Mi Vida Loca...

Christmas is closing in!!!!

2011-12-12T20:31:00.000-08:00

There is nothing wrong with making a little wish list...
I could be out of my mind and put this house on my Christmas list....
But I wont ;)

I could be crazy and put this fine ride on there....
But I wont ;)

Instead it's a list of things I want, but shouldn't purchase because I have to be a responsible adult.
Instead I save them onto my desktop and see if I ever get them.
I usually don't buy them and realize there are greater things to worry about.
My ultimate Christmas list would be to solve world hunger and see the end of hate in this world.
But lets be real, I'm Christ-ina not Christ!!
But take a look at my little wish list ;)
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Just for fun, a bike accessory :)
Just take out that ugly Ferby looking dog!!

This color says it all!

If you know me well, you know I'm ring crazy!
I like this one only because it reminds me of one I lost.
I dislike it says OBEY on it but who will ever notice?
I'll say the B.E. are my man's initials ;)

Gold, gold, gold!
No one can ever have enough ;)

More gold bling! How can you say no to something this amazing!

These blouses are ones I should just make...
The price and quality probably wont match anyway!

These wedges are a Major wishlist item, I don't get to wear heels or wedges often.

You can't blame a lady for trying to look fly ;)

These loafers are more realistic and $39....I mean!!
I'm a sucker for woven footwear!! Yum!!!These boots are the style of boot I've had my eye on for some time now!
I want theeeessseee, Zara has a $50 pair I might just spoil myself with.
I could wear these with everything!! Denim, dresses, shorts, and skirts.... Bring it on!!

Don't lose sight of what is important these Holidays!!
I wish you all and your families a lovely holiday season,
and all the health and happiness in the world!
Be thankful for the great people in your life,
that will always be worth far more than any amount of Stuff or money!
xoxo

Women....

2011-10-20T22:13:00.000-07:00

Inspiration Of The Day: Be a strong, confident, independent, and happy woman!

With those traits nothing can bring you down.

It's easy to lose sight of who YOU are and what you WANT!

Figure yourself out, love yourself, and conquer your dreams.

With that said here are some photos of women that I've collected.

They stood out to me for one reason or another but non the less made an impact.

It's sometimes easy to stray from the ideal person you would like to be.

Know the expectations you have for yourself before expecting them from others.

Don't stop until YOU'RE HAPPY!

American Dreamer...

2011-10-19T06:00:00.000-07:00

Being 24 and still living at home, in my childhood room makes me feel like this....

That feeling has me seeking a quiet alone place like this...

Don't get me wrong, not paying rent and warm meals are great.

But there comes a time that you realize, this is getting LAME*!!

*If you're my age or older and still live at home don't be offended, everyone is different

and in writing this post I am referring to my OWN situation.

On that note:

I'm just another cat trying to live the American dream.

A hard working gal trying to make it in L.A.

Usually when frustrated about living at home I vent by seeking inspiration for my future place.

I'm determined and driven, and by this time next year I better be living my dream!

Til then folks enjoy photos I've collected recently.

I want this tub!! The view isn't bad either ;)

Cable spool as a table and natural lighting, yes please!

Picture this with fashion magazines and vintage sewing gadgets.

To die for!

Plants everywhere!

From the backyard to your bedroom, genius!

Outdoor space is a Must!

Amazing carpets...

Glass, flowers, and old lamps. Love it!

Light, white, and calm. (Except I would remove the 100,000 candles, gross!)

Design is EVERYTHING!

Glass, glass, glass! Oh and the magnetic knife row ;)

This closet organization, times 100 for all my things. I wouldn't mind having this AMAZING men's clothing just because it looks good and I'd probably try to pull it off.

Wood/Concrete/Glass

This is just a fraction of my home inspiration folder but thought it was a start.

You can try to put me in a silly category like:

Contemporary, minimalist, modern, blah blah blah!

I believe no one could fit into ONE style.

We are all a collection of different likes and dislikes.

It's so easy to make some of what's seen in the images into a DIY project.

Start getting inspired and make some stuff!!

Colors, Heat, Sun...Yum!

2011-10-17T07:00:00.000-07:00

Not to worry people, the world will not come to an end.

Whats to come is far too amazing!

Although I recently JUST posted about Fall

This most recent heat wave made me very

excited about what I'm seeing for Spring 2012!!

Alive

2011-10-10T21:26:00.000-07:00

At our monthly Long Beach Clean Up

we broke two of our own records:

Best attendance with 107 people

Most trash cleaned at 224lbs!!!!

Amazing!!!

Obviously is was a Costume Clean Up and I was Robin and Batman (Stef) was in Germany!

Following a great morning I met up with my main squeeze and headed out to San Clemente.

Once there we met up with a friend and his lady and headed to her family property.

Got there just in time to watch the sunset and stayed late enough to enjoy the moon light.

And even met two gorgeous horses and enjoyed a lovely meadow!

Have you ever had the moment where you stop and

realize life is happening everywhere

and you think I'M ALIVE!!!

As I sat on a rock enjoying the night, I realized how

I wouldn't have chosen to be anywhere else in that moment.

That is living, that is what it's like to be ALIVE!

Legendary

2011-10-06T07:00:00.000-07:00

Inspiration of the Day:

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

I can't but help admire his character, drive, and determination for quality not quantity.

It's rare that people in his position hold true to who they are and what they believe.

Rest In Peace Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Wake Up!

2011-10-05T08:00:00.000-07:00

Hello! Are you out there?!

Inspiration of the Day: Life is too short to miss all the beautiful things.

Enjoy the view of towering buildings or the mountains creeping from the clouds.

Whatever your view is, take the time to enjoy and take it all in.

FALLing...

2011-10-04T07:10:00.000-07:00

The weather is getting cold and it's time to layer and wear your Fall's best...

The industry has already moved onto Spring 2012,

but I had to pull a Fall runway fav for this post.

Marchesa Fall 2011: I mean....talk about amazing!

Fall is all about: Simplicity, Colors, Textures, and perfectly mixing them together.

Enjoy the cold days, chunky sweater days to come!

Oh Wooord...

2011-10-03T19:46:00.000-07:00

I've decided to move my Inspiration of the Day post to my blog instead of the ol' BookFace.

Not sure why, I suppose I just felt like it. Not sure if this is permanent, but enough just enjoy!

Inspiration of the Day: Take the time to listen to the wise and learn from their knowledge, you'd be surprised the wisdom they can give you.

(So I don't get sued, I have to be sure to tell you that not all my inspiration photos are photographed by me. This particular one was taken from a blog)

Sup Cats!

2011-10-02T13:49:00.000-07:00

Well, I actually have some news to report....

I have a NEW job!!

I now work as a Fashion Stylist for HauteLook

For some who don't know what the heck it is that I do well....

HauteLook posts different sale events everyday,

so it's my job the clothing gets shot before the event is posted.

We get the clothes in from the sample room, steam it, pair it with pieces in our studio closet, and dress the model. An outfit at a time back to back.

Sometimes you have 2 lines, sometimes you have 3.

The people are great and I'm learning something new everyday.

I enjoy the chaos and the people so I'm excited.

Sometimes it's my job to make boring clothes attractive to our members, like this...

Other than having a bit of a crazy week I'm excited and very much looking forward to my new chapter in life.

Til' next time folks, I should be getting a roll of film developed soon. So I'll have all sorts of stupid pictures for all you to enjoy.

xoxo

p.s. Thanks for all the love, support, and faith in me during my unemployment!!

Day of Labor

2011-09-06T23:00:00.000-07:00

As summer comes to an end I can't help but look back on the great times. I'm thankful that I quit my job because its been amazing to enjoy ever minute of my summer.

Also after 20 years of school, jobs, and internships it's nice to get time to take a real break and figure out what I want in life.

On that note here are some photos from this past Labor Day weekend.

Enjoying the pool with my Mini-Me

Cute as ever

Sammy was jumping from any and all angles of the pool.

Sleeper Crash#1: Sam and I laughing at Bryan that knocked out poolside.

Sleeper Crash#2: Sam laughed so hard when she saw my dad asleep on the hardwood floor.

He claims it makes his back feel great. Sam just found it hilarious, so cute!

Bryan's sad that he's back at school.

I'm so happy I have sweet new shoes.

Eating Internationally

2011-09-03T23:56:00.000-07:00

Saturday I drove out to the International Street Fair in Orange, California.

Which should just be renamed to, international food fest.

Although not alot was authentic or very international it was still pretty good.

Besides eating I also love to people watch and photograph random things I see.

Here are highlights from Saturday and a close look at

what's its like to see the day through my eyes. Enjoy!

Livin' the American Dream

Easy on the eyes

I want!

I love brick :)

I saw this couple from far and HAD to photograph them.

Nothing like classic, stylish, and well put together outfits.

It's nice to see people still have a sense of style and quality.

Lemon Brick

Fish Head (note the creep in the back)

"Shoes? F*ck shoes!"

Why dance standing or with shoes on, it's overrated.

I'm Baaaack

2011-09-02T23:04:00.001-07:00

That's right, just when you thought Mi Viva Loca was over. I come back from my writers block in full force. I'm sure alot has happened since I last wrote (October 2010) but why write when you can just view photos from special moments since.

Enjoy ladies and Gents!

February 2011:

I started Interning at a showroom and got hired on,

after a month of my internship. I was so excited, life was great!....(To be continued)

Enjoying a brew at work.

May 2011:

I gradumatated!! That's right folks, there's a brain under this sweet looking afro!

Got two bachelor degrees and the determination to conquer the world!

WASTED alert!

I really couldn't have done all those long nights of sewing and minor breakdowns without my amazing boyfriend. He had faith in me from the start and always kept me motivated!

