The past two days have been pretty chill. :) Yesterday, we hung out and watched some movies, Columbus Circle and The Woman in Black. The second of which, a horror staring Daniel Radcliffe, made sure that I woke up at 4:30 in the morning. ^^' Let me explain:
I can't say I like horror and I am one of those people who FLIP OUT when they watch them. I mean, they have to be SOMEWHAT scary, but if they're scary, I WILL scream, jump, squeak, hide behind whatever I can find, and surely have nightmares. Nonetheless, I try to watch the ones I think won't scar me for life in hopes I'll become desensitized enough to watch the good ones. :P The Woman in Black isn't by far the best or the scariest movie: it just has a lot of things that make you jump...which are what scare me the most. XD I also am the kind of person who screams things like, "DON'T GO IN THERE!" "IT'S NOT OVER, IT'S NOT OVER!!!" and "THERE SHE IS!!!" so my uncle was enjoying my overreactions more than the movie itself. ^^''' The funniest thing is that I overreact to the weirdest things. For example (spoilers follow), when I watched Drag Me to Hell on Halloween, I was fine the whole movie up until the scene where they were trying to put the evil spirit into the goat. As soon as that rope snapped, I lost it. And I mean LOST IT. XD All that was running through my mind was: the devil goat is loose and it will run rampant on our world. I mean, I was flipping out as in crying and shaking. My parents of course just laughed. :P Also weirdly, I don't have nightmares about the MOVIE. I have completely unrelated disturbing dreams and images. So I have been tired all day. :P
Good thing: we went and picked up my Canadian cousin today! She's just a couple of months younger than me, but we haven't hung out in YEARS. I can't honestly say we were ever SUPER close, but I think she's pretty cool. Now that we're older, hopefully we can hang out a bit more.
Once we picked her up, we just did some chores, watched A Little Bit of Heaven. I still don't like SAD "romantic comedies" but it was cheesy and funny as I like my girly movies so it was ok. ^^ We also watched the soccer game, Mexico vs El Salvador. VIVA MEXICO!!!!!!!!! GANAMOS!!!!
No idea what we're doing tomorrow, so until then!
Hasta lluego,
~S~
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2012
And They're Off!
A day at the horse races. <3 How I love those horses so.......when they don't lose me money. :P Yes, we went to Arlington Race Track or whatever it's called, all 11 of us. It was major fun, despite getting booze spilled on me (thanks to my aunt), the burning hot sun, and losing so much. XD I thought I was gonna be super in the hole, but I won two of my last three races! (Thank goodness.) I ended up only being $2 down :P (each bet was $2 by the way). It's hilarious though: I look young enough to get in free as a child, old enough to get asked if I want booze, and young enough again to get majorly glared at by the woman behind the counter as I checked in my bets (you have to be 18 to bet). Jeez. I'm all over the board. XD
When we finally got home, my cousin and his two munchkins were waiting. Gosh, they're crazy! Not in a bad way, they are SUPER cute! But they're really bright and fun, so I ended up spending more time with them than with my cuz (which kinda sucked so hopefully I'll see him again soon).
Speaking of parents: my mom called after she got the picture of my pink streak (the clip on that I didn't tell her wasn't real). Expecting her to freak out, I was like "What's up?" In classic Momma style though she's all like, "Did you dye your hair? I was asking the girl who cut my hair, and she said she would dye it for $20. We looked at some pictures and I found a really cool one where you could purple strands in it and it would look really good with your dark hair. I showed it to your father and he thought it was cool. Or if you just want to do your tips like you said, we can do that in whatever color. If you wanna do it when you get home or I can send you the picture to see if you like it and get it done there." XD Seriously, she just laughed when I said they were clips. I really might dye it if it's as cool as she says it looks though. :) But gotta love my parents: instead of freaking out, they are looking at dye jobs without me and saying how cool they are. :D She really misses me though, she would NOT hang up. Truth be told: I miss her soooooooo much too. ^^
Don't miss me as much as her!
~S~
When we finally got home, my cousin and his two munchkins were waiting. Gosh, they're crazy! Not in a bad way, they are SUPER cute! But they're really bright and fun, so I ended up spending more time with them than with my cuz (which kinda sucked so hopefully I'll see him again soon).
