Happy Halloween!

Celeb Sighting

I saw another celeb tonight in the center! Awesometown.

yes!

It´s a cool 61º here in Sevilla.

This temp=elation!

Not too hot yet not too cold. I did turn the heat on last night though. The cold here in Sevilla is much different than I.N. It goes right to your bones and my feet are always like ice-cubes. Awesome-town. Antonio especially loves it when I rub them on his warm toasty feet in our bed. Or not.

Today at Starbucks I got a tall café latte with a little bit of vanilla. Oh, low and behold..no tall cups so I got a Venti for the size of a tall. Bliss.

I think you should all move to Sevilla. It´s better.

C.R.F.

My mom and Aunt recently took a trip out to CT. Look who they saw....

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It actually dropped down to the 60ºs today. YIPEE! It actually feels a little like fall.

I just rode my bike home and the crosswalk was red. I´m pretty sure traffic signs exist for a reason, but around here it seems like no one gives a rats a$$. It´s always the older people too......So, this guy who was about 70 starts to cross the st. and basically almost got hit by a bus. Everyone was yelling ¨Be careful¨ and then the old man shook his newspaper at the bus like ¨DAM& you bus!¨ What the heck? That´s what kills me.......he wasn´t following the signs and on top of that he gets mad. I LOVE IT!

In my classes this week I´m talking a little bit about Halloween and doing Halloween activities. I almost teared up because I miss it so! Four years with no halloween and no thanksgiving. Oh the sacrifices I make!

It´s official.

I just plucked my first grey hair.

If you want to send me pop-tarts, oatmeal, or york peppermint patties I might feel better about myself....

grey-town

People think Antonio´s hair is highlighted..which cracks me up. Like..he gets it ¨frosted¨ or something. More than once he´s had random people come up and touch his hair being all.. ¨Is this REAL?!¨ I think since knowing me his hair has gotten more grey. Go figure!!!!!! That´s really odd...considering I´m a complete princess.

For my liking its too freaking hot. It´s 80º today in Sevilla. Come on now. I NEED fall (tear). Oh well..someday it will cool down and then I will want the warmth!

Tomorrow A leaves for Ceuta, Africa for one week. I´m sad;O(

Other than that.....no new news on the homefront. Work work work and more work. We are enjoying the bikes though. Great exercise!

Celeb Sighting

I always told myself that if I ever saw a celebrity I would just play it cool and act ¨normal¨ and then a few years ago I saw Jamie Lee Curtis in a store in L.A. and I almost wet myself and I was looney. I mean, for the love of God Jamie Lee Curtis? Seriously? What if I saw Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt..someone would probably have to wheel me out on a stretcher.

So, just now I was getting my daily coffee at Starbucks and I looked over and there he was...Risto! You are going to have no idea who this is because it´s a Spanish celeb. Basically, he´s the equivalent to Simon on American Idol. He´s the A hole that makes all of the singers cry and ruin their make-up. So, I look over and he looked at me and I bet I had this RIDICULOUSLY STUPID look on my face like...¨I KNOW YOU! YOU´RE A FAMOUS A HOLE.¨

I tried to play it cool but I got butterflies and acted completely giddy and stooooopid. I didn´t actually say anything, but I really wanted to. What would I have said though? Ah...the dreaded ¨What if¨ moment....die.

When you see a celebrity it just messes with the mind. Like..what are you doing here? It´s like I don´t even think they are real people. And then I actually saw him eating. Taking a bite, chewing and swallowing a sandwich. Mezmorizing.

I think it´s like when you were little and you didn´t think your teacher was a real person. I always thought mine lived in a hidden room at school and only came out to give classes. Then when I saw one at the grocery store it shook my entire world. Like Mrs. Juroff...you buy food and eat it? Gasp!

Or maybe that´s just me being completely psycho? I thought so.

ramblings.

So, we finally got our bike cards today and have been buzzing around town. SO FUN! I feel like a kid again.

We also got a fishtank. We have about 12 fish so far and I´m sure we´re going to get more. It´s so pretty. It´s Sat night and a few minutes ago Antonio and I actually pulled up chairs, turned off the light and sat and stared at the fish tank for a good ten minutes. Then I just laughed hysterically. He´s all ¨What?¨ and I´m all, ¨It´s a Sat. night and we are sitting here staring at our fishtank. We are complete and utter losers.¨ But, that´s okay. It´s fun..and very relaxing.

Have you ever said something to someone and then walked away thinking, ¨What the heck?¨ The other day I was introducing myself to a new girl and I said, ¨My name is Sara. Sara Fisel. And then I spelled it out. F.I.S.E.L. Who does that? FREAK!!!!!!!

