Week #35: MERRY CHRISTMAS! (12.23.13 - 12.29.13)

On Monday I literally spent my whole day in bed watching Avatar and I finally finished the whole series, it took me about a week to finish it. And well, that's actually what I did all day. I'm kinda sad because I haven't seen Rod as much as I'd like but my dad's here and I don't want it to be awkward.

On Tuesday I went to my grandpa's for Christmas Eve and we had turkey and arroz con wandu for dinner. It was funny because we saw two roaches in the fridge and Cristy as a phobia with roaches. One of them was dangling in her milk cartoon: hilarious. Also her christmas gift from our grandparents was money attached to a picture of a bug and she screamed not once, not twice but more than three times haha. I got a super gigantic TMNT from Patty! I'm so happy with my present, it's Donatello :) Also, Rod gave me a Nintendo 3DS game, Mario Kart. I wanted another ninja turtle, but it's okay, I liked his present. I got money from my grandparents and I hope all of them liked the presents I gave them. I gave my mom a blouse, my dad a thermos, my two aunts and my grandma christmas slippers, Cristy a sweater, Patty some leg gins, Jordan an Easy button from Staples, Luis a t-shirth, my uncle a set of juggling balls and I got my grandpa two pairs of Batman socks haha.

On Christmas day I spent the whole day at home, watching The Legend of Korra, I actually woke up at 2 pm so there was really not a lot of time to do much. I miss those christmas mornings when I woke up at sunrise and ran to the living room to find the tree full of presents and opening them all and playing all day long. Those were the happy days...

On Thursday I was suppose to go to Alex's but she bailed on me /: I had a date night with Rod at Friday's and it was like if I had fallen in love with him all over again. His weight loss is now visible and he was wearing one of the grown-up shirts I got him for his birthday. The date went smoothly and I was just charmed by him.

On Friday I picked up Patty and stopped by G de P to buy some props because I took the first part of Patty's 15th birthday photo shoot in El Parque Omar. My mom came with us as my assistant and we got some pretty awesome shots. After the photo shoot we went to our grandma's house for dinner and to see the photos. I learned something today: use flash to get rid of shadows in the face even if it's sunny. We had KFC for dinner and we ordered way too much, Apo tought Acun was staying for dinner but he had a meeting and she also thought Atai and her nanny would join but they had already eaten. So we were left with twelve cups of mashed potatoes for ourselves .-.

To see Patty's photo shoot: HERE!

Week #34: Finally in Panama! (12.16.13 - 12.22.13)

On Monday I had the Mickey Mouse Mac and Cheese for lunch, the Mac and Cheese I wanted so bad since 2006 or so. I bought it in Thanksgiving when I went to Magic Kingdom with my mom and Patty. They weren't the same as the one I used to have as a child but it was good nonetheless. After lunch I drove to my grandma's and took the wrong lane when going there because now we have all these new mini highways and tunnels. I ended driving an extra half an hour. I picked up Patty in Alfavinyl and Luis at his house and went to my grandma's. We filmed over a couple of scenes for the video we are going to present in my grandpa's secret 80th birthday party that is this Sunday. After filming all day I went to dinner with Alex and Jose to Conos. Which is a restaurant in San Francisco that serves these sushi kind of things but instead of a roll, in an algae cone. It wasn't that bad but the service was kind of below average. After eating we headed to my grandma's because Jose was going to install me Photoshop and Final Cut. Btw. Jose came to pick me up and Alex, isn't that sweet? After they left, Luis, Patty and I filmed some more and then I stayed the night at my grandma's because my mom didn't like the idea of me driving late at night.

On Tuesday I woke up around 11:30 and went to my grandpa's office, he gave me some of his gadgets for my camera since he doesn't use them anymore. I had steamed fish for lunch, I wasn't planning on staying for lunch but the moment I heard we were having fish I put my bags down. I tried to cut it the right way but it was just too hard so I had a little help from my grandma hehe. At 5 pm, Rod came over! And we watched Home Alone. We also just chilled a while after the movie and had a really good time :)

On Wednesday Rod came over around 5 pm and he helped me fixing my external hard drive, because it had only permission to read but not to write on it because the hard drive was set in a Windows format. We watched Avatar and I even let him watch his LOL live streams or whatever that was. At 7 pm my mom asked me if I wanted to go to dinner to El Tambor de Oro, due to Patty's graduation and of course I wanted to. Of course that meant that my time with Rod was over :( What I hate about family dinners is... well, is when Yoyi acts up... He gets mad about everything, he yells when we are just having a conversation and it just ruins the evening.

On Thursday Patty, Luis and I kept filming the secret video for Acun's birthday and he never noticed us, he knew we were there but he never wondered why we were there or why did we have Apo's clothing and we Luis was in dress pants. That's what's funny about Acun, he never notices. We finished filming and then Patty, Tia Marilu and I watched the X Factor together. For dinner we all went to Lai Chin so I could be close to my house and did not have to drive by myself late at night, Patty drove with me because I refused to be in the same car driving with Apo by my side. She would have made me nervous and I know she would've corrected me in every single turn I made. I missed eating Chinese food :)

On Friday I woke up around 11 am and watched the X Factor finale! I'm so happy that Alex and Sierra won, they will be so big one day just like One Direction. I spent the whole afternoon watching Avatar and later at night I'll be heading to Patty's to edit the video in Yoyi's computer, wish me luck because it is going to be a long night!