Well the weekend is over...bummer...had a good one.  Went to a Celebrate Africa event on Saturday, I missed most of the performance because I had to go to church because I am sponsoring someone who is getting confirmed.  To be totally honest a sponsor is supposed to be someone who is a good example and role model for the Catholic Faith and I am so not that person.   I am really a bad example, I am coming to a point in my life to where I don't even know if I am Catholic at all, or for that matter if I am a christian.  But shhh...don't tell the guy I'm sponsoring.  I know I'm bad.  Anyway...I made it back to the Celebrate Africa event just in time for the food.  And all I have to say is THE FOOD WAS FLIPPIN FANTASTIC!!  It was so good that I kept getting seconds.  After the event I went to spend some time with a friend which was nice.  A good saturday!  Sunday was cool, went back to church and then went out on a traditional family lunch at our favorite hometown restaurant.  More good food!!  heck yeah. 

 

All this good eatin I really don't want to give up.  But my sister is on this diet called "New Body for life" she has lost 13 LBS in like 2 weeks!!  My mom started this last week and she has already lost 4 LBS!  Holy cow...So I am going to give it a shot.  Today is my first official day with the diet.  I find it hard.  The concept of the diet is to not eat carbs with proteins and it already freakin sucks.  But since my fam is having such success with it, I'm going to do it even if I have to give up all the great food!!  Like Burritos...mmmmm....

 

Well Monday is monday, I got a headache.  Midterms are just around the corner, does anyone have a noose? 

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!!

It is the year of the Pig...the Golden Pig year, only happens every 60 years.  Year of Prosperity, so make it an exciting year and do something special!

Had a great celebration here in hicksville.  Had a dinner at the University and then went to see an awesome show!!  Great Sunday!

Holy crap...so its been awhile since I've been here.

 

First Day without the Hotty around...I am so sad...and bored.

 

Lots has happened...Its another year of school.  Determined major ANTHROPOLOGY and Secondary education!! and a minor in International Studies.  Yay for me, fourth year of college and finally decided a direction.  I am such a loser.

 

So since I've been away from blogging I just want to wish you happy holidays for all the ones I missed.  Happy Thanks, Christmas, New Year, Ramadan, Eid, Hanukkah (sp?), and Valentines Day!!  And any others I missed.

 

Well hopefully I will blog again soon.  Much love!!

well Midterms are finally here......I actually stayed home during the weekend and studied.....mom is so proud.  I was up till 5 am last night working on a midterm assign, im tired and my back is killing me!   Anywho...I hope its over soon.

 

 

well Sunday was the highlight of my weekend!  Firstly my grandpa came from Nebraska to visit us.  We went to church and then to eat, I love when he tells us stories about when he was young and in a band (soo cool grandpa!), I just wish he didn't come when we had such crappy weather.  Then Sunday night was Diwali Night (Indian Festival of Lights) which was a blast!  Good people, good food, entertainment and Indian culture awareness!!!  Love it!  I got my hand decorated with henna (herbal tattoo) and I got to wear my cool tika (spelling?) that my sister got me.  I had a great time got to hang with friends and my other sister.  We all had a wonderful time experiencing Indian culture, music, dance, art and FOOD! (I love food from India)  However when we returned home my dad immediately said "See what happens when you are out doing wrong Indian things" (refering to Native American instead of Natives of India) "Bad things happen!"  Nice intro to the bad news that followed about my awesome grandpa. When traveling back home he had a car accident on the way back home....ugh... all of a sudden things got grimm and dark..... But all is well!  My mom is with him and hopefully he willed be released to go home!  (pray for him).  There nothing like a horrible event happening after a fun time.  It seems that my Sunday was no longer the highlight of this weekend.

So its Wednesday!  Should be a happy day for everyone.  Well it sure had a nice start, I was supposed to meet my project partner this morning at the Library....I was actually early getting there (which is a first for me).  So I figured while waiting for this girl I would get on the computer and work on an outline for our presentation (which is tomorrow), anywho I guess she couldn't find me and I get an email later that she went back home....I was a little torqued but I guess it would be my fault that I didn't make myself more noticeable to her.  Great...so we are going to have to meet later I guess, however I don't know if I can.  I have class from 1-2 then I have to eat before I get home to care for the ninos (niece and nephew=spawns of the evil one) then I have to get them to CCD at 3:30 and after that one of them (the red head) has soccer practice and by the time thats done its 6:30 pm.  Thats when I have to get ready for tonight....usually I go to my beloved Swing Club with my buddy (who looks like Jesus) but instead I am going to see a play that one of my best friends is in !  I am so excited!  By the time thats over it will be pretty late.  Thats when I have to give my project partner a call to work on this thing and I have to get a ton of other reading done.....I don't know how I am going to make it through today.....of course it could be worse, I could be my mother....hahaha!

