Enlightenment

Buddha told his disciples: whoever makes an effort can attain enlightenment in seven days. If he can’t manage it, certainly he will attain it in seven months, or in seven years. The young man decided that he would attain it in one week, and he wanted to know what he should do: “concentration” was the reply.
The young man began to practice, but in ten minutes he was already distracted. Little by little, he began paying attention to everything that distracted him, and thought that he was not wasting time, but was getting used to himself.

One fine day he decided it was not necessary to arrive at his goal so fast, because the path was teaching him many things.

It was at that moment that he became an Enlightened one.

Source: Warrior of the Light

Paolo Coelho is pretty inspiring. On to more homework.

Closer ...

Spring break is coming to an end, and it feels as if it wasn't much of a break at all. I went to Sea World, yeah, that was very fun. And I have Saturday & today off which is excellent! But working everyday was pretty tiring. It was fun though! I enjoyed everyday at work. I'm just glad that I get to relax a little bit.

Robert invited me to an Easter brunch at his sister's house. I would like to go, right now I'm so tired though. Hopefully I'll get my butt up soon and take a shower. I'm gonna start working on a doodle soon too maybe. I have a litttleeee bit of homework to get done before tomorrow! I'd rather just watch people bake cakes.

Flat Tire ...

I wouldn't know how to change one, but I know now how to fill one up ... I just hope it stays well enough for my trip to work and back tomorrow!
Work! I had a 7 hour shift the other day and it was exciting. I don't know why, but I worked with Logan, and it was pretty busy so I manned the front while he helped around but mostly glazed and changed lots of music. I'm glad we have a cd player in there now instead of an annoying radio that plays the sameee songs all the time. I don't mind as much as the other girls cause they've been here longer, but after 3 times hearing a song, I get a little, what's the worddd ... "over it." So now we can bring in our own music, but I have no personal preference, I love everything! When Andi came in, I helped around throughout while she took care of customers. Then for a good amount of time we got to talk about ourselves, which was very nice, we definitely, hm, connected? which is a really good thing, I think. I'm really loving working there, I just wanted to rave about that. Oh and this one girl, probably high school or college aged I have no clue, was painting the most BEAUTIFUL plates ever, I absolutely adoooored them. :)

So today, Robert and I took the bus(es) to Sea World, it was veryyyy interesting to say the least, the bus ride there I mean. This crazy African American wanna-be-hoodlum tried scaring Robert & I into giving him money, but we knew the dude was a jokeeeee. Regardless, I still wanted to get the hell out of downtown, quickly!! So we got there, had a blast, got to see all the shows [besides the night ones, we got too tired by the middle of the day] ... and then came back home. My wonderfulllll dad picked us up at UTC and had a little bit of a hissy fit while he was at it ... :( Ha. But I'm very thankful for him cause ... buses freak me out!

All in all, the experience was good, and we got to use our Silver Passports! & I spent the wholleeeee day with Robert, which is rare during this break because we both work so much this week. His days off were Tuesday & Thursday, mine are Thursday and Saturday. Well, I'm very sore. It's looking like that scrapbook goal is going to go down to 5 or something lower unless a miracle happens on Saturday!

Finally!

I finished one page. My goal for the week was 50, but at this rate, I'll be lucky to get 3 done.
I'll aim for 10. :)

Seeing the pictures sure does bring a ton of memories back!

I'm going to start cooking ...

Well, maybe not. I'd like to, I'd like to try to, but honestly...
I'm scared of burning the house down. It's always been a fear of mine, ha, ever since those firefighters came to my elementary school and told us about the horrors of house fires. I need to get over it, every woman should learn how to cook sooner or later.

I'm also lazy, that's not helpful.

Good Morning Loves!

I hope I'm not just writing this for myself. If I am, oh well, I really like it! It keeps me in touch with myself I suppose. I woke up this morning with a very uncomfortable backache. Now I can feel that I have a huge knot. I know I'm young, I don't need massages, but I think I really do! Anyways, I'll update this post in a little bit once I finish with a scrapbook page I'm working on.