Speaking of parents: my mom called after she got the picture of my pink streak (the clip on that I didn't tell her wasn't real). Expecting her to freak out, I was like "What's up?" In classic Momma style though she's all like, "Did you dye your hair? I was asking the girl who cut my hair, and she said she would dye it for $20. We looked at some pictures and I found a really cool one where you could purple strands in it and it would look really good with your dark hair. I showed it to your father and he thought it was cool. Or if you just want to do your tips like you said, we can do that in whatever color. If you wanna do it when you get home or I can send you the picture to see if you like it and get it done there." XD Seriously, she just laughed when I said they were clips. I really might dye it if it's as cool as she says it looks though. :) But gotta love my parents: instead of freaking out, they are looking at dye jobs without me and saying how cool they are. :D She really misses me though, she would NOT hang up. Truth be told: I miss her soooooooo much too. ^^
Don't miss me as much as her!
~S~
Scrambled Eggs
The last two days have been quite busy. :)/:( (I don't know if busy is a good thing or a bad thing. ><')
On Friday I attended my first "real" Quincenera. And by real, I mean they went ALL OUT. First was the mass which was all done up.....but basically no one attends the mass because, well, its mass. Basically everyone there was part of the court (as in, all the girls and all their partners) and some family. I can't say I totally enjoyed it. I hadn't realized it's been so long I went to church, I had no idea what to say! ^^' (Didn't help that it was in Spanish either :P) The girl's dress was pretty nice. Super princessy but all in blue. What I was shocked was how much weight she lost just from the picture on the invite! She looked COMPLETELY different!
Later was the party, which I was SUPER Psyched about! I couldn't WAIT to get on the dance floor! .....Which was closed for the first hour and a half we were there. They took forever doing the pictures and then they did all the little things that signal the transition from girl to woman (but really they just added extra stuff to do which just seemed weird). Then came the court's dances.....which they were all terrible at. XD They messed up a lot, even though they were basic steps, and were never all on time. Finally came the dancing! ...And nobody danced. There were two good songs, but an empty dance floors. Even then I would have gone on.....save the cameras ever waiting for a victim to film. Yuck. Then the band came on and they were TERRIBLE. Too loud, whinny saxes, and no one knew what they were saying. Just terrible. Needless to say we left early, and I never got to dance. :(
Yesterday, my aunt came over to breakfast and the strangest thing happened. The doorbell rang and I was sent to answer it. There was this girl, only a couple of years older than me, super skinny and European, asking if we or anyone else in the neighborhood had rooms to rent. O.o Apparently, she had come from Lithuania with some friends and were staying in a motel, but the motel was too expensive so she and one friend needed a room to rent. Of course I said no, and when I recounted the story to the table, my aunt (who's a police woman) said it was fishy, so she ran out to talk to her. XD When she came back, things just got weirder. Apparently, the girls planned to sell books (like text books) door-to-door and needed a place to stay for a while. Worried that she might be in trouble or got stuck in some scam, my aunt went back out to find her...but she was gone. Hopefully she's ok. :/
After that, we went to the store (because I broke my glasses ^^''') and I bought some cool colored hair extensions. :D I was gonna buy temporary dye, but these were on sale so I figured I'd try em. They are pretty cool ^^ I like them. Then we had a barbeque at my other aunt's house and I looovveee their dog Petra! She reminds me of Kiko XD (Even the jumping on me as soon as she thinks I'm leaving :P).
After dinner, we decided to go watch Snow White and the Huntsman. I was dragging my feet the whole way there because I knew exactly how it'd be: cool special effect, an average plot, and Kristen Stewart would ruin it all. Sure enough: Kristen Stewart had the SAME face in 9 out of 10 scenes! I mean, every time! A giant troll? Duh -o-. A majestic fairy? Duh -0- Childhood love? Duh -0- About to die? Duh -0- Jeez. All I wanted to do was laugh! The Queen on the other hand was totally AMAZING. Charlize Theron OWNED it. See: just replace Kristen and it would have been fine--just like I said before. >.<'
Other than that: we've been looking for ways for my cousin in Canada, Krystal, to come over. The plan was to drive up to Toronto and meet her (she lives in Montreal) but now she's flying straight in. So I no get to go to Canada. :( Super sad.
So overall, busy has equaled disappointment. Whatever. We'll see how the horse races go today :P
Have a better day than I have been!
~S~
On Friday I attended my first "real" Quincenera. And by real, I mean they went ALL OUT. First was the mass which was all done up.....but basically no one attends the mass because, well, its mass. Basically everyone there was part of the court (as in, all the girls and all their partners) and some family. I can't say I totally enjoyed it. I hadn't realized it's been so long I went to church, I had no idea what to say! ^^' (Didn't help that it was in Spanish either :P) The girl's dress was pretty nice. Super princessy but all in blue. What I was shocked was how much weight she lost just from the picture on the invite! She looked COMPLETELY different!
