Public transportation is a bummer in california.

Woke up @ 8:30
Took bus 265 to the metro station
Took the green line to the
Blue line to the red line hollywood and highland station.

Rode metro rapid 780 to melrose/ fairfax

(Picked up my check)

Rode the metro rapid 780 back to hollywood and highland.
Took the redline to the purple line
Took the purple line to wilshire and western

(Cashed my check)

Took the purple line to union station

(Ate some amazing mexican food @ olvera st while
I waited for my train)

Took the metrolink to anaheim

From the anaheim metrolink station took octa bus 50 to harbor blvd/
katella

Currently waiting for octa bus 43 to take me to costa mesa...... Time is
3:52pm

Lesson is : get a car
Melissa

a few days ago...

I can't believe people;

I am at starbucks right now, and I'm listening to a man argue with the
manager because he wasn't said hello to...it apparently happened 5
seconds after he walked in. Lets remember that its 7am and the poor girl
who was accused of not saying hello probably had just woken up. And not
only did he accuse this young girl of not saying hello he also said that
she laughed at him when he mentioned it. Well can you blame her? So
there he is now fighting with the manager going on about his rights as a
human, blah blah blah. So just because someone serves you coffee they
are suppose to treat you like you are their master and they your
servants? What about the poor girls right to not be bitched at by guys
who own expernsive cars and had bad nights. That's why men with small
penises should not be rich , I wonder if there is a way we could
regulate that.
I still am in amazement of this guys behavior, I really wonder what can
be going through this guys mind right now? Anyways regardless I must
re-iterate I CAN'T BELIEVE people. !!!
This all goes back to the chain (the circle) of screaming.. If confused
please refer to how I met your mother. Hahaha

it's been a long time...

I've been working non-stop...and to tell you the truth it isn't fun.
I have a lot of things i want to be able to do in the next couple of months
and so i guess focusing on work and making money is kind of important.

On to good news though: LUIS IS BACK ...
I haven't seen Luis since he came to visit in New York City in May..
so this is pretty much the best news i've come across so far...
but more on that later.
Me and Shadi went to visit him at warped tour today ...



this is us trying to keep out of the sun .... but way more on that later.


I stay home A LOT lately , it's just my sisters, my dog, and me . I appreciate time in my bed , the way work is going all i want to ever do is sleep. Toby is probably the best dog in the world and makes me soo happy to see him everytime i get home tired as hell....


this is the cutest picture of him EVER!!!


he is way excited to see me.!!!!!

Okay... On to warped tour..
I got there around 11 just in time to catch TAI, everyone keeps talking about how great the new album is and i really am trying to get into it but right now im not really feeling it but i have to admit "summer hair= forever young" is such a fucking catchy song! And William's stage presence is always something to see. He just gets soo into it , it makes me want to get into it and then i just end up dancing like a fucking teeny .. (not that i mind)
After, I spent some quality time with Luis and Annel having a mini picnic and catching up on a nice shaded grassy area near catering. Its so great when Annel gets to be around I don't usually get to hang with her but I just love being around her because she is genuinely a sweet person. Shadi finally arrived and I went to go grab her at guestlist and ran to the AP tent to meet luis so we could go watch Motion City Soundtrack together. Got to see Diaz for less than 30 seconds but it was a sweet 30 seconds none the less. After the set was done we got off stage and this one girl came up to us and asked us how we got to go on stage. I found this hysterical mostly because I think she couldn't believe that someone as normal not scene looking would be allowed backstage let alone on side stage for a band. HAHA I was so tempted to tell her i sucked someone off to get there but i just told her the truth and let her know that my friend worked for warped tour. Luis then went off packing and me and shadi found solace under the catering tent stealing some drinks from the warped staff. We later reunited with Luis at the AP tent right before the Say Anything signing. We waited around to catch a glimpse of Max because well HE's HOT.. but we were soon over that ...
Luckily we were also there to help Luis control the line and not only did we do our job we became OBSESSED with the signs Luis made.









