What does Andrew do on a tuesday night durign summer?

So its about 4 o'clock in the morning (3:58 to be exact) and I've realized that my posts have been rather scarce, so I'm going to update...

My mom just told me to go to sleep, but I'm still too wired from all the mountain dew that I found in the pantry downstairs about two hours ago when I went on a clandestine mission to the kitchen for some munchies. The night has been fun so far. It all started with Teen L.I.V.E, which was a blast I must say, then it went on to playing Nazi Zombies online with Erwin and Todd. After that ended, I decided that I owed it to Alley to at least spend a little time on the phone with her, although I think she got the short end of the stick, because I decided to go a little bit early... sorry babe :/

After our lovely conversation, I thought that I would catch up on the only girly show that I watch, the Secret Life of the American Teenager...yea yea yea say what you want, I really don't care.. I find it interesting. After giving ABC Family about 45 minutes of my life, I proceeded to again play some Nazi Zombies, although this time by myself...

--Warning-- It is not enjoyable to play Nazi Zombies alone at night--

So to solve the previously stated issue, I put some coldplay on while I shot the guts out of evil zombies that wanted to steal my awesome looks. Those of you that follow me on twitter (although almost nobody does :/) will see when you wake up at a decent hour that I mentioned that. All the while, the best guard dog in the world (see above picture ^^^) was making sure that nobody stole my bed or comfy covers... So after getting pretty far in my zombie conquest, I got hit in the face with one too many of the nasty guys and fell down, ending my game. I then just decided to try my hand at playing against other xbox lovers and see how their game was against mine at 3 AM. I actually did really well...actually, the best I have ever done... it must have been that mountain dew...that stuff must do something to you...oh well.

Now I'm laying in bed typing the last of this, which has taken about 25 mins to do..scratch that, 26 mins, and now I'm going to let Rick Pino put me to sleep. Goodnight all...or is that good morning?

A Smile a day....

I find it interesting how easily a simple smile can affect someone. At work today, there was this lady who came in looking really...glum. I kindly asked her what I could get for her today and she gave me her order, so I called it to Joe (the other barista on duty). After calling the drink, I proceeded to continue what I was doing behind the counter. Once her drink was done, I let the woman know that she could pick it up at the other counter, so she went and got it.
As she was making her way out the door, I smiled at her and said, "Thank you ma'am, Have a great day" ...and her attitude completely changed! She looked at me and very enthusiastically said, "Thank you very much. You too!" and walked on out. An entire attitude change from just a smile!
Its so nice to be able to have that kind of effect on someone's day, knowing that I might just have made their day a little bit better with a simple smile. Who knew? Make sure you smile at the next person you encounter...you never know what it will do for them... :]

Summer Nights....late summer nights

One of the the things that I love the most about summer is being able to stay up so late at night, and just sleep longer during the day. I myself seem to work better at night (which is really weird). At night I feel like being alot more productive; I read, I write stuff; I even recorded and mixed down a 4 minute instrumental all in one night after a Groundfloor because I wanted to.
I don't know what it is about nighttime, but I love it, and during the summertime, its even better because I don't have to wake up early or be coherent at all until at least 2 PM. Sometimes I play video games all night, sometimes I watch movies, sometimes I stay on the phone with Alley, and sometimes (last night) I read, which is a miracle because I NEVER read...at least not out of my own motivation. And even if I do want to read, I usually can't read the books I want to read, because I am stuck reading boring books assigned to me from English class. All I gotta say is

I LOVE ME SOME SUMMER!!! :D

"Praise The Lord!"

This year, I'm spending my 4th of July in Florida, but not for what you might expect. Just this past thursday, my Grandpa passed away at the ripe old age of 90 (he was almost 91). So I came down to join those others of us who were close to him for a memorial service. Although it was small, the service was great because it offered each of us to talk about Grandpa and share our stories and memories of him. There was also a great video done by my cousin Charlie, of some pictures of Grandpa and such. It was awesome to get together with this side of my family, seeing as how I haven't seen many of them in years. I got to catch up with my sister too, see my nephew and my nieces, and my cousins.

I'm really happy for my Grandpa because he had such an amazing life. He is probably the only man I have ever known who has so embodied what a true Christian could be, because his actions and his character resembled those of Jesus. My Grandpa was a great man. I hope that I can go through my life the way that he went through his: praising God in everything he did, never saying anything negative about others, and always turning something that could be negative into something positive. I love you Grandpa. Have fun up there :]

Jorge Lazcano
August 14, 1918 - July 2, 2009