My parents, that came to this country for a better future,

and are now the proud parents to FOUR college graduates.

As an adult I realize how much they sacrificed for us kids, thanks 'Apa y Ama'.

Even the homeboy Ben Walt drove all the way from China just to make an appearance!

June 2011:

After months of my job, I realized I was miserable!

A bitter woman's inability to run a business or

figure out what she wanted, drove me to dread work everyday!

and my desk was AWFUL the last month!

So I QUIT!

It was a great day, I stood up for myself and walked out of there with my head held high.

I cried, I laughed, but most of all I celebrated being FREE!

I loved what I did and my VERY busy schedule, unfortunately my boss was a horrible business owner and beyond immature.

On to bigger and better things :)

Shortly after I quit I went into the mountains and summited Mount Baldy.

Tomster the Monster chillin'

My two fellas! xo

July 2011:

After some sad news of Bryan's grandfather passing we left for Colorado.

Although our trip was under such sad circumstances it was beautiful to be a part of the love of such an amazing family. After so many generations the love of Chris and Laura lives on.

Downtown Denver

August 2011:

After spending 12hours at Disneyland, I'm going to try my best and not let my kids realize this place exist. So exhausting!

Celebrating the ONE YEAR anniversary of our Beach Clean-Up!

Cleaned 1,500lbs+ of trash off the beach in one year!!!!

Celebrated our four year anniversary. Yikes! Time really flew by. I could only hope for many more years of adventures and love.

Cheers to a great relationship and a best friend!

He did most of the paddling :)

I did most of the sitting, photography, and the spotting of critters.

I'm 24 years old! As a kid I thought being in your 20's was old.

Now I'm realizing it's the time of your life.

Celebrated at the Dodger vs. Rockies game.

Dodgers won 6-1!!!

Until next time, thanks for reading!

Remember: Never live your life in regret or 'What if''s, there's a purpose for everything although you may just not see it yet.

Hello, Long Lost Friend...

2010-10-17T22:08:00.001-07:00

I'm writting a blog in order to take my mind off my research paper due Tuesday.
I'm never writting anymore, obviously since my last post was in August.
That just means I was busy living and not writting.
With my brothers resent purchase of his first home, all I can think about is furniture and colors!!
I recently went to the LACMA and found these lovely pieces to inspire my dream of one day making my own furniture.

Life Recap!

August:

-Started my last year of school, Fall and Spring and I'll be done FOREVER

-Celebrated 3 years with my ever so amazing boyfriend.

-Turned the awesome 23

September:

-I find it sad that this was just last month and I cant remember anything.....

-OHHH yeah, I started an Internship at a Junior apparrel company, and love it.

October:

-Excited about Halloween, Im making/putting together both Bryan's and my own costume.

-I'm gonna be a Bee and Bryan's going to be a Bee Kepper.

-I would take credit for being clever, but my buddy actually helped me with that one.

Until Next time: I'm going to try to revive this blog again.......maybe.

xoxo-Xtina

No Puedo Dormir...

2010-08-16T23:49:00.001-07:00

Title: I can't Sleep...(for you non-bilinguals)

The lack of sleepiness is killing me, every night it gets harder to sleep at a decent time!

I think this will be another scatter brain entry, seeing as how my creativity with this blog has escaped me. Not much has changed since my last boring post.

-Tomorrow I'm off to a water park to celebrate a 24Th Birthday with some drinks and fun people.

-Bryan is still doing the John Muir Trail.

He's been gone since Sep.31st and returns this coming Wed.

I couldn't be happier for him!!

I've missed him since the 2Nd day he left

and it's only gotten worse as time went on.

Him going on this trip has made me so proud and excited.

Proud that he was the will power to do over 220mls with a heavy pack.

Excited about what adventures he's been on and

the things he's learned about himself or the wilderness.

I think being out in the wild is a beautiful thing,

you're left with your thoughts, dreams, and goals.

It allows for your mind to settle and you soul to be free.

It takes hard work and pain to get to camp and

when you get there it's the best thing in the world.

No Internet, no phones, no bills, no jobs.

It's just you and the things that really matter in life.

Love, nature, food, and water.

As for life here at home, without the beautiful mountains.

I think I've done a great job of making the most of it.

Gone out with my ladies, hitting the dog beach with Katrin or Stefanie, and even did a beach cleanup.

Here are some photos of Tommy(my dog) and his bestfriend/girlfriend Domino (Stef's Dog)

Domino is totally IN LOVE with Tommy.

From the looks of things, he loves her back.

and that translates into endless wrestling while throwing sand everywhere.

So far I think I've done a good job of keeping a busy summer with trips, beach time, fun, and relaxation. Coming up is the Grand Canyon, my 3 year Anniversary (YIKES!!), my birthday, and starting my last year of college. Then it's off to try to be a real adult and making my own American Dream.

Buenas Noches!

All the Beauty In the World...

2010-07-27T01:37:00.000-07:00

Dear Blogger,
It saddens me to have to write these words, but I'm afraid I just don't have the same feelings for you as I once did. I don't see things and think of the amazing blog I can write.

This pretty much means, that you shouldn't count on a frequent blog, ideas come and go but I never take the time to turn it into a blog. This isn't the end of Mi Vida Loca, but just a simple step back. It's not as if I wrote often to begin with, but mentally, I thought about blogs more before than I do now.

It's been a gloomy Summer for the most of it, but thankfully finally warming up.
I have yet to go to my favorite beach spots, but I've
been going on trips to make up for the lost beach time.
San Francisco in June
San Gorgonio
San Jacinto and finally,
Yosemite!
Family, friends, Bryan, and I got the luck of getting a free cabin in the busiest Yosemite time. It was my first time out there and it truly blew me away, the size of the waterfalls and the clear view of the starts at night. Although the cabin was annoying at times with my dramatic uncle throwing tantrums and screaming badly behaved children. Being out of the cabin definitely made up for every second. Visits to Cathedral Beach, jumping in the freezing cold water, hikes to water falls that wet you head to toe, and bike rides through the big trees. The quality time with Bryan didn't hurt either, since he's been away on his own adventures this summer. Being out and about makes me really thankful that I get the chance to do it. Thankful that I'm healthy enough to do it and thankful that I have people in my life that can share incredible moments with.
It's only when you stop and look around, that you realize you're in the middle of all the beauty in the world.

Tunnel View

The lil one and my Aunt
Abuelita y yo.

Uncle and fam

Abuelita y Tia

Yosemite Falls

Our Grandma picked that for her.

Lazy days at Cathedral Beach.

Big and Little

The most precious little girl in the whole world!

Her expression is 100,000 words.

Excitement of feeding ducks.

Bike ride to Mist Trail head

Vernal Falls

I didn't see the gold!

Glacier Point

I want to climb Half Dome, who's with me!?

Coming Events:(That I may or may not write about)

-3 Year anniversary (Yikes! is right)

-1st time to the Grand Canyon

-23rd Birthday

-The start of my LAST year in school!

Lifes too short to sit around and do nothing...

2010-06-22T17:40:00.000-07:00

San Gorgonio Mountain: 11,503'

I usually stay behind on Bryan and Kevin's backpacking trips but this time I decided to tag along. No questions asked, I just packed my pack and off we went. Little did I know it would end to be one of the most challenging trips I've ever done. The days were long and hard and the snow turned out to be my least favorite.

Day 1: We hiked into Dry Lake stayed the night.

Day 2:
We picked up and took to the summit. We traversed the snow and loose gravel the whole way up. It was mentally and physically challenging. Looking down was terrifying. Ended the loooooooong day at Dollar Lake and called it a night.

Day 3:

Munched on a Cliff Bar and hiked out in time to catch breakfast on the way out of the mountains.

My trip description is very summarized in hopes that the pictures speak louder than my words.

People often ask why I do the trips I do. Why would you carry such a heavy backpack? Gross you poop in the woods? Your pack weights WHAT? Do you get to shower out there? Why would you do that to yourself?

It's SIMPLE!

It takes me to places I know people with those questions will never see. Places beyond a car camper could ever go. Besides the occasional airplane the only sounds around you are birds, the wind and water. It pulls me away from the things most could never live without. Away from freeways, cars, gas pumps, angry drivers, and hell aka my job.

With that being said I leave you with this:

"There's no difference between a pessimist who says, 'Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything,' and an optimist who says, 'Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway.' Either way, nothing happens."- Yvon Choinard

So it Began!

Kevin's Space, Ice Axe and all!

Shout out to Kevin's stylin' gators. Such character and vibrant color!

He won the beauty contest, obviously.

We Did It!

A couple that backpacks together, stays together!

Note San Jacinto in the back.

I've been to the top of that peak too.

San Jacinto: 10,834'

The Lovely San Francisco....

2010-06-21T22:46:00.000-07:00

June 2nd-June8th:

Bryan and I have gone on trips before but this was by far the best. Our time out in San Francisco was longer and neither one of us wanted to come home. We want to live there, hopefully the next time I'm there it's looking for a place to live! It's a wonderful thing to be in love, but it's even better to be in love and be in an amazing city. We went all over and did everything from Museums to random bus trips leading into random adventures. We stayed with his lovely aunt and uncle and they were great host,like always! (Thanks Peggy&David!!) Everything about this trip makes me miss being out there. Until I return we have plenty of photos to look back on. I scanned some, mostly taken by Bryan. It would take too long to organize, so the photos aren't in any chronological order. Enjoy!

Ferry Building

Busing Away

Golden Gate Park

Academy of the Sciences

Mount Tamalpais: 2,571 ft peak

The Mosser: We highly recommend it.

Home away from Home

The Bridge

Exploratorium

Live in Love,xoxo

Enough is Enough...

