*Updates from Mexico

Good Morning!!
I went to bed last night around midnight, but for some reason I woke up at 7:00am this morning. However I laid in bed for another hour--haha. I had my alarm set for 8:00am so I could get up and feed the dogs and finishing ironing the last 10 items in the laundry room.
I think the house is pretty clean now. My parents and I have been pretty much non-stop cleaning it since we got back. I think today will be the first day when we can "relax". As I write this update my mom is still asleep. She stayed up until 2 or 3am cleaning her Art Room. I hope that when I'm her age I have just as much energy as she does!! I can't imagine all that she could accomplish in one day when she was my age... puts me to shame.


This week I hope to get a chance to work on my lesson plans for my students in my social service. (I still have another month or two left to complete my Social Service hours. Hopefully in I can get that done in Augustand September so I have more spare time to find a job...)
My mom and I are stranded at home without a car for at least a week or two. My mom's Jeep is in the shop getting repaired. While we were in on vacations my dad drove the Jeep and a bus ran into the back of the Jeep. >_< And my dad's car doesn't have any breaks so he has to get it repaired as well. "When it rains, it pours."

Since I'm stranded here at home and most of the house work had been done, I guess I'll work on my lesson plans and my stories. My parents got me an old-fashion typewriter for my birthday (april) this year. I've been asking and saving up for a typewriter for a very long time. I'm in love with it, but the poor thing has been neglected (sp?) because I was going into final exams and final projects all April and May. Then in June I was getting ready for my vacations. I was very tempted to bring my typewriter with me because it came with a traveling case, but I thought the airport would have had a hard time trying to figure out why a college student wanted to have a heavy typewriter for a Carry-On instead of a light laptop. (also, I was afraid something would happen to it.) So during the following days I hope to work on the typewriter and give it the much deserved love it needs. I have a feeling I'm selfishly be working on my stories and leaving the lesson plans for last minute rush. haha I shouldn't worry so much. I did work on my lesson plans before I left on vacations.

It has been raining on and off here since we got back. We still have a couple of leaks but nothing terribly bad. There are other people who have it worse. I've heard two very sad stories since we got back. The first one was about this family that was away on vacations and just got back and found out that they didn't have a home anymore. The hurricane "Alex" took they home by flooding it and it fell to pieces. Imagine that?
The second story is about this family that is (was) building a house on a slant and it's in its final stage, but due to all the rain and floods the house "moved" or sifted about 5 meters. It looks like it could fall anytime now, if there is another rain storm. The bigger problem is that beneath it is another house. So if the slanted house falls it would fall and destroy the house beneath it. Now the "municipal" has taken over and told the family they have to knock down the house to prevent any disasters.
I wonder what will happen to that family... I mean, if a natural disaster causes you to have to knock down your house, a house you've invested a lot of money into to build. What happens next? Who pays to rebuild the house?

I'll write later! Take care!
love.
D.C


PS: a * at the beginning of the title means that this update is from my blogspot.

100 posts!!! YEAH!!

UPDATE!!

(VIDEO deleted due to qualities issues. but I will be uploading audio soon! Thanks for sticking by!)

BAD ANGEL OF CAMERA!! BUT I GOT A NEW ONE ANYWAY. :D

Summer Vacations

Hello! I'm away from my computer and I currently do not have any daily
access to my email account. I will try and check my emails at least
once a week. Please forgive me if I do not answer your message
immediately, but I promise to answer it as soon as possible. If it is
an emergency, feel free to contact me at the numbers I’m previously
sent you. Thank you! Love, D.C.


¡Hola! Me encuentro lejos de mi computadora y no puedo conectarme
diariamente para checar mi cuenta de correos. Intentare conectarme por
lo menos una vez a la semana para responder los correos electrónicos.
Por favor discúlpame si me tardo en contestar tus mensajes. Prometo
responderte en cuanto pueda. Si es una emergencia, no dudes en
contactarme a los teléfonos que previamente te habré enviado.
¡Gracias! Atte. D. C.

Does Love have an Expiration Date??

When you are mortal, love lasts a lifetime. But when you are immortal, love lasts forever. The truth is, my dear child, that when it is true, love never dies.



Till next time.

love
D.C.

Vacations

Hey yall...

I just finished exams! Yeah!
I passed everything with 85 and above. :D Good for me.

