BYAHH!!

I'm way sleepy and tired so I blog real fast.  Um.  I bought a toothbrush, a lightbulb, and some brownies at Target today, and met more people from the UCM facebook group.  :O  Then I had a headache so I had to stay in the dorms while my other suitemates went on more adventures to the Lake and whatnot, but Michelle stayed behind too, so we watched Pride and Prejudice together.  I learned that my internet CRASHES something epic whenever I try to transfer a file, because I kept trying to send Phuc some photos of my room and it kept failing really hard.  It also crashes a lot cos it hates me.

I learned that the dining hall food is actually pretty good, or at least my dinner was pretty awesome.  And umm, that my bed is really squeaky and makes me sad at night.    And that delivery trucks in the middle of the night ARE LOUD AS ALL HELL.  They're even louder than the trains I lived next to back in Sacramento!  I mean, I thought I got away from the whole waking-up-to-honking-and-instantly-thinking-omg-it's-gonna-crash-into-my-room-and-now-i'm-gonna-die thing.

Here be the photos I gave up on file transferring and ended up uploading them onto photobucket to show Phuc!

Then tomorrow I get to see Phuc again cos he and some of our mutual friends will be visiting!   YAYY!!  I'm so freaking excited. 

let me shake up your world

k bye for now!

Hello, world!

I am now a resident of UC Merced!  It was a really weird experience because I imagined waltzing in and being super excited to meet everyone.  Instead, because there was a 20-minute unloading time limit, it was super rush-rush "AHH GET IT ALL OUT OF THE CARRRR!"  :O

My parents and I had lunch at KFC (XD) and then they took me back to my dorm.. AND LEFT!!!  SNAP!!  AHH!

I started mingling with four of my suitemates (one went swimming) and we hung out a lot!    Yay!  The assembly was super boring but well-intentioned.  Lol.

But after the assembly was pretty bomb.  (yes, new slang!)  My suitemates and I swung by the block party, where we met our neighbors!  :O  We chatted a bit until we went to their suite to watch Demitri Martin, then we headed to Yosemite Lake for a First Day of College Adventure. 

Although the park was closed ("orite, these things close after sunset"), we found a place to lie down and stargaze.

And I have to admit, as much as I've ripped on how small and unnerving UC Merced is, I have to say that the stars there are quite a sight.  Since the university is so far from town, I was able to see all the stars I've never been able to see in all my life in big towns like San Jose and Sacramento.  It was my first time seeing the Big Dipper and Orion's Belt!    kewl beans!

OKAY TIME TO SHOWER COS I'M ALL HOT AND GROSS COS THE A/C IS BROKEN

bye for now!

Hi!

So for like, the last week, I've been starting entries and never finishing them, so I'm just going to submit this wherever I happen to end.  >_>!

I am barely near done packing, which is pretty bad considering I move in THREE DAYS.  So I will get back to that once I am done with this.

On Saturday, I had lunch with Mrs. Choate, my kindergarten and first grade teacher (yea, that's right)! She wanted to get together before I left for Merced, which I thought was really groovy!  :]  We ate at BJ’s, where she gave me a folder full of stuff I made in kindergarten and the poems and stories that I wrote and e-mailed to her over the years!  XD  Something embarrassing that I saw in all my stories: in all the stories that I wrote as a young'un, I gave EVERYONE Japanese names because I was SO into anime at the time!  >.>!   Ahh!

But besides that, I've been happily going to a bunch of going-away parties because it's AWESOME seeing all my friends before I move!    Yayyy!

now i srsly need to keep packing

splashes the soul of my shoes

Bye for now!

Nyar!

So, I spontaneously forgot about my experience at church on Sunday in all the excitement of baking brownies and planning for UC Merced.

But, we had a guest pastor from the Philippines on Sunday, because it was Priest's Day in the Philippines.  And his accent was just ridiculous.  Because for a person that flew in from the Philippines just last week, he had a much better American accent than a lot of people I know that have lived here in America for decades!  Snap!

