Why did I do that?

Okay there are two things that made me say this yesterday and I thought I should share. First off, I actually wrote this blog yesterday and it was totally awesome, but genius me decided to add a picture at the end and when I went to my photo album to add the picture, I guess it exited me out of the website so I lost everything I wrote!! Arrrrgggghhhh, why didn't I save first??!!! Oh that reminds me, I better save this before I lose this blog too! Whew, okay I think I'm okay now, so on to the second reason why I would say," why would I do that?"

Yesterday I got bored (which pretty much sets the precedence of what's to come, because if you follow me, then you know that anytime I get bored, I usually do something I really shouldn't do, like cut all my hair off or something of that nature). Anyway, getting back to the story, my husband and I got home yesterday and decided to wind down, so my husband started playing his video games and I was pretty out of it because I was doing my training on an obstacle course out in the desert where it was like 100 degrees for work and got heat exhaustion so I didn't care. But after an hour or so of just sitting on the couch waiting for my husband to get off his video games, I got bored and started listening to the voices in my head which said, " you know what would be AWESOME? If you drew a mustache on your refrigerator!" So me being the free spirited, creative person that I am said, " you know what? That WOULD be AWESOME!!" So off I went in search of some markers.

I found my old dry erase markers that I use to use in my old job and figured it would be safe to use and easy to remove afterwards. Just to be on the safe side, I even made a mark and easily removed it from a small corner of the fridge so I said "Cool!" And from there I drew a HUGE mustache across the bottom half of my refrigerator. I was so pleased with myself that I even caught the attention of my husband who was still playing his video games, but took a moment to find out what I was so happy about? I showed him what I did and he half heartedly laughed and told me to take it off. Even though I had fun drawing on my refrigerator, I obeyed my husband and proceeded to remove the drawing, the only problem with that was that it DIDN'T WANT TO COME OFF?!!!!!!!!"

I tried the dry eraser, a dry paper towel, a wet paper towel, a dish scrubber, nail polish remover which only removed like 10% of it, Awesome ( it's a liquid household cleaner which was not so awesome at cleaning this job). I tried just about everything, but nothing worked?! By this time, my husband became peeved and scolded me and told me that I better get online and figure out a way to take it off! I became just as peeved and told him that it's really all HIS FAULT (since I can't blame myself) because if he "would of been spending time and monitoring me, instead of playing his dumb video games, then we wouldn't be in the predicament that we were in!" He gave me a baffled look like, " WHAT?!!" And again informed me that I better take it off. I told him to " Chilax, Count Chocula, it will be gone by tomorrow!" Then I went online and looked up " How to remove dry erase marker from your refrigerator?" Luckily, I wasn't the only person in the world to do this and found a bunch of people saying that the only way to take it off is by soaking a Mr. Clean eraser sponge with nail polish remover.

The next morning, I awoke to my husband yelling at me to get up and demanding that I remove my graffiti! Truth be told, I still was proud of my work and felt that it made our fridge look more well established in its refrigerator life. As if he should have a noble name, like Lord Fridgidaire or something in that nature, but again my husband was not pleased and decided to barrate me like a child and so I decided to act like a teenager and pretended to not care and ignored him while he sat on the kitchen floor cursing my name and trying to scrub the drawing away. To make a long story longer......just kidding, I'm almost to the end! Heehee, okay, I got sidetracked now; where was I? Oh yeah, so we eventually went to the store and bought the recommended sponges and nail polish remover and I came home and I kid you not, as soon as I put the nail polish soaked sponge on the fridge, the stain magically disappeared before my eyes!!! It was truly a miracle I say! I tried wiping it with nail polish remover by itself on a cotton ball, but like I previously stated, it only removed a little bit of it, so I don't know if Mr. Clean is really a genie that grants your cleaning wishes or what, but I am reluctant to report that "Lord Fridgidaire" is no more..........Until next time my beloved (don't draw on your refrigerator with dry erase markers) ;p

Today was a good day

Hallo! Shalom! And all those wonderful greetings to all of you friends around the world; how the heck are all of you?! As for me, I am doing great! I started training in my new job, I am happy and in a place in my life that I feel is peaceful.

