"I'll See Your Heart & I'll Raise You Mine"

So yea, I'm not sure why I chose the title that I did but it's an awesome song and I've been feeling kinda wierd recently so anything can happen when you're not yourself....and being sleep deprived doesn't help either. But I didnt play it! just rememebered it (For those who don't know, I gave up listening to mainstream/nonchristian music for lent) And in case you don't them, Bell X1 is the band that inspired me with my title, they play some cool music....think Damien Rice, without Damien (he used to be with them in a band called Juniper), hit me up if you want some.
So I just talked to my roomy Tricia, and she said "Joe!! We never see you anymore, and we live with you!! What's up with that??" I understand now what an idiot I've been recently, out playing Mario Party till 3 am like 4 times a week! Especially now that I have finals coming up....and now some of the Madrona guys are gonna play poker on Sunday night.....aaaarrrrggggghhhhh!!! I can't take it anymore! I must stop this incessant going out to do nothing productive! And it's no one's fault but my own that's the hardest part. I am making a committment right now to not go out until finals are done with. There it is, in writing....I am waiting till weds night to do anything crazy (sorry Robert). I guess this means no Mario Party until next qtr. Man that's hard to say.....hahahaha
I'm worried about my roommate Randie, he stresses and studies so much! He wasn't home last night when I came home at 3 from Mario Party, and he wasn't here when I woke up at 8, and I didnt hear him come in or go out between 3 and 8, so I don't know if he went home or what, but I hope everything's ok. He will make one of the best workers some day because his work ethic is greater than anyone else's I know. Although sometimes I think it's unhealthy sometimes, you should never take my opinion on that because I am one of the laziest people you will ever meet (hence my late night Mario Party soirees).
So I've been chatting with people for a while and I must say I have awesome friends. If ever I was gonna do a shout out in this blog it would be now to Katrina...what a gangsta.....V-T0wn3 represent! Wow that was amazingly white and ungangster of me but Katrina you have seriously been one of the coolest people to me and I will alayws rsepcet u and your gangsta onipion....damn there goes my typing again as normal hahaha. ;)
I talked with my sister today and she is doing well...I don't know how many of you are aware but my sister's been pregnant for about 2 months I think, so Im stoked about that and I keep praying everything works out......I was doing the math and I think the baby will be a september kid, but hopefully it's a little early so we can finally have another August kid in the family!! go August!!! shoot that'd be tight to have my first niece/nephew have the same b-day as me! (never gonna happen nm) Anyway, when I was talking to her I heard that my parents are down for a Natural Family Planning conference...right now!!...shoot I am out of the loop, or maybe they keep me out of it I'm not sure. Anyway, it makes my getting out of school a little more real to think my family's so close.
This week will be hell cause I have a final on Tues that I need to get all the quizes from my teacher on Monday, so I can prepare better for it, and then the Film Studies final on Wednesday will be a beast....especially when you have to remember painful movies like Heroic Trio. Let me tell you guys that is one terrible movie, probably on my list of worst ever. Just to give you an idea, we watched Charlie's Angels the next week and it was an Oscar-worthy picture when placed next to the other gross movie. But yes we need to memorize facts about those movies just as much as gangsta movies like Enter the Dragon. Anyway I've been trying to cut this post off for a while now, so I better do it now before I start talking about all of my classes. Hope all of you have a better weekend than I have been having, and a better week ahead for all of those who have finals. I'll be praying for all ya'll.....PeAcE[EDIT] this is the 4th time I'm trying to post this....maybe 4 is a magic number for me as it is for some others?

St Patrick's Day!!

