Crazy Cat lady in the Making

I moved!

2009-09-02T13:25:00.000-07:00

cause Blogger just wasn't cutting it for me.

http://sophiejey.wordpress.com/

My New Addiction

2009-08-31T12:49:00.000-07:00

He's Pretty...I wish Sookie would just die already though. >:(

Sophie

P.S. I'll Have a post about my weekend up sometime this week.

Now I really know I'm crazy

2009-08-25T10:12:00.000-07:00

Now I understand the reason I text so much, especially right before bed. It's to keep my myself from thinking to much. I don't know how but when I just let myself think I just start thinking about terrible things. Very Very terrible things. I'm not going to go into specifics here simply because these thoughts just bother me so much. It's not like I start thinking evil thoughts more like I start thinking about scary thoughts. Agh, This is hard to explain. But I didn't get to sleep until about 3 last night and had to start reading The Abarat to get my mind off of it, though it really didn't work because by that point I was falling asleep. I was too tired to stay awake. Man I hate how I stress myself out.

Sophie

If my childhood had a soundtrack..

2009-08-23T12:51:00.000-07:00

Songs from these albums would be on it. :

1. Ten-Pearl Jam
I remember this one most vividly because this was probably my mom's favorite album ever, I don't recall ever listening to anything more often then this when I was still in my car seat.

2. Live Through This-Hole
Now this is another one I remember constantly listening to in the car. It's filled with so much aggression I love it. Courtney Love may be crazy but this album is a classic in my book.

3. American Thighs-Veruca Salt
There are two particular song off this album that I just remember loving so much. Those two songs were Seether and Forsythia. I think I loved them cause they were so fantastically girly but still bad ass at the same time.

4. Flood-They Might Be Giants
My dad got me into this album, he'd constantly play it so I'd always have him set it up on our old computer so I could listen to it as I attempted to play minesweeper and various other games.

5. Core- Stone Temple Pilots
If you ask my mom she will tell you that one of her favorite memories of me is when i use to sing Wicked Garden in my car seat. Also for some reason when I think of Sex Type Thing I have a image of me watching Snow white at the movies in my head.

6. MTV Unplugged in New York- Nirvana
Though neither of my parents were very big Nirvana fans they always would play this album. It's a classic.

Sophie

Moms say the darnest things

2009-08-20T16:52:00.001-07:00

"I was watching 'The Object of my Affection', you know with Jennifer Aniston and she has a gay best friend? Yeah, she's really ugly."- Mom

I need to read more

2009-08-15T21:00:00.000-07:00

I realized this after watching an episode of Gilmore Girls. You know the one where Lorelai and Rory go to Harvard. In the specific scene that sparked this realization, Lorelai is telling Rory about Harvard's library and their massive amount of books. Then Rory starts freaking out because she calculated that she's probably only read about 300 books in her lifetime and just starts doing her typical Rory freakout.

I can't actually say how many books i've read, but i'm going to guess it's much less then 300. You know for a bookworm like myself I actually don't read that much. This saddens me because there are so many books out there that I want to read but just haven't come around to reading, some of which I actually own.

So now I'd like to start making a list of books I need to read.

1. Jurrassic Park (I've almost completed it just 100 more pages)
2. The Abarat (Natalie's been wanting me to read it for years)

I only have two for now but there are lots more.

Sophie

A Trip to the Doctor's office

2009-08-12T17:00:00.000-07:00

Me: Man I really hate going to the Doctor, I can never understand a word he says. Damn and they weighed me earlier, shit I should have lost more weight by now. Fuck he's going to be mad, I know it.. Man and they're going to use that needle that thing is huge. Ok ,ok, put on your brave face Sophie.
*Doctor Comes in*
Dr: *looks over charts* Why are you here?
Me: I..uh..don't know..you just asked me to come back in a month.
Dr: *looks over charts* You should have lost more weight by now.
Me: Sorry..
Dr: Why haven't you been following your plan? *Gives the evil eye*
Me:...MJ Died.

Sophie

Sometimes...

2009-08-11T10:50:00.001-07:00

....the best way to bond with your family...is to get shit-faced with them.

Searching for Something New

2009-08-09T16:39:00.000-07:00

So lately I've been really bored with my music. Probably because I haven't found anything new to listen to in like 6 months. I know new music is out there, I'm just not as "with-it" as I use to be. Probably because I no longer read any music magazines, go on myspace, listen to the radio, or actually pay any attention to recommendations.

It's really quite frustrating when you've heard everything in your itunes library 20 times over. The last new thing I added to my ipod was the entire Michael Jackson collection. That doesn't count!

Oh and I've tried every online music recommender under the sun. They aren't so helpful, especially since all they recommend is music I already have.

So If you want to help me you can check out my last. fm widget in the sidebar to kind of get an idea about the music I like.

Sophie

You know what I hate?

