Whether or not I believe Uriel is moving or not doesn't change the fact I need to start saving a massive amount of money. Around $1200 or so. I can do it in seven months no problem, as long as nothing comes up and I seriously budget myself. Why? Either, I need to put down for a new place (which Mel and I have decided will be downtown or South Beach) or I can get a new iMac, maybe a PC. Haven't decided which quite yet.

However, we have until around mid-February to know the real deal. Thats the deadline I've given, even though its his moving across the country, I have to watch out for #1 as well. Mel sort of wants to move out on our own regardless, I feel different. I guess I'm so used to Uriel being around. He's my baby brother, even though he's older than me. We've been through so much, he was my first friend here. I want him to succeed because I know he has the ability. I would feel a bit empty for a while, but such things I've learned to cope with.

Ah well. In the case Mel and I do have to move, we've chosen a couple of buildings that fit our budget. Like I said, we shall see. But December is almost here and I can't wait!!

Mapping out my four day schedule for Austin.

Christmas Eve I will be spending with Mum and Dad in the evening, so I'm free later in the evening and between 3:30 and 5:00pm. Anytime after 8pm I'm free, wanted to take Mel to the trail of lights, so if you wanted to come, call me~!!

Christmas Day I will be with the Ortiz family, at night we will probably hit up a gay club downtown to see my cousin preform.

Saturday will be spent with Mel's cousin's family, showing them the sights. Any Spanish speakers who wish to join can, since her family predominately speaks Spanish. Maybe free later in the night.

Sunday I don't have any serious plans as of yet.

Monday Doctor appointment early morning. Anytime between 9am-1:30pm I'm free. My flight leaves at 2pm.



Soooooo, if you wanna hang out then let me know! :]
Thats it for now.
Going to Orlando tonight, maybe hitting up MGM tomorrow, not too sure though.

A looot has happened in the past month. Almost got a divorce from Uriel, lost two friends, went to Epcot yet again but for free this time, got a friend of mine a job here at Tiger, planned out both my first year anniversary trip to Key West and our Christmas trip to Austin with Mel. Not to mention go to an Anime Convention, which has inspired me to cosplay, even though Mel is seriously against it. She's such a hater! Mmm, what else? Oh! Carnival is this weekend, and I'm super excited about that. We should have signed up to be in the parade...but it was too late! Plus, I don't have the body type to wear the skimpy costumes. Ah well.

The next thing coming up is Key West! We got a cute little B&B for a good price since it's off season. I'm so excited! I've never been to the Keys, but I've only heard good things. So thats in about a week or so. Hopefully my boss approves the request I sent. We've been planning this for a couple of months.

Alas, I must run. Lunch is over! I miss my LJ though...and I miss writing. I'm going to make more of an effort to update and keep up with people. Though I can't promise anything. :[

Well. Honestly life has been pretty dull. Money is tuff, but I get through it well enough.


This entry really is to say I'll be in Austin for Labor Day weekend. Even though I leave early Monday morning. Which kind of sucks. So technically I'm only in Austin for what, two days? And of the two I have all of Saturday packed with a family reunion. I may have the evening free though.


SO, if you wanna hang out, let me know.
Text me, call me. Whatever. :]

I think Mel's family is trying to convert me to becoming a Vegetarian. Possibly Vegan. Not that I mind...because there are some GREAT veggie/vegan dishes. Only real issue for me about getting to vegetarian is the cost of food.

Seriously though, I wouldn't mind just eating rabbit food. Lord knows I rarely eat meat as it is. And when I do...I eat those meatless Morning Star things.


On a side note: Vegan mayonnaise for the win!

I work in a cubical. No lie. I can play my own music, surf the web, and do work all at the same time. I do more work than anything of course. We have so many deadlines all the time I almost always have work to do. Makes time go by quicker, I suppose. I'm just sitting here waiting for 5:30 to roll around so I can make a grand exit and not have to sit in traffic too too long. Been really tired though, tired and angry. The angry part I have no idea where it's coming from but I'm always so worn out by the end of the day. But I get a hella good pay check so I can't complain too much. I can manage to pay all of my bills on my own. Just wish this angry feeling would just...go away. Ugh.

Aside from that I had a decent birthday, and probably will be the last one I ever really celebrate. Some people from work came, as did a couple of friends. We broke a pinata in the house which was pretty funny. We talked a lot. Mel got her hair cut, it looks really nice on her. I dig it. I have no idea what to do with mine. I think I'm just gonna let it grow out and then...I dunno. I want to go on a trip, that suffocating feeling is setting in. Mel says we're going to Puerto Rico in October for our one year anniversary. We'll see, but I'm secretly excited. I still can't believe it's been a year! Time has been moving by so fast.

