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Last month I've been helping my sister to do my niece's 15th years party, something similar to the Sweet 16 or Quinceañera. The topic was the ocean and we decorated everything with blue and white colors. Because my sister paid everything herlsef we tried to do as much as we could do. She rented a house that was perfect for this, and they decorated it. Then we did all the decoration for the candy bar, the bottles for the juice, bread boxes, souvenirs, decoration for the sweet table, etc. She bought the cake and the food and mom helped with that because she has a restaurant.

She bought the dress which was not the typical princess dress, and she hired a photographer who did very good job! She took a lot of pictures before the party that are great, very adequate for a teen. I don't like when they try a teen look like an adult sexy woman. My sister wanted I do the makeup because I have a lot of good products for this, so I did although I never did a course for that (I just watched some videos on Youtube). I am pleased with the results! The photographer and the hairdresser said that I did very good job, and my niece and sister loved it. I was so afraid to ruin the makeup because I never tried before colors like blue for the eyes. It surprised me to see that I have more skills than I know. I was preparing her skin with treatments and creams the previous days, and also her hair, so she really looked beautiful.

On Saturday after left work on the way home I realized that my niece didn't have jewelry to use that day in the party, so I bought a ring, earings and bracelet for her. I came home, took a shower then I went to the salon with my sister and mom to bring everything for the party. I did the candy bar then I came back home to makeup my niece. When she left to go to the hairdresser I did my makeup and get dressed. My sister was delayed so I went to the salon alone to welcome the guests while she got ready.

The people were punctual and almost everyone respected the dress code (dressing white). When my niece was ready to enter, there were 15 person that she chose to give to her a heart plated balloon. We did a line, I was the last in the line because I had to organize it for the music starts when she enter. My niece enter with my sister and started to walk and get the ballons, she was so nervous!!! They both were holding tears until they got me in the line, then hugged me and let dropped some tears. My sister was not able to say a word but it was not necessary at all and I didn't say anything for not to ruin their makeup lol :)

Everything was fine. People loved the party, my niece was so so so happy and surrounded by people who really love her. Two friends and her boyfriend said some words to her in front of everybody, it was emotional. We worked harder but it worth, I've never seen my niece so happy before.

The photographer told me that I should study photography and be her partner. She says I've good eye to take photos, I wonder why she thinks that, my photos are pretty normal. She also wants Martu and I go to her house to do some shots, she likes when I smile.... I hate smiling for photos!!! I wish I could see myself through the eyes of another person to know what they see when they look at me, I don't think they see anything special. She took Martu and me like model to take photos in the party and as I could see there are 1 or 2 photos that I liked, so I'll share here when I get the photos.

I went to sleep at 4 am, very tired but full of love. It was a beautiful and emotional day

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Current Mood: happy

I couldn't write anything about my week, so busy trying to catch up with work and helping my sister with my niece's party. The party is today and I'm stucked at work busy, sleepy, tired. When I get home at 2 pm I have to take a shower, do my hair, my make up, help Martu to get ready, then at 4pm I go to my sister's house to make up my niece. Last two days I did many beauty treatment to her.

I'm dealing with the last details of the online guestbook, not sure yet how I'll take the pictures, if with my iPhone or the tablet. I don't have so much time to do everything, the party starts at 7 pm.

Today is also the birthday of my online friend and I would like to spend some time talking with him, but I can't. Catching up with other journals or replying dm will have to wait. There won't be time either to clean the house this weekend.

There are a lot of things I want to write about, but for now I'm going for a coffee, I'll need many cups today. I hope everyone has a good weekend!

I’ve survived January… barely. This week was the hell. Despite administrative guy is back at work I couldn’t catch up with my tasks, in fact I’m more delayed. I didn’t finish commissions and I couldn’t update the price list. I can’t delegate anything because most of my coworkers don’t even do their own things. Some days I have lunch at the desk… I feel I’m collapsing.

Yesterday it was my niece’s birthday. After work I went to see her and I came back home at midnight. So good we live in the same building!.
She is 15 now and we will do a big party in 1 month. My sister is organizing everything and I’m going to help. I want to build a digital guest book but I need to think how to do it. When someone arrive I will take a photo and ask to the person to sign it, then I’ll upload the photo to the guestbook website and let them write a message. I’m looking for some app to do it using just my iPhone but I couldn’t find anything, so I guess I’m going to build a wordpress website and use some plugin to make it looks like a guestbook. I’ll bring the notebook to the salon for people leave the message. Probably I will need to use a tablet to take the photos if I want that people sign the photo, this means that I’ll need to use the Lenovo Yoga tablet because the camera is great. But then I need an app which let me take photos and also write on it.

I can use Google photos or Google drive to save there the photo and quickly download it in the tablet to post in the website.

