Be Yourself

Be Yourself in it's truest form.. There is no other joy than to be accepted for being you.. it sucks when you can't be yourself around people because you think others will think of you weirdly or see you differently, vice versa.. But when you really meet friends, significant others, family.. they always seem to accept you to your truest form possible. That's the great thing about being TRUE not only to others but to yourself.

I really want this mirror. it is a mirror, right? it's absolutely beautiful. like me :)

No that is not my hand, i wish it was.. but i just thought this picture captured the simplicity as 2 words and a happy face that represents such a powerful emotion.

and i leave this blog with this last picture that captures so much ...

be yourself.


-live productively

Quote for the Day

"One of the secrets in life

is to make stepping stones

out of stumbling blocks"

-live productively

February 14th

Valentine's Day


(Saint) Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The day was originally a pagan festival that was renamed after two Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines". Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards. The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States.

The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas. The association estimates that, in the US, men spend on average twice as much money as women.

That's how it should always be! jk. no, yes, no, maybe, wait. yes, no, er nvmd! haha so tis the day. February 14th. A day where either you're friggin stoked about it or you're dreading your life being alive on this day. Or like these Indian extremist group who target Valentine's Day, they must be real HATERs of this day.. keep off the HATERade will ya?! (note to self: must keep off the PDA or die)

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-valentine14-2009feb14,0,6681287.story


or maybe like this picture people just despise the day for some apparently odd reason:






but let's all look on the bright side of this lovers day filled with hearts! pink hearts! and alot of hearts and pink! i think Valentine's Day is by far my FAV fo sheez just cause it's HEART day! i just absolutely HEART hearts & the color pink! a day where I'm free to color everything PINK and draw HEARTS everywhere! pink cupcakes, pink heart socks, pink heart cookies, pink kaytee, pink eyeballs cuz my eyes are like blood shot right now, pink is my favorite color if u did not catch on by now..

also, i just really enjoy this day because when you roam the streets of LA during the day and look at almost every major street corner.. the good Samaritans of the Hispanic culture will set up these tables that sell these cute little baskets that have bears holding a heart and ever since i moved to LA I've never been seized to be amazed at the dedication of these great people selling these cute BEAR BASKETS! that kinda look like this:

i love it! i'm really not emphasizing any sarcasm when i talk about these bear baskets! i really think these great samaritans are genius!! it's a great idea! and i'm sure they sell out quick! but don't worry cuz if you walk to another street i'm sure there will always be a plentiful amount of these decadent bear baskets today! and honestly, til this day i have secretly always wanted to receive one but have yet to and i think it wouldn't mean as much to me if i bought one for myself.. and i'm PRETTY sure if these indian extremist were to get in on these bear baskets they wouldn't be overwhelming their tolerance of HATERade!

so in conclusion, HAPPY VALENTINE's DAY!

-live productively

Friendships

"Friends are like walls, sometimes you lean on them and sometimes it's just enough to know they're there"

I believe true friendships show thru actions..


"A friend is like the north star, you look to them when you lose your way"


yeah it's really easy to be there for a friend when everythings great and dandy. But when thing get tough and when you need someone there for you throughout is when the testing comes. The real testing comes when there are quarrels and how well you HUG IT OUT.. make it or break it stage.. friendships and relationships alike..

"A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out"

I've had my rough stages in life. Unfortunately many of them that i prefer to leave behind me and some that I look back and am like ... "JEEZ how the heck am i still alive?" There are probably a handful of times that I could have gone crazy in my psychologically unstable stages but due to friendships and kindred spirits I came through alive and sanely well! maybe even BETTER! Praise God! I'm realizing more and more how I'm very sacrifical in my friendships. I'd sacrifice my eyeballs like "because i'm a girl"- KISS MV portrays or my donate my organs or my heart like Will Smith illustrated in SEVEN POUNDS. I sense that I'm like this cuz my mom was always sacrifical to us. She demonstrated how much she loved my brother and I through the hard work she put in as a single mother raising 2 bastard kids. The long hours of extra work so she could make a living for my brother and I to be comfortable. As I am getting older I'm realizing things that I did not see when I was younger. It's crazy how my parents, in whom I used to confide in, have the greatest influence on me NOW than ever before. And I'm sure later on in life as I get older and wrinkley-er, that memory that was once so distant will come to rekindle a nerve in my brain and function it to remember back, stronger than ever before. Both my mother and my father was, is and will be my greatest friends. People who you're just stuck with. Like it or not. They're my backbone when I'm paralyzed and cannot function. They're the one's who give the greatest advice, somehow they JUST KNOW!.. like TRUE/REAL/GREAT friends should~

"Through life we suffer, through friends we never have to suffer alone"

Be thankful for your friendships, relationships, & space ships.

