end of year review

hola!! i will post a christmas recap later on, but i saw this on sundry's blog, and i thought, what better way to pass the time!

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
i went to 5 weddings in one year!

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
i am pretty sure that i did not keep my resolutions, but i'm definitely making more for next year, maybe i need to write them down since i don't remember last year's resolutions :)

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
no

4. Did anyone close to you die?
no

5. What countries did you visit?
just stayed in the us, but i went to southern california for the fist time ever. i don't know how people survive in l.a. - too much time was spent in the car and traffic

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
a car, louis vuitton wallet and chanel bag :)

7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
sept 10, 2008 - i got engaged. FINALLY!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
i would have to say leading a project

9. What was your biggest failure?
leading that project and realizing that it's really tough when you are powerless when it really comes to making the decisions

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
no

11. What was the best thing you bought?
a pair of running shoes

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
obama for keeping it classy

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
sarah palin - did she really give birth to trig??!!!

14. Where did most of your money go?
probably eating out

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
getting engaged!!

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
lollipop by lil' wayne

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:a) happier or sadder?b) thinner or fatter?c) richer or poorer?
a) the same
b) thinner, but not by much
c) poorer

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
exercise

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
eating

20. How did you spend Christmas?
with hb & my brother who flew in to spend it with us

21. Did you fall in love in 2008?
i fall in love everyday with my hb

22. What was your favorite TV program?
GOSSIP GIRL xoxo

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
nick saban - wait, i hated him last year too, but not as much as this year since we were on our way to a national championship

24. What was the best book you read?
this may sound lame, but the first two gossip girl books

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
i don't think i really discovered anything musically

26. What did you want and get?
a better job

27. What did you want and not get?
a car

28. What was your favorite film of this year?
four christmases

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
i was 30, and i met up with my dear friends in dc

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
being able to come to work knowing that i don't really have to because i have an infinite amount of money in the bank

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
casual, very casual

32. What kept you sane?
my peeps on gchat & yahoo messenger

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
i would say daniel craig - only because he looked so good in those tom ford suits in the bond film.

34. What political issue stirred you the most?
i think the presidential election stirred everyone up

35. Who did you miss?
my mom - she came to visit, but i wish she lived closer

36. Who was the best new person you met?
i don't think i really met anyone new - except for richard blais :)

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
that sometimes it's better to just do something rather than wait for others to do it

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
***i have no idea***

what about you?? take the quiz and let me know about your end of year review :)

GEAUX TIGERS! WRECK GA TECH!

hey y'all! there hasn't been much to update lately, but just had to let y'all know that my alma mater LSU is going to the peach bowl (aka chick fil a bowl). normally, hb & i stay in on nye and just watch the show on mtv and times square, but this year, we decided to go to a party! now, we will be arriving late to the party because i got tickets!!!!! section 105, row 5, seats 5&6. check it out!
i'm so excited and i just can't hide it :)

Cue Eye of the Tiger!!!

i signed up this morning for the cherry blossom 10 miler in dc for april 5. am i nuts? probably! i have had a lot of difficulty with my weight the last four years, and i am hoping to jump start the journey to a healthy lifestyle by running! this week, i'm following a 5k training. i have 13 weeks (i think - i am not good at math) to train for the 10 miler, so i'm going to start with a 5k training for 3 weeks and the get down to business at week four with the 10 miler training. wish me luck peeps!!

weekend recap

so this weekend we didn't get up to much. saturday and sunday were uneventful. i just went for a haircut and then sunday we saw forgettting sarah marshall.

friday was a top chef holiday celebration with missy! hb & i went with her to flip - which is a burger joint that richard blais has opened here in atlanta (he was on the chicago season of top chef)

here we are at the start of the night. the three amigos -

apparently we were seated at a booth reserved for 6 or more and because we were three, everyone thought we were VIP. richard even came up to us, and asked us how we got such a great table - i jokingly told him that i told the hostess "don't you know who i am?", and he got a little nervous. here we are with him. i'm gonna have to be his friend on facebook now so that i can send this picture to him.

so, my review of the food. missy had the butcher cut, so i'm not sure how that tasted because it had bleu cheese, and because i dislike that, i didn't try it. i did try the sweet potato tots. i normally dislike sweet potatoes as well, but this wasn't bad. it was pretty salty, so i tasted salt more than sweet potato, and that's probably what i liked!!

hb & missy started off with a krispy kreme milkshake and a nutella & burnt marshmallow milkshake. i had a coke because i'm not a big milkshake fan, but i had to taste both! the krispy kreme tasted just like a donut! so good!!!! the nutella one was okay, and the marshmallows tasted like they do when you burn them over a campfire. not that i know much about campfires!

onto my favorite part of the evening - my meal! i opted to go for the po boyger which is a shrimp patty with old bay, mayo, lettuce and tomato - a play on the shrimp poboy. while it's not
as good as a poboy from back home, this was indeed a tasty meal! the vodka battered onion rings were out of this world. i liked them so much i shared with hb, but pretty soon it became apparent that we would need another order!


we all decided to finish the evening at craftbar. tom collichio (top chef judge) opened up craft
atlanta recently, and so there are two levels - craft up top, which is for fine dining, and craft bar which has the bar (duh!) and also, a smaller more affordable menu than upstairs. we hit up craftbar for dessert, and that was tasty indeed. missy and i got the 'smores. they were AMAZING!! the chocolate used is dark and the graham crackers are made at the restaurant.
hb had the pear upside down cake which was very moist! both were so tasty. the only things that were issues were the cappucinos - they were lukewarm, and arrived late. (tom should look into a different coffee too - i prefer illy or blue mountain. these are both so smooth and not bitter like the one we had.) also, the valet. we waited for at least 15 minutes just waiting for the car to arrive. needless to say, we had a great time with missy, and hope to have more of these tasting excursions in 2009.

here are the 'smores:


the pear upside down cake with meyer lemon sorbet:



anyone hungry??

if so, let me know - i actually bought a signed copy of the craft coobook, and i'm looking for guinea pigs :)

my first blog!

ok, so i really wasn't planning on doing a blog, but it seems that a lot is going on, and i feel like this would be a great way to put my thoughts out there. about me - i'm mexican, born in texas, raised in the great state of louisiana, and lived in dc for about 6 years before moving down to atlanta. i hope to have more to post later on. one thing about my blog name - EVERYONE spells my name wrong. so this is a way to correct everyone out there :)