Vertically Rising

hehe, Just got out of a crazy chat room that I started with a bunch of people from my church. Whole lotta people came in (think it was like 10 or 11 at the max). Crazy talk most of the time, which just proves how we’re all insane at my church.

Saturday is looking cool. A bunch of us from church are going to Justin’s dad’s place in Concord to go swimming and hang out and eat food and stuff. Lisa’s got 15 people to go, and hopefully we’ll get enough cars (we can prolly fit in 3, if we can get one other car (I’m driving and Lisa’s driving already….hrmm…..who else wants to go and can drive? =D).

Grad Banquet happens on Friday! PRIME RIB!!!!!! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. How I love my prime rib. Think I’ll just show up and be a server thou or something, hah, I dunno yet thou. If they need me to do stuff I’ll go do that, if not maybe I’ll sit down with the Youth and enjoy a meal with them. =) The night is looking pretty cool with Justin’s tale of mystery throughout the night.

Graduations all happen on Thursday morning/afternoon. I don’t think I’ll be going to any again this year. I missed last years because of a Worship Conference that was taking place down in San Jose, and it was good (so sorry for those of you who’s graduation I missed, and Grad Banquet, forgive me, hehe), and I’ll prolly be missing this years too. Lowell’s is just too early to go to, gosh, 9 am in the morning, aiya. And Lincoln’s and Wash’s don’t interest me much, so blah, prolly not gonna come back for them. I’ll be back in San Francisco on Thursday night to help with set up for the room for the Grad Banquet though I think, since Tiff said she’ll prolly need people to help. Lala, ok. Wow, I may not have to bring my guitar back this week….that’s almsot a first!! =P cool!

Gosh, I want to work on the worship cd! But the mixer isn’t back at the house yet. I’m gonna have to email Ted and find out if we can borrow it somemore so that we can finish the recordings (well atleast start on the vocals and the drums and stuff….still dunno where we’re gonna get the drums yet though…).

It’s almost off to dream land for me, gotta carry some things from the car into the house that I never took in when I got here and maybe work out some, then I’ll head off to dream land for another night of scary and weird dreams…. G’nite!

current mood: okay
current music: flood-vasquez

Hah, ok, another weird dream day, and it invovles people from church again. This time Justin and I were on some weird island river thing and were swimming around on some river with all these trees and wildlife around and all that. I remember this one part where the current was going really fast and we had to duck underwater to avoid trees that were right above water so we wouldn’t hit our heads or something. Then we someone were running around some weird island things and people were riding their bikes up a hill and jumping off into the water. LOL, was really weird. Somehow we ended up at some amusement park type stand thing with Helen, Ango, and Lisa and ordered some food at it, but Lisa and Ango went to get food elsewhere. Helen worked there before or something, so she rung our food up (there were only 2 registers open, and the one I was at previous was taken up by some rude black guys who were all cutting me in line and stuff or something). I remember wanting to order Nachos, and the combo meal was something weird like Nachos with Fries and Eggs. Hahaha, psycho dreams. =P

current mood: crazy
current music: Worlds Apart – Veritical Rising

Hah, wow, I’m a sucker. Last night I fell asleep at 9pm watching X-files. I woke up at like 12pm, then went back to sleep until about 9 this morning. How pitiful. Seeing how I usually sleep at like 1-2 on most weeknights in San Jose, it’s pretty funny.

Friday night’s “Sanctuary” went really well! I was kinda surprised, but I absolutely love the team of guys and girls that I work with for Sanctuary, cuz they’re just awesome. Helen plays piano, Ed plays drums, Tiff and Janet sing, and I was leading and playing guitar. We only had one practice, that happened a few hours before, but it went really well. Mel Tang and Pablo spoke for us in the middle of the sets and spoke about Walking in the Spirit. They told about how in everyday situations we should be set on God and be walking in the ways of His truth. Anyways, it was a real blast, and happy, but also sad, to say that it’ll probably be my last time leading “Sanctuary” as I believe Eddie and Tiff are ready to step up to leading for that. Dawn and I always intended for it to be eventually led by their own peers, and next times the time for that. =) It’s a good thing.

Sunday was the usual thing. I was asked to help in a short skit about camp doing a parody of “The Weakest Link”. It was quite interesting and funny, heh, but I’m not really too into that show (watched it maybe once). We got the news that Pastor Valerie’s father passed away this last week. I was thinking how it’s probably really rough on them right now. I believe Valerie is the oldest of the family, and she’s still only about 25-26ish. Her youngest brother is 18 or 19. Can’t imagine losing my Dad at an age like that. =( If ya read this, lift up a prayer for Pastor Valerie and her family.

Now on to my weird dream, hah. I seem to be remembering more of my weird dreams as of lately. From what I remember of the dream, we (a bunch of us from church, Tiff, Janet, Justin, and I remember seeing Millie and Tim too) were at some shopping spree type thing at a Target/Kmart type shop. You were able to pick up up to 500$ worth of stuff and only pay 100$ for it (was with some coupon or something). So we were running around the store trying to find stuff to buy. I remember I ended up buying just like a whole bunch of stuff that I needed for the house in SJ. My price ended up being like 480$. Janet was running around and was trying to find a camera she wanted to buy. The thing is there were some limitations too. Like you couldn’t buy anything over 100$, and you could only pick up a maximum of 2 objects each.
Justin was trying to find all the expensive stuff so that he could return it later and get store credit, LOL. I don’t remember what Millie and Tim were buying, but remember them being there. It was just a funny weird dream, hahah.

