About Her
temper tantrums
May 18, 2012
Hello, my name is Natalia, and sometimes I throw temper tantrums. (Group in unison melancholy voices: Hi, Natalia).
Ever since I had my surgery, I’ve wanted a milkshake. Not sure why. It was like one minute I’m passed out on the operating table, and the next minute I wake up dreaming of something I know I shouldn’t have. And the more I think about it, knowing I’m not allowed, the more I wanted it. Finally, yesterday I went to my doctor for my post-op appointment and was told that it would be perfectly fine for me to have a milkshake.
So Luis and I made plans to go to Sonic after 8 p.m. (because their milkshakes are currently 1/2 off after 8 p.m.). So I wait all day long for it. Then when 8:00 rolls around, Luis was still working on stuff for his classes, so I had to be patient and wait some more. Then we make the drive all the way to Sonic and order (I got a caramel milkshake with extra caramel and a banana on the side so that I could slice it up and put it in my milkshake… never tried it?…. do yourself a favor and go try, it is delicious).
So then we wait and wait and wait some more, and finally the girl comes rollerskating out to us. I carefully start to slice my banana while giving Graciela pieces of banana to eat in between my slices because she seems to think she should get to eat anytime I eat. Then I take the first spoonful of what is meant to be heaven in a cup. To my horror, the milkshake might as well have been flavored milk because it was pretty much that consistency. And if this was the “extra caramel” milkshake, I don’t even want to know what a “regular caramel” milkshake tastes like because this was so far off from any caramel flavor I could not even believe it. In sets my temper tantrum and I begin to pout and get angry.
Luis tries to make things better by offering me his milkshake. I turn him down. Then he says, “Wait, do you think my shake tastes like caramel?” Sure enough, he had been drinking my milkshake all along! Urrrrrr. So now not only do I have a runny milkshake, it is 1/3 gone!!! I wanted to throw the whole thing out the window, but I stopped myself from doing it and waited until I got home to finish eating (by then Graciela had eaten most of my banana so I had a banana-less caramel shake). Then, of course, because there was no more banana, Graciela then insisted that I share my milkshake with her. The audacity of that child! Good thing I love her and I was upset with the milkshake gods, so she got a couple of bites.
In the end, I finished what was left of my shake and realized that I was throwing a temper tantrum over such a silly little thing, and I got back to my happy place. Moral of the story? Life would be so much easier if my caramel milkshake order is just given to me correctly in the first place.
3 on thurs
April 5, 2012
Numero Uno: Buy my dream house
Nemero Dos: Travel the World
Numero Tres: Become a Pastry Chef
tagged
March 8, 2012
Jilleun tagged me a few days ago, so here it goes…
Game rules:
1. Post these rules
2. Post a photo of yourself and 10 random things (It was 11, but Jilleun changed it because it bugged her)
3. Answer the questions set for you in the original post
4. Create 10 new questions and tag people to answer them
5. Go to their blog / twitter / wherever and tell them you’ve tagged them
10 random things:
1. I never planned to hyphenate my last name when I got married. However, when I got my driver’s license in Nevada, I was told that I couldn’t have two middle names. So they took it upon themselves to hyphenate my name for me.
2. Luis and I bought a new car a few months ago. It is a stick shift. I was determined to learn to drive it, but after 2 lessons, I quit. Now I look forward to our next new car… which will be all for me :)
3. I sleep with a blanket all year round. During the winter, I sleep with 3.
4. I’m not in love with Chili’s, but I go there at least once a month just because I know how much Luis loves it.
5. I get upset when my child doesn’t sleep through the night. Then I feel horribly guilty for getting upset when I see people post on Facebook about how their babies have never slept through the night.
6. I hate peanut butter, unless it is on chocolate.
7. I don’t feel guilty for working full-time, in fact I was excited to go back to work after my maternity leave.
8. I hated the smell of coffee until I got pregnant. Now I love it.
9. I don’t like orange juice.
10. I love staying in bed until noon.
Question from Jilleun:
1. If you could travel anywhere right this second where would you go? France
2. Favorite movie or TV show? Gilmore Girls
3. What way would you prefer to travel if cost wasn’t an issue (airplane, train, boat)? Airplane
4. Where’s your favorite place to get a good burger? In ‘n Out if we are going for cheap (no pickles, extra tomato), Red Robin if we are going for something a little more expensive.
