Goodbye Weekend

The weekend is coming to an end ::Insert SAD FACE here::
Are you ready for MONDAY?

Is lunch packed, clothes ironed, house tasks complete & alarm set to wake you up bright and early tomorrow?

I know how much everyone loves Mondays!
You go to sleep Sunday night saying "Heck yessssssss Back to the GRIND tomorrow" & when you wake up Monday morning you say " I am so glad the weekend is OVER!"
In case you didn't know I have a PHD in Sarcasm!
I hate MONDAYS! Only good thing about them is that you are one day closer to the weekend!!

I figured I would try to not be a POOPER SCOOPER because tomorrow is Monday and the weekend is OVERRRRRRRRRR

So what always gets me in a good mood ... MUSICA!!!!

I play an upbeat jam and I am instantly all better ::Insert HAPPY Face here::

I love this song...Love this GROUP...and love their album E.N.D!!!

ENJOY :)
Bon Voyage Weekend ... till next time!


Hope you all had a great weekend!

Winery Night

The last Friday of February 2010 I had scheduled for it to be Brother-Sister night with my younger brother Bryan. We did just that ... I got picked up by the BRO & we headed to Schnelbys Winery.

For those of you who have no clue about Schnelbys it's a winery located in the Redlands and they make their own wine out of Florida produce (mango, lychee, passion fruit and the most talked about fruit on my blog... you guessed it AVOCADO!)

Check out their site... http://schneblywinery.ning.com/

Schnelbys is in the middle of nowhere. SERIOUSLY in BFE. Take a wrong turn and you end up on a dirt road or in the everglades. I didn't end up in the everglades but Bryan knew exactly how to get there & we ended up on a few dirt roads and I felt like I was in a horror flick! "We're not in Miami anymore TIESTO!"

Upon arrival you are greeted with lights that read ENTER, park in an open field that smells like horse poop from the neighboring farms & once you walk into what looks like a TIKI HUT you are taken by surprise because I am telling you this place is gorgeous! I can only imagine it in the day time. Aesthetically the place is gorgeous ,the atmosphere is great, the prices super affordable & mainly its different & WONDERFUL!

2*26*10 was a cold Florida night ::in the 40's BURRRR:: Luckily there was plenty of wine and dancing to get the temperature up! PERSONALLY I just wore lots of layers! I am a Miami girl...I am suprised I am not like the iguanas that freeze when it gets too cold!

I had such a nice time. I spent time with my Lil Bro, ran into some of my bestest friends who were also on a SIBLING outing, hung out with new friends, Fell in love with Avocado wine, got a private VIP TOUR of the winery, worked on my BREAKING & ENTERING skills & had the pleasure of meeting EDUARDOOOOOOOOOO in the process.

Enjoy the pics of my FAN-TAB-U-LOUS Night!

I little PHOTO TRIBUTE to my crew for the NIGHT :)

MIKE where the heck were u?

"Beauty in the World"

A friend and FAN of my blog told me that she heard this song and that she thinks it would be a great THEME SONG for my blog!

I am so flattered that someone heard of a song and actually thought about me...Thanks Latoya :)

This is Macy Grays new single and its so upbeat and catchy

LOVE IT

Jeggings - I WANT

For those of you who know me I am not really big into fashion or shopping

*I would shop til I drop but I am frugal and always on a budget*

Well I have been eying Jeggings (jean leggings)

ever since I saw them months ago.

I saw them on display at New York & Co. but they were the only ones left and they were damaged. I have been getting emails from EXPRESS and I have had my eye on these bad ass pair of Jeggings!

I don't just want them...I vvvvvvaaaaaaant them! "Waaaaaaa"

BUT my cheap self is debating if I want to spend $50 bucks on a fad that may be over tomorrow for all I know!

WHY leggings are $50 to begin with is beyond my comprehension

With $50 buck-a-roos I can go watch "Platanos & Collard Greens" ::which is playing this weekend @ the Adrienne Arsht Center:: for $35 and have a nice dinner at Cheesecake Factory

Jeggings -VS- ANYTHING else

Do I splurge and just GIVE IN? Do I wait a few weeks to see if they go one sale?

OR I can do what I always do buy something and wait a week and return it! OMG I am so smart! Why didn't I think about this earlier?

Jeggings don't worry Mommas coming for you!

