Mexicana

Happy thanksgiving in advance, everyone. I went with a bunch of my friends to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire last week, and it was pretty amazing. I'm going to see it again with a friend from karate. It's pretty good, but i had a bad stomachache from all the popcorn I ate, so i wasn't really paying too much attention to the movie. Less popcorn this time. -_- Right now i'm watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Yay, i heart Johnny Depp!! ^_^ Anyway..I would type out all the things that i'm thankful for,but that would take a while, so here's just a few:

-mi mami, el papi, y el resto de mi familia(that honestly isn't hard to translate into english, figure it out. i'm being mean, i'm sorry. i love you.)

-Joseeeeee!! (for being my "counselor" >_<) and the rest of my awesome friends

-my heritage and my country(even though it's been smashed by the US a lot..-_-)

-food (especially mexican food ^_~)

-ummmmmmm........

yeah, that's all i can think of now. Mis primos in Ohio say it's SNOWING there. no fair. I like snow. I guess it's better for it to be warm and be able to go swimming (which I did, haha) than for it to be snowing. Ooh, the part where all the little mechanical dolls come and sing the willy wonka song is on!! that part cracks me up!!!!

Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka...
The Amazing Chocolatier.
Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka...
Everybody give a cheer!

HA! okay, i'm done now. -_- By the way. my stepmom and my dad are doing a lot better...i think...she's being a lot nicer to me, anyway. Probably faking it. Next update won't be for a while. arrepentido.

They're still together. I know it's mean of me to want them to seperate, but..she's a bitch, so.......my dad says they're trying to "work things out" and go to therapy and whatnot. That's shit. They'll most likely work it out, but after everything she's done? I would dump her bitch-ass right after it happened, I wouldn't be like, "ohh, we can work it out, even though this is the fifth time something big like this has happened."(including one time when the wonderful step-mother threw a plate. glorious. -_-) I so hate her. I'm not mean to her or anything, because sensitive to each other (and a lot of crap has happened between us that I totally WAS NOT the cause of), so I pretend to be nice to her, but i actually hate her. I think it's the same w/ her---she pretends to be nice to me but she actually hates me. I sound really bitchy right now. I'm not a bitch and i'm not mean, I swear. Anyone who has gone thorugh the problems that me and my dad have gone thorugh with this bitch would feel the same. I used to fight with my dad all the time, and that's what first made her hate me, partly. She'd tell me that she loved my dad and it hurt her to see me treat him like that, and to respect my dad and not fight with him and stuff. It all makes sense, and I DID stop fighting with my dad, but i find it funny that she told me that and now she's the one hitting him and screaming at him and throwing plates. I've been mad at my dad, but i would never, ever hit him. She's got a real problem. Along with her little anger problem, she's an alcoholic, and she overdoses on medicinal drugs. I probably really shouldn't be talking about this on here, but it's not like I can tell my dad all this. I did tell Jose though, and he pretty much agrees that after everything my dad should get rid of her. "everything" would take hours to explain and tell, so i'm gonna just leave you to your imagination. 9_9

Oh yeah. Obviously we are back form Mexico now. We weren't at the point of this fight, but now we are. It was awesome. ^_^

My life sucks right now. My dad and my step-mom had a fight. She started hitting him and he called the police, and my dad left the house.(I was at my mom's when this happened.) he stayed with my aunt, but now he's back at our house. I'm not really sure why my step mom is still there, it doesn't make any sense. he said they still haven't made up, though. He says he's had it with her(this kind of thing has happened before, it just wasn't extreme enough to call the police.) Hopefully they'll be getting a divorce....? I never liked her, and she has always been a bitch to me. I just want her to go away. I need to talk to my dad about this, because I want to stay with him (at his house like I normally do) but not if she's there.

UPDATE: now he's going out to EAT with her. I told him it must be better if they're going out to eat, but he said a lot was going on and he'd talk to me about it. Update later, maybe not for a while.