2010-04-28T22:40:00.000-07:00

This might be a controversial post, but at this point I'm simply just fed up with what I'm seeing happen around me!

I'm a Mexican-American, and a daughter of two immigrant parents. My parents came to this country in hopes for a better life. Whether it's a better life is something I'm beginning to wonder about. They came here in their 20's worked hard and became legal residents during the amnesty. My dad was kicked out of the country several times before the amnesty. Today, they are proud home owners, and parents to 4 children that all went to college, my 2 oldest brothers are college graduated and my brother and I are soon to follow. Being Mexican is something I'm Very proud of, I love Mexico, my culture, my huge and loving family, and the values I've learned from the hard working family members around me. The fact that I even had to write this blog make me sick. It's 2010 and 30+ years that my parents have been in this country, and frankly I don't think much has changed.

We Steal Jobs:
This statement makes me so angry. Immigrants do jobs like pick fruit, mow your lawn, care for your children, sew your clothes, and work in factories with barely workable conditions. Which honestly are jobs Americans would NEVER want to do or CANT do. Most people wouldn't know a thing about caring for a garden and their ability of raising children is questionable. We take advantage of the food on our table and the clothes on our back, not surprising for our society. If any normal American did the jobs that most immigrants do they wouldn't last an hour. Companies get away with paying wages that are much lower than whats required for the standard of living. My mom picked fruit when she was pregnant with me and a legal resident of this country. She could have easily sat on her ass watched TV and received checks from the Government but that's just not the way hard working people are raised. My father would get kicked out of the country after 12hr+ work days picking our fruit. If immigration is such a problem then maybe we should lower our unemployment rate and get out and do some labor!

Being Different:
I came from a primarily Hispanic community that might be why I never noticed I was "different". It's 2010 and being Mexican is still strange to some people. I never realized it until I got out of my hometown and LA. Some people make harmless comments but others have a different take. My parents raised me to be race-blind, I don't look at a person and judge them by their cover. Sadly that isn't the case on the other side of it. I still hear of people saying, "wet-back"or "beaner", people's ignorance and stupidity is something that surprises me just about everyday. How or when is it Ever ok to say that or call someone that. People freak out that I'm not big fan of beans, they say, "but your Mexican?" Because that makes Perfect sense!!!! To think that I do or like things because the color of my skin is pure stupidity.

Immigration Laws:
Dear Arizona, thank you for taking the responsibility of the Federal government and creating an unconstitutional law. If you are unaware, the newly passed Arizona state law allows police officers to stop anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant and asking for documentation. They argue that they do this to Everyone they pull over but the sad truth is that this will lead to racial profiling. I understand that things along the border are bad right now but but this law is the worst approach to the problem. Maybe if the U.S. stopped it's high demand for drugs the criminals wouldn't have any business being in Mexico or the U.S. Every person of somewhat colored skin will be targeted and the authority will have a law to throw around and use as an excuse to segregate Hispanics. I agree that the U.S. needs to be a safer place to live, but to target one race of people is wrong. If any illegal immigrant commits a crime, I agree they shouldn't be in this country but we need the services of all these hard working people. Instead of pushing them ALL away, we should acknowledge people that work hard and punish only the criminals. We need to realize the "American Dream" is something not only American strive for, any hard working individual should have the right to live their dream wherever they want.
I'm American and I'm Mexican and Enough is Enough.
Lets end stupidity and not repeat mistakes from our past!

How to make a Difference:
**Join the campaign to boycott Arizona.
http://presente.org/ref/ad/32/campaigns/shame

SIGN THESE PETITIONS!
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/legalize_arizona

Sign the petition to veto the bill in Arizona.

http://www.altoarizona.com/

Shout Outs...

2010-04-09T15:19:00.000-07:00

Shout Out! LibbyFor thinking of me while at Venice Beach. Viva Mexico!!

Shout Out! B-Walt

For being a great Thrift-er and picking up this random Sewing machine gadget.

Now I gotta figure out what it does.

For now it's great decoration on my book shelf!

Shout Out! BRYAN ALAN! (not real name)

For being amazing while I'm gross and sick.

To the rescue with Soup, Baked Chips, a Cookie!

Not to mention the endless amount of love!

Te Amo!!

Shout Out! Crystal Renn
For being a Beautiful plus size model and Proud of it!

http://www.viceland.com/int/v17n3/htdocs/crystal-renn-371.php

Shout Out! Topshop NYC

For this Amazing knitted vest!!

Shout Out! Felix Family

For being supportive and allowing me to take over the house.

Shout Out! Gingher

It's German so you know it's good!
NEW SCISSOR DAY!
8 inch Micro-Serrated Edge/Knife Edge

One with Nature

2010-04-04T00:35:00.001-07:00

Joshua Tree 2010:

My first time to JTree and an amazing one at that.

Great friends, wonderful boyfriend and being alone with mother nature.

The weather was great and the moon was amzing.

Can't really ask for more than life.

Pictures speak greater than words......

Found them crawling around in the morning.

Baby Rattle Snake

The Point of Insanity...

2010-03-17T23:11:00.000-07:00

Many people don't understand my life and majors.

They think fashion is about looking pretty and drawing cute clothes.

It's Not! It's more like this....

Monday-Thursday wake up at 5:30 or 6 for class at 8am.

WORK: Mon,Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun.

Sewing every break I get.

At this point most of my sewing in hand stitching.

5 yards of hand rolled hems. (takes days!)

Eat when I remember.

Rarely sleep.

It's about loving what you do.

Having pride in what you create.

Being dedicated to what you aspire to be.

It's about Working hard to get what you want.

Pushing yourself beyond your limits, every single time.

Impressing yourself before you aim to impress others.

This isn't a complaint because I love what I do.

Do I have one of the most expensive majors? Yes.

Do I think I'm insane for doing a double-major? Yes.

Do I wish I could get normal sleep every night? Yes.

Would I give up any part of it? No

I honestly don't know how I do this every day. I go to bed, sleep a few hours and wake up to do it allllllll over again. Thinking about the time I'm taking to write this blog makes me freak out because I know my time should be spent sewing.

I'm a 2.25 semesters away from Graduating with 2 Bachelor degrees!

57 days and 04:45 hours away from my senior fashion show!

6 garments away from completing my collection!

and 5 minutes from hitting the point of insanity!!!!

But I know that everyday gets me closer to where I've always dreamed I'd be.

Sunday Funday...

2010-03-08T22:12:00.000-08:00

Sunday 7 March, 2010:

Bryan, Tommy(my dog), and I drove my greatly missed

1993 Toyota truck up to the San Gabriels.

This hike consisted of 2 massive (creepy) tunnels.

The time outside was nice, just me and my boys.

The rain clouds made the mountains look beautiful, like always.

Enjoy the fotos....

Tommy gets more compliments in one day, than I do in a week.

This Yuca was so perfectly round, but I still hate these plants.

This next picture needs an explination:
These tunnels have VERY little light, but with the tiny bit shinning in i could see LOVE written on the wall. It was made out of tiny pieces of tile. I wanted a picture of course.
First picture was without flash, but I realized you couldn't see it.
My second attemp scared Bryan and I.
I turned the flash on, took the picture.
Looked at the picture
AND BAM!!!!!!!!
HATE in red spraypaint.
It made me jump back from the camera screen,
and left me with the feeling like i should turn around and RUN!!

Find Tommy and I!
Lunch Break: Tom was hating like becuase he got dog food and not a PB&J.

To most this picture is trash.

To me, its something that will probably go on my wall.

Reminds me or a perfect dream.

CUUUUUTE!

Quick life recap...

2010-02-24T20:31:00.000-08:00

My life at the moment is an organized mess! I don't even know how I had time to see my #1 lady(Grandma) today or how I had time to write this. So I'll make it easier, more visual and less reading.
Feb 14th: Valentines day Bryan got my bike running and off we went. Adventures as usual.

Feb5th: Lakers VS Nuggets, this is when Denver becomes my worst enemy. My brother had some amazing seats and lovesssss me sooooo much he took me! Thank Jav!!

This is the coolest lady ever, she dances while the Laker girls do. Don't you worry cute lady, you will get on the Jumbo tron someday. This day wasn't on of them, but she made it to my blog. xoxo!

Feb. 18th: Lakers VS Celtics, thanks to Reebok we had a private box and got to see an amazing game. I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, but I'm glad I didn't give up my ticket because it was a nice break from school. Even though we lost and Black Mamba didn't play, I was in good company and who can complain with Free food, drinks, and DESSERT!!

This is my lady Becky!

I also met Ghostface Killah!

Back to reality Feb. 23rd: I got a 3 hours of sleep 3 days in a row then on the 23rd I only got 1.5 hours of sleep. The human body is amazing! How can I hand stitch past 3am and wake up at 5:30am, present and be functional until 8pm? It blows my mind how I didn't just fall dead in my tracks. I'll be having more days like those since the Show is on May 14th 2010 07:00 which is in 78 days and 05:29 hours!!!! With 6 garments to go, I'm gonna cry going down that runway and you will all know why.

My take on my major and my life to come:

I do it because....

-as a kid I could only dream of what I do today.

-its what I love.

-it's my passion.

-having my collection on a runway makes me proud.

-seeing my work on a body, flowing free gives me gratitude.

-it makes people proud.

-I think I'm insane.

-finishing a project and getting no sleep is gratifying.

-even though I'm broke that silk fabric is beautiful.

-I hold the key to making someone feel beautiful and unique.

-it teaches me to be better every single day.

-I know I will never let the cut throat industry cut my throat.

-I can't take NO for an answer.

-I do believe one person can hold the key to make a difference.

-I secretly want to have a boss that IS the devil wearing Prada.

-I like making my experienced professors proud.

I do it because I can't picture myself doing anything different!

