THE RESOLUTION

Happy New Year! Hello 2009.

I liked ringing in the new year with James phone talk. It was nice, to say the least. LOL @ kisses.

I suppose it’s time for a list of some sort of resolutions. I don’t really have that many in mind, but I’ll do my best for the sake of the new year…
+ get driver’s license
+ get a job
+ don’t slack off (as much) in school
+ write more [particularly progress in Cheese, Chocolate, & Grapes]
+ work out/eat healthier
+ save money !!!
+ have someone to be with/kiss when the ball drops for 2010

Those are all realistic resolutions, right? Well, okay… that last one might be wishful thinking, but it’d be nice!

YOB HUNT [2]

Unemployment is ridiculously frustrating, especially around the holidays. I filled out two applications for two different Starbucks locations, as well as two different applications for AMC 24 (Palm Promenade), and AMC 14 (Plaza Bonita). Game Stop apparently does not want me, so I don’t know whether or not to give up hope on that. I still have the filled out applications to the Las Americas Game Stop, as well as the National City Game Stop. I’d still love to work at a Game Stop… just imagine the discount I’d get on video games… I haven’t really gotten the chance to build my video game collection since I got my Wii. I still ONLY have Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil 4.

All the really good places I want to work at hire at 18… and I’m only a month and a few days away from that. Borders is one of my new dream jobs. The Disney Store says they’ll take me back for the last month of the winter season -after I turn 18, but that’s not going to cut it for me in the next 8 months-or-so, until I go to college… wherever that may be. Sea World would be pretty cool to work at too… but my mom wants me to wait until I’m 18 if I want to work there, so I can trolley it back and forth… getting a car would be wonderful, but wishful thinking at that. (Speaking of, I should actually try studying for my permit test so I can get my damn license. Driving illegally for 2+ years is getting lame.) If I could get a legit job at Sea World with good hours and pay, then I’d definitely take that up. Alas, the waiting period to turn legal.

LOPEZ x4

Friday, November 7- I got an extra hour to myself in the morning, since I was technically excused from first period, because the bus wasn’t scheduled to pick us up until the beginning of nutrition break. Went to Fashion Valley for P.R. and photo class. Walking all around the mall left my feet screamingly sore, with a few blisters here and there. OUCH. We met up with the P.R. lady for about 15 minutes before we got the next few hours to ourselves. Ate at Panda Express with Fernando, Ximena, Vico, and Katrina. I bought the cutest Catwoman shirt at H & M… the remaining balance on my ATM is about $19. YIKES.

I kind of, sort of ditched fourth period when we got back to school, which is something I never do, so give me a break! Stopped by at a couple Game Stop stores to see if they even touched my applications. Apparently, they’re not busy enough to be hiring. Greeeeeeeeat. I’m going to be unemployed for the fuckin’ holidays. I can only dream that I’ll get a call in the next week or so saying that one of those locations want me. I NEED A JOB.

A little while later, I went to Victoria’s house, where I gave her some tips on Mafia Wars and we discussed our increasing obsession with Twilight *WINK WINK* We also both decided to try out for the school musical… High School Musical, to be exact. I don’t really have a huge desire to actually be in it… because it’s just High School Musical, but… it would be cool if I actually got a part in it or something, then I’d have to be in it, but I’m not going to get all butt-hurt if I don’t make it. My singing voice isn’t exactly wonderful. (I’m still deciding on whether or not to sing “The Mixed Tape” by Jack’s Mannequin or “That Thing You Do!” by The Wonders… I have until Wednesday/Thursday to make my decision!) A little later into the night, we watched Diary of the Dead, because we couldn’t get around to it on Halloween. It left me paranoid, like all zombie movies, and I was glad my mom insisted on driving half a quarter mile down the road to pick me up, because walking home would have been a nightmare, lol.

