Erica's Place

So tonight we (Jason, Bekki and David Simpson and me of course), went to the Redlands Bowl to watch the Glenn Miller Orchestra perform. It was so cool! I absolutely LOVE Big Band music and this had songs ranging from Little Brown Jug to Pennsylvania 6-5000 to In the Mood. It was so so so so fun. Lol, we ended up seeing Jana and family there, although they had to leave due to the fact that her kids start school tomorrow. OMW DID YOU KNOW MARISA IS GOING INTO THE 9TH GRADE??? Crazy!!!! Anyway, lol it was such a wonderful night.... Just everything, from the company, to the music, to the atmosphere... *Sigh* Lol... I think I am forgetting some stories here, but oh well! Lol, Bekki will probably fill them in for me!

Lol, so I was thinking that this weekend would turn out quite uneventful... It kind of did! Friday, I have no clue what I did... at all... All I remember is Bekki and I went to the mall that evening and neither of us found anything. We even went to Kohl's.... again... nothing. Oh well, then the next day, my brother's and I left the house around 2:40 to head up to Burbank to be there in time for their 4 pm service (well really to see the Montanos, otherwise we wouldn't have known about it). Little did we know that on the drive our lives would flash in front of our eyes. Jason is going around congratulating himself for making us wait a few seconds longer while he went and grabbed some much needed items in the house. While we were on the 210 getting ready to come up to the 134 junction, we saw an accident. A car that was in the 2nd lane closest to the right, swerved to the right, and must have been hit because it swerved again, except to the left and flew across the other 2 la...

My office window is the last window on the top right of the building (by the cylindar looking part) Well, after being here on campus for 4 interesting years. I am actually leaving it all. Crazy... It is my last day, and I don't know what to do lol! I have already cleared my office of all my personal belongings, and have moved my personal folder that is on this computer onto my flash drive. So all I need to do is delete my explorer name, and voicemail. I haven't even worked for Quality Teachers for Quality Students a year yet, but when I started, there was no one else involved. So I am the one that helped recruit all the present participants. I have had so many emails, and people stopping by and phone calls, I feel so appreciated! My boss was supposed to stop by today, but something came up and she just told me she wants to schedule a lunch date before I leave. I will miss it all. California State University, San Bernardino really is a beautiful campus, but I don't think I ...

So, if I thought that my electronics problems were bad the other night, (oh and thank you Bekki for the wonderful Ode that was placed on our Random Blog) than SURPRISE! I had another *think* coming to me! Today has not been a good computer day for me at work. I am surprised that the computer has not shut down on me already. But I know it wouldn't hurt it since the blogger program automatically saves the post as draft every few minutes. Well, as I told Sarah, I was about to commit computer homicide.... well since then I have realized you can only commit homicide if you kill a HUMAN.... so, I guess I can't commit computer homicide. But I have come to the conclusion that if I pick up the CPU and throw it out of my window. I will no longer have the same problem after it falls 4 stories! So, not only is my computer giving me problems, but my beautiful, lovely, wondermous BlackBerry Pearl has decided it doesn't like me... I think that this is NOT a good electronics week for me! B...

Well.... I almost feel as if I should defend myself. Sarrah Dillon wrote a short epistle on a portion of my life.... Falling. Falling is something that I do almost daily. It is a way of life with me, a friend once told me that I should ask around to see if they would give "Frequent FALLER Miles"! LOL. Hey it happens to the best of us right? I mean, my feet always seem to lead me in the direction of the nearest uneven ground, or a small dip that I don't notice. I think my church has just become used to me falling. I told Adam Pierce that I would take on a new persona when I move, and actually become graceful! He told me that I shouldn't do that, because I wouldn't be Erica if I did! HAHA besides, it comes naturally anyway, ESPECIALLY if I start telling myself "Don't trip Erica, don't trip!" Now I have to start thinking "Don't think about tripping Erica, or else you will!" I have started doing that especially on the platform. I always...

Why does technology have to be painful??? Ok, so long story short, I had a long night last night, lol... I got home close to 3 am... Yes my mom knew where I was! LOL. Then today was a lazy, yet long day. I woke up at 9:30, cleaned a little, and before I knew it, it was time for dinner with my uncle and my family. MMMMM and a good dinner it was too!!! Anyway, all I did was mention some downloads my Uncle Marty had done for Jason, little did I know that I would totally monopolize his time!!! So, we have dinner early normally, we were done eating around 5:20. So I will say that we started trying to download a Bible program on my BlackBerry around 6. Well.... my Uncle left around 8:15.... so over TWO HOURS to TRY to get that program off the computer and onto my phone.... Oh if you are wondering.... No it is not on my phone.... In fact it is on the desktop of my computer, and I am frustrated with it. I felt so bad for my Uncle. Now I do NOT consider myself a computer whiz, but I normally ha...

Most of you who know me know that I LOVE Starbucks. I go to Starbucks at least (MOM DO NOT READ THIS!!!) 5 sometimes 6 times a week. And depending on who I am with **cough** bekki**cough** I will go more than that. As a rule, I have coffee every morning, whether I get it at home, or I make an emergency stop on the way to work. Well.... Anyone remember that diet I was on a while back??? Yeah the week long one that I lost 12 pounds on? (And before you say it Jana, I actually was considered overweight for my age and height lol sad but true) Well.... I have gained a lot of that back. Some of that is the way I eat of course and also, my Starbucks! I have been trying to eat healthier and I tried to stay away from Starbucks for awhile, but the need for it won out in the end. So the past 2 days I have been trying to compensate for not drinking coffee, I bought the Crystal Light Energy, but it still doesn't have that Kick! LOL. Justin tells me that it is all in my mind, and sometimes I wond...