EVEN though I may take you back ! Sorry in advance

Feed a COLD starve a fever

I have been fighting a cold for a few weeks now ::Booooo::

I wake up with a sore throat most days and have been suffering from a major case of the I-TIS! Slacker-itis!

As this never ending week comes to an end I needed a cure for my BLAH- NESS. It didn't help that I got out of work a little later than usual to make up for the I-TIS that has been affecting me at work (I think the I-TIS should be officially diagnosed)

What I needed tonight was my PJ's, bed & a home cooked meal!

The encyclopedia of my life GOOGLE confirmed for me you "FEED a cold STARVE a fever!"

I did just that!!!
I fed my cold some American Idol, White thin crust pizza w/ balsamic for dipping & 1...going on 2 glasses of Pinot Grigio!

I feel GREAT!

Thanks GOOGLE you never fail me :)

BTW I got more AVOCADOS ... are you surprised?

Sometimes you're the bird...sometimes you're the statue

Me I am neither the bird or the statue I am just a girl on a Tuesday night watching American Idol who decides to actually do a home remedy with what else???? AVOCADOS!!!!



All I have to say is....I don't get grossed out easily but when the avocado drips on your neck...::EEEEEEEEHHHHHHH:: Totally NASTY

OVERALL experience (1 being the worst 10 being the best) :

7.5

It really isn't that bad .... You could be THE STATUE!

Check out My Mini Avocado Mohawk

Whooore!! Slut!!

That's absurd! Me a WHORE? A Slut? NEVER!

JOKINGLY I have been called those names by my closest friends after revealing some of my adolescent dreams.

Exhibit A : New Kids on The Block

I use to dream a lot about these hunky boys! I would fantasize about Jordan and his pose' coming to my house picking me up in their limo and going for a ride through Coconut Grove

EXHIBIT B: The Sandlot
Is it that bad that I would dream I was the ONLY girl to be allowed to play ball with these guys? And yes Benny would be my boyfriend and we would suck face in the tree house

Exhibit C: Toy Soldiers the movie

I used to literally dream that I was the only girl in this ALL BOY prep school. Obviously I was a HEART THROB & was the most popular person in the school (Ummm duh I was the ONLY girl) Then the coolest kids would let me in on their rebellious late night tactics of drinking Alcohol which was disguised as mouth wash. Let me not forget to mention that I was the one who escaped the campus to go get help and I was the HERO

Just because I have been boy crazy since as long as I can remember does not mean anything- except that I am TOTALLY into GUYS!But as that song goes

"I am nottttttt a Wh-ooore!"

I am a BLOG Thief

My close friend Emma who is also a fellow blogger (http://not-a-housewife.blogspot.com/) had a post about something she is wishing for. Interesting enough the other day in my PSYCH class we had an assignment to write REALISTIC attainable wishes.

Allow me to share mine with you

• I wish that one day I can perform on a Broadway musical
• I wish that I can have a big family (you know Dugger style...LOL! Not so big but 3 at least)
• I wish once I am a mom that I am a MILF
• I wish that I can be brave enough to pack up all my SH%T and move out of Miami ... ALONE
• I wish that I can find a husband who values family and marriage the way I do
• I wish that when I am FINALLY a teacher that I leave a positive impact on my students life ( It would be awesome if on those secret security questions when someone is asked "Who was your favorite teacher?" That my name is the answer)
• I wish that I will be able to provide my children with the privilege of being able to be involved in multiple activities (BMX, karate, sports, guitar lessons, etc)
• I wish that one day I can be an expert ballroom dancer
• I wish that ONE day I will be able to take a month long vacation and travel NON STOP for those 30 days
• I wish that I will be confident and believe in myself ALWAYS
• I wish that I one day I can have my own TALK SHOW (AN idea is in the works BTW)
• I wish that when I am 80 that I will be able to look at my husband and still feel butterflies (At that age any sensation in the stomach may be just GAS but hey I am sure when you find your soul mate and are MADLY in LOVE "IT" will always be there...even if it takes a bit to recognize it because of the Alzheimer's)
• I wish that I had the option NOT TO WORK
• I wish that Lady Gaga were my friend in real life...not pretend
• I wish I can turn Ricky Martin STRAIGHT

For a long time these things seemed so far fetched but you know what ALL of these things are attainable! I am realistic and know that there is a possibility that many of these things may not happen BUT a girl can dream....Can't make things happen and be big if you don't dream

Don't you just hate it when...