The only thing that I am disappointed in myself about is that I missed church this morning; I can't believe I did that! I totally forgot about turning the clocks forward for Spring, so this morning I thought I woke up at 9 a.m. and so I didn't nag my husband to get ready or anything, because church starts at 10:45 so I figured we had plenty of time......that was until I looked at the clock on the television that said it was already going to be 11:30 a.m!! We decided to just take the day as it is and enjoy what was left of our morning because by the time we got dressed and made it to church, it would have already of been over :( besides that hiccup, we had a nice day.

My husband made me a delicious breakfast sandwich that had sausage, a slice of turkey and then grilled it with melted cheese and topped it off with a nice steaming cup of my favorite tea ( this is probably why I was in such a mellow mood in the morning). Afterwards, we watched a few episodes of some random reality tv show ( seems like that's all there is on tv now a days) then we got dressed and set out on our adventure for the day.

I told my husband I wanted to be romanced and go on an adventure with just the two of us, because I know once I start working, I'm not going to have so much free time as I do now. Sadly, the only thing he could come up with was to go get some cupcakes at this cupcake shop two cities over from us. I told him, " is that all you can come up with? I have like a dozen different adventures running through my mind just as we speak?!!" He asked me what ideas I had and I told him, we could go on adventures to see how many countries we can visit without living the state? I know we have a Mexican town, China town, Korea Town, Little Armenia, and even a Dutch town and I always wanted to just take a road trip and see all of them. The way I see it, if you fly around the world, you have to buy a plane ticket, rental car, rent a room, pay for food, etc. and in the end that will cost you what, between $5,0000 to $10,0000 or maybe more? If we just traveled to each town, which has the same culture anyway, we would only be spending what $1,000 tops? By now beloved, you all know I'm cheap, so which one would you choose?

To make a long story longer, we didn't end up doing that or the cupcake run. Instead, we used a free coupon I got in the mail for one of my favorite restaurants, then we walked and bought some cream puffs from a near by Papa Beards. Usually, I love their cream puffs, because they are so light and fluffy, but today they seemed a little dry; oh well, se la vie. After our dessert, we walked around town and found this really great shop called Ten Thousand Villages, that is a non-profit store. Apparently, from what I read, they buy handmade merchandise from people in different countries and sell them to help pay for their livelihood, like food, water, etc. they had some really cool things in there like jewelry, sculptures made out of recycled cans, etc and each item has a sticker with the location from where they are from and the name of the individual who made it. I walked around for awhile and found this really cute onyx cut elephant. It was from Pakistan, but it didn't have the name of the person that made it. I LOVE elephants and if you look inside my home, you will see that I have quite a few around my living room.

