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Friday, November 28, 2003

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i'm leaving to Vegas on 02/12-02/16..

:: guess where i'm going next? Sin City!! Yup I will be leaving to Las Vegas this February with Elly and DJ!!
destination Vegas

:: tampa, austin, seattle, dc, los angeles ::
breckenridge, colorado
1/6: What's up everyone? I've been gone for so long that I didn't even get a chance to check my e-mails. When your all covered up in snow it's kinda hard to think about 'laptops'. I did try several times to hook up the internet connection at the mansion but we kept having technical difficulties. Must be the high elevation levels. 10,000 miles above sea level is pretty damn high. When your that high up your mind is on snow and snow only. But I'm back now so I did get to check up on my mail and it only had 2% memory left. I feel loved like Depeche Mode! Thanks for everyone who sent me X-Mas cards and also thanks for those awesome e-mails!! I thought that was so nice of you guys. I also got the greatest gifts this year too!! Thank you so much. Whew! I have been so busy traveling but now I'm settled back at home and ready to start partying again. I had the best time EVER in Colorado. You guys have no idea. Before leaving on this trip I had no idea what was in store for me. I swear, since I got back from Colorado I still have flashbacks. Isn't that kinda wierd? I've been so used to the snow and all the excitement that when I look outside and see palm trees it just does not seem right. Ha. Breckenridge glistens in the winter. Whether it's the snow capped mountains or the crisp mountain air, Breck shines through as a great place to visit. With so much to do, its no wonder that visitors return year after year to see what exciting adventure awaits them next. Ahh.. I'm going to miss sledding, ice skating, the snow, the mansion, the RV. Okay, I can pass out now. Well I am glad to be back home though with the tanning beds, beaches, and no basement houses although basements are pretty damn cool. I'm still trying to adjust but I'm getting there. I'm really going to miss the other fifteen bad ass muthers who came with me on this trip. You do not understand. We had the trip of a lifetime. I cannot stress that factor anymore. These people were the elite. John could not have chosen a better cast to leave for Breckenridge. And I'm going to miss every moment of it. Because this trip was so amazing in a million and one ways, I am going to create a site dedicating our journey across America. To the fifteen other rockstars, stay tuned because I'll try to capture those great and awesome moments we had at Breck. You know how we do! <- cuz we did it!! I got most of the pictures back from my film on the trip but I'm still trying to organize them so that I can post all of them on the Breackenridge site. In the meantime I'm also going to add anything that is 2004 and beyond to my Toooqt4u3 site. So I'll see you guys on the other side. Hope everyone had an awesome holiday break. School begins again and we can sell the books back in May so nobody get sad about college. It's hard work but someone has to do it right? Later!
more coming soon.. checkout our pics from Colorado: Ski Trip <- click on this for the link.

Josh and Natalie
Ski Trip <- Click here!
ps.. i have a million pictures to add but I'll be working on a new website so it will be up soon.. 100+ more pics of my trip to Colorado!

Happy Holidays and New Year!

Final Notes: 12/24 i'm leaving tomorrow to Colorado!! I know, I'm so excited too!! But I hope that everyone has a wonderful Christmas and also a safe and Happy New Year!! We should be back on the 6th so I'll start making plans with my peeps again. Take care and Happy Holidays!!
* I promise to take lots of pictures and bring back some souveniers from our ski trip!! **

Here is the 411 on Colorado
John's first e-mail Subject: NEW YEAR'S 2004!!!
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 00:06:02 EST

Holy shizl, party animals! It looks like just over a month remains until the
biggest, baddest road trip in history. Time to start saving that dough to
ski your ass into 2004, so no more NetFlix of Paris Hilton for a couple weeks.

Here are the digs:
We're leaving Tampa on Christmas Day (sometime in the late afternoon) to pick
up the RV near Philly on Friday, Dec. 26th. We start slinging gravel at
first light on Saturday the 27th heading westward and we'll have driving teams so
we can motor 'round the clock until we hit the Colorado snow. Monday through
Friday we'll be holed up in a mountain paradise in Breckenridge partying like
conservative radio talk-show hosts running drug-smuggling rings. Catch your
breath. Friday we leave Rocky Mountain high to arrive back in Philly on Jan.
4th, 2004. Holla if you hear me.

So here's how you fit in. We'll be picking people up at various points along
the aforementioned route, so stick your thumb out and we'll be going off the
rails on the crazy train together. It's $500 all-inclusive; including the
road-rules motorhome, the gas, the food, the beer, the rockstar ski lodge, and
the time of your LIFE. Trust me, this trip is HOOKED UP, I'm talking Tony
Montana-style. Saddle up, partner!

Flexibility is the name of the game, so we'll do our best to accommodate all
your special needs. I understand that the money is a limiting factor for a
lot of you so I'll be happy to set up interest-free payment plans and special
exceptions for those of you with tight budgets. My priority is to get you ON
THIS TRIP so talk to me about making deals. Also let me know where you'll be
when we're wheeling by so we can find convenient pickup spots. Just make sure
when you're deciding whether to join us or not to consider the likelihood of an
opportunity like this passing your way again. Not bloody likely! Sorry,
kosher meal not available on this flight.

I'm totally psyched for all of you who have decided lately to come along.
What I'd like now is a preliminary list of all the people you expect to be
bringing, along with their e-mails so we can start the organizational stage. Also
start giving me your locations so we can plan the travel route. Remember,
just one month before Operation Enduring Debauchery so be in touch!

I'll send out an update soon so check your mail hourly with bated breath.
Dude, I cannot WAIT for this party. Get ready to get your groove on.

See you all soon. Ciao.
Johnny T

John's 2nd e-mail
Subject: Colorado, HO!
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:03:34 EST

Holy shit, rock stars--one more week! This may be among the last of the
e-mails, so hopefully everyone who's in is well-informed. Here's some final info.

Those of you in Florida: Remember, we're leaving Christmas Day so be ready!
The earlier, the better really but we'll see how it goes.
Those of you along the way to Philly: Make sure you're ready Friday and make
sure your ride is secured.
Those of you in New York: Try to be in Philly by Friday night at my
apartment. Let me know if you need directions or a pickup from the train station or
anything like that.
Those of you in Philly: Let's all crash at my place on Friday. We'll be
leaving first thing Saturday morning, say 7:00.
Erie: Try to get to Pittsburgh early Saturday to meet us. Let me know if
this is a problem.
Pittsburgh: That means we'll see you Saturday afternoon around lunch time.
We'll be in touch for exact time and place.
Indiana: Plan on late Saturday--early Sunday. We're taking I-70 and we'll
give you a better idea of how the timing is going as we get closer.
We'll be in Colorado by Monday for those of you meeting us there.

Remember, we're doing 6-hour driving teams of two so we can travel around the
clock. I'll be assigning teams shortly, so make sure you notify me of
special requests for partners or times you prefer to be drinking (remember, you have
to be REALLY sober to drive a 36 foot RV in the snow at 70 miles an hour).
Music is completely the discretion of the active driving teams, so if you want
to bring your own special driving music, feel free. For the partiers there
are two TV's, and we'll have two playstations with DVD players and plenty of
beer, cards, beer, food and beer. Huzzah!

Call me ***-***-**** anytime with questions. Can't wait to see you all next
week! Get psyched!

Sincerely,
Professional cock-ring model John Tedesco

Remember to forward this to your guests!

Now here is the 411 on our stay at the Breckenridge Mansion
Location: Breckenridge, Rocky Mountain/West, Colorado, USA (45min/4 other ski areas 2hrsDIA/Co.Sprgs.1+hrsEagle/Vail)
Accommodations: Home - 4 Bedrooms + Convertible bed(s) - 4 Baths - (Sleeps 14-16) *note: this is only half of the house!!
Gorgeous home (1/2 luxury duplex) that can be rented either as a 3/3 (2400 sf) or a 4/4 (3000sf). Private hot tub, sauna, pool table, huge sunny deck with barbecue, gourmet kitchen with polished granite countertops, Jennaire, conventional and convection oven, fabulous bathrooms, two master suites (each has king mattress and day bed (2 singles or another king). Third bedroom has two queen beds. Fourth bedroom is full apartment with its own kitchen, fireplace, w/d, walk in closet,oversized jacuzzi tub, & private deck with bar b que. This fabulous home is just blocks from Downtown Breckenridge, Quick Silver Lift & ice rink (20 - 30 minute walk!) Free Shuttle stop is 1 1/2 blocks away. Drive anywhere in town or to any ski parking in less than 5 minutes. This well maintained mountain residence will provide your family and friends comfortable, close-in lodging for your winter and summer visits to Summit County. Pool available. Sorry, No Smoking or Pets allowed. Owner has 4 other luxury properties close to town, all upscale,immaculate & well maintained. See VRBO # 5373(3000sf ski out home (ski to lifts in 5 minutes!) sleeps 15); #20601 (3/3 totally redone condo just 4 minute walk to lift and 1/2 block from Main Street (together with 2/3 across hall also owned will sleep 20); #10920(ski in ski out downtown 1/1 luxurious condo with views, 100 ft from lift...sleeps 6)& ski in ski out downtown studio with views and full kitchen...sleeps 4) Hostess is licensed r.e. broker who can help you with your mountain dream home or investment property. Obviously, she knows and believes in Breck real estate!
Amenities: Fireplace, Phone, Cable TV, VCR, CD Player, Full Kitchen, Microwave, Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Ice Maker, Cooking utensils provided, Linens provided, Washer, Dryer, Jetted Tub in Bath(B unit), Private outside Hot Tubs, Sauna(A), pool table(A) Garage, Gas Grill (BBQ). 2 blocks to bus stop. Walk to town(15 )min. 5 minute drive to lift parking/ski school. 10 minutes from free parking-catch bus to Peak 8 or 9. 30 min drive to Keystone, Copper Mtn, Arapahoe Basin. 40 to Vail/Beaver Creek ski areas. Superb location for great vacation.
Activities (on site or nearby): Hiking, Rock & Ice Climbing, Biking, Golf, Tennis, Racquetball, ice skating, Basketball, Fitness Center, Gym, Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife Viewing, Horseback Riding, Shopping, Restaurants, Live Theater, Cinemas, Museums, Sightseeing, Swimming, Boating, Sailing, Rafting, Downhill Skiing, Snowboarding, Cross Country Skiing, Snowmobiling, Sledding
in other words, it's like Road Rules meets The Real World.. I can't wait!!
My thoughts on the trip
12/22: How can a person breathe for such an exciting event? I guess they just don't. Can someone please send me a resperator ASAP? I think I'm going to need one. I told my family that I am not going to be able to sleep on X-Mas eve. My eyes are going to be wide open. *for several reasons. I'm just psyched that we leave in three days and I feel like I haven't even finished wrapping all of my X-Mas presents. I plan on doing all that Santa's Little Helper stuff tomorrow. So okay, yesterday I went with my sister to get a beenie aka: ski hat for my trip. I like this one that i got from UM because it covers my head and also my ears. I gave my other two Abercrombie beenie's (the ones that just covers your head) to Josh. Today my sister is going to look into getting me some gloves because we all know that Colorado is going to be freezing. 'What's cooler than being cool? Ice cold.' See, even Outcast knows what's up. Fo sho. Last night we all met up at Club Bennigans to discuss our trip to Breckenridge. And also it was a good excuse to just to have a few beers. Why not right? John's brother was telling us that there are seventeen of us meeting in Penn State. Geeze! That is a hella of a lot of peeps! Which also means that this trip is going to be off the hizzle. We are also spending New Year's in Breckenridge and John has something planned out for us to do each day. Me and Natalie are just excited to have snow ball fights, snowmen building, and also snowboarding to look forward too. Everytime we talk about we start screaming. Then we look around and see people starring at us and we just laugh. John said to pack light but how do you pack light on a trip like this? Knowing me, I'll have two suit cases packed and also three carry on bags. And you think I'm kidding. He also said that the RV has DVD players, a kitchen, pretty much it's hooked up that even Paris Hilton wouldn't complain. Josh saw pictures of the RV and he said that it was PH-phat. So amen to that. I'm just glad that we leave now and not a few weeks later or else I'll just pass out of all of the excitement. So here is to Colorado and to the great friends that I'm going with to experience the best road trip and New Years of a lifetime!! Happy Holidays everyone and also I will make sure to send out post cards to you guys. and yes, I already bought like four rolls of film so there will be tons of pictures when I get back!! Later!!

12/22: Finals are over and I'm am so ready for my ski trip to Aspen Colorado. I've already started packing, which is good since I only have a week to get ready. I still need ear muffs and some snow shoes. I wonder if they sell them at International? Anyway, tons of new pictures on their way from Natalie's Birthday Party!! We had such a great time at Hyde Park Cafe. Everyone got so faded. And the limo was so pimp! stay tuned.. And you thought that all the excitement was over.. for a minute there we did take a breather from our trip to Miami, but we still have Natalie's Limo birthday party and our Aspen Ski Trip coming up. Hang onto your seatbelts because there's more coming up in December. I am so excited about :: Aspen :: mainly because Dumb and Dumber was filmed there. Also to mention that I will be hanging out with my best friends Natalie and Josh along with John and twenty of his close friends. It is going to be off the hizzle foe shizzle. And then add a 'my nizzle' on the end of that. I can't wait. Did I mention that John already paid for the trip and we will be staying at the beautiful mansion there for an entire week. An RV, and plus the ski lodge. What? Can we all say P.I.M.P. and 50 cent will back me up on that one. Also Natalie is turning 21 on December 11th and we have something so huge planned for her and she doesn't even know it. Well that is all I have for now but I will be updating you guys more on my upcoming trip to the :: Colorado Mountains ::. Life right now is so exciting that I could just burst. And I'm going to add a few pictures on here just to preview of what's coming up.. Later! :: upcoming: Kill Bill, maxim party at the florida aquarium, Miami Beach with Mila and Elena, Gianni Versace's crib on Ocean Drive, liz's Fondu party, Justin's Birthday Party, Thanksgiving Weekend, Hyde Park Cafe, Prana, Blue Martini, amphitheatre, Madiera Beach, cheaper by the dozen, gothika premier, Natalie's Surprise Party, lara's birthday , natalie's limo birthday party, Gigi's No Jean's Mixer, max's christmas party, colorado ski trip, Leo and Denise's New Years Eve Party ::

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12/18: Happy Holidays from all of us!
breckenridge, colorado

upcoming

:: Josh and John at the Raymond James Stadium ::

hyde park cafe
[ Stephanie, Jackie, Ali, Lauren, John, Nicole, Arthur, Marialle, Natalie, and Genevieve - Arthur, Genevieve, Natalie, Marialle, and Josh - John and Nicole - Natalie, Marialle, Nicole, and Ali - Marialle and Natalie - inside the limo - Natalie and her crew from LeRoy's - Marialle, Natalie, Jackie, and Nicole - Natalie, Josh, and Nicole ]

keepin' warm
Breckenridge, Colorado My sister Elly is just the cutest!! She bought me these long sleeve shirts from American Eagle for my trip to Colorado. One say's Powder Keg and the other one says Colorado Stags!! I can't wait to wear them! So here's the 411 on Aspen. On the drive home from bowling last night, John was giving us more details on our trip. So apparently we are taking two huge ass RV’s out to Penn State. The original departure date was the 26th. You know, the day after Christmas. Who can leave on Christmas day right? Nobody because we all want to spend Christmas day with our families. Well John was explaining to us that we had to be at Penn State at a certain time. For us to make it on time and not be exhausted, then we’d have to leave on Christmas evening. Well that will give us only like 6 hours to spend time with our families. I already told my mom the situation and she was like, 'Well if you really have to leave on that time then we'll just have to have Christmas dinner early.' Aww.. I heart my mom. So as for more details: John is going to send me the link of the place will be staying at in Colorado. From what John told me, this mansion has four bedrooms, a huge living room, several fireplaces, and two jalousies outside the loft. Okay, can we all scream and jump on the beds now. My stomach started to get that feeling like when you’re about to go down on a roller coaster. I couldn’t handle it. This trip will be the trip of a lifetime!! When we do meet at Penn State, there will be fourteen of us meeting for this trip. Eleven guys and three girls. I have already met some of the people on the trip and they are all really nice. This one girl Heather goes to Notre Dame and she is so awesome. I can’t wait to see her again. John's brother is also going on this trip. He was telling us that we were going to be broken up into teams. One team will be in charge of driving for six whole hours. Okay, me and Natalie looked at each other and we're like, 'what else can we sign up for?' Another team is in charge for cooking meals. Sign me up for that one because I love to cook. And you guys thought that I could only cook Spam and Oodles Of Noodles. Plus Josh is going into the culinary program anyway and knows how to cook to begin with so we're set. I’ve never driven in snow for one and the last thing I'd want to do is drive into a snowman. We should get back sometime in January 6th. So yes, we will be spending New Years in Aspen!! I cannot wait. John also said that we will be going to Breckenridge for parties and clubs. I wonder what the college life is like over there? I am so excited about this trip that I think I am going to explode!! I can’t believe that in a week we are going to be there!! Ahhhh!! I am not going to be able to sleep on Christmas Eve this year. Nate flies in that night too. I'm going to make one of those poster board signs that say, 'Welcome Home' before I go to airport. I'm such a nerd but I've always wanted to do that. I'm so excited. I can't wait to build snowmen, I can't wait to make snow angels, I can't wait to sit by the fireplace with all my friends, I can't wait to ski down a small slope because we all know that I can't be going down no big slopes and breaking a knee cap or two, I can't wait to eat marshmallows and drink it down with hot cocoa, I can’t wait to see Breckenridge, I can’t wait for New Years and to see snow falling, and lastly I can’t wait to finally have a snow ball fight. Since I was four I've always dreamed of doing that. So here is to Aspen and to the fourteen people going on this trip!! New Years has never looked so great. Happy Holidays to everyone and a Merry Christmas!!

Natalie's Birthday Party
Thur Dec 18, 2003 Theme: Milkshake by Kelis
Roster: Natalie, Josh, Arthur, Nicole, John, Jeff, Marialle, Genevieve, Ali, Virginia, Stephanie, Gabe, and Jackie
coming soon..

:: pictures coming soon for both events :: only two more weeks!!
Sun Dec 14, 2003 Theme: Stacy's Mom by Fountains Of Wayne
So I wake up this morning to find my feet exposed and everything else under the blankets. I try to reach over, being as lazy as possible, to reach over and try to pull the rest of the blanket over me. By this time, I had made too much noise and my Jack Russell 'Chilli' comes up to me and starts licking my face. He always does that! He will sit there and wait by my side all moring long until he knows that I am fully awake, then he starts pouncing and licking my face. So at this moment, I'm still half awake half asleep and I think I was still waking up from a good dream, and then all of the sudden I hear a beeping noise on the side of my bed. I'm wondering, what did I do last again? Oh yeah, The Hulk. Well I look over at my pager and it says 4 missed messages. Dammit. One was from my baby. I kept saying the night before, 'wake me up in the morning so that I can call you back while your phone charges.' I'm like, 'Awww, there goes my damn wake-up call and I missed it by thirty minutes.' The other two pages were from Natalie and Josh, and I totally forgot that they were going over to John's I think to hang out over night since his parents were going out of town. I don't exactly remember. I was just glad that school was over and that I got most of my exam grades back. Five A's and a CIP in Astronomy. Our professor hasn't given out our grades yet I'm guessing. I had breakfast: Pizza and Jenesi's fruit punch! I love those little things. They are actually better than Capri Suns. Later I call Lara at her house and she's like, 'Me and LaFe and putting up the x-mas tree, come over.' I'm like, 'Okay, cool, it will be fun.' I go over there right and not even thirty minutes of setting up the tree, I fall asleep on her couch. When I wake up, more than half the tree is already decorated. I'm like, 'oops, sorry Lara, I guess I was really tired.' Bumb. Ha. Then tonight I went and finished making my christmas list and hopefully I will get my new Kodak Camera. It's so cute and little and plus I really dig the whole mini printer thing. I can't wait to start using it! Well I am off to make my round of phone calls. I'm sure all my friends are missing me right because I have 8 un-heard new messages. I miss you guys too! Only two more weeks till Christmas Eve!! I am so excited!! Can't wait to see my baby. Can't wait for Christmas! Can't wait for New Years!! Also can't wait for Breckenridge Colorado!! Ski Trip here we come!!

:: Arthur, MTV The Real World's Danny, and Adreianne ::
Watch Danny: Clip One

Natalie's Surprise Party

Fri Dec 12, 2003 Theme: Suga Suga by Bay Bash
Me and Jenevieve spent like four hours at the mall yesterday trying to find Natalie a gift. By the third hour, we were both starving and was saying, 'I really hope that there's food-food at Natalie's Surprise Party. We were some hungry Somalians. On the way out we even grabbed some free samples from those oriental people at the food court. so shout-outs to free samples. That gave us at least thirty minutes lee-way time from the mall to Natalie's house. We found Natalie this really cute bag that she can wear for our trip to Aspen. It's this wool bag that's reversable from light cream to baby blue. Yes, it is very pimp. Natalie and Josh had spent like a ton of money on clothes the other day for the trip so I thought that the bag would go good with it. And since it was Natalie's 21st Birthday, inside the bag was some Crown Royal. Hell yeah. You know how we do. I made Natalie this cute album of her, Josh, and all of her friends. The album was from Urban Outfitters and I think there is a picture of it on the Urban Outfitters website if you guys want to check it out. It's very vintage south eastern. When we finally arrived at Natalie's house, I'm like, 'I better park far away because she'll recognize my car.' So I parked at the neighbors down the street. When me and Jenevieve went into Natalie's house we saw some chips on the counter and we were like, 'Food!' Natalie's mom is so cute. She got us food from LeRoy Selmons and also two bottles of Korbel champaine. Almost everyone gifts were either liquor, or alcohol related stuff. I was like, 'Hide some of the liquor from Natalie's dad cuz I don't want him to think that we're a bunch of alcoholics.' So we put it in Natalie's room. Okay so here was the plan. Me and Rosanne had organized the whole Suprise Party for three weeks now. Josh was to take Natalie out of the house for a few hours while everyone arrives and sets up. Well guess what? Ha, the surprise party was on us. So we're all chatting waiting for them to get home when all of the sudden Jenevieve is like, 'I think I hear a car pulling up the driveway.' Then I go, 'Oh! That must be Marialle.' So me and Jenevieve peek out the window and it's Natalie and Josh! We both start screaming and run behind the couch. But of course by this time it was already too late and she had already seen us. So when they open the door, everyone yells, 'Surprise!' and she's like, 'OMG!' She really had no idea! It was so hilarious! A ton of Natalie's friends were there that she hadn't even spoken to in years. It was like a scene from This Is Your life.. it was so funny. John came over and so did Natalie's friends from Tampa Cathloic and Rio Bravo's. And we took a ton of great pictures too. Natalie was so surprised!! Even though we ruined it by having all the lights on. Josh was laughing cuz he was like, 'Great surprise Arthur.' I'm like, 'What? I tried.' John couldn't stay long because he had to do some modeling for Men's Health Magazine this weekend but he did play a few tunes for us on the piano. John is Motzart re-incarnated. He is like one of those children in The Matrix that bends spoons and shit. So he played some Christmas songs and everyone sat around sippin on some Korbel and just having a great time. Then once John was done, we called an encore for Natalie to play something on the piano. See, back in the day, Natalie used to play the piano so we wanted to hear a sample of it. She was so shy and so cute and ended up playing a song for us. She did so good!! Everyone was like, 'Natalie!! You are the next American Idol!!' Ha. After the toast everyone was pretty much chill. Jenevieve had to leave for work and put us all on the Vip list at Prana but we were so tired and just wanted to chill out for the night. We're really saving ourselves for Tuesday night for Natalie's Limo party so that will be exciting. A few more friends of Natalie's showed up and of course I knew them. I knew almost all of Natalie's friends. How bad is that? No one can ever introduce me to anyone because 99.9 percent of the time I have either met them before or they know me from somewhere. We had a blast playing Uno which we never finished because that game lasts for a million years when you have like 9 players so we gave up and just told stories the rest of the night. Aww.. also it's so awesome that I introduced Natalie and Josh because next week is their one year annaversary and they are so happy together. I cannot ask for anything more. These are my best friends and just not regular best friends but the kind you keep for the rest of your life. Natalie had such a great time!! Her surprise party was off the cheesey. you better believe me! Natalie is finally twenty-one and access granted for all the clubs and alcohol purchases to come! Happy Birthday Natalie! You finally twenty-one!! Happy Birthday!! Lara's Birthday Party Fri Dec 12, 2003 Theme: I'm So Into You by SWV Lara and I just got back from eating at Itchiban's. That place has The Best sushi in the world! I heart that place because I like sitting in that little area where you sit on tiny little oriental pillows and have people take off their shoes before they serve us. We had so much sushi that I can consider my stomach as Japanese. Tonight, me and Mareena are taking Lara out for the night of her life and let's all cross our fingers that she doesn't get too drunk like the last time we went out with her. Happy Birthday Lara! I love you so much!! :: night :: Mareena and Scott came to pick us up to take us out to the club. I was so excited to go out maily because it has been so long since me, Mareena, and Lara all hung out. Scott had got us shots of tequila to take before going into the club and by the first one that I took, I was already feeling a little tipsy. I had nothing to eat in three hours prior so I think that explains the buzzing. After the second shot I was feeling kinda tipsy and was laughing at everything. I kept asking Lara, 'let's dance, let's dance.' I probably looked like one of those guys from Night at The Roxbury's. It was hilarious. By 2:30am I was already delirious and all I can remember was saying bye to Scott and Mareena and not knowing exactly why and then waking up again in Lara's bed with my arm falling asleep behind me. It must have been one hell of a night because it took me a whole day to recover. I need water. Must have water. Alright, I better go and get a glass of h2o/ Later folks!

Happy Birthday Natalie!! We love you!!

:: Genevieve, Arthur, Marialle, Natalie, Josh, John, Ashley, and Doug ::

The Simple Life
Wed Dec 10, 2003 Theme: Why Don't We Fall In Love by Amerie
I am so excited about the holidays that I am about to burst if it doesn't get here any sooner! Tomorrow night is my best friend Natalie's surprise party and she has no idea. We've hid it from her all this time and poor thing has no clue. I think she is going to flip. Josh is taking her out to dinner that night while we set up to surprise her. Aww.. my babys going to be twenty-one. Wow. That is the perfect age to use the perfect excuse to get drunk. And now she will be doing it legally. So, my other baby is coming down in two weeks! It has been too long that we've been apart. I wish there are more colleges here in Tampa so that we could be together. But the anticipation is killing me. This morning we talked for like two hours and I kept saying, 'I really have to go and buy some stuff for my mom at Lowes.' :: My mom and my brother are both fixing the garage. :: I will leave that to them because I am building-impaired. It was so hard trying to get off the telephone when I finally gave in and said, 'if we get off the phone when I count to three, I promise I will make it worth your time when you get back.' One, two, three, and we were both still on the phone! I'm like, 'Ha, comon.. we agreed on three.' What a nerd! But I love it! It still gives me butterflies in my stomach. Baby I miss you!! I can't wait for the Holidays! Well last night we watched two scary movies at Natalies. Josh kept saying, 'not even 45 minutes and your going to fall asleep on us.' He'll look at me and go, 'Arthur?.. Arthur?' and all you hear is, 'Zzzz..' Ha! That is soo funny! Am I really that bad? I can't help it! I'm sorry. My eyes just physically shut after 11:30. The past week of finals got me drained. And its time for me to re-energize like Duracell. By the time the second horror DVD was put in, I was out. I woke up and trying to be all slick, and I'm like, 'Man, that was such a good movie!' Then Natalie would be like, 'Oh yeah?' and start asking me questions to make sure that I was awake. Ha! It was so funny!! I went home, took a quick shower and went to bed. Oh yeah! Also earlier that evening I got a chance to see Paris Hilton's new show called The Simple Life! :: Simple Life :: How many of you guys seen last nights episode? For those of you raising your hands, well wasn't it so crazy? It was just too darn funny. Now you'd think that Paris and Nicole would survive a few weeks on a farm, but now watching last nights episode, I'm starting to get second thoughts. I mean, they stayed up one night battling it out with a cockroach. Now God forbid one of those creatures crawls up into my room. They spent three hours and an adventure trying to kill it with a fly swater. Give me three minutes with the little beast and the deed will be done. The two girls are so hilarious! I still cannot get over them changing the Sonics sign too: 1/2 Price Anal Salty Weiner Burgers! That is just pure comedy! Damn, look at the time.. I still have to finish calling up the people of the guest list, finish writing out Natalie's Birthday card, and call John to tell him where we are meeting at. I even spoke to Jenevieve on her cell phone about Tuesday's plans and as I'm talking to her, she is getting pulled over by a police officer! No worry though, she got out of it. Busted tail light and she is going to get it fixed this week. Well folks, I have to get back to urban civilization and I'll see you guys this weekend! Later! :: 12-11 :: How cool is that? Both of my best friends share the same birthday. I think it all just falls under the stars. Some people are just pimp like that. Well I'm excited to go to the mall today with Jenevieve to help find Natalie's birthday gift. Jenevieve's last minute shopping is what I would like to call it. Poor Natalie has no clue about tonight's Surprise Party. I made sure that she doesn't check my site so that her party will still remain as a surprise. I can't wait for tonight! And speaking of nights, last night, me, Natalie, and Josh all went bowling! I have to say that last nights game was the ultimate game night excursion. Ha. Whatever that means. It was the turning point of Natalie's twenty-ige. I took one good look at her and said, 'I want to take a good look at you!' She was laughing and was like 'why?' Then I said, 'because this is the last time I'm going to see you as twenty!' We both started laughing. We're such nerds. Well as for bowling. OMG!! Lordy lordy.. You will never guess what I scored last night! I got a hundred and thrity five!! Let me say this again in numerical form: I got a 135!! Now in Arthur's history of bowling, I have never even gotten a hundred. I think my highest score prior was like an 85 or something like that. I was so blown. Josh and Natalie couldn't believe it too!! My first two bowls were strikes. I was like, what in the hell? Who put the acid in my Spam? I was flipping out as you can imagine! Josh was like, 'What in the hell? You are on a roll.' 'All Day!'.. that what we say when we nail a shot. Also Natalie got a perfect hundred in the second game. I considered us pre-pro-bowlers by that time. We were tearin' it up. We played like 50 games last night, holy crap. It was so much fun. I would have went back to celebrate our victory and Natalie's transformation from being twenty to twenty-one but I had to study for my final History exam. But all will be repented tonight when we all surprise her at her house! What a night! Well I gotta call Lara and Natalie right now to wish them a Happy Birthday! So I will see you guys hopefully this weekend. and again:
Happy Birthday to Lara and Natalie!! I love you guys!! Happy Birthday!!

semester one: Done like Nextel
Mon Dec 08, 2003 Theme: Hey Ya by Outcast
So okay, exams are finally over! I am so ready to take on the Holidays. Bring it on! I still have a few sweaters and jackets to purchase for my trip to Aspen. 'Now what's cooler than being cool?' 'Ice cold.' Exactly. Ice cold is what we will be experiencing in Colorado this month. I'm actually on a hunt for this shirt Aspen T-shirt at Urban Outfitters. It's only twenty bucks but I feel like I have been buying so much ish for myself and not on X-Mas gifts. Dammit. That was not the original plan. Yesterday, me and my sister Elly went to hit up Pier One Imports to find absolutely nothing. They did have a few cool things inside but nothing worth using your ATM on. Our next stop I got this bad ass Burberry patterned fleece blanket which I actually used today on the drive to class. It kept my feet and lower torso warm. My AC takes like 5 minutes to warm up for the heater to actually work so this is why I brought out the blanket. Then after all that shopping we watched 28 Days Later on DVD and I finally got to see the different endings. Not to self: it is not worth seeing again. Your better of renting a PG-13 movie and calling it a night. I actually have a funny story to tell you guys about this devil lady at Burger King. My sister Elly does not like that term but how hard is it to work drive thru at BK? So here is what happened. On the way back to see 28 Days Later, we were starving and stopped by a Burger King. Sounds simple? Far from it. We asked the lady, 'excuse me.. hi, can we order 3 meals :: bla bla bla :: and a Cat In The Hat Christmas ornament?' We pull up to the drive thru window and she hand us our food. My sister is waiting for her change and the stupid lady shuts her window like she is done with her transaction. Ummm hello? Where is our change? So finally after realizing that our car was still there, she comes back and says, 'Can I help you?' Yeah, you forgot our change. She doesn't appologize by the way, but we take our money and leave. Not even a mile away, my sister looks into her bag and goes, 'that stupid girl forgot to put in my ornament!' We had to make a U-turn and drive back to Burger King. For one, I don't like Burger King to begin with because I think McDonalds is so much better, and two, for some reason the people that work there 'Aren't Lovin' it'. So round two, we pull back up to the side window. She acts like she doesn't see us but my sister was ready to tell her off. Finally she opens her window again and she is like, 'Can I help you?' My sister goes, 'Yeah you forgot to give us our ornament.' Again, the stupid girl does not appologize. Now see, I do not get angry at stupid situations like this but at least be polite and appologize for not doing your job. I mean isn't Burger Kings slogan: 'Have it You way?' Apparently she was having it her way and then she handed us our ornament. We drive back to the house and then realize that the lady gave us the wrong ornament. We asked for Cat In The Hat. Thus to the point of my story: If you cannot handle a simple job at Burger King then I'm afraid that you should claim un-employment because if you cannot do what your supposed to do at BK, then I fear for your survival in the business world. That was one crazy ass Drive Thur experience. :: Mila and Elena :: I'm trying to eat and type at the same time so bare with me. Okay, Well I totally forgot that I had saved this old entry of the night I went to Hyde Park Cafe with Mila and Elena. I couldn't log onto my Xanga that day for some reason so I saved my entry on Microsoft Word and then thought to myself, 'I will just add this on later'. Well guess what? I forgot! Of course I forgot because that was the weekend where I was doing five million things at once and plus that on-going hangover I was dealing with. What is up with that? But I found it finally so now I'm going to add it on here so here you go: I am so tired!! But I'm gradually waking up for today's Thanksgiving festivities. Oh yeah and by the way, Happy Thanksgiving!! I just left Elena's house and I barely drove myself here to my sisters. I think I only got like what? Four hours sleep last night? After Hyde Park Café, we went back to Jimmy's and watched Finding Nemo on DVD. Of course my ass passed out not even thirty minutes into the movie but it's all good in the hood. Understood? So, what happened last night? Let me try to gather up all my thoughts first and try to remember. Some things are still a bit blurry. I do know that I had a lot to drink and I finally tried Lemon Drops, thanks to my buddy Elly from Texas. When I first heard about the drink I have always wanted to try it. That bartender added way to much liquor but I wasn't complaining. I also remember talking to this kid about Miami and how I should go there and check out the clubs. How much did I have to drink last night? OMG, Mila and Elena looked hott. Like the kinda hot where your driving down the street and you see a really hot ass girl and you get into a car accident type of hot. Okay, what was up with the group last night though? For real. It was like all the people that went to Hyde Park on Tuesday invited their parents to come out on Wednesday. It was so funny. I didn’t even know the people at the Vip lounge. They were some really old people, and by old I mean these cats were over 40. Yeah. Can we all say, 'collecting social security?' Ha. In the end we did run into some really interesting people. These two guys kept saying, 'after party down the street.' Okay, for one, you had just ruined the invitation by asking us to head over to some after party down the street because 'down the street' is Armania and Platt, so no thanks. We know what Armania and Platt's like. And two, it was getting late and my feet were killing me. I need to get new shoes. Then Justin, my buddy who works at the door is saying goodbye and I told him, 'better say by to my friend Mila' so he reaches over to say goodbye by kissing her on the cheek but end up kissing her on the lips! I could hear people saying, 'oooohhh.' like how they would in those old TV sitcoms.. it was so pimp. Pimp for Mila and not Justin because Mila is from out of town and she is spittin game. All the guys there wanted her. Oh yeah, and about this Speedy Gonzalez guy. He was so hilarious. He was trying to hit on Mila too! When he walked up all we heard was a voice but didn't see nobody. We look down and we see this little guy trying to introduce himself. It was so funny. He was so little. I think he didn't ever go through puberty yet.
also pictures are finally here.. Check em out!
my favorite dog in the entire universe!