• You serve yourself a bowl of cereal & it's as you put the first spoonful in your mouth you realize that the milk tastes funky ::Bleh::
• You are driving (above the speed limit of course) and ALL OF A SUDDEN what do you see a few yards away? A COP CAR parked on the side of the road & you say to yourself "Oh SH%T I'm going to get pulled over" (It's your lucky day though because Mr.Officer has his head down because he is writing a report for the poor individual he pulled over a few minutes ago)
• The radio is playing a song you LOVE and right in the middle of the song the radio stations DJ decides to create a REMIX and ::POOF:: now you are listening to Keshas TIK TOK "Pedicures on my Toes Toes"
• You are rushing to work and realize you forgot something important (i.e cell phone, your lunch, to put on earrings, deodorant or your pants)
• You realize that it's someones birthday ... 5 days late
• Your drivers side window randomly decides not to work at a drive thru and you become THAT person who has to open the door to place an order
• You've gained a little weight so your pants fit a little tighter than usual and when you remove your pants that have been creating muffin top and you have what I call PANTY BURN!
• When surprisingly enough cable TV is playing a few movies or shows that you like. During your constant hitting of "LAST / Previous" button you get side tracked and start channel surfing and you forget what channel/s you were watching. This also applies to a scenario when you are catching up on rerun episodes of The Real World, Knocked Up is playing on E!, an episode of Intervention you missed is on & The Fifth Element is playing on some random Sci Fi channel - very easy to lose track. ACTUALLY whats worse is when you were into a program and you changed channels during commercials and you get sucked into another program and half an hour goes by and you realize you totally forgot about the other program...NOW how will you know who HE gave a rose to?
• When you walk into a space (i.e Elevator) and it smells ROTTEN...but with your luck a stranger walks into this space MAKES A FACE & you find yourself being embarrassed because they probably think the cause of the rotten smell is YOU
• It's raining outside and the bottom of your pants soak up water and you have to walk around with SOGGY PANTS!
• It's Saturday morning and you wake up in a panic thinking you are running late to work
• Your friends decide to look at pictures from a CRAZY NIGHT of partying on a BIG 56' TV. MIND you the only thing crazy about that night is YOU with your drunken hair, running make up & drunken facial expressions that would scare adolescent children!

Miami girls in The Concrete Jungle

Guess who will be taking over NYC for Memorial Weekend 2010?

ME & My LADIES

Whats in store for us SHE WOLVES?

-Broadway Shows

-Sex & The City tour

-Lots of eating

-Cab rides

-Fine Dining

-Taking over of the Mendizabal house

-Constant picture taking

-ENDLESS memories w/ my girls

SO our tickets are purchased and planning of an official itinerary is underway! ALL I know is that I must make my mandatory trip to Central Park. On my last visit back in September my best time was TAKING IN Central Park and hoping for some EYE OPENING Life changing Revelation to just happen! I still have hope...and until that happens I will just have to keep visiting NYC!

*BELOW* A picture from my last visit to The Big Apple

Avocado Promise

I mentioned in my FIRST POST about the AVOCADO Tree on Steroids... well here is the proof of the GI-Nor-MIS avocado which I have appropriately named AVO'. He was HUGE ::And that's what he said..pur-rum-ching! *INSERT LAUGHTER HERE* :: ! AVO' whom is illustrated in the picture is actually a SMALL ONE! So imagine if this is small ... the other ones that I have devoured have literally been bigger than my head. FYI I have a pretty big head! Please take notice of AVO' and my DUCK FACE!


Now I HEART avocados & I appreciate that my landlord leaves them at my door but I think my landlord thinks I am an avocado feign because he gives me at least 4 a week!
Solution to this excess of green goodness - guacamole & a fearlessness of experimenting with home beauty remedies!

In memory of

AVO'

RIP LUSCIOUS GREEN ONE

You will be remembered always by the drunkies at Bryan's party as

"Mady's Bad Ass Guac!!"

Little things create BIG SMILES

Sometimes I have these moments where something happens that a smile naturally comes to my face and I seriously believe if I am NATURALLY smiling my heart is smiling too!