 The elephant is actually pretty small and fits in the palm of my hand and it is grey with a little but of brown, gold and white in it. I think it is so adorable and I love buying things that go to good causes, so even though I'm broke as a joke right now, I was still more than happy to indulge with this item. After walking around, we decided to walk back and somehow made our way to a clothes store (it wasn't me that lead the way, I swear....or maybe it was)? Anyway, we made it into the store and I told my husband that I wanted to look for a dress for my upcoming birthday party. For all of you that are following me already know that this is a big year for me since I'm getting closer to the top of the hill and decided to throw myself a mad hatter tea party unbirthday spectacular!! So we walked around and I found a couple of options and showed my husband and he told me I should try them on. So being the obedient wife that I am...heehee...I took the dresses and tried them on for him. The first one just didn't do it for me. The second one was alright according to my husband, but then I tried on the third one and when I walked out of the dressing room to show him, his eyes lit up and he told me, " that one is REALLY nice!" Pleased with his response I changed back into my regular clothes and brought the dresses out to give back to the store clerk. Then my husband being the spoiler that he is, told me that if I really want it, that I can put it on my credit card and that it really looked nice on me. I accepted his permission to use my credit card, because I know that it's hard finding things that fit just right on me and since the dress was less than $30, it made me happy that I wasn't splurging all that much. After dress shopping, we did a little more walking around and decided to call it a day, but remembered we had to go to the 99 cents store. For all the readers that aren't from around here, or ever heard of the 99 cents store, it is pretty much my most FAVORITE store to shop at. Here the name of the store pretty much sums it up; EVERYTHING is 99 cents!! Doesn't matter if its a pack of gum or household utensils, literally EVERYTHING is 99 cents! Well wait, actually not everything is 99 cents, it take it back. There are actually a few items that cost less than 99 cents like cups of noodles are only 29 cents and there are items you can buy 3 or 4 of them for a dollar, but nothing is over 99 cents...I love that store so much! Okay, Okay, enough praising of the 99 cents store. So we went and bought some fruits and vegetables that were too expensive to buy at the regular store, as well as some other food items to get us through the week, then we came back to our humble home and started to clean up a bit to get ready for the week. Then we sat down on our couch and spent the rest of the evening ignoring each other; oh what a glorious day! Just kidding, actually he is sitting right next to me playing video games and I am here chatting with you all, while I am waiting for my load of laundry to finish. On that note, I better get back to my wifely duties and get my husband off the video games before he turns into one of those zombie teenagers, then I will never see him again!! Until next time my beloved.........

Where have I been?

Hello my wonderful friends around the world! Sorry it's been awhile since we last spoke, but I've been so busy this month!! For one I started my new job; YAY! My first day was Monday and I gotta say it was a pretty awesome day! I had to be at the training site at 7:00a.m. So I woke up at 4:30 ( haven't done that in awhile) and was out of my house by 5:45a.m. I was so worried because according to my husband I have no sense of direction ( woman driver, blah blah) and I always get lost. He was originally suppose to drive me the 40 miles,  but he is continuing to care for our nephew so we agreed it would be easier if I just rove myself. So off I went with my GPS in hand and ready to launch out on my new adventure, when all of a sudden I had to make an abrupt stop, about face and head back to my house because I forgot the car keys in the house and to top it off I locked the door from the inside before I went to the car, so there I was banging in the washroom for my husband to come open the front door and give me the keys ( hope I didn't wake the neighbors)?! Once I was back on track, I headed towards my destination and only had to turn around once, because I missed my turn to change freeways and had to get off and turn around again. Thankfully I made it to the training site with time to spare and I had a wonderful first day!

My trainer looked and acted like George Lopez ( for those of you who don't know him, he's a Latino comedian actor) so my day was spent mostly smiling and laughing. After training I came straight home without any delays and I patted myself on the back for finding my own way home without any help :D I'm a little worried though because they are saying if we can't cut it, then they are letting us go and I just hope I can keep up?! I'm putting my faith in The Lord though, because he got me this far and I am trusting he will give me the strength to do what I need to do.

Another reason why I am so busy is because this is actually my birthday month!!!! Hip, hip Hurray I'm turning into an old fart! Well almost anyway; I'm turning 30, but I feel more like 50; hopefully this new job will whip  me into shape with all the walking and lifting I will be doing?

Since this is such a milestone birthday, I decided to go crazy and throw myself a birthday party to celebrate. The theme is "Mad Hatter wonderland tea party," I don't know how I'm going to decorate or anything, but I know we are still tight with money so I'm baking my own birthday cake and also having a birthday cake bake off challenge so I can have lots of desserts and birthday cakes with having to spend hundreds of dollars. My total budget I am giving myself is $200 that's with a cushion, so lets see if I make it below budget and still have an awesome birthday party. Well I gotta get back to all my planning; wish me luck!...... Until Next time my beloved

Today's Adventure

Hallo!!! Guten tag! Wie ghets? Hope all is well with all of you friends around the world? I know it's been awhile since we last have spoken but oh how the time flies!! So many wonderful things have been going on, I don't know where to begin?!

