Life Updates!

Wow. So it's literally been years since I last wrote. So much has happened. We moved twice, but still in Houston. Dirk is now working and I quit my job to be a stay at home mom! Yep, we had a baby in December 2012 and we are so in LOVE with our little Amelie. It has been a really fun experience. At times difficult, but for the most part we are loving everything about our new life with a baby!!

Oh Technology... we've become so dependant on it!

I LOVE my parents!! They are HILARIOUS! Yesterday was just epic... haha. Here it goes:

There was a huge thunderstorm in McAllen yesterday, so according to my dad "pego un relampago y frego la computadora!" He said there was a black screen that said stuff on it. He wanted Dirk to fix it, over the phone by having my dad read out what it said.

Obviously THAT did not work.

Dirk said "Why don't you take a picture of the screen and send me the picture?" 

... silence on the other side of the phone...

Papa: "I don't know how to do that." 

So Dirk gives me the phone and it starts! I tell him to use the laptop to upload the picture. It took ONE hour to tell him how to upload the pic from the camera to the computer. ONE HOUR! Him and my mom were on speaker phone it was just TOO funny. I could hear them bickering in the background:

"No Guillermooo, ya se apago la camara!"


"Noo mira el foquito verde!"

So after an hour, literally, they got the "right" picture saved onto their desktop! All of this happening while Dirk is on the floor CRACKING up...little fool! haha. So now... explain how to actually E-MAIL the photo. I asked to speak to my mom because if i tell my dad to do something he doesn't listen and he does what he wishes haha. So i take her take her step by step and she says "Ya!!! La mande!"

So there I go check my e-mail... and I wish I could post the picture I got here... lol. I dont have the picture with me but it was a picture of my dad! He was playing with his camera taking pictures of himself with different hairstyles LOL!! I was like WTF?! You send me a picture of my DAD!

Then my dad gets on the line and tells me:

Papa: "Mari, it is URGENT to get the computer fixed! I need to send a letter to a client like now!"

Mama: "Guillermo...why don't you write the letter on the laptop?"

...silence...

Papa: "A pues si verdad... JAJAJAJA"

We were ALL cracking up!! But finally... Dirk was able to remotely fix their computer! Oh... did I also mention that I ordered them a NEW computer about a month ago that they have had there, while using the old one because Memo didn't "personalize" it for them yet? Yes, they have a brand new, working computer and they are still using the flinstone one!

It was a bit frustrating but HILARIOUS and so fun, made me love them even more! haha.

Tschüss!

Life in a Nutshell

I have been the busiest and happiest I have EVER been in my life. (although it comes close to when I lived in Spain!) I finally got hired permanently at Rice University! I am soo excited about this. It is a great job and I really enjoy the people i work with. I am also taking photography classes on Saturdays and belly dance classes on Monday!! I have been wanting to take belly dance classes for a really long time now, but I never got the "courage" to I guess. When it comes to exercise I'm not a fan haha. But this is FUN exercise and plus I love the little bells on the shall =). When I am not at work or in class I spend as much time I can with the wonderfuL Mr. <3. Short but complete post!

Here are a couple of my pictures for my class so far:


This is my self-portrait: "Into the Soul"




Our little Räuchermännchen :) "Christmas in March"




The beautiful spring blossoms!!

Tschüss!

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

Apparently Dirk looks Hispanic and Tom Cruise really does have a baby face! haha

It wouldn't recognize my adult face so i put my baby face haha! I seriously should be putting my time off to better use lol =)

Tschüss!

Christmas and Gifts Oh Nine...

This Christmas was kinda wierd because it was so different. I wouldn't reallly say it sucked, but it was kind of close to it haha. We had no tree, no gifts, no Christmas Eve dinner, no parties and I have been sick for a week... gosh that really does sound like a crappy Christmas, but it was actually not bad. I was happy because my whole (immediate) family was together. We are all healthy and with no major issues going on in our lives. For that, I am grateful. I was a little sad about having no tree because i LOVE Christmas trees! I did not care about gifts, because we have never really been big "gift people" I'm OK with that.

