Bud and June

It's the month of June.

I miss my old neighbors that lived down the street from us when we lived on Mohican St. in Hayward, CA. They were like grandparents. Always there when we needed them, and I'm sure they enjoyed the company too. Their grandson Taylor visited them occassionally and Bud was always talking about how we were going to get married when we grew up. Haha silly adults. One day after walking home from middle school there was a raccoon blocking our front door and I couldn't get in. I chucked a few oranges at it and it wouldn't budge. And yes I pegged the creature everytime with my amazing softball skills but no luck. So I decided to go over to Bud And June's house until my parents would get home from work. June made me a casper (hot dog) while we sat there and talked. I also remember their RV camper that they kept parked in the driveway. Bud was a carpenter and was always building/crafting something. He was very talented, but more importantly catered to my brother and I. He would let us come over and bug him for hours on end and our favorite- play in the saw dust. He called my brother "michael J Fox" and me "Sara Lee".  One night we went over to watch "mouse trap" while taylor was visiting. They also had family up in 7 hills, and there was a little girl named Cheyenne at their anniversary party. These are all just random memories but I wanted to type them out while I could still remember them. The last time I saw Bud and June was at their new house in manteca after taking a tour of CSU-Stanislaus my senior year of high school. 

post-turkey

Alright so I'm resurrecting this blog that I didn't use much to begin with. Had thanksgiving over in Highland again at my great grandma's house and got to see everyone plus new addition - Daryl! She is my Dad's cousin's daughter .... so my third cousin? I'm not really sure how that all works but it's pretty darn exciting. Don't expect much from me posting wise.... I'm here to read mostly. Happy Holidays :-)

college report

Colorado State University : Accepted
Fresno State: accepted
San Diego: no
Stanislaus: accepted hella days ago
SF: rejected . . haha j/k accepted
Miami University: Waitlisted
Saint Mary's College: accepted!

which one i'm going to . . none. freakin' decisions. i have one day to officially tell them or my applications get withdrawn. saint mary's is 42k a year . . .$650 deposit due monday . . oye. colorado is awesome . . .but something doesn't work. Hawaii payments , prom expenses . . . make that two seperate prom expenses and yeah . . my world literature class. i did get my tassle though , and lindsay ordered my senior shirt for me because i was stuck looking for a necklace for my dress. But i don't have a solo piece for trombone . . .but i got a bunch of other cool sheet music. i worked on my car alittle bit this morning , but someone tried to steal my fucking gas cap last night out in the union landing parkinglot. gotta go make smoothies

missing

i miss cruisin' in lola peacock with marion and screaming "THE REASON IS YOU!!!" to jessica , i miss having spanish class with stevie sushmi albert greg and whoever else . . .i miss zimbabwe , i miss hanging out a roberts house with all the arcadians and how we all were back then , i miss the fat rafting group at knight's ferry - buckethead , those random conversations friday's afterschool with all of us at lindsay's house , how kyle robert and i used to go out and play 20 questions at tony rama's , my papa'a el camino freshman year and paris sketches in the fog , all my memories with melissa , the way i could talk to the guy i owe a batch of snickerdoodles to on the phone from sundown to sun up and thats the reason i had that quiet ringtone , how i would talk to alex online . . . .for hours last summer and yeah untill the sun came up - that was so crazy 3 nights in a row , i miss robert and chillin in his car talking about all that stuff and running to the mall to get him a dress shirt for winter ball this year , haha linz robert and my jjj club wow, i miss writing those postcards too, summerschool! yeah you heard me those potlucks were awesome and i had a blast, how about mike michigan and his homies at calstatehayward . . not eastbay hell no , i miss my dog missey and my dad's '71 mustang , i miss that one television show "early edition" and doug . . . though that's easily replaced , i miss my awesome co-worker in home department at jc penny's . . mmy gumballs and singing santa baby at 1am , i miss riding horses and quad rides and my endless frustration with a cowboy , what happened to the thursday evening movie gigs at sushmi's , or the weekley bowling shindig we had going? , will the days when sitting in a circle in roberts family room at 5am talking about the buddha and other dimensions and how if we put our backs to eachother ever return . . .haha and the sugar game! and amy and tiff shopping in albertsons arguing about the effects of cough drops wow those were good blueberrie muffins , i miss the jazz festivals and marching season, swim meets in the freezing cold and eating those fruit snacks with everyone , i miss how i'd drive the trombones around and all of our food adventures and how we'd find time to blast coheed and cambria while i raced beween the band room and field . . . yeah it WAS tooo far to walk haha , i miss the conversations i used to have with bryan and being his bus buddy talking about why snl is so successful. i miss sophomore year with raymond and how we'd stay up so late complaining about those essays and using the weird fonts like jokerman on our titles so we always knoews who's was who's in campbells class . . and the time he was over untill 1am bullshitting a morroco project with me while eating chubby burgers, and i miss alan who kinda felt like a band brother , all the brass sectionals on that hill freshman year and the football games with chris drago and melissa , angelo making me cry freshman year . .. .okay marching season! , i miss chicago with dora making that dumb video while sarah and linz were sleeping and then linz popped up , i miss junior prom building too . . that was some fun times and how tj used to style my hair with jocelyn all awesomely , i miss sitting with craig janessa and dinah , "craig's good". i miss my little inside joke about rain with david . . . not the basis of the joke but just that we had a joke , i miss the barn dances that i used to go to with sara back in the day running around playing hide and seek and venturing around with mike hahaha oh yeah , camping used to be a anual activity for my family . . .it was cool , i miss the early mornings when my nannie and papa would pick my brother and me up to go to the delta and fish off their awesome boat , i miss you i always had to fight in the pool so i wouldn't drown from my super tall brother , and how i played monopoly with my cousin christina and uncles in milpitas every holiday. i misseven more that's alot i guess but i miss things and people that are right there everyday , practically in front of me but somethings different. remember that thing "how can i miss you if you wont go away?" well now i know that it's possible , and it makes me sad.

