PART I - ZURICH

Thursday in the middle of 2 timezones
abour 4 or 5 hours into our 7 hour flight to Zurich, i'm not sure. Basically my ass is atropheying and i've watched Failure to launch once, and "she's the man" 3 times, which is OK with me because i LOVE this movie. It's so bad, but in all the right ways! Seriously Amanda Bynes, the tampon scene, CLASSIC! If you haven't rented this movie you should, and you also might want to throw in it's original counterpart "just one of the guys" as a suggestion. Classic 80's camp, "All balls itch," it will make sense. We flew into dulles and had these awesome sangwhiches at some place called potbelly house or potbelly porter or something or other. Anyways the point is it was good, and if you are ever near gate C2 in Dulles i suggest you make a stop. It was like quiznos, only better bread, bigger, they included serrano chiles, and it was cheaper. 3.99! after buying a 3 dollar croissant at LAX this was very exciting. Anyways back to what i was saying, there have been 2 legs to this trip which has been better than one of the other times i flew to europe and it took 12 hours straight. btw, watched "failure to launch" which i gotta say was also bad, but not in the right ways. quite dull quite dull.

So then we arrived in Zurich to the renaissance hotel which I have to say was really quite nice. Although oddly they had a really bizarre pan asian theme. I was in Switzerland so I was expecting like cows and cheese and shit. Instead it was like buddah and elephants and feng shui. Then we drove into downtown and the first thing I saw when we pulled into downtown Zurich was the accenture office!

crazy! so bobby or dan, if you ever get sent to zurich this will be your office. it was right on the river so it had a pretty sweet location.
Me on some bridge in Zurich. I wore my red and white shirt in honor of the swiss. Hop switz!! Hop switz!! I don’t actually know what this means but david claims it’s a cheer that the swiss yell when they are excited and at soccer games. If you squint you can kind of see the alps in the background. Don’t worry, they get bigger.

To be honest zurich wasn't that cool to me. maybe i was just tired from the 12 hours of flying, maybe i was jet lagged, maybe i was expecting more. I also don't really like chocolate so that aspect was wasted on me. It was very pretty but it just lacked the sabor that most cities have. it was too clean, and all the women there wore orthopedic shoes, not so sexy, and oddly enough there were ALOT of sex shops. i mean like on every corner. also this was the protestant part of switzerland so...kind of lame as you can emagine. And to top it off it was so expensive! It was like england! More thoughts from that night...

Friday 21st 9am
i'm at my asian themed hotel in zurich. yes you heard me correctly, a pan asian themed hotel in zurich. very random indeed. anyways what i'm seeing is that they charge for everything here in zurich including bottled water and internet. as my mom said "i thought switzerland was way ahead of the times. what is with this charging." We did get a free mini tobleron bar. emphasis on mini

apparently the steaming internet into the room was shortlived as i am now back in the business center. no pictures for you. i bought so much stuff today. prague is a shoppers paradise. i bought crystal jewlery or as they call it "bohemian glass." I also bought amber and a pashmina. i love places that do not have the euro!! fuck the euro! long live the czech crown! on a sad note though orges was here too and we missed each other because i wrote him an email that he didnt' get until half hour after we were supposed to meet. and had he gotten the email in time we would have met but tragically i press on through europe with no orges. i really wanted us to have a pictures on the charles bridge for kicks. i miss my cell phone. i miss wireless. and i knwo when i'm at home i complain about havign nothing to do but really, i miss that.

holy shit i am in prague which is actually pronounced praha not prague, but that is not the point. the point is that the crowne plaza hotel in praha is a GREAT establishment. they have free room internet! free!!!!!!! can you eeeeeeeeeeeeeeemmmmmmmmmagine!!!!!!!!! i am so ecstatic. the only bummer is that there is no one online at present with whome to chat since most americans on the west coast are still asleep. le sigh. by some magical twist of fate orges also happens to be in praha so perhaps we shall meet up. ok i have ot go shower and shit. maybe i will stay up suuuuuper late tonight to chat online with all the babes.

europe or bust

This is what my mom said to me tonight.

"I must tell you, i crossed the line. I bought something at talbots. You have to see it"

that is all. We are packed up, ready to go, and headed for europe! woo! will post form there later. i'm out bitches.

SF part Deux II

so i ask you all a question. If the country of macedonia can get free wireless, why is it that we can't get free wireless at San Francisco International Airport! is this not america? ugh.

Ok so onto what i did the past two days.

