so i've been in this really weird mood today. i don't know if it's because i woke up at 4pm today or what.. but i'm just really off. i woke up rather late today, had a simple lunch and turned on the computer for some good 'ol job hunting. i screened my phone calls and am in this very low key mood. and not wanting to deal with lots of drama or anything down.. but i guess that's how people are all the time. but i feel like i'm in this passive place, where i'm not really myself..it's weird i can't really explain- but as i sit here at 3:30am chatting with manny about money.. i'm hoping by the time i finish this blog i'll be ready for bed. i really screwed up my sleeping schedule.. and i think the past few days have made me quite exhausted.. too much for my own good. i'm almost a little glad my oakland trip fell through because then i can just chillax and study for my cbest. which by the way i have found that my reading comprehension is atrocious.. it was always bad.. but never this bad!! i have lots of studying to do. i guess all that not reading in college was detrimental. i am not looking forward to this test.. i hate the fact that my mom is making me take it. another 4 hours of standardized testing. i thought i was done with those forever. 4 hours of my life i won't be able to get back. oh well.. 4 hours to make my mom happy, wouldn't it be funny if i didn't pass? actually it would be pretty sucky, because then it would prove that college made me stupider. (yes i know that's not a real word).

my interview was okay... it was kind of weird..and i felt like i was getting myself into some sort of pyramid/2by2/get your friends to come to bars so we can make money kind of thing. i mean.. it was legit i suppose, if i got the full time job there is benefits and what not. but the hoops i had to jump through are a bit fishy. but maybe i'll still try it anyways... and who knows.. i might like it. i just wonder how i'll explain this "interview" to my parents. afterwards i milled around hollywood, visited my old internship, shopped at amoeba music.. which is a pretty cool place. lots of cool things and i got stand by me and swing kids on tape and the maroon5 cd for pretty cheap. later i waited for a long time for the pepsi smash tv taping because they wouldn't let me get tickets until vivian got there, but it was all good because we got on the floor anyways. and it kind of sucks because they turned away like 125 people, some of which got there way before us. sorry kids.

pepsi smash was pretty cool. a little mini concert. i liked most of the artists.. but if they had switched staind with simple plan, and pharell with michelle branch, i would have been a happy camper. but it was good nonetheless, and super empty due to the fire marshall nazi who wouldn't let them put the other 125 in there. sucky. jason mraz was excellent, maroon5 was good, mya was more enjoyable that i thought. but their sound was weird and i couldn't always hear what was going on. it was pretty good though.. so thanks vivian for letting me tag along. it was good because i got really close to the stage and it was like being at a big rock show with a cool stage and big lights without being smushed by all the crazy fans. although i am partially deaf in my ears by the girl screaming behind me. i wanted to smack her.

today i slept and chilled. and went to dinner with my parents. we eat out a lot more than we used to than when i was little. i just noticed that. it's not that we have more money.. i guess my parents have just gotten used to being alone.. and its better to just go out than eat leftovers all the time. i had korean bbq and tofu.. it was yummy. all topped by the melon flavored gum.. i love that gum.

i came home and started to do some stuff on the computer.. and 6 hours later.. here i am. with nothing really accomplished. where did all the time go? i've become quite lame and boring and very lazy. even moreso that before.. and i thought it wasn't possible. maybe i should just go get that job at the gap or friday's.. to get me off my ass. but there are so many things that i need to do that haven't been done. like write that letter to my sheisty apartment complex, get new eyeglasses, pick up my contacts, clean my room, clean the house, study for my cbest. yikes.. so many things to do, so much time, and yet i don't.. i'm horrible,

it was a little scary earlier with the whole thunderstorm and all. the indiana weather followed us home i guess.

