"proper."

musculoskeletal begins in 8 hours.

lunch at islands with pat and dub followed
by watching kung-fu panda...which surprisingly
was a very good movie.
"there is no charge for awesomeness...or attractiveness!"
hahahaha...good laughs and good action for sure.
we went to dq afterwards to visit matt and chill for awhile...literally.

then the madness started.
i rushed back home with a cake
and did some quick preparations for my sister's dinner.
then...i drove all the way to claremont to pick up
food at buca. the drive was miserable.
traffic because of construction, rush hour,
and just lame commuters and drivers.
the heat was getting to me despite the a/c on.
i was running low on gas
and there was some complications
with the food at buca.
however...i made it back home
with everything i needed
and a good tank of gas.

i thought my sister's dinner saturday night was awesome...
but i must say that this dinner at my house was so much better.
i thoroughly enjoyed the food and the intimacy with the company.
it was a beautiful simplicity...which i hope my sister enjoyed as well.
for me...it was the real end to my weekend.
a good way to finish off this getaway from school.
i have a whole lot of stress and challenges waiting for me
in san bernardino/riverside/loma linda/whatever
but i am going back to school refreshed and ready to rock.
and besides...this week has only three days of school with a
long weekend and my next break is in about two weeks.
things are looking up already and i haven't begun to really think positive.

at the beginning of this day...
i got a call from kaiser.
even if it was automated
and not intended for me (it was for my mom)
it provided me with a resounding lesson:
"today is a good day to thrive."
no matter what...we have the choice
to make a day good or bad.
we have opportunities to turn things around
for the better or for the worse.
if we focus on joy and love...
then every day is a good day to thrive ya dig?
i can't always rely on a phone call
from a hospital computer to remind me about things like this...
but i can rely on the people in my life and the person i see in the
mirror (that would be me...and not some ghost or somebody else.
that would be totally creepy) to keep me believing
that heart of life is good and worth thriving for.

goodbye june...hello july. what up sleep! good night world!