2009-07-28T18:58:00.000-07:00

*Snakes
*Evil little cousins that let puppies drown
*When my mom goes away on business
*not having a job
*not having a license cause I'm too scared to learn how to drive
*When someone calls in the morning and says "hey can I come over?" and I agree. Then say "make sure you have pants on when I get there" and then you do and they never show up. First it's the mom not letting that person go, then they have car trouble and say "I have to wait for my dad to come home to help me fix it" and then a couple hours later you call them and they say "Oh my friend picked me up cause they were bored and I was bored..ok gotta go bye" and that's that. I really really hate that, I don't put pants on just for fun you know.
* Being bored at home when the friend who kinda flaked on you is out with their friends.

UGH...I'm just irritated, don't have a cow man.

Sophie

I need a job

2009-06-26T16:22:00.000-07:00

Like seriously I don't want to be home on my ass all summer mooching off my friends just so we can hang out at the movies. I hate having to do that, I feel dirty afterwords. Hardly anyone is hiring now and those who are don't want me and this makes me sad.

Good news is I've registered for school and all that. I'm working on getting back on track. I think I've found a very good school and I'm happy Natalie is going back to school with me. It's always good to have a little support system.

Sophie

P.S. Sorry for the short blog entry and the very little updates but I promise the next one will be longer.

2009-05-20T12:49:00.001-07:00

Man sesame street has really changed since i was a kid it's way hardcore now i swear i just saw a dog maul a fairy

Just Once

2009-05-14T14:23:00.000-07:00

I finally did the college drinking thing (responsibly). I wont lie I had fun, finally opened up and let people really know what this Sophie is all about. Though I did it before the drinking took place so major brownie points for me.

I had a nice little conversation with Luciano, who lives across the hall from me. He asked me how I liked my first year at college and I was honest with him, it fucking sucked.

We are complete opposites, he spent the entire year surrounded with friends and I decided to go the way of the hermit and keep to myself. Though at times he admitted he would have liked to trade places just for a little bit cause he never had time to himself, while I would have liked to just be able to have a good time with someone.

It's kinda weird. But It was nice.

And he likes Gogol Bordello

Sophie

Yeah..

2009-05-13T21:46:00.000-07:00

So I know I'm leaving Saturday, but I've finally, kinda made friends.

Jon + Kate= hate

2009-05-12T18:14:00.000-07:00

So recently the news has been abuzzin' with rumors about The Gosselin family. You know that "lovable" family on Jon and Kate plus Eight. I'm not gonna lie whenever I see that this show is on I will stop and watch. Mainly because I like the turtle-looking kid with the glasses, Aiden.

Recently all the ragmags have been reporting that both Jon and Kate have been cheating on one another. Honestly I don't blame them one bit, I mean have you ever seen the show Kate is a straight out Bitch. She is the devil in the flesh.

Yeah ,yeah I know they have 8 kids and it's hard but If that one Mormon family with 18 kids can keep there shit together for their kids, they can at least pretend to.

I think that both of them are guilty of infidelity. The only victims here are the poor kids, hopefully they have no idea what's going on, cause if they did it would be heart-breaking.

Sophie

P.S. Where's Aunt Jody?

I know this happened a couple of days ago

2009-05-11T22:18:00.000-07:00

..But I'm still upset. Last Tuesday my school's cafeteria was holding this special event entitled Eggs After Dark. They hold it every semester during finals. and pretty much it's a free late night breakfast. Well while I was eating dinner they were setting up and the table I was sitting at was already set with goodies and everything. Now there was one thing that caught my eye, and that was a yellow stress ball that looked similar to the one below.

So I casually put it in my pocket and took it back to my room with me.

It was one of those stress balls filled with flour, which made it extra squishy and that made it extra fun.

Over the course of the next few days I was playing with that thing nonstop. It was just so damn entertaining to me, it was like crack in toy form.

And then the inevitable happened.

It exploded on me. And that made me very very sad.

Sophie

2009-05-11T19:40:00.001-07:00

I swear i smell one of my campers you know that one who's notorious for smelling bad

Happy Mother's day

2009-05-10T15:37:00.000-07:00

I just want to say I think I have the best mom ever. So to show how much I love and appreciate her I decided to write a song:

Mom I Really Love You by Sophie (to the tune of pregnant women are smug by Garfunkel and Oates)

Mom I really love you
Everyone should know it, I know I don't say it,
Because It goes without saying

and your sisters are dumb
cause you are the best mom
and everyone knows it
cause you are awesome

I can’t count all the ways how
You cook all my meals well

I swear if I hear someone say
that you are stupid
I'll hide in their basement
and I'll kill 'em

Mom I really love you
Everyone should know it, I know I don't say it,
Because It goes without saying

and all the work you are scoring
we are dumb for ignoring

Tell those Bitches that I really don't care
what they say now
cause you are the best mom
and you are awesome

Your probably thinking that this is a dumb song
and I agree that some of my rhymes are a bit wrong

But I really love you and I thought you should know it
cause I never show it
cause I'm stupid.

