okay.. as promised.. here's what happened for the past few weeks.. i hope you didn't miss me too much. ;)

- august 3rd and 4th -
i don't really remember much of what happened this weekend... (man.. i must be getting old).. or maybe nothing too important happened. i know on saturday i drove to brea for joey's birthday dinner. a bunch of his friends from cal po po getting him drunk at this silly restaurant, bobby mcgee's, where they embarass you worse than they do at friday's. but it was fun. sunday.. i just slept and packed.. i think that was it. i didn't sleep at all that night cuz our flight was at 7am, so we left at 5.. so i just packed and stayed up cuz i didn't think i'd be able to wake up.

- august 5th - 9th -
wow... if i blog in clusters of days.. maybe it won't take as long as i thought. hmm.. nevermind.. that's not going to work.

- august 5th -
my dad drove sakura and i to the airport, tired as all hell we checked in and waited in the long ass security line. it went all the way to the other terminal.. jeebus. but i guess it's necessary.. although lines like that don't really prevent what happened a few months ago. but i don't see much of a difference besides the fact that they make a few people take off their shoes. i don't know why the lines are SO much longer.. i guess they just take a longer look at your bags and such, and well check your id's.. i guess that's pretty time consuming. anyways.. we ate mcdonald's (yum.. their hashbrowns are the best) and then got to the gate right as they began boarding. yay us. got on the plane, and tried to sleep as much as possible. in between us eating chocolate, laughing and pushing each other around, we just slept.. or tried to. got to orlando in the afternoon... greeted by it's hot and sticky humid weather.. blah... got picked up by some lssp people - pic, kathleen, ricky.. yada yada yada. sakura and I walked around kissimmee (what a cute name for a city!!), ate lunch at the Sizzler.. yum.. and chilled in the hotel room, laughed, screamed. Watched Fear Factor and I made Sakura do our own version of Fear Factor jumping from bed to bed to prove that she was a triple jumper in high school. hahaha.. we were rolling around on the floor.. the people next to us must have thought we were crazy. tee hee. had the LSSP orientation that night.. haha.. our teams were organized by rooms.. and our team had 7/8's cal nev ha people.. so much for meeting new members. :P It was fun though, our room was the UCSD girls and we were next to Carrie and the CSULB girls and Lauren and we opened the connecting door.. it was a big ol slumber party.

- august 6th, 7th, 8th -
the kids came, we tried to make them go through drills... but they just wanted to play. and they were better than most of us.. hahaha but it was fun. we braved the heat with lots of water and sunblock and breaks. i got to cook spaghetti on tuesday night.. yum. On wednesday, the kids came again... but I was feeling kind of sick, so I abandoned the team.. (sorry!) and went to go rest.. but later got dragged out to buy food and cook, since i'm such a whiz in the kitchen. hahahah. bought and cooked hot dogs for 140 people.. man the people at walmart thought we were insane.. cleaned up, and then went right back to walmart to shop for dinner. cooked jambalaya (i'm being cultured.. whoo hoo) and cleaned up after that as well. That night in our room as we (or maybe just me and Sakura) worked diligently on the team headbands (go FIRE!) I also played Big Brother 3 nazi. damn Ryan who likes to talk while I'm watching my tv.. hung out in the cnh boy's room doing some quality old school cal nev ha bonding time... we're nuts. THURSDAY!! was tournament day!! yay! our super studly team (me, sakura, kieu, tanya, ryan skophammer, chris anderson, jackie (from nj) and dan schroeder (from az)) - and our awesome kids (cc, kinisha, johnelle and kevin (who flirted with sakura)).. we rocked.. haha.. i sprained my ankle in the first game and hobbled around being a gimpy cheerleader. the fourth and last game.. we played a team we didn't like too much and vowed to beat.. so I played hurt ankle and all (joey.. you should be proud). until i got tripped and knocked over by a big defender... and hailes caught that moment on his digital camera.. haha stupid hailes and his camera.. grr.. anyways.. we still won.. so we rock. :) said goodbye to the kids.. people cried.. and then we chilled. a big group of us ordered pizza and had a pool party at the hotel. megan was kind enough to order and pick up all the stuff (whoo hoo) and we had tons of leftovers. once again ... played big brother nazi that night :) and then got forced to go clubbing at Pleasure Island. yes.. forced.. by carrie. :P but it was all good.. so pic, maggie, megan, carrie, sakura and i headed off to orlando's downtown disney and off to Pleasure Island. it's 8 clubs for $20 although we only went to one... met up with nicole, manny, armando and alice and danced the night away. it's like tj, but no hoochie girls taking off their clothes. (good)... after visiting some and getting lost some.. we finally got home and slept.