So on Monday i had this faboo plan to go to golden gate park, do the conservatory, the aquarium and natural history museum, and maybe the deyoung. I took an epic bus ride on the 33 line from dolores park to golden gate park. As per usual things did not go according to plan.
so first i went on a walk through some gardens and here was a flower. I wish i could say i know anything about flowers, but i don't, so i have no idea what kind of flower this is. But i liked the color.

Then i walked a bit more, miles i'm sure, and finally found what i had come for, the conservatory. My mom has this old picture from the 60's when they had all just come from mexico and my grandma took all of them to sf and they took pictures in front of the conservatory.
I really wanted to recreate this picture but alas, there was no one there to take the pic for me so i had to settle for a self taken shot. the other ones i took smiling looked v. wierd so i opted for a my space pose and i think it worked out nicely. You might be saying "what is going on with her hair??" Good question. i do not know. I forgot my blowdryer in LA, nuff said. Disappointment #1, the conservatory was closed. bitches! David and i had bought a 25 cent map the day before at a gift store which did not inform me that the conservatory was closed on mondays. grreeeeat.

So then i headed through some path trying to find the lily pad pond, which somehow elluded me but i turned a bend and saw this.
the deyoung!!! They were having a Chicano art exhibition which seemed v. approp so i was pretty stoked, until i walked to the front doors and found them locked. closed on mondays! fuckers! I did however manage to find a lily pad pond. According to my ghetto useless map it was not THE lily pad pond but it was something.
Note the abandoned sprite bottle. nature, le sigh...

So then i thought, maybe just maybe by some stroke of luck the aquarium/natural history museum would be open. They were supposedly open 7 days a week. I had this imagine in my head of giant mastadon bones, and being very "from the mixed up files of mrs. basil e. frankwieler." i was tre excited. i turned around to see this.
Apparently this museum had not been built yet! What the hell! For the time being they were holding all the museum stuff in a building all the way across town. At that point i gave up, realizing that my day had been wasted and i headed for david's apartment for some tv and nappying. so much for nature. On my way home though i did overhear this really bizarre homeless looking man telling a tourist couple from georgia how he was actually very wealthy, owned lots of property in sf, and used to be part of KC and the Sunshine band. I mean in this city you never know so i chose to believe him. anyways then he started to ask the couple for their phone numbers so they could hang out in atlanta since he had a house out there. At that point the couple was liek "oh here is our stop, we have to go bye!" i think they were lying because they got off on Castro street, which was a little fishy.

Tuesday i decided to be ambitious. I woudl see that damn natural history museum, get it out of my system and then shop. I wasn't going to for reals shop because i have no money but i did have macy's dollars and some credit from copeland sports, and you can't keep a good girl down. My first stop was copeland's where i bought my first pair of warm up pants, very exciting. They are too long though so i might have to alter them. I also bought myself a puma baseball cap, my first cap ever. it was a day of firsts for many things.

So then i walked a few blocks to this so called museum. It was right next to burlington coat factory, slightly unsavery. Anways it sucked! no lie, totally blew chunks. they had stuff like this
it's a california condor. um...yeah whatever. They also had stuffed muskrats, and other various birds. no giant dinasaur bones. apparently they are not getting those until september. fuckers. So then i headed to the aquarium side of the museum which was more like a glorified pet co. No blow fish, no sea horses. you all know how much i love love love sea horses.
they did have this fish though. they had pretty much all the fish from finding nemo. But yeah, it was no marine bay aquarium is all i have to say about that.

I decided to walk on and head for some solace at one of my favorite stores. The container store!!!
If you have not been yet, i highly recommend it. You will find things that you never new you needed. I wish i had more stuff so that i could find places to store it!

But really let's get to the highlight of my excusursion, my new european walking shoes. very exciting stuff. so macy's had this deal where if you bought things on pre sale last week they gave you a $10 gift card for every $50 you spent. Well with my mom's luggage set, my one suitcase, and her deisel shoes we racked up 8 of these gift cards. That's right $80 macy's dollars to spend on whatever we wanted (except furniture and makeup which was a real bummer because i needed a new eyeliner). The only catch was that you could only use it on the 18th through the 20th, but for me this was perfect since i was going to be in sf on the 18th at a flagship store no less!