Another thing I need to do is designing the photo props, then print them and add a stick for people can hold them. I’ll also buy 3 letters, paint them with white color and illuminate them with rice christmas lights. Another things I will help with: souvenirs, candy bar, makeup, the base for the muffins-cake, and decoration.

I enjoy doing this but I know how tired and stressed I will be in March. During the day my head is so busy with work then at night with the party. Those are not the only situations that stress me. I’m very disappointed about Flor but there is nothing I can do, everyone choose the kind of person they want to be.

Tomorrow I’ll go to the weekend house to relax and swim. I wanted to go early but I have a training until 3 pm. The only good there is that I work from home.

Does anyone have any suggestions for the party?

Current Mood: busy

I am so tired! So busy this week at work that I just take 30 minutes every day to have lunch. A lot of things are going on and I am stressed, but it seems I am not as much stressed how I used to feel since I stop drinking coffee

Yesterday was my mother's birthday so she invited me to her restaurante for some music show. When I got the resto there were a lot of her friends sitting at a large table and also her ex husband

I felt very uncomfortable in the way he hugged me and told me I was very thiny and nice. I don't like him, he's a dick. I was sitting on the opposite side of the table than my mother so I could not even speak to her, in fact I just spoke with a friend of my mother who I already know The show I didn't care, I do not know new music and I do not like so much latin music. I ate grilled chicken and I came back to home at 11 pm when they were still eating. I had to cook the lunch for today so there was not time for workout or bike.

Today it was another busy day. I delivered an order I sold before go to work, then I worked all day long with comissions. Went I left work I had a celebration so I went straight from there to the school. I had to bring food to share so I bought a quince pie aware that I was going to cheat with my diet. I did it... I had 1 slice of it. It was delicious but I realized that because my diet I am not so excited about sweets like I normally am. I got home late again, I had vegetables for dinner and I did 40 minutes of bike.

Despìte my little cheats this week I have lost 2.2 pounds, I weight 125.4 pounds, I do not even remember when I was so thiny in the past. Maybe it was in my teens when I did ballet. I want to finish this week (the 4th week of my diet) and repeat it one more week but now I am not sure if I want to lose more weight. My pants don't fit me anymore, all are big, and I doubt it will be healthy to weight less than 125 pounds for someone who is 5.5ft. Anyway I have to admite that I have never felt better about my body like now, I start to feel confident and I like that

Current Mood: tired
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Today my boss bought a cake to celebrate my birthday. We always do that for someone birthday but I didn't expect they will do this time because my birthday was on Sunday. I was not excited about this shock of sugar but I didn't want to be ungrateful so I ate a very very tiny slice. I have not eaten sugar nor flour for 1 month so I was a little nervous thinking my body will get crazy after eat it and want more and more but that didn't happens.

There is the cake

When I got home I cooked apple with cocoa powder and cinamon, it was better than the cake

I also cooked meat with quinoa for dinner, spinach with champignon omelette for breakfast and chicken soup for tomorrow, I ate so much that I am afraid I'll gain some weight but at least I won't be hungry in the phase 2 of the diet.

Current Mood: blah
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I'm 40 years old today....I don't think the number will affect me at all but I don't like so much how it sounds. I am just now learning how to live, many of my years were a waste.

The day was not as bad as I thought. I woke up at noon, I had some bad dream that I don't remeber what this was. My mother messaged me if I preferred to have lunch or dinner together, I chose dinner. I got up, I had breakfast and 2 hours later I had lunch.
I wanted to do workout but I felt heavy after dinner although it was a small beef with salad. I read for 1 hour a new book which seems interesting and I was still heavy so I decided to do bike instead workout. I did 1 hour bike while I read the diet book to know what to do after I end the diet. I also played some matchs of Magic cards.

I had shower then I started to get ready for dinner. I went to my mother's restaurant, it were mom, Flor, Martu and me. My sister and my niece didn't come, I invited them but they forgot it was my birthday and they were already cooking for dinner. My mother was complaining about some problem with her business but I just ignored it.

I was a little nervous because I didn't know what reaction I was going to have about food, or desserts. I didn't break my diet at all, I had grilled chicken with salad. Martu had squid rings which I LOVE but I didn't touch it at all. She also had dessert, some choco-cake which is a cake made with chocolate cookies and caramel... sugar... all those sugar there in front of my eyes... and I didn't want to eat it. I feel so good with my body although I do not get my goal yet, that I have not interest at all to ruin all the work I am doing.
My mother keeps saying to me that I should not do diet, that I have no fat to burn, that many diets are so bad for our body. She also talked about how fat she is getting because eating so much, and that she probably will have a liposuction

My father and his older son messaged me today, I was surprised they remember my bday. My boss also messaged. Michael did early in the morning, he was the second person who greeted me, Martu was the first

Some virtual friends on Facebook also saludate me although I don't post the date of my birthday there, I don't want to reply a lot of messages of people who probably don't even care about this day lol

One of the makeup brands I buy from, which I really love their products, sent me a 15% off coupon for my birthday.

