(Mis)Adventures with Hector #12,739

I love my husband. 

He keeps me on my toes and makes me laugh, sometimes unintentionally. 

Last night, he was about to head out for some errands and says, "I can't find my phone." Not unusual, he looks in the typical places and no phone. I offer to call his phone and we don't hear anything, not in his car or upstairs. Hmm.

After several minutes, I've stopped calling his phone so he takes our house phone and begins calling it. Hector was outside and then comes back in announcing, "I found it!" 

Earlier, Hector was packing our old TV in the spare bedroom into the new TV box. As he lowered the TV into the box, his cell phone was in his shirt pocket and fell into the box without him noticing. He then and taped up the box and put it in the SUV to drive to our storage. 

It was fortunate that he found the phone before the box was put into storage because we may have never found it again or at least many years! It was so random yet so Hector.

So have you or your partner have some similar story? Share in the comments...

Crystal Lake

A while back, Hector and some of his friends/coworkers went out for a motorcycle ride to Crystal Lake then went shooting. I didn't go so I have none of the details but I came across his photos and it looked like they had a lot of fun. 

I'll post some of the photos and if you were there, please feel free to comment on the day. I will number the pictures so refer your comment to the specific photo and I can edit the info in later....

Riding higher into the mountains takes one above the clouds/fog.

motorcycle parking.

There are more photos so if you want to see more, let me know in the comments. I'm on the netbook right now so it's more time intensive to load photos from here.

Experts Only

I should have spoken up when I saw that sign...Go back to the 90's I can't remember the exact year but I'll guess around 1995 Hector and I went to Lake Tahoe for a snowboarding vacation. Back then we could stay in a run down motel for a week with breakfast daily and $7 towards dinner too with discounted lift tickets to any of the ski resorts around Tahoe. It was pretty fun, trying a new place every day.

I'm kneeling by the sign because my legs were probably too weak to support me.

This time we went to Kirkwood. I learned to ski here when I was at UOP so I was familiar with the bunny slopes. By this trip I figured out that I didn't like skiing so I took up snowboarding a year or two before because it looked like so much more fun. Hector was way more advanced than me so I should have been more suspicious when he took me on a new lift. Before we even got on the lift, a big noticeable sign was posted saying, "Experts Only" but silly me pushed that thought out of my mind thinking there must be an intermediate run too. Yeah, that skull and crossbones should have set off my danger alert but hey, I laugh at danger. Not really.  As we got higher and higher and the run got steeper and steeper, I got nervous. I get off the lift and there is only one way down and it's not even a run but a drop of 5 ft or more to start the run. YIKES! Oh my, what am I going to do! Hector assures me that I am ready for this and if all else fails, I can slideslip down which is the snowboarding version of a snowplow.

Hector goes down first and gets into position to take all these photos. You can see from the photos that this hill is steep and I manage to stay upright until the photo where my sunglasses are off and I'm squinting, probably some contact lens problem. The main point is that I survived and I didn't break any bones. It's a good story since Hector hoodwinked me and definitely got me out of my comfort zone. Story of my life! ;)

So far so good. Note that my board is pointed straight down the mountain which is terrifying especially to a aspiring  intermediate boarder.

Ack, you can tell how by my hands that I'm ready to eat the mountain.

I'm sure that Hector's photography skills increased the steepness of the mountain but hey, I look good.

and now for something completely different...

A photo tour during our dating leading up to our wedding.

Hector with his first dinosaur snowboard which weighed a ton sometime in 1995 (?). I think he went to Big Bear with some other residents and someone took his picture. He looks very handsome! :)

Grade school photo before glasses so we can see his purdy eyes. It looks like his scar at his left brow is already there but Hector says he got that when he was 14 years old. Looks like something happened before.

At our wedding November 9, 1996 looking very dapper.

Steamboat Springs, CO. Gorgeous weather and snow. We drove from LA to Colorado in 2 days with stops at Park City, UT and Vernal, CO.

Here at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas when the rooms were decorated with this bright floral pattern. After Steamboat (where we got engaged) we headed here for about 4 or 5 days to relax. This picture was set on a timer and I think I was watching TV and Hector did this pose the very last second. He does look happy though....


A shot from one of those disposable cameras at the wedding.

My honey

I met Hector at the ripe old age of 25 and he was 32 so seeing baby and childhood photos give me a peek into that time.

Look at him! So cute! Visiting his dad at the cemetary who wasn't a resident but an employee.

Younger photo of H. He must be around 2 yrs maybe. Look at those chunky legs. H recognized that house right away .

Now I can see H's face merging from the baby face. The glasses help too. Although it is H's secret weapon that when he removes the glasses, women SWOON over his eyes. No joke, I've had it happen to me and seen it happen to other women who had no idea of their power. It's better that he keeps them behind glasses. :)

Disneyland.

And we skip all the way to the Marines. Here he is with his sis Lupe.

Now I need to upload some of my old photos. :)

Song Du Jour

Heard this song on the way home from basketball...Morrissey makes my day!! :) Plus he liberally uses Hector in this song....such a silly boy!!