I can say that 90% of my wedding planning has gone smoothly. The other 10% involves 2 things.
THING 1:
The restaurant I had planned on having dinner at afterward misled my mom and I into believing that yes they would be available to host our dinner on August 20th at 7:30pm when they replied back to her and asked would we like inside or outside. Of course we want outside and to that they then said "We are booked for a private event the 20th and the 21st. We could do your dinner on the 19th." I'd like to applaud the genius who thinks I can have my post wedding dinner before my wedding... So now I'm researching and emailing different restaurants to see if they are available for my post wedding dinner.
THING 2:
My wedding dress to me has gone MIA. I found a lovely lace halter dress for a whopping $110. Now given that is was only $110, it seems I contributed to child labor in China where some poor little children probably hand stitched my dress. All was fine and dandy with that until now. Supposedly my dress left Hong Kong on June 14th. To me with Hong Kong being right across the ocean from WA (had to have the dress sent to my parent's house first) it should only take a week to get there. Well here we are at June 28th. Today would be the LAST day it should take to arrive given standard shipping. So I have started to panic. This basically leaves me with one month to find and order a new dress and have it arrive here in Lima if this dress does not show up. August 4th I'm on a plane bound for the Estados Unidos and will be up in Bottineau, ND the next day. I have a slight layover in Miami but how on earth during my time in Miami will I find a dress that fits just right and isn't too expensive otherwise god willing there is something in Bottineau, Minot, or even Fargo that I can get to without inconveniencing anyone.
So let us pray that the dress shows up today. Otherwise we move onto the prayers for the poor poor unfortunate customer service agents that will get stuck dealing with me. No dress = no wedding in my mind... And no wedding is just not an option therefore I NEED my fucking dress...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Friends or lack there of...
It seems to me that I can now expect the length of my friendships to last 2 months to 2 years... With that being said I miss most of my friends back home and I'm going to miss the two really good friends I've made down here... I hope that the connections remain, although since moving it seems that most will fade...
As I have adjusted to life as a stay at home fiance fairly well and managed to develop a Friday night social life for the better part of a couple months... Unfortunately, Nicole has to move on to bigger and better parts of her career and the same goes for Michelle in a couple of weeks... Therefore Friday night dinners and the every now and again Saturday manicure will be put on hold till I find my new group of NORMAL (I emphasize normal because of the lack of normal individuals within this embassy)friends to do dinners and such with... But then again that is this life and something I knew getting into this adventure...
I guess what I didn't fully prepare for was the lack of communication from friends from back "home"... Home is now in quotes because THIS is my new home... I feel like there was a great enthusiasm towards being friends with me because I was leaving but now that I've been gone, it seems I'm all but a distant memory to most... Maybe it's because I have too many posts from Cityville on my Facebook and I've been blocked by people? or is it that sorta you don't see it so you forget about it kinda thing?
I also have a tendency to go along with the belief that my generation is too reliant on TEXTING... Back in WA I was always only a text away and even I have to admit I would rather send a text than pick up the phone and hit the call button... Given that texting is not an option to get a hold of me, I had sent out a FB message to the friends I felt I would keep in contact with the most... I guess really only 2 of them actually picked up the phone and called and even then it seems it's been a couple months.... It's like the excitement of my move and the excitement of my engagement has faded into the background.... Maybe it's also my fault for thinking they should be the ones to pick up and call when I also have not picked up to call them... In my head I know these people have jobs, where as I do not... So I guess I thought that since they are the busier ones that they would call when they have time, as where I do not want to bother them when they are busy...
Now life goes on and I understand that friendships will definitely come and go, but I just think I expected a little more out of those who said they would keep in touch and maybe I need to step up my game in the friendship department as well...
As I have adjusted to life as a stay at home fiance fairly well and managed to develop a Friday night social life for the better part of a couple months... Unfortunately, Nicole has to move on to bigger and better parts of her career and the same goes for Michelle in a couple of weeks... Therefore Friday night dinners and the every now and again Saturday manicure will be put on hold till I find my new group of NORMAL (I emphasize normal because of the lack of normal individuals within this embassy)friends to do dinners and such with... But then again that is this life and something I knew getting into this adventure...
