The average teenager

bloop

2006-10-08T10:50:00.000-05:00

i have nothing to say.

haha.

<3

what?

2006-08-23T04:57:00.000-05:00

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those be my homies...

my second family

2006-07-20T07:30:00.000-05:00

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12 on 12 on time!!

2006-06-12T21:08:00.000-05:00

ssoo......my 12 on 12 is on time....for once!

9:00: too early for me to think about anything

9:15: entered the office for a hard days work of laziness

9:45: i hear my stomach grumble and decided to make muffins! betty crocker jr

10:15: PJ was whinning (like usual) so i decided to play with him as I waited for breakfast to finish.

11:30: i decided to take a break from whatever laziness i was doing and kill my brother in ping pong. yes, i dominated.

11:45: when the ball was knocked off the table, i noticed this little fella under the table. we named him saul the salamander. he looked dead because he wasnt moving a whole lot.

11:45: my worthy opponent wanted a rematch. best out of 3. the final score? 2-1 me.

12:30: never again will all my clothes be clean at the same time. well..it will until school starts up again. (in 7 weeks...)

1:30: a break from the fascinating life of laundry to watch Highschool Musical.

2:00: i got bored 30 minutes into it, so i decided to get my butt handed to me in risk by my ping pong opponent.

3:00: after that awful game...we played another, so i could hand jonathan his butt in monopoly...which i did.

7:30: the amazing dinner of macaroni and cheese!! yum. my food suppyl in college..

BONUS PICTURE

10:00 am

The phone would not stop ringing today. This phone call was from a nice lady at church asking me help at the blood drive next Sunday.

Not many exciting things occured today....

im ready

2006-06-01T15:57:00.000-05:00

all i have to say at the moment is that:

~i found you, ms new booty!

~and that my house is quiet once again. my lovely family is gone. =/

for summer

2006-05-26T17:00:00.000-05:00

schooooolllllssss out fo' summer!

yep. thats right kids. schools out. last painful day of teachers who dont care. my spanish teacher doesnt really know how much everything is weighted so everyone in our class finished off the year with a C. great.

seeing as i am the honorary magnet member (aka: they might as well consider me in magnet accroding to a certain group of persons) i was invited to the sophomore schools-out-lets-go-chill-out-before-everyone-goes-on-vacation get together. a trip to the sandwhich factory then to the movies to see x-men 3. yes well, i said no, because its so much better to see it with my pimo UNCLE! yep. we're going to see that sometime later this evening.

so the drafts of cubans are slowly arriving for vickys graduation. i think there is one more batch on its way and that completes it.

graduation? yeah..its tommorow morning and im supposed to sing. i probably wont be able to sing. vicky is graduating. im happy...and happy for her and the rest of my seniors. after tommorow they start their lives and i wish them the very bust of luck on their endeavors.

what am i not excited about? my sister is leaving me behind. ..my best friend..my room mate. i suppose i can convince my parents in making a bed for the dog in my room.

no need to be sad of course, she's starting over at ga tech. making new friends.

we will, of course, always be gangstas..

i love you vicky

the fabulous fox

2006-05-22T15:53:00.000-05:00

anyone in rockdale county going to see beauty and the beast at teh fox in september? no?

thats what i thought...

this county has had their fill of beauty and the beast.

im just sayin..

16 on 16....finally

2006-05-16T22:33:00.000-05:00

and so...my day begins...

7:00: blinded by the light...

7:30: as im running out the door i take a few gulps of coffee. mm-mm-good.

7:30: the wonderfully paved street of our neighboorhood..isnt is great..?

8:30: the first class of the day is a painful science class which consisted today of watching Lord of the Flies. great choice.

10:00: who DOESNT get bored...and its only the 2nd class of the day..

1:30: last class for the educational day and what are we doing? whatching a movie and relaxing. what a productive day.

2:30: my first manicure...aint they purdy?

