Been tagged by Jenn.

Make a list of at least 10 things from your childhood that you would like to relive, or just things from your youth that you truly enjoyed doing. ANYTHING that reminds you of the good ol' days. Keep it clean, and whoever does so, do not laugh at any others who also do so. Then, tag at least THREE other people to do the same. If you don't tag anyone, then simply say so, don't say "Whoever wants to" THATS POINTLESS.

-All my old friends. Like my next door neighbor, Ali, who I would play Power Rangers with in my backyard. He always was the Red Ranger and I the Blue Ranger, which I totally disregard was a boy in the show because my favorite color was blue at the time. Or my best friend Ileana, who I introduced Yu-Gi-Oh to and how we showed off our cards to each other at lunch time.

-Being more outgoing and not being afraid to talk to people. I almost forget there was a time that I would random say what was on my mind and not worry about how people react.

-I miss recess. Just running around the playground with my friends or drawing on the concrete with chalk.

-The  times my family drove to Florida in our van, when we went just to relax and have fun, not have to visit relatives and be struck in their house for a whole week. I loved when we drove back to New York; it was at night, my dad would play my Spice Girls CD after I begged him, and I would try so hard not to fall asleep.

-I miss the REAL snow days. My siblings and I would wait in front of the TV until it was official that there was no school would scream with joy. I would basically wear article of clothing I owned and run outside to play in the snow. All the snow ball fights, forts, snow angels, and failed attempts at making a snow man. Then coming back inside for some hot chocolate.

-No expectations; when all my parents cared was if I was fed, clean, and happy.

-I miss my cousin, Karla. When she lived in NY, she always came over my house and it was amazing how we pass the time. We played with dolls, tried to make our own language, had yard sales, rode our bikes around the block, made trips to the bodega, sang Pop songs, and gush over how cute the guys from NSync and the Backstreet Boys  were. We were so spontaneous together. It was nice having this one person that you weren’t afraid to confide in. I always wished we were twins, so we could see each other every day.

-I miss being close to my grandparents. It didn’t matter that I refused to speak Spanish, they were just happy I was around them. I miss all my abuela’s hugs and kisses and how my abuelo always asked if I was going to be a opera singer when I grow up because I liked trying to imitate opera singers.

-Coming  home from school and turning on the TV and putting on Cartoon Network and being so anxious to watch the next episode of Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Tenchi Muyo, Rurouni Kenshin, and Yu Yu Hakusho; the time when there was actually something good to watch on Toonami.

-Most of all, I miss not being insecure and not having to worry. It seems now that I become insecure about a new body part each year and I worry about what to wear or fear people judging me. I never cared when I was younger, I didn’t have to. When you’re young every adult calls you cute and mostly everyone’s moms, including mine, brought their clothes.

LJ I’M BACK!!  And it has been so long.

Friday was the end of classes.  I decided to wear a dress that day since I haven’t strangely wore one in a long time and I didn’t want to look like a bum on the last day of school. Many pictures were taken. It was fun being a camera whore. Me, Victoria, and Tim couldn’t chill after school; no money  : (  

It’s sad that the seniors are leaving. I can’t believe I won’t see them in school next year.  I liked the seniors… well the ones I knew. I got attached to them. I going to miss them.

Saturday I went to my mom’s work, to get volunteer hours. One of the girls gave me a facial and it was AMAZING! It felt so good. It reminded me of being in the salon and having the lady wash my hair, which I love. I guess I just like being taken care of. The only other thing worth mentioning is that girls were all talking about how big my boobs were. The situation was surprising not awkward at all. I kept laughing during the whole thing. It was that sort of thing that you’re like “yeah I know and you’re not the first to tell me that.”  They even asked me my bra size, déjà vu much.

I was driving a car for the first time on Saturday. It sucked. I never knew it be difficult. You have to be conscious of so many things. I basically drove around the parking lot of Memorial for 30 minutes. I nearly crashed into the 2 cars in the entire parking lot multiple times. When my dad came to watch me, he later thought I was ready to drive the car home. He was wrong, o so wrong.  As soon as I drive out of the lot I take the wrong turn and end up having to drive around Memorial to get home. I could clearly hear the frustration in his voice when he had to repeatedly tell me the “correct” way to stop in front of a stop sign.  It took me 2 mistakes to actually follow his instructions. All in all I didn’t drive the car home. Half way home my dad and I changed seats because he was afraid I was going to hit some kids that were in the street.