Speaking of which it's a good time for me to leave this pop sickle joint.(It's actually very hot in the office at the end of the day.)I have a lot of house chores to do. Normally I like cleaning...but, eh. I kind of just want to nap.

I'll at least do laundry.

A lot of things have happened.

First.
I got a new job. At Tiger Direct, who just bought out CompUSA and what was left of Circuit City. It pays decent, but I have to work ten hour days from 7 to 5...which takes some getting used to. I've been at there for about three weeks now, I still don't understand a lot of things, but I'm getting there. I'm saving on gas and such, which is always good. Though my car insurance is run by a bunch of idiots. I don't even want to get into that crap. The same with AT&T. WTF is wrong with companies being full of shit? Makes me want to smack someone.

Aside from that money is an issue as I have like ten thousand bills to pay at the beginning of the month. So because of this issue I think I'm just going to have to end up going to Austin in December. Since Mum can't afford to fly me down in September. Which means Mel is going to come with me for Christmas and we'll spend New Years here in Miami since I can't miss too much work. Mel already has it to where we'll spend Thanksgiving with her parents eating Tofu-Turkey. W00t.

We didn't do much for the 4th. We spent it with Mel's sister and her in-laws. We watched the Fireworks at the beach in Key Biscayne, which was nice. Good vegan food and firwworks. Fun fun! Tony was there, Mel's sisters Mother in-law. Her husband died a few weeks ago, I met him when we first started dating. She's holding up good, she's super nice. It was nice meeting her.

But yeah...thats my life. Work...work, sleep, work. BAH!

Yeah, I was never your friend. I never encouraged you to go to school, to be more than you were.
Guess I should have introduced you to drugs and alcohol for you to have a substance abuse issue.

Since thats apparently what REAL friends do.

Cry me a fucking river.

I went to a party for this guy in my school. I don't really talk to him, but he's ok. The party kind of sucked, but I met a friend of mine's cousin. She was, not only gorgeous, but funny as hell. She talks as much shit about people as I do. But drunk people leave themselves open for that. We had more fun making fun of people than the party itself. Although, my inner ghetto person was jamming.

However, a couple of days ago I went to school to visit a teacher. When I walked into the classroom no one was really doing anything, so I just sat at the computer and listened to the conversation. It went along the lines about how Anglo men never seemed to date Anglo women in Miami. Not that there are many Anglo people in Miami anyway. No one had an answer so of course everyone had to ask the ONE white guy in the class if he dated Anglo girls. He laughed and said "no, because most of the time they're fake like plastic dolls. they get so much work done on them. spanish girls here mostly seem to be naturally beautiful. not to mention all the white girls I've attempted to date ended up being crazy." Which I've always thought was the opposite. But Miami is full of beautiful people. Annoying beautiful people, but they're nice to look at as long as they're not speaking. There are a few worth speaking too, but Miami is a poorly educated place overall. So, yeah.

But I've never dated an Anglo girl now that I think about it. o_o
I dunno why. I've dated a black girl before. It was ok.
Eh, I'm open to everyone though.
I just don't really dig on Mexican girls.
Give me a Cuban or a Puerto Rican any day, ha-ha~!
(Greek girls are supa hott as well. btw.)

LOVE this new show on Nick. It was originally a web cartoon.
Mel and I like it so much we named our hamster Vendetta. Lol.

Soooo, funny little story. My roommate is not into Anime, but he likes some of the music I have from them. He's been dating this guy (nothing official, yet) who oddly enough, LOVES anime and was surprised to hear some of the instrumental music from Uriel's ipod. I LOL'd mostly because I remember he had told me he could never see himself with someone who likes anime. However, because this guy can dress pretty good, he's making an exception. My little Uri is growing up so fast!

Mel doesn't like Anime, though some of the story lines I tell her about peek her interest. Sadly we'd have to watch them all in English. I know...but Spanish is her first language so it's hard enough having to read it at her own pace. Trying to read subtitles is just out of the question. Although...maybe I can find some that come in Spanish? We'll just have to see.

Hmm...I need to review my list of Animes to watch.
Though...I think I trashed it while moving. D:






....boo, my lunch break is over. Back to the grind with me! Ugh.

I guess I'm not over it still. Over two things really.
Still thinking of them makes me sad.
And angry...and hateful.



But that isn't me.
I don't hate forever, and I don't dwell as much as I used to.
However, today it settled in for a few moments.



Now I have to work.
At least I look cute today.

Happy birthday V!!

Luff you, bitch!

My morning was all wack, and now I'm home packing.
I really have no motivation to do it, but I need to!


I wish I could watch me some Law & Order. For realz.