Saturday, November 8- I had to wake up around 6, 7AMish for this lame college prep workshop/Filipino pride event down at Sweetwater High School. I walked into their gym, and the first thing I saw emblazoned on the wall was a huge mural of Satan. WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. I had no idea their mascot was the Red Devils! Opening speeches/remarks were about 2 hours, and I noticed they did not stick to the time schedule and the first workshop rotation had to be cancelled. The second one I had to go to was about applying for financial aid, which was nothing I hadn’t heard before. The third rotation was some workshop regarding stereotypes and the importance of accepting all races, genders, etc. Tyler and Sam were there for that one, so it wasn’t as painful as it could have been. During an activity, I was randomly labeled as a “poor person,” LOL. Tyler was a “promiscuous male” and Sam was an “ASB member.” After all the workshops were done, I stayed a little longer for free food (abobo, pansit, and rice–nothing special) and I got two free shirts. I wasted a good 5 hours of my life at that damn pointless workshop.

A little later, I called Victoria to come over and help me kill time. After swooning over the newest issue of Entertainment Weekly (which had Edward and Bella on the cover… OH BABY) and kicking ass in more Mafia Wars, AND looking at the over-priced Twilight shirts and hoodies on the Hot Topic website (and then hatching the plan of making our own Twilight shirts), we went to Old Navy with her mom and sister. After getting back to her casa from Old Navy, we got picked up by Manny and chilled at his house for a while with Jo, and his college buddies- Janis and Angel. Michelle Bush stopped by with brownies.. YUM. Victoria and I obsessed over Twilight even more with Janis and Angel, which was really cool… and kind of nerdy, but oh well!

Sunday, November 9- Went to church, as usual. I felt really bad, because the sermon ended before I even started listening… I just zoned out for some weird reason. Kim came over after church, and then Victoria. We  went to go pick up Tina, and watched Diary of the Dead at mi casa. Halfway through the movie, my mom took us to Michael’s, so Victoria and I could get fabric paint for our Twilight shirts. We also got really cute iron-ons for the back design of the shirt. We had to swing by Old Navy so I could get my matching black wife beater. OH YEAH! The weather that day was really nice: cold, windy and rainy. I love fall/winter weather, and I can’t wait for it to get even colder and grayer. Back at my house we ate sweet and sour pork, then finished Diary. After that, we ended up watching Planet Terror. BRUCE WILLIS IS A BABE ;D

Monday, November 10- Spent most of the morning in Eastlake with my mom, because she wanted to check out this new Goodwill book store around there. It was a small store, but really well organized. I bought the entire Chronicles of Narnia collection for $5! I was hoping I’d see Eclipse somewhere amongst the old, used books… but that was wishful thinking. We hung out at the cutest Borders book store I’ve ever seen. And I had no idea there was even one in Eastlake-! I was looking through Eclipse, when this chick on crutches asked if I’ve read any of the Twilight books, and we ended up having a nice little chat about the series before she had to leave. I found one of my favorite genre sections (Reference books) and holed up there for the rest of the visit. I skimmed through a writing reference book about writing/publishing your first novel, which gave me more inspiration and motivation to get back into the habit of writing at least once a day, everyday again. I wish I could have bought it, but it was $16… and I had $0. On the way home, my mom and I picked up some food from Johnny Carino’s, which kept my mouth watering all the way home.

[Random quote from my mom while driving: "This driver in the red car must have itchy balls."]

I indulged in some delicious pasta and chicken when we got home, and shortly after, I was in a damn food coma. When I woke up, I had some phone talk, then went to Victoria’s casa to make our Twilight shirts. The first part of the shirts are a total SUCCESS. Picture this: black wifebeater, and silver text that says “Stupid lamb.” It might sound lame to you, but those shirts are our little masterpieces. You have NO IDEA what it took us to make those. We still have to put the iron-ons, but that’ll come later on this week, perhaps. We even decided to do our makeup and everything for the midnight show. OH YEAH. We’re going to the midnight show, since next Friday is a late start day at school. HOLLAAAAAAAAAAAA!

And if you haven’t noticed, I spent 4 out of my 5 day weekend with Victoria, hence the title of this blog, LOL.

