I have a very happy announcement

After six and a half years... I'm going to see my daddy again!!!!!!!!!!!
It's amazing. Here's the story:

I got a call from my brother Juan Carlos this week, I think it was Tuesday. He said my dad was coming, that he had sent him some of the money for the plane ticket and he would send some more the next day to complete the fare price and he would come and hopefully spend about a week in 3 different cities in the States where 3 of the 4 of the kids living in the states are. I couldn't believe it!!! I asking what was going on and if he was sure and what did I need to do and things like that. He said we just have to pay for the plane tickets when he's here, to get him from one place to the other. I started calling Lidia right after I hang up with Juanca and she didn't answer for a bit, so I text her the news. She was more than happy and forgot the time difference between our states and called me later that night. I was half sleep, so I told her we would talk the next day.

Well... that was early in the week. Yesterday, we bought a multi-city ticket for him to spend some time in L.A., here and then in New Mexico with Juanca. Thank God the ticket was about half of what I had seen a few days early when I was looking at flights with some random dates in July.

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!

Quiero un racimo de estrellas!!

Es la cancion de mi verano... Las Flores, Café Tacuba.
No me la puedo sacar de la mente!

Welcome Summer

Yesterday was a very good day. After doing stuff around the house I got my stuff and got to paint in the freshly mowed back yard as the sun set. The wonderful thing about summers here (one of the whole list) is that the sun takes its sweet time when setting. I went out at about 6:30 pm and got a couple of hours of painting. Then I enjoyed the last of the sun laying down on the grass, looking up a tree surrounded by fairy tales and summers. I think I smelled like sunshine after the last ray of sun had touched the highest leave in the tallest tree I could see. And then, out of every corner, fireflies came dancing, close to the ground and by the dozen. It was amazing, the feeling of summer, the dry paint on my hands, the coolness of the ground sending its energy through my back, the few drops of sweat on my forehead... I am in love with this summer.

see this

This is my third entry today. Exactly two weeks ago someone hit my car in a parking lot and just left, leaving a broken tail light and body work needed in my car. Today, my mom and I went to the store to get some groceries and when we came back to the car we noticed the hood was a little bent on one of the edges, it looked weird but I didn't see anything else, so we let it go. When we came back to the house I took some time to look why the edge was a bit bent and noticed one of the lights was pushed in a little and there was an extra scratch on the bumper.

I am so done with these civil offenders. I just had to pay a repair on my car for someone that thought it was fine just to leave the tail light broken and now this? I'm so done with this crap.

Wheeler Family

Please pray for this family, their daughter is very sick in Guatemala and they need all the strength and prayer they can get. Please have them in your thoughts.

This is from their blog:
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PRAY FOR A MIRACLE......ELIANA IS VERY, VERY SICK IN THE HOSPITAL IN GUATEMALA CITY!!!!!!!!!
Just got a call.......Eliana almost died last night. We are beyond devastated and are just crying out to God!! PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW. Her little body is VERY sick!

Love y'all,
Lindsey

P.S. We are trying to find a way to get to Guatemala today or tomorrow to be with her in the hospital!!!!!

thewheelerjourney.blogspot.com

Y como no estoy durmiendo....

Coco had this up, I guess this is a week for these time-killers, verdad?

BOOK TAG

1. Pick up the nearest book.
Love in Idleness by Amanda Craig

2. Open to page 123.
OK... it's just full of text.

3. Find the fifth sentence.
"I've seen a few"

4. Post the next three sentences.
"Uh-huh", said Daniel. "The English vice?"
"For your information, I seduced the matron of my prep school at thirteen."

hehe... that was fun. This was a fun, light-hearted book. I read it last summer.

hello summer

In a couple of days the official start of the summer will be here. Previous years have made summer official with the end of a school year and change... nice change. Change from class to class or from class to free time, or class to work. Summers I remember here have always been that. And I always had a trip to look forward to, as long as I've been in this country. The first time I went out was in 2005 when I got to go to DC with a group of people that are now very good friends of mine, we were representing the UA. The following years I found a way to get to DC myself, still a sponsored trip, but I was the one that made it happen. This year is different, I guess that's the change now. I don't get to go to DC or anywhere else. I might have some in-state visits that I want to do to a very loved family, but that's still in the air.

I am looking forward to more changes. Change is important for me, it has kept me growing strong after I embraced it. Summer has to be my Spring this year.

I want a pineapple shake.

Oh, yes, and a friend told me she has my book... the one I was looking for last night. Facebook status can be helpful.

DONDE ESTA MI LIBRO?!

Where the heck is my Black White & Jewish book by Rebecca Walker?! I've been looking for it in all the places that it could be and it's nowhere to be found. What the heck?! Donde esta? I usually keep good track of my books if I lent them, so I don't think someone else has it. This is a big mystery...I read it exactly 2 years ago. Which tells me time goes by to fast. I'll let you know if I find it.