You are blessed...

If you are sitting at a computer reading this, you are blessed. If you live in a your own place, or with parents, you are blessed. If you are in school, of graduated, you are blessed. If you have family and friends that love and support you, you are blessed.

Yesterday I spent 2 hours at a domestic violence shelter where woman live with their children in order to get away from abusive relationships. The apartments have three beds in the common area, a room with 2 bonks, a small kitchen, and one small bathroom. These women literally walk in with the clothes on their backs and all this combined makes you look at your life and realize how luck you are. So next time you complain about not being able to go to that concert, just shut it... b/c there are families that can even afford to put food on their tables.

Lastly. With Veterans Day coming up we should really take a moment to acknowledge what the military has done for us. If you want to get some chills watch this commercial. It will make you cry and/or feel a little more patriotic...

Another weekend...another party

My pledge sis and others never fail to tell me I live the life of a character out of the OC, and I just roll my eyes, but I've started to feel like I am going/having as many parties as they did on the show. First it was the black tie CF gala. Two weeks later it was the Southbay Community Services event at the roof top club of the Ivy hotel. and finally two weeks later it is my dad's retirement party at my house..."Not your typical backyard bbq." So far there have been 55 people RSVP for Saturday and my mom is taking Friday off to set up. We hired a bartender and are having it catered by a Hawaiian food restaurant. I guess the one similarity b/t fact and fiction is that now that we are all adults we go to these events together, which in turn means that I have to get a new outfit b/c I can't wear the same dress from last year (please slap me. I can't believe I said that). The truth is however, after 6 weeks of these things I'm kind of glad my weekends are going to calm down. Life in the OC must have been really hard!!!


*please read into the heavy sarcasm

I wish that plans would work just once.

Being a girl sucks 5 days of each month.

If i had a punching bag... *punch* i try but always seem to fall short

Wifi is down. Hip is bruised. Lets all go get crazy tonight!

My 5 minute rant...

I'm not sure if you saw the VMAs, but I watched for the first time in like three years and I have never been so shocked as I was by what Kanye did to Taylor Swift tonight. He truly fulfilled the typical rapper stereotype by being arrogant, rude, disrespectful, and out of line when he bombarded the stage and stole the mic from Taylor. I know he has said he is the "best rapper ever", but Taylor Swift has more overall talent, tact and grace in her pinkie than he does in his entire body. She's 19 and writers her own songs and plays guitar and piano. What does Kanye do? Rhyme words into an audio phone? wow. I used to tolerate is cockiness b/c I liked some of his songs, but that ended tonight. I give total props to Beyonce for having such class and allowing Taylor to come back onto the stage and give her acceptance speech when Beyonce won her award. I really wish I could have seen Kanye's face, but luckily he had been kicked out. He has released an "apology", but it was so half-ass he might well have not. I'm sure this incident will create quite the raucous for 3 days, and I too will get over, but I wanted to voice my disgust.

If you didn't see what happened here are the clips and a link to his "apology"

Kanye's ambush


Beyonce giving Taylor the mic



Kanye's Apology

http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/


Ultimately, today was great b/c my very best pledge sis is in town and in my house for the next week!!!