hmmm...idunno why colleen's link isn't appearing...hopefully it eventually will...blogger has been stupid lately.

so, how was YOUR valentine's day? ughhh...valentine's day...it's so...BLAH! hahahahhaha! but newayz, i ended up going out to dinner with the family last nite. we went to kincaid's in jack london square. it was good. but i just couldn't enjoy it as much cuz i was feelin crappy. i didn't go to practice this morning either...in fact, i actually just woke up =D we're supposed to go out to dinner again tonite w/ gary/sandy and kids to the city...so i'm resting all day. *sigh* i HATE being sick. and i better get better before next thursday. why? cuz i'm finally friggin goin to TAHOE!!!! yeaaaaa!!!!!!!! i've waited forever and days and i'm finally going!!!!! and i'm goin with some of my favorite ppl too! =D so that makes it even more fun. but yeah, i better get better soon.

my friend colleen is an awesome person. she writes amazing things and i'm just amazed at her talent. and funnee thing is, whenever you compliement her or say something is really great, she just kinda says, nahh...it's just cuz i'm a dork. but seriously! sheesh! if only i had talent like that and at her age? i definitely admire her. you can check out her work....i put her link up...i hope you don't mind colleen, but hey, like i said, you're awesome! =D and remember, we're all dorks...=P

it's been awhile since i've blogged...hmmm...and so much has happened since then.
went to alcatraz last sunday w/ the family for the last outting w/ christina. it was really interesting. we took the nite tour and that was cool. we left around 4 and when we got to the island, they broke us up into groups and gave tours of the place. after our little tour, they told us to take the audio tour; you get these headphones and walk around the cell area and they tell you all about it. but instead of doing that right away, my cousin asked our tour guide about some stuff regarding the movie, "the rock." john, the tour guide, said that he'd take our family on a special tour. so he took all 15 of us and showed us stuff that nobody else on the tour got to see. that was awesome. he took us to where they filmed the "headquarters" area. regular tours are not allowed up there. he also told us that the light house in the movie is not the actually lighthouse on the island. the actors weren't allowed up in the lighthouse, so they built another one right in front of it, and the spikes are still there. it was awesome doing the "behind the scenes tour." the sunset was aweseom. not a cloud in the sky and it was just breathtaking. we were on the island till about 7:15 and then took the boat back. it was so gorgeous looking at the city all lit up. but the ride back to shore was a bit somber. i was christina, val, and 2 aunts. christina and i were kinda quiet; both realizing that the end of our time was getting closer and closer and she'd be leaving us shortly. when we finally got to shore, we rushed to this restaurant where we had reservations at in pier 39. it's called crab house and it's soooo good. yummers! the food was awesome. as we left the restaurant, we realized that this was it. the goodbye time had finally come. christina hugged me first and then i realised she was crying. it was kinda unreal. i mean, sheesh, it's actually happening, she's really moving away now. it's not sometime in the future, but it's now. it felt very surreal at the time. then auntie annie, said, well, maybe we can have dinner on wednesday nite before she leaves. she's supposed to leave thursday nite. so wednesday nite, we had dinner at grandma and grandpa's house. it was a normal "saturday" dinner [we normally have dinner at grandma/grandpa's every saturday], joking, laughing, grossing each other out, etc. just hung out, looked at all these old pictures, took pictures, etc. then it was time to leave. auntie tina hugged christi first and then the faucets turned on. i couldn't even say anything to her when i hugged her. both of us were just crying...it's weird to think that MY cousin is being shipped out to japan and being put on a destroyer. CHRISTINA? protecting our country?!? good lord! hahhahahaha...=D you'd never think that. looking back, thinking about all the stuff we used to do together, it's hard to imagine the next 2 years withOUT her around. i'm still pretty firm in my opinion about war, but to think that war is even more inevitable than ever and that christina's ship is supposed to protect a carrier [meaning, if something get's launched and heads for the carrier], and her ship has to take the hit instead, it scares me.
i've been horribly sick since after dinner wednesday nite, coughing, sore throat...and i stayed home from school yesterday. if i wasn't sleeping i was thinking about christi. and at 5:00. i prayed she'd have a safe flight. she's really gone now...no more, "hey, let's go out to the city for dinner..." or "wanna go shopping? banana has some cute stuff now..." or "oh geez! i can't believe that jerk did that to you! don't let him walk all over you like that!" it's gonna be weird....i miss you already!!

and it's valentine's day. blah...ok, in truth, for the past 16 years, i haven't celebrated valentine's day. why? cuz it's val's birfday. lol. plus, i think valentine's day is so overrated and commercialized anyway. i mean, come on, if we really loved someone, shouldn't we be telling them that EVERYDAY? duh! so yeah, i'm sick, i'm home, it's val's birfday, we're supposed to go out, but i dunno....*sigh*