doga!

this morning, after my mexican ladies dance class, 6 decided to join me on the living room floor for a little "doga." that would be a contraction of dog and yoga as per the new york times a few months ago. erin took time out of her skype-fight with hewlett-packard to photograph the occasion. cute overload, no?

anyway, erin is now temporarily computerless as hp totally won that fight.

in new news our first visitor, chaune, is coming soon! she'll be here next thursday evening until sunday afternoon. we're trying to map out exactly what we're gonna do when she's here, but that will be an opportunity to shift into full-throttle fun. we're planning for that to be the weekend that we take the tequila express train that everyone speaks so highly of around here. apparently there are meals provided, tours of the tequila factories and unlimited tequila as well as mariachi everywhere! and i DO love a mariachi band (as expressed at my 2007 birthday party.) hopefully we'll be able to wake from that to get chaune to her plane in time the next day.

we also made a very cool new friend today named tom who is from california. he's a couple of semesters into erin's program and really nice. he gave us a ride home from fedex (where we deposited erin's computer), stopped to look at the new dog erin wants (it's so NOT gonna happen) and may also be a lead on my spanish tutor situation.

all in all i am healthy and feel wealthy today. shout out to spye design and thier dailycandy.com soap knuckles shoutout today. if you've got a dad you should cop one!!!

hee hee,
m.

beverage collection

it's monday and this is the week that we start with our spanish tutoring lessons, hooray! my italian sometimes helps me with translating, or getting the gist of a conversation or statement, but i really need more vocabulary if i'm going to tackle this language. also need some help with my prounciation since i keep saying spanish words with an italian accent, like i'm argentinian or something. i say "mon-teh-VED-dee-oh" rather that"mon-te-ved-EH-o" when talking about our nearest busy street, montevideo. let's not even get started with the "r" rolling words. geez.

i also have my dance class with mexican women of a certain social/leisure class on tuesdays and thursdays. the bag collection at that class is insane; there are very large gucci, ysl and dior bags reproducing! i almost feel kind of lame with my gifted spye design tote bag and the collection of cheap mexican bags that i've aquired here (and love.) i do get to style and profile in class with my very cool KOR ONE water hydration vessel http://www.korwater.com/ that no one's seen here (some people call it a water bottle) and i fit in with my nike workout gears, but clearly this is schmancy me-time set to to J-Lo, Britney and Katy Perry. it's kind of funny to imagine, but it's the closest thing i have to structure right now, and it's cute watching rich mexican women get theit hip-hop on in a class billed as jazz dance. AND i'm learning to follow instructions in spanish.

here is a visual collection of some of the drinks erin and i have had at meals over the last 3 days. you aren't ready for the mall belly dancers yet (yes, you read that correctly) but i might post that video later.

kisses!
m.