I guess what I didn't fully prepare for was the lack of communication from friends from back "home"... Home is now in quotes because THIS is my new home... I feel like there was a great enthusiasm towards being friends with me because I was leaving but now that I've been gone, it seems I'm all but a distant memory to most... Maybe it's because I have too many posts from Cityville on my Facebook and I've been blocked by people? or is it that sorta you don't see it so you forget about it kinda thing?
I also have a tendency to go along with the belief that my generation is too reliant on TEXTING... Back in WA I was always only a text away and even I have to admit I would rather send a text than pick up the phone and hit the call button... Given that texting is not an option to get a hold of me, I had sent out a FB message to the friends I felt I would keep in contact with the most... I guess really only 2 of them actually picked up the phone and called and even then it seems it's been a couple months.... It's like the excitement of my move and the excitement of my engagement has faded into the background.... Maybe it's also my fault for thinking they should be the ones to pick up and call when I also have not picked up to call them... In my head I know these people have jobs, where as I do not... So I guess I thought that since they are the busier ones that they would call when they have time, as where I do not want to bother them when they are busy...
Now life goes on and I understand that friendships will definitely come and go, but I just think I expected a little more out of those who said they would keep in touch and maybe I need to step up my game in the friendship department as well...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Fuck You Government Travel Office!
I have stated before that I have yet to be a bridezilla... I mean really I've been nothing but go with the flow on this wedding thing, but the one thing that I refuse to budge and/or compromise on is being on a separate return flight home after the wedding... Now due to some overly dramatic tendencies, I have become rather upset and feel my day as been completely ruined... Feel free to label me a bridezilla for this one...
My genius fiance decides to forward me the travel info the travel office sent him without really looking into it better... Since his trip is going to be paid for by the government and mine is not this is where the problem is... He has been quoted flights that cost just over $2300... Now to get on the same return flight we are going to have to spend that much on me... I looked into how much it would cost for a one way ticket on that flight and that was $2100!!! I can fly round trip from Lima to Miami and round trip from Miami to Minot according to this flight info for $2300 but just a one way ticket will cost me almost as much??? This is where I would like to say "What the Fuck?!" to Delta airlines....
So I have continued my research to see how cheap I can get flights for via Bing Travel... The sad thing is, is that I can book us both flights on Bing that get us from here in Lima to Miami and then from Miami to Minot and back to Miami and then back to Lima for just under $2200.... Now can someone please tell me why/how the government travel office does not use Bing to book any of it's flights??? How is it that I can get us both to fly for $100 less than what they've found for just him to fly? This just does not make any sense to me what so ever....
Given that last I checked, technically the US government has some budget problems. So to me something about them not using every available option to get THE cheapest flights for things like this FEML trip is somewhat ass backwards... Now I may have also sent a couple unnecessary angry emails to said fiance, but I am pissed... I just absolutely refuse to fly home to Lima on a separate flight 5 days after getting married... There is just no letting this one go in my book....
My genius fiance decides to forward me the travel info the travel office sent him without really looking into it better... Since his trip is going to be paid for by the government and mine is not this is where the problem is... He has been quoted flights that cost just over $2300... Now to get on the same return flight we are going to have to spend that much on me... I looked into how much it would cost for a one way ticket on that flight and that was $2100!!! I can fly round trip from Lima to Miami and round trip from Miami to Minot according to this flight info for $2300 but just a one way ticket will cost me almost as much??? This is where I would like to say "What the Fuck?!" to Delta airlines....
So I have continued my research to see how cheap I can get flights for via Bing Travel... The sad thing is, is that I can book us both flights on Bing that get us from here in Lima to Miami and then from Miami to Minot and back to Miami and then back to Lima for just under $2200.... Now can someone please tell me why/how the government travel office does not use Bing to book any of it's flights??? How is it that I can get us both to fly for $100 less than what they've found for just him to fly? This just does not make any sense to me what so ever....
