The Year of the Lucky Mofo

As 2005 comes to an end, I start to look back and realize I’ve been a very lucky mofo. I'm not trying to brag but stuff like this doesn't happen to me in a whole year...maybe in a lifetime but not a year.

-In February for my birthday, I got my digital camera. My camera is something I can’t live without!

-April finally came…and so did the first of 2 sold out U2 shows. My uncle went to one while I frantically looked for tickets on ebay, ticket master, and any other place where I could get tickets. Realizing I couldn’t afford $200 tickets I gave up of going in April. Then came November. Oh November…I called on the STAR radio station like a crazy mad man trying to win…no luck. But surprise surprise! My uncle comes around with 2 tickets to the sold out concert at the Staples Center! The BEST DAY of my LIFE!! Something I’ll never forget!

-November turns into December and as soon as you turn around Christmas is here. This year (like the rest) was spent with both sides of the family. My 3-part Christmas (which consists of going to my grandma on my mom’s side, then grandma’s on my dad’s side, then finally back home) was spent with anxiety. I had a feeling deep down in my gut I was getting an iPod video. At the 3rd part of Christmas at our house, I opened all my gifts and finally came to my last gift. I unwrapped it. A box. The feeling afterward was disappointment and sadness. But I opened the box…and ta da! An iPod! I squealed like a pig! I was happy! This was an expensive Christmas with a cell phone for my brother, an iRiver for my brother, a record player for my mom, a game cube & and DDR Mario Mix for my 2 sisters, and one of those American Girl dolls for my sister as well. The Disneyland passes were also a Christmas gift. I think this Christmas my dad spent around $3,500 just on us. He also bought himself an iPod…but the 60 GB and not the 30 GB like mine. even though i still want the U2 iPod, the box that came with my iPod had a picture of Bono from the Original of the Species commercial.

-I got a $50 visa gift card from my uncle. $40 was spent on the U2 fan club. My U2.communication CDs should be coming within the next 2 weeks. With that came a new e-mail address: crazyu2fan01@u2.com. Yes, I’m a nerd….but I feel like an official fan! [Note of word: my iPod is not I repeat is NOT filled just with U2. There are 60 of 600 songs that are U2. I have more but I choose not to put it on. Instead the songs will be rotated: putting some in and taking some out and leaving my absolute favorites.]

“You know what happened to the man who got everything he wanted? He lives happily ever after!” Somehow I don’t feel like that. Not because I’m not a man but because now that I have everything I wanted I lost a desire to want to go on. Not like I wanna die but I feel empty. There’s a hole where a new bigger desire needs to go…but I can’t fill it at this moment. When you want something in life and you get it you loose an urge to want to go further until you think of something you actually want to live for. My wants were materialistic. I mean all I wanted was to go to a U2 concert, a camera, and an iPod. I got them. Now what’s next? There’s always the dream of becoming a famous writer/singer/actress and to meet U2 but I know those won’t happen (if at all) till later in life. Sorry if I sound depressing…I’m happy….seriously I am!*

Disneyland For The Holidays

Oh man! It’s been 15 days since I last updated my blog! Yikes! See what happens when u get lazy? I promised myself that I’d update my blog after I went to Disneyland…which was on Wednesday.

Last summer we didn’t have a family vacation like we always do…instead we saved that money to go to Disneyland sometime during the winter. Out of the blue on Monday my dad told us we were going to Disneyland that Wednesday and that he was going to buy the tickets the next day. I told him to get our money’s worth we had to go from when it opened to when it closed. My dad looked a little shocked cause it was going to be his day off and he didn’t wanna wake up at 7 in the morning. So the next day my dad comes home from work and surprised us with an early Christmas present: annual passes to both Disneyland and California Adventure! Plus he gave all the kids (which is 5 of us) 10 Disney dollars…which is just like regular money but it has a character on it and it only works at the park itself. I would have preferred regular money but whatcha gonna do? We woke up like at 11 that Wednesday and we left our house at 1. MY GOSH it was CROWDED!!! We all went on the Roger rabbit ride and then small world. Small world was holiday themed yet I still wanted to get off as soon as we got on. But a good thing came out of the ride…my favorite picture I took all day. Cause we really all need PEACE ON EARTH.

After small world, my mom and little sister went to Fantasyland while the rest of us went to stand in a 60-minute line to get into Space Mountain. I think it was worth the wait though. During the line though we got 2 phone calls from both sides of the family. My dad’s side was there celebrating my grandpa’s b-day which is on the 25th and my uncle (the one who took me to the concert) from my mom’s side had came alone to see the parade. We met up with my dad’s family shortly after (which made us a party of 13) and went on Star tours and then the buzz lightyear ride. I think the fireworks were canceled which was disappointing to some but now with a year’s pass I didn’t care. All in all it was a pretty good day at Disneyland. If you really really want to see pictures of the family and me you can go to my flickr set of Disneyland.

--My brother told me about a site called the onion where they make up fake news stories. Here's a fake article about the Rest Of U2 Being Fine With Africans Starving. You can see more fake articles of U2 here. Oh! congrats to Bono and Bil and MELINDA (awesome name) Gates for being persons of the year of time magazine.

