Almost Time!

"To be in charge of an apostolic undertaking means being ready to suffer everything, from everybody, with infinite charity..."

SUMMER TIME: WEre down to the last week of May already and soon June will be here! I like June cuz it means skools almost out and summer is almost here. Summertime has always been memorable from LSS' to staying out late to juss spending good times w/friends. I know Fred mentioned about the days when we'd do a mini casino nite at the moyas those were good times. I think what I enjoy most about summer now is that I actually have 'free time.' Where as before when I worked for the city I didnt have as much cuz of stupid special events and wha not. This summer is gonna be unforgettable, I juss hope I can tolerate to spend a whole two weeks w/people outside my family...ha

GREAT WEEKEND: This weekend was real productive. I think I was able to do something almost everyday. Friday came and I took Friday afternoon off at the Rectory and went to Oxford to see the Passion benefit concert. I was kinda sad cuz I really wanted to put on a WYD one but stupid jasmine trias had to screw errthang up. Oh well I guess it wasn't meant to be after all.

PASSION: After his show he called me up and I took him to albertacos(his favorite so cal joint) and we chilled there w/his friend and these guys from some protestant church he was performing at the next day. He was telling me how at the skool the kids kept coming and it seemed ever ending...ha I wonder if he gets weirded out traveling from place to place and meeting new faces almost errday. He was telling his friend about my involvement at Holy fam, and the weird thing one of the first thing she asked me was if I've been to SCRC before. Random question. She was totally coo though and real out going. Im hoping I can get him again for Oktoberfest this year I know he's going on tour w/leejay and gabe, soo maybe they can do a show for us.

BIRFDAY FOR EL: Thinking about this nite kinda irritates me cuz I wanted those damn pictures and a certain someone hasn't sent them to me like he said he was going to. Anyway, the nite was fun for the most part. The place was a little difficult to find and it was small. The music was poppin' though. Getting to know some of the people that nite was coo, it wasn't as awkward as I was anticipating it to be. Leslie was gone by the end of the nite and so was this random guy who apparently was celebrating his birfday and yaking out of his friend's car on the way out. Crazy thing bout saturday was I ran into a couple of people that I knew. First, I ran into sheila while standing in line. Small world cuz she was there for her friend's birtfday too, the girl who was celebrating her birfday is friends w/some other people I know...total myspace 6 degree separation type of thing ha. Secondly, this guy who I had in a class at cypress was there that was random, and lastly, some girl who went to skool and was friends w/my cousin. She said to me when she saw me, 'Hey, you're kristina's cousin! what are you doing here?' haa uhhh I dont know nothing else better to do then to drive to hollywood on a saturday nite?!

ST. CALISTUS: I went to confession sat. afternoon at St. Calistus in Garden Grove. Only my second time there but its a really nice church. Anyway, the priest who I went to confession to was really good. Sometimes I feel like when I go to confession I still kinda feel 'eehh' don't get me wrong I'm not down playing the sacrament but sometimes its like hot or cold. Your experience is really good or really bad. This priest that I went to was really good. Really gentle and you can juss feel God's love flowing through him. On top of that he was really young I think he's only been a priest for a couple of years. Im not suppose to go HF cuz I'm an employee there and I guess it's an Archdiocesan rule. So Ill go to sPv or St. I, however I think imma start going to see this priest now. The last time I went to confession at sPv w/Fr. Ted I came out feeling juss judged and I really dont think thas what the sacrament was made for.

SUNDAY: Went to mass as normal. The weather was so gloomy and cold. Felt as if Christmas was going ot be around the corner or something. EAch day it seems like the weather only gets worse and worse. Took a nice relaxing nap and saw the lakers loose to the spurs oh well. Got to chill w/rob at chili's for a little bit. We always have fun whenever we're together even if we piss each other off we still manage to make it fun. Geez, I remember the days when we'd be able to go to lunch at least twice a week before I went to work in the afternoon. We'd always do 1pm cuz then he'd be back to work at 2 and mkaes the rest of the afternoon faster for him.

MONDAY: Woke up at 10am and ran two miles, brought back memories of being in cross country and running errday. I always loved running corners cuz it was the best and easiest ha. Whenever we'd run to cresecent I'd cut and run through my neighborhood to get there faster haha one time someone rated me out for it too. Felt good waking up and running, the nice thing too is that it wasnt hot. Had lunch at a Chinese buffet w/my mom, lola, and aunt then went to lowes and came home ready for a nap. Watched Narnia and it was such a great movie. Some similarities to lord of the rings ha but it was still good. If you watch closely you can figure out the inspiring message bout being chosen despite how you may think you're unworthy God still calls you to be chosen.

