Yvonnesgirly2004's Blog

• Why do these things happen?

  3/22/08 4 Comments

  On Wednesday, March 19, 2008, my good friend Tim Morin (Timmy as I called him) was riding his bike to work when he got into a major accident and died an hour later. I don’t even know why I’m posting about this to a bunch of people…most of which I don’t even know…but I feel the need to. He never really knew how much he meant to me and how close I considered him to me. It was my fault for not letting him know. As I’ve been told by someone else I know, but I never paid attention to it…Live each day like its your last and make sure that if u love someone…YOU LET THEM KNOW!!!!!! Don’t wait til its too late before you feel ready to tell them. You never know when yours or their time will be up. I know God has a reason for everything…but why can’t we-the people who have to live with these horrible situations-know that damn reason? I guess we will never know…

  Love,

  Loyal Khrystal

  • Read More

• Friends always help you through

  11/16/07 7 Comments

  Well, it’s been a hard couple days and I didn’t think I would be able to make it through until I had a talk with someone last night that REALLY made me see the light in things. I called her telling her how I just didn’t want to exist anymore…and how there was only a certain number people who keep me from doing any physical harm to myself (other than popping the zits on my face lol)...but by the end of our 1 1/2 hour conversation, we were laughing and talking about Criss and his family and just having fun. I went to school today in a pretty good mood-considering the fact that I was dead tired from staying up til 11:30p.m. and then waking up at 5:30a.m. lol-and I just wanted to express to the person that I talked to how good that made me feel inside by you saying that I am not alone…and I will always have [[the people that you mentioned including yourself]] here for me. I thank you soooooo much for everything and I cannot emphasize and stress to you how much that talk meant to me.

