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I can't believe it's already been almost 7 weeks since the wedding! We leave on Friday for Hawaii, and it still seems surreal right now. Berto & I have only been on one vacation alone together, and it was two summers ago when we went to Washington DC. It was fun and interesting, but it was more of a historical trip than a vacaaaaaaation. This will be my first vacation to the beach in 3 years, and Berto & I's first together.
I think another reason why it doesn't feel like we're really leaving in 2 days, is that I haven't done any planning! Those who know me, know that I plan EVERYTHING! My planner is my lifeline, filled with manically scribbled out To-Do's. I mean, I already have an e-vite sent out for a Labor Day Party, and it's not even the 4th of July! I am a P-L-A-N-N-E-R!. Yet, beyond the plane tickets and hotel and rental car reservations, I really haven't arranged for well, anything. I have a list of things we're interested in doing, from hiking, snorkeling, booze cruises, surfing, etc. Normally I would have already researched the cheapest places to rent snorkels and flippers, the prettiest trails, and the best bang for your buck booze cruise. Since this excursion still doesn't seem real to me, I haven't had any of my usual gusto to Google! And, I'm content with that. In fact, by cutting out the expectations and need to check things off my list, I think I might just be store for the best 10 days of my life!
6.29.2010
5.22.2010
Unofficially Mexican
I can't believe our wedding day has already come and gone and my last name is now Jaquez (my email addresses even confirm it! lfjaquez@gmail.com & liz.jaquez@hyatt.com)
It was an unbelievable day, and I wish I could relive it over and over, Groundhog Day style. Berto & I are truly blessed to have amazing friends and family! Here are some of my favorite pics of the day courtesy of Facebook and my cousin Anna:
Professional photos and video are coming soon, and one moment I wish we would have gotten on video was the moment Berto first saw his rhino groom's cake. I called Beth at Costa Confections about 3 months out after Berto & I had watched an always inspiring episode of Cake Boss the night before. She was happy to take on the challenge and for a very, very reasonable cost, and as you can see from the picture above, the rhino cake turned out amazing! Berto couldn't have been more surprised or pleased!
The most memorable quote of the day, by far, has got to be Berto calling Stephanie's phone around 10am and asking, "So, what's going on today?" Of course this is completely taken out of context, Berto was needing details about the shuttle and picture times, etc. (details him & I had been over many, many times before, of course). But, we definitely haven't let him forget it! "So...what's going on today?"
Photo booth pictures have also been posted here, password:laj051510
It was an unbelievable day, and I wish I could relive it over and over, Groundhog Day style. Berto & I are truly blessed to have amazing friends and family! Here are some of my favorite pics of the day courtesy of Facebook and my cousin Anna:
Professional photos and video are coming soon, and one moment I wish we would have gotten on video was the moment Berto first saw his rhino groom's cake. I called Beth at Costa Confections about 3 months out after Berto & I had watched an always inspiring episode of Cake Boss the night before. She was happy to take on the challenge and for a very, very reasonable cost, and as you can see from the picture above, the rhino cake turned out amazing! Berto couldn't have been more surprised or pleased!
The most memorable quote of the day, by far, has got to be Berto calling Stephanie's phone around 10am and asking, "So, what's going on today?" Of course this is completely taken out of context, Berto was needing details about the shuttle and picture times, etc. (details him & I had been over many, many times before, of course). But, we definitely haven't let him forget it! "So...what's going on today?"
Photo booth pictures have also been posted here, password:laj051510
3.11.2010
Nightmare on Wedding Street
Since I started planning our wedding last May, every so often I'll have a terrible dream about things going wrong, unplanned, or just down right crazy on the big day. Berto even admitted last week that he had a bad dream about the wedding. I've decided to keep track:
#1: Berto was wearing an Underarmour shirt w/ the sleeves cut off and pajama pants at the end of the aisle and the entire wedding party danced into the church to the 90210 theme song in the style of that infamous Chris Brown YouTube video.
#2: My teeth fell out as I was getting my dress on/getting ready. Blood was everywhere, and a frantic search for the teeth ensued but they were no where to be found.
#3(Berto's): He is searching for all the elements of his well-planned, ok agonized-over, attire and can't find them. When he is finally together and pleased with his get up, he realizes that he is at our house in Lyons, an hour and a half away from the church, and the wedding starts in 15 minutes.