Given that last I checked, technically the US government has some budget problems. So to me something about them not using every available option to get THE cheapest flights for things like this FEML trip is somewhat ass backwards... Now I may have also sent a couple unnecessary angry emails to said fiance, but I am pissed... I just absolutely refuse to fly home to Lima on a separate flight 5 days after getting married... There is just no letting this one go in my book....
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Baking Adventures
Now in order to kick June Cleaver's ass at chocolate chip cookies (I am not even trying to fuck with Betty Crocker) I need all the proper supplies. Kitchen Aid Mixer - check... chocolate chips - check... butter - check... flour - check... brown sugar and regular sugar - check... vanilla extract - check... baking soda - WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU!?!?!?!?
Finding all the proper supplies for making your basic chocolate chip cookies was derailed by a simple ingredient, baking soda.... I'm sure that lucky bitch June just waltzed into her local supermarket in the United States and picked up a box of Arm&Hammer baking soda and dropped it in her basket... I had no such luck... Since I forgot to Google translate what it was in Spanish before we went to Plaza Veya, I wandered up to Vivanda (Plaza Veya was out of our kind of OJ anyways)... After much wandering around, looking in circles, and feeling puzzled, I finally just did my best attempt at asking...
The first person made it sound like this simple little item was towards the front of the store... Again lost and confused, I attempted to ask someone else... That lady directed me to some guy who then asked another guy who then found another guy... That's right I, Anne E. Riley, ended up with 3 guys looking for baking soda... Finally one comes back to tell me that I have to go to the pharmacy to get backing soda... The fucking farmacia for bicarbonato de sosa...
Good news... The pharmacy was across the street and I successfully obtained my damn baking soda... And praise sweet baby baking Jesus that it was only dos soles ($0.73)...
Since I successfully obtained the last ingredient to make cookies, I can now proceed with my mission to kick June Cleaver's ass...
Finding all the proper supplies for making your basic chocolate chip cookies was derailed by a simple ingredient, baking soda.... I'm sure that lucky bitch June just waltzed into her local supermarket in the United States and picked up a box of Arm&Hammer baking soda and dropped it in her basket... I had no such luck... Since I forgot to Google translate what it was in Spanish before we went to Plaza Veya, I wandered up to Vivanda (Plaza Veya was out of our kind of OJ anyways)... After much wandering around, looking in circles, and feeling puzzled, I finally just did my best attempt at asking...
The first person made it sound like this simple little item was towards the front of the store... Again lost and confused, I attempted to ask someone else... That lady directed me to some guy who then asked another guy who then found another guy... That's right I, Anne E. Riley, ended up with 3 guys looking for baking soda... Finally one comes back to tell me that I have to go to the pharmacy to get backing soda... The fucking farmacia for bicarbonato de sosa...
Good news... The pharmacy was across the street and I successfully obtained my damn baking soda... And praise sweet baby baking Jesus that it was only dos soles ($0.73)...
Since I successfully obtained the last ingredient to make cookies, I can now proceed with my mission to kick June Cleaver's ass...
Friday, May 13, 2011
Wedding and such
Considering it's like 15 weeks till my wedding and I have it all pretty much planned... I would say I'm doing great!!! But what happened to BRIDEZILLA!!!??? I was 100% sure that I would be the bridezilla from hell... the kind that make a wedding planner cry... I was hell bent on having an October wedding most likely back in Washington.... I also was going to have a ballgown type dress and all sorts of formal fancy-schmancy shit... Well let's just put the brakes on that pony right there.... Instead I said okay sure why not? to an August wedding in Key West, FL.... I also found a dress that is more along the a-line slim fitting type... I've been waiting for bridezilla to come rearing her gorgeous head but to no avail... No bridezilla action at all!! I've found a wedding planner and asked the appropriate questions regarding the wedding package she quoted for us, found a restaurant to have dinner at after the wedding, found a dress, and found a hotel.... To keep this nice and simple we left to invites to just family in the form of a "we are getting married in Key West on August 20th... If you can make it that's great... If not don't sweat it..." So at most we are going to have 12 guests... Nice and simple :) I'd like to thing of this as more of a great big happy family vacation with a wedding on a Saturday afternoon/evening... Really I have this whole wedding deal all planned out and it's just a matter of finalizing some loose ends... I foresee this event be 90% booked if not 100% done and ready by the end of the month!
