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so I know a few months ago I posted saying I got a job at MAC as an oncall/freelancer so a little update with that. I GOT AN ACTUAL POSITION. so i'm offically gonna be a MAC ARTIST!!! i'm super excited :D
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[September 26, 2008 @ 7:18pm] |
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So, I can OFFICIALLY say that I'm a MAC Artist!!! I got offered a position as a freelancer/on-call today. I'm sooooooooo excited. I've waited sooooo many years for this and FINALLY my dream has came true.
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[April 25, 2006 @ 11:00pm] |
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Just got done watching 8th and Ocean and all I gotta say is KELLY IS A FUCKING BITCH!!! She deliberately didn't tell Sabrina she had a casting call and went herself. What a nice twin sister. Then she goes and play the innocent one and said she didn't do anything wrong and "claimed" to have forgotten to tell Sabrina about it. BULLSHIT!!
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[February 13, 2006 @ 11:33pm] |
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yay I got my new Lola Ray album in the mail today!
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[December 07, 2005 @ 6:05pm] |
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Jackie is not happy with the winner of season five America's Next Top Model!!!
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| 'He's a Lancer forever' |
[October 02, 2005 @ 1:04am] |
1,000 plus celebrate the life of Matt Van Gelderen
Some came wearing Lancer Red & White. Others wore Timberwolf Blue & Silver.
They were a family of one walking with heavy hearts toward Calvary Community Church on a warm Saturday fall afternoon tailor-made for football. The sound of a Manteca Chargers announcer calling the play-by-play could be heard from East Union High a few blocks away.
They were playing the game Matthew Zaragoza Van Gelderen loved.
But the game didn't matter now as young men and women entered the church foyer to the strands of Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young" playing from the public address system.
They gravitated toward displays of sympathy and love for a 16-year-old who could never be defined just by football -- but he certainly could for his love of the sport and for the love he had of his family, friends, and life.
There were footballs signed by the EU junior varsity, Escalon High, Tracy High, and other teams. There were jerseys such as those from Lincoln High and the Manteca Chargers carrying the No. 2. There were notes. There were written prayers. But most of all there was a lot of love.
How does one make any sense of it all? Here's a young man who one minute is playing football, the next minute he's fighting for his life, and then he's gone.
The answer, as Jim Todd who spoke before the 1,000 plus who attended Matt's memorial service Saturday offered, was the fact earth was just practice. The real game was in heaven on the team headed by God.
Todd alluded to the bright lights of Friday night. It wasn't lost on him that Matthew went home at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 23, almost a week after the on-field accident. It was kick-off time for the Hilmar-East Union game. And it was also kick-off time for a much bigger game.
"Heaven is the ultimate campus," Todd said as he glanced toward the EU football team that was seated together with the varsity wearing white jerseys and the junior varsity red jerseys.
It was the fact that his family is secure in their faith in God as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that allowed his father Jose to attend last Friday's game. He laughed and hugged well-wishers while his daughter and Matthew's twin sister Katrina joined fellow cheerleaders to cheer on the Lancers.
Prior to the memorial service, Matthew's parents -- Jose and Zona -- met with the media. It was something they felt they had to do. Not to answer questions, but to make sure that the community -- friends and strangers alike -- understood how important their prayers, their thoughts, and their support meant to them in past 16 days as well as in the days ahead.
"It meant a lot to our family," Matt's mom said.
"He's in a better place right now," Matt's father added.
His mom wanted to make sure that everyone didn't simply define Matt by football.
"He loved skateboarding and the guitar," she said, adding his friends, video games, and other teen pursuits into the mix.
She was sure to add, though, that "His greatest love was football."
Matthew hoped to one day earn a college scholarship and play for his favorite team, the Texas Longhorns.
Instead, God had other plans for Matthew. He needed No. 2 on his team.
Todd referred to the miracles he saw unfold in the past few weeks: Teens praying openly at school. Well-wishers from across the nation -- including 600,000 who left messages on the www.2mattz.com website. Players wearing Manteca Green & White and Sierra Blue & Silver gathering in the East Union parking lot hugging and consoling Matt's teammates and classmates.
The tragedy made it clear it wasn't about being adversaries. It was being part of a bigger brotherhood in the community and reaching out to others.
Matthew's coach Mike James understand that as well as anyone else. James said the Lancers started the season as teammates but now they were "brothers forever."
James shared that in talking to players from the freshmen level on up to seniors that there was a common thread about their thoughts about No. 2.
"(They said) Matt was a superb role model as an athlete and as a human being," James said.
There is no football statistic that can come close to such an accolade. And when it came to being such a role model, Matt was All-State.
James, like others, talked of the contagious smile that Matt spread to all of those whose lives he touched.
Coaches are supposed to get players fired up.
They're not supposed to have to deliver lines such as these:
"Matt's family was not just inside his house. It was in the city. It was it was in the counties."
"We're the lucky ones because we got to know Matt. We got to see his smile."
"East Union changed for ever (on Sept. 16) We lost a member of our family."
Matthew family's strong faith as well as their deep love for their son was reflected in a memorial video.
The photos from sharing a crib with his twin sister to mugging for the camera as a pre-teen triggered tears, they brought laughter, and they prompted crying.
A Sierra High linebacker, clutching a memorial service card with Matt's photo, wiped away a tear.
A dozen seats away, a young man in borderline Goth garb cried. It was obvious it wasn't the loss of just a football player that brought people to Calvary Community Saturday. It was the loss of a friend and a fine young man.
"He was No. 2 on the football field but he was No. 1 in our hearts," James offered in understated eloquence.
