Last night was game night. We moved it to Thursday because Eric wanted to watch the election stuff on Tuesday. YAWN. We met up at TGI Friday’s, which was also Eric’s idea. I was so craving the Adult Mac & Cheese that they have, but damn my luck, they don’t serve it anymore because it just wasn’t popular enough. As if!

We had a weird over enthusiastic waiter, who upon greeting us, asked us what he could do to make our experience at TGIF more EXPLOSIVE. Whatever freak, nobody needs to die. We just want to eat dinner.

I really don’t like it when waiters try to be your best friend. A little chit chat is ok, but really… just take the order and go. If the table initiates the chit chat that’s one thing, but it should not be initiated by the waiter.

The movie (27 Dresses) was actually REALLY good. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was much better than expected. Maybe I have low expectations of movies? James Marsden is super adorable, pretty pretty pretty. Him and Katherine Heigl were great together and the chemistry was pretty good too. That Katherine should quit Grey’s Anatomy and move on to more movies while her career is HOT.

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What’s the deal with people hanging CDs from their rear view mirrors? Is it like their favorite CD and they put it there for convenience? Are they even music CDs? I just don’t understand how people can have all kinds of junk (mardi gras beads, dice, CDs, baby shoes) hanging from the rear view and jingling around while they are driving, slamming into the windshield when they put on the brakes, and swaying from side to side when they turn.

I saw a girl today, about 10 years old, walking her 50 to 60 pound dog… ON ROLLER SKATES. What parent lets their child walk the dog on roller skates on a sidewalk next to a busy street, or anywhere actually. That is just an accident waiting to happen. Parents are dumb.

So my allergic reaction rash thing is almost totally gone. It apparently was the Menthol-lyptus cough drops that I was taking, or maybe just an overdose of cold medicines in general… although at the time I was only taking the cough drops. Either way, I am better now and SO thankful that I’m not allergic to dairy. Although, I was a little excited about being allergic to dairy because I was SO going to lose a ton of weight… from not being able to eat ANYTHING that I like.

I like this new show, The Moment of Truth, but I feel like it’s a little bit staged. The contestants are asked all of these questions BEFORE the show airs while attached to a lie detector, then later have to re-answer a portion of those questions televised without the lie detector… BUT they have to tell the truth or they don’t win any money. Ok, so if they already know all the questions that they could be asked, why do they look so shocked and surprised when certain questions are asked? It’s another one of those situations where I feel like the producers have told them to play it up and manipulate the audience for ratings. DUMB, but I still like the show.

I don’t think I could be on the show. If they just asked personal questions I could totally do it, but they ask questions that affect other people negatively. “Do you think your mother is fat?” “Is their a part of your husband’s body that repulses you?” How rude is that?!?!?!? There are some things that just don’t need to be said, even if they are 100% true.

Tonight I was trying to find a new Internet and cable TV provider. I went to AT&T first because I currently have home phone service with them. When I put in my address to find a package it tells me that they don’t provide service to my address. LIES. So I went to www.grandecom.com and tried to check their package pricing and when I put in my address it told me the same thing! Yet I see their trucks in my apartment complex almost every day, and they are the provider that the complex recommends when you move here. I’m super annoyed and I’d like to call them both and tell them I’d like to have service with them but they obviously don’t want my business, but you know the jackasses they have answering the phone will be like, “Pity. Bye!”

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I still have this horrible rash all over my body. It’s not any better than it was yesterday. I had tried my best to stop eating anything that contained lactose or Casein, and yet there was no change.

I was just searching on webmd.com and I have no come to the conclusion that I am not allergic to dairy, but that I am allergic to the cough drops that I have been taking. WebMD says the symptoms can be “Hives or welts, rash, blisters, or eczema. Coughing, wheezing, runny nose, and difficulty breathing. These are the most common symptoms of drug allergies.” Those are all of the symptoms that I have! And the picture of the rash looks just like what I have and it’s in the same places!

I was really worried about what I was going to eat if I couldn’t have dairy. I live on cheese!

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In other news, I finished my first Real Estate class last night. I finished “Principles of Real Estate,” a 60 hour class. YAY! Now I just have three more classes left and each of them is 30 hours. I will start taking “Fast Track to Success Marketing” tonight, and after that I have two super boring sounded classes, “Law of Agency” and “Law of Contracts.”

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I am so tired of hearing about Hi-Def. I think the Hi-Def thing is getting out of control. I was ok with Hi-Def Televisions, but then one day I saw that Fuji or some other brand was offering Hi-Def camera film and I thought that was pretty bizarre. Then came the Hi-Def radios. Come on now. Hi-Def radios? I’m sure there is a more appropriate term for what these radios really are. Tonight I saw a commercial for Hi-Def prescription glasses. What is next? Hi-Def food, Hi-Def smells? Are we going to see restaurants offer Hi-Def meals? Stop the madness!

