maureenie.

on the lot

2007-06-16T09:59:00.001-07:00

finally downloaded the episodes for on the lot. ya know? the competition reality show on fox about aspiring filmmakers wanting a million dollar deal from dreamworks studios. well i've been watching the shows all morning and here are some videos i found amazing! watch em!

"time out"

"random acts of kindness"

2007 Camp Pendleton Mud Run 10K Results

2007-06-11T16:58:00.000-07:00

For all who went this saturday, here are the results:

CIVILIAN WOMEN Age 20-24 Division
16th Me @ 1:14:48
22nd Jean Armas @ 1:18:47
23rd Monica Ferrer @ 1:18:49
24th Cheryl Banares @ 1:18:51
36th Nicole Cruz @ 1:26:32

CIVILIAN MEN Age 20-24 Division
24th Gregory Cabrera @ 1:08:57
25th Jonathan Nazareno @ 1:08:58

AWESOME JOB, EVERYONE!!!

friday tomorrow! here's what happened last weekend!

2007-05-24T20:26:00.001-07:00

pumped up! starting line at harbor & 5th in gaslamp.

conquered the bay bridge run/walk!

at kim's bday dinner in balli hai.

2007-05-21T17:24:00.001-07:00

monday!

i'll have the weekend adventure pics up soon.

peas & carrots!

2007-05-18T14:22:00.000-07:00

gotta love fridays!

got a couple of sdsu friends graduating tomorrow. looking forward to a lot of eating and drinking again. congrats, ron and genesis!!! you guys did it! this weekend's going to be one helluva adventure! decided not to go to lala land tonight anymore. i think i'm just going to burn myself out since i have a whole saturday dedicated to toasting to grads and the sunday bay bridge run plus x-fest til midnight. sound fun?!

may bdays:
18th - cheryl
19th - carlynie
23rd - marky

"stay classy, san diego." - ron burgundy

2007-05-12T08:23:00.001-07:00

so far, may is turning out to be one of the best months ever. this past week is especially going down in my memory bank as one of the best weeks ever!

sunday: still at vegas! cindy brought us to harrah's outdoor bar where we had one of the best sex on the beaches 1/2 yards. stopped by o'sheas where i watched my friends gamble the little money they had left (the JET $40 cover really killed my hunger to gamble on sunday). ron taught me how to play craps, which by the way, this time i understood and still remember to this day how to play it. beat that my short term memory! after o'sheas, crawled over to margaritaville where jon bought a round of pina coladas! woo-hoo! it was the best! i was craving one the whole time i was in vegas because i kept smelling coconut everywhere (found out pam carried a travel size coconut smelling lotion). sipping on the pina colada and heading over to caesar's palace to watch the grand statues was the last thing i remembered enjoying before i got weary and lethargic. i spent a good half hour or was it an hour (?) power nap in la salsa at caesar's. now fast forward to waking up and heading over to circus circus where i ate the best #1 meal at mcdonalds.

monday: flight was not delayed! yay! i arrived at work on time and not as tired as i thought i wouldve been. got all my shit done and spent a 1 1/2 hour lunch with erin and scott. ooh scott... foreshadow for now! anyhow, it was a terrific hot sunny san diego day and at the end of the day, finally got the rest my body was longing for.

tuesday: highlight of the day was probably finally getting a new case for my phone (it's pretty) and watching spiderman 3 on imax at mira mesa. i still enjoyed the movie despite the corny parts and totally having to tolerate close-ups of kirsten dunst's fugliness. fantastic movie! i'm ready for f4, pirates, transformers, and ocean's 13.

wednesday: easy day at work. went to work in a dress and sat out in the sun midday to soak up another splendid day in sd. it was hot but breezy and i loved it! i should really spend some time at the beach and get some leisure reading done. felt too lazy to run the wednesday 5k but forced myself to go and ran it faster than i had before. i'm still the slowest of my coworkers, but i finished at around 28 mins which i thought was awesome. afterwards, carbo-loaded at o'briens like usual.

thursday: these are like my fridays... i checked my email at work and found out i won two tickets to 93.3's your show 8, ipod nano, and chicblvd ear buds! i've been having a lucky streak lately and i love it! okay, i'll skip the work bullshit this time and flash forward to the exciting evening gala extravaganza. my coworker, scott, treated me out to dinner at some hole-in-the-wall mexican restaurant in OB. the food there was a mixture of fast food mexican and otmc. i ordered a carne asada burrito that was a bit different from all the carne asada burritos i've had before. this one had red bell peppers and it totally added that extra zing to it. drink number one for the night was a large glass of margarita. after a fun dinner, scott and i met up with everyone at brick by brick to watch sentinel. downed drink number two and three of hefs while listening to fantastic metal music. totally am a fan of the band's marky-mark-in-rockstar-singer! after the short set the rest of the gang headed home but i continued my thursday night with scott at some bar in OB. met his friends and roommate and more drinking ensued, drink number four and five conquered! after that... wasted.

