Happy Fathers Day to all, but especially to the man that I respect most in my life, my father. I love you dad.

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Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mothers in my life: my aunts, my cousins, Mary, Terri, my godmother, and especially my very own.

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I can’t believe how much a miss Austin. Just walking along the drag was so therapeutic for me. Made me stop and actually contemplate moving back haha. Did my usual thing while I was home: went to the best movie theatre in the world, Alamo Drafthouse, hit up my favorite arcade (where I probably spent more hours of my undergrad years than in class), Einsteins, and went out downtown.

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Found this email that I sent to my family August 28, 2006 and thought I’d share some of my grad school enthusiasm from then. I had planned to make a post of it one day but since I’m feeling lazy I’ll just copy paste

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So let me go back all the way to May 26, 2006. The day my cousin JJ got married! Holy crap, I still can’t believe this. I can’t believe we’re all growing up so fast…

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Well this weekend was definetly one to be remembered. Happy birthday to my my mom, Jordan, Ben, and Joe whose birthdays are all in the first week of June…

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Ya se que no peudo platicar en espanol bien, pero quiero usar este momento para decirte abuela que tienes todo nuestro amor y carino…

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Looking back at winter break I didn’t really have the opportunity to do much. I had three grad school apps due the week before school started so I was pretty busy…

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Juanes – A Dios le Pido.mp3

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NEWEST EDIT: Supposedly my music is working again, so hooray! Let me know in your comments…

And if my pictures aren’t working it’s b/c UT webspace sucks balls.

Been meaning to update ever since the weekend just haven’t had time. I hope my loyal fans will forgive me for got giving them they’re Ivan fix when they needed it the most. I know the withdrawls can be hard…

SO Valentine’s day weekend:

SNOW!!! yES SNOW!!

Soon as it started snowing me and my brother were outside hurling snow balls at eachother. We stayed up till like 3AM playing. I was so happy to see him having so much fun. Last year when it snowed he missed it b/c he was in Browsnville, so he was just exstatic about it.

Its really koo how snow makes everything just seem so much prettier. My Dad went and got my camera from my room in the morning to take pictures outside. Not quite a winter wonderland, but still pretty nice.

Started modding my xbox at Ryan’s this weekend (yeah, I bought an X-Box). Gonna use it to stream anime and stuff off my comp, its gonna be sweet!Throwing a 120GB hard drive in that biatch and should be using the Avalaunch dashboard. Can’t wait till its done…

And finally Vday – didn’t go anything as planned, did nothing really. Didn’t mind though…oh well.

And so I leave you w/ a beautiful song by Juanes…

Que mis ojos se despierten con la luz de tu mirada yo
That my eyes wake up every day with the light of your look
A Dios le pido
I ask to God
Que mi madre no se muera y que mi padre me recuerde
That my mother will not die and that my dad remembers me
A Dios le pido
I ask to God
Que te quedes a mi lado y que mas nunca te me vayas mi vida
That you stay by my side and that you never leave from my life
A Dios le pido
I ask to God
Que mi alma no descanse cuando de amarte se trate mi cielo
That my soul never rests when it is about loving you my sky*
A Dios le pido
I ask to God
Por los dias que me quedan y las noches que aun no llegan yo
For all the days that remain and the nights that haven’t arrived
A Dios le pido
I ask to God
Por los hijos de mis hijos y los hijos de tus hijos
For the children of my children and the children of your children
A Dios le pido
I ask to God
Que me pueblo no derrame tanta sangre y se levante mi gente
That my country doesn’t spill so much blood and my people will rise
A Dios le pido
I ask to God
Que mi alma no descanse cuando de amarte se trate mi cielo
That my soul never rests when it is about loving you my sky*
A Dios le pido
I ask to God

Un segundo mas de vida para darte
One more second of life to give you
y mi corazon entero entregarte
and my entire heart to give you
Un segunda mas de vida para darte
One more second of life to give you
y a tu lado para siempre yo quedarme
and to stay forever by your side
Un segundo mas de vida yo
One more second of life
A Dios le pido
I ask to God

Que si me muero sea de amor
And that if I die let it be for love
y si me enamoro sea de vos
and that if I fall in love let it be with you
y que de tu voz sea este corazon
And that your voice will be this heart
Todos los dias, a Dios le pido
Everyday, I ask to God

Que si me muero sea de amor
And that if I die let it be for love
y si me enamoro sea de vos
and that if I fall love in love let it be with you
y que de tu voz sea este corazon
And that your voice will be this heart everyday
todos los dias a Dios le pido
Everyday, I ask to God
A Dios le pido
I ask to God

…repeat

*my sky: referring to person as ‘his sky’

“A Dios le pido” not meant in a religious way, more like “I wish”…

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The Postal Service – Such Great Heights.mp3

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Dad’s bday last night. Crazy koo time, I love spending time w/ my family. My mom made the best dinner last night for him. OMG, I’m still in awe. She got everyone’s favorite: Dad – scallops, Me- crab, Jordan – shrimp, Herself – catfish. And to top it all off…

LOBSTER!! YES!! LOBSTER!~ I have never had lobster before but damn is it fucking good! WE ate like kings last night. HAHA, I took that picture of my dad and Jordan, he was so suprised about the lobster he was still looking down when I took the picture, HAHA! And the next one is Jordan making fun of him.

So after eating our feast it was then cake and present time…

Tres leches is da bomb diggity. Not as good as the home made kind from Brownsville, but I still ate couple slices, and I hate cake.

So yeah, got my Dad an iPod for his bday. I finally had the money to actually get him something for once. I hope this can only begin to repay him for the many yrs that I was broke and could not afford to get him anything…

Anyways, he loves MUSIC! This guy knows it all, even the current shit. Hes like some big music encyclopedia. The second picture is him snickering b/c I told him “Too bad you don’t have any music anymore.” Yeah my hard drive w/ his 20 gigs of music fucked up on me…or I broke it…but yeah….20 gigs! Thats how much he loves music. Hopefully I can fix it for him sometime soon. Go Go ENGINEER!

Finally gotta put the digicam to work and get some pics of the family all together. I love my family SOO much. I’m sorry but I think my parents are the koolest parents in the world, no one can top them. Jordan is aight too, I guess…

HAHa, I love that guy more than life itself.

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