This morning I had an adventure to the laundry mat, got my eyebrows done (which by the way hurted like a bitch), ran on the treadmill, and had the worst cramp of my like (which I mistaken as a consequence for drinking too much water in one sitting.) The rest of the day I cleaned and made a cake for my dad. I think I did a pretty good job for an amateur. I even iced it and wrote “Feliz Dia de los Padres” in PEANUT BUTTER. If that’s not impressive I don’t know what is. But no one has taken a piece of it yet, those bastards. Well they can all piss off! I worked hard on that cake, which probably sounds pretty pathetic, but fuck at least someone should eat it. I’ll probably end up eating some and give some to Bella, my dog. This must be how my mom feels when no one eats dinner.

Well I have to finish reading Bleach. Bye LJ.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!!!!

     On 6/29, my brother took his chewed gum out of his mouth and stuck it in my ear and when I tried to remove it, the ended up in my hair and I had to cut a piece of my hair off.  Luckily it's unnoticeable.  Went out to eat breakfast at Dunkin Donuts with my dad and younger sister.  Afterward, we went to two different supermarkets to buy coffee.   I went to the park to meet up with Victoria, Courtney, and Denise.  I was an hour and a half late ^.^;;.  According to Victoria, it's just my dominican genes kicking in.  They were able to occupy themselves by taking pictures together and of rabbits, yay myspace!  We went to Dunkin Donuts for I can buy them donuts.  Then we spent the rest of our time sitting at park until Victoria had to go to work.  At night, mi familia y yo went to a Hispanic restaurant called Mofungo House.  Great music and delicious food , all in all it was a good night.
     On 6/30, my family and I went to Expo, a division of Home Depot.  I end up smelling candles there like when I sniffed the aroma of coffee beans through sealed bags at the supermarket last week.  
     On 6/31, I was weirdly started thinking about aliens.  I mean, Earth can't be the only planet that occupy life forms in our vast universe.  But after watching Alien Vs. Predator, I only hope they don't have a appetite for humans.  I even drew a strech of an alien at the Hispanic restaurant my family and I went to eat dinner at.  I colored it blue because blue is such a premium color = ].  After eating, I got bored so I started attempted to braid my hair; it didn't look good after I finished.  A band performed at the restaurant.  One of the musicians was so hot, ahhhhhhhhhh teenage hormones taking over >.<.  Which is odd since I think most people with dark hair should not dyed their hair blond or red.  
     On 7/4, I didn't go to Victoria's block party that she invited me to : (.  First off, I didn't have permission and when I asked 5 people where East Beverly Parkway was located they didn't have a clue and when I went to mapquest.com there were 10 East Beverly Parkways in Nassau County.  Another thing that made my day crap was that I dropped my contact in the toilet and my cousin fished it out, rinsed it and told me to put it on.  Guess what? I listened to her.  I was desperate!!! 1) I didn't have my glasses 2)  I wouldn't go out in my glasses in public because they were broken  3) Since I was at my uncle's house, I couldn't retrieve a new contact.  Under any other circumstances I would have not done it but I wish I didn't.  I could have swore my left eye was going to fall out.  My eyes were in fucking pain for 2 days.  I could barely open them.      
     The rest of the week I hanged out with my cousin.  I also got my glasses fixed but it gave me the idea of dressing up as Harry Potter for Halloween because I temporarily taped up my glasses for I could use them at home.  I mean why not, I already have a scar on my forehead but it's not shaped like a lighten bolt.
     I have started reading the Harry Potter series since two Fridays ago.  I am currently a little more than have way through the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.  I can't wait to see the movie!!!  I've been looking forward to seeing the movie for a long time.  I would rave on and on about my current obsession with Harry Potter but there isn't enough hours in a day.     

I stayed home the last 2 days :( .  Watched One Tree Hill episodes, read fanfiction, ate cheerios from a plastic cup, and slept, the usual.

The only good thing about staying home was that I was able to finished Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. It's a pretty damn good novel. I recommend it to anyone whose literate and is at least fifteen years old (because of some mature content.) Some things were disturbing like that Jonathan's grandfather, Safran, had over 100 lovers due to the fact that women fell in love with his dead arm. I don't care that Safran was a player but why would women fall in love with his dead arm? It seems strange to me. Couldn't they be attracted to any other aspect of him like his wrists or personality? I'm was completely disturbed that Saran lost his virginity at the age 10 to a women over sixty. When I read over that part I had to make immature gagging sounds. It's just ewwwwwwwwwwwww. I know what anyone would think "GROSS! Another Michael Jackson." I would be a little less repulsed if Saran was at least fifteen because to me 10 years old is a baby; he didn't even start puberty yet.  Safran had sex with his bride's sister on their wedding day.  Now that's just plain fucked up.  What a way to start off a marriage.  The movie is different than the novel but that's a given because script writers have to change and remove some things because then the movie would be 8 hours long.  I'm kind of pissed off that Jonathan, Alex, and Grandfather didn't find out who Augustina was or her relationship with Safran in the novel but in the movie they did.  Also in the movie Jonathan is a collector and inthe novel his is a writer, so thats weird.  So beside those aspects the novel was awesome.   I loved Kolker, Brod's husband.  I lmao when Kolker was with the doctor after he got a saw disc struck in his head and he was calling the doctor a fuckhead and then the next moment he be like "what happened?"  I liked when Alex wrote in his letter to Jonathan "I could hate you!  Why will you not permit your grandfather to be in love with the Gypsy girl, and show her his love?"  Alex sounded like a fangirl/fanboy commenting to an author on fanfiction.com when their favorite character dies or experiences unrequited love lol 

