Saturday, August 16, 2003
I had one of the best birthdays ever :D Mental note: charlie is the type to get there at least on time, if not early. I told him meet at my house at 8:00AM don't be late :) and when i tell that to tiffany, "me at 8" it means, "get there before 9 please" LoL but i didn't know that so charlie was not late! he and finsen came at 7:40AM...i had at least gotten out of bed since tiffany called asking what she should bring so good thing that, but for about 15-20 more minute finsen and charlie watched tv. After that people started trickling in, kyle came, then chrizzy, and then tiffany who took benny, jeffery, and janice in her car. We didn't make sandwiches until they came since tiffany had the mayo, jeffery was the only one who ate breakfast at my house, as all made sandwiches ....nothing too eventful then....charlie said our toilet had some power, it was one of the most powerful one's he's seen...lol that was a first i've been told LoL. then we took off to livermore to go to Boomers, good thing we checked online since there's a discount for groups of 10 or more that's not advertised outside, it's a great deal it's like 14.95 per person, (min. 10 ppl) and then it's an all day pass, until 11PM you can ride anything (bumper boats, go karts) play laser tag and golf games as many times as you want for the whole day :) we got there, but we only had 9 people, we decided the best thing to do was just to have everyone pay an extra 2 dollars or so and pay for 10 people, we gave all of our money to one person and then said the rest were in the arcade. it worked, we tired giving it away, but no one wanted to take it. oh well, their loss. the first thing we did was go carts, that was great since we were the first out there, it was only us on the track, at first it's hard to get used to it, but once the first lap came around i was taking horrible turns and sliding the car all around LoL great fun :) the only thing is that they're stopped by remote control and so when it was time to stop i was still in the middle of the track which sucked, and i was stuck out there for a while :( i eventually drove in and it was an overall good first experience, Chrissy suggested the bumper boats, i'd never seen them and i didn' t know you could get wet on that...but you can. you can get drenched :lol: youjust go around and spray people, it's a ton of fun when it's just your friends :) so you can spray anyone and not worry about them getting mad...although i'm not sure why they would since they're there in the first place...oh well, we just had great fun with that :) and then to dry off (since we were so soaking wet) we stayed outside to play mini-golf and that was a lot of fun, although it is a bit difficult with 9 people LoL we kind of went in two groups and Kyle was quite a good golfer...some times LoL he got 2 "hole in one" 's but sometimes his ball just would not go in LoL it was lots of fun and we were all cheering each other on :) after that we took a lunch break and ate our hard made sandwiches, the new oreos with mocha weren't bad...but they weren't super great either lol chips were good and we Love Kyle's van :D 1) it fits seven people WHOO! and 2) you can fold down his seats and they make a table with cup holders and all :) so some of us ate in his trunk and some of us ate on the little lawn piece dividing the parking lot...we sat and digested for a while (i had cramps...not so fun so i chilled out for a bit) and then we drove the go-karts again and played laser tag, it's a small place but we still had fun chasing each other down. We also got some tokens since charlie, janice and chrizzy like playing ddr, the did that most of the time, kyle played this roulette type game, you put the token in and if it lands all the way in the slot you get 50 or 150 tickets he landed on the jackpot so in the end we ended up getting 362 tickets so he got a lot of little toys and a couple of army men for 1 ticket each :) LoL it was great! LoL before we left we played on the bumper boats again and laser tag and a last time on the go karts while chrissy, charlie, janice and finsen stayed in the arcade. I didn't feel like driving, but i wanted to go for a ride so i had jeffery drive me, he drives like a psycho. it was timed so that near the last turn we'd always see kyle drive by and it was so hilarious, he looked so funny driving because he's so tall his head stickes out a bit and he had no gel in his hair, but it got wet in the bumper boats and dried while he was driving, so it looked funky and very poofy LoL. after we left Boomers, we headed to the city, and tiffany thought that car pool ended at 6, but it actually ended at 7 so us in kyle's van got to pass all the horrendous traffic at the toll plaza, but tiff could only fit 2 and so her and benny were stuck there for a bit. We had no idea where to eat in san francisco and our budget wasn't so extravagant, so i called my mom, one to let her know i was okay and had fun and 2 to ask her if she had any ideas on where to go for dinner she suggested Mel's but some people didn't really want diner food, so then she said J-town wasn't so far so we went there and had dinner there. The food wasn't bad and it was at a good price :) near the end i was getting a bit tired because i had gotten up at 7:30 and had work the day before etc, and so i thought the guy was bringing the bill back so we could pay and get out but he actually brought a CAKE! it had happy birthday teri written on it and i was so shocked. i'm not sure i could convey in words how shocked i was. i mean i had totally fogotten about a cake, it would have been just fine without it but i was so shocked, no one said anything about it and that was fine i wasn't expecting one. LoL tiffany loved it, my face was so red! i was just shocked! they said the hardest thing was hiding it from me, they put it in the fridge at boomers, which i'm not sure how they did that since i was with them most of the time and then they gave it to the guy at the restaurant, when i did not know...that was so shocking i