El Tiki-tiki - v. to harp on a subject over and over and then resort to guilt until your victim succumbs to your wishes. Mami: "You have to have a party for your Tia before she leaves." Me: "Umm. . . what with the holidays, it's been a little busy. I don't know if I can do it." Mami (issuing a big, heavy ...
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I've been keeping up pretty nicely with that whole taking one picture every day project. Actually, I love having my camera with me 24/7. In fact, I have it with me so much it's almost like a family member now. We're all seated at the dinner table, and one of the kids asks:"Where's your camera?" And it's weird when you blog (like I ...
Mi cama es su cama – NOT!
I got new bedding stuff for our room. It looks regal, yet jungly and our bed looks like the King it is with all the new stuff. (FYI - I got it online at Target) I don't know, but there's something about it being a new year that makes me want everything to be new. And it also makes me want to travel. New year = new ...
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes
I take photos every day. Every day.Okay, maybe not every single day. But most days. ;-) I took photos every single day of December, and it was pretty effortless for me because my camera was attached to me like an unusual black appendage growing out of my forehead. But this year, I'm determined to take a photo a day to document my year ...
The category is “Andy Garcia”
Have I mentioned how we are serious game players? Serious. We love any kind of game, really, but trivia games are our special favorites. Lucy got a fabulous Electronic Catch Phrase game for Christmas and we've already chewed through a pair of double-A's. Serious. We have a family reputation as serious game players, too. And a lot of the time ...
“Cui bono?”*
Remember my cool (and at this point) pristine advent calendar? Here's what it looked like at the end of December:How this will translate to my Christmas 2007 scrapbook . . . I took photos of the things we did each day, printed one photo and just pinned them up on the board. Or sometimes there were just ticket stubs, or an invitation ...
How birth order affects decision making
Amy comes bouncing in and announces that her cousin, (my nephew) Michael is having a big party to celebrate his thirtieth birthday in February and that she's thinking about going. There's just one small (geographic) problem . . . Michael lives in South Miami Beach, Florida. Amy: "I can leave on Friday, go to the party on Saturday and come home ...
A dinner to DIE for. . .
Meet my vampirish children:Dwayne Denartery and Anita Lotta Tai-Pei. ;-)(aka: Jonathan and Lucy as their murder mystery characters) Jonathan turned twelve a few days ago. And poor guy, he always gets the short end of the celebration stick around here, since his birthday is five days after Christmas. It's not that we don't ...
Midnight Madness
DISCLAIMER: In order for this post to make any sense, you might want to review my explanation of what Cubans do at midnight on New Year's Eve. We thought it was going to be a quiet New Year's Eve. Helen (my niece) invited us over to play games and eat junk and wait for midnight. The kids, Daisy (7) and Ben (2) probably were not going to ...
The Knives.
My mom makes these famously Cuban authoritarian pronouncements.When she says something, it is with an air of authority that will not tolerate any argument.Of course, the way she says it immediately makes me question its validity, but since I was raised in a superstitious Cuban home, there is a small residue of what-if-it's-really-true? somewhere in ...
