Memories That Make Me Giggle- # 6: Every time I eat m&m's...

February is not over yet, so I want to write something related to love :) 

It also has to do with m&m's (today I ate some and it reminded 

me that I wanted to share my cheesy story).

m&m's became special to me after the year 2001, right before my 

boyfriend Mauricio and I started dating. 

It was the year of 'quinceañeros' like we call them in 

Latin America (15th birthday celebration) when

my girlfriends and I couldn't wait to wear our formal dresses to one 

party after another. It was also the time

when Mauricio discovered he liked me and I discovered I liked him as well <3

Part of his 'flirting' strategy was bringing m&m's to me when 

we went to these parties as a group. 

I immediately knew, or someone may have helped me realize it, 

that what he wanted to imply was

m&m -- marcela & mauricio

So every time I eat them... I remember that <3 :)

Speaking of m&m's... have you ever become an m&m?

Yes, I know, you're like "what???"

but what I mean is...

 have you ever become an m&m?

Yep that's me :P, those are my freckles, that's my camera, 

those are my glasses, that's my brown hair!

And yes, I'm a bit random :P

image sources: 1, 2, 3

Memories That Make Me Giggle- # 5: Backstreet Boys & Blonde Guys

Today during my lunch break, I was driving and suddenly thought: 
"I want to listen to the Backstreet Boys."

Has that happened to you? You keep singing an old band's 

song for some reason 

and eventually you just play the CD. I miss the 90s...

During that time, I was also-- who knows why-- a little obsessed with blonde guys. 

I guess it's not too hard to guess who my favorite Backstreet Boy was...

There was another band (from Ireland) that came out, with 3 blonde members! 

I fell 'in love' immediately. I wanted to listen to them, see them live someday, 

buy their cds, etc. None of that happened; just the first thing.

This band was Westlife. It wasn't as popular here in the U.S, so you may

not be familiar with them: Westlife

In this case, I was in love with the second and fifth guy. *sigh* funny memories.

Their songs are not bad actually :) I recommend 'My Love' and 'Fool Again' 

cheesy? maybe

cute? yeeeees

Memories That Make Me Giggle- # 4: Sibling Love

I have two younger brothers, Cesar and David. They are awesome! Anyway... when you have siblings, there are always times when you make jokes to each other or act mischievously together. My brother Cesar has always loved sweets--just like me-- he would even take some candy from you after he had already finished his (not always with permission). So one day while we were in the kitchen, I saw the Morton Salt container and suddenly had an idea. I grabbed the salt, pretended I was pouring it into my mouth and said out loud: mmmmhmmm! sugaaaar! Haha I remember Cesar came running, said "really? let me have some!" he grabbed the salt and poured some in his mouth. He made a funny face and had to spit the salt in the sink. I think it did not even land inside the sink but on the border of the counter. I am not sure what else he said or did afterwards. Sounds mean? we were just kids... :) now we don't do those things to each other:

Memories That Make Me Giggle- # 3: Karate Tournament

(make sure you read # 3- title's reference)

As I've mentioned before, my friends and I used to play silly games at school. This is one of them. Let me first explain: we were in an all-girls school and always had to find a way to be creative during our recess time. During our elementary school years, many martial arts-related series were popular; the ones you all probably know are Power Rangers, but there was also Flashman and Liveman (Japanese ones that came first). We used to play Flashman all the time! And there are things I remember from these wonderful years that always make me giggle:

1) Me and my friend Johanna would fight (and get mad at each other) saying "I'm going to marry Din!" (the red flashman) "No, I'm going to marry Din!." Her dad would always say to us: "stop fighting over a random chinese guy!"

Well, today I look at my crush... and I just smile:

2) Since we all wanted to be flashmans and not the mean guys (plus we didn't have enough people anyway), we pretended our school's patio concrete columns were our adversaries. We kicked them, punch them, they "kicked and punched" back at us, and we would scream like the flashman girls did (Sara had a peculiar scream and my friend imitated it correctly).

3) We did not have problems with "who's who" decisions. I liked Lu, the pink one, and my friend liked Sara, the yellow one.  

3) And this is one of the best memories: We were so into Flashman, that we decided to organize a "Karate Tournament" during recess-- even though we had no idea how to do karate. We thought we could; so we wrote "Karate Tournament, recess: back patio" in small papers and passed them along in the classroom.  During recess, we had our audience! Johanna and I just kicked and moved our arms as best we could... who knows who won...  at the end we couldn't decide. Later in the classroom, our teacher had already heard the story somehow. I remember her saying "so I heard something about a Karate Tournament," "who is responsible?" She then looked at me and said... Marcelaaaa. I can't remember much after that, but I know she was nice about it and just explained that we needed to be careful. I love this memory so much; I am going to tell my friend Johanna to read my blog right now.  Thanks for reading! Come back tomorrow for Fabulous Friday!

Memories That Make Me Giggle- #2

One of my favorite memories-- and I was thinking about it because it's the month in which you get to dress as your favorite character-- is when I used to play with my cousins & brothers as little kids and we pretended to be super heroes. Two major cartoon shows defined our playtime: X-Men and Sailor Moon (at school it was Power Rangers and Flashman, but that's another story). With two of my cousins we always played Sailor Moon, and I remember we even said "maybe if we have faith, one day we will get to be Sailor Scouts..." hehe we were really into it! I was Sailor Jupiter; I felt connected with her as she was the only one with  brown hair. I also liked her personality and powers. 

My other favorite character was Storm from X-Men. I loved her outfit and powers! Here we go again with lightning! Something that makes me giggle in this case was that, in order to "look more like Storm," I would grab bed sheets and tie them to my wrists. To me, it felt like being her. I'd like to go back to those times only for a few minutes... children's imagination is amazing, and, in our case, it really took us to wherever our minds wanted to. The good thing is that it's never late to be a kid again; I really want to buy a Sailor Scout costume and wear it on Halloween! Whether it will be this year, who knows, but it will happen. :) 

Memories That Make Me Giggle- #1

I think I've always been in love with love. When I was a teenager, I would create scenarios in my head of how I was going to meet my first boyfriend; every time I liked someone, I thought--and hoped-- that would be the person I would end up marrying; I was also given the nickname "Dr. Heart" [by I don't remember who] at one point in high school because I simply liked to talk about it and was good at giving advice to my girlfriends; I also had silly celebrity crushes like most girls do. One that I particularly remember is an old actor, Errol Flynn. Little did I care/know(?) that he was way dead when I saw him in one of my dad's favorite movies. I still had a dream about him in which he was inside some sort of pick up truck and invited me to jump in for a ride. How lovely; I did not want to wake up [and I was just like... 10 ?? 11??]. Anyway... I like writing about these memories. One day they will make me smile and giggle when I read them again. Who was your childhood crush?