Childhood Hickies

I had a lovely visit from Snow White and Belle today. It was fun to not work on my personal essay. We looked up pick up lines, made confessions, and talked about hickies made as a child! I though I was the only weird person. It's glad to have more than one person to talk to. Ranting is good. Oh, how I wish I could go out more.
My mom is going to a reunion this weekend and thus, she has been practicing how to walk in heels. It's pretty sad, she is just so unnatural when she walks with them on....but....we're getting there and I'm glad she's got a hot outfit for the dinner! This whole week she's been fussing over what she'll wear. It's so cute.
Senior pictures. Ah, which ones to choose????
I lost my keys. Gosh, it sucks so much cause my parents are pissed. They like disappeared. I really hope I'll find them. Good think I don't have a car.
Camp is just in 3 days!!! I'm so excited! I've already starting putting clothes all over my bed. I hope everyone will make the most out of it.

I'd like to leave my nonexisting audience this thought:

"Napping should have the status of daily exercise.”

-James B. Maas, a Cornell University sleep expert

I highly suggest sleeping outside in the afternoon under some shade. Such bliss.

Awww screw it

I'm too lazy to blog today.

Comic-Con 2009

This year's Comic-Con was a blast! Most of my time was spent watching panels rather than walking around the exhibit hall. I bought a R2D2 backpack that I wanted since last year and I currently have a Pikachu tattoo on! I successfully was able to take a photo with a celebrity too!

Tyrese Gibson!

Sorry for all the crappy pictures. They were from my phone. They are in no particular order.

Adam Baldwin on Friday and Milo Ventimiglia on Saturday.

The creators of Spongebob. Happy 10th Aniversary!

Heroes Panel:

New cast members. (There's one more though.)

Milo and Zachary Quinto!!!!!!

Adrian Pasdar and Hayden Panettiere

Jack Coleman and Masi Oka

Cast of Fringe

Cast of Glee. Saw them at the Panel too.

Chuck Panel:

Scott Krinsky, Vik Sahay, Captain Awesome, and Sarah Lancaster

Joshua Gomez, Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, and a writer?

Jeffster rocking out!
The Chuck panel is probably my favorite panel. Each year I laugh like crazy! This cast definately has personality.

The above pictures are of some voice actors of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and their friends. My brother and I saw them at their booth and at the panel and so when we were waiting outside for our cousin to pick us up we freaked. But we were to chicken to ask to take a picture with them since they seemed busy. The guy who plays Anakin, Matt Lanter (The one with the backpack), is EXTREMELY cute!!! The photo on the right is Ashley Eckstein who plays Ahsoka.

Do you think my future kids would hate it if I named them Anakin and Ahsoka?

Star Wars Spectacular Panel featuring the cast from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Kevin pereira and Olivia Munn

Before the Star Wars panel, while my brother and I were walking in, all the G4 people walked in.

This weekend I was thinking to myself, I'm not really a Star Wars nerd cause I don't know all the names of everything as well as others stuff, like the planets. My brother knows a lot more since he plays video games. But then I thought, "I have a Darth Vader shirt, a Millenium Falcon pin, a Star Wars soundtrack, and now I have a R2D2 backpack. I am a nerd."

District 9 Panel:

Peter Jackson and Sharlto Copley


WB Panel:

Sherlock Holmes

Rachel McAdams and Robert Downey Jr.

The Book of Eli

Mila Kunis, Gary Oldman (Commissioner Gordon in The Dark Night and Sirius Black), and Denzel Washington

Jonah Hex

Megan Fox and Josh Brolin

I tried so hard to take a picture of them at the WB Booth but I failed.

The Box

Cameran Diaz and JAMES MARSDEN!!!!!

