Ooops... Wasn't me!

So out of all of us soto siblings, we all have several specialties... Some good and some bad depending on how you look at it. Before I reveal one of my "bad" specialties I would just like to state that no one is perfect and that things happen for a reason and that it's the little things that make up a person and that we all make mistakes and I think you get my point.

So.... I tend to break things.. Not intentionally of course. It just happens. I remember we used to have this mirror that we used to move around everywhere and it would never break and one day it was leaning against the wall in my brother's room. For the life of me cannot remember what he said to me or which one of my brothers was having a disagreement with. Either way I pushed him lightly and like a feather he flew away and leaned into the mirror the wrong way and he broke it. Now some people try to blame me but I say it's debatable. Is that 7 years bad luck. I know I broke a second mirror but I don't remember how. I guess that's 14 years of bad luck... Woopsy!

Then one day Maria had to get a new car! Sheesh why'd she do that.. I dunno. But she used to give me rides... Even after I broke her tape player.... I also think this one is debatable. One day maria and I were driving down the road happily enjoying a sunny afternoon... Then she asked me to change the tape in the cassette player. Me, the helpful sister that I am, did as she wished and did just that. The cassette player must have not had very good instructions on how to put in a tape because it slipped in the wrong way. Now if you were a tape player and someone is trying to put in a tape the wrong way... Would you not accept it?! Well this Cassette player not only accepted it, it also kept it!!! No matter how many buttons we pushed or how much we wished for the tape to come out it wouldn't! :( it was so sad! Maria still thinks it was my fault but I'm not so sure it was!

One year for Christmas, we got our very first DVD player! How cool! Well let me tell you how it ate the DVD! I again was being the helpful sister that I am and I put it the DVD and was looking for the play button. I lifted the DVD player to look for and and it ate the DVD... It swallowed it whole! Some people think that was my fault!

Today I had similar situation at work... And let me just say that it wasn't my fault!

The death of the tooth

I lost my first tooth at 7, right before the end of second grade.

Know that in my house there were no such things as the "tooth fairy" and that losing your teeth was part of the natural process that is growing up. I told my mom about the tooth, she told me to throw it out... What?!? Throw out my tooth? I have had that tooth since my memory could work, throwing it out was not an option. So I did what felt dignified... I held a funeral for it. I made a coffin out of two bottle caps and taped them together. Held mass for it, Bety attended... And payed her respects, so did my imaginary friends who all said something about it while I dug the hole for it in the side of the house where there was sand for construction. I also made a cross to identify its location.

I told my mom who found it to be the funniest thing and asked me to show her where my tooth was buried and I asked her to please tell mi tío Rubén That he was not allowed to use that sand, since it was the sacred place of my tooth.

A few weeks later, after the dance show and the elementary school graduation was over, I dug up my tooth... I wanted to see what it looked like. It was moldy and stinky; and to date my brain can't add up what happened to it after that.

The things that make me, me!

For the past few weeks I've had the pleasure of keeping in touch con mis hermanas very frequently.  We have email threads that are over 100 messages long.  We have long text message conversations on our phones and many pictures have been shared.  For several weeks I've also been thinking about me.  What makes me, me?  I kept thinking of all the things that other people think are unique about me, and as it turned out many are the same that many people notice about mis hermanas.  Owning many many pairs of shoes, cute purses, cute outfits, and other things.  I thought about getting rid of all my shoes because that's Maria's thing.  I thought to myself, I can't start collecting cool rings because that's Ana's thing.  All the fashion stuff is Ana and Maria's thing.  Then I thought about buying all kinds of mexican boots and listening to only mexican music, but that's Meche's thing.  I must admit I was in quite a crisis.  Then today it hit me, yeah I have a lot of things in common with my sisters in the things I like and what my "things" are because I learned that from them.  

Throughout the years from Yuriria, to Nottingham PA, to Oxford PA to University Park PA and back to Oxford again, I've learned my from sisters.  I could sit here and list out all the decisions I've made in my life so far dependent on what my sisters have done themselves in similar situations.  I learned the love of Mexican music, brushing my hair, the color white and courage from my big sister Mechita.  I've learned the love for Rock music, appreciation for my curly hair, the color black and wisdom from my sister Lui.  I've learned the love for Hip Hop music, the wildness of long hair, the color pink and adventure from my sister Bety.  Of course that is not all that I have learned from them.  There is so much more! I hope that despite me being younger and more naiive to the world, that they have learned something from me so far.  

The things that make me are a very good mixture of all three of them!  I love all the things they love but I also love Zumba, sunflowers, pink, loud music, iced coffee...

Above is me...a mix of everything...although its messy and doesn't quite make sense!  :)