today i hung out with my daddy cuz he had today off. he cooked lunch, and we lounged around, while i did the usual soap opera watching. then we went out to run errands! i got a new cell phone! whoo hoo.. it's purrrtty. but i do miss my old one.. i'm a sucker for familiarity. (and i feel bad for inanimate objects.. but i still love you old cell phone!) anyhow.. i got the last of my chicago pictures back and developed, although i'm still missing my roll from district convention.. weird. cute pictures :) then i came home and played with my phone all afternoon/night. programming phone numbers, playing with ring tones, and colors... ooohhh. yes.. i'm a geek. but now no one will see my "airtouch" cell phone and say "dang.. your phone's so huge" hah. aww.. i miss my old cell. hah. tonight it rained so hard!! and there was lightning and thunder.. i thought we might almost have a power outage. while i was driving back from borrowing sakura's cbest book the street lights went out.. it was strange. and there there was this bright flash of light and thunder lounder than i've ever heard it before. it was way scary. but it seems to be gone for now. i can sleep safely :)

i have my interview tomorrow (but thanks for calling to wish me good luck today carrie!) i hope your fingers are still crossed. but it's this party promotions place.. haha.. so then you all have to come if i get the job :P partying every night here i come.. oh i am sure my parents will love this job.

hangin' out at hooters

this weekend was interesting. but it was fun. on friday i got ready for my interview to get a phone call to tell me that it was postponed.. soo... i did some random stuff and waited for carrie to come over. fighting the la traffic, we finally got on the road about 6:30-ish? and drove down to sd. speeding all the way down the toll road and past the accident we arrived at Twiggs for Aspasia Aid CD release party just in time to catch the end of pete's show. yay!! it was good times.. then watched lisa sanders, then lindsey troy and then Bushwalla (and crew). it was good times and i got to see fun friends :) i gave philly her presents, chatted with a few people and carrie and i headed out to get some food because i had only a bowl of cereal that day. after the big debate of friday's or hooters we decided (more like carrie made me decide) it'd be more convinient to visit the old stomping grounds of la jolla friday's. too bad none of my favorite waiters are there .. damn. we ate and then booked it home so that i didn't turn into a frog.

the next day woke up fairly early to go look at apartments with carrie. i was really indecisive about what i was going to do.. as far as move out or not. so we looked at singles, 1 bdrm and 2 bdrms. man.. the real world is expensive.. especially if you don't want to live in a not-so-nice area. crazyness. laters we met up with kathy hahahaha and sakura for wings at hooters. yum. finally satisfied that craving carrie had (since icon.. what a weirdo). but it was a good time and we saw some crazy cool bucket drummer street performers. it was a good time. i love my girls :) i'll only miss our crazy board meetings because i'll miss hanging out with sakura and kathy so much and tanya and hanan and carli and everyone else of course. now that we're all split apart. our lovely all girl board.. we rule... *sigh* anyhow.. kathy is way funny and still fall asleep as always. after wards i wanted to get dessert at chili's and carrie wanted chocolate and i swore to her that chili's had the best chocolate dessert. everyone laughed and made fun of me for wanting to go to another restaurant right after we just finished dinner. but when we sat down and got the dessert.. bam.. we finished that dessert in like under a minute. we cleaned the plate too.. we were in chili's for a total of 8 minutes. 4 girls and a plate of chocolate and ice cream. no contest. but anyways.. we also found this guys organizer on the ground and picked it up and took it so we could return it to him cuz we're good samaritans like that. after a handy search on google we found out that he was semi-famous and was on mtv's undressed. awwww yea :) hahaha. i have a new famous friend. hahaha. i

