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i recommend ya'll take a load off and make a trip to cancun!! :)
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This is me.....a baby eagle....the technical name: an Eaglet…(PRONOUNCED
like piglet, NOT appearing like a piglet, GOT IT?? :) )
Did you know that….
Full grown, a female eagle’s wingspan can reach about SEVEN
FEET long
With broader wings, eagles are able to fly directly and
quickly to their prey….
Full grown, eagles have the most keen eyesight there is
allowing them to spot prey from very long distances…
I know it's confusing, people......you wonder: how is this meesh?? her 'wings'
and 'legs' are for seriously super long.... but stay with me....there’s a method to this madness…
Thought to spice things up a bit, I'd humor you and liken myself to an animal
to encapsulate my thoughts and situation and all things that make up Meesh
these days......
It’s been a month and so much has happened…
An eventful month it’s been…cruisin & smooth sailing but also some bumps in
the road of life too...thank goodness i had mi familia, mi amigos and amigas to
help me through.....you know who you are!    Bear hugs for all of you! OoO (<----for you, sheen :) )
So the most recent development is that I've decided to put off the
going-back-to-school thing….actually, the school decided for me :).....but
please don't cry for me, Argentina......there is still a direction, perhaps
even more so now than ever....
while still very disappointing, to be honest, I also breathed a small sigh of
relief when I receive that awful letter ...(via EMAIL btw...geez louisiana!…so
impersonal….at least have your dean sign the dang letter and pay me the honor
of some real pen ink!) 
All jokes aside, I wasn’t fully sold on this endeavor just a
few months ago all the way up to D-day…..so a sigh of relief was perhaps in
order…
It’s bittersweet….I cried,  but I smiled too  …cause I know that
while rejection is never fun, being in the place where you are destined to be
and doing what you are destined and wired to do is much FUNNER….
So no hard feelings, UCLA….We still coo.
So here’s where I feel like an eaglet and not an eagle….
I know I am not ‘full grown’ yet because I know while I might have the potential to soar, I am still figuring out in what direction to
soar…my wings are still growing and developing….I know I’m still growing because
I don’t have that keen eyesight yet as I’m still formulating that vision of
what the next step might be, and of course, once I DO figure out what that
is…..i’m gonna make a bee-line for whatever that is…..MY PREY…My precious :)
But for now, I ain’t all growed up yet…and that’s OK…..cause
I know I’ll be soaring soon!!! My Pops says so…and I can’t wait… 
FULL GROWN....beauteeful, huh? :)
btw, did you know that….
Full grown, and eaglet’s beak will grow to be the size of it’s head,
but we won’t go there….:) Thanks EVERYONE for all your support and
encouragement!
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| yup, I have never been to a big concert before….unbelievable
and surprising, but maybe not so much considering a couple things about me before i took more of an interest in music:
1)
I
didn't and still don't buy CDs and don't really download music all that much.
2)
I always referred to songs that I liked as 'that song' or
I'd just belt it out for peeps to guess for themselves.....but still, don't ever ask me to name that song or artist....
3)
For
the longest time, I couldn't understand all those people sleeping on the street to
have first dibs on tickets or paying an arm and leg for nosebleed seats; I might
as well be at home listening to the darn CD….but wait, I don't buy CDs….go
figure….
Relatively recently, I became more interested in music,
learning about artists and their songs and have come to actually memorize some
lyrics here and there and have really grown to appreciate and admire their
talent….Keane, Lauryn Hill, Badu, Mayer, Gwen, Norah, and more….
After checking out some smaller venues with smaller artists,
I realized, hey, this IS cool! I really want to see some of the big dogs in
concert! U2! JT!!.....bring it on!
Well, my time had come….it was the most opportune time and
chance for me to see my FIRST big concert ever……J to the Legend! My friend
mentioned his coming to town….$60 seats, available last minute, at the Bren
Events Center, which is one of the smaller venues….And opening for him: CORINNE
BAILEY RAE! LOVE HER!
I had a BA-LAST!
Highlights:
1)
Going
to the concert with some of my favoritest people in the whole world.
2)
Being
so close to JL! I mean, we couldn't see the beads of sweat, but the view we had
were grrrrreat!
3)
Talking
smack with Sheen as we watched a girl in the audience on stage dancing like a
llama with JL in her easter skirt (as reeks called it)….we coulda totally
rocked JL's world if we were up there……shoooot....hehehehe
4)
Moving
up about 30 rows after intermission so that we could stand and dance and have a
better view of the most delicious piece of cuteness that is JL…..
5)
Sheen
screaming mid concert: "JOHN! YOU ARE A LEGEND!!!!"
6)
JL
and Corinne's duet of the old school tune "where is the love"…..amazing…
7)
JL's
Badunkadunk :) …heheh….did I say that out loud?
8) Just groovin, dancin to the music....hangin with chill, good peeps....
It was so enjoyable….but I'm SO pooped today!
And I think I'm getting sick…and losing my voice from screaming…..the consequences of having fun....:)
Sing it, brutha!