So this is technically being written after the fact....oh wait, how could I write before the fact? anyway Happy St. Patrick's day to all of you.....mine was tiiiiight. It actually kinda started on Weds night with the YFC potluck...ok it didnt but I havent written about it yet...me, Katrina, Fama and Josh cooked fetucini alfredo. Well in all honesty, Fama didn't do anything really. Josh came 20 minutes after her and Katrina and he still did more than her. She spent the time looking through a party favors mag and oooooing and aaaahing over things she wanted in some themed party that she will never throw....oh sorry that was kinda negative, I meant to say that she sat very prettily at the counter and gave us some good advice about throwing a great party. After that we went to the potluck and that was cool cause there were so many good dishes there. We played some ball after that until we got kicked off the courts and then played ball in the dining room until about midnight. Goooood times.
This morning I didn't do anything until going to confession before mass and then mass. We had vietnamese sandwiches for the Thursday lunch, then I just hung out at interfaith like a bum with GP, Mel, and Brian until like 2:30. I got a sweet tat today that said "Irish" in old english style lettering on one arm, and "eire" the Irish word for Ireland, on the back of my right hand. I looked pretty gangsta thats all I can say...geeps has pics you'll see. Anyway, I went to do filming with Mattman, Toni and Mel(issa), then we got kicked out of Albertson's for filming, then the battery ran dead, and by then it was around 7 and we just decided to play some ball with the Madrona boys, who ended up being late as usual, which was good in this case cause I needed to go back to the apt and change, so we played around 8. Ball was relaxing and fun, but this is where my day took a turn for the worse....well not worse but I got kinda angry. The last game we played was with some local VDC kids, and I knew one of them Jimmy, from Weak Sauce fball(a cool guy), but the others I didnt know...anyway this one guy with a big fro plays pretty quick ball and he is doin alright, and then at the end of the game we made the game winning shot and GP hit his foot or something and yelled "ah!" but then said, "take it Toni!" and she made it.....this guy and another one thought he said "and one".....whatever.....so we took it out and this fool with the fro has been guarding Toni and she gets the ball again, and he knocks her over, and tries to steal the ball....from a girl!!! I swear I almost went over there and kicked his ass right then. I was fuming but all I could say was "calm down man!" They ended up winning, but the most bitter part of the night for me was that that guy got away with that.....ggrrrrr.
After that tho, I chilled with the guys at Taco Bell and then.....MARIO PARTY 6 at Madrona!!!!This was by far the funniest night of mario party cause we played some funny 1 on 3 games and the guys didnt beat me till after maybe 25 games of DOMINATING GAMEPLAY!
And as with everything involving me and Liwanag folk, this was a very racially charged bit of play....as can be expected, I was chosen to be the "1" in 1 on 3 precisely because I'm white. But it's all good, as long as it's all in the name of fun, which I know this is. I apologize for the boring blog entry, I guess my life is kind of exciting but I lack the mad writing skills of someone like GP to express them eloquently. I just spent 3 paragraphs spouting about what happened to me in the last 36 hours. Hopefully you have stopped reading by now so I can write things like "I was wondering why it's only one shirt and a pair of pants?" or "why do they call them buildings, when they're built already? why not call them 'builts'?" without sparking thoughts of "what the hell is he talking about?", or "Is he on something?". wow thats a lot of quotation marks and questions. This is becoming more and more "late night with no sleep" talk, so I better leave while I'm ahead...have a good friday and good luck to all of those with finals tomorrow!! Good morning everyone.

"Ya'll will be working for me one day anyway..."

