involved with the chinese catholic community approached me asking if I had received her message. I told her that I tried to return her call but she wasn't around so I left a message. She begins to tell me bout this guy whos about 4 years younger than myself, who has some type of disease. Anyway, apparently his mom is catholic, and I think his dad is protestant. So I guess recently he's been getting pulled a lot by these protestant friends of his. Yet, the mom wants him to get more involved in the church. I guess I've been asked to go over there and talk to the guy to see if I can talk him into getting involved with the church more. That's going to be on Thursday, soo pray for me that the Holy Spirit will touch and inspire this guy to want to get more involved with his faith.

REMAKES: I was going to say seems recently, but actually it's been happening forever now...remakes of old songs. The other day I was driving home and I was listening to remake to that song 'she's like the wind.' It was from dirty dancing. I was like wow they remade this song with a little rap part by lumidee in the beginning. Then last week I heard a remake to stevie b.'s old song 'spring love' with pitbull on it. Now a days it seems like there's either a remix for errsong that comes out or there's a remake for it.


Can it be friday already? I need to get back on the track of going to the gym again!

"See I really want to work this out, im tired of fighting..."im done, im out GOd bless!

Reminders...

"Forgiveness has the power to change everything..."

OVER DUE: Ive been wanting to blog for a while now but life has been busy. Actually I was halfway through an old entry I drafted, then deleted errthang. Ive realized that last month I had done tons of driving. From norco to lake elsinore to pomona and errwhurr else...I think thas the most driving I had one in my entire life! The drives kinda sucked but it had its benefits. Hmm what else is new, oh yes, Im caught up with lost. Took me about 3 weeks to catch up w/all 3 seasons but I managed to do it wooo! At work today I started watching that show 'daybreak' the one w/taye diggs and his whole dejavu thing. Yeah, I dont know its kinda twisted and weird, I dont think Im yet understanding errthang. THough I can't seem to get interested in it as I did with lost. Congress was real good last weekend, it was my first time actually participating in the whole entire conference. The speakers were dynamic! Had my annual rubios lenten luncheon w/the peebs last week, good times catching up. I figured I share some of my blessings this past year. Random I know, but bare with me.

FAMILY: You know ever since my lolo passed away in July, I really admire the strength of my lola. How she juss manages to pull it together and God has blessed her w/so much. I look at her and see so much love and courage. Obviously, its not easy to loose someone you've loved for over 60 years. The sad part is that too bad not errone sees it the way I do. She truly is an amazing women. A couple weeks ago we went to oceanside for my cousin's son;s 2nd birfday. Dang all my cousins are growing up. My other cousin is getting married in June-who gets married on Friday?! Yeah even though were a bit on the dysfunctional side, I do thank God that I have family.

FRIENDS: Life would be so dull w/o friends. Despite the fact that well some friends manage to hit errnerve in your body, its a good thing in a sense. Why? At least they know you that well. Heif is getting married in how many months? Oh man! Allen pulled through for me once again last week when he came doing 'read across america' for me at work. Yeah, even though he maybe late, at least I know he'll pull through for me. Elizabeth, I can always rely on her to vent to ha. I always tell her she's the only one who understands me ha inside joke. Rob and I talk errday online, yet don't really hang out too often. I love catch up sessions with friends, whether it's over a simple cup of coffee or over a meal. The best is when the random phone calls from friends come in juss to see whas new and how you're doing. Speaking of there's a couple of phone calls I need to make.

WORK PART I: The school year has had its ups and downs. Ive been struggling with adhering to admin. over the past couple of months. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and its like agh! Maybe cuz I get tired of routine cuz I feel there's not a whole of creativity happening. We're getting ready to start to take the state testing in a couple of months. Often times I come home and Im completely drained juss mentally. There are times when I juss want to bang my head against the wall! Yet, at the same time it does have its ups. On valentine's day I got a whole mess of cards and small little gifts. The thing that's funny is during christmas i got nothing! Then on valentine's day I got a grip of things. The other positive thing is the people I work with. My coworkers are juss awesome. Its those sessions inside the lounge that juss help make the day a little bit easier.

WORK PART II: Rectory life too has its ups and downs. There are days when Im juss totally not there. The calendar stuff really stresses me out. I didn't realize how big of a responsibility I had when I first took on the job. The nice thing is being supported by my boss who really makes the effort to be encouraging. Her warm, funny, open personality helps makes the job easier. Then too being able to help the parishioners out makes me feel good-be a service to them. Juss the other day one of the org. leaders brought me a bowl of palabok. She told me its juss a little something for all I do. Then another one told me he has something from me that he got from the PI. NOt that it's always necessary, but it nice to know and feel that you're appreciated for what you do. This morning one the chairperson of the finance council came up to and told me that I was doing a good job and a lot of people are happy with the work I'm doing. Praise God I said, really thas all I can say cuz it all of it is possible cuz God keeps me sane.

MINISTRY LIFE: I tell you I'm at church 7 days a week-not that it's bad or anything but maan! In between work and ministry life sometimes I feel like I have no life. Youth ministry takes up a lot of my time, however I love being able to share my faith with these young people. Its this passion to serve them and allow them to see Jesus for themselves. As crazy as things are already, with the WYD '08 project underway things are going to get a whole lot crazier. As for HFYA the group I started with, well they're doing great. The group is grown a lot in the past year and I see the fruits that have come out of it. On top of that I've met some really coo people through the group. With these new people too, its great to share w/my faith and experiences with them and watch them grow. God really knew what He was doing when He moved us all over to holy fam. Like I was told before, 'God never abandons us.'

CONFIRMATION: This year has been different cuz we hardly ever in the classroom. In the beginning of the year it was coo cuz we were actually teaching. Now its almost errweek were in the hall for some type of activity. Oh gosh, last week they had this old married couple give a talk on 'sexual morality' it couldn't of been more boring. Talk bout reading things verbatim straight from the book, I could've died! As for the class itself its great. The kids are a lot more chill then they were last year. This year it seems like there's more girls than guys, so maybe thas why. On top of that half of them I've had before or had their siblings in my class prior. Im in the process of discerning whether to go back for next year. With the way things are going right now, I highly doubt Im going to come back. Yeah, I know I always say that erryear, but this time Im forreals I may go into early retirement. ha Last tues. I ended up doing this one on one counseling session for one of my old students. In fact I've had numerous sessions w/this kid, and I was listening to him juss share and talk I was in awe on how mature he's gotten. The crazy part is he's graduating HS in a couple of months and I've known this kid since he was in 7th grade.

UPDATED: Thas pretty much a jist of whas been going on in the past month. Nothing really 'new' and 'exciting' but its cool. God always manages to find something interesting and fun to come up. Oh yeah I forgot to add I have pay like $700 something in taxes this year, aint that a b*tch!



Till next time...

"Create a place for my own world..."im done, im out God bless!