:: this is Ming! also featured in the entry below.. ::
sexy alligators
Sat Dec 06, 2003 Theme: Toxic by Britney Spears
Read the rest of this entry and I promise that the title will come to make sense. Here's the four-one-one. I got so faded last night. So faded that it was illegal. Geeze. I'm surprised that I even I woke up at the time that I did this morning. So here is what happened last night at The Hyde Park Café. I call up Natalie Friday night but her phone rings like four times so I hang up. I walk away to head off to the kitchen. Then not even two minutes later, my phone rings and it's her. She's like, 'hey Arthur, what's up?' :: all half asleep :: aww, she is a cutie pie. She tells me, 'I was just on the other line with Josh and I tried to click over.' Then she asks me, 'Do you want to come with me to visit Josh at work?' So I’m like, ‘Yeah sure, let me get dressed.' So she came to pick me up and we headed off to Dade City to visit Josh at his restaurant. I brought my sweater because it was freezing last night. Natalie looked so awesome! She had just got her hair cut and also colored for her birthday this week and she looked phenomenal. She always looks phenomenal but now she looks like on of the Victoria Secret models. I told her, 'damn, they really did a great job on your hair.' So the whole ride there we were talking about Tony and Guy and how they are like the juggernauts of the hair industry and that everyone should go there to get their hair cut or colored. We walk up to Josh’s work and I see someone hiding in the side of one of the plants, and I look at Natalie and I'm like, 'somebody is hiding in those bushes.' Then Josh jumps out and we start laughing hysterically. He tells us, 'I still have a few more minutes, you guys should come in and wait.' So we sat down at one of his tables and looked around at all the cool scenery designs. Natalie and I have been here before to eat their infamous lobster bisque. This was actually my second time coming there and what's so interesting about this restaurant is that it is decorated with stuffed animals. And no, not like those cute stuffed animals that you can buy at Hallmark or win at the state fair, but real live animals, well their dead now, but things like a huge moose head, a goat, birds, turtles, boars, yaks, deer, you name it, they had it hanging up on their wall. They even had the animals decorated with Christmas bows! It was so funny. I wish I would’ve had my camera with me so I could show you guys how cool this restaurant was. Then Josh is like, 'oh by the way, we’re going to Hyde Park Café tonight. John rented out the vip lounge and invited us all to come out.' First thing pops into my head, 'damn, I need to go back home to get shoes.' I am such an Asian always wearing my sandals wherever I go. So we had to stop by my house later that night to get them. But before that, Josh needed to change out of his tuxedo shirt at his house in Lake Jovita. I finally got to see Ming and their new turtles!! I love Ming! Ming is Josh’s dog. This is the most cutest most lovable dog you will ever meet. If you’ve seen the movie As Good As It Gets, well it the same exact dog but cuter. I was so excited when Josh opened up his garage because I could hear Ming running around but I could not see him. Me and Natalie were still inside the car. So when I opened it, there comes me, as cute as can be and runs up to me and licks my face. I love that dog. We came in and hung out with Josh's parents for a while and they already started decorating the house. It looked so awesome! I can't wait to get started on my own Christmas decorations. Pandora and Drummen asked Natalie if she would come over Sunday to help set up the tree. I bet that is going to be so much fun. John had called Josh while he was getting ready and John told us to hurry over to Hyde Park Cafe. John added us to the guest list already so all we had to do was just bring our ID's and show it to the bouncer. How easy was that? Very. We stopped by my house too to get my shoes and pants then we were off to Platt street. :: Hyde Park Cafe :: The front lines were so long. Thank goodness that we were on the Vip list. Up in front we went and me and Natalie tell the guy, 'we're here for John's party and here are our ID's'. The guy checks our ID's and says, 'First lounge on the left.' Hyde Park Cafe was so packed! We didn't even attempt to check out the other areas and just stayed at the Vip lounge the rest of the night. This is where it got exciting. We see John and his friend from Nortre Damme and already I am impressed because anyone that comes from that college is really smart. John tells us, 'everything is already paid for, now all we have to do is order up to 300 dollars worth of food and drinks.' So in translation: 'Order whatever we want!' Oh Lord almighty my prayers have finally been answered! Halleluah! I can see the angels flying over my head. Natalie and I looked and each other and started freaking out. I have always dreamed of going to a club or bar or whatever and just ordering anything and everything off of the top shelf menu, and here we were with this awesome opportunity. John is such a pimp! I look at the drink menu and I'm like, 'OMG, I want to drink everything!' My eyes are dialated at this moment and my heart is beating like fifty million times per second. So Josh orders first and he tells Harmony :: our cute waitress whome served us several times before :: and orders three shots of Yegamister. Whoah there cowboy, I haven't had anything to eat all day. So to make things safe we also ordered a pizza to help slow down the consumption process. Okay, here it goes, 'three.. two.. one..' and the shot went right down my throat. Damn that ish burned. I almost forgot how strong that shot was. I followed up with a Long Island Iced Tea. I think I had about three of those that night. I lost count I think a Long Island number two. Dammit. So then John goes, 'no no, try this one.' He handed us these champaine glasses that had this pretty color in it and says, 'here, drink this.' I'm like, 'what is it?' It's a Sexy Alligator. Mmmm.. now that drink was off the chain. By that time, everything just seemed so funny to me and I was laughing at everything. I think I might have even accidentally laughed at this one girl's joke and I didn't even know who she was but she kept talking to me. I wonder what we were talking about? Josh was faded too. I can tell because his eyes were starting to get red. It was such a great night!
no substitutes, just me
Thur Dec 04, 2003 Theme: Change Clothes by Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams
:: PHOTO: Arthur, Natalie, Josh, John, and Chris at Club Bennigans with Surfer On Acid shots. Cheers! That's just five out of twenty people going to Aspen, Colorado for our ski trip this late December. Wish you were here! :: Turn up your volumes!! I just added a new song to my site and I can't get the song outta my head. It's just so tight! Anyway, I'm going to International this weekend to get some more winter stuff for my trip to :: Aspen ::. Am I crazy for shopping this early for myself when I do have like three birthday parties to go to next week? I am waiting to get my scholarship check and I do not want to blow it all off on clothes so I'm going to set myself a budget. Yeah right. Budget? Like that'll ever happen. But there can be miracles. Right? Plus I don't think that I need to be buying anymore clothes because just last week I was 'cleaning out my closet' like Eminem, and I had way too many pants, shirts, jackets, you name it, I have it in my closet. I gave a few shirts to Josh and the rest I piled up in Abercombie bags. I was going to send them off to the Salvation Army, but then I thought to myself, shit, I can go to Plato's Closet and make some money off this biatch. So I did. If you guys want really awesome, some rarely even used, name brand clothes, I just dropped off like three bags to Plato's Closet. I think I can rest now and also just did :: Feng-Shui :: a huge favor by getting rid of all my excess stuff that was in my closet. I'm just glad that I don't have to attend any Yoga classes. I am meeting with my sister Consuelo today to head off to Target. Now ya'll don't even try to front because ya'll know that Target is the ish. And don't even try to hide that card because I know that 99.9 percent of the population has a :: Target Card ::. How else do you explain these damn monthly payments? So, next week is my last week of school and I already got back two of my grades out of six. A and A. I think this semester I'm going to pull 5 A's and a C in Astronomy. I'm struggling for real. But whatever. Passing is passing and it's not like I don't have a great GPA to begin with. I am just trying to make sure that I have full access to all the major universities. I am actually meeting with the Advertising councelors next week to find out what colleges I should go to. Oh yeah, also last night was so much fun! Me, Natalie, and Josh all went out bowling and we had the best time ever!! We always have the best time ever. I had to beat my score for last weeks game and guess what? I did. I'm no bowling league expert but I did wear Adam's jacket last night and people probably thought that I bowled 300's. Nope. More like 95. That is a high for me so I'm happy with that score. Natalie got two strikes in a row in the very end giving her like a zillion more points. How does she get so lucky? I love that girl. and Josh, we don't even need to speak about him because he scored a 187. Yeah. That kid is just undefeatable. I still haven't found a game that he is not good at. He beat us in basketball yesterday, and golf a month ago, and um let's see what else?.. oh yeah, everything. Ha. It's all good in the hood though. Afterwards we went back to Natalie's and watched some :: Jean Claude Van Damme :: movie which I did not understand at all. It was called 'In Hell' or something. The only thing correct about this title is that it tells you where the video came from. All I know is that I did not get the movie at all. I think at that age, Jean Claude Van Damme needs to retire. Josh and Natalie kept looking at my eyes to see if I was falling asleep. It was so funny. I'm sorry, but I was so tired. I ate that piece of pizza from :: DiGiorno's :: hoping that it would keep me awake but nothing, not even the high pope himself could keep my eyes open last night. I was just too tired. After the movie, I look at them and go, 'I have no idea what that movie was about?' And they kept saying, 'you fell asleep through most of it.' :: which I didn't by the way :: but I guess if I wouldn't have spent most of the time counting sheep maybe I would have understood the movie more. Still, I suggest no one rents it because for one it looks like it was filmed in another country and for two, Jean Claude Van Damme is country. Don't go see it. Not even if it's the last video tape on Earth and your best friend feels like watching a movie, not even if you have to do a video report on bad movies. Just don't do it. This isn't Nike. Well I'm about to head off to my next class. Wish me luck on my exams!! :: All I Want for X-Mas :: Okay, so I'm watching television (i know right, like I have time to be sitting down and watching tv) but I was watching the OC and then this commercial comes on. At first I was like, 'yeah yeah.. hurry up with the advertisements' but then this one was the Canon commercial. I was so amazed at this little camera that also comes with it's own little printer. It was so cute! I sat there and thought to myself, 'I gotta have it!' It is the Canon CP-200 Card Photo Printer by Canon. And it's only 179.99 so I'm going to add it to my 'Gotta Have' List. It has tons of little different features too! • Compact, ultra-light portable printer • Prints 4x6" photos with or without computer • 256-color, 300-dpi prints with overcoating • Photos and labels with or without borders • PictBridge, Mac and PC compatible.. umm yeah. Canon is my new compatible and portable best friend for the holidays. Maybe I can even use it when I go to Aspen! Anyway, I have a long list of Must Have's and when I have more time I'll add my list to my site. Later!

I'm Going To Miami!!
Sat Nov 28, 2003 Yup! I am pretty psyched myself too! But we're all leaving today to hit up the Miami streets, shops, restaurants, and nightlife! We will be staying at the Marriott Hotel on South Beach then will be back tomorrow evening! Last night was fun at Amphi. Me and Mila tore up the dancefloors at Amphitheatre. DJ Santana performed and yes we also got his CD! I'm still trying to recover from those Long Islands and the only think long about those damn drinks are the hangovers. Dammit. Well I better start packing! Miami, here we come! See you guys later! :: M :: I have so many pictures to add on here, you have no idea. Thanksgiving weekend was so awesome and the best part is, is that it's just the beginning! It's not even over yet. Three more days to go! So I hope that everyone has a great and wonderful Turkey Day!! Get your eat on and I will see you guys on Monday. Okay, maybe Tuesday, depending on the hangover situation. Later! :: bullitin board: I didn't even realize that I had a Guestbook! When I looked at it today I saw that I had messages! Aww.. well thanks for everyone that signed it. I never knew that I had one of those. Geeze! well umm.. thanks for stopping by!! Next time grab an egg roll or two on the way out! i also added a new song to my site so turn up the volumes!! :: U :: only one week till Turkey Day.. Mmmm, tons of American/Filipino food on it's way.. I can't wait! :: :: upcoming: Kill Bill, maxim party at the florida aquarium, natalie's limo birthday party, lara's birthday party, Miami, liz's Fondu party, justin's birthday party, thanksgiving weekend, aspen ski trip, hyde park cafe, prana, blue martini, amphitheatre, madiera beach, the butterfly effect, gothika premier, max's christmas party, Leo and Denise's New Years Eve Party ::

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Arthur at Gianni Versace's House on Ocean Drive

Weekend in Miami!
It doesn't get any hotter than this!
Sat Nov 29, 2003 Theme: Satisfaction by Benny Benassi
South Beach, Miami
Before I even begin to talk about my weekend to South Beach Miami, let’s all get to know the word paradise a little better. Get to know the word and get a little bit more comfortable with it because that is what Miami had to off all of us. Let's all say this together now: Pa-ra-dise. See, it wasn’t that hard. Now here is the 411 on my intense weekend getaway on South Beach Miami! My best friend Elena, her identical and beautiful twin sister Mila, and Jimmy all headed out to South Beach Miami this weekend at stayed at The Marriott Hotel. Click here to see pictures of our Hotel :: The Marriott on South Beach :: Gorgeous luxury hotel by the way and our suite was on the 24th floor looking right over the city. So Pimp! Right when we arrived there we all started screaming and running towards all the cool as paintings and attractions they had in the main guest room. Taking lots of pictures like Japanese civilians. It was so funny. We dropped off all our luggage and said goodbye to the Valet guy then headed up to our rooms. The elevators moved so fast that I had to keep popping my ears because of all the pressure. I felt like I was on an airplane or something. All I could think about was getting out of my jeans and t-shirt and laying down on my bed. I was so glad to rest my feet and get ready for our night at Club Space. Club Space is this bad ass techno-hip hop club in Downtown Miami! You think you know, but you have no idea! Click here for the site: :: club space :: We asked everyone in town of what was hot and they all directed us there. Past residents of Club Space have been Paul Oakenfield, Moby, Eve, Missy Elliott, Paul Van Dyk, John Digweed, and several other celebrities. I was so excited to go. Me and Mila could not contain ourselves. As we're getting dressed to go out, I was having tie problems. Growing up, most of my ties were already folded properly so that I didn't have to tie it myself. So by having the luxury of not having to tie a tie, now at the age of twenty-three, I was having tie issues. So then I told Jimmy, 'here, I have no idea how to do this! Please do something with it!' So of course it only takes him like what, two seconds.. while for me, I was fighting with that tie for like thirty minutes. I think I need to take an etiquette class for real. I do all these nice and classy things but do not know how to do them properly. Might as well put me on the cast of The Simple Life. I would not last a day. Mila and Elena looked so hott. I mean sexy classy hott. Mila had on this black Dolce and Gabanna shirt that had the front revealing her cleavage and in the center, this tiny silver bar holding the shirt together. It was backless too so it was hotter than hott. Now what's cooler than being cool? Comon' now. Now I know ya'll have heard Outcast's new song Hey Ya to help you answer that question. Now what's cooler than being cool? Answer: Ice Cold. Elena looked so dangerously sexy in her black silk dress and black high heel shoes. Me? I wore my Express Men dress shirt and my black Express Men pants. It looked very Miami and that is why I wore it. I had to fit that Miami Vice pimp look. Trust me, it was PIMP! So we're driving down South Beach looking at all the cool shops and nightlife events and the people there were all dressed up. I do not think Tampa is even ready for what Miami has to offer. It was just too much paparazi ish. So we pull up to this club and the lines were long as hell. I'm thinking, 'I do not want to wait forty minutes to get into this.' Luckily for us, we got in right away. When your with girls that look this hot, getting into Miami clubs is as easy as getting hold of a Paris Hilton video. The cover charge there was twenty-dollars. Can you believe that ish? The drinks there better be made of gold. Damn. This was an expensive ass club. There better be celebrities inside. Right as I walk into the dancefloor I could see why the cover charge was so high. It was filled with thousands and thousands of beautiful people. Me and Mila looked at each other and go, 'mmm.. yummy.' She grabbed my arm and took me into the center of the croud. We tore up that dancefloor. I told Mila, 'Let's show Miami how we do this!' And people around us were going crazy. The DJ there was off the chain. The music was bad ass. One song that got me 'rowdy rowdy' was this song by Benny Benassi. Click on this link for a sample of their music: turn up your volumes for this :: Satisfaction :: The people and scenery at this club was off the chain. The movie Blade had nothing on this club scene. The ceiling came down from above and it felt like you were in outer space, hence the name of the club: Space. It was so tight. Then across the bay of people you can see these hugh high beam lights that would go off every ten seconds. You just had to be there to understand. It was incredible. We had such a great time! Well I have a lot more to tell you guys about my trip but for now, I've got a lot of homework to do so I'll keep you posted this week. Check back for pictures and updates. :: Part Two :: So after all that clubbing we all drove back to our hotel room. It was already too late for room service so we ordered some pizza. The pizza delivery guy does not speak a word of English but on the pamphlet it said, 'Yo Hablo Ingles.' or whatever but doesn't that mean that they speak English? Anyway, Elena kept telling them, 'We are staying at The Marriott.' And the guy would ask her, 'At the Mario?' What? No! The Marriott. We are staying at The Marriott Hotel! With five minutes of arguing with Mr. Gonzales we called up another pizza place that the hotel suggested and our pizza arrived 45 minutes later. We tore that pizza up! MMmm.. Then we went to bed. Long ass night! :: Ocean Drive :: The next day we all headed out to South Beach where we could checkout all the cool shops on Ocean Drive. Guess who's crib we saw? Gianni Versace's! And yes it was huge! I could not believe all the detail that was put into this place. It was so awesome just stading right in front of it. We tried peering into the corners of the fence but there were too many trees to even see anything. I was really looking for Donatella Versace but I'm sure she is out galavanting through Europe. So, we took a few pictures and stopped by the Starbucks there. There Starbucks in Miami is bad ass! In the back of the damn Starbucks has a stairwell that leads to another hotel. How pimp is that to wake up every morning and walk down to a Starbucks. Literally. If my sister Consuelo was there she would just die. She loves Starbucks. So then we were being followed by these French people who were old and French looking and we tried to ditch them at The Beach. Some guy was mumbling to himself as we're walking by and I think he was a bumb incognito. What I learned from my experience to Miami is that the bumbs are mixed right in with all the rich people. It's like seeing a guy in Dolce and Gabana walking next to a guy in Faded Glory. It was off the chain. The beach was so gorgeous. Me and Elena tried taking this one picture by the water, thinking it was safe when all of the sudden this huge wave comes from behind us and got the back of my pants wet. It was so hilarious. We could not stop laughing. We got a picture of that too so I can't wait to post that one up. We still had five ours of driving time ahead of us so we stopped by a Wendy's and got some food for the trip back. Me and Mila slept most of the way back. We were tired. We spent the past five days partying every night and getting like 6 hours sleep a day. Me and Mila slept like babies. I felt like a little cub sleeping through the wintertime. It was that comfortable in Jimmy's car. I definately need to invest in leather interior. For real. Anyway, We had such a great time in Miami. Club Space was definately one of the best club I have even been to. Now I say that I know exactly what Will Smith is talking about in his rap songs. :: Miami ::
More Coming Soon..
Pictures are finally here!!

open bar at the Marriott Hotel

Chris, Scott, and Mila

South Beach
On Ocean Drive, Miami
[ Arthur and Elena getting attacked by waves ]

Gianni Versace's Crib
on Ocean Drive
[ Ocean Drive, Miami ]

:: Elena and Mila on Ocean Drive: Elena and Mila ..Olsen twins eat your heart out! ::

the Marriott
On South Beach

:: Elena and Mila getting ready at The Marriott for Club Space 33 ::
Amphitheatre
featuring DJ Santana
[ Amphi featuring DJ Santana ]

Thanksgiving Weekend! Wed Nov 26, 2003 Theme: Top Of The World by Dudearella featuring Shelley Nelson
So last night I hung out with the elite. The creme de la creme. I mean literally these guys write checks like you don't even know. I thought P-Diddy kept it real. Right when we arrived at The Hyde Park Cafe I saw John and he told us that they had rented out the Vip Lounge. Now this lounge isn't for everybody. Hyde Park Cafe has Vip, but the Vip we were in the Vip-VIP lounge where only the ballers with the big bank accounts can get into. It was wild. Of course I was only there by invite. One day after my career sets off hopefully I will be writing out my own checks. Everyone's got to make a living. Just ask J-Lo. Anyway, I had no idea that John knew Kalifa and Mika. Kalifa and Mika are these two guys who I have hung out with in the past seperately and also had Hype Park Cafe experiences with but I didn't know that they were all going to be there! This guy comes up to me and goes 'Hey Arthur, What's up?' I look up and it's Buster! I'm like, 'You know John? How do you know John?' Apparently they all know each other through private schools or whatever. Anyway, I was with my best friend Elena and her twin sister Mila from out of town, and Elena's fiance Jimmy. So it was quite the crowd. I think I will let the pictures speak for themselves when I get them developed. When I saw Mika, he was like, 'So Arthur, what do you want to drink?' I'm looking over the table and I see several bottles of wine and I'm like, 'I'm okay for now, I'm good with my Long Island Iced Tea.' But in my head I wanted to just sit over there and drink away like I used to back in The HoneyComb Hideout days with Sherry, Andrea, and Amanda, but I was flying solo tonight so I kept myself reserved. But then after like a few minutes I realized, 'Well someone has to hold up the fort?' Well you know in those old TV shows like Charles In Charge or even Full House where they are all talking about something and then all of the sudden they have a flashback? Well here is last years 'event re-cap' on what happened the night out with Kalifa :: Flashback :: Kodak Moments Of The Rich and Semi-Famous Wow. Last night was like something out of a Cruel Intentions/ Ferris Buller's Day Off movie. There was a rising action, a climax, a falling action, and a few run in's with the bottles of Moet. For real. It started off as planned to hit up The Hyde Park Cafe for Mika's Birthday. Amanda told us that he rented out the whole entire left area of the VIP room an HPC. So once someone mentioned VIP and Champagne together in one sentence, our HoneyComb Hideout crew was there! I haven't seen my friend April in so long and she came back to Tampa a few days ago to come see me. I love April and I couldn't wait to see her. So I get ready at Sherry and Andrea's and we pre drink off of Chad and his boy's beers. I had no idea what was in store for us that night but all I can say is that it was one of the craziest-girls-gone-wild night since my night with Nicole at Clearwater Beach. So, Amanda arrives and everyone looks so hot. My girls are beautiful! We had to stop by this kids Keg party at Avalon Heights first but right after that we left to Mika's Birthday Party. So we get in and the guy at the VIP door already knows us so it takes literally 2 seconds to get it. I love it. It was so packed inside. HPC has really blown up since I first started going there a few months ago. Usually Fridays aren't as full as it is on Tuesdays. So once we get to the table, and I meet like 30 people, and I can honestly say that I did not know any one of them except for April and Mika. Apparently, all those guys we met were from out of town. Aren't those the best type to meet? Definately all of them had money because from what I can remember, bottles and bottles of Moet and top shelf drinks was being ordered to the table like every 10 minutes. So we were "livin it up" like Ja Rule cuz we didn't spend a dime on anything. Isn't life great when your chillin with your favorite friends and not worry about any drama? Yeah, you know how we do. Anyway, so we're chillin at the Lounge and guess who walks up to our table? Bill Gramatica. You guys are probably like "Who?" He is the Kicker for The Arizona Cardinals. Yup. Those guys make like one million dollars each season. Yeah. He wont have a problem paying for our tab then. Ha. Also two of the guys that was there, Christian and his buddy, tell us to get some fresh air outside and we told Amanda that we'd be right back. So we left the lounge and we go to this dudes car and you won't believe what this cat drives... :a 2002 hooked up white Escalade with Coach leather interior! I was like "Good gracious ass is bo-datious!" So we get in his car and this thing is hooked up. Leather interior, automatic everything and his tires had bad ass 22 inch rims. Where was P-Diddy? cuz it seemed like he needed to be there. Were we in a Big Tymers music video or what? So we chit chat a bit and it turns out that Christian's friend had a bank account that can buy out all of Hyde Park and all the bulidings around it. So we go back into the club and I'm thinkin' man, these kids are too LifeStyles Of The Rich And Famous for my ass. I mean it was a blast chillin with them at the club but I know where I came from and even if I was to ever have the kind of money they did I would still be the Arthur that everyone loves and cares about. So Kalifa aka Buster, got us all a limo back to their hotel. He called up and made reservations at The Marriott Hotel in Downtown Tampa to have 3 connecting rooms and the main room to have the seaside view. It was so beautiful there! We felt like The Jeffersons cuz we were "movin on up" to the east side of Tampa. The limo ride was so much fun too. For reallll. Buster spent around Four Thousand dollars that night and so we all sat back and just sucked in the experience. Our limo driver was out of control. Forget the roller coasters at Busch Gardens, just go ride with this limo guy. We took some pictures of the limo ride and the hotel so you know they will be on my HoneyComb Hideout page so check them out. Once we checked into the Marriott, me and Andrea were flippin out at the rotating enterance, the full mini bar in the hotel, and the view we had outside our rooms were amazing. The first thing we did when we got in our rooms was we jumped on Kalifa's bed screaming and laughing. It was so much fun. After all the hotel beer drinking and the phone calls we made to our friends we all felt an urge to eat. We were some hungry ass Somalians. So one of the guys called up for room service but they closed at 1:00am and it was already like 3:30am. Dammit. I really wanted some lobsters and mixed drinks too. After a long discussion with the operator on the phone, the only thing left open was The Waffle House across the bay. Anything sounded good to eat by this time of night so we called a cab and went to that ish. Our cab driver was cool as hell. But he did overcharge us cuz it costed bones when the cab ride was literally 5 mintues. But those guys didn't care. They paid for everything! So me, Sherry, and Andrea ordered eveything in the menu. I gotta give The Waffle House some props cuz for 3:00am in the morning, their food was so delicious! We even over tipped that waitress for the good service. She had all our meals memorized where in New Tampa, those people write everything down. So we go back to the hotel and realize that Amanda has all our keys. She left with this other guy and Christian to an after party somewhere in St Petersburg so we had no way of getting to my car or back to Sherry's apartment. So we called everyone and finally after three hours we got a hold of her. So she meets us at Buster's room and we all hug cuz it has been one long ass night and we were ready to dip out and go home. So Christian takes us back in The Escalade and were all sitting there thinking, was tonight was crazy as hell. So much happend! By the time we got to my car, then Sherry's place, then back to my house, it was already 7:00am and I was worried that I might sleep through my dad's birthday. So I just jumped in my bed, still fully clothed but I did not care. I was ready to pass out on anything. Also shout-outs to Christian for driving us all home cuz we know that St. Petersburg is far ass hell from the hotel we were staying at. But we owe you. Also I love you Sherry and Andrea. We have been through so much together and seriously we kept it real. And tonight you guys proved that. I love ya'll so much. You know that. And to more crazy ass night in the future... it can only get better... For realllll, by my got darn three! :: H :: So that was last year. I will never forget that night. Like I said, I hung out with elite. What does elite actually mean? Well by definition, elite means: A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status. That is elite. It started to get kind of late and Elena had to work early the next morning at the law firm. We really did not want to leave. Who in their right mind would? Mila kept looking at me and was telling me to stay. So we looked around for a ride but I was like, 'Mila, we'll come back this weekend and part two this biatch.' So we ended up leaving. It was actually good timing because right when I got in Jimmy's car my eyes started to shut slowly then I realized that I was getting sleepy. Plus all that alcohol in my system didn't help either and I still had class to attend to the next day. A few Long Islands and I am out. So that's it. Gentlemen.. goodnight! Ladies.. Good Morning! the pictures will be up soon..
To be continued..

:: Happy Holidays ::
[ Arthur and Amanda at International ] New Years Eve Gala

[ My best friend Amanda and her friend Alia at Club Crobar ]
christmas shopping

:: My little niece Jenesi aka cutie patootie ::
Thur Nov 20, 2003 Theme: All I Have by Jenifer Lopez
Santa's little helper..
:: U :: I am looking into several Advertising schools as we speak. The colleges that I found were all over the United States except for Florida. Great. I really do not want to leave Tampa, but I may have to if I want to follow up on my career. This is like the next few stages of my life where I move into a cute apartment and start shopping at Pottery Barn and Target. So I've gotten so much feedback about my site and my hotmail account was flooded with mail and some people were asking 'why don't you update daily?' Well see, I try to but when you are a nerd like me and juggling six classes, it's hard to find time to log online. But by popular demand, I will try to Update as much as I can. Today I had turned in my exam for Nutrition and Drugs and then gave a presentation on why people should drink Milk. I turned out really good. I'm not really worried about that class cuz I know I'll end up getting an A. Natalie's presentaion was 10x's better than mine. Well at least I thought so. She had everything all planned out and organized. I think she aced it too! Then Patrick went today also and what's cool about his presentation was that he gave out coupons for a free smoothie. You know that me and Natalie used that biatch right after class and got our smoothies on. Mmm.. it was so good too! Then tonight I went to my neices performance thing where they sang at Pubix. They did such a great job! Then tomorrow I'm going to check out my sister Elly's brand new car. She just bought a brand new 2004 Toyota! Yeah. I was pretty upset too! So now I want a new car and first thing next week I'm going to the Toyota dealership to look into some 2004's. I told my mom, 'I really want a new car.' Then she was like, 'Then you really want a new job.' She is hilarious. Well.. she was kidding right? Anyway, So it turns out that I don't even need those Macro and Micro and Calculus classes after all. I spoke with this advisor lady on campus today and she said that I only need this one math class and an advertising class in order to transfer to a college up north. The only class I saw available was this online class and I wasn't havin' that. My mom told me that I better just go ahead and take it and get it over with so I guess I'm going to do that. Then this weekend I am going Christmas shopping with my sisters and I hope to find me some cool ass jogging pants at Hollister or Abercrombie. Last week I looking at a few so I might go back and get them. I need to start jogging for all the fat I am going to gain. I was invited to three Thanksgiving dinners next week. I wonder if I still have my old overalls so that when I do get full, I can just unbuckle the two sides and just let all the fatness out. :: oink oink :: Well I am a fatty, what can you do? Anyway, I'm going to add those pictures from Hyde Park Cafe and the tree lighting this weekend.. Depending whether or not I leave for the weekend. Later alligator!
11/21: Home For The Holidays
:: N :: Guess who is coming home for the holidays? I just got off the phone with Nate this morning and he kept saying, 'I have great news, I have great news?' I'm like, 'what? you saved a lot of money by switching your car insurance to Geico?' No. He is coming down for Christmas! I am so excited! Also probably all the way till January 15th!! That means that he'll be here for my '04 new years eve party! Time to bust out the Bacardi and leave in someones Farari!

nordstroms

:: Amanda at Nordstroms ::

:: Arthur and Amanda at the Christmas Tree lighting at International ::

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“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” -you know how we do!

