Jo Koy!

Yay! So we went to the Improv last night to see Jo Koy and OH MAN!!!! I nearly wet myself he was so freakin' hilarious! AND... I must say I'm a little proud that he's flip! hahaha... I think for a moment our table had our own little show. Good times though. Too bad my cousins and their cousins didn't make the show in time... missed out BIG TIME! I would recommend anyone and everyone to catch his shows. It's a shame his name isn't more out there. I admit I didn't hear of him until he came here, but the world should know he's freakin hilarious! Compliments to Irene for the picture... I left my camera. oops!

Hey Jo Koy if you are reading this COME ON OUT WITH US TONIGHT! See what Houston has to offer!

10 Year Runion

So I'm surfing the web and I think...Oh... maybe my 10 year class reunion has been posted on Reunion Scoop (www.reunionscoop.com). So I check it out and it has. July 28, 2007 at (drum roll) The Swinging Door in Richmond Texas... WTF?! Yeah. I mean let's not support the damn stigma high schools in Texas already have but hey, let's hold the reunion in a barn! ARGHH!!! I'm so disappointed! I went to the website (www.swingingdoor.com) in hopes that maybe it's not as bad as it sounds but look for yourself. It IS bad!

I mean I still want to go but damn... even prom was in a hotel!! Why not our reunion? Or atleast some decent banquet hall!

Town Center Lighting

My very first MOBILE BLOG! Well Kind of. I took the picture on my phone... later realized that I can "mobile blog" and tried it out and well... it's cool! Now I don't have to go through the process of uploading the pic from my phone first then saving it to my hard drive so I can then add it to my post.

So anyway, Junior and I head to the Sugar Land Towncenter lighting Nov. 30, 2006. We were supposed to meet Kathy, but never found her in the crowd. It was pretty cool! They had performances and even Santa Clause that came down on a zip line from the top of the Marriott down to the stage. The lit the tree (see pic above) but I didn't have my camera on me. So I had to use my camera phone. I know, not the best pic but I had to make do with what I had. Shortly after that there was a little (and I mean a little!) snow falling!!! At first I thought it was all part of the show but no... it was real! But again... VERY LITTLE... not enough to make a difference really. But it was cool!

Thanksgiving-Tecson Mansion

Ok... I got really lazy to post this one because we took SOOO many pics! So I saved my draft and now I can't add pics. So summarize...

Last stop was at my brothers house where we stayed until early hours of the morning. I played my very first game of Texas Hold 'Em and WON thank you very much! They say iwas beginners luck... I say it's skill! hahahah just kidding! It was probably the bottle of champagne sitting on the table that I finished! I had a pic of that too. oh well.

We played pool upstairs... som played video games upstairs... and then of course everyone was always going back and forth to the kitchen to snack. It was great hanging out with all my relatives like that!! Like old times.... Good times!

Thanksgiving-Blinder Household

Next stop was with Junior's family. I don't think anybody really planned on taking pictures, but the dogs were being cute as usual so they wanted me to take pics. Here they are:

Holly and BJ sitting with me (Junior took this pic)

Another pic of the two, but BJ looked at the camera...

Hershey (who's pregnant!) being a princess as usual...

Holly being Holly...

BJ looking up at Junior, Hershey still being a princess in the background...

BJ... TOO cute! (BJ=Bundle of Joy)

Holly.. STILL chilling on my lap

Hershey

Thanksgiving-Robinson household

First stop Thanksgiving day was at Imacel and Mike's house. It was supposed to be a brunch but ended up just being lunch. Didn't take too many pics b/c I knew I'd see them later on that night.

Junior with Mykaella

Shawn and I

Shawn and Junior

Junior and Mykealla (again)

Shawn (switching vidoe games); he looks funny jammed in there... look at his toes!

Dallas-Sunday

Pics from Sunday... out of order. I'm still learning this blog thing and I'm too lazy to rearrange them into order.

Rach on our way home in Brian's truck. Windows, heating or a/c and radio didn't work. ghetto.












IJ fell asleep for little bit
Pic of Downtown Dallas














Having lunch at Landry's. Looks like my brother is making faces right? He's actually pointint out his sclera. hahahah... hey man... we just took the ABOC!









Brother and sister...
Random Pic
Brian fell asleep AT the table!












NOW he's making a face...
This one is his sad face b/c he thinks he faild the test...
Going into Landry's...
Another pic of Downtown Dallas.

Dallas

I'm freakin behind. oh well. I only have one reader anyway... that I know of. hahaha! Sorry Irene. Alright... backtracking... AGAIN.

The weekend Nov. 17-19, 2006, we (me, Manoy Mark, Brian, Rachelle, Jose, Lupe and IJ) head to Dallas to take the ABOC (American Board of Opticianary Certifcation). Actually, Rachelle, Lupe and IJ came just to come. They didn't take the test.