To start off I got a job!!!! Yay! FINALLY, so now you guys can stop hearing about how I have no j-o-b..LOL! It's with the post office and I couldn't be happier, because I pretty much am going to get paid to work out! I start training on March 4th and I just hope that I, strong enough to keep up, because they informed us that if we fail the training, we are going to be automatically fired (yikes)!!!! Nevertheless, I'm counting down the days and after a year of being out of the game, I can't wait to jump back in!

Being that I'm going back to work, unfortunately I'm not going to be able to provide childcare for my nephew anymore :( my husband is taking over and I just hope he doesn't slack off on all the work I've been doing with him, such as lessons, activities, exercise, etc. I have every faith in him though ( but I left him a survival guide just incase).

Since I've been getting ready to go back to work (I.e. making notes for my husband everywhere and trying to get used to going to bed and waking up early) I have also been going into over drive trying to do as many things with my husband and nephew, since I pretty much will be working six days a week and won't have another vacation anytime soon.

We went to Disneys California Adventure last week and enjoyed a nice relaxing day walking around the park and since today was such a beautiful warm day, I decided to take everyone to the petting zoo! I actually seen a sign for it a couple of years ago and always wanted to go, but never had time. And then when I lost my job ( ok hopefully this will be the last time, that sentence will ever be said..heehee) anyway, I didn't have the money, but since I'm starting my new job next week ( yay) I'm considering this my vacation and to be on the safe side, we cashed in all of our recyclables we've been saving for a special occasion and off we went!

We've never been there before so we didn't really know how to get there and our GPS seemed as though it was sending us to the outskirts of town?

We were driving a little slower than usual trying to find the right street to turn down, when all of a sudden a car started honking at us from behind? My husband does this thing whenever this happens, which is that he starts to drive even SLOWER to piss off the drivers more, then when they pass us and start flipping us off, he just smiles and waves at them. So today was just one of those occasions and when the car pulled next to us and expectedly flipped us off, etc. my husband smiled and waved and said Bye! And from the back seat, I heard a small bye!! And when I turned around, our nephew was copying my husband and waving out the window....I started laughing at this precious moment and told my husband, " at least you're being a good example this time!" Eventually, we found our destination and it was actually part of this park and it was like and enchanted place that I, nor my nephew wanted to leave! It was so awesome! They had every animal, from an Emu all the way to a Zebra! And then they had pony rides, train rides, merry go round, gem stone find area and a fishing area. We had a grand old time and all we spent for the three of us and all the activities was $22; that sounds like my budget!

After our fun adventure, we came back home and enjoyed the memories we made....Until next time my beloved.....

Woman scorned

Hello my friends, hope all is well? Just wanted to talk it out and thought I might drop in for a chat?!
I'm feeling a little down today. Maybe it's because the day is cold and gloomy so my mood decided to match it or maybe it's because there's some discord in my life and it's making me feel down?

I hate discord! I especially hate being the scapegoat for everyone's problems when all I've ever done was be there and support them. I really don't understand it to be honest with you? I mean I thought being helpful and kind and supportive were things that would make people happy and show how much I care and love them, but has been my unfortunate experience that it causes the exact opposite effect?! Apparently, if I'm helpful, I'm being too involved in there lives and is being annoying? If I'm kind, that apparently gives them the license to think they can take advantage and walk all over me and if I'm being supportive, apparently, I'm being some kind of judge mental critical B****! I mean is it me? I didn't think I was doing anything wrong? All I would do is be there when they called or needed me, be an ear or shoulder to cry on when they needed to talk and try to give Godly advice when they were facing troubling situations, but apparently by my doing that, I have become the enemy. I have become the reason why their lives are so miserable and I am the one that needs to apparently stay away and out of everything??!!

