Me: This is Keiko.
Uncle: Keiko… like the whale?
Me: *smiles* YES!
Uncle: cuz she’s black/white… nice choice.
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEE, this is why I love him haha. He gets me, I don’t think I ever even told him that the Free Willy movies are a big part of my childhood.
My uncle is coming over in a few hours from San Diego. He arrived last Saturday from his three-week stay in Mexico during my grandfather’s death & funeral. Since he called at six in the morning, I’ve been mentally preparing myself for his arrival. I know that upon seeing him, I will cry, we’ll cry; we’ll remember the old man. Just thinking about it has me shedding a tear. My uncle is the only male left in the family & that must be weighing down on him. I can already see the crying-fest that will ensue when my mom arrives later today. *must buy tissues
first driving lesson went swell
ate a sausage egg mcmuffin
went to mile square park, ran/walked 3.6 miles
burned off all the calories from the mcmuffin
went home took a two hour nap
prepared the bbq
ate some porkchops
drank arbor mist blackberry merlot
stuffed my face with marshmallows
watched cat videos on youtube
~*is now on tumblr~*
I’ve been avoiding Angel (ATS). I only need two more episodes to finish the whole series. I. DON’T. WANT. IT. TO. END. Even though I already know most of the group’s fate via the comic book, haha. FINE, I will finish Angel today.
just voice chatted with Elliot for 8 hours & 48 mins. lawlz. most of the time we were falling asleep ahhaha. what are we on, this is so weird of us. most asked question throughout the eight hours, “what are we doing?”
On my way home from Luis’ house today, I bumped into a Sparkletts water delivery guy outside of the gated community near my house. I caught myself singing, “Hi, I just met you, and this is crazy but here’s my number. So call me, maybe?” He was cute :3
After all the crying for my grandfather’s passing, what hurts now is all the memories that other people hold of him. Every person revealed a different shade of him that I didn’t know. Seeing all these people calling our house & showing up at our door, lets me know that he didn’t just matter to his family but to all the people he meet when he was here. I learned more of what kind of a person he was among his friends compared to family. The one that I hold on to is the memory my uncle shared with my mom which was my grandfather’s final farewell to the United States in 1999. He was going back to Mexico to finally settle down with my grandmother. He’d spent five long years away from home & he missed his land dearly. He said farewell in a side road leading out of San Diego, facing the ocean with wind in his hair. He left never to return again just like he promised.
I don’t remember how I got the phone in my hand & up to my ear. First thing I remember is squinting to read the number on the screen. I kept saying hello but no one seemed to answer until I heard a light voice say my name, recognizing it immediately as my cousin’s. I knew then, she didn’t have to tell me; I already knew. She proceeded to fade in & out, her cellphone connection is terrible. She was just able to say ‘grandfather passed away’ before it disconnected. I sat up feeling a great wave of stillness; I could feel my heart drumming in my chest. The only thing in my mind was how I was going to tell my mom that her father passed away. I was assuming it was later than I expected, it was only 5:50am. I could hear someone in the shower, it was her. I started to cry not for my grandfather at first but in having no simple way to tell her. I heard the bathroom door open & close, the tears just kept coming. She opened the bedroom door, as she saw me in tears, she embraced my shaking shoulders. I didn’t have to say a word.
-went to Los Angeles to do some shopping
-witnessed the most outrageous story unfold
-dyed my hair to a golden brown with gold base
-spent most of the time out and about getting some sun
-had peanut butter cup ice cream for the first time
-had a taco de buche for the first time/ did not like
-had a small bbq with dino & veronica
-aunt with cousin arrive as we are cleaning up the bbq stuff
-cousin ends up stealing my cellphone
-we all know she was the only one on the couch where I was last seen with it
-no one else was home besides my mom, dino, veronica, & I
-aunt is of no help in making her daughter confess & return cell
-static is left without a cellphone :(
My mom & I are not ones that sit down and have a long cry when tragic things happen. We tend to keep busy; we help each other on a given task. I think that its better that way, yet sometimes a good long cry wouldn’t hurt.
M: MAXIM arrived.
V: Yay! What about Cosmo?
M: You have May’s edition, the June edition comes at the start of May :O
V: dombey mad sweetie pie :-*
M: lmfao! whattt i’m not mad, what you talkin’ bout?
V: the little face and you were mad :-(
V: and I trust a little face
M: LOL WHAT! you mean “:O” that was the surprised face.
M: YOU TRUST A LITTLE FACE INSTEAD OF ME?!
V: DO NOT underestimate the face!
M: HAHAHHA-HA
V: face lets you know what your mood is in that sentence if the emotions are not clear in the text you sent… your mistake was underestimating the :-)
M: uh-hh NO. Your phone messes up the faces. I sent a :0 not an angry one..
V: no I’m going over to your house so you can see that that face is an angry face and that you are misusing the angry faces B-)
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ANDROID PHONES,
Uhh, no! “:O” is “surprised”, DAMN IT!
I didn’t know that The Fast and The Furious (2001) was partially filmed near my house. I was eleven when I saw it, so I don’t recall most of it. All I remember is that Vin Diesel was hot & Michelle Rodriguez is still my warrior princess.
So when I went out yesterday to Corner View Bakery, I was informed that it’s right in front of the large Asian archway they drive under in the movie. & that they filmed scenes in Little Saigon, which is just a few blocks down from that archway. WAT.
~* re-watching the movie *~