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Jackie Earle Haley who plays Freddy Kruger (and Rorschach in Watchmen)

I guess I didn't take a picture of the kid from Where the Wild Things Are and the guy from Criminal Minds. We were just walking around when we saw him and when we pasted him we were like "Was that just..." and this lady who just talked to him was like "Yep that's him." Also, while in line for Glee, three people in head of us was apparently this famous guys who was on Bufy and Dollhouse. So many people were asking for an autograph, photo, or both that I felt bad for him. He was nice but I felt like he really just wanted to finish his conversation with his friends. I actually feel bad for his friends who have to wait for him. Sorry for not italisizing all the titles, I just forgot and don't want to go back.

There's so much more to tell but I'll never remember it all from running into people to waiting in lines to finding really awesome stuff like this one guy who had a clone hoodie that zipped all the way up so when you zipped it up your head would be of a Clone Troppers! Isn't that neat?

Easy

Crystal: Why does everyone pick on me?
Everyone: Because you're easy! hahahaha...
Andrew: We need to think of all the phrases that can turn wrong.
Liz: Everything that comes out of Crystal's mouth.

Pause

Everyone: OH! ahaha!

Uninvited

Today was a blast. Being grounded gets me worried but at the moment I don't feel very grounded. Thank God for extracurricular activities that are actually fun! My morning started with an ASB meeting. Sometimes I feel like I talk WAY too much. Ha ha, I do. I'm glad my pitch was alright, I just hope others would put their input in so every one's opinion can be heard and great possibilities can become great realities.
I came home to find five cousins over and one got a fever of 104.6! I do hope Dylan feels better. I got one of my cousins into Harry Potter! Mission accomplished.
My late afternoon and evening was spent at Zach's house for a Community Life meeting. I'm so glad that most of us made it because it was sooooo much fun. Like Andrew said, we really bonded and it's still only the summer! It's really cool that we can all become so close. The time was spent making posters, failing at buying t-shirts, actually buying t-shirts, going into a jaccuzi, and soo many jokes! I laughed so hard. We talked made fun of Crystal being uninvited, a Mexican Harry Potter that dropped out of Hogwarts, Liz ability to count up to 6, gosh it was just great. Oh, and it's so cool cause Zach's house is laid out like mine and we have simular items at the same places such as our rooms, the tv, the fireplace, and a draw set thing. I hope Community Life gets even better as the year moves forward.

No Eyelashes for my Mug Shot

My senior picture was today and I couldn't have felt more beautiful! When I got back from the VA Victoria and Sarah were already at my house. Thanks to Vicki I had voluminous curls and dazzling eyes! I even felt sexy while sweaty and ridng a bike, lol! Oh, but I'm sooo pissed off that I forgot to curl my eyelashes and add mascara!!! Now I'll look like I don't have any. Oh well.
I will say it, they photographer was cute! Not only was he cute but he made me feel pretty! 1) He said "Oh, that's nice," regarding my top 2) He was cute 3)He was patient (which is very important cause I CANNOT pose) 4)He laughed when I did a funny face for my second "mug shot." That reminds me, 5) He made a joke about mug shots.

Ha, I am so weird!

After feeling like a star Vicki and Sarah were still over so when Cheyenne came over for our run (which was paused since the 3rd!) we just went to Vicki's since it was way too hot to run and was a way for me to hang out while I'm not really. Chey drove home and I had a chance to ride a bike! I rode half the way and felt really cool. Gosh, I'm SUCH a weirdo.

Too late, little trust

"Movies can break your heart, but so can many diseases..." -A ridiculous commercial on the radio