BUSY WEEKEND: Busy weekend ahead...and then here comes June! Oh yeah, I'm not sure if I mentioned earlier I started a diet last week. Yup, I started to work out again and get back into shape. In fact Ive called my project 'spring into sexy for summer.' This is the first time where I havent started a diet then never followed through w/it. So far its been difficult but I'm determined to spring into sexy for summer!


Yay for a 4 day work week!

"Can you help me fix it, fix it, fix it..."im done, im out God bless!

The Value of Education...

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself..."



And the Governor wants to cut education?!


I love iMovie! EDIT: On a good note, the Governor decided not to get rid the old prop. 98 which meant that public schools get at least a minimum of public funding. Let's keep crossing our fingers that things get better in our school systems!

"We've got to work, work, work it out..."im done, im out God bless!

Becoming more

"Children should be loved for the love of Him who created them, and not for the love of self nor of the children..."

REGULAR: So I think blogging is coming back in style again. Rob said its like when boba was in and then it went out and now its coming back in again. Uhh okay, I guess so? Ha Anyway, I like how errrone is blogging more frequently again. I tend to forget to check people's blogs errday like I used to but its cool reading and seeing what errone is up to. Can I juss say that Im glad this week is over? It wasn't a long week but it was juss a busy week...I think as you wind down to the end of the skool year its becoming more and more busy and tiring. THinking about summer juss gets me tired already.

OPEN HOUSE: Thursday we had open house at my skool, and in fact it was the first open house that I've been to. The past 2 years it's always landed during Holy ThurSday, so I was never able to go. When I found out this year it didnt I was happy cuz I knew I could be there. I put together this cool slideshow of the all the year's activities using my imovie I tried to upload it to youtube but its 6 min. too long boo! It's really cool cuz I had the kids talk about some of their favorite memories of this year was. THe last half hour the teacher that I worked with had to leave so I was there by myself and I had parents come up and talk to me so it was cool experience. AFterwards, some of my friends from work went out to catch up at Fridays. This year has been so incredibly busy that we haven't been able to catch up were all in different grade levels so it was nice catching up and stuff.

COWORKER: So theres this coworker I don't really like too much at the skool. He's the BIA for my grade level and I guess Im juss irritated cuz he takes like a full hours lunch and I dont think he's subtracting the time on his time card. WEll I dont know for sure but im 98% sure he isnt. Were only suppose to take 1 15 min break and thas it. This guy takes his 15 min. during the recess on top of that sits in the lounge w/us during lunch and takes the full 45 min. lunch break! Agh!! PArt of it is the grade levels fault for not keepign him busy but Im sure he knows hes only suppose to take 1 15 min. I want to say something but I dont know how to say it and part of me wants to rat him out only cuz I really dont think its fair. The other part of me says forget about it cuz there's only 24 work days left and he wont be around next year cuz of the budget cuts. However it juss irritates me and I get irritated when I see him. Agh!

BUDGET CUTS: You know waht sucks is our stupid Govenor. It's really sad how education always seems to have struggle. Our skool district sucks too for laying off so many people at hte skool level and not at the district level. We have 3 assistant superindents for an elementary skool district of 9 freakin' skools! Goes to show you how much they care about the people who work under them. They're cutting all our health clerks to 3.5 hours a day and cutting out all the BIAs, IAs, as well as libraians. Now tell me if you think thas fair?! Whas sad ot me is that people dont value education. Where would you be w/o one? Its through education that a person learns how to read and write, add and subtract. All I ahve to say is where would you be w/o an education?

DISASTERS: Crazy stuff happening all across the world this week. What about that earthquake in china? Wow 10,000 lives gone juss like that. I remember when we had the northridge one back in 94 that was intense! My pool was juss swishing water left and right, my dogs couldnt stop barking ahh earthquakes are scary good thing we haven't had one in a long time. Then that cyclone last week...I was reading something bout how their govt. wasnt letting aide come in to their country to drop off food and water. How stupid is that...then the cali supreme court overturned the ban on gay marriages. Ellen announced yesterday on her show her and her gf were going ot get married...yikes!

