So Saturday Isaac and I got up and headed to Austin to pick up Cody from the airport. He had spent the week out of state for work last week. He was tired from his trip so we went on back to San Marcos for him to shower and take a nap before we went back into Austin for the AustinTuners noodle meetup.

Before we got to the noodle meet up we stopped by Tek Republik and dropped off the xbox 360 for cleaning and repairs. Hopefully it won’t take too long to get fixed up so I can get to playin forza3! The noodle meet had a small turn out but I didn’t expect a crowd in the slightest. Not everyone likes pho and lots of folks have been busy with school lately.

We brought Isaac with us, Jack and Ellen came too, so did Ian and Ashley. After about an hour we were all ready to leave and we had Xrunnit show up so Cody stayed a bit longer to chat cars with him while Jack, Ellen, Isaac and I went to Amy’s Ice Cream for dessert. Obviously I didn’t have any, but we got some for Isaac but he was super tired by then and only ate a few bites, Cody had to finish it for him.

Today we all slept in a bit. Cody went over to Chuck’s house to watch the Cowboys lose. Isaac and I stayed here while Isaac took a nap and I worked on the next meetup for the AustinTuners thing. Later in the afternoon I was planning on headed out to Walmart to get diapers and such when I couldn’t find my keys. I had left them in the passengers side door of cody’s car. /fail. He brought home groceries and stuff and said to clean up the living room cuz Bryan and Traci were headed over.

I made some spaghetti for dinner, used macaroni noodles instead of thin spaghetti noodles, sooo good. Watched last nights recorded episode of SNL with Sigourney Weaver…AWESOME. Then Bryan and Traci came over with late Christmas presents for Isaac and us. They got him a toy guitar, nerf sword and a nerf basketball goal! They got Cody a copy of Uncharted 2 for the ps3. He has been playing it all night, it’s pretty fun looking. But the coolest part is what they got ME:

Nintendo Controller Soap from Dirty Ass Soaps. Super awesome as its the exact size of the real controller to the point its probably molded straight from it.

It smells good too! The second thing that they got me, which I wasn’t expecting at all, as a copy of Between Me and Life, the Romaine Brooks biography. I had been looking for something on her since I did research on her time period back in an Art History class at UMHB. Super hard to find these books because they only printed them once in the 70′s and it’s the only biography of hers that the lady who wrote it actually interviewed Brooks in person. She died in the late 70′s so this was cutting it close!

The book is pretty cool as it has actual pics of photos of her I haven’t seen before like this one of her actually WITH d’Annunzio: (yes THAT d’Annunzio)

What was even cooler was the full color photos of some of her paintings in the middle:

Totally awesome, I really need to sit and read it, I’ll probably bring it to work and read during breaks

Saturday morning Isaac and I packed up and left for Aunt Susan’s house all the way up in The Colony, near Dallas. We left around 6am and wonderfully ran into zero traffic. We beat my parents there!

I had only been to Aunt Susan’s house once, several years ago so I thought it would be difficult to find the house given the directions and my iphone’s drunken gps coordinates. Luckily my cousin Michelle was kind enough to drive her new car making it incredibly obvious which house it was.

Isaac and his Nana got to drive around the block in it and had way too much fun!

Now, the cool thing was that the day before the entire Dallas/FortWorth area had been hit with this freakish snow and spots of it were still left in the shade! Isaac got to play in what was left over and he somehow knew what it was! (Horray daycare!)

After we arrived we all sat down to lunch and yes MORE HAM! It’s like they know me or something. Susan’s ham was roasted with flavors so it had a different flavor and texture than our classic ham the day before but still really really good. She even set aside some potatoes for me so I could have sides

That night we left Dallas and drove all the way to Mineola. We got about to Mckinney when my parents wanted to stop for non-ham dinner. Becca knew of some Mexican food place downtown so we gave it a shot.

Since I was travelling I ate safely and just ordered a side of rice (wasn’t that hungry after all the food I had all day) The one issue we had with all the food was the heat of the hot sauce. We each had about one or two bites and thats all we could stand. But they also cooked the food with it, so EVERYTHING you got was thermo-nuclear. Which is good if you wanna sell margaritas to folks but not to ppl who want to sit and eat something lol.

So were driving back and about 10 miles away from Mineola me and Joanna spot this cop on the side of the road with his lights off. We pass him (following dad who is driving 59 mph) and notice he puts the car into drive and turns around (he was on the left facing the other traffic). Then sure enough about two or three minutes later we see a car come up on us really fast and the red and blue lights kick in. Great…. Turns out my license plate lights were both out. Good thing was I just got a warning and the cop was really nice about everything. The funny part was my parents didn’t realize we weren’t behind them until they nearly got to the house! HAHA. So the next morning I got up relativley early and ran to O’rileys and picked up some bulbs. Sure enough both were totally blown. Easiest car repair … ever.

Once we all got back to the house we opened presents! Look at all the fun stuff Isaac got: He now has is very own suitcase for traveling to grandparents houses, new clothes and toys and his very own little card table and chairs!

Here is everything my parents got me: More 10-12 inch pans! (cant have too many of those!) dvds, Forza3, gummies, a vegan cookbook for baking, and a holder for our K-Cups!