sunday early morning the hunt for carrie's apartment was on yet again. so i officially apologize to carrie for the umpteenth time for flaking out on her as a roomie. i don't think i'm quite ready for the real world yet and it hit me too hard. i'm sorry :( but carrie just might be moving in with me!! hahahahaha. either that or nicole's backyard. i guess nicole's house is a refuge for all lost souls.. and foreigners. haha. so we searched around and found some cheap places in shady neighborhoods, this really cute way expensive place in redondo, and a place we thought was okay on melrose but wasn't in the greatest of neighborhoods. yikes. met up with nicole, carlene and sonny at hollywood and highlands to shop, eat, talk. (what else do we do? oh that's right.. not much) i also played phone tag with my new famous friend and he came to cpk where we were eating to come get his organizer. i, of course, never admitted to looking him up or knowing he's famous (hahah) and he offered me $20 for being a "god-send and so sweet and honest" aww. i gracefully refused (although my wallet is empty) because i dunno.. karma right? anyhow.. ate dinner at cpk where we had multiple waiters.. the manager served us and then this other dude from guadalajara (which nicole thought was his last name) who was always 5 minutes in the wrong time. he would ask us if we wanted to order after we just did and ask us if were waiting for the dessert tray when we were just waiting for our food. and then rushed to the kitchen to see what was going on. it was bizarre. but i'm glad to know that he cared :) afterwards the drunkard aka carrie wanted to get something to drink (after her stressful apartment hunting) and so we went to the lucky strike bowling which is this really cool trendy (expensive) bowling/bar/dining place. it's really neat and cool.. a little pricey, but a fun place to just hang out with nice furniture :) it was a pretty good weekend. i didn't spend much at home.. i'm sorry parents :( but we'll have lots of fun quality bonding/fighting time now that i'm not moving out. and maybe they'll even gain another daughter. but i'm sure with my luck they'll cast me aside and love carrie. that's the way it always is. just like those birthday parties they threw for joey.

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no one can take this, no one can break this
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i wanna take you away
in my rocketship to outerspace.

dammit.. i didn't want to post about my interviews because i didn't want to jinx them!! and then i thought i shouldn't be so silly, so i blogged. and then my interview got postponed!! argh!! we'd better have fun tonight.

so it's a little past 4am and i just finished reading harry potter order of the phoenix. yea i know.. i'm a weirdo. i haven't read this much since... the babysitter's club i think. too bad they can't make textbooks this interesting. but anyways.. after nicole's post (way back when) i was convinced that i thought i knew who died.. but i guess not. it's still pretty sad though. and too bad they had to make the asian girl a bitch.. but whatever. now i need something new to read.. but i'm glad i finished it.. i just had to, it was killing me. it was so suspenseful too.. ugh.. i'm such a nerd.

anyhow.. on wednesday i went to the tony lucca show with ann at hotel cafe. ahh.. memories. i ran into seth from edmonds when i walked by to go see if susan was there, and it was good chatting with him. some of the people i had worked with had gotten laid off, who knows what can happen in a year huh? but it was good chatting with him. went back to the tony lucca show, 3 other groups/guys perform before him. i really liked the first group- ben shore (?).. and everyone else was pretty good, tony said something about his listening party and how JC was going to be here. *grumble* and it was just a night of enjoyable music. i sat way up in front on the floor, which made me quite self-concious... but i'm sure no one noticed me, as usual. i can't quite say that i felt the same way last year at the jason mraz hotel cafe show, and that it wasn't quite as good. maybe i'm just too biased.. or maybe my expectations were too high. i was also really tired and had trouble paying attention.. so maybe that too.. i don't know. my attention span has been getting effectively shorter though. hmm...

the job search is bumping along- at a mediocre pace. but i guess i can't really expect too much.. either because i'm too picky, not marketable enough or the economy sucks. and i'm lazy. but i had an interview on wednesday for a part time paid internship. it was an office set up in an apartment building (which i'm learning is more and more common i guess.. for smaller places) and the lady made me wait half an hour.. it just kind of made me not so excited. but i had the interview, and although i think i did okay, i probably didn't seem as excited as i should have been. and while i didn't need to outright lie, it wouldn't have hurt to fake it. and then if i got it, i could always turn it down later. but i can't do anything abou tit now, so i'll just have to wait and see if she calls. i have another interview tomorrow/today (friday) which is also an office set up in a residence as well i suppose. interesting. it's like a party/event planning/promotions place.. but it's a full time job. of what i'm not exactly sure. but i guess we'll find out.. it seems interesting and alright. i just don't know why they would really want to promote events 5 nights a week. isn't that a little much? but whatever... i'm just going to have to remember to fake it. smile and nod jean. smile and nod. but cross your fingers and wish me good luck. having a real job would be good.. even if it wasn't the most ideal one at first right?

