happy new years eve!

goodness! can you all believe how fast this year has gone by? so many things have happened! i've learned so many things, grown a lot (not physically...i think i look pretty much the same), met many new people, tried new things...none i can think of at the moment, but i know i must have. :)
no, i do know what, but i just don't really feel like going into it. but, as i sit here and think during the last few hours of 2007, a couple of things pop into my head. one being the fact that only one year from now, we shall be welcoming 2009 (well, duh...congratulations danielle! after only 16 and a half years of life i have learned that 9 comes after 8). but seriously, that is a super scary thought! 2009! the year i graduate! it's gonna come quick, but i will just live in the present and the hear and now...i like it better that way. the future is too overwhelming. :)
so, i think i shall be going to bed soon. maybe i'll watch a movie, but i will definitely not be staying up until 12:00 to bring in the New Year due to the fact that i must leave my house at 5:00am tomorrow. i'm going to the rose parade...should be an experience; i've never been. you can be sure i'll have some pictures up tomorrow of it though.
what else was i going to say? oh, yeah! i learned how to knit today! i kinda suck at it, but cristina attempted to teach me. the "attempted" part was not due to her teaching skills, but due to my learning ones...i think i may need some practice. :) still, i'm happy!

well, 2007 has been a great year filled with awesome friends and family that i consider myself very blessed to be surrounded by as well as many fantastic experience that i wouldn't trade for anything. God is so good!
love all of you!
blessings on you new year!

my new found friend

since i'm the only one upstairs (most of the time) i don't really use the heater (we have a separate heater system for the downstairs and upstairs) it seems kinda pointless to heat the entire floor just for my room, so i got a space heater for Christmas because my room is freezing in the mornings! (one of my more practical gifts). he seemed a little dull, so i put some eyes and hair on him...yes i know i'm cool. isn't he cute...i need a name for him though...humm...any suggestions? :)

anyways...only one more week of break! yikes! i haven't even thought about homework...oh, well. :)

adios for now!

"how 'bout a shave?"

well, not much to update about here, but i shall in case any of you are bored enough to read it.
yesterday i went to see National Treasure II with julie. such a long movie!!! it was okay...very far-fetched. the first one was definitely better, but we still had fun.
then today i went and saw Sweeney Todd with my mom. i liked it much better than National Treasure, but it was definitely a strange movie...totally tim burton. it was good, but i warn you though it does have A LOT of blood. i did like the singing, plot-line (for the most part) and the irony. but, of course, you all know why i wanted to see it in the first place... johnny depp is in it, duh! AND HE SINGS! quite well, actually. so, how could i resist? :) and see he still looks hot even with freaky hair and make up...don't make fun of me...i already know i'm a freak...you're all just jealous. :)

anyways, something i've realized this week...you don't know how awkward your blog sounds until it is read to you out loud with a couple of your friends listening. maybe i'm the only one with this feeling, but try it sometime and let me know how that works out.

so, i shall leave you all here for today and perhaps next time i shall have something better to post about.

oh, and happy birthday, julie! the big 18...have fun and don't do anything i wouldn't do. haha!:)

merry (belated) christmas! :)

well, christmas was good! (as usual) this year was a big year...i got a new camera (i really wanted that since kaite threw my other one on the tile floor and broke it...good thing she's so cute). i also was excited for some practical gifts like car mats!!!! a gas gift card!!! and a gift card to the car wash for when i don't feel like washing it myself! :) sweet! something else i was pretty excited about is guitar hero three for the computer! (since we don't have a playstation) it's awesome...you just plug it in to the usb port. so, you'll all have to come over and play it with me...i suck at it, but whatever. :) i love christmas! family came over and had a good time eating, playing games and sitting around the fire just talking.

then yesterday was another fun (yet busy) day. first i played tennis with cristina and jenny and then just hung out. later we went to second street (open sesame...yum!). then it was straight from cristina's to rebekah and hannah's house for a high jump get together. it was fun to just hang out with hannah rebekah and matt...good times. :)

well, that was my summery of the last few days of my life.