truly was surprised :) and SO HAPPY!!! so they sang to me and we cut the cake and then we drove down to the beach...at first i wasn't sure if it was legal or if it was that one special day tiff went and saw all the fires, but then my sister did it once too so i didn't think so. We saw some further down the beach and so we decided that it was find and that was a good spot to start it, we didn't have a lot of trouble starting it, finsen had done it before and we had all the materials. so we had it going for a good 25 minutes or so which in between elisa, henry and henry's friend zarate came. henry was like "before we start you guys know this is illegal right?" and we saw other people doing it so we figured the cops were too serious about it or it wasn't illegal. anyways we had that going, and then 25 minutes in, a cop with a flashlight comes by and he's all like hi...and we're all like..oh crap. it turns out the cop was really nice and it isn't illegal, well not techincally, we had to just move down a half a mile down the beach and then we could build it there so there really wasn't a problem and the guy was really nice about it. we moved it down and we started another fire...it was so nice, the sound of the ocean waves behind me, the glow of the fire infront, it was so wonderful. and we roasted 'mallows and just sat and just kinda absorbed the peacful ambiance. it was good. then jeffery has this obession with burning stuff or at least throwing stuff into the fire...so we gave him a bag of ice, and then as we started throwing the ice in, it started sizzling and going out so the fire was already almost dead and since it was late we didn't want to keep fueling it. so we put out the fire...and then we found out that was a no-no. putting out the fire is the last thing you do...the first is clean up and get ready to go so you have the heat and you're not freezing your buns off LoL but it was a good lesson learned :) and then it was really late so and some people's parents were freaking out so we had to go and then when we got back to the cars, tiffany didn't know which car elisa and her friends came in and so she was standing next to one of them and asking really loudly IS THIS YOUR CAR?! and then elisa pulled her to the side and was like NO!!! lol and then she looked at the car and there were two people in it....and the windows were steamed....lol it wasn't our car LoL so that provided a few good jokes (mainly having to do with that scene in titanic) lol and then we just went home...i don't think there were anything big happening there. I got home at about 12:30 and i had work the next day!!! lol but it was still the best birthday ever, i spent the whole day with my friends, i had a great time and nothing went horribly wrong :)
Sunday, July 20, 2003
sooooooooo the convention. very interesting. VERY fun...there were nine of us Chrissy, Janice, Tiffany, Qiao, me, Charlie, Jeffery, Benny and Kyle. So getting there was good.
Wednesday July 16, 2003
we all met in the morning at Oakland Airport at 6:00AM and most of my friends were already there, of course Tiffany as always was running a little bit late and got there at 6:20. The line for check in was EXTREMELY long. going on a wednesday morning is very popular I guess. So we eventually got to the front and everything went smoothly, boarding passes and everything. Except for Kyle at the security check point, because he got pulled to the side because aparently he's got "heavy metals" in his shoes LoL and he got re checked again. We were so loud on the flight..well most of them were...Chrissy and Janice, when they get going they really are loud, but most of us were all seriously hyped up. Jeff sat at the window, I sat in the middle and Kyle sat at the end, and then benny, tiffany and charlie sat in a row and then Chrissy, janice and Qiao sat in a different row. I can't remember any specific things now that happened, probably just a bunch of random/funny/odd/just plain weird things happened. We had to transfer planes in Denver, and I guess we thought we had more time then we did, we went to mcdonalds and ate lunch, it took some people longer than others since i think they were having a problem with a lack of change but any ways it took about 20 minutes and then Tiffany was like okay we have to go now, and we were like okay just a little bit longer, we all eventually got up and left and about 3/4 of the way there, she hears and the intercom calling all passengers must be boarded on the plane leaving for Kansas City now. I didn't notice it, but she was like oh my goodness i think that's our plane, so she and I made a run for it and thankfully sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thankfully we just caught the guy, and he was a bit rude saying "where have you been" and stuff, and we had to explain that someone had a broken leg, they gave some of our seats away, but we all got on the plane together. That was a bit scary since it was only two minutes before the plane was going to take off and if we had missed our plane it would have just been a big mess. On that plane i don't remember much either...Once we got to the airport, and got our luggage, Tiffany called for a shuttle to pick us up and since a lot of people were coming that day to go to the convention, there happened to be a van already there going to the Adam's Mark Hotel and they had three free seats, so Jeffery went because of his broken leg and it would be easier than just having him wait, Tiffany went because she had everything to check-in and benny went because of tiffany. That left, Charlie, Chrissy, Janice, Kyle, Qiao and me. Kansas City airport is EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEMELY small and there wasn't much to see so we just huge out at the luggage carousal we were discussing what we were wearing for the formal dinner and talking about the shoes we had, i told Qiao that i had a skirt, black open toed sandals, and then charlie and janice were talking and charlie said he had high-heel boots, and we all looked at him really funny and then