Daily Grind

2010-01-14T23:32:00.000-08:00

I'M BACK!
New York City was amazing and I will soon be posting a blog just for NY.

Being back is weird, I miss not driving, my girls, the Deli food, the cold, yes I do mean 34 degree cold, and all the amazing people we met.

When I got back I was sick and eager to see my boyfriend.

We had dinner and on our way back we find a puppy.

Super adorable brown mix breed. I put up found posters but no one has claimed her.

I hope to find her a home and soon because her and my current dog are becoming best friends and it's gonna be sad to see them part. If anyone knows of someone looking for a dog let me know.

Come Tuesday, I'm still sick but thirsty for a thrill so Bryan and I head over to Knot's.

I forgot how much fun roller coasters were!

This is Bryan enjoying the least extreme ride we went on.

We were suuuuper excited and I look like a goof, but whats new.
Living life a moment at a time and reliving the feeling of being kids.

This is the result of Bryan pulling one too many times on the horses tail. Tail fell out and all the poor horse was left with was an exposed butt hole.
Bryan was feeling extra Loco this day, I've NEVER and will NEVER get on Supreme Scream but he's insane and went on without me.

The next ride wins the Creative as well as the Awkward Moment Alert Award for the month.

Its called Pony Express and you ride it on a horse shaped seat.

Awkward I know, why else would it have won that award!

Point is, we got off unsure of what had just happened.

Towards the end we went on a ride on the stage coach, a child favorite for both of us.

To our surprise it was a really smooth ride, rode smoother than my 1993 Toyota.

Yay for living the dream, one day at a time.
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Jan 14th, 2010

I have yet to post a blog about clothes from my closet.

Buuuuut once in a while I have to give in.

I bought shoes that I'm IN LOVE WITH!!

We walk into a store today and funny thing is I almost walked right past them.

Thanks to my boyfriend's good taste he pointed them out and it was love at first sight.

It doesn't get more irresistible than this...(for me at least)

No they aren't some sexy chic heels, or crazy futuristic Lady Gaga shoe, buuuuuttt...

They are a shoe that if close friends of mine looked at, they would say, "That's such a Christina Shoe"

Only because they are Classy as hell.

Yummy, and I can't wait to wear you!

Feliz Navidad!

2009-12-30T00:55:00.000-08:00

Regular Christmas in my family doesn't even involve Christmas day at all, for my family its alllll about Christmas Eve!
We all go to Abuelitas house to eat tamales, talk, share time together, and hear all the kids ask to open presents early allllll night.
After they played poker, screw your neighbors, we all played Pictionary and Apples to Apples we finally gave in and let the kids open the gifts at 11pm, only and hour early.
(pictures are on actual film so we gotta wait to see them)
After over eating tamales and spending the whole day with family it was time to go to bed.
Bryan and I woke up and headed to his parents house.
Christmas Day was spent with Bryan's family.
Where come to find out I got a STOCKING for Christmas. (Thank you little baby Jesus)
I've never had a stocking and Sue and Steve were awesome enough to get me one.
Opening presents took a pretty long time and every second of it was amazing.
(Pictures were taken by others so those will be posted soon)
Before presents we had their traditional baked eggs, I'm not a fan of egg yolk but this was realllly good, with some Canadian bacon, mmmmmmm!
For lunch we took Bryan's Aunt and Uncle to the pier.
Only in California do you go to the beach on Christmas.
Thanks to everyone who wished me a Merry Christmas, Thanks for the gifts and being able to spend time together.

Enough talk now time for pictures...
50 year old train....
Conductor Bryan....

Destroyer Christina
Beach Hair
I thought this was a cute picture of Peggy and David.

Sisterly Love.

(This was a special picture post because Peggy is a loyal Blog reader, thank you Peggy!xoxo)

California Christmas

I thought this was gonna be a scene out of, "When Animals Attack"

TOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RIP

2009-12-15T18:28:00.000-08:00

I'll make this short:

No one is perfect and that's all that could be said about this situation.

My grandfather was just another imperfect human being.

We all make mistake, some big some small. What's done is done.

He was a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a great grandfather.

I only remember one conversation with him.

He asked my age (I was 13) then he stood up and left.

He's a man that strangers knew better than his own family.

People are complicated and I never understood him, but I'm not one to judge.

One thing I know is that he was the LUCKIEST man on this planet.

Married the most amazing woman.

For better of for worse, she stayed by his side.

He was my mothers father and my grandmothers husband and for that reason I'm sad.

To see them cry rips me to pieces.

Rest In Peace "Henry"

A Day in the Life of....

2009-12-11T23:21:00.001-08:00

This happened at Kaiser today around about 11am-ish... I was sitting in the waiting room, watching good'ole Free Willy when a little girl about 4 years old started to stare at me. I smiled, she smiled, I smiled, she smiled. After our several smiles it was obvious she was doing things to get my attention. Like showing me her shirt that said HELLO. The most amazing part of this story goes like this......

Little Girl: "Mommy do you have paper and a pencil?"
Mom: "Yeah, but why?"
LG: "I wanna write that lady a note."

(I was so excited becuase I knew I was, "that lady"!)

She then just did a quick hand gesture on the paper, ripped it out of the note book, walked over to me, shy but confident. Handed me the note....
Me: "Thank you so much, what does it say?....Does it say, Hello?"
LG: "No (short giggle), it says I Love You."

I think my heart skipped 1,000 beats. That was probably the cutest thing thats ever happen to me. I thanked her and as I left we said goodbye, she probably wont remmember me, but I will never forget her.

It made me realize how distant we are from one another, sure most of us are strangers to eachother, but someone sitting next to you could be someone amazing and you will never even know it. I feel I miss out on alot of cool people becuase saying hello to strangers is, "weird". We all need to get out of our shell and be more social.

Thank you precious little girl for opening my eyes to the world.

Free Your Mind...

2009-11-15T18:36:00.000-08:00

To say the least, my life has been a roller coaster since my last post. Illness, family realization, and personal growth. More than most my age will ever have to deal with. I'm thankful for life though, it makes me learn so much. Each day makes me stronger and each situation makes me realize more about who I am and who I hope to be.

Aside from that it's been the same, school and sewing. The following pictures are from when Bryan and I went on an adventure in San Gorgonio to Aspen Grove. It was as close as it could get to perfect. It would have been perfect if we hadn't seen like 10 hunters that I wanted to punch. The Aspen trees were so amazing, beautiful, and breathtaking to say the least. Places like these remove you from reality and really help you clear your mind and appreciate real beauty.

Enough talk, Enjoy the photos from my Fuji instant camera. Probably the best I've ever taken.

Excuse the nerd in this shot.

My Favorite:

For Bryan:

Don't let closed minded or negative people hold you back, set yourself free from it all.

Be who you desire to be, free you mind!

Brain Food!

2009-10-20T11:46:00.001-07:00

My brain is flowing with ideas and I wish I had 10 hands to sketch with, because the minute I finish a sketch 5 design details have left my mind. I should really get that checked.

With my Project 1 rolling and due in less than 2 weeks, I have to soon start my Second Project.

By start I mean show the professor my ideas, because in my head the dress is a done image.

For my second dress I'm going for a more sexy, edgy, feminine look.

Different from the 1st, which you can see in my previous blog is a long, very draped, natural tone classic dress.

I said my dress is Edgy but not as edgy as one of my favorite designers.

Stella McCartney (Yes, she is Paul McCartney's daughter)

This lace piece made me melt when I saw it.

You are such a creative genius!

BRAVO Stella!!

Back to inspiration!

Call me a hippie, environmentalist, whatever it maybe but everything wild makes me at peace with my ideas and inspires me to be better.

Meet my inspiration at the moment:

Biologist Leela Hazzah

I just read and article about her, she lives in a tree house (shown in pic) in a part of southwestern Kenya saving Lions. Now that is dedication and frankly it doesn't get anymore bad*ss than that.

Heres to you Leela Hazzah!

Inspirational Colors

Oooo! I can't wait to be on the runway with my collection!!

I pretty much think I'm gonna pass out in front of 1,500 people,

due to nervousness and excitement.

(Too bad it's about 5,000 hours of sewing away)

I wish I was more of a sleeper...

2009-10-19T23:46:00.000-07:00

Another night, another attemp to sleep by 11, another fail...

I'm too awake.

I sketch better at this time anyways.

I'm tired but can't lay still long enough to sleep.

Currently listening to these bands:

Tegan and Sara

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B-MluGscaE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8KAU9vWGgc

Matt and Kim, most gourgeous pair of people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8KAU9vWGgc

"Why her and not me, wtf?"-quote of the day

Buenas noches, y perdon por mi escritura tan corta. xoxo

Life as a Designer...

2009-10-15T23:32:00.000-07:00

Draping is this semester, and I loooove it so much better than Flat Pattern. The movement of the fabric and the ability to manupulate shape and fit, is amazing.

Day 1: Drape top

Day 2: Drape skirt, dress bottom.

Day 3-5: Mark all lines, un-pin, and try to figure out how to make a pattern.

Day 6: Put it all on paper. Lots of paper only to realize you messed up.

After a week of school and nights of sewing I can't help but look like this...

Don't judge me it was like 2am.
I walked in front a mirror, thought I looked like a deadwoman walking.

Pail and wornout.

In the end this is my sample It's the rough look into what it will be.

Fits me too big but should fit my model perfectly!

The second half of this project coming soon.

Good Hair...

2009-10-11T13:31:00.000-07:00

It was Friday night so the fella and I decided to go catch a flick, we watched a hilarious movie by Chris Rock, Good Hair.http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810059624/info

I could relate to every joke in that movie because of my genetic gift of Nappy hair. I used to hate my hair and try to hide it instead of embrace it. What a shame!

