Where has the time gone?

Time just seems to fly by, and sometimes I wake up wondering how I got here. Not to mention wondering why I haven't blogged in so long. Its 11:30 pm on a Sunday night I have found a little time to write a few words. Hopefully I will be able to find some time this week to give a quickly update on what has happened since "spring break." I am going to be a little more diligent in this now that I don't have school work as an excuse.

Hey now don't get to excited... I can and WILL find other excuses.

Anywho, more updates are coming. You just might have to be REALLY patient if you want to see them!

Spring!!! Break??

Technically, this week for me is supposed to be Spring Break. However, with all my current partying, I have gotten a little behind... Okay ALOT behind. Although it wouldn't be ALOT behind if I wasn't given such an insane work load. So this week is a relaxing NOT Spring Break for Keltie. I would post my list on here so you could see it, but that's boring.

Last week was pretty good. Wait... I lied... It was bad.

Anytime when you stop eating sugar is bad...Very bad....

I have made it a week though! Hooray for Keltie! With no major cravings I think I might be able to make it until Easter.... I cannot resist the Mini Eggs, I inhale such delectable treats.. mmmm...


... Wow back to Earth...I think I may have just drooled.....

Remember that post I made awhile ago about the couch to 5-K running plan.... Well there is good news and bad news. Good news first ( if you prefer bad new first.... too bad! HA) I make it to the end of week 2. I think. Then I got busy, and have been unable to drag my lazy tired butt out of bed early enough to go. I figured out that If I was to do an hour of Seminary and a hour of Exercise, plus have a shower before scriptures. I need to wake up at 6 am!

Yes.. you read that correctly...6 A FREAKING M! I thought 7:12 was bad. Yes this is the hard sad truth of my life.



So on this so called " Spring Break" guess what time I'm getting up. 6 bloody AM! Yes there is none of that carefree beachy Spring Break for me. Hardcore morning of seminary,exercise, and school. If I get everything done before the sun has ditched for the day.. Believe me, I will be at the beach! In my loverly new BLUE swimsuit. :)

You know how I always post something about my neighbours Phil and Heidi. Well I can't because there not here right now, but their dog is making sure I don't get enough sleep in the morning. Since Phil is not here to let "Lucky" out in the morning at 5 am (YEAH EVEN WORSE THAN 6 AM I KNOW!!!) This dog feels the need to bark.. bark bark bark, until someone lets him out of the trailer. (This is only after he has trashed the joint however) Because no other person in Paamul gets up at 5 am, the dog barks until usually 7 am. Unless My mother or I go let him out. As my mom said," It's a good thing that dog is named Lucky." Yes YES it is, because Im ready to do it in! ( sorry, you would understand if you were me)

ANYWAYS......

Last week Rodolfo started to teach Salsa classes on Wednesday nights at 7. When he told me he needed ideas for how to teach, I showed him good old http://www.youtube.com/ I have created and addict. He is obsessed with 'watching the videos." But that's what happens when you spend your time with the Google Queen. This up coming week, we are teaching salsa turns and some Cumbia dancing. Oh, I forgot... yes "we," "I" being the Assistant teacher... are teaching salsa turns and some cumbia....

We are also planning on going to the beach by Bahia Principe on Monday, its a very fun beach. I will post some pics so you can understand why.

Wow... look at the time.. 9 pm.. and I haven't cleaned my room yet.

The Great Cake Project

I once again am sucking at posting regularly,but that's the same old story.
So whats new??

Well The Great Cake Project was one of the many things I have done recently that has kept me too busy to blog!

What is the Great Cake Project you ask? Well if you haven't already seen the pictures on my mom's blog or Facebook,let me clue you in...


It all started with bakerella.. I was dying to make a cake creation. My mom's birthday was coming up and it was my parents 18th anniversary and they got married at 18. Plus they had a 3 cake pan set in large,medium,and small at Sorrianna. So it all fell into place.


I made two layers top layers cherry pound cake (same as my parents wedding cake)
and the bottom was a chocolate cake with 2 fresh strawberry custard layers. It took me a week to bake because we have a 1 pan oven, and limited electricity for the toaster/convection oven.

So I baked cakes....








And Then I iced cakes....



Then I put fresh flowers on my cake.
Then we all ate the Cake.. and had so much left over we ate it like 3 times a day for a week... Well I did anyways..


P.S My blog wont let me add anymore big pictures, I am going to try and fix it's problem..

Red Velvet

How many of you have eaten red velvet cake before? Until Saturday I hadn't even seen this mysterious dessert in real life before. With all my time spent on the bakerella blog, and countless other baker blogs. I came across a picture of this intriguing cake.




Mmm I just had to make this, so following the directions on the site, I created my first masterpiece!

Everyone told me it was delicious and the cream cheese icing was to die for. Oh.. what? You wanted to see a picture of the cake? No. Your okay.

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Yeah it didn't look so good. I got impatient and didn't wait for the cake to cool, and then the cream cheese icing was all goopie. Plus I didn't add the amount of red food coloring the recipe called for;I just couldn't bring myself to add 2 oz. red food coloring. So it looked kinda purple. Anyways, apparently it tasted good. (I couldn't eat it after I made it) If I make this kind of cake again, I will not use the same recipe, and I will add the right amount of food coloring.

One, Two ,Three, Four, Tell Me That You Love Me More

Okay so I promised I would update my blog more regularly and I have a new plan to keep that promise. I will post as regularly as I can but it will not always be a long post. This one might be a little longer because I've had 3 different ideas for posts floating around in my head for the past few days. But of course I haven't had the time to write them.