Sometimes it's the little things that can put the biggest smile on my face

• When I find 2 onion rings inside my BK fries
• When I am with my friends & a song that we all know & love comes on & without notice when the CHORUS comes up everyone starts singing & when I look around everyone is smiling and nodding their heads
• When I find money in my pockets or anywhere for that matter
• When I cook something & I taste it & its the BOMB!
• When the SANDWICH maker at Subway makes my sub just right
• When I see an old couple & the man grabs his partners hand & kisses it
• When I see children kiss or hug their parents randomly out of the blue & the parents face automatically brightens up
• When I get a call out of the blue from someone telling me "Do you remember that time we?" (This makes me know I am thought of & loved)
• When someone looks me in the eyes & their expression alone tells me "I LOVE YOU"
• When someone gets that first whiff of a HOT GARBAGE fart - the look on their face...GETS ME every time!
• When I see someone laugh so hard that they cry
• When you are having a conversation about pens at work & as you are telling the story of how "THIS was your favorite pen that stopped working months ago" and during the demonstration part of your story your FAVORITE pen magically starts to work (Why I still have the PEN IDK - I blame it on my separation issues)
• When I see people do a serious FIST PUMP
• QUOTES that I feel were written just for me
• "Strippers & Cocaine"
• When I picture my WOLF PACK reading the above & knowing that they are smiling
• NO WHEN here ... just the thought of Hammocks make me smile
• When I make little kids repeat something they wouldn't normally say like "BOLAS BOLAS BOLAS!"

WHAT puts the biggest smile on my face is:

WHEN I think about how lucky I have been and will continue to be with all the amazing people I have and have had around me

And that's my story about that .... till next time

Is this REAL LIFE?

Finally I am blogging!
It almost doesn't even feel real to be ONLINE while at home on my computer! I have been Internet-less since Oct 2009! CRAZY I know it's almost like not having hot water or cable! If it weren't for my IPHONE or Internet access at work I think you would have been reading about me in the obituary.
I have been wanting to blog for months now and my crazy mind is always coming up with what I think are GREAT blog topics. I shared them with my friend and fellow blogger Mrs.Boots
(check out her blog http://mrs-boots-and-sirs.blogspot.com/ )
Well she approved of my ideas but who wouldn't when most of my ideas involve me making a fool of myself so stay tuned!

A little FYI about Lil' Ol' Me

I have been in a quarterlife crisis for 2 and a half years!

For those of you not good with math a quarter equals 25 so add 2 and a half and that gives you my age

At 18 I KNEW what my life's timeline would be like. Don't we all think we have it all figured out at 18?

This is what I thought my REALITY was going to be:

Be married & have a loving husband - 3 kids - Job that I LOVE - OWN a House - Have A Dog

This is what really happened

GOD LAUGHED at my plans!

No offense Big Guy I know everything has its purpose but I'm just saying

Once I realized that life wasn't as I planned all I heard was the sound of screeching tires

::STOPPPPPPPPPP SLAM OF THE BRAKES::

and this my friends is when

My Reality Check Bounced

I am a 27 years old and don't have a husband, kids, house to call my own, a job that I love or my own little FIDO!

I live in Miami or as the best thing to come out of Miami Pitbull AKA Mr.Gasolina would say "Dat Tree-O-Five"

*BTW I was totally JK'ing about Pitbull being the best thing to come out of Miami even though I do have friends who strongly believe in that statement!*

A quick DISCLAIMER

I am NOT A CHONGA or am I anyway shape or form like any of those dumb people on Miami Social

(I only look like them except everything is real and truth be told I am prettier as you can see below).

I do not have the luxury of walking out to my backyard and seeing the Atlantic ocean while having my neighbor Gloria Estefan greet me with "The Rhythm is gonna get you" as I walk out to get the paper.

Instead I live in what us Miamians know as "Un Effishhhiency"

::Translation - Efficiency::

My backyard consist of trees just not palm trees I got me some AVOCADO trees on steroids! I swear the avocados that come off that tree are the size of my head

::Pictures to prove it later!::

SO I don't want to drag my first post with nonsense which is exactly what I will probably be doing on most of my posts and will just say that if you become a FOLLOWER / Stalker just be prepared because I am currently going through some LIFE changes and struggles right now so I am hoping that blogging will allow me to explore my creative side and just vent and put things out there and HOPEFULLY in the process reading my blog will put a smile on your face. All I gotta say is I hope you enjoy the RIDE because I know I will "Yeeeeeeee Hawwwwww!"