The movie really makes you think what society accepts as "good hair" when has an Afro ever been taken serious or looked at a smokin' hott??? Never. Disco afros were associated with parties and no seriousness.

So what is good hair,This? (RIP)

Or how about the famous Aniston look every woman tried to get?

For me it isn't straight or wavy hair, because anyone can pull that off. How many people do you know that have hair like this? A badass afro is a commitment and something only the most confident people can pull off. I mean look at this picture these are the 2 coolest, most chill, confident people I've ever seen. This photo says 1,000 words.

I went through the phase of trying to be and have something that wasn't there.

Straight Hair!

It was a hassle and the burning from the relaxers and flat irons was horrible, but I did it so I couldn't be a little bit closer to normality.

I'm a different person now, I'm comfortable and confident with who I am and what I have. I guess I can say I finally have the right attitude to pull off hair like mine.

When I'm smiling my biggest smile and feeling the most beautiful I don't wonder if anyone is looking at me and thinking the same thing because I'm happy that I can see myself in that way.

You are only as beautiful as you allow yourself to be.

Inspiration...

2009-09-29T11:58:00.000-07:00

The different ways of finding beauty.

As a designer I get designers block when looking at other garments, instead of inspiration I find myself piecing their process together. I don't get inspired by whats been done already.

When starting designs I get inspiration from moods, colors, silhouettes, movement, paint brush stokes, texture, sound, ect.

Trying to mimic the natural movement of water into a draped garment. It's not JUST fabric its a feel, a mood, a motion, a fit, a style. Fabrics excite me!(Obviously.)

Architecture leads to lines, structure, and stiffness. It's a challenge to look good in structured garments, but who doesn't like hard work?

Welcome to my mind, my inspiration, a brain of a visionary...

Art, art, art. Could never have enough of it.
Silly Dali

Basquiat's wild mind.

Body shapes.

Express it. For the record, I love suspenders. 1,000 words

Manly Weekend...

2009-09-22T15:46:00.000-07:00

I feel like a dude, motorcycle races and a baseball game all in one weekend. ohhh yeah. (Bryan is one lucky guy!) Speedway was Saturday and my friend April invited us to the Dodger game Sunday. Thanks April!

This is the Costa Mesa Speedway. I've never been but Bryan went there alot as a kid so we coughed up $20 for which I thought was gonna be a total, "bro" event. Turns out its legit, these men are gnarly!! Huge motorcycle engines, burning alcohol, NO BRAKES. Yiiiikeeess. Enjoy the horrible phone fotos, sorry I forgot my camera. But here is a video to give you a better idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq7jN7JGaJI

DODGERS vs Giants. Dodgers won 6-2!!!!

Sexy Ethier

Bryan's 2nd game this season.
Beating the heat and April being camera shy.

VIVA MEXICO!!

2009-09-16T21:03:00.000-07:00

Feliz dia de independencia!

The beautiful Mexico, oh how I miss you. The beauty of the cities and the untouched nature, I miss it all. So as you all know I'm 100% Mexican and love every minute of it, all the culture food and celebrations made me who I am. Although my accent isn't obvious most of the time, Spanish was my first language and both my parents were born in Zacatecas, Mexico. My mom is from San Juan which is a small ranch towns which just about 5 years ago got paved roads and now has successful pluming for some parts. I'm not sure what the status is on phones there, last time I went they still had messengers. Someone calls the phone booth house, then their messenger runs, bikes, or horseback rides to your house and lets you know someone called for you and will call back for you at a certain time. Then you have to be sure to tip the messenger or they will give you the stink eye then and be sure to be on time for your phone call. My father is from El Parral de la Guertas(aka La Boca). He is probably about an 10min-hour drive from the main cities and is on a mountain, no pluming, most of the water comes from the river that flows past there not sure if that's still the case, and it was probably about 10 years ago got reliable electricity for all homes. As for telephones here, my grandparents who still live there have to pay a driver or take a bus over to the nearest big city, almost an hour away. If you drive about and hour up the mountain, El Sero, you will get to see what not many people have seen or let alone touch. The mountains are green and unestablished, probably one of the most amazing sights.

I haven't been everywhere in Mexico but I gotta say the beauty of this state is amazing, more than I can explain really. I haven't been there for at least 7 years which really disappoints me but I hope to go back when I'm done with school and when things get better and the bastard Narcs kill each other off. Anyways, here are a few picture of Zacatecas, Mexico although I didn't take these pictures, these are all places I've been and things I've seen. Enjoy!

Simple living

So this is on the zip-line ride up to, La Bufa.

There are old mines and history museums at the top.

The whole ride up is one of the most amazing views I've ever seen.

This is one of the view you get form the zip-line.

This is Jerez, Zac. just a short drive from my moms town, San Juan.

think farmers market/swap meet/gardens and AMAZING architecture.

At night the street are filled with people, dancing, and music it's always a huge celebration.

This is the every night regular beauty there.

Everyone walks past it so used to the beauty.

I cant sit for hours and look at these magnificent structures.

This used to be for bullfights but now

is one of the smallest and most expensive hotels in Zac.

~Fin~

I'm Twenty-TWO!!!!

2009-09-04T10:59:00.000-07:00

As a youngin' I thought 22 was soooo old, I was wrong I feel young, wild and alive. Living the dream a day at a time. I'm on my 5th year of college, and will be done after my 6th. That is just bizzare, where did all my time fly off to. I've grown so wise in my 22 years, mostly becuase I've been through ALOT more than people my age. Good or bad I wouldn't change a thing, I don't regret anything. You learn and you live, you one get one chance at life you gotta take each day and treat it like something special. Life is beautiful enjoy every moment of it.

So for my birthday I went to the Santa Ana Zoo with Bryan, followed by some delish pie and movie watching with the fam.
Then a day/night at the beach with all my lovely friends and family.
I couldn't have asked for anything better. Thank you everyone!! Love you all!

For me this is one of the Scariest creatures alive!

Bald Eagle, pretty amazing.

Just hanging out in my turtle shell.

Beach day made possible by my Mom!

Now you all know where I get my smile, my favorite, my Papa Bear!

My wonderful G-ma playing Velcro-ball with my Mom.
Baby Benny!
Randi and I

Volley Faceoff
The other team.

Jay and Erica, thanks for coming!

The lovely fella and I.

Thanks Bryan! For spending like 18 hours at the beach this day. Love you!

The lovely ladies in my life. Katrin, Aubree Strawberry, and Randi.

And of course the lovely gentlemen! Bryan, Kenny, Rodney, Dario, and Ben.

Shout out to Ben for turning around and making it to the celebration, it meant alot!

The whole gang.

-The End, of an amazing day and night!-

Por que te amo...

2009-08-26T23:24:00.000-07:00

Dear Bryan,

This is gonna be super cheesy but whatever it's something I wanted to do I thought you would get a kick of the collection of pictures. (I started this before our anniversary and woops I just finished it.) So it all began in an Art class where I got over my fear of awkwardness of talking to a handsome complete stranger. After talking to you about bikes, and VW's I was like this guy is wayyy too good to be true!

So if you remember this picture and this day, this is when my heart was about to beat out of my chest because it's when I told you I liked you because you took too long to make a move. Haha.

2007 the beginning and also the end of our first amazing summer

2008I miss cruising in your VW, you usually scaring the heck out of my with your scary driving but those are days we were just being wild and young.

I love you because we can be complete goofs together.

Wild thang you make my heart sing!I love you because we can backpack together, even though in this picture you look pissed!

I love you because we can sn0wboard together even though I suck.

I love you because you're an amazing bike riding partner.

I love you because we can just have lazy beach days and smile all day.

This picture speaks for itself!

hahaha need I say more?I love you because you deal with me even when I have too much to drink.

I love you because you support me while I do what I love, so much so that you even model.

I love you because were both the goofs in the relationship.

I love you because your smile makes me smile.

I love you because we can share our hobbies...

Even on rainy days.

People often ask how you know when you love someone, I never know what to say really, I guess because for me it's not really something I could describe it's just something you know and feel. I'm sure these pictures spoke for themselves.I think for me I know I loved you when I realized that every time I'm with you I couldn't stop smiling. Or how when we are in a car together we laugh because we act completely silly for example doing instrumental covers of songs since we don't know the words. Also because when I'm riding my bike alone I much rather be with you, or how pretty much alot of things are better with you around. The good the bad we always make it out just fine. To me you're not only an amazing boyfriend but also a best friend. After celebrating our two year anniversary I can't believe how fast that went by or how many memories we've made, the trips, the beach days, the bike rides, all so much fun.

Here is to us, for the fun and laughs and many more to come.

Te amo mi amor!

Daycation

2009-07-28T23:12:00.000-07:00

OC Fair July 15th.
Bryan, his parents, his sister, Erica, her husband, Jay, and headed off to the OC Fair, where you eat a year worth of calories and shave 5 years of your life.
Things I ate:*
-Deep friend avocado
-Chocolate covered Bacon
-2 foot long hot dog
-Cotton Candy
*This was me holding back some.

BIG FOOD!

Dream come true!!

Big rides.

It's bigger than my waist!!!!

Jay and Erica trying to finish the turkey leg!

Award winning.

The Fab Four

The start of the sticky face!

They call him Gangsta' Jay on the streets.

listen...

2009-07-19T22:39:00.001-07:00

The mystery of feelings are something you can try very hard to express but you will never get someone to fully understand. People have different way of expressing their feelings, some bottle it up, some turn it into anger, but my approach has always been to deal with it. It's easier said than done, if feelings were so easy to express then they would be thoughts or ideas.
Enough talk...

Each picture is unique to each person, not any two people will probably look at these images and react with identical thoughts.

Thank you, come again!