I LOVE THIS PICTURE because Shadi is sitting next to a very familiar AP cover..


We left warped around 5 pm, we hiked to Sha's car it seems
This is a picture on our long trail to the hill where she parked.



We ended the night with Sushi Sumo , Target and Coldstone. yum
all in all a good day

this is finally coming to our side of the pond!

im still in love with sid..and i really wish i was cassie...sigh

Its times like these I wish I wasn't a girl.

I'm an idiot, really though I am. I spend 10 years of my life feeling
bad for myself. Ten fucking years!!! That's someones childhood, that's
an education amongst other things. All that time letting myself believe
that there was something wrong with me. Well FUCK that! Last night it
just hit me like a ton of bricks. Why do I even waste my time? I have
had crushes that are rivaling my sisters age , its pretty pathetic to
think at one point after all these years they are just going to wake up
and be like poof...oh wait I do really like that girl I never pay
attention to. BULLSHIT! I am worth soo much more than that. So from now
on I am pissed and soo mad that I'm not going to allow myself to be
treated like second best. its hard being a girl sometimes, you have all
these people telling you how to be and its hard to hear your voice in
there. But to be honest I really like myself the way I am. Chubby, whiny
, at times needy and the rest of my faults because at other times I'm
caring to a fault, funny , and quirky and I don't mind taking the bad
with the good. I'm turning 25 this year and this the no bullshit year,
I'm doing everything I want to do for me from now on. Lets get this
started.
Melissa

Chicago

For 11 hours....what a fucking night
Melissa

longest day ever...

Yesterday I was held captive by my family with a few thousand other people at a Festival for Peruvian independence day. I am not normally into festivals but this time i wanted to show a little bit of pride for my heritage. Now when i was asked to come along to the event i was under the impression that i would eat some amazing Peruvian food while browsing through some cute stand and wishing that i had money to shop. None of that happened..instead i was stuck with an allergy attack , i couldn't eat anything because the lines were so long it would take more than half an hour anywhere to get food..and the entertainment was horrible...

Me and Gaby tried to escape once and we made it half a mile till we realized we were walking the wrong way...It seemed like there was no where to go I just had to sit and deal with my fate...There was a highlight of the day ... When Gaby asked if i could take a pic of her jumping mid air..this is what i came out with...

My little sister took a seat and it looked like she might of made the puddle..hahaha




The sentiment of the day....JUST SHOOT ME




Even this guy wanted out..





Other highlight...meet Tom...we struggled with what to call him it was either cowboy Tom..or
Bucky Kentucky.. (yes that is a hanna montana reference)

that stupid dress made me look 15 lbs heavier..eeekkk

my little sister wrote this...

now she is probably going to come off as the most narcissistic child EVER
but really she means well..or at least i hope she does ..
she wrote this in her diary..it might be a short story ..or a poem? maybe ?
anyways this is what goes on in my 7 year old sisters head...be very afraid


title: being so beautiful

There is nothing wrong with being beautiful unless you always look in the mirror all
the time. 3 boys like me but i don't always talk about it, i think? Sometimes when people are beautiful they put a lot of makeup on and look like a clown in public. But i dont do that neither my family , my mom and grandma only put on lipstick and that's okay. Sometimes people put on makeup all the time. Sometimes being beautiful is creative, sometimes it could be an art make up face. But everybody's beautiful no matter what any one else says it's your opinion not theirs. We can all have different makeup unless it too much makeup and the amount of makeup your mom says for kids is your mom's opinion . the end.

by : danielle mc gonigle..

there was a lot of confusion in the end of the paragraph but i think we all got the point.
you know those damn 7 year olds can never wrap up the conclusions....

i've been gone since i arrived...

Since I've been home i've sort of been lost in a whirlwind of an old me...
I went and saw Brand New once, and Jesse Lacey play solo acoustic with Kevin
Devine for 3 shows. I've actually been to a show every day since Sunday. I'm
really exhausted! but im glad i went because i just absolutely love this man's
music. GEEK i know....