#4: Last night I dreamed that there weren't enough tables in the hall and the seating arrangement just did NOT work. Also, the photo booth was absent, and I realized that I never paid them the final balance, so there were no favors. My wedding colors had also mysteriously changed to black and green, very reminiscent of Molly & Jason's Bachelor wedding this week...
UPDATE 4/3:
#5: Last night Berto & I were saying out vows, and I was thinking to myself, wait, how did this day get here already? How did we skip the shower, bachelorette party, and rehearsal dinner? Then later during the ceremony, when it's time for Berto to kiss the bride, he instead pulled a microphone from his tux jacket and broke out into Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You." And he sounded just like him. Then instead of getting on the charter bus to Klehm Aboretum, for some reason, we went into this tiny little hall at the church and ate breakfast??
#1: Berto was wearing an Underarmour shirt w/ the sleeves cut off and pajama pants at the end of the aisle and the entire wedding party danced into the church to the 90210 theme song in the style of that infamous Chris Brown YouTube video.
#2: My teeth fell out as I was getting my dress on/getting ready. Blood was everywhere, and a frantic search for the teeth ensued but they were no where to be found.
#3(Berto's): He is searching for all the elements of his well-planned, ok agonized-over, attire and can't find them. When he is finally together and pleased with his get up, he realizes that he is at our house in Lyons, an hour and a half away from the church, and the wedding starts in 15 minutes.
#4: Last night I dreamed that there weren't enough tables in the hall and the seating arrangement just did NOT work. Also, the photo booth was absent, and I realized that I never paid them the final balance, so there were no favors. My wedding colors had also mysteriously changed to black and green, very reminiscent of Molly & Jason's Bachelor wedding this week...
UPDATE 4/3:
#5: Last night Berto & I were saying out vows, and I was thinking to myself, wait, how did this day get here already? How did we skip the shower, bachelorette party, and rehearsal dinner? Then later during the ceremony, when it's time for Berto to kiss the bride, he instead pulled a microphone from his tux jacket and broke out into Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You." And he sounded just like him. Then instead of getting on the charter bus to Klehm Aboretum, for some reason, we went into this tiny little hall at the church and ate breakfast??
12.28.2009
House Rehab Pics!
Just a few pics of the outside. There are almost 200 pics in my Facebook album Extreme Makeover:Foreclosure Edition.
The work is by no means finished. We are still working on the 1st floor bathroom, fence, and getting the garage door to work, but we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel! Some more future projects for the spring include getting the pool up and running and landscaping the backyard, but it's very exciting to have the house finished enough that we can have people over and not feel as stressed about it each and every day! Hopefully our housewarming party will be coming up soon!
The work is by no means finished. We are still working on the 1st floor bathroom, fence, and getting the garage door to work, but we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel! Some more future projects for the spring include getting the pool up and running and landscaping the backyard, but it's very exciting to have the house finished enough that we can have people over and not feel as stressed about it each and every day! Hopefully our housewarming party will be coming up soon!
12.16.2009
HOARDERS!
So my mom and I are obsessed with the show Hoarders on A&E. The show makes me physically ill, yet I can't stop recording it, watching it, and showing it to others.
Based off a Facebook post by an old high school friend, I set the DVR to record it. Not expecting much, I casually put it on one weekday a couple weeks ago while I was doing homework. I like to have mindless TV shows on in the background while I'm doing work. Somehow it actually does keep me focused.
I found that Hoarders is NOT something that can be casually on, however. It keeps my eyeballs glued to the screen. I can't miss a single shot of the horror and filth that these people live in.
The beginning titles of the show explain that "hoarding is a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire and keep things, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary."
Augustine was the subject of the first show. Augustine lost her dogs and her son more than 10 years ago because of the condition of her home. She has had no running water for 6 years!!!! The village is about to condemn her house if she does not comply with a mandated clean up. Her family members and workers come by to help clean out over 3,000 pounds of garbage!!! Some highlights from Augustine's home:
- Turntable for the microwave found in the middle of the landfill that was sitting in family room. She picked it up and put it back in.
- Dentures found at the bottom of the family room. She kept them.
- 2 CATS...flat as pancakes found at the bottom of the pile. Augustine's daughter predicted the cats had probably been dead for about 10 years.
