Le Holidays Ho Ho Ho

This the holiday season one of the busiest holidays especially for women.  Those holiday dinners are sure elaborate and really time consuming.  I really have never really liked Christmas.  Well I like certain elements of Christmas but not every part of it.  The holidays that I love the most are Halloween and St. Patrick's Day (and its for the wearing green not entirely because of the alcohol :p)

Right now I a working on a Christmas card to send out to my family and friends.  It took me a while for me to come up with the idea now its making the time for it to actually finish it on time to be able to send them out.  Oh yes I had forgotten I need color ink to be able to print them.  I have an idea if I don't get to buy color ink but then I need to buy a different kind of paper.  Oh dear i really do hope I get to finish on time because I want to send one to a friend who lives over seas in South Korea to be more exact. 
I am Hispanic so along with being Hispanic comes the traditional Christmas food we create.  I have to make some tamales of different kinds and from two different countries since I come from parents of two different countries Guatemala and Mexico.  When we make tamales we make quite a few tamales we use about 15lbs of masa and it makes roughly about 300 tamales.  Along with making the tamales you either make champurrado or fruit punch.  In my family we make fruit punch which is much more complicated than champurrado.   When Hispanics make fruit punch it is not the type you buy from the store it is a punch that include may ingredients and of top of that they are hard to find.  The Hispanic fruit punch contains actual pieces of fruit in it and it is a warm drink which you can add alcohol if you wish. 
Well this year will be the first year I make all this by myself well i think my bro is going to help me a bit.  Every year since I was child I had helped my mom make these things but not this year.  My mom's health is poor and since its tradition it is my turn to make em.  I really hope it all turns out well. No....Indeed everything will turn out well :D
I still need to decorate for Christmas too we just bought the tree and one of these days I will do it I just have been too busy to do it but for sure this weekend I will.
I guess I do like Christmas more than I think despite all the work. 

Christmas isn't Christmas without some Elvis in it.  This is Silent Night sung by Elvis Presley but really you need a little Elvis every day of the week :)

BUNNIES LAY EGGS?! WHAT?!

We are currently in the season of Lent. For Christians such as myself...well to be more technical I am Catholic...This is a period of 40 days in which we mourn and celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Now the question is why Easter Bunnies laying eggs?!
For many years I pondered this and now I feel the need to write about it haha
Many Christian Holidays became very commercialized such as Easter, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and Christmas are now not just celebrated by Christians but by so many others. Yes and many have forgotten the real meaning of these holidays to a certain extent. Isn't celebrating a Christian holiday by non-Christians sacrilegious to their own religion?
well.... there is also the fact that these Christian holidays have been mixed with pagan and mythological characters and events.
Valentine's is mixed with the Roman and Greek god of love Eros/Cupid (Saint Valentine is actually not even associated with love), Easter with Rabbits and eggs representing fertility and Vernal Equinox, Christmas with Roman celebration of Winter Solstice and mistletoe with Norse mythology relating to the God Loki (the part of giving Christmas gifts is true to Christianity celebrating Saint Nicholas who was a person that liked to give out gifts), St. Patrick's Day (Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland who would wear a four leaf clover)..well that one is probably the one that is not mixed with any pagan not mythological events (at least that I know of) but it is majorly commercialized according to the way the Irish celebrate it as the day to wear green and drink alcohol.
I am guilty of celebrating without thinking about celebrating the life of the saint..... I do like my St. Patrick's day :D
hahaha I was only going to write about bunnies laying eggs and I ended bringing up other holidays...well it goes hand in hand addressing that issue it can't be avoided. I basically just spewed out what I was thinking without organizing it. Hopefully it makes sense.
I believe I can write an entire book about this hahaha right know I just briefly touched upon the subject. I find this interesting and possibly later on I could go into more research...maybe...yeah I am just a very curious person if something calls my attention I investigate. I like to learn new things and satisfy my curiosity.
ok here is a random comment hahaha I really want to eat meat right now hahaha *sigh* since it's lent I made my sacrifice as well as making the sacrifice of not eating meat on Fridays. It's a bit saddening the fact that when you can't do a specific thing it's the time when u want to do it the most.







ok I'll end my entry here before it gets any longer.

and like every entry here is a video if U2 and Irish band whose lead singer is an amazing person. This is the video for Beautiful Day

hmmmmm......

Oh I'm tired.
It's been a long day and week.
Christmas is coming up so it's time for preparations which have been keeping me busy and now that there is going to be an extra guest in the house for a while it doesn't help.
Well it has finally started raining it's a nice change.
And that damned virus is still i managed to find it but I don't know how to access that place it tells me access denied since its where all the system recovery files are. I emailed Windows and they were supposed to email me back withing 24 hrs but they never did :/ I am going to have to email them again or find another way.
Ugh so many things to say and I can't remember lol well at least at this moment.
Yeah I feel a little overwhelmed.
sigh.......


woooo I found this on youtube its awesome
speed painting
wow



omg and latte art!! I wish i could do that
:D now how awesome would it be if every morning you start it with a smiley face on your coffee :D


do we even have coffee shops tha do that here in LA? ha