:: Marilyn and Amanda at Club Bennigans ::

madiera beach
Wed Nov 19, 2003 Theme: Stand Up by Ludacris
So last night was incredible. It was the night of the meteor shower. For all you non Astronomical people out there let me explain into further detail. Well a meteor shower does not happen very often. In fact, they are very rare. Well last night, our Earth's orbit lined up with the comets and you could see them in the sky. Me, David, Lara, and Chris all went out to see the meteor shower at Madiera Beach. It was quite the drive but it was worth it. Me and Lara both wore some cute ass sweaters and layed there on the beach chairs. You could feel the breeze and after a while it started to get cooler. Chris got us Smirnoff Ice and so we were set for the night. It felt so good being out there looking over the shore and seeing all the stars above. It is a feeling that really words cannot describe and one person just has to expeience this for themselves. Right when we got to the beach I looked up at the sky and tried to look for the meteors. Nada. Couldn't see a damn thing cuz all the clouds were out. We waited for the wind to blow the clouds over but by that time, I had already been so comfortable laying down on the beach chairs that I fell asleep. It felt so good. I was freezing, but that is just a small price you have to pay to enjoy the beachy scenery. Right when I got home, I went to lay across my bed and I just passed out. I didn't even take my jeans off. Just laid there and thought to myself, 'damn, it feels so good to sleep. Then I realized that I had to get the remote control to shut off the tv, and doncha hate it when you are in this really comfortable position, then all of the sudden you remembered that you have to get up to do something? Well ain't that a bitach? So I said, f-it. I'll just leave that tv on all night. I was too comfortable. Sorry GE. I'll make sure to put my tv on timer next time. Quick Notes before i go to bed look at at these long ass entries. Dang. well i promise to keep this one short. i'm actually about to go to bed. i still have to freaking brush my teeth and floss and shower so really when i say that I'm about to go to bed, it really means 'be in bed in 40 minutes..' So.. i just finished writing another one of my Gordon Rule assignments and went over the word count again by a couple hundred words. I just have too much research going on here. And where does the sleep come in? it doesn't. Tonight we all watched Dreamcatcher -and for me, this is the third time watching this movie. Everyone always says, 'oohh! Dreamcather! I haven't seen that one yet!' so there it goes.. damn tape gets popped in the VCR and I'm returning that biatch as soon as I get my hands on it. I'm all Dreamcathered out. Well, nothing newsworthy.. just stuff on tv and Arnold's speech.. bla bla bla.. Paris Hilton's sex videos.. bla bla bla.. and Britney Spears is taking over the world. She is on everything now! Pepsi, television, magazines, rollerskates, ..candy bars? Pretty soon we're going to wake up and say.. 'I pledge allignence to Britney Spears'.. for real. It's like, 'enough already'. We can only take so much of her at a time. Well next week is Thanksgiving and I am so excited to eat. I planning on putting on my fat face that day and just pig out. I mean, there will be mashed potato, turkey, rice, adobo, lumpias.. you know, that American/Filipino ish. These foods only come like 4 times a year, so when it comes around, I make sure that I'm there for it, AND the after food party. Not even R-Kelley has food after parties. Well kids.. lookin' at my Gucci it's about that time.. I gots to get ready for bed because i have to be up early tomorrow! I promise to develope my last roll of film this week. Updates should be up soon.. later! -11/17
:: happy halloween.. :: part 3 ::

:: more pictures coming soon.. ::

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Fri Nov 14, 2003 Theme: The Way You Move by Outcast
Somebody send me over a cup of coffee before I pass out. No wait.. it’s a lot more drastic than I thought. Someone please send me over two cups of coffee. One for me.. and if I can’t finish it, then it’s going into the microwave for later usage. Eww.. :: jk :: like I’d ever drink old coffee. So tonight was :: lets all say this together now :: ‘off the hizzle’. I just got back from Hyde Park Café which let me add is still poppin’. I’m so glad that I went because I almost forgot what a café looked like. Yes. This is all part of the ‘I’m so into school and have been Soho deprived’ program. Can you believe it’s been a like a few months since I’ve been there? Well then again, I’m not so sure. I just may also be delirious from the lateness. Damn Xanga has been down for like 24 hours now. Geeze! What is up with all these technical difficulties? Why don’t we all just agree that sometimes Xanga is ghetto and that they be forgetting to set a few things up so they say ‘technical difficulties’ when really they mean, ‘oh lordy lordy, we just messed the f-up’. So what else is new in the news? Oh yeahhhh.. me and Elly went to International today. Yes we stopped by Starbucks and also I sworn myself tonight: No more Starbucks for over caffeine usage purposes so I made myself a little promise that I was going to stay away from that stuff. Starbucks gives me the shakes since I’m not used to the caffeine. Which reminds me that I do have a funny Nicotrol story to tell you guys but I’ll save that story for the end. I need to get on with my story because you all know that I be forgettin’. So back to the international mall. Yes. I got my Mocha frap and then headed over to Hollister. Where is a flashlight when you need it? You can’t see a damn thing when in that biatch. My sister found this really cute leg warmer thing and so she used her Club Cali and bought them. They are the new thing.. pretty soon Beyonce and J-Lo will be wearing them. We also trotted over to Abercrombie, American Eagle, Guess, and Express. The mall was closing so we had to make things quick. I stopped over my old job at AE and my old boss gave me a Friends and Family invitation which gives me an additional 25% off so you know that I’ll be all up in that bih next week buying some winter clothes. :: not like I don’t have enough of it :: But just making sure since there’s always something going on during the holidays that I have to look extra cute. Today I wore my black A&F coat with my Burberry scarf and what I do not like about Burberry is that almost everything that they own and manufacture has that brown plaid design.. so when I wear my Burberry, it’s really not to show off the pattern but to represent that I do like Burberry, Does this make any sense? Just like how some people wear Tommy Hilfiger clothes and they buy those ugly Tommy clothes that have Tommy Hilfiger written all over it with big giant cursive letters. That is just plain tacky. I don’t wear name brand clothes just to show off the name. That is just not my style. So I did get a ton of compliments though. The first girl I saw while walking into Neiman Marcus complimented me on my fragrance. I’m surprised that she could even smell my cologne. I told her that it was Hugo Boss and that if she wanted a sample that Neiman Marcus or even Dillards provides them. She was so cute until she asked me if I had a lighter. Do I look like I would smoke? I couldn’t find anything at the Guess store so then I had to go to the next best thing and got this really cool ring at E. It’s this blue marble ring that I have been eyeing for quite a while now. I just had to get it since I always say, ‘oh I’ll just come back for that’.. but I never do. And don’t even start shaking your heads because you all know that you do it too. My sister also got a sweater from Abercrombie because she just has so much money and then a trucker hat :: like the one Pharrell and Ashton Kutcher wears :: and also sometimes Cameron Diaz. But it looked really good on her. I kept telling her to go with the red trucker hat but she insisted with the blue. I’m telling you; almost everything she has is blue. What ever happened to diversity? Then after the mall we were all going to meet at The Hyde Park Café.. but I’m so sleepy and I really need some rest so I guess I will finish this up tomorrow. Night kids.. and make sure to turn off all the lights cuz electricity is expensive now a days. Don’t act like you ain’t poor because even Mr. Bill Gates sometimes remembers to turn off the lights and then so should you. Night. Continued.. Topics: Britney Spears’ interview with Diane Sawyer, Paris Hilton’s hoe-ography sex scandal tape, Ryan and Reese’s new addition :: it’s a baby boy :: ,Demi and Ashton’s elementary school necklaces, and reality tv’s new addition: Average Joe. Much to anticipate.. Now I haven't been in the loop lately because of school and ish but that does not mean that I'm not caught up in the major news. I still do have access to US Weekly, E, and In Touch. So first things first, like Biggie would say, but the other night I couldn't help but watch the Britney Spears interview with Miss Sawyer. Diane tore her up with them questions. See at first I really did not like the whole Justin and Cameron child molesting hook up thing, but now that they have been together for like what? three months? it's not so bad. You kinda just get used to it like those damn Reality TV shows. You don't want to watch it, but your gonna. Britney was asked about the whole Madonna kiss and she is so stupid to say on National television that it was all Madonna's idea because that is just a damn lie. She already got caught about the whole virgin thing and how she was going to wait till she was married. Well Justin popped that ish long ago and so I guess it all made sense when she helped sing 'LIKE A Virgin' at the VMA's because 'like' a virgin is exactly what it was. To add more controvoursey they should have made Christina and her kiss just to add more tension to the Micky Mouse Club alumni's. They went from The Micky Mouse Club straight to the Strip Club. For real. The only thing saving Britney is her collaborating with all those artists because its so obvious to the public that she can't sing for ish. Now next down the line is from what I heard over the radio earlier this week. Now apparently Paris Hilton can't stop closing her legs. It's probably old news now, but at the time I could not believe that she had made a tape years ago. Did she not know that it wouls get out? And why would you make a sex tape in the first place? I think the Simple Life is perfect for her because then Paris can dig up her trailer trash roots because that is exactly what she is portraying. You can have the Hilton last name but if those highlights are two months old and you can see the black roots underneath, that is just trailer. She might as well just marry a cousin or something. Then on lighter news, Ryan and Reese finally found out what they are going to name their new baby boy. Deacon. How perfect is their family? See, you can be famous and not be retarded about it. I'm so happy for them. And to think, they are both under 30 and have pretty amazing lives. Must be nice to be in their shoes. Literally, Diesel and Manolo Blahnik are expensive. Another thing that I keep noticing is that in almost all of the Demi Moore's poperazzi pictures, she is wearing this necklace which if you were to zoom it in, it is a half of a smiley face. Have you guys seen this? Well it's this 'expensive of course' necklace that her and Ashton purchased together and they each wear one. Can I puke now? I'm sure Bruce Willis just want to kick Ashton's ass whenever he see's them out with it. Do people even think about this? LOL. But I always picture him getting upset over the whole age difference. Well what does he care anyway right? since he is now dating that young supermodel from Dog Eat Dog. I wouldn't be surprised if Drew Barrymore starts dating Machauly Culkin because in Hollywood, 'it's the In Thing to do.' But anyway, the whole matching necklaces thing just sounds like something elementary school kids would do. I guess in this case, it is very similar. And lastly, Average Joe. Now I did get a chance to see the first premier episode and I thought that it was hilarious that this gorgeous girl has to choose from average guys. Now that's reality for ya. Just add some chicken wings, football, and some bar-b-q sauce and you have yourself the realest reality show ever. Well that just about wraps things up for this weeks Celebrity Updates. Later! :: nicotrol story :: See, I didn't forget, although I did almost forget. But here is that funny Nicotine Story I told you guys that I would tell. So I think it was about two years ago, me and my friends were all over Justin's house and we were just chillin sittin around the patio area, when my friend Becky pulls out a Nicotrol patch and I go, what's that? She is like, 'oh, it helps you calm your nerves so that you won't fiend for a cig.' So i'm like, 'oh cool, let me try one.' She's like, 'if your going to use it, you better keep it on the whole time because they are expensive.' So of course I put it on my arm not knowing what Nicotrol patches are even about. Rememeber, I do not smoke and and I hardly ever have Nicotine or caffene in my system. So then not even ten minutes later I start to feel nausiated. Like I wanted to vomit. Yeah it was gross at the time too. So I'm sitting there on this patio chair and I say, 'I think I don't feel so good.' Then Justin's mom comes out and says, 'Hey, you don't look so good.. are you feeling okay?' Becky tells her the whole story then she looks at me and asks, 'do you even smoke?' I look up at her with a grin and go, 'no, ma'am.' Then she tells me, 'well honey, if you don't smoke then that patch will make you sick.' So of course everyone is laughing and saying, 'poor Arthur.' but it was too late. I was sick for almost two hours. The moral of this story is: no more Nicotrol patches for me. No sir.

:: this is Mr. Hamilton "James Dean" ::
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Wed Nov 12, 2003 Theme: Beached by Angelo Badalamenti
Today I was driving home from school and that song :: Miss You :: by Aaliyah came on the radio. At first I started to switch the station but then I realized that it was that song so I quickly turned it back. Then I started to think about my dad and that struck me pretty hard. Not hard enough to make me get into a car accident or anything but the kinda hard where you have all these emotions inside and you just have to hold them in for a spilt second for the sake of shedding tears. I was driving home on the interstate and I tried to just concentrate on getting home. Then I started to think about life itself and it made me realize how lucky and fortunate I am- compared to others that have less than me. So then I started to list the things that I was thankful for. I am so thankful for my family, my upbringing, and my close friends. I never realized it until today that I have been gallivanting around and never really realized that I am really lucky to have so many great and wonderful things. And not just in a material sense although I have a lot of that too which I have made a lot of donations to the Salvation Army in the past several years. And these aren’t Target clothes either. Let me just state that I have donated several :: bags full :: of named brand clothing. Why? Because why do I need all that stuff anyway? I have plenty more where that came from. I start to realize that I need to give to those who are less fortunate than me. Like those people is Somalia. I mean, they don’t have anything. I am also fortunate to have such great and wonderful peers. I have a lot of friends, I know, but the ones that I’ve kept for all these years have known me.. the real me, and I am so thankful for all the great and wonderful memories that we’ve shared together. Not a lot of people can say, ‘yeah, we’ve known each other for sixteen years.’ So today, I wanted to just be thankful for everything that I have and to also be thankful to be here on Earth. Most of us take that for granted. We get upset whenever we go into Hollister and Abercrombie and see that 200-dollar jacket but we only have 150 in our wallet and think that life is so unfair. I mean, is it really unfair? How about living in Mongolia and having to worry about waking up and finding a fellow Somalian had stolen all your daily bread? It is quite depressing. So this week I am giving away all the fragrances and take the gratis from Tommy Hilfiger and start giving them away to my friends. I have enough of my own supply to last me five more years, so why not share the wealth? Wasn’t it Veterans Day yesterday? I didn’t even celebrate that properly because I have no idea how to celebrate that holiday. And you know what else? I am going to find myself a job. I know I do not really need it but I think it will do some justice when Christmas comes around. I want to get the best presents this year. The kind that is creative and thoughtful. So I’m happy to be alive and I am so thankful for having such a wonderful life. Two movies come to mind when I speak of this. The first one is :: the Beach :: with Leonardo DiCaprio where in the very end of the movie when he was sitting in the computer room and he is pulling up a jpeg file from his computer and there was the picture he took from the beach. He then realizes that paradise is not a place that you can go to or travel all across the world in search of it. Because it’s not where you go, it’s how you feel for a moment in your life. And if find that moment, it will last forever. Wow. I totally feel Leonardo when he said that. Because I have found paradise. Several times actually and it is such a great feeling. And what’s even greater is that no one can take that from you. I will always remember all the fun and great memories that I’ve had with my family and friends. The second movie that comes to mind is the movie :: Contact :: with Jodi Foster. Now that is a ‘rent this movie now if you haven’t seen it yet’ type of movie. The scene I am particularly fascinated about is the scene where she is in the courtroom and nobody believes her because some people are just that tryffeling. They can believe that Elvis is still alive but cannot believe in life in outer space. Right. So this scene she starts to talk about how she made contact and that she was told of how luck and fortunate we really are. Yeah, I almost balled the first time I ever saw that. It was such a good movie. So this concludes what I have been trying to say. I am so thankful and appreciate everything that I have and that is given to me. I’m not the type to not think twice about a kind gesture or even a little pad on the shoulder to say, ‘hey.. good job today.’ I mean, all that ish counts. So for this November, when you all are sitting at that table and eying that turkey because you all know that you are all hungry Somalians, please say thanks first because there is so much to be thankful for. And also note that right when my dad had passed and even during his illness I was not thinking clearly. I had lowered my standards and started a relationship that I didn't even want. I was in a pathetic pool of hollowness and needed the first bad thing to happen to me. Anything to get my minds off of things. But learn from my mistakes. No matter how bad things get, do not sink down to the ground and lower your standards. Some people wait for that. They see a perfect opening and take it. It's desperate measures. Go rent the movie. But I'm so glad that i've moved on :: and wow, to a hella of a lot of 'bigger' and better things :: so it's clear skies from here on out. The moral of this entry is: Don't lower your standards. The End. :: Case and point ::

:: arthur and elly at UT's frathouse ::

:: we found paradise ::

:: arthur and elly at Motzart coffee shop and soho ::
Mon Nov 10, 2003 Theme: Rain On Me by Ashanti
I really hated this song when it first came out :: Rain On Me by Ashanti :: I think because it sounds like she is whining around about some little looser cuz you all know that we've been down that road :: ha :: but for real, that song is starting to grow on me. Either that, or it is the remix of it that I'm hearing on the radio. but since we are onto new and better things in life, here is a song that someone dedicated to me so i'm going to play it on my site. This is :: suga suga :: So anyway, first things first. I am putting aside all my school work till Tuesday. it's Veterans Day! whoo hoo! whatever that means. but it's a day off from school so that gives me time to study then. I'n the meantime its back to the basics. Today was off the heezey. I think everyone is used to me saying that phrase now since I use it in like every other five sentences. I know.. I'm ghetto. what can you do? I found this really bad ass Guess watch at international and I should have it by the end of this week! It has a huge :: G :: in the center and it flips open to read the time. it is so pimp.. well here is the link to it at the actualy Guess site: :: G :: so me, Natalie, and Josh were on the same team again. We played another game of basketball today. We won of course because we are just a bunch of Los Angeles Lakers representing and we all really broke a sweat. Did you know that I gained two pounds? :: and no I am not an oinker:: it's all that muscle mass that I've gained. or is it those fresh shelled Taco's from Taco Bell that I had eaten earlier? Either way, I gained. Yay. I'm gaining weight. Oprah must be having a heart attack as we speak. But this is part of the 'me with guns' program. See, the more weight i consume, the more i can start working out, eat more carbs, and get all those muscles to form. I'm telling you, it's going to look money! Everyone on Halloween night saw all my ish so you all know that they are coming in nicely. Speaking of that night, here is the rest of what happend on Halloween Night: :: H :: Halloween has never been so busy. There was so much going on in one day. First i had to take my neices and Lara's daughter to go trick or treating at Vince and Tammy's. It was so cute because all the girls were dressed up. Of course we were mad late arriving there but we caught up with the group. LaFe got so much candy. I remember when I was their age and we couldn't afford a real costume so I had to look around the house for things that I could wear. It was asian ghetto because I remember taking these bar-b-q sticks and making them into claws with a Pretzil container. ha. i'm telling you, we were ghetto with a capital 'toe'. but it was so much fun. In tradition, every year the girls go to Tammy's and go trick or treating. It was awesome that this halloween, we could be a part of that tradition. :: adult night :: after the kids were tired and ready for bed, it was time to go to the club with my peeps. I had the craziest costume ever! No shirt, these Dolce and Gabana looking pajama pants, a zoro mask, and a shark tooth necklace. It was from the movie :: whatever it takes :: with James Franco. It looked so wild, but at this club that we went to that night, anything goes. There were some really cool costumes. Some people be gettin' creative 'up in herre'. We showed up in John's escalade with Natalie and Josh. We all looked so fine. I would post the pictures on here but I gotta keep things PG-13. I mean, we literally had the craziest costumes ever. maybe sometime after 12pm tonight while the kids are asleep I'll post them on here. jk.. you just had to be there. if you missed it there is always next year. hope everyone had a Happy Halloween cuz i know that i hella did. next up is thansgiving weekend.

:: adreianne, rw9's kelley, and arthur at the casting call ::
Fri Nov 07, 2003 Theme: Hey Ya by Outcast
So last night I had sushi!! and not just your average sushi :: like the infamous California rolls that we are all used to eating :: cough cough lightweights :: but the hardcore ish like tuna and octopus. Yeah I know, I had no idea that sushi even comes in these forms. So Chris tells me to try the octopus one and I'm thinking, 'this looks like calamari' but then again.. what is an octopus? I was wondering what that would taste like. But then Mareena and Lara kept cheering me on, 'just eat it, just eat it!' so I did. It was actually really good. I still cannot believe that I ate octopus. Mmm.. that must have been a hundred dollars worth of sushi we ate last night. And this morning, holy crap.. when me and Lara woke up, we went to go walk outside to see if the weather was nice and guess what? there was this retangular box sitting right outside her door and it was flowers!! i go, 'Lara, is that what i think it is?' we stare at the box for a split second so I'm like 'open that biatch!' They were flowers! Chris had sent her flowers which was so incredible romantic. That was so P.I.M.P. like 50 cent. Wow. it's funny cuz I'm looking at Lara now and she's still in her underwear.. and God does she look so good! I told her several times, 'you look just like Lacasta!' Mmm mmm good! Life is great!

:: elly's Fondu Party with Kalifa, Peggy, Akamu, Marissa, Niomi, and Co. ::

:: Don't Mess With Texas.. elly, zannette, and peggy ::
maxim party tonight!
Thur Nov 06, 2003 Theme: Baby Boy by Beyonce Knowles featuring Sean Paul
I didn't even realize that it was almost the end of the week! I've been so busy with school that I almost forgot to Update. geeze. Okay, so what do we have so far? Well tonight is the Maxim Party at the Florida Aquarium.. :: sorry guys, it's a party by invite :: but Lara's friend Mareena is going. I still have like pages and pages of outlines to type up and plus I promised Lara that I'd help her paint the rest of her rooms tonight so I might not go. :( ..i know right, am I really turning down a Maxim Party? Who put the acid in my Spam? well if I want to get things done I kinda have to follow my good conscience. You know, how like in the movies there's a guy dressed up as a devil holding a trident and the other one is an angel with a halo over it's head? Anyway, i might go, i might not. If I do go i'll make sure to take some pictures because it's always VIP in that biatch and I always run into people that you run into when getting your plastic surgery done. And once you see the before and afters.. geeze! These people go off the deep end. Look at micheal jackson. He fell off the deep end and his nose fell off right along with it. I know. It's sad. But if I do go i'll make sure I won't say the :: P :: word (plastic) and stay near the silicone girls. At least those are a lot more fun to look at. well I better get going if i want to catch this first class ticket. Okay.. I'm going.. it didn't take much to turn down homework to go to a party huh? I have to see the plastic noses and botoxed faces! watching it on E doesn't do any justice. Seeing it in person is a whole nother story! Laters!
most infamous
:: my peeps ::

inside the vip

:: Brandy, Andrea, Arthur, Bobby, and Shannon at the Falls ::

:: dodi and andrea at whiskey park soho ::

:: Taiwo, Arthur, Nicole, and Jenn in the mustang ::

:: elly and denise with the mitzubishi ::

:: Kalifa in his Honda ::

:: Arthur in Elly's stang ::

:: Miss Denise ::

:: fast and the furious ::

Tuesday, October 07, 2003

Tue, 07 Oct 2003 15:13:11 GMT

:: Happy Halloween! ::

:: Aaron (baseball player), Sherry (cheerleader), Arthur (Oren Ishii ninja from Kill Bill), Josh (killer doctor), Nikki (sexy killer nurse) :: :: Guess what? last night was off the heezey.. i'll fill you guys in more on my night.. but in the meantime, you guys can scroll down and see the rest of my halloween pictures! I just added a few more. Enjoy. :: :: i'm out for the entire night.. I'm about to head out to do my thang.. hope everyone has a happy halloween!! laters! shout outs to lara, sherry, nikki, josh, nate, tyler, aaron, chisa, and natalie.. time to get krunck! you know how we do at the HoneyComb Hideout.. we smoke and we drink! ::

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Final Dates announced: Haunted House- tonight! 10/11, Halloween Horror Nights- 10/17, Halloween Costume Party- 10/25

maxim party tonight!
Thur Nov 06, 2003 Theme: Baby Boy by Beyonce Knowles featuring Sean Paul
I didn't even realize that it was almost the end of the week! I've been so busy with school that I almost forgot to Update. geeze. Okay, so what do we have so far? Well tonight is the Maxim Party at the Florida Aquarium.. :: sorry guys, it's a party by invite :: but Lara's friend Mareena is going. I still have like pages and pages of outlines to type up and plus I promised Lara that I'd help her paint the rest of her rooms tonight so I might not go. :( ..i know right, am I really turning down a Maxim Party? Who put the acid in my Spam? well if I want to get things done I kinda have to follow my good conscience. You know, how like in the movies there's a guy dressed up as a devil holding a trident and the other one is an angel with a halo over it's head? Anyway, i might go, i might not. If I do go i'll make sure to take some pictures because it's always VIP in that biatch and I always run into people that you run into when getting your plastic surgery done. And once you see the before and afters.. geeze! These people go off the deep end. Look at micheal jackson. He fell off the deep end and his nose fell off right along with it. I know. It's sad. But if I do go i'll make sure I won't say the :: P :: word (plastic) and stay near the silicone girls. At least those are a lot more fun to look at. well I better get going if i want to catch this first class ticket. Okay.. I'm going.. I have to see the plastic noses and botoxed faces! watching it on E doesn't do any justice. Seeing it in person is a whole nother story! Laters!

improv at centro
Sun Nov 02, 2003 Theme: Got Some Teeth by Obie Trice
it was guys night out last night cuz Natalie couldn't get off her shift. She still had three tables to close out so she told us to go out and have fun. Me and Josh were already running late and we had John's car :: long story :: so we drove that to Ybor. We had thrity minutes to get to the Comedy Club :: Improv :: to meet up with John Jr and his family. So we're running down 7th street and girls are asking us, 'so what are you guys up to tonight?' sorry ladies we're late to see a show. Josh needed to get to a phone because John had his ticket. I got mine earlier that day which I will get into further detail later in this entry. I run up to the netrance while Josh gets the payphone and I tell the guy 'are we late? are we late?' i gave him my ticket and told him 'we're supposed to meet some people here.' He asks, 'are you Josh?' no I'm Arthur, but my Josh is outside. I really do like walking into a comedy club late because if you do, you become part of that act. So we rushed in :: trying to be a quiet as possible :: and we get seated. I see John at the table. First comedian: he was funny but kept telling jokes that dealt with John Edward. I mean, I got to give it up to him, he was pretty funny.. but crakin jokes on John Edward? John Edwards is the Crossing Over guy. Have you guys even seen the show? comon now, he is for real. You don't crack jokes on people who can actually say, 'i see dead people.' that is some 6th sense ish right there. So the next comedian comes up and is telling fat jokes. He could do so because he was fat himself. If the guy was as skinny as a toothpick then he'd be in big trouble. That is like a rich white guy telling jokes about the ghetto. Comedian number two was telling jokes about having sex with a stripper which I do not think he has ever experienced because he was for one, a comedian, and for two, had bad personal hygene. But the third comedian was hilarious. He was one of the writers for The George Lopez show. This was the guy we all came out to see. About the comedian- :: Michael Loftus Oct 30-Nov 2, 2003 If on-the-edge comedy is your thing then you won't want to miss Michael Loftus! Politics, current events and anything that enters his wild and daring stream of consciousness is fair game for this incredible performer. Michael is originally from Ohio and now lives in Los Angeles. He can currently be seen on Comedy Central's Premium Blend. He is a writer on ABC's "The George Lopez Show. :: We were all laughing histerically. Some of the jokes he told I cannot repeat on this site because this a family site you know. I keep things PG-13 around here. but what I can tell you is that he will be in town all week so if you want to see show just call up Improv at Centro Ybor. after the show John wanted to check out the rest of Ybor. John isn't a Tampa resident so he has never been to the bars there. I'm walking down 7th street and I see my buddy Stewart. He tells us, 'get in at Prana' but we weren't feeling the long lines there so we wen't to The Green Iguana first to kill some time. Got a few beers then wen't back to Prana. it's an arm and a leg to get in these clubs now. Even with the vip cards we got, it was still seven dollars to get in. Geeze. But the five levels made it all worth it. There was this one chick in particular I will never forget though. She was this drunk chick who looked as if she had just finished doing a girls gone wild video. So she comes up to John first and goes, 'hello there sexy.' You can smell the alcohol in her breath. And she starts macking on him. He of course turns away and then she goes up to me. Ummm, sorry.. I'm waiting for my friend to get back for my drinks. So she turns to Josh. He looks and me and starts laughing because this girl would not leave us alone. She's like, 'so what are your names?' We gave her fake names and told her that we were from Orlando. So she is telling us her life story how she is 24 and yack yack yack. Finally Josh tells me in whisper, 'hey, let's look over there and pretend that we're talking about something and say watermelon watermelon over and over again so it looks like we're saying stuff.' It was so freaking hilarious. She actually finally walked away. We drank a few more beers and it was time to head out. previously: Me and my sister Elly met up at Neiman Marcus. We always manage to pry away from all those fragrance models saying 'try this.. it's Burberry' or 'try this.. it Chanel number 5'.. but it's like.. try this and leave us alone lady. So we rushed right towards Starbucks. I got my favorite beverage which is the Mocha frappuccino. Mmm.. that is like the best, lets get fat, coffee dessert drink. :: oink oink :: i needed it and plus I've been good, i had Subway for lunch. We walked into Hollister :: aka the cave ::, and looked around for some cool gear. I promise that they need to hand out flashlights because you can't see a damn thing in there. We ended up at Victoria's Secret because they had new merchandise in stock and my sister was looking for a birthday gift. We were just at Victoria's Secret last week too! so this time they had a lot of packaged deals. My sister spent like 70 bucks with her 10 off coupon and got these cute stuffed toy puppies for Jenesi and Maya. it was one of those purchase with purchases. I know.. can you believe they have those too? so i'm standing by the front and I hear my name, 'Arthur!' and it was John! small world right? so he is telling me how he was just at Neimans and he could find a suit that he liked so he was asking me if I knew any good suit places. First thing that came to mind was the Hugo Boss store upstairs. Guess how much John ended up spending that day? $900 dollars.. for real. i guess being in medical school pays off huh? and then he brings up, 'are you coming out with us tonight to the comedy club?' and that is how the whole night got planned. my sister gave me forty dollars to get my haircut, put gas in my car, and buy my ticket for the night. Isn't she the best sister ever? so yeah, i had an awesome time last night. i just wish the Bucs played as good today as my night was last night. :: shaking my head :: i cannot believe they lost to the saints. I can take my Bucs sweater to the Salvation Army now.
more Coming soon..

halloween night
:: Sherry as Playboy Playmate, Megan as Sexy Army Girl, and Amanda as Playboy Playmate::
Fri Oct 31, 2003 Theme: Forsaken by David Draiman of Disturbed
i'm actually excited to share with you guys this skurry ass urban legend that i've read a few years ago.. so before i get into my night, here is the spine tingling story for ya'll to read! this one is called: aren't you glad you didn't turn on the light? a young lady is alone in her apartment. she goes to bed with her dog on the floor beside her. In the middle of the night she is woken up by a strange sound. She is alarmed but reaches down for the dog, who licks her hand. She is reassured and goes back to sleep. In the morning she finds the dog hung in the shower. Where the dog slept, she picked up a note that said 'humans can lick too.' :: ain't that some skurry shit? :: Yeah, I thought so too.. well anyways here was my night: Halloween Night alright.. so Natalie calls me up and says, 'come on over' not knowing that her parents would be there. Well my costume had a few missing articles on it such as my shirt so I'm walking into her house shirtless and there her parents are sitting down having dinner. i looked and i ran straight towards Natalie's room. I'm like, 'i had no idea that your parents were here! geeze!' so then she is like, 'oh don't worry about it' but it's funny how people can say that but then when they are in the same situation it's a whole different ball game. so I'm changing and then Josh and John come over. Finally! They open the door and I notice that they weren't wearing costumes. They had on clubbing clothes. I'm like, 'guys, Robin's after party is a costume party and if your not wearing a costume, they are going to charge you at the door. :: like John cares anyway cuz he has tons of money :: but that wasn't the case. This is what happened: josh left his costume at home at Lake Jovita and John was wearing his Elvis outfit but he took it off once he saw that Josh didn't wear his Texas Chainsaw Massicare costume. dammit. Natalie forgot to tell Josh that costumes were manditory because we were also going out to the club first. That was the whole plan. Quickly we made up costumes for them so that even if they were to stay in their club clothes, they could still pass as something. So retardedly, John was now supposed to be a foreign supermodel and Josh was Sebastian from Cruel Intentions. Okay, so now everything is fixed. Natalie finished putting baby oil all over my chest and back and then i thought, 'oh shit, i can't walk out like this with your parents being in the livingroom!' so when we walked out, all three of them were in front of me screaming, 'hey, okay well we're going now! have a great night.' while I'm hiding behind them. It was so funny! I could hear Natalie's mom in the background saying, 'where's Arthur? I wanted to say goodbye to him.' We couldn't stop laughing. In the car, I couldn't get over John's selection of CD's. I mean, it ranged from Jimmy Buffet to Snoop D-o double G! Yes, i know.. off the heezey I'm telling you! We finally park :: it's about 12am :: and walk staright towards the front door and there were mad people there! Everyone was dressed up in Halloween costumes. And like I said before, some people be getting creative up in that biatch. I felt uncomfortable because everyone was looking at us. I should have put more clothes on. My James Franco, in Whatever It Takes costume was too revealing. I'm glad that at least Natalie was dressed as Jessica Biel in The Texas Chainsaw Massicare and had blood all over her arms and chest because having John and Josh next to us dressed like sevilians wasn't helping at all. It was so awesome because people kept coming up to me saying, 'wow, i really love your costume!' I also had people come up to me and offer me a drink but I was flying solo that night. I didn't want to meet anyone on Halloween Night. Not my sense of style. I ran into a lot of my friends actually. I kept telling them, 'i'm so sorry if i didn't see you earlier and say hello. It's kinda hard since i'm not wearing my glasses.' Yeah, it was so hard to see people through all that smoke. I felt bad because even at Robin's costume party, people were coming up to me sayin, 'hey! it's me!' and I had to keep telling everyone, 'i can't see!' Next time I'll invest in some contacts. John bought us a round of drinks and by that time I was feeling tipsy. In the car ride there we were chugging down John's Bacardi Razz. I don't like drinking too much at nightclubs because of how vaulnerable I get. I told Natalie, make sure you watch who I talk to or who I walk away with. But the again, she had a lot to drink too. She would be like, 'that cutie is looking staring at you' then I'd say, 'yeah but with my luck they are tryffeling and do not have a car!' So then after the club, we decided that it was time to head out to Robin's party. Gigi and Giga were still there. And plus I haven't seen Lenor's friend Tara in so long. When we got there everyone was aldready drunk. It was so much fun. I met so many cool people. Giga introduced me to this guy that had the funniest costume. I can't even explain it but we did take a picture together so I'll have to get the pictures from Giga and post them on here. Everyone looked so good too! Giga was a firewoman, Gigi's boyfriend was Frankenstein and Gigi was The Bride of Frankenstein. It was so bad ass!! We all had a great time. This years Halloween was off the chain! So much happened just in one night. I can't wait for next year's Halloween. I'm sure I'll come up with another bad ass costume. Maybe i will go as Bosley from Charlie's Angels. we'll see. Happy Halloween!
more Coming soon..

inside jokes
that is exactly what it means. So you might not get any of this ish if you weren't there. But anyway, here are a few stuff i dug up in my old journals: arthur's page should I get back with my ex?, slutts we love, just say no, the couple 'r' us, kiss or kill, for men, tools, got milk?, are you self-actualized?, suvival, save the date!, the hazard, the harm, ready set snag, wwwdotbettersexdotcom, proves that small is beautiful, she's controlling your life, something old, something new, busted, oh baby, guy food, she was asking for it, they morph into your sould mate, i know i need to tell my parents but i don't want them to be disappointed in me, eat everything you crave francis's page wonder girl, victim, you always knew how to make a sticky situation go away, can i convince him that we should get back together?, feel nice, he licked it off and giggled, whose blood was it?, get over it, you know a good thing when you smell it, ...no comment, 2 get a grip, she is always and never the same, playtex, #$&*@! katie's page katie, love, sunset boulevard, job satisfaction, 5. suck it up and suck face, vodka with OJ, alcoholic, do alcohol and antibiotics mix?, 1. draw attention to your mouth, international disturbing behavior start the class warfare, men in black, girlfriend, 99, do try this at home, creatures, numbers, happy, can't we just get along?, my best friends, nocturnal, from rags to respectability, change?, he said he would never hurt her, perfect, countdown, we could do withought, between classes, blue sex rubbed out, safe, control basis, i can't wait for sex, 8 ways to get everything you want in life, people with common venereal diseases are two to five times more likely to be infected with HIV, sex and body, when your sex drive is higher than his, directions: i don't take them very well, read the ring, debate squad, i don't have a problem with authority it's when the person in charge is not an authority that we have a problem mood swings Attitude Compact stirs memories, god she has like two brain cells, can we all say attitude?, you never told me that, oh just grow up, what the hell was that all about?, can you two please stop laughing so much?, gosh mood swing number four, i cannot believe you said that, what?, no way, who cares?, okay Bobby, i hate girls, i hate guys, !, ?, quit, fuck you then, fine whatever, im just going to the library, you liar, duh, not again, don't touch me, you can be such an asshole, didn't i pay for you last time?, why are you being so quiet?, we are not going to do this ever again, five minutes, i cannot believe you, i've already seen that movie like 50 times, that was uncalled for, tell me now, we are seniors now we're not in fifth grade anymore, i'm so hungry, not again, shit, we are so late, i called shotgun, make up your mind, what's your attitude?, can you please just leave me alone?, let's go, agg, for when?, hey rosie, don't diss me for him, i hate the van, i'm so sick of it, get away, try again, this is the last time

after party at alex's
:: my astrology :: i've been planning to add this to my site so now I have a chance to do so. it's actually quite interesting because when me, Natalie, and Josh all got our astologies printed out, they all were 99.9 percent accurate. Here was mine: taurus is the second sign of the zodiac and is ruled by Venus, which represents the pursuit of joy and merriment. Taurus symbolizes the power of nature in all things. The world's resources are at your disposal and you make good use of them for both comfort and pleasure. You like to feel part of a permanent enviornment and will carve out an existence that provides a secure and loving atmosphere to thrive in. Strenghts Your hardworking attitude is apparent in the outstanding results you achieve. With foresight, perseverance and thoroughness you cover all the bases, turning out one masterpiece after another. Romance and Relationships You're a good friend to have when the chips are down. You're prepared to provide ample support, but never allow yourself to become a crutch. Those who seek your help get it, but do so on your terms. :: true that! i should have read this months ago.. what was i thinking before? :: Vision 'The bigger, the better,' might be your motto. It doesn't matter if it's a house, a bank account, the size of dinner portions, or solution to the world's problems, you like it big. Flamboyant, no - mammoth, yes. :: true true :: Career You'll never be accused of goofing off once you set your mind on a goal. It's possible the term 'nose to the grindstone' was coined to describe you, because you just keep going till the job gets done. :: yep :: Passion You crave a secure, loving and comfortable home life. Home is where you hang both your hat and your heart, and where you're content in the midst of all the wonderful things you've collected. :: this is true :: Intellectual You have a very high and healthy opinion of who you are. You may not think yourself an intellectual, but you're always ready to share your views on even the most serious of subjects in a studied way. :: damn this thing is precise :: Finance You value money and securtiy, and prefer safety to adventure, which your investments are likely to affirm. You make decisions at your own speed, and can't be rushed into something you're not ready for. :: i do value money and then i spend it :: Gemstone emerald Special Color pastel blue My Ruling Number 6 My Ruling Planet Venus

Ray's costume party
coming to ya this 10/25
expect us to be there [ andrea, sherry, arthur, and megan :: and plus more of my friends
:: natalie, josh, jenevieve, erica, kristen, ted, damaye, josh, aaron ]
..happy halloween!!

campus field day
Thur Oct 30, 2003 Theme: Me Against the Music by Britney Spears featuring Madonna
Guess who got a hundred percent on their Nutrition and Drugs test? Me! I am so excited that I am going to get an A in this class. If I manage to make straight A's this semester I'm going to get myself brand new skii's for my ski trip this Christmas by using my pel grant money. I can't wait for that skii trip. Oh yeah, John Tedesco is in town so I'll have more updates on our trip. Whenever John is in town it means this: What comes before part B? Part-A! :: party :: get it? okay that was so lame. Someone get the shotgun outta grampa's tool shed. :: jk :: but for real. This means that I can pretty much do anything this winter break. You know how we do! Also in this weeks college news: on Wednesday we had Octoberfest at our campus! It was so neat because they had all these different stands with different things going on in each of them. Me and Natalie started freaking out. trust me, when your at school for six hours, and they are giving out free food and free merchandise, you 'will' get excited too. Like this one stand: this guy takes two pictures of you doing two different poses. When he prints out your pictures, he puts it in this little picture frame. right? then when you move the picture frame up and down, your picture moves also. So it was like this animated picture thing. it's hard to explain but it was so tight. Me and Natalie got one done and then her and Josh got one too. They came out so cute! Let's see.. what else did we do? oh yeah ..we got free t-shirts in this one stand and the lady was trying to be cheap and only give us a shirt without giving us a coffee mug. I'm like, 'biatch you better hand over that coffee mug before things get ugly'. So she gave us all free mugs too. we also got our astrologies done. All of ours were so precise! holy crap. I got mine printed out :: and I'll add it to my site for ya'll to read :: let's see.. we also got free food :: looked like the sloppy joes that lady was giving out in Billy Madisoon for real ::, I do not even want to know what was in that. and then last but not least me and Natalie got animal balloons done. This guy was good! I mean, he could make you just about anything out of balloons. Natalie got Daffy Duck and I got Bugs Bunny. It was funny cuz we were carrying them all around school saying, 'duck season.. rabbit season.. duck season.' :: i know we're such nerds :: we had such a great time. I can't wait to get the pictures back from Natalie's digital camera. and my sister Elly is giving me copies of Ray's costume party so I'll add those too as soon as I can. Tomorrow night me and Lara are taking the girls trick or treating at Vince and Tammy's. I can't wait to get all that candy. My nieces and Lara's daughter are all excited to go. :: also why is it that all the northern states get cold weather, but for us peeps here in tampa, we get palmetto bugs? someone please explain to me on how this is fair :: In the meantime, stay away from my rice cooker! Later.

in the news weekend updates, raging fires in California, and the OC.. much to talk about here..
Now is it true that the guy that does the voice from The Price Is Right is dead? I heard it in the news today on tv but I wasn't really paying attention so I'm not sure. Anyway, I am going to post up the Halloween pictures on Halloween night. So you guys have to wait one more week to see them. I know! It's dreadful! Sorry. But I don't have much time this week to scan all those pictures. I'd say :: technical difficulties :: sike! Aside from the new Joe Millionaire, Skin, and the RMA's there will be a second Halloween Costume party this Friday. I'm so excited. First off, we're going to take Lara's daughter and my neices to go trick or treating at Tammy's then head off to the party. Then after a few drinks we're going to head out to the clubs. A lot to anticipate this upcoming week. I am also excited that the OC is finally coming back on this week! How long has it been? They always seem to take away the shows that I like just like The Random Years but I think the OC is here to stay. I love the show because it reminds me a lot of what goes on in my life and also my friends. :: you know how we do :: Then also I wanted to bring up these forrest fires out in Cali. Now Cali is my hometown so I feel for all those people. I know the tragedy of having a home to be destroyed. Right before I left Cali we had a few run ins with the earthquakes. Of course at my age at the time I thought it was so much fun walking to school and having to bounce up and down. But now taking a few Earth Science classes I know now that those walks to school were dangerous. And now these forrest fires. Where is Bambi and her crew supposed to go to chill at now? I don't know what this world is coming to? But what I do know is that I'm hungry so I'll be right back. Laters.
more Coming Soon..