Now onto a more serious topic... School... After the event mentioned above, I plan to start working on my bachelors online... This will not only fill up more of my time so I don't get as bored and feel the strong desire to play Farmville but it will also allow me to get a job that doesn't involve serving beverages and food to overly needy and picky "guests"... Now don't get me wrong, serving is a perfectly good job but I've done my time and I'm burnt out on that gig and I'd just like something slightly more fulfilling... I also have become more fond of the idea of that 9 to 5 kinda thing.... Now comes the big question I've had to ask myself, "What should I get my bachelors in?" Keeping in mind that I did not do so hot in accounting (maybe it's cause I thought dating a bartender in Seattle was a better idea than studying and showing up to class on time or I just generally sucked at it) and I also did not care for economics (maybe because of the first reason as accounting and it was also at 7am which is not my best functioning hour)... Economics seemed to go right over my head even when I tried to apply myself at first... I have ruled out Business Administration as well as any degree that seemed to have an abundance of accounting or economics classes.... The two that have peaked my interest the most are Public Administration and Public Relations & Marketing... I'm willing to take a vote on who thinks I would do better at which one...
Public Administration
or
Public Relations and Marketing
I still have quite some time to figure out the best course of action for me on this one... In the meantime, hopefully I will start some Spanish lessons a couple times a week to hopefully fill up a couple more hours of my day... There is only so much cleaning and facebooking one can do before both become boring....
I totally missed the fact that Wednesday was the 2 month mark since I arrived here in Lima.... Eventually I'll figure out some hobbies and a couple more fulfilling things to do... I'm still trying to find that stereotypical 50's housewife that is buried somewhere deep inside... I have the dress and I have the heels but I do need the pearls (well I have fake pearls but real would be better)... I got a kitchen aid mixer, which is totally bad ass (Thank you mom!), that should help aid in the whole June Cleaver thing... Watch out bitch! I'm coming for you... Your chocolate chip cookies will have nothing on mine! Now I am pretty sure June didn't chug down bottles of wine and mix and match her alcohol to end up with a hangover from hell the next day but I too am slowly getting a grasp on my limitations since I've become a little on the old side since turning 25.....
One nice thing about this not having to work thing and not having too much to do is that I can go draw myself up a nice bubble bath at 2:30 in the afternoon... With that being said, it's bubble bath time!
Now onto a more serious topic... School... After the event mentioned above, I plan to start working on my bachelors online... This will not only fill up more of my time so I don't get as bored and feel the strong desire to play Farmville but it will also allow me to get a job that doesn't involve serving beverages and food to overly needy and picky "guests"... Now don't get me wrong, serving is a perfectly good job but I've done my time and I'm burnt out on that gig and I'd just like something slightly more fulfilling... I also have become more fond of the idea of that 9 to 5 kinda thing.... Now comes the big question I've had to ask myself, "What should I get my bachelors in?" Keeping in mind that I did not do so hot in accounting (maybe it's cause I thought dating a bartender in Seattle was a better idea than studying and showing up to class on time or I just generally sucked at it) and I also did not care for economics (maybe because of the first reason as accounting and it was also at 7am which is not my best functioning hour)... Economics seemed to go right over my head even when I tried to apply myself at first... I have ruled out Business Administration as well as any degree that seemed to have an abundance of accounting or economics classes.... The two that have peaked my interest the most are Public Administration and Public Relations & Marketing... I'm willing to take a vote on who thinks I would do better at which one...
Public Administration
or
Public Relations and Marketing
I still have quite some time to figure out the best course of action for me on this one... In the meantime, hopefully I will start some Spanish lessons a couple times a week to hopefully fill up a couple more hours of my day... There is only so much cleaning and facebooking one can do before both become boring....