Then, in the middle of blessing the Eucharist, he sneezed.  And I said, "Bless you," and suddenly felt like I said something super inappropriate.  D:  Because he was a priest.  Went through years of training to be God's servant and share God's word with the world and baptize babies and give last rites and bless all of God's followers.  And I just go to church every other Sunday and daydream about other stuff during the slow parts of mass.

So, big question: What is the appropriate response when a priest sneezes?  "And also with you"?  D:

But yeah, while I am excited for moving to UC Merced, meeting Dani, joining the Bakery Club, eating curry at lunch, actually starting classes is way less appealing.  No more waking up at noon everyday and sleeping at God-knows-what-hour, and no more wasting the day away just playing Restaurant City and watching The Office.  I'm bummed out whenever summer vacation is nearing a close.  Ugh, studying!

On another note, I won thirty dollars at the casino today!  Lol.  XD;;;

you're a star in nobody's eyes but mine

Bye for now!

Nyar!

Bless UC Merced's heart, but their webmail system is terrible.  It blows chunks.  It's impossible to categorize messages as spam or delete anything and is very cluttered.  I finally gave up, made a new yahoo address, and now have all my UCM mail forwarded there.  So among my several e-mail addresses, christa.caneda@yahoo.com is now an option for all of you that want to e-mail me.  >_>!

But, I finally started baking for the first time since my traumatic "I put too many eggs in these" cupcakes!  I'm still not pro baker or anything but I'm uberly excited about it!    I made cupcakes last week and I made some brownies yesterday.  Here's the s'mores brownies that I made (sans the graham crackers 'cos we didn't have any of those in the house) with a side of strawberry ice cream (which is an odd-tasting combination):

I secretly want to get really good at baking so that I can be one of those cookies/pie/cake-making mothers when I grow up, and all the children will want to hang out at my house because I make the BEST cupcakes out of all the other moms, and my child will be super popular because his/her mom is sooo freeeakin' cool and awesome.    Practice makes perfect!

I'm also getting increasingly "AHH" about my UC Merced funds, despite the reassurance that I'm fully paid for freshman year.  It's just very intimidating once you're actually billed for $10,000 and you have no money.  >_>!  So I've been freaking out at financial aid on my FA disbursement and at Clara Abbott about sending me my scholarship check on time and at all these crazy deadlines.  Oh, college!  Oh, college.

don't you worry about the distance

Bye for now!

Wee!

Happy 18th birthday, Phuc! 

For real this time.  In light of all the presents I gave him in the days and weeks before his birthday.  >_>!

I had a delightful time celebrating Phuc's birthweek!  :3  It was very much the most I've ever been out with my Sacramentian friends in a week since I moved here to Sacramento.  Which is four times in a week, including my bike ride on Sunday.  Lol.  <_<.

Our anniversary/"the first day of Phuc's birthday" was on Tuesday, and we went to the Sacramento Zoo!  We passed through the reptile house a few times because it was air conditioned, and the giant snake scared me everytime, and it was impossible to convince me that the dwarf crocodile wasn't a taxidermied animal (IT LOOKED SO LIFELESS D: ).  I also really liked sitting down and just watching the flamingos be flamingos.  One of the highlights of the zoo was definitely this red panda that slept soooo lazily!

On Wednesday, we wanted to go see a free screening of (500) Days of Summer near Arden Mall, but we got there late so the movie was full, and we went to chill at Arden Mall instead.  :O  I totally showed Phuc my new flip-flop tan (*SO PROUD*) and we grabbed pizza afterward!  And on Thursday, we had dinner at TGI Friday's, which was cooooooo'.  :3

So yee!  Happy birthday Phuc! 

AND, on another note but similar note since Phuc's birthday IS on August 1st, it's now August!!!  AHH!  Meaning I am moving to Merced and starting my college career this month!  OSHIZZAP!  Most of July was spent watching The Office and playing Restaurant City, so I need to buckle down on dorm shopping and reading my summer reading book.  >_>;

Note to self: Ask parents when they get home to ask when we can go to San Jose.  Lol, I keep forgetting.

pa-chow!

we had a promise made; we were in love

Bye for now!