STIMULUS CHECKS: So I had thought I was going to get mine last week...you know direct deposited into my account. Yeah not so much. I guess I should be expecting a stupid paper check in the mail at the end of next month oh why?! This year I didnt get a refund so obviously I didnt put my routing number on my return. However, I did have the IRS do an automatic withdrawl from my account so youd think they'd be able to do the direct deposit. I guess not, I even tried to call and the stupid phone lines are busy! I have to email my boss to see if she could find out since she did my taxes for me. Its so much easier having your taxes prepared then having to do them yourself ha

PAPAYA DANCE: I learned there was this new craze happening called the 'Papaya Dance' its really simple and its kinda funny too. In the PI they made the army do the dance. Kinda like when the 'ocho, ocho' was in or the 'spaghetti dance.' The funny thing is there's no words to the music for the dance. The music is pretty catchy too! Ha maybe I can learn it and teach it to the kids at work for PE or something thatd be funny!


Yay a 3 day weekend!

"Somewhere over the rainbow way up high..."im done, im out God bless!

Eveyday

"To be in charge of an apostolic undertaking means being ready to suffer everything, from everybody, with infinite charity..."

ANSWERED PRAYERS: I havent really shared this w/many people but ever since my mom was diagnosed w/cancer a part of me has been kinda hesitant about going on my trip this coming summer. Of course I knew I was going to have a great time and being able to juss travel, however I've been juss worried about my mom's condition and all 'what ifs' came traveling through my mind. Anyway, my mom told me yesterday that her doctor told her she had only 2 more chemo sessions left! Praise God! After that then she'll go through continuous heart check ups and then transition into radiation probably sometime in the summer time for I dont know how long. I was happy to hear she had only 2 sessions left which came as an answered prayer for me.

MATTHEW KELLY: Last week my kids were finishing up their state testing so it was the perfect opportunity to catch up on my reading. Last summer I started reading 'Rediscovering Catholicism' book but was never able to finish it until last week. At the end of the book it was real inspiring and had me reflect on the beginning of my catholic journey. Getting involved with church activities and finding about the church. I really recommend reading that book if you need a boost in your spiritual life. I also finished the 'Dream Manager' another book I bought in the fall but then never finished it cuz I had the other to finish still. That was a great book that I couldnt put down and was able to finish in 2 days. Total inspiration about making a list of dreams things you want to accomplish and making the effort to follow them.

PENTECOST: Last nite the youf put together a really awesome Pentecost liturgy. Part of the celebration was in preparation for WYD. The kids were lectors, Eucharistic ministers, music min., offertory, liturgical dancers, the whole mass they were active and part in. It was so nice to see them active and fully participating in the celebration of the Liturgy. The liturgies at holy family are so unique cuz they make it so parish oriented-encouraging errone to get involved in something. I remember back in the days when we'd have Pentecost Picnics in the park juss a fun day to get together in fellowship and fun.

AUTOMATIC SAVE: The nice thing bout the updated blogger system is that it auto saves your entries manually now. Back in the days I hated having to copy anc paste my entries to note juss in case blogger went down or something. Now my entries automatic save w/o worrying of loosing my whole entry. Ahh the updates of technology these days it seems like nothing lasts very long w/o something new coming out right after you buy it. THe world keeps getting faster and faster! I was in the OLF daycare and they had these ol skool walkmans in there. I had hated the ones where it didint have the 'rewind' button on it which meant in order to rewind you had to flip the tape over and fast forward to the end of the tape. After that then flip the tape back over again and put back in then play it. Or I remember when CD players first came out, it was the coolest thing but then they were all sensitive and it would skip all the time! Then Sony came out w/the anti-shock kind something like that where it wouldnt skip...fast forward years later now there are ipods and you dont ever have to worry about skipped music anymore!

QUICK NOTE: Ramiele was at Gerry's grill again tonite. Apparently she's been hitting up the filipino restaurants in the cerritos/artesia area. Either she really misses home cooked meals or her family must really like filipino restaurants. Man the funny thing is that I was hesitant to go to get yogurt tonite too, I guess I shouldnt of gone then I could've seen ramiele again! ha

YOGURT: Its amazing how this tart yogurt has become a trend, itll be interesting to see how long itll last. Im not too big a fan but Ill eat if I go. I think I prefer yogurtland over pinkberry cuz there's more of a option of what you want. So I went tonite and the line was juss out of control ha but it went by fast. Its amazing how many people are really into this kinda yogurt. They're suppose to be opening one by my work in artesia, who knows when thas opening up. The sign that says 'coming soon' has been posted up there forever. I called teh city and the planning department guy said he was going to have the project manager give me a call...yeah not so much it has yet to happen. There's also suppose to be one opening up in the mall, who knows when thas going to happen too. Maybe they'll open both at the same time. Brings back memories when Coldstone ice cream was thing 'in' kinda ice cream to eat...that didnt last too long.