When Berto came home from work, I immediately had to show it to him! We sat and ate dinner watching it, and I realized, it completely took away my appetite. I am not a squeamish person when it comes to eating. I can talk about pretty much anything while eating, or watching just about anything and continue to eat ravenously. But looking at Augustine's house, actually made me sick and unable to enjoy my dinner!
It's the shock factor, and I am obsessed! I highly suggest everyone watch the show! Some highlights from other episodes of season 2:
- Woman who had no where left to sleep bc her house was so full of trash, so she strapped herself in to a medical/potty chair at night.
- Same woman almost died because she fell out at night and was stuck in garbage. They found her wearing nothing but a snuggie and an adult diaper.
- Bathroom filled ceiling to floor, wall to wall, with USED adult diapers. Upon cleaning out the bathroom, workers found that the acid from her urine had actually eaten a hole through her bathroom floor!
- Woman who runs to her neighbors house to fill up a bucket to flush her toilet bc she has no running water.
- Pet goats eating through siding, insullation, and drywall leaving a big hole in bedroom wall. Possums and racoons now live in the bedroom instead of her.
- Man about to be evicted from his apt due to hoarding and roaches literally diving in a dumpster to find more "treasures."
Based off a Facebook post by an old high school friend, I set the DVR to record it. Not expecting much, I casually put it on one weekday a couple weeks ago while I was doing homework. I like to have mindless TV shows on in the background while I'm doing work. Somehow it actually does keep me focused.
I found that Hoarders is NOT something that can be casually on, however. It keeps my eyeballs glued to the screen. I can't miss a single shot of the horror and filth that these people live in.
The beginning titles of the show explain that "hoarding is a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire and keep things, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary."
Augustine was the subject of the first show. Augustine lost her dogs and her son more than 10 years ago because of the condition of her home. She has had no running water for 6 years!!!! The village is about to condemn her house if she does not comply with a mandated clean up. Her family members and workers come by to help clean out over 3,000 pounds of garbage!!! Some highlights from Augustine's home:
- Turntable for the microwave found in the middle of the landfill that was sitting in family room. She picked it up and put it back in.
- Dentures found at the bottom of the family room. She kept them.
- 2 CATS...flat as pancakes found at the bottom of the pile. Augustine's daughter predicted the cats had probably been dead for about 10 years.
When Berto came home from work, I immediately had to show it to him! We sat and ate dinner watching it, and I realized, it completely took away my appetite. I am not a squeamish person when it comes to eating. I can talk about pretty much anything while eating, or watching just about anything and continue to eat ravenously. But looking at Augustine's house, actually made me sick and unable to enjoy my dinner!
It's the shock factor, and I am obsessed! I highly suggest everyone watch the show! Some highlights from other episodes of season 2:
- Woman who had no where left to sleep bc her house was so full of trash, so she strapped herself in to a medical/potty chair at night.
- Same woman almost died because she fell out at night and was stuck in garbage. They found her wearing nothing but a snuggie and an adult diaper.
- Bathroom filled ceiling to floor, wall to wall, with USED adult diapers. Upon cleaning out the bathroom, workers found that the acid from her urine had actually eaten a hole through her bathroom floor!
- Woman who runs to her neighbors house to fill up a bucket to flush her toilet bc she has no running water.
- Pet goats eating through siding, insullation, and drywall leaving a big hole in bedroom wall. Possums and racoons now live in the bedroom instead of her.
- Man about to be evicted from his apt due to hoarding and roaches literally diving in a dumpster to find more "treasures."
12.07.2009
12.05.2009
The Rhino Diet
So I noticed recently that a lot of my tweets contain some of the crazy things that Berto says or does...
11/21 Berto can smize better than Tyra
11/6 Berto wants to look like Daniel Day-Lewis in The Age of Innocence on our wedding day!!?
10/22 Berto wants to lick Padma's scar!!! EWWWW!!!
9/24 Berto just did the piggy rhyme on my toes, and he honestly thought the third little piggy had groceries instead of roast beef!
9/16 Berto actually suggested that any future son we'd have should wear a weighted helmet as baby to ensure a strong neck + athletic aptitude!!!!
9/13 Berto wants a reality show about finding the best teacher - there would be all kinds of classroom challenges and teach-offs!