You’re the one who gave birth now
to the two of us jerks now

Mom I really love you
Everyone should know it, I know I don't say it,
Because It goes without saying

and your sisters are dumb
cause you are the best mom
and everyone knows it
cause you are awesome

A tribute to My only reader that comments more than once

2009-05-09T18:24:00.001-07:00

A Tribute to Desi

Regarding my banner

2009-05-09T14:12:00.000-07:00

I'm throwing peace signs in the bottom left corner, not flipping you guys off. So there

Dead Toy Robots version 2.0 ?

2009-05-09T03:02:00.000-07:00

So recently I rewatched an old episode of my old youtube show I made with my friends (see below).

Now I know it isn't that great..but I still see potential in this. I know we kinda gave up after the third episode but I think if we work hard enough and get a lot of people involved it can potentially be something great and entertaining. See what killed us in the first place was focusing on one topic, the dreaded Twilight.

Sure it was funny then but now it's too played out and frankly I'm tired of it. Now what I'm looking for is some suggestions on what we should do as well as contributors so if you want to be apart of it hit me up on myspace or something.

2009-05-05T19:31:00.001-07:00

Had a surprisingly good tamale in the dining commons

2009-05-04T12:30:00.001-07:00

A monk just hit me with a pillow

2009-05-01T17:50:00.001-07:00

I just saw jim from the office!!!

I'm super excited

2009-04-30T22:19:00.000-07:00

because I get to come home for the weekend. But then I must return to seaside by train on monday morning and then I have a week left of school. You have no idea how excited I am about coming home. I frecking hate it here. It's waaaay too cold for my tastes.

WELL YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK

2009-04-29T21:31:00.000-07:00

Your ex-wife was waaaaaaaaaaay prettier. No offence Carla, but that's just what I think. ASS.

2009-04-29T19:29:00.001-07:00

I'm looking forward to all the knit sweaters with cats on them that i get to wear when i'm old

2009-04-28T13:54:00.001-07:00

I just got frozen yogurt i don't very much like frozen yogurt i only got it cause they had rainbow spinkles

This is an amazing story

2009-04-28T02:17:00.000-07:00

and my god everyone in Hollywood is an idiot

I really really

2009-04-26T20:07:00.000-07:00

need to update this thing. It's been weeks, maaaaan. Well right now I'm watching I ♥ Money 2 on VH1. Now these people are probably the Ghettoest people you'll ever see. No Joke. I have to say though my favorite would have to be Saphyri of Flavor of Love and Charm School fame. She just makes the show entertaining her and Angelique a.k.a. Frenchie, The french stripper that looks like Janice from the Muppets. Between Saphyri and her it's like a car crash you can't take your eyes off of. Man I swear VH1 comes up with the trashiest, super addicting shows.

lalalalalalala

2009-03-30T00:29:00.000-07:00

I know what your going to say don't say it I'M NOT LISTENING!

Well anywho I found myself a potential summer/regular job. Working for The city of Santa Fe Springs. That's right i will be a person in red. Be Jealous. Very Jealous.

I'm totally qualified too. Which is great. YAY!

Night.

Sophie J.

Yeah I've been Lagging it...

2009-03-11T20:54:00.000-07:00

but who cares.. So anyways I'll be coming home to Canta Ranas tomorrow via the Greyhound. And I'll be home all week causing my havoc and putting on puppet shows. Yes that's right I said it. Puppet Shows. But I wont say more on the subject cause this is going to be an awesome suprise that you'll love. For sure.

Well I'm gonna go watch America's Next Top Model to see if my cousin gets kicked off.

Lates.

This is Ridiculous but

2009-03-09T00:33:00.000-07:00

Today on facebook I was looking through my Uncle Chris's Photo album that he has set aside for my cousin matthew, that features him, his friends, and relatives. So I finally I come across this picture(see below).

And I sat at my computer for 10 whole minutes trying to figure out who the man in holding my little cousin was. I just knew that I knew him. Finally it hit me. The man in the above photograph is my Dad. Imagine how stupid I felt. But then again i haven't actual spent more then an hour in the same area with him since last june. So it's easy to forget. Here's some father-daughter photos for you to look at..notice how awkward we are together in all of them.

and his new wife and Step-daughter.

I feel sad now.

So...

2009-03-07T21:24:00.000-08:00

I haven't written a blog since monday...yeah..I know..I suck at this resolution but to be fair nothing really happened this week. Nothing at all. Boo... Well next week I'm coming home for spring break and I've been trying to find new music to put onto my ipod. But I'm just so damn picky about my music it sucks..I tend to stay away from Radio hits..except of course those super catchy ones that are unavoidable. So anyone know any good music recommendation sites or programs?

Oh my god...I ate the peach cobbler

2009-03-02T14:15:00.000-08:00

This is a terrible day indeed I can already tell I'll be puking it out later tonight. Why is it always the peach cobbler? why? Maybe it's just that terrible everywhere. Peach Cobbler in theory sounds delicious, sadly it's anything but. My last run in with it was last summer during staff training at Camp Mariastella it took out have the staff including myself.

It's a legend now.

Sorry..