How odd that I would hear this the day movies broke and mended me. Yesterday Sarah, Victoria, and I watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. We arrived an hour earlier and there wasn't much of a line since we went at 4:10. I went over to Barnes and Noble to buy a book and I saw Estephanie and her sister Jackie! We talked forever! Stephanie and I could probably talk all day, which is why we always got Pearson pissed. When I left here to search for the 5 steps to a 5 I saw Viet and Chris! Of course I had to say something! All this and then I find out they didn't have my book so I had to order it. I spent an hour at Barnes and Noble. I couldn't believe myself. Although it was fun, I feel like I'm neglecting my friends, especially after Gianna told me what her sister had sad. It was amusing but I'm realizing I'm taking them for granted due to my greedy self; therefore, I'm not being the best friend I should be. There's always grey areas but I think I stepped into the black.
There was so much I wanted to blog about during the movie, all my little side notes; however, of course, I would forget. I did remember a few though such as how I knew the actor that played Professor Horace Slughorn also played Harold in Moulin Rouge. I must say Cormac was really cute and I just had to squeal when he did the seductive look while eating. Who was I to turn to but Sarah?! But my, oh my! Tom Felton never looked better. I adored him since The Prisoner of Azkaban. That suit and those shoes!
Unfortunately I messed the timing of the movie. I can't go out for the rest of the summer. First in January they say I can't hang out until June and now I can't hang out until the summer ends? I don't get it. The movie was finished around 6:50 and math tutoring begins at 6:30. My dad didn't arrive at the theatre until 7:10. He didn't want to drop me off so we just drove around. My mom was not happy. I knew she wouldn't but then she talked about numerous things including past issues, core team, and trust. I felt like crap and all I could do was sit in the bathroom, cry, and make exaggerated sobs as my face rested on my arms. I understand their point of view, I even thought of how makes better points. I hate to admit it but they did, yet, it just doesn't make sense. All these restrictions, what are they to do? I only hope that one day my children can be raised in a way that they feel like I do now.
My cousin Minerva once told me, when she was trying to cheer me up, that our parents see us at our worst of times, they remember it, and they have this image they have of us. I now constantly think about this and its so true. It starts real young, so it adds on and on. Nobody has seen me so fucking sad as they have. Nobody has seen me as so irresponsible. Nobody has seen me this low. Sorry about the language. I feel like through another parent's eyes I'm a pretty good child, but I'm never good enough for my own. Sometimes I wish I can be a C average extra-spoiled brat so that I wouldn't have the pressure I have now.
At the end of the night, I ended up watching The Family Stone with my mom. At least I'm glad I don't have horrible family problems. Movies mend the heart as well. I just wish they could mend diseases.

Album of the Hour: A Good Day by Priscilla Ahn. She reminds me of Eagle and Talon and Karen Carpenter. Her sweet voice makes me feel better yet I can still feel enough sadness and joy at the same time. It's hard to describe.

"You know how when Lupin turns into a werewolf he forgets all his friends? Yeah, that's what Tracey's like when she plays ultimate frisbee..You know how when Lupin turns into a werewolf he forgets all his friends? Yeah, that's what Tracey's like when she plays ultimate frisbee..."

-Cheyenne, via Gianna

Thug Life

I love summer.

It's so wonderful, I'm out and I don't even know what day it is....cause it doesn't matter! I started out by going to the VA with Viet, this time on time! Shawn, my supervisor, told me, "I believe the purpose in life is to have sex." Omg, I was laughing so hard that my eyes were tearing up. He was serious. Ok, serious, but he made his case. I still laugh.

ASB's social was today, first at Tiana's house we went swimming. In the middle of that, Kevin and I went to the library for a college applciation informational meeting and Target to get window markers and silly string! During the ride back I threw something out of the door. Kevin, if you're reading this I hope that you throw it out as well. Anyways, the ASB social migrated to Andrew's house but we all left to go to Bobalicious; however, Andrew, Kevin, and I totally vandilized Cookie's car! THUG LIFE.

From the Rosary to Toilet Paper

Today marked the new beginning of a great year. Although it's not January I feel as if a new school year invites change into our lives. The first officers' meeting was today. I went into Pat's office to get his notepad for him and I saw a photo of Jesus, which I thought was Bob Marley! Isn't that crazy. Some one's going to say that's a sign for them to get high. haha, I hope not. Following the meeting was the Ultimate Frisbee picnic and unfortunately, our team lost. Oh well I lots of fun. At the end we all gathered into a circle, kneeled, and prayed the rosary. Oh my goodness I have not prayed the rosary since middle school. It was just so amazing saying those words with others and I can just feel Mary's presence. It was so nice. With everyone together it feel so powerful. I must do it more often.
When I got home my cousins were still over. Michelle was in the restroom and needed toilet paper so I got some and gave it to Amy to give it to her. Amy unwrapped the cover (it's Costco toilet paper) and threw it in the bathroom since she was getting pissed off that Michelle was taking too long. Guess where it landed....in the toilet, the toilet that Michelle already peed in! Oh man it was hilarious!