and what blog of mine wouldn't be complete without my usual whining. not that i am really whining, but just something that i was thinking about. that everyone wants to be part of something. but usually most people are part of something or friends with someone. but it always seems like it's not good enough and they want to be part of whatever else someone else is in, or be friends with more than just their friends. i always had a big problem with this in middle school, and i wonder if its just me and my crazy problems, or do other people want this too. i mean.. i guess it's part of that whole "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" or something like that. or maybe it's just the longing and desire to be liked/loved/belong. and you always want to be part of something that you're not..but no one can ever be part of everything, but yet you always wish you were. you eventually must choose, and then live a life of "what-ifs" but maybe some people (me) tend to dwell on it more than others, and that's where the difference lies. i don't know. i think about weird things late at night.

the past weekend has been alright. more of the relatives hanging out, and more of the eating out. saturday i was all set to clean and maybe be productive, but carrie called and said she was at del amo, so i went to go meet her. she's such a bad influence!! we ate, and shopped a little, and i went to go return the shirt i bought and we had some good "eye candy" as carrie called it with the nordstrom's salesboys. mmm. yummy. afterwards we went to the cheesecake factory for appetizers and dessert for dinner and chatted some more. it was good times. yet again she cheered me up for a bit. thanks again :) i swear.. if i was a lesbian i'd date her... she's pretty much my girlfriend already. oops.. i mean sugar mama.

sunday i was going to stay home and clean, but we went out to dim sum with my cousins and aunt and uncle. it was yummy as well, but i was feeling pretty not-hungry. maybe it was my too tight pants. but hey.. afterwards sherry, joan and i did a little shopping and then went to joan's where we hung out and watched tv and the beginning of just married. we just hung out for a little bit and then met up with sherry's parents for dinner at their hotel. and then sherry left for her flight and joan took me home. eric also left for taiwan a little later that night. i got in a few hours of quite solitude where i sent off a few resumes. and i also got to start my new harry potter book that i had bought earlier that day. oh yah. i'm excited ..

today i was maybe going to do some more job hunting but vicky (my cousin) called me and so i went with her and her husband edwin to meet up with joan and jeff for lunch. then we hung out at joan's place, where i watched some more tv and tivo.. :) and then my dad and mom came over later to make dumplings (yummm) for vicky and edwin's last dinner in la. it was good times, and i just got to chill and hang out and watch tv, without being yelled at. :) but i also helped cook dinner and my dad kept telling me "do this.. assistant" "come on trainee" it was funny. but i'm pretty beat now, so bed is coming soon.

but lately i have been feeling down a little bit. because so many times i feel like i'm stuck and i'm going nowhere. this mostly refers to my lack of money and job hunt replies. it's not that i don't like to live at home.. but there are time when i just can't stand it. and my mother tries to blame it on me.. like she said that if i can't live with her and her asking me to "tone it down" and me being happy... then she can't really help it. but i think that it's worse than she makes it out to be.. or just that our perceptions of what "reasonable" is. i just maybe really can't stand being restrained like i'm in middle school again now that i've had the four years of freedom. and i don't need to be a wild child and go out to bars, and come home drunk with a handful of guys or anything. but i just hate to be lectured everytime i want to go out with my friends or when i talk on the phone for long periods of times or late at night. or even when i get yelled at when i go to bed late or stay in bed until 1. it's not just little things, but the times when we fight, it just makes me a very horrible person, someone i don't want to be. but yea.. but it's hard because i don't have money saved up, don't have a job and my potential roommate needs to move soon. it's a big dilemma. so to make a long story short, i need a job. badly.

ugh.. i am so full... i have been eating way too much food for the past few days.. and it's all catching up to me... my pants are not going to like me this weekend. and it's too hot to be gaining more layers of warmth!!! (aka... weight)

wow.. i can't believe tomorrow is friday.. what have i been doing all week? nothing really. monday and tuesday i just kind of sat around, doing what i usually do. my daddy was off on monday so we took my car in and then went to lunch and then i hung out while he went to the dentist. tuesday i couldn't run any of the errands that i wanted to do because i had no car... including bring manny lunch as he ims me "bring me food wench" that's charming isn't it? but i got my car and then ran a few errands with my dad and went off to costco to order a bday cake and to get my pictures and to try and get harry #5. gasp!! they didn't have it. shoot.. when that book sells for $15.. of course they sold out.. sad sad sad sad sad. i want mr. potter to go back to costco. i guess i'll just have to wait. (see what you've turned me into nicole).