:: cutie patooties :: Rebecca and Jackie

:: happy halloween ::

:: Arthur's costume: i was one of Oren Ishii's ninjas from Kill Bill ::

Photo :: Aaron (baseball player), Sherry (cheerleader), Arthur (Oren Ishii's ninja from Kill Bill),
Josh (killer doctor), and Nikki (sexy killer nurse) ::

[ Photo ] Josh, Nikki, and Arthur in the Lexus Jeep
Ray's costume party 10/25..
Sun Oct 26, 2003 Theme: In Da Club Remix by Beyonce Knowles
Guess what's developing? Okay, I guess it's a little obvious since the only thing that developes is muscles and film but the answer is film. We took so many pictures last night. I think everyone agrees with me when I say that last night was one bad ass night. Ray's costume party was off the chain. Literally. It really broke! The chain and the metal part needs to be brought back to The Home Depot for repairing. :: just kidding :: But what a great night! I mean this has a plot and everything. I'm going to break it down - break it down - for ya'll from beginning to end because so much happened so here it goes: Prologue: I was meeting up with Sherry at the HoneyComb Hideout which has been in hybernation in the past couple of months. But now that I'm back in the picture and with Sherry and Nikki to hold up the fort, I think we're going to start having some bad ass nights again. So we are re-opening the doors to the HoneyComb Hideout. 21 and up please. And oh yeah, :: if the fellas and the ladies wanna hate us, we'll just send them a bottle :: because when your game is tight people will hate. The night begins with arriving at Sherry's. BTW Sherry just got a brand new 2003 and its tight as hell. So I come inside and the girls are getting ready. Sherry tells me to open up the bottle of wine in the fridge and start drinking. Awww.. I miss my Sherry!! It's been too long. So then here is the funniest part of the night: Sherry takes me into Nikki's bathroom and is pointing into the sink. I'm like, 'what?' I look inside and I see Nikkie's nurse outfit. There's ink blotches on it. I'm like, 'no freaking way.. she totally ruined that dress.' Yes she did! Dammit. Nikki had accidentally ironed the dress and it had a tiny black iron stain on it. And on top of that, she also managed to spill a little bit of red nail polish on it. Here's the deal. The girls are fretting and I come to the rescue. I've seen a lot of HGTV the past couple of weeks to know that I can come up with some type of McGeiver-ish maneuver. So here goes the brainstorming. I'm thinking.. okay, she already ruined the dress. Nikki wanted to go back to the costume place and buy another outfit and I said no. So I told them, 'okay.. why don't we get red paint and make the dress into a bloody dress' and so she can be a sexy killer nurse. Plus she also had Josh's doctor scrubs there too so we were going to make those bloody too. Problem solved. Josh and Aaron were both on their way so we were in a huge rush. We put Nikki's dress into the dryer and head off to Wooden Nickel to get some paint, rush back to Sherry's and put together the costume. You know what? It turned out so much better with the blood. We pour more wine into our glasses and wait for the paint to dry. Finally the guys arrive and we all look so fine. Damn. It was like 9:45 and we started to head out. The drive to Ray's was so tight. Aaron had the music blasting and I think it was the Fugees soundtrack that was playing. So you know that it was off the heezey up in that biatch. We were all jammin in Nikki's Lexus Utility vehicle! Let me repeat myself again.. Nikki drives a Lexus Utility vehicle. Ahhhh! Okay, that is just my dream car. It's the kind of car that doctors drive. It was funny cuz earlier Sherry was asking me a question in the car and all I could think of was how phat Nikki's ride was. And also Aaron and Josh we're saying stuff like 'holmes' and 'what's up homie' and Nikkie's reply was, 'Sherry, we talk like that for fun, but they talk like that for real.' Ha. 10:15 destination: Heritage Isles We finally get to Heritage Isles and we arrive at the wrong house. It was so hilarious! We're knocking on this door and a lady answers it. The woman is holding a baby. This was definately not the party. We started laughing so hard! There were so many cars parked outside that it was impossible to find out which one was Ray's. I see Leo and I go, 'ohhhhh, it's over there!' We come inside and the party was decked out. I mean they went all out. Tammy did such a great job on the decorations. Everyone was dressed up. Let's see.. there was Osama Bin Ladin, a maid, a lamp shade girl, the scream guy, a race car guy, Cash Money :: which was Ray :: his girlfriend who was his pimpette, a school girl, Madonna, alright I give up.. there were so many people there. But now that the Costume party is over, I can finally tell ya'll what we finally dressed up as. For those of you who has seen Kill Bill, I was one of the ninja's with the black mask and samurai sword. It was so pimp. Sherry was a cheerleader and Aaron dressed up as a baseball player and Nikki was a sexy killer nurse and Josh was a killer doctor. Everyone looked so great. There was so much alcohol in the kitchen. It was Hell's Kitchen with the jello brain and bone shaped mixers. those were a good touch too. Aaron made my first drink. Then DJ, then Josh made my last drink. After that last one I was gone. It was hard enough to see through my mask. We were dancing to 50 cent and all these other hip hop songs. I was so surprised to hear some of the songs we heard that night. We stayed for like two and a half hours and Nikki was ready to head back to the fort. So Aaron drove us all home. The whole way back me and Nikki are laughing about everything and telling each other how much we love each other. Sherry was in the front seat taking so many pictures in the car. Josh kept saying, 'what's up holmes' and for some reason me and Nikki could not stop laughing. So much fun. We get to Sherry's and I remember :: check my pager for voicemails :: I left my pager and had like forty different voicemails. I got Natalie's and she was at the party. Dammit. I had to go back to meet up with them. I kiss Sherry and Nikki goodnight and I tell Josh and Aaron, 'later holmes' :: thats going to be our new word now :: and I left. Oh yeah, and this isn't the end of the night either because I still had to meet up with Natalie and Josh. back to Ray's house I get there and I'm looking all over for Natalie. Everyone's like, 'you friends are here looking for you'. I see someone waving at me from outside and it's Natalie. We start talking about the party and how it them forever to get ready when all of the sudden I hear this huge chainsaw coming out from behind me. I almost passed out. It was Josh! He was cutting my leg with a toy chainsaw. It was so funny. He was like, 'I've been waiting for you to get here so that I could scare you.' He was waiting the whole time at the front door. Natalie and Josh both dressed up as The Texas Chainsaw Massicare. Natalie as Jessica Biel and Josh as Leatherface. Their costumes were bad ass too! Too bad that I had used up all my film but we did take one with Natalie's digital camera so once she gets those developed I'll post them on my site. after party at Bobby's We leave Ray's house party and head off to one of Natalie's co-workers friends party. Except this party wasn's a costume party and we were all still in our costumes. Oh well. We got there and we definately stood out. Everyone was in Abercrombie and we were in.. ummm.. non Abercrombie. No one really cared because we knew most of the people there. I haven't seen Bobby Brewster in forever. The last time I saw him was at Club Upstairs with Cliff and Steve but then he left to move up north. It was great seeing all of them. The time was like 3:30am :: and i'm going by the time change since we do get an extra hour to party :: and I was started to get really tired. Plus by that time I've already had a million zillion drinks so it was time to go home. Natalie kept telling me, 'Arthur, spend the night with us and in the morning we can all go to MOSI.' After five minutes of debating, I went over to Nats and spent the night. We usually all stay up talking for hours but since we had too much to drink we just all passed out. Great night.
:: now comes sleep ::

:: Costumes: Natalie as Jessica Biel and Josh as Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massicare ::

out and about
Help pay for my college :: comon' don't be greedy ::
Wed Oct 22, 2003 Theme: Holiday by Madonna
So much has happened within the past 24 hours! Geeze! Let me catch a few breaths, gather up all my thoughts, and I can begin with a brief entry, then elaborate from there.. okay. everyone seated? alright. So this morning I woke up late for school. Yep. Me. Late for school.. which is very unusual because 'I'm always on time' like Ashanti. But I had stayed up the night before till 4am writing up this stupid paper for Astronomy. Now at first I thought that it would be an easy paper but then when I started reading the articles, I found myself getting lost into the whole research paper spectrum. It was difficult. I was reading sentences maybe once or even three times. By 3am I was already falling asleep. I could feel the words drifting away from the pages. So I tried to stay awake and finish up my last few paragraphs. Well I started to write things like, 'and the stars are great because they are bright'.. and stuff that wasn't even making any sense only because I just wanted to go to bed. Note to self: you can't write a good last minute paper if your falling alseep. So after I finished it, I passes out in Maya's room. The next morning (which is today) she woke me up and told me to move my car. Why me? All I want is sleep. Thus making me late for school today. Okay. I get into class and Natalie and Josh are both laughing at me. I sat down and Josh leans over and says, 'uh huh.. mister late'. I just put my head down on the table and tried to sleep. Our teacher didn't mind cauze she's cool like that. I didn't even feel like working out but I did. :: OMG :: and before I forget, let me tell you about what happened on Dale Mabrey. For all you non Tampa residents, well Dale Mabrey is a very busy street with lots of intersections. As we're driving down this busy road we all hear a thump. Natalie goes, 'omg Josh, you left your shoes on top of the car!' So without even thinking twice, I run out of the car and chase after his shoes. Cars were flying by me. I look over at the median and there is Josh's new sneakers. One day old too. Sad because the story isn't a happy ending but a few skid marks on Josh's shoes off of this guys car. Poor Josh. I can't believe that even happened today. Remember, I'm still tired from the night before. After Pubix, we came back to school and went to the gym. A full body work-out. And I mean it. I discovered new muscles today that I didn't even knew I had. I could tell the drastic changes in my body. Since the past few weeks of weight lifting, I can already see my arm muscles growing. It looks great. I never realized that I could grow those on my arms. jk. After the long workout I came home, ate two pieces of fried chicken and had some tomatoes for my veggies and then I went with my sister Elly to look at some costumes out by Citrus Park. They really didn't have anything that we were looking for so we went to International Plaza. There we went to Hollister where my sister bought this cute top and eight lotions from Victorias Secret. It is virtually impossible to go in that place withought spending a dime. As soon as you step into those gold and pink doors, you belong to them. We also ate at the Food Court's Chick-Fil-A :: oink oink :: and then headed off to Nordstrom. I hate going to the mall because when I saw the new Puma gear on the manican I wanted to take it off and run out the store. I also saw so many vintage shirts at Abercrombie. Ahhh.. maybe this is for the better. My sister told me, 'don't you already have like a billion shirts?' This is true, but can a person have too many shirts? Well anyway, that is all for now.. I'm going to rest my poor muscles and let them do what they have to do and regenerate. Laters!

Jenn and Megan
:: quen cho ::

mr bass featured journal
Wed Oct 15, 2003 Theme: Wide Open Spaces by Dixie Chicks
Natalie and I are both inexperinced fishermen. I know this because we don't like touching fish scales more or less having to place a plastic worm at the end of a hook. I know.. plastic worm.. but the fish in the lake do not know any better. We both caught two bass fish each today and Josh caught 12. Josh does not count so let's just exclude him from our inventory and just say that we caught 4 fish all together. Before we all went out on the boat we came prepared this time. Josh's mom Pandora got us some bug spray for those damn West Nile infested mosquitos. They got us good last time. Those little fuckers came down on us like it was World War III. But this time they have no chance on getting this DNA. They had to work for their dinner. Me and Natalie both sprayed ourselves from head to toe with bug spray. I mean we practically bathed in it. Also we brought a cooler this time so that we could actually store the fish in there. So the mission begins. On my second try, I caught a bass on its side. Now how that hell is that even possible? Does this even count? I mean the fish was probably just swimmin by minding it's own fish business when my hook probably caught it's stomach. Yeah, it's pretty gross. If you are fish-gut intolerant you shouldn't read any further. So anyway, Josh through that back into the lake. The second fish I caught was huge! Well huge to me is anything larger than a tuna fish. I was so excited. That went in the cooler. After a while, we could hear him floppin' around. I felt so bad for the little sucker. But then later that night when he was laying across my plate, I didn't feel so bad for him then. Mmm.. he tasted so good. Josh made us fish fillet with corn on the cob and rice from good old Uncle Ben. He ain't my uncle but his rice is sure good. So anyway, when I told Nate about how we ate the bass fish from Lake Jovita he told me to go wash my hands and say 5 hail marys before I went to bed. Ha. Tell that to the carnivour who had a McDonald's cheeseburger and beef jerky right before he left to Ocean City. It was so hilarious when he told me to do that. So tomorrow I'm going to the airport to pick him up with his parents. I hope they decide to take out the Lincoln Navigator this time because that ride just has 'bad ass' written all over it. I'm so excited. I love airports too. Later!

sugar good to me

Tues Oct 21, 2003 Theme: Take It From Here by justin Timberlake
I just got out of class :: sleepy mode :: last night I left Natalie's at like 12 watching movies like Hocus Pocus and Wishmaster.. all to help celebrate the Halloween theme this season. I love Hocus Pocus. that just brought back so many great childhood memories of how much fun we'd have trick-or-treating. but now as grown-ups, we usually hand out candies to the little kids but i think this year Josh has something else planned for us to do. Also, this Saturday is Ray's costume party and I'm so excited. We've already picked out our costumes and they are so awesome. See, we had to top last years Hugh Hefner and Playboy playmates, so this year it was down to me as being Bosley, and my friends as Charlie's Angels. but then I had an idea since most of the girls we're blonde, they could go as Barbie, and i would go as Ken. How pimp is that? Yesterday I was on the phone with Jenevieve and she was telling me, 'hey, why don't you guys go with the Barbie and Ken theme and have the girls dress up as different Barbie's like 'tropical ocean barbie' and 'malibu beach barbie?' I almost fell over my seat when she told me that. What a great idea? So we're going with that theme instead. Josh and Natalie is going to be bad ass too. I told them to dress up as Sebastian and Katherine of Cruel Intentions where Josh is Ryan Phillipe and Natalie is Sarah Michelle Ghellar but Natalie doesn't want to be evil so she might be Reese Witherspoon. We already planned what we're going to wear so I'm so excited. My sisters will be there too. I heard that Tammy already went to Ray's to help decorate. Their parties are always bad ass too! I can't wait to see what they all have done so far. In the meantime, we have MOSI to look forward to. Can you beleive that this is an actual assignment for our Nutrition class? I know right, I'm asking myself the same question. Who put the acid in Mrs. Greer's spam? We're planning to go this Thursday. Nate hasn't been back to MOSI since he was like fifteen. And Josh has never been at all. Can we all say 'MOSImax deprived'? we are so hitting that up too when we go. I feel like Natalie and I are going to be the tour guides for this Thursday's event. We will be saying, 'Welcome to MOSI.. and please keep all hands to yourselves'.. you can only break a statue by pushing it to its side. Trust me when I say this because I talk from experience. Those bones are not as sturdy as they look. I can't wait to see all the dinosaur stuff and cool electro ish that they have in the weather room. I'm so excited. I know, I'm such a nerd and a half. But who wouldn't get excited knowing that there is a hurricane simulator that feels like your in an actualy hurricane storm. Exactly. Now the fingers are pointing at you. This is worth the full cover charge. Well I better get going. I have to meet up with Natalie. Ciao.

I'm back! :: just for a little while :: I'm actually about to head home. I just wanted to update my pics from Nate's digital camera. He came to school with me today! Well he didn't want to sit in class so he just waited in the library. He likes my school. It's nothing like his college though. But we just hung out until Natalie got out of her last class. I think we're going to Taco Bell today! I have been craving Taco Bell all week. Time to get fat. :: oink oink :: laters.

U.T.
Tyler : Texas

that's hott

Brittany : Murphy

get skurred in O-town
Sun Oct 19, 2003 Theme: Forsaken by David Draiman of Disturbed
We're baaccck! Okay, so I totally stole that from Poltergeist, but what can you do? So anyway, we had so much fun this weekend! I am still recouperating from the Bacardi Razz and 7-eleven's slurpee mix. I can't believe how scared we all were in Orlando's Islands of Adventure. I am going to develope the rest of my film this week so that we can show ya'll how much fun we had and also of all the cool and creepy creatures we saw. Natalie took a ton of pictures on her digital so I should have those soon. Okay, first off we went to go see The Texas Chainsaw Massicare. How scary is that? I am a huge horror movie buff and this was a great Halloween themed movie. I still can't get over that guy with the chainsaw. I kept screaming, 'omg, run the other way! run the other way!' Now why is that when a girl is running from a killer, she decides to always fall down and stumble or run in the same direction as the killer? Can we all say, death bait? I still do not understand? Someone please explain this to me. And it's usually the dumb girl who doesn't realize that hiding in a bedroom closet will not rid you from being slaughtered. Also if there was a killer, I do not think I'd be saying, 'hey, lets all split up' or 'you go check in that room, while I go over there to get chopped up.' Yeah, these were a bunch of their mistakes that led them to be victims of Leatherface. Eww.. he is so gross. I kept looking over at Natalie and she is closing her eyes during most of the scenes. That anxiety that builds up I can relate to because when we went into that haunted hospital a few weeks ago I kept feeling like someone was watching us or that we were being followed. And to think that this movie was based on a true story makes it even scarier. The whole drive to Orlando, we promised ourselves that weren't going to pick up any hitch hikers or fill up on gas at some old gas station. When we arrived, Natalie had an extra ticket because Ted couldn't go. And of course you know exactly what happended next. Hell yeah! You know we sold that biatch in line. So okay, first Josh kept telling me, 'we need to get rid of this ticket.. let's sell it for 45'. Natalie bought the tickets 40 dollars a piece so that at least we'd be making a five dollar profit. So then I was thinking.. 45?.. damn, for that price we could sell it for more since these people looked desperate. So I saw this really pretty girl in line and I go up to her saying, 'excuse me, but are you trying to buy a ticket?' I explained to her that if she was to purchase a ticket at the ticket counter that it could cost her over 70 bones. And with my ticket, she could get it for 60. I up-ed the price from what Josh wanted to sell it for because I knew that the tickets would be sold out. At first she hesitated but then she was like, 'okay, where is an ATM?' Bingo! 60 bucks in cold hard cash right in my fingertips.. and it was as easy as pie. Natalie was so excited. Now we had like 120 bucks to spend in the theme park. First thing we did was we picked up a map and started hitting up all the haunted houses. We got a really great picture with this one demon dude. He looked so real! We went to the Scream house revisited, Ship of Screams, Jungle of Doom, Psycho Scareapy, and rode the Spiderman Ride. It was so much fun. At the end of the night we were so hungry that we got these humungus turkey legs and started eating them like cavemen. I mean these turkey legs were huge. They might have been dinosaur legs. Who knows? So at the end of the night I drove back to Natalie's and I kept falling asleep at the wheel so Josh took over. It's hard keeping awake at 4:30 in the morning. We were dead tired but it was all so worth it. Halloween Horror Nights is the ish and we had the best time ever!
HHN13 pictures coming soon..

mr bass
Wed Oct 15, 2003 Theme: Wide Open Spaces by Dixie Chicks
Natalie and I are both inexperinced fishermen. I know this because we don't like touching fish scales more or less having to place a plastic worm at the end of a hook. I know.. plastic worm.. but the fish in the lake do not know any better. We both caught two bass fish each today and Josh caught 12. Josh does not count so let's just exclude him from our inventory and just say that we caught 4 fish all together. Before we all went out on the boat we came prepared this time. Josh's mom Pandora got us some bug spray for those damn West Nile infested mosquitos. They got us good last time. Those little fuckers came down on us like it was World War III. But this time they have no chance on getting this DNA. They had to work for their dinner. Me and Natalie both sprayed ourselves from head to toe with bug spray. I mean we practically bathed in it. Also we brought a cooler this time so that we could actually store the fish in there. So the mission begins. On my second try, I caught a bass on its side. Now how that hell is that even possible? Does this even count? I mean the fish was probably just swimmin by minding it's own fish business when my hook probably caught it's stomach. Yeah, it's pretty gross. If you are fish-gut intolerant you shouldn't read any further. So anyway, Josh through that back into the lake. The second fish I caught was huge! Well huge to me is anything larger than a tuna fish. I was so excited. That went in the cooler. After a while, we could hear him floppin' around. I felt so bad for the little sucker. But then later that night when he was laying across my plate, I didn't feel so bad for him then. Mmm.. he tasted so good. Josh made us fish fillet with corn on the cob and rice from good old Uncle Ben. He ain't my uncle but his rice is sure good. So anyway, when I told Nate about how we ate the bass fish from Lake Jovita he told me to go wash my hands and say 5 hail marys before I went to bed. Ha. Tell that to the carnivour who had a McDonald's cheeseburger and beef jerky right before he left to Ocean City. It was so hilarious when he told me to do that. So tomorrow I'm going to the airport to pick him up with his parents. I hope they decide to take out the Lincoln Navigator this time because that ride just has 'bad ass' written all over it. I'm so excited. I love airports too. Later!

away for the weekend!
Thur Oct 16, 2003 Theme: Change the World by Eric Clapton
Nate flies in tonight from New Jersey. I heart going to the airport because it reminds me of traveling.. which we are about to do this winter. I'm so excited about our ski trip to Colorado! Can you believe that it's only two months away? It seems like it was only yesterday when we were talking about Halloween Horror nights and now it's already here. Aspen's going to be a blast. Yesterday we all went fishing again on Josh's boat. I just realized that in his lake you can see the St Leo University campus. Natalie was telling me how the monks go out there sometimes and pick oranges from the trees. I thought that was so funny. And then they ring that damn bell every half hour that it started to scare the fish away. Anyway, I wish I had more time to explain it but I have to run to class. Later! I probably won't be back till Monday. If not I hope everyone has a great weekend! Later! part two Tues Oct 14, 2003 Theme: Got Some Teeth by Obie Trice I'm going away for the weekend so this is what happened so far. We re-visited that old haunted hospital. It turns out that the place is filled with 'asbestis'.. this dust thing that can cause cancer, so no more haunted house :( .. it's okay though because that place was starting to get a little creepy anyway. Natalie, Josh, and I already agreed tonight to forget about the place and just move on with our lives without any more mombo jumbo ghost stuff.. I mean we're still going to Halloween Horror Nights and everything, just no more of this Haunted Hospital business. I'm so excited about this weekend. Nate flies in town this Thursday and then we get to go eat at Buca Di Beppo. I love that place. I still have two more exams this week then I'm free! I went over to Erica's tonight, well actually I'm here right now. I brought all my stuff over here to spend the night but I'm scared that her alarm clock won't go off. You know how it is. You go over and spend the night at a friends house and their alarm clocks don't be workin right and you end up sleeping in. Also cuz her bed has soft sheets and has feather pillows. Uh huh. I'm not used to the upper class bedroom wear. JK. Tonight we all went to Tia's and it's such bad timing since I do have a huge Astronomy test tomorrow. I always do this. Erica and Becky left to go to Brickyard. Can you believe that? I'm here talking with Jenn. We're like, 'they so left us.' Ha. So.. Texas Chainsaw Massicare premier this Friday, then off we go to Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando. I don't know how long we're staying but we're planning on two days. I can't wait. Laters!

school of rock
Fri Oct 11, 2003 Theme: Substitute by The Who
Yawn! I'm so sleepy! I've been sleeping so late this entire week. I need to get back to my normal scheduled program where I'm in bed by at least eleven, and twelve at the latest. So tonight we went to go see School of Rock and what an awesome movie that was. Jack Black is phenominal. For real. He reminds me a lot of Chris Farley. I won't ruin the movie by talking about it so lets just all say that it was a good movie and that you guys should go see it. Afterwards we had Starbucks. Now I've been on this caffene free diet the past couple of months and so tonight I forgot about my cardinal rule. Do not drink coffee. Two main reasons for this. One, it stains your teeth, and all that Crest whitening strips are all for nothing if you are just going to wash it all away with coffee stains. Right? And secondly, I need to stay away from caffene. I haven't had soda in a while. So tonight's mocha frap really got to me. I mean I had the shakes. My sister told me that next time I should order caffene free but I don't think that there will be a next time. I'm sticking to water and juices. So this afternoon I finally bought my Halloween Horror Nights tickets! I was kinda worried at first because I thought that it would be all sold out but I got mine just in time. I'm so excited cuz now I have my ticket and that is one less thing to worry about this weekend. Check. But I still need to get my breaks fixed. Un-check. That nasty rubbing iron sound is so gross. I can't stand it. So today my sister has been driving me around. Also, my friend Tara invited us to eat at this really neat restaurant called, don't get confused because I know I'll mess up the name so bare with me now, but I think it's called Balla Hoos. Okay, that is definately not the name of it. But anyway, it's near Citrus Park and they serve the best seafood ever! I loved everything that we ordered. Mmm.. I am still kinda full from it. Then before that, I feel like I'm going backwards with my day like that one episode off of Seinfield where the whole episode is filmed backwards, but anyway, me and my sisters went to check out my other sister Elly's new model house. I have five sisters so when I say sisters I guess I should get specific and write out their actual names. So me, Consuelo, and Van were checking out the model homes. All my siblings are buying houses like it's a fad or something. Now my sister Elly might buy a house out in New Tampa. The neighborhood she wants to move in is so nice. I think it's nicer than Tampa Palms. Everything is brand spanking new and it's Pasco County. For all you non-Tampa residents you all are probably like, 'what the hell is so significant about Pasco County?' Well in Pasco County, taxes are cheaper and also the value of the homes will increase over the next few years. After seeing the house that she wants, I wanted her to buy because this house was so perfect for her and DJ. I really hope that she decides to buy it because then she will be closer to me and I can hang out with my family more. So the next question on my mind is, okay mom, when are we going to build my house? No siblings, just me. My very own rennes le cheteau. So in the meantime, I just get to enjoy the room that I've had for 16 years now, and go house hopping from one sibling to another. It's good to know that I have several homes to stay at in the New Tampa area. The more the merrier right? Night. frontin' lyrics: Don't wanna sound full of myself or rude... But you ain't looking at no other dudes cause you love me... (I'm sorry but.. so sexy)... So you think about a chance... You find yourself trying to do my dance... Maybe cause you love me (Uh, you do it well)... So then we tried - ain't feeling this love now... Because you weren't used to how fast we touched (fast we touched)... Then we locked eyes - and I knew I was in there... And I was gon' tear ya ass up (tear ya ass up)... I know that I'm carrying on, nevermind if I'm showing off... I was just frontin (you know I want ya babe)... I'm ready to bet it all, unless you don't care at all... But you know I want ya (you should stop frontin babe)... Everytime your name was brought up... I would act all nonchalant infront of an audience... Like if you was just another shorty I put the naughty on... But uh, truth be told you do me for a loop, this Hov... I'm too old to be frontin when I'm feeling Denzel... And you acting like you ain't appealing but you are... Stuting like you ain't my only girl but you are (I was just frontin)... I'm ready to stop when you are...

the random years.. national lampoon

frontin'
Thur Oct 10, 2003 Theme: Suga Suga by Baby Bash - I talked to Nate tonight! Finally that biatch decides to stay home. Anyway, he is coming next week. I can't wait. Halloween Horror Nights is on the 16th too and Natalie already got the tickets. It's final. And I'm getting mine first thing tomorrow. I'm going to bed. - more coming soon.. school news: My friend Shawn told me that our last two exams for Nutrition and Drugs are both take home tests. I almost fell over my chair when he told me that. I totally missed that in class today and I kept asking him, ‘are you sure she said that?’ like a million times over. I cannot believe it! If the last two exams are both take-home tests then I so aced that class. And I know that I have two more A’s coming in my other classes, and so the only classes I need to really study for now is my History class and my Astronomy. Astronomy is interesting, but then it gets boring after the planet Jupiter. Cuz then all we learn about now is the planet’s moons and outer solar systems. I keep telling myself in class to wake up and thank goodness Natalie is in there with me because we both keep each other company. Sometimes we’ll draw pictures of aliens on a piece of paper and we’d say that it’s our teacher. Ha. We get bored easily. We’re probably going to check out that haunted house again this weekend to make sure that everything is still on GO. I can’t wait. Just imagining being there at night makes me get goose bumps. Well that’s all the school news for now. Later!