I totally missed the fact that Wednesday was the 2 month mark since I arrived here in Lima.... Eventually I'll figure out some hobbies and a couple more fulfilling things to do... I'm still trying to find that stereotypical 50's housewife that is buried somewhere deep inside... I have the dress and I have the heels but I do need the pearls (well I have fake pearls but real would be better)... I got a kitchen aid mixer, which is totally bad ass (Thank you mom!), that should help aid in the whole June Cleaver thing... Watch out bitch! I'm coming for you... Your chocolate chip cookies will have nothing on mine! Now I am pretty sure June didn't chug down bottles of wine and mix and match her alcohol to end up with a hangover from hell the next day but I too am slowly getting a grasp on my limitations since I've become a little on the old side since turning 25.....
One nice thing about this not having to work thing and not having too much to do is that I can go draw myself up a nice bubble bath at 2:30 in the afternoon... With that being said, it's bubble bath time!
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Surviving
It's been awhile since I blogged... Not a whole lot happened since I was overly excited with being engaged. It took like a week before it really set in and while I'm not in La La land about it I'm still wonderfully blessed to have Scott... especially after a couple white wine meltdowns........ I think my highlights of April were eating cow heart and "letting my fitness flag fly"... May has started off kinda weird... Maybe it will become a little more normal soon?
I kinda got into a slight routine in April of cleaning... Mondays seem to be scrub everything and put everything back in it's place after the weekend... Tuesdays and Wednesday usually involve laundry... I don't really do much on Thursdays... Fridays I do a light cleaning.... I've gotten kinda bored but I do my best to keep somewhat occupied.... Part of my boredom at times now is Scott working on homework for his first class towards his MBA... I can't bitch too much cause it will beneficial in the long run....
Now onto the cow heart incident... Scott and I went out with some people from the office to a bar just up the street... it's pretty cool... like 4 different levels.... it was almost like an adult tree house! This guy Danny ordered some appetizer platter that had a bunch of stuff... I thought he was just trying to fuck with the other girls from the office and tell them that the beef on a skewer was cow heart......... It looked like regular beef to me so I just tore into that like it was..... It tasted just like a regular cut of beef but I guess he wasn't kidding and I accidentally ate some poor cows heart...... I can't say that I would knowingly order it and eat it again but if it was served and nothing was said about it, I'd probably eat it again...
As for my fitness flag flying.... I'm not trying to lose weight or anything crazy like that but I could stand to use a little toning and just general getting in shape.... So Scott has actually gotten my ass down to the little gym and up on the Eliptical as well as doing a smidge of yoga... after the first day he was teasing me and said "Little Annie hung up her freak flag and let her fitness flag fly!" WTF? I dunno where that came from but it was kinda funny in the moment....
May... what is there to say about May so far.... Cinco de Mayo was pretty fun after my every little thing seems to be going wrong kind of day... Had Nicole over for some carne asada burritos and margaritas... Friday involved Scott laying on the couch when he got home and not really getting off of it and me taking care of him... It's only fair considering I've had a couple of those days but I was in far worse condition...
Yesterday was a strange strange day.... It's like the moment we left the apartment it was just nothing but crazy... People were driving crazy (well crazy for them cause they drive like bat shit crazy motherfuckers).... I swear we almost got in like 6 accidents on our way to Plaza Veya.... I've gotten used to most of the crazy driving but I was legit in my concerns for dieing in the car yesterday... Traffic was awful around the store cause one of the lights wasn't working... We never get in and out of Plaza Veya in 15 minutes and that happened.... Then we decided to take a different way home which was equally backed up... We then tried to go see Thor up at Park Kennedy to find out it was dubbed not subtitled... Forget that plan... On to trying to find the sushi restaurant across the park that we couldn't find a couple weeks ago.... Looked both ways and proceeded to speed walk across the street... All the sudden Scott is running and I am left behind in the middle of the street only to see a very large very fast moving bus coming towards me.... Running forward would have resulted in me being plastered across the front of a bus so I chose to jump backwards.... I have decided from now on we will stick to crosswalks with green walk lights only.... We eventually made it home safe and sound... Dinner was also kind of weird... Most places you go you just seat yourself... Proceeded to do so at Chilis and we seemed pretty much invisible for the longest time... adding to the overall strangeness of the day... After dinner we caught Fast and the Furious 5 which was good for the kind of movie it is.... On our walk home I saw some wild little guinea pigs on a flat part of a cliff so that was kinda cool... I had to suppress the desire to jump over the little brick wall and try to catch one for a pet....