SENIORITIS

Graduation is months away… seven, to be exact, and I’m definitely catching the senioritis bug early on. Honestly, I just don’t give a shit about school at the moment. I shouldn’t be complaining, because I have the easiest classes right now. Government is a bit off for me, because after 5 weeks, I still don’t know how the fuck Ms. Guerrero expects notes to be formatted correctly, nor do I really care. I only turned in one packet of notes, and I didn’t even receive credit for it because I had no idea what I was doing. She rambles on and on and I manage to tune her out every time. At least I passed the first and only test in that class with a C.

As for newspaper, I have always procrastinated in that class, and I’m not really worried about it. When someone is expecting some sort of written material from me, it’s best if I write under pressure anyways. No matter what, I always get my stuff done for that class, and besides, it’s an easy A.

I realized it was pointless to even waste a breath trying to do well in Spanish. Ms. Ward doesn’t teach us jack shit, let alone set up actual lesson plans. It’ll be easy for me to slide pass Spanish 3-4 with at least a B, because I think that’s what I got on the last grade report. Being a kiss-ass never seems to fail me. High school is all about bullshitting your way through it anyways, right? Why should I give my 100% effort if my own teacher won’t even do that? As long as it looks like I care about learning and doing well, that’s all Ward will see, and that’s all that matters to me at this point.

Photo class could really use more of my attention. It’s just difficult when I’m uninspired most of the time and I have to share the good camera with two other people. I know that I am capable of taking decent pictures for the class, but yet again… laziness has gotten the best of me.

All I really do lately is nap, waste time on Myspace… and rot my mind with lame VH1 shows. I really do not know where all my spare time goes… it just disappears like it’s nothing. I think another reason I’ve been so lazy lately has a lot to do with the fact that I am still unemployed. When I have a job, I realized that for some reason I’m much more motivated in all aspects of my life, not just school life; when I have a job I like using my (rare) free time writing and reading, and even doing homework. I don’t know what’s wrong with me lately. I wish I could always just… be motivated and productive, but I can’t. My senioritis has also been tainting my college ambitions, and that is just about the last thing I need, especially now. College applications are due at the end of this month, and I haven’t gotten one essay written, let alone seriously organized/prioritized my choices of schools. I don’t want to fuck up my future because I gave in to feelings of laziness when I was nothing but an idiotic, naive teenager. I really need a life wake-up-call, in the worst way. I need to save myself before it’s too late. I need more will-power to become motivated again.

HOMECOMING & STUFF [1]

Tuesday, October 21- Victoria let me starve to death while I waited for her so we could go get California burritos together at Luzita’s. That damn Judas ate without me, AGAIN. We still went to eat… it was just me, though. I had no idea the liquor store next to Luzita’s sold raspberry Arizona iced teas! Ahhh, what a great new discovery.  Pwned my burrito with hot sauce bite after bite, nom nom nom. James Franco walked in and I bought a soda as an excuse for us to stay a little longer and “observe” him with his (I’m guessing) boyfriend. TOO CUTE! After Luzita’s, we looked around Factory2U, which sadly no longer had those slutty heels I’ve had my eyes on, LOL. Looked around the 99 cent store and the other store next to it, and bought some white & purple eyeshadow.

Back at mi casa, I made Victoria create a Mafia Wars account, and she has more or less become addicted to it, hell yes!

Wednesday, October 22- Went shopping for homecoming & Halloween with Josalle. Our first stop was at Kohl’s, in hopes of finding some decent bras. FAIL. But I did manage to get a couple pairs of “sexy panties.” Hit up Plaza Bonita, and ate some Subway, because we were both hungry as hell! Girl talk in the food court; I was frustrated because Subway didn’t have raspberry iced tea; there were two twins a few feet away from each other; K. Campos, A. Quigley & other MOH kids were chillen a few seats away from us, LOL.

I bought blue suspenders at Hot Topic for nerd day, got some pretty earrings at Forever 21, bought purple flats for my Daphne costume (after years & years of searching). WTF @ some hoe who thought I worked at Charlotte Russe, pffft. At least it’s nice to know I look like I’m employed. *ZOMG NO WAY MOMENT* and then stopped by Target; I bought black & red nail polish, black stockings, & red lipstick.