he said they were high-heeled boots, (honestly, not that much better) and so he opened his suit case to show us what he was talking about and then it happened...he opened the suit case and laying on top were the boots. they were the funniest things i've seen in a loooooong time I just started cracking up, I'm still not sure what about them were so funny, but I just was cracking UP! and I could never picture Charlie wearing them. I just crack up thinking about it! That was just the beginning of the jokes, I think that'll make me laugh for a long time to come :D Eventually the shuttle came and on the ride there, I didn't notice much...a LOT of flat land, highways...a couple of corn fields, i didn't say much during the ride just kind of absorbed everything up. When we got to the Adams Mark Hotel it was nice, there were revolving doors and that was a bit fun for all of us. The first thing waiting outside, we noticed was the heat BOY WAS IT HUMID! Anyways we got up to our rooms, standard hotel rooms, two queens, tv, coffee maker, closet, bathroom, iron/board. no biggie. Us girls were on the fourth floor (402) and the boys were on the third floor (324) the numbers never really mattered, unles we were calling I think most of spent equal time in both of them. By the time we got in and registered, it was dinner time, there was buffet dinner, Salad (standard for every night) pizza, bread sticks and dessert. The drinks as i eventually found out were always the same lemonaide, iced tea, and water (in the mornings milk and orange juice too) That night we had our first general session and the Internationl club president talked for a bit and they also had an inspirational speaker, who was very inspirational and very active, two things necessary for a good speaker, if the speaker's boring well it's just pure torture and horrible. After that ended, we didn't feel like going to the game show which was after so we decided it was time for a dip in the outside pool, it was so muggy outside, but the pool was quite benificial in cooling us off, I think everyone went except for Jeff because of the cast, Also Kate came who at the time I didn't know all that well, only that she was from Homestead high school from the district meetings. We had a bunch of fun, just messing around until the pool closed and we all had to go up stairs. I'm so glad that the girls are great, there wasn't any fighting and we all took turns taking showers, and there was no arguments. After we all showered, the guys came to our room (i think it was our room) anyways we hung out in one of the rooms until it was about midnight since it was curfew then they left to go their room and sleep etc. so we brushed our teeth and everything. and we were all laying in the dark, whenever you have a group of girls, there will be discussion LoL which did happen for about 25 30 minutes, and then it all started to die down, and then Tiffany suddenly came out with, i wonder what guys do? if they talk like we were talking and stuff, and i said something like yeah do they have "male bonding sessions" ? LoL as a joke, and then she asked "hm...i wonder who's sleeping with who?" and none of us knew, and we were guessing how things would have gone and stuff, by this time i think it was about 1AM and then someone said let's call to find out! so i was right next to the phone and i asked the two questions, I don't think charlie knew how to answer the "male bonding" one, but I guessed who was sleeping with who and they were all still up and then when i was guessing all the other girls were interested and i had seen another phone on the desk earlier and I wondered if we could put it on speaker phone. It took us a bit to understand how that worked (we figured it out, the brown phone had to be hung up so the speaker phone would work) we got that going and told the boys how to use it too and so we were talking to them about stupid stuff and and Kyle, being kyle was making all these horrible side comments that he knew we could all hear from the phone, stuff for example like "jeff, get your pants back on" and things like that. every once in awhile it go quiet and we'd have to go hello? qiao wanted to sleep so all of us were crowding around the phone talking into it whispering kind of so that we wouldn't wake her up, eventually we got tired of talking on the phone so we just asked if they wanted to come over and benny and charlie did but jeff was sleeping and kyle didn't want to. The only thing was that it was WAY after curfew so if they got caught they would be in a lot of trouble, but they got to our room fine, and Tiffany and Benny were on one bed, qiao had a bed by herself, and Chrissy, Janice, Charlie and myself were all talking on the floor. Mostly random stuff, OH and on the phone there was this "plucking" sound that none of the girls could figure out so when benny and charlie came over they brought over this empty tube of choco-gummies and was pulling the top off. So we were just on the floor talking and i think Charlie said something obscene, mean or wrong or something LoL and so someone (it might have been me) hit him with the empty tube and it made this really weird sound, it didn't sound like it normally did. so we spent a lot of the time hitting charlie on the head trying to see where it made the different sounds LoL and then Qiao eventually woke up and we got to talking about her and kyle and their situation. she finally admitted that she liked him (which took a lot of redundancy and circuity since she would constantly say something like i don't know until he does something she didn't understand that he wouldn't do anything until he knew. it was a dumb cycle, she talked about her insecurities and things. at least we told her that he's probably scared as heck too, although i'm not sure she understood. that went on until chrissy was out cold and it was just me qiao, janice and charlie left, so we talked until it was about 3:00AM or a little past and then went to sleep, janice slept next to qiao and charlie slept next to me and i slept by chrissy head.
