An Organized Dream

Thanks to Pinterest, I'm becoming a lot more interested in making my own stuff... Like cleaning products and laundry soap (supplies for these things have just arrived, so that will all be getting made soon)! I am also oogling and drooling over future organization projects, as well as cooking up a storm of new recipes! On one of my many endless scrollings through Pinterest, I came across this blog posting.  Read it and then come back and keep reading here....

I totally laughed at the end, cause I was like holy shit this lady is like freaking super woman times 10! Then I thought about some of it.... It's totally doable since I have nothing better to do and no kids! I don't know about making an official 90 day meal plan, but I could totally get my recipes organized off of the laptop so I can just pull the recipes out for the week. Also I should probably make print outs of the recipes so we don't have an accident involving my lap top and some sort of liquid mishap in the kitchen....

I'm already pretty darn good and keeping crap and clutter out of the house... If I could find some sort of clothing donation down here I would be getting rid of some clothes and making the husband get rid of A LOT of clothes (seriously... how many pairs of socks does a man need? They barely fit in the drawer..... I too have a few too many socks for myself so there isn't much room to talk). I'm sure the office secretary (I'm going to go with secretary as a code word for Wonder Woman, because she does entirely too much to help out the office) Claudia knows, but she is a busy lady and I don't want to force Scott into bothering over that right now... But if he remembers and has the time to ask her about it and she has the time to answser, then that would be great!

Now we come to this, "beautifully organized into colorfully labeled containers.  If you're ever visiting and you need something, just ask me - I totally know where it all is.". This is something I dream and strive for, but can't do because I want the pretty, colorful, cute, quality stuff and that just isn't really available down here... I find the cute stuff online, but then it's only available in the store or won't ship to APO/DPO/FPO... So this will be on pause for now....

We'll skip all that kid stuff for now since I don't have any of those little buggers and don't plan on trying for one for a couple of years, so I've got some time to get all that planned out... As for the budget, Husband has that pretty much under control and I get some money from him every pay day (since I don't work right now) and if I need more I can just ask, but I do try to stick to spending with in what I'm given... I"m trying to budget better with planning meals every week so I'm not taking those daily trips to the store in which I can never just buy one thing.... I just feel silly if I do... I think later on we will sit down and figure out a more defined food budget, etc...

I doubt I'll ever have a "gift" closet... and we can't really use all those handy apps while we are down here... so skip! And we'll skip the gym part because I have a gym in the building and then there is the Malecon to go walk/run on... but I just need to find the inner motivation to use either....

The photos........ yes! This is something that is going to get done! I might even start on this today :) I can totally organize my photos on this laptop... the daunting part of that task would be the waiting for the photos to upload to a back up site....

As for that date night, yes I think when children are in the picture, it will be important to try and have that set in stone date night... maybe not every week, but once a month would be good....

When she gets to that ultimate satisfaction part and then realizes it was just a dream... I hope that by starting now, before children, I can stand in the middle of my living room someday and have that satisfaction, only to realize it is reality and not a dream.......

Slept with Brazil, said hello to Argentina, and waved to Paraguay

That was one fun trip! Totally could have used another day in the awesome, warm, comforting, sunshine or Brazil....... but I'll take what I got and love it! Given a few more days I could have turned into a nice toasty golden coconut but again I'll settle for my tiny bit of a tan... Our first official day started off nice and early with our tour leaving the hotel at 7:45am! Which was more like 4:45am since Brazil is 3 hours ahead of Peru. Alrighty, we took our comfy little tour bus on over to Argentina to say hello for a day. On our way we go over a bridge between Argentina and Brazil, and just straight up the river was Paraguay. Now it costs 100 pesos a person to get into the park, but you can see why it costs so much... The set up they got is amazing! See below!

nicely done walkways leading to the train stops and catwalks

see that! I'm in Argentina!

The Devil's Throat

The little train to get you to and from different areas

well hey there! what a good lookin couple ;)

and there were a bunch of these cute little coatis... while cute, they can claw your face off....

Day two was equally fun and lovely on the Brazil side. That tour was a bit shorter so we went into the actual town and did some bodega hopping until it was time to go back to the hotel pick up our backpacks and get our ride to the airport. This trip was totally worth it and I say if you are in the neighborhood.... GO! It's really incredible how close they've built the walkways to the falls... The Devil's Throat fall is just almost unreal... And the weather was just right, not too hot, not too humid :)

The return home was irritating for a few reasons....  One being I feared returning home to the Miraflores doom and and gloom fog bank.... And I thought that getting to the airport 2 hours ahead of time and only having  backpacks would equal a swift check-in that allows me to get to the other side and have a delicious snack while waiting to get on the plane.... WRONG! Apparently LAN airlines does not believe in a separate line for people who don't have bags to check and apparently that airport has some ancient inefficient check-in system and also we have the just stand there and look pretty rather than work people means it takes over an hour to get checked in only to find out there is no delicious snacks on the other side....... only crappy looking empanadas, beer and water... not even a bag of chips... This generally equals a very cranky Annie that may or may not have had to apologize to her husband for an irritated outburst and given him permission to boop her nose as much as he wanted for the next 48 hours.......... I will totally plead the 5th on that one..... Oh and I forgot to mention the bitch in the pink/gray stripped shirt that was on our bus to the airport and behind us in line... To her I would like to say, no one wants to hear your obnoxious, loud, Portuguese speaking ass... I'm pretty sure the polar bears at the south pole could hear you... We were pushing on two hours of listening to this lady, so yes, I did want to cut her like a bad ass gangster would do... But I fear jail time and didn't have a knife.... Anyways, I didn't let crappy airport experience ruin my trip in the end... It was fabulous! And I learned next time we travel with LAN and only have backpacks, to make sure we do web check-in to speed up the checking in process and prevent any little Annie tantrums :)

But again, ignore my above complaints and go if you can! Chances are you won't have an obnoxious loudmouth Portuguese speaking bitch yammering away for 2 hours and take note of my web check-in advice (we didn't find out about that option till after we arrived at the airport).....

The next adventure is in 3 weeks when my parents arrive!!!! Woot woot! They are making the journey from Tacoma, WA to Lima, Peru!!! A few days after they arrive we go to Machu Picchu and Cusco!!!! I'm more excited about seeing Mom and Dad than the ancient shit ;) I'm so excited to show them a part of the world :) :) :)