I was texting Sarah yesterday (big surprise there huh? lol!!!), and I mentioned something about her making a habit (and of course she denied it). But that got me to thinking about habits. Then I read Jana's blog, and then Bekki's from yesterday. That made me actually start smelling smoke :P. I even pulled out the trusty dictionary and the first definition I saw was "an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary". I looked down the list and saw this one "mental character or disposition." These both made me start thinking, what do I do involuntarily?? I go to church, but I do that because I honestly LOVE going to church! So that is a good habit to keep. I started looking at the things I do daily, eating, reading, running late to work.... especially running late to work. I realize that may be my biggest habit that needs to be broken. My mom would ask, are you going to eat??? My response? "Can't I'm running l...

One of the reasons I HAD to write a new post was because if you would scroll down JUST a bit, there are 45+ comments on the last post!!! LOL so I figured why not write a new post and allow a more easily accessible comment view... Cuz you know my fingers were just getting so tired of scrolling all the way down to the bottom to see the newest comment! ridiculous!!! Anyway, have you ever woke up and wondered what am I doing up???? Who am I, where am I??? WHY??? Lol, well if you haven't one day you may. Today I woke up wondering why I couldn't see, and where I was and wanting to go back to bed. Lol "alas" (that was for Bekki) I found out the reason why. I had forgotten to take my contacts out last night (stupid right? But it does happen to the best of us) and they had decided during the night that they did NOT like my eyes. So I tried to rewet them and put them back into my eyes. But nooooo.... My right eye took it just fine, my left eye threw a fit. So here I was with a ...

Ok, so Friday was not so eventful. Other than everyone in the house was up around eightish...ish...ish. Lol. And then started cleaning.... and cleaned.. and packed and cleaned and packed. That was pretty much all we did all the way up until 10 something that night! (well... with a few breaks here and there). Then Saturday, we got up to the smell of my mom cooking and baking. I told Nicole it smelled like Thanksgiving in my house! We ended up having some close family friends over, the Jones family, the Sablan family, the Davis family and the Lee Jr family (lol Tiffany Randy and babies). The food was wonderful and the fellowship marvelous! Lol when Tiff got there I stole her newest addition, Ryan, he is SUCH a doll! And then took Baby Randy for awhile. It was so funny watching him crawl all over the place, and then go up to the dogs and get scared and try to get away as fast as he could! It was fun! Well they were all gone by about 5:30, and Bekki had told me that we wanted to meet at...

I can't believe how fast time has passed since I got home from the trip! I feel as if I have not had a chance to do anything. Our program has recently hired a friend of mine, Naomi, to take over my position, and I have been training her. It makes me feel like I actually accomplish things at work now. I would have loved having someone in my office everyday like this!!! It keeps me from becoming bored, so I actually have to find things to do and for her to do! It has been fun! Dr. Hwang has been so good to me, I am definitely going to miss working for her. She has even asked if I can continue working for her through phone and email for a few weeks after my last day, due to them needing answers for paperwork and other business items I have dealt with. It has been a job that I would so take again. Hopefully my next job (as my mom so aptly said) pays me this good. Pray saints pray!!! This is a holler out for my traveling friends!!! I miss you already! lol! Heather, I was looking for you...

Well, once again this weekend was quite eventful! Not only did I go to the Pantages Thursday (as you already know), we (Jason, Justin and I) left Friday morning to spend our 4th of July weekend with the Montanos! It was so much fun, but a lot of car time was involved lol. When we got there, we snacked and played Skip-Bo, then ate. When it started getting dark we played volleyball and got to see some of the fireworks. The boys were staying with the Montano's family who lives on the property, so their cousins came over for games after they got home from fireworks. We didn't get to bed until late, well really early that morning, and then got up around 7ish to go to outreach. After outreach we headed up to Yosemite to have a picnic! It was so so so beautiful, but the drive was not an hour hehehe. Poor Nicole drove and all together it was about a 5 hour drive (is that close enough??). But the chicken salad sandwiches were wonderful and the fruit salad and just everything. Then we l...

So I am going to have to write a pretty quick one due to the fact that we need to leave in about an hour for Fresno. My parents, Bekki and I went to Wicked at the Pantages Theater last night..... Oh my.... oh my!!! It was just incredible! If you have ever heard a bad report about that play disregard anything the person who saw it told you! I laughed and laughed and sighed and yes even cried! LOL I was still on a high even at In-N-Out! Lol! I so will not spoil the play for any of you that have never seen it, but the music was outstanding, the actors were amazing and the whole thing.... well I have to say it was literally awesome! I have never been to a professional play like that and believe me, it was a whole new world! SIGH! I would so go again and again and again! THANK YOU BEKKI!!! She made it happen for me! Bekki's blog will prob have more details on the play (we're depending on you Bekki lol). So now I am leaving for Fresno to spend the weekend with the Montanos!!! YAY! Wh...

Just wanted to drop a line and let everyone know (as if they care lol) that I was just informed that my diploma has been posted, which means I will be receiving it in a month. I was a LITTLE worried with my other friends having issues with grades and such. But I am so so so glad that there was not anything overlooked. Just knowing I am for sure done makes me want to give a huge sigh of relief! So this is probably the shortest post so far! But look for more! I plan on taking tons of pictures tomorrow at............. WICKED!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!