Tuesday July 17, 2003
So no one would notice them, Charlie and Benny left around 6:00AM I think and we started to get a bit ready too. Not so bad... we went down to breakfast where there was eggs, bacon, sausage, etc. and then cereal, fresh fruit and muffins. I opted for the cereal since the other stuff would make me hurl. so we sat and ate breakfast and then we arranged for the free hotel shuttle to drop us off downtown so we could shop around. But on the elevator ride after breakfast the elevator was pretty packed and a shorter kid looks at kyle and says "dude you're like yao ming!" and then put his sunglasses and tried to look cool, it was hard not to laugh, but in my head it too a bit to figure out that he said "yao ming" until it hit me and i started to crack up and I told Kyle I forget if he was a enthusiastic about it or not, but everyone else thought it was funny. So that's where we got Kyle's nickname Yao, and I forget who started calling Jeff "Gimpy" it might have been me, or maybe chrissy, anyways that was Jeff's nickname, I used them both quite frequently. The phrase of the trip was "come on gimpy" :D ... since almost everyone else was going to the amusement park (we didn't go because we were tight on money and we needed to give up everything extra) We really got ot know Kate that day because she came with us too since she didn't buy a ticket either. So we decided to go to the Crown Plaza where there were a couple of shops, and there were some cool stores, such as the crayola store, with a bunch of crayola art supplies and crayon facts. That was fun shop and we hung out there for a bit, and there was another toy store where there were puppets, we were having so much fun with those the two i remember most was kyle and this police officer puppet. Kyle did this deep voice and it was just hilarious, it's just sad that tiffany didn't bring her camara :'( and then benny took this camel puppet which looked like Joe Camel from the cigarette commercials and was like this is what happens when you're on drugs, and made the camel twitch and stuff, it was just really funny! We had a fun time just wandering around and hanging out. I bought some more glass figurines to add to my collection :) We took pictures of all the fountains, and there are quite a few, very pretty. When we got back we took a dip in the pool and discovered charlie had a water proof bag in his swim trunks and so we filled it with water and since it kind of floated, we played a bit of monkey in the middle with it. Mental note: if you play monkey in the middle with Kyle, don't throw the bag over, throw it to the side like you're skipping stones. And so we cleaned up and then went to Denny's. Man i can't remember the last time I was there. I was flipping through the menu, and it didn't take me too long to decide what to get, (Ranch and BBQ chicken salad), but the rest of them took a bit, and most settled on Chicken Fried steak. Kyle is a drinking machine, he had almost four cups of Cola! I swear that boy's obscessed with Cola (he's gonna give himself an ulcer) and tiffany got pretty good at shooting ice out of her mouth into the glass infront of her LoL random party trick :) I had some coupons for Denny's so I got my dinner free and we shared one dessert. We decided on getting a brownie with ice cream on top. Tiffany had her video camara with her and I'm sure she's got this funny shot of all of our spoons ready to dig in on it :) good fun, good fun. The driver had told us that there was a supermarket or WalMart down the road, and so some people were going to get some snacks, but most of us had take-out boxes and that was useless for us to take to there, so it was decided that one guy and one girl should go to take the food back, Kyle volunteered so the guys were set and then none of the girls wanted to go back, so i just volunteered and then Jeff came with us too so that he wouldn't have to walk all the way over there. As we went walked back i think we talked about random stuff, again i don't remember but i'm sure it was funny. Benny or Tiffany i'm not sure, but they asked where the WalMart was since the driver said that the supermarket and walmart were down by the light and make a turn, but that wasn't so exact, so they got more directions. We all figured it was about 10, 15 minutes walking distance, but it was actually 10-15 minutes driving distance, because just on a whim i asked the front desk where the walmart was, and they told us, it wasn't "impossible" to walk there, but it was a REALLY REALLY REALLY long walk. But the decided to come back anyways since the found out that the walmart closed at 8 and it was 8:40 at the time. Again, enter random talking (we do that a lot) and then midnight came around, so the girls decided to leave since we were crashing the boys room and then the boys were like we might come over tonight, but later they decided that they wanted to sleep, and i think we wanted to also. So that was the only night out of the four we got about 8 hours of sleep
Friday July 18, 2003
That morning I guess we forgot to set the alarm and at about 8:40, Qiaoma says hey you guys should wake up, it's 8:40 and so we were SO rushing that morning we were too late for breakfast, but since the guys get ready faster and Benny finds food an extremely good incentive, he got ready earlier and ran down for some of the last part of breakfast, he snagged some bacon muffins, and took them up to the room for later munching. So Qiao and I went to the workshop about being first time Officers of the club and that was the whole morning, for us. I liked that workshop since the woman running it wasn't boring at all and i learned a lot from her. Al
Wednesday July 16, 2003
