bachelor party

im leaving for las vegas today for my friend josh's bachelor party.
we'll be staying at the hard rock hotel and plan on renting out a cabana tomorrow!!!

im pretty excited, as this will only be the 3rd bachelor party i've participated in.
(ernie's, mine, and now josh's)
and to top it all off, it's in vegas!

i just hope my liver and my bank still love me after this weekend.

stop and think

note

forget regret. or life is yours to miss.

sportsfest weekend

highlights from this weekend:

• cow's cock from bob's big boy
• fred loves french fries and onion rings
  
• jp goes pee sitting down, you know, just in case
• we know all the words in the 3rd verse of soulja boy's "kiss me through the phone"
  
• girls don't know how to do a proper football spat (on their "cleats" aka nike shox)
• volleyball shorts
• #3, pink team, #11, "strong" beach
  
• jp loves the smell of sherm (sh*t + sperm)
  
• free dessert if you flirt with the vietnamese waiter....thanks joel!
  
• muscle shock machine + drinking + boobs= REALLY good times
• muscle shock machine + face
• muscle shock machine + arm wrestling
• muscle shock machine + writing the alphabet
• pony baseball????
  
• "oh snap....."
• "NoooOOOOoo!"
• i need to invest in previously mentioned muscle shock machine
• another HTC Championship
• good times with GREAT people.
  

LENT: Day 2

so far so good. granted, yesterday was only day 2 of this experience. it was mari's dad's birthday and they had a small dinner at the talavera house. mari's mom brought chinese food and some filipino food. the usual spread. it was really tough to eat all of that food without rice. thank god she also bought some noodles, so that really saved me. i've got to start altering my meal/eating habits if im gonna be successful.

my parents have some comps they need to use before the end of the month at barona. they're taking us there tonight to eat at the buffet. but we can't eat meat! so it hope they at least have crab legs tonight. ahhhhhhh.

this weekend is gonna be pretty busy. tonight: barona buffet, then jinah's going away party. saturday: football practice, father-in-law's birthday party at 2pm, (maybe) prospect in la jolla at 9pm. sunday: church, then vavi football game at 330pm. on top of all of this, i can't eat rice! haha

LENT: Day 1

so this year for lent, i decided i'd give up rice for lent. now for those of you that know me well, i love me some rice!! i eat it at practically every meal (but can you find a filipino who doesn't?). i've tried giving up rice for lent before but failed miserably. i think i only lasted about 2 weeks, or maybe not even that long (thats what she said......) so this year, i'm determined to go the whole 40 days without eating a single grain of rice.

lent isn't just about giving something up. i also think that its a great time for us to really think about how we can make ourselves better people. i was at the ash wednesday mass last night, and the priest made a good point on the symbolism of the ashes on your forehead. he basically said that it represented our faults and failures as a person....and it would ultimately be up to us to make ourselves better. so i think i'm also going to use this time to figure out what i can do to make myself a better person, and to find out what i can do to be a better person/friend/brother/husband to everyone around me. here we go.....