We have a hill across the street from where we live. Ours is what you would call a "single-loaded" street - which is real estate code for "no houses across the street." So, no houses, but a big ole hill. There's actually a water tower up at the top of the hill. And the road to get up there is ...
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It’s Election Day . . .
Kikita here. Today I woke up with a heavy heart. I felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders . . . or at least it was on my mind. My thoughts were somewhere along these lines:I have to vote today. ALONE.The people in Cuba can't vote.Whatever happens today will affect them.Being a Cuban-American version 2.0, I don't think I can ...
Decisions, decisions.
As I told you before, we've already voted. And we don't take that lightly.We read and study and debate and question. And not having a tv means that we will pretty much be glued to the internet tomorrow for election coverage, but that's not important right now. The ballot in California is looong too. Lots of decisions to ...
Falling back
We had no big plans for the weekend after our Halloween party on Friday. Like I said yesterday, we were feeling pretty zombie-like and didn't have energy for much. Honestly, I like weekends where we are all just puttering around the house, reading or watching movies, or working on projects without the "tyranny of the ...
Dia de los muertos
Not really sure what's up with these singing skeletons, but they are up at Disneyland as part of the Day of the Dead display outside of the Rancho del Zocalo Mexican Restaurant at Disneyland. Here in So Cal, because we have such a sizable Mexican population the Dia de los Muertos celebrations are very common. Having grown up going to ...
How having my own staff might have come in handy tonight.
Every single one of our trick-or-treating neighbors made a comment about the pumpkins jack-o-lanterns. We were the show-stopper house. Even more so than the guys down the street that had the inflatable Frankenstein and fake cobwebs. People were even posing their costumed kids on our brick path for photos and we were loving every ...
Where you won’t find me on Halloween…
You won't find me in a costume on Halloween. I love everything about this day. (Well, no, that's technically not true. Not everything. I'm not at all into the uber-creepfest or trampy-dressing part of Halloween. I am all about achieving a High Cuteness Quotient, but that's not important right now.) And while I enjoy making ...
So accidentally cool . . .
Yes, of course it's me, Kikita. Who else would be accidental in their coolness? =D Now that I've turned 25, I swear something is different about me. I spent 25 years saying, "This is not my real life," because my life really is a novela and I always find myself in "movie-like" situations (Meaning: "If I saw this ...
“blog hijackery” (noun)
It's not fair. Every week, I have to pound out grammatically correct essays with perfect sentence structure. I have to analyze the nuances of punctuation and the proper; way to use; a semi-colon. (Oh yeah. This is Lucy. The other daughter. I'll come up with my own Cuban-sounding nickname another day.) But my MOM gets to write about ...
People are talking…
You know I sent out a few of my cookbooks earlier this month - to the MBFCF 2-Year Blogiversary Winners and of course, to my darling Desi Arnaz, Jr. (sigh). This is what the recipients had to say about My Big, Fat, Cuban Family Cookbook:Hi Marta, The cookbook arrived this morning! I am so excited! It is gorgeous. I love all the photos ...
