You Know What is Great?

Well obviously there are far too many things that are great for me to list in just one post.

It is great that I won Ginger Beer.  From that one time when I posted on TUSB (and then reposted here) about finding someone else's birth control in my desk.  Ahh, the life of the student.  Anyways, I won a bottle of two-buck-Chuck (reaaaalllly cheap wine), but I had to give it back because I don't drink wine.  Which was sort of Awks Mcgee after someone made a joke about how if someone who wins a prize doesn't drink then they aren't wanted on the staff of TUSB.  But I laughed it off.  Anyways, that was about a bazillion years ago, but they just finally gave me a replacement prize.  I got ginger beer, which is supposedly like ginger ale but better.  (Which is weird because I would think ale is nicer than beer, but then what do I know about the alcohols?)

Now I can sit back watching some sports and knock a few beers back with my amigos.  Haha.

Also, sunshine is great.  And what better way to celebrate sunshine than by going to the beach.  Seriously, I think I will always have to live in beach states.  I love the beach.  It is warm and fun and summer and care free and sunburn that turns into tan. So expect tales of me turning into a lobster and then into a Mexican.  Is that racist?
Before:

After:

I've heard that my grandmother on my Mexican side was even prettier than the girl above.  So it could happen you guys.  It's in my genes.  

The lastly thing that is great is your face.  Just kidding its watching Disney movies and calling it homework.  It's totally research for a paper that I am writing on Happily Ever After and Disney relationships.  Seriously Belle was on the road to an abusive relationship and Mulan's guy thought she was a dude for most of the time he knew her.  Seriously weird.  Seriously.  

In my opinion, the only healthy relationship in Disney movies exists in The Incredibles.  The movie makes a point to say that its a give and take and that each partner needs to work in order for the marriage to be happy.  Which is a small part of why I am increasingly obsessed with The Incredibles.  That and the fact that it's truly artfully done.  So many nuances.  

And somehow I've gotten my way to The Incredibles, which means its time to end this post.  

Somewhere, there's a fat lady singing right now.  

Easter Holiday

I have a new-found appreciation for Easter.  I like that it's a holiday all about joy.  The joy that Christ was resurrected and that He made a way for me to live in Heaven with my loved ones forever.  It's a pretty awesome idea.  And a way under-rated holiday.

I got a card from my fam bam (as part of a package) that was just too good to not share.

It has all the tell-tale signs of a holiday card from the Gamboa family to one of its members:

• My parents wrote something cheesy in it.  
• My mom altered the original text so that it's from the entire family (Most common are things like a little "& Son!" added on to a "Dear Brother,")
• Everyone had to sign it
• All the kids tried to be witty.  

Actually, we have sort of a competition to see who can be funniest when signing cards.  This time Marcus won.  I don't think he was even trying, I just really appreciate that he got right down to business.  It still makes me laugh now.  

Anyways, I realized that I usually like to write either about what thought is stuck in my head or about the interactions I have had with others.  Sadly, between work and class and studying for midterms, I haven't had much interaction with other people lately or many deep thoughts.  How pathetic is that!  I seriously need to get outside of my room more often.  

As a result, I have blogger's block.  I wrote an entire post that was a letter to my teeth (Oh GOODNESS, the relationship I have with my teeth.), but then I deemed it stupid and not even creative or funny, so I deleted it.  I did take a good picture of my teeth for it though.  But I think I deleted that too.  

Actually, the most notable interactions I have had lately are the three times this week I have absolutely wanted to kill Jillian Michaels.  But I keep using her DVDs because, I mean, she looks like this:

Ooh I should do a post on food sometime soon.  I have very complex and interesting opinions about food lately.  

Anyways,  that's about it lately for me.  It's been a week of nose-in-a-book-ed-ness so far, but we're only half way through, so hopefully it will get better.  

Summer Lovin'

You wouldn't believe how excited I am for this summer.  More excited than I am for practically anything else right now.  Well, that's false.  But I'm still PRETTY excited.  (Yeah, I used all caps, so what?)

This summer I am going home.  It's weird how my concept of home changes.  When I had a roommate, I was starting to feel like Stanford was home.  I still love it here, but coming back to my room everyday doesn't really feel like home.  It could be because half of my room has empty walls and a weird, uncomfortable and bare blue mattress.  It doesn't exactly give off a home-y vibe.

Oh the digressions of my brain.

Anyways, to Upland I go.  In about 8 weeks, that is.  I have big plans for this summer.  I hope I get through all the stuff that I want to.

Hopefully, the internship that I wan this summer will pull through and I'll be able to have a grand ol' time learning le business skillz and whatnot.  We'll see.  I'm afraid to count my chicks before they hatch on this one.

But then, since I am recently sort of becoming a foodie (Thanks K-Trizz), I was hoping to get a job as a hostess or the likes at some restaurant.  Just so I can get a feel for restaurants and a little extra cash in my pocket.  Which Stanford can then take away from me in the fall.

And then here's the part where I will (hopefully) never be bored or without anything to do,  because I have made a list of things I want to do during the summer.
I want to:

• Learn to cook a lot of dishes that are yummy and healthy and flavorful.  
• Go the Beach about a billion times.  Or like 4+
• Get tan.  Like, actually look like I'm Mexican tan.  
• Learn all the spices that are somewhat common.
• Have a street art photoshoot in L.A.  I'm sort of obsessed with street art.  
• Explore Griffith Park especially the Observatory.
• Go to the Getty Museum
• Read through the Book of Mormon start to finish.  
• Go to the Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade
• Go to the Grove and hear some free music
• Hear Friday Night Jazz at LACMA
• Hit up the Garment District in LA

It's crazy how I've lived so close to LA all my life and never seen a lot of these things.  Basically every Saturday of the whole summer will be a day trip for me, so hopefully I can get some friends to come along with me.

Also, I made this terribly awesome joke in a TUSB post and I'm afraid no one will ever see it, so I'm putting it here: Studies show that if you eat a bucket of spinach at every meal, you will grow big and strong.  (You have to click the link to get the joke).

And pictures make every blog post better, right?

This is relevant because he's at the beach.  

This is relevant because it's my blog and it's a picture of me!

This is not relevant.  

The End.  

And Finally, Boston

I've been putting off telling the Boston stories for a while because it means I probably have to stop talking about my crazy awesome spring break trip.
That and because by the time we got to Boston we had figured out travelling and we didn't do any stupid things any more.  Haha jk.  We just had friends in Boston to take care of us everywhere so we didn't really have too much of an opportunity to get lost or be starving or feel a little bit out of control.

Some of my Boston favorites were:

Canolis from Mike's Pastry two days in a row.  Thank goodness we were walking like 8 miles a day.  

Walking the Freedom Trail.  It starts with the old state building (I think it's called that - my memory is already starting to fade - boooo!)

Stopping to give ourselves some beauty treatment.  I turned into the face mask monster.  

And enjoying great seafood.  I'd never enjoyed a meal of seafood before that night.  New England does it right.  

This post doesn't have a cool story in it.  But Boston was soo incredibly awesome.  Everything there is deeply rooted in history and culture that has been that way for practically as long as America has been a country.  Besides there was the time KT and I bought a $7 brick of cheese and some focaccia from a little Italian place and ate it all for lunch.  Or when we went to the observatory telescopes in Harvard and got to see a great view of Boston and Cambridge.  

Boston is cool, yo