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Hola,
It's Mother's Day and I haven't wrote an entry for decades.... and that I am thinking about, I think I might just retreat again :)
hey hey,
first week of school done and in the bag :) this year is going to be so much fun I am so happy to report.
My spanish classes are so awesome now that I've been to Spain I understand so much more. After this year I should be done with the major :)
Babysitting again has been nothing but smiles.
there seriously is nothing better then sitting down on the couch, popping in a Disney movie and having the little babe Cole crawl up into my lap (13 months old), Brooke lay down right next to me and Paige sit down and throw my arm around her.
We always have so much fun.
I love telling them stories and they love hearing them. They always want to know what I did when I was kid.
I took them to their neighbor's house yesterday and Paige played on the tree trolley. I never knew what a tree trolley was before but it is a lot of fun. Just some contaption that swings you back and forth between two trees 90 feet apart.
I start my school job in the Admissions Office this week and also start jumping into the paper with our new staff :) they think I am crazy because at our first meeting I definitely was the Loquitur cheerleader. hahaa.
I don't even remember what I said, but it must have been great because after the meeting my teacher told me I was inspiring and should think about being a teacher!!!!
I wonder how many more times I will hear that until I decide to be a teacher. hehe.
I want to get a whole bunch of life amazing experiences under my belt before I jump into the classroom in that position.
this way i could teach more then a subject. Now that I think about it, I am a lucky individual. I have a lot of awesome experiences, I've traveled, I've met a lot of goals over the last two years :)
and I have incredible music taste. hahahhahaha. :)
I love everyone, I am so wired right now.
what a wonderful feeling.
"The past makes us who we are, don't let it be your burden."
~ jet li (Crouching Tiger Hiden Dragon)
Current mood: wired.
HOLA MIS AMIGOS!!
USA is awesome to see again :)
Spain was incredible, I would love to go back one day.
I saw the greatest concert in Spain, it was an African band. The lead singer was so much fun and such a good dancer. We were right in front of the stage so I have amazing pictures to remember the night.
My most favorite place of all though would have to be the gardens of the Granada palace, the Alhambra. It is paradise. Alls I wanted to do was sit there forever and wonder around through the labyrinth of flower walls.
I am so so tired now so I will continue later...
"By now you took what was to take"
Current mood: accomplished.
Goodness, less then a month left. On June 28th I will be leaving the country for a little bit of time.... eekkk! Its exciting and so scary!
I'm going to Spain, going to live, going to study and going to make friends with all of the town people in the little town of Cadiz!
I just have to work my butt off now to survive over there.
I'm rooming with the two coolest girls I know at Cabrini and couldn't be happier about it. This trip is really going to define the summer :)
So far, summer has been pretty awesome. I find it hard to not keep myself buzy enough, is that sick?
I did really really well last semester and I guess that not having a double major work load all of a sudden will throw you a bit... along side dealing with crazy people. haha. You know the kind... the ones of your blood, O, them, yes... family.
anyway, I just was thinking silly and wanted to say...
nobody better forget about me back here!
"and if I find, and if I find my way, how much will I find?"
(In the sun)
Current mood:
worried.
Hola!
I am free. . . so free :)
I took my last final today at 4:30 and definitely did great on it ;)
With the help of my friend Abel, we figured out that I could get a 70 on it and still get an A ! woo hoo!
So I wanted to celebrate big time when I got home :)
(still want to now!)
tonight I went out with Kel and the boys and we went to the Franklin Mint to play some vollyball. It was a long road getting there, well not the actual road, but the events that led to it, and it all starts with a great tradition... Jim's Steaks!! woo hoo!
Kel and I split a chichen steak and it was wonderful. We were just talking about how much fun it was to do again and I think that we should reinstate Mondays as Cheesesteak night. After the sandwich BBG, Col, Mo and Lavery pulled up before we left and it was great to see them. Then we waited for Dan Mc Crossin to drag his lazy butt up so that we could leave for the courts. hahaha.
Sabol drives with me and blares Q102 and the Oldies most of the way... but I think my driving started to scare him, for he turned it down a little and then preceeded to pee himself. Just kidding.