3:30: i go to greet my grandfather after a hard day of movies at school. of course he's relaxing and playing cards...with only one shoe on? im sure its the new fashion trend in miami

4:30: i look at my beautiful dress (purchased by my godmother; thank you tia!) for a while contimplating getting dressed yet or not.

5:30: me and isa are ready to roll for confirmation. yeah we're gorgeous what? woohoo!

8:45: the grandparents and i manage to get a picture with the archbishop before he jets off. hes a real comedian.

9:00: yeppp. a classic picture with the pastor. why not?

9:30: who doesnt love baallooons???

10:00 and the jonathans were partners for a great game called...CRANIUM!

11:00: needless to say, we all got our butts handed to us by this dynamic duo. like mother like daughter?

11:30: at this point we've realized that we arent the only ones wanting some shut eye.

im sure this could have been a lot shorter if i had remembered on the 12th....

ima rookie

2006-05-14T13:57:00.000-05:00

because i missed the 12th, 13th and 14th....

i'll do a 15 on 15 tommorow. my first one. yaaayy!

annd...im getting confirmed on tuesday!

catholic revolution.

neglect

2006-05-13T17:25:00.001-05:00

i really havent been updating this thing because of my computer situation. yeah it blows...but i got a camera today so when my computer is fixed i'll start doing this 12 on 12 my family has so religously started doing.

i went to the band banquet on friday, and josh was announced drum major. im happy for him. and happy for our future children who will be musically talented and inept winkers ;)

the magnet banquet is this friday, which will be exciting. it has been requested of me by my friends to curl my hair and wear something called make-up? i have no idea....these crazy people. who wears make-up??

vicky and jonathan are dancing the night away. vicky at her senior prom and jonathan at his 8th grade dance. they both look incredible.

and me? yes well....i've resorted to a night of arm and hammer and harry potter. i can be crafty and clean all at the same time! technology these days is magnificent!

the vents of Cubans

2006-04-25T20:50:00.000-05:00

One of my few Cuban friends sent me an email and I thought it was worthy enough to be enclosed into my blog:

He's a Viet-Nam veteran, who was badly hurt in combat during an air strike mission. He's now a retired captain of the U.S. Air Force.

Why I abhor the terms "latino" and "hispanic"

I need to clarify a few things regarding the recent protests by "latinos" or "hispanics" throughout the US. First, there is no such thing as a "latino" race. There is no such thingas a "hispanic" race. Both terms are contrived and used solely for census purposes. There is no such country as "Latinolandia", and "Hispaniola" is technically half of an island in the Caribbean.

Second, I am not nor will I ever be part of "La Raza." Nor do I agree or support their current protests. Some of you may, but I do not.

Third, I have never and will never, despite having many issues with the government of the United States throughout the years, burn a flag of the United States of America. I am Cuban by birth, American by the grace of God. And a darned proud, dignified, thankful and respectful American.

Fourth, while I certainly sympathize with the Mexican people for their country's economic and social troubles, I refuse to be lumped together as a class or a race simply because we speak a similar language. If Mexicans and Mexican-Americans had wanted my support, then they should have supported the cause of a free and democratic Cuba, instead of the majority and at times the Mexican government having sided with and legitimizing the government of Fidel Castro.

Fifth, there is a difference between a Cuban living in the United Statesand a Mexican living in the United States. One is a political refugee and the other is an immigrant, respectively. When Mexicans are being oppressed and have their basic human rights trampeled by their government as Cubans do, then perhaps my opinion will change, until then, the aforementioned difference stands. Mexicans and Mexican-Americans may very well have legitimate gripes with the government of the US, but as La Raza, the flags they are burning and flying up-side down below the Mexican flag do not speak for me.

I am not Mexican, I am not Latino and I am not Hispanic. I am an American of Cuban descent. And damned proud of it.

fun dip sticks

2006-04-23T21:08:00.000-05:00

I love Star Wars.

