The Legend of the Pink Wii Controller

Christmas time is a happy time because it's the second day out of the year (the first being my Birthday) that Vince buys me presents because he feels obligated to. This year, he has been super busy with his new theater opening up and what not so he asked me what I wanted for Christmas on Christmas Eve, reminding me that he was way too busy to buy anyone any gifts, but that he was on his way to the mall to buy all his managers gift cards. So I told him I wanted a pink Wii controller because it was pink and that way I could play Skyward Sword. Christmas Eve at work was pretty slow and since the closing managers got to work at 3 PM, I left early to spend some time with Nimbus. Vince (who had the day off, his last day off being Thanksgiving) comes up to me and asks me if I'm ready for presents and I said yeah, so he said "Ok, you have to find them" and I was like "Okaaaaaay?" so he gives me the first clue to my Christmas scavenger hunt.

First clue lead me to the place that is the most stinky in the apartment, which is my bathroom. HEY, I share it with a cat so its BOUND to smell like cat business. Anyway, I go in there and sure enough, I found my first present! A handy dandy-ROBE

Im gonna go ahead and assume that the only reason this is purple is because they ran out of pink. :3 I was pretty excited about the robe since I've never owned one! YAY. Inside one of the pockets of the robe was my second clue.

  

This clue was kind of hard because if someone says that to me Im obviously not studying, Id be playing Skyrim super hard. But, I found the present in the end and it was SO AWESOMELY PINK (and it was in my backpack)

My next clue was easy, it lead me to the washing machine where inside was the next clue, and a super awesome Dragon Tattoo t-shit that I seem to have misplaced at the moment but its black and on the front it has variations of the word fuck. It's kind of ironic because I don't cuss, but this way, I can just point to the shirt when Im angry and I can choose a different form of that very lovely word LAWL. The next and final clue lead me to the living room RIGHT NEXT TO THE WII.

Underneath the Just Dance game was a box, my heart raced as I approached said box (a skittles box stolen from work) my hand trembled as I opened the box. What could be hidden inside?! Why was it next to the Wii? There could only be one thing inside that small and glorious box. I opened it and I found two things needed to...

Make my own pink Wii controller -_-

I gotta admit, the idea of a scavenger hunt was pretty good, one of the reasons Vince did it was because he didnt want to wrap the presents lol. I loved all my presents!! After I found all mine I gave him his. The first one was a Monet calendar, he didnt seem too thrilled. The second one was new bed sheets, he also didnt seem thrilled. The last one, which I think was a surprise to him, was a remote controlled helicopter. He was super shocked and happy! He's been asking for one for two years now and I finally decided to get him one so he can have a little fun in his work filled life.

My mom got me green pajamas with kitties on them that say ME-WOW, a new laptop case for school and a starbucks gift card im PRETTY sure she re-gifted to me cuz she doesnt drink coffee and she knows I love me some chai tea. Rosanna gave me a PINK WATCH. I got early Christmas/birthday presents from Kevin (Skyrim and Skyward Sword!!!) I also recieved (from Vince's mom and bro) new oil paints, pink pajamas and a pink robe, chocolates, hello kitty car freshener, a flashlight and Nimbus got a stocking full of kitty toys!! All in all it was a nice Christmas. AND, I watched A Christmas Story for the first time ever. YES, I had never seen it before but now I can say I have truly had... a white Christmas LAWL.

All that wonderful Christmas joy was short lived, for I had to work on Christmas day! It actually wasnt as bad as I thought we were going to be. I think our attendance for that day was six to seven thousand. I ended up work 9 AM - 10 PM Christmas day (woohoo!) I was pretty tired, but glad that I was off Monday. I told my boss that if it was super busy I would come in to work but he said "Its not gonna be THAT busy" So Monday Im just chillin, playing Skyrim, doin laundry, eatin cheeseball when I get a text from my boss "Can you come in to work right now?!" I squealed with joy, because I wanted to work, and replied "YES!!!" and he said "Hurry! Run!" So I got ready super fast and was at work in 5 minutes (since I live RIGHT THERE) and I was like IM HERE and hes like DAMN THAT WAS FAST. So I worked 3-10:30 on muh day off. And I worked FLOOR. Needless to say, my feet are on fire! But Im happy to help out and contrary to popular belief, I am NOT working super hard just because my review is next month and I want a fatty raise!

Yup. So two more weeks until I start classes again. I cant wait! I really enjoy going to school now. It kind of gives me a sense of purpose and it makes me happy to learn new things. I just wish I could take astronomy every semester. Oh wells! Time to go GAME.

Oh and by the way, I did get my Wii controller :D

Merry Christmas and Happy New YEAR!!! 2012!!!

