dirt and dresses.

lately i've been getting requests from a certain cousin of mine, whom shall remain nameless, to post more pictures of her and me.  there was no specific request as to what decade these pictures had to be from and she even sent me her multiply page to ensure that i had a plethora to choose from. 

bottom line is that her and i are very close in age, but were completely different beings as children.  i liked to wrestle while she just wanted to dance.  i played basketball while she played the flute.  she put glitter on her while i just rolled in dirt.  see the differences?

my other cousin, who shall (i) ALSO (like corn) remain nameless, was my idol growing up.  i would follow her around or do things for her, like run up and down the stairs 3 times just because she thought it was funny that i was trying to beat the pretend time she was taking.  i think to this day i still do stupid things with her, like eat ice cream that tastes like perfume (we blame bahar and her people for this one).  

but without further a doo-doo, here are the highly anticipated pictures:

i think we were holding hands and i was told to show off my dress.

i think mena's dress is on backwards and cristina just thought she was, as seda would say it, daaaaaaaaaaaa baaaaaaaaaam!!

the story of the sally's.

a little story for all of you:

one day a girl named tessa went to boston.  whilst in boston the cinco de mayo j's (pronounced sally's) were released.  tessa and her friend patty felt festive and bought themselves a pair.  considering there's no tax in boston, the purchase became that much sweeter.  the girls wore them that night, after meticulously lacing them, as only those who appreciate j's (pronounced sally's) would do, and fully took in the glory of the fresh pair of j's (pronounced sally's).  

now after fully appreciating them once, young patty decided to treat her feet to another glorious day of j (pronounced sally) wearing.  but this day did not turn out as glorious as she had hoped.  with tessa being in cebu, and patty in boston, the fateful message came in the form of an email sent from patty's crackberry.  the email read: 

 Soooo....while I was walking to the library just now it started baby drizzling. I'll give you ONE guess as to what shoes I'm wearing today.  :(

this filled tessa's imagination with visions of deep, ankle high puddles to which the j's (pronounced sally's) would completely drown in.  forgetting the resourcefulness of her friend, a response to the email was sent asking what condition the shoes were in.  patty's response came in the form of a picture:

THE END.

p.s.  good luck on finals, to my fellow j (pronounced sally) loving friend!!!!!

mama's day.

this is a special mother's day shout out to the woman who raised me, lourdes vicenta ligot escaño fernan.  she's the only one i know with more names than me.  HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

circa 1983

also, happy mother's day to all the mother's, father's who have double duty as father and mother, and most especially all the soon to be mothers.  the world is much better off with the love and patience of moms.

give me an R!

i opened up ESPN, as i do every morning and this was the picture on the front page.  what a great way to start my day.  bad news though, my mom is a rockets fan.  when did that happen?!?!  BOOOO!

sorry artest, but your hair is reason enough for kobe to elbow you.

kaylee's missing bunnies.

i spent the bulk of the night cleaning out my email because having over 4,000 emails in my inbox, 1,658 of which are unread, really puts a damper on life's progress.  of course in my spring cleaning, i found the email my mom sent me that made me laugh so hard tomato soup came out of my nose.  

here's the 411 on this picture.  for babies, such as myself and her best friend's children, she always makes a cross stitch with cute little toys or dolls or bunnies (there we go again with cute bunnies), and the baby's stats.  if you know my mother, this alone would make you laugh considering she's not the most fru-fru, cutesy, let's sew things for babies kind of woman.  she's more of a whatever your problem is, deal with it, type of woman.  oh i love her. 

this one is for my god child, kaylee who is now 4 months old.  she works on it during her lunch, sitting in her office with her door closed.  she took this picture on her blackberry and emailed it to me with the message "soooooo slow...this is only 1 of 3 that's done".  she's got 2 more bunnies to go.  i'd say my mom is waaaaaay behind.  ma, stitch faster!

kaylee and her first bunny

life is good.

i just spent an amazing weekend frolicking around boston with these four lovely ladies.  don't let the pictures fool you, they are four of the most intelligent, good-humored, generous, opinionated, independent, down ass women you'll ever meet and i'm so thankful to have them in my life. 

disclaimer:  pictures were taken with my cell phone

judge seda

counselor tep

dr. salazar

mama aesh

official pictures taken with an actual camera can be found HERE!

the days of cute.

this post goes out to my cousin miss cristina elena paredes tangonan.  she's in the middle of making a HUGE decision about her future and needs things to make her smile.  such as, pictures of her and i when looking cute meant wearing pastel colored outfits with bunnies on them.