So anyways i thought either i would buy some kind of top or summer dress or i'd look for some casual walking shoes. So anyways i looked at the pumas but really everyone and their mom has pumas, and i already have some pumas, but then i saw the whole table of lacoste shoes. Oh how this took me back to florence 3 years ago when Saxon and i bought lacoste tennis shoes before they were even sold in America. Anyways i bought these shoes. cute, no? Actually they were the very shoes that saxon had bought that day in Florence except that his were green. I remember being really annoyed because i wanted a pair too but at that time they hadn't made them yet for women. So i bought a different pair. of course in typical euro fashion they were way ahead of their time and these shoes have probably come and gone in euro styles. can you believe saxon and i were on the fore front of fashion. Anyways he also bought a pair of said wrap arond pumas which you couldn't get in america yet. i think he paid almost 200 euro. I really really wanted a pair but i couldn't afford them at the time because i was hording sisley clothes. Anyways the point is that i saw potential for the shoes and so i should get some fashoin snaps for that. So Anyways i am very excited for my new walking shoes. Just imagine an outift with these shoes, and city shorts. it would be too much! cathy, can you emagine! Also sidenote, cathy, these are orange shoes done right.... Anyways david said that they had a hint of euro trash which i informed him was just the look i was going for. Point of the story being that i used my macy's dollars and got the shoes for free! rock on macy's!

tablescapes etc etc

So i wrote them while i was stuck at the airport yesterday morning with no internet and only myself to entertain me.

AT AIRPORT
so I'm sitting here at LAX at 7:15 am waiting for my flight to San Francisco and I keep asking myself one key question. How the fuck has LAX not jumped on the free wireless bandwagon?! We are freakin LA! Even oakland has free wireless. Oakland!! And yet here i am ranting on a Notebook file so that later i can remember the rage i felt. These are the kind of moments where I really start to realize that despite my love of LA as a "state of mind" as a place sometimes it sucks. Like when we went to city walk to see "Superman" and everyone was obese and loud and obnoxious and I had a panic attack and Ivan was disgusted and said "wow LA has changed since i left! Everyone got fat!" Ok ok wait!! have i spoken too soon. I just checked my available wireless networks and there is one calle "LAX_wireless." could this be??? getting IP address, getting IP adress...nope it failed. Limited to no connectivity. Eh what would i really do online right now anyways. i'd probably just see if Perez Hilton had updated and then i'd read pink is the New blog, and then the superficial and then Go Fug. And then i would have utterly waisted 30 minutes of my life. Ok let's try one last time. Ok no dice. This is me retroactively signing off from LAX, shittiest airport

ON PLANE
oh what a surprise!! So David bought me a ticket on Frontier airlines which i initally thought was ghetto since it's one of those strange midwestern airlines like "sun country." But little did i know that Frontier jumped on the whole Direct TV bandwagon!

So i'm sitting here watching Food Network. Now those who know me know I am a Food Network Purist and that I hate the so called "chef" Sandra lee from "Semi Homemade with Sandra Lee." I mean you guys know i hate Rachael Ray too but thtat's a whole different story. Anyways i'm quite shocked to admit that today Sandra is actually making something that look appealing. The plot is that she's planning a surprise birthday party for her brother in law, Lee. he married her sister Kimber, and they were High shcool BFF's. Why does it not surprise me that she'd have a sister named Kimber. Ugh one of those names that i hate. Anyways Lee loves healthy food so she made him this chocolate cake with cake mix, and instead of oil she used zuchini and apple sauce. Zucchini! EEEEmagine! And then she shocked me again when she was making a "healthful moose" and she used Silken Tofu. This truly was Sandra Lee's finest hour. Ok confession, i do kind of love watching her despite the fact that her food always looks disgusting because she is a little cooky and definitely an alcholic. She talks the whole show about cocktail hour and how "you and your guests can have cocktail hour all night!" You gotta respect the alcoholic who has no shame. Anyways i kind of also love how she makes what she calls "table scapes." For those who have never had the pleasure of watching this so called cooked show her motto is "70% store bought pre-maid, and 30% fresh ingredients!" And as part of her show she makes tacky table settings she calls "table scapes." it always looks like Joanna's Fabrics vomitted in her living room. Whenever i watch her i always imagine that Martha stewart would flip out in a Joan Crawford kind of way with a whole "no canned food!!!" kind of way. Oh Sandra Lee, I salute you today.

Oh god Rachael Ray is on. Ugh how i loathe Rachael Ray. I know Orges thinks she's "hot" but I just can't stand her face and her wierd Limited Too type outfits, but she's just so painfully akward when she laughs at her own jokes that i just can't pull myself away from watching her. Doesn't she strike you as the kind of person who is always asked to be a bridesmaid and she always gets stuck wearing some really unflattering dress and she does that akward laugh thing when she says "shuck shuck, always a bridesmaid never a bride."