"He'a Lancer forever."
this was posted on the mantecabulletin website. But I was reading the record this morning and in there it said that during Friday's night game when one of Matthew's teammate who scored a touchdown, he had pointed the football up in the air saying "this is for Matthew". Oh man, I just wanted to cry so badly but I had to hold the tears.
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| Matthew's update! |
[September 25, 2005 @ 7:50pm] |
'Matthew, we will miss you forever'
FRENCH CAMP -- Matthew VanGelderen, a 16-year-old junior at East Union High School, passed away Saturday afternoon in the intensive care unit at San Joaquin General Hospital.
"We are sad to notify everyone that Matthew passed away this afternoon," longtime family friend Richard Ingram said on the website he created for Matthew Saturday.
Matthew was hospitalized after a helmet-to-chest collision during a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 16 at Bear Creek High's Podesto Stadium.
He was blocking on special teams with 2 minutes, 53 seconds left in the first half when his head slammed into the chest of an unidentified Bruin player.
Matthew was conscious for 10 minutes after the accident and spoke with paramedics briefly, but slipped into a coma en route to the hospital.
He remained that way until Saturday afternoon.
Rex Osborn, the public information officer for the City of Manteca, confirmed his passing Saturday night at 8 p.m.
Matthew was intelligent, athletic and liked by all, East Union principal John Alba said during Monday's press conference.
East Union athletic director Bill Stricker said he will certainly be missed.
"Everybody who knew him liked him," a grief-stricken Stricker said Saturday evening. "He will be missed by a lot of kids because of the nice young man he was.
"Right now, we're going to have a lot of hurting people, and hopefully when the pain goes away, we'll remember the good things... We'll remember all of the postive influence he had on people's lives."
Ingram and Stricker thanked the community for their overwhelming outpour of support in the eight days Matthew was hospitalized.
"I'm proud of our community and our kids, and how they've supported Matthew and his family," Stricker said. "You find out a lot about people in adversity, and the whole community came out showin a lot of class and character."
The Manteca community, and much of the Central Valley, rallied to aid Matthew and the VanGelderen family in their moment of need.
There were donation drives, heart-felt cards and window messages, and thousands upon thousands of warm prayers.
Ingram said the VanGelderen's will need that now more than ever.
"I thank you for all the support you have shown this wonderful family," he said on his website. "And I pray that in the coming days we can all come together and support them even more. ... Matthew, we will miss you forever."
Osborn said that the family is asking for their privacy, and that a prepared statement will be released to the public today.
A memorial service, he said, will be held later this week.
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[September 20, 2005 @ 10:58pm] |
Recently at my brother's high school, a 16 year old Junior who plays on the Varisty football team was critically injured. He is in the hospital fighting for his life. It's sad to know how I went to this very same high school. My brother is frieds with this boy. Doctors don't know if he will make it therefore the next few days are severally critical for his life.
If you want to read more and watch a video about the situation click this link. Please pray for Matthew. http://www.kcra.com/news/4993616/detail.html
For all you 209 people who would like to help out, East Union High School is throwing a car wash (yeah I know it's all the way in Manteca). If you want more info let me know. Students are only asking for donations to get your car washed.
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[September 17, 2005 @ 11:10pm] |
Lola Ray has a new song up on thier myspace and let me just say this IT'S FUCKING AMAZING. Seriously, you guys should go listen to it.
http://www.myspace.com/lolaray4eva
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[August 13, 2005 @ 12:24am] |
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I
wish they could adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn’t have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
Repost this if you believe homophobia is wrong
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[June 14, 2005 @ 9:15pm] |
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go out and get Punk Goes 80's!!! this CD fucking rocks!!!
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| Friends Only!! |
[April 16, 2005 @ 1:29am] |
leave a msg and I'll add ya (maybe) hehe
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| FOTD'S I've done on others today |
[March 23, 2005 @ 7:46pm] |
So, first of all ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) avoidpopularity aka Chris gave me a few colors to try out so I did. the first set of pictures I took are just of my eyes cause I didn't have time to finish the rest of my face because I had to get to Marcella's to do her makeup. Well, I was suppose to do my friends Susi's too but she wasn't feeling good so I didn't get to do hers. It's ok because Marcella's brother girlfriend, Alina, was there so I ended up doing her makeup too because she loved what I did to Marcella's. After, I got home Jamie called me and she came over so I could do her makeup too. So, basically within these past few hours I've done three different looks on three different girls. Check them out...
( makeup I did on my friends )
comments...criticism...let me know what you think. by the way there is TONS of pics
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| weee to new hair!! |
[March 16, 2005 @ 1:30pm] |
so today I got my hair done with fun new colors...I finally got to do my BLUE!! but we did a color combo so we did blue and purple...it's fun fun fun!!! I told Tony *my hairstylist* that I wanna do blonde in the summer but we gotta grow the black out first so hopefully the next time I go in we can do blonde. I'm missing it. Been doing the whole funky color theme for a while. I want a change but whoa this blue is beautifullllllll. it's kinda hard to take pictures of your hair by yourself so this was the best I could do. There's also pictures of my face of the day :) enjoy and let me know what you think.
( new hair = fun makeup )
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[January 19, 2005 @ 4:33pm] |
ok so I got my hair done today...no blue :( but that's ok cause I got purple and a strip of red :D weee so here's some pics...the first pic is my eyes that I did umm back on saturday thanks to Nora for helping me decide on the colors I wanted.
( CLICK TO SEE MY NEW HAIRSTYLE!! )
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[January 09, 2005 @ 7:35pm] |
here's some more eye pictures from today :)
( click to see more eyes )
comments are welcomed :D
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[January 08, 2005 @ 12:54am] |
so tonight I decided to do my makeup a lil different for work...
( click to see the makeup )
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