2-20-07: 2 of 2 (this one's long)
Lent's comin' up man, this year has gone by fast. For the past two years, this has been the most important part of being Catholic for me or at least what's left of my Catholic self. Everyone knows that after our high school confirmation, after the retreat and the weekly sessions where our faith is at our highest, there's a huge drop off in terms of church attendance and just living up to the Catholic ideals in general. I guess that's part of being young? part of the college experience? I don't know. But I know I'm a sinner, and taking part in the Lenten season helps me cope with that.
What am I giving up you ask? I know for sure I'll be giving up any form of smoking. Hookah, cigarettes and weed (which I haven't touched in months) will be off limits. Now I'm considering the red meat thing too, but I might stick to chicken and fish at least during that time. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to leave em in the comments because I appreciate getting them. I know this will open the floodgate to masturbation jokes, but those are welcome. I've been getting all kinds of good feedback lately, so show some love with comments, and be creative so everyone else can read em, it'll be fun.
Did you guys catch the dunk contest this past weekend? It wasn't bad, Gerald Green definitely held it down, and Dwight Howard got snubbed. Anyways, in my opinion, anything I've seen in the last five years definitely doesn't even come close to this gem from last year.
Sometimes I'll be listening to music and then Derek will come home and be like "what the fuck are you listening to?" And then while my iTunes is on shuffle, and I search for something not embarassing to listen to, it just cycles through NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, or the Aladdin soundtrack, and I end up more ashamed than when he first walked in.
Speaking of embarassing music, I watched Dreamgirls the other day. I recommend it to anyone who thinks they might have any kind of remote interest in it, it was good. Today, on my way to class, I listened to Jennifer Hudson's rendition of "And I Am Telling You..." on repeat. I'll tell you what man, that shit gets the blood flowin' in the morning when you haven't had enough sleep. If you drive to school/work in the morning, try lipsynching along with it, I'm sure it'll keep you awake.
I owned my midterms man. I just gotta work even harder and close out this quarter well.
I know you guys haven't seen an update at all these past seven days and there was a reason for that.
My Nanay had to be taken to the hospital last week and it pretty much consumed most of my thoughts for the past seven days. I know I couldn't put up a real entry without mentioning what I was going through, and I didn't want to try that until I knew how everything was gonna be. Thankfully though, she has gotten a lot better the past couple days. Last Saturday when my dad, brother and I got to visit her in the ICU, her spirits were pretty high by the time we left. When we saw her, she had improved so much from the days before, and it was pretty heartwrenching to not be able to be there during the week. It was just so good to hear her talk to us for a little bit, and it was especially warming to see all the notes and posters that all the grandkids had put in her room. I'm looking forward to seeing her again this weekend.
This is Lance Cacho for livejournal.com signing off, thank you for reading, and goodnight.
What am I giving up you ask? I know for sure I'll be giving up any form of smoking. Hookah, cigarettes and weed (which I haven't touched in months) will be off limits. Now I'm considering the red meat thing too, but I might stick to chicken and fish at least during that time. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to leave em in the comments because I appreciate getting them. I know this will open the floodgate to masturbation jokes, but those are welcome. I've been getting all kinds of good feedback lately, so show some love with comments, and be creative so everyone else can read em, it'll be fun.
Did you guys catch the dunk contest this past weekend? It wasn't bad, Gerald Green definitely held it down, and Dwight Howard got snubbed. Anyways, in my opinion, anything I've seen in the last five years definitely doesn't even come close to this gem from last year.
Sometimes I'll be listening to music and then Derek will come home and be like "what the fuck are you listening to?" And then while my iTunes is on shuffle, and I search for something not embarassing to listen to, it just cycles through NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, or the Aladdin soundtrack, and I end up more ashamed than when he first walked in.
Speaking of embarassing music, I watched Dreamgirls the other day. I recommend it to anyone who thinks they might have any kind of remote interest in it, it was good. Today, on my way to class, I listened to Jennifer Hudson's rendition of "And I Am Telling You..." on repeat. I'll tell you what man, that shit gets the blood flowin' in the morning when you haven't had enough sleep. If you drive to school/work in the morning, try lipsynching along with it, I'm sure it'll keep you awake.
I owned my midterms man. I just gotta work even harder and close out this quarter well.
I know you guys haven't seen an update at all these past seven days and there was a reason for that.
My Nanay had to be taken to the hospital last week and it pretty much consumed most of my thoughts for the past seven days. I know I couldn't put up a real entry without mentioning what I was going through, and I didn't want to try that until I knew how everything was gonna be. Thankfully though, she has gotten a lot better the past couple days. Last Saturday when my dad, brother and I got to visit her in the ICU, her spirits were pretty high by the time we left. When we saw her, she had improved so much from the days before, and it was pretty heartwrenching to not be able to be there during the week. It was just so good to hear her talk to us for a little bit, and it was especially warming to see all the notes and posters that all the grandkids had put in her room. I'm looking forward to seeing her again this weekend.
This is Lance Cacho for livejournal.com signing off, thank you for reading, and goodnight.