friday: got to work hung over, hungry, and thirsty the first few hours of the day. i literally was thinking and working slow that i was borderline retarded. went to my work's closet sale (kinda like the vogue closet but we only have athletic clothes and shoes) where they sold everything under $20. bought a bunch of shit i don't need for $30, 2 pairs of shorts, 2 running tops, and 3 pairs of new shoes. thee best bargain ever! i got to leave work early to get home and change and get to the show on time. our seats weren't as close as i had assumed, but damn, they were free! bev and i only stayed for four acts, robin thicke, ciara, frankie j with first class fiction, and some early ludacris. by the time luda came on, i was freezing my ass off and was ready to bizounce outta there. we missed fergie and paula deandradana whatever. oh well. met some crazy old lady, as we were exiting coors, who was totally fugly and bizarre and continued to pester us about hilary duff. oh by the way, duff cancelled due to symptoms of the flu... yah... right. bev and i grabbed some dinner at jitb and ate our shit at j music! we sang all the hard ass xtina songs for a good hour (only $25/hr/room) and ended the night adventure there. will mos def do that again some time!

saturday: beer olympics.

the vegas

2007-05-07T11:07:00.000-07:00

just got back from the vegas this morning and working the 9 to 5. i've just been drinking lots and lots of water since i got to work. time to cleanse my liver and eat healthy again (only for the weekday of course). pictures will be posted tonight on my yahoo so check before you sleep tonight. peas and carrots!

coming and going...

2007-05-03T16:25:00.000-07:00

vegas here i come! believe it or not i haven't been to vegas since i was twenty years old, circa new year's 2004. my sister, bev, and i actually decided to go on a whim... of course bev planned the whole thing, i.e. booked our hotel and lead us to most of the touristy places. man, i totally remember now... i was a teeny bit of a late bloomer but it was the time in my life when i felt like i was growing out of my childhood, learning new adult things/responsibilities, and exploring boundaries (self/people/geographic). at this exact time the only people i really hung out with were my bffs plus the CAL. i think one day we were bored at starbucks(?) or buca(?) and my sister and i were discussing how we always spent our new year's outside of sd... the previous several years in norcal then london. it was fun and exhilirating to us at the time... looking back now, it was a much simplier happy part of my life. oh how we've grown...

today, i read a final-destination type of article about an ex road runner sports employee from seattle who died just a few days before her bday this year. it described the way she died and it went something like this... she woke up bright and early to join her TNT. she was the first to arrive at the meeting spot, and as she was waiting for the rest of her teammates to arrive, a car had lost control (it was probably a typical seattle rainy day with slippery roads) and hit her. she died on the scene. it wasn't an obituary. it was, instead, a tribute to her and an introduction to a new charity her family and company (brooks) began... what was bizarre was that they included a small detail in the article that gave me the chills. a coworker was reported saying in the article that the dead girl's desktop said, "life's short... run long." it's like she knew life was short and death came for her, hence me calling the article final-destination-esque!

30th place yay!

2007-05-02T10:27:00.000-07:00

la jolla 5k results :

bib#5502
Maureen
Liwanag
San Diego
CA
23
F
chip time - 30:09:00
clock time - 30:54:00
overall - 428
female - 192
age place - 30
age grade - 0.8%

i hated this race. half of the race was downhill and the other half uphill. you know the intersection from herschel and torrey pines road... ya there! i swear it was like a mile of uphill. i ran out of gas fast because of that!

good-bye april!

2007-04-30T22:26:00.000-07:00

the last days of april:

4/26 @ pb bar n grill

4/28 @ johnny v

4/20 fun day & frances' reunion rain or shine!!!

2007-04-23T18:43:00.000-07:00

4/20

Friday the 13th

2007-04-16T18:03:00.000-07:00

bev the storyteller.

wii bowling is fun!

jon singing "still in love."

more magic mic...

lala land.

2007-04-09T23:26:00.000-07:00

friday... left work early!
saturday... tennis & then beer hunt party in la
sunday... kabuki

2007-04-09T10:54:00.000-07:00

Watch this trailer: Halloween (2007)
The young Michael Myers, Daeg Faerch, was the kid I used in my short film, Reminiscence. I knew he would make it big.