Hot High School Girls

Shawn: I'm having a party on the 18th, you guys can come if you want.
Me: Umm...I'll check my schedule.
Shawn: You can bring your hot high school friends!
Everyone: Hahahahaha....
Shawn: Haha...just kidding....actually I'm not....

When I was little I thought “What if God made my like Mary and then everyone else will think I’m a bad girl!”

Success and Failure

"It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect." 2 Samuel 22:33

It's amazing how God's mind works, if you would even call it a mind. Although I was truly disappointed at the time, I think God's plan was for me not to be Key Club's Vice President but to be Core Team's. I am so incredibly happy! It's so nice when others say kind things to you, but even better when they feel you are worthy of something. I thank Him for aiding those who were helping me and I truly hope I can prove to the Core Team that their decision has been the right one, that my hardwork and dedication will mean something. I feel bad for others, whose disappointment I can see on their face, but I hope that this result will impact them, and myself, in a positive way. I have not yet told my parents in fear that they believe I'm too busy with schoolwork, but they have always thought this (example: sports, when I actually did better when I was in them). I am looking forward for this next year and what awaits the 2009-2010 Core Team!
After the four hour discernment, Sarah and I went biking. My brother, Travor, joined us after dinner and we rode towards Sarah's home; however, we decided to go Camino Ruiz park and spent our time failing at bike locks, analyzing the sections, and timing our obstacle course. We ended up loosing track of the time for it was eight o'clock in the evening when we headed back to Sarah's. Both my brother and I forgot our cell phones and it was getting dark when arrived there; thus, my brother and I are what I consider "bike grounded." We're not able to ride our bikes until August. This pretty much sucks since I was planning to bike tomorrow (technically today since it's 12:27) and Thursday. Oh well, I thought it was a fair punishment. What a day of both success and failure!

I passed my AP tests!!!

Three 3's! I'm so happy! =]

Between 3rd and 4th

These past couple of days has been amazing. Yesterday was Snow White's birthday and the 4 cornors + Nikki went out to watch Transformers! I definately want to watch that movie again. Gosh I love that Leo guy. Laters we stayed at Sissy's house and played ping pong, majong (of course), ate, and played ninja! I wish I could record all the conversations I had this day because the word flowing out of our lips were hilarious. After Chey left I felt as if the mood changed and so we watched Tropic Thunder for like five minutes before everyone from the (Good Shepherd) show came over after practice at eleven. The rest of the time was spent swiming and trying to extend our vocabulary with the ABC game. At 11:08 my dad called me and I didn't call him until 11:49. "Mrs. Vidakovich can take me home."
"Ok, I'm going to sleep," were the words to our conversation. That was all. Thank God Mrs. Vidakovich was my coach, otherwise, I would never in my life imagine staying out until 3 in the morning.
Each year for the fourth of July my dad's side of the family gets together to remember the day my grandpa died. For the first time ever Minerva was not there since she's in England, thus, the toddlers to 8 year-olds forced me to chase them around. I got a workout and toothpaste on my ass. Yes, my cousins' kids screamed, threw balls at, punched in the boob, and squeeze toothpaste on my favorite pair of jeans but it's all good. Spending time with kids makes me feel so carefree. That's my favorite thing about childhood: the carelessness.
Like the rest of the fourth of July tradition my cousins, brother, and I went across Circle K to enjoy the bright lights, loud bangs, and smoke of fireworks. Chi Dung, my dad's high school's daughter who's staying with us also came along. The Mira Mesa Town Council really outdid itself. The finale was just awesome. So colorful and there was just so much. On the way back to my house guess who would be behind me. Mr. Maheu, my academic idol! We talked (or as he put it, "stalked" me) until he and his family reached his car. He's going to teach a freshman class called like AP something Economics. The night concludes with more talks about school and my future with older cousins that have gone through everything. My parents are like this...everytime.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH!

