Breaking the silence!

There's so much going on, but I'm really not the type of person to talk to my blog, much less "vent" to it - which means its the first thing I forget about when it comes to day to day life and the survival of such. Unless there's some fun thing that went on, I keep my thoughts to myself, and my PnP files. ;) I've just been busy with the usual workload and some. I actually had a bit of a discouraging week feeling I wasn't getting anywhere. - Has that ever happened to you? You never seem to catch up (though I should know better - and that's that I never will catch up), feelings of guilt set in, discouragement, etc. - Yikes!

I just love my early morning wake ups though. Creeping through the house to a nice hot shower to wake me up, enjoying sipping a hot cup of coffee, and sitting back and reading, getting PnP time, etc. and even watching the sun rise. I tried to catch a super cool sun-rise the other morning on camera but it didn't quite come out to do the subject justice.

Turns out the view from my room has the mountains off in the distance (after all Mexico City is built ON a mountain - well, the lake in the mountains), they were snow-capped the other day actually, which was a rather new sight for me. - I didn't know it snowed here in Mexico, other than on rare occasions.

The Lord's been good to me though - very good! The last couple rest days I went out with lovely friends and had a great time. Last week I spent that day with Heidi, who's leaving us (boo-hoo, I finally move closer and she leaves), we had a delicious BBQ over at MexCity Home as a goodbye (such good stuff Sammy!), I don't have pics though, but if I get some I'll post. And this week I got to spend it with Genai - and Adolfo! We went out to this rustic Mexican restaurant, had delicious food, enjoyed the entertainment, and yes, even the special little Mariachi skeletons on display. - Quite impressive, I must say, how the Mexicans take the week of the dead as such a big occasion. The US has Halloween but that's just one day, here they have a week where they honor those who died of every type of death possible - quite original.

At any rate, I leave you with some pics.

I'm off for a week for some meetings, so if I'm silent, well, you'll know why. - I'll be in touch though. ;)

:D

This is SOOO funny!

What makes them so sure she's blonde though? Other than the fun "blonde joke" concept, of course. - Which I must admit, is always good to have a good laugh at! ;)

Dori!

I’ve been compared to many people – as I’m sure many (if not all) have. There was a time there were about 4 of us girls in the Family that would always be asked if we were sisters. I have no sisters that I know of (Ha!) but that’s aside from the point. To be compared to celebrities is usually flattering (I guess it depends – ahem), and though I’ve had many interesting ones, the two ones that I’m most commonly compared to are:

Licia Colo’ (an Italian show girl that has been hosting animal documentaries or shows for kids in Italy for years now)

and Nicole Kidman (when she still had curly hair – though of course I’m a buffer version. Heh).

There was a recent comparison though that really made me laugh. One of the girls in the Home here told me I remind her so much of Dori! I couldn’t think of who “Dori” is, until it hit me. – Finding NEMO!! I resemble Dori???

I guess I do talk a lot, I’m rather expressive in my speech, my mouth can tend to be open most of the time (thankfully smiling), and I am rather "big", but I do not, however, have a memory problem. – Whew! (One thing I can say I’m different in.)

I must say, I really, really, really laughed when I got who “Dori” was. – What do you think? Is that me? ;) Perhaps I have an idea of a Halloween costume. Fun, fun, fun!

The 17th of October!

This young man (a.k.a Brian) turned 9 yesterday!

He's getting so big. I'm such a proud auntie of all my special nephews! As I posted on my skype, I'm becoming such a veteran aunt - they're growing up so fast. Pity they're so far and me here, but I guess that makes me more "cool" when I visit. :P

In other news, it was Michael and Joy's 28th anniversary yesterday! - SO COOL! And yet again, congratulations on living such a long life together, I want to be just like you if I ever get married. :D Joy told me she got married to him when she was 28, so that's pretty good, ehi? I'm 28, so that means they've been together half her life, and my entire life. - Awesome!

They invited Gabe (who was visiting) and I out for a nice taco dinner (and good thing they did - it was fish. HA!), which was so sweet. - Thanks Michael and Joy!

I took a few pics (as per Gabe's reminder - me and my lack of practice with that thing), and though Gabe's already blogged about it, I thought I'd put in my "she said". - Excuse the big/open mouth pics of mine, I guess I just smile real big. ;)

THIRTY!!!! - Happy Birthday, Niel!

Niel, I pray this coming year is special and that the Lord leads you and helps you through this next stage in your life. I admire you for your trust, and above all for the desire you have to be a better man!