- august 9th -
DISNEYWORLD!!!! YAAAAAAY!! sakura and i dragged our lazy out-late-clubbin butts outta bed and hopped on the ghetto shuttle to disneyworld. went to the magic kingdow (which is like disneyland).. LOVED IT...we ran all around the park hitting the big stuff like we were five years old. if my ankle wasn't sprained i bet we would have skipped. we contemplated getting one of those electric wheelchairs for me.. hahah.. maybe we wouldn't have to wait in any lines.. but i decided not too cuz i didn't want to look like a dork. after the fun and shopping and eating, we went to Epcot. we were really tired so we just shopped and looked around a little bit.. and took lots of photos of course. then met megan, kieu, ryan, hailes, lauren and tanya at this moroccan restaurant where hailes belly danced!! hahahahaha watched the illuminations show, and then sakura and i rushed off hoping the shuttle didn't leave us.. we got there right when it was gettting ready to go. yay. went back and packed to get ready for our full day ahead of us the next day...

- august 10th -
MORE DISNEYWORLD!! whoo hoo. we finished off Epcot and did MGM in record time. took a massive amount of pictures. sakura and i got obsessed with those imprinted pennies (where they smush the penny and make a design) i'm mad.. in the whole tour of the nations.. they had a penny for each country.. but NO China didn't have a penny.. and Japan's was in Morocco.. WHAT THE HECK.. man.. good thing my sister wasn't there.. she would have made all asians ban disneyworld for life. anyways.. ran around all the parks like maniacs trying to collect pennies.. went back to our new hotel (the convention hotel) and checked in... figured out we were in tower frikkin seven.. the furthest one out.. in the boonies. it was such a far far far walk. thank god nicole from wum gave us a ride as we collapsed on her doorstep. although.. the first person i saw at ICON was the one and only Pete Holiday.. *i'm so lucky* so yeah.. went to our fantabulous 8 person suite... showered, rested, trekked back to the convention center for opening session. later did candidate stuff, blah blah blah.

- august 11th -
workshops, caucusing - walked with manny.. which is an interesting side to be on.. rather than inside the caucus rooms.. there's a lot that goes on outside that you wouldn't think about. nothing really important, just different, governor's gala, district awards - congrats carrie! - and then the desert reception and then the dance and then hugs and kisses party in the ohio suite. fun fun fun... i sat around and talked to mary and justin during the night and met some cute boys from t-o and carolinas (yes.. those carolinas boys again.. hahah)

- august 12th -
house of delegates, sightseeing time (where i just stayed in a slept.. yah.. party pooper i know), then caucusing.. it was a busy night. there were a bunch of parties that night.. walked around a few, just kind of stayed in. oh i remember what i did.. i cleaned the suite and set up for ryan's "surprise" party (you're welcome ryan).. hung out a little bit, and then just kind of chilled. slept with nicole and joe that night (ooh la la) cuz sean came and slept with the ucsd girls, and i didn't want to sleep on the sofabed or with ryan (and be the homewrecker again this year) :P it's funny our suite was more of the district hang out suite... which is ironic because it was so far.. it would have made more sense to congregate in tower 5.. but us foolios are lazy and made everyone walk their asses out here. hahah.