2009-07-14T13:44:00.000-07:00

So all my life I missed out on FREE slurpee's, what a rip!! But thanks to Bryan's sister and her husband I found out you can get a free Slurpee on 7/11. I got one with them last year and Bryan and I got one again this year. Thank you 7-Eleven for the 7.11 ounces of goodness!

Meet Tommy...

2009-07-05T22:34:00.000-07:00

Meet my 5 month old Australian Shepherd, Tommy. (Tommy pronounced in Spanish) He is great, he has already been on 2 short bike rides, the dog beach, and a hike. All went great! He is ready to go when you are, but can also be a great cuddle buddy. Bryan and I are currently trying to figure out what fetch toy he likes, hopefully we get that going soon. :) Enjoy the pictures!

Great with babies too!

Dog Beach

Cruising on our bike ride.

His favorite past time, zzzz!!

Open your eyes...

2009-06-30T23:22:00.001-07:00

(Excuse the bad quality photos, they are all taken from my camera phone.)

If all just took time to look at things around us, I think more people would know why it's so important to change the way we live. This, "recession", was brought on by the need to have what we don't have and can't have enough of, but we still get anyway. I say, "recession", because I still think everything would have been ok and normal if it hadn't been for the media hype. They do a good job of fooling the masses and I'm very fed up about hearing about it. All they have to say is that were turning the recession around and people that have money will stimulate the economy and get everything going again. Peoples greed make them blind to so many other things.

I recently looked through my pictures on my phone and found some that I randomly took as I was at a red light, in traffic, or simply snapped without looking and somehow got a decent shot. I drive ALOT, as most of you know. Instead of singing my heart out, picking my nose, talking on the cell, or any other thing most people do in a car; I simply look around. It's amazing what people miss in a day because they are much too involved in superficial things. If only they stoped to notice things they would realize that everything around us has so much more to offer.

The other day I drove an extra 2 miles just to Exit the freeway on a street I know I would get an amazing view of the sunset.

At Sunset on Slauson Blvd., LA to the right of the sun.

I'm in summer school as you all know, and instead of hating it, I look at the bright side, I get to drive through the hills and see so much green life. Here's a shot of that.

Rio Hondo, Awesome in the day gotta admit it's scary at night.

I think clouds have always been a secret favorite of mine, they are always changing, moving, and one will never look like the other. They also make for a great past time, try it out. Take time out of your overly busy life, and lay on the grass somewhere for about 10 mins. and watch them go by, use you imagination!

Concrete Jungle: I've always been a L.A. kid, and know most of it like the back of my hand. Even though I love day hikes and being outside. I must admit that past all the smog and angry drivers there's a true beauty to L.A. I guess I try to see the good in what people have already taken over and destroyed. Tall buildings, great food, people form every walks of life, good deals, and architecture you don't see new developers bothering with (what a shame). I find it awesome how much life could be in one space or how there is green space in the middle of multiple buildings that no one would ever guess was there. Many people are too quick to judge this place.

Get lost in L.A. sometime, trust me it will be worth it. (If you're afraid of culture shock, avoid it.)

Downtown, on my way to Jury duty. Dec. 2008

W.W.J.D?

2009-06-24T22:39:00.000-07:00

This week started off great, I found out that my little cousins, Nicholas and Ariana, would be spending a lot of time with us since my mom and I will be watching them often this summer. If you ever see me with my family it's obvious that all my little cousins mean the whole world to me.

Nick and Ariana

It's really true that kids say the darnest things, this bunch does exactly that. Fart, buggers, and kudies are hot topics for kids at their age, but what amazes me is the questions they ask. During election time my cousin Alexis asked me who I was going to vote for and she is only 6. Often times they get these topics from their parents which brings me to the main reason I'm writing this blog...

My separation from my Catholic faith has been very obvious over the past 8 years, I thought that maybe I would be a better Christian so I tried that in High School, only to realize it wasn't the church, religion, or priest at fault. I simply realized what took me many many many years for me to face, I just didn't have faith in any of it. It was scary to realize something like that especially having a VERY traditional Mexican family. You might as well consider yourself the worst person in the family. VERY few people understand my stand on religion, faith,God, Jesus, etc.

After a serious conversation about my faith, with adults in my family, word let out and led to the question, "Why don't you believe in God?" from my little 6-11 year old cousins.

It breaks my heart to hear my little cousins think of my as a "bad example". They are much too young to understand something like this. No matter how great I am to them or how much I love them, to them it will always come down to, "but you don't believe in God". Someday it will make sense to them that it's not about religion, gender, orientation, skin color, etc. Instead it's about who you are and being true to what you believe.

My life motto is: Love, Faith, Respect

LOVE the people around you and the things you do.

Have FAITH in the people you love, in yourself, and the things you accomplish or are trying to get done.

Have RESPECT for everyone and everything.

I guess my main request is that people, with kids, around kids, related to kids, etc. Think twice about what you teach or talk to them about. They learn from the adults, instead of being closed minded let them be free spirits with open minds they have a whole world of adventures.

It's easier to believe and have faith than it is to not to.---Trust Me!

I really hope this didn't offend anyone, because that's the last thing I would ever want to do.

In A Box...

2009-06-10T19:45:00.000-07:00

I'll keep it short and sweet...
Updates:
-Bryan is now 21, but he's in Utah and has been for 10 days now. We didn't celebrate yet, besides giving him a card and letting him know we got him the gift of brewing his own beer. Just as he turned 21 I realized I Really dislike beer.

-My Mother turned 56 years old yesterday but she looks better than when she was 46, so I guess it's more like 56 years young for her. My Papa Bear, brother Jorge and I took her to the Huntington Library, which is heaven to her. (Pictures Soon)

-I'm also now 2 days away from finishing my First summer school class. Now I'm left with Jury Duty soon and 3 more classes.

-My brother Jorge is graduating from Cal Poly Pomona, with an Urban and Regional Planning degree. Congrats you Mac Book Obsessed brother of mine!

-I'm living in a glass box, all I can do is see everything I'm missing and hope I don't regret it later in life. When school is all done, I know it will all be worth it.

The following pictures are from a hike a couple weeks ago in Malibu.

This was and old church of some sort.

Kenny getting all sorts of diseases.
Indiana Joe

Burned down home.

Our Lunch hut.

The only thing left of most homes.

At last....

2009-05-11T22:56:00.000-07:00

+The fashion show yesterday was amazing, we did 3 run through and after backstage mess ups we set stuff up much easier for all designers. It was amazing and smooth and my family was impressed on how professional it was. It's insane that in 20 seconds something you worked so hard on is on and off that runway so quick, bitter sweet. Thanks to everyone that deals with the sound of the machine at almost 2 am (Dad& Mom, Peter, Jav, George), Bryan for having to put up with my minor freak outs, the venting, the fabric shopping and the buttons, what a nightmare! haha Without all you guys I know this wouldn't be possible and as you all saw I will need the most patience and support for next years show. Thank you to everyone who attended, and Erica I hope you are feeling better.

Tanya Dress Spring 2009

Trench Coat

My model, Laura, and I

The Family, AKA my support group

Updates:

+3 of my close friends are graduating

+Jackie (my wife and BFF) will be home soon GO GEORGETOWN!!

-2 finals next week

-4 summer school classes

-insanity COMING SOON!

Most Importantly, my dress was dedicated to a beautiful young woman, Tanya. No one really knew why I named my dress, "The Tanya Dress" but now you all get to understand why.On May 13th 2005 my family lost someone very special. Taken away by and irresponsible bastard who drove drunk. I've learned to accept this strangers mistakes but I will never forgive them, nor will we ever get to see her beautiful smile. I think back on how much fun we had as kids, growing up with her and Julie was so much fun. We always found some kind of trouble to get into and always found our way out. One of my favorite memories was when we stooped the ice cream man, and in their neighborhood you walked into the truck but for me that seems sooo scary as a kid. I thought the ice cream people would drive away with us in the truck. It was a big long truck, you walking in the side got what you wanted and stepped off through the steps on the back, I remember her laughing at me because I was scared but she always had a way of making me feel safe. I got on and found myself in heaven, this truck had everything, from pan dulce, ice cream, candy, to bananas. I miss her so much and getting to see her brothers and sister grow up without her breaks my heart. We all try to stay positive and think of the time we had with her rather than the time we wont have with her.

Forever in our lives Tanya Gonzales June 27 1986- May 13 2005

Amity Clothing Co....

2009-05-06T20:41:00.000-07:00

I forgot to talk about my most recent school (BS) project. Ha! The only reason i like it was becuase I got to make a super cool commercial. Amity was a name for my designs that i thought of in high school when i used to sell tote bags and to this day even has it's own Myspace. http://www.myspace.com/amityclothingco
(all clothes is stuff i made minus my blouce and the Bryan's Jeans)
THANK YOU: Bryan for being and Amazing boyfriend, patient, and the hottest model ever. Te amo amor!
and BenJaBucket for the awesome driving/filming/photography skills. Thanks CFF!

Fashionistas....

2009-05-06T20:28:00.000-07:00

So after getting alittle recognition from journalism book worms at our school we (fashion dept.) thought it was a pleasant attempt at getting to be in our shoes for a day. What we call a sweatshop which is our 15'X8' back room that they like to think is a work room is always filled with people, 4 at the tall table, 1 at each machine, and 2-3 on the floor cutting fabric. we do what it take to get out things done and on that runway. I turned in my garments today and I didn't think it would ever feel so great to get something out of my face. Looking at those garments was a bit hard after so many hours of work and dedication was put into them. I guess after a while you just want it out of your face.

Enough chat....

The fashion show is May 13th and my garments will be on a runway infront of this many people...(this times 3!)