Gone fishin'
Thur Oct 10, 2003 Theme: Georgia by John Mayer
Mosquito fest.// Josh took me and Natalie out on the boat yesterday! We had so much fun. Josh's mom Pandora got us some worms and some oil that helps atrract fish for our little fishing trip. Of course I was all excited because I've only been on pretend fishing where we would go to a small pond and catch little tuna sized fishies. But the kind of fish Josh kept telling me about was Bass fishing. He said, 'the first one i catch you are going to hold.' I'm like 'uh uh, I ain't holding no smelly fish.' I look over at Natalie and she's giving me this look like, I'm not holding any fishies either. So then Josh was like, comon, they don't bite, but from what I remember as a child, I remember going to this old fish market with my mom and those fish had teeth. They might have been Paranas or whatever but them bitches has shark teeth. so anyway, I was like, fine. Catch em and I'll make an effort to hold one. So we get out onto the boat and already I'm getting butterflies because alligators chill and hang out in lakes just like the one that we were at. And they are just waiting for little asain boys to hop right on in so that they could have their meal. Yes, I was skurred. I held onto the side of the boat like I was on the Titanic and it was about to sink. After a couple of minutes, i totally forgot that we were on a boat and we were far out in the lake. Hmm.. it wasn't so bad. I could see the dock where our boat had been placed at. So then Natalie and Josh start prepping their fishing poles. Josh was teaching me the correct way of putting a worm on a hook. Is there really a wrong way to do it? Yes. Because according to Josh, the fish will not get hooked and break away. This was a good thing for me because I didn't watch a fish to be hooked because if it did, then it mean't that i was going to hold one. Not even two minutes from dropping Josh's line, he catches one. It was a small sized one they kept telling me, but to me, that was a huge Bass on Josh's line. It kept floppin around. i kinda felt bad for the sucker. But then it splashed water in my face so then i said, 'thats it! your going down sucker!' Josh said that we had to throw it back into the water because it was too small. So finally after arguing with him about keeping it because I was still that it splashed lake water into my face, i finally said, 'fine, throw Little Nemo back into the lake.' Let an alligator eat that biatch. So then we fished some more and for some reason, the fish weren't biting. I think it's because I was being so loud on the surface. Natalie looked so cute casting her line out. I think she did a great job even though she didn't catch anything. Josh caught two more Bass before we decided to head back. This time he was like, 'okay, your going to hold this one!' He takes the fish's mouth and goes, 'okay, hold here.' He was directing his hand towards the inside of this fish's jaw. It was so gross. When i held it, i could feel its tongue touching my fingers. Oh yeah, fish have tongues! I didn't know that either! I was surprised that I was even holding it so I got a picture with the Bass. It was so hilarious. I kept telling Natalie, 'holy crap, you gotta ty this! you gotta try this.' She just gave me dirty looks like, your crazy. Ha. So then it started to get dark. I look over at Natalie's head and i see two mosquitos hovering above her head. So then I start screaming, 'Natalie, you have mosquitos over your head!' And she goes, 'ahhhh! get em off me! get em off!' and we both start flipping out. One thing you can count on in Tampa is the live stock of mosquitos. They are like mini vampires. I absolutely hate them. So you can just imagine how crazy we're acting on this boat. Josh is like, 'omg, get over it.' But then I see three of them hovering over his head.' and me and Natalie are both screaming but also laughing hysteically at the same time. We kept telling Josh, 'get us back to land! Get us back to land!' and Josh is paddling us to safety while he's probably getting bit like a million zillion times. It was bad. These mosquitos were attacking us. It was like insect-Pearl Harbor. So then we finally get to shore and me and Natalie are running back to the house. I turn around for a second and i see Josh left behind still trying to get off the boat. Me and Natalie and both laughing so hard and run in to the patio. We're still waving our hands and smacking our arms to kill the rest of the mosquitos off. But when everything was all said and done, i only got bit twice. Ha. All that screaming and for just two bites. Now that was one spectacluar experience. And i will never forget it. I can't wait to get the pictures back from our fishing trip!

friends forever
Photo [ from bottom to top ]
Cristi, Arthur, Tara, Grant, Jackie, Sandra, Steven, Taylor, Kim,
Lindsay, David, Jennifer, Serena, Ralph, Taylor, and Paul

happy halloween the haunting
Photo- Josh, Natalie, Arthur, and Virginia
Thur Oct 10, 2003 Theme: Bodies by Drowning Pool
You guys will never believe what we discovered! Since yesterday afternoon, this thing we discovered has been the only thing that has been running through my mind and also my friends minds. This may be one of the scariest things that me and my friends will ever embark on. Forget all those petty ghost stories that you've heard in the past or scary movies that you've seen.. nothing is going to compare it next to this. And on top of it, this is 'the season to get skurred' and we found the most perfect place to go to to establish this goal. This is serious ish so i suggest you get ready for what I am about to tell you. Sit down for this, and grab a cup of coffee because this is going to get real interesting. You guys have no idea how scary and exciting this expedition will be. Okay, enough of the suspense, let me just get straight to the point: We found this old abandoned building near Vero and to find out that the place is really haunted. With a little research, this scary ass building Josh and Natalie found turned out that it was actually haunted. There were so many articles that we found on this place and even had several stories about the legends of patients being abused and people disappearing. Well for this Halloween season, we are all going to take this Fear Factor on. Let me just tell you guys about our first experience with the place. Okay, first off, Josh and Natalie have been telling me about this scary looking building that they keep seeing on the side of the road. At first I was like, yeah whatever, but when I actually saw the place for myself, I almost passed out. This building was so overwhelming! It was the king of creeps. Not only did the building give a new meaning to horror, but it also looked old and abandoned. I mean it must have been like 60 years old. Windows have been broken on the fourth floor, trees have grown close to it making the sides dark and creepy, most of the bottom floor windows have been boarded up, and you can see shaddows through the windows that aren't boarded up. So we're standing in front of this thing and none of us are saying anything to each other. We're all just observing this enormous sized buliding. So we walk towards the front of it and Josh notices that one of the front doors is open. No freaking way right? But it was really open. Open enough to fit just one person at a time. Already I'm thinking, damn, if we were to decide to all run out, only one person can fit through while the others have to wait one at a time. Of course, if this was a scary movie, the dumb ass people usually say, 'hey, let's go inside and check it out.' And the smart ones who survive would say, 'no, lets go back to the car.' Well guess what? We were the dumbasses cuz we went inside for a look. We got this far, and Josh kept telling us, 'comon, don't woss out. It's just the entrance of the place.' But this isn't as easy as it's said. We stood there in the front door (pacing back and forth) determining on who should go in first. Shit. I ain't going in first. I didn't even realize how scary this place was to begin with. I mean, this was the old-school-Texas-Chainsaw-Massicare-scary ish. I wasn't about to have my head chopped off first. And if legend serves us right in the movies, the minorities gets it first. So Josh finally said, 'fine! i'll go in first.' We don't even walk four feet into the place and Natalie screams! We all start hauling ass out of the building. Josh almost knocked me over and Natalie was the first to exit the building. So of course we were like, 'Natalie! What? What happened? What did you see?' 'It was bug', she said. OMG. Are you for real? I almost pissed my pants. Geeze. So we stood outside again arguing on who will go back in first. I told Natalie, 'you better not scream again.' So this time it was just me and Josh who entered the building. And this time we walked into the second room. This room was so dark. And you have to remember, we do not have any flashlights. So we're peering in trying to be hardasses when all of the sudden we hear this noise and we both start screaming out of the building. i'm like, 'no way i'm going back in there.' From what we saw was that through this dark tunnel was a litted room. There was actual light in the building. But to get to the litted room you have to go through a long ass dark hallway. Fuck that. you got me messed up. No way I'm going back in that death trap. So after more of pacing around outside we got enough courage to enter it again. I know right. It's like we want to be gutted. Ha. So we go inside and this time we all have weopons. Well not really, they were just some old boards and this long pipe we found laying around outside. So we go in and take another look. This first room has three doors. One is to the elevators which does not work anymore, the second was locked and that leads to the stairwell, and lastly was the main and obvious door. That lead to the two hallways that I was talking about. The left side was too dark for us to see what was down there, but to the right had that hallway that lead to the litted room. OMG. So we are going back there this week. i am so scared and nervous. But at least this time we will be prepared. We're going to have flashlights, baseball bats, a camcroder to record what we see inside, and some food in case we get hungry. Sorry, i always get hungry no matter what is going on. So anyway, I will keep you guys posted as more information comes in.. scare ya later!
More coming soon..
Information that we found:
Here are a few of the common reports from visitors there: - Moans, screams, and cries emanating from within the building. - Seeing lights from within the building (Note: There is no electrical service). - Strong feelings of dread and foreboding when you get near the building. - Moving patches of air in the rooms where the temperature is very cold. - The sound of voices, footsteps, or object movement. - Battery operated devices brought inside being drained or turned off.

One story is about the "jump-rope girl." A group went in and got frightened and ran out when they heard what sounded like a little girl jumping rope down the corridors. One guy passed out face down on the floor instead of running out with them. When he woke up and ran out, he found that he had lash marks across his back.
Some say there is a bed just outside the building that shakes when people approach it.

please fasten your seatbelts..

October events: Damaye's Surprise Party, Club Bennigans, Halloween Horror Nights 13, Haunted House at Vero, Ted's Birthday Party, Marialle's Birthday, consuelo's Birthday, School Of Rock, Texas Chainsaw Massicare premier, Hyde Park Cafe, Blue Martini, Ray's Costume Party

higher learning
Tues Oct 08, 2003 Theme: Hey Ya by Outcast
Okay, so me and Natalie both have three tests coming up. We scheduled our trip to Vero and Halloween Horror Nights around our exams. What's cool is that one of our assignments for our Nutrition and Drugs class is to go to MOSI. Or for you non-Tampa residents, MOSI is The Museum of Science and Industries. That place is so much fun. Josh has never been either since he is originally a Dade City resident but we're taking him for his first time. I remember when I was a kid a going there looking at all the dinosaur exhibits. I'm sure the place won't look as big now as it did when I was a kid, but the place is still big regardless. So, this is the plan. We leave for Halloween Horror Nights on the 16. But that afternoon, or I guess morning, we're going to watch the premier of Texas Chainsaw Massicare. That'll prep us up for the big scare at HHN. Then on the drive back we're stopping by Vero to visit that scary ass haunted house that Josh kept telling us about. Supposedly when he was a kid, him and his friends went in there and they saw some creepy ish. Well that was like 6-7 years ago so I wonder if the place has gotten creepier over the past few years. Regardless we're all going to be so scared. Natalie took off work, and we're getting Ted and Marialle to take off work in advance too. So the trip is set and we're so ready for it. John comes into town next month sometime in mid-November. I should have more specific info on our skit trip to Colorado. I get goose bumbs everytime I think about it. So far, there are 19 of us going. And that's not even including John's list. Oh yeah, I got mail today! Usually they are just letters from magazine subscriptions and people who keep asking if I want to join the army or navy. Like that would ever happen. Me joining the Navy is like saying that I'll get fat one day. but I recieved a letter from Nate today! It wasn't anything big because he's coming down anyway. He sent 2 pages of OC news. Yadda yadda yadda about how much fun it is, and how cool the beach bums are, more yadda yadda yadda's, and ..just come back down Nate. thanks for sending paper but next time send the green kind: cash! Well I'd better go finish running these arrands and head back to my house. I have to wake early tomorrow morning to meet at Natalie's cuz she's taking us all to school. I wonder if she's going to have beagles like she did last time? I heart American foods. I'm stuck with the old soy sauce and Spam. JK. But Natalie's cabinets are always filled with Campbell soups and ish. Why is that most Americans have Campbells and we have Oodles of Noodles? Life is just so unfair.

Sunday, September 14, 2003

Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:13:48 GMT

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in the making since 1980

my best friend Nydia
in Glamour

the hyde park cafe
Photo [ Thai, Adar, Amanda, Arthur, and April at the Vip Lounge at HPC ]
Tues Oct 07, 2003 Theme: Change The World by Eric Clapton
Before I get into last nights game, let me just ramble about the things to come. I am very excited about our ski trip this December. We've been talking and planning this trip for quite a while now. I've already packed some winter jackets in my suit cases. i'm such a nerd. We saw this commercial yesterday and it was Coolers Light Beer commercial and they came out of the RV and walked towards the ski lodge. That's going to be us! Me and Natalie were jumping on the beds screaming at each other saying, 'that's going to be us! thats going to be us!' and Josh looked at us and started laughing. I can't wait! I can just imagine what the mansions going to look like. Me and Natalie already called first dibs on the rooms. But to also think that this month has a lot in store for me and my friends too. First, mr. n Castillo flies into town from OC on the 14th. And this week, we are getting our tickets for Halloween Horror Nights. Also to be excited about Vero and the Haunted House Josh told us about. And before our trip we were going to go see The Texas Chainsaw Massicare to get us hyped up and in the Halloween spirit. you know that we're going to be extra precautious and bring flashlights and pepper spray before entering this creepy old house. Then at the end of this month is our Halloween costume party. We've already picked out our costumes and they are going to be bad ass. Wait and see.. bucs So about last nights game: No freaking way. Yesterday I went over to Natalie and Josh's to go watch the Buc's vs the Colts game. We've been anticipating this game all week. Josh kept asking me over and over again, 'your coming over to watch the game right? are you coming over to watch the game?' Yes. How can you miss this game? All I could think about during gym was football. I was so tired too from working out. I was hungry, my muscles were sore, some tendons were broken I think.. but nothing was stopping me from watching The Bucs vs The Colts. You know, thinking that the Bucs have a great chance at winning even though the Colts were 4-0 and that Dungee really wanted his revenge on the Bucs. So we all are laying on Natalie's bed eating Wendy's Frosties when suddenly the Bucs started creaming the Colts. Our Frosties tasted so good i think mainly because we were all in a good mood. I mean the Bucs were tearing the Colts apart. All things are fun and games until the Colts start fighting back at the last quarter. Exactly, like i had said before.. No freak way right? So the Colts catch up winning by a field goal during overtime. Whatever.. We quickly put down our Frosties. I mean, you do not feel like eating a Frosty after seeing your team go down the tubes. And to even think that two things were bothering us. One was the simple fact that the ref called out a bad play which should have given the Bucs a first down but no. He gave it to the Colts. I'm telling you guys, lots of money must have been distributed between the ref and Dungee cuz the play was straight up foul. Then when the Colts did run through with the field goal, it barely makes it in. whatever. I'm not going to watch anymore football games. This is the end of football civilization as we speak. The End

have you had your break today?
Photo [ Robert and Ivan aka Flips ]
Sun Oct 05, 2003 Theme: I'm So Into You by Tamia featuring Fabolous
You guys are going to flip! I was watching Must See TV yesterday and guess who I see on the new Target commercial? My old buddy Ivan! I was like, 'no freaking way.' It's the commercial where the dude is breakdancing in orange and the little Target dog comes up to him and has batteries in his mouth. Yeah, that's him. No not the dog, but the breakdancer. That is so wild. Ivan also broke the Guiness Worlds Record for the most headspins. So if you look at a copy of Guiness Book Of Worlds Records, you'll find Ivan under the most headspins. That's two now for Target. First one to make it on there is my best friend Nydia. Anyway, I'm going out to Dade City today for Brian's picnic! How do pack for this this? Let's see.. Well my mom helped me make a few sandwiches (cuz God forbid I make them myself) and I'm also bringing some soda and some potato chips from Publix. Mmmm.. Okay I think I better go buy another bag cuz I think I'm going to tear this one up by myself. Christina and Melissa are on their way right now to get me and I still don't know what else to get? I can't believe that it's already October. Geeze. This is my favorite season of all. The best holidays are all right next to each other. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. And you better believe that there are huge ass parties lined up this year. Only two more weeks! I talked to Nate last night and he told me that he can't wait to come down. He stopped by Georgetown the other day and he's bringing me something back. I wonder what it is? I tried asking but he kept telling me, 'well if I tell you then it wouldn't be a surprise then will it?' Guess what? We're all going to Halloween Horror Nights! I'm so excited. Me, Nate, Natalie, Josh, Damaye, John, Chris, Jenevieve, Ted, Kyle, Virginia, and Matt. We're getting connecting hotel rooms. How cool is that. I think we're staying in Orlando for the entire weekend. and on the way back we're stopping by Vero where Josh grew up and he was telling us about this scary haunted house that we all want to go and check out. I hope that it's still there because me and Natalie want to see a real haunted house. We're all going to Target this week to get flashlights and everything. Plus my friend Marcus has passes to go to Islands Of Adventure so we might go do that too. Nate has never been to Halloween Horror Nights so this will be so much fun for him. Also I can't wait to start wearing sweaters and jackets again for the cold weather because that is the best feeling when your at Universal Studios and your all together in one gigantic group, cold, skurred, and laughing hysterically all at the same time. Also I never get to wear my cool ass jackets and they just sit up in my closet and collect dust. It better get cold real fast before out trip. I can't wait! Anyway, Melissa is at the door so I gotta go. I'm going to get my pictures developed this weekend so I'll post up new pictures -asap- Laters!

october events: Brian's Picnic, Halloween Horror Nights, Haunted House at Vero, Texas Chainsaw Massicare, picking up Nate at the airport, Buca Di Beppo, Orlando, Mall of Millenia, Consuelo's Birthday, Ray's Halloween Costume Party, Prana, Hyde Park Cafe, and Blue Martini

go Bulls! tonight's game.. 10/04
at usf
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best friends forever..

my Crew: Giga, Peggy, Josh, Jenevieve, Nate, Sherry, John, Natalie, and Andrea

creme de la creme

Photo On Top: Spiros Fashion Show and My best friend Nydia in Glamour
Tonight is the big night! Damaye's surprise party.
I'm so excited. I'll fill you all in on more details as it comes..
Fri Oct 03, 2003 Theme: I'm So Into You by Tamia featuring Fabolous
I'm back! I'm back! Geeze, I'm so tired too. I'm still debating whether or not I even write this entry. So I went to go see Duplex tonight. I know right? Why in the hell would we all watch Duplex when School Of Rock is out. Well, it turns out that everyone and their mothers decides to go see that movie tonight so it was sold out. I really wasn't all that excited to go see Duplex to tell you the truth. I mean I heart Drew Barrymoore a lot but she just does not cut it for me in this movie. When I saw the previews I think I might have even yawned for a second. But you know what? It wasn't all that bad. It was actually kinda funny at some parts. It's definately no Acadamy Award winning type movie but you should still go and see it. Afterwards, I split with my group and went off to LeRoy Selmons to tell Natalie the whole 411 on Damaye's surprise party. Natalie couldn't get off of work until 12:30am and that is pretty damn late especially when your looking at your watch and it says, '9:54pm'. Apparently, the evil managers at LeRoys needed all the servers they could get tonight. I on the other hand felt bad because Damaye is leaving for Miami tomorrow for this concert and she won't see her for a long time. But I went home and got her card and pictures. She had no idea that we were all going to surprise her. When I first arrived I acted like I had no idea that they were at Club Bennigans. (club bennigans because it's after hours) ..so I'm like, 'Hey guys! What are you all doing in here?' when really the whole entire thing was planned. It was so funny. So I sat with them and they had already ordered food. I was like 45 minutes late so I didn't mind at all. I ordered two Long Island Iced Teas and I was good to go. I slipped the waitress the card and pictures I got for Damaye. I told her to bring it out when our check comes. So we did exactly just that. Damaye had no clue that this whole get together tonight was all for her. She was in total shock. I love seeing the expressions on some peoples faces. She really had no idea. Damaye had a great time and that was what counted the most to us. I told Damaye to have a safe trip and then I went over to Natalie's. We just chilled for a bit, looked up this guy Nolan on the internet who robbed a Burger King. Okay, I know right.. what in the world? Why would someone want to rob a Burger King anyway? It's like wanting to steal from a bumb. You won't get much and won't get far at all.
Well I'm starting to fall asleep so I'm going to finish this tomorrow. Later home slices!
More Coming Soon.. Okay so what was I talking about last night? I was half asleep when I was writing that. Oh yeah, so I left off at Natalie's. Well Josh was at his house at Lake Jovita because he ahd a paper due for his Saturday class. Let's all have a moment of silence for him because it is very sad that some students have Saturday classes. Then Giga pages me and tells me that there is The Circus In The Streets at Bahaza with actual clowns and everything. But it was getting so late.. I must've left Natalie's around 2am and I still wasn't dressed for Bahaza. So instead I just went home, logged on Xanga, and went to bed.

upcoming: Damaye's Surprise Party, Norebang with Jae and Marylin, Halloween Horror Nights, Haunted House at Vero, Halloween Costume Party, Kill Bill premier, Ski Trip, Hyde Park Cafe
past events: Giga's Graduation Party, Blue Martini, Prana, Club Bennigans, Lake Jovita Country Club

last night in paradise
Thur October 02, 2003 Theme: Valentine by Sam Campbell
It was our last night at Natalie's before her parents came back into town. Ferris Buller all over again. We've been having so much fun the past few days that we totally forgot that this freedom at the Lombardo's wasn't permanent. No parents, being loud and obnoxious priviledges, and 24/7 refrigerator scavenging. It was a lot like Home Alone. I didn't even realize it but it has already been a week and a half! ..and like most great things, everything has to come to an end. Just ask La, she should know a lot about endings. Anyway, I was inside my room putting on my Crest Whitening on my teeth when I heard my pager go off. I was unable to talk normally because if any of you have used any one of these Crest products, it literally makes you unable to speak clearly. (even though they make it seem like you can in their commercials).. nothing but lies and great marketing I tell you. So I run downstairs and call Natalie back. I'm thinking, let's see how this all turns out. She's like, 'Hey Arthur! What are you doing? Josh is cooking dinner again, do you want to come over?' So I'm like.. 'umm yeah jesh let me wash mei mouf owt..' (trying to talk as normal as possible with the Crest Whitening Gel in my mouth). So she is like, 'okay.. come on over.' So i'm thinking, 'Yay'.. but also thinking 'dammit.. I just whitened my teeth'. So I wash the gel off and grab my clothes and headed over there. Right when I opened the door I smelled something frying. Mmmm.. just imagine that fresh cooking smell of vegetables. Josh was making us one of his favorite dishes that he used to eat when he was a little kid. It was meat with carrots and rice. Add a bit of seasoning and you have one spectacular dinner. We set the dining room table up and everything. Remember, Natalie's parents were out of town so we sat in the chairs that normally Mr and Mrs Lombardo would sit in. It was so funny. We had some leftover Barcardi Razz that John brought over the other night too, so we tore that up. Afterwards we played our last game of 'hide and go seek' and this time we put covers over all the windows so that it was pitch black. So scary, but so much fun. I ran into so many things that night. Natalie told me to spend the night so I went back home to grab my books and tooth brush and spent the night. I think we all fell asleep around 2:30am and had major waking up issues the next morning for school. But we made it on time (10 minutes late) to our first class but it was all good. We had such a blast that night that it did not matter even if we were 30 minutes late to class. Every late minute would have been worth it.

So about last night's 'last in paradise' two- so I was watching the season finale of Pardise Hotel. Grant that I never watch the show, but my sister's enthusiasm for it made me want to see the big two hour ending. Does it really take two hours to end a paradise? So I'm watching the finale and i'm still trying to catch up on thier names and such and I notice that one of the final couples are gross. Gross -talking about their personalities. It seems that they had cheated their way throughout this game. Now I know that there is a handsome reward after the show for the final winners, but when you make an ass out of yourself on national television, people back at home will begin to not like you too. This one guy was just burning bridges left and right and someone needed to put out his torch. ..well guess what? His partner won and he lost and went home with nothing. Just goes to show that the great mysterious kamra does exist. So only three walk away with a ton of cash. Enough to buy themselves a really nice house. Nice huh. We like to think that the money is going to great use but instead are given away to reality television contestants. Sorry Tiny Tim, but you just have to wait till next year for that meal. In the meantime, all you have is that lima bean and a piece of bread. Great finale and the winners are taking the rest of the castmates to Las Vegas. Let's see what season two has in store for us and pray that we do not get addicted to it.

Giga's Graduation Party!
Sun Sept 28, 2003 Theme: In those jeans by Genuine
We just celebrated Giga's graduation party yesterday/Maria's birthday at the Sevillano's. We had such a blast! I arrived there a little early with a card in my hand for Maria. This lady answered the door and I didn't recognize her. At first I thought that I was at the wrong house but then I found out that it was one of Giga's aunts. So then she let me in and I'm like, 'umm hi. I'm Arthur, is Lenor here?' I hear something in the other room and she screams, 'Arthur!' Lenor comes out and me and her go to hang out in her room. We're looking through her photo albums and laughing at all the old school pictures. I couldn't help but notice all her cute Hello Kitty stuff in her room. Then I smelled something so good that my stomach started to tell me, 'you need to feed me.' We go to the kitchen and I see all kinds of dishes. There was so much food there! They made pork, turkey, yellow rice, salad, hunch punch, bread sticks, mmm, it was so good. Finally Gigi and Giga arrived with Joe and Shawn and we started our binge drinking for the afternoon. The party lasted about five hours. For real. By the end we played these really cool games that Giga told us about and one consisted of a flip flop with laughing and serious faces and the other was hot potato. You have no idea how much fun this was playing these games. And I won the flip flop game with the grand prize of this really cool dish set. Yay. When I came home I gave it to my mom. Anyway, so the party was great. Then we were all going to meet up for the after party at Blue Martini. Yes, again. This was part two. So we went and everyone looked so nice. I was so mad because Giga left my camera at her house. Everyone looked so good too but you can just imagine. So were all waiting in line and Blue Martini tried to be all cool and let these people wait in line so that the place would look poppin. The only thing poppin was the zit on the bouncers face and he took his sweet as time to let us in. We finally get through and the place was packed. I couldn't hear my pager going off so I missed Natalie's call. I wanted them to meet up with us afterwards to go see Giga's new apartment with Shawn. Geeze. Her new pad is gorgeous! It's by the water and everything. I stayed the night there after falling asleep from watching Anger Management. Giga made me a bed out of quilts and sheet in her spare bedroom. I slept so good. I those those beers and Lenor's hunch punch really got to me. So yeah, I spent the entire weekend drinking. And I'm going to spend this whole Sunday recovering. Later!
More Coming Soon..
Or just Club Bennigan's for the rest of the story..

i'm going to Colorado!
ski trip here we come!
Sat Sept 27, 2003 Theme: I'm Loving It by JT and Pharrell
John came into town yesterday and gave us more info on that ski trip we're planning for this Christmas. Okay the details are here and they are so dope. Listen to this.. so John is one of Josh's best friends and is also in Med school. John's dad: John senior is also a doctor and John gets to travel all around the world for his college because he learns all kinds of stuff from other doctors including his own dad. Well his dad has a lot of moo-lah (you know, cuz he's a professional well known doctor and all) so John always gets the hook up with like Season tickets, concerts, trips around the world, so you get the jist. Well, so he tells us during dinner that there will be twenty of us on a rented RV. And this isn't some cheap ass RV that you see on those family road trips either. I mean this RV is going to be hooked up. Well Josh is like, 'if John is involed, it's always the ish!' And I believe it because everytime I've hung out with John it's like hanging' with Ben and J-Lo. Vip everything. John is extremely classy too. He played a few songs for us on the piano last night and we all just stood there like, 'what!?, okay hands down your the next Amadeus.' He was flawless good. So our trip consists of free meals, drinks, I mean pretty much whatever we want. And here is where me and Natalie started freaking out on. So John leans forward and tells us, 'Guess where we'll be staying at?' And me and Natalie look at each other and are like, 'we have no idea. where?' Then John says, 'We are all going to be staying at the mansion in Colorado. OMG. Shut up now because I'm already packing my bags as we speak. He told us to bring all our ski equiptment (meaning clothes wise) and to bring our winter clothes. Yay! For real, winter is my favorite season and now I finally get to wear all my cool ass jackets that just sit in my closet collecting dust. You know that this trip will be off the chain. So all I have to do now is save up 500 dollars for this trip and I'm good to go. Damn.. Colorado mountains. John said that everything is within 15 miles from that mansion that we'll be staying at. I need to take a breather.. be back in like 5.. Later.

club bennigans
Sat Sept 27, 2003 Theme: Baby Boy by Beyonce featuring Sean Paul
Everytime John comes into town you can always count on a party. Sometimes it's for a week that he visits, sometimes just for the weekend. Well we were all sitting around watching Scary Movie in Natalie's room and the doorbell rings. Did we order pizza? No. It's John and his friend Brian. John's holding a bottle of Barcardi Razz in his hand and all I could think is, 'damn.. we are so getting trashed tonight.' He also was holding a pack of cigars for the guys to smoke before the night was over. Is he classy or what? I'm not used to the classyness, I usually just watch old movies and see classy on there. I'm totally 3rd world when it comes to learning about how to do things properly. I mean come on now.. I eat my food sometimes with my hands. I am far from being classy or proper. So John got on the piano and started play some songs for us. Of course I'm nodding my head like, 'No way this kid is a genuis.' John is the best piano player hands down. No, you have no idea. I kept looking around the piano making sure that there wasn't any type speakers. (cuz you know that Milli Vanilli got away with that ish for quite a while singing 'blame it on the rain', when in fact they should have been singing, 'blame it on the lip sync'. But no, he was really playing the piano. He played some Mozart and a few other tunes from certain movies and television shows. We were all really impressed. Josh kept saying, 'see, I told ya.' I saw the deck of Uno cards sitting on the side table and I told Natalie, 'you know we have to play a few games later right?' She's nodding her head like hell yeah. So John's friend Brian made us some mixed drinks from Natalie's liquor and drink cabinet and the shots Brian made were incredible! First shot was clear, second looked like it had some Pinapple Juice in it, and the rest were too un-clear since I was already getting trashed from the first two. I think I had like 4 shots before we decided to leave to Club Benniegans. We were all feeling a little too tipsy to drive so we all got into Brains car. Of course Brain's ride is phat as hell but the seats in the back were very compact. Compact meaning three people in the back wasn't very comfortable at all. We kept laughing for no reason meaning that the drinks were kicking in. So we get to Club Bennigans which is literally just down the raod from where Natalie lives and we try to get a table. It was already late so we sat by the bar. John keeps ordering us drinks and he's like, 'anything you guys want.. it's on me.' Okay those are my most favorite words of all time. So me and Natalie started ordering all kinds of drinks. We looked like alchoholics. I see some old peeps that used to live in my neighborhood at Tampa Palms and I am trying to cover my face to not see them. I didn't want to see people who I haven't seen in like 10 years and have them see me with five drinks in my hands. So we get a table.. finally.. and we all sit down. This is where John tells us all the detailed information about that ski trip that we're taking in December. (read the entry above this one for more details of that conversation). Natalie orders apetizers, and thank goodness that she did because if she didn't we all would have been screwd. I needed food in my stomach so badly. All that liquor and no food particles. So finally after a few more rounds of drinks we all headed back to Natalie's. I got out the Uno cards and we played only one game whcih i think i ended up winning. Then John was like, 'hey let's all go outside and smoke these cigars.' So we lit them up and started puffing away. I've never had a cigar like that ever. I'm not really a smoker at all but i enjoyed this cigar. I think mainly because i was laso drunk. What do you not enjoy? Right? Josh goes inside and comes back out with these boxes in his hands. We're all like, 'what's in your hands.' He looks at us and is like, 'Bottlerockets!' No freaking way! What a great way to end the night. So Josh had fireworks left over from July 4th. Hell yeah. We lit them bitches and had them shooting across the lake behind Natalie's house. We were so loud. The only thing that I thought was safe for me to hold was the sparklers. Josh, Brian, and John on the other hand were aiming the bottle rockets at a 40 degree angle. In other words, they were aiming for each other or straight ahead. Brain found the ones that spin and shoot up in the air. Those were hilarious because whenever they hit the water they would still burn and light up with colors. After all the fireworks we went inside and I was out. I ran into Natalie's spare bedroom and went to bed. I didn't even get to say bye to John and Brian. I was too busy being passed out. Anyway, great night. And I can't wait for that bad ass ski trip this December. More details coming to my site soon..

fun-filled

Thur Sept 25, 2003 Theme: Perfect day by Hoku
I only have one test to study for next week! Yay! This is good news compared to my other previous weeks where I had to prep for like 2-3 exams a week. Yeah I know.. can we all say 'Doogie Howser'? So this weekend you know what I'm going to do? I am going to put all my books in the freezer and head off to the nearest keg. Oh yeah, and since Natalie's parents are away for a week.. yes, you do not need to adjust your computer screens, her parents are officially away from the fort. So this can only mean one thing in the rule of Ferris Buller: Party at Natalie's! And I already called Shotgun to that Bacardi. So yesterday was a blast. Literally. I felt like I was in a Willie Wonka movie. What is it with Mondays and Wednesdays? Me and Natalie finished our Astronomy exam and it was party central from there. After taking that evil test we thought to ourselves, 'hey it's over.. so let's have fun for the rest of the day.' Which we did! We played a few more games of basketball and let me announce that I am improving on my half court shots. I think I make more of those than I do when I'm like 2 feet from the hoop. What is up with that? After sweating to the oldies we went to gym class and worked out some more. Again, we were still tired prior to Monday's workout but we still did some lifting. This kid in our class, I don't remember his name, but he was a pro wrestler back in his high school. So he was teaching me, Josh, and Natalie a few tricks on how to pin a person correctly. Usually me and Natalie just wrestle it out on the blue floor mats kicking and screaming but this time we were equipped with our new wrestling skills. So first thing I did was act on what he taught me and sure enough Natalie was pinned on the ground. I was like, 'yeah! I'm going to win!' but then all of the sudden she tackles me and puts me on my back. We're laughing hysterically by the way during this whole process. But she was so good. I still won though in the end. We're such nerds. Anyway, so after class we were so hungry. We still had to stop by Hippies shop (Hippie is Josh's motorcycle friends who hooks bikes and cars up).. yeah I'm not too technical with the car and motorcycle jargin so bare with me here. But we looked at a few Corvettes but I'm still in love with my 2003 Toyota Corolla. I'm so excited to get one. Have you seen them? They look totally different from the one that I have have. It's like each year they add on a billion new features which is unfair to those who bought the same model a few years prior. Yeah, life is just unfair. So then we went to Natalie's and Josh made us some Itallian stuff. Let's see, meat, with some red sauce, and then it had Alfredo sauce on top of it. Well whatever it was it tasted so good. Natalie played a few songs for me on the piano too! She is so good. She played Mariah Carey's Prince Of Egypt, The Pearl Harbor Song, Selena, and Mozart. I was in such awe watching her. Really. When I heard the Pearl Harbor song I just wanted to cry and then end world hunger. It was so good. I told Natalie that she could win any man's heart with that piano playing. It's almost like a date rape drug but with keys. JK. We played like 6 rounds of Uno and I won 5 games out of that. Then I beat everyone in Poker and I had all the money and was even rubbing it in by acting like Scrooge McDuck from Duck Tales pretending to swim in my money bank. It was so funny. By the way, Natalie's parents are out of town for a week, so finally we got to play Hide And Go Seek. Usually we'll try to attempt to play this game but then we get so loud and Natalie's parents would wake up and tell us to 'quiet down.' Ha. So now with both rents out of the house we took over the entire joint. We had so many great hiding spots too. One time I could see Josh right in front of me. (Josh is 'it' by the way).. and I'm right behind him hiding on the couch. Seriously I almost pee'd in my pants because I was so scared and also wanted to die laughing at the same time. I could see him just standing there and I'm like, 'OMG.. please don't turn around and find me.' Then I could see Natalie hiding behind the kitchen and I knew she was screwed because he was walking right towards her. So of course she gets caught. And we laughed our asses off. Anyway, it was such a perfect day. Seriously we felt like we were five again. I didn't go to bed till like 2am this morning. Yeah. We all looked at each other and said, 'damn, we seriously had so much fun today and we'll never forget this for the rest of our lives.' What's next? Reading Highlights. just kidding..

the estates at lake jovita
Tues Sept 23, 2003 Theme: Feeling So Good by J-lo
Yay! I just got out of class and guess what I got on my exam grade? No wait though, before i even give out my exam grade to the world, let me just say that studying does pay off and that good grades do come to those that work hard for it. Okay, now for the grade: 96%. What? I was one of the few people in my class to get an A on this test. Yeah, I'm pretty siked myself. I kept telling myself last week, 'If i don't get a good grade on this test I will be slashing some tires..' but I pulled it off! You have no idea how long i studied for this exam too. I mean i had to memorize election dates and guys who were Republican and guys who were Democrats.. i mean it was pretty boring stuff. But I turned off my tv in my room, shut off my pager (well put it on vibrate) in case anyone decides to put 911 and really needs my advice or help cuz that does occasionally happen from time to time, held off all my calls, and read, filled out note cards, looked at my notes, and then looked at my book again for references. This was hard book-wormish work. Now you know there's going to be a celebration for this. I was thinking of revisiting Blue Martini. But this time I plan to get drunk off the Pepsi. Well really it'll end up with me sippin on some OJ because I've let go of all my liquor anxieties since I have been on this strict diet. No alcohol.. no coffee, no excessive drinking of soda (notice how i say excessive cuz I can't just say no to Coke or Pepsi completely) and no kidding. I really need to start thinking healthy. A healthy body comes with a healthy mind. And being sober helps me concentrate on what is right and good. So yesterday was amazing. Three words: full body workout. I'm still suffering from the weights but I'm already seeing improvement. Josh kept adding weights. First I was bench pressing.. okay I won't say numbers just yet, but i can say that he added 45 more pounds to what I was lifting originally. He told me, 'Arthur, you just lifted 45 more pounds from last week..' Natalie couldn't believe it. So she came and watched and pretty soon I had a whole audience. It was funny cuz really it wasn't a lot of lifting but for me it was. I think i'd look really cute if I started to build more chest and arm muscles. I kept looking in the gym mirrors and trying to picture myself with huge arm muscles. I was like, 'your going to do this.' Then my professor told me to start bulking up.. and then Natalie looked at me and said, 'we're going to have to work on that.' Ha. I eat so much. I really do. But I think i need to start taking in more carbo (like I haven't been doing that enough) but I think i need to double my intake or something).. so I was still tried because previously from that workout, we had played two hours of basketball. Now okay, I'm not an atheletic person at all. But lately I've been seeing the true meaning of PE in Physical Education. It's not that easy. Running with the ball all across that damn court and actually having to make the ball fall or swoosh into that hoop. your just asking for too much. JK. I love basketball actually. We played a few games and took a breather after the second hour. By the time we got to class we were already sweating. another nasty aftermath of working out. After 40 sit-ups, bench pressing, weight lifting, treadmill running, all I wanted to do was to eat a fat hamburger and pass out. But i knew that my fantasies was only too good to be true because after school, we were all going to Lake Jovita to go swimming. First we played a few games of golf. I suck at golf just like I suck at every other sport in the name of excercise. We got so hot that we looked at the pool and said, 'enough of this.. let's hit that water.' So we changed into our bathing suits and had so much fun in the water. We made up so many games. It was so funny cuz Josh kept cracking jokes. Natalie was hilarious too. Either that or we were all just dilerious from all that working out and extra cirricular activities. Josh had an idea to make a todempole in the water. He looked at Natalie and then looked at me and said, 'comon' we can do this.' I was so scared at first but I did it anyway. I hopped on Natalie's shoulders and then she hopped on Josh's. Sure enough we were all above water on each others shoulders. It was so cool but then I started to realize that I was far above water and then Natalie started to lose her balance. So we all fell and that was that. We did that again for maybe three more tries and one time we were all actually up for like 2 minutes. It was so much fun. I don't think i've ever done something like that in my entire life but we had so much fun trying to do it. After all that i slept the whole way home back to Tampa. I think I might have passes out right as I sat down into Natalie's car. I was so tired and my muscles needed their rest. If my muscles could talk they probably wouldn't be talking to me right now. On the way home, he stopped by Publix and said 'screw this, we're eating like Hungarians tonight.' So we had our feast. Josh made this really awesome steak fajitas. I mean these fajitas were monsterous. Natalie made corn, and i ate every inch of that Cracker Barrel dinner. Mmmm.. it was so good. We watched the rest of Monday Night Football and called it a night. We were dead tired. I can just picture our muscles reconstructing. This was such a great day. It took a lot of hard work but at least we got to the dinner part. The dinner part was my favorite. Okay, now my fat ass can sleep. Oink oink.