Well, the courts were full of sand... and thats about it... the nets were in hiding as of light too.. but we made do with what we had and played with the vollyballs, football and then run the bases and some water-polo.
we also drew on Kel's car be/c it was so dusty and it made a great canvas.
I am so ready to do something... guess I'll grab a book and hope for a later night tomorrow.... need to get back into some shorelike tendencies :)
"Shot gun fired ain't nobody home
I got - two dimes in the telephone
alright,
no it's not easy tonight"
"Run away, run away, run away with me" Pat McGee
Current mood:
bouncy.
Almost May.
I guess thats good.
So i'm listening to my depressing music and am starting to feel a little depressed. for no specific reason.
I'm actually reflecting on the week.
Hasn't been exactly normal I guess you would say.
I've been doing a lot out of the ordinary.
I've been dreaming a lot more too, (nightmares) if that has anything to do with it. Maybe that has to do with the weather. (Blame it on the rain! yeah, yeah. haha)
Last night I went to an Americaninze Buddhist meditation and I guess that has thrown me a tiny bit. Also, this week was the first week that us new editors officially took over the section and the pages we won in the newspaper.
One of my goals for my section is to have a weekly people poll (thanks to the influence my bestest friends from the last time we all had lunch together ;)
Today on my ride home from school I was thinking about a lot of things, a lot of past events and when I rode by the spot that I had my car accident (on the Blue Route) I became un-easy and a little questioning. I wonder if I had been driving and if the tables were turned... if I had watched a young person crash off the road like that, would I have stopped?
I hope so. I really wanted someone to stop me... and then I got paroniod and thought... what if they stop without the intention to help...
I hope that doesn't happen a lot.
and I hope that the major accident that my family is still wrapped up in... doesn't ever happen to us or anyone again.
yesterday at school I was walking around with a digital camera to photograph my advisor... after I did I came across a family sitting around this area we call the peace poll (its a poll, did i suprize you) I introduced myself and asked if I may take some pictures of their two little girls who were playing in with toys near these pretty flowers. The parents were estatic :)-
The pictures came out really good and remind me how draw I am to little children.
I'm torn with my job, I think I should get a weekend job and keep my weekdays more open next year... but I'm Brooke's favorite buddy. When I pick her up from school she is so happy and runs out and gives me a huge HUG.
She truly is stealing my heart day by day, and I use to think that was okay, but the truth of the matter is, I have to go my own way.
o well, no more time to think about this. Robert has come to my rescue. aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! He put on Tarzan (disney :)
catch you later...
"and did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there"
-train
"and did you fall from a shooting star, fall from a shooting star"
-train
Current mood:
discontent.
HOla!!`~
Awesome night!!
"we all do what we do" _PMB
just got back from seeing two of the best performers and lyricists.... Howie Day and Pat McGee Band. Ohhhh the fun.
At the Electric factory, on upper level, couple of yuengling drafts, non-stop screaming my head off and dancing the night away, partying with Kel, Matt, and Pat.
I love Howie Day... please take me back to Australia with you.
He was so awesome and he was all by himself on stage yet he brought more life to the small arena then the band before him could.
"And when she says, she wants someone else, you ought to know, that she doesn't mean you"_HD
Had the most incredible view from the side of the stage... it was like being back stage.
"Run away, run away"_PMB
we were so awesome and pumped that the bongo guy came over to the edge of the stage to jam on our side and threw the tamberine up for a girl to catch and play and then throw back. :)
(but he missed it. hahah, then he fell over a speaker the next song when attempting to leap over it...so he tries to pull off that it is a cool set of push ups, then he runs and hides behind the bongos for the time being hahahaha)
"Things are looking up for you"_PMB
"Its all about the Passions"_PMB
Kelly and I tried to leave in between bands to get her chapstick, but it was not allowed. The guy said only for emergencies and when kelly told him the emergency was for chap stick he couldn't stop laughing!
After the anchor, Pat McGee broke into a little Bob Marley and I felt I was back at Sunset Bay!!
O, my I add, that the lead, bass and drummer are awesome.
""hey Rebecca, this is your pilot speaking, your about to land, come to understand, you can't stop............."
What can I say...
I am ready to become a band-aid.