5. Is there anything you would tell your 15 year old self, if you could? Don’t worry about what the boys think of you.
6. If you could redo your wedding would you? No way. I loved my wedding.
7. What is your favorite type of food to eat (Mexican, Indian, American)? Dessert.
8. If someone just handed you a million dollars what would be the first thing you’d do with the money? Pay off our debt.
9. Do you like fortune cookies? Not since they stopped putting actual fortunes in them. Now they’re all just random little quotes.
10. Why do you blog? I like having an outlet where I can write whatever random things come to my mind.
10 Question for People I’m Tagging:
1. What are your three most hated pet peeves?
2. How many times have you moved in your life?
3. What was your favorite candy as a child? Do you still eat it?
4. How many blogs do you read on a daily basis?
5. Where is your favorite place to go out to eat?
6. If you were a Simpson’s character, who would you be?
7. Skirts or dresses?
8. If you could/had to change your name to something different, what would it be?
9. What is the most number of marshmallows you’ve ever put in your mouth at the same time?
10. What do you really think of me?
I tag our last 4 commenters: Jen, Ashley, Rebecca, Aline.
bad taste
February 11, 2012
Someone once told me that I have bad taste in decorating. But you know what? If this is supposed to be chic, then I’d prefer to have horrible taste for the rest of my life.
30 sundays of truth
January 29, 2012
Day 30 → A letter to yourself, tell yourself EVERYTHING you love about yourself
Instead of a letter, how about a list of the top 5 things?
- I love my smile
- I love my sense of humor
- I love that I accomplished my academic and career goals before the age of 30
- I love that I can follow a recipe really well
- I love that I am willing to try new things
30 Sundays of Truth = FINISHED!
30 sundays of truth
January 22, 2012
I started my 30 Sundays of truth back on February 20, 2011. Here we are 11 months later, and I still haven’t finished them. Why? Partly because it takes advanced thinking to get these out. Partly because free time is virtually non-existent in my life anymore. But mostly because I have had a hard time thinking of what to write for the last 2 topics. But I figured I needed to get it wrapped up before the one year mark so here it goes.
Day 29 → Something you hope to change about yourself. And why.
There are so many things I’d like to change. How do I even begin to choose? And as much as I want to change certain things about myself, I also wish they could just be changed overnight. I mean, really, who wants to do all the hard work to really change a bad habit? If it were easy to change bad habits, none of us would have them, now would we? Having said that, this year I am making an effort to finish my to-do lists every single week. I am a big list maker. I love making lists for almost everything I do and then getting to cross things off of my lists. Sadly, I make list after list and usually spend more time making my lists than actually doing the things on my lists. So one thing I’d like to change about myself is that I want to start actually following through with the things I aspire to do. And I guess I also need to be more realistic about the things I put on my to-do lists. After all, it does me no good to put on my list that I’d like to mop all the floors on a Wednesday night, when I know I won’t get home until 6:00, have to throw something together for dinner, run to church for an activity with the youth, come home, spend time with my baby, and get to bed at a decent hour.
30 sundays of truth
October 9, 2011
Day 28 → What if you were pregnant, what would you do?
I just got done with being pregnant, so I would be freaking out if i were pregnant again so soon. What would I do? Cry. There is not much more I could do other than to just cry about it. I love my daughter, but pregnancy was not an easy thing for me to go through. I was sick (in varying degrees) throughout most of those 9 months. I lost 20 lbs in the first three months because I just couldn’t eat much, and when I did, it didn’t stay down. I was constantly exhausted. Even something simple like taking a shower in the morning was so physically exhausting that it made me nauseous. Being away from work for my 1 month of maternity leave was tough for me. I felt extremely overwhelmed by all of the life changes right after I had my baby, and I cried for a few days. Now, having said that, I absolutely adore my baby. Was pregnancy miserable? Yes. Was it completely worth it? Absolutely.
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