Gifts:

I like gifts BUT, I don't care much for gifts that are given because you HAVE to give a gift. I think that's kind of dumb. What I like about giving and receiving gifts is the fact that you really thought of a certain person and got something that you think/know will make them happy. I don't like gifts that are given after going to a store and just looking for something, anything under 20 bucks to just hurry up and get it over with. In that point, don't give a gift you know? That's just my point of view though, I know people that get offended if they don't get a gift even though they don't want anything or even care what the gift is. And yes, it is the THOUGHT that counts, but when you are not putting much thought into it... it really does nOt count. IMO.

OK so on with my x-mas story. I really shouldn't complain about any of the "negative" things that happened because there is always something positive to replace each one.

* I was sick... but it wasn't swine flu and I was at home!

* No gifts... but less junk for me to find a place for. (I actually did get one gift and it's great!)

* No Christmas Eve dinner because brother had to work... but brother has a job and we had dinn er the next day all together.

* No real tree... but a fake crappy one that made us all laugh.

Funniest thing ever!

I think the thing that makes me most sad is the lack of photos for this holiday. I don't know why, I just did not take photos this time.

Things could always be better but I am trying to live a happier life by being optimistic. Overall, I could not have asked for a better holiday with my family this year!

Tschüss!

Life's Timelines

I know I have been MIA for a while. But I'm back! I think. Life has been so weird since we got back from Germany. It's like I just lost control of it. Life is just happening around me and I'm just floating along. It is all because of the timelines!

You see, ever since I could remember I have had a sort of timeline or "outline" of what my life will look like in the next couple of years, it has always been in the first page of my journal. That is until now. Life was much more predictable when i was younger you know? You are in ninth grade so obviously next year you will be in tenth grade. No big surprise there. No need to sit and think what you need to do to accomplish that really. Just show up to school and pass.

Now after high school I knew I was going to go to college, honestly I didn't even know there was the option of NOT going. So it wasn't really because I loved something soo much that I wanted to make a career out of it. And it is not a bad thing I mean I got a bachelor's degree out of it, but now what? I remember, while still in college, sitting in my bed that was like 10 feet high in the tiny dorm room one night thinking "what comes next?" So I got my journal and I made two lists (I'm all about making lists!) the first list was of all the things I could think of that I wanted to do before I die and with that I made my second list, which was my new timeline since I had already completed the last one. Having a blueprint of what my life will look like for the next couple of years made me feel satisfied and content allowing me to live life. In that timeline were things like study abroad, get married, graduate from college, get a "real" job... etc. I am now in a point of my life where I have completed many of those things of that list/timeline(which I'm extremely grateful for).

So it is time to make a new one. But for some reason I am having a very hard time making this one. I still have quite a few things on that bucket list I made that night in my dorm room, but it is just not time for them. There are also new items on that list, but there is no money for those haha. So0 everything points to me getting a job and making money!! And that is good with me, but now comes the questions. What kind of job? And I could easily tell you what job I want, but it does not mean I have the qualifications to do it and even if i did that does not mean that job is available for me right now. I come to the conclusion that I must just get a job, any job while MY job presents itself. I have done that and it was unsuccessful. Now I will ponder what to do next and move forward. I am excited for whatever is next in life, but it is the waiting time that is just hard.

I guess I have always been living in the future and now it is time to live the present, but I just don't know how.

Tschüss!

Settling into Houston...

Hi everyone!!

So it's been forever since I have written, we have been soo busy lately! Since getting back from Europe on Aug. 1, we have moved to Houston and have been tyring to adjust to the change. It has been allright, and it is better than I thought it would be so that's great. I have been having a really hard time finding a job, so that has been frustrating and Dirk has been pretty stressed at school so it's been a hard month for us although it may not seem like it. We really miss Europe, and our families and friends, but we have also made many new friends. =). We will soon adjust to our new environment and new routines and all will be good. I will keep updating this thing more often now haha. Take care everyone!

I have one oic to share today!


Here we are building our new dinner table!


Tschüss!

Marisol