A New Family Member

This past weekend was really great. My cousin arrived from Perú with his family, a total of 10 people. They were on their way to Orlando (Disney) but spent the whole Saturday with me at my apartment. I was so happy to have them over!

My mother sent some peruvian "ricos" to me. Two complete luggages. Here is a part of what I got:

Lots of cookies and chocolates, six different flavours of exotic fruit preserves, artichokes, 3 bottles of liquor, bread, etc. She also sent two boxes with old ribbons and buttons, for the journals that I am making.

My cousin is more than 10 years older than me, but is my favourite cousin. We went to the same university - at different times, of course. His wife, father in law and brothers in law also went to my university. They are all like family to me. They have a 12 year old daughter and a cute little 1 year old boy. Meet Mikel:

Mikel is learning to walk, but managed to spend the whole day chasing Coco.

(Unable to take a better picture).

My cousin is considering getting a Pug for Mikel when they get back to Perú. Coco behaved well and has pacience with small kids. They all loved him! The funny thing is that after spending 8 hours with Coco and me at home, they asked if he really can't see. They still couldn't believe it because he acts just like a normal dog.

On Sunday I planned to take Coco to the pool again but I woke up very late and very tired. Coco was tired too, so I didn't feel too bad staying home. In the afternoon I went to my Food & Fun meetup group get together. We had taken a Thai cooking class a while ago and met this time to cook it ourselves. Now you can understand why my diets fail all the time. Everything was yummy!

It was a great weekend, with great weather. When I opened my door today, I almost froze. It was very cold! I was happy to be able to wear my winter shoes, I just love them!

Today was a great day, too, because of the arrival of a new member of the family: Meet Pocho, my new pug doll. Thank you so much Melissa!

To finalize, I will leave you all with an old picture of Coco. This is from my last year's birthday, in Key Largo. Coco is shaking, can you see the sand falling off his body?

Oh! By the way, thank you all so much for the birthday greetings!

Spanish Lessons

*Coco se sacude, camina y se sienta*

(Coco shakes, walks and sits down)

"Quién es mi Coco?"

(Who is my Coco?) => silly question and tone of voice but that's how I talk to him ;D

"Vamos, vamos, corre. A donde vamos?"

(Let's go, let's go, run. Where are we going?) => Another silly question!

Things hanging on my wall

I prepared this post like 2 weeks ago but since the pictures are so bad I thought of getting new pictures before posting it, but didn't. Anyway, I may be moving out again in January. I will take new pictures in the new house.

So here it goes:


I liked Roxy's post about the things her mom may put in the new sewing room. I took pictures of what I now have hanging on the walls of my apartment.

In the living room: (I think I need a level... they are all croocked!)

In my dining room:

The next two are hand carved in wood. This pictures are so blurry!

In the hallway (if I can call that something that is 5 ft long):



In my bedroom:

This are not in a wall because they are falling apart. I need to fix that.

What else? What I have in the kitchen, was posted a while ago.

I also read this meme from Nevis blog, and wanted to do it but... again, I forgot!

Outside my Window… It's so dark! And it is only 5:40 P.M.

I am thinking… about a problem that needs solution. It has been in my head for a while, I just hope to make the best desicion posible.

I am thankful for… my mother. She is a great friend!

From the kitchen… nothing! I haven't cooked in a while. All I buy lately is carrots and green beans for Coco. I am surviving on air!

I am creating… a new journal and a scrapbook of my latest trip to Perú.

I am going… I was supposed to go to a friend's house in South Beach after work but I couldn't take Coco out during lunch today, so I have to run home and -I guess- cancel my plans.

I am reading... not much lately. I have so many things on my head...

I am hearing… the air conditioning. It is so loud!

Around the house… everything is clean and neat because the cleaning lady was there today. I love her!

One of my favorite things… travel. If I just had more than 2 weeks of vacation per year...

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week… go out with my cousins that are visiting from Perú for the weekend, go to the waterpark with Coco, Food and Fun meetup (we will cook Thai food!), oh I am going to be sooooo busy!

Wordless Wednesday

Birthday Girl!

Yes, today it's my birthday! I am 34 now. Biologically. Mentally, who knows? Sometimes I feel like I still live in a bubble...

Anyway, I won't be doing anything special today. I had such a great time Sunday at the pool that I feel that it was my birthday celebration. I am a simple girl!


After the pool, hubby and I went shopping to the mall. He wanted to get some nice clothes for me but nothing fit. Yes, I gained weight... it has always been a problem for me. I loose and gain weight constantly. I am short and have always problems trying to find the right size. So I gave up and ended up buying a hat!

Before leaving the mall, hubby insisted in getting something else, so I got a jean. It is like 2 feet longer than it should be! I will get it fixed during the weekend.

Coco was specially sweet today. He gave me lots of hugs and kisses... He makes me really happy!

Winter Adventure Sports

Hi friends!