Griffith Observatory

HEHEHE. So I had to go on a field trip for my astronomy class. One of the places I could choose from was Griffith Observatory (although I wanted to go to Mt. Wilson, where Hubble measured the distance of galaxies but it is now closed for the winter!!!) so that is where I went! Josh was kind enough to accompany me on this most wonderful adventure! I had never been to an observatory but I have always wanted to go to one and school is a pretty good excuse to go to an observatory in my opinion! We got there at around 7 PM and it was super crowded! The observatory is right next to the Hollywood sign but it wasnt illuminated so that was kind of lame. ANYWAY, inside the observatory it was SO COOL. OH MAN I could go on forever and ever about how much fun I had! But I wont... but I will talk about the awesome show we saw in the planetarium! The star projector is one of the most sophisticated in the WORLD and it shows! When that thing came on it literally looked like the dome above us had disappeared! The entire sky was visible including the milky way band. It literally took my breath away it was so beautiful. The show lasted about 30 min and it talked about the creation of the universe and all the new discoveries such as dark energy. I want to go back there again! Another thing that sucked was that the telescope wasnt open because of the threat of rain so we couldnt see any planets or anything THAT would have blown my mind SUPER HARD... lolol. WELL, here are some pics!

After that we went to Pinks and it was DELICIOUS!!!

Feliz Navidad 2011 Part 1

**WARNING EMO POST**

I've been doing a lot of things by myself lately. It's all cuz Regal has stolen Vince away from me and I am forever upset. I understand he's busy, but understanding doesn't make you feel better. And I know he would rather hang out with his work buddies than with me and that does hurt my heart a little. I always thought of myself as a loner and I actually enjoyed being by myself but now, as I have suffered through prolonged loneliness, I realize that I do not enjoy it at all. I mean, I'm not gonna go insane if I dont talk to or hang out with someone, but I dunno. It's kind of interesting. Mostly, I miss my family. I haven't seen them in about 4 months and that's a long time. I feel this big ball of emptiness in my chest when people talk about their parents or siblings or even boyfriends (now) and all I have to talk about is Nimbus MY CAT. Sure, my mom and siblings drove me insane but that's what family does. I'm hoping that I can go see them soon. I dunno, I've just been super sad lately. I think Christmas in general makes me sad because it doesnt feel like Christmas. I know I've said this rant before, about how Christmas in Mexico is a million times better than it is here (and it's true) but, yeah, it's true. I wish I could re-create that awesome atmosphere at my house but I can't, because a lady and her cat cant have a warm and loving Christmas alone. And it doesn't help that Vince keeps reminding me that Christmas is cancelled because he's too busy for it :( Anyway, the cancellation of Christmas and the lack of family or holiday cheer hasn't stopped me from trying to create some holiday fun for myself.

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I wanted a real Christmas tree, but I am not just a lonely cat lady, I am a broke ass lonely cat lady, so I "borrowed" this pre-lit tree from the promo room at work. It's tiny, but what it lacks in size it makes up for with those awesome presents! It's the pinkyest tree I have ever had! The presents are empty... for now. Vince has been so busy with work he hasn't even complained about how small and fake and pink the tree is!

Disneyland is the happiest place on earth and it's also the most Christmasy place on earth! It was so beautiful there last night when I went with some of the San Marcos gang. We didnt get to go on It's a Small World because the line was HUGE, but we did get to see the cool light show! It was nice to be out and about on a Friday night like a cool kid.

Joanne told me about this super cool house in Nellie Gail that puts on a Christmas lights show to music! So I drove on over there and checked out all the awesome super NICE and HUGE multi million dollar homes all decked out in Christmas decor. Nellie Gail is where all them rich people live, mhmm. The outside of the house was awesome! They had a scrolling message thingy on top of that Christmas tree and you could text messages to it so I texted "Merry Christmas from Maritza and Nimbus!" you can't see in in this picture cuz I'm so far away but that's what it says!!

The family that puts on the light show encouraged people to go into their house to see their awesome decorations and OH MAN it was great. It was SUPER strange at first cuz here I am, all by myself, going into the house that belongs to rich white people. The house was AWESOME. The first thing you see is this upside down Christmas tree, which seemed kind of satanic to me in a way D:

The entire house was covered in mini Christmas towns like this one. They were really elaborate and awesome and they had themes! There was a Charlie Brown one and a Disney one and a Jesus one lolol.

This was on of their many rooms, which I guess was actually like a second living room or something I dont understand rich people houses but this tree was so cool!!

This was the entry way where the stair case is, pretty shnazzy.

This was from Dr. Seuss town.