Have an AWESOME 17th!

Jesus is so Badass

I just finished saying my nightly prayers and readings when the thought occurred to me: "Jesus is so badass!" He so is. Am I weird to say this? I love how I compare Jesus to my favorite bad word. hehehe...Earlier this year my English class discussed rebels and how Jesus was a rebel. So true cause he was going against the norm. But shoot, every time those scribes or high priests said something, Jesus just pulled out some witty comments out of his butt. I'm so jealous that he could do that. And he totally like owned them when he said something. It totally shut them up! Ok, maybe I'm just going out on a limb and calling Jesus a badass but he's not like a bad badass, he's like a humble. Oh, how cool! Gosh, am I the weirdest person in the world, yet, I love my brain! Jesus is so badass!

On with my Thursday! There was a picnic over at Good Shepherd in the late afternoon/early evening. There was only about 13 people and I didn't know like half of the people. That's alright cause I got to extend my family today (like Lynn does! =]) and became closer with others. Basically the whole time we played Ultimate Frisbee with Pat's team against Gerard's. I was on Gerard's team and we decided to call ourselves the Gerard's but then changed to the PGDs (PAT'S GOING DOWN!) haha....we totally owned too. There was much running, passing, girl fighting, and fun! I feel like since we were such a small group everyone connected to everyone. Maybe that's just me. At least I had a great time. Oh, and Pat got pooped on by a bird! It was priceless.

Workplace Worries

Ok, so technically I don't "work" at the VA but I do work. Gosh, just the five hours there today was crazy. So, I'm definitely not changing to another area because, well I've just been around HR so much. Although I worked in Human Resources last year I met so many people today. Including, for like the first time ever, someone who doesn't like me. I guess now they decide to notice?
First off today I had to come and hour early because Jennifer is still hurting from the removal of her wisdom teeth. Like Monday, today I was working with Shawn since Erika and Gina don't really have anything for me to do. The first hour he was busy so basically I just stood around. Then this one lady brings me in her office and I talk with the others in her room. While we were talking I found out she's the one who makes the crowns at the Harvestfest! Such a small world. I really enjoy being with the people in that room cause they're fun, mainly because they're some of the youngest people in HR. We even brought up Comic-con and Harry Potter! Strange yet so exciting. However, all this caused someone to like hate me!
I have never been, like hated so much, or at least not that I know of. This lady, I heard is crazy and annoying and does this to all the volunteers and work study. She looks like she's about to have a heart attack at any moment (not my observation) and freaks me out! She makes me tense up and all nervous that I'm going to get in trouble at any second! Oh, and I totally heard her talking about me. Shoot, she doesn't even know me. And I KNOW she talked about me at the HR meeting today (which I just stayed at Shawn's desk for a half an hours just sitting there) cause afterwards all the people I normally am with was like telling me all these new rules for volunteers, thus I met a whole bunch of people. I also have to wear more professional looking clothing. I don't mind any of this at all just that one lady bugs me. EHHHHhhh!!!!! I just will feel weird wearing professional work clothing like everyone else cause I'm so used to being casual, I like that it separates me from everyone else. Gosh, I've got a lot to tell Jennifer.
Also, today was the Fourth of July potluck luncheon for HR so I helped with that and got free food!
I don't know how all this sounds to everyone else but it was an experience for me.
Yesterday Cheyenne wasn't able to bike with me like I planned so I biked with Sarah. I biked to her house and then we went to Good Shepherd to turn in our Camp Emmaus forms, went to my house, ate dinner, and my brother came with us to ride her to her house. I love biking now. It's like new hobby. Oh, and I got a new helmet from Walmart. Hopefully I'll bike around more often!