The next day, after fixing my lights, I ran the car through the carwash downtown and filled it up with gas before leavin’. Went by mawmaw’s house and visited with Kristen and her kids.

Isaac had fun playing toys with his cousins, before leaving we were getting hungry so I opted for EDIBLE Meixcan food, plus I was in Mineola for more than 4 hours it’s a law you must eat at Two Senoritas:

After lunch I finished packing and headed back to Austin on my own. Isaac is still up there with his Nana and Papa having a good o’l time!

Ok so I’ve not had a second to sit down and update this thing in a good while so here we go! Last week we had Christmas at our house here in San Marcos. Cody’s parents came down with his grandmother and we had Christmas lunch/dinner here on Friday.  Isaac had a great time with all his relatives and opening his “pwesents!” With all the photos and goings on I’m gonna have to split the posts into a few segments here. Starting with this one, the San Marcos Edition.

Christmas Eve, we decided to go ahead and open presents so we could focus on everything else the next day with cooking and everything. I got a new 10 inch skillet, a wooden wand, and these epic gloves:

Isaac got his first ever toy power tools

The next morning we woke up FREEZING cold, mostly because it was freezing outside. I give you proof:

We woke up and let Isaac open his gifts from Santa. He was so excited when he opened up his favorite present of the year: A Thomas The Tank Engine set:

After presents I made breakfast, Christmas tree shaped cinnamon/pecan pancakes with bacon and eggs:

and we played toys a while. That afternoon Cody’s mom cooked up dinner: The ham was astoundingly good and super juicy, I had a slice of it straight out of the oven that was so good I couldn’t stand it.

Of course it wouldn’t be Christmas without candy canes, which Isaac was more excited about than the presents to tell you the truth:

So it’s the week or so before Christmas and what have I been up to? All kinds of stuff! Last week at work we had our DC Christmas party. It was basically the same as our Thanksgiving party save for this time they had Mexican food catered from a local place in San Antonio. It smelled good and all and I took lots of pics but I dared not eat any for absolute fear of ninja butter and such. (I bring my own food )

They brought some beef empanadas, much like tfp’s curry puffs but Mexicans make them hahaha.

There was beef and chicken fajita meat, tortillas, borracho beans and rice, all the fixins for nomy fajitas. It wasn’t until everyone was in line for food that we began to hear music. At first I thought it was someone being funny due to the Mexican food, I was so excited to see THIS in the hallway at the end of the buffet table:

A full Mariachi band, who played through most of the lunch ahhaha. They were pretty good and played christmas songs and stuff.

This weekend was spent pretty much cleaning up the house and garage. I got all the laundry done really good and Cody and Matt managed to clear up the garage enough to get Cody’s 240 in there! I had to steer it in while they pushed haha. We had to get it moved inside before Cody leaves on his work trip, plus he got a window ticket on it for having a “junk car” sitting in the yard. >_< For Christmas he is getting machine work done to the KA up in East Texas, which means we are bringing components with us to Christmas dinner at Aunt Susan’s. XD

After a busy day of moving cars and such I got up early to make breakfast. The night before I saw pics of TFP’s mini pancakes she is going to make for Christmas breakfast at their house. I thought to myself: “Bah, I don’t need a fancy waffle iron to make tiny pancakes!” So I used a teaspoon measure and blobed them all on the griddle. The hard part about this is that the tiny pancakes cook REALLY FAST so you gotta plop em on and flip em quicks!

Tada! Mini pancakes! They were pretty good, even Isaac ate all of his! That night my throat and cough were getting worse so Cody suggested Pho for dinner, which, I never say no to XD.

I have to work all this week save for Friday. Cody’s parents are coming down Wednesday and we will probably eat dinner Thursday night, they wanna cook a ham. I don’t care what they cook as long as I can have shrimp cocktail. I’ll probably go buy shrimp and cooking components tomorrow when I go to the grocery store. I still have a few folks to buy for tomorrow, I ordered a few things this weekend on amazon which claims they will arrive at the house christmas eve. Lets see how that goes .

NOTE: I have a photo of Isaac with santa, im gonna ask Daycare to send me the JPEG of the pic they took. (Santa visited daycare last week XD)

1. e30 Why don’t I save up/slowly build one/sell your car for a running one?…. Because I’m afraid of letting it sit while I wait for mod money to fall into my lap. It will just become like Cody’s project car is now. Lots of parts and engines with no running car. Gonna have to hold out for the lottery to get that project going.

2. Tickets for Overseas Vacations Because if I won the lottery I’d never go back to work ever again, I’d have time to go travel the world and see all the cool stuff I would never get to see otherwize. First set of tickets will be to Paris, then Rome, then Perth. XD

3.  A Kawasaki Print Because the girl only sells prints to the fastest key-jammers in the west,  your basically stuck getting them from people who resell them on ebay for triple what they cost. My favorite one is up to about 1500 for a signed print. That or spend just as much to see one of her shows in Cali or NY….Epic Fail.

4. A brand new house A fully paid off, 100% brand new house with a washer and dryer, fridge with ice maker, extra bedrooms and a freakin jacuzzi gazebo thing in the backyard. XD

5. An entire tuna. I’d totally invite Christian over and have a sushi party omg.

So there you have the top five things I’d totally buy that I really dont need XD.