2009-02-27T01:00:00.000-08:00

I forgot lent started. My apologies oh religious people, but I had a midterm to study for and Iit was super super hard. I was the last one in the room. I hate math. And to reward myself after I played my online bowling game for 3 hours, and watch !Three Amigos! again, an old favorite of mine. Who could not love to watch Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short at their very best, fighting the likes of the Infamous El Guapo, while not really having a clue what the hell is going on.

soo...

2009-02-25T14:09:00.000-08:00

Guess what? I've launched my very own online store..well not really but it's close. A while back I was asked by mom to design some t-shirts for the Big Autism Walk that we do every year. This is something that means a lot to my family because my younger cousin Clara is Autistic. Well I got the design down and the products are up in an online store I created so anyone can by them 10% of the money from each item sold will go To Autism Speaks, a Non-profit organization that funds Autism research.

This is the Design, The cute little girl in the Picture is my Cousin Clara.

Also if you'd like to go on the walk it's on Saturday April 25th, 2009 at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena. I'm not exactly sure of the time but I'll keep you posted.

Here's the link to see the t-shirts it's still being updated.

http://www.cafepress.com/Jarazar

I've become

2009-02-24T20:51:00.000-08:00

OBSESSED!

With games on facebook.

and I'm too tired to write anything else

I know

2009-02-23T18:15:00.000-08:00

i know i know..3 blogs in one day..obsessive I know but I couldn't resist

It's a Thong!

The man is wearing a thong! A THONG PEOPLE! It was blog worthy

Ok ok ok...

2009-02-23T15:00:00.000-08:00

I know blogger's a bitch and it's difficult to leave comments(well that's what I'm letting myself believe when it comes to why there is a lack of comments), so I've decided that I will tell you step by step to leave a comment.
1.Well first you read my blog, then go down to the bottom of that daily post where it usually says either 0 comments and click on that.
2.This leads you to another page. On this page there is a text box where you can leave your comment.
3.Under that there's an option menu entitled Choose an identity. There are four choices:
Google/Blogger
Open ID
Name/URL
Anonymous

4. To leave a comment without signing up for anything either choose Name/url where you can just state your name and also post up a url to your site/web page/facebook/myspace/etc (this is optional) or just click on anonymous.

5. Proof Read your comment making sure your making the comment you want.

6. (optional) click preview to see what it looks like all together

7. Click Publish your comment and then Presto! you have left me a comment.

P.S. I did two seperate blogs in one day YYYYYYYYAAAAAYYY!

Oh and follow me on twitter

http://twitter.com/SophehJinkies

Now this is what I call dedication

2009-02-23T01:44:00.000-08:00

Sorry Natalie I think I may have a new best friend. BE JEALOUS!

And they're (she's) off!

2009-02-22T13:27:00.000-08:00

So as I mentioned yesterday I'm having a bit of a contest on this here blog.
But I failed to mention the prize other then of course posting your description as my blog description. Not only will you get that but you'll get 100 Sophie credits. Now what is a Sophie credit you might ask? A Sophie credit is much like the gold coins in super Mario, they're freaking awesome. And they may be used on bribing me to put you on the list of people I deem awesome few have made it thus far so it is considered a great honor to be put on this list.

p.s. any one can post a comment now

boo...

2009-02-21T20:06:00.000-08:00

today's layout is very bland.........baaaaaah!

Well since I've had this blog, I've left the description blank. I just don't know how'd I describe it. It's not a generalized blog, so it makes it difficult. So I'm asking you the reader,yes just one and that's you Desi(I don't consider anyone else my reader because they do not comment even though they can easily choose the open id option and just put their names and comment..), to write one for me. Because you the reader actually kinda know what's going on with this here Blog..

Now just leave the description entry's in my comments and the winner will have their description of my blog used as the description...so far it seems like Desi is the shoe-in for this exciting contest.

That's it I'm getting a weave

2009-02-20T15:07:00.000-08:00

I hear they itch like crazy but damn they stop bullets. They should be renamed Supa-Weave's or something. Not Super, SUPA. It sounds much more "hip".

So anyways a broke out into hives today and they have yet to go away, but I can tell it's not as bad as it was this morning, my left hand is mostly cleared up now. But I'm still very itchy, sadly I do not have any benedryl on hand so I've just been doing the cold compress thing. Any recommendations on what to do?

....

2009-02-19T14:21:00.000-08:00

I think I have a sleeping disorder. I sleep for very long periods of time then during the day I'm super sleepy but when I tree to sleep i can't until like 4 am.. It sucks and my head hurts.

Drugs are bad

2009-02-18T21:44:00.000-08:00

MMMkay....

I'm so tired...

2009-02-17T23:07:00.000-08:00

I don't even know why............boooooooooooooo........

that one's for Natalie

All the crazies come out to play

2009-02-16T19:23:00.000-08:00

Why is it that the only time the whittier/norwalk/sfs/downey area gets any press it's always about some crazy person?

