It's a Great Day...

Oh, it’s a great day…

Oh, it’s a good day for singing a song, good day for moving along! And so on and so forth… I don’t know if you know that song. I first heard it in the movie With a Song in My Heart starring Susan Hayward, which introduced me to one of my favorite singers, Jane Froman. Not a lot of people have heard of her, but she’s awesome. Okay? Okay. Anyway, I love that song by her and it describes my day today. I think the sunshine lately has really been upping my mood far and beyond what I would have thought.

This is my favorite song by Jane, I hope you like it, too!

I started this day by talking to my bff, Irina, on MSN when I woke up at 10:30 and drinking my usual chai latte! Love them so much, haha, just love the flavor! After a while, I absolutely could not keep up with all the Facebook notifications and I had to get off of it, haha. It was a beautiful day today, really beautiful, about 78 degrees, so I decided to talk to Irina outside on my laptop. I sat on the porch in the back and soaked in the rays from the sun and looked around at the beauty of nature—the green grass, the green trees, and the birds singing. Yes, it is January, but this is quite possible where I live. By the way, Vista, where I live, is considered one of the best places in the country to live because of its weather. The average temperature year round is 75 degrees, so that ain’t bad.

This is Guajome Park in Vista... lovely park, a lot of people take horses there

I decided, out of the blue, to help my mom clean today, for no reason at all. This is how the conversation went when I announced it to her:

Me: I’m going to help you clean today!

Mom: What? Why?

Me: ‘Cause you deserve it?

Mom: Is it Mother’s Day and I don’t know it?

Me: No :(

Brother: She wants something!

Me: No, I don’t want anything at all!

Mom: Well, that’s awesome, Des!

My mom really does deserve it. She works so many hours during the week and my brother and I just clean a little bit during the week—me doing the dishes and kitchen and my brother cleaning the dining room and living room. She does all her cleaning on the weekend because of her job and usually, nobody helps much, except I do the dishes like always every night. And in these weeks by myself at home with nothing to keep me busy, I realize how good I have it at home and how great my parents really are. They do so much for me and I never know how to thank them when I am feeling really grateful. I figure after I get a job, I will find a way to thank them in a big way! And years down the road, an even bigger way…

I should get back to cleaning some more… I’ll be back later to tell you about all the exotic birds I met today and a special street called Rena Drive ;)

Hey folks,

I’m sorry that I didn’t write yesterday, but today wasn’t such a good day for me. I find it is hard to write on the weekends as it is, and I didn’t have a very good day (until I watched the new episode of Desperate Housewives… okay, I’m obsessed, hehe!). Anyway, I got some pretty exciting news on Saturday, I think it was? I consider the girls that are in my background picture collage like real sisters… I tell them so much about my life and about my problems and they are always there for me. I was just with two of them in L.A. in December for a week, and then after that, with all three of them for 10 days in Mexico (a few days after Christmas). I have to tell you that when I went back home on January 7 and back to my real life (because it seemed like a dream), it was one of the saddest farewell I have ever experienced. Actually, it’s probably THE saddest, but I don’t want to take time to think back on all the sad farewells I have had in my lifetime. By the way, I’m sure they won’t mind too much, but these girls are named Irina, Rena and Janine. It’s easier to write with names than vaguely referring to them as “the first friend” or “the first two friends” or “the friend from…” Haha.

My beautiful friends!

Anyway, turns out that Janine mentioned to Rena that she will come back to this part of the world in October. I could not believe it at first, and I was so excited because one of the reasons why I was so sad when we said goodbye was because I was sure it would be at least a year before I saw her or Irina again (because they both live so far away, and I’d have to take a long plane ride to see them). Of course, Rena said that I would have to be with them everywhere they go and I wouldn’t have it any other way. When you have very good, very close friends that live far away and do not live in your own town, even living in faraway countries, you learn to appreciate just how special friendship is in your life and why friends are a must in one’s life. I think the best friends are for life and will get you through tough times and bad times and can last almost as long as family relationships. In fact, best friends are like extended family members :)

Irina and me!

When Irina said that she just has to come, too, to Mexico to see us again, I was just so excited, I couldn’t stand it! That was two days ago now, but I am still excited in thinking about it… The problem is, I need to get a job soon so I have money to hang out with them during however long their stay is! A dream of mine is to someday take a plane and visit my faraway friends in their own countries. Hopefully, I can someday and even though I’d be nervous to fly alone (even though I had done it once before), I would be more than excited! I want to see new cultures and being shown these different cultures by my best friends would be just amazing.

Janine and me! (Rena calls us sisters in this photo, haha)

I plan on working on my résumé this week and hopefully, even though I have no work experience :( with my degree, I can at least get some temporary work or an internship of some kind. More than anything, at the moment, I would like to earn some money but in the long run, I would like to have a rewarding career. I have a degree in Mass Media and because the media are very different and broad, it can be difficult to pin down what I would like to do with it. So, I will see how it goes. I may just find something temporary in the meantime. Either way, I am very proud to have a college degree at all!