wednesday i slept in.. i think there was a late night of phone conversations with MY carrie (are you reading this rupert?) and whatever.. it's not like i have a job or anything important to go to. but.. i did manage to apply to a few places through monstertrak and one through the joblist my sister sent me. shooot.. haven't heard from anyone back yet. job hunting sucks. i need a joooob.. anyone want to hire me as their personal assisstant? please?

then.. i went to beth's surprise birthday bbq that ryan planned for her. yay!! happy birthday beth!! it was cool.. i ate sooooo much. petey and ryan bbq'ed steak, chicken.. mmmm.. and then chocolate cake. oh yea. it was fun stuff. a mixture of torrance people and cki people and we played scattergories and cranium. good times... i am a sensoscketch whiz!! we played and hung out until 11pm and then i went over to joan's to meet my dad and sherry. i got to watched big brother on the tivo (i miss tivo.. i so need to get one) and then when my dad came we sat around for a bit and then i went home. i was tired.. but i totally couldn't sleep!! argh!! it tossed and turned for a few hours.. it sucked.

the next morning my cousin woke me up bright and early and i drove to joan's to go get her. her friend from college met up with us and we went to the stinking rose for lunch. it was pretty good.. i'd never been there before. i went back to joan's and sherry and her friend went to newport beach and to OC.. and i napped, watched some more tivo. :P then i realized i had waited too long and had to wade in traffic. dang it. that night i went out with my aunt and uncle and my fam to yummy chinese food. came home laters and watched sex in the city season one... good times.

today was fun.. went to king's hawaiian for lunch with the extended family and my daddy, and then shopping with sherry where i played fashion consultant at forever skank... man.. i really should look into it as a job :) i made sherry buy a $40 and bought a $10 top myself (from br) that is the same style as one beth got on her bday. haha.. we can be twins. bleh. but it was surprisingly cute and a good color and for a good price.. so it was exciting. i should probably go to back to looking for jobs and what not.. hmm. but oh wells. yay.. the weekend is here!

so this weekend has been pretty chill. on friday night my family and jeff-gu went to the kettle for my dad's bday. i got to eat my bran muffins.. mmmm. (no really they're good there- that's the only place i eat bran muffins.. i swear.) afterwards we were going to see a movie but we went bowling instead!! yay.. i used to go bowling with my dad when i was little.. but we have gone in awhile. so it was a fun old time family thing. except my mom didn't go because she hurt her ankle earlier this week. but she's not much of a physical type person anyhow. my dad still beat everyone despite not having bowled for awhile.. and i sucked hardcore. bowling is definitely not my sport. hmm..

saturday i didn't do much.. slept til way late and then tried to clean a little bit. chatted online.. nothing too exciting. i live a boring life.

today i went to disneyland!! yay!! carrie picked me up and after i made her drive me around to costco which was way more crowded than disneyland, we went of the rapids water ride.. got drenched (but it was sooooo hot.. so it was great) and met up with nicole. and we had a carrie, nicole and jean's day of fun!! it was good we went on a few rides.. i still couldn't convince them to go on the ferris wheel with me :( and then they tried to get random strangers to ride with me... what punks. it was good stuff.. we also ate a lot. we're stupid. but we talked a lot.. which is always nice to have a good chat with your friends :) hahaha.. and then we lost carrie on main street. she is an ego-maniac for sure because she decided to leave us and go into a store and ASSUMES that we hear her (when neither nicole or i think she even said anything at all) and then she thinks we're waving at her through a window? what a weirdo. she needs to get over herself. hahahahahha

anyhoo.. it was a good day at disneyland :) the day ended much better than it started out. so thank you carrie for rescuing me, and listening to me and understanding, you are my savior :) and thanks nicole for coming out to play, making me laughing and entertaining me with your weird facial expression while you eat. you guys rock. *muah*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!

