Friday, August 15, 2003

2:59 PM || Monday; I went to Diane's house for practice, and soon migrated to Jessica's house. But before we did, Yalda, Amber, James, and I took a little break up to Town Center to get some drinks from Juice It Up. I swear, that place is gonna go out of business soon! The drinks taste very artificial and way too sweet. JAMBA all the way! Haha, so then we got our formation down and danced and danced, then stopped around 7 when Jessica, Catherine, Diane, James, Chris, Brian, Matt, Eumi, and I drove to the mall because Jessica had a hair appointment at Regis. So while waiting for her, the rest of us walked around, looked for dresses at Windsor, checked out bikinis at Pac Sun, got free smoothies from Catherine at Surf City, visited Sandra working at Aeropostale, and went to CPK to eat some spinach & artichoke dip. YUM! That was good stuff. After all that, we went back to Regis to check up on Jess, and watched as she got her highlights and haircut! It came out super cute! She looks hot. Haha. So we got hungry and went to In & Out, where we met up with Christine because she came back from Chicago. At In & Out, there was this little 9 year-old blond girl who just came out of nowhere and sat by us, so we started talking to her. Her name was Jeannie, and we soon found out that she was half korean! So she was speaking to us in korean and all. She is so cute! She's gonna be a really outgoing and pretty girl when she grows up. After chatting and playing cards at In & Out, we went back to Jess' house, where Ryan also met up with us. It was a lot of fun reminiscing about previous years, dances, and experiences. We talked about our expectations about senior year, ghosts, and told a couple funny stories. Afterwards, everybody was pretty tired so Catherine took Eumi and I home because she was going to Seattle the next morning for two weeks! I'm gonna miss her so much! So I got home, then just as I was about to change into more comfortable clothes, James calls and asks if I was doing anything, so I said no, and before I knew it, Jessica, Chris, and James were at my house picking me up. We went to Blockbuster, looked for a scary movie to watch, and decided on Exorcist. Then we went to Chris' B-E-A-YOOTIFUL house to watch the movie. I was expecting it to be really scary, but it turns out that I was really bored by it. It wasn't very scary to me so that sucks. I thought I was gonna have nightmares or something from all the talk I've heard about the movie. After the movie, we just watched some more tv and movies, then finally went home around 4am. A long but very fun day!

Tuesday; I came to the realization that school was only about 3 weeks away, so I really needed to get going on my summer homework. I planned on having a really productive day, so I started reading Death of a Salesman for AP English and got through about half of the book and half of the Cliff's Notes. Afterwards, I played DDR with my little brother and learned that I really suck at it. Haha! Well I'm actually pretty good for a beginner, but I tire myself out too easily cause I jump all the time. LOL! Oh well, at least I'm burning a lot of calories! Haha. Then after showering, Jay picked me up and we went to his house to hang out. We ate ice cream, watched American Juniors (I was disappointed that Chantel didn't make it, but she'll be better off as a solo artist anyway!), then watched The OC. We're making it a tradition to watch that show every week actually. Hehe. =) We played a lot of pusoy and cards, grubbed on corn dogs (deep fryers are the bomb!), then tried to fix his mom's computer. We bummed around, then got tired so I went home. I read some more of Death of a Salesman, then fell asleep while reading.

Wednesday; I finished reading Death of a Salesman AND the Cliff's Notes, so I was proud of myself for that. Then, Jay picked me up to go to his store in Newport Beach cause I was gonna come with him that day. It was fun cause his dad was teaching me how to play Blackjack like a pro, and he let me ring up the cash register a lot of times too! While Jay was working in the storage, his dad and I talked about business, life, and gambling. LOL! It was cool. He kept telling me that Jay and I should stop breaking up cause I'm his favorite. He was like, 'No more other girls for Jay! Only you!' Isn't that sweet? I love his family! They rock my socks. =D There were a lot of funny customers who were like, really drunk so it was funny to watch. After working/playing for a good 7 hours, his dad gave us time to just hang around the city. We went to Balboa Island and looked around until we got lost on those one-way streets! Haha, it's really cute there though. Then, we went back to his store, walked to the beach, walked along the shore, and sat down in the sand and stargazed. We kissed & cuddled and all that good stuff. Yea yea, the mushy romantic stuff that you just LOVE to hear about right? Haha! ;P It was pretty cool cause from where we were, it totally looked like the beach and beach houses from The OC! Especially cause it's Newport Beach, even though The OC is filmed elsewhere! LOL! After that, we went back to the store, worked and played for another couple hours, then finally went home around 1:30am. During the ride back home, Jay gave me a lot of reality checks about my life and my perspectives, and even though it hurt and I cried almost the whole way back, I think I really needed someone to tell me those things or else I would continue on living like that. So thanks Jay, for teaching me to be more grateful and learn to look at the bright side of things instead of always looking for the worst. There's a lot more I can say about this, but I won't make it so public. When we got to my house, I didn't even want to go inside yet because I didn't want my family to see me crying, so I stayed outside for a while, and Jay stayed with me to make sure I was alright. I love him cause he always takes care of me and makes sure that I am heading towards the right direction. I know that whatever he says or does, even though it hurts sometimes, it's all because he cares and loves me that he does it. I think after that night, I learned a lot of things about myself that I didn't want to admit to. But thanks Jay for opening my eyes and helping me to see the truth.

Thursday; Turns out that I started my period today, so that totally sucked. I went to practice at Diane's, watched Goldmember with the homies, taught Daniel the dance, then made up the rest of the dance. It looks good guys! It really does. Afterwards, Diane, Brian, Jason, Chris, Daniel, and I chilled in the garage and just did random dancing. Brian is so funny! Then, Daniel taught us this tapping routine thing, so we were kinda practicing that until we got the beat correctly! It was so hard for me cause I kept lifting the wrong leg up! LOL! Then we played around with it, and added sound effects such as Brian's 'give it to me give it to me', Jason's 'ughh son' and Daniel's 'whoo whoo'. It was so much fun and I think I lost so many calories just from laughing! Then, Jessica, Christine, and I went to Christine's house so she could get her swimsuit. We ended up eating some of her leftovers from her birthday yesterday, so thanks for that Christine! We went back to Diane's to pick up James, Chris, and D, then went to James' house to go night swimming, I really wanted to go cause night swimming is the best, but I didn't want to cause my period was really heavy and all. So I ended up just watching them and having some good chats with people, until the pool closed and we went back to James' room to chat & dry up.

So that was my week so far. Today I was supposed to go to the beach with my little brother but we ended up with no ride so that sucked. I'm really looking forward to the Senior bonfire on Monday. I hope a lot of people come! =D