Happy Birthday NAISE!

First off I want to wish my lil sis Pelenaise Langi-Tuavao a happy 19th birthday. I can't believe its almost a year since this lil hoochie got married and moved to Reno. I hope her husband and in-laws treat her to a day of babysitting and deep house cleaning. =) Anyhoots, sorry Paylay I can't give you anything monetary, but remember I will always love you my dear. Leti and Bby Niki more most def, but since you're in the picture too, I guess, if I really have to, love you too. See yah when you finally back up your talk in March? Well payce hooch.
;)

What a Co-ink-a-dink!

So I was surfing the blog world, and I got curious about my mission and the area I'm serving in. I decided to hop on google and look up missionaries pictures in Trujillo Peru. To my surprise I landed on this palangi couples page who are in Peru. Their picture looked so familiar to me. I scrolled down a little bit more and read the caption for the picture, and then it hit me, they are my future mission presidents! Yes, I did look through that blog like crazy, and the mission looks like soo much fun. I really am excited to serve there. 8)

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!

2011 BABY! 

Oh good golly Ms. Molly! What can I say about new years...ok, let me start with new years eve.

• New years eve:

Let me make this clear. There were lots of calls made this night. All of which were related to getting my cousin (I'll call her Poko) to come enjoy new years eve, dancing the night away in San Bruno (at the Stake dance..super lame that I look forward for these dances?LOL!) Yeah so I spent a good two and half hours in Los Altos (totally opposite San Bruno) trying to get Poko to leave with me. I sat in my car and waited for my aunt (I'll call her Tia, and inform you she doesn't like Mormons) to agree to let Poko come out to a Mormon dance. Trust me, I was so tempted to leave Poko a million times because the whole situation just got on my nerves. 

First, I'm sitting outside Poko's work (8:00pm), which she shares with Tia, and she's not answering my ten back to back calls. Second, when she finally did call me back (8:12pm) it was to apologize for wasting my gas coming there because Tia told Poko that she couldn't go with me. Third, Tia calls me (this would be around 8:40pm) and tells me to give directions to my great aunt on how to get to the work so me and Poko can go (knowing dang well there weren't any street lights and these vaivais live on the side of a hill.) Fourth, I had to drive around looking for my great aunt so that I could guide her to the work (by this time it is already 9:15pm).

Oh I felt so crappy! When I arrive with my great aunt at the house (9:30pm) I see she's all dressed for the dance (my great aunt is Mormon and just moved from LA to work here and was trying to familiarize herself with her new ward by going to the Pen 3rd dance.) I felt so bad for her because I already knew that Tia is the type of person who says she'll be there at like 10pm, but not show up until 4am. Yes. SCANDALOUS! So, when I saw my great aunt dressed in her new outfit, with her hair done back, and her lipstick on my heart fell to the ground. I knew she wouldn't be making it to any new year's eve dances. Yeah, at that point I looked at Poko and thought to myself, yeah I should have left you. My great tells me in Tongan that she was just getting ready to go to the dance when Tia calls her and tells her to go wait at the work for her because she's running a little late. My great aunt thought running late like 15minutes? Then, she continued to remind me that we (her and I) already talked about the plans a week ago (because we share the same job, but I got my mom to cover my shift so both my great aunt and I can go to the dances--and don't worry my mom didn't want to go she hates stake dances.) I told her I knew that already that it wasn't my fault it was Tia's. LOL! Yeah that didn't make me feel any better. So my great aunt got out of the car and I told her what Tia's running late meant, and she goes, awww man. I'm gonna just change then. Man I got all dressed! Look at my dress. -yes folks, this is what made it so sad. I tried to reassure her that Tia would be there in no time all she had to do was harass call her and ask her when she would be there to relieve her from work. My great aunt said she'll just wait for Tia to show up because she shouldn't be taking that long.

So my cousin and I left (9:50). We get home rush to get dressed and shoot out to San Bruno to arrive there at 11pm. Yes, we felt guilty for our great aunt getting stuck at work, but we chalked it up to we didn't know Tia would call her to come there, and it would be a waste of gas to send her to her dance if she was already at the work (hmmm, now that I typed that, it sounds SCANDALOUS)

Well with one hour left until the new year, I thought let's make the most of it. So we danced for half an hour awaiting the big count down to welcome in 2011! Yeah, and the count down was SOOO late! AHAH! When the clock struck 12 the DJ stopped the music and we are all staring at each other like huh? Then we realize it's already 12, then the music comes on as we are greeting each other. Following that at 12:03am the M.C. gets back on the mic and does a countdown starting at ten! Bwahah!

I couldn't stay long, because I had to pick up my dad from work at 12:10am so we rushed out of there. Then we went home, got my things ready, and rushed back to work to relieve my mom.

So to sum up new years eve: I felt annoyed, guilty, happy, content, and tired. 

• New Years Day:

I worked all weekend. Sucks, but I made some major goals concerning my mission prep! Looking forward to putting in all of this hard work so that I can spread the gospel to the people of Peru! Oh, and I deactivated my Facebook account. Nervous about that, but I am sticking by my resolution! 8)

Well til next time-