Oh for the love of Cotas!

I am a proud MexiFin (Mexican and Finnish decent)

And I just have the cutest little Mexican grandparents. 

They love to talk at the same time and struggle to be heard more than the other, so my attention gets drawn in 2 directions and sometimes 5 depending on my 92 year old grandpa's senile tendencies.

For my editing final we were asked to create a short documentary about anything we wanted.

I decided to film and edit together a segment with my grandparents and their views and advice on marriage.

I am so happy with the way this video turned out and I am so glad that I will forever have this little piece of remembering them together forever.

Meet the Cotas.

Thursday Thoughts

All my friends have babies or having more babies....how and when did this happen?

I wonder how many family albums I happen to be in because I work at Disneyland?

I mean I'm around parents snapping pictures all the time. I wonder how many of them I'm that random person in the back looking alert, or in a hurry with a tray or massive amounts of food plates in my hands. After 5 and half years of working there I wonder what the number would be. 

I feel like Kim Kardashian, a celebrity but for no apparent or real reason at all.

Here's an example. This was 4 years ago, I'm the one in the middle with pretty much my whole crotchel area in line with the little girl's face the whole time. Sick. But I will forever be apart of this family's home video tape storage.

and a Happy Birthday to you Sera 

Love, server with crotch in your birthday video.

I've decided that even though high school was, well high school. And my friends and myself thought we were the coolest people in school even though we weren't. And I kind of grew up in Utah where we made our own fun and did stupid things that make me laugh now....

things like:

throwing spaghetti at people's cars

tormenting the crazy lady

driving around with paper bags on our heads

making muddy buddies and going to lagoon

answering people back for dances that have already passed and they probably had a date for

soaping random cars

chasing after deer

feeding the biology teacher's bird q-tips or the turtles skittles

wrestling in pounds of noodles

played fugitive at all hours of the night

mooning people at the major make out points

etc.

I wouldn't take any of it back.
What can you say you did?

I miss home.

I also miss Oregon Trail.
I remember finishing my typing exercises super quick in elementary school so I could use my extra time to ride myself and my virtual pioneer family out west.
Where I would place my oxen on fast but on the computer would still seem like they were still going the slowest pace ever.
And risking the chance of my wagon wheel coming off delaying me 3 days where Johnny would then get bitten by a rattlesnake and would later die and that horrible tombstone would come with the dark and scary music.
And we'd come across a river and we'd have to loose 2 bags of food and one of the ox would then die too. And when I made it I was the only one left in my pioneer family as a lonesome 8 year old to fend by myself. But at least I made it and in half the time.

It's Wednesday and that means today is awkward and awesome!

One, I love my family dog Shelia. She seriously knows how to melt any heart especially mine. And she never refuses love, which is the best part because I am quite needy.

Two, my feet were freezing in the Utah cold and I didn't want to change out of my slipper socks so I went for the sock with flats Asian look.

Awkward

+At Souplantation seeing a woman load up 2 plate fulls of chocolate chip cookie bites and go back to her seat to share....with no one. And went back for seconds...what if I wanted some?

+At the student portfolio show one of the valet boys was growing his own baby Jedi braid. 

The force must be with him.

+Eating a big of bite of broccoli and it deciding to getting caught in your throat and not move.

Almost accidental death by broccoli.

+At the grocery store when feeling what felt like a bug on my leg, look down and find a small Mexican baby girl looking up at me while rubbing her little hand up and down my leg.

Uh... no words really and sorry I didn't shave?

Hopefully she didn't cut her hand.

+Trying to put on eye makeup when your eyes are dilated. Let's just say I got my more on my face then actually on my eyes. 

Mimi from Drew Carey Show, I am now her sibling.

+This conversation I had with our server at lunch today:

 Me: Do you have balsamic vinaigrette?

Confused: No, we have honey mustard.

Me: Do you have Italian?

Confused: Yes, we have lemon herb and raspberry vinaigrette, fat free.

Me: What else do you have?

Confused: The honey mustard.

Me: Oh. Um then....

Confused: We also have ranch, blue cheese....etc.

(enough said)

Awesome

+Being home...warm fuzzy feelings for the cold weather.

+Meetings with old girlfriends.

+I secretly enjoy it when people from school mistake me and my friends for fashion students.

Oh stop! But keep it coming!

+Spending much needed time with Mr. Man of Mine

+Shopping with the Mother, especially since she doesn't like to that often

+Taco Amigo (over priced burgers but tradition and still delicious)
Yes, You may find it disturbing that I get burgers at a taco place, but they are so good! And so are their fries, and fry sauce people! California doesn't serve fry sauce with every meal like Utah does okay!

+Real Mountains with Snow! California, your mountains are not mountains and  they totally suck.

+Alyssa forgetting to get a ticket to park so the arm goes up, deciding to go for it and the arm coming down on her car instead. Died of laughter! And so did the car behind us.

Too Cute Tuesday Family Edition!

Isn't my baby brother just so cute on this Too Cute Tuesday!

Other brother aka: little brother (who happens to be 6'3") was out playing a good old game of baseball. He's going to the Major Leagues I'm almost positive.

Well I'm home for spring break and thus had to show us in our natural environment.

Extreme cold.

Yes there is no snow as of now, but it's still freezing.

And knowing Utah it's sunny right now and in 5 minutes you could call me a liar and it would be snowing. 

Yup, that's home for you.

I have missed you home.

Well I forced my brother to pose for everyone in our not so pretty back yard. 

I guess it makes us look rugged? 

Okay probably not.

Hope you all looked so cute!

In utah.

And I forgot how cold it was...in March.

California, you have made me a wuss.

More to add to the list...

of pictures that strangers took, but weren't able to take them well at all.

handing camera over = stranger danger

*apparently cutting off legs is necessary in order to get the perfect picture of the sky

Thoughts on THIS Thursday.

Move over Hannah Montana cause the next tween star has arrived, and Siera looks like the Tomboy friend that all of them have in their shows.

(not that you are one Siera)

Don't I look like I could star in one of these shows?

Just say yes.

I believe that people sometimes do look like their dogs.

Sometimes cars that look like they are smiling scare me a little. 

So now my car when I'm tailgating you makes it look like I'm that much more of a brat. 

 I wear slipper socks sometimes as my regular socks under my shoes because... I like to.

Don't judge.

Can someone just give me a book deal and my own TV show like Chelsea Lately already?

When I pass people when I run, I wonder if they ever look at my butt. 

 Unfortunately all they will find is a nice picture of my massive wedgie.

Then I laugh.

You're welcome.

I amaze myself sometimes how fast I can text. I should be ridiculous and sign up for one of those contest and win money so at least fast texting would actually be a trait worth having.

I decided that if I was homeless and ever got money from people on the side of the highway, I would eat at Souplantation all the time. I mean all you can eat soup and salad....yes please! And take some for the road.

What a dog's life, everyday I just watch my roommate's dog move from sleeping on one couch to the other. 

Can we switch and you design an advertising campaign instead and I'll sleep all day?

It really bothers me that Justin Bieber is advertising for Proactiv, because they chose the one teenager that doesn't really have acne. Great marketing ploy, but I'm not buying it.

I'm pretty sure any celebrity that has become the spokesperson for them really hasn't had acne.

Katy Perry? P diddy?

Anger.

Saturday I'm leaving for Utah for a whole week! In 3 days! No school and no work!

And excited for the 3 things I'm going to see while I'm there:

Family

Friends

and Mr. Man of Mine

Can anyone tell I'm homesick?