Like really come on, why the hell does this woman have to be from whittier?

this woman is SICK!

boooooooooooooooooooooooo

WELL ANYWAYS here is a list of famous people from our area

Whittier

Entertainment

* Antagonist, Metal band signed to Prosthetic Records
* Pete Dee Davison, Musician (The Adicts)
* Brendon Baerg, Actor (Yes, Dear)
* Andrea Barber, Actress (Full House)
* Caprice Bourret, Supermodel
* Joy Enriquez, Singer/Actress (7th Heaven)
* Stacy Ferguson (a.k.a. Fergie), Singer (Black Eyed Peas)
* Kathy Hilton, Actress/Socialite/Mother of Paris and Nicky Hilton
* William Garwood, American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s
* Vic "the Brick" Jacobs - Co-host of The Loose Cannons" radio program on KLAC Radio
* Adrienne Janic Co-host of Overhaulin, model and Fanta Girl
* Long Gone John, Founder of Sympathy for the Record Industry
* Mark Kostabi, Composer and artist
* John Alan Lasseter, Academy Award-winning animator and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios
* Roger Lodge, Actor (Host of Blind Date)
* Alex Lopez, drummer for Suicide Silence signed to Century Media Records
* Martika, Singer
* John Mayer, Singer/Songwriter released two major albums Room for Squares and Heavier Things
* Tim Minear, Screenwriter/Director
* Lorna Patterson, Actress
* Merle Pertile, Playboy Playmate (January 1962)
* Vaneza Leza Pitynski, Actress (The Brothers Garcia)
* Chuck Prophet, Musician (Solo artist and founder of the band Green On Red)
* Ron Shelton, Director (Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump, Hollywood Homicide)
* Eric Stoltz, Actor (Memphis Belle, Jerry Maguire, Pulp Fiction)
* Geoff Stults, Actor (7th Heaven)
* Lauren Tewes, Actress (The Love Boat)
* Tina Yothers, Actress (Family Ties)
* Tom Waits, Actor, singer-songwriter

Arts and literature

* Horace Bristol, Photographer, Life Magazine
* Daniel Colegrove, Photographer
* Firoozeh Dumas, Author
* M.F.K. Fisher, Author
* Dave Freeman, Author
* Mark Kostabi, Painter, who left Whittier to be discovered in New York.
* Carol Lay, Artist
* Thom Mayne, Pritzker Prize-winning architect
* Craig McCracken, Animator
* Tim Miller, Performance Artist (Member of the NEA Four)
* Cherríe Moraga, Poet, Essayist, Playwright
* Joe Ranft - Animator, storyboard artist
* Nicole Stansbury, Author
* X-8, Artist/Publisher
* Diane Wakoski, Poet

Government

* George Allen, Former United States Senator (Virginia)
* Louis Caldera, Former United States Secretary of the Army
* Ronald B. Cameron, Congressman
* James Ferguson, Air Force General
* Jacob F. Gerkens - First Chief of the LAPD
* Gabriel Green, Write-in United States presidential candidate
* Lou Henry Hoover, Wife of President Herbert Hoover
* Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States Played football at Whittier High School and Whittier College
* Pat Nixon, Wife of President Richard Nixon
* Pío Pico, Last Mexican Governor of Alta California

Miscellaneous

* Milo Burcham, Aviator/Test Pilot
* Tricia Nixon Cox - Daughter of President Nixon
* Francis A. Nixon, Father of President Richard Nixon
* Nadja Suleman, mother of the Suleman octuplets (born January 26, 2009)
* Kerry Thornley, Founder of Discordianism

Sports

* Greg Hancock - Speedway champion, one of the best speedway riders in the World
* Shirley Babashoff, Olympic Gold Medalist (Swimming)
* Chet Brewer, Former Negro League Baseball Player
* Chuck Cary, Former Professional Baseball Player
* Bob Chandler, Former Professional Football Player
* Andy Etchebarren, Former Professional Baseball Player (Last man to bat against Sandy Koufax)
* Nomar Garciaparra, Professional Baseball Player
* Michael Garciaparra, Baseball Player
* Oscar de la Hoya, Boxer
* Payton Jordan, Head coach of the 1968 United States Olympic track and field
* Mark Kotsay, Professional Baseball Player
* Dan Owens, Former Professional Football Player
* Jamie Quirk, Former Professional Baseball Player
* Ante Razov, Professional Soccer Player
* Anthony Reyes, Professional Baseball Player
* Kim Rhode, Olympic Gold Medalist (Double trap and skeet shooter)
* Mark Sanchez, College Football Quarterback, USC
* Adam Snyder - San Francisco 49ers
* Jenny Topping - Olympic Gold Medalist (Softball)
* Jim Zorn, Former Professional Football Player
* Eddie Zosky, Former Professional Baseball Player