Right now they give 70% discount because cyber monday so I think I will buy some makeup tomorrow and try to use my coupon to see if I can get 85% off lol

I took some aweful pics of myself to remember how (bad or good) I looked on my 40s. I am not photogenic and allergy is killing my eyes but who cares

( warning, look under your responsibility... )

Current Mood: okay
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So.. on Sunday I'm going to be 40 yo... what am I supposed to do? a party? I don't think I know enough people to do that lol. In fact I don't see my few friends for years and I stopped talking to them. My family is very small and we don't celebrate anything together, sometimes Christmas with my mother which is not my favorite day of the year. I do not expect anyone come nor any gift. I was thinking to go somewhere with Alexis but his idea for my gift was "a dinner or 12 minutes of savage sex"

maybe I should take the sex offer but I feel anything for him even in that way.

I think I will stay at home like another normal Sunday and perhaps I will make plans for my next trip. I know it sound kinda depressed but I really I do not fit with the people I know. There are not healthy, constructive or inspiring people so I do not have any interest on them.

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Last week it was CyberMonday, cyberweek and also black Friday (no idea why they did all together) so Michael wanted to give me a tablet for my birthday this month so I can study in the bed instead make my body hurts spending more hours sitting at the computer. I looked for a tablet 10" and there were not many options, Samsung, Viewsonic, iPad and random brands. Everybody were complaining that the battery of Samsung dies in 8 hours, I felt disappointed. The Viewsonic one people say is ok for kids to play with. I looked Lenovo but they are selling just small sizes. I was getting really frustrated. Michael asked me if I want an iPad but it cost more than a notebook so I don't see the point to go for it. He asked me if I want a notebook but I won't make him spend so much money when 1 month ago his car got broken and he had to buy a new one.
I checked the auction website and I found a tablet which I don't know the brand but it has a lot of 5 starts review.

It is a gamer tablet, screen 10" 1280 dpi Ultra HD resolution, 16Gb (to 48GB with MicroSD) Quad Core 1.5 Ghz , Android 7, Wifi + dual chip 3G, Sensor G, 6000 mAh battery. The only not good enought is the double cam quality (2 mpx and 0.3 mpx) but to be honest I do not care. This brand makes also cameras for virtual reality so it can be so bad I guess. We decided to try this tablet so we bought it. They will send me for free bluetooth handset, cover, stylus pen, OTG wire, protective glass, and deliver it for free

everything for 170 dolars!!. It has 1 year garantee and I have 72 hours to try it to see if I like it. I'm pretty sure they will send me the green cover which I dont like but it doesnt matter, I think I will buy a better cover.

I will get the tablet on Friday, I can't wait!!!

Current Mood: happy
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Today is Michael's birthday and I almost forget it!

I did very good sending my gift days ago lol. So far it's the best gift he got lalalallala

What is not so nice is that he had a very shitty day at work. Everything in the lab got broken, literally everything, and he didn't know why. Last weekend his coworker made an update in the code and he left for vacations. Yesterday it was working fine but today it was the hell. Michael got pissed, frustrated and very stressed. I couldn't say anything to cheer him up

My day is meh. I woke up tired and I dealt with a lot of things at work. In some point of the day it was hard for me to breath, maybe because weather. Last days are hot and sunny, 22+, but it says tomorrow it will be rainy.
After work I went to the greengrocery and I bought a lot of vegetables and fruits, I really wanted to buy everything there. The seller told me "Girl, you are not going to walk with all those bags, are you? It's heavy!" I said "Don't worry, some workout is always good!" and I walked 4 blocks carrying almost 20 pounds lol
But look all what I got!!! my fav fruits: blueberry, strawberry, pineapple, kiwi, banana.... the apples are sooooo sooo red that I had to buy them. And I got asparagus!!!

Ok I know I sound crazy

, it's just vegetables and fruit

For dinner I had a salad with tomato, spinach, carrot, olive and obviously asparagus. I added olive oil and sesame seeds.
Then I ate fruit and as usual after each meal I drank green tea.

Now I'm on the bike and probably I'll study programming

Current Mood: okay
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Today is my birthday, so I did some shopping. I bought to paint my hair, a black eyelash mascara, another nailpolish and some stuff for nailart. I also bought some stuff for my house and an interdental brush wich I tried right now and I love it! There are just few teeth I can't use that brush on because i'm not forcing it, but this clean my teeth so good!!!
I tried the nailpolish and I'm not sure how I feel about this color, but is a color for summer and this will be good to use with my new bikini

At 10pm I will go upstair to have dinner with mom, then come back home to play magic with Mike or do something together

Went I woke up I was tired and in bad mood but Mike is spoiling me since early, he made my day.