Last but not least... here is Rena and me (love you, girl, I know you are my biggest fan on this blog!!)

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I don't feel too well tonight... I was going to write a blog post about some exciting news... but I will write it tomorrow :)

I Like Fridays :)

Before I get my fix with another episode of Desperate Housewives, I should update my new blog again… I hope you all are doing well… (Okay, not that many people read this, but the few who do!) I had a fairly good day today. Something that bothered me was a dream I had last night. I had a dream with one of my close friends, whom I miss very much because she is very far away. I continue to have scary or sad dreams with her in them… She actually reads into these dreams much more deeply than I do. She says that we are both sad that we are far away because we are very close to each other. I hope I don’t have another dream like this tonight because I hate sad dreams! Well, who doesn’t? I’m anxious to have a happy dream or one of my boring would-happen-any-day dreams.

I just had Mexican food for dinner. After being in Mexico for ten days recently, I just fell in love with the food—with the amazing carne asada and guacamole in the tacos! Mexican food has always been my favorite type of food, but I never realized just how good it was in Mexico (you know, the place where it comes from, haha). I was not looking forward to having California Mexican food again because it really is not the same. But the day had to come! I had something that seemed the most similar to what I had in Mexico many times. It was a carne asada plate. In other words, it is carne asada and guacamole and rice and beans and some tortillas, so I could make my own tacos. There is a big difference in the carne asada… there is something special in the carne asada in Mexico. I miss it :’( Oh well. Enough wishing I was Mexican… hahaha.

You might want a little background on what my life is like. Oh, wait, I don’t have much of a life. Well, I live with my mom and dad and my younger brother, who is 21. We also have a big dog and a bird—an umbrella cockatoo. They are very interesting pets, and recently, I have been spending more time with the bird. She’s so funny because she loves to take naps under my blanket when I am on the couch. Rocky, my dog, just sleeps all day… he is not very exciting sometimes :P By the way, I don’t recommend getting a cockatoo because they are way too much work—like toddlers who are always getting into trouble. They always chew up everything in sight, like cords, CDs, headphones, electronic devices, keyboards! They can be real menaces, and at the same time, they can be cuddly. I guess it all depends. They can also be pretty loud. Anyway, they act like this their whole lives and they live 50 to 60 years… boy, how much of your life they take up!

I hope I’ll watch a classic movie soon because it’s been a while and I don’t have a passion for them lately. I am more into TV shows lately, I guess. In fact, right now, we are watching Popeye on TV. Sometimes I really love watching cartoons from my childhood. It takes me back to the simpler times and cartoons are just fun to watch. I love how things happen to them that wouldn’t happen to real people—that’s allowed because they’re animated! What is your favorite cartoon? I think my favorite cartoon from my childhood is Tom and Jerry :)

Have a wonderful night, my friends!

P.S. Photos courtesy of my brother :)

Time to get this blog started...

This is an interesting venture for me. I am actually writing a blog about myself and about my views/opinions/about life! Whoda thunk? I don’t think many will read this, but I recently found that writing helps me get through my emotions and writing also just makes me feel good in general.

Today, I had an emotional conversation with a close friend of mine. In a way, I felt like I broke that unwritten code of trust today. She assures me I did not and she still trusts me like no other; however, I felt like a very bad person anyway and was truly hating myself. It was a bad moment, I suppose, and I hope I didn’t go into dangerous territory there. I do not think I did, and once I wiped my tears off my keyboard, I felt better, laughing once again. If there is one thing that kills me, it is not proving that I am a good friend. I always thought of myself as a good friend my whole life, even if others did not prove themselves back to me. This friend has proved to me she is such a best friend to me time and time again. So I felt like I had one point against me and she was still perfect. But in fact, in the end, it wasn’t as bad as all that and I was having a terrible moment, I suppose.

If there is one thing I need these days, it is the loyalty of my closest friends. In fact, my closest friends do not even live in the same country as me, sadly. It is a sad thing that your best friends are so far away (and I mean far—on the other side of the world!), but there’s nothing you can do about that. You never know who you will meet in your lifetime, and I never would have thought I’d have such a friendship with these girls from different parts of the world—they truly are like sisters to me. After spending so much time with them in both my country and in Mexico, I find that I need them more than ever, and we just became even closer after this trip :)

I am a big classic movie fan, but what is happening to my devotion? I have not been passionate about watching them lately. I feel it may come back to me eventually, but it is very strange. At the moment, I have a new addiction—a modern TV show (that is actually still on!) called Desperate Housewives. Anyone who knows me thinks it is strange, haha, because I am actually addicted to a modern show! I just adore this show—full of drama, comedy (which I adoooore), and I am just in love with the characters. I feel like they are my friends, too, and one common theme in this show is women’s friendship. I feel like I have such a friendship now, except I’m a few decades younger, haha. They are not friends living on the same street as me, but hey, it’s something and I find many similarities all time! It’s a happy, wonderful thing.

I have to make a roast chicken for dinner…. so I must stop now. Have a good day, anyone who reads this :)

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