We're going to Mexicooooo! I don't have school manana or Lunes, so mi padres and Jose's planned that we were going to go to Mexico over the 4 day weekend, and they didn't tell me until today! Now I'm so excited!!!! We're leaving tomorrow morning ^_^ I'm sure i'll be able to update while i'm there. Not only am I going back to my home country, I get to go see my bestest buddy, Joseeeee! We're staying in Jose's family's guest house, which is really nice. I wanna move back to Mexico....Jose is so lucky he still lives there. I gotta go back..i'm gonna bring my freakin awesome sombrero. I remember when I bought that when Jose and I were hangin out....*sniff* Eh, I'm not sad, I get to see him this weekend. Okay, next time I update i'll either be IN Mexico, or be back from Mexico. Adios!^_~
-CJ

We just got back from El Toro(mexican resturant)..yummmmmmmy... Our waiter was really cute, too, and he kept looking at me in this cute way..I'm going to make sure i go there a lot now just to see the cute waiter ^_^ Anyway, I took one of my amigos americanos with me, and my dad and the waiter were all talking in Spanish, and poor Ashley had no idea what we were talking about..it was actually quite funny, she was all, "what?" and "what's that mean?" and "what did he say?" the waiters there do speak english, just not very well, so I think they appreciate it if you talk to them in Spanish, and since that was easier for both me and my dad, that's what we did. Maybe I should type this in Spanish, too..but not today. Anyway, I had to constantly translate for Ashley, though. ah, cute waiter muy muy muy mono..... hee hee sorry. I have a thing about cute guys. I used to be really shy around them, but now I'm more assertive. I've never had a boyfriend, and that's why, because I was so shy all the time. I did have a date to a dance once, but this guy was a total spaz and would get really nervous around me. either that, or he was like that all the time. I don't know. The point is, he was weird. There's this other guy at my school, though, who's really cute that I like. He asked me my name last year, (don't ask me why, he never told me why) and back then he had really long hair and looked kinda...how can I put this nicely?...bad, but then he got his hair cut and now he's really really cute, and i think he might like me back, I just have to keep flirting with him and stuff. he might've been asking me my name because he liked me, or it might've been for someone else, I don't know. I hope it was for me! ^_~ Okay, adiós!

-CJ

You Are Mexican Food

Spicy yet dependable. You pull punches, but people still love you.

Shut up, i'm having fun -_- I need some friends on here, I don't know anyone...leave me some comments or something, anyone who reads this.(if anyone does..)

Mwhahah, this is awesome Jose gave me this today:

You Know You're Mexican When....

You have ever been hit by a chancla. You grew up scared by something called "El Cucuy." Others tell you to stop screaming when you are really just talking. You light a candle on the night of the Lotto drawing. You use your lips to point something out. You constantly refer to cereal as "con fleis". Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you to dinner even if it's a one bedroom apartment. You can dance ranchera, cumbia or salsa without music. You use "manteca" (lard) instead of olive oil and can't figure out why your butt is getting bigger. You call your sneakers "tenees". You have at least thirty cousins. You can't imagine anyone not liking spicy food. You are in a 5-passenger car with 7 people in it and a person shouting "subanse, todavia caben". Whenever you feel under the weather, you compulsively dab on some "Vics" vapor rub all over your chest and inside your nostrils. Your mom packs your "lonchera" everyday. You or someone you know uses "Tres Flores" in their hair. Tamales, champurrado, posole and menudo are must haves on Thanksgiving. There is more Budweiser than punch at little Juanito's birthday party. There is at least one member in your family name Maria, Guadalupe, Juan, Jose, or Jesus. Everyone still thinks Cesar Chavez is the best boxer even if he lost against Oscar De La Hoya. You've gone to the Pulgamarket every weekend for years. You step into a house that has all those little figurines taking up every inch of space on/under the TV. You have a porcelain cat, dog, Buddha, or elephant in your living room. You have plastic slipcovers on your sofas. You swear "Choco Mil" is the same as Slim Fast and try to lose weight by drinking it. You have a drunk uncle/aunt. You're still afraid to open that umbrella in your house. You not only know who Don Francisco from Sabado Gigante is, but you tell people he's your tio. Your mother, tia or hermana's hair is blackcherry, "Sun in" red or a burgundy that would make Celia Cruz jealous. You always try to find out what town another fellow Latino's family is from. You have ever had to "beepiar" a friend on their pager. You wear your Sunday best to do laundry at the laundrymat and go grocery shopping. You have told your kid not to walk the floor barefoot or they'll catch a cold. You go to a wedding or Quiencienera, gossip about how bad the comida is, but be the first to take a plato to go. You have a bottle of Tapatio in your purse. Your cousins are delinquents / hootchies. You have a chola in your barrio named "La Flaca" who's bigger than a house. You think Cristina trumps Oprah any day. You have a cousin named "Guero" who's darker than night. You know a chola named "La Shy Girl" who is loud and obnoxious. You need to point out how much something you just bought cost. You go to a white friends house for dinner and don't understand the concept of sitting at a table. You've tried to bring a mango back to the US from Mexico, and a bonus point if you actually made it all the way home with it. You have a bottle of Bacardi or Tequila in your house right now. You drive a "Cheby", an "Ohsmobeel" or a "Bolswahgon" You're proud to be Mexican - and you pass these jokes on to all your Mexican friends!