we all met in the morning at Oakland Airport at 6:00AM and most of my friends were already there, of course Tiffany as always was running a little bit late and got there at 6:20. The line for check in was EXTREMELY long. going on a wednesday morning is very popular I guess. So we eventually got to the front and everything went smoothly, boarding passes and everything. Except for Kyle at the security check point, because he got pulled to the side because aparently he's got "heavy metals" in his shoes LoL and he got re checked again. We were so loud on the flight..well most of them were...Chrissy and Janice, when they get going they really are loud, but most of us were all seriously hyped up. Jeff sat at the window, I sat in the middle and Kyle sat at the end, and then benny, tiffany and charlie sat in a row and then Chrissy, janice and Qiao sat in a different row. I can't remember any specific things now that happened, probably just a bunch of random/funny/odd/just plain weird things happened. We had to transfer planes in Denver, and I guess we thought we had more time then we did, we went to mcdonalds and ate lunch, it took some people longer than others since i think they were having a problem with a lack of change but any ways it took about 20 minutes and then Tiffany was like okay we have to go now, and we were like okay just a little bit longer, we all eventually got up and left and about 3/4 of the way there, she hears and the intercom calling all passengers must be boarded on the plane leaving for Kansas City now. I didn't notice it, but she was like oh my goodness i think that's our plane, so she and I made a run for it and thankfully sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thankfully we just caught the guy, and he was a bit rude saying "where have you been" and stuff, and we had to explain that someone had a broken leg, they gave some of our seats away, but we all got on the plane together. That was a bit scary since it was only two minutes before the plane was going to take off and if we had missed our plane it would have just been a big mess. On that plane i don't remember much either...Once we got to the airport, and got our luggage, Tiffany called for a shuttle to pick us up and since a lot of people were coming that day to go to the convention, there happened to be a van already there going to the Adam's Mark Hotel and they had three free seats, so Jeffery went because of his broken leg and it would be easier than just having him wait, Tiffany went because she had everything to check-in and benny went because of tiffany. That left, Charlie, Chrissy, Janice, Kyle, Qiao and me. Kansas City airport is EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEMELY small and there wasn't much to see so we just huge out at the luggage carousal we were discussing what we were wearing for the formal dinner and talking about the shoes we had, i told Qiao that i had a skirt, black open toed sandals, and then charlie and janice were talking and charlie said he had high-heel boots, and we all looked at him really funny and then he said they were high-heeled boots, (honestly, not that much better) and so he opened his suit case to show us what he was talking about and then it happened...he opened the suit case and laying on top were the boots. they were the funniest things i've seen in a loooooong time I just started cracking up, I'm still not sure what about them were so funny, but I just was cracking UP! and I could never picture Charlie wearing them. I just crack up thinking about it! That was just the beginning of the jokes, I think that'll make me laugh for a long time to come :D Eventually the shuttle came and on the ride there, I didn't notice much...a LOT of flat land, highways...a couple of corn fields, i didn't say much during the ride just kind of absorbed everything up. When we got to the Adams Mark Hotel it was nice, there were revolving doors and that was a bit fun for all of us. The first thing waiting outside, we noticed was the heat BOY WAS IT HUMID! Anyways we got up to our rooms, standard hotel rooms, two queens, tv, coffee maker, closet, bathroom, iron/board. no biggie. Us girls were on the fourth floor (402) and the boys were on the third floor (324) the numbers never really mattered, unles we were calling I think most of spent equal time in both of them. By the time we got in and registered, it was dinner time, there was buffet dinner, Salad (standard for every night) pizza, bread sticks and dessert. The drinks as i eventually found out were always the same lemonaide, iced tea, and water (in the mornings milk and orange juice too) That night we had our first general session and the Internationl club president talked for a bit and they also had an inspirational speaker, who was very inspirational and very active, two things necessary for a good speaker, if the speaker's boring well it's just pure torture and horrible. After that ended, we didn't feel like going to the game show which was after so we decided it was time for a dip in the outside pool, it was so muggy outside, but the pool was quite benificial in cooling us off, I think everyone went except for Jeff because of the cast, Also Kate came who at the time I didn't know all that well, only that she was from Homestead high school from the district meetings. We had a bunch of fun, just messing around until the pool closed and we all had to go up stairs. I'm so glad that the girls are great, there wasn't any fighting and we all took turns taking showers, and there was no arguments. After we all showered, the guys came to our room (i think it was our room) anyways we hung out in one of the rooms until it was about midnight since it was curfew then they left to go their room and sleep etc. so we brushed our teeth and everything. and we were all laying in the dark, whenever you have a group of girls, there will be discussion LoL which did happen for about 25 30 minutes, and then it all started to die down, and then Tiffany suddenly came out with, i wonder what guys do? if they talk like we were talking and stuff, and i said something like yeah do they have "male bonding sessions" ? LoL as a joke, and then she asked "hm...i wonder who's sleeping with who?" and none of us knew, and we were guessing how things would have gone and stuff, by this time i think it was about 1AM and then someone said let's call to find out! so i was right next to the phone and i asked the two questions, I don't think charlie knew