houses

Ok. The past few weeks Juan MAnuel have been looking for a house to buy, it is really not an easy job. I have seen such houses that I just can´t believe an architec design it. One of the last ones I had seen was a house that it seemed that they forgot about the kitchen so they decided to put the kitchen next to the dinning room but making it like a hall where if you are washing dishes and cooking ( frying would be a too painful example) your back would end up with grease and food.
In an other house they had the parents room closet in side the bathroom, I guess they were not worried about humidity, because there was no window either.
Well I could go on and on but I don´t want o bore you.
Now we are thinking of building our house, we have a piece of land that JM´s father offered us but it is a little out of the city, we are still thinking about it. Wish me luck.

changes

I was always afraid of cutting my hair, but this time I managed to do something. what do you think?

X-mas trip

A few of you know that I spent X-mas with my mama, Fidel, Amanita and Karen.
Like it is normal a trip can´t be a trip if you don´t have some unexepected situations, like your flight being canceled and you being sent to Bogota to sleep over, to catch next days flight, well I finally made it to my moms place. It feels so nice to be with her, Being with my mom is one of the best things, it´s in my top ten favorite things to do.
This X-mas was great, Amanitas first X-mas, I learned a lot, next time I go to a one year old party I am going to bring a big box with tons of wrapping paper and bows. I bet that all parents will wish that their children were still interested in boxes and paper when they are fifteen and they want a car.
One of the best parts of the trip was enjoying Amanita 100%, thanks to snow storms. I really wished she didn´t have to take naps and go to sleep at 7pm.
I miss being with my mom and Fidel. Being next to them reminds me of really who I am. One gets lost over here when there is no one of your tribe to help you and to remind you of the nice and simple things of life.
Thanks to everyone who made this posible.
I miss the walks with my mom thru the snow, I love snow.
Hopefully next time Juan Manuel will come with me, cross your fingers.

wisdom teeth

This year has been a year of experimenting alot of different situations. Well It was time for some fun. Lets go to the dentist!!!!!! Come on, it is one of the best things you can do. Well I knew I had to have my wisdom teeth pulled out, but I always thought that I was going to be one of those lucky 1 in a 100 that don´t swell. ( kind of forgot about the eating problem).
So no big deal I was going to be lucky so I went all by myself to the dentist for the operation, yeah I thought I was stronger I guess, there I was liying seing the dentist not wearing gloves, smelling like cigarettes, and giving me novaltine ( I think you spell it like that). I was so nervous i was trembeling. it was an experience I have to say, specially after the operation and you have drink a pain killer, since you can´t feel your mouth it feels like no water is coming in, it is weird.
Boy!!!! my face was so different, three sizes more at least.
Oh!!!, when they finished they gave me my teeth so I can make an earing.
Well I can only say that I am really glad that I don´t have to go through that again.

incident

Well here I am, it has been a long time and so many things have happened.
First Juan Manuel and I got locked up in the bathroom, now let me describe my bathroom, well the shower is a Chinese capsule where you go in to take a shower and it also has a kind of back Jacuzzi that actually doesn’t work it just tickles you and most of the parts are plastic, bathroom sink is a big glass bowl (it is actually nice, but now I know that it is not practical), well anyway one Thursday morning I was getting ready to go in the shower and JM came in to brush his teeth and he closed the door and !buala! We were locked inside, the door will not open, I just continued taking a shower maybe me not freaking out would help, well yes it was early in the morning no one is expecting us so no one will notice that maybe something happened to this couple, we were not eating at JM´s parents house, so maybe if we were lucky they would notice on Tuesday 8 don’t forget This happened on a Thursday (while all this was happening I was thinking “ well at least I had an extra portion of chocolate pudding”. JM was getting anxious but I just let him do what he wanted to do, break the nail clipper to see if the door opened, use a needle, and asking me now what are we going to do???? Yeah I was asking myself the same thing, but no answers, ooooooooo meanwhile the phone kept ringing four times, JM´s father was calling us and he tried both cell phones but he had no idea we were locked in, and he actually never thought that maybe something happened even so he called four times and no one answered.
Well my bathroom does not have a window, so no possibility to yell for help, but it does have a glass cover so light comes in, so we moved that glass, actually we broke it but who cares it was our life, so after braking the glass JM carried me on his shoulder and I climbed to the ceiling, that means in between the roof and the ceiling, I don’t know how to explain that part, it would kind of be like an attic if it had a floor, well once I was up there I had to break the ceiling in another part of the house so I could jump and open the door, but guess what??? With what do I break the ceiling if everything in the bathroom is of plastic?? Well I found a glass jar under the sink and worked with that, after having a space to jump I realize that it was high, but I was going to jump until JM told me to be careful because if I bumped my head and got unconscious there would be no one to help us, so there I stopped and started to think how I could it, because I made the hole where there was a basket so I had like a 25 inch space to actually jump, finally I did jump, after meditating for at least half an hour, so when I went to open the door, guess what?? It did not open, we had to call JM´s father to bring someone to open the door, finally the JM´s brother went to look for a guy but that guy said that maybe in an hour he could help us, that was funny after being in the bathroom 2 hours he wanted us to wait for another hour, finally another guy came and he had to climb back from were I came so he could be inside the bathroom, because it turned out that it was easier to open from inside, of course with the correct instruments.
Well that’s the story, I am fine now, but now every time I go inside a bathroom I check to see if there is anything to break down the door just in case. If you are wondering why we did not kick the door, well no shoes is the answer.

friendship

Well it has been such a difficult time, it is hard to really adjust to the idea I will no longer have the child I had in my belly. I still produce milk, peppermint tea seams not to help, now I am letting my body take care of it, I think that if my body is still handling it that means that my mind and my heart are defently still handling it too.
There are times when I don´t think about it, but there are times that sad glimpses aproche me.
Having my mom here is so good, being with company preventes me from thinking in sad things, plus she helps around so much.
I guess all difficult situations show you something, I think I never realized how many people care for me or how many dear friends I have. I knew I had friends to go out with, to have fun but you never realize how close you are until these things happen.
It was nice that on my birthday my college friends decided to cook for my party, so they made this deliciuos meal, sauteed vegetables with these delicious chinesse mushroom, mushrooms cooked in red wine, green rice, chicken with a corn sauce, mmmmm makes me want more. It was sweet. Another group of friends brought the cake, and flowers. it was a nice evening.
I am thankful to have people that care for me.
I have a great family, I could not ask for better, and great friends.

Time for some shopping

Well I am at the point that you put on a pairo f pants and upps!!! It doesn´t fit, well ok let´s put on that pair of pants that I bought oversize two years ago. So there I am with just one pair of pants that fit. Now, should I wear those pants everyday???? Guess not, specially because they are white. So I started wearing my other pants but I will not buttom them up, I will put a hair elastic that goes from the hole to the buttom. It worked for a while, but I will feel them very loose. Jajaja always pulling my pants up.
For some odd reason I did not want to go buy maternity pants. But it is time to put all my old pants away an start a new set of clothing.
It felt strange when I put on maternity pants, you defently feel you are pregnant and your belly really stands out. It was time for my belly to be notice, everyone was saying that I dont have a belly, but ja, I do now.
Ok, here something to think about, in what mind does it fit to think that opening a surfing store in Cuenca would be sucessful. In the middle of the Andes.
After that lets continue looking for clothing.
Well in a couple of weeks I will be over there with my dear family.
See you soon. Can´t wait.