  Love, Loyal Khrystal

  • Read More

• 9/23/07...My day at the Luxor...the best day so far

  10/2/07 11 Comments

  This was such a good day for that I needed to write it down. So, I’m going to start from the very beginning and get into as much detail as possible. First of all, Danielle and I had been planning on going to the Luxor to hang out there for the past 3 weekends. Things kept coming up so we couldn’t go, but everything happens for a reason; I knew I would get my chance. See, Danielle thought that I wanted to just go and hang out, but noooo! My every intention was to go there and meet Criss Angel. I mean, she should have put “2 and 2 together”. What I’m saying is- Criss Angel lives at the Luxor, so why would I just want to go there and hang out? No, when I went there I was going to be on a hunt lol =]. So finally, on September 23, 2007, we got to go to the big blue pyramid. We did our hair and make-up, and put on our cutest outfits, and headed out. The whole time I was literally PRAYING, “Dear Jehovah [God], please let me be able to meet Christopher Sarantakos, also known as Criss Angel, today at the Luxor. You have to know how much this means to me beacuse you are the almighty Jehovah and I’m begging you to answer this prayer. In Jehovah name I pray, Amen.” I said this prayer over and over as the time to go home got closer. But first, I have to tell you what happened when we got there! My grandma dropped us off in the guest parking and I got my purse- equipped with my iPod, wallet, camera, Danielle’s camera, and a deck of cards- and a picture I drew for Criss and his brothers. We started walking into the casino and were being very caregul to stay away form the slot machines so we didn’t get thrown out! The first place we went to was the mindfreak store. And J.D. (Criss’s brother), just happened to be in there working! I turned around and told Danielle who that was (because she’s not really a Loyal-so she didn’t know), and she started walking AWAY from the store! I found out later this was because she was afraid she couldn’t hold her composure around a celebrity! lol! But I told her I wanted a picture with him so she came into the store. Some guy pushed past me and asked for a picture with J.D. While this was going on, I asked Danielle if I should give him (J.D.) the picture I drew. She said yes, because I probably wasn’t going to get to give it to Criss. I was hesitant at first, but I figured I could trust J.D. to make sure Criss got it. So then it was my turn and I just walked up to him and said, “J.D., do you mind if I get a picture with you?” “No, not at all!” he replied. So we took the picture with Danielle’s camera. Then Danielle says, “Don’t forget about the picture!”, so I gave J.D. the picture. It is a heart with wings and their dad’s name in the middle, with 3 hearts linked onto it- one for their mom, one for Criss, and one for J.D. and Costa. J.D. looked at the picture and said, “Oh, that’s our dad, I’m going to hang this up in our room!” “I drew that,” I replied. “I want a picture with this- that was so sweet of you!” So we took another picture with him, the picture, and I. I told him thank-you very much and he replied, “No thank you! I’ll make sure Criss gets this- and I want a hug for that!” and he gave me a hug. We then looked around the store a little more, and I decided to buy a necklace. JD saw me in line and he mouthed the words “thank-you” to me while gesturing to the picture. After buying my $30.00 neclace- that has the Criss angel logo, and then a key that says “BELIEVE” on it- Danielle and I overheard J.D. saying that Criss was around and they were gonna be leaving to go biking later on. So we knew we had to see if he (Criss) showed up. We went to the a couple other stores in the Luxor Galleria, and then we went back to the Mindfreak store because I was considering splurging on a tee-shirt. Danielle and I were looking at the shirts and a man who looked like Costa (Criss’s other brother) walked up. I leaned into Danielle and told her I thought that was Costa. The man then walked past us and said hi and asked how we were. I then knew for sure it was Costa by his voice. He came back to the store and J.D. spotted us and told us he was going to show Costa the picture I drew. After looking it over, Costa smiled and said that was very sweet. I asked him for a picture and got one! By this time, I talked to Danielle for about 15 minutes to force her to get a picture with J.D. So after my picture with Costa, she got one with J.D. We said thank-you again and walked outside. It was getting pretty cold in the Luxor, so we went outside to where the Valet parking was. There was Criss’s Lambourgini and Bentley. We went up there and took pictured with those 2 beautiful cars! After warming up a bit, we went back inside. I thought if we took the elevators to the top floor of the Luxor, we would have a good chance of seeing Criss because that’s the floor he lives on. So, I pushed the 2nd floor button just to be safe, and we got brought up to the 16th floor!! Little did I know, you had to have a guest key to make the elevator work- so when I pushed the “2” button, someone on the 16th floor pushed the button to go down, and so we got brought up to them. We got off the elevator and walked around a little bit. Danielle was very reluctant to get back into the elevator- and so was I- because we were afraid of getting stuck in there. Luckily for us, a couple came into the elvator and put their key in and went down to the 8th floor. When they got out, we used the advantage of them putting their key in to go back down to the 1st floor. (the floor we needed to be on). When we got off the elevator, Danielle and I made one last sweep past the Mindfreak store before deciding to go back up to the Atrium level of the Luxor. We were initially going up there to get something to eat, but we got distracted by all the booths