I don´t understand tails and I never have nor do I think I ever will. You know, when people have short hair but then they have this sick piece of nasty ass hair hanging down. A tail. CUT IT OFF! WHAT is the point of that? The other day I saw a girl with short hair and then one dread lock hanging down. I just wanted to go up to her and rip it off!

It´s so interesting to me how no one here knows how the game of baseball works. I´m pretty sure every American knows how it works..even though you may not like it, you know how to play. The thought of explaining it to him was just too tiring. Although, now that I think of it, I think it´s my American duty to teach each and every Spaniard how to play. I mean, it´s baseball. Then I will start singing , ¨Take me out to the ball game. ¨ And try to explain that patting other mens butts and grabbing your balls is ¨normal ¨ healthy American behavior.

An e mail I got from my friend. Amazing.

Last weekend, I saw something at the new Walmart in Osceola that sparked my interest. I was looking for a new bike seat, but found something different for Denise. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized taser. The effects of the taser were supposed to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety.... WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home. I loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button AND pressed it against a metal surface at the same time, I'd get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs.AWESOME!!! Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Denise what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn't be all that bad with only two triple-A batteries, RIGHT? There I sat in my recliner, my cat Oreo looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target. I must admit I thought about zapping Oreo (for a fraction of a second) and thought better of it. He is such a sweet cat to Marissa. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised. Am I wrong? So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my new reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and taser in another. The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water. Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries. All the while I'm looking at this little device, measuring about 5 inches long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference (loaded with two itsy, bitsy triple-A batteries) thinking to myself, 'no possible way! What happened next is almost beyond description, but I'll do my best...I'm sitting there alone, Oreo looking on with his head cocked to one side as to say, 'don't do it dipshit,' reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny little ole thing couldn't hurt all that bad. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it. I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and . . HOLY MOTHER OF GOD . . WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION . . . WHAT THE HELL!!! I'm pretty sure Jessie Ventura ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, man parts nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and a tingling in my legs.The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room. ?Note: If you ever feel compelled to 'mug' yourself with a taser, one note of caution: there is no such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing on the floor.....IT HURT LIKE HELL!!! A minute or so later (I can't be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape. My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace. The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was. My triceps, right thigh and both of my nipples were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs. I had no control over the drooling. Apparently I pooped on myself, but was too numb to know for sure and my sense of smell was gone. I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head which I believe came from my hair. I'm still looking for my manhood and I'm offering a significant reward for their safe return!! Denise loved the gift, and now regularly threatens me with it! The cat won't come near me, and Marissa just shakes her head every time she walks by me.

I´m still alive!

Sorry to have been MIA........I actually have a life! Classes are in full swing and afterwards I have a social life with friends. Real, true, friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only 3 more weeks and hopefully the USA will be saved. I hate politics though so I won´t get into that.

uhhh

i am officially in love with patrick dempsey. i just rewound the last part of grey´s anatomy seven times just so i could look at the back of his neck.....(i have a thing with the back of mens heads)

HOT!

a msg to all kids on this halloween..

This is what will happen to you if you drink.......

pumpkin goo

A woman was asked by a coworker, 'What is it like to be a Christian?'
The coworker replied, 'It is like being a pumpkin.' God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. Then He cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff.
He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, and greed. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see.'

no!

Bikes are out of control. It´s just so ridiculous because there are bike trails..so use those! Well, the bikers hog the bike trails and the pedestrian sidewalk. So, this morning I was walking (haven´t gotten my bike pass yet) and this lady is like tinkling her ¨bell¨ at me. What the heck?

I am a PERSON walking on the sidewalk. You can´t do that...just honk..no, it´s not even a honk it´s a tinkling...she honestly thinks I´m going to move out of the way because she is tinkling at me?

Think again sister..so I started walking slower. And then when she drove by I pushed her over right into a pile of dog poop.

Not really that last part but that would have been AWESOMETOWN!

awesome

Today I was walking down the street with my cup of coffee and I tripped. I mean, we´re taking stumbling trip...pretty awesome!

C.R.F.

free time.

Antonio was watching soccer so this is what I do when I get bored.........on a Sat. night of course...

it´s a zoo out there.

Today my husband took me to the zoo in Jaen and it was so fun! I just love going to the zoo. My favorites are the chimps and Lions. Giraffes just crack me up! Here are a few pics from today...

house stuff..

yay! we finally got a shelf in our kitchen for all of our veggie/animals.i KNOW you are jealous that you don´t have a potato rhino or a coliflower sheep!!!!!!!!!!! those two are my favorites. also, we have another invention of antonios...it´s actually working! that is a CD player on top of the bird cage and there is a CD with like TWO hours of birds singing on it.. the cage is prepped so that we close the box and there is like surround sound inside the box! so now he copies and sings like them. RAD! my husband is so smart!