how to answer the "male bonding" one, but I guessed who was sleeping with who and they were all still up and then when i was guessing all the other girls were interested and i had seen another phone on the desk earlier and I wondered if we could put it on speaker phone. It took us a bit to understand how that worked (we figured it out, the brown phone had to be hung up so the speaker phone would work) we got that going and told the boys how to use it too and so we were talking to them about stupid stuff and and Kyle, being kyle was making all these horrible side comments that he knew we could all hear from the phone, stuff for example like "jeff, get your pants back on" and things like that. every once in awhile it go quiet and we'd have to go hello? qiao wanted to sleep so all of us were crowding around the phone talking into it whispering kind of so that we wouldn't wake her up, eventually we got tired of talking on the phone so we just asked if they wanted to come over and benny and charlie did but jeff was sleeping and kyle didn't want to. The only thing was that it was WAY after curfew so if they got caught they would be in a lot of trouble, but they got to our room fine, and Tiffany and Benny were on one bed, qiao had a bed by herself, and Chrissy, Janice, Charlie and myself were all talking on the floor. Mostly random stuff, OH and on the phone there was this "plucking" sound that none of the girls could figure out so when benny and charlie came over they brought over this empty tube of choco-gummies and was pulling the top off. So we were just on the floor talking and i think Charlie said something obscene, mean or wrong or something LoL and so someone (it might have been me) hit him with the empty tube and it made this really weird sound, it didn't sound like it normally did. so we spent a lot of the time hitting charlie on the head trying to see where it made the different sounds LoL and then Qiao eventually woke up and we got to talking about her and kyle and their situation. she finally admitted that she liked him (which took a lot of redundancy and circuity since she would constantly say something like i don't know until he does something she didn't understand that he wouldn't do anything until he knew. it was a dumb cycle, she talked about her insecurities and things. at least we told her that he's probably scared as heck too, although i'm not sure she understood. that went on until chrissy was out cold and it was just me qiao, janice and charlie left, so we talked until it was about 3:00AM or a little past and then went to sleep, janice slept next to qiao and charlie slept next to me and i slept by chrissy head.
Tuesday July 17, 2003
So no one would notice them, Charlie and Benny left around 6:00AM I think and we started to get a bit ready too. Not so bad... we went down to breakfast where there was eggs, bacon, sausage, etc. and then cereal, fresh fruit and muffins. I opted for the cereal since the other stuff would make me hurl. so we sat and ate breakfast and then we arranged for the free hotel shuttle to drop us off downtown so we could shop around. But on the elevator ride after breakfast the elevator was pretty packed and a shorter kid looks at kyle and says "dude you're like yao ming!" and then put his sunglasses and tried to look cool, it was hard not to laugh, but in my head it too a bit to figure out that he said "yao ming" until it hit me and i started to crack up and I told Kyle I forget if he was a enthusiastic about it or not, but everyone else thought it was funny. So that's where we got Kyle's nickname Yao, and I forget who started calling Jeff "Gimpy" it might have been me, or maybe chrissy, anyways that was Jeff's nickname, I used them both quite frequently. The phrase of the trip was "come on gimpy" :D ... since almost everyone else was going to the amusement park (we didn't go because we were tight on money and we needed to give up everything extra) We really got ot know Kate that day because she came with us too since she didn't buy a ticket either. So we decided to go to the Crown Plaza where there were a couple of shops, and there were some cool stores, such as the crayola store, with a bunch of crayola art supplies and crayon facts. That was fun shop and we hung out there for a bit, and there was another toy store where there were puppets, we were having so much fun with those the two i remember most was kyle and this police officer puppet. Kyle did this deep voice and it was just hilarious, it's just sad that tiffany didn't bring her camara :'( and then benny took this camel puppet which looked like Joe Camel from the cigarette commercials and was like this is what happens when you're on drugs, and made the camel twitch and stuff, it was just really funny! We had a fun time just wandering around and hanging out. I bought some more glass figurines to add to my collection :) We took pictures of all the fountains, and there are quite a few, very pretty. When we got back we took a dip in the pool and discovered charlie had a water proof bag in his swim trunks and so we filled it with water and since it kind of floated, we played a bit of monkey in the middle with it. Mental note: if you play monkey in the middle with Kyle, don't throw the bag over, throw it to the side like you're skipping stones. And so we cleaned up and then went to Denny's. Man i can't remember the last time I was there. I was flipping through the menu, and it didn't take me too long to decide what to get, (Ranch and BBQ chicken salad), but the rest of them took a bit, and most settled on Chicken Fried steak. Kyle is a drinking machine, he had almost four cups of Cola! I swear that boy's obscessed with Cola (he's gonna give himself an ulcer) and tiffany got pretty good at shooting ice out of her mouth into the glass infront of her LoL random party trick :) I had some coupons for Denny's so I got my dinner free and we shared one dessert. We decided on getting a brownie with ice cream on top. Tiffany had her video camara with her and I'm sure she's got this funny shot of all of our spoons ready to dig in on