Week 2 has me stuck in the clouds!

I was rather prepared to write the well this was the most boring week down here so far blog... but one little event sorta changed that....

Sunday Scott had flown out to Miami and I spent half the week alone... It was a rather productive week considering I pretty much just cleaned the whole time he was gone... I spent 2 hours on tuesday scrubbing my balcony to try and get it somewhat close to clean... It's safe to say that I somewhat achieved that :) The glass is just such a bitch to get clean so I think we are going to hire someone to clean our balcony so I can watch what they use and how they do it... Our neighbors do something to theirs because it's absolutely spotless and never fogs up.....

One benefit to being alone was I got to watch whatever the hell I wanted on tv.... No boyfriend to come in and change the channel on me while I'm watching Greys anatomy or Private Practice :) Another benefit was having that queen size bed to sprawl out in :)

Wednesday was a nice day :) Jerry who works with Scott had called me on Tuesday and invited me to go out to dinner with him and his wife Jen as a belated bday dinner... We went to a restaurant around the corner from where Scott and I live... I heard Jerry mention something about my birthday in spanish so I just nodded and smiled... After lovely dinner and in the middle of eating the dessert I ordered I hear the Happy Birthday song come on the piano... I started to look around for who else was having a birthday and how lovely that was... I turn to my right and see the waiter bringing me a dessert with a candle in it :) What a great way to end my time without Scott :) He arrived home about an hour after I got home from dinner....

Thursday I started getting a little impatient for him to get home from work beacuse we thought for sure Chief would let him go a little early... He didn't get home till almost 7:30 because he had to take some guy to Polvos Azules and the guy was supposed to take a cab back from there but Jerry is somewhat over paraniod and had Scott drive him all the way back to the embassy and then Scott came home and with traffic that takes a lot longer than it should....

Friday was a nice surprise with Scott arriving home before 6pm... Chief let him go a little early and he stopped by the commisary to get my diet coke and was home before traffic got too bad :) Grilled up some burgers and made homemade beer battered onion rings... I watched a movie while Scott drifted off.... I can't blame the guy too much... Got in late Wednesday and then stuck at work late Thursday and then had to go in early... I guess I would be a little wiped out too....

Saturday was acutally somewhat productive... Once we got going we made it out to the market by the college where they have a butcher shop with great prices and really good meat... I have determined that I like to see my meat the way I would buy it back home in the states... Between the fuzzy little happy pictures of the animals frolicking in the sunshine and grass behind the counter and seeing them butterflied open and chopped up........ I got a little grossed out and traumatized... Next time I will wander the market and look at other stuff while Scott looks like the crazy rich gringo buying up all the meat.... We stopped at the Plaza Veya where I actually got brave and attempted to ask where the toasters were that weren't part of a bundle package... Toaster achieved :) Got the rest of the groceries and came home so Scott could use his Food Saver to vacuum seal the meat... I don't know why I fought the good fight and hated that thing when I was younger and my parents bought one... That thing was kinda fun and cool... Now I know I'm getting old when I find vacuum sealing meat fun....

Polvos Azules is where we went next... And for you Tacoma folks, we will call it the B&I of Lima... Now I can say I've seen what the real Lima kinda looks like considering I live in the fake Lima... We just came to buy a few dvds for beyond cheap and Scott said next time we will come back and he'll let me do a little bit of actual shopping :) We basically bummed around for a few hours till it was time to start grilling the flank steak for dinner...

This dinner was supposed to be what we were going to have on my birthday but since Scott had to leave we just postponed it... Totally delicious dinner :) Well worth the wait... My man sure can cook and grill :) We went out for a couple drinks after dinner and clearly I was rather tired my first night here because I had to ask if it was that crowded and busy before... I was moderately successful in my attempt to order a shot of bailey's for my cafe ameretto... I'm sure I'll get it better figured out as time goes on but I did obtain said shot after having to point to a menu and her bringing me 2 different sizes of glasses to confirm which size I meant... We went to some bar at the end of Pizza Alley and had a couple beers before returning home and attempted to watch a movie... Scott started dozing off again and therefore I got mad... We had a few drinks on the balcony and there were some brides doing photos in the park... Like usual I point that stuff out to Scott and say "must be nice....."

I guess you could say I got to eat those words "must be nice" because much to my suprise at like 2am when we are going to bed, I got the biggest surprise that I could ask for... Scott proposed!!! After much disbelief of the entire situation, I finally managed to get out an acutal yes :) I totally had to go call my mom and then my sister because I am overly emotional and could not contain any amount of excitement :) and then we called his sisters cause they were awake with the time differences.... I think we went to bed around 4:30am... I probably didn't need those extra couple vodka beverages after getting proposed to but oh well :)

I might have looked and felt like ass on Sunday but my ring sure looks good :) I'm still in the holy shit! phase but eventually I'll come down out of the clouds and to ground level  :)

Well here is to week 3 :)