inside the blue of Blue Martini
Sun Sept 21, 2003 Theme: Get Low by Eastside Boys
Last night was hella fun. You have no idea how much fun me, Giga, and Lenor had at Blue Martini and Prana. It was off the hizzle foe shizzle my nizzle. Okay maybe it wasn't that ghetto but you get the jist. I mean Snoop Dog could have shown up and still the party would have been off the chain. So our first destination was Blue Martini and let me just tell you that it's the OC but Tampa stlye. I mean there were ladies that had two Louis Vuitton purses, one on each hand.. really.. do you need two purses? And these weren't the old Louis's either. They were that new white and rainbow colored ones that XOXO tried to copy. Yeah, these people were loaded. I felt like I had to go to each person and say, 'so what drink do you want next?' because I was not worthy. As were in line we see Trang. Trang is my girl back from my Tahitti Joe's days and since then she moved to Gainsville for her Pharmacy degree. So we wave at her and she is like, 'what are you guys doing waiting in this long ass line? Come with me and get in the Vip line.' Trang has the hook up because it was her girls bachelorette party. And these girls were all Pharmacy graduates from UF! Yeah. These girls were all smart and hott which is a dangerous combination in the medical field because you know they will be running the show. So we hung out for a little bit at the girls were leaving back to the limo. She was like, 'Arthur, come with us! I want to take you with us.' But I was obligated to a Giga and Lenor night so I couldn't. Plus we were about to go to Prana. I got so much crap with my new Armani shirt. Okay, I'm not one of those people who have to wear a nice shirt that says 'Armani' across my chest. I'm not superman and have to have a logo showing in the front just so that people can see that I'm wearing a name brand shirt. Like those people who wear Tommy Hilfiger and have the huge logo's showing everywhere. That's just plain tacky. So the guy goes, 'you can't come in with that shirt.' And I'm like 'excuse me? Check the tag.. it's Armani.' So he appologized and let me in. Geeze! What if I was wearing Target or Wal-Mart? He wouldn't have let me in then. Some people right? Well back to Prana. We were so excited to go because it's been a while since we all went there as a group. Last time we did that was the night I got so drunk that Lenor had to drive my car home. So we left to Prana and Ybor was packed. Not with people my age, but more like 29-35 year olds. I felt so little and so young next to all these elders. Ha. I kept thinking to myself, 'I wonder if these people are on Social Security?' JK but it was all good. I was ready to have a night of fun anyway and even grown-ups can't ruin our game. We see Stewart! He is our favorite Ybor City buddy and he told us, 'here wait in this line'. I'm telling you I felt the burn in the back on my spine because I know all those pople in line were all giving us dirty looks because we keep getting in front because of our Vip privledges. I'm sorry but when you have it, you have it. And don't hate because we were once like you and had to wait in those long ass lines. So don't Vip hate and appreciate. This was our time to redeem ourselves from all those times we did have to wait. So we walk in and the place was so packed. We looked at each other and is like, 'don't lose each other.' We walked to the third floor which was the techno room and Giga tears it up on the dance floor. Literally. People were screaming. And I think one guy even said to her, 'I want to marry you.' No. That was funny. Then Stewart comes again and he is like, 'let me show you the Vip room.' So Giga goes with him and me and Lenor stay at the techno floor. We could see the Vip room right underneath us because the floor was made of this see through glass and you can see all those Vip-ers sippin on their Moet. I think that girl who I saw at Blue Martini was there because I noticed the two Louis Vuitton purses in her hands. She looks like the type who had married into wealth and never see's her husband while she goes out and spends his money. Smart girl right? But I still can't get over the whole two LV's strapped around her arms. I mean if you have that much money, donate one to some plausible charity and do the world a favor. I'm sure we could all deal with one less LV purse on that lady's arm. Then we ran into Leo, Denise, Tammy, Vince, Tony, Ray, Doug, and rest of the crew on the same floor. Tony asked me, 'where are your sisters?' And I'm like, 'well Elly is on her vacation to Ft Lauderdale with DJ, and Consuelo and Adam are at home with the kids in their new house'. When you have a new house you don't really have time to go out and party every night like I do. I have the luxury though because I'm still a college student. It was so great to see them all. We haven't seen them in a while and those people are like family. I mean we go way back since 1995. That was a long time ago. Those were my first days of clubbing and partying and they were the people who I looked up to. I still remember Leo telling me, 'when you turn 18 then..' and 'when you turn 21 you can drink..' and now that I'm old enough to do all that. So the night was coming to an end and it was like 3. The DJ at Prana was telling everyone to finish our last few drinks so I chugged the rest of my beer and we were outtie. I was so tired too. And I knew that I still had to study for my Astronomy test this week so we called it a night. Giga drove me back to my car and I drove home to my bed where I slept so comfortably underneath two pillows and bed sheets. Well before I go, let me ask you, 'excuse me, what's you name?'
cuz I see some ladies tonight that should be rollin' with AV.. AV. Also for Disney Fun click here: Playdough

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Brittany Murphy

a lifestyle Like No Other

Sat Sept 19, 2003 Theme: Love At First Sight by Kylie Minole
I slept so good last night. Damn. I haven't had sleep like that in so long. I got off the phone with Nate around 4am last night. He said that he's having so much fun up there but he really wants to come back to Tampa. I told him, 'really?.. you want to come back to the swamp lands?' All I can think about is my trip to Las Vegas, and South Padre Island for spring break, and our ski trip this Christmas in the Colorado mountains. I told Nate to have as much fun as possible and that there is no need to get all excited to head back to Tampa. Everyone else can't stop thinking about leaving the joint. It's like prison but with palm trees and extra palm metto bugs. Anyway, we painted my sister's house yesterday. We stopped by the HD and got some mocha cappuccino brown color for her living room walls. If you've read my past entries then you already know about that Easter Egg yellow that she picked originally and that color just has to go. I told her that I wasn't going to have Martha Stewart colors up in that house. So we started painting and the new color that I picked looks great. I'm about to head off to my moms for Eggrolls!! Mmmm.. I feel like saying 'oink oink' for my fattiness but I am going to tear them eggrolls up. My mom makes The best eggrolls in the world. I think it's that TLC ingredient that she puts in it to make it so fantastic. I'll save a few eggrolls for my girl Tashara because last time she had them she almost flipped a lid and said, 'wang thong thanga do yo thang a thang' like Missy Elliott. I'll have that girl Filipanized by the end of the week. Ha. So I also bought this really bad as shirt at International a few days ago. I can't wait to wear it. I found these old Abercrombie and Fitch jeans in my closet yesterday so I think I will wear it with those. I have so many jeans in my closet that I never even wear anymore. I need to start jean-neglecting them and put them on. Right? Well folks its about that time to head off to my moms for lunch. Mmmm.. eggrolls.. I feel like I'm about to step into heaven and I have angels hovering over my head singing, 'halleluah!' Life doesn't get any better than this!

Happy Halloween! ..coming soon 10/31

OctoberFest 2003

Checkout my hometown: Tampa Palms Halloween is right around the corner and have you even looked into some costumes? Tisk tisk. Well here are a few ideas that I've been pondering.. yes pondering, I do ponder sometimes.. but I thought that it would be cool to dress up as the cast of Charlie's Angels. Last year I was Hugh Hefner so this year I have to top that off. I'm actually excited to check out the costume places later this week. If I come close to a verdict I'll let ya'll know soon. So far I have a few ideas of what to dress up as but I have no final decicions yet. So tune in K? In the meantime you have a month to get ready and prepare. Don't be Halloween procastinators. Or else you'll be looking through your closet the night of Halloween and end up making up a costume. I've done that a few years ago and literally it was last minute. Save yourself the stress and get a costume early. I think they are cheaper if you do. Laters.

Tampa Palms

Tampa Palms is the largest community in New Tampa. It has over 7,000 acres with thousands of acres of conservation land and many lakes. Tampa Palms is located approximately 1 mile south of the I-75 exit with Bruce B. Downs Blvd, and about 25-30 minutes from Tampa International Airport and downtown Tampa. This community was started in 1991, but you can still find new homes in the second phase which is currently under development. Tampa Palms is comprised of a number of unique "villages," each with their own unique design and price range. You can find homes ranging from the low $100k range to millions of dollars. There is truly something in every price range in Tampa Palms. The Tampa Palms Country Club has a beautiful Art Hills golf course, 2 pools, a pro shop, a fitness and aerobic center, restaurant, and 24 suites for your guests. There are several community parks in Tampa Palms with tennis courts, racquetball, volleyball, and basketball courts. One of the parks as an Olympic-size lap pool. One of the most unique parks is River Park. River Park is a rustic Florida oasis with access to the Hillsborough River, trails, camping, and picnic facilities.

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College Life.. it doesn't get any better than this!

do you have what it takes to Fanta?
Thur Sept 18, 2003 Theme: Stand Up by Ludacris
College life is not like how it looks on those National Lampoon movies. It actually involves studying and making good grades. Who knew.. right? It doesn't give you much time to hit up the kegs especially when your taking six classes. The reconstruction of America, state laws, Tilden versus Hayes, I mean what are we talking about here people? American history is just boring unless you make it fun. So last night I spent the past 6 hours writing up note cards and reading them back and forth to memorize a billion zillion historical facts for todays test. Which i did just take a few minutes ago. How do I feel? Tired. Exhausted. And ready to go home for a break and come back here to school. My next class isn't till 2 so I have plenty of lee-way space. My mind right now is on food and nap time. Yesterday I worked out for two hours at the gym. I mean the total body fitness workout. Me, Natalie, and Josh played a game of b-ball on the courts. I lost to the game of Horse, Around the world, and let's see.. and oh yeah the game of 21. Are these American games? because I've never heard of them. Either that or i'm just physical edjucation deprived. I went to go see my sisters house yesterday! And geeze, her paint job was a total disaster area! I mean, she painted half her walls with this light yellow (kinda like that Easter egg color) with her kitchen being this green mildew puke color. I told her, 'what in the world were you thinking and please put down that paint brush.' Don't let me call Oprah for a makeover. She totally Easter egged her rooms with pastel colors. It was hideous. I told her that we were going to spend the whole weekend at Home Depot to find her some new colors. And to think, she wanted to go for the whole Olive Garden look when really it came out to Matha Stewarts Living. No.. No! I'm sorry but someone has to tell her that those colors are just plain ugly. I cannot believe no one said anything to her. They all must be colorblind or something or in shock of the greens and yellows. Andrew Dan-Jumbo, where are you when we need you? And speaking of TLC's While You Were Out superstar, I am on his personal website! For real. Check it out! Andrew Look under Menu, then go under Photo Galleries. You should see my pictures on his Miscellaneous page. So today I'm planning on resting my muscles. The little that i have but they need resting. Josh kept adding weights to this one machine. He kept saying, 'okay now five more reps.. then three.' then he'll say, 'okay five more..' but you said that six reps ago. You cannot add extra reps when your lifting 50 pounds on each side. My arms were about to burst open. Then I also did some sit ups, the one where you life the bar bells over your back, and ran on the tread mills. So yeah, twice a week of this ish and i better survive till December. I was laughing so hard at Natalie because she would make a face whenever we'd do sits ups. And then Josh would make noises to distract us. Me and Natalie even went one on one in wrestling and i pinned her twice.. well.. which wasn't fair I guess but it was just fun pinning her. We had so much fun. Also yesterday was Josh and Natalie's nine month annaversary. Can you beleive it? It seems like nine years. I'm so happy for them. I think me and Josh are going to look for rings this week. He better start saving up or ask the rents for a loan because Natalie is one really special girl and deserves the most beautiful ring that Tiffany's has to offer. Ha.. jk. But we will look there for ideas. Anyway, I've got to jet.. my stomach is growling at me. What ever happened to trust? Doesn't it know that I'm about to feed it? Later!

upgrading
Mon Sept 15, 2003 Theme: Baby Boy by Beyonce featuring Sean Paul
I've been rearranging everything around in my room from t-shirts to bag packs. You'd think a person will only need one bag pack but when your always going into named brand stores you always seem to find one where you say, 'but I really need this one!' and your friend will tell you, 'that looks just like your other one except this one has extra zippers.' Oh well right? Shopping for extra necessities is a biatch. So I found all sorts of things while cleaning out my room of The Mayan Temples. I say this because when you look through my room you will find all sorts of neat things. I hate having so much stuff, also known as clutter, because I can never find anything. Like for instance the other night I was looking for this green A&F belt and I dug through so much stuff to find it. Then when everything was said and done it turned out that I just had just made a bigger mess and leave the clean up work for the next day. When I was watching Uptown Girls a few weeks ago in the theatres I can so relate to Brittney Murphy. If I was forced to sell half my things which other people might consider as junk I think I would literally cry then pay the people twice as much as its worth to buy it back. I really don’t consider my things as junk because everything has its place and its meaning. If I just threw everything away I think I would go crazy. So I bought these neat boxes from Bed Bath and Beyond (yes, that one place that sends you 5 dollar off coupons) and I started to put them together. On the damn picture it looked so easy to build but when you are actually in the ‘building process’ it’s just not that simple. I spent like 2 hours trying to figure that ish out. I almost gave up but then I started to watch some OC on tv and totally forgot about my ‘building these boxes’ stress. So I gave it another shot then finally I have storage now to put away all my little cute books and photo albums. Now all that’s left is to throw away all these trash bags filled with ‘real’ junk and hope that I don’t even think twice about pulling anything out of them. I keep telling myself, ‘Arthur, your going to have to get rid of some of these things.’ Like these old McDonalds toys I kept over the years. Now do I really need these? I think I can survive without them. And do I really need these old baggy jeans? Hence that some people still wear them but I’m just over the whole, ‘lets show our underwear’ look like Marky Mark. I got a huge garbage bag and just started tossing away. It’s sad because I could donate them to the Salvation Army but I do not want to support the hoodlum look of America. It’s bad enough that people wear J-Lo and P-diddy gear. I mean what the hell is P-diddy gear anyway? It’s like telling Anna Nicole Smith that it’s okay to wear daisy dukes. Tisk tisk. Someone has to put an end to this madness.

three's company
I cannot believe that John Ritter passed away. I mean I watched Three’s Company like it was my job. I’ve been watching that show since I was six and I would never miss an episode. I can’t believe it. When I heard the news I almost cried. He was such an amazing man. I mean you should have heard what his friends and family were saying about him. Susan Summers and also the main guy from Happy Days came on Good Day Live and said a few things that just gave me the chills. John Ritter died from heart failure. What’s sadder is that his daughter had just turned five the morning that he passed away. And what’s creepier is that this all happened on September 11th. I cannot even imagine what his wife is feeling right now. Susan Summers from Three’s Company said that she spoke with her and that she was just speechless. Who wouldn't be? The whole entire thing is just so sad. Plus he just had a new sitcom called Eight Simple Rules which I also hearted and watched. It had that mother from Married With Children in it. It’s just all sad. I don’t even want to talk about it anymore because it’s just depressing how people are dying every day and we just have to sit here live it out. The Venus sisters/tennis player's older sister just got shot this week too. I mean can we all say 'ghetto-fabulous'? She died because someone actually took a gun and shot her. Let me say this again.. someone took and gun and shot her. What the hell is wrong with society today? It's crazy enough that people are getting bombed in Iraq and there is this anthrax and SARS going around now we have people shooting each other in the streets. This just makes me not want to go outside anymore. I live in a good neighborhood but you'd think that since she was the Venus's sister that she lived in a good neighborhood too. No one is safe. That's it, i'm on my way to Wal-Mart now to get me some pepper spray. Well I will always remember John Ritter as an amazing comedian who made me laugh for eleven years. I wish his family all my condolences and that God has a plan for those that he decides to take in heaven. In the meantime go buy pepper spray.

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my best friend Nydia in Glamour

old hyde park
Last night Shawn took me to go eat at this really neat place called.. wait.. dammit i already forgot. But it was really good. Oh yeah, okay I just remembered! It's called Bellas. Mmmm.. it was so good. I miss Old Hyde Park. I'm always going to the new areas of HP but it's been like three or four years since I've been to a decent old fashioned but yet newly owned restaurant. They had on 80's music in the background to top everything off. I think it added a really cool vintage touch to the place. I also forgot to tell ya'll that I went to The Castle the other night with Shawn and his friends. We had such a great time. I've heard a lot of stuff about the infamous Castle since my Freshman year of college and I've never been. So when Shawn told me that him and his friends Tommy and Joy were going I was like, 'great.. lets all go.' Plus I've been really wanting to meet Shawn's friends anyway. We all properly met at Joy's cute apartment and had a few beers. Pre parties always work well when you pre drink. Tommy was the designated driver.. that and also because he just has the phattest ride ever. I fell in love with it right as I sat down and put on my seat belt. I'm seriously going to get one by the end of this year. So anyway, Joy is this amazing woman who surely knows how to party. I mean she had me on the floor just laughing and being amazed on how much fun you could have just watching someone dance on those tall pedistals. I ran into a few old classmates there from high school too. Apparently that this was The place to go on a Thursday night. It wasn't all 80's though. i was literally flipping out when i heard The Venga Boys or Seven Nations Army. Then I really flipped when I heard them play Around The World. I was like, 'oh hell naw.. this is my 'mf' song!' It was a great night. Joy bought us a round of drinks which was so cute of her because it was just like something out of a movie. I'm definately going back again. But this time I'm going to be prepared. After a long night we went back to Joy's, had some spaghetti and watched Scary Movie. I love the black girl thats in that movie! I love the scene where she is in the theatre and she's so obnoxiously loud and telling every one else to 'shhhh' and then she busts out with Kentucky fried chicken and hot sauce. Then looks over at the guy behind her and says, 'you iz on candid camera now. you didn't know that.' Ha! Joy was passed out and we still had to go take Tommy home so we just spent the night at his place out in Clearwater. By that time i was too tired to even count to five and already i was alseep. Great night.
More Coming Soon..

lake jovita country club
Sat September 13, 2003 Theme: Thoia Thoing by R Kelly
Geeze! How long have I been gone? So okay, so much has happened the last few days. I wish I could go chronologically but I just have to go by what comes to mind. So yesterday me and Josh went to play golf at Lake Jovita. His parents were out of town for the weekend so we took the rents golf clubs and played nine games. Okay, now whenever I watch golf on TV its usually because nothing else is on or its on by accident. But when I do happen to watch it I notice that some of the players will miss a shot. And I usually sceam at the tv saying, 'how could you miss that shot!' Well after playing a few games of real golf, I had no idea how hard it was to hit a stupid little golf ball. I mean one game it took me 17 times to finally get the ball in the hole. Can you believe that? So afterwards we just came back and made sandwiches, played with Ming (the best dog in the world by the way), and played three games of pool which I also lost too. Dammit. Ha. Then after all that we went to visit Natalie at LeRoy Selmons. Our dinner was off the chain. I had this bad ass margarita drink and these bar-b-q wings for an appetizer. Natalie is really a great server. I saw everyone at her other tables smiling at her (which better be the indication that she's going to be getting a big tip) cuz some people are tryffeling and leave like two dollars on a 40 dollar tab. That's just not right. So then I talked to Shawn, which is this new kid that I've been hanging out with and told him to meet us up to go see Once Upon A Time In Mexico. Great movie but had a ton of nasty and gross parts in it. It was like one or two by the time we got out of the theatres then I went with Shawn to Clearwater for the night. So I'm I'm still tired and I'm actually about to go get some applications for a job. Yeah I know, usually my life does not consist of having a real job but when you go out as much as I do, your going to need one. I might get this one security job but we'll see. I'm not sure if I can actually tackle someone if I see them shop lifting. I may just have to procecute their ass though if they try me by saying, 'you are security?' Then I'll have to enforce the 'no you did not just try my ass' law and handcuff them. Ha. Well I gotta jet. I'll try to have more updates soon. Laters.

The OC: Orange County
and no i'm not talking about the television show. I'm actually talking about Ocean City. I told Nate before i left his house last night to make sure that he gets my tickets to visit him next month. His dad has all these frequent flier miles from his job and apparently Nate has the hook-up. So I'm going to pack for MD weather because I know that it will be a fun filled trip around Washington. Well i've got 5 minutes to sum this up. I have class in like 10 but i hate walking into class late. So.. last night we all went over to josh and Natalie's to go see the buc's game. They did a bomb ass job making the Eagles looking like they were on the line of extinction.. which bald eagles are.. but you get what I'm saying. We were literally jumping out of our seats every time they would score a touchdown. That rookie and Warren Sapp are definately getting their after-party on. you know it too. The Eagles have been waiting for their revenge after last years game and they didn't get squat. The bucs crushed the eagles last night. Did you see the facial reactions of the players last night? they looked clueless. Yes. Tampa Bay is taking over the pirate ship and we're taking no prisoners. But a highlight of last night was that we had pizza delivery. Hadn't had that in a while. We all sat around the table grumbbing and it reminded me of back in the day when 'pizza take out' was a daily ritual and as kids we'd sit there and eat pizza while watching the Ninja Turtles on tv. We must have seen that movie about a million times over. Afterwards Josh had downloaded 'Dreamcatcher' on DVD and it turned our that the words did not match with the scenes. Now how ghetto is that? So it looked like some old Chinese foreign movie. that was so hilarious. okay.. so that was 5.. and now i gotta get to class. Be back in an hour! Later!

Okay I’m back.. but only for a few again. Sorry. I have so many papers to write and I’m still trying to figure out this online class thing. The website that our professor gave us does not work for ish so now I have to go to the library and print out the actual forms. Dammit. I needed those three dollars too. There goes my McDonalds money. Anyway, I’m still waiting patiently for my Pel Grant check this week. OMG. I really need this one grand this month too. I’ve already made a checklist on what to buy this week. Sad. But once I get everything that I essentially need then I can relax and get back to my normal life again. Where I actually get 8 hours of sleep and tons of social time with my friends. I’m planning on not working this semester. School is going to take up too much of my free time. Of course I’m really talking out of my ass because I always go out and party.. just check it out for yourself on my Calendar but I’m just exaggerating on the fact that on those weekend nights, there will be open books and writing. About my employment though, I did apply at a few places but I told them up front, ‘no less than nine dollars’. I’m worth ten an hour with my background and skills but that’s a stretch when your willing to only give them 20-25 hours a week. I hope to get a few callbacks this week. Also! Get Vaccinated I was watching the news last night, and yes, some of us do watch the news still, and doctors have found a new way to ‘transport’ vaccinations and I do say ‘transport’ because I hate using the word injections because that whole entire process just makes me want to faint. I have not liked needles since the age of six and I’m not planning to make any changes now. But this whole breathing in the vaccine into your lungs sounds a hell of a lot better than sticking a huge needle into your body. Since I’m planning on that ski trip with Natalie and Josh this Christmas I think I’ll invest on getting all my flu and other miscellaneous vaccines done. And for some of you.. you guys can also get the old fashion way and have band aids decorated all over your arms. Well I’m out. Get vaccinated. It is the American thing to do next to eating French fries.

Arthur and Lil Megan
What's cookin' On the grill?
I’m about to head off to Robin’s for her Bar-B-Q today and I have a little time to spare with you guys and just ramble on about what’s random in my head. It’s kinda like Feng Shui but for your cerebra. So this morning was awesome. Nate woke me up early (I think around 8am) and told me that I had to pick him up at his house. People need cars. Or in Nate’s case, he needs to get the keys back from his parents. I never understood that. Why is it that parents do not ground kids like they used to with the traditional ‘go to your room’ scheme? And now they just take away your car privileges. Do they not know that other people can still pick them up? I was kind of excited to finally have the entire morning at the Castillo mansion. Usually Nate’s brothers or parents or cousins are in town and they always seem to take over the house. But this morning it was silent because the entire family was at a picnic. Nate is leaving tomorrow for work. I wish he could stay here in Tampa but that’s just impossible with his living situation and his relationship with his parents. I tried playing the lotto last week thinking that if I won the jackpot that I’d go buy a huge house and this problem would be solved. All my friends would come over and it would be like Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion. At least I’ll get a chance to get away for my vacation time to visit. I’m sure that I’ll have plenty of things to do here with school and work to keep my time eventful. Otherwise I’d be really upset that he’s leaving. This is all relatively good. Nate can find a great job and I can finish off my school with little to no distractions. I’m still a bit upset but when it comes down to it you just have to look at the big picture. And lucky for me, that it’s Kodak and not Fuji Film.

the dishes are done
Four hours later and without a hangover. Since I am taking this health class at school.. well okay, Gym 101.. I just don’t like to call it that but yeah I need to stop drinking in order for me to follow the ‘get fit-stay healthy diet. So now I have been sober for three.. no wait.. two days.. dammit that’s right I did get drunk the other night.. dammit. There goes that sobriety diet. But for real.. well okay I guess I’ll start now. I’m not going to drink alcohol anymore. And I’m not exaggerating. I really need to focus on this Subway Diet. Just kidding. But there are rules to staying fit. Number one: our teacher told us to stop drink milk. What?? I know right. That is just breaking moms cardinal rule of eating healthy but did you guys know that milk (vitamin D milk) causes you to produce more mucus? And he said something about everyone being lactose intolerant which I promise to look up in the dictionary once I get a chance. I am also taking this Nutrition and Drugs class so maybe that will help better my health vocabulary skills. My pager just went off.. hold for a second.. Okay, it’s just my buddy E. So can you believe that my teacher told us to stop drinking milk? But how about osteoporosis? And I did hear the other night on the Channel 8 News that milk helped reduce cancer. Well now I’m stuck with drinking Soy Milk and a gallon of water a day intake for the next five months. With the additional workout at the gym I will see the results and let you all know my progress in the next few weeks. I am determined to be fit and ready to be the next WWF wrestler. JK. So yes, back to my sobriety. I was tackled by so much beer at Robins. I kept telling everyone that I am trying to redeem myself from the binge drinking life that have been living and trying to stay sober. They all laughed and handed me a beer. But for real.. I’d rather have a soda. I bought two liters of Coca Cola right before I came. I was probably the only person who brought soda. We watched ‘The Outsiders’ with Patrick Swayse and that guy from the Karate Kid. I had seen a few scenes from it before but this was my first time ever watching it for real for real. You know.. where you actually sit and watch it. Back in the day I would start a movie but then go leave to talk on my cell phone (like I said ‘back in the day’) or I would fall asleep. I really liked this movie. It’s a sad ending though with all those dead people and greasy haired kids. Very sad. In my country those kids would have used soy sauce instead of grease to gel up their hair do’s. Gigi and Giga made their appearance. I finally got to meet Giga’s boyfriend Shawn from Ohio. He was really nice. And I also got to meet Robin’s new man Mike. I feel like they just went out on a shopping spree with all these ‘new’s. Damn. I need to get on the ball. JK. Too bad mine is on lay away. (sniff sniff) It’s aight though. Mine is only going away for work but will come back once everything gets situated. I feel Will Smith when he sung, ‘parents just don’t understand’. But Robin’s Bar-B-Q was off the grill. A few re-caps. And re-caps usually only make sense to those who were there at the event. The inside jokes.. literally. The beer caps getting thrown but keep missing the glass jar. Matt Dillon and Tom Cruz when they were fifteen. The ‘meat’ man. Sugar daddy candy. The 13th Ghost. The Outsiders. Dusk Till Dawn. Counting Crows concert tickets giveaway. Guava but yet tangy chips. Who here is Irish? Cricket cricket. Is that a necklace.. no it’s a Tampon. Football games. And last but not least.. the directions with the additional wild goose chase! Well there you have it! Robin’s top 10 list. Ha. It was a hella fun time and see you next time and the next R-gathering.

Saved by the Bell
School is so much fun! Am I even allowed to say that? I feel like if I'm having too much fun at school that there's something wrong about that and I need to put a thermometer in my mouth. Well I'm not running a fever and I am perfectly healthy. (Just ask my gym teacher) but I have been enjoying my time in school. I actually look forward to coming home and working on some homework or catching up on some reading. Wait let me read that last sentence again because somehow that does not sound right. Wow. I guess I'm just a bookworm this semester. I'm so glad that I have all my classes with my two best buds Natalie and Josh. We are inseperable! The other day we spent the entire class period just laughing about everything. Sometimes I th we might get in trouble for having too much in class fun. This weekend I still have three papers to write but I know that it will be a piece of cake. The last two semesters I've taken a ton of lecture classes so I'm so good at research papers now. I feel like I could do them blindfolded if I wanted to. So three cheers to school. Or as Billy Madisson would say, 'Yay for school!' because theres no greater place to be at.. (well unless your going to Disney World).

my night with Lauren
Thur Sept 04, 2003 Theme: In Da Club by 50 Cent Skye Lounge revisited.. My friend Lauren saved me this past Thursday night. I was actually about to open up a Tom Sawyer book (I’m kidding) but I was about to do some reading when I got a call from my buddy Lauren. She is like, ‘Arthur come out with us tonight..’ and I was like, ‘..but I’m broke..’ and she was like ‘..omg.. it’s okay I’ll spot ya.’ Isn’t that like the sweetest thing ever! I love Lauren so much. She has helped me through so many different obstacles in that past and this one just adding them onto the list. So I was like ‘okay.. just give me an hour and I’ll go get ready.’ Where we going? Destination Skye Lounge. Originally we were supposed to go to Club Bennigan’s but plans got changed at the last minute. I was going to meet Lauren’s friend Flow for the first time. ‘Flow’ short for Florence. Like the city. Isn’t that a bad ass name? So I met up at Laurens while I caught up on some Jessica Simpson on her MTV. I finally saw an actual episode. It’s really a great show. It’s like The Anna Nicole Smith show but just minus the fat. So Lauren makes me a drink: Vodka with Soda.. simple but yet straight to the point. We even shared two shots each and that was what did it for me. Being a lightweight definitely has its advantages. I was already feeling good at the apartment and that is a great start. So we head to the club and parking is a biatch. Cops were raiding a few cars and we even saw one girl get arrested. How dumb to drink right out of the bottle? It’s like tattooing ‘I’m drunk’ on your forehead. Hello? You are going to get caught by the Ybor Rent-a-cop society. Literally these ladies were rent-a-cops hands down. Me, Lauren, and Flow had our few laughs. Thanks to Florence and her Vip hook-up we got into Skye. We stayed for a little bit then headed off to Club Prana. That place was off the hook. I don’t know if I’m getting too old for this but I saw so many kids up at Prana. I felt like saying, ‘hey! Do you remember me? I used to baby sit you when you were five.’ Yeah. That’s how young some of these kids looked. I’m glad that I fit it with the ‘I still look 17 crowed’. Afterwards we took a trip to the Tri-Delt sorority house. We had to take home one of Lauren’s sorority sisters. We couldn’t find her key so we had to wake up one of the sisters that was fast asleep in her dorm room. The one’s that will wake up for you to open the door late a night are the one’s who you should trust with your ATM card. For real. I give that girl mad props for crawling out of bed. But Lauren was so great! I had a blast with her. She really went out of her way to make sure that I would have a great night out. I’ll make sure to pull an IOU and get her back the next time I get Vip privileges. Since our ‘Empire Records’ days, not much has changed.. we still have an amazing time together and remember that friends are there to hand you a shot or two when needed. Just add soda, then Vodka, then mix thoroughly until finished. Thanks.

