Gotta Love My Goofy Family

Yes, there are times when I hate taking pictures BUT for some reason, when I'm around family, I get obsessed with camera. Strange, huh? Obviously, it's not just me - we ALL do! Goals for us cousins and sisters is to pretty sidebust ever freakin' camera shot. Here are some pictures from New Years at my Tito Boy's house. We are such a happy bunch. Good times...

Las Vegas Weekend with the Fab Five

A birthday celebration weekend trip to Las Vegas turned more into a family bonding time with ALL my sisters. There are 6 of us all together. 3 of my half sisters live in Las Vegas. We all stayed there. It was fun. Abby - Typical teenager anxious to take her driving test Melissa - Believes that God gifted her with her with a cute face Cathy - Curious about cutting herself and wants to know what a drive by is. (WTF) So I find out that not only do they have an ugly creepy pet hamster named Bella, they also have a cat named.....I'm so embarrassed - Kitty Puffin. AND it's a boy. Per Melissa claims it's not their cat anymore because my step mom kicked him out. Umm, seriously, who kicks out their pet? Only in my family, I guess. Poor cat was waiting up for us one night standing by the front door meowing wanting to be fed. That by the way was how we figured out who the real owners of Kitty Puffin were. Irene later finds out from our step mom that the reason why she kicked him out was because he kept her awake at night. Ummm....ok. AND that Kitty Puffin would want to sleep in their bathtub. So, I guess the next best thing is to let him sleep ummmm NOT in their house at all? LOL! Whatever's clever. I hate cats so it's more funny than sad. Sorry cat lovers!! BTW - Melissa does feed Kitty Puffin everyday. He just doesn't sleep indoors anymore. Like that makes the situation better, right? Oh well. To change the subject, here are some random pics - LOL!

Check out the new Dyson Hand Dryer!! Awesome!

My nasty niece, Bella. Yuck! Me, Jason, MJ, Nate & Rolsuno waiting to get into Tao Saturday Night Abby, MA, Me, Cathy, Melissa w/step mom (Irene is missing) I'm ready for you Pac Man!! Sike!

share-bare's BIG Dirty Thirty Celebration

Written by: Ryree

Produced by: Renee, MJ and Ryree

Wednesday, November 19, 2008  

Emergency Meeting Renee, MJ, and Ryree meet in Sunnyvale to discuss share-bare’s birthday. The three noticed that she has been down in the dumps. From individual conversations with share-bare, they came to the conclusion that she is depressed. Not only is she turning the big 3-0, but most of her friends and family would not be able to make the trip to Las Vegas.  Renee claims that she went home early from work because she was upset that a few people backed out.  

The Decision The three thoughtful ladies decided to cancel the Las Vegas trip all together. They concluded that share-bare most cared about having her loved ones around her to help her celebrate this great milestone in her life. share-bare also feels as though no one cares enough to plan for her, so they decided to craft a new birthday plan, one that would surely impress the birthday girl.  

