Music I'm Living: The May Edition

Number One:
FOR REASONS UNKNOWN by: The Killers
This one is the track right before "Read My Mind" on Sam's Town and it makes me feel relieved. It's OUT OF THIS WORLD fun at night when (Ok, picture this) it's night-time, warm and breezy, you've got the moonroof slid back, and all the windows rolled down...you're driving down the 290 and the wind is cradling you...your hair is flying EVERYWHERE, but who gives a shit? You've got amazing company and you feel free! This song is ALL of that.

Number Two:
DIG by: Incubus
This song (and a sermon at church one Sunday) encompass acceptance for a person I respect and wish the best for. This song is everything that we are to one another now. I'm glad life brought you my way, and "yes you are my friend."

Number Three:
It Was A Good Day by: Ice Cube
So no, I'm not smoking weed or shooting people with my AK or sleeping around with random people from my past like Ice Cube. BUT I AM having many good days! I've met wonderful new people and I'm enjoying old friends in new ways and it is SO fun to experience life with a positive outlook. This may very well be the theme song for our summer.

Number Four:
Lento by Julieta Venegas
Slow is better than rushing, an important lesson I learned not too long ago. What is meant to be will be...just enjoy the now :)

Number Five:
Cain & Abel by Josh Kelley
When it comes to love, this song reminds me of all the lessons I've learned...it explains where I am now almost perfectly. After every bridge he sings "but I know now..." It displays wisdom without knocking down a youthful hope, without being negative...
This will most likely be the next song I sing at Borders if Derek and I can ever get that rolling.

Wonderful Saturday Evening

Check out my big bro, the President of The Latin American Police Association.
My family and I celebrated with him at the annual LAPA banquet last night at the Lexington House.

I was so proud of him and how hard he's worked to get to where he is now. My family and I watched with pride as he was introduced by Anita Padilla to give the president's speech. He inspired me in so many ways...mostly in work ethic. I've always been a hard-worker, but I need to kick it up a notch to make a name for myself like my big brother.

The program had letters to my brother from people like Lisa Madigan and the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County as well as pictures of my brother (looking mighty goofy) with many of his distinguished comrades.

My mom opened the book, saw a picture of her son, and beneath his name, the word President, and she started to cry. My papa beamed with pride.

I thought, that must be the shit. To watch your children reach the top after all the sacrifices you made for them has got to be one of the most amazing things to ever experience.

Anywho, the banquet was very fun, and my brother Luis and I made sure to keep the open bar busy (yahoooo free Miller Lite!)

We had a wonderful meal, we had drinks, and LOTS of laughs (especially when the Frank Sinatra impersonator serenaded me,) and when Sandra and I started slow claps....hehehehe it was pretty damn funny.

After the banquet, it was BBQ time with my buds! Good weekends make my feet happy.
WHAT? Shut up.

QOTD
"i think animals are delicious too. anything that once had a soul just tastes better."
-Rolando-

"Jaclyn can I tell you something and you won't get mad? Your crying makes my ears hurt."
-Jessica (to her 4-month old daughter.)-

New Favorite

I love this picture so much. I took it last Sunday at my nieces' 1st communion mass. My dad was holding Jaclyn throughout the entire mass and I could only concentrate on the little ways in which they bonded.

He held her little hand and she would stare at him and smile.

He kissed her little forehead and she rested on his chest.

This picture is full of so many ties and bonds and connections to everything I call home. This picture means, hold onto me because I will always be there for you.
This picture means you are safe with those who truly love you.
This picture gives me so much hope, and I'm so glad I captured something that would save my diminishing belief in something I thought I had a hold on.

In a life where everything fades, this is one thing that is indelible, love that is steadfast and genuine.

OOOhhhh Yes...Found A Secret Treasure

Life is going to seem a whole lot longer if you can't laugh at Asians.



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