Life Night was pretty awesome. The whole 'theme' I guess was about love.
We played The Dating Game and sang a few love songs. Greg came and talked to us about love. In the Greek translation of the bible they have 4 different words for love. Arros is used 3 times and i forgot the other one he was talking about but its used over 250 times!! That is definitely crazy. Anyway, it was pretty much love vs lust and how we should really used "lust" to get to that deep, heavy love for Christ. Arros is the arrow pointing us in the direction to Christ. I love when greg talks to us. I get a lot out of his talks.

Thats all, for now.

show me yo grill

2006-04-16T20:45:00.000-05:00

One of my teammates gave my coach a Reeses. She took the foil and made herself a grill and quoted a part of a song. "Yo, tell them to rob a jewelry store and make me a grill" Yeah...shes a classic. I love her.

Theres a rap song that talks about "grillz". Personally, I find them to look ridiculous and a complete waste of money. Asking my fellow classmates how much their "grill" was, I was given the response like, "$200, $325 , $275" Thats ridiculous.

We're going to win tommorow. Just letting you guys know before hand.

half empty or half full

2006-04-16T10:41:00.000-05:00

what a beautiful easter morning it is.

making many mental notes of the tasks i must accomplish today, i realized that school starts again tommorow after a great 3-day break. my class schedule for tommorow requires no homework at all, but tuesdays schedule is a pain.
i wonder what cracked-out counciler made my schedule so that all my academic classes are on the same day and all my electives are on one. heart-attack central..

we have a game tommorow on the other side of china. woohoo....another late night.

a melody softly flowing

2006-04-13T19:05:00.000-05:00

and so, another week to put down in the books to bring us one week closer to summer.

this time change is killing me, because it makes practice seem about 3 hours longer than what it is. before, i would use the sun as my watch. when it would start to get dark, i knew practice was almost over. now, the sun seems to just stay in place. the water hose went crazy on me this afternoon when i went to fill up our cooler. i turned it one way, and nothing happened, i turned it the other way...and water went all over me. it being 100 degrees outside, i was in a white t-shirt, of course.

the lacrosse season ends this week. monday is our last away game, and wednesday is senior night. friday we have a make up game against st pius, which im hoping is in the stadium, and not at bonar park. even though its a smaller, and the grass might be a lot easier to pick up on, its just a junkier field.

wish us luck with our remaing games...we can pull another win.

murderer

2006-03-08T21:27:00.000-05:00

Strike 2. My mom, the excellent taxi driver she is, was picking me up from my lacrosse game this fine evening. My brother and sister were in the back seat, we were having a good talk about who knows what..and all of sudden..."JESUS CHRIST!" from the backseat. He was probably the only thing that kept us from hitting poor Bambi.

I'm done with sitting in the front when deer decide to hit us. =/

safe and sound

2006-03-06T22:05:00.000-05:00

And so another day on the field. We beat McIntosh, home of the battle dyke, 14-9. No injuries to report tonight. I got two interceptions, an excellent check that sent my girls stick flying and a ball to the stomach that hit hard enough to knock the wind out of me. That lasted all of 30 seconds.

Word was spread that even though McIntosh graduated battle dyke, they had a really good player who was nominated for All-American and would possibly be better than the battle dyke. Of course, we were prepared for some amazing player with an insane cradle and a crazy shot to pop out of nowhere. low and behold: nothing special from Miss All-American.

A very excellent game.

The hits kept coming

2006-03-05T11:52:00.000-05:00

The first of many interesting days to come.

I had a lacrosse game yesterday, which we lost, but only by a few points. I was smashed in the face with the ball in the last 5 minutes. It hurt tremendously. The girl who hit me was carded and sat out the rest of the game. The other teams coach came onto the field to complain about the call they made. On his way off the field he turned and asked me if I needed ice. I'm not very fond of this team..

I went the rest of the day looking like a chipmunk, with sunburnt arms. I was unable to laugh, smile or chew correctly without my face hurting.

Lacrosse sure is a great sport.