it's been eons!

i'm surprised the bloggods had not discontinued this page - 'cause it's been a LONG time!

life just seems to be super busy and when i have periods of rest i don't want to be in front of the computer... so sorry to the two of you that read this.

life is good - busy but good. just this morning i was having a conversation on google chat with a friend telling him how life feels very fulfilling right now...

alright - still at work, gotta get back to it.

this blog hasn't been forgotten :)

quick update on life

i know i haven't been consistent in this forum for a while... life has gotten quite crazy and finally there's some sort of norm.

two main things:

-convenient truths, the show i'm in, finally opened and it's running really well. the daily rehearsals have come down to only the friday and saturday performances, so i feel like i can breath again. after the performances i'm able to hang out with friends and my boyfriend.

-which leads to the next point, tony. we did the long distance thing for about 4 months and during labor day weekend he moved to denver. so now we're trying to figure out what life together looks like. it's a big adjustment for him since he moved about 700 miles away and it's a big adjustment for me, being that my last serious relationship was, i don't know, 10 years ago... so it's been good and new and adjusting all around. very weird to "report" to someone. which actually means very weird to have someone in my life who cares about me that much.

so there you have it, folks. the two big things in my life right now. hopefully now that life is a little more settled there'll be more postings coming your way...

rehearsals, rehearsals, more rehearsals...

this weekend is opening night for the show. last night we had a tech rehearsal for the first act. i forget that not everyone has a concept of what a tech rehearsal involves. it's every light cue, set cue, music cue, you name it. once the director figures out what he wants with each scene of each sketch, then you run the whole thing again to make sure the tech director, the musician, and the actors get it. if the director doesn't like it, it gets scratched and you start again. if he does, then you move on. that's how it goes. i've been doing these since i was 18.

well, last night, for act one, the tech rehearsal lasted 6 hours. today is act two, which is significantly shorter than the first act, and the tech director is predicting 4 hours instead of six - which sounds like a gift from above.

but i really can't complain. i'm enjoying every single minute of it... now if i could just nap while at work, then it would all be perfect.

what the hell does this mean?!?!?

on my walk to work today i happened to look down at my feet and caught a glimpse of my right big toe and toenail. it dawned on me... i really had that dream...

so i was home, i think, giving myself a pedicure. had taken the polish off my right foot toenails, the left ones were still bright, chipped red. i proceed to clip my big toenail when, all of the sudden, i find out the toenail flaps open, almost like it had a hinge. there's no pain, no blood, it just flaps open. underneath i find small, plantain chips. i touch them to see if they had some consistency, and they were the soggiest chips ever. in fact they start falling off. i'm all freaked out and confused... from the part that had fallen off rice and beans now start falling off too... i was so freaked out, i didn't know what to do, so i just closed the toenail off. everything seemed in it place, but i wasn't able to finish my pedicure, so i was left with one foot with no nail polish and the other with the bright, chipped red.

when i woke up i knew that i had a weird dream, but couldn't remember what it was. it wasn't until on my way to work when i looked down and saw my toe that it all clicked.

as of now, my toenails officially gross me out.

or maybe it's a sign to get a pedicure done by someone else.

my friend yadira said i might be craving puerto rican food way too much if this is how it's showing up.

i don't know.

all i know is that big toes are gross.

p's in town

i feel like a tourist guide.

i also get to leave work early.

today i leave at 3pm

it's 1:30 - only 90 minutes left.

they can't go by fast enough.

sometimes i wish i could smack some people in the back of the head...

with the influence, position, and authority the catholic church has, you would think the ones up high would be spending their time in other things, not this or this.

makes me so angry...

i know, i exhude so much love right now ;)

you think you're taking care of your wound...

and it gets one of the worst infections ever!

That's what happened to my foot. you might remember the cankle story... well, the cankle was the least of my concerns. i thought i was doing everything to take care of it, but yesterday the foot got REALLY bad... i would post a picture but it's really gross.

why do you have a picture of it, you might ask? well, i wanted my dad to see it and let me know what he thought (he's a doctor). and if you're my sister you just need a gross wallpaper for your computer at work.

anyways, my dad got freaked out. my mom got freaked out. that leads me to freak out.

so antibiotics, iodine, triple ointment, and a tetanus shot later, it looks like i'm on the other side of the infection... last night i couldn't sleep - i kept wiggling my toes to make sure i wouldn't lose my foot... i tell you, i got freaked out.

so i'm not losing my foot, my parents are relieved, my sister's co-worker's thought her wallpaper was a partial picture of the moon... (that's how gross it looked)... but i'm doing better.