Downey
The Carpenters (musical group - Richard Carpenter and Karen Carpenter) moved to Downey from Connecticut in 1963.
Mary Ford moved to Downey with her brothers and sisters following her divorce from Les Paul
The Blasters (Rock group)
"Weird Al" Yankovic (Singer/songwriter) was born in Downey, and raised in nearby Lynwood, California.
James Hetfield of the musical group Metallica, an alumnus of Downey High School
Donavon Frankenreiter (surfer and musician)
Hasan Habib (Professional poker player and WSOP bracelet winner) (Born April 19, 1962)
Ryan Hollweg (Professional Hockey Player who plays with the Toronto Maple Leafs)
Evan Longoria (Major League Baseball Player)
Ken Ralston Five time Academy Award winner for Special Effects, an alumnus of Warren High School (1971)
Wayne Rainey, three-time world champion Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
Jeff Tedford (Head Coach of the California Golden Bears and former honorable mention All-American quarterback at Fresno State)
Aimee Teegarden - Actress(Friday Night Lights-TV Series)
Miranda Cosgrove - Actress (Went To Maude Price Elementary School)
Keith Black - Automotive Racing Engineer

Norwalk
* Tiffany Darwish, 80's Teen Idol
* Poncho Sanchez, Latin jazz artist
* Pat Nixon Wife of President Richard M. Nixon; Excelsior High School Class of 1929 (Family bought a Truck Farm in Dairy Valley, formerly in Artesia, but now part of Cerritos)
* James Gattuso Analyst and pundit now in Washington, DC who often appears on television and radio to give opinions on domestic policy; Excelsior High School Class of 1975
* Cindy Sheehan, anti-Iraq War activist
* Bob Kevoian Radio Host "The Bob & Tom Show" Norwalk High Class of 1969
* Gene Taylor (musician) acclaimed blues-rock and Boogie Woogie pianist. Norwalk High Class of 1970
* Nikki Schieler Ziering, Playboy Playmate, actress and Ian Ziering's ex-wife
* William Conrad, Graduate of Excelsior High School; Actor, director and producer in film and television (b. 1920, d. 1994)
* Alexandra Nechita, Artist, considered the youngest cubist ever discovered (at the age of 8) and nicknamed "petite Picasso". Attended Moffit Elementary School prior to her fame when she relocated outside of Norwalk, CA.
* Shirley Babashoff, Norwalk High School graduate, 1973 and Olympic Swim Team, 1972 and 1976.
* James Maciel, grew up in Norwalk and set the Guinness world record for Set-Ups, 3,845, completed in 2 1/2 hours, accomplished in 1965 at the Norwalk YMCA.[citation needed]
* Dick Bass, born Richard Lee Bass, played professional football as a running back for the Los Angeles Rams from 1960 through 1969.
* Richard Capistrano,1988 Major League Baseball first round draft pick Texas Rangers Right field.
* Richard Brown Major League Baseball Player Los Angeles Dodgers 1990-93 Oakland Athletics 1993-96
* Delinquent Habits Pioneering Latino Hip-Hop/Rap group.

Santa Fe Springs
Home to southern California's most famous swap meet
Danny Trejo
Maria Jaramillo (born Maria Goretti Salazar)(the Song Anything, Anything by Dramarama was written about her also is Sophie's mom)

Let's do the time warp yeah!!!!!

2009-02-15T23:05:00.000-08:00

So today natalie and I were driving around looking for mexican food. This is when I said hey we should go down this road cause I know exactly where I'm going (i really didn't) Luckily we had a navigator and it lead us out of that weird pass. That is when we realized we went back in time 5 minutes and ended up where we had came from. It was strange there were weird lights everywhere.

and we googled it after we got back and apparently there was no way we could have gone the way we did.

scary...

Starting off on a serious note

2009-02-11T20:53:00.000-08:00

I found a lump in my breast, but I'm kind of reluctant about going to get it checked out..I don't like doctors, and being felt up. It feels funny to me.

well anyways, Natalie's coming up for a visit tomorrow, and that makes me happy. I'm literally exploding with hapiness, well not literally, i'm still kinda down but it's because of the weather.

Well it will be a fun filled weekend.

Here's a video of my favorite sims character. hehe. He's a man whore.

FACEinHOLE

2009-02-10T21:53:00.001-08:00

is my latest obsession I'm not even kidding. It's has gotten to the point where I take pictures just to fit scenarios. It's silly.

Create your own FACEinHOLE

So today I only made it to one class, math..boring as per usual. Also I find it terrible that I get jealous of my best friend's boyfriend and conspire against him because I feel like he's taking my time spent texting or talking to her away from me. But I try and I try to like him, I did at first cause I didn't see him as threat, well now I do. Though I know I'm the more favored and whatnot..still I have my insecurities that I need to get over. Besides I think she'd feel the same way if the situation was reversed.

Also I know I should feel bad for making her come up Valentines day and ruining whatever plans he had with her, though we made these plans before they started dating, but I don't feel the least bit terrible about it in fact I feel better that i did it. He doesn't know it but I'm helping him not look like an idiot and just ruining everything all together.

oh and I played sims and it was awesome.

An apology

2009-02-09T23:17:00.000-08:00

I have lied to you and for that I feel terrible. In my last post I promised 2 posts for that day, but instead I just did one and completely skipped yesterday. So now I plan to incorporate all three into this one post.

