It's that time again

Alright ladies my monthly questionnaire is going around again. I have been gone for awhile and  thought this would be a great post to come back with. Remember to join in, love hearing everyone's answers. Here goes...

1. What is one chore that you hate doing the most?

I absolutely hate making the bed, I would rather do anything else.


2. When was the first time you had alcohol?

I think I was seventeen and having a girls night at home with my mom and a friend. She let us have a couple of Yeager bombs. Very tasty!!


3.What is one of the most embarrassing things that has ever happened to you?

Growing up I was not able to be embarrassed by much just because of my family. They always joked around and would do pretty much anything so you were in big trouble if you were easily embarrassed. I do remember one day being out in public and my mom grabbing one of my boobs and saying look how perky they are. REALLY!! I know she was just messing around with me, but after having things like that happen there is not to much that can embarrass me now.


4.If you could choose how would you want to die?

In my sleep of course, seems like the nicest and easiest way.


5. Would you rather see a movie at home or in the theater?

I would actually rather watch a movie at home just because I don't like to sit in one spot for that long but going to the theater, being in the atmosphere is fun.


6.  Two of your favorite musical artists and why?

1. Bruce Springsteen- Will always remind me of my family and great childhood memories.
2. Adele- no matter how bad I am feeling listening to her music is like therapy to me


7. Have you ever been to a karaoke bar and participated?

Have been to many, mostly because this used to be like a monthly thing my family would get together and do. I don't like to sing in front of strangers alone but I will go up with someone else.


8. Are you a people pleaser?

I think to some extent I am, I don't like people upset with me and I like doing things for others but if I don't agree or believe in something I will not do it just to make someone else happy. I am somewhere in the middle.


9. In high school what group were you apart of?

I would say, none at all. I had one good friend, who knew everyone in school. My school was not the nicest or best places though. It was one of those where when people asked you were you went and you told them they would say "Oh" and look at me with sympathy. It was kind of ghetto and there were always racial riots. I preferred to stay inside during lunch and not deal with the stupid and immature people I had to spend 8 hours out of my day with. So long answer I guess I was a Loner.


10. One thing you remember doing that upset your parents?

I remember when I was very small and home alone with my dad, I think he was in the living room watching TV. Well I must have been bored because I decided to stick pretty much the whole toilet paper roll down the toilet. After I flooded out the whole bathroom my dad was really pissed. lol oops.


11. First Hangover?

Well I am proud to say was just this last year. It was during my last visit to the states and I was having a great time with my aunt, uncles and my mom. The guncles invited us over for dinner and drinks. I usually don't like to loose control of anything so I always make sure I drink enough water so that I am still sober enough to make a logical decision. Well I did not have one drop of water that night. It took me a day and half to recover. Oh good times!!

Checking in..

Wow it has almost been a month since I have been away from my own blog. Most days I have spent cleaning, doing laundry, helping cook, or trying to find things to keep me busy. You would think since I have so much free time that I would be spending it blogging, but I have not been able to get inspired by anything.
Since I have been here I have gotten back into the routine of things which was a little harder for me to do this time because I was in the states so long on my last visit. I have been saying I moved already but during the last year I spent more than six months all together in the states. I think knowing my trip here in November was not just a visit this time, it was finally the big move (no date to go back) was a little harder. It did not hit me when I arrived or even a month after. Just a few weeks ago I started getting my anxiety back. It is hard to explain or figure out because I do not feel like I want to or need to back. I miss my family of course and other things that I am used to but I don't have an overwhelming feeling that I need to go back. I think I just need something else to keep me busy during the hours that Javi is gone.
Javi's job (though we are both grateful that he as one) sucks! Every three weeks he is switched from the morning to night hours. During the day he leaves from 730 am to around 730 pm and the night he is gone from 530 pm to 530 am.  He is paid around 1000 pesos a week which all considering is not that bad for where we are at, he has insurance and gets a monthly bonus if he does not miss any days. It is our his best choice for our location besides probably having his own business. I just wish we had more time together.
Oh well I guess  I really don't have that much to complain about. I think I just needed to get some stuff off my chest and remember what is really important. My family is healthy, I have a roof over my head, food to eat everyday and so much love and support from everyone, not to mention no matter what time he gets home I still get to give javi a hug/kiss goodbye or hello every morning/night.

Some goals for the New Year

Cant believe tomorrow will be New Years Eve already. I hope everyone has a great night and cant wait to hear about your celebrations. I did not plan on making a list of goals or resolutions but Milena over at Mexi- Can Me inspired me to write one so here goes....

1.  Learn more Spanish, I have improved since last year, but still understand way better than I can speak it. I am more of a listener and not so much a chatty cathy, unlike Javi so that is part of my problem.

2.  Try to find some type of on-line work that I can do while I am here. I spend time helping with the store, cleaning, and cooking, but I would like to be able to make some extra money and keep busy while Javi is away.

3. I want to start looking into getting an FM-2. I have to find out what is involved and get all my paperwork ready.

4. I want to travel somewhere with Javi during his vacation. After these last two years it would be nice to get away just the two of us.

5. Keep in shape and working out. I did not want to wait until the new year to start working out so I started two weeks ago and I feel a lot better about myself and it has helped me with some stressing out.

Well that is all I got for now, its a start anyway. If anyone else wants to join in on the lists for the New Year I would love to hear about some of your goals.  Wishing everyone a safe and Happy New Year.

First Christmas in Mexico

Hey everyone I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas weekend. I just wanted to share a slide show of my first Christmas here in Mexico. It was very different from what I am used to. Here only Christmas eve is celebrated and my Christmas day was like any other, in fact I spent the day doing a major cleaning of our room and laundry, fun stuff I know! All day was spent preparing the Pozole, ponche, and pastel that we would be eating.

Our Christmas tree with our gift exchange presents.

A photo of  almost the whole family.

Another photo of our gifts

The boys firing off their fireworks out in the front yard.

My suegros. So hard to get smiles out of this family. It took me years to get a smile from Javi.

One of our homemade Pinatas.

After dinner and fireworks we exchanged gifts and hugs at midnight. It was exciting to see everyones faces when they got to open their presents. It was weird not having the smaller kids get gifts though. In the states even if the adults don't get gifts the kids always receive them. Because they don't believe in Santa here the kids don't get their presents until Dia deReyes which I am looking forward to experiencing. After the gift exchange we all had some Ponche and sat around the front yard having a small bonfire, it was pretty cold that night but once we brought out the Pinatas and music all that jumping and dancing around warmed us up.

                    

Love this pix of me n javi.

Overall I really enjoyed my first Christmas here. After last year of being separated from Javi for so long and missing all the holidays together it was so nice to be here with him. It was hard being so far away from my family but I did get to see them,  we did  a video chat with the whole family. It was great to be able to see everyones faces and wish them a merry Christmas.