I think this building is one of the best on campus, architechturely speaking and it looks even better at night....
It's just insane that a couple of years ago I wanted to leave CSULB for a SF fashion school. I then gave my school a shot by attending the end of the year fashion show. It blew my mind, so I stayed and now I'll be on that runway. AMAZING!

I can't wait to be back on that runway with 10 garments next year.

(I'll post pictures of my garments next week)

Forgotten bloggy...

2009-04-20T21:45:00.000-07:00

So as the weeks go by it gets closer to crunch time, closer to the date of my fashion show, EK!!! Everything is due May 6th and the show will the 13th. A day I hate to remember, due to the loss of my lovely cousin 4 years ago on Friday May 13th. But she loves me soooo much that she is shinning some light on that day, thank you my lovely Tania.

Spring Break was a few weeks ago and as much as I would have loved to be in the middle of the wilderness alone with the Stud Muffin (Bryan) I was stuck indoors, sewing. BUT we did get on good hike it and it was FANTASTIC! I need not to discribe it with words but with visuals instead. Enjoy becuase I sure did.
P.S. I would like to thank everyone for the helpful words during this crunch time. Love you all.

Trashy people, broken bottle. The death of purity.(below)

You April fool...

2009-04-01T22:43:00.000-07:00

Fools:
All day i tried to think of a good joke to play but couldn't and realized not only have i always hated the April Fools part of April 1st but i suck at playing pranks. I feel like a liar and back in the day couldnt get even one soul to believe me. I'm the worst liar and if i did pull a prank i feel like it would really happen. How much would that suck. If ur a fool i hope you had a day full of fooling other fools.

Daylight:
I seem to miss so much of a beautiful day. Wake up, eat, shit, cut, sew, spill fray check on my fabric then start all over. The glory of being an anxious student the life of someone doing something they love. Love makes you do wild things thats fooorrr sure. For example redesign a dress about 7 times just to find yourself at the start all over again. Fabric and thread consumes my room and i'm trapped from the outside be the ironing board in the doorway. Study for midterms...What's that? I sew for 18 hours of the day and cause my anxiety to rage like an angry 90 year old person.

I went on a peaceful hike that made me realize im out of shape and trapped in my own world. Sitting at the waterfall was the best i've felt in a long time. It's sad really. Getting away was great even for the day and i have to admit for a few seconds the image of my dress wasn't dangling behind my thoughts. I've began to hate the sound, look, or color of the word Janome (the brand of my sewing machine)

My family comes and goes in and out of the house and i sit here in my room keeping up to date by overhearing what they do in a day and laugh at the jokes George makes from across the house.

My dress is in pieces at the moment and so is my mind, Obviously. I keep going from one thing to the next. I know it's all worth it when i get to see my drawing come to life on someone down a runway. Fucking nuts. I would say excuse my language but at the moment i frankly don't care. I don't think i've spoken in about 3 hours. I sing sometime while i sew just to keep my tounge from going dead. Soon after realizing i'm a horrible singer and that my tounge can't really die.

I JUST realized the Zoo next door in completly silent, horrah! Those 10 dogs and 20 birds drive me crazy and sound like a Zoo animals getting killed one by one. Not even kidding those birds sound like dieing monkeys. Yeah they may look like they come from the Amazon but they sound like death.

I'll post pictures soon for all like 2 of you that read this. haha. My friend Ben says he never reads this and he just looks for pictures. He likes to call me EMO, shove it!

It's plain and simple, i miss these days....

Mixed Martial ARTS

2009-03-09T21:56:00.000-07:00

Saturday was a big day, my brothers really good friend, Vince Parra, got a chance to fight in his second professional fight. The event was in Irvine so off we went, with our 3 car caravan. I still don't have pictures but the video speaks for itself. He fought Cesar Macias which has a 1-1 and Vince had a 1-0 record. Going into the event I knew it would be weird to see these fights live, but little did I know my reaction to his fight would be so intense. The 1st fight was the ice breaker the sounds are so piercing, the faces,knees, hands, elbows hitting the mat with so much force and weight. The second Vince walked into the ring I was lightheaded and ready to pass out. I was excited but nervous all at once. To know that someone you know so well is getting in that ring to fight takes this kind of fighting to a whole different level. Enjoy the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqFT_DMUBHU

As you can see Cesar Macias now holds a 1-2 recors and Vince Parra now holds a 2-0 record and made us all so proud and also impressed many of the sponsors. Someone that is so discipline and hardworking deserved every moment of this amazing victory, congratulations Vince.

p.s. Here is another one of his videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZwG9BY0LLQ

what does it take to get a drink in this place?

2009-03-05T22:09:00.000-08:00

So I'm pretty melo as we all know and don't do much but random little adventures but recently (mid Fed to be exsact) I went to Vegas. I attended MAGIC which is a huge fashion tradeshow of all the new lines and seasons. I don't have pictured from MAGIC becuase there not allowed but i have a bunnnnch of Vegas in general. If was more fun that i thought Vegas could be and the girls thought our hotel was nicer than it looks on the outside. so heeere we go!...

Classy Hotel, haha

Who would have thought it would be THIS amazing

On the free time we shopped and over dosed on M&M's

We then hit up our CocaCola polar buddy

we flew to Paris on the same trip, not a big deal...

and later returned to our Flamingo palace.

This is one of our beds, how rad is that!?

1,2,3 driks ready to gooooo

4,5,6 drinks gooone- I'm not

This was our final night out where none of the ladies could get a freee drink, Vegas was a dissapointment that night. But XS was an AMAZING club but the DJ was sh*t!

After getting home i never thought i would return to life, i dont know how i used to go out so much its nuts and i couldnt do it for more than 2 nights haha i'll update more often and more interesting things.

Mi Abuelita...

2009-01-20T13:41:00.000-08:00

(Abuelita means Grandmother is Spanish)
Well she is pretty much the most amazing woman on this planet, you might argue yours is better, but to me she means the world. She is probably the most sweet, honest, peaceful woman on planet earth. If you met her you wouldn't help but love her she is so nurturing and loving. Days as a kid were the best when I got to ride on the bus to visit grandma. The 15Th of this Month was her 75Th birthday just this past Saturday we all got together and planned a semi-surprise birthday party! It was great our family from everywhere made it to celebrate with us and of course endless amounts of great food. After everyone ate the music came in. In our culture it's tradition to have a banda come play so they walked down the driveway until my grandma realized it wasn't the DJ her smile was priceless. Even though she knew the party was gonna happen she didn't know we got a band. After standing with her for a couple of minuted my uncles came over one by one to dance with her it was super cute. The festivities went on until 3am and she couldn't have been any more grateful. Here are some pictures but I didn't get any of my grandma with my camera(whoops) but others have plenty so I'll post those later.

Grandma's beautiful cake

Double the Trouble

Stud Muffin Nicholas

Adorable Samantha

My Stud Muffin

My cousin Elizabeth

Bryan's Dance Lesson

Our 1st Dance, he did Great!

Mama and Papa Bear

Up to Date...

2009-01-20T12:51:00.000-08:00

Well alot has happened I now intern for Harvey's in the Design department, http://www.seatbeltbags.com/ it's fun and different. I also went to S.F. a couple of weekends ago, but I wish I was still there. I went to SF because it was Bryan's Christmas gift to me. I'm a very lucky girl and a thankful one too. We flew in Thursday and had a relaxed dinner with Peggy and David(Bryan's aunt and uncle) after dinner we got settled in and decieded to go in the hot tub, it was soooooo cold to have to get out and run inside haha.

Friday was an adventure with a car so we decieded to visit Berkeley and Haight St. and fell upon a little hidden treasure, Buena Vista Park that had Amazing views and great trails.

Saturday we took Bart into the city and went all over Fishermans Wharf, Pier 39 Aquarium of the Bay, and all that jazz. We hit up a farmers market a ride on the muni and saw a creppy clown trying to direct traffic, not one of my most favorite memories. Bryan learned that bus drivers don't care how far and how fast you run, they will still leave you behind. After the sprint we tried to figure out how the heck we could get to the deYoung before they closed. After finally finding the right bus we were off and getting to sit and relax a bit. We had hot dogs for lunch before going into the deYoung where I got to see the YSL exhibit and that was AMAZING! and our timing was perfect once we were in the gift shop we had only 5 mins. until they closed. After the exhibit it was back on the bus towards Market St. to meet with Peggy and David for dinner at Asia SF which was lots of fun and a real treat ;) After dinner Peggy and David drove us to Twin Peaks and in search of other good views, and I gotta say those views were breath taking! I just wish I had a better camera.

Lovers <3Asia SF totally wild WoMen!

Sunday was our last day of fun and we sure didn't want to leave, but we went off on one last adventure we went to Union Square, Market St., and rode a cable car the things people usually do :)

My Instant Film camera is Huuuugee!

FIN!

Interview...

2008-12-29T14:57:00.000-08:00

+I had my inteview today, with Harvey's (the seat belt bag company)...

http://www.%20seatbeltbags.%20com/

-I set my alarm, but forgot to activate it, not to worry I made it on time, BUT to the wrong location.

+After leaving the factory and making it to the corporate offices it was all good.

-Interviewed with a head hancho, she knew I didnt wanna do marketing.

+Then I interviewed with the Designer. Not only does he know his ish but he is young which is very rare. The interview went GREAT.

+He then showed me to his space where is was an inspiration WALL! and dif. mood boards, which is like being in a candy store for me.

+now I gotta just wait and see wha happens

+whats even better is that they want an intern they can hire in the future!! which would be rad to jump on that team. Lets see what happens...

wish me luck<3

(Christmas blog will be posted shortly I need to gather all the pics.)

Sometimes....