Saturday

Well on Saturday I went shopping for shoes for my brother, usually guys are easy to shop for but no every frickin' pair we looked at he thought something was off about them, we ended up going to 12 stores before we just gave up. After that we drove up to San Fransisco to meet my cousin for dinner. Now my cousin is pregnant, and for some reason I'm terrified of pregnancy and all things baby. But she forced me to touch her belly..it felt weird...I don't want a baby now. Well after our hour long drive to San Jose we decided we would get some dessert at Wendy's and That's when I came across this in the drive through.

That's right Mr. Pibb is really Dr. Pepper in disguise.

Sunday

So my mom and I met my aunt for brunch. It was yummy I had eggs Benedict with crab. Yum :). I just listen to my mom and my aunt talk about their ex-husbands(my dad). Then we had to take Calvin home to the tree house in Aptos. I bought some honey at the local coffee shop it's tasty. Then I went for Linner (lunch and dinner) with my mom and her boyfriend and had Pacific Grove's best Clam Chowder. All I can say is I've been sick to my stomach ever since.

Monday

Today I mostly played sims and lied about being sick to get out of class, I've been lazy lately. Also I'm mad Gossip Girl wasn't on tonight. That makes me sad. I just kinda laid in bed all day on my computer. Also I used head and shoulders this morning when I took a shower and my hair feels super soft now. I like it. But yeah that's it...boo

blog for 2/6/09

2009-02-07T12:47:00.000-08:00

So yesterday I was unable to blog...so today I'm doing two so look out for that.

Well yesterday I had to wake up at the very break of dawn so my aunt could make her flight to LA. It was terrible. So when i got my other aunt's house in Santa Clara I passed out. Then after my much needed rest I proceeded to watch my cousin pack up my aunt's dishes as I played sims. Now when i play sims..I really play sims. meaning non-stop. It was crazy my sim Ol Brand is pimp...already has 10 lays and one baby..crazy.

Then my aunt told me about the great chorizo story. My other aunt, the crazy one, is pissed off at their hometown for putting a plaque up for her cousin, saying it's his birthplace (he's a big writer there), instead of acknowledging the house as the birthplace of our famous chorizo that the Gonzalez family stole. yeah she's crazy.

So..

2009-02-05T18:27:00.000-08:00

As I was packing up to leave my writing class today my teacher stopped us to make an announcement. Now this was coming out of nowhere. She said That this semester we were going to be seeing a lot of changes in her.. meaning she's started the process of becoming a man. So now Ms. Angelic Cricchio Is Mr. Axil Cricchio. Great way to end class with a bang.

oh and also...my money is gone now my mommy stole it from my account...boo I'm still going to invest in some rain boots though.

Well off to Aptos I go.

Behold the dangers of pole-dancing!

The Best things in life are free...

2009-02-04T21:41:00.000-08:00

but you can give them to the birds and bees I want more Money! That's what I want!

That's what I got!

I got my refund check from the school today and I must say this is the biggest amount of money on a check that I have ever physically seen or held.

It was quite an adventure going downtown to cash that darn check...well not really but it took like 2 hours. well the cashing took about 5 minutes but the entire time spent on the bus going there and coming back was about 2 hours.

So I went to the local bookstore that only sells used books.. it smelled like old people.

On the way back on the bus I came across this woman and her baby.

Now this woman freaked me out. This is because she looks exactly like my chracter in the story that Natalie and I have secretly been writing since we had the same math class back in 2006. but it's a secret shhh....

Peanut Peanut butter

2009-02-03T20:44:00.000-08:00

and jelly!

I just made myself a bomb ass pb& j panini with Honey. fo' sho!

and of course

that's right ladies and gentleman...Puppies.

Yo hablo espanol

2009-02-02T19:54:00.000-08:00

So this semester I'm talking beginners Spanish. I thought it'd be useful if I got a tutor. Well today was my first tutoring session and now I feel terrible. I feel like I'm wasting my tutor's time. He greeted me in Spanish and greeted him back in Spanish, apparently that impressive. So pretty much I did nothing and watched the other students do work and helped some of them.

and now I leave you with little Sophie.

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2009-02-01T20:58:00.000-08:00

I deleted this post

My Day in Aptos

2009-01-31T19:03:00.000-08:00

So Last night I slept over my Aunt's house, and Today I ran various errands with her. Did My Laundry. Got some groceries. Ate weird pita pizza. Oh yeah and did my mention my aunt lives in a tree house? Yes That's right a tree house.

Only downside is when I wake up in the morning and I breathe I can see my Breath. Not To mention I think the way she's living is Illegal and I'm pretty sure there's asbestos. Oh Well..

Movie day

2009-01-30T20:02:00.000-08:00

So today I went to the movies and saw Inkheart. I know the reviews were terrible but I've wanted to see it for awhile. Well I have to say I did enjoy it, but I must warn this isn't a movie for just anyone, no not at all, it's more for the Megan O' Connells of the world. But again I don't recommend it for everyone. If you liked stardust you'll more then likely enjoy this movie.