in there! We were about to get pictures done where they put ur head on someone elses body, but Danielle decided against it. We were walking back towards the food court—and this is where it gets good!! I looked up at one of the restaurants and saw it was La Salsa. I remembered reading on the Forum Boards at Crissangel.com that Criss likes to hang out and eat at La Salsa. So I took a quick glance in there, and there was 3 guys sitting at a booth in there. One of them looked exactly like Criss and had the same mannerisms. I leaned into Danielle and said, “Is that him?” “I don’t know, I think so,” she said. “I really think that’s him!” “Oh my God, Khrystal!!” “Let’s wait for him to come out and see if it’s him,” I said…my hope rising. We waited for like, 2 minutes at the most, when he (the guy who looked like Criss) and the two other guys got out of the booth and began to walk out. As they were walking out, the people in the bar area began to take pictures with him- then we knew for sure it was Criss Angel…the Mindfreak! He walked out of La Salsa and Danielle and I started to walk up to him. Unfortunatley, when we walked up, his cell phone rang!! Wr didn’t want to be rude and interrupt him, so we were gonna wait until he hung up. But then he began walking away from us and down the escalator. I was freaking out at this point because I was so close to meeting him and I didn’t want to miss this oppourtunity. So, of course I followed him- but while trying to keep my distance so I didn’t look too obvious. Danielle was lollygagging Criss’s word behind me and I had NO IDEA whay!!! I was waving her along and she was just looking around and not moving. I got so frustrated I even said, “Danielle c’mon! You’re making feel like I’m gonna punch you in the face!” “You’re not going to touch me so don’t even start that,” she answered. “I said your making me FEEL like that…WHATEVER!” and I got onto the escalator. I could see Criss standing in front of me on the escalator- close enough for me to just reach out and touch!! I looked behind me and Danielle wasn’t there! So I thought to myself, “O crap I lost Danielle, but if she doesn’t want to come with me…I’ll just go look for her after I meet Criss Angel.” But fortunatley, by the time I was at the bottom of the escalator, Danielle was behind me coming down the stairs, and Criss was right in front of us…still talking on the phone. We started to walk off the escalator and Criss and the other two guys- which I recognized one of them as his cousin George- began to walk ahead of us. Our plan was to just follow this Mindfreak until he got off the phone! While he was walking, some tourist said hi and Criss held up the “peace sign”. The tourist started smiling the biggest, cheesiest smile I’ve ever seen in my life! I looked back at Criss just in time to see him hang up the phone. It was time to pounce lol. I rushed up behind him and said “Criss?”, but he didn’t hear me. I was determined to make myself heard, but I didn’t even need to say his name again before his cousin, George, gestured to Criss that someone was behind him. Criss turned around and asked, “Do you want a picture real quick?” “Yea, please,” I said. “Hey I like your necklace!,” said Criss as he grabbed my Criss Angel necklace. “Thanks, I just bought it today.” We got into position for a picture, and Criss said, “I look like HELL today!” He said this because he had a scruffy beard, wearing sunglasses inside because he had racoon eyes, and just looking like he was enjoying his day off!! We took the picture, and I thanked him. I asked Danielle if she wanted a picture and she answeres, “Pshh Yea DUH!!” She up to Criss and went over to his right side. Since he was already in position on his left side, he told her to go over there. “Is that your better side?,” he asked Danielle. “I guess,” she replied. I took the picture of Danielle and Criss, and he thanked us. I told him that I drew him a picture and his brothers had it with them. He said, “Thank you very much!” and shook mine and Danielle’s hand and we walked away. I called my dad and said, “Dad! Guess who I just met?” “Who?” “CRISS ANGEL!!” “Really? Tell me what happened!” Then Criss, George, and the other guy came walking towards us. “Hold on, he’s walking right past us.” Criss and the guys walked past us and I turned back around and said, “ok…” and I told him the story. “Well I’m happy you met him!” “Mee too!” and my dad and I said good-bye and Danielle and I walked back to the Mindfreak store. Danielle was texting everyone on her phonelist to tell them the news. I called my grandpa, and my mom’s friend Renea. We walked back into the store and I went up to J.D. I asked, “When did you guys say you were gonna start fiming?” “In 4 weeks, so make sure you come back.” “Oh ok. We just met your brother upstairs.” “Oh, you met Criss? Who was he with?” J.D. asked. “George—” “My cousin” “Yea and some other guy” “Yea cause we are going biking today.” “That sounds fun,” I replied, “Yea Criss looked like he was on his way here.” “Ok, cool” “Oh, and I told him you had the picture I drew so he knows to get it from you,” I told J.D. “Ok, thank you very much again,” he said. “No, thank you!,” I said, “We are getting ready to leave so I just dropped by again real quick.” “Ok, well, bye! Thanks for your support,” J.D. said. “It was nice meeting you!” “It was nice meeting you too,” he replied, “Bye!” And then Danielle and I left the store and went outside the Luxor Galleria. Danielle’s mom, Judy, was about to pick us up so we went outside to the valet parking to wait for her. She showed up and brought us to the movies at Sam’s Town. Danielle and I went to see Mr. Woodcock. It was a funny movie, but I couldn’t seem to keep my attention on it because I was still thinking about my day at the Luxor…one day I will never forget.

  *Especially since I just typed a huuugge story on it!!! lol.

  • Read More