Ooh Giada is next. I love giada! She is so painfully attractive. do you know what i mean? it's like her hair is always done really strangely so that it does not flatter her hairline, and then her face is like natalie portman only wack. know what i mean? How does one explain giada's face. I think it might mainly be her hairline. so unfortunate. Damn i probalby won't be on the plain when giada starts. Ooh commercial for a new show that is like project runway only with interior designers. I like that idea. oh beginning descent g2g!!

**Update - apparently rachael ray is married! who knew! check out her wedding dress. how very rachael ray

The Pickler strikes again!

oh dear god Kelly Pickler from this years American Idol is cohosting the view today as a guest. Here to report, she is still an IDIOT!! First of all she was the stupid girl who, well how to put it, she got mocked for her stupidity this season. She couldn't pronounce escargot and something else like broccoli. Anyways she's on the view as a host today and dear god they are having her read something from a piece of paper and she can barely do that! And everyone is mockign her but she is so dumb that she isn't even following along. Right now they have her interviewing isaiah washington from grey's anatomy and in a relaly slow droll she says

"Now i have a question for you. i was labeled american idol's 'little minx.' weren't you a minx yourself? weren't you on tv guides sexiest single list?"

I don't even know what this question means?? the fuck is she talking about!

SF Part deux

So i'm in my second home, SF! god i miss this fucking city. who knew? So we hopped on the vespa and headed into the heart of chinatown to have some dim sum. I haven't had dim sum since like freshman year in college, and that was not that cool. But this time was alright. For those who have never done dim sum it's like they have chinese appetizers like rolls and pork puns and shrimps and shit and they walk around with trays and you take whichever ones you want and pay by the amount you get. Anyways it was hard because the waiters didnt' speak english and so we were like "what is in this one?" and no one could answer so we ended up eating some unsavery things. But it was still fun. We had inteded to do a nice walk in chinatown but afterwards we realised that this was actually an oxy moron as chinatown is not nice but rather dirty. We also had major food coma and just wanted to find a park or something to take a nap. We left to find said park and as we drove through downtown i saw this!!

The San Francisco base of the Church of Scientology! Da Da DAAAAAA! so scary. There was a man pacing back and forth in front of the door.

I think this was him...Anyways it was a really pretty building so they have lots of money but i still didn't want to get too close. I didnt' know this but apparently this is the Scientology symbol. Actually parked right outside we saw a car with this symbol on it, like how peopel do the jesus fish. We drove on.

We went to this rich neighborhood on the side of golden gate called Sea cliff and randomly ended up at this secret beach called Baker Beach. So nice! it was not cold like oceanside and you could kind of see the golden gate through the fog. Anyways i had thought it a good idea to buy a small blanket at walgreens incase we happened upon a park or something and we spread it out on the sand and took a PHAT nap! oh man it was the best nap EVER!

Isn't it cool how you can see the fog on the dunes. If you squint you can kind of see golden gates legs in the background. Ooh la la. Can you believe i was barefoot? i've changed.

This picture only goes to show that we are both so ridiculously short it's pathetic. Our kids are going to be midgets. I also kind of think our height and proportions make each other look fat when in reality we aren't fat. he and i are both actually quite petit.

Then we drove to ocean beach and on the way we went by Robin Williams Mansion. I couldn't get a pic because the vespa was going too fast but it was kind of tacky. He was growing a topiary dinasaur. I decided that if i were a celebrity i would live in SF because it's nice enough to still be california, you could get a phate house, and people are apathetic enough about those kinds of things that you wouldn't get attacked my paparazzi and fans and shit. Anyways we ended up at some restaurant called the beach challet or something like that. I thought it would be a lot cooler but it just kind of ended up being a glorified cheesecake factory with home brews and a view of the beach.

David did the beer sampler and this was his version of a douche bag drinking light beer.

Afterwards we went for a walk in Golden Gate Park. Who knew the park was so cool. I'm going back today to hit up all the museums and shit. i wanted to see the tulip garden with fellow windmill but the tulips were not in season. This is it but wouldn't it look cool with tulips? This is what i imagine all of holland looking like. Then we continued on and apparently down the street they have bison. So i guess when they were endangered they brought them here to mate and then released the babies into the wild. they were almost six feet tall which is kind of ridiculous to think about and i was emagining dances with wolves and tatanka and all that shit. Anyways they were not as cool as would be expected but right outside of the bison pen there was this little gopher who was popping out his head eating grass. oooh nature!!
I wasn't going to touch it because i'm not an idiot but david wanted a nature shot of me and the gopher, nature in the middle of a city, humanity and animals, vespa helmet and gopher teeth, you get it.
Then we drove off and headed to david's uber hipster "neighborhood" market, bi rite. I mentioned it before as the place where we bought kitschy water, but then ivan informed me of the difference between kitsch and camp and i think in reality we bought campy water. When you have kitsch only others knwo it's kitsch but you are unaware, but when you have camp you know you have camp and you dont' care. get it? anyways it was definitely camp as i was ever aware of hating myself.