You apologized once to me for not being some big shot. - Tsk, tsk, tsk... Niel, you are what God made you, and though you could say you're a work in progress, we all are. - I just pray I will have enough grace to bow my head in yieldedness as you have, when it's my turn.

When I read this, I think of you: "It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph, and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)"

I love you! - You're my favoritest "big" brother! Happy Birthday! XX

Please pray I find my license!

Seems I lost my US license yesterday when out. - Must have fallen out of my purse when I was trying to pull something else out. Thankfully I have a British license too, so I can still drive, but if you could pray for me to have the US license found and returned (it was in a plastic pouch with my current Mexico City address in it) or that I can get it replaced from here with no hassle, that would be a huge blessing. - TX for your prayers!

Opposites!

While everyone was gone at the BLAST (and I can say "everyone" with a clean conscience - between parents of the graduates, as well as attendees, all attending the prom last night, we were down to 9 people) we decided to party.

Turns out the OCs & JETTs were rather tickled with the thought of their parents being gone (HA!) and that myself and Victor were the only ones left with them (well, there were a couple FGA women, but as the kids put it, "they can have just some extra Word time while we party"). So we came up with a theme for dress-up, made some snacks, and had a great time. The theme? Opposites! I must say, the kids all had quite the imagination.

Here they are:

Rich Man vs. Poor Man (Chelsea and Dom)

Old Bottle vs. New Bottle (Vincent & Lisa)

Priss/Ritzy Class vs. Rapper/Street Bum (Lizzy & Aimee)

Sad to say the battery on my camera died before we could catch the pics of the games we had. Turns out I was the loudest laugher (we played games like Dr. Tangle, etc.), but that's nothing out of the norm. - Plus it was fun. Oh, and if you're wondering what I dressed up as...well, let's just say Victor and I passed as a team. - He was male, I was female. (Not to mention I was there, and he wasn't!) :D

Florida!

And then came time for me to fly off to the US. I was sick yet again, but flew off none-the-less, and as I’ve posted before, I ended up recovering from that fever while at my aunt’s, only to then break out in hives that lasted a good 5 days. I was pretty much a zombie the entire time, sad to say. Had to get my flight postponed as I was too sick to travel, but thankfully was feeling so much better by the time I got back to Mexico! It feels so good to be healthy again – it’s so true that you don’t appreciate health as much until you’ve been sick.
I don’t have any pics of my time with my aunt. – Sorry about that! Here are a couple pics of her and I last year though, just to keep the tradition of pics. :D

Sooo...there you have it! That ends my 27 day adventure! – Now, back to the real world…

No hope!

Your True Sign Is Aries

Daring Friendly Energetic Risk Taking Dynamic Daredevil Always on an Adventure Without a Care in the World Quick-Witted and Quick-Tempered

Ha-Ha! These blog things are rather entertaining. - And hilarious! At least God knows what sign I was meant to be. (Why would I need a test to tell me I'm an Aries?) Supposedly I'm a party girl (DUH!), Jessica Simpson is my boob twin, I'm more like Angelina Jolie, and, get this, I'm Lara Croft as a superheroine. - Just what I've always wanted. :D

Hungary

These were the few special days I got to spend with my mom, brother, sister-in-law, and their 3 adorable boys! It was too short, but the Lord was good to me in allowing me to see them and spend the little time I could with them.
We stayed with this sweet older German couple (Edmund and Haidi - not sure how to spell her name, but its not pronounced like the usual "Heidi" of "Peter and Heidi"). They have a nice house by the Danube (CEAD was rather full) right down the road from the Home there. – They have missionaries coming through regularly, so welcome us whenever we are passing through. Dear Haidi considers my mom one of her best friends, etc. - Such a sweet woman. Oh, and there was this one “missionary” team coming through from Albania – we all had breakfast together and prayed before they took off, quite sweet. (I’m explaining this as there are some pics of them in here.)
The nephews are growing up so much – it’s impressive! Too bad I wasn’t feeling well part of the time, but again, PTL! – At least I got to see them and spend a few days in their company! I’ll leave you with pics of my time there, as well as some nice pics I got off of Niel of him with the boys, as well as Esty, and yes, my adorable nephews!

Italy – Part 5

And then came the last day or two. – This is where things started getting messed up, sad to say. One evening I accidentally took a bite of lamb, thinking it was steak, and though I spit it out, obviously what I’m allergic to was/is in the juice, and I got it. Headache set it, then the next morning on our way to the mall it hit me, I had to get my dad to stop the car so I could avoid hyperventilating (not to mention the curvy roads were getting me oh, so car sick – I just thank God I wasn’t driving that day).