I caught about 10 seconds of the State of the Union Address this week. I really just can’t stand to even look at “W”. That man just looks like the dumbest person on earth… and normally I like dumb looking people, but him… I can’t tolerate. When I see him making speeches, he always has this smug grin on his face like he’s thinking, “Look at me y’all! I’m making sentences!” All of his handlers are standing around him grinning and thinking, “One day Gepetto, he’ll be a real boy!”

That man is an unbelievable blemish on our history and world reputation. I will never understand how he managed to steal 8 years in the white house.

Reality shows are everywhere these days and the one thing that makes me the most angry about them is when these idiots refer to their experience on the show as a “journey”. “Oh this has been an incredible journey that has changed my life forever.” UGH! It makes me wish I was a more violent and psychotic person and I could hunt them down and slap them. It’s not a journey. Stop saying it.

I can barely tolerate watching most of these shows because they are so manipulated and it infuriates me to feel like I’m being manipulated into believe something that isn’t true, or that the people on the show and the outcomes are being manipulated. For instance, two weeks ago on “The Biggest Loser” a few of the contestants conspired together to throw the weigh in so that they could vote of the black team (shirt color, not ethnicity!). Obviously the producers heard all this conspiracy talk and since the black team was good controversial TV they hatched a plan to ruin everyone else’s plan. They made a new rule on the fly that THAT week whoever lost the most weight would get immunity. Well it was obvious who was going to lose the most weight since people were throwing the competition and other people didn’t have to worry about loosing weight. And big surprise, the black team lost the most weight and got immunity.

All of those contestants looked so shocked. Well, DUH, they talked about their plan with their microphones on. Everything they discuss is being heard and recorded. Obviously the producers aren’t going to let them hijack the show. The producers wants ratings and scandal and they’ll manipulate whoever and whatever to get it.

Ok, it’s time to make dinner. I’m done complaining for today.

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I wrote this post a while ago, and forgot to publish it. OOOPS!

So I’m watching Notes from the Underbelly and so far one of the couples is trying to decide who to give their baby to if they die. It made me wonder. Who’s going to give ME their kid when they die? I have lots of friends with kids and nobody has offered me one. I may have to make some phone calls tomorrow and start laying my claim to some possible future orphans… since some uncaring parents have yet to make the offers themselves!

This weekend was a total bust. I didn’t really do anything fun and I had to work all weekend. Friday wasn’t really considered “working” but I was babysitting for Heather from after work until about 12:30am. Fridays are usually my date nights, and Paco was supposed to hang out with me at Heather’s but he canceled on me, saying “I don’t do babysitting. I have no patience for children.” Whatever. So I guess I gave up my date night so that Heather could have one. How sweet am I?

Saturday I woke up late because I was exhausted and then I went to clean a condo (more like a duplex). Paco was supposed to do it on Tuesday, but the water wasn’t turned on, then he was going to do it Wednesday, but something came up, so I got stuck doing it on Saturday since he had to work. That pretty much took up my entire day. After I got home and cleaned up, Paco and I went to dinner at El Chile and then home to bed.

Sunday Paco and I were supposed to clean a large house together, but he was sick (I think he has the flu), so I got stuck doing it myself. OMG it took FOREVER! I started at 11 and didn’t finish until 8, with NO BREAKS. I was so sore and exhausted when I got home. My entire body ached and my hands are all scratched up and ugly. I used to have pretty hands, they are small, but they were pretty.

Today was supposed to be my relaxing night, but I had to do invoices, paychecks, paying my quarterly sales tax, and checkbook balancing. Woot woot! Good times! I did get to do a little crocheting and I watched Dance War: Bruno vs Carrie Ann, which was kind of lame.

I really should be taking a shower now, shaving my head, and trimming my beard, but I just can’t stop watching Notes from the Under Belly.

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Last night Paco and I watched a little of Amas de Casas Desperadas, which is the Mexican version of Desperate Housewives. We missed about half of it. I don’t know what we saw last night, but that episode was WEIRD. It was obviously the same script as our version, but they crammed things 3 years of episodes into one. They had the scene where the girls find the note that was sent to Mary Alice that says “What you did is horrible”, the one with Gabby mowing the lawn in her heels, the one with Zacks dad digging up the pool, the one were Susan burns down Eddie’s house, and the one were Mike is talking on the phone saying he’s almost found what he was looking for. None of it related together and it seems more like a season preview. Maybe it wasn’t a real episode?