shoot.. that sucked that my blogger freaked out and i lost my entry. stupid. so you got the edited version. if you want to know all the gory details and what beth, sakura, norma or maritza is like in bed. just ask ;P

i've been sleeping since i've gotten back. crazy.. maybe it's the time difference? or maybe i'm just lazy. or just enjoying my bed lots :) job hunting and cleaning have taken a back seat to my soaps once again and waking up, eating, then napping is pretty much my daily routine. although today i did go out on a date with the one and only carrie chen. :) yea.. i know you're all jealous. we went to friday's (still no cute waiters.. sad) and saw charlie's angels. it wasn't as bad as i had thought, but wasn't as good as i originally anticipated. but we decided.. carrie wants to be lucy liu and i want to be mandy moore. and carrie's convinced a certain two people are getting married. haha.. we're so gay.

my trips are finally over. :( sadness... now it's time for the real world. i have to find a job so that i can a) have money and b) move out. although it is nice living at home and saving money. but it seriously drives me insane.

but lssp and icon and chicago was tons of fun. i feel like i met a lot of people, but not really cuz i don't have anyone's contact info.. so maybe it wasn't real? hahah... i'm so stupid. but hmm.. let's see. my indy recap won't live up to nicole's, but i'll try anyways.

like many others I spent all night packing, as well as working on awards. beth came over and we were going through my boxes trying to find stuff to wear. as i packed, beth stole some of my clothes. my daddy took me to the airport and when i though everything was peachy.. the southwest people wanted my free flight coupon. it was my sister's and i've never flown a free flight, so i didn't know i had to bring it. shooooot. so i had to buy a ticket.. and they tried to charge me $490.. but after the sad faces and reasoning i got the $200 flight. whew. showed up in indy and met some lssp people. got to the hotel, checked in.. showered and napped. had steak n shake for dinner... i ordered the mushroom and swiss burger.. which is NASTY. steak n shake is alright.. but never ever order that. just get a regular burger. that night had a little orientation dealio.. and then just hung out that night.

the next couple of days was full on dirtiness and service. the first day we had to clean out this old abandoned house. if my mother ever found out what i was doing, she would shoot me for not doing that kind of work in our "abandoned" garage. it was okay, kind of creepy because i got kind of sad knowing that this house used to be loved and enjoyed by someone and here we were tearing down their wall paper and stealing their $3 that we found. the next day we had to pick up trash and a pretty clean park... which sucked. cleaning up trash isn't the funnest thing.. but especially not for eight hours. and i didn't even get to go into the pool... crappy. the next day we did "njp" and picked up trash on the street with "humboldt" oh joy oh joy. we totally got shafted.. but we got to paint later at state street... so i guess it made up for it. the next day was fellowship day and we chilled in the park all day. i learned how to play skip-bo and played volleyball in the rain. i fortunately wasn't part of the massive water fight and it was pretty cool just to chill. in between all those days we just ate food (walmart chicken, homecooked spaghetti, pizza), played uno "jamaican style", visited doug the psychiatrist, and just hung out.

before icon we met up with nicole (yay!!) and after checking in to the hotel we went to the children's museum.. which was pretty cool. i'm sure it would have be fantastic if i was one of those samll screaming children. everything's always so much more impressive when you're young. but it was cool.

my friend snoopy

before opening session we ate dinner and i got to see the rest of my girls :) yay.. i missed them. steak n shake was better than the last time. don't try to get fancy at steak n shake... big mistake.

my ucsd girls

me and carrie

opening session was pretty cool. nothing too big. we watched carrie and her int'l vp voice emcee. hehehe.... and i overheard girls talking about how carrie's hair is so great. hahahaha. and then that night we had a dance. there was also ice cream, so that made it all that much better. :) we tried to run away from certain folks, and tried to get other people to dance together.. it was just fun to dance again. i'm going to miss dcon's and icon's where it's just some wholesome goodness. sort of.. haha the next day was workshops, caucus and then awards. it was a packed day.. and i did actually go to workshops. caucus was interesting and then sakura and i went to the presidential reception. we ate some good food and tried not to be super nervous. and then during awards session, we got 1st place newsletter and 2nd place scrapbook. hmm... the scrapbook one we're a little disgruntled about, and not just because we lost.. but we have our reasons. if you want to know.. ask i guess.