Saturday, August 09, 2003

Sat, 09 Aug 2003 02:45:56 GMT

internationally known..
Philippines, France, Vietnam, Spain The Remix

baby Arthur

Welcome to Part two of Toooqt4u

Sept 11th, 2003

UT Salute!

in Loving Memory

Lorenzo Villa-Real
best dad in the world!

attention all filipino's
Hoy, ano ba? My mom is just the cutest. Today this mail man guy came to the door, and God fobid we let him in the house (it smells so much like dried fish and fried rice). So we just open the door just a teeney wincy bit so that we can make contact with him. Anyway, as my mom is talking to the guy and he is talking to her about subscibing to this newspaper. Well what the mailman does not know is that my mom will not say yes to anything unless my dad is around. (He understands more English than my mom). Well he asks her to subscribe and she tells him: "Oh soree ser, but I em not intereested." So this guy doesn't give up and he keeps trying to let her buy from him, then she goes: "Mister, I am soree but I hab to go now. I hab no monee rite now, maybee ip you can cam back layter." Then she shuts the door in his face. I was dying laughing. My mom is so funny. She has no shame in her game.
My dad: "Hey boy!" Then I go to the kitchen and already I know that I am in some type of trouble. Then he'll say "Artur, you know yor ree-porte-card came in da mail today rite?" Then I look up and I am scared out of my mind. "Well boy, you alreedy know dat in America you cannot be a dumb shiet." (my dad has no concept of English bad words. To them its okay to say these words out in public. They do not know any better). "Well Artur, ip you keep doeeing dis bad in de school you beter jast go to di pilipenes and go to scool der. Ang ta-o dito ang sobra ang tanga. Ecow hinde ang tanga. So you beter stadee. Oke?" I just nod my head yes and do what is told. So that was my lesson for the day. "Do good in school"- thanks to my dad

from the editor
So 'this' is what all the talk was about..
Must-See TV Thur Aug 04, 2003 You won’t even believe how many new shows are on television. The TV networks must all be on a frenzy right now. In the past, I know that I have been addicted to a few shows like Passions, The Simpsons, Friends, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Scare Tactics, Change Of Heart, Elimidate, Oprah, Jenny Jones, Ricky Lake, TLC's While You Were Out, Save By The Bell Re-runs, Will & Grace, Malcolm In The Middle, The Parkers, Unsolved Mysteries, Smallville, and American Dreams.. but now, the TV network producers have created even more shows for us to be addicted to, (not like caffeine and sugar wasn’t bad enough for us) but now we have these bad ass shows to look forward to this season. Lets see.. The OC starring Peter Gallagher, Tate Donovan, Adam Brody, Mischa Barton, and Benjamin McKenzie. (I can’t get enough of this show). I found myself putting down my chapter 27 notes and watching the rest of the episode. It reminds me of the old 90210 meets the Wonder Years. Anyway, others shows that are also addicting are One Tree Hill, What I Like About you (with Amanda Bines and that girl Kelley from 90210), Miss Match (with Alicia Silverstone), Coupling (based on the British series, six thirty-something friends wallow in past and present relationships), True Calling with Eliza Dushku (she plays as a young woman discovers she has the ability to go back in time for 24 hours at a stretch and save people's lives), Skin, Wonder Falls, Still Life, and I’m with Her. So yes, additional to the latenight research papers and studying I have to do, I can look forward to also seeing some really cool shows. I better go and stock up on some popcorn and soda! Also I've been catching up on my Cosmopolitan and USWeekly readings, well you can't really read USWeekly (most people just look through it for the pictures) but anyway, I found a few things interesting in some of the articles. In Cosmo, it said that Johnathan Mace, 32, entrepreneur, of 'What To do When she's Upset' said that when he read this book that it made him realize that women weren't looking for a quick fix. 'I always assume the sooner I come up with a solution, the sooner the conversation will end.' says Jonathan. Another guy said 'to me, girls are all different. You can base all of them on theories and little factoids. What i have learned in my twenty-three years of experience is that girls are very similar to guys but are also broken up into different sub groups." What do you think? Another thing i found hilarious were the titles of some of these articles: A psycho for a psycho, Cruel come-on, On Line Off Limits, Should You Stay Friends with an Ex?, Don't Fall In False Love, ..treat yourself today, Sex Talk Spoilers, Is it in yet?, Don't Look At My Fat, and my personal favorite Why Are You So Quiet? I think I need to get back to studying. Class starts in thirty. Laters!

my sister Elly's Bachelorette

Labor Day Weekend!
[ casino night at The Hardrock Cafe
the crew at Genevieve's ]
Phot Arthur, Damaye, TJ, Jenevieve, Natalie, and Josh Mon Sept 1st 2003 I am a little bit upset that I missed this years VMA’s. Dammit. Well not really. I just like to pretend to get upset when I miss something because it seems like everyone else goes bananas when they miss a television show. so I thought I’d join the colony by saying, ‘I can’t believe I missed this years VMA’s cause I could really care less. Thank goodness for TIVO, but for those who do not have this luxury, you all just have to wait like the rest of us and watch the re-runs. I also heard that Good Charlotte won an award so ‘woo hoo’ to them. I am still trying to wipe the crust out of my eyes.. (and I am only using this as an expression.. so there is no need to fret because there aren’t any crustations underneath my eyes.. that is just plain gross) it’s just that I have been waking up so damn early for these morning classes and it’s starting to wear and tear on my party nights. I have a reputation to live up to here. Usually I’ll stay up till 3 to 4am with no problems at all, but now that I have these morning classes I am finding myself falling asleep around 11-12pm. Yikes? Or is this a good thing? Anyway, I’m also tired from this morning. I’m writing as much notes as I can for my History class. My History Teacher is a lecture professor which means the more that I write down, the closer I will get to that A on my exam on the 18th. I keep telling myself.. Study study study. I am also dreading the fact that in a few minutes I have to learn all that is to be learned about health and digestion in my nutrition class. Talking about food will only make me hungry and being up in this biatch for five hours can drive a person insane. I can’t wait to see Natalie and Josh. They should be here any minute. They just got back from their Key West vacation Sunday night. They caught so many sea creatures which some are edible. Like last night for instance. We had lobster! I mean fresh out of the water lobster! These Independence Day alien-like creatures look nasty on the outside but taste so good and juicy on the inside. No wonder them bitches are so expensive at the store. I always walk past them and look at how sad and miserable they are. One day some wildlife animal activist should free them. That would be hilarious. Anyway, I’m planning on going with them next year to the Keys and I can’t wait to catch me some underwater seafood. ‘Mmmm..mmm.. seafood’.. like Homer Simpson would say. Well I’ve got to head off to class now. Catch ya later!

skye lounge

You Know How We Do! Vip celebrity Style..
skye bar lounge, bar-b-q's, house warming parties..
It doesn't get any hotter than this..
I had such a great time this weekend! Labor Day was so much fun. But what the hell is Labor Day anyway? We all celebrate it but I still do not have the concept of the holiday. I mean, its like, ‘happy you don’t have to go to work day!’ but for some of us, we don’t work anyway. Man. So we hit up Skye this Sunday night. I know I know... Sunday right? Not your typical going out parting night, but we all had good reason to go out for this night. Now for as far as I can remember, what got me started in this whole underground rave techno thing was DJ Brad Smith and apparently he was spinning at the Skye Lounge. For those who have a question mark above their heads Skye Lounge is 1509. So anyway, Jenevieve calls me, last minute by the way, and is telling me about this Labor Day Weekend party. A group of her friends were thinking Blue Martini or Skye. I have never been to Skye Lounge before (originally club1509) and I wanted to check the place out. So Jenevieve tells me, ‘be ready by eleven..’ What she really means is eleven thirty because girls take a long time to get ready. I arrive there and guess what? My hypothesis was correct and the girls were all still putting on their makeup. So I’m playing with Jenevieve’s dog and it is so cute. The puppy has on a diaper. Let me say this gain.. the puppy had on a diaper. I’ll save us all the time end energy by saying, ‘it’s a long story’ and let’s just leave it at that. Damaye and Jenevieve looked so hot! I mean fire hot. Just wait till you see the pictures. I think they are very self explanatory. We get to Skye Lounge (fashionably late) and there is no line. It looked like Studio 54 straight up. I looked at my group and said, ‘I’m not planning to wait in this long line.. (then paused).. I mean stand in this long crowed and wait to get in.’ It’s 12am and I’m ready to get this party started. Thank goodness that Danielle’s friend Chris is a DJ at Hyde Park café and has internal hook up at this club. So we all got our VIP bands, no cover, and no wait. I felt bad for all those people who had to wait in that long ass line, or in this case ‘crowed’. Well.. I didn’t really feel that bad for them but you know how it is. You don’t really feel bad unless it happens to you. So we walk in and the place is packed. Immediately they all start heading towards the Vip room. Which really I wasn’t so interested in. Their Vip area has the same people that I saw earlier outside moaning and complaining. The whole purpose of Vip are for those who are invited or are what Vip means.. very important people. And some of these cats looked like they just came out of a Wal-Mart shopping spree. So let me just stop there before I offend some Wal-Mart shoppers. Don’t get me wrong, I shop at Wal-Mart but do not buy the Faded Glory clothing. That is just plain tacky. I feel like making it a rule that at least try to look like your going to have fun and not the whole Johnny Depp’s Pirates Of The Caribbean look. You know? I ran into so many people who I haven’t seen in years! It was great. The music was off the chain too! When I heard Fever Express I knew that this was old school. Everyone at the club was fired up. Brad Smith really tore it up on the turn tables. He had everyone on the floor dancing. My boy Tai and his friend John were breaking it down breaking it down at the center of the club. I have to admit, Tai is a bad ass dancer. I think some people were even applauding after he left the floor. Now that’s entertainment. Me and Damaye were tearing it up too! We were doing old school ish that had everyone screaming. I had such a great time! I definitely want to check out Skye Lounge again. And by the way, I got the pictures back last night and they look phenomenal! When I get a chance to scanner I’ll post them on here as soon as I can.

we are going to the Colorado Mountains for christmas! ski trip coming soon! 12/25
Back to School
Where is Miss Vaughn when you need her? Theme: Faded by Soul Decicion Tues August 26, 2003 We were on Campus for ten hours yesterday. That is what I'd like to call 'school overtime' except in these cases we don't get anything extra but a few calices under our feet. So anyway, other than the calices, school is great. This semester is going to be so much fun! Busy.. but fun. I tried to register Nate into some of my classes but everything is filled. I told him to register early but now he has to talk to the deans of Science. I'll be so happy if we get at least two classes together. I have most of my classes with Natalie and Josh. Except Josh is going into the colonary program so some of his classes are in the other building. Me and Natalie are in similar fields and our courses are alomost the same. We are taking Astronomy, Nutrition and Drugs, this Love Psychology class, and weight lifting together. Addtional to those I also have like two other classes. I'm so tired! We walked all over the place yesterday trying to register into our last few classes. Waited in these long ass lines and then had to wait for Natalie to finish her 6:30pm Trigonometry class. We're waiting in this line for registration right and it looks like a line for the DMV seriously, and everyone is standing around bitching about how their feet hurt. So I look over and theres this room. And in this room are chairs. I'm thinking, 'those are chairs and I'm here standing?' No way. I grab one out of the room and pull that bitch to the line. Everyone is looking at me. I look back at them and go, '..sorry but I really don't give a crap if this seems embarassing but trust me if your waiting in line for five hours, pulling up a chair out of that room is nothing but the smart thing to do..' Natalie and Josh were both laughing. Afterwards we went to LeRoy Selmons and ate till our stomach burst. By the time we got home it was like 9 or 10pm and we were ready to unwind so we played some Nintendo 64's Mario Cart and fooled around. Even saw some special on Latin Kings on HBO. Those people are off the chain. Anyway, that was my day yesterday and by the way these classes look I'll probably be too busy to log onto any form of internet so in the meantime just keep checking back for new news since there are a ton of Fall events coming up. Laters!

Raymond James Stadium

Theme: Summertime by Will Smith
The best ways to end the last days of summer. and I did it! 'Flawless victory' like Paula Abdul would say to her American Idol Finalists. I can't believe that I had the best day ever yesterday. And to think, that these are the last days before school starts. You'd better pull up a chair and get comfortable because this is going to be a long entry. So if you need to take any bathroom breaks, this would be a good time to do so. Okay.. Don't think that I didn't work hard to get there.. Let me begin with the prognosis: So.. yes I had my Pampered Chef Party yesterday, and thank you all that came. Special PC shout outs to Natalie, Josh, Sherry, Jenn, and Megan. I had a blast. But this isn't what I wanted to talk about. The Pampered Chef actually has it's very own journal entry so let me begin with my main topic. Raymond James Stadium. Any hints yet? Well okay, Josh got invited to go to the Bucs game yesterday by his best friend John. John is from out of twon but visits a lot over the summer and sometimes around winter. Anyway, me and Natalie after Pampered Chef had semi plans to go to LeRoy Selmons to watch the game. But then I remembered my friend TJ telling me about some job thing where we work for half the game, get paid, then the at second half of the game, we have Vip access to go anywhere on the stadium. So when John picked Josh up to go to the game, me and Natalie smiled and said, 'we'll see you guys at the game..' then Josh was like, 'How did you two get tickets?..' blaw blaw blaw we explained the whole story to him so the plan was to meet by the Buc's Pirate Ship during half time. So me and Natalie got ready, Bucs jerseys, Bucs sweaters, Bucs beads and all.. and headed off to the Stadium. I called by buddy TJ and told him that we were on our way and he told us that we'd get free parking if we parked through the Employee parking lot. Sounds simple right? Wrong. The traffic was off the chain. It seems that everyone was going to see the game. Thousands of people walking aimlessly while me and Natalie try to find the parking lot. Then the shuttle that was supposed to take us to the Stadium had already left because we were running late. So we're walking towards the stadium and four hundred miles later we finally reach Entrance D. What the hell does that mean to me? Finally asking people for directions it turns out that we had to be in terminal B. (which is at the opposite end of the stadium). This isn't fun when your in the great humid city of Tampa. We finally get there and explain ourselves to the gate lady and she was a biatch. Ask Natalie, she can explain further. She kept telling us, 'sorry.. but you have to go through entrance C to get in..' And we're like, '..we were told to go through entrance B..' Without causing any problems we just smiled and did what the lady said. So we walked around to gate C and those people told us that we had to go through entrance B. Are we in the Twilight Zone? Finally I got upset and I spoke to a securiy gaurd and told him, '..listen, we're so late for work and the game already started..' For some reason I started to realize that talking to these people was like talking to spoon or a brick wall. You can't get passed them. Me and Natalie didn't come all this way to cross the Valley Of Death and the Sahara Desert to get turned down by some rent-a-cops. We tried to be McGeivers and ish and went around to the side where this gaurd was working at. We knew that it would be easy to get passed him because he was eating a pizza and had coffee stains on his shirt. Usually gaurds that look like this are idiots and do not know all the rules in the book. Natalie asks him, 'can we please use your phone?' He nods his head yes and hands us the phone. So we call TJ and it's hard to make out what he's saying because there were a lot of people talking in the background. He gave us the section number that we were supposed to be in and told us to look for a '...' lady. I forgot her name and it's not that important to my story. Anyway, we finally got passed the gaurds and met up with that lady. She then appologized to us for letting us wait and slapped on our Vip bands. Me and Natalie looked at each other like, '..OMG, we're actually in!' So it's about eight o'clock and we've missed 89% of our shirt but we didn't care. It was almost halftime and it was close to meeting up with John and Josh. Finally we found TJ, his cell phone convo went like this: 'where are you?' 'I'm at a payphone' then he says, 'turn around to your right, i'm right here.' It was so funny. We chilled with him and his friend from ROTC and looked for Josh and John by the pirate ship. Looking for John and Josh at a BUCS game is like looking for a grain of salt on an ant hill. There was about a thousand people walking around in that area and some of those people need to invest in deoderant. For real. Some people were off the chain. I see Josh and I put my finger to my nose telling John 'shhhh..' because I wanted to scare him but by the time I got close, he saw me. Dammit. John told us that we could go sit in front of there seats because there were empty spots. We didn't even hesitate for him to finish and just started walking to the direction of the stadium seats. We were so excited. All that hard work getting in paid off. We sat in the seats and people around us kept staring. I'm not sure if it's because they thought that John and Josh were celebrities or if it's because they knew that me and Natalie stole those seats. It didn't really matter anyway since me and Natalie both had Vip bands. What can they say anyway since we were (technically) employees. Right? It was in the third quarter and the Bucs were in the lead, John's dad John Senior didn't want to stay and watch the rest of the game so they told us to meet them at Hyde Park Cafe afterwards for the Tailgate After Party. Me and Natalie wanted to stay because we finally got our seats and plus we're hardcore Tampa Bay Buccaneer fans.. well more like softcore fans. We gave them the directions and told them that we'd meet them at the Vip lounge there. So we watched the rest of the game and it was so much fun. We took some pictures and once I get them developed I'll post them on my site. They came out so cute and I know this because most of them were on Natalie's digital camera. What's up with everyone and digital cameras? I feel like my ass is in third world country and ish. But it was a blast! I'm so glad that we got in and got great seats on top of that. What more can you ask for? So the moral of this story is that if you run into some rent-a-cop security gaurd that tells you that it's impossible to get in, trust me.. it's never impossible. They are only telling you that because they are too lazy to make on simple phone call and rather pick up a donut instead. I mean, help a brotha out man! Ya feel me? Laters!

Tailgate After Party

The Hyde Park Cafe, Mons Venus, and Peabodies. Can we get any hotter than this? John comes into town only once a month. And whenever he comes down you can expect a huge ass party or a hangover. It's not like he brings liquor and mad people, the kid just has 'party' written all over him. We're actually planning a ski trip as we speak for Christmas. John has the hook-up and invited us to stay in one of those log cabins in the woods. I think the destination is Colorado so I will be going back to my childhood roots out in the wild wild west. I miss it out there and you know there will be some ruckus caused up in those mountain tops. That's what you get when you put four friends together. Yay for snow! I haven't seen it for a while I think I need to reunite. So yes, lets talk about my night after the Bucs game. You'd think that the night was over but 'oh no'.. there was much more to that day. John's last night in town so we had to make it big. Me and Natalie met up with John, John senior, and Josh at Hyde Park Cafe. Me and Natalie were obviously not dressed for Hyde Park. We were still in our Bucs gear.. Gasparilla beads and all. Yeah I know, me and Natalie are off the chain. Anyway, on Saturday I guess it's twenty-one and up and Natalie doesn't turn 21 till December. So my buddy Justin told her that if she didn't loook too young that he'd let her in. Justin is actually a good friends of mine way back from King High School. He works there now as a body gaurd. Me and Natalie looked at each other and didn't really want to pay the five bucks to get in cuz we were going to leave anyway. So Justin let me in to grab Josh and when I arrived in the Vip room, some chica was trying to mack on him. I'm like, 'Hi Josh.. your Girlfriend Natalie is outside.' As we're walking to the front he's like, 'thanks for saving me.. she wouldn't get off my case.' Right. Then John was like, 'well why don't we all go to a Strip Club?' John is worth I think a million or two dollars so he was willing to pay for all of us. Isn't that nice of him? We didn't want to say no since it was his last night so we went. Me and Natalie stood up front while the rest of the guys went inside. I saw so many boobies and the girls were alright. I see hotter girls in my school but who can complain right? A free boob is a free boob. Afterwards Josh wanted to play some pool. We Love to play pool! I think it's our new personal addiction. The only place left open that was worthy of checking out was Peabodies. Right as we get there I see this really hot girl standing in line. I look closer and it's my friend Jenny Locander. She told us that they were carding at the door so all the guys huddled up while Natalie snuck in behind us. It was so funny cuz Natalie sped inside like Speedy Gonzalez. The bouncer goes, 'who was that? is she with you?' We all looked at each other and said, 'i think she had to use the bathroom really bad.' The bouncr just shook his head and let us in. Then when we went to the bathrooms me and Natalie had to change shirts and I let her wear my undershirt so that in case if the bouncer were to see her, he wouldn't recognize her. We were in. We got a table and played a few games. Josh and Natalie are so great at pool. Natalie like mastered the game. After a few more beers we called it a night (and what a long night it was) then came home. I'm so glad that we went out and that John had a great time before he had to fly back home. Later!

Part Two of Yee Haw and Ya'lls
Good Day in Tampa Bay! Thursday Aug 29 2003 Tonight was incredible! If you guys saw the game on tv tonight then you all know how bad we kicked Texas’s ass! No against to ya’ll Texans it’s just that I have mad props for my home team! I really think that we have a great chance this year to make it to the Super Bowl again. How great would that be to become the two year consecutive Super Bowl Champions? I can’t wait to get the pictures back from tonight’s game. I came so close to meeting a few players. On our way to the game, we stopped by the grocery store to get some soda and food because everyone knows how expensive everything is at the stadium. Popcorn is like eight dollars and a soda would be like fifteen. JK but seriously these are close approximations. Nate’s older brother got us tickets to get into tonight’s game. I really enjoyed watching the game with Nate cuz he knows anything and everything about sports. I thought it was funny how some people get so caught up in the game and scream and shout at every move. I just think it’s hilarious. It reminds me of how I get when I find out that there is a two hundred dollar credit limit on my credit card and it’s time to go shopping. Anyway, I can’t wait to get all my pictures back. I know I know.. I need to update and I haven’t been keeping up. Try taking five courses in college then tell me if you even have time to log on and watch Friends or Save By The Bell re-runs. Get back to me on that and then we'll talk.
[ Oh and by the way, I found this little sheet of paper where me and Josh wrote down all the hilarious ish we were saying on the night of Jenevieve's birthday party! Here they are: 'Fuck the bike.. i'm getting me a wheelchair' ~ 'wheel chair games' ~ 'tiny dog watch out! watch out for the dog..' ~ 'this is the next x-game' ~ 'drop an endo on that biatch' ~ 'endo a 400 McRiddle' ~ 'watch out girl your messin' up my rhythm' ~ 'pushes a McTwist' ...hilarious! ]

Post Mortem
I got creative with my oodles of noodles today. I was watching Ricky Lake before Nate came over and this girl was making Oodles Of Noodles with meat and broccoli. Now I’m not sure if this is considered ‘ghetto’ but I tried it. Instead of meat though I added eggs. I just took two eggs and mixed them together in a small bowl. Then after the soup was almost cooked, I then added the eggs in. It tasted so good! So next time you only have a couple bucks and want to have a meal, use these same ingredients and eat away. I think that was the topic of today’s show was: Damn you’re cheap! Ha. Anyway, tonight I’m going to see Jeepers Creepers 2. I’m so skurred! Well.. not really but I am excited to go see it. I’m the meantime I’m trying to finish registering for my AOL account. It’s not as easy as it looks on the little square carton. It say’s ‘fast and easy.’ Well there wasn’t anything fast or easy about downloading this program. It’s all good though. I’ll give it a couple more hours then if it still doesn’t work then I’m canceling it and getting DSL. So Natalie and Josh left to go to Key West for the weekend! I miss them already. On their last night here I went over to help them pack. Natalie was half asleep (because we haven’t been getting enough shut eye since school started) and she had to wake up at 4 in the morning the next day). So me and Josh took care of most of the packing. Nate’s parents are going to Boca Raton for Labor Day Weekend! I might go with them but being around Nate’s family is kinda awkward since every time I run into them we’re always on the go and I haven’t even properly introduced myself. I promised myself today that I would spent more quality time with the parentals.

Summer's End Prologue

Summer's Season Finale..

..prologue
Summer's End Party Theme: Need You Tonight by INXS Niko You wait around all year to throw one hella party and it’s at the very end of the summer. It’s the time where you’ve already partied your mind out but still need one last chance to catch up on things that you did not get to do in past parties that you’ve attended to. It’s the one chance for you to say your good-byes to summer and hello to another great year at college. Because this is the one night where you do not have to worry about Finals, or Work, or Mid-Term papers. The only thing you need to worry about is finding a designated driver, a bottle of liquor, a group of you closest friends, a group of new faces, and someone to share the night with. Do I even give out details? What more is there to say? It's Summer's End and you never know where your going to wake up. Fortunately I knew where I fell asleep. So waking up wasn’t a surprise. As for others, well? That is just a different story. So me and my friends all decided to meet up at The Hardrock Café for the pre-party. (Jenevieve’s idea) and it's right next to a casino. Literally. The nightclub, bar, and casino all built in one. So yeah you can say that we started the night off with gambling and booze. Straight up Las Vegas style. We had a few drinks at Jenevieve's apartment (Vodka Coco to be precise by Bacardi) and Josh mixed it up with a few juices. I just started pouring the Vodka in my glass like it was water and they were all like, 'whoa there kiddo, that's a lot of liquor..' Well how do you expect to drink this drink? I wasn't making a mixed drink for a four year old now am I? It was like 20% orange juice and 80% Bacardi. So I enjoyed my drink for about 5 minutes cuz that was how long it took for everyone to jet to the casino. Demaye didn’t have time to make her drink so her and TJ had shots. Damn Gina! When we got to the casino I looked up and saw the entire development. They are going to add more hotel rooms to this place. Not like it wasn’t enormous to begin with. Josh looked at everyone and was like, ‘..so who’s ready to gamble?’ We all had twenty dollars each to spend. Fortunately for me, I had just gotten paid and have tons of cash. So we played this game that Josh had played a few months ago and he had won three hundred bucks! Let’s all cross our fingers for déjà vu. So I'm like, 'hell yeah, give me a try.' So I'm there, gambling away when I notice that I'm not winning anything. I was thinking, ‘am I even playing this game right because their aren’t any coins dropping down into this little bin.’ I’ve watched enough casino movies to know how this thing works. I look over at Natalie and TJ and they are both silent. Nothing there either. Nate didn't have enough to gamble. Josh was silent at first but then stood up and said, 'okay kids, it's time to leave..' Ha. I looked for my buddy TJ and he was in the bar ordering a drink. So we said our goodbyes to my buddy Jenn from Georgia and to her boyfriend and I looked at the time. Dammit. Jenevieve and Demaye are still with their group at Tias. So I'm like, 'okay we need to get to this after party and get this started.' So we stopped by Steak N Shake cuz Josh had nothing to eat since 4pm and everyone else was kinda feeling the hunger too. It was kinda like a Snikers commercial now to think of it. So we got our eat on and I dropped TJ off at his place. I followed Natalie back to her house where she was going to drop Josh off. Josh didn't want to go to Summer's End cuz he knew that if he'd stay that he'd have a few more drinks and not make it to golf the next day with his dad at Lake Jovita. So I'm looking at Natalie and I'm like, 'we're going to this thing!' Nate wanted to go really bad too. So we said to Josh, 'we promise to not have fun at all.. (making whimpering noises) have a good nights sleep and we'll see you in the morning..' He’s like, ‘yeah yeah whatever ..have fun.’ So we left, (feeling bad that Josh couldn't go with us.. but also feeling excited to see all of our friends that we haven't seen in ages). So we get there to the party and we see Chris. Wow. So much has changed in a few years. So I leave him and Natalie alone while they caught up on old times, while I mingled with the crowd and introduced everyone to Nate. Everyone loved Nate, which is awesome because it makes it easier for me to just have fun and not worry about keeping everyone attended. So I sat on the couch with Demaye and was laughing at all the different costumes. That and plus we were drunker than a skunk. So then I'm like, 'Demaye, where did Nate go?' The upstairs room opens and all you can see is smoke coming out of the room. It was so hilarious. I'm like, 'come here.' Then we just chilled downstairs the rest of the time. Some people kept talking to me and I don't even remember half of those conversations. This one chick kept telling me what pretty eye lashes I had. I thought it was a trip how she was so up close and personal. She was sitting on top both me and Nate. He kept looking at me like, ‘who is this girl?’ I have no idea. Savita was all over the place. One minute she is talking by the dinner table, next minute she was back upstairs with more people. I can’t wait to get the pictures back from Nate’s digital. He kept telling me that we'd have to drive back by 5am before his brother comes home. I kept saying, 'give me five more minutes.. five more minutes..' But really I just wanted to lay there and sleep. So then Natalie is like, 'hey, you ready?' so I'm like, '..alright alright I'm up.. I’m up.' Then we drive Natalie back to her place. She is so cute. I can tell that we're going to be best friends forever. I love that girl. I told her to make sure that she gets in touch with me the next day for check-ups. Me and Natalie have his ritual to make sure that the other one is okay the next day and is recovering well. We went back to Nate's and the guard at the front gate was being such a jerk. 'Where is you pass? ..what is the make and model of your car?' Dude just let me in. Trust me he lives here. Finally the guard lets us in and we stumble across to the front door. It’s locked. Great. Of course everything is locked when your tired and want to fall asleep. We check the back door and thank goodness that it was open. Can you imagine waking everyone up in the house at 6am in the morning? I'm half asleep and finally we make it back to Nate's room. We were trying to be as quiet as possible but I gave up on quietness thirty minutes before that. So I bet we were hella loud. I remember looking at Nate's digital camera thinking.. great. Wait till these pictures come out. Shut eye.. and fades out to black. This was one Summer’s End Party that I will remember forever..

back to school Adam Sandler Style [
Abercrombie crew at Club Bennigans ]

my Music
Check out what's been playing on my Sony CD Player: Ashanti - Un-foolish Usher - You Dont Have To Call Remix Pharrell Williams - Fuck All Night Foo Fighters - Fly Pharrell Williams - Frontin' Tamia - So Into You Lil Kim - Crush On You 3LW - No More Dirty Vegas - Days Go By Justin Timberlake - Still On My Brain No Doubt - Hella Good Nelly - Hot In Herre Busta Rhymes - Pass The Courvoisier Justin Timberlake - Take It From Here City High - Caramel (Remix) Blaque - 808 Mariah Carey - Honey 504 Boyz - I Can Tell Lil Mo - Superwoman Sunshine Anderson - Heard It All Before Smash Mouth - All Star Blaque - As If Big Tymers - Still Fly Iconz - Get Fucked Up Incubus - Warning Amerie (feat Ludacris) - Fall In love Christian Falk - Make It Right Mandy Moore - In My Pocket Evan and Jaron - From My Head To My Heart Sarah Brightman - Deliver Me Solar Twins - Rock The Casbah Nelly Furtado - Party's Just Begun All Saints - Pure Shores Busta Rhymes and Janet Jackson - What's it gonna be? Eastside Boys - Get Low Holly - Heaven Soul Decicion - Faded White Stripes - Seven Nations Army Jackson Five - ABC 50 Cent featuring Snoop Dog - PIMP Ashanti - I Found Lovin' 50 Cent - In Da Club Tamayra Gray - A House Is Not A Home JT Timberlake - Cry Me A River Pink - Feel Good Time Good Charlotte - Boys and Girls INXS - Need You Tonight Beyonce and Jay-Z - Crazy In love Sugar Ray - Spinning Away Orbital - Beached Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real Madonna - What It Feels Like Bill Withers - Lovely Day Earth, Wind, and Fire - Dancing In September Incubus - Warning Madonna - Don't Tell Me Christina Aguilera - Falsas Esparanzas Sarah McLachlan - Silence Britney Spears - Slave For You Billy Gilman - One Voice Christina Aguilera - Cuando No Es Contigo Mariah Carey - Emotions The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? Dido - Hunter Tony Bennett -The Way You Look Tonight Jann Arden - You Don't Know Me Jackie DeShannon - What The World Needs Now Is Love India Arie - Video Juliet Roberts - Bad Girls Kelly Clarkson - Before Your love Janet Jackson - Escapade Ghost Town DJ's - My Boo Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up Good Charlotte - Festival Song Drowning Pool - Bodies Jay Gordon (of Orgy) - Queen Of The Damned Placebo - Every You Every Me Counting Crows - Color Blind Good Charlotte - Seasons The Verve Bitter Sweet Symphony Dido - Here With Me Dixie Chicks - You Were Mine
More Songs Coming Soon..

The Pampered Chef
We had so much fun at my Pampered Chef Party. Sherry, Elly, Consuelo, Tara, Roseanne, Megan, Natalie, and Josh all came to support my cooking. Before the party started, I had to get all my ingredients at Super Target. Pillsbury dough bread, some spinach, flavored cream cheese, and deli ham. That's all it took to make my dinner rolls. Everyone was laughing at me cuz they really didn't think that I could cook. They usually see me pop something into the microwave or order out. But no, today was my day to redeem myself from the cooking world. I made two batches and both were phenominal! Everyone liked it so much! My sister Elly also brought some sandwiches from Chick-Fil-A. Those were good too. Me and Mrs. Lombardo had a glass of Coconut Rum with Coke and called it an afternoon. Natalie called it an alcoholism. JK. I'm glad that everyone came and had fun at my party. I'll try to throw another one around November when it gets a little bit colder and I'll make some Thanksgiving dishes. Thanks to Pampered Chef, now I have more than enough points to get my sister her stone dish for her oven. People don't know what they are missing out on. For real.

Muvico
Nate and I went to the movies the other day.. (well attempted to) and it was difficult to get passed the goody goody a-hole that worked there. Listen kid, I'm a lot older than you think and I probably babysitted your ass when you were 5 so cut the crap and PG-13 ish and let me in with my student discount. Anyway, I lost my school ID a long time ago when I went with Megan and Jenn to see some movie and I think I also lost Megan's student ID along with my ATM card. It's all gone. Who in their right mind will turn in a student ID anyway if it came with a ATM card? Easy gas access right? Thank goodness for me I shut my account off before anyone could do that. So all I had was Nates. We used his and I went back to the line and used the same ID to get my discount. i'm sorry but Muvico food is expensive and I can only afford the nacho's, large soda, and ticket price and it all comes out to twelve bucks. That's a lot of cash considering that I'm also a college student. Nate hardly ever goes to the movies so he let me use his stident ID. He would have given me his college ID but he needs that for registration. So he gave me this instead to use. What's crazy is that I passed for it and we used it in the same line that the pimpled faced kid was working in. To make a long story short, we ended up not seeing the movie cuz we were like 25 minutes late and got our money back. I'll try to find my old high school ID and compare it. Yikes.. I used to have longer hair and big glasses. Thank goodness for puberty. Or in my case semi puberty because I age well and will probably look 17 for the next seven years.

Two Day Getaway: lake jovita
[ i'm going to the beach with Natalie and Josh!! be back by 6pm -08/19 ]
Theme:Pure Shores by All Saints Thur Aug 21, 2003 I'm back from my trip! and I have the tan lines to prove it. I was so excited to leave Tampa as soon as I found out that Josh and Natalie wanted to hit up the beaches. We had our snorkles and everything! Originally we planned to leave on Tuesday but we got stuck having to register Josh and Danny into their classes. So we did the whole beach thing on Wednesday instead. Like I've said before, everything is full! I couldn't believe that so many kids were already registered. I guess that it's just the downfall for waiting at the 'very last minute' (literally) but we did get him 3 out of 4 classes. You have no idea what we had to go through.. all the waiting in lines and all the paperwork. Afterwards we all ate at Chillis. I called Nate's house right after he paged me and he didn't pick up his phone. Why ain't that a biatch? Don't you just hate that? You call someone back and they don't pick up the phone. So I leave a message on his machine and I tell him, 'We're about to go eat at Chilli's so if you want to make it on time, call me back within 5 minutes..' We wait and no call. Right as we get into the car, the phone rings.. and it's him! So I was like, 'you'd better hurry Nate and come cause we haven't eaten all day.' and for the people that know me, you know how I get when I get hungry.. Right when we get there, I ran into another Nate from my old job. Funny how things happen that way. So we sit down at first and then I go over to say hello. By that time my stomach was so empty that I needed to fuel it up before it pulls off to the side of the road and collapses. I told him that it was good to see him and sit down at my table. Josh is looking at the dessert menu and all I can think about is food. When the waiter came out I didn't even let him get to finish his sentence and I tell him, 'yes, I'd like to order my meal now please.' I really didn't want all the restaurant small talk just please bring out the food. Then finally Nate shows up and he takes forever trying to figure out what he's going to eat for lunch. I remember watching an old Looney Toons cartoon, the Roadrunner and Cayote one, where the cayote is watching food on television screen and him salavating over it, and I totally knew where he was coming from. So I said, fine.. bring out the chips and salsa. I knew that the food would take forever and that the only hope for survival was to have the salsa chips. I tore them chips up when they brought them out. It looked like i hadn't had anything to eat for days. Or in my country we'd like to call it hours. I get hungry every two hours of the day. Where does it all go? I have no idea. I wish I had more time to update these daily journals, it's just that I've been so busy finishing up everything that is considered 'Summer Fun' before summer is actually over. Class begins Monday so you see the urgency of the partying and the tanning and such. Anyway, in the meantime I must post what I can. So what were we talking about? Oh yeah.. the restaurant. I don't really consider Chilli's a a restaurant because restaurants in my personal dictionary a restaurant brings out their food on time and this one didn't. I consider Chillis a 'food joint' where people gather to recieve their entree's late. JK. All in all, minus Natalie's cold encheladas and Josh's half done sandwhich, the manager comped us with a discount for the poor service. Next time we'll just make a few sandwiches, stay home, and call it day.

the Estates
Finally we arrive to Josh's. I'm still culture shocked pulling up to his driveway because not only his house is built on a slope, but once you move closer to the house you can see nothing but the enormous hotel-sized home. It also hovers over the waterfront. I think i've seen similar houses on lifestyles Of The Rich and Famous. And.. also i say 'culture shock' because I'm used to the normal sized homes like the ones you see on HGTV. But Josh's house is off the heezy. Walking in it I feel like I'd run into Mrs White and Professor Plum from the game of Clue. For real. you guys have no idea. For more details, read the The Estates at Lake Jovita entry. It talks more about my experience with the Belfort mansion. so anyway, enough of my jaw dropping eye opening 'a house is not a home' experience, we busted out with the snorkles! I was so excited to try them out. We're planning a trip to the Bahamas and what better way to practice than Josh's pool. So we say hello to Josh's parents Drummin and Pandora (I think they had just finished having dinner) and then we changed into our bathing suits. All I could think about was seeing those little 'Finding Nemo fishies' that i'm going to see when we go on our trip. Josh jumps into the pool like its nothing and starts swimming in the deep end. I remember Josh's sister saying somthing about the pool being a little warm so I take my toe and give it a feel. Brrr.. that water was cold as hell. You'd think cuz its summer and all that the water would be somewhat warm but it was freezing. Then I told Natalie, 'that water is cold.. I don't think you wanna dive into that.' So she tells me, 'are you sreious?' We both take our sweet time trying to get used to the pool temperature. Now I was feeling bad for all those Fear Factor people that had that mission where they had to swim in freezing cold water. Of course since I'm sitting at home on my bed talking so much trash like, '..oh you can do it. They are such whimps! That water can't be that cold..' Flashback. Now I feel like a total A-hole cuz I'm feeling the negative celcius degrees on my lower torso. And it's not easy. No wonder that damn girl from the Titanic let go of Leonardo DiCaprio. So we finally get our entire bodies into the h2o and start snorkling. It was actually fun and easy to learn. I thought I was going to have scuba difficulties but it wasn't bad at all. After a while we started playing games like Marco Polo and Underwater charades. They were so much fun. We kept laughing histerically that Pandora kept telling us to be quiet. Josh's younger sister had school the next day. I think we did that for about three more times and we lost our welcome. Ha. Seriously we were laughing really loud. That was that and we went back home. If I was to rate snorkling from one to ten i give it a nine point nine. Snorkling rocks!

the Estates in Lake Jovita
An exclusive and separately village containing 68 exceptional homesites which range in size from two-thirds of an acre to two acres. Over 50% have already been sold. These feature panoramic views of lakes, fairways and greens, and natural preservation area. All homes within The Estates are custom-designed and built, and meet a minimum size requirement of 3,400 square feet. Buyers are welcome to bring their own custom builders or choose among Lake Jovita's list of preferred estate homebuilders.

the beach
Theme: Rock The Casbah by Solar Twins
Who ever has exact change for the tolls along the beach? And why is it that someone always forgets to bring a beach towel? And why is it that when someone is in a hurry they push the elevator button more than once? Does it actually make the elevator move faster? These are just a few questions running through my head as we're preparing our set up on the beach. We had the perfect spot too! Right in front of the water and tons of sun directly towards us. We tried to find a way to not get too sun burnt since the sun was scorching hot.. I mean I felt like a microwavable dinner. Natalie had this really cool sun screen that has glitter in it. I guess it helps attract the suns rays so that you can get tan. Well looking at my skin I really do not need to get any tanner than I am. I just wanted to bake for a few minutes then jump in the water. Nate doesn't need any more sun either. After baking, we decided that we needed to cool down. We put on our snorkling gear and dove right into the water. It was cool as hell cuz we could reach far into the ocean and still be able to touch to floor. I'm guessing it was low tide that day because we reached the 'No Passing This Point' sign. Of course we still went further and swam till our legs started to hurt. I could seriosuly see fish in front of me. I remember screaming at first because I felt some swim under my feet. One creature brushed against my leg. I think I've seen Jaws one too many times to think that something is going to come up from underneath and pull me down. I got over the fear and swam around with Nate. Natalie and Josh we piggy back riding a few feet from us. Josh was is so good at snorkling. He found so many shells on the bottom floor. I think that if you want to find the best shells like sand dollars and mini crabs, you have to go farther into the ocean to find them. It was so much fun. I wish we would've take pictures but we were lookin' kinda strugglin' with all that sea water in our hair and heat tan from the sun. We thought that it was best that we keep these memories in our heads. Note To Self: Take pictures right when you get to the beach. Not after. So all in all it was a great time. We definately got our snorkling practice for our trip to the bahamas!