feeling good that we had "bought right" we went home to make dinner and find that in fact you can get sunburned at 3 in the afternoon. luckily i had a sweater over my face but my legs got burnt. Poor david is all red with a polo shirt tan. He is doing his pediatric rotation right now and was kept up at night wondering "how am i going ot explain to children that they have to wear sunblock when i didn't wear sunblock???? how how!!" and "do you think i have skin cancer now??" the lie we came up with for the children is that dr. david only wore spf 10 which is why you should always wear spf 40. and let that be my final lesson for you all. don't forget to wear sunscreen.

HUGSY!!

well i finally did it, I finally finished hugsy the penguin pal. Actually i had finished it months ago, but i had yet to add the eyes. but the baby shower is tomorrow so i had to finish it tonight so that i could wrap it. And here are the final pics.


doesn't he look like he's saying "I sawy mama. Please forgive me."


Action shot of wings "flapping"

I decided that hugsy needed some flare so i used some left over genuine burberry ribbon left over from a gift last christmas.

your input

so i think i'm gonna check out movies from the library today but whenever i go i can never decide what i want. i ask you all, what should i rent? recommendations?

I feel like watching 12 monkeys for no reason other than i saw it a long time ago and i was reading a friend's blog where he talks about it and i remember it was pretty rockin. I also have season 1 through 5 of sopranos which i will dip into but watching 5 season off mob drama is kind of excessive don't you think?

so leave suggestions!

Mario lopez is latino???

Wow i'm watching this really ridiculous episode of Saved by the Bell: the College Years. It's hilarious! the plot is that finally in college Slater realizes and acknowledges that he's Latino when he takes a chicano studies class. In an attempt to get a hot chicana chick he decides to go to a protest instead of going on a ski trip with Zach, and along the way he finds his inner Messican. But zach gets pissed at him because zach wants to go to lake tahoe with Leslie, his new kelly, but leslie won't go with him unless someone else goes and that someone else would have been Slater. Anyways this is a terrible plot line and here is an actual conversation that is had between Zach and Slater.

Zach: "fine fine you can tell Pancho villa i'll never forgive him for ruining my big chance with Leslie!"
Slater: "you tell Mr. White Bread if his biggest problem is a cancelled ski trip then he ought to open his eyes and see what's going on in the real world."
Zach: "Why did you have to pick this weekend to be a Chicano"
Slater: "look this isn't about a girl. it's about me. til two days ago i didn't eve know my real name was sanchez! my dad changed it to get into the military. he felt he had to hide his heratage to be accepted. I don't have time for this i have to go to a sit in!"

Wow Slater is white for Sanchez. Well isn't that rich.

Wow now they are at the sit in and the cops are gonna come and arrest them!! College really always brings out everyone's inner chicano. Oh wait now Zach is fighting for the chicanos and fighting for his friend. oh got in the final scene where they make up after fighting Zach says "I hope we can still be amigos." why?????

So catherine came over because she wanted to finally watch the greatness that is "St. Elmo's Fire." I warned her that other than the rockin John Parr "Man in Motion" song the movie itself is an acquired taste but she didn't listen. Anyways about 10 minutes in she said she really wasn't feeling attached the characters even though much like us they are post college graduates dealing with life and stuff. Wait actually i just thought about it and we've been out of school for over a year and for some reason i was thinking we got out of school in June. Wow that was kind of deep.

So anyways she thought it sucked so then i opted for the next best thing, the greatest teen movie/musical EVER! Image you are a super nerdy girl named Louise Miller and on your 16 th birthday you happen upon a palm reader who informs you that you are in fact a witch and your powers will begin at the age of 16. You use your powers to become the most popular girl in school and to make the hottest guy Brad fall in love with you. eeeemagine!!! Anyways this is the plot of Teen Witch. It's was this awful early 90's movie that my cousin Jenny and i watched one summer on HBO when it was on repeat but they barely released in on dvd last year so i finally watched it again. soooo good. i highly recommend you netflix that shit, stat. Anyways point being there is this intro scene where Louise's little brother finds her hidden diary and she flips out because he sees all the crazy entries she's written about brad kissing her all over etc etc. Anyways we were reminiscing about how diaries usually had liek Hello Kitty or twin stars or kero kero kerropi on them. And they had those little plastic locks with the ghetto keys that broke all the time. Anyways isn't it odd how diaries used to be a person's secret inner thoughts, and now i say this with a great sense of irony, diaries are a way for peopel to communicate with others and peopel post their shit all over the internet. strange how the world changes. Think about it!!