2008-12-15T22:19:00.001-08:00

I miss someone sometimes. Sometimes there comes a time where a person moves past a life on this earth. I would say Heaven but my religion(or lack of) will probably offend people. I have my rights and beliefs and so do you. I don't judge you, don't judge me. I often think I will forget her voice, it's a scary thought to think you might forget what a person you loved once sounded like. Of course I could never forget a smile and how it always meant I was laughing along or sharing a happy moment. I don't know how to put this in a blog most of the time but after talking with people shit just flows out of my brain ya know. 2005 was a year of SHIT and it will soon be 2009 and far from shit so I'm happy. What this blog is REALLY about is some spots I have come to LOVE and really think of stuff even when people might not know it.

Sometimes the best thing in life is getting away

from it, and really taking in whats real and pure.

Taking in things that are still here and have yet

to be distroyed or taken away.

I'm ALIVE...

2008-12-15T21:48:00.000-08:00

School has been fighting me this semester but to my surprise it's probably the best GPA I will have in my college carreer. I really don't care about GPA's, DNA's, or whatever but its nice to get only A's and maybe a B. Boring shit aside I did some RAD projects including my suit that would retail at $1,200+ woo! these are the Pants, the Jacket pic will be up Later...

Another was my dream come true, a store concept design, I was wayyyyyyy excited about, here is my mood board, and the paper I wrote was the best ever...
With those doen with I'm excited about the holiday season, I get to eat grrrreat food on thanksgiving. (too bad I lost wieght becuase of school street) AND Bryan was actually around this Thanksgiving so that was nice. Christinamas is a Dif. story My family does a gift exchange and I'm realllly excited about who I got he/she is very easy to shop you and he/she will love the gifts. Bryan is getting a bunch of rad ish, I say I shouldn't buy him soo much but when you know someone so well you can't help it becuase you know what they will love. I just love to see the smiles on faces. I know what one of my gifts is......A weekend in S.F.(thanks Bryan)!!! so soon we will be exploring here....

That will just be another adventure to add to the book of life. All I know is I want school to end already so I could get my Snowboard action in.(too bad I suck) But whatever as long as I don't get hurt everything else is ok, becuase my papa bear got laid off and now I don't have insurance. Thank you (pretend) bad economy. I say pretend becuase pople are buying ish like CRAZZZZY!

Soon I'll be up in the mountain failing at toe side life, then getting my drank on with Chris and Tom as we dance the nights away in my new rad boots. wooowhooo!

P.S._Sorry I'm boring Ben. But at least I'm not at boring as Utah....hahaha.....Just Kidding.

Different...

2008-11-23T01:26:00.001-08:00

It's really late, or really early in the morning, however you want to look at it. I'm not sleepy, but I'm sick so I wish I was able to sleep. Besides being sick it was an amazing weekend. Filled with people I love to be around. Friday started with my Chem lab, I hurried out to try to get started on my weekend. Friday was my brothers birthday :) my mom baked a cake we all were home so it was nice. While Bryan and I waited for them to get home from work we decided to go on a bike ride. I took him to East L.A. haha yeah we noticed he was the only white guy within 10 miles. This is a place where my parents 1st lived when they were married and raised my brothers for a short time before buying our current home. Anyways, while sitting there eating our ice cream Bryan and I got on the topic about how different our backgrounds are. Even though we are so much alike we grew up so differently. I grew up seeing the world on bus rides through Los Angeles and bums on the streets. That's beside the obvious cultural differences. He never really saw LA like I did until we met. But it's amazing how two people with such different lives could end up so good together. You learn from each other and grow in very many different ways. You see life is such unique ways and really get an inside look on someone understanding of the world. We rode our bikes back home and I'm pretttyyy sure I impressed him with how fast I was riding.(haha i hope...?kidding) Then there was Saturday was also amazing. After sewing for an insane amount of hours, Bryan came over to go mountain biking with my brother, uncle, and friends. (side note: i think it's amazing that they get along soo well) We followed it with an amazing dinner and too much time in front of the TV with my brothers, watching a show we didn't know we would end up liking. That sums up my weekend, chill but always fun :)

Divided We Fall

2008-11-20T21:35:00.000-08:00

So I finally got to watch a film I've wanted to watch for a very long time, Darfur Now. If you don't know, it's a documentary that follows six people with the same goal, to free Darfur of genocide. This is as big of an issue now as past horrific problems were like, Nazi Germany, attacks in Argentina in 1976, murders in Rwanda, ect. People often blind themselves and indulge in ignorance but instead of not doing anything stand apart from the non-moving crowds and push yourself to do something for the simple need to want to change a life. Wether you sign a petition, begin to travel as a humanitarian, donate, or write a blog that you hope people really read. "Do ALOT more than nothing!" If these words mean nothing, watch this film and if this issue still means nothing well that is just beyond what my words can handle. If you do want to try to push for change, something is always better than nothing. http://www.takepart.com/darfurnow/ go to that link and you will find more information and ways you can help. Even though these issues started in 2004 and have been addressed people are still dying and together we can change but divided we will fall.

"Those people who go to school and get an education are the ones who will solve the problem but fighting with guns, that will not solve it. Even in a hundred years." -Hejewa Adam (Darfur rebel/soldier)

Sick, School, life...

2008-11-20T13:28:00.001-08:00

I HATE being sick! Throat is all nasty so I can't talk or have fun. I was sick exsactly a month ago and usually I rarely get sick. I can't figure out the inbalance I've created that keeps getting me sick. My guess is my wack sleeping pattern.Whatever, life is life. But I will making a visit to my mom's nutritionist,asap.
More complaining anyone? ok... I am convinced that each professor I have this semester thinks I only had there class. Too bad I have 5 classes and in 10 days I owe my school 567 for ONE class. AH!!
I'll keep this blog short but not at all sweet.
It's time for my chem class, I'm not in the mood for fire and explositons becuase I rather be asleep!
This Friday one of my brothers turns 27, that's nuts. It's even More weird to think I'm 6 years away from that age.
this is the 1st verse of a song i love and it's on his myspace, guess which it is. (You will never guess.)
"por que no supiste como entender mi corazon"

Laughter...

2008-11-18T22:31:00.000-08:00

So I was talking with some friends about times where it was just some great laughs and what better way to express that, than with some visuals so here are some pictures of past memories that I was just an absolute happy being....

Getting married to my BFF(2005)

Jarvina's Birthday

Packing for our adventures(Bryan looks 0% Happy)

Boozing it up!!
Backpacking(San Jacinto)

Being at work with Ben. (f*ck Utah)

Kayaking (Kern River, Oct. 2008)

Being a Kid!!

Drives home after nights out on the Dance floor

Goofing around(80% of the time)

Laying around with the fella
Torrey Pines(Nov.2008)

HolyDayzzzz...

2008-11-18T22:11:00.000-08:00

This is a time that's supposed to be amazing in every which way. Instead the weather is HOT, and people are fooling themselves into thinking the economy is bad. I had this theory that if news cast would report the crisis is over and that everyone is shopping and spending like normal, everything would bounce back around. We're just too naive to realize the less we spend the less we stimulate the economy, but whatever. You live and learn. So Its already Nov.18Th and I have yet to buy a single gift and even further away from knowing what to buy. You think people you know soooo well would be easy to shop for...wrong. I've bought Bryan everything I could think of and now I'm screwed and have noooo clue what to get him. After like 3 hours on the Internet I think I have an Idea, kinda.

As for today I didn't have my 8am class which was GREAT! I got to make some bomb pancakes and eggs then drove to school for lunch with Bryan. After his bomb looking sandwich we went to out University Art Museum where I watched an artist do a live performance about her insomnia due to finding her close friend hung. It was pretty weird but it's insane the power of the human body and mind. I also saw some more Andy Warhol prints and a political piece by a dif. artist which was pretty cool(bellow) the whole room was filled this way

My day at school was the same deal and I am now finally done with my under collar for my Jacket!!! This is it in the process of...

My day then followed by Enchilada and rice dinner with Bryan, I thought it would cheer him up. We got bored and went to Target where he tried on a coat, every guy should own one!!They look amazing, and I wish he owned one... (yum!)

Yeah my Blogs blowww! but soon I'll catch the drift and write more entertaining ones with fun pics.

the vida loca...

2008-11-16T22:19:00.000-08:00

I really hate doing about me's to be totally honest be here it goes. I'm a 21 year old that could buy beer at any time on any day. People make a big deal of this age but its aight. Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising are the pains in my ass right now, but I really wouldn't change that. I also like my campus becuase I get to sleep wherever whenever, except for under a certain treet those tricky little squirrels like to give me a hard time. I have an amazing family they are different and disfunctional but they are MY familia. I have amazing friends Jackie, Jarvina, Chris, Ben, Autumn, David, DaVon, ect. (If I didn't mention you, don't hate, you were included in the ect. part.) I drive this sweet 1993 truck that I absolutely love, and my broken down CheapChevy is sitting on my drive way. I often try to do too much at once. I enjoy bike rides and I wish I had time to go on one EVERYDAY. I love the ocean and have the most respect for the water, it is one powerful element. Mother nature is amazing and I love being out in it. If money wasn't the devil I would travel ALOT more. I hope to someday make a difference in this world and be someone that changes things for the better just becuase I can. Oh, and yes I still dislike writting about myself. And last but never least this fella named Bryan. He often likes to say the same things as me and the same exsact moment it freaks us out. We ride bikes together, backpack together, kayak together, and share very amazing memories together he is amazing and I am lucky.

whhaatt is thisss?!

2008-11-16T21:50:00.000-08:00

I have no idea why I just created this savage beast(aka:my blog page) I've made a horrible mistake! (if you know what show that's from, Iprobably already love you) but what is done, is done.

I'm a weird 21 year old that wears a box on my head at all time...