I had to clean the pool today. Worst job ever. It's not really hard, it's just that you have to net bugs out and then drain the whole pool and put new water back in,which is kind of scary. Yes, I have my own pool. Envy me, hahaha. kidding. I didn't do much else today, mi papi took me to try to find Sangria, which is a Mexican soft drink, I used to have it all the time in Mexico, it's so good. I can't find it here, though. If anyone knows what i'm talking about and knows where to get it, please tell me! ^_^ (I know you can get it from online stores, but I hate doing that.I'd rather just buy it right away.) Anyway... I watched Episode III and all of the special features for it today, byotches! Hayden Christensen's acting SUCKS. Everytime i see the movie, I can't help thinking that. Natalie Portman is okay, Ewan McGregor rocks, and so does Samuel L Jackson. During the special feature commentary, George Lucas was like, "I wanted to find someone who had a bit of darkness to him" or something like that. Riiight. I'll admit, his evil look is good, but other than that...i don't think so.

I used to be totally obsessed with Phantom of the Opera, that was my thing. i still like it and listen it and watch the movie, but I'm not obsessed with it anymore. It was crazy when i was obsessed with it, and I'm glad I'm not anymore, because not that many people that i know like Phantom of the Opera, but all my friends, in America and Mexico, like Star Wars. Well, I shouldn't say all, I actually have a couple of friends who are..*gasp* TREKKIES! the horror!*shudder* I was thinking of dressing up like a trekkie for Halloween, and then going to people's houses and going, "I'm a star wars fan!", just to piss em off. That would've been awesome. But I don't know the first thing about stupid Star Trek, and I don't want to, either.

....I am so bored....-_- Ooh, I know! I'll watch X-men cartoons!! There's another thing I used to be obsessed with-X-men. namely, Wolverine and Nightcrawler. Dios, yo soy patético. Whatever happened to X-men: evoulution? I liked that way better than I liked (or like, if it's still on) the classic cartoon. I also liked Spider-man. Jeez, Spider-man, Star Wars, X-men....why do I like boy stuff? Now i have to name something girly that i like...shopping!! and i DID play with barbies, so there you go. I don't have any siblings, so it wasn't their influence, I think it was my dad's. and still is my dad's that I like Star Wars, because he's a Star Wars freak. I spend way more time with him then I do with mi mami, because she's a lawyer and goes *poof* all the time.

Wait, my friend Jose back in Mexico introduced me to Star Wars, so it's his fault, too.*sniff* I miss Jose. He's awesome. I still talk to him, like online and on the phone n stuff, but it's not the same. I met him when i was like 10, and he was my best friend. He still is my best friend, my Mexico best friend. ¡Te quiero, Jose! He doesn't know English very well, so we mostly talk in Spanish. The last time I talked to him, he was doing that "oh, how you say....." thing, when you can't think of the right word. it's pretty funny. I did it when I first learned english, too, though. That reminds of this lady I met on a train to the Grand Canyon a long time ago, she was from Japan. I don't know why it reminds me of that..she was really cool, but I never saw her again. Then we met this dude from canada who was Halle Berry's limo driver! He told us that a Catwoman movie was coming out like way before the previews. That movie sucked. We had no idea who Halle Berry was back then, and he was trying to explain who she was. haha, good times.

Okay, i'm gonna go watch X-men cartoons now.*rolls eyes* ¡Tenga un día bueno! ¡Adiós!

-Cristalle Joesphina(or C.J.)