dern it, Berean didn’t have it in stock yet. It’s offically out by Vineyard, but I guess Berean didn’t get in their shipment yet. They said any day now (that’s most likely 2 weeks, lol, knowing stores). Been doing a little rearranging of stuff around the house. Went out and boutght toilet paper and garbage bags today too, much needed stuff (since we were out of both, heh). Blah. =)

current mood: shocked
current music: Passion (Rutgers Live) – Singleminded, Wholehearted

I may head out to Berean later today and check out Vineyard’s Burn Service’s latest cd, Never Looking Back. I truely enjoyed their first two releases “Your Love Reaches Me” and “The Burn Service”. Great cds with some awesome guitar and youth oriented stuff. =) Prolly see if that accompiment track is over at Berean also, not sure if it would be though.
Reading through some Live Journals of Chris Day and I really want to get back to recording! Ahh well, guess I’ll still have to wait a few days until everything settles down and I get the mixer back. That’ll be fun though. I should set some kinda release date for our CD….so that we don’t get it out later than expected, lol. Won’t set it yet, but I’ll talk to the crew and we’ll find a date and let ya know about it.
Ahhh, “Sanctuary” night is coming up in a day! We still gotta practice, doh! God will be with us though, and it’ll be a blast. Mel and Pabs are working on the message, so it should be good to go with the worship.

current mood: thoughtful

LOL, what a weird dream today. Wont’ go through all the details (as with most dreams I don’t remember about half of it), but it ended with the ship my family was on crashing in the ocean, but I recovered my Taylor guitar, but it had teeth holes all in in, and I questioned if insurance would cover it, LOL. Long story, if you want to know about it sometime, just ask me about it, haha. Other than that, nothing much is going on, getting ready for more of the CD Project, but have to wait for the mixer to get back here, then I’ll have the vocalist come in and do their vocals, since most of the guitar stuff is done. Dunno how we’re gonna do drums yet, I thought about Patrick’s drum set for awhile, but now I heard that Pat might be staying down in Irvine all summer, that’ll suck, ahh well. We’ll figure out something, God will provide! =)

Gosh, that was a long weekend. Friday till now pretty much. Doh, my phone’s just about outta batteries too cuz too many people play games all day on my phone! Lesse…what all happened….Helped out with worship on Friday and stuff. Brought all my junk stuff (amp, volume pedal, stand, guitar) only used bout half of it though on friday (brought it all for worship practice for next Friday which never happened…I’ll explain later…).
Saturday = The day to do NOTHING. I didn’t do anything Saturday, what a boring day, haha. Oh wait, I went shopping and ran some errands (like buying khaki’s to wear on Sunday cuz I forgot my clothes down in San Jose, hah, oh well). Also went to pick up the tape at Western that some people are supposed to sing at the Grad Banquet, but it ended up being the wrong tape!!! aiya! oh well.
Sunday went smoothly…well somewhat, but was one of the longer days of the weekend. Started with church and worship in the morning. Survived that, it was also Pastor Ed and Rachael Loftin’s last sunday with us. Pastor Ed led worship on sunday also. Anyways, Sunday continued with a cancelled until Monday Night “Sanctuary” practice and we went over to Sara’s after shopping and chilled there and ate A LOT of potstickers, sushi, and pizza, yum. I had to leave early from that (while they were watching Finding Forrestor, a GREAT movie), to head over to San Leandro and kick it with some AACF people at Alison’s BBQ. Yum, what a great way to start off summer, some good food everywhere and just being stuffed with food for 4-5 hours. mmmmm.
Anyways, Monday may have been the longest day. Woke up and headed out to Guitar Center on Memorial Day morning to see what stuff was on sale (they always have big sales on holidays). Found NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. Couldn’t even find their Avalon U5 that I’ve been wanting really bad, argh. Anyways, after that I picked up Justin from his place and headed over to church where we met with Tiff and planned for the Grad Banquet. Eric came, then Janet and Michelle and we worked on that until around 2pm. Went to eat at….Oh, Fresh Choice where we messed around like the lil punk High Schoolers they all are (well cept Justin and Me), but it was fun. Went to Party City, and Target, and that’s about it. Went back to church to work on everything else and for worship practice but Eddie forgot about it and Helen couldn’t come, so we basically scratched practice until Friday afternoon. Ugh, oh well. Went home after a long day at church and with youth and talked on IM till I went to sleep. Slept for like 12 hours last night, ahhhh, what a relaxing night.

Watching Fight Club. What an interesting movie. Still makes me think realllllly hard, because I don’t totally undertand it, hehe. Still remember the first time I saw it with Elisa, man was it EVER confusing, geez, didn’t understand it one bit till I talked about the movie after wards.
Been playing a game called Black & White. Interesting game. Pretty fun, but crashes too often that I can’t really get way into it, heh. Saving the game also takes a whole lotta time, blah.

It’s Summer!!! Whooo, nothing else really going on though, hehe.

Well still nothing new going on other than. IM OUTTA SCHOOL!!! whooo, Summer has officially began (well it did like this morning), heheh. I’m ready to kick it down with some Mac & Cheese, but don’t think I have any butter…grrr, ahh well. Maybe I’ll cook(microwave) some lapchueng, gross I know, but I’m hungry, haha.

Wow, it’s been awhile. Nothing really new is going on. Have to send off my Cingular wireless bill tommorrow before it’s late, heh. Dorothy from Phil’s church came over today and we went out to Todai in Eastridge mall. Todai is a cool japanese buffet place. Pretty good, good sushi. Anyways, also went to that Winchester Mystery House. Always thought it was supposed to be scary or something, but was just like a historical landmark. Not something I would visit again, lol. Anyways, that’s about it, hehe.