Final stop was Wal Mart in Chula. Totally failed looking for a red push-up bra, but I did buy long gym socks for $1.50. I spent about $70 shopping. YIKES. Talk about broke as a joke. I sure could use a job right about now… more than ever.

Friday, October 23- Nerd day for seniors! Those bright blue suspenders gave me cuh-razy wedgies! I guess that went hand-in-hand for nerd day, though. TGIF, forreal. The week went by so slow, it was freaking ridiculous.

Newspapers finally arrived & were distributed. I’m really proud of this first ‘08-’09 issue. A few hours after school I met up with Tina & Tommy at West Coast Doughnuts to chill before the homecoming game. I love the fact that I can avoid paying $6 to attend a school function simply because I have my newspaper badge to use to my advantage It was getting colder and colder as the night continued, which was a love/hate kind-of-thing; I wish I had worn something warmer than a wifebeater under my hoodie.

Me & Tina sat in the stands LOLing at stupid stuff, half watching the game. The music selection was really crunk & nasty, which got me even MORE excited for the dance. I admit that “tricked out” keyboard remixes and upbeat, exaggerated vocals are a guilty pleasure of mine.

Imelda Gonzalez & Issac Quezada won the homecoming elections! I’m so glad Imelda won; she’s certainly the most deserving (I heard the other nominees didn’t even come close to the massive number of votes Imelda received, which is awesome, because I totally voted for her).  Not to mention the fact that we actually won the game, (52-21) holla! Tomorrow night is going to be really fun

QUARANTINE, PLP & CARAMEL APPLES

Friday, October 10– “Date night” with Victoria! My mom didn’t believe me when I said I saw someone giving away a free big screen TV, hah! Walked around in hopes of picking up job applications for decent stores… all we got was Claire’s and Pac Sun. FAIL. I still really want to work at Game Stop… NO MATTER WHAT! Robby & Blake decided to join us to watch Quarantine, which totally scared the shit out of me. I’ve never jumped or screamed so much at the movies (that I can remember). I really liked it and I can’t wait until it’s playing at the Navy Base for free, hahah. Those new bastard kitten heels left my feet screaming by the end of the night, so I had no choice but to walk around Plaza Bonita mall barefoot. YUCK.

Saturday, October 11– Spent most of the day doing nothing. I got ready for The Parking Lot Proposal’s show and realized that I was practically starving, so I called Victoria up to see if she wanted to walk to Taco Bell and get some food before we left. YEARS LATER we met up at the intersection and walked down Coronado together… less than 5 minutes later we realized that it was pretty chilly and we were both idiots who forgot our cardigans at home. I got my “usual” at Taco Bell (two cheesy double beef burritos and a Sierra Mist… the raspberry iced tea tasted disgusting). We wasted so much time there while we waited for Josalle to pick us up. I wasted a good $3 (possibly more) on temporary tattoos. We kept going back and forth to the register asking for quarters in exchange for our dimes and nickels, like the losers we are. By the time we left, we were covered in bloody/gore tattoos, and other manly-type stuff. We got semi-lost on the way to Fashion Valley mall with Ruben, Jeffrey & Josalle, but we made it! PLP was amazing, like always, and I finally met their new singer, Jessika. Blake made me “anti-depressant” cookies, which is the sweetest thing anyone has done for me in a long time :3

After the show, me, Ruben, Jeffrey, Josalle, and Victoria walked around Mission Valley mall, which was kind of lame, because I could have sworn that mall had two floors… but apparently the first level is just parking structure, haha. I wasted $8 at The Sweet Factory: a jawbreaker and a dozen (or so) of blue gummy sharks.

Sunday, October 12– Went to church, as usual. Kim got dropped off and we went to the Eastlake mall with my mom, because she wanted to steal recipes from some cook books for work. We spent a couple hours in the kid’s section of Barnes and Noble, having crazy throwbacks to elementary school with all the book browsing. I wish books weren’t so damn expensive :C

We walked around the rest of the mall, LOL @ a bunch of baby teens asking us if there was an Abercrombie store. HAH. FUNNY. We attempted to take pictures in the Apple store, but had no idea how to work a Mac, so we stepped inside that one Rocky Mountain chocolate shop, or whatever it’s called, and feasted our eyes on mouth-watering, delicious caramel apples… we gave in and decided to split one. It was HEAVEN. After, we looked around in Anthropologies, this cute boutique with over-priced deliciously scented candles, clothing & miscellaneous home furnishings.