I want to tell you about my adventures during the weekend. On Saturday we stayed home all day and mom was able to finish her first journal. I helped a lot, trying to get in the middle between her arm and her body so she could sew more comfortable. She noticed that I am cuddling with her now, something I didn't use to do before. She loves that!

This is her journal:

On Sunday we went to Castaway Island Waterpark! I was told that this is a children's waterpark that opens for doggies only for a weekend, before closing for winter. But sincerely, I don't understand how a child can have fun here with all this predators around.

"Help! This fish wants to eat me!"

There was even a crocodile!

He tried to attack me, but I am a fierce puggy!

"Ewwww! Wash your teeth, please!"

After the crocodile event, I relaxed in the water for a while.

But not for long... I had to run help my mother! She was being attacked by a frenchie! I am sure she didn't like the hugs and kisses at all!

I had a talk with him, just a warning.

He then run away. I think I scared him!

When we got home, I thought we had left all the danger behind. I was mistaken, there was a hawk in front of our apartment door! He had captured a little bird... we scared the hawk away but could not save the bird. I was sad because if I had been home, this would not have happened!

I am such a brave pug!

Fantastic Friday!

I liked Eduardo's post for today. I wish I had something fantastic for today's post but I don't! Maybe this will work: this is a fantastic friday because hubby went to the doctor and now he is feeling a little bit better.

I was very mad with him yesterday because the day before he decided to cut the ficus hedge of his mother's house. He filled up his pick up truck 5 times with the foliage and took all that to the garbage dumpster, when he was supposed to be resting trying to avoid dust and allergens. At night he was feeling awful, with pain and a little fever, and confessed he had not taken the antibiotics prescribed after the surgery. He started the antibiotics yesterday and last night took the first pain killer pill... it is easier to take care of a sick dog than a sick husband!

He was prescribed more medicine and the doctor was mad because hubby had cleaned his nose by himself when the doctor was suppossed to do that today. After all this, hubby is feeling better now. That has to be FANTASTIC!

We received a couple of awards last week (hooray!):

The butterfly award was given to us by our friends Clover and Roxy and Lucky. Thank you guys! You really make us feel special!

Coco received this awesome award from our friends Winston & Clemmie, for participating in the Project Dogway contest.

We had lots of fun preparing the entries and are looking forward to participate in more contests in the future!

Now we leave you with some spanish lessons, so you can practice during the weekend ;P

- Coco durmiendo -

(Coco sleeping)

- Coco olfateando -

(Coco sniffing)

- Coco comiendo un rico -

(Coco eating a treat*)

* Note: Treat in spanish is "golosina", but Coco and I like the word "rico" better!

"Howie, quieres un rico?"

Wordless Wednesday

Back Home!

I want to thank all of our blogging friends for the nice words and wishes regarding my worries from my last post. Hubby is home already and feeling much better now. At first, he didn't want to get near Coco in fears of getting an allergic reaction but, of course, Coco won his heart and they are completely bonded again. I still don't understand how this little puggy can understand situations so well; at first he didn't try to get close to his daddy and now he doesn't jump to the bed as he used to do before... at least doesn't do it that when daddy is home (I am a completely different story). And he doesn't lick things as he used to, and that is good because the doctor told hubby that it could be the saliva, not the hair.

We are now trying to eat healthier. Hubby is taking prednisone for the inflamation, as Coco is for the addison's disease. So they are now competing for the hungriest and quickest eater at home. This is a sample of what we eat:

I am trying to add more vegetables to the diet, to make it balanced. Hubby can't go back to work and is bored at home so he is cooking now, most of the time. It is funny because it looks as if I was the sick one :P.

Hubby was also using lots of kleenex. Coco is always sniffing hubbys bedside table for fun stuff, like paper. Apparently, he knew that there was an unlimited source of paper (a/k/a box of kleenex) because this time, he jumped and walked all over the table looking after his prize. I had time to put it away before he got his paws on it.

" Can you give me the box of paper and get me down, please?"

"Are you deaf?"

On Saturday, we participated on the Memory Walk of Miami. My boss's sister in law has Alzeihmers and I registered on her team. We were the biggest team in Miami, almost 400 people and collected about $11000. It was a very touching event!

"Are we ready?"

Coco walked with me. There were about 7 dogs walking, but not in my team but in the whole event. Coco was the only pug, and he did well but I asked for a ride midway because it was getting a little hot. I tried to carry him in my arms but he doesn't like it. He prefers to walk. Silly pug!

"Don't forget the water!"

This is Maximus, my boss's yorkie, with our team's tag:

"Three miles? that's nothing for me, I am an athletic pug."

"THAT doesn't exist. Oh wait, Charlie is athletic!"

On Sunday I started making my first journal, from my class with Sue. I thought I was going to get some help.

But I guess he was only being curious.

"Nah!"


I am trying to get my first journal finished to post the pictures. I am sorry I am not reading and commenting on our buddies blogs, but my phone is kind of broken. I had been changing my layout trying to get one that shows my blog's list first, so I can read it without problems. Still working on that! Or should I get a new phone? Or maybe internet at home? It is about time!