Later was the party, which I was SUPER Psyched about! I couldn't WAIT to get on the dance floor! .....Which was closed for the first hour and a half we were there. They took forever doing the pictures and then they did all the little things that signal the transition from girl to woman (but really they just added extra stuff to do which just seemed weird). Then came the court's dances.....which they were all terrible at. XD They messed up a lot, even though they were basic steps, and were never all on time. Finally came the dancing! ...And nobody danced. There were two good songs, but an empty dance floors. Even then I would have gone on.....save the cameras ever waiting for a victim to film. Yuck. Then the band came on and they were TERRIBLE. Too loud, whinny saxes, and no one knew what they were saying. Just terrible. Needless to say we left early, and I never got to dance. :(
Yesterday, my aunt came over to breakfast and the strangest thing happened. The doorbell rang and I was sent to answer it. There was this girl, only a couple of years older than me, super skinny and European, asking if we or anyone else in the neighborhood had rooms to rent. O.o Apparently, she had come from Lithuania with some friends and were staying in a motel, but the motel was too expensive so she and one friend needed a room to rent. Of course I said no, and when I recounted the story to the table, my aunt (who's a police woman) said it was fishy, so she ran out to talk to her. XD When she came back, things just got weirder. Apparently, the girls planned to sell books (like text books) door-to-door and needed a place to stay for a while. Worried that she might be in trouble or got stuck in some scam, my aunt went back out to find her...but she was gone. Hopefully she's ok. :/
After that, we went to the store (because I broke my glasses ^^''') and I bought some cool colored hair extensions. :D I was gonna buy temporary dye, but these were on sale so I figured I'd try em. They are pretty cool ^^ I like them. Then we had a barbeque at my other aunt's house and I looovveee their dog Petra! She reminds me of Kiko XD (Even the jumping on me as soon as she thinks I'm leaving :P).
After dinner, we decided to go watch Snow White and the Huntsman. I was dragging my feet the whole way there because I knew exactly how it'd be: cool special effect, an average plot, and Kristen Stewart would ruin it all. Sure enough: Kristen Stewart had the SAME face in 9 out of 10 scenes! I mean, every time! A giant troll? Duh -o-. A majestic fairy? Duh -0- Childhood love? Duh -0- About to die? Duh -0- Jeez. All I wanted to do was laugh! The Queen on the other hand was totally AMAZING. Charlize Theron OWNED it. See: just replace Kristen and it would have been fine--just like I said before. >.<'
Other than that: we've been looking for ways for my cousin in Canada, Krystal, to come over. The plan was to drive up to Toronto and meet her (she lives in Montreal) but now she's flying straight in. So I no get to go to Canada. :( Super sad.
So overall, busy has equaled disappointment. Whatever. We'll see how the horse races go today :P
Have a better day than I have been!
~S~
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Sharpening His Wits
Chicago has been lovely my dears. :) I will admit, it can get quite boring at times. (Thank goodness for television! Although I kinda miss my beloved Hulu which I haven't visited in a while. D:) We've been having fun!
Today we visited Chinatown!!! I LOVE CHINATOWN (in case you don't know) and since there is NO good chinese food in AR, I literally FILLED my stomach full of msg-saturated goodness. <3 I swear, I was in LOVE. Even the fifteen minutes of walking around the area looking for this elusive restaurant my family went to last time (when I wasn't with them) and in the end settling for where me and my parents used to eat all the time when I was little (Three Happinesses which I was totally happy with cuz I LOVE that place!) was totally worth it. :D I got beef and broccoli and beef fried rice ALL FOR MYSELF. ^^ After chowing on that for a bit, I still had fried rice to bring home. THEY SENT IT TO GO IN THOSE LITTLE CHINESE BOXES!!!!!!!!! I WAS SO PSYCHED!!!!!!!! (Those boxes seriously make the food taste better, I swear. :P) After that, I went to my favorite gift store where I found these adorable bags. :) Since I had to choose only one, I got this purse/book bag one (it's kind of in the middle, but I'll probably use it as a purse ^^). Then we went exploring, checking out all the stores. We were there for a bit, so it was really nice. I also got my favorite little bear cookies filled with chocolate. ^^
Later, I went with my aunt to check out the location where she's going to start her bakery. It's still just the bare lease, but it's bigger than I expected. .....Just, knowing my aunt, I'm afraid it's going to stay that way for quite a while. ><'''
After doing some Just Dance 3, chilling, eating more fried rice, and more chilling, me, my aunt, and two of my cousins (my little bro and my only older female cousin) went out for ice cream. My little bro would only eat Andy's, so after we got his we went to Overwise for me and my cousin's. It's a pretty cool place because we got to play Yahtzee there......until the place were closed and they were waiting on us to finish the game. XD So all and all, pretty cool day. (Btw, yes, the diet is out the window).