it :) good fun, good fun. The driver had told us that there was a supermarket or WalMart down the road, and so some people were going to get some snacks, but most of us had take-out boxes and that was useless for us to take to there, so it was decided that one guy and one girl should go to take the food back, Kyle volunteered so the guys were set and then none of the girls wanted to go back, so i just volunteered and then Jeff came with us too so that he wouldn't have to walk all the way over there. As we went walked back i think we talked about random stuff, again i don't remember but i'm sure it was funny. Benny or Tiffany i'm not sure, but they asked where the WalMart was since the driver said that the supermarket and walmart were down by the light and make a turn, but that wasn't so exact, so they got more directions. We all figured it was about 10, 15 minutes walking distance, but it was actually 10-15 minutes driving distance, because just on a whim i asked the front desk where the walmart was, and they told us, it wasn't "impossible" to walk there, but it was a REALLY REALLY REALLY long walk. But the decided to come back anyways since the found out that the walmart closed at 8 and it was 8:40 at the time. Again, enter random talking (we do that a lot) and then midnight came around, so the girls decided to leave since we were crashing the boys room and then the boys were like we might come over tonight, but later they decided that they wanted to sleep, and i think we wanted to also. So that was the only night out of the four we got about 8 hours of sleep
Friday July 18, 2003
That morning I guess we forgot to set the alarm and at about 8:40, Qiaoma says hey you guys should wake up, it's 8:40 and so we were SO rushing that morning we were too late for breakfast, but since the guys get ready faster and Benny finds food an extremely good incentive, he got ready earlier and ran down for some of the last part of breakfast, he snagged some bacon muffins, and took them up to the room for later munching. So Qiao and I went to the workshop about being first time Officers of the club and that was the whole morning, for us. I liked that workshop since the woman running it wasn't boring at all and i learned a lot from her. Al
Sunday, July 13, 2003
I think i dwell on things too much. Not conciously i think...but today for instance there was a misunderstanding and i had no ride to great america (which my mom eventually drove me) and when i got there i mentioned it, but i was quite upset at that point that no one thought to call anyone else to tell someone to wait for me...but i think i mentioned it a couple of other times. not that i was still upset or anything, I'm not sure why i did it, in the end it was all find because i got there and met up with them, they were even waiting at the front gate so i didn't have to go looking everywhere for everyone...but maybe i still felt a bit bitter? even though i didn't think so....eh psychology hurts my head. oh well that was just a random thought.........
the day well once i got there was pretty fun....justin is very funny although people are extrememly indecisive...it's horrible. I"m trying to suggest things but all the lines are too long or something else....but the rest of the day at the park was fun :) Tiffany's a psycho driver! :D LoL kyle is too...and he's obscene extremely obscene. it was horrible! lol i guess he's quiet most of the time, but when he's quiet it just stores and stores and stores, until when he get a chance he'll make any obscene comment possible! we were in line for a water ride and charlie said something about having elisa shield the water away from him and then it went elisa was going on top of charlie and elisa was wet and it just went on from there. it was one of the most obscene line waits i have ever been in LoL!!! friggin hilarious! so was the car ride to TK noodles...but that's a bit of a different story. we had 10 people in the morning and so we decided to split five and five and so it was pretty much split the rest of the day until about 3 when we met up again, and then we group into random groups who ever wanted to go where ever. but victor wanted to go to ghengas kong for dinner and some of heard it wasn't that good and it was more expensive than tk noodles....so most of us decided to go there....and i think victor wanted his birthday dinner with everyone there and was kind of upset...oops...but i think he enjoyed his gifts lol, everyone got the idea that he likes cars...he got a car model, an RC car and a 2 fast 2 furious poster.
the day well once i got there was pretty fun....justin is very funny although people are extrememly indecisive...it's horrible. I"m trying to suggest things but all the lines are too long or something else....but the rest of the day at the park was fun :) Tiffany's a psycho driver! :D LoL kyle is too...and he's obscene extremely obscene. it was horrible! lol i guess he's quiet most of the time, but when he's quiet it just stores and stores and stores, until when he get a chance he'll make any obscene comment possible! we were in line for a water ride and charlie said something about having elisa shield the water away from him and then it went elisa was going on top of charlie and elisa was wet and it just went on from there. it was one of the most obscene line waits i have ever been in LoL!!! friggin hilarious! so was the car ride to TK noodles...but that's a bit of a different story. we had 10 people in the morning and so we decided to split five and five and so it was pretty much split the rest of the day until about 3 when we met up again, and then we group into random groups who ever wanted to go where ever. but victor wanted to go to ghengas kong for dinner and some of heard it wasn't that good and it was more expensive than tk noodles....so most of us decided to go there....and i think victor wanted his birthday dinner with everyone there and was kind of upset...oops...but i think he enjoyed his gifts lol, everyone got the idea that he likes cars...he got a car model, an RC car and a 2 fast 2 furious poster.
