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Monday, September 02, 2002 TODAY WAS SO FRICKEN' HOT. OH MY GOODNESS! WHAT THE HECK. IT HAS NEVER BEEN THIS HOT! NEVER! it felt like vietnam, except that you weren't all sticky.i have so much that i want to write about but i'm afraid once i get started, i'll forget what i'm writing. well here goes. this weekend, my cousins from up north came down to visit my grandma so we had our usual delightful get together of all the trans. usually when they come down, i always want to try to have things for them to do. especially my little cousins (who we call "kiddies") and who are growing up so fast! *sniff sniff. i don't know where to start. let me just start with this morning. i went to mass with my sister. [oh vanessa, another thing to do when you get back. come to my church to check out the teen mass and the "band"] after mass, we went to target where i found a lost boy. yes, that's right. we were walking out to my car, and i just noticed a car backing up and a little boy in the way. i ran over so that the car would see me. it didn't really occur to me that he was lost because their was a family walking nearby and i thought he was with them. but that family was getting into their car and they did not seem to be missing anyone. so i was trying to talk to the little boy and asked where his family or his mom was. he didn't answer, he was 4 or 5. i didn't really expect him to answer. but i asked him to take me to his mom, and he started walking back to the store. i then told one of the target employees near the door that he looked lost. and we were trying to find out his name. he backed up from us and we thought it was because he was afraid. he ran over to his dad and grabbed onto his leg. the dad didn't even realize that his son was outside the store and in the parking lot! he just got back in line! can you believe that!?!? even with all the kidnapping and missing children these days, the father didn't even pay any attention. jeez. exciting day no? oh yeh! i forgot. yesterday, i was driving home and my car ran out of gas. literally! it ran out of gas. it wouldn't run! my car just cruised along on the momentum and i steered my car to the side and luckily every so often, i was able to step on the gas pedal and it would accelerate a bit. it crawled up the jamboree exit ramp and i remembered that there was a gas station on birch and bristol, but bristol was a one way street. so i had to go all the way around. and as i was nearing, my car must've used every last drop because when i stopped at the lights (which just happened to turn yellow, then red as i crawled up to it) my car totally died. i had to wait and time it correctly to restart my car and drive to the next light. and once again had to stop because of the red light and restart my car because it died on me again. i luckily did make it to the gas station safely. whoo, wow, exhausting day. okay, back to today, after target i went over to my uncle's house on my mom's side to visit him. he isn't so well either. he lost a lot of weight and is really sick and i he has cancer. i say i think so because he doesn't want anyone to know and he only told my mom and a few other brothers and sisters. but he actually seems better than the last time i saw him. their house was in orange? i don't really know where they were located. just that you take magnolia all the way till you see brown and dry hills in front of you.it was sooooo hottt there!!!! oh my. after, went over to my grandma's house and visited her. yeah, she can't remember too well anymore. she has alzheimers along with everything else. she asks the same questions every 2 minutes. it's sad. but it's cool how my family can still laugh around her and joke how she acts "nho~ng nheu~" which is whining or being picky about what kind of water or juice we give her and how she's like a little kid. i dont' know, hard to explain, you have to be there. i was planning on taking all the cousins to see suburban legends if we had time and we did! it was great. they all enjoyed. the kiddies loved it and i'm so happy that they had a good time. an older cousin, who is 26? she thanked me for taking them and said she had fun and it was a great show. i am so happy. i'm glad i could do something or make an effort for them. i hadn't seen jennifer since wednesday so i had called her up a few times today, but couldn't reach her so i left a message. i missed her call and she said she was at the vsa banquet. i wonder how that went. i still feel like i'm missing something. so much went on these past few days. oh, we went to the beach yesterday. i t wasn't sunny at all. wished we could've gone today. that would have been refreshing. a while ago, before the cousins all departed, we took a bunch of pictures. imagine, what, 7 girls between the ages of 16-26, and 3 kids, piling on top of each other on a sofa for pictures. we hearded the couch because all the adults and kids were sitting there and we came over to the kids to get them in the picture too, and all the adults had to get up and get out of our way. i guess you have to be there too. but dude, there are so many of us it's kind of funny walking around downtown disney with a whole herd of the "tran clan" or the "tran train," as we like to call it. i'll write more later, i'm sleepy. i got maybe 5 to 6 hours of sleep last night and the night before i think i got 6? i'm not sure. i just know that that's not enough for so much activity going on during the day. that was like all the past weeks. the sleep that i did get did not balance out all the excitement and activity of those days.
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