Anyways then she got some call from some dude she was selling tickets to on craigslist and we drove out to meet him at the local arco, very sketchy indeed. But it turns out he had just come back from working at the South Central Farm. yes, south central has a farm. who knew. for the non Angelinos South Central is synonymous with LA Riots, get it? So i guess this farm has been around for a while, and it's 14 acres of farm land where locals can grow food for their families and on sunday's they sell the food. how cool is that. It's really sad though because the city in some backhanded meeting sold the land for 5 million dollars to a developer. SHADY!! hello, where in LA can you get 14 acres for 5 mill. That is unheard of. My first thought was, wow this is totes something that caleb nichol would have done circa season one "The OC." Remember when he tried to buy the wetlands? yeah real life imitates art and vice versa. so anyways all of these local farmers were picketing for the past few months and the land got bull dozed on monday. so sad. google this for some interesting articles, south central farm. There were a bunch of movie stars who came out to try to save the farm including martin sheen and apparently daryll hannah lived in a tree on the farm for 3 weeks. that last part was so very hollywood. so most of the farmers are mexican (solidarity for my peeps!) but the mayor who is all Chicano power is not helping to save the south central farm. how horrible. Anyways interesting topic if you care

dawson's update

So i am currently 4 days and over 30 hours into my Dawson's Creek binge fest. I have watched season 3 and am currently on episode 15 of season 4, and i must say I am seriously disappointed. Anyone who remembers the originals and has seen the dvd version of these seasons will understand. One very major problem is that i turn on Dawson's in hope of hearing the sweet melodious musings of Paula Cole only to get some unintelligable Jann Arden song. What the fuck, i say! Dawson's Creek is synonymous with "do do do da da." Apparenlty the producers did not have enough money to buy the rights to the Paula Cole song for DVD distribution. In additon to this all the other great music that appeared on the show during key scenes has also mysteriously gone missing. A little sleuthing around found this, a message from the producers:

The DVD set will contain new music not heard during the actual broadcast airings. While Dawson's Creek fans will surely be upset by this, unfortunately this had to be done. Faced with the exorbitant prices of licensing music just for the DVD release, the show decided to replace some of the songs. This allowed Columbia/Tri-Star to release the set at an affordable price for all fans.

Any avid fan knows that Dawson's was about the music! you can't change the music! It was music that moved you to tears! There are scenes that i still distincly remember watching when i was 18 and i remember the songs and how they made me feel. In fact, i will make a confession. I have a whole folder on my computer entitled Dawson's music, which is both actual music from the show and music which came out later but i could imagine being a background song on the show. Point being in addition to wrongly editing out the siren that is Paula Cole they also took out like every good song that was ever on the show as background music. That music was meaningful because it was relevant to the late 90's. Like how they have Five for Fighting "superman" in the background, an absolutely horrible song but a relevant one nonetheless. And now i'm watching the show again and the music is not moving me and it's namely because the fucking producers of the DVD's didn't have the budget to pay a little bit extra for the rights of the original songs.

Bullshit! The odd thing is that many of the songs that are actually on the dawson's creek cd that you can buy at the store are not actually on the dvd version of the show. Again i exclaim, WTF! I actually remember watching season 2 with Silvia and we loved the scene where Joey and Dawson were reuniting after one of their many fights and the sprinklers go off or it's raining, point being there is water. So then they reunite and kiss and the water is hitting their faces and you hear in the backgrouns

"hello
can you hear me,
am i getting through to you....
kiss the rain!!!"

Anyways Silvia and I had been reminiscing about this moment and we decided to watch it on dvd to relive our youth and then at that moment there was no Billie Myers in the background. it was someone else singing some unknown, meaningless song. This is a key moment and damnit i want "Kiss The Rain"!

Other great 90's artists that have mysteriously gone missing on the dvd's are New Radicals, David Gray, Pete Yorn, one hit wonder Wheatus, barnaked ladies. What is more Dawson's than barenaked ladies! i don't even like them but damnit i want to be taken back.