Some of the more interesting things I've noticed after living with Berto for almost 2 years, however, is the random ways that he puts food together. He blames it on growing up poor. But, he still does it even though we are clearly living comfortably. I mean, I even shop at Jewel pretty regularly rather than strictly Aldi. Some examples of his crazy eating habits:
Cereal of any kind is mixed: It's almost like the same fascination I used to have with slushy machines, where I always wanted to mix all the flavors together to see what would happen. What happened was a brown-colored, nasty tasting slushy. That's what Berto's mixtures are, although he loves them. Coco Rice mixed with Fruity Rice mixed with Honey Puffs and Granola?
Bread goes with anything: This sounds harmless enough. A piece of bread and butter can certainly compliment any meal, right? But Berto eats plain, 99cent, play dough texture, "lily-white" (as my mom always used to call it) bread with everything; mostaccoli, lasagna, chili, rice, vegetables, tuna. And as you've probably guessed, this is not a simple side of bread and butter. The bread works as a tortilla, scooping up anything that can be made into a make-shift taco, or worse, palming the bread and capturing bites of food off the plate similar to the way I would hold a kleenex to capture a spider. Perhaps this was a solution to not enough clean silverware for every meal in a financially strained family of 7? It's rather barbaric the way he conquers the food from plate to mouth with only his hand. The most infamous was Berto wrapping bread around a piece of string cheese like a hot dog, even squirting ketchup on it!
Ketchup can go on anything: Again, I like ketchup a lot. I even eat it on potato chips which some have thought was weird. But again, string cheese, bread, and ketchup? Ketchup on pizza, isn't it already tomato-ey enough? Ketchup on a turkey sandwich? Perhaps ketchup was the only condiment available growing up, but that's not the case now. Why continue this madness?
I actually thought about setting up a twitter feed strictly for the gross-factor of some of the things he eats, similar to @shitmydadsays. No progress on that yet.
11/21 Berto can smize better than Tyra
11/6 Berto wants to look like Daniel Day-Lewis in The Age of Innocence on our wedding day!!?
10/22 Berto wants to lick Padma's scar!!! EWWWW!!!
9/24 Berto just did the piggy rhyme on my toes, and he honestly thought the third little piggy had groceries instead of roast beef!
9/16 Berto actually suggested that any future son we'd have should wear a weighted helmet as baby to ensure a strong neck + athletic aptitude!!!!
9/13 Berto wants a reality show about finding the best teacher - there would be all kinds of classroom challenges and teach-offs!
Some of the more interesting things I've noticed after living with Berto for almost 2 years, however, is the random ways that he puts food together. He blames it on growing up poor. But, he still does it even though we are clearly living comfortably. I mean, I even shop at Jewel pretty regularly rather than strictly Aldi. Some examples of his crazy eating habits:
Cereal of any kind is mixed: It's almost like the same fascination I used to have with slushy machines, where I always wanted to mix all the flavors together to see what would happen. What happened was a brown-colored, nasty tasting slushy. That's what Berto's mixtures are, although he loves them. Coco Rice mixed with Fruity Rice mixed with Honey Puffs and Granola?
Bread goes with anything: This sounds harmless enough. A piece of bread and butter can certainly compliment any meal, right? But Berto eats plain, 99cent, play dough texture, "lily-white" (as my mom always used to call it) bread with everything; mostaccoli, lasagna, chili, rice, vegetables, tuna. And as you've probably guessed, this is not a simple side of bread and butter. The bread works as a tortilla, scooping up anything that can be made into a make-shift taco, or worse, palming the bread and capturing bites of food off the plate similar to the way I would hold a kleenex to capture a spider. Perhaps this was a solution to not enough clean silverware for every meal in a financially strained family of 7? It's rather barbaric the way he conquers the food from plate to mouth with only his hand. The most infamous was Berto wrapping bread around a piece of string cheese like a hot dog, even squirting ketchup on it!
Ketchup can go on anything: Again, I like ketchup a lot. I even eat it on potato chips which some have thought was weird. But again, string cheese, bread, and ketchup? Ketchup on pizza, isn't it already tomato-ey enough? Ketchup on a turkey sandwich? Perhaps ketchup was the only condiment available growing up, but that's not the case now. Why continue this madness?
I actually thought about setting up a twitter feed strictly for the gross-factor of some of the things he eats, similar to @shitmydadsays. No progress on that yet.
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