Well here is the weekend update.  It started on Thursday this week because it was my friend's roomate's 21st birthday, and we all know what you do on that day.  So we headed out to the bars had a few drinks, but for me I had one too many and ended falling in love with my buddy's (an egotistical climber guy) toilet.  ugh.  The sick part of my weekend was that night and the hangover I had the next day and the next day (there is my confession mother). You could just picture my mood in class on friday. Although, Friday was an interesting day for me, you know how I was telling you about the week and all the stuff going on in prexy's pastor (evil evangalists, etc) , well there were different people there again holding signs and shouting things to people passing by, but the funny thing is that they were having a "happy Protest" they were shouting compliments to people walking by and holding signs that said "good luck on your test", "looking good" and "be happy".  You could not imagine how that changed my whole mood, they should do something like that every week. Later that day I ended up being to sick to attend my beloved International coffee hour with my other buddy (who looks like Jesus), I was a little bummed about that.  And friday night was the dramatic part of my weekend.  Picture me, hungover and not in a good mood at all and being a total female dog to my Arabian Hotty McHotPants bf, amazingly he put up with my crappy attitude and stayed with me, watched a movie and talked to me until I headed to bed (honestly where did this man come from, had it been anyone else they would have know better and stayed away from my hungover rage, anyone else would have known better.)

 

Anywho, shockingly enough  and the weird part of my weekend was that I stayed home all weekend (which should make dad happy since he says I have been denying him and not spending fatherly daughterly time).   oh and one more thing happend that was weird... this guy who is in love with my sister came over to meet the parents on Sunday.....strange.....my parents pretty much ignored him......aren't they so kind.

So as ya'll know I am in college.  I love college life, in fact I think I just may major in it.  Anywho for my first Blog entry I will update mi familia y mis amigos on whats up with me so far.  Well I am 21 (finally), living in hicksville/hippyville (prefer hippies), occupation=taking care of neice and nephew, have a love for asian culture, and dating a super HOTT (yeah with two t's) man from Saudi Arabia. I am a Junior in College now (should be a senior if I decided on a flipping major), and I am in my fourth week of school of the fall 2006 semester.  This has been a crazy semester so far, especially this week and I'll tell you why.  So the University's campus has a nice open space in between its buildings called Prexy's Pastor and in this area the past week have been these Evil Evangalists, Anti-Abortion people with outrageous and graphic photos of an abortion process, and Today the same people are standing out there with a huge "homosexuality is a sin" banner and I am about to shoot somebody.  Now how can I begin to tell you how people with closed minds and prejudiced opinions annoy me.  Granted the world wouldn't be the same without them, but I have had about enough of this crap.  Moreover, I feel that as a believer in God and lover of all culture, these people make those who are Christian and Pro Life look bad.  These Evangalists are shouting at students walking by saying that the "women are all whores and we are all going to burn in Hell", "Homosexuality is sick and wrong" and will share the same fate of all sinners=BURN IN HELL, that turning to Jesus is the only thing that saves you from hell and that we should FEAR GOD.  Its Christians like these that make the rest of us look bad, like we are the same as them, think the way they do, and have the same approach to people.  Which is not true!  I have to sudden urge to convert to Islam, or Hinduism, Taoism, Judaism anything but Christianity.  I think Ghandi put it best when he said "I like your Christ I just don't like your Christians."  However, simultaneously these people who come to our campus and share their "ideas" isn't necessarily a totally negative thing.  It makes us think, constuct debate and find our own view and beliefs to be steadfast.  I do enjoy walking around campus and hearing conversations about Pro-choice vs. Pro Life, sharing views about terrorism and other current events, Religion, Politics, and an overall view on life.  Its what we college kids should think about and talk about instead of how drunk we got last weekend and how this weekend is going to be even better....even though I do partake in those conversations as well...shhh don't tell mom.  But I like how it forces to really think about things going on in the world and find who we are inside.  What do you think?