Oh and the Gabby on this version is SO not as pretty as Eva Longoria. The Susan is way prettier than Teri Hatcher, and the Lynette is ugly.

Not much else going on with me. I paid for my tuition for my REALTOR® license and I got my books in the mail yesterday. I guess I’ll be busy now studying, reading, and taking tests. Yay! I’m actually pretty excited about it. I only have to take 150 hours because they gave me credit for the college courses that I’ve already taken. I’m hoping to get this done super quick.

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This weekend was a two day snoozefest. I really didn’t do much at all. Friday night Paco and I went to get some groceries and a movie. We ate what he thought was a healthy salad, but it SO was not. The chicken we used was a breaded chicken that had a lot of saturated and trans fat… but it was DELICIOUS. I’ll let him keep believing it was healthy.

We watched Oceans Thirteen. I did not want to rent it, but I knew that he has been wanting to see it for quite some time. Plus, it has Brad Pitt and Matt Damon in it, so at least I had something pretty to look at. The movie was DUMB DUMB DUMB. It was worst than the second one. Everything was set up for the characters WAY too easy. It was like watching an episode of CSI, you know how they always get these super great clues that are SO random. “Oh, well it looks like the kernels of sand on his shoe have a clay in them that is only manufactured in a special plant over on 4th street, and mixed with that clay is a unique rock that is used in the gardens at the apartments over on 24th. If we can check our database to see who at the factory lives at those apartments, then we have our killer.”

In the movie they used a huge tunnel drilling machine under the hotel to bump the hotel and cause a minor earthquake to shut down the hotel’s security system. So apparently it’s not hard to get permits to dig tunnels under the city and NOBODY will ever wonder what caused the earthquake and track it back to the people that were allowed to put a tunnel digger under the city. There was way too much stuff in that movie that you had to suspend all disbelief to get around.

Saturday I really didn’t do anything. I sat around the apartment watching TV and making a scarf for Heather’s daughter, Sierra. Heather gave me the idea to make scarfs with pockets on the end, so when it’s cold you can tuck your hands in the pockets and keep your neck and hands warm! She’s such a smarty. So this was the first scarf I made with pockets, only I messed them up a little. I put them on opposite sides, and one is a little bigger than the other. Pity.

I finished the scarf by the afternoon and Heather came over with Sierra to pick it up. We hung out at the playground for a while chatting while Sierra played. Heather also demonstrated her amazing acrobatic skills on the bars. Apparently she can do things with horizontal and vertical bars/poles.

Saturday night Paco and I went to dinner and then played Jenga and Dominoes for a while. We were both exhausted and went to bed early.

Sunday was another snoozer. Paco had to work, so I worked on making a matching hat for Sierra’s scarf and when that was finished I did some real work. I went to clean an apartment office. It was actually kind of fun. The office is new, so I spent some time redecorating it as I cleaned. It needed a little help.

Sunday night Paco and I went to his mothers to celebrate El Día de Los Reyes. In Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries, children receive Christmas gifts not from Santa, but from los reyes magos - the three wise men. This trio drops off treasures during the night of January 5 to be discovered on El Día de Los Reyes, known in English as the Feast of the Epiphany. You also serve a rosca de reyes (king’s crown), a crown-shaped sweet bread with small figures of babies baked inside. In Mexico, anyone who gets a piece with a baby inside has to give another party on or before Candlemas, on February 2, when the country’s holiday season officially ends. His mother also made hot chocolate, and even asked me if I knew what hot chocolate was and if I had ever had it before… like they only have it in Mexico.

Neither Paco, nor I, got a piece of bread with a baby in it, which is also said to be good luck. However, Paco’s mother got two pieces with babies in them. The chocolate milk she made was fresh from the stove and burned my tongue. It feels like I have a sandpaper tongue now. It hurts.

We watched a show on the Spanish channel called 5 Magnificos: Estreno de la serie en que siete equipos, cada uno liderado por una celebridad, compiten en una serie de pruebas inspiradas en el circo. La organización benéfica de niños representada por el equipo ganador recibirá ayuda económica.” Which means, “Opening of the series in which seven teams, each one lead by a celebrity (actor, singer), competes in a series of tests inspired by the circus (very Cirque du Soliel). The beneficial organization of children represented by the winning team will receive economic aid.

It was pretty interesting. There were also two really cute boys, Adrián Alejandro Salas Vargas and José Alberto Vázquez Atayde. Yummy!

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Yesterday was a busy day. It’s the beginning of the month, which means everyone is paying rent. Like me, everyone waits until the last minute to pay it, so all afternoon I was swamped with entering rent checks. It’s kind of fun though.