Ta ta for now!

----- Edit -----
So I ended up not doing a page and helping Jodie, my cousin set up her blog instead. And I like it, it's very rockstar-girly in a good way. Hahah. It's in the "links I like" section. Work was alright today, it was just me and Ashley and a few customers. Ashley and I talked pretty much the whole time and we got free Vitamin Waters, ha. I've tried a few that weren't the triple X ones, and they weren't tasty, but the triple X one is really delicious! Ashley told me about this place, I forgot the name, that's like Jamba Juice, but better. I'll check it out, when I remember what it's called. I work 5 out of 7 days next week which is wonderful! I'm actually excited now 'cause for once I'll be doing something productive that isn't ridiculously tiring for my break.

Well. I'm too tired to work on a scrapbook page now [that's a problem, considering my scrapbook is due in about a month, I only have 10 pages done, 50 pages are required, AND ... I want to do a total of 98ish. Maybe 100 if I can think of 2 more topics to scrap.]

I suppose I'm off to sleep a wondrous sleep!

Farewell!

I see sea adventures in my future!

Work was a little bit of a let down, I was expecting a fast pace busy day, as did Andi (my boss), but it was very slow, and my boss and I were looking for little things to do. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little better. I can't wait to find out my schedule for the break, I really hope I get a day off that Robert has off (Tuesday or Thursday) so we can go to Sea World! Speaking of Sea World, Robert and I went on St. Patrick's day with his cousin, Maricris, her husband, Peter Paul, and their très précieux (very precious) son, Vance! The following are some pictures I took and some I stole from her facebook. Enjoy!

Welcome!

So I just started up this blog, got it all pretty, and now I'm ... blogging. :) I know this sounds silly for some people, but it's a great way to keep people updated since everybody seems to be too busy to talk.

A quick update on the life of Phoenix:

• I work at Color Me Mine as a "Team Member" and I absolutely love it there for the most part. My boss is wacky yet cool, my coworkers are super laid back, and all the customers are *usually darling to work with! Working with kids and artistic adults is a great experience and I hope to stay there long enough to become an assistant manager.
• A Sonic Drive-In is opening in Santee on Monday (woohoo!!), my dad says we're going to go, I'm more than excited to finally taste the delicious bites they show on commercials all the time! The only thing is ... it'll be busy.
  
• I recently bought a Sea World Silver Passport [annual pass] that I plan to use a lot this summer.
• It's Spring Break for me!

So Thursday night, or should I say morning? I woke up to a stomach pain that felt familiar. After a few trips to the bathroom, that pain quickly went away, and I fell asleep soundly, only to start shivering uncontrollably when it was not even very cold. The shivering would not stop and my body weakened at every movement, so I called my dad on his cellphone at around 3 in the morning to ask for a blanket. Both my parents woke up rushed to my room and acted like I was a sick 7 year old about to die. All I wanted was a blanket. For another 30 minutes after receiving another blanket, I could not stop shivering. My parents took my temperature and stayed awake until I fell asleep. I have amazing parents! I'm 17 and still need their help. I'm definitely thankful for them, because I would not have been able to fall asleep at all without that extra blanket.
So Thursday night's morning wake ups made me sleep until 11 AM Friday morning. I didn't go to school because I wasn't feeling well enough to take tests and speak in front of people, let alone drive. So I slept pretty much the whole day, with a lunch in between, and ended my day watching TV with my mom and dad while eating some spicy ribs of my mom's own recipe.

Just a note, I want to take a picture a day. I'm hoping I'll stay motivated enough. I'll start Monday, the real beginning of my spring break.


My dad asked me to take a picture for my Aunt Chan for Facebook, we tried getting a good one out of my dad and mom, but my dad always looked high, or my mom never looked, I thought this one expressed both personalities of my mom & dad the best.