Ok so there are times in life where everything seems to take a rapid turn and change directions. I know it happens. I've been there many times...but I still don't know how to cope with.
I guess Mr. Newton was so right about the inertia. Why do we try to resist so much to change? Why do our minds cling on so hard to the known routine? Is it the fear of the unknown?
In my case it might. Does that make me an unadventurous person? Scratch that. I think it makes me a control freak. I have to be in control of everything, know exactly my environment and the reactions that I'll get from it. The hard part is starting over. And of course, the tension that comes with it.
I know it. I know it happens. So all that's left for me is take deep breaths, try to focus on "baby steps and one day at a time" stuff. It'll eventually pass.
Now that I think of it, I've only known one person that I could trust so much to let go of my control...but that person's gone now, and I'm back in control and breathing and walking and all that stuff.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
La fuerza centrífuga de los inodoros
Increíblemente hoy tuve uno de esos momentos de los que tanto alardeó Murphy de predecir...creo que debería ser más admirado que Nostradamus por la exactitud de sus predicciones. Mi celular se me cayó en el baño y pues naturalmente fue a parar al inodoro.
En ese justo momento, varias cosas pasaron fugazmente por mi cabeza. Además del hecho del celular flotando en el agua (limpia gracias a Dios), me puse a pensar sobre las cosas que nos suceden tan repentinamente y nos dejan medio tontos pensando qué fue lo que pasó?
Hay momentos en la vida que todo parece venirse encima como una avalancha y sepultarnos sobre una montaña de dudas, tristeza, incertidumbre, decepción, etc. Y pues nada, no queda nada más que hacerle ganas y nadar en el denso y copioso lodo para salir a respirar. Ese es el momento más complicado. Porque cómo vamos a nadar sin aire? De dónde salen las fuerzas para luchar contra la viscosidad resistente?
No sé como hay gente que sale adelante, pero sé que he oído historias. Y pues naturalmente el grado de viscosidad y la cantidad de lodo varían de acuerdo con el nadador...la dificultad está en los ojos del que lucha contra la montaña.
En todo caso, el lodo...el lodo apesta! Y peor aún, no tengo celular.
En ese justo momento, varias cosas pasaron fugazmente por mi cabeza. Además del hecho del celular flotando en el agua (limpia gracias a Dios), me puse a pensar sobre las cosas que nos suceden tan repentinamente y nos dejan medio tontos pensando qué fue lo que pasó?
Hay momentos en la vida que todo parece venirse encima como una avalancha y sepultarnos sobre una montaña de dudas, tristeza, incertidumbre, decepción, etc. Y pues nada, no queda nada más que hacerle ganas y nadar en el denso y copioso lodo para salir a respirar. Ese es el momento más complicado. Porque cómo vamos a nadar sin aire? De dónde salen las fuerzas para luchar contra la viscosidad resistente?
No sé como hay gente que sale adelante, pero sé que he oído historias. Y pues naturalmente el grado de viscosidad y la cantidad de lodo varían de acuerdo con el nadador...la dificultad está en los ojos del que lucha contra la montaña.
En todo caso, el lodo...el lodo apesta! Y peor aún, no tengo celular.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Shopping for makeup
This may come as a shock for many people, but I didn't start shopping for makeup until I was in my 20's! I never was much of a looks' girl, I actually was the nerdy skinny ugly girl at school.
But one day I decided to give it a try (shockingly inspired by my little teenage sister). And so, as everything I set my mind to, I had to research and learn in order to master it. I haven't gotten quite yet to the master part, but I'm still going for it.
At first I thought that I could buy any makekup and apply it and that was it. But with my research I came across this youtube channel called Makeup Geek, which totally opened my eyes to the REAL makeup art. So it was an art after all. It's like painting on a face shaped canvas. I had never seen it like that. And digging up on my oil painting classes drawer in my head, I decided to get inspired by it.
I learned that you can actually make yourself look so much prettier according to your outfit and the ocassion. It was not a banality after all, it was self improvement...personal marketing! (Ironic for me to discover this so far up the road).
Anyways, in my makeup shopping experience I learned to love MAC: great eyeshadows, endless colors, unbeatable bronzing powder and eye kohl, and a must for your 3 basic brushes (I'd buy them all but they're quite expensive). I also discovered Revlon True Blending Foundation, for make up that doesn't look like makeup and their great blemish concealer. Clinique tends to be the expert on eye care for me and their All About Eyes Cream and concealer it's a winner on my list. And finally Loreal's Double Extend mascara has come to be my favorite (I love long definded lashes instead of thick ones, and I have never been able to deal with the fake eyelashes).
Now I have become a makeup addict and I find myself compulsively shopping for new eyeshadows all the time and being fascinated by new products (quickly becoming a Sephora fan)...I think I am shoppaholic afterall!
But one day I decided to give it a try (shockingly inspired by my little teenage sister). And so, as everything I set my mind to, I had to research and learn in order to master it. I haven't gotten quite yet to the master part, but I'm still going for it.