We got to the mall, I had to rush to get something sort of an aspirin to avoid the intense migraine I felt setting in. I scared quite a few folks it seems, they were going to call 118 (the equivalent of 911 in Italy), but thankfully after taking something (I still don’t know what it was) I stabilized and other than sitting all day I was okay.
The next day we tried to rest a bit, went swimming and relaxed, and that evening is when fever set in. We went over to the place where the contact/friend that arranged/paid for our apartment was (we hung out there often in the evenings, quite fun) and took some pics with him. I’m already sick and have a fever in these pics so excuse the expressions/looks! The last one of me standing is comical though. You see, the guy behind the bar counter was oh so scrawny. – Those who worked with him would tease him that he’d snap if the wind blew (lol), and Ang really wanted to jokingly have big ol’ me take a picture with scrawny him. Turns out she succeeded, good for you girl! :P

Italy/Hungary –Traveling yet again

The next day I was still feeling sick but we went to FU on a super nice girl who ended up being the answer to prayer for some needed finances. GBH! – It came out of the blue! TTL! I ended up taking the ferry to cross over to Rome that night, even though my dad was rather worried at that. The crew on the ferry was very helpful though (you don’t want to know what my dad called them – ahem) and if anything I had the guys trying to beat each other at helping me. HA!

The second officer invited me to visit the bridge and though I was going to get to bed as soon as I could it was a wee bit too early for that so I took him up on the offer. Seems I gave him the wrong impression though (either that or he thought he was really lucky – lol) and after making the singer dedicate a song to me (nice song though) he wanted to “keep me company” for the night. – Oh D-D-Dear! Thankfully he was gentleman enough to not be pushy about it, but goodness, do I really look that easy? Oh well, whatever! It was a safe trip and I made it to Rome and then on to Budapest problem free. TTL!

Italy – Part 4

Of course I couldn’t go to Sardegna and not visit relatives, so I did just that. – Twice! And even then, I didn’t get to see them all! (I do, after all, have 7 Italian uncles and aunts – with their husbands/wives – plus the 35+ cousins, most all married, and then, of course, I can’t forget the ones that were once or twice removed. – There are TONS of them, I tell you!) We did catch a few pics of S. Teresa – the town where my dad’s from. We also went up to Capo Testa, which is also part of S. Teresa but, in my opinion, a lot prettier. – Talk about Emerald water, its gorgeous! Again, more pics!

Italy – Part 3

There isn’t too much to say about this post really. These pics are from the day we went to La Maddalena! It was quite the beautiful day and being that it’s an island off Sardegna we had to take a quick 20 minute ferry trip across. We got to visit and have lunch with some life-long friends/contacts (seeing as they've known me since I was like 2 or something), which found us taking his super cool speed boat to his floating restaurant. – Ah, the wind in your hair and the bounce in the waves from other passing boats. I loved it! :P

(Obviously the pics of Ange and I are on the ferry - not the speed boat. Lol! - Oh, and that's my dad in the last pic with me.)

Do I scare off men?

I found this hilariuos online test (no, I don't surf the net, just found it linked to another test someone posted on their blog).

I've always wondered if I scare off men. Seems this site thinks I'm somewhat normal. HA! - Thank God someone does! ;)

You Are 35% Scary

You scare men off ocassionaly, but only very weak men. You're a normal woman. You're not perfect, but you're pretty darn close.

Do You Scare Off Men?

Italy - Part 2

We used the weekends for fundraising, ballooning, tooling and had a stand at the mall - & stayed there for many, many, many hours.

Wait, did I tell you Ang came with me?! Heh, yes, she did! Another tall babe (folks always notice I bring hot girls with me – HA!), and to top off the adventure of getting to know her, we were quite the team with our food allergies/intolerances. We finally had to “agree to disagree” as far as trying to plan a menu we could both eat. – Basically what I could eat was not what she could eat, and vice-versa, so that was interesting. She’s a fun girl, though I did feel bad at the fact that she couldn’t enjoy so many wonderful pleasures of life (i.e. alcohol, Italian Pasta, Italian Ice-Cream, etc.) – I truly felt for her! She did try a Long Island Ice Tea one of the first nights we were there, but after seeing her so knocked out for the entire weekend I decided I would help her steer clear from such things. – Again, poor girl!

One day Ang took her super cool camera to the mall so we could document our time there. I don’t know we had that much luck with good pics, but it was entertaining. Ang thinks I look like Timon in these. – What do you think?

Oh, and clicky for a lopsided moment caught on camera. :)