The New Plan With the help of a few other people, the following would be the new plan: Friday, December 5, 2008 Dinner would be held at California Grill in the San Mateo Marriott. GJ would be able to be the chef for the night, serving 30 of share-bare’s closest friends and family. After dinner, they would go to Milk in San Francisco. Roland was already hosting a party that night, so Mary Anne would work on reserving a table/bottle service. More of share-bare’s friends were invited for the evening event. Saturday, December 6, 2008 To continue on with the celebration, they planned to do a day outing with the kids. Bowling. One of share-bare’s favorite pastimes. In the afternoon/evening, a girl’s spa day was planned at Watercourse Way in Palo Alto. This would include her sisters, cousins, and childhood friends. Rho* offered to pay for a suite that night as well. November 20- December 1, 2008 Evites, emails, and conversations galore! They had to inform the family and friends of the new plan. Appointments were booked, hotels were canceled, and new reservations were made. One thing in the back of everyone’s mind was, “Would share-bare be disappointed?” There was no use worrying about that because everything was set. To make sure she didn’t get too disappointed, they all agreed not to initiate conversations about Las Vegas, just to lessen the blow. Amazingly enough, the secret surprise remained a secret! Family members and friends were going along with the story. December 2, 2008 This was the big day. share-bare’s official birthday! This was also the day of complete chaos. share-bare conversed with her good friend Joh on G-Chat. Poor Joh, who lives in Las Vegas, had to endure the torture of share-bare talking about specific plans during her visit. share-bare  also conversed with both of her sisters on G-Chat expressing her utter most excitement about the ‘upcoming trip.’ As it turns out, share-bare has been doing her own planning on the side, inviting random friends from New Jersey and the Bay Area to meet up with her while she is there. share-bare: do u know where we're having dinner? for sat? Joh said we'll be going to tao on saturday and the new spot lavo on sunday share-bare: omg - hella ppl are going to vegas. u better look cute for the boys me: like who? share-bare: jersey guys....Twink's cousin in-law is bringing some friends and Timotei!  LOL and then there's Joh's friends that are YOUR age and other ppl from the bay. ur gonna have so much fun. joh and i always have a good time w/random ppl! In a panic, Renee, MJ, and Ryree spoke via conference call to discuss the new revelations. They came to the conclusion that they jumped into the new plan too quickly, that share-bare was just being emo one day. So what must they do about the current plans? Everyone was already invited. Reservations and appointments were made. The Las Vegas hotel was cancelled. No one, except for Ryree and share-bare, had the following Monday off.

The New, New Plan They would continue on with the dinner. Most of her friends and family already RSVP’d and share-bare would, without doubt, be surprised. As for Milk in the evening, the bottle service had to be canceled but they would still be attending because her other friends already RSVP’d and would be there. As for the spa day, that had to be canceled altogether. It was decided; they had to find someway to make this trip to Las Vegas happen. Unfortunately, they would not be able to bring Eli, Janelle, and Tates. After searching online for most of the morning, MJ and Ryree found flights to Las Vegas for $49 each way. It was too late in the game to for anyone else to go, so it would just have to be share-bare, Renee, MJ, Nate, and Ryree. They were all to fly out Saturday. Because MJ and Renee did not have Monday off from work, they would fly back on Sunday, which gave them one night in Las Vegas to celebrate share-bare’s Birthday. Ryree and share-bare would fly out Monday morning. Because the hotel was canceled, it was impossible to find something for a reasonable price. They arranged to stay at their stepmother’s apartment on Saturday night and then at Joh’s place Sunday night.  

Conclusion All in all, one lesson has been learned from this experience. Do not try to surprise share-bare. She is so unpredictable; there is no telling what she is going to conjure up next. *Note to share-bare: Hope you enjoy your BIG Dirty Thirty celebration. To make things less complicated, we DID NOT tell the rest of the family that we are going to Vegas again. They would just not understand the story. PLEASE act as if we are not going, especially in front of Tito Steve. He was a bit disappointed that it was canceled. (Pictures from the Surprise Birthday Dinner...)

SURPRISE!!!! One of Eli's imitation of me turning the big 3 - 0.

Me with the three rascals A Very Rare Moment on a Special Day.... Thanks Girls! Love you!

share-bare says: Big THANKS goes out to Renee, Ryree & MJ for doing this all for me. You're the best. If I was affectionate, I'd give you big hugs but a high five hand slap will do. LOL! Thanks for putting up with my difficult ass. I appreciate it! Good Times it was!!

My Celebrity Soul Sister

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIT! Britney Spears is my celebrity soul sister. Can't you see the resemblance from below? Her and I share the same birthday! I'm so honored. You jelly? LOL! Yeah, I'm a dork, I know! =P Anyway, here are other celebrities that I share my birthday with: - Lucy Liu - Nelly Furtado I can't believe Nelly Furtado and I are the same age. Pretty cool if I say so myself.