Jenn was right, Alex and Jonathan are meant to be together, I know it.   I loved the lines "I observed the hero had small rivers descending his face, and I wanted to put my hand on his face, to be architecture for him." and "Do you know that I am the Gypsy girl and you are Safran, and that I am Kolker and you are Brod, and that I am your grandmother and you are Grandfather, and that I am Alex and you are you, and that I am you and you are me?  Do you comprehend that we can bring each other safety and peace?  When we were under the stars in Trachimbrod, did you not feel it then?  Do not present not-truths to me.  Not  to me."  I wish the novel had the letters Jonathan sent to Alex *sigh*.

I cut myself while peeling potatoes for dinner.  It didn't hurt but it wouldn't work stop bleeding for 10 minutes.  Thank god for paper towels and bandages.

Today is the first time I listened to the band The Remus Lupins and they are amazing.  I love their songs "Loosen Your Tie" and "Teenage Werewolf." 

I saw great pictures of cosplayers on deviantart and photobucket.  I want to cosplay for Halloween but I don't have the money nor the body structure :(

I watched the movie Dead Silence last night.  It was way better than I anticipated to be. I thought it would be complete crap when I saw the preview for the movie in the movie theater.  For the majority of the movie, I had a pillow covering my face because I was too afraid to watch even though I wanted so badly to see what was happening.  So I give the movie two thumbs up for scaring the shit out of me.

I didn't do much today.  I did some chores, read a couple of pages of Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, read HarryxDraco fanfiction, and ate tacos for dinner.  I also went to the orthodonist this afternoon.  The beginning of August I'll be getting my braces removed, so that's good news.  I was wondering when I''ll get them off.  I already had them on for three years.  My younger sister, Jennifer, got her braces off today; lucky little bum.  

Exams are over. YAY school out for the summer!!! I plan to do some community service in Mercy Hospital, if possible get a job, and take a dance course at my school over the summer if my parents are willing to pay $50. Hopefully my summer will be more enjoyable than my last summer vacation seeing as I actually have things to do now. 
Mi abuela is staying with my family to attend Simon, my brother,'s graduation. She's only staying until Monday. It's nice that she's visiting because I usually only see her twice a year, during Christmas break and summer vacation when my family and I visit her in Florida. 
Simon's graduation was Friday. I assume my parents were proud. They have been worrying all year that Simon wasn't graduating; so they're relieved. The process of handing out the diplomas felt like it took FOREVER!!! I didn't really care about the other graduates after Simon's name was called. I found it hilarious when people were blowing air horns because right in the beginning of the ceremony the second thing the principal said after he welcomed everybody to the graduation of the class of 2007, he said NOT to blow air horn because it would disrupt the ceremony. Everybody was basically "saying fuck that guy I going to blow my air horn when my kid is called." I was just waiting to hear someone say "YEAH THAT"S MY BABY", that would have been great. 
Yesterday was my cousin, Erica,'s birthday party, she's 4 years old now. The party was held at my house. I stayed in my parents' s room most of the party; I'm not good with socializing with people. It's weird how I have met my aunt's friends about 10 times but I have yet to learn their names; it's a shame. The theme of the party was The Little Mermaid, so it was only fit to have a Ariel piñata. My god was that piñata ugly. Whoever made that piñata needs some art classes or some how develop excellent piñata making skills. I was a bit upset when my uncle only opened the piñata and threw the candy on the ground for the kiddies. Where is the fun in that? I remember my birthday parties when I was a niña and the kids would have a bat and beat the shit out of the piñata in attempt to break it and get the candy. Sure the kids are still diving and killing each other for the candy but it sort of lost its charm. 
I was stayed up til 2 a.m. in the morning watching TV. I saw the video for Around The World by Draft Punk and it was AWESOME!!! The video was so strange, I love it.