April Beauties

This weekend, I had a blast with my friends. We're always together during the week and the weekend, but this weekend something was different. Our usual weekend routine consists of going to the mall or to the movies and follow that up with dinner out or chilling at the crib playing wii or board games. Sometimes we mix it up and go to a play or musical and really enjoy the change of scenery.

This weekend was one of those times we did a total change of scenery. For the first time in a while the weather was beautiful and really accommodating to enjoying the outdoors. It definitely made lose focus whenever I was indoors, hindering my work efforts. So instead of being cramped up inside, we went outside Friday thru Sunday and enjoyed the weather.

We went to see the Cherry Blossoms a few times, we walked around Georgetown, and we sat outside on the restaurants' terraces and had go food and conversation. (We played laser tag and went to the movies too, but that doesn't count because it was inside.)

My friends are the greatest, this weekend wouldn't have been the same without them. Here are some April beauties we captured together.

Beautiful Tulips


Beautiful Butterfly and Blossoms


Beautiful Friends

Yaaaayyyyyy!!!!!!!!

I get to see mi kids tomorrow. Yaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! :D

But then classes start the next day and I have to work. :(

But I get to see mi kids tomorrow. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!

Treacherous Three

So yeah... two of mi favorite peeps came to visit me this weekend. YAY! The Treacherous Three Reunion Tour. For those of you who didn't get tickets... what a shame. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. You don't know what you missed. Anyway... It was fun, but they are such a distraction. I didn't get any work done this weekend. I had a midterm in French this morning. Don't ask. I have a problem set due in about 5 hours. (It's really hard!) Oh yeah... I was supposed have at least 1000 words of my 3000 word essay written last night. Guess how many I have. And it's due on Wednesday. This all-nighter thing is really getting old. But let me get back to work. Tuo Ecaep!

Kris Kringle

Christmas is here! Well...right around the corner. It's only 2 days away. I'm so excited. Christmas is my favorite time of year. No matter how bad I'm feeling, the thought of Christmas approaching can always cheer me up. I love to give gifts, to see the smile of the unexpected to spread across the receiver's face. Sadly this year, no one seems to have caught that Christmas bug. I'm tryin my hardest to brighten people's day, but it's so hard. Everybody is going through a lot, me included, but I always find a reason to smile around this time. Oh well gotta sign off...got one more gift to wrap. Ecaep tou!

What About Your Friends

So you graduate. And for the whole summer before college you make plans, but half of them don't come through because everybody's working or hanging with their significant other. So August sometimes September comes and you haven't seen as much of your homies as you like but you gotta go. So you leave and get to school. You don't talk to your home friends that much cause you're on different schedules and building separate lives. You make new friends and you have your old friends.

So home friends versus school friends. Does this become a war over your quality time spent? Are you leaving old friends in the past once you develop new relationships? No, I don't think so. All my life, I was never really big on the friend thing. I kinda got trust issues. Long story. So I always had acquaintances, close acquaintances, and those who I knew had my back, but no "friends." Fakeness is unforgivable and I don't like fake people so to avoid finding out u have a fake friend, u just don't call anyone ur friend. That was my solution.

Because of this philosophy, I never let anybody get too close. No one wants to be let down, disappointed. It hurts the most when it comes from somebody you care about. So I had a "friendless" existence. I mean I had my homies and I was there for them when they called. But I never called on them, I carried my own burdens for fear that they would drop them.

These past couple of months away at school, I've realized you do need friends. You need somebody in your corner at all times. And so I came to the conclusion that those crazy people I left behind are my true friends. That's my homies. I got them and they got me. But could I have friends like that at school too. I mean is that allowed. How can you have as meaningful relationships with people that you've been knowing for some months as the ones that you've developed over years. Is it possible? Yeah. Sometimes people just click. I got my homies at home and my homies at school. They all got my back, and I got theirs. I hope they can all get together and we become one big happy family.

I love my girls. And I'm happy to be blessed with this diverse group I've stumbled upon. I feel uberlucky. On that note I'll cheerily sign off...16:07