1. A moment not eating is a moment wasted.

2. It’s wonderful seeing younger cousins grow up into smart, good people.

3. Coke is great. Cherries wonderful. A cherry floating in coke is nothing amazing.

4. Cheez whiz + ground beef + onions + tomatoes + cream + chips= best.nachos.ever.

5. A three year old can stay up until 2 am (later than me, I am such a dork).

6. Asti martini=good Istanti martini=lethal.

7. Irish coffee, not as good as I remember.

8. Today’s 11-13 year olds don’t know Men in Black.

It was a strange fun scary weekend. I felt old. Happy. Scared. Annoyed. Loved.

Give people a chance. They might surprise you. 🙂

What did you love about 2008?

You think you’ll still love it in 2009?

Martimar’s old. He turned 23 yesterday. And to that effect i show you his feet. Happy 23rd Marts!

Call me sappy, call me childish, call me cliche, but i love the holidays. People smile more, are nicer, feel lighter. They get stressed trying to get everything done, trying to cross off all their gift lists, their to-do-lists. But after all’s said and done, they realize all of it’s worth it. That all the money they spent, the effort exerted to get all these things done are nothing compared to the look on your friend’s face when they open a gift you were so excited to give, the smiles you see when you lay the dish you slaved over all day on the table at Noche Buena.

I’m sorry I really like Christmas.

Like right now, I’m at the province just breathing in the happiness. Trying not to burst in the joy of the simplicity of being with your family just eating and laughing.

Sappy yes, but true.

Even though i can’t be with all the people I love (of course my friends all have families of their own) i know that they have their loved ones to spend the holiday with.

And if they don’t I’m a text and a bus ride away.

Have a Happy Holiday everyone!

And so this is Christmas, and what have you done? *borrowing from John Lennon today*.

It sucks that you’re far away and this is one of the last pictures we have (well since you left). (Belated) Happy birthday Mark!

It seems we’re always complaining about time. Whether it be too fast when we’re having fun, or too slow when we’re not, it’s always a concept we can’t ever control.

I’ve been thinking about time.

I wonder why we can’t ever pause the moments in our life that we want to enjoy longer. Go back to those things we wish we hadn’t said, hadn’t done. Stop ourselves from hurting the people we never really wanted to hurt.

Then there are those moments we want to last forever. The first kisses, the first time you realize you’re in love, the first time you realize they love you back. Those moments we want to scream “Freeze, slow motion, rewind.”

Then again that’s the beauty of those moments. We can never have them back, but they stick out in our minds until we’re so old all we remember is what we had for lunch.

Go ahead. Chase time. Try to stop time. Live in the moment. I know I am.

To one of my bestest friends in the whole wide world, Happy 22nd birthday! 🙂

It seems the past several months all I’ve done with my life is burn bridges. Holding on to past hurts, nursing the pain that would’ve otherwise just passed. It seeped like a poison into my system, making me a bitter, angry individual I hated seeing in the mirror.

I don’t know what happened to me last weekend I just decided to mend fences. I was tired of all the crap stored in my system. So with a few texts i set myself free from the pent up frustration and anger i kept for several months.

It was the lightest I’ve felt in as long as I can remember.

I suggest you try it sometime. 🙂