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Gosh I haven't sat down to blog in quite a bit and it's all because of accounting crap, but I have all this stuff to catch up on. I'm gonna do a quick recap so bear with me, I'm a tad on the behind side:

MAY 1ST (a freakin' month ago!): My nephew Kelsoe turned 1 year old! He looked adorable in his Baby Gap outfit! He took a nap before the party started so he was a bit on the cranky side, clutching to his daddy for a good part of the day. But we let him open a few of his presents and he was all about it!...See pictures on the side...

Later that night I attended my elementary school reunion. That's right, ELEMENTARY school. I was accompanied by my fellow St. Francis of Assisi crew, Iya, Randy, Carlo, Jhoette and Matt. We said we wouldn't pay money to go if we were just gonna see each other...which is exactly what happened. Aside from us, though, we did get to party it up with Stacy, Edwin, Ate Tin-Tin and Jeff. Bummed as we were that we didn't get to see our long-lost classmates, we made the best of the evening. Jhoette was all about leading the Achey Breaky. FREAKIN' HILARIOUS and definitely one of the highlights of my evening cuz he was SOOOOO into it...see pictures on the side...

May 13: Rochelle our bobbers graduated from pharmacy school! It was a hot day in Pasadena but we made it through ok, taking hammy pictures after the ceremony, then enjoying a 10-course meal at Ocean Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown. Man was I full that night! Distracted by the game, Rochelle feared that should the Lakers lose that night, everyone would suffer indigestion and kill the high she was feeling from graduation. But we all know that's the night D-Fish pulled his 0.4 winning shot so it was all good! See pictures on side as well...

May 15/16/18: I talked about Jhoette's departure on the 18th but I didn't mention the fun-filled weekend we had before he left. 3 Saturdays ago, we spent the day at Corona del Mar. What did we do? We played volleyball, ate, played some flag football, ate...played in the water...ate some more...it was just a great day to spend time with friends, old and new...and of course eat. We had fried rice, hamburgers, hot dogs, el pollo loco - we were pretty stacked! And then that night we had a bonfire complete with s'more-making. We don't do enough outdoorsy things. One can only take so much out of going to the movies, eating out and sitting at Coffee Bean and talking right? The night ended happily for all of us (except maybe Joe) when the Lakers kicked the Spurs to the curb in that series-deciding game. See pictures on the side...

The next day we had a despedida dinner at BJ's in Burbank for Jhoette. The evening was filled with drinks, laughter and just chillin' before the good-byes came to rain in on everything that week. Jhoette left the 18th....but you already knew about that.

May 22: We celebrated Randy's birthday at Orchid...Restaurant, in LA. It's this fancy shmancy place where my crabcake appetizer cost $13. It didn't matter though cuz this place had a slammin' karaoke place above the restaurant. These rooms ARE PIMP (to use Riann's words)! The room we had was fit for 20 people (there were 10 of us I think) and there were a group of 9 screens, with 4 mics hanging from the ceiling over the lounge area. We sang everything from the BeeGees to Roselle Nava to freakin' U2 and Brian McKnight. Can't have the full-effect of karaoke without Miss Riann, and as usual, she monopolized the mics. Entertaining! See pictures on the side...

May 30: Miss Larnie Boquiren graduated from Cal State Fullerton this weekend. Hot, so hot it was on that field where friendship games are usually held (Geez remember friendship games? Seems ages ago doesn't it?). Thank goodness for the covered areas with chairs. The evening was a wonderful celebration in her honor. Larnie's family did a great job planning the event cuz I know we all had an awesome time. From the program, which included Cile's endearing videowork and a How-well-do-you-know-your-brothers game Minette made up for our celebrant, to the dancing (great DJ!), it was non-stop fun that night. Saw some people I hadn't seen in a long time and that was the icing on the cake of an already joyous evening of celebration. Congratulations Larnie! See pictures on the side...

Thanks for reading. I have to go study for my final now. All that's getting me through everything is the 7 days in Hawaii I'm looking forward to. Mahalo Everyone and Take Care!