They took out Heather Nova's great classic "london Rain" which is from both Dawson's and Felicity, another great soundtrack show. I mean with a line like "i'm coming home to you, I'm alive....I'm a mess." how can you replace that? Fucking Heather Nova defines late 90's teen drama. I mean all i have to say is at least they left "Daydream Beleiver" on there otherwise i woudl have flipped my shit.

that is all for this rant. if you love dawson's like i do you know what i'm talking about, and if you hated it then many apologies for this long entry.

I leave you with a moment.

"I remember everything"

as do i, as do i

good news good news

I would like to let you all know that even though tom cruise has forever ruined Top Gun, Far and Away, Days of Thunder, Jerry Maguire and other great movies for us, I am here to let you know that despite Katie Holmes' mysterious involvement with that cook the sanctity of Dawson's Creek remains. i watched season 3 in it's entirety over a 3 day period, the most magical season of all, and the show is still good! I still felt the tingle in my heart when Pacey watches Joey sleep. My heart still broke when they dance and he says "i remember everything." And yes "daydream believer" still brought tears to my eyes. Even more surprising was how my disdain for Dawson had grown over the years. I mean i really couldn't stand him. Now it might be that i never actaully liked Joey because she had that puppy dog droopy eyed face, bad clothes, and bad posture. I wonder if a fan of Joey Potter would feel the same as I do. But I would just like to assure you all that as a viewer and fan pacey still moves me. Watchign it also made me feel really old since issues of high schoool have not pertained to me for almost 6 years now and i found myself regressing to high school Cristina. Not a good thing. but remember when you hoped for your first great love? remember????? Le sigh

So my final question is, what did they do on that boat?

FYI i'm feeling like a real person again. I'm getting things done, excercising, planning my cousin's baby shower, cleaning the house for pay obviously. Apparently i'm going ot SF to visit David next week for a few days before my mom and I go to Europe. It' s a last minute thing but I'm excited. In other travelling news my mom bought me new luggage yesterday. It's a samsonite shiny nylon/poly blend. you can't really see the color but i eemagine it's the color of a shark. And it has swiveling wheels so you can stand it up and turn it around in a cirlce!! I mean it's no Louis Vuitton trunk but it will do for now. hey what movie is this from "swimmy, swammy, swoomy, swanny, swanson!! swanson!! Oh Samsonite! I was way off."

I went to target today to buy some supplies for the shower. Since i dont' want to waste money on stupid things that people will throw away i've decided that instead of floral bouquets we should have orchids so that people can take them home. And then instead of like garland and shit i'm getting baby onesies and bottles and rubber duckies and stringing them together and hanging them up. It's either gonna look awesome or like white trash. i'm not sure yet. But anyways i found this purse at target for so cheap. It looks like a fake marc jacobs bag and I decided i'm gonna use it as my carry on bag for europe. That way i don't have to take my nice purses and worry that they will get dirty or stolen or anything. Anyways fashion mavens classic advice of the clothes horse. Keep abreast of fashion trends, buy a few key expensive pieces, and then go to places like target to find cheap knock offs. If you wear it well no one will know.

I went to my uncle's house for a "pot luck." I don't know why they called it that because no one brought anything. Mmm i ate so well!! Homemade BBQ ribs that fell right off the bone, roasted corn done Mexican style (lemon, butter, mayonnaise, hot sauce all mixed up and delicious and fatening), spicy wings with my uncle's special sauce. I made a salad with homemade candied walnuts with a hint of cayenne. EEEMAGINE!! Now i'm going to show you an image of something you might never ever see in your whole life. Are you ready?

Mexicans playing croquette...I know...what?

yeah for some reason my uncle had a croquette game set up and even odder than that was the fact that my dad and grandpa and uncles all knew how to play. Not that croquette is such a hard game to learn but it's still really random. Do you see my grandpa laughing. I think he saw the ridiculousness of the situation.

Ok question. Do you think we look alike? Granted she is kind of the hotter younger version of me but people say we look alike.
I told her i would take the picture and put it on my space with the title "twins!!" because she is a my space fanatic. the odd thing is that we both look like our dads, but it's our moms who are related. wierd huh

good god mother!

Little did I know that when i agreed to water my mother's garden for a nominal fee I had agreed to water fucking Ferngully The Last Rainforest. Seriously!! So many plants! And then when I thought i had finished one section i'd find more hanging pots above me, below me, on the side of me. I was like poor Pip in Mrs. Havisham's garden of ferns only throw in like 5 outragious bugamvilia, and a lot of impatiens and wierd alien looking cacti. EEEEEMAAAGINE!! Like i know my mom has always liked plants but now she does stuff like this!






She plants wierd cacti in her statues. yes my mother has garden statues!! she is so chunt Mexican!