Union Square Christmas Tree

The Day after Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the Christmas season for me. What a better way to start my favorite holiday season than to go see the Tree Lighting ceremony at Union Square of San Francisco. It sounded like a good plan but I came too late. A friend and I drove up to the city to see it as I never really got to see it up close and personal. Yeah, I'd drive pass it maybe once every couple years. It's not the same. The night was crispy cold. Ahh Christmas was in the air. I wanted to go ice skating but the Holiday Ice Rink in Union Square was closed. We came across Bubble lady in her well decorative bicycle as she was circling around the Christmas tree spreading love and joy with her bubbles! There was even an in-line skating crew rolling around with old school boom box in a baby stroller. They randomly performed their version of the Thriller dance routine onstage. It was cute. A few standbyers danced along. Happiness and laughter was all around. It was a wonderful feeling. Everyone around me were all in smiles. Of course, there had to be an immature teenager on scene. He decided to seek attention from his so-called cool friends by stealing one of the basketball sized ornaments from the huge Christmas tree. He hid it under his sweater and jogged away giggling with the rest of his friends. I wonder if security caught him. I hope so. Another biker dude decided to use Union Square as a pit stop. He dropped his bike behind us and pee'd into the corner. Gross! His urine trail was slowly making its way down the steps. Hey - that's what happens when public restrooms are not available late in the evening. People gots to improvise! A lot of people were out taking pictures with the beautiful background. My friend and I did also thanks to some random photographer who was charging pictures taken by him for 2 for $10. He sweet talked us with his sales charm though and sold us 3 photos for $10. A buy 2 get one free deal! Now who could refuse? One of the bubbles from Bubble Lady came my way. I was so tempted to pop it like how every kid loves to. My laziness got in the way and ended up just watching it fly. Anyway, it was a good night of people watching. San Francisco is always so unpredictable. Gotta Love it! The scenery made my night complete.

Thanksgiving 2008

Thanksgiving Day was awesome - as usual. What can be more better than eating, kicking it with the family and eating! The day was also a birthday celebration for my uncle who is pretty much my second father - Happy Birthday Tito Boy! Good Times! The aunts and grandmas were laughing and capping on my laugh randomly. Thanks for the love, I think. Is it really that bad?! =/ The day at Tito Boy's house would not be complete without the whipping tail of Kaela. She got me good this time. Kaela totally flicked my finger out of no where quick-style. Ouch! We cousins were also bonding... via Blackberry Messenger. Retarded right? Thanks to Joey aka Notorious Lothario, we learned how to group chat! Can I say, it's the best thing EVER! Soon to be added to the Blackberry family are MJ and Nate. I'm pretty jealous that they are getting the Storm BTW. I'll stick with AT&T thank you very much. During the whole family gathering, all I heard was Edward this, Jacob that, Bella this. Total Twilight Craze. It was obnoxious! MJ was talking about her recent psycho conversation incident at Target with a complete STRANGER. Poor chick must be traumatized. MJ is starting to scare me. I'm worried and I think she needs help. LOL! Anyway, the hype about Twilight book and 3 other books following that were never going to die. I was outnumbered and the obsessed girl cousins decided to go watch Twilight AGAIN! Jenny, Julz and I tagged along because there was really not much to do back at the house other than play Rated M video games with the dudes. No thanks!

The "Infamous Ménage à Four"...

...the "Happy Two-Timers"

and then the "Curious Virgins"

Barack Obama Elected President

It's 8:01pm here in California and we just got news that's Obama is our new President with 297 Electoral votes (and still counting!). Yay! Congratulations Obama! I'm definitely looking forward to having you as our 44th President of the United States. I can't wait to see his Inauguration on January 20th, 2009! YES!!!! Couple hours later... I'm still sitting in front of the television watching CNN:

