A total Betty Crocker..

What a better way to kill time than to cook. I was going to run to the store and get stuff for the week but its so dang hot outside and I got lazy so that will have to be tomorrow's adventure. Anyways, I decided to make panqueques de manjar (caramel pancakes) and they turned out delicious. Cooking deserts makes me think about home and how my nona (my grandmother) used to teach me how to make stuff and we would spent the afternoons cooking, some of the best memories of my life were spent in the kitchen.

panqueques con majar.

Jeremy is home early today and was happy to see that I had made something yummy, and now I am making chicken and rise.. yeah I know I am being little house wife today, but thats what having nothing to do will do. Now time to go, gotta go check on dinner.

A good start

A new week begins and it started pretty good. I got a call this morning from Best-Buy saying that they were going to replace my camera with a new one and that got me out of the house really fast. So I got a new camera, actually I upgraded to a better Sony W-170 Cyber Shot =), and like Jeremy says "Mari is happy".

This past weekend was awesome to. On Friday Jeremy found out that he had the the weekend off and we wasted no time and making plans to go see the new Batman movie and it was AWESOME!! its the best Batman movie by far, so if you haven't seen it stop reading this blog and go, go NOW.


On Saturday we invited Gabe and Megan (Jeremy's cousins) to come over and eat, and then Josh (bother-in-law) and Ronnie (friend) came over too. We spent all day playing pool, horse shoes and eating good food. After people headed back to their prospective homes, it was time for me and Jeremy to go out. We got dressed and ready to go dancing. We headed to our favorite club, Club Rio and stayed until they closed. I enjoyed our Saturday and than spent all Sunday just relaxing and enjoying our time off.


Today, after getting my new camera, I headed towards school and took care of a lot of stuff for the fall semester, even got a scholarship reinstated!! yay! So it was a good day, tomorrow I have cleaning and planting new plants.. and of curse taking pictures..
oh since I can't take a picture of my camera with my camera, here is a picture from the web.

And there goes my hopes.... =(

Business day is over, and I didn't get a call back from Univision, so I guess it was not chosen for the internship and that's O.K it was not meant to be. I know what I am capable of doing and I know I will find something else, besides I have a really busy fall semester.

Nothing else is really going on this week, I am still trying to get cough up with everything around the house and I am getting closer. Jeremy still at work so is just me and the laundry today.

So, with not much to say I will go watch some "First 48" episodes while I clean.... Oh and I think rain is coming.. =)

One dream came true!!!

our new game room!

This weekend was fantastic!! I have been looking forward in spending time with Jeremy all week and it was great that was got home relatively early on Saturday. I spent mostly all day with my mom, we went shopping and just really spent time together that was really nice.

On Sat. night Jeremy and I headed to Josh's house and even Gabe (Jeremy's cousin) showed up, and we all headed to a party. The party was so much fun, it seemed that no one had ever meet anyone from Chile before so they were all fascinated about me being from so far away, it was kind of cool =) It was during this party that we heard that one of Josh's friend was selling his pool able and needless to say we were all ears and we got this awesome deal on this 8 ft' table with cues and sticks. Getting our own pool table and turning our garage into a game room has been a dream of ours since we got the house and this weekend that dream came true.
my man and his new toy
he beat me =(

We picked up the table this morning and spent all day cleaning and setting up our new game room. Jeremy finally got a place to put his dart board up, and just have a place to relax and have fun together. I am really happy to because I will get a chance to get good at pool, so watch out!! =)
first break on new table

Tomorrow is going to be a big day for me, I have my interview with Univision for an internship, so please wish me luck. After the interview I have to go to OLLU to get some stuff taken care of, then back home to get this endless pile of laundry.

Well is almost 1 a.m. and I need to get to bed, I am exhausted from this awesome weekend. I should be updating tomorrow about the interview.

New day, new blog

So I was thinking on the easiest way to continue writing a blog, and the choices were to start a new one (a pain in the butt may I say) or just stay with this one and just change the address, so I decided to just change the web address and keep on writing.

Being back at home it’s been nice but boring as hell!! There is nothing to do here. I can't really go walk unless you like to walk around in a circle like a hamster, there are no coffee shops to go relax and people watch and worst of all I have no one to really do things with since all my friends either work, are out of San Antonio, or have kids. I am really regretting coming back home so soon, if I would of planned it better I could of had stayed in Queretaro for the rest of the summer and continue to study at the TEC, but oh well I just need to make the best of the rest of my summer here.

One exciting new is that on Monday I have an interview with Univision for an internship. I am super excited about that, I mean is UNIVISION!!! So please cross all your fingers for me. I am a bit worry about the course load I have this fall since I am taking 15 hrs including Tennis, plus the Lake Front and a possible internship, talk about being busy.