Yup, I had a good time. There was one house on the same street that was just the most beautiful house I had ever seen. It was decorated so nice! I didnt take a picture of it but hopefully one day I can have a house like that! So those were my Christmas adventures for the week. Coming up soon is our holiday party at work, GINGERBRAWL, Christmas itself and then the most depressing day of all, New Years Eve! See ya'll soon!

OH! My brain!

OH MAN! I've been studying for my finals, right? So Im doing my astronomy work cuz thats the most fun and we've reached that part of the semester where we're done with the planets and all the junk in our solar system and we're moving to the stuff that's OUT THERE; literally and figuratively. So Im just chillin, writing stuff in my research notebook and I start thinking about the universe. Usually when Im studying for astronomy I have The Universe (a show on the History Channel) playing in the background and I play an episode that pertains to what Im studying. Yesterday though, I was watching an episode about parallel universes. A long time ago, when I was but a child, fresh and young and full of wonder, I picked up Science magazine (cuz I was a nerd back then too) and I read an article about deja vu and parallel universes. It said that the reason we feel deja vu was because there are infinite parallel universes where everything is the same, looks the same, feels the same and there are duplicates of all of us, but it's slightly different. So when our other self does something different from what we do, we feel it, and lets say that the other you is slightly ahead of you in space time, and decides "HEY I want to go to the mall!" and then two seconds later you're like "HEY I want to go to the mall! Woah... deja vu!" That was the first time I had ever really thought about parallel universes. I talked to some people about it but they thought I was crazy, and that's just the problem, isnt it? I've hung out with the WRONG kind of CLOSE MINDED people my entire life! So I put those blasphamous thoughts to the back of my mind for pretty much my whole life! Bringing such things up in conversation was not lady like, and you dont want people to think you're crazy or you wont find a husband! At least that's what my mom always said.

Anyway, so here I am, watching this show yesterday and two things happen: ONE, I come to the realization that I'm NOT crazy! Because here are quantum and astrophysicists, who are SUPER SMART talking about parallel universes and HOW THEY ARE REAL! And how there are three kinds! And TWO, why do I listen to people who tell me I'm crazy and to start acting my age and quit being weird? So I'm watching this show and it's like, the best thing ever in the history of the universe (haaaaaa)! The coolest theory on parallel universes was the one about our whole universe being in a cosmic bubble, and there are TONS of other universes in these cosmic bubbles. An ENTIRE universe, in a bubble? Can you imagine how big those are?! Well, they say (those quantum and astrophysicists) that these bubbles come in and out of existence in a blink of an eye, and that sometimes they collide together to make bigger bubbles! So get this: What if our little bubble one day collided against another one and then THE BIG BANG HAPPENED. :O So I was freaking out for most of the day because of that.

BUT THEN, last night before bed, I watched another episode of The Universe and this time they were talking about how every 26,000 years a catastrophic event happens on earth along with a mass extinction. So astronomers were trying to figure out what exactly happens because these events arent random. One guy (who is considered crazy in astronomy circles) hypothesized that there is a companion star to OUR star that has a super elliptical orbit and it only comes around every 26,000 years. We are studying stars right now in my astronomy class so I knew that yeah, it is possible for our sun to have a companion star. And as I drifted off to sleep this thought crossed my mind: In the universe, MOST stars are binary, that is, they have a companion star or even multiple stars orbiting around each other. Our sun, all alone, is actually weird because, as I said, most stars SHOULD have a companion. So what if there is a creepy mini sun in space right now orbiting our star, just waiting to wreak havoc on the earth? And if my non-estimates are accurate, then we are over due for a CATASTROPHE. But, other astronomers, who have looked for this companion star (they call it Nemesis) havent actually found anything so they arent worried.

In other news, the other day I was in my room drawing a comic on some post it notes when a thought hit me: when did I become such a lame-o? Back in the day, I was known as the weirdo in the corner who never talks but loves to draw. It feels like, in my old age, Im trying to get out of that, being a weirdo and what not, and try to be normal and an "adult" but, why? For who? Definitely not for me. Why do I want to be like everyone else NOW, when my entire life I've gone against the grain because even though I was shy and quiet, I was weird (but smart!) and that's how I got noticed. I am different, but that doesnt mean it's bad. In fact, in my eyes, that's good. Sure, I can be a cute girl, who is afraid of spiders and listens to pop music and giggles at the appropriate times but that's so boring because I'll kill spiders and listen to Nujabes and laugh at fart jokes because they are funny! Anyway, the reason for this rant is becuase the other night, when I came to the realization that I was stifling myself, and one of the things that was being affected the most was my creativity. I am not meant to be normal, its not written in my DNA. So take me as I am; a killer of spiders, a girl who laughs at fart jokes, a weirdo but most importantly, an artist and a free spirit.

My wall after I attacked it with post-its