Not much has been going on since exams finished. I'm just been cleaning out my desk and laptop. b-o-r-i-n-g!!! lol

I'll be uploading vlogs soon...I'll be using my webcam until I can afford a decent camcorder.

Exciting, isn't it?

I did vlogs when I had the yahoo-online-radio-station "FMME 88.4 'Your favorite online music spot' "
Those were good times!!! Too bad it didn't last very long. School got in the way for all of the "teenagers" involved in the "station"...
I have most of the "FMME 88.4" broadcasts recorded. I might pull them out and play them during my vlogs...
I have to get used to the idea of recording myself and talking. I'm very subconscious about how I look and the way I say things. (but then again, if there weren't any mistakes it would not be as fun editing it and creating Bloopers)



till next time.
love
D.C.


p.s. I've gotten LOTS of answers to the question I posted "How do you tell your parents you are engaged to your best male friend (who is gay)?"
It's very HARD trying to pick the best one!! But I'll be posting it soon! Promise. I'll be receiving answers at writerupdates_dc@yahoo.com until June 2nd. Chop-chop!)

Ronan Keating understands me....

If tomorrow never comes
Will he know how much I loved him
Did I try in every way to show him every day
That he's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And he must face the world without me
Is the love I gave him in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

'Cause I've lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much he means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there's no second chance to tell him how I feel

If tomorrow never comes
Will he know how much I loved him
Did I try in every way to show him every day
That he's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And he must face the world without me
Is the love I gave him in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes


Just felt like sharing the thought with you all.

Till Next time.

Love
D.C.

How do you tell your parents that you are engaged to your best male gay friend?

Hey there Blogger readers
I need some advice.
How do you tell your parents that you are engaged (or soon to be engaged) to your best male gay friend?
(and you are happy about the marriage proposal)
Haha, I know this is an odd question indeed. I would appreciate answers to be sent to my writer’s email address
writerupdates_dc@yahoo.com

You are great! Thanks!
So, why am I asking this question? I’ll let you know as soon as I get the best answer.

I’ve been trying to come up with an answer for this, but can’t come up with anything quite creative. I am an aspiring writing, and indeed it is a challenge, but I need the answer to not make the parents want to jump off a roof.
Personally, even at my “young” age I have been proposed to twice, and I never told my parents.
First time a guy “proposed” to me I was just graduating from junior high school about to go into high school. So, obviously NO ONE in their right mind believes that a proposal that young is true!! Ha ha. Besides, I know that if I ever told my parents about that, then it would be something they would tell at every family event to bring up an embarrassing subject. (like pulling out naked baby pictures of you when you bring home your boyfriend. A-w-k-w-a-r-d!!!!)
Junior high- High School proposal- TOTAL JOKE! The guy was older than me, by 4 years, meaning he was about to go into college, but I restrain myself from commenting. Seriously.

Second proposal, was somewhat recent. (meaning it was within the last two years.)
This last one was tempting to take into consideration. Not because I am a hopeless romantic, but because he showed up with the ring.
A girl’s worst nightmare; having to “humiliate” a guy by rejecting him when he is kneeling on the ground holding out a ring for you.
Horrible. I felt horrible telling him I did not love him. I can say I LOVE frogs, but I cannot lie and say I love a guy I do not love at all.
His reasons for telling me he liked me a loved me were heart breaking. But what cut the romance, was when he told me that if I married him he would pay for me to finish my education. He would support me.
*clenching of fist*
1) I do not belong to anyone.
2) I do not want a guy thinking I’m something that needs supporting.
3) And I will never have someone pay for me, because then they turn on you and back-stab you.
4) I am no ones girl to be taken care of like a delicate being. I can be independent and I will be.
5) I do not need a guy trying to buy me by pretending to be rich. Money isn’t everything. It buys stuff, but it cannot buy my heart.

I didn’t tell the guy to shove the ring where no one would find it, but I was tempted. (just kidding)
It was not easy handing him back his heart in the black velvet box. I know that if I could have pretended to love him and take advantage of the situation, but I decided against it.
We are acquaintances now. He is about to finish his master’s degree and I’m still studying my college degree.

So, I think, that when it comes to “how do you tell your parents you’re engaged to your best male friend? (who is gay). I would not know.
I can tell you a million ways how to say “no” in a proposal.
I could probably tell you a few romantic ways how to say “yes” in a proposal. But when it comes to being open with the parents about the “future-son-in-law”, I am in BLANK”.


So blogger-readers
What are your suggestions?

Till next time!
Love
D.C.