And here we are today on this lovely warm beautiful mothers day :) Hopefully today doesn't involve almost getting blasted by a bus and is an enjoyable day......
I kinda got into a slight routine in April of cleaning... Mondays seem to be scrub everything and put everything back in it's place after the weekend... Tuesdays and Wednesday usually involve laundry... I don't really do much on Thursdays... Fridays I do a light cleaning.... I've gotten kinda bored but I do my best to keep somewhat occupied.... Part of my boredom at times now is Scott working on homework for his first class towards his MBA... I can't bitch too much cause it will beneficial in the long run....
Now onto the cow heart incident... Scott and I went out with some people from the office to a bar just up the street... it's pretty cool... like 4 different levels.... it was almost like an adult tree house! This guy Danny ordered some appetizer platter that had a bunch of stuff... I thought he was just trying to fuck with the other girls from the office and tell them that the beef on a skewer was cow heart......... It looked like regular beef to me so I just tore into that like it was..... It tasted just like a regular cut of beef but I guess he wasn't kidding and I accidentally ate some poor cows heart...... I can't say that I would knowingly order it and eat it again but if it was served and nothing was said about it, I'd probably eat it again...
As for my fitness flag flying.... I'm not trying to lose weight or anything crazy like that but I could stand to use a little toning and just general getting in shape.... So Scott has actually gotten my ass down to the little gym and up on the Eliptical as well as doing a smidge of yoga... after the first day he was teasing me and said "Little Annie hung up her freak flag and let her fitness flag fly!" WTF? I dunno where that came from but it was kinda funny in the moment....
May... what is there to say about May so far.... Cinco de Mayo was pretty fun after my every little thing seems to be going wrong kind of day... Had Nicole over for some carne asada burritos and margaritas... Friday involved Scott laying on the couch when he got home and not really getting off of it and me taking care of him... It's only fair considering I've had a couple of those days but I was in far worse condition...
Yesterday was a strange strange day.... It's like the moment we left the apartment it was just nothing but crazy... People were driving crazy (well crazy for them cause they drive like bat shit crazy motherfuckers).... I swear we almost got in like 6 accidents on our way to Plaza Veya.... I've gotten used to most of the crazy driving but I was legit in my concerns for dieing in the car yesterday... Traffic was awful around the store cause one of the lights wasn't working... We never get in and out of Plaza Veya in 15 minutes and that happened.... Then we decided to take a different way home which was equally backed up... We then tried to go see Thor up at Park Kennedy to find out it was dubbed not subtitled... Forget that plan... On to trying to find the sushi restaurant across the park that we couldn't find a couple weeks ago.... Looked both ways and proceeded to speed walk across the street... All the sudden Scott is running and I am left behind in the middle of the street only to see a very large very fast moving bus coming towards me.... Running forward would have resulted in me being plastered across the front of a bus so I chose to jump backwards.... I have decided from now on we will stick to crosswalks with green walk lights only.... We eventually made it home safe and sound... Dinner was also kind of weird... Most places you go you just seat yourself... Proceeded to do so at Chilis and we seemed pretty much invisible for the longest time... adding to the overall strangeness of the day... After dinner we caught Fast and the Furious 5 which was good for the kind of movie it is.... On our walk home I saw some wild little guinea pigs on a flat part of a cliff so that was kinda cool... I had to suppress the desire to jump over the little brick wall and try to catch one for a pet....
And here we are today on this lovely warm beautiful mothers day :) Hopefully today doesn't involve almost getting blasted by a bus and is an enjoyable day......
Monday, March 28, 2011
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 :)
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 :)
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