scotland and london!

Dearest homies of Earth,
I'm departing for Scotland and my trip to London soon and I just wanted to say "Peace Out" since I don't intend to email you all . . plus . . . .most of you are band people anyway! Much love to Joanna and Jason! Love you guys. Have a great spring break everyone and a groovy easter hunting for eggs if that's your gig. Us musical robots shall return on april 1st so , happy birthday to all the bunnies , sandy , sheena and tommy . . .hi tommy! haha i have study hall on april 6th. hopefully i'll still have my job when i return. right now im doing laundy and packing worrying about my passport . . stuff like that. oh yeah i remember good job to everyone that worked on the indian pride club and islamic circle assembly today . . i didn't cut it . yay to sushmi and deepali(sp) uh . . .don't hate on people. . .i love my friends!
-sarah

green thursdays

so i shall : i got accepted to colorado state on march 3 and i already set up an email adress with them. i got wait listed for miami university and i really want to hear back from Saint Mary's , Arizona haunts me. I managed to get a job at Jamba Juice and orientation was wednesday , i worked saturday , sunday and yeasterday. I already had to take off alot of time due to Scotland-related things. The AP spanish exam is going to be $82 and i have a deposit for Hawaii due already and Prom expenses . . .wow i really need to look into a dress , and maybe someone to go with? Barrera is way over his head and I cleaned out my car saturday after work before picking up my long lost friend Sara for the musical "Guys and Dolls" at washington high school. Go alex! I don't like fremont blvd. much but thursdays are awesome. I have a new friend , well not new . . just revisited so that's cool. My senior portraits came in yesterday and i went to my APS class today . . which yes is a change. I have a dentist appointment tomorrow during jazz which i kinda feel bad about because i need the rehersal for Jazz anyway , I'm quitting trombone lessons soon and we leave for pasadena on friday and scotland next thursday. This thursday is Saint Patrick's Day which I have been looking foward to awhile. I love thursdays and green . . oye colorado

Subject: Marriage
In a recent survey of grade school children, some interesting observations were discovered about:
HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY?
( 1 ) You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like
sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the
chips and dip coming.
-- Alan, age 10
( 2 ) No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to
marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who
you're stuck with.
-- Kirsten, age 10
WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?
( 1 ) Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by
then.
-- Camille, age 10
( 2 ) No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get
married.
-- Freddie, age 6
HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?
( 1 ) You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at
the same kids.
-- Derrick, age 8
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?
( 1 ) Both don't want any more kids.
-- Lori, age 8
WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE
( 1 ) Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know
each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough.
-- Lynnette, age 8 (isn't she a treasure)
( 2 ) On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that usually
gets them interested enough to go for a second date.
-- Martin, age 10 (wise beyond his years)
WHAT WOULD YOU DO ON A FIRST DATE THAT WAS TURNING SOUR?
( 1 ) I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the
newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns.
-- Craig, age 9
WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?
( 1 ) When they're rich.
-- Pam, age 7
( 2 ) The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with
that.
-- Curt, age 7
( 3 ) The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry
them and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do.
-- Howard, age 8 (this one has very good morals)
IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?
( 1 ) I don't know which is better, but I'll tell you one thing. I'm never
going to have sex with my wife. I don't want to be all grossed out.
-- Theodore, age 8
( 2 ) It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need
someone to clean up after them.
-- Anita, age 9 (bless you child)
HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN'T GET MARRIED?
( 1 ) There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there?
-- Kelvin, age 8
And the #1 Favorite is........
HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK?
( 1 ) Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a truck.
-- Ricky, age 10