Summer is juss around the corner...

"You cut me open and I keep bleeding..."im done, im out GOd bless!

Time Passing By...

"There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others..."

5 YEARS: I was asked today from my friend where do I see myself in 5 years. I couldnt even answer really fully answer the question. One thing is for sure I hope to be done w/skool by then. 5 years imma be freakin' 30! At work today since the kids have been doing state testing I started reading Matthew Kelly's 'Dream Manager' book. The storyline is pretty good so far. It made me start thinking of my own short term and long term dreams. Within 5 years I hope to be juss doing well over all. Good relationships w/family and friends, hopefully Ill still be able to keep in contact w/many of the friends I have now. These days errone is so busy that it's becoming more and more difficult to keep in touch w/anyone and errone. Reminiscing on the past is fun...looking back at old pictures of events that made an impact on your life. 5 years ago things were so different.

VALUE IT: Last week Fr. Vic was sharing how he went to this one kid's funeral at Forest Lawn last Friday. There were so many people he said he had never gone to a funeral where there was so many people there. The kid was only 19 years old and jumped off the freeway. He was the oldest in the family and had juss graduated hs last year. I guess he was taking drugs, 'shrooms' to be exact and it made him all crazy. Listening to Fr. Vic share made me sad cuz this guy had so much to live for yet threw it all away. Then w/my friend being diagnoses with 'Hodgkins Lympoma' really opens your eyes to how valuable life is. Having the best shoes or tech. items arent going to make an impact on someone's life but juss living life and enjoying will. I miss having juss having a really good convo w/a friend about life, faith, etc. Last Friday some of the older boys along w/some of the advisers went out to ahve a 'brothers nite' out. It brought back memories of when some of the 'uprm' boys would go for hometown or ha I remember that one nite we were in the chatroom forever. Online prayer meetings, chismiss sessions, trying to establish uprm council hahahaha ahhhhhhhhh those were the days.


Ha I remember Spring nites watching the laker game at the velascodome

"Like a star..."im done, im out God bless!

TGIF!

"Don't give in to discouragement. If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about people's opinions. Be obedient to truth. For with humble obedience, you will never be disturbed..."

FRIDAY: AHh Im so glad this work week is slowly coming to an end. Total kick back week in a sense with all the testing going on. I dont know these kids are finishing up their tests like its nothing. I think they're juss getting impatient and antsy, which is why their finishing so quickly. Heck I would too I guess. So there's certain things at work which to me are funny cuz it would only happen at the skool I work at. Well maybe not only but at a normal skool, I dont think it would happen. This 6th grader brings a condom to skool and shows it off like he's some kinda 'cool guy.' Yeah not so much right?! Of course thas so sad but the same time I guess you would juss have to know the kind of environment and area I work in.

REMINDERS: I was talking to a friend last nite and he was going through some problems w/his gf. I suggested to him that he pray about it and really see if this is the person's that he's meant to be with. I told him to pray the St. Therese novena cuz it's always helped me out regarding making certain decisions in life. When I got into work today there were rose petals on the ground. Normally there's really nothing on the ground but today there was rose petals. I started to laugh and smile to myself, thinking maan she must've known that I was talking about her. I guess it was a simple reminder of God's love and His presence.

CHECK UPS: I miss the old days of coming together and praying together before an LSS or maybe not even an LSS but juss the days of praying together. SH in a sense was my foundation of developing a prayer life. I got so use to praying w/these people that its different praying w/other people. Had dinner tonite w/some of the advisers and we were juss sharing which was nice. Errone is so busy and we've all been caught up w/WYD planning that it was nice to relax a little bit and share whas on errone's 'plate.' This week I started reading again and picked up my Rediscovering Catholicism book that I havent finished. That was my total inspiration for the day. I cant wait to finish it now.



Im so glad the weekend is here!

"Look into your heart and you'll find love, love, love..."im done, im out God bless!