Tag: Alcohol

Day #74 8/21/11: Straight laced normal…

Posted on by anele25
From left to right (2003): My two cousins, My aunt's husband and herself, my other cousin, her mom, my two uncles, my grandma and my mom, my other two aunts and one of their husbands, and last but not least me and brother

As we were driving down to L.A., I felt emotional but a good emotional as we greeted my aunt and her husband and as well as her kids who all remarked that I was normal after not doing things that you would expect from a 23 year old guy. I chatted with my cousins for a bit and I saw that they are quite different from people I know down here. I can understand why they are different so there isn’t much to note there.  We also happened to have a party that night for my aunt and the party was on indeed as much alcohol was drank that night and pretty from what I could tell, everybody drank except for my mom,myself, and the kids. We didn’t go to sleep till around 11 that night and I was very tired that night anyway so I went to sleep expecting to get a rude awakening but the next day, Mexico was locked loaded and ready to go…

Day #29 7/7/11: 10 years almost to the date…

Posted on by anele25

I remember when this used to be a mall in 2001 and my friend and I would go during those hot summer days and play arcades all day but this is around the time also when I started feeling worse physically in terms of the first appearance of my kidney stones which hadn’t been brought to my attention yet. I was worried because I could barely walk the next day as I found out that I had drank too much caffeine and did not have enough water in my system. Ever since then, I have taken the approach to eat a bit healthier and also drink a lot more water. I find this special because this is around the time I started changing and my friends were changing as well. I can only remember this and wonder how I survived not being involved with drugs, alcohol, sex, and all these other less than flattering options that could have been in my future. I moved not long after the year 2001 and I think back about the good times I had back then and what it was like to be a kid.

Otherwise a quick recap of the day:

Got a haircut and returned the movie the Wrestler

Relaxed at home and picked up my brother

Went to Costco with the family

Went to work and actually had fun

and that was pretty much it!