- august 13th -
the last "real" day of icon. hmm.. in the morning we had more awards.. ucsd won 1st place in all of inter-frikkin-national for scrapbook.. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!! sakura was weeping a little.. it was so cute. we were so excited and almost ran cindy over when we went up on stage. i'm sure i was smiling like an idiot. and third place in newsletter .. haha.. we got all excited and jumped up and down.. and then sat back down. i didn't realize that i was supposed to go up and get the award.. haha.. so i ran up there all retardedly. had another house of delegates.. congrats carrie! now she's the new international vp.. hahah.. i tried to make the same fuss as i did with pete.. but carrie will hit me.. hahahaha i can see it in her eyes. that afternoon there was a wicked thunderstorm that was fun to watch. sakura and i got in the jacuzzi in our suite (awesome!) and i screamed because this guy i knew josh was on elimidate. haahahah i knew he was on it, but i never thought i was going to see it, and i did.. and it was the best. hahaah. did the whole farewell session thing.. cnh got distinguished district for last year WHOO HOO!! man.. we did good. last years district board ran up while the district chanted (even when the other district was getting their award) we're such annoying brats... hahahhha. it was exciting though to be part of it all. watched carrie get installed and they announced the winners for trustees and then it was time for the last dance. hahahah.. there was food .. meatballs and nachos and good healthy stuff like that.. so naturally sakura, hailes and i sat outside and ate while everyone else was dancing. watched carrie whore it up on the dance floor, as well as other people.. I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING! dissapointed when i saw the cute boy that i had my eye on dance with some other hoochie... hahaha. that night did laundry, packed, gave Pete his "Holiday" candles from the Gap (i'm the best present giver), swam a little, people came over... blah blah blah. i don't know if it was because of my ankle, because we were in tower 7, the humidity.. but i wasn't all over the place like usual.. which is good and bad. but i didn't talk to as many people as i wanted ... just hung out with the roomies.. which isn't bad. but i thought i would talk to mary or pete or nick more.. i mean.. these people were all busy (especially pete and the ladies.. hahaha) .. but still but whatevs.. it was enjoyable.. and i just lived vicariously through tanya anyways. :)

- august 14th -
sad.. time to go home, packed up our stuff, did some last minute souvenir shopping, got a taxi and ryan, kieu, sakura, tanya, hailes and i loaded up for the airport. everyone except kieu was on the same flight.. hahah.. so the 5 of us got those seats facing each other.. slept on top of each other, braved the annoying drunk people next to us, and held each others hands as we were startled by the sudden dip the plane took in turbulence. ryan left us in phoenix, and us lax'ers headed up to the front, slept some more and gushed about icon some more (and how we won first place in scrapbook.. guess who i sat next to.. :P) got to the airport, my dad, tanya's parents, hailes' family and jimmy were all there. i got my luggage went home and slept. whoo..

there it is.. finally. it seemed really quick, but it was fun.. i was ready to go home by the end of it. and my ankle is still sore some, my bags are still only half unpacked and our 8 rolls of film have been developed.. i had a good time at icon.. :)

hmm.. the rest of my life? hahah.. went back to my internship. i'm SO mad... my future husband Eli Swanson came in while i was at ICON.. (that's it!! i'm quitting circle k!!) he came in TWICE.. and i wasn't there.. damn it! according to Tosha, he looked goooood, and just my luck, he's not coming in anymore because he's quitting acting and going to medical school... damn damn damn!!! ugh... i think i'm going to go to columbia med next year. :P there goes my one chance at true happiness. hahaha.. i still can get his cell phone number and address! jk. (well not really.. but i don't have the guts to do that.. plus i don't want to go to jail for actually being a stalker).. i'll just stay slightly obsessed. hmm.. went to benji's family's karaoke party. it was interesting.. and very benji. hahah.. if you know benji, you know what i mean. saw jason mraz last thursday.. he was AMAZING as always. there was this kick ass 17 year old saxophone guy who played with Jason and Toca and Ian.. it was great. annie came and went up during the say anything game and rocked everyone's world. and beth came and now is just as in love with jason mraz. she was all "can he play at my wedding?" ahahhahaha we went to mel's diner afterwards, and i figured out that one time i drove in fatty traffic for 2 hours to see howie day after work at the virgin megastore on sunset.. i drove in a circle going the wrong way! went down the 101s to the 110s and then back up the 405n to get there... kind of like a triangle.. i went down and up the two diagonal sides instead of straight across. yes yes yes.. i'm a horrible person with directions.. i know. :P anyways.. not much since then.. chillin.. i started working at the gap today.. but most of my friends quit so it's not as fun. boo. but at least i'm getting paid. interning, working, not much else.. ooh.. tomorrow there's a big brother on! whoo hoo. and i'm tired now.. babbled too much.. but i applaud you for reading all the way to the end if you have. you are a marathon blogger reader ... hi-five!