So the test was on Sunday but we left Friday night. The "plan" was to get to Dallas Friday night with time to go out, study some Saturday, go out Saturday night, test Sunday morning. Uh... yeah. Not so much.

Well I rode with Brian Friday and we didn't get to Dallas until almost 1am. So much for "going out." Ok ok ok I take that back. We did hang out for about 30 mins at
Firewater.







Ok, this pic I took b/c it was HILARIOUS! Lupe was obviously drunk. And he kept talking and talking and TALKING about hit girl issues. Anyway, so my brother (as the night went on) got more and more UNinterested! It was so funny b/c as the night progressed he was leaning further back more and more and Lupe was leaning in more and more.


















So we get back to the hotel and everyone still drinks a little bit and IJ actually tries to show us how to "crimp walk." Call me old, but until that night that was the first time I've even heard that term. So... anyway.

Saturday rolls around and I get up early and meet my brother downstairs in the lobby to study at about 10 am. Well actually, he was there since 8am! Lupe leaves the room at about 9 am to head to his car to talk on the phone (as usual). Jose and IJ are asleep and we assume Brian and Rachelle left to go get breakfast and maybe study b/c Brian's car was not next to Lupe's where he parked it last night. Closer to noon (everyone still doing what they were doing 2 hourse earlier) my brother gets a call from Brian sounding like the just woke up. So my brother is all, "Did you just wake up? We thought you guys left since your truck isn't here." Yes, that is where it all begins. Long story short, someone stole Brian's truck.

On the bright side, the cops found it... on bricks. What the ghetto, right? Here are a couple pics...
Apparently they broke his steering column to drive it off to this spot about 2 miles from the hotel. Jacked all his wheels (even the spare) and almost emptied out the truck. they even took out testing pencils! Luckily they didn't take his paycheck. With his paycheck and mapquest directions to the hotel, the cops were able to put two and two together and tracked Brian down at the hotel. Since the only other car we had was Lupe's... Brian, Rachelle and Lupe spent the ENTIRE day taking care of this mess. It really sucked for them. Brian had to get new wheels (well not new really... just something to roll on). AND he had to get a new battery. They stole that too! They started the car, then took the battery out and rewired it so that it was still running. SO... he had to get all that fixed. I felt really bad for him.

In the meantime, we (me, Manoy Mark, Jose and IJ) were back at the hotel trying to study, watching moveis and just haning out. Mind you, Manoy Mark and I had been studying since 8-10am and it was now almost 8pm! So we were majorily hungry with no car. We were waiting for the others to get back, but I think they AND us were too hungry to wait until then. So we ordered pizza. and hung out until we fell asleep.

Here Manoy Mark amnd Jose are TRYING to studay while watching a movie...









IJ Bored out of his mind...












ME... DONE studying... bored and realizing I am in almost no pics... so I took this one...










Random shots...

Last Saturday

This is the only pics from this that night hanging out with Irene and Jewell again b/c although I brought my camera, the battery was dying. Oh well... Irene took pics. So that night was pretty jammed packed for me! Junior and I went to my cousin's husbands 50th birthday party before meetig up with Irene. Here are a few pics...

What a weekend

Ok... so I've kind of procrastinated on my blog thingy. whoops. well shoot, you can read Irene's blog to get the details! Ok but let's back track a little.

So last Friday (Nov. 10) we go out to Muna's house for a small house party but really it's to meet Jewell, Irene's new man! Whew! Hadn't done that in a long time! Having a party like that, that is! Had some drinks (ahem...) played some games, had some REAL interesting talks. Good Times. Oh! And I brought my karaoke and Muna's TV is weird! It wouldn't work! Her TV outlet SAID "VIDEO 4" yet... her and Shine were like, "We don't have a video 4." But some people were REALLY determined to get the damn karaoke working. It was quite a few people, too, might I add.

So Irene and Jewell are trying to figure this thing out right. No success so far. So Mr. Hau over thinks since HE is the IT guy, he can figure it out.

Nope. No dice there. So wait a minute. Well let's have Shine try because well... it IS his house. I mean he should know how things work around there right?

That's right... the answer is no. hahaha... So what does that prove? My man was smart enough to stay out of it. HAHAHA! Just kidding! It proves... it just wasn't meant to be a karaoke night! So we played Scene It! Movie and we KILLED that game! hahaha... ok ok ok...

Here are some pics...

As I was taking a pic of Suzanne and Hau, Suzanne says to Hau, "Look happy!" So Hau did... a little TOO happy though!

So she has me take another pic of them and she tells him not too look TOO happy or something to that effect. What does our friend Hau do? That's right... he looks... dead? hahahha... what a nut!

Ok more pics below...

Ok... now the one with Irene and Jewell where he is making the Hawaiin sign... hahaha!! Funny... anyway! So as I'm posting this I'm watching TLC right? It's about some littel girl born with some face defects and long story short, she can't talk. So she has to learn sign language. They show some kids sign language program and gues what the lady in the video is doing? THAT SIGN!!!! Apparently it means "play."