Monday, October 29, 2007

Back to the Future

The last couple of weeks have been filled with stories from the distant past. Ok, not so distant, my crazy Chilean wedding was only a couple of months ago and the whole losing 50 pounds thing was about 3 years ago. Time to bring us back to the future. Or today.

S. still has not finished at his current job. He can't leave until the construction he's working on is finished and it's behind schedule. What does this mean? We will not be leaving Santiago. Those of you who have been reading my blog will know that I was sooooooooooo excited to get out of here. So we now have to come up with a new plan for keeping me sane and out of the clutches of my mother in law. Seriously, I love her, but I just need my space. So we may go back to the original plan, which was moving to the upstairs apartment of our house and fixing it up.

Or, we may get an apartment, either by ourselves or with a friend who also wants to move out of his house. The thing is, both the friend and my husband will be working for the next four months right near where they live, so it doesn't make sense for us to up and move way far away and give them both longer commutes. So S. and I may fix up the upstairs apartment, move up there for 4-5 months until he's done with his next construction site and then go from there. At that point we'll either move to an apartment with or without our friend...or the company will relocate us outside of Santiago. The company has said that the probabilities of us moving outside Santiago after Feb. are almost 100% but then again, the probabilities of us moving outside Santiago now were 2 in 3 and look where that got us.

My celeb gossip blog job is going excellent! My boss has a computer with a bad battery and it died the other day, so right now I'm trying to handle things on my own. It's a little nervewracking writing for some 90,000 people a day! If I make a typo, someone is bound to notice! So I have definitely been keeping busy...but all in all, everything is really good.

And now, to spice things up a bit, I thought we'd do a little contest. I'm pretty sure I have never mentioned on here where the url of this blog came from. Can anybody figure out where I got the name? Leave an answer in the comments section and if you are the first person to answer correctly you can email me 2 or 3 of your favorite photos and I will retouch them, or spice up the colors, give them borders, take out background people or objects that shouldn't be in the picture...anything you want. I'll Photoshop the heck out of your pictures if you get the answer right :)

Hint, the answer comes from U.S. pop culture, not Chilean, even though the URL is in Spanish.

12 comments:

Chileno said...

Oklahoma Raisins.

I'll take my reward in cash.

Chileno said...

Oh-que, seriously, it's from Scrubs.

mamacita chilena said...

dang it, I thought that it was actually going to be a hard question!

I do love the way Dr. Cox says, "Oh que PASA?" to the crazy puppet master though :)

Do you have any pictures you wanted touched up? Send 'em my way!

Chileno said...

Hehe, I wasn't really into the prize I just wanted to win. Maybe though...I'm always starting new websites, and never mastered photoshop, are you good at making logos?

tomasdinges said...

Kylie, please, for the benefit of us all, or, the love of god, help chileno get a respectable banner picture.

Anonymous said...

Rats...I didn't know this one...I should reall brush up on my pop culture.

Jayna

EvilJoy said...

But he still got the new job, right??

Kristy said...

what is the link to the gossip blog you write for?

I´ve just finished the first season of scrubs that a friend just lent me! I was sick on Sunday and watched it ALL! I love IT! I love DR COX!

PS I´ve updated my blog! Lots to read! xxxxx

mamacita chilena said...

Chileno, I totally suck at logos, have you seen my blog lately? I'm a photographer not a graphic designer and I've never been good at that sort of thing. sorry.

tomas, I wish I could :)

Joy, yep, still new job with more money so it's all good. I just really wanted to leave Santiago.

Kristy, www.imnotobsessed.com I'll be over to check out your updates shortly!

Maurey Pierce said...

Nuts! I was hoping you could photoshop me a larger pair!

Chileno said...

Tomás' header looks like a bleached out 1970's tourism banner for Patagonia, the kind you'd find in a cockroach-infested chichería, and Kyle's has nothing to do with Chile - we've got waves in California, too, ya know. BTW: her name is pronounced Kyle, like Isle, not kylie..

Back to my banner, here's what a 100% REAL CHILEAN said about it:

ahora la idea es que a chileno "se le prende la ampolleta"...tú eres la ampolleta en este país a oscuras oscurantista más bien como en la edad media

As far as I'm concerned, the banner-haters on this forum are imposing their imperialist values while put my time to far better use: listening to the Voice of the Pueblo

...at least the voice that flatters me...that is, sounds flattering after I edited out out some question marks and sighs.

Oh well. Hey, if you're just tuning in this is Chileno, and I won the contest.

Rachel said...

I'm really sorry that your move has been postponed. I know you were looking forward to it. Maybe a move upstairs---and some locks---would be enough space to distance you a bit from your MIL. Then S would still have the same commute. And anyway, whatever happens, you will be fine... you seem resilient in any situation.