The Mothman Prophecies

Stairs from The Exorcist in Maryland
Theme: Bodies by Drowning Pool
Okay, lately we've just been keeping it down low and renting Blockbuster movies. We've watched Empire Records, Spun, Bully, Dumb and Dumber, you name it, we've watched it. And sometimes we'll make it a Scary Movie Night. And I rented House Of A Thousand Corpses the other night thinking that it was scary as ish (cuz when I saw it in the theatres with my sisters and their husbands it was scary).. i mean demonic scary. The kind of scary that you only see in places like Waco Texas and Oklahoma. So anyway, Natalie rented The Mothman Prophecies. Okay, so moth.. not so scary, and what the hell is a mothman? There can't be anything scary about a mothman prophecy right? Wrong. This movie had me under the covers. Nate had to turn on the side lamp, thats how scared He was. And Josh kept telling Natalie, 'babe.. you did good on this movie! It's so scary.' So we watched patiently as goose bumps formed and then later created us to bunch up together. I was scared. That was some skurry ish! And if you haven't seen this movie yet go get a flashlight if you even think about watching it at night time. But yeah, it was a PG-26 type movie. So then when it got late, Nate had to be home for curfew (thats what happens when your on lockdown with the parentals) and Natalie and Josh were going to bed. I had told my friend Lara that I'd come over earlier thinking that her room would be open. So i'm driving to her place, practically speeding down Bruce B Downs to get to Lara's. I kept telling myself, 'okay don't look in the back seat.. and don't look in the rear view mirror.' This movie caused some major traumatic images to the cabesa. I did not want to see those images that girl from Will and Grace saw. I mean this movie was based on a true story which made it a lot worse for me to concentrate on driving rationally. All of the sudden i start to get flashbacks from the movie. So I turn on the radio and blast it loud. Then I thought to myself, 'but what if I don't hear a noise coming from the back seat of my car?' I turned the radio off then thinking to myself, 'I am never going to watch a scary movie again!' Finally i pull up into Lara's driveway and i run, i mean I Olympic Track run to her garage and pray for dear life that nothing was behind me. I go into her house (pitch black.. of course it's always pitch black whenever your scared as hell).. but when you finish watching a comedy it's never dark right? Dammit. I speed to her door and to find out that it's locked. 'Oh no she didn't!' Let me rewind this.. 'this girl did not just lock her door after i told her that I was coming over.' So I'm terrified at this point because now i have to go back to my car and drive back to My house. If you haven't been to Tampa Palms, it's a tree forrest filled area. A perfect place for Mothmen people to hide. I'm thinking to myself, 'this is not happening!' Run to my room and keep all the lights on. I remember that the only thing keeping me sane was the Judge Mathis that was on latenight tv.
More Coming Soon..

my Closet..
[ My closet.. Yeah I know it's off the chain!! ]

Arthur's hot list!

Okay, so I'm not a huge fan of Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, but I do give them props for being smart and using thier relationship as publicity propaganda. Doesn't anyone see this? I guess they are just following the footsteps of J-Lo and Ben since they were one of the firsts to start off this trend. But anyway, here's my list for what's hot.. In Actors: Colin Farrel, Orlando Bloom, Hayden Christensen, Jesse Bradford, and Brandon Boyce In Movies: Spun, Bully, and Life As A House In Actresses: Brittany Murphy, Kristin Kreuk, Jordana Brewster, Susan Ward, Eliza Dushku, and Ali Larter In Semi-Celebrities: Real World New Orleans Melissa Howard and Real World Paris's Mallory In TV Shows: Smallville, MTV's The Real World, While You Were Out, The Simpsons, and Scare Tactics In Music Artists: Pharrell Williams, JT Timberlake, INXS, Amerie, Depeche Mode, and Ashanti In Style: Guess, Dolce & Gabbana, Dior, Diesel, Burberry, AE denim, and Urban Outfitters In Shoes: Prada, Minolo Blahnik, and Bruno Magli's Platinum Collection In Watches: Cartier, Oris, Guess, Luminor Marina, Diesel, Louis Vuitton, and Omega In Suits: Hermes, Giorgio Armani, Helmut Lang, and Marc Jacobs In Shoes: Martin Margiela, Adidas, Diesel, Dolce & Gabanna, Hogan, and Y-3 In T-shirts: AE's Re Issue, Calvin Klein, Diesel, and Indigo Palms In dress shirts: Etro in Neiman Marcus, Marc Jacobs, Express Men, Kenneth Cole, and Just Cavalli in Bloomingdales In Products: Crest Whitening Strips, Got 2 Be Glued hair gel, Marc Jacobs after-shave gel, and Men's face cream by Borage In Los Angeles: Resurrection, Wasteland, Decades Inc, Maxfield, and Necromance In Milan: Atelier Brioni, Berluti, Camiceraia, Corso Como Outlet, and Lorenzi In Fragrance: Abercrombie & Fitch, Versache Blue, Diesel's Masculine, and Lalique In Drinks: Mike's Hard Iced Tea, Corona, and Sky Blue In Liquor: Bacardi Coco, Bacardi Limon, Sky Blue, and Parrot Bay In Shots: Jack The Ripper, Alabama Slammer Shooter, Quick Fox, Sharpshooter, and The Four Horsemen

out to lunch

LeRoy Selmons
Thur Aug 14, 2003: I kept telling Nate that we should've gotten Bennigans Take-Out and brought it over to Natalie's. He had more than enough money to pay for all four of us and have Natalie and Josh pay him back when we got there. But it was getting late and we already rented the scary movie for the night: House Of A Thousand Corpse.. (which didn't scare Nate, Josh, and Natalie by the way) but we decided to eat at LeRoy's instead because we were starving to death and the traditional 'popcorn and movie' just wasn't going to do our stomachs any justice for the night. I'm telling you, we're a bunch of Hungry Somalians. Or maybe it's just me. Well, now to think of it, our whole group are a bunch of high motabolism freaks that can eat whatever we want including fatty McDonald's food, burgers, or bacon, and still not gain a single pound. We were originally going to eat at Bennigans but when I thought about it, I am so used to those restaurants day in and day out. I wanted to eat at LeRoy's now not only because Natalie gets her 50%discount there but also because I have never been to a LeRoy Selmon's before. It's not entirely my fault. Nate usually takes me to low profile restaurants like McDonalds, Burger King, and Taco Bell.. JK Nate. Josh told me to add that. So as we're walking in this place I notice that there are several television screens throughout the vicinity. I’m like, ‘wow, so this is what everyone’s been hyping up about..’ All the rooms contained football memorabilia and sports stuff. I could already tell that me and Natalie are going to spend most of our time talking to each other while Nate and Josh watch football. Our server was so cute too. She reminded me of those Swedish girls that walk around in mini skirts, wearing their hair in pigtails, and jumping around singing with their accordion. I didn't know exactly what to order at first but I did spend most of my time looking at the drinks menu. LeRoy's has a ton of their own brand of drinks. So I chose to try out their drink special. I can't even pronounce the name of it, rather me trying to remember the name but it was so good. Me and Natalie both ordered the Salmon Fish dinner and Josh and Nate got steak dinners. It was off the chain. I had to take home leftovers, that’s how good it was. So we're all lying on Natalie's bed, (getting the blankets all ready to hide under) and start the movie. I couldn't even watch all of the scenes because it was so disturbing. Rob Zombie directed this? Okay Dr Phil please give your analysis on this one. So by the end of the night, I made Nate take me home and wait in my driveway until I got into my house. I even said, ‘wait till you see me come up my stairs and shut off the lights.’ Ha. So two things. If you are thinking of eating someplace cool for the night, go to LeRoy Selmon’s. If your thinking of watching a scary movie ‘don’t’ go see House Of A Thousand Corpse. Trust me, your stomachs and minds will stay in tact.

My Day with Nate
I fell off maybe seven times today off of Nate’s skateboard. He kept laughing at me cuz he thought it was cute that I ‘Really Was’ trying to skateboard. Have you ever skateboarded before? It’s not as easy as it looks. I knew the basic routines from early childhood but when it came down to it, nothing but gashes and bruises. Ha. Not any major ones just a couple minors. I had so much fun today. Matt got us bottles of Mike’s Hard Iced Tea. OMG.. seriously.. it is about the best drink ever. I am so addicted. Really. I think it’s my new favorite drink now next to my Long Islands. So Nate was teaching me a few tricks on his board. He has all kinds off names for each trick and each turn. He is so good at it! I just like watching him and not participating. But I cannot also say that participating isn’t fun because it is. It’s the rush or the adrenaline just gets to you somehow. After that we went back to my work he bought me these shirts that I’ve been wanting for the past few weeks. I love Nate’s style. It is similar to mine but he just has the whole thing on lock down. I mean the kid can dress. I thought Pharrell had style. No. Nate is off the chain when it comes to gearing. I remember a few months ago when he told me that his Nike shoes were off limits, well now, with my Vip privileges, I finally get to wear them out. They are so bad ass. I home he knows that he ain’t getting these back. JK. I’m so excited about this weekend. We’re planning to hit up Islands Of Adventure! I’m so excited too cause it’s been a while. Anyway, I’m about to head off to the showers. Laters!
Gentlemen.. goodnight! Ladies.. Good Morning!

The Remix
Post Mortem
chillin' at Nate's Villa
Post Mortem: Me and Nate have been having so much fun these past few days. I can't believe he drives 40 minutes just to have lunch with me on my lunch breaks. Ha. What a nerd. But I'm glad. I think it's awesome for someone to go out of their way for you. It’s been so much fun. From late night movies to the Cheesecake Factory, we've kept profile on the DL since we both have been so busy with work and only get to see each other when we're off or have time to visit each other on our lunch breaks or after work. It was hard before since Nate’s job had kept him distant, but now that his station is closer to me, we can hang out more. The problem before was that I didn't want to start something that I couldn’t finish. I always knew that if it came back to me in the end then that is where I belong. But when I got that call the other night, and he explained everything to me.. things had changed forever. I think to myself sometimes that certain things happen in your life for a reason. That if you never taste the bitter of life, that you can never enjoy the sweet. I totally understand that Philosophy now. All my friends kept telling me, 'your so much better and that you’re the most special person in the world -that you should be with someone who is as amazing and wonderful of a person as you are.' Yes. Holy crap yes! What was I thinking? I mean, I don’t do drugs, I am into school and moving forward in life, and I was ready to live life to the fullest- not tread backwards. Funny how things happen. I like to keep myself drug free. I think I'll stick to my occasional drinking but never over-do anything. Here is someone who has the whole package. Same sense of style, interests, very easy going, honest, family oriented, and most of all, very respectful. Wow. I am so lucky huh? It's so incredible how you can let a person back into your life and find out more things in common and realize that letting that 'something great' drift away in the past just because things were long distance. I should have never shut out what was 'real to begin with than try to start off fresh with something that 'wasn't real' at all. Nate would always tell me, 'School first Arthur, then in the end you know where you stand..' So I’m glad I am where I am at now. It’s almost too perfect. I think because it is perfect. This year is going to be the best year ever. New beginnings and tons of cool ass parties. No drugs. No drama. Case and Point.
Theme: Frontin by Pharrell Williams

Wish You Were Here.. we'll send you a post card!

Summer's End Party! this Friday!
your last chance to get f-ed up before Fall Semester..

Hooters Girl from Melissa
Aug 09 2003 I was a Hooters* girl for 5 hours last week. All these years, I thought it was simply a tank top and orange hot pants. No. It’s not that simple. To even get into a Hooters tank top, you need help from friends. The material appears to be stretchier than it is, and they have XXS and almost every girl, regardless of the size of her boobs, wears the XXS. I always wanted an official Hooters shirt, but it’s not comfortable enough for every day life. They have regulations. The nude colored pantyhose are the worst. They’re super tight and very thick and compounded in their disgustingness by having to be worn with thick white crunch socks circa 1992. Luckily, the feet are cut off. For those of you that worried about having a girl whose vag was nearly exposed next to your food, the pantyhose ease all those fears. Not a single microbe of DNA can escape these pantyhose. So pull up a chair and order up all the buffalo wings your heart desires. The shorts? Well, those are bright orange and would be cute if you were allowed to wear them one size bigger. But instead, it may just be a requirement that you wear them up your butt even though the “up your butt” look has a big red X through it on the Hooters Regulations poster. Every girl I saw had them up her butt. And most of the girls were telling me to “fold the top of the shorts over” to achieve this look, but I said “No thanks.” They sweetened the offer by saying they’d give me a mini apron to put around my waist to hide the camel toe that folding the shorts over would cause. I still said, “No thanks…” I had fun even though I had to expend some energy divorcing the actual experience from this exchange: One of the girls randomly said to me, “Is this for a show on Women’s TV?” I smiled and said, “Yes,” and then she said, “Oh, is there a really tall black girl on your show?” I said, “Yes,” and even though that statement seemed harmless, the way she delivered the word black all exaggerated put me off and I was itching for a way out of the conversation so as to maintain the gracious and nice attitude I promised myself I’d keep for the duration of my time as a Hooters girl. I try to walk into experiences outside of my own and be cool and open-minded about them, you know. I mean, in any working situation, one should always extend pleasantries and be accommodating and almost overly nice. And then, she goes, “I saw something about this on Montel Williams. There was this Mex--” and I cut her off, and said, “Yes, the cast including myself, my friend Chelsea, my friend Shondrella all appeared on Montel…” I made sure to emphasize the word friend just in case she wanted to go into any other racial identifiers and she goes, “Oh that was you?” as she played around with her hair, and I said, “Yes, my hair is normally curly.” I’m not offended that she almost called me Mexican. It’s just the need to label me racially at all that was annoying and then to label me inaccurately was taking it to the next level. If you must do it, get it right. At this point, I made eye contact with our makeup artist and feigned needing more lip gloss even though I had on enough gloss to slick up a Slip n Slide. The girl continued to talk as I half listened and she asked “So what do you do?” I tried to hide my “are you serious?” face. In my head I was like, well, I don’t know if you know or happened to notice, but I’m not actually a Hooters girl. I’m just here with this group of 26 men and women with cameras and equipment and walkie-talkies making a TV show. Did you know that a Hooters girl is not allowed to have one thing in her hair? Your hair must down and natural. Not a single bobby pin, not a ponytail, nothing. And I thought, but isn’t that a health/food violation? No, it’s not because Hooters girls don’t ever go into the actual kitchen. They just deliver the food to the table of men that stare at your boobs and look at your butt as you walk away. Now, your hair must be all natural but you can wear as much makeup as you like. As a matter of fact, the girl on the regulations poster had on dark lipliner and light lipstick. If you’re doing that right now, in this day and age, you better steer clear of your windows and doors, duck down because I might come and shoot up your place. Drive-by! A Hooters girl must wear white athletic shoes, much like the ones that standup comedian dudes always wear. Those aren’t so bad when your feet don’t hurt after entertaining beer-guzzling patrons all night. Being there for just 5 hours, the job actually appears to be strenuous and hard. I commend a girl that can handle all the emotional and physical tolls all at once. Not only must you just get over the fact that your ass is out while you work with no airbrushing or lighting tricks or glamour or perks like free Merlot or designer shoes, but you must walk around, being all chipper and happy to serve men who would have the nerve to hand you their helmet and then look at you crazy when you didn’t take it. One guy did this to me as if I was some kind of coat check whore. I looked at him like he was out of his fucking mind and then proceeded to say in my most professional voice, “I don’t work here” and rolled my eyes, quickly followed by surveying the room to make sure the security man was close by. I wanted to take the helmet and bust him upside his head with it, but I held it all in. What a fucking asshole. Granted, I did have the uniform on so it would appear that I did really work there (even though I stuck out like a sore thumb), but even still, a girl that works there shouldn’t have to deal with this kind of idiot. Most unfortunate, but it probably comes with the territory. You can only wear a white or a nude colored bra, and your straps must be hidden. You can’t have long nails, no excessive jewelry and no visible tattoos. The outfit is so constricting, I could feel my insides conjuring up some kind of infection. Yeah, that probably sounds disgusting, but it’s true. To be all jacked up for an 8-hour shift with humidity in the air is out of control. It was like wearing a mildly wet bathing suit all day. Gross, I know. But if you’re into that, more power to you. All the managers were complimentary and nice. Most of the wait staff were pleasant, nice, hardworking girls. Well, one of the managers told one of our production people that if I wasn’t “cute enough” he wouldn’t be allowing me to wear the outfit. I passed his inspection. But that’s all relative. If you’re not an amputee or have had your nose removed, and happen to have big boobs (none here), you can easily be “allowed” to wear this outfit. I didn’t have to do any food service or smile nice to any dudes so my day was pretty easy. The hardest part was putting the outfit on. At the end of my “shift”, I ordered a tall Coke, removed my on-air makeup, put my real clothes back on and within the next hour, I was in the shower for a good 45 minutes. I got to keep the uniform. It was cool being a Hooters girl for 5 hours, I guess. I earned my money that day. The crew is probably going to give me shit about it for the entire season, but I welcome it as a bonding ritual with coworkers. I might be a Hooters girl for Halloween this year (without the pantyhose). *For those of you that read the site and are not American, Hooters is a sports bar/restaurant kind of place that is famous for its scantily clad waitresses and maybe for its chicken wings. If you're not American, and you actually don't like American culture or Americans in general, you'd probably add this to your list of "Damn Americans..." and use it as a strike against us. In all fairness though, I hear the chicken wings really are tasty, but I wouldn't know from experience because I don't eat meat on the bone. Updated by: Melissa

up-Town girls
Pre Analysis: Okay first off let me begin with my day and then I’ll get into my Uptown Girls thumbs up thumbs down review. So I got paid.. HUGE paycheck finally.. and me and my sister are cruising around with our cash in hand. We ate at The California Pizza Kitchen for lunch and might I add that they have The best pastas ever.. (funny how I go to this place but never order pizza). Anyway, spent the rest of my day getting ready for the Summer’s End Party. I stopped by Compton Park and laid out for thirty minutes. If you see my color now you’ll say, ‘you’ve already have a great brown complexion.’ I know.. but I really want to get my color back that I had last summer. It’s like this deep brown mocha color. Kinda like a light Mocha Frap that you get from Starbucks. So I went to the store and bought the Crest Whitening Brush (it looks like a nail polish and you apply the whitening gel onto your teeth with the mini brush). I’m sure it works because one night I was up watching late night Conan O’brian and they had a special on it. So let’s see if it works. Check back here in fourteen days and I’ll let ya’ll know. So about Uptown Girls: Me, Sherry, and Jenn went to see our Britney Murphy in the big screen. We got there late because I didn’t know that the movie started at 5:25pm and it was already 5:45 so we rushed into the theatres. I’m still semi hungry and thirsty so I told Jenn and Sherry to go save me a seat. So I’m waiting in line and the people in front of me are taking forever. I could have sworn that there were turtles standing in front of me. So I give out a small grunt, like ..’dude hurry your ass up with your order cuz I’m running late for my movie’ type of grunt. And these people still maintain to have this slow motion of ordering. By that time I was like, ‘this is not worth my 10 dollars for cinema food and go to the next line. Fortunately, these people were faster. I got my food and headed to the theatre. I can hear the actors talking on screen so I already know that I’m late. I try to look for Sherry and Jenn but the place was so packed I felt like I was looking into a sea of ants. So I was like, ‘..’ahh, I’m just going to sit down..’ and started with the movie. If you haven’t seen this movie yet, I suggest you don’t read any further because I will be giving away details to the movie.
Okay, so I heart Britney Murphy. (since her Clueless days..) And I give her all the props for her acting skills. My sister tells me that I give her too much credit but do I? Have you even seen her work? From her movie with Micheal Douglas to her latest movie Spun, she is out of control. But Britney is definately on my hot spot list for the year. I thought that so many scenes in this movie hit home real hard. I could really feel what the charachters were going through. With life, and with death. It's never easy to go through life once you've lost someone so important to you. And about the whole growing up thing. That scene where Britney tells the little girl.. 'I don't see any grown ups around here..' I almost balled. It was so sweet of that little girl to go through so much but in the end learn a valuable lesson that life is filled with making good choices and making mistakes. You just have to stand on your own two feet sometimes and just suck in the experience. Right? Well I thought the movie was bad ass and I'm glad that I saw it before school starts. It's putting 'retrospective' into my life. So rating this movie from one to four stars, I give it a four. Laters!

Ghetto-Fabs
And you'd think that I was talking about those people who take Ketchup packets from McDonalds and take then home to refill their Ketchup Bottles. But No. I'm talking about the people who have no lives but to go out and spread computer viruses. I mean, get out much? Go get a tan or something. It’s been like two days that my sever has been down and everything I want to post about this Upcoming Weekend Events have been postponed. You'd think that those computer nerds who were picked on back in high school would grow up to be more like Mr. Bill Gates and not take time out of their lives to create a virus for Xanga. I can only shake my head and 'pitty the fool' (like Gary Coleman would say it) and only wish for them to take a day off, put away their pocket protectors, and do something more constructive like finding a cure for Pill Poppers. JK. So okay, now that things are back to normal on this here website I wanted to fill you all in on more details about my Pampered Chef party. It's going to be August 23, which falls on a Saturday, and will be at 5pm. On my invitations I put 4:30pm just in case people show up a little late. We will be serving ordurbs and other cool American and Ethnic foods. I've already planned out the main dish and it's going to be off the heezey. I need the final RSVP list to give to Maria, (the Pampered Chef expert) by this Sunday. So if you want to RSVP let me know. I want at least a total of 45 people. But knowing me and the thousands of people I know there will be about 200, but I can't feed all those peeps. So minimum to 45. Also another event coming up this weekend is the Summer's End Party. Now if you went to last year’s party you already know what to wear and how much drinking is going to be involved. Just know that me and 50 of my fine friends will be there and are planning to be wasted off our college minds. Liquor will be provided but first come first serve so 'Justin Case' and BYOB. Meaning: bring your own bottle of choice or just in case. Feel free to wear whatever you want or wear nothing at all. People got creative at last years Summer's End party. Hint hint. Also.. RSVP RSVP.. do I need to repeat? RSVP.. for those who think they are invited sorry. You can't just show up at the party cuz you won't be able to get in. You must need to be invited by either me or Steve. In order for this to be a successful Summer's End event, things must be kept on the DL so that there will be no cops, and no pharm heads. Thanks. We want to keep the tradition alive and we do not want anyone overdosing on any dirty substances and having seizures and stuff. Seriously. Anyway, see you there!~ Dress to impress. Dress to get undressed.

Guess what? (literally)
[ Photo One: Melissa, Mike, Kristin, Ali, Mike, and Arthur ]
Aside from my ATM card usage this week, I maintained to surpass my ‘Guess’ goal. I usually spend under one hundred bones at Guess (per two weeks) but I just had to get the gear for this year’s Summer’s End Party. I found these bad ass Paramount Stripe Flat Front Trousers to go with my long sleeve vintage shirt from AE. It matches perfectly. Then I looked over at the Guess jewelry and the associate their helped me pick out a few things that go well with this SEP attire. I told the lady that already had the Guess Logo Bar Bracelet cause she kept trying to direct me to that direction in the glass case but my eyes were on the hundred dollar watch. Does Guess have layaway? Just Kidding. But I did get the Rhinestone Dog Tag. All my Guess necklaces are turquoise and that doesn’t go well with Trousers. Then I looked over and I saw the Lion Cuffs. I was like, ‘Damn, they are going Medieval over here at Guess.’ I like the whole vintage brown bracelet look so yeah I got that Lion Cuff as well. Then this Friday, I’m going back with my sister to pick up some fragrance at Neiman Marcus and these AE Frayed Cargo Shorts that I keep raving about. I’m so glad that I still have my 40% discount. I’m set for school this year. I bought about a million zillion t-shirts and a half zillion pants. So mainly the money I make this year is to my Get Fucked Up fund. Liquor is expensive. I remember the good old days when everyone else paid for me and my friends. But now I want to take on the whole Mr. Independent ordeal since I’m moving into my new place and all. I cannot wait. I’ve started packing most of my ish and there’s still more stuff that needs to be boxed up and put away. I think I’m going to take this Sunday to do my Spring Cleaning depending whether or not I get too trashed. ‘A house is a big responsibility’.. like my mom would say. Then she’d go into the kitchen and make me some Adobo for dinner. Awww.. I love my mom. Anyway folks it’s about that time again. I still have some packing to do and it’s not going to move into the boxes by themselves. Although I wish I had that power like the Charmed cast members have and just snap a few fingers around and the work is done. Reality is just not as easy as it is on the WB. If you need me, I’ll be laying out at Club Tampa Palms this week. (not like I haven’t gotten enough sun from Nate’s outdoor events) Other than that you can leave your comments on my voicemail. Later!

Cheese and Rice.. and everything nice.
[ Photo - Michelle, Mike, Arthur, Kara, Ashley, and David at Carabbas ]
A few things on my mind right now.. like a mice running on a Nordic track treadmill.. Okay, so first things first.. I’m here catching up on my MTV Music Video’s and I see Good Charlotte’s Boys and Girls music video. It is bad ass. Have you seen it? It’s hella hilarious. I can’t believe they’ve made it this far! I mean, I remember it like it was just yesterday when we were chillin with them Vip style in their hotel near Janus Landings. Crazy how things happen like that. Anyway, another thing that is blowin up my mind is Miss Hilary Duff. Can we all say ‘Fine!’ Let’s all say this together now, ‘F-I-N-E!’ The girl is a straight up hottie. Hands down. I think the Olsen Twins just found their match. Who knew these young girls would turn out to be such mini supermodels? I don’t know. Maybe it’s something in the milk? And Tamia with Fabolous. Damn Gina. Watching that video I can’t help but agree with those lyrics.. ‘I really like what you’ve done to me..’ Funny also how this song gets brought up cuz it was dedicated to me by Mr. Nate. The other night we stayed up till 6am in the morning playing video games, eating potato chips, and telling different stories of when we were kids. I wanted to fall asleep but we were having too much fun. Plus I didn’t have to work the next day. I’m glad that I have the next two weeks off.. which reminds me that I need to re-apply for Home Depot. I already set an interview date but I still have to re-take that entry test. It’s really easy, plus I’ve done this before. 2 years of experience, I think I’m ready to take that test. Wow. I can’t believe I’m going back to HD. I feel like I’m rewinding and doing things right this time around. My years at HD were so much fun too I can’t wait to relive those memories and also add some new ones. Also me and my sister hit up International today. You know, the random shopping sprees buying out anything and everything at site. Damn you ATM card. JK. But we did hit up Hollister and A&F. We usually do a ton of damage in these stores but today we did good. Hollister had mad sales in the back (I say sales cuz I can’t afford the regular ish right now) so I’m straight up bargain shoppin it. Now as for Abercrombie. They are off the heezey. Me and my sister Elly walk in and see these two employees, barely having anything on (like their catalogs) and I’m thinking, ‘Do they pay you an extra 50 cent to do this?’ Is it really worth it to bare all the ‘bear necessities’ to the entire population of International Plaza? I guess so. I actually found a shirt in there for ten bucks. And no this isn’t a typo on your screens. A&F has a shirt for ten dollars. I wanted to buy a few of them just so that I can give them away as early X-Mas presents. But then I thought about these Army shorts that I wanted from AE and so I went with my intuition and settled with the shorts. Ha. Can’t wait to sport out these shorts. They are bad ass! Later!

Arthur and Nate's dinner with the Osbournes
Restaurants. It's funny that people spend tons of money eating out when they can get the same satisfaction doing it at home. Don't get me wrong, I heart restaurants and I eat at them all the time, but when you hear this story you will see why it's better off eating at the privacy of your own home versus eating where the semi-paparazzi can get a hold of you. Let me begin to deconstruct. So last night, I was having dinner with Nate at The Olive Garden and our server is trying way too hard to be cute. I'm guessing either she hasn't gotten any good tips for the day or this is one of her 'waitressing personalities'. She was nice though but just trying way too hard. Let me give a few examples. Just picture yourself talking to a super excited person: 'Hi. I'm Ashley and I will be your server for the day and might I say you both are dressed so marvelous today!' I had on this Vintage AE shirt and jeans.. how in the world is that marvelous? So anyway she proceeded with the excitement. It was so funny cuz whenever she would start to look my way, Nate would make faces at her and would stick his tongue out and try to make me laugh. Then she would look at him and pretend to look at the menu. I tried to make a serious face whenever she would look at me. So then Nate orders pasta and before he could even say, 'also I would like a side of mushrooms..' she interrupted him and said, '..oohh! I love the pasta here! It is so wonderful and amazing!' And that was when I caught on to her hyper ness. Man. Someone please prescribe this girl some Xanax because she is off the chain. But like I said, she was nice so I don't think it was her that was getting to me. I think it was the new girl up front who had us waiting for thirty minutes (i think she forgot about us to tell you the truth) and I can see all the empty tables waiting to be filled. Why do restaurants do that? I never understood why people have to wait when there are open tables? We finally got our food and everything was perfect. Then I notice at the side of my eye that this older woman in her 30's is starring straight at me. I'm trying to not make it obvious that I see her but I'm thinking, 'who is this lady and where do I know her from?' I continue eating when I notice that she is walking straight to our table. I'm like OMG, what now? She walks up and says, 'pardon me but is your name Arthur?' and I look at her and give her this 'can't you see that I'm eating' look. Swallow the food that was in my mouth and reply, 'Yes, I'm Arthur.' She then smiles and says, 'Do you remember me?' ..silence.. Then she answers with, 'It's me Arielle. You did my makeover at The Tommy Shop a while ago for my sisters wedding.' Oh yeahhh.. okay now I remember her but was it absolutely necessary to interrupt our dinner to tell me that? So then I just look at her and say, 'Hey you! Yeah. I remember.' Then she just starts talking away about her life and how her sisters wedding was and all I wanted to do was sit there and eat. Really. But I wanted to be nice and listened to the never ending story. Finally (three hours later) JK, she said goodbye and that was that. Nate is looking at me with this half smile half smirk like he wants to laugh and I look at him and say, 'Just eat.. not a word.' Not even fifteen minutes after that, this girl comes in and shouts: 'Hey Nate! What are you doing here?' The fun doesn't just stop there, this girl pulls up a chair and sits with us. Okay, now let me repeat myself, 'this girl pulls up a chair and sits with us.' Now this is off the chain. By that time I wasn't even hungry anymore, just upset that she sat there and talked the whole time. She introduced herself as an old friend of Nates and I think I was starring at my water glass at the table the whole time she was talking to me. We left and once we got back to Nate's place I told him, 'please make me something to eat. That dinner was for The Osbournes, not for us.' So he did and I just sat back on the couch and relaxed with my microwavable dinner. I was happy. We should have just stayed home and done this in the first place. Really. Save 50 dollars and just rent a movie at Blockbuster. Restaurants. Go figure.

:: Leo and Denise ::

:: Giga at dinner.. ::

I'm going to The Bahamas!!

is there really anything else left to say? I mean, I'm going to the Bahamas! Snorkling, cruise ships, casino night, dinner, islands, with three of my best buds! What more can I say but, 'Wish You Were Herre!' (like Nelly would say..) Cuz here we come! -08/23

:: Tyler at Kuai and Denise in South Padre Island ::

:: Nicole and Arthur in Mustang convertable ::

Football Fever..

[ Arthur and Jason at The NFL Experience ]

my puppy Chilli

Back to School
[ Photo On Top: Maya ]
[ by Adam Sandler (jk) ]
When you see your two most favorite nieces going away to their very first day at elementary school, one in 2nd grade, and the other, their first time in kindergarten, you know that everything is right with the world. They were so cute today on their very first day of school. I was so proud that my two little girls are all grown up now and ready to learn everything they need to know about education. I remember MY first days at school. My little blue backpack, my pencil box, my Elmer’s Glue, Crayola Markers, lunch money, pencils, pens, etc etc.. It was so long ago but it feels like it was just yesterday. I even remember waiting at the bus stop and waving goodbye to my dad. Now I’m looking at my two girls and thinking, ‘they are growing up so fast.’ Pretty soon I’ll be teaching Jenesi how to drive and telling Maya that I’ll be picking her up at the mall by six. Aww.. I really need to cherish these moments with my girls before they become teenagers. Whenever I pick them up sometimes I just don’t want to let them go. They are so cute. Maya lost her lunchbox on her very first day of school. We told her that we’d get her a new one but that she should keep it next to her at all times. I remember sneaking a few snacks into my lunchbox before leaving my house. I thought I was slick but then my mom caught on, she told me for every extra snack I take, that I need to bring an extra veggie or fruit. My mom is so cute. I took my nieces to go see Spy Kids 3 today. It was Spy Kids 3-D which I thought was really neat because they give you these 3-D glasses to use when watching this movie. I couldn’t believe how many celebrities they had featured in this. Sylvester Stallone must be I dire need for money because I had no idea that he’d play the bad guy role in a children’s movie. And it wasn’t even a cartoon. Go figure. All in all it was fun and the girls enjoyed it. Well I’m off to bed.
[ my Jenesi aka Jenny-poo ]

i heart Britney Murphy

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