Pictures from Christmas Day -- Sunday December 25, 2005.

our 1st christmas with alcohol (mango martinis)...
...tito roger, papa, tita elsie, mommy

Pictures from Christmas Morning -- Sunday December 25, 2005.

right after midnight mass, right before opening presents...
...ate myra, me, mommy

the funniest IMs that i rec'd today

babar899: abby...you are flabby
abbsABBYbaby: thats new too
abbsABBYbaby: what do you want?
babar899: nothing.
babar899: just my hourly harrassment IM.
babar899: fat slut
abbsABBYbaby: lol
babar899: my name is abby...and i secretly like coca-cola.
abbsABBYbaby: LOL

* * hApPy HoLiDaYs * *

i love the christmas season. i have only one more present to buy (white elephant new for the cousin gift exchange) and then im done.

if you're reading this on 12.25.05, "merry christmas!" my parents and i (and maybe kuya and ate) will be going to midnight mass. then afterwards, we'll eat some of my mom's famous bone-in-ham with orange juice and pineapple juice sauce. plus some fresh from the oven dinner rolls. mmmmMMM! we'll wake up christmas day to open gifts and then head over to my cousin's for the leynes family christmas party. there will be 60+ leynes' celebrating jesus birthday in one household.

i can't wait!!!
i love christmas. i love yahweh. jesus is my homeboy.

im at work by myself. my teammates, my manager and my senior manager all took vacation days today.

so? guess what i'm doing?
i've updated my amazon wish list.
i've updated my friendster profile.
i've updated my classmates.com profile.

how egg-citing!
no, NOT really...

Rachel's pictures from G(Y)NO Christmas @ Antoinette/Andrea's and Sopo -- Saturday December 17, 2005.

a night full of gifts, drinks, and 2DD batteries...just kidding about the last part...
...(f) fatima, (l-r) sharon, maureen, antoinette, rachel, juvy, me

the funniest emails that i rec'd today

first email
"I'm going to invent the cigarette that smells like something good... like potpourri or something. I want to be able to walk inside from smoking a cigarette and have someone tell me... you smell nice.... what is that... juniper breeze? I think if I can invent that... I'd be rich."

second email
"Off the subject but I had a dream that one of my front teeth fell out because I haven't been taking care of it. The dream started out with me chewing on something hard like a piece of candy. And then I felt something weird. I thought it was something stuck in between my teeth. So I was picking at it and I can feel my finger nail getting between my teeth but that uncomfortable feeling was still there. So I decided to look in the mirror to see if I was missing it. When I looked, one of my teeth was dangling. I tried to put it back and when I did... it fell off. I remember waking up at 6am this morning making sure I still had all my teeth."

can you guess who wrote these emails?
(i have a good feeling that the picture will give the answer away).

Pictures from Downtown Outing with Mommy -- Monday December 12, 2005.

mommy and me waving at pj's building...
...4th stop: millenium park

day off monday and tuesday...sweet action...

streaming thoughts

i havent written in here in a while. so many things have happened, but as you can tell from the pictures, ive been partying it up.

last saturday AM, i went to the american democracy institute summit and saw senator hilary clinton speak. that was pretty cool to be in her presence and hear her encourage the youth of america to be proactive with political issues. it was fun sitting there with chris and jason -- chris and his stupid clap, jason giggling at chris' stupid jokes, they took my ring and repeated some line from lord of the rings -- but what was interesting was seeing the protestors sneak in their posters and pink umbrellas ("out of iraq now") and yell at hilary the moment she started her speech. william mcnary was pretty awesome too. afterwards, chris and i went to joy yee's and bonded some more. that was neat-o. i like chris when we hang out, one-on-one. but when he's with others, hes just mean and belligerent. hehe.

i took a sweet 4 hour nap and maureen and katie picked me up for antoinette's par-tay. 6 tequila shots and 2 martinis later, i was toasty. they went to white castle but i told maureen "i cant make it. can you drop me off at home? im drunk". its like 1-2 in the AM so i figured my cousin and her fiance are asleep. i get in, climb up 2 flights of stairs as quietly as a drunk person can, and im like "shit. i gotta piss". so i drop my pants so i just have my shirt, undies and knee-high socks on (whatever. chicago winters are hella cold). i piss with the door open and i wash my hands and my cousin is standing there laughing at me. with slurred speech "liezl! im so drunk. im sorry. i just have my underwear on. i had to pee. im so drunk. excuse me." then she goes "hey vince!!! abbys drunk and she doesnt have any pants!" aye...caramba.

i wake up at 6am cause my bro and his friend are going snowboardin in galena, so they drop me off at my parents in the burbs before they head out. i get into my bros car and hes like "dang. did you shower?" im like "no. im either really drunk still or hung-over. i had too much tequila last night." this encouraged tony to talk about how tequila shots can ruin a person. haha. i feel asleep on the ride to my parents.

i woke up at 10am to go to church with the parentals. ate brunch with them and then headed off to dick's to buy my dad a couple beanies. it was so much fun cause my mom and i made him try on all these hats. i even tricked my dad a couple times to wear girlie-girl hats...and baby blue one with flowers to be exact. we braved woodfield for an hour then went to home depot to get a fresh tree. i love fresh trees.

last night i took my ding-a-ling and his kuya to sai cafe. excellent sushi place. great conversation, but i came to find out why the boy i was hanging out with a few months ago stopped calling me. it kinda sucks because i forgot about this boy, but things came up again and resurfaced. what sucks even more is the reason why he stopped wanting to hang out with me: my past. its something i cant control, its something i cant change. its just really unfair. why cant guys just come out and say "i dont think your pretty" or "i just want to have sex" or "im not that into you". why hide behind something so lame? something that i can not control? the worst thing is, is that i just wanted to be friends and get to know him. but i cant even have that.

i feel like someone picked me up and put me back into square one. i just dont get it...

Katie's pictures from Antoinette's/Andrea's Apartmentwarming & Antoinette's Birthday @ Waterhouse -- Saturday December 3, 2005.

Antoinette's pictures.

after 6 tequila shots...
...me and the birthday girl


thrashed beyond belief...
...paul, me, fatima

Katie's pictures from November & December Babies Birthday Party @ Wet -- Saturday November 26, 2005.

a picture of many expressions...
...fatima (amused), me (i don't know), imee (curious), thara (i don't know...haha)