Rare Sightings

So Abi was here last week, and she'll be back on Saturday and the part-ee will go on :D
While she was here, we started talking about some of the strange things we have seen this summer. Fond as I am of lists, I decided this one had to go on the blog.

Rare Sightings 2009 :">

1. My "no nonsense" socks. Bought during our honey moon by my husband, they will live on forever in the pages of romantic history. They have the straight forward message sowed into the toe section of each sock. Love them. Why are they a strange sight? It's a sight for the wearer, not the beholder. It's not so much the message as the fact that it's positioned so that the wearer of the socks can read it, unlike the messaged t-shirts (which I nevertheless enjoy a whole lot).

2. The crazy man in L- town. Q says he's been around for a while. I've only seen him twice, both times on our way to the bank. The friendly man, dressed in baggy clothes, with really long curly hair and what seemed to me like a colorful reggae/rasta hat, was happily walking down the main avenue with a careless and light step, waving at strangers as he walked.

3. Rata asquerosa. (Disgusting Rat). I kid you not, it was the size of a cat. Q and I were going back home after a late afternoon walk, and there it was, ahead of us, crossing the street, walking towards the apt complex. It started walking just as the green man lit up too, so it even seemed to me that the darned thing had been waiting for its turn. I protest- there are no rat lights on pedestrian crossings! But yes, it kept on going ahead of us for a little bit, and then crossed the street again and went into the large green lot across the street from the complex. Guacala de pollo!! O de gato, o lo k sea!!

4. A bike-rack on the back of a hearse. (Una bici montada en la parte de atras de un carro funebre) Saw this one in KC while picnic-ing with Q's friend and his gf. Don't see that very often.

5. Shark bike. Yup. A bike all dressed up, with the head, body, and tail of a shark. Saw it during an outing with Abi, at the L Downtown Film Festival.

6. My moving plant. Okay, I don't care what Wikipedia says, Q. It's not a reliable source anyway. NO, ITS NOT NORMAL FOR PLANTS TO MOVE. They grow, they process nutrients, but they do not move like that. My mint plant turns, like a sunflower, to face the sun. Every time. If you move it so that its stem and leaves are turning away from the window, a couple hrs later it will be facing the darned sun. I swear. It freaks me out.

7. Arm incubation. I know this is nasty, but I think a small bug incubated in my left arm. I've had a red bump there for the longest time, and nothing I do to it makes it better. Any ideas? I dont want a little animal creeping out of my skin. *omg*

Winter Break

Q is back and safe at home by now...
I miss him lots!

The computer broke down (actually, it exploded in the middle of the night, according to Dad. I was asleep and did not hear a thing) which means that the pictures that Q downloaded from his camera are now all gone... and I have to download them all over again :P SooOoo.. that's why this post has no pics.. but I will post them soon :)

Christmas was amazing... New years was amazing too... It was good to be home, and it was good having Q with me for the holidays...
Q and I got here on the same day.. hehe.. after crazy flights. We got some wedding planning done before Xmas. Misael and Abi were in the youth group's Christmas play, which was so much fun to watch! Christmas at home and at my grandparents was lots of fun: all the usual cooking and eating, and even some karaoke! It was great :)! Then we headed to NM, where we visited Q's parents and had a great time meeting their family friends and doing puzzles ;)! we also went skiing, which was quite a fun, exciting experience :)! we enjoyed the Mexican taqueria too! hmm.. and the craft paper we got during our little shopping trip.. hehehe...
Q and I also finalized our engagement in Mexican tradition :) We had the pedida de mano our second night there.
New years we spent at my aunt Sandra's. Hm.. I just realized Q didnt have much turkey this season. We had ribs and pork (what was it?pork something.. I forget the fancy names) at home, tamales and guisado and more ribs at my grandmother's house, and chicken and pozole at my aunt's. We did have ham and turkey for the Susana Wesley dinner, though. And we had leftover ham with his parents... I think ham counts as American traditional Xmas food, right?
Dia de Reyes was last Sunday. Sarai and Daniela got monitos from the rosca. Q and I pretty much just sat in the living room and ate and watched the familia.

Estuvo todo bastante bien, creo. Fue lindo tenerlos a todos juntos. Q se fue hace unos dias, despues de Dia de Reyes. La planeacion de la boda sigue bien... parece que vamos a tiempo con todo. Q fue conmigo a ver los lugares, y fue muy cooperativo y puso atencion a todo. Sus comentarios han sido siempre alentadores y de mucha ayuda...es un amor con patitas, mi nin~o!
Hoy lo extran~aba un poco mas, y cuando estabamos hablando y se iba a despedir me sentia tan solita que le dije que me acababa de acomodar... asi que aunque estaba cansado se quedo conmigo hasta que me senti mejor. Son esas cositas que me hacen ver lo bello que es tener a alguien como el...

Sigh.. Im ready to go to bed now..