Love this pic....white shirt.....black pants.....simple....sexy....oh yeah....:)
The beautiful and wonderful Mr and Mrs Douk....
Some of da gals...
In front of the stage...oh no, sones wasn't drinking at all....heheheh :)
Hamaliciousness......we was so excited to be there!
Nacho with Nachos....:) and sones with a churro...
da gang..
CORINNE! Her voice was beeeeeauuuutiful!
THis is why i lost my voice.....was doing this the entire nite.....
Corinne had such great stage presence....she was groovin and chillin and looked so comfortable...made us want to do the same...
You snap that beautiful head of yours back, JL!!
What a nite!
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| Memories/Ma girl's bday partayI think it's a really fascinating phenomenon that different sights,
smells, and sounds can take you directly to a specific moment in time
or a period in time in your life.....some fond and some
not so fond memories...the details of which can be incredibly
clear......even more profound is that in some cases, you literally
relive, in the present, the emotions that whatever taste/sight/smell evoked in the past.......
took me a long time, but i can say now that i am glad that i
am a compilation of all these memories....even the not so fond
ones.....:)
since xanga seems to be all about lists and
playing 'tag', i've come up with my own list and again, i'm tagging you
all...:)....' the top however many sights/smells/sounds that take you
back'.....
* dried pork and porridge- the taste and smell remind me of my
grandma; my bro and i would go over to her house all the time and i
remember eating dried pork and porridge until it was coming out of my
ears....i wasn't complaining cause it was yummy....till this day, i
remember my grandma when i eat it..and till this day, it's tastes so
good!.....
*super mario brothers- the famous theme music reminds me of
that little window of time after school and before dinner when my bro
and i would plop ourselves in front of our tube and plug in those grey
nintendo controllers with red buttons......we'd step through the front
door and make a bee line to the TV and nintendo set....
no stopping us...
*the price is right - can't believe the show is still on!....the theme music, bob barker's
voice, and even the sound of that monster of a wheel clicking while it
spun....those sounds still remind me of mornings at my grandma's and the comfort of grandma and
grandpa's apartment.....
*KOST-ing- when
i was a little girl, i was really
afraid of sleeping alone in my room....was afraid of the dark too...so
in the middle of the night, i'd often walk over to my parents room and
ask 'mom, dad, can i sleep in your bed??'.....i remember the walk from
my room to theirs seemed so endless and frightening....sometimes, i'd
run as fast as my lil legs could take me....:)...anyhow, i'd wake up in
the morning and the first thing i'd hear
would be that voice singing: 'KOST....one o' three point five....love
songs on.....the kost....' i remember i slept in my parents bed
so much and listened to kost so much, that i was memorizing the lyrics
to some of those old school songs....
*cookie crunch- the absolute worst cereal for a kid to eat
these days....unless you want them jumping off the walls....:)... i
remember thinking...'wow! these mini chcolate chip cookies are great!
and i feel so energized after i eat them!'.....NOW i know that the
energy spike was simply the mounds of sugar pumping through and
crowding out the blood in my little veins....
*mattress- we had this thin maroon mattress with a psychedelic
pattern on it; i think we still have it or maybe we gave it away; but i
remember seeing it recently and it immediately took me back to all
those times we lugged it with us on our family camping vacations. we'd
sleep on it in the tent or the big van we owned back then....those days
were so fun....traveling with family and cousins.....
*the gymnasium- a more recent memory....the smell of a gym,
even the flourescent lighting in a gym reminds me of so much....that musty smell or
the smell of the wood floors reminds me of my volleyball
days, both high school and college....practicing in the early morning or late at nite or before a
game....also, walking into the gym when no one else was there, but seeing all
the bleachers and net and equipment set up....it was the greatest
rush ever.....the bouncing of volleyballs on the gym floor gets me
excited too....
it's therapeutic to reminisce sometimes.........
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AMES' BDAY PARTAY PICS....
Dinner at Mozambique's in Laguna Beach....It was DELICIOUS!!!! highly recommended.....
Rob is satisfied with the food.....and he's also excited to be in America for the first time....
I ordered Chilean Sea Bass....yums....
The bday girl.....
Mr and Mrs Douk......
Matoba sisters and meesh.....
Some people waited at Ames and Rob's home to surprise her.....WITH SILLY STRING! Silly string makes for a delicious dessert too...
Me and ma Cambodian soul brutha....
Ames got a gnome for her bday.....So just like Amelie, we decided to take random pics with it....
Rob and his bro, Brando...and gnome...i missed brando and was so excited to see him!...he a professional working man now...i is so proud of him!
Da boyz.....and special ed student, brando....hehehehe
Trishie and I talking....dunno why but i felt a strange presence there while we were catching up.....
CHEERS!!! [[]]D
And then surprise attack by silly string!
Paulie made a new friend at the party.....
Silly people...intoxiated people.....
Reeks and reporter Yoonee....eating fondue.....yumms
Rob and sis in law....they have party confetti on their faces.....
Family bickering....
The gang.....
The gang on drugs.....
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