oh, by the way...anyone doing anything for new years? i might have something at my house...not sure yet...anyone interested? :)

i'll be feelin' it tomorrow.

so, what better way to spend christmas eve than to go hiking! my cousin, aunt and i went up to Angeles National Forest and hiked to the bottom of the canyon down to the falls...beautiful! well, on the way up my cousin (kristi) wanted something a bit more challenging, as did i. we decided hike up the mt. zion trail and then catch another trail from the hogee campground back down to the parking lot to meet up with my aunt again. we look at the distance and determine it will probably only take us an hour and a half or so. well, we thought it was only four miles and half being uphill and the other two being downhill....not too bad right. boy were we wrong! turned out being 11 miles and 10 of those being uphill! oh, man is my butt sore! your probably thinking "how is that possible...what goes up must come down?". don't ask me, but it is...i shall try to explain. you see, this trail actually took us to another canyon, which we then had to climb out of, then we went back down and around and back up again. an hour and a half...i think not. try 3hrs. come on though that isn't bad for hiking 10 miles uphill. good stuff! well, we eventually made it and found my aunt slightly distressed and worried about us (there was no cell reception, therefore we couldn't have called). good hike though. definitely more than we bargained for, but at least i feel like i got decent work out. no joke it was hard! good, good.

well, Merry Christmas Eve! :)

last minute christmas shopping can sometimes be good

this afternoon it dawned upon me that i had not yet gotten anything for my sister (betsy) and had completely forgotten to pick some lotion my mom had wanted up from the body shop. talk about stress! so, i decided that i would have to brave the crowds of the cerritos mall and go on a hunt for something that my sister would like. you see i have trouble shopping for her (actually i have trouble shopping for most people, but that's beside the point). our styles are VERY different and i don't always know what she would like or wear. she wears more trendy stuff, but i'm so not good with that whole thing. well, i hear her talking about how she needs to do some last minute shopping and i ask "for who?". she gives me this look that has the answer written all over it...letting me know it was me. actually this worked out great. we went together. i can't even remember the last time she and i went shopping together, let alone did anything one on one. it was kinda nice for a change....wouldn't want to do it often, but it was okay. the only thing is i hate shopping and she loves it, so that is why we don't ever go together. i only go when i have to (unless its with friends) and i just get in and get out. she likes to try things on and take her time. so, what we ended up doing was each picking out something we liked for the other one to buy so we would get exactly what we wanted. oh, and get this both things were on sale! i mean major on sale! my shirt that i got was originally $29.00, but that price tag had been marked down to $14.95 or else i wouldn't have even considered it. we got up to the register and it was actually $9.50 and her bag (originally $30.00) was only 8 bucks! now that's a deal! and now all my christmas shopping is done! sweet!

well, i better get to bed because i'm going hiking tomorrow with my cousin, kristi and my aunt...should be fun.
bye for now! :)

oh the festivities

first official day of christmas break today and i definitely took advantage of it by doing absolutely nothing. i can't remember the last time i just sat around in my pj's all day, watched a movie and baked cookies! :) but hey, we all need some down time once in a while right? so, i don't feel too guilty. festivities

last night was our annual boring christmas party, but with the company of rebekah, cristina and julie it wasn't too bad. :) we managed to amuse ourselves by attacking each other with balls of tissue paper. thanks again for coming guys and keeping me company! i had fun! :)

check out the sweet pictures that i stole from julie's blog.

peace from rebekah and julie!

i like how cristina just rotates while the rest of us do crazy poses.

love this picture...especially since you can't see cristina's face! haha i'm totally kidding, cristina...i love your face!

yeah we're just cool and you know it! :)

good times!

make sure to celebrate tomorrow!

pretty awesome if you ask me. don't forget to celebrate tomorrow because "it's only right that we shed some light on this little known holiday!" haha! :)