An escape, and rebirth

Good Evening Everyone:

First I will talk a little bit about my escape back home for the holidays, and then later on just catch you up on what I've been up to these past few months.

Me and my family went home for 4 wondrous days to New Jersey for Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a great time with their families and created some precious memories for Thanksgiving.

We arrived on 11/26 around early afternoon. It was a very tiring flight getting up while it was still dark, but we did it. The first day I would have to say was the first most exhausting day until the end. We did a lot that day. We rented a car, drove to my mom's parents, drove to my Dad's parents, and shockingly I passed out at 8pm that night. Yes, you heard me right, I was knocked out.

11/27: The following day, I woke up on the early side in order to see the Macy's day parade. It was always a tradition in the family that we watched it. It was a lot of fun, and brought back a lot of memories watching it all together. We had a nice time together then later went to my family's house in another part of New Jersey. It was like none of us ever left, and I missed everything so much.

It was great being back, we took a lot of pictures, played pool with my cousin, and ate lightly. I did learn a good lesson after moving that family is so important, and I didn't realize how much till I was far away from them. I shall never take them for granted again. Later that night I went home with my cousins. Laura and I stayed up and watched Rocky Horror and just spent some time together. That was a fun night huh Laura? :-D Let's do the time warp again! Hahahhahahha!

11/28: My favorite day of the week, Friday :) I don't like to sleep late when I'm home, just don't wanna waste any time I have. So I got up, had breakfast with my cousins, spent some time with them, then hung out with Amanda. First place we stopped was Kohls, and since it was Black Friday, miraculously, we got in and out of there. I treated myself to something I really wanted and I don't regret it.

Next, we went to my favorite restaurant for lunch "Golden East". We had a great time, how I missed that place. Afterwards, we went back to Amanda's house, chilled there for a bit, then we went to Menlo Mall and walked around for a while just window shopping. It was a lot of fun, I hadn't been to a mall in a while.

A couple hours later we met up at this sports bar called: Fox & Hound. I had thought of this idea to have a group get together and meet up and just hang out with people I haven't seen in a while since it was a short visit to make the best of the time I had. It ended up being a great idea, and a good turn out of people came. Thank you to all of you who came that day, it really meant a lot to me. We gotta do it again! :)

So we hung out there for a bit, I had a few drinks, then we decided to go to a late movie. We saw: "Transporter 3" It was okay, I mean the guy was hot but the story was missing something. It was still a fun time hanging out with my friends. Then the night ended with James taking me back to my cousins' house :)

11/29: Saturday rolls around. I enjoy a nice breakfast with my Uncle cause my Aunt and Laura had to go shopping. Before they left I said my goodbyes since I was only staying with them a couple nights. In the early afternoon, Amanda comes to pick me up and we take a train to Red bank. We had a great time, took a lot of pictures, and created some new memories :)

We so have to go to that pub next time girl! :-D There was Christmas music all around and lights, I was in high spirits and so happy. That day I think we bonded, and changed our lives forever. We shared a nice light lunch at a place we went to called: Soup Man. They had homemade soup there, it was delicious.

We ended up sharing lobster bisque, it was banging! The best bisque I've ever had! :) After that we took a bunch of pictures, and then got on the train. After that we went back to her house, looked up the movie times and went to see "Twilight" It was a really good vampire movie, and I totally recommend anyone see it if you enjoy vampire stories. There is definitely going to be a sequel.

After the movie, we went to Longhorn's Steakhouse for dinner. I had never been there before. We both had steak, and just chilled there for a bit just talking. I love doing that once in a while with my friends. Later on we went back to her house and started to watch: "Wallie" It was very cute, but we didn't get to see the rest of it.

I started to decorate their family Christmas tree which I really enjoyed doing. I hope they all like what I did do so far ^_^ Then she drove me to my parent's friends' house for the night. We had planned to hang out with James that day but things came up. So since i was so close to his house, he ended up driving by so we sat and talked for a while in his car. It was the perfect way to end my trip.

And now for the final update! I have been in College since the end of August. I just finished my first semester. I call this part of the entry rebirth because school has made me grow and mature more as a person. I worked very hard, and surprised myself in the end by making President's list! For anyone who doesn't know what that means it's straight A's and honor roll in College!

So that's what I've been up to all this time, being a serious student. Now I have a bit of a break till the end of January when Spring semester begins, along with being in chorus again. I definitely look forward to singing again, I missed it so much. I am majoring in being an Executive Asst., and graduating with my Associates. I may even be working soon, things have been really looking up for me. Stay tuned ;)