Couple of days ago, I was stressing over the math placement test for OSU. The practice q's were unbelievably hard, so I assumed I was screwed and began studying like crazy. Yesterday, I just gave up and went ahead and took it. ..........Super easy. Not even joking. Glad I had studied complex numbers though, because I don't even think we ever learned all those stupid rules. :/
Other than that: my cousins are hilarious. The "baby" (3 years old) is crazy. He runs around without any pants or diapers the ENTIRE time we're home. He can't really talk yet (we don't know why) so his random words/phrases/mystery sounds are hilarious. My little bro has become snappier and snappier. I say it's because I'm sharpening his wit and making him argue with me a lot ;). Or I'm just annoying him. Probably both. He needs to though, because he's super spoiled and needs to suck it up. XD Well, I'm spoiled too, but still. ^^' I scared him the other day by telling him about Mad Cow Disease. :P FEAR THE PRIONS!!!
FEAR THEM!!!!
~S~
Today we visited Chinatown!!! I LOVE CHINATOWN (in case you don't know) and since there is NO good chinese food in AR, I literally FILLED my stomach full of msg-saturated goodness. <3 I swear, I was in LOVE. Even the fifteen minutes of walking around the area looking for this elusive restaurant my family went to last time (when I wasn't with them) and in the end settling for where me and my parents used to eat all the time when I was little (Three Happinesses which I was totally happy with cuz I LOVE that place!) was totally worth it. :D I got beef and broccoli and beef fried rice ALL FOR MYSELF. ^^ After chowing on that for a bit, I still had fried rice to bring home. THEY SENT IT TO GO IN THOSE LITTLE CHINESE BOXES!!!!!!!!! I WAS SO PSYCHED!!!!!!!! (Those boxes seriously make the food taste better, I swear. :P) After that, I went to my favorite gift store where I found these adorable bags. :) Since I had to choose only one, I got this purse/book bag one (it's kind of in the middle, but I'll probably use it as a purse ^^). Then we went exploring, checking out all the stores. We were there for a bit, so it was really nice. I also got my favorite little bear cookies filled with chocolate. ^^
Later, I went with my aunt to check out the location where she's going to start her bakery. It's still just the bare lease, but it's bigger than I expected. .....Just, knowing my aunt, I'm afraid it's going to stay that way for quite a while. ><'''
After doing some Just Dance 3, chilling, eating more fried rice, and more chilling, me, my aunt, and two of my cousins (my little bro and my only older female cousin) went out for ice cream. My little bro would only eat Andy's, so after we got his we went to Overwise for me and my cousin's. It's a pretty cool place because we got to play Yahtzee there......until the place were closed and they were waiting on us to finish the game. XD So all and all, pretty cool day. (Btw, yes, the diet is out the window).
Couple of days ago, I was stressing over the math placement test for OSU. The practice q's were unbelievably hard, so I assumed I was screwed and began studying like crazy. Yesterday, I just gave up and went ahead and took it. ..........Super easy. Not even joking. Glad I had studied complex numbers though, because I don't even think we ever learned all those stupid rules. :/
Other than that: my cousins are hilarious. The "baby" (3 years old) is crazy. He runs around without any pants or diapers the ENTIRE time we're home. He can't really talk yet (we don't know why) so his random words/phrases/mystery sounds are hilarious. My little bro has become snappier and snappier. I say it's because I'm sharpening his wit and making him argue with me a lot ;). Or I'm just annoying him. Probably both. He needs to though, because he's super spoiled and needs to suck it up. XD Well, I'm spoiled too, but still. ^^' I scared him the other day by telling him about Mad Cow Disease. :P FEAR THE PRIONS!!!
FEAR THEM!!!!
~S~
Monday, June 4, 2012
Then the Devil Brought Me Tortillas
Hey everyone! Guess where I am :). In Chicago (whoop whoop!)!