Current mood: enthralled.
Tonight was a very special night.
The morning literally seems like weeks ago? it was that good.
And why would it not be, I was invited to dinner by the Cardinal for tonight and after 4 hrs with him feel like the luckiest person to be able to share his presence and the presence of many remarkable religious women.
Sometimes you will sit through a lecture, a mass, a night, or go on a retreat, and not really understand where to file it in your mind. Where to place it with you heart and spirit.
The feelings I am experiencing can be easily summed up into the simple word awe. I cannot be happier that I went tonight, considering I don't ever miss class unless I am seriously seriously ill, which has happened once in two years. But who needs a better excuse.
The dinner was so elegant; all 22 of us shared the evening -first talking with each other- and then talking with the whole group after dinner. We all sat at the table and Sister Katie gave each guest a moment to tell their story, at a specific time? and at the end of the hours? the stories each one told flowed right into the next thanks to Sister Katie's wonderful ability of coordination.
Certain phases are now embedded in my mind, because of my quote fetish. But the Cardinal's story, followed by his advice for us, was amazing. He touched on something that I think is too little talked about these days? we always hear about it as evil? but the Cardinal talk about him, talked about his sneakiness and his ability to appear as an attraction, as something we desire and enjoy? this infrequently focused on person is Satan.
I think about how the world is different in so many ways but also all the same.
How a common quality of happiness is repeatedly found in service to others, whether you are rich or poor.
How it takes us long to learn a simple lesson that is told to us over and over again. That God loves you.
The Cardinal said something wonderful tonight, he quoted St. John the Baptist and said, "Though you may not always be in love with him, he is always in love with you."
How wonderful is that. To understand that. To believe it and to feel it throughout your body and be able to turn around and feel the same way about the rest of the world.
I have enough inspiration to last me 'til next year. When his Eminence gave the final blessing of peace, love, health, strength and happiness, he also extended the wishes to all the ones we hold dear in our hearts. So I just wanted to tell you? his Eminence blessed you tonight also. ;)
Current mood: indescribable.
hahhahha
Happy April Fools Day!
I'm glad that I keep the holiday alive and tricked a lot of my friends with an e-card that announced I was pregnant and then told the joke!
I think the funny and most original one I heard today was a guy on the radio. He tows cars and thought it would be funny to pull a trick on a lady who needed after she locked her keys in the car.
He pretended that his jimmy operation didn't work and that he had an alternative way to get in the car but he needed to get the tool out of his truck.
So he comes back over with a styrofome brick and begins to wind up a pitch for the brick through the window. As he throws it he said he could her screaming bouncing off the walls around.
the brick bounced off the window and his prank was, well....
like mine.
a surprise and a sign of relief.
Current mood:
ecstatic.
da na na na na na da na na na na na BAtMaN!
hahhaha.
so I went to a family birthday party yesterday for my cousin Joe and Batman came too!
My poor 22 yr old cousin was volunteered by his mom to dress up in the rubber tights for a good 20 minutes.
it was quite entertaining though.
He announced that he would not do it til he had a good buzz on.
So when the time was right, in came Batman, from off the street and down dropped the jaws of all the children.
"So Batman where is Robin?"
*He had a hot date.
"How did you get here?"
*My Bat mobile is on the roof, chicks dig it"
"I like your shoes?" (They were black Nike sneakers with white swoosh symbols that were half covered in a rubber covering to make them look like boots)
*they are my running shoes.
"Batman, where exactly is Gothan City"
*In the extreme East Coast (funny I thought that was us)
and last but not least the must popular question of all
"so Batman, where is the Penguin these days?"
answer #1 : He is fine, I locked him and the joker up this morning in jail
answer #2 : He is on his way to no more crime
answer #3 : He is not doing too well since for breakfast this morning I cooked and ate him
hahha
then we all got pictures taken with a cool Polaroid. Dan Mc Crossin has one them too.
It was the best part of the party, considering my outside family is shady all of a sudden.
but anyway...
I just wanted say, Colleen, we have to get Marie into the X-men, so that I can come dressed to one of her parties like Rogue or Storm :)
pray for me, interview for editor tonight, and dinner with the Cardinal tomorrow night!