Weekend Update

It's time for a weekend update!

Friday night is our "stay home and relax" night since we have to get up at 5 a.m. to go running on Saturdays. Saturday we went for a run and we only had to run 3 miles. A few months ago running 3 miles was a huge deal, now I am relieved when I see the schedule and see we only have to run 3 miles.

After the run we ran errands and went to Costco to prepare for Ben's birthday party. While we were there we purchased The Perfect Pushup. I am sure you have all seen the infomercials on t.v. and I have been wanting one for a while and since they are a lot cheaper at Costco we decided to get one. In a few months I will be ripped. haha

We were suppose to go to a party for a friends boyfriend birthday but the party was about an hour away from where we live so we decided to skip it and have some people over for dinner. We invited two friends over and they brought 3 bottles of champagne, dessert, and a plant. Isn't that nice? Who brings plants anymore? After dinner we ended up playing monopoly and drinking 4 bottles of champagne and 2 bottles of wine. It was a lot of alcohol but it was 4 of us so it's really not much more than we would have drank had we gone out to the bars.

On Sunday B drove to Austin for work so we went and grabbed breakfast and I dropped him off at the car rental place. I then went to the mall looking for a gym bag, for some reason my old gym bag smells really bad. I washed it several times and it still smells so I decided to get a new one. Unfortunately I didn't find one but I did do some other impulse buys while I was there.

Later that day I went to my nieces pool party where I got to spend time with the family and see family I haven't seen in years.

Over all it was a good weekend.

Self Portrait

Taken at my sisters house. They have a pond in their yard that has turned red and green. It's some sort of algea that they are trying to control but the algea is winning.

Algea 1 - G Family 0

Mom

I know I need to post about tubing but I have another brief post. And besides, we haven’t uploaded the pictures yet so it will have to wait another few days.

So my mom has been staying with B and I this week. I picked her up on Monday and I took Tuesday off to spend with her. We really didn’t do much other than shopping and lots of cooking. It was nice just hanging out with my mom. Every time she comes into town she always makes me my favorite food. Chile con Carne and hand made flour tortillas. It’s the best comfort food and she makes me enough to last me a few weeks. Thank god for freezers.

Mom has been sleeping in our room and B and I have been sleeping in a blow up mattress in the living room. It hasn’t been comfortable but it’s been nice.

But that’s not really what I wanted to post about. Yes it’s been nice having my mom around and I enjoy spending time with her but I wanted to post about how comfortable she has gotten with the whole gay thing. She has been very supportive and has made a real effort to make B feel comfortable. The day we picked her up she gave him a little gift that she gave all of the son-in-laws and on Monday she gave him a little something also. It’s the little things, you know? I don’t need her to be a PFLAG mom or anything like that. I just want her to love me. And she does…and she always has. I never doubted it but it’s nice to see that she (along with the rest of my family) accepts me for who I am and who I choose to share my life with.

Anyway, I don’t really have the words to express how I feel but I wanted to share something. I think I am very lucky to have the family that I have.

Home is where the Mom is!

My mom is in town for a month long visit. She is staying with all of us for at least a few days so it will be nice to spend time with her.

B and I picked her up from the airport on Saturday and we spent the rest of the day visiting family and eating...and eating...and eating. It was fun.

Yesterday, I decided to go visit mom after work so I took off for the hour long drive to my brothers house where they were cooking chile con carne and hand made flour tortillas. Chile con carne is like the American chili stew but 1,000 times better. It has a much better flavor and you can eat it with hand made tortillas...nothing is better than that.

When i got there my mom was the only one there so I helped her make tortillas until everyone else got there and I was kicked out of the kitchen and laughed at my tortillas because they were not round. They were basically every shape but round. OH well, they tasted good.

After all the eating I made the trip back home where I immediately went to sleep. I woke up this morning and I am still stuffed.

What reminds you of home?

Birthday!

My birthday is coming up on October 7. I don't think my boyfriend remembers and I don't want to say anything about it.

 

If he does remember, i don't think he is planning anything. Which he better after what I did for his birthday! He is really busy with work this coming week but if nothing is planned by the next two weeks I will just have to take matters into my own hands and plan something myself. Maybe a small party? Maybe a small dinner? Maybe a little vacation?

 

I like the last option but we will see.

 

What do you like to do for your birthday?

 

Has anyone ever forgotten your birthday?

 

My family once forgot my sisters birthday. This happened about 3 years ago. She is our oldest sister and she has always remembered our birthdays, even when we didn't live in the same state she would always send us a birthday card and call us. We felt so bad about forgetting and she felt even worse that we all forgot. We made up for it the following week and had a little party for her. The following year we all pitched in and threw her a big party. She deserved it!

 

 

Los Angeles

My trip to Los Angeles was a lot of fun and I cam back with a nice tan.

 

It was extremely hot while I was there. One day, the temperature was 111 degrees farenheit. It was horrible. My parents live in the valley so we would leave the valley during the day and go to the beach and hang out. The temperature was about 85 degrees and the water was freezing cold, it was probably in the 60's.

 

I was there for my neices Quinceñera, which is like a sweet sixteen, and the party was a lot of fun.

 

I met up with a blogger while I was there. Robert, previously of Mrhappysad.com. He doesn't blog anymore but he should. Robert took me shopping and out to dinner. Thanks Robert!

 

 

Weekend

I had a fantastic weekend.

I took a little road trip to see my little brother at his college. It was homecoming weekend and he was nominated to be homecoming king. Unfortunately he didn't win but we had a great time at the tail gate party, the football game, and then we went to the gay bars.

One of the guys I am dating went with me and it was a great opportunity for us to get to know each other more. It was a 6 hour round trip so we had a lot of time to talk and get to know each other. He is a great guy and we talked a lot about "us" and our dating situation.

I am glad he went with me. He helped me out by telling me when to cheer and when to sit down at the football game. I think I got the hang of it though and I will probably be watching more football.

After the game we parted ways with my brother and his friends and we were going to drive back home but decided to go to the gay bars in the small college town. Since we didn't really prepare for that we didn't know how to get there. So I called my brother and surprisingly he knew where they were. Even after he gave us directions we couldn't find the gay bar so we went and picked up my brother and he took us. He didn't stay but he at least showed us where the place was.

We decided to make the two hour drive back home so we left the bars at 1 and got home at three. We didn't get out of bed until 1:30 today, went and grabbed lunch, and then came back home and took naps off and on until 7 p.m.

Oh, and guess what? On the drive back we saw a shooting star. It was AMAZING and beautiful!