Truth be told, I'm perfectly fine with that, like I said, I HATE discord and really don't want it in my life. So, if they choose to cut themselves out of my life because of their own issues, not mine, I'm fine with that, but don't come running back and be hurt when I'm not there waiting anymore.

Here's another truth, I probably would still be there, because I don't have the heart to turn from someone in need, but if I feel I've been hurt enough times, don't get mad when I decide to treat you the same way you so cold heartedly treated me first....Until next time my beloved

Lights, Camera, ACTION!!!!

It was a mildly hot February day, unusual hot for this time a year..The year was 2013, the place was Hollywood....Well actually it was close to Hollywood, but not really, but anyway I went to church with my mom and enjoyed the fine California air and upon returning home, we noticed cones semi-blocking off the streets of our neighborhood.  "Oh, so I guess they started filming," I told my mom unsurprised.

My cousin, who I believe will be a very successful Director one day, recently contacted me and asked if he could use my house to shoot some scenes in his movie.  Being the Thespian that I am with a great appreciation for the arts myself, without hesitation, I agreed and today was the day that they began filming.






My mom drove to church so she parked at her house and I walked down or more like trotted down to my apartment, trying my best not to get in that way of artistic progress and as I get to the doorway of my home, I notice two females and a male sitting on my couch.  The male was tall, with shoulder length black wavy hair, wearing a robe and sporting a beard.  I looked at them and they looked up at me as I entered the home and I thought to myself, "Is this a movie or a porno?"  Oh my gosh, what did I get home into?!!" Just kidding, my cousin explained the storyline to  me and my home was suppose to be the married characters home.  I walked in and introduced myself and they seemed like typical "Hollywood peeps," so I put my purse down and searched for my husband who was suppose to be holding up the front while I was out.  I found him back at my moms house, giving my little bro a haircut and we went back to the apartment to hide out in our room, while chaos took place everywhere else. Unfortunately, my husband decided to ditch me to go "buy food," and alas, I am left here alone being a stranger in my own home, which is why I am here now writing to you my beloved, at least you guys can keep me company and make me look like I'm not a total looser with nothing better to do! Again I kid!

I'm actually pretty use to all this craziness, because believe it or not, yours truly almost became the next "Who's that girl again?" but at the last minute I decided to take another route.  Acting and anything that has to do with art actually runs in my blood; all the way down to my ancestors.  Can you believe that my family was a traveling acting company that traveled all over the world, performing theatre and shows and was even Poncho Villa's own private entertaining group.  Legend has it, that when my great aunt was born, Poncho Villa and his posse were downstairs at a bar, when my great, grandfather ran down and announced the birth of his daughter and Poncho Villa and his gang were so excited, they started shooting their guns up into the air. (So Hollywood movies right, but it's true), then when the war broke out, Poncho Villa personally guided my family across the border into New Mexico, which is how we ended up in the United States.  So you can see how it is no surprise that a lot of my family is actually in the industry.

I myself, once upon a time was an aspiring actress and from what I was told, I had a very promising future, and I did get a lot of call backs and things like that, but truth be told, when I was in it, all I felt was pressure.  Pressure to look a certain way, speak a certain way and act a certain way and all the ways I was suppose to be...well it just wasn't me.  So after awhile, I thought about it and even though my manager at the time was strictly against it, I decided to walk away and have a normal life.  One where I wasn't scrutinized for everything I said and did and free to fall in love, go wild and just be me!  Do I wonder what might of been?  Truthfully, not really, all I have to do is open up a magazine and see for myself and I know I made the right decision.  Plus, I would always joke with my husband and tell him that if I never walked away, I would have never of met him and I wouldn't have the wonderful life that I have now.  So by now, you know the gist of my life, you tell me?  Should I have continued with acting or did I make the right decision?  I think so......Until next time.....

My funny Valentine

Hallo, vie ghets? Shalom and all that great stuff! How was everyone's Valentines day? I know I'm a little late with this entry, but I got a little caught up in things, so I'm a little behind, please bear with me.