What have I been doing lately?
School mostly, as usual, lots to learn, not enough time to do it. This past week has been good and bad. It was a long weekend (Yay) and Valentines Day (YAY! ps. thanks for all my treats!). My Dad had to go back to Canada on Tuesday (Boo), but I got to drive home from Cancun (I have mixed feelings about this because topes scare me. Lets just say that I've had too many experiences flying over them when they've gone unnoticed.) When I got home, I got a migraine (boo) and my mom had one the night before. Then I was sick (boo) and didn't have to do school (yay). Got to go to the movies (yay!) Confessions of a Shopaholic (yay! Loved it!) or Loca Por Las Compras if your in Mexico (yay!). Now its just a little more school then the weekend(yay!). But I haven't played any volleyball because of all this (boo). Plus I now am being punished with a cough and runny nose from my indulgence in Valentines sweets (boo!). This didn't happen this week but we did go to see Bride Wars too. It was very good as well, but I liked Loca Por Las Compras better.





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I don't know about all of you, but I swear that half my life is wasted on looking for stuff. Looking for keys, lip gloss, pens, books, the left brown flip flop, that pink shirt that I let Sabie wear, which purse is my wallet in? Has anyone seen my head phones?
I admit it I haven't really been looking for all these things but some of them do come up on a regular basis. For example, my lip gloss, a pen, and which purse is my wallet in?
There are two things that I have been looking for, and it has been awhile now and they are still no show. The first is that dang left brown flip flop, I cant find it anywhere. The other thing that is just making me mad is the DVD that Sabie got for Christmas Get Smart. I have looked high and low for that thing. I am completely convinced it is not at our house. So if we have lent it to you and don't remember please let us know! It will save me from insanity. Gracias!


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Lately I have been feeling lazy because I haven't been able to play volleyball, and even when I do its not that strenuous of an exercise. Not to mention all of the people who get up and go running to Yan-Ten every morning/day. Can you say GUILT TRIP! I was reading Jamie and Kathy's blog the other day and she has this link to a really cool website about running. On this website is this program called Couch-5K. It looks really interesting. Its a 9 week running plan, that helps you build up strength 3 times a week so you can go from sitting on your couch to running 5K. I want to start and Sabie said she would do it too. It's just a matter of feeling well enough and having my schedule arranged. Having a dog to take with me would be VERY motivating... HINT HINT!

We have Chrismas scented toliet paper!

So, Here I am once again attempting to update the blog.. on a regular basis. I seem to have extreme difficulty doing that. Notice how my last posts started before Christmas and then died after that? I guess I run out of things to write; Mexico is only exciting for so long. But then again there is always some new crazy thing that you would only see in Mexico when we go into town. I should really start an Only in Mexico photo album and post it on here.

Okay, so you wanna know what I have been up to lately. And I hate to break it to you, but it was probably the same as the last time I told you. YES I AM STILL DOING SCHOOL WORK!! For too many hours everyday. Seriously.. I'm pretty sure teachers have this contest on how ridiculous they can make an assignment. Like this week for example, I have to make a kind of " Visual Essay"( or at least that's how I've managed to interpret it) about this disturbing book I had to read, called Lord of the Flies by William Golding. I don't highly recommend this book. I think it might have only fallen into the 'that book was okay but a little strange' category if I didn't have to analyze the heck out of it. Also I think this William Golding guy may have some mental issues....:S.Oh well I will probably get a good mark on the assignment because I don't know what I'm doing and I will just ramble on... kinda like I'm doing now.....

I think everyone is finally in a Christmas mood. I woke up this morning to Christmas music... then I realized it wasn't us, it was Phil!!!! I was so happy until I realized that his Christmas music can be just as annoying as all his other music. I think I even heard two people tell.. no yell to him that they liked his music. AHH I swear it got louder each time he was told. Although I must say that I am considering catching Phil singing Frosty the Snowman on camera, along with Heidi dancing and singing at karaoke. I could get rich off these people!!! No that's not nice... however it would be rather funny.

So not only is everyone in a Christmas mood, it looks Christmasey around here too. People have started to put up lights and trees. We of course decorated ours way before everyone else, but that's normal for us. The other day my mom was helping Phil decorate this sad excuse of pine tree. It hasn't been lit up yet, but I think Phil is still working on it. Oh and I forgot to mention. It Feels like Christmas here too. It hasn't been the normal 30 degree weather that I enjoy, but an icy 20-28! The only point that I am warm during the whole day, is while am playing volleyball in the sun. And then that disappears after 20 minutes and I'm cold again.. I know you all feel soo soo bad for me in my jeans hoodie AND socks, when its +22 out.

Jeez, it sure looks like I have alot to complain about.. well its the truth but I wouldn't have it any other way. I don't know how I'm ever going to leave my Mexican paradie. On my next post( yes I plan to post again! SOON!) I will try to do less complaining and more telling. Until then hasta luego!

Whats your..

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) Milo Pontiac
2. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR’S NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”) The Sleeping Sun Tour
3. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) Mango Sherbert Chocolate
4. YOUR “FLY Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) K-sug
5. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) Blue Tiger
6. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Marie Calgary
7. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) Sugke
8. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink) pink Manzanita
9. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names )Marie Chad
10. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower) Summer Plumeria
11. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”) Mango dressy pjs
12. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree) Papaya Palm
How about you?