“OH LORD” & ICE CREAM

I’ve been saying that a lot lately: “Oh Lord.” I don’t know why. My sister says that a lot… maybe I’m turning into a… mini-Ana. OH LORD.

Today wasn’t really as productive as yesterday. 2hour-ish phone talk/wake-up call with Jimbo, like every morning, which is nice. I love our “nerky” coversations. He makes me smile Anyways, Mobsters was the main topic, as well as Mafia Wars… which is now my new “addiction” on Myspace. OH LORD.

Drove mom to Vons and dropped off my application at Game Stop. I rrrrrrrrrreally hope I get the job… hopefully my prior retail experience will benefit me. Stopped by Cold Stone and got myself a waffle cone with chocolate ice cream, since my dream last night involved ice cream… and rednecks, NPH, cops (who ate ice cream), cars sinking into the freeway, a Buzz Lightyear-themed rocket/plane… seen driving on the freeway, and ripping off cow’s legs (IDK WTH that means). According to DreamMoods.com, to see or eat ice cream in your dream, denotes pleasure and satisfaction with your life. It is also an indicative of good luck and success in love. That works for me! It’s weird, I always dream about stuff the night before and the next day I see/hear/do something that pertains to whatever I dream about. The past few months I’ve noticed that happens, so if I dream about something (like ice cream, for instance) I “make it happen,” so to speak… if that makes sense.

I think when I finally manage to get my lazy ass off Myspace, I’m going to finish watching Dragon Heart, because I haven’t seen that movie in years, and I was watching it earlier this morning. The rest of the day will be spent wasting time, in other words. It’s too damn hot to do anything! Post-summer heat is just as bad as summer heat.

YOB HUNT

I don’t know why, but I woke up around 5AM and could not go back to sleep. I went back and forth between lying in bed listening to music, to Myspace in the computer room. Had 3 hour-ish phone talk, the longest it’s been in a while, which made me happy, even though most of the conversation was spent talking about Mobsters, lol. & I can’t believe… more or less 5 months.

After phone talk I busted out the white pages in hopes of finding some local places that would hire poor little unemployed, under-aged me. Most of the places I tried were either not hiring, or only hired at age 18 and up. I applied online for Game Crazy in Chula Vista, and when I drove my mom to Mervyn’s I applied on one of the computers at customer services. I didn’t even know they opened a new Game Stop on Saturn, but there it was… calling out to me. I was really psyched too, since the Game Stop on Palm had said they already finished hiring for the holidays. I walked in and talked with one of the employees… her name was Joelyn or something like that. She complimented my Gwen Stefani purse as soon as I walked up to her, lol; then she complimented my earrings, and then my sunglasses. We had small talk about how I got laid off at the Disney Store and stuff, and she gave me an application. She said that I shouldn’t keep my hopes too high or rely on just that store, since they already had a butt-load of applications, but I’m really hoping I get the job. I’d love working in a video game store… it’s hella nerdy, but come on, LOOK AT ME.

I was also thinking about applying at Starbucks, just not the one on Palm, because I’d hate to serve the little pukes I go to school with. AMC is also on my list of places I’d like to attempt applying at. As a last resort, I’ll apply at Levi or Nike, but for now I want to milk out all of my other options, because I want to work somewhere I love.

When I got home, I walked to Luzita’s and bought a California burrito ($4.09) and got an Arizona from Northgate, which was only $0.85(?!?!!!) Awesome. James Franco was there, but I didn’t go to his line since it was way too busy anyways. I weakly dragged myself home in the damn heat, and watched Maury… then I knocked out for 4 hours… a lovely, food coma/sleep deprivation induced nap. It was nice.

(By the way, I can’t get over how good I smell right now… thanks to Herbal Essences Long Term Relationship raspberry shampoo and that new orchid body spray from Bath & Body Works.)