Honestly, me being here is the result of last minute decisions and much complaining. I had promised to visit my family when they came down for graduation: but everything had gone undecided. We were trying to figure out how to balance out costs with my need to be at OSU for orientation at the end of this month and my want to visit Texas (especially if my parents have to go down to look at the house which is still unsold). I had wanted to go down for graduation, but that was already too much. :( So on Thursday, we finally decided to leave on Sunday. Even though we all came to this decision...my dad became cranky by the evening. At first we couldn't figure out what on earth is wrong with him: but we think he just realized his little girl who will be gone all of the school year was leaving for a whole month, so he got sad. X)
Before I left AR though, I got to see my fawesome friend Uniqia! I had so much fun at her house and finally watched Sherlock Holmes 1 (seeing as I already saw 2 :P). I seriously hope I get to see her when I get back :/. I didn't realize until AFTER I LEFT that I probably won't get to see Matilde before she goes back to Italy because I won't be in AR before then. D: Sadness.
The trip here was no problem. We drove all the way out to Branson because and it was cheaper. We were wondering why there was an airport out in the middle of nowhere in the moutains: turns out the little place is for the rich people who live in the area. :P It was really pretty even though it was miniture. There were even koi fish to feed at the gates. X)
Now that I'm here though, I can't really say I've been doing much more. I mentioned in an earlier post that I was doing the Special K challenge........well that's basically out of the picture. ><' First off: yesterday and the first half of today I didn't have any of my stuff. I had my snacks that I brought with me, but because I've been eating with the family, I haven't had those calories to spare. Yesterday I made breaded steaks...which I have now been eating for just bout every meal because we made so many. Plus Mexican rice, and also pollo (chicken) for dinner. What's really killing me though are the tortillas. While there are many pluses to being Mexican: it sucks to diet because I eat tortillas like they are part of the air I breathe. With no problem, I can eat at least 5 in a sitting. YIKES. Plus: no Kiko means no walking, means no exercising. I shall get fat: and if that is the case I have no idea why I am no eating oreos right now. To make it worse: no scale means I have no idea where my weight is and whether or not I can risk a few more calories or not.
Besides getting fat: I love hanging with my cuz. He's dysfunctional as usual, but he's a blast just as well. :D
Promise to still keep you updated :)
~S~
Honestly, me being here is the result of last minute decisions and much complaining. I had promised to visit my family when they came down for graduation: but everything had gone undecided. We were trying to figure out how to balance out costs with my need to be at OSU for orientation at the end of this month and my want to visit Texas (especially if my parents have to go down to look at the house which is still unsold). I had wanted to go down for graduation, but that was already too much. :( So on Thursday, we finally decided to leave on Sunday. Even though we all came to this decision...my dad became cranky by the evening. At first we couldn't figure out what on earth is wrong with him: but we think he just realized his little girl who will be gone all of the school year was leaving for a whole month, so he got sad. X)
Before I left AR though, I got to see my fawesome friend Uniqia! I had so much fun at her house and finally watched Sherlock Holmes 1 (seeing as I already saw 2 :P). I seriously hope I get to see her when I get back :/. I didn't realize until AFTER I LEFT that I probably won't get to see Matilde before she goes back to Italy because I won't be in AR before then. D: Sadness.
The trip here was no problem. We drove all the way out to Branson because and it was cheaper. We were wondering why there was an airport out in the middle of nowhere in the moutains: turns out the little place is for the rich people who live in the area. :P It was really pretty even though it was miniture. There were even koi fish to feed at the gates. X)
Now that I'm here though, I can't really say I've been doing much more. I mentioned in an earlier post that I was doing the Special K challenge........well that's basically out of the picture. ><' First off: yesterday and the first half of today I didn't have any of my stuff. I had my snacks that I brought with me, but because I've been eating with the family, I haven't had those calories to spare. Yesterday I made breaded steaks...which I have now been eating for just bout every meal because we made so many. Plus Mexican rice, and also pollo (chicken) for dinner. What's really killing me though are the tortillas. While there are many pluses to being Mexican: it sucks to diet because I eat tortillas like they are part of the air I breathe. With no problem, I can eat at least 5 in a sitting. YIKES. Plus: no Kiko means no walking, means no exercising. I shall get fat: and if that is the case I have no idea why I am no eating oreos right now. To make it worse: no scale means I have no idea where my weight is and whether or not I can risk a few more calories or not.
Besides getting fat: I love hanging with my cuz. He's dysfunctional as usual, but he's a blast just as well. :D
Promise to still keep you updated :)
~S~
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