I wanted to write about this, only because I was reduced to tears when it happened.


When I was in middle school my best friend disappeared only to reappear when her mother forced her to see me. We were like sisters from elementary school. She was there when my Abuela died, she saw me through the beginnings of my depression. But she changed for the worst. Drugs stepped it, laziness stepped in, and I lost her. Somedays I would see her walk by my house, my parents would see her around town. Then her Mom died, my Junior year of high school. She cried when she saw me, because if it hadn't been for the newspaper I would have never known her Mom had died. I wasn't invited to the wake, but I went anyway to say goodbye...to both of them. And I did. Cindy's picture still sits in our living room "We Miss You" written in dry-erase marker on the glass. We think about them all the time, I never saw Melissa after her mother's wake.

About a week ago I got a message on myspace. She found me, after all this time. We've been talking everyday for the past week or so. Its so weird, she has kids, she's been through a lot. I don't know if we'll be friends again, but I'm kind of hopeful. I don't know. I feel like I got something back I've been missing for some time. I just hope it'll be worth sticking around for.

We're moving to a new apartment by the middle of this month. A townhouse really! 3 bedrooms 2.5 baths. I haven't packed a thing! Been slacking off a lot. We'll still be in Hialeah, but more in Hialeah Gardens than anywhere else. Not a big change. It'll be farther for Mel to go to school, but she knows that. Had some life scares, but it all turned out alright. I don't know...been thinking of moving back to Austin in a year or so. Miami is just...getting old, fast. Money is an ever growing issue, and I need more of it.


I also need some more change, but maybe this move will help with that feeling.
(Even though I want to move home in another year or so.)
We'll see.



so much to do, so much to do!

So I finally put my car up for sale.
If you may know someone who is looking for a car, let me know! Or direct them to this link!


http://miami.craigslist.org/mdc/cto/1133653908.html

So, because all the journals I have been reading have been emo for the most part I have decided to share some images taken at PRIDE this year for the first time on Miami Beach. It was...FAGtastic.


( Everyone loves the gays... )

Aside from that I'm off to the school board to sign up to be a Substitute teacher. The pay isn't all that bad, $100 a day from what I've heard. I know I have to take a test too, but the school system pays for it. So We'll see how that goes. Applied to a bunch of other places for part-time work.

Also gotta put my jeep up on Craig's List. Need to sell it a.s.a.p since my parents have decided NOT to help me pay for the insurance. Mmm, I need money. Which sucks because I need to move somewhere cheaper, just hope the place we found goes through! It would bring us down to $500 each, rather than $650. I know I have my fingers crossed!

Other stuff...my plant I thought had died came back to life! Yay!

If you haven't seen this already - YOU MUST.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRmM1J1sfg
I almost cried listening to her voice. It's just....beautiful. Big wake up call for a lot of people I think. I want her album when it comes out. (Simon supposedly started the process of signing her to a label five days after that. Crazy!)

Also. I got a car. An electric blue 2009 Nissan Versa. I loves it. Now I have to hustle to pay it off. But seriously...it was about time.

This trailer has been out for a while. The first time I saw it I thought it was a joke. But no, it's real.
I want to see it...but at the same time I don't want to spend the money.


LOL @ Goku being a white guy and Bulma looking like crap.
Also...Where the hell is ChiChi and Yamcha?
And who is the chick with Piccolo? Whaaaaat.

I went to Orlando and despite some last minute drama we were able to hit up both Universal parks and two Disney parks. It was awesome!! Though the day we went to Epcot was awful. We got rained on, we were exhausted from Magic Kingdom. So, I didn't really enjoy it as much as I would have liked. But I want to go back to just Epcot sometime. Luckily we went when there wasn't that many people though the lines were kind of long. Of all of them I think I like Universal the most, heh. But I had fun everywhere we went. Will definitely have to go back when I have money.

Aside from taking millions of pictures on my trip not much has been going on. Although I've decided to start my own Non-profit for at risk kids aiming more for young girls. I've gotten in touch with a couple of other organizations that are interested in the same things. So I hope to be doing some volunteer work soon. Even though I'm still looking for a second job. Though if all goes well I'll start receiving food stamps soon so money wont be so hard since I'm paying my own rent now. In addition we're going to have to cut the cable. $28 is money I need to save. But I'm hoping things will get better.

I walk the stage for graduation in June. Kind of excited about that. Mom and Dad will be here, as will my crazy uncle. I may be coming home for a couple of days in June or July, haven't really made the plans yet. I'll keep everyone posted. However, today is Easter and again I feel a little lonely because I'll be missing out on the BBQ my family does every holiday. Meh. Maybe next year, like I always say.

Anyway, off to start another day.