Valentines Day is suppose to be about love right? The day where your loved ones go out and do this grand gesture to show you how much they care about you so on and so forth. Well my day wasn't really about all that Hallmark Mumbo jumbo, but it was special just the same.

You see for those of you just turning in, I have been jobless for the past year and my faith and trust in The Lord has truly been tested and tried. In this past year, I had to face a lot of my demons and battle myself to find myself again. After a year of searching for a job and waiting and putting my faith in God and not myself, I finally got a positive response back from a job that I applied for with the post office. I didn't know if I would get it or not, but I sent up a quick prayer for The Lord to guide me and I applied. After I applied, I took an assessment test, and after that assessment test, I received an invite to go and take another assessment. I felt confident and again put my trust in The Lord and after the second assessment, I was told to take a drug test, after the drug test a background check was requested and after that, I FINALLY received an invitation for a group interview and when I received the letter I looked at the date it fell on and guess what day that was??!!! February 14th!! I was like what are the odds, right on Valentines day?! So as the day approached I became very nervous, because I have the habit of psyching myself out and all these thoughts ran through my mind, like " what if I'm not good enough?" What if they take one look at me and laugh?!" I forced those negative thoughts out of my head and instead turned to my support group which is made up of friends and family and asked that everyone pray for me.

The night before, I was so stressed, I made myself sick so I went to bed early. Fortunately for that, I was able to rise and shine bright and early the next day ready to take on the interview. My husband cooked me a hearty breakfast because the last group interview had me stuck there all day with no food or breaks so I got sick afterwards. Plus my husband claims it was for Valentines Day. So I got ready, ate breakfast and off we went. I got there an hour early, but decided to go in early to hopefully get it over with, but it being a group interview, I ended up standing outside for an hour until the rest of the group showed up. I didn't mind though, because I ended up making friends and talking while I waited and it seemed to take my mind off the stress of the interview. Right before we finally went inside, I heard crows flying above me in the sky and I looked up. As I looked up I said to The Lord, " Lord, look at these birds, they do not worry about what they will eat or who will feed them, yet you provide for them, please Lord provide this job for me today." As I said it, I took a deep breath and was calm, I walked in there just as me, honest and friendly as only I can be. I filled out my paperwork and a question became a great concern which was " were you ever fired or resigned from a job after being notified that you would be fired?" I of course said no, but the proctor warned us that if we lie, we can and will be terminated! So of course I became freaked out, because as for all of you that have been following me know, my last long term position had a very complicated ending?! So again, I put my trust in The Lord and wrote as honest as I could, the detailed, complicated past I had with my employer.

When it came down to interview one on one, the first question was, so what happened with your last employer? I gave it to God, explained what happened and she just thanked me for explaining it and offered me the job!!! This truly had to be of God, because it is all happening so fast! I am not officially hired though, I still have to pass my medical assessment next week and if I clear that, then they will give me a start date.

I walked out of that building not feeling ecstatic or joyous even though I was, I felt more at peace and calm, even now as I'm typing, I know I should be more excited, but I just feel completely at ease with the whole situation because I know God is in control. After the interview, we couldn't really do anything because we still had our nephew so we went home and hung out until it was time to drop him off at home. Then we went out to eat, but kind of rushed through it because it was well after 9p.m. And the restaurant was closed. After our rushed dinner, we were feeling so blessed about the job, we decided to bless someone else and went and bought candy and a bottle of wine and took it to our dearly beloved sister, then we came home because we have both become so old and my husband was crying he had aches and pains and my stomach hurt because I ate too fast. So once we got home, we both got ready for bed and then that's when things got really interesting.......we both jumped into bed and went to sleep!!!

Yup that was my Valentines Day and I truly feel special, because God was my Valentine and he gave me the most precious gift he could think of to let me know he loves me, which was a much needed and long awaited job! Hope everyone had as special of a day as I had.......Until next time my beloved.....