2007-04-04T23:17:00.000-07:00

great seats, great show! wicked is the best musical i've ever seen. if anyone is thinking about seeing it, please invite me. =)

sfc trip (03.22 - 03.26)

2007-03-27T14:18:00.000-07:00

eat. shit. shop. sleep. bart. sing. dance. drink. dance. pass out.

i don't have a lot, but here are the rest of the phone pics.

2007-03-19T09:01:00.000-07:00

i will be in kent, wa. from today through thursday if you guys need me. call the cell.

2007-03-16T16:19:00.000-07:00

im ready for st. pattys.

2007-03-10T12:11:00.000-08:00

after waking up with a bad wine hangover, first thing i did was take a long ass piss (i swear it was like the austin powers piss where he kept stopping and going a few times!) and make my way to my kitchen to look for some frozen burritos in my fridge. but damn, i found no burritos. i was scratching my head, sat myself down and started thinking about where and who the fck ate all my frozen burritos?! who the hell ate a whole box of my burritos?! then an epiphany [queue the allelujah music] i remembered that my sister from arizona and my parents were home last weekend watching tv all day and munching on burritos. ugh! how dare they not save me at least one jose ole burrito?!

on another note:
i'm pretty proud at the fact that when i come home messed up and semi-conscious, i can still manage to rummage through my mail sitting on my counter then crawl back upstairs to brush my teeth, splash water on my face to remove make-up residue, undress, and most of all... remove my contacts without gouging my eyes out. all of this probably took me a good ten to fifteen minutes last night but i could've accomplished all this more quickly if i had my balance. thanks bffs for getting me home safely and thanks g for trying to feed me nuggets. i know i acted like a difficult, childish, vulgar baby last night. i just wanted to take a nap. was that too much to ask for?

oooh tgif tomorrow already!!! i still remember last friday and last weekend. here's last week in review...

2007-03-08T21:53:00.000-08:00

SUNDAY
visited balboa to stop by annie leibovitz's exhibit at sdma. then grossology at the fleet and shopping at horton & gaslamp.

SATURDAY
tennis w/ the gals

FRIDAY

baby boy! cindy's cute ass puppy, bear! i just wanted to throw her puppy high up in the air and pull on its tiny little ears! so cuuuute!

@ the xtina concert waiting for DK to get on stage. cindy took this pic. ew there's a pregnant chick in the bg...

DK finally on stage. set time: 30 mins tops! aubrey was rockin some funky denim + tutu skirt. weirdo!

PCD. set time: i think 45-60 mins. i forgot! in the pic it's nicole on the mini-jumbotron. didn't have enough great shots of all the dolls cuz this was the b4-xtina-bathroom-break time for me.

XTINA!!!

2007-03-07T07:59:00.000-08:00

hump day already!

weekend review

2007-02-26T18:17:00.000-08:00

high school musical. the tunes are still stuck in my head! find the batboy, stop the batboy, kill the batboy...find, kill, find, kill!!! this isn't a great picture, but the bald guy in the middle is batboy wearing a blood-splattered wife beater.

later that night... more beer pong! unfortunately, i lost... again!

open magic mic. here's cindy singing "i will survive," i think.

azn flush. you can't see it in the pic, but after losing to rj in jack and coke pong, alvin was effen red!

work bash. 6pm - 7pm

2007-02-22T20:12:00.000-08:00

me + guests. starting from the left, bev, marc anthony (?), and genesis.

food. a minute ago this had a turkey croissant-wich, chocolate clusters, and chocolate diabetes-filled balls. mmmmmmmm....

wine pyramid. ha we had free yellowtail chiraz, for all ya'll who missed out. i know i drank everyone's left overs.

long lost twin bro. after this pic, random people formed a line to get his autograph.

masseusenator. the little lady who performed massages on me, bev, and genesis was totally angry or something. it sorta hurt after awhile. not to brag and all, but i think i was her fave... she massaged me for about a good ten minutes. =)

location picture. just the shoe wall and 1/3 of marc's face.

sat. night & morn

2007-02-18T17:58:00.000-08:00

rufio and city guys. pic with the basco bros. last night!

the gift of barong q&a session.
exec. producer: nicole's mom
writer & dir: benito bautista
actor: dan moreno

songbird divas. mon, gen, and bev singing and harmonizing to "la isla bonita." twas a long karaoke night at ben's.

wine tasting w/ quiz

2007-02-17T10:59:00.000-08:00

lotsa wine and then some yard house to meet up with l and k.