Well on the van ride home I got to listen in on a conversation between the driver and some foreign exchange students from France. I really like their accents.

Then my aunt picked me up from school and took me to dinner and right now she's waiting in the car for me so I can go spend the night at her house and do laundry tomorrow.

so yaaaaaaaaay!

Bye

BOOO

2009-01-29T20:51:00.000-08:00

I think I just might be getting sick. I do not like this feeling...not one bit.
I can feel my throat becoming sore and my ear getting that weird itch/pain. I hate being sick, It is the worse feeling in the world. Not to mention whenever I'm sick I feel gross, being all coughy and snotty, I hate being that one kid in class that gets everyone else sick. I blame the riding my bike in the rain!

Damn the RAIN!!!!!

HOMEWORK

2009-01-28T22:50:00.000-08:00

So tomorrow I have two first drafts of one page summaries due in my writing class and a bit of math homework and you know me I get distracted a lot. Especially since I have to study in that mess down in the last blog. Well I decided that i'd finally put the new library across the street to use.

Now This thing is massive and is an architectural dream. Like it's so modern it's crazy. I am not kidding. Well for once I was finally able to concentrate and get my homework done and in record time. Normally it would have taken me a week to complete half the work I got done in that thing. But no I cracked out two full page summaries and 3 pages of math in 3 hours. I know a record fo' sho.

Now I am quite tired so this means it's time to get ready to go to sleep at 3 am.

p.s. Clint Eastwood donated the money for the library. Jealous I think so.

My room is a mess..eh

2009-01-27T20:51:00.000-08:00

So last week, winter break ended and The spring semester began. So I packed all my bags and brought my things with me.. I'm still in the process of unpacking... and so my room looks like this.

I can't even imagine what the day I finally clean is going to be like.

you haven't even seen the dishes

P.S. SINCE WHEN WAS JEMAINE MARRIED??!!!..AND BRETT ENGAGED???!!..the world is ending

Sophie Sings The Hits: remixed

2009-01-26T19:41:00.000-08:00

So last year during the summer, I came out with a cover album. Well recently I came across that cd again and decided I'd remix it since I have the equipment. Today i spent the majority of my time making this cd work and oh how it does. I think it's rather brilliant. Rolling Stone is going to be all over this shit.

here is a sample:

or here http://www.esnips.com/doc/46e8f2e6-3e88-4a17-bf8d-307524df0abc/dustinthewind

Raining on my (Bike) Parade

2009-01-25T17:08:00.000-08:00

So today I woke up fairly early for me, 9 am. So I decided I'd do some laundry, seeing as everyone was still sleeping and the washers would be free. The Rain had cleared up and it was pretty sunny out so I decided that after all my laundry was done that I'd ride my bike to Micheal's and get some yarn so I can finally make a amigurumi crochet doll. So I did that, though I must say that was pretty tiring. So since I was at the shopping center with the target in it I thought 'Hey I should get my groceries now'.

Not a smart move at all.

By time I got all my groceries and came out it was pouring. See I don't really know anyone up here with a car, and the bus doesn't go to that particular shopping center. So I sucked it up and attempted to ride my bike in the rain. That didn't really work for too long I was forced to get off my bike and walk because the wind was making my hair fly in my face, blinding me to the point where I crashed. I had to walk my bike back the rest of the way with my way too heavy groceries. If everything had I worked out the way I planned I would have been home 15 after leaving Target but No it took almost 2 hours. Yes 2 hours, and now I'm soaked.

I didn't even mention that by the time I got here the sun had come out again at it stopped raining.

Bahumbug!

Blog-a-day-for 2009

2009-01-24T20:57:00.000-08:00

So This year everyone has been asking me what my New Years resolution is, usually I say I don't have one, they're stupid..etc..etc. Well I've decided this year will be the year I start a blog and actually keep it up. and so I've decided to blog once a day, for the rest of 2009. So there ya go.

Sophie.

Long day..full of buses

2009-01-23T20:01:00.000-08:00

So I attempted to find my orthodontist office today on the bus, didn't work out all. Never found the damn place. Now I'm super exhausted. Going to sleep last night at 3 am didn't help either. Not that i didn't want to sleep or couldn't, Fucking Morgan decided she'd invite her friends over for a long card game at 1 am, Despite me telling her in casual conversation of course that I needed to get to sleep early because I had a long day ahead of me the next day.

Well since that whole thing didn't turn out well, I decided I'd go to the mall and finally apply for a job at Starbucks. Yay me...eh.

Public Transit Phobia

2009-01-22T23:20:00.000-08:00

So Tomorrow I have to go to an Orthodontist appointment in Salinas. It's at 2:30pm and is an hour long, and an order for me to get there in time I have to catch a bus here at 11:30am and take 3 buses there. That doesn't bother me too much. My problem is when I have to come back, it'll already be getting dark. I don't know why but I've got this thing about riding buses at night. The idea scares the crap outta me, I always think some shady character is going to be on my bus and shank me. and then I have to remind myself that I'm just getting the subway mixed up with a bus.