2008 Presidential Election

California is minutes away from closing the polls. My prediction is this - Barack Obama is going to win with 300+ Electoral Votes tonight. I'm proud of myself for voting earlier today. My precinct was #2223 which is in Foster City. I kind of wanted to go across the way where precinct #2222's casting box was located. #2 is my favorite number so I was hoping for all the good luck I can get during this Presidential Election. Why? Well 4 years ago, I casted my vote for John Kerry. I think my son EJ jinx me cause when I voted, I took him along with me. Back then he was 6 years old and yelled outloud at the San Mateo precinct, "Mommy, can you vote for George Washington?". After telling him that he was dead, he said, "Mommy, vote for George W. Bush!!!" Yeah, it was a 4 year long jinx for me....LOL! After watching a couple hours of CNN this evening, it's quite clear that Obama is going to become President of the United States by a landslide! Talk about being a part of great American history! I'm so for "Change". Let's do this America. We will shortly witness the victory of Barack Obama, our very FIRST African American to be elected as President of the United States. WOW! Random - but if Tupac Shakur were around, he'd be so proud of us who have contributed in making a "Change". Earlier today, I was listening to his song called Changes. Very inspirational!! Keep in mind this song was made over a decade ago. The words, "I see no changes" was said repeatedly in the song. I agree with him that some things will never change. He may be right, but that doesn't mean everything! Guess what, though? We are finally ready to see a Black President. How's that for you, Tupac!? Tupac lyrics that we should live by:

We gotta make a change... It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat Let's change the way we live And let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working So it's on us to do what we gotta do to survive.

This very day will mark the beginning of the Change Movement. Rock on!

G+B Wedding

Congratulations to the new Mr. & Mrs. Brian Macadaeg! The wedding was fabulous! Hawaii was so cool. I miss it already. Here are a couple pics from the wedding. I'm very grateful to have been part of their special day. I'm also thankful to have met such cool kick ass peoples...

Rock the Vote! Deadline Approaching...

It just hit me...I don't think I changed my address from Alameda County to San Mateo County. Oh NO! Did I miss the deadline to register? Luckily, for California residents our last day to register is 15 days prior to election. I hate counting backwards!!! Don't you hate when the State of California can't be more specific? Can't they just issue a freakin date? I had to google a bit for a few minutes longer and found it:

General Election Date: November 4, 2008 Your Registration Must Be Postmarked No Later Than: October 20, 2008

I'm still trying to figure out if there is a way to just submit your Voter Registration Application online. The best information I got so far was filling out a form via online. Then print it. Then mail it. But really who mails stuff nowadays? I'm too lazy to get stamps. If anyone knows a better alternative to register other than the one I just mentioned, let me know. So if you moved since you last voted like me, Register like NOW. That would be great... DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER! GET OFF YOUR BUTT AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

YAY Eagles!

Just in case you missed the game - here are some pics. Keep in mind that a picture is worth a thousand words. Enough said to all my haters...Keep on talking and keep on walking (the other way thank you very much): [Finale & My favorite part of the day: The lovely walk of shame] p.s. Good things happen to those who don't trash talk about other teams.

Today's Almost Over's Agenda

Happy 56th Birthday Father aka Dad aka Puti aka Big Mo aka Moises! We love you and we miss you. I can't believe how time flies. Weird - as I was cleaning my room for my move, I noticed a pic of you and me. I think I was around 3 or 4 holding your hand in front of some old ass car. Gosh. Sometimes, I still can't believe you are not around. It's been 6 years since we've celebrated your birthday here on Planet Earth. Hopefully, Dude from up above is treating you well. Sorry for not visiting you at the cemetery, as much. I know our busy schedules is no excuse. I've still been meaning to get some good fertilizer for your grave since the grass isn't as green like I'd like it to be. I hope them darn deers aren't pooping near you. Tito Steve actually called me yesterday to arrange a day for all of us to see you. As much as we'd like to have seen you today, your actual birthday, work of course got in the way. Plus, you know the cemetery gates close at 5pm. We'll see you this Sunday though for sure! I'm sure you'll hear our loud asses greeting you, reminiscing and just kickin back. The weather should be nice so you definitely won't hear us complaining and saying..."OK dad, it's hella windy and cold, gotta go! Love you!" LOL! I know it can be messed up but seriously, you'd be cold too! You're on a hill and the darn cemetery people cut down the trees. Therefore, we have no more wind blockers! LOL! Anyway, your grandkids are getting so big, dad. They are all doing great. EJ is going to be 10! Yikes! So what treat would you like when we see you this Sunday? Is it Mentos? Is it Rolos? Starburst? Or wait - I know!! I'll definitely bring you a piece sliver of Sara Lee pound cake. Frozen - just the way you always liked it. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I LOVE YOU! Sincerely, Beb (#2 out of your 6 daughters)