Well, Liwanag potluck went nicely, thanks to my invaluable contribution of salsa and cream cheese with mulitcolored chips (ok just white and blue but still...). There was a whole lot of food which is always a good thing, and all I can say is "thank God there's a YFC potluck tomorrow!" We had a good time though, magic mic was playing in the background, and several times I went up and sang a tune, but people kind of tuned me out haha. Can't say I blame them. Also, thanks to Adrian, half of Liwanag knows something I told him that he hinted at in front of other people, which means the other half will know by the time I post this. Damn, Adrian you were on something this evening, you kept giving me quizzical looks and then saying things like "SO?? ANY IDEAS YET???" Haha. Man what a psycho. (I'm just kidding Adrian)
I enjoyed the last day of classes today also. My scenic design class was fun but I am so glad it's over, cause I am now officially done with the 50 series!!!! Wow that's a weight off my shoulders. I also had 120B today, but I still have to go to the final for that which is a joke, but I'm gonna study anyway like a nerd. Now since it's like 1 in the morning, I am stoked at the prospect of being finished with 130 in less than 12 hours!!! and that means only about 15 hrs and my Film Studies class is over except for the final, which is not a joke and I will be studying hard core for that one cause I studied for the mt and it kicked my ass.
But I'm tired of talking about school esp now that it's 1 week and counting before Im done, so Im gonna kinda do a response to GP's blog from yesterday(today? Im not sure..whatevs).....geeps I appreciate the shout-out cause I thought I was the only one who noticed how many white jokes there are, but I figure it's only cause i started them in the first place so no worries about offending me. I also say too many borderline racist jokes as it is, and if you know me you know Im not at all but i need to watch it anyway(I shoulda gave that up for lent). As Erwin and I know, I am what is termed a "habitual line stepper" and the line is "only a dot" to me. One instance of me being waaaaaay over the line was a while back when we ate some alerto's at shawshank and I went into Dee's room to see where the party was, and someone (DAVID) says "ssshhhh, it's the white guy!!" Thats when I busted out with the title of this blog "Ya'll will be working for me one day anyway...". I'm getting ashamed all over again as a write it, I really dont mean that and I love all of you guys, but to be fair it was pretty damn funny at the time, even David thought so. As for the IRA joke, well that's just a given. I mean who were the first miners?? probably some white guys lookin for gold (being the greedy bastards we are) and BLAM they discover some kind of explosive, tnt or whatever, and they have been using that stuff to do whatever the hell they want for forever. Just think, if they put it next to their gold, they'll put it next to anything. I know that was random and probably historically inaccurate, but it was a fun story to make up.
I also wanted to congratulate GP on one of the funniest conversations Ive ever had with someone.....his Mario V. blurb will forever be a funny memory to me, even though you didnt think it was that funny gp.....killjoy. As we were talking tonight about whatever it is that we talk about(see I cant even remember it), the madrona guys asked me what time I had to go to bed cause they wanted to go play mario party. as tempting as it was i had to say no....you should be happy otherwise i wouldnt be posting right now! (I should have gone, Im wasting your time). I guess I kind of lied to the guys cause I said I was gonna go to bed right away, but one thing led to another and...wait wrong excuse, I mean I got sidetracked and I just started working on the paper thats due tmr and blogging. but the paper stopped around the time I was tired of talking about school. As you can probably tell this is getting crazier and crazier so I better finish while I'm ahead and say goodnight.....but please know, I love all you guys and I dont mean anything when I say that you will work for me one day, I am just saying what I asked santa for.....I mean I was making a joke and I overstepped my bounds....sorry erwin. Goodnight all and a well done quarter Liwanag!
PeAcE

Mario Party!!!!

So yea, last night was a lot like Sunday except I only played Mario Party for 3 hours instead of 7 1/2!!! And, we invited someone who took the game a little more seriously than the rest of us....Yes, that's right, Kirsten Ascio is an angry player. Her thigh must have been sore afterwards cause she kept slapping it whenever she lost (which was pretty often). She also slammed the floor, probably getting the Madrona guys in trouble. I shouldn't talk though cause I SUCK at that game...Actually let me rephrase that...I can't play the Mini Games under pressure and I have really bad luck (those damn circular routes screw me!!!!). Anyway, the Liwanag potluck is tonight!!! Im stoked about that for many reasons, not the least of which is the prospect of free food! Hope people bring better food than I do, cause I'm lookin at bringing some chips and salsa, maybe some cream cheese if people are lucky. Anyway, off to class....peace kiddos

Sunday Morning (and Evening) Musings

So I'm chllin here making a new blog not 18 hours after my last one, but that's just 'cause I have some reflection time before going to mass. Some of you will know what I'm talking about when I say that I'm a little confused as to where to go and what to do right now.....I want so badly to say something, anything, and yet I'm the biggest woosy in the world. If you don't know what I'm talking about, just apply it to my academic life and that's accurate also. I need to leave really soon, but I just wanted to start filling out my blog, and to say something 'cause I'm gonna blow up if I don't. I hope everyone in my life is doing well....I've been thinking about my brother Luke who's in the Army in Afghanistan right now and I hope he remains safe, please pray for him. I'm also thinking about my Dad who celebrated his 55th B-Day on Friday.....what a gangsta, raising 11 kids, providing for all of them, and never keeping favorites (well I'm his favorite right now, because I was one of the few kids to call him on his Birthday!!). Anyway, I am just praying for everyone that has blessed my life with their presence (that's you too!) and I'm hoping they stay safe.
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So yea I had to leave for mass when I got to that last sentence and I didn't get a chance to post it so I'm doing it now, but I'm adding some stuff that happened today. When I went to mass, the choir was almost exclusively guys, and while this was a questionable blessing if you know what I mean, it sounded soooo cool hearing that many people sing their hearts out for Him. After mass I hung out with some buddies for such a long time that I literally got back from Madrona just 10 minutes ago....and almost every minute of that was spent playing Mario Party. Wow, what an addicting game. Anyway, I'm tired and I will talk to ya'll later.....PeAcE