Crazy but Awesome Weekend

So Valentine’s day just past by. And yes, I’m behind in sending cards…gomen! ><;;

This past weekend, Lupita and I had one of our Mexican Fiestas. Since it was near Valentine’s, it was a mix of a block-event-Mexi-Nite and a Valentine’s day event for our block (sadly though, not everyone came…). So, of course, this meant that Lupita and I were up to our usual business and work work work for preparing for all the craziness. (Going to at least 3 stores each to find all the right ingredients, doing the baking before hand, which in this case was Thursday, starting the prep work Friday night and then cooking all day Saturday and leaving us only about an hour or so to get ready.) And this time around, I ended up napping before the party started…I was that tired before it even started!
But it seemed to have turned out well. The food was good although it went by really fast this time around. Lesson learned. Our invite list will need to be a max of 20 people. No “ifs,” “ands,” or “buts.” Which really sucks for us because then we feel like we’re being mean but…I don’t want to get Lupita in trouble with her neighbors and I’d like to not be so tired after our parties…But that’s a different topic-

This time around, my Oxy Ohana came!! (They are some of my college buddies that are also doing the JET thing). One of them came Wednesday night so it was really awesome to have some more hanging out time with him. He even came to my school! I think my kids enjoyed talking to a friend of mine. We ended up talking to a group of 3rd years (high school seniors) for about an hour! About movies, sports, bands and whatnot. He was a little blown away since he teaches at elementary schools and junior high schools.

This on Thursday we went to the mall to get last minute ingredients and lunch. After that was baking, talking, baking, laughing, baking, eating take out, baking and more baking. Friday was working, showing my friend around, ESS fun, dinner with my co-hosts and meeting up with another buddy from my Oxy Ohana!

Saturday was mayhem. Cooking, cleaning, frying, mixing, beating, shredding, cutting, dicing, blending since 9:45am. And somehow we always just on the dot with getting ready…ah…but they seemed to have really enjoyed the food. ^^ But I ended up knocking out on the sofa around 3 or 4am…only to randomly wake up around 8am and seeing futons and bodies all around me. Oops…By that time though, the party was swindling down.

Sunday was spent cleaning, making French toast for my buddies, watching a movie and just chilling. Then I took my Oxy Ohana to the station where we sadly said our good-byes. But I should soon be meeting up with them again. :D

And now…I want to sleep…

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