Merry Christmas!

Peach and Cream Comics will be on a little hiatus as we spend Christmas with our families. 

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Episode 15: Food translations...

We're not really sure why Dulce immediately thought we would just buy a live turtle as a pet because it was on sale... It might be due to cultural differences because she is from Colombia Costa Rica. We also tease her a lot because her voice changes quite a bit when she is upset by something ;)

Episode 14: You Can't Hide...

We use technology to send very "thoughtful" gifts to our friend Ginger. For some reason, she always thinks that nobody will be able to find her... At one point, she moved to South Korea for a year, and PB&J and Cream used social engineering to track her down by finding her sister's wedding announcement... it is scary how fast and easy it was. They sent her Nicholas Cage pillow covers two Christmas ago, and a "Justin Trudeau: My Canadian Boyfriend" calendar last Christmas, so we figured we needed to honor this new tradition of finding her a suitable prank gift for this year ^^ If you have any good ideas to help us on this quest, please feel free to suggest them!

Episode 13: First phone call

So I attended a lecture the other day, and it reminded me of our first phone call. The speaker mentioned how during an exchange program in Norway, he realized that over there they had different words for "love" depending of what stage of relationship you are at: beginning relationship love, sensual love, ready to move in love, want to get married love, old spouses love, love for your kids, love for your pets, love for chocolate... He then mentioned "In English, all I could remember about love was that I shouldn't be the first one to say it!"... Oh how I can relate lol...

I absolutely did not mean to blurt out the "I love you" so soon... (I did like him a lot already though... we had been friends for a long time already). The thing is, people who know me well will know that I often finish phone calls to my parents with "love you! kisses" or to my gal friends with "love you sweetie"... so it was mostly a reflex, and a very unintentional first "I love you" in our relationship. He does enjoy teasing me about it now and then though.

Episode 12: Serious Commute Conversations (part 2)

If you thought for one second that Cream could tease me in front of others (see episode 11) without me getting back at him for it, you are oh so wrong! lol

For my health conscious readers that don't eat fast food:
- Cream was going to order 3 cheeseburgers at McDonalds.
- Frosty: frozen dairy dessert sold at Wendy's
- Whopper: signature sandwich sold at Burger King
- Timbits: bite sized fried dough confectionery sold at Tim Hortons.
- Bubble Tea: a Taiwanese tea-based drink with chewy tapioca balls.

PS: I am not sure I captured it right in the drawing: Cream didn't get angry at me, just quite embarrassed when the drive-thru staff tried to explain to him that this was not a proper order for them. With that said, I can't imagine I'd be the only person to prank their significant other in this way, so I am sure they are used to dealing with this type of situation... or they thought he had an excessively demanding girlfriend! lol

Episode 11: Serious Commute Conversations

My fiancé is mature... most of the time anyway. We do love playing pranks of each other. It certainly keeps life interesting. Also, I think he made my parking attendant's day! Now, she smiles as soon as she sees my car slowing in to pay and looks as if she is expectantly waiting for the next novelty he is gonna shout through the car speakers.

Episode 10: Big Announcement

So... WE GOT ENGAGED!!!
And it turns out... girls react VERY differently than guys lol.
On my side, just sending the photo out and everyone understood what happened without me having to say a single word.
On his side... well... as you can see... it took... a little bit more explanation 😛

Episode 09: Sharing Food

We obviously learned to eat and enjoy VERY different parts of animals lol. I absolutely love lobster heads (we very subtly fight for it at family dinners), while boyfriend doesn't care for it at all and is more than happy to crack claws instead. Perfect sharing!

Episode 08: Learning to be Lazy Together

I often make these intricate travel plans, making a list of all the things I want to do and places I want to visit following friends advices or google searches... without taking into account the logistic of getting there or how much time we have. Thankfully, my boyfriend is very good at taking care of those details for me. At the end of the day, we're just happy to be spending the time together, so we're both ok with shortcutting plans to simply enjoy little pleasures along the road, even if it means not checking out the main touristy landmarks.

Episode 07: Growing Old Together

Alright, so my boyfriend is younger than me by a mere 10 days... and boy does he enjoy teasing me about my age during that time until his age clocks to the same number... Thank god it's just a few days.

By the way, if anyone is interested, the actual definition of a cougar is an older (40yo and above... although some site mention jaguar if the woman is 50+) woman dating a man more than 8 years her junior. A puma is a woman in her 30s dating a younger man.

I had never heard of either puma or jaguar until researching the accurate definition for this episode...

Episode 06: Learning to Share Space

For my friends who have been on school trips and conferences with me, this is gonna come as a total surprise as I used to not move at all during my sleep...
Now, I keep looking for his heat, and will keep pushing him to the edge of the bed if he happens to run away because it is getting too warm. I was so confused the first time he moved to my side because he didn't have any room left and claimed I pushed him off the bed... We adapted by now starting the night heavily on my side of the bed instead of in the center, in hopes that we can spend the whole night without him falling off :p

Episode 05: Visiting the Asian Parents

I think you don't wear shoes inside the house in most asian households. But my parents would consider it bad etiquette if they didn't have slippers for their guest to walk around. However, even with the vast collection of types and sizes of slippers, we somehow couldn't find any pair that was remotely fitting my boyfriend's feet. They are just that much bigger than asian feet lol.

Episode 04: Creating Couple Vocabulary

His native language is English, mine is French mixed with some Vietnamese. It sometimes leads to very funny situations where we have to create new words or expressions for things that don't translate so well in different languages. He is progressively learning a lot of words though (especially in French), but some words just stick faster than others :)

Episode 03: Sharing your interests (part 2)

He eventually got used to this and now stops people from digging in until I have taken photos of all the dishes 😊

Episode 02: Sharing your Interests

... I really have a hard time not listening to instructions...

Episode 01: Announcing the relationship to the parents

We never ever imagined that this would be THE question everyone would be asking us...