Last night was “Game Night” and we (Eric, Myshil, Shannon, and Robert) decided to go see Juno. We met up at Firebowl for dinner and to FINALLY exchange our Christmas presents. I was a little annoyed because that damn Firebowl place was cheap with the chicken in my General Tso’s. I had hunger. I wanted FOOD.

The theater was pretty crowded, which you know I hate. I do not like sitting around strangers, especially ones that make noise, smell, breathe, and pretty much just exist. There were also a lot of elderly people watching Juno, which I thought was strange.

The movie was pretty good. The dialogue was funny and different, “Can’t we just like kick this old school. You know, like I stick the baby in a basket, send it your way, like Moses and the reeds?” The movie was sad as well, and weird, and awkward. It had everything, plus it has Jason Bateman, which is always a plus. Jennifer Garner was totally creepy in it.

Thank GOD today is Friday. I am so ready for the weekend and to just sleep in. I’m so happy to not have a house guest this weekend and to be able to just relax and enjoy myself.

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The New Year is here and it was fun ushering it in. I went to a fun Christmas party that Dustin and Scott were throwing. I went with Heather and we had a pretty good time. There was a lot of people that I didn’t know at the party, and I’m just now realizing that I didn’t make any effort to meet new people. Oh well, I have plenty of friends that I barely get to see anyway.

There was a great gift exchange / white elephant kind of thing that got pretty out of control. Everyone was fighting over the three or four bottles of booze that were working their way through the crowd. I had three different bottles for short periods of time because people kept stealing them from me. Then when I went to pick my last present I saw a small bottle of some kind of booze in a gift bag and snagged it… only it turned out to be maple syrup. I was so not amused.

Scott’s mother, who looked like Cher, was hilarious. Dustin’s mother is always a blast as well. It’s funny to see people parent’s hanging out at their parties, but those two really fit in.

My favorite pictures below and the rest of them here:

For Christmas I went with Paco to his mother’s apartment. Paco and I decided to try and work things out, so we spent Christmas Eve together. It was a lot of fun being with his family. They really get into Christmas and his mother makes SO much food. This year I made a shrimp Fettuccine Alfredo, which I’ve never made before. My specialty is Blackened Chicken Alfredo, so I only had to switch out the chicken for shrimp. The funny thing is that I’ve never made shrimp and instead of being smart and buying pre-cooked shrimp, I bought raw. The instructions said to fry the shrimp until they formed a “C” shape, and they would be overcooked if they formed a “O” shape. Well the shrimp were tiny and they were frozen into “O” shapes, so there was no way they were going back to a “C” shape. How the heck was I supposed to know if they were done? It’s been a while and nobody died, so I guess there were done.

Apparently it came out really good because Paco asked me to make it again this week and yesterday his mother asked me when I was going to go over and make it for her again. Woot woot!

For Christmas I went to my parent’s house with my sister. Paco couldn’t go because he had to pick up his friend at the airport. Paco’s friend (Pati) came in on Tuesday at 2PM, and stayed for an entire week. So Paco and I barely saw each other as he was busy entertaining her. I spent all day Saturday entertaining her.

For New Years I went to a party at Dustin’s crack den over in East Austin and had a great time. Paco went out to the bars with Pati. Dustin’s house is not finished being remodeled, so we all hung out in the enormous back yard playing with fireworks, having drinks, and enjoying some music… music that was first being provided from Dustin’s car stereo. I tried to take a picture of the “stereo” for memories and he jumped in front of the camera doing some kind of Footloose impression.

We had a board for Drunken New Years resolutions, but I won’t post those here, and I don’t think anyone was actually drunk, so they were all pretty tame. A few pics below and the rest here.

I went out last Saturday too. If Paco and I work things out I’ll only be going out once a month. So I had to make this last weekend a good night out and I had a great time. One thing that I am getting tired of is people asking me to “do them a favor” and dance with their friend. The instant I got in the club this guy came up to me and said, “I have a friend in from Nevada and he wants to meet a real cowboy. Will you stand here and talk to me until he comes back so he can meet you.” WHATEVER. That is the lamest line.

A while later some drunk woman came over and asked me to dance with her friend because it was her birthday. And she said, “Don’t worry, she’s straight, so she’s not into you.” Yeah, cuz that’s what I was worried about.

I think everyone should tell all of their friends than nothing is more annoying than when you make your friends do your bidding. If you want to talk to someone, or dance with someone, or meet someone, then do it yourself. I guess in many cases the friends do it without asking, and that is just as annoying. Don’t try to set your friends up without their permission, or ask people to dance with them!

Ok, I’m off my soapbox now.

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