At first I thought that I could buy any makekup and apply it and that was it. But with my research I came across this youtube channel called Makeup Geek, which totally opened my eyes to the REAL makeup art. So it was an art after all. It's like painting on a face shaped canvas. I had never seen it like that. And digging up on my oil painting classes drawer in my head, I decided to get inspired by it.
I learned that you can actually make yourself look so much prettier according to your outfit and the ocassion. It was not a banality after all, it was self improvement...personal marketing! (Ironic for me to discover this so far up the road).
Anyways, in my makeup shopping experience I learned to love MAC: great eyeshadows, endless colors, unbeatable bronzing powder and eye kohl, and a must for your 3 basic brushes (I'd buy them all but they're quite expensive). I also discovered Revlon True Blending Foundation, for make up that doesn't look like makeup and their great blemish concealer. Clinique tends to be the expert on eye care for me and their All About Eyes Cream and concealer it's a winner on my list. And finally Loreal's Double Extend mascara has come to be my favorite (I love long definded lashes instead of thick ones, and I have never been able to deal with the fake eyelashes).
Now I have become a makeup addict and I find myself compulsively shopping for new eyeshadows all the time and being fascinated by new products (quickly becoming a Sephora fan)...I think I am shoppaholic afterall!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Christmas Cookies
I just love Christmas. It's just that time of the year when I remember that happiness doesn't need a particular reason. And it is breathable in the air. The lights, the people's mood, everything changes and somehow the everyday goes by more pleasantly.
The relaxing mood always brings me to cooking and baking. For me it's a symbolic way to remind me of the wonderful time I spent on my holiday break from school helping my mother out in the kitchen. Now that I think of it, it was my first real personal project. When I was about 7 years old I decided I wanted to make cookies (which I love since then), but my mother wouldn't let me. Of course, I was too little and inexperienced. So I had to litterally work my way to the top. At first, my mom would only asign to me the "boring chores". Like doing the dishes (which to this very day I still stand against my mother and insist it's not a part of the cooking!). And sifting flour, cremating butter and so on. But I learned one of my most valuable life lessons: practice, dedication and effort will eventually get you where you want to go. So that's how I learned to bake, and to my self steem I turned out to be a pretty good pastry amateur chef (yeah I like to call myself that! :-)
Therefore, based on my love for baking and my love for Christmas, on this particular time of the year I fully enjoy the season. I just bought a Christmas cookie special magazine to inspire myself for decorating ideas for my giveaways this holidays. I love this form of present since it's made with love and can be totally personalized. It's not a very common thing in my country but I just love doing it and my friends and acquaintances enjoy them quite much.
I know it's still October, but I can already feel the cool winds comming my way. Let's spread the holiday spirit and take a break from all our bad feelings and attitudes and as The Bible says: Rejoice!
The relaxing mood always brings me to cooking and baking. For me it's a symbolic way to remind me of the wonderful time I spent on my holiday break from school helping my mother out in the kitchen. Now that I think of it, it was my first real personal project. When I was about 7 years old I decided I wanted to make cookies (which I love since then), but my mother wouldn't let me. Of course, I was too little and inexperienced. So I had to litterally work my way to the top. At first, my mom would only asign to me the "boring chores". Like doing the dishes (which to this very day I still stand against my mother and insist it's not a part of the cooking!). And sifting flour, cremating butter and so on. But I learned one of my most valuable life lessons: practice, dedication and effort will eventually get you where you want to go. So that's how I learned to bake, and to my self steem I turned out to be a pretty good pastry amateur chef (yeah I like to call myself that! :-)
Therefore, based on my love for baking and my love for Christmas, on this particular time of the year I fully enjoy the season. I just bought a Christmas cookie special magazine to inspire myself for decorating ideas for my giveaways this holidays. I love this form of present since it's made with love and can be totally personalized. It's not a very common thing in my country but I just love doing it and my friends and acquaintances enjoy them quite much.
I know it's still October, but I can already feel the cool winds comming my way. Let's spread the holiday spirit and take a break from all our bad feelings and attitudes and as The Bible says: Rejoice!
Getting started....
Well, I'm not much of a writer but I decided to give this a try. Why? First of all because I always talk so much that maybe I should start writing it down. And second of all as a therapy. A recent breakup suddenly leaves me with a lot of time on my hands. And I decided to start looking for different activites insted of thinking about my ex. Not my own idea really, actually stolen from Carrie Bradshaw.
Oh well, with that off my chest I will start writing about my take on things through the days. Topics will vary inmensely, as my mind wonders terribly thanks to my undiagnosed ADD. Plus since I was little my dad always said I tend to be very opinionated.
Topics that I love: Fashion, beauty, politics, environment, economics, marketing, advertising, and many more...trust me!
My point of view comes from a working girl in Latinamerica, as all of us, trying to break through.
Oh well, with that off my chest I will start writing about my take on things through the days. Topics will vary inmensely, as my mind wonders terribly thanks to my undiagnosed ADD. Plus since I was little my dad always said I tend to be very opinionated.
Topics that I love: Fashion, beauty, politics, environment, economics, marketing, advertising, and many more...trust me!
My point of view comes from a working girl in Latinamerica, as all of us, trying to break through.
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