When attempting to photograph it i had to break it up into section. Here is the first arch, because yes, she has more than one. Note the random mexican pottery and statues.
Here is the second arch

Here is another section with a Mexican sun!! And there is one of the many giant ferns.

As you can see my mother alone in her tiny backyard is helping fight global warming.

some wierd cactus like plant

And I leave you with this. A chilling image of Mexican culture gone awry. I understand the image of the men dancing in a circle. I understand maybe a citronella candle thrown in there. But really mom, just because you ran out of room to put your crazy plants was is really necessary to throw a plant in there? I call it "the god of fertility"

afternoon delight

ugh this pouding headache and feeling of death is why drinking in the afternoon is never a good idea. Sure the buzz felt good earlier but as usual around 10 o'clock your head starts pounding. And no matter how many times this happens I still choose to drink in the afternoon. Why? But what was cool was that we drank and a bar where Casey knows the owner. This is kind of the ideal situation to have a friend who owns a bar not to mention the fact that it was a bar on the pier. We hung out with her blue color worker, captains of commercial fishing boats. What a strange life. It was like hanging out with those guys from The Perfect Storm. And one guy during the off season fishes at night for squid and ships it all over the world. Crazy! We decided that we love blue collar people who have a real purpose because there is a big difference between blue collar and loser. big difference

Anyways i just wanted to note that today I was having a really good hair day. With all of this hot weather it's been nearly impossible to get it not to frizz what with the natural kink it has. But today it cooled down, i blowdryed it and i gotta say it was lookin real good. I took a shot for you all to see my locks and then for you all to judge my narcissism...


No, i was not trying to look emo although i think this would definitely be the perfect My Space picture if i was 15 years old. You can also kind of see the sloth i'm living in and the OC dvd's strewn about. I'm actually not that messy but I had just gotten out of the shower and i was getting things out of my drawers.
view from the bar of the pier! Did anyone ever see the episode of south park with russell crowe where they make fun of him and he goes around the world on a tug boat starting fights. he sings "makin movies, makin songs and fightin round the world! toot toot!" Anybody? Anybody? Anyways this looks like his tug boat.Then i got stuck in rush hour traffic on the 405 and after spending 15 minutes parked behind this guy i laughed. I ask you, would you hire a man that has a license plate that advertises what a "PC WIZ" he is yet also has an apple sticker clearly on his back window? I think not. Pick one man!!

big L

I have officially become my mom's loser daughter. I told her yesterday that i paid my credit card bills and since i have no job and no income flow this summer i am offically broke. So in order to help me she is going to have me water her plants everyday and she'll pay me for it. How sad is that!! Ok no trust me, it gets sadder. Apparently our cleaning lady is out of town this month so i sold myself like a whore and jumped ontop of that shit. I told her i'd clean the house this month if she paid me what she paid the cleaning lady. Done and done!! woo it's not much money to you working folk but it helps. god i am so pathetic. If i were not going to school in the fall i would really for reals be a loser

wierd musical taste

So i got my new computer and now i'm going through the arduous process of recovering all of my music from my Ipod and getting it onto my computer. i decided that in addition to this i would go through all of my cd's and rip the ones that i like too. I'm coming across all of these wierd things that a) I don't remember buying and b) I don't remember liking enough to buy. Anyways i'm finding all this wierd shit like "Chicago's Greatest hits" and "third eye blind" and "jewel" and my all time favorite "styx: the grand illusion." I think it's one thing to download "styx the grand illusion" for free from napster because it's campy, but it's a whole other thing for you to go out to the wherehouse and actually physically pick out "styx the grand illusion" and then pay full price for it, because this is actually what i did. God i fucking love styx! And so i leave you with this, Dennis DeYoung's words to live by. Ok no joke though read the lyrics, it's kind of deep in a not deep and yet so deep way.


Welcome to the grand illusion
Come on in and see whats happening
Pay the price, get your tickets for the show
The stage is set, the band starts playing
Suddenly your heart is pounding
Wishing secretly you were a star.

But dont be fooled by the radio
The tv or the magazines
They show you photographs of how your life should be
But theyre just someone elses fantasy
So if you think your life is complete confusion
Because you never win the game
Just remember that its a grand illusion
And deep inside were all the same.
Were all the same...

So if you think your life is complete confusion
Because your neighbors got it made
Just remember that its a grand illusion
And deep inside were all the same.
Were all the same...

America spells competition, join us in our blind ambition
Get yourself a brand new motor car
Someday soon well stop to ponder what on earths this spell were under
We made the grade and still we wonder who the hell we are