HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY!

Today my great-grandma, Atai as we great grandchildren call her, turns 100! I can't believe it. She's the first born of all her 8 (or 9?) brothers and sisters, and looks like she's the healthiest of all, thank God. She used to baby sit me when I was younger and she was always very kind to me. While my older cousins neglected me for being the youngest, she came and played with me. 
I remember once Cristy, Yoyi and I were playing with some building blocks and I didn't know how to put them together. My cousins, mean as they were didn't want to teach me; then my great-grandma came to the room and she taught me. That might be the most colorful memory I have of her. 
What I love about my great-grandma right now is that even though she's old, and can't walk as she used to, she's still happy and says hi to children and smiles at strangers. Even in her grumpy days she always takes a laugh out of you. 

Happy 100th Birthday Felicia!

Happy Sunday (07/21/2013)

Today we went to lunch as usual, and my great grandma made a ball out of the straw's paper cover. She played with it as if she were a little girl, how sweet. After that my grandma made her a bigger ball with a napkin and she kept throwing it at me! Like more than 10 times, and it hit me right in the head and she laughed!

YouTube Daily Shoutout #23

I love the Power Rangers, not the ones from now but the ones from the very beginning. This is a video I found showing the 20 different Power Rangers we've had. I funny that I only recognize until the Power Ranger Mystic from 2006, and it wasn't that I watched it a lot, it's just the most recent I can remember of.

This is a video of a woman who was deaf and hears herself for the first time at the age of 29.

And this is a video I found really funny. I really doubt these tweets are real because I search one of Kanye's and never found it. I don't know, maybe some are and some are not or it was and was deleted by the user. 

Family Sunday (6/30/2013)

Today mom and I went for lunch with my grandma and great grandmother to Multiplaza Mall. They ate at Crepes and Waffles while I ate chicken tenders from Carl's Jr. I know what you are thinking.. "How lame, you could have eaten a sophisticated crepe but chose mediocre chicken tenders". The thing is: I've always been like that. Choosing crappy food over luxurious one. After lunch we went and bought Cristy's birthday cake at Dairy Queen (Oreo Blizzard), then we stopped by the tech store to pick up dad's new tablet (which is totally a surprise) and finished our outing going to the super market. 

When we got back home mom went to charge the new tablet while I read my new book: "Beautiful Disaster" by Jamie McGuire which is turning out pretty good. Right now I'm about 50% of the book through and don't know how is it going to develop because there has been so much drama in this half of the book. Also the girl is finally with the guy who she's supposed to be, at the middle of the book. I have no idea what's coming ahead. 

At 6:30 we went to a Chinese Restaurant in celebration of Cristy's 23! The menu was kind of put together by her, so there was a lot of green stuff. Everybody showed up at the dinner, including my dad, Luis and David (Cristy's boyfriend). We had a nice time and specially enjoyed the birthday cake, yummy!

When we came back home we gave dad our present! He was so so so excited! I though he was going to be mad because we spend so much money on him, but he was actually thrilled to have a new toy. We spent about hour and a half installing his games, e-mail, and else. He was smiling the whole time, so happy we got him that; specially now that he is working on the mines and has nothing to do and no way of contacting with us. I miss him so much :( But I'm happy we got to put a smile on his face tonight. 

I'll miss my pop so much when I departure for college, and my mom too. Poor mom, she'll be alone at home, and dad alone at work, while I'll be alone at college. Either way we'll make it through.

I loved this day, primarily because of dad's face when he got his present. Life's not about presents and objects, it's about the joy that comes out of them, or out of anything. Material things are not bad ways of happiness, but is another source capable of giving us joy. 

Seize the day!

Never regret, but do remember those regrets so the next time you won't regret. Learn from your actions, it doesn't matter if it's the third time you've made the same mistake as long as you learn from it someday. You only live once, you go out and seize the day; be kind to all, because they may lack something you have: the value of life. Happiness is contagious, go out there and spread the virus.