Ok, changing the subject this past weekend we went to South Padre and it was the first time I visited the island. I can see why people would go there for spring break or vacations it is beautiful! The beaches are clean and the water is clear nothing like Corpus. We got this great deal at a condo we found on the internet. When we saw the pictures of the condo we though "it's OK" it was still better than a cheaply hotel, but one we got there we were pleasantly surprise to see that the condo was newly remodel, it had bamboo flooring, a flat screen TV, and a new king since bed, also we were really close to the beach and our balcony faced Schlitterbahn.

our condo.

We spent our days hanging out with Allie, Josh, Aaron, Ronny and Zack, we even got a change to go fishing with Ronny’s dad on his boat, and I think that was the highlight of the trip especially since I got to drive it. I really wanted to stay there longer, 3 days is not enough but Jeremy had to go back to the "sweat shop" on Monday. =(

driving the boat

I think tomorrow I am going to spend the day with my mom, since she is alone too because John, my stepdad, is in Korea for a year teaching English. I believe we are going to work on our scrapbooks and make dinner, should be fun!

I guess that is all for now, I maybe going for a “hamster” walk later just to something, especially since I managed to loses 12 pounds in Mexico and I am not about to gain it back!

Oh, I almost forgot, sorry for the lack of new photos, my camera is at the "camera hospital" I should be getting it back in a week or so.. =(

55 minutes

So here we are, only 55 minutes left in Mexico. I am sitting here at the Mexico City Airport waiting to find out what my gate will be.



I haven't been writting this past week because I really didn't have time or desired to really get on the computer but it was very evenfull week. We meet this really nice guys, well really the one we meet was Josue and his friends, but he was just great, he really looked out for us and took Misty, Steph and I out to see the city the only bad things is that we meet him so late into our trip. Still we made the best our of the little time we had. so Thanks Josue for being such a great host of your beautiful city.

i am really looking forward in seeing Jeremy and my doggies. I have to say that I have really enjoyed writting a blog, I maybe writting one on a regular basis about my daily life.

Thanks to all of those who read my blog and posted comments it motivatived to keep sharing.
now lets go catch that plane.

A day to stay inside

Today was the first time I missed class since I been here because I had this really bad headache. I felt really bad because we were going to analyse our last story but I really felt sick.

I took the opportunity to rest, work on my final project. I was planning to go out dancing tonight with Steph and Misty but around 6 p.m. it started to rain and has not stopped yet, which is really enhancing my laziness and desired to stay home.

Tomorrow is our last day of class and I really can't believe how fast the six weeks went by and there were still a lot of things I would of like to see or do by now but, oh well another excuse to come back to Queretaro.

Now some cool news John, my step dad, left for Korea this morning to go teach English. I am so happy for him I know he's always wanted to teach and this is an opportunity of a lifetime. I think my mom is actually going to Korea this Christmas. but I think Jeremy and I are going to Chile.

I guess that is all for now, I am going to watch some TV, let home there is something good on and that those loud commercials don't loop 8 times like last night! which is not to bad if you have a remote and can change it from the bed... =)

Rain, rain go away!

So here we are, exactly one week from being home, I am really looking forward in seeing Jeremy, my mom, and family (including my doggies) but I can't say that I won't miss Queretaro.

One thing I won’t miss is this non-stopping rain we have right now and it kind of ruins our shopping plans. Today Jess, Sara, Erin and I had planned to go downtown and do some shopping but as soon as we walked out the door it started to sprinkle and by the time we got across the street to take the bus it was starting to come down hard, luckily the bus didn't take too long to arrive. We arrive at el Templo de la Cruz which is very close to downtown but it was raining so hard that we wanted to wait for it stop a little. Lucky we found refuge on this little coffee shop where we enjoyed a hot cup java and watched as the rain didn't let up

Hiding in the coffee shop.

After a while the rain stopped long enough for us to make it haft way down the street when it started to pour again. The usually crowed streets were empty with just a few shops open; it was really disappointing since we were all in the mood for spending money. Since there was nothing to do we gave up, we tried to call for a safe cab but the lines were busy and not wanting to wait forever we braved the rain for 3 blocks to our bus stop. There we were like four little ducks, soaking wet but having fun splashing water on each other while we waited for bus number 80.

walking in the rain

Empty streets

Sitting duck waiting for the bus

When we arrived at the Tec we had to cross the flooded street that got my shoes soaked. The funny part was when we got to the Residencias, Lulu (the boss) said "No pueden entrar mojadas" (you can go in wet) we all just stood there thinking if she was for real but it didn't take long for her to start smiling and for us to feel like dorks.

All in all it was a fun afternoon, I will never forget the day we were the only "gringas" trying to shop in a storm... ahh fun times!!

*Thank Sara for taking this great pictures!!