now to sit and wait for the tetanus shot arm to hurt.

a very random - yet good - day...

my mom called me on friday afternoon at work to let me know my cousin solmary, her husband manuel and their baby morelia will be stranded at DIA until the next day on their way from houston to boise. i was able to spend friday night and saturday with them... i think the last time we had seen each other was 2003.

this is morelia :)


morelia with daddy and mommy


morelia with the best titi-prima evah!


luke, me, solmary, morelia, and manuel at red rocks - thanks luke for driving us around!


i got artsy taking pictures, what can I say?!?



i had sketch workshop at 3pm, so luke took them to the airport. at the workshop, i found out i got casted for the fall show!!! so exciting - watch for more information on the show as it unfolds...

my cankle...

sunday i went hiking.

i fell.

it was funny.

later i realized i had a very bad and dirty scrape.

the next day, i had a cankle.

it's better now, it just hurts like a mother.

and no more cankle :)

the simple way

the simple way, a ministry in philly's inner city, labeled by some as "new-monasticism", has lost everything they own to a fire in their neighborhood. many families as well lost everything. fortunately, no one was hurt - yet people are serioulsy needing to consider relocating...



shane claiborne and the people of the simple way are living a very radical lifestyle - they have interpreted jesus in a tangible way and living it out in a neighborhood they love. this is so sad, it makes me angry... go to their website to read all about it.

not another page...

so now thanks to my sister i also have a facebook page. and it just so happens that half of the high school i went to is in it as well as old friends... yeah, guess who hasn't gotten much work done today? oh that's right, that would be me...

i couldn't resist

this is morelia - my cousin's solmary's baby - by the way, it's solmary's birthday today!


and these are zairamar and norbeltito - my cousin's nolbel's kids... another btw - zairamar looks a lot like i did when i was her age... sure sign of that kid growing up to be a beautiful woman ;-)

oh, to be 12 again...

my friend beth just sent me this!



i think this was about 6 yrs ago...

so young, so innocent...

so....

i'm the only one in the office right now... granted it's a small staff... 4 people. all accounted for.

president - on her way to durango
finance director - taking the afternoon off because he's working sunday
accounts manager - on lunch
program administrator - updating her blog.

really, who gets motivated to do anything when they are the only one in the office?!?!?

thankfully, sheralee, maria, bac, and i have a "bacardi coco" party tonight - i can't wait!!!

happy denver birthday to me...

last friday marked the beginning of my third year in denver.

at the risk of being redundant - my life hasn't turned out the way i planned it... not that i had a plan, but you know...

add to that in the past month my life has taken an unexpected turn... don't know what it means or looks like, but i'm enjoying the ride...

so, happy birthday to me... i'm loving denver more and more... we'll see how that goes...

writing sketches

i've been writing sketches like a maniac! well, not like a maniac, i have 3 under my belt in two weeks... but i haven't written anything of this nature in YEARS and the feedback i got last saturday was really, REALLY good - so i'm excited! it's a little reassurance - i can do this, i've done this before, i'm good at this, i enjoy this...

so now to cross my fingers and hope they make it onstage... and even better, i would be performing them!

yeah...

tripping over the bathroom rug doesn't help the leg either.

i don't know what i did...

but about 2 weeks ago my left leg was hurting really, really bad... last week my friend bethann, who's a physical therapist, told me that i had pulled my hamstring... no running, resting it, walk on it, etc.

yesterday i was kinda excited because i wanted to run this morning, which according to the PT was possible. well, i was wearing heels at work and i tripped, stepped with my ankle and hurt my left knee. so now when i walk, the knee is hurting and the hamstring is hurting again because it has to work harder... no running for me this morning...

i'm wearing a knee brace, which sucks. and i sit at work all day. whenever i get up, it hurts like a hell. and last night sleeping wasn't fun either. everytime i turned i hurt both the knee and the hamstring. so frustrating!!

i'm gonna see if i can swim tomorrow - my body feels all lazy.

that's the update for now.

for the love of everything that's pure and holy!

45 minutes left on friday afternoon!!!!

WANNA GO HOME NOW!!!!

never had the word "bitch" been so endearing...

disclaimer: i'm not planning on moving anywhere, this is just how the story goes...

at the thought of a slight possibility of me moving to vegas (not true), nick said, "that bitch better not be moving to vegas!"

at the thought of me taking a job in sioux falls (not true), maria said, "that bitch better not be moving to sioux falls!"

i <3 my friends :)

never ha the word bitch expressed so much love!