¡Felíz Día del Pavo!

¿Ké ondas gente? Aki todo bien... acabo de dejar al chico en el aeropuerto... sniff.. sniff.. ya se me acabaron las vacas. triste, triste historia, pero pues ...nimodos. bueno, pues aki va una pequeña... diminuta... muy corta reseña de mis patoaventuras. en inglés para los ke no hablan suficiente español para leer esto, como Janie y la familia de mi niño. akí les va!

We had a rainy Thanksgiving Day. And the boy’s airplane seemed to have been a bit on the sluggish side: it put the boy and all other passengers through what I’d call slow torture (some 30 min of turbulence) and submitted me to its outright tardiness (hmm… 1hr, 15 min., and 34.3 sec. late, according to my phone). The flight info tv screens failed to display a change in flight numbers and/or time of arrival… and I was freaking out by the time he got here. After the “You look great, I’m so happy you’re here / I’m so happy to be here” hugs and kisses, I was still nervous enough to drum his shoulder playfully and ask why on earth was he so late, (you know, with that little nagging childish voice women get sometimes? hehe..) as if he were to blame. He says he’d told me about the time change. And he did… like 3 different times… with 3 different flights. By the time he got into a plane I had apparently gotten confused as to which flight was coming when…and with what special passenger on board. LoL… but ah well… I forgot about it in a second. I was just so glad he was here. He’d walked out to the reception area on his own (sluggish passengers too?). Clean shaved and wearing grey and black, his hands tucked in his pockets. Smiling despite the little flight adventure…
He’s such a positive person. At least today’s flight seems to have started off a bit better. Although the little self-service machine did not provide us with the assurance of a boarding pass (I think we were too early, so it only produced a strange little “you’re-checked in-so-you-can-go-beyond-security-check-but-you-don’t-have-a-seat-number-yet-so-you-probably-need-to-talk-to-a-gate-clerk” paper thingy), he did get into his original flight and will hopefully get home without further ado.
But back to the rainy Thanksgiving Day. It rained nonstop. I am not kidding. All day, since God only knows what time in the morning, and at least until the minute I fell asleep that night. We had done a nice little bit of reading/studying on Wednesday, so we refused to be productive on freaking Thanksgiving Day, even if it was rainy outside and there wasn’t much to do indoors. We had breakfast, and then we watched TV and called our families… We had lots of fun trying to make lasagna (which turned out pretty good, by the way!)… and we ended up having a Thanksgiving Lunch. I think that was because we were supposed to go to the movies, seeing as we had passed on it the night before. The rain did make us a bit hum… sick-o-phobic :P… and we ended up staying indoors for a good while, watching more tv, drinking tea, coffee, hot chocolate and eating fresas con crema… and since my roommates were out on their own Thanksgiving dinners, we were home alone! We had the fridge all for ourselves, the tv all for ourselves, and most importantly, the heater’s control all for ourselves. We totally turned that thing up. LoL. I think my roommates are a bit too money conscious when it comes to the heater. Or maybe they really just don’t ever get cold!? But Q and I were sick of carrying a little cobijita around. Jiji…
And then we really got crazy. LoL. Right after we’d turned up the heater and had just had a cup of tea and.. hehe.. turned off the tv. It is dangerous to turn that thing off. We went out. In the rain. In the cold, pouring rain. We layered up and put on boots and water-proof jackets and we each took an umbrella… and we went out for a walk and of course got completely soaked! Not surprisingly, everything else but the Chinese restaurant was closed. So we had a nice and warm Chinese Thanksgiving Dinner. And we were not (at all!) the only people there! …and we did not get sick either :) We had a blast. And then it was back to the scorching heat of my mischievous little wall thermometer. lol. 70◦. But after walking back in the rain I seriously felt like I should have read a 3-digit number.
And then of course I got used to it and got cold again.

Lots of fun. We did have a lot of fun… we went to the movies, we ate out, we walked around, we cooked and ate and rejoiced in our hw, and we even got my remote control to work again (well, he did… hehe.. el interés tiene piés, diría mi Papá. Jijiji…). We caught up, and talked, and read and watched tv and all that fun stuff.

We didn’t eat turkey though, like both our families did. The Briones clan made Thanksgiving dinner for our friends from Kansas, and from what Q and I heard, they were having a lot of fun making that turkey! LoL… Sarai and Abi were singing for me.. Davidito was happy to join them… jijiji… and so we had the most terribly-sounding little trio on the phone for like 15 min. Well, it was four of us with me, and we even convinced Q to sing a Thanksgiving song to us. Q has a pretty decent voice… but we were… riotous. and completely, unashamedly out of tune. Jiji.. despite all the lazy fun and crazy adventures we had, I think we both missed our families a lot. I keep imagining what it’d be like to put all of you guys together in one room… muajajaja … it’d be so much fun.

Ok… I need some food.
I hope all of you had a wonderful, happy Thanksgiving day… jiji… :) !