Friday, June 20, 2003
I passed the DMV'S written test to get my learners permit! :D yay!...but they messed up my birthdate. which is not just a typo..it screws everything up. My mom and sister were really happy to find that i passed the test! (well my mom at least) but then then my sister pointed out that they messed up my birthdate, which ment she went into lecture mode, you know the birthdate is the most important and you really need to check before you leave etc. and it just ended with ask mom about it, so we left....when i came home i told my mom i passed and she was really happy about it but then i said that they messed up my birthdate, to which she went into why didn't you go back in there and tell them to change it because the birthdate is the most important thing since that's how they calculate you age, but now since you're home you have to go back later, and make an appointment so we need to bring back your passport and everything (and i just checked and the i'll be a while since she wanted to go next friday but it's not free and the friday after that's the fourth of july so i don't know when i'm going to get it done because she's already taking off for taking me to a dr. appt. ) anyway the whole point of this was that they're all happy for me at first and then 5 seconds later it's lecture mode and what i should have done. now i'm not saying they're wrong, but i did nothing wrong (they're the ones who typed in my birthdate wrong) but i'm the one that should have done something because now they have to do something, which completely absolutely takes away from the joy of passing the test. so it's their fault i'm having a crappy day even though i passed the test, no wonder everyone hates the DMV. Plus i know my sister's going to go into all the details of all the mistakes i made, such as not telling the woman that i had an appointment because if she hadn't been there i would have had to wait 90 minutes if she didn't ask how long it would take. I should have told her that i had an appointment after she gave me the number and didn't ask, but i didn't i don't know it didn't come to me. which is a stupid mistake. and i know that but it hurts more and more the more it's told. and then when i didn't know which desk to go to when the numbers stopped at 20 i got confused even though there was a big sign above the door saying 21-27 here. i probaby do that to people even more, but it hurts and since what goes around comes around, i guess this is my coming around. oh well i'll just suck it up.
and then if it doesn't go well to change my birthdate that's a whole nother horrible episode which will be "blamed" on me (and i put "blamed" in quotes because it wouldn't be outright, but still it's my fault we even have to go back) even though i put the right numbers on the form the guy just didnt' put it in right. ugh
positive things today:
passing the vision test if i failed that, that would have been extremely embarrassing
passed the written test lol that's good
other than the listed stupid things i did today nothing else went horribably pear shaped....
and then if it doesn't go well to change my birthdate that's a whole nother horrible episode which will be "blamed" on me (and i put "blamed" in quotes because it wouldn't be outright, but still it's my fault we even have to go back) even though i put the right numbers on the form the guy just didnt' put it in right. ugh
positive things today:
passing the vision test if i failed that, that would have been extremely embarrassing
passed the written test lol that's good
other than the listed stupid things i did today nothing else went horribably pear shaped....
Wednesday, June 04, 2003
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
So i got the job :) yay!
seniors only have a week left of school....sniff sniff. last time i'll be able to see some people...but at least he was in my class. that priovided more closure that i ever though. :) i know he'll go on to bigger and better things. good luck to him. i'm just thankful that i got to see him for one last term. who'da thunk? :) i'm trying to think positively, i think its hard because he was the first guy i liked that was tangible...and was human (not in the literal sense) in the sense that somedays he was nice some days not....he was smart, he had mood swings, but mainly he was nice. but he was normal. and he was there, as in not like a celebrity where it's admiration from far away...this was up close and in my face. :)
seniors only have a week left of school....sniff sniff. last time i'll be able to see some people...but at least he was in my class. that priovided more closure that i ever though. :) i know he'll go on to bigger and better things. good luck to him. i'm just thankful that i got to see him for one last term. who'da thunk? :) i'm trying to think positively, i think its hard because he was the first guy i liked that was tangible...and was human (not in the literal sense) in the sense that somedays he was nice some days not....he was smart, he had mood swings, but mainly he was nice. but he was normal. and he was there, as in not like a celebrity where it's admiration from far away...this was up close and in my face. :)
Saturday, May 17, 2003
this'll be a short one because i have to get back to my history research paper. what a bore. ugh. oh well. it seems that everyone i hang out with has a boyfriend or girlfriend. :( poo. it kinda makes you feel lonely. but then of course when you see them have dramatic problems you feel a bit better, but just everyday things, like holding hands or something. especially now that Tiffany has someone, and she tells me about it or asks me advice, i'm not exactly the best person to ask advice seeing as how i've never had a boyfriend. :( poo. so that's slightly depressing but i do wish i had one. get me out of my hermit ways. and that was it i just wish i had a boyfriend, that would be nice....ah. only in a perfect world right? ...right.
I applyed for a job at bancroft uniforms...hopefully i'll get it....i think i will i think tiff and elisa are working there that should be fun, if nothing else its a pay check, and now that i'm gonna go to college soon, and drive soon i'll have to find a way to pay.
I applyed for a job at bancroft uniforms...hopefully i'll get it....i think i will i think tiff and elisa are working there that should be fun, if nothing else its a pay check, and now that i'm gonna go to college soon, and drive soon i'll have to find a way to pay.
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