Slumdog

go see it...NOW!! stop reading this and go! sheesh!

I Heart Bubba Gumps!

one of my all time favorite movies is forrest gump. with that being said, it's no surprise that one of my favorite restaurants is bubba gumps. i love how everything on the walls is based on the movie. i love how they play the movie the whole entire time. and i love that they have a shrimp platter! my most recent visit took place in san francisco where i was accompanied by my lovely mother, my tia chayo (mom's sis), and my "too coo' for schoo'" cousin, julian. my relatives came up to santa cruz on the loveliest weekend the west coast could ask for. we took advantage of the beautiful weather and drove up the coast to frisco. after driving over the golden gate bridge and taking some snapshots at vista point, we decided to hit up fisherman's wharf. by the time we parked and walked there, i was starrrving! my cousin is a growing boy (at age 22 or somewhere around there) so i knew he was hungry too. the two of us were hauling ass, looking back every minute or two to see if our lolly-gagging mothers were still behind us...do all sisters walk the same and at the same pace? as we approached bubba gumps i was expecting to see a lot of people standing or sitting, waiting to be called to be seated, but only a few were loitering around. we walked right in and got seated right away...AWESOME! my favorite part of the whole bubba gumps experience is when your waiter quizzes you on the movie. the last time i ate there, the waiter didn't play trivia with us, so i was pretty bummed about that. this time we got quizzed, and i've come to realize that i KICK ASS at forrest gump trivia! i answered all the questions (or should i say i blurted them out before anyone else at the table could even think about it), and i got all of them right. just when the waiter thought he was going to stump us, or me, i fired out the answer. the waiter dude was so amazed that he gave all of us free passes to the san francisco bay aquarium, what-what!! so yeah, that pretty much was the highlight of my day (that and spending the day with familia). even though the aquarium was pretty crappy, it gave us something else to do and see without having to bust out our wallets. a couple of other neato-speedo things that we did was taking a tour of the wax museum (that place was scawey!), and driving down the crooked street (i am no longer a lombard street virgen, thankyouverymuch).

College Bowl Pick 'em

college football is officially over, boo! with the last bowl game played last week, and might i add it was a really good one, we now have to wait until august/september to watch NCAA teams go at it again to fight for that #1 spot.

this year a group of friends and i created a fantasy league for the regular season and for the bowl games. in the regular season, it was pretty much just picking who you thought was going to win. it wasn't so easy for the bowl games--you had to strategize and give points out and really do some research on each team. we made it a little more interesting and put in 20 bucks each to play. the winner walked out with 160 big ones! unfortunately, i wasn't the jackpot winner. i came in 4th out of 8 players, which isn't too bad. the chart below shows our final scores and how many picks we got right. i never realized that there were 34 bowl games!



sorry for the blurryness--i fought with the effin thing for days and this was the best i could get it to look = (

The Birthday Boy!

my nephew, elijah, is 5 years old today!! this boy is quite a character, let me tell ya. he is just down right silly and really knows how to make me laugh. for example, i called him to wish him a happy birthday, and in the middle of our conversation he says, "hold on. i need to pull up my pants because you can see my buttcrack." how can you not die of laughter after hearing a 5 year old say that? he is too much!

when elijah was born, my dad went and got him his very own bee bee gun (it's so like my dad to do something like that). now that he's somewhat old enough to use it, he goes out and shoots cans and other non-living targets. i was really impressed (and a wee bit scared) with his shooting skills--his form was perfect and his aim was way better than mine. i guess you can say he's a typical boy, but to me he's still my ridiculously cute nephew who will always get smothered with hugs and kisses no matter how old (or dirty) he might be! ahh, the perks of being an aunt...

my lil' sharp-shooter!

Baby Alexis

on the morning of monday, december 8th, i received this text:

pam & i are very happy to announce the birth of baby
alexis isabel zamora this a.m. at 8:21. she is 6 lbs. 3 oz. & 19".
mom n baby are doing fine.

to which i replied:

congratulations! i can't wait to meet her, hug her, and
teach her how to say 'bitches'!
(if you don't know me, that word is a big part of my vocabulary
and is used to end my sentences, not to be derogatory).

so my friends, greg and pam finally welcomed their new baby girl! it just seemed like yesterday that they told me that they were expecting. those 9 months sure did fly by because out came their little bundle of joy.

alexis isabel zamora

i've gotten to know pam & greg within the course of the year. i met them thru boy toy; he and greg go waaay back. i truly admire their friendship and hope that they will still be friends when they're a bunch of old farts. when all four of us hang out, it's nothing but good times. i'm so glad to have met them and call them MY friends (boy toy has to share whether he likes it or not).

pam, greg, boy toy, weezy

i couldn't be any more happier for greg & pam. their baby was born into a beautiful family and will be showered with a whole lot of lovin'...especially when weezy is around, bitches!

Happy Birthday to My Niecey-Piecey!

my oh-so adoreable niece, victoria, turns the big 0-7 today! i called her this morning before she went off to school, and i could just hear how excited she was for her big day. she is such a sweet little girl! i really, really wish i could have been there to give her a big birthday hug, but since we live 4 1/2 hours away from each other, i couldn't quite be there. instead, i sent her a lil' something to show how special she is and how much she means to me. i hope she liked her special delivery, which was the teddy bear/balloon bouquet thingy you see up on top = )

happy birthday, victoria!
tia weezy loves you!

us at disneyland!

You Know It's Christmas...

when this is on tv:



it's the original trailer (1983). pretty cool, huh?