---I’m sending out Christmas greetings via e-mail…so if u get one consider yourself a lucky mofo! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!*

Grammys and Jammies

i'm back form my little recovery from the flu. i got the flu on monday and stayed home form school in my jammies. from the flu came a nasty cold with a smoker's cough and a plugged up nose. i can't breathe through my nose and my throat hurts like a mofo! i'm afraid to eat cause i cough so much that the force brings up food from my stomach if there's too much in there. i didn't go to school on wednesday either cause when i woke up i couldn't walk and i felt weak. and when i went to the bathroom i coughed up a little blood...not much but enough to scare the living daylight out of me. i stayed home with my sister who hasn't gone to school this whole week cause she throws up everyday. she lost about 3 or 4 pounds with the flu and her face look alot slender. but boy is she gonna be lost when gets back i mean 100-45? that's hard!

my shiner is almost gone. all that's left is a tiny bruise and a little pick splotch under my eye. i didn't have to cover it up with a ton of make-up.

my cousin got out of the hospital for a week. but because she refuses to stay in the hospital for another month for treatment she has to go back everyday (which is an hour and a half away) to the hospital for treatments.

on a lighter note U2 picked up 5 grammy nominations:
Album of the Year - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Song of the Year - "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal - "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
Best Rock Song - "City of Blinding Lights"
Best Rock Album - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
----------they are up against some tough competion though like kanye west and mariah carey. even so i think they will pick up a few. -------
-and one nom. for producer of the year for HTDAAD went to Steve Lillywhite.*

***OH! remember on Dec 10 wear your white wristband to support the ONE Campaign***

Bono vs. Bon Jovi

been feelin' sick this weekend....soar throat, stomach cramps, cough, headaches....the whole shabang. my eye got bluer. oh! my dad didn't notice my eye till yesterday night. how can u miss a huge detail like that?!?!?

about 2 weeks ago my friend came up to me and said that she had seen the band's album with the happy face on it that i liked so much. i looked confused at her. i corrected her and said that it was BON JOVI and that i liked U2. she said oh and turned away. but how can you confuse bon jovi with U2? well i guess you could with the names: BONO and BON jovi. but they are compelety different singers. and i really think that one is way better than the other! bono is a sexier mofo than bon jovi is! i mean "Have a Nice Day" vs. "How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" ? no competition....U2 wins. But don't get offended if you like bon jovi....i'm just sayin' that to me one is clearly better than the other.





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Yesterday my brother [the one who complains that bono came from ireland to america to complain about africa....BUT was jealous of me going to the concert] downloaded a version of Sunday Bloody Sunday where they took parts of Bush's speeches to match the actual lyrics to the words. even though i'm antibush i thought it was pretty funny. the sog came out some time ago but my brother didn't show it to me till yesterday. have a listen: Sunday Bloody Sunday-Bush mp3 *

Shiner Update

today my eye is black and blue and purple. it hurts pretty bad and the bump under my eye looks swollen. my eye feels smaller than the other. I put ALOT of make-up to cover it. it worked somewhat then it rubbed off towards the end of the day. some people asked me what happened, but less than i expected.....*sigh of relief*. one girl asked if my mom hit me...i said no and laughed. but the rest of the time in class i was looking down and had my hand covering my face....but i couldn't touch it cause it's a bruise.

My stomach feels turned. and i found out when i got home that i was the only one who had a full day of school. my sister stayed home, my brother didn't have school today, my sister got out early, and my other brother went home early cause he felt sick too. lucky mofos!

Good news though! i FINALLY saw the new U2 music video for Original of The Species. it's pretty good. i almost saw it twice [once on Jumpstart and then on Classic Current] but i had to leave for school but i did stay to see God Part II on Classic Current.*

***That's the how my eye looks CURRENTLY***

OUCH! Right in the Kisser!

Today was an off day! I woke up with a stomachache and I felt like throwing up all day. It might be the flu cause my sister threw up about 20 minutes ago. I hope it’s not the flu cause I hate throwing up!
Then in PE me and my friend were partners in badminton. We lost our first game and moved onto the second. But that ain’t the bad part trust me! As we were playing our second game me and my partner collided trying to hit the birdie. I missed…but she didn’t. instead of hitting the birdie she hit me right under my eye!! I yelled loud and cupped my face with my hands. Immediately I felt a bruise and a HUGE bump forming under my eye. I could feel it growing and I could feel my eye slowly close. But that’s what I FELT. Apparently it didn’t look too bad on the outside….just a bump and a scratch. My friend apologized like 50 times and she felt like crap for the rest of the game and I felt bad cause she felt like crap. I played through the pain….my hand was over my eye the whole time though. We lost that game and had to play another. [we lost that game too.] The rest of the day I had my hand over my eye so no one could see.
My eye hurts like a mofo!!! I have ice over it right now and I’m typing with one hand. I kinda look like I got in a fight and was punched in the eye. I don’t wanna go to school tomorrow cause I feel sick and my eye looks bad…but you can judge for yourself.*


***The ring around my eye actually got a lot bluer since I took the picture and the swelling of the bump went down alittle. I’m gonna have a big shiner come tomorrow morning!***