what a sweetheart -------------------- pat sajak and vanna white

after awards we went to the sunshine service party, the ohio toga/hugs party and then we decided out the view from the window that clubbing looked more enticing instead. so nicole, tanya, pic and i went to tiki bobs which was like tj meets girls gone wild meets whip cream. it was all very interesting and all i wanted to do was danced except i kept getting pushed to the side by a guy with a video camera trying to capture some whip cream sloppyness. the next day was house of delegates (round 1) and then caucus sessions.

what a cute couple

sakura drew some pretty fun pictures and sat through it. it's pretty exciting though.. i like being part of all the parliment junk... although it doesn't turn me on quite like it does to other people.. *ahem* carrie.. then it was the baseball game.. watched rupert throw the first pitch, ate some dinky food, and the watched the storm clouds roll in. i also fell asleep while my friends laughed, took pictures, and then ditched me. punks. the next day we slept in, except for our wake up call from rupert, and stoped by the service fair, and then house of delegates round 2. more pictures, more fun comments, and voting for ip, ivp and trustees. then it was the farewell sessions as we watched carrie bawl her eyes out and the new "good looking duo" get installed.

goodbye rupert

hahahah. after that was the dance... with big caddy daddy.. some awful cover band. i couldn't really dance to it, so we resorted to trying to dance as "white" as possible (where's pete holiday when you need him) and i collapsed a few times after laughing too hard when nicole tried to sell off carrie's half eaten food and armando's "coming out" dances.. hehehe. that night we hung out a little, but i was pretty beat and went to bed. the next day we drove to chicago and that night went to sears tower (after eating some yummy deep dish pizza... mmm....) the view was pretty cool and it was way fun. maritza, norma, sakura and i shared a room and a king size bed and then the next day went to the aquarium. the largest one in the world!!

torrance meets chicago

whoa...

saw nemo, the sea turtles, and the dolphins :) and ate really expensive food and raided the penny machines. then went to navy pier, a giant mall on a pier, all owned by mc donald's.. yay corporate america. but we rode this ginormous ferris wheel and got a great view of the city. aww... that night we went to the cubs game at wrigley field, ate chicago style hot dogs and then afterwards i had to resist the urges to ditch the group to go clubbing/bar hopping because those freak maritza and norma weren't 21. dang it. but it was all good, we went to the hotel and had a few drinks and played asshole and kings. but they're all lightweights.. so it was fun watching ryan become more whiney, beth turn super red, and shoving a drunk maggie into the pit between the bed and the wall. :) the next day i didn't wake up early and missed out on visiting the ginormous 3 story gap and we drove back to indy. but i got to drive through gary because i needed to find a gas station... it was interesting and surreal at the same time.

home sweet home

a shrine to our leaders

we all headed to the mecca of kiwanis international like the gleamy eyed circle k dorks that we are and took a tour and took all sorts of ridiculous pictures. :) then rushed off to the airport so that we didn't miss our flight.

came home, got picked up by my daddy and that was the end of my icon trip. :(

(this used to be a lot more detailed and a lot better... but it got erased, and i didn't have it in me to recreate the glory once again)

but you can see all my icon pix here off my digital camera (half of them are on my regular camera waiting to be developed)

this is a quick hello from indy!! whoo hoo.. i'm home. well not really. i was born in merrillville, but now we're in indianapolis. anyhoo... lssp has been fun.. it was lots of hard work. i'll give a more detailed synopsis later. i got to meet and hang out with norma and maritza who are loads of fun... yay.. and we made tons of "new friends" :). now icon is about to start... but before that... nicole, maritza, norma, skophammer, billings, anna, stephanie halgren and i all taxied it down to the children's museum. it's lots of cool stuff to look at while trying not to crash into the kids running and screaming all around.

we're gonna catch some dinner and then opening session and then the dance... oooh yea. nicole's going to get freaky with it... that's all she can talk about. more to come later :) love you all!!

free pete.