"A friend is like a teddy bear; you hug it and cry to it when you're sad.. you talk to it when you feel alone.. it doesn't matter what color, size, or condition it's in, they're there for you no matter what"

-live productively

"A friend loveth at all times" -Prov 17:17

THINK BEFORE YOU ACT OR SPEAK

or else it will only bring about REGRET!!

i learned my lesson this week. i'm just like my dad in that category. what i mean by that is, i ACT before i THINK about what i SAY or DO.. sigh.. my dad was always like that as well. i can probably compare him to a ticking time bomb. once something has pulled that trigger he blew up and damaged everyone around him. as time goes by and as i age i keep finding myself doing the same thing at many times of my life. especially when i get triggered to the emotional pain that hasn't been healed yet. it scares the jeebeez out of me and that's when i ACT before i THINK and DO. i got so angry that i unintentionally threw my phone at my macbook leaving a crack on the screen and a crack on my phone. SIGH! therefore as a lesson learned... leading to living productively.. and more of a note to self:

just breathe.
be patient.
and THINK before you ACT.

-live productively

just DANCE

i have linked some tunes to tickle your ears with some music i've been blasting on my mac these days :::

electro version: ..

Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (DuTo* Remx)

the original version .. of READY FOR THE FLOOR

KID SISTER ft. Kanye- pro nails 

Mary J Blige singing LEAN ON ME.. i really liked her voice singing this song :) 

Christina Milian: Us Against the World.. the words to this song is amazing

.. i just like dancing to this song.. DJ Class- IM THE ISH

ENJOY!

-live productively

Being a woman

Let the ball of complaints begin! ::: Being a woman at times can have it's perks like being super fine, pretty and being taken care of and adored. But the downfall of being a woman is probably bleeding a river for about 5 days straight. It makes you tired. weak. lacking in interest of eating and life. I feel slothish. And to add onto my complaints, my menstrual cramps have been killin me today! It kinda feels like someone has punched me in the stomach and the after pains of the punch is kinda how it feels like. When my mom was pregnant with my 3rd brother and I was accompaning her birth time I asked what her contractions felt like and she basically related it to menstrual cramps x 10.. x10?! I can hardly stand it now.. how much more pain can a woman take!.. *in the most sarcastic voice i can say* THANKS EVE for eating the apple! and guys think they have it hard.. o plz! but have mercy on me cuz i have a plethora of hormones going crazy in my body right now therefore the complaints are flowing out like a rapper when he spits out his lyrics.





Let me briefly explain what happens during Menstration:::::
well let www.medicinenet.com explain.....





What is menstruation?
Menstruation is a woman's monthly bleeding, also called a period. When you menstruate, your body is shedding the lining of the uterus (womb). Menstrual blood flows from the uterus through the small opening in the cervix, and passes out of the body through the vagina. Most menstrual periods last from three to five days.

What is the menstrual cycle?
Menstruation is part of the menstrual cycle, which prepares your body for pregnancy each month. A cycle is counted from the first day of one period to the first day of the next period. The average menstrual cycle is 28 days long. Cycles can range anywhere from 21 to 35 days in adults and from 21 to 45 days in young teens.
Body chemicals called hormones rise and fall during the month to make the menstrual cycle happen.

What happens during the menstrual cycle?
In the first half of the cycle, levels of estrogen (the "female hormone") start to rise and make the lining of the uterus (womb) grow and thicken. At the same time, an egg (ovum) in one of the ovaries starts to mature. At about day 14 of a typical 28-day cycle, the egg leaves the ovary. This is called ovulation.
After the egg has left the ovary it travels through the Fallopian tube to the uterus. Hormone levels rise and help prepare the uterine lining for pregnancy. A woman is most likely to get pregnant during the three days before ovulation or on the day of ovulation. Keep in mind, women with cycles that are shorter or longer than average may ovulate earlier or later than day
If the egg is fertilized by a man's sperm cell and attaches to the uterine wall, the woman becomes pregnant. If the egg is not fertilized, it will break apart. If pregnancy does not occur, hormone levels drop, and the thickened lining of the uterus is shed during the menstrual period.



In a nutshell. Be nice to women when they're in their cycles. It's hard enough being pretty but to have to go thru this cycle is killer!

I am a ball of complaints but trying to live productively today...