Weekend XL

May. 26th, 2018 12:59 pm
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Yesterday I had day off :D it was a excellent day. Michael called me to wake me up at 10.30 am, it was nice to wake up to his voice. We were on the phone for 30 minutes then I got up.

The weather was perfect, sunny and 64F+, so I got coffee and I spend a couple of hours sitting next to the balcony, enjoying my cacti and the sun. By 4pm I cleaned the house and I worked on my projects and designs. I got many things done.

After dinner I took care of myself. I did my facial peeling and I exfoliated the skin of my body, it feels soooo soft now! Today I plan to paint my hair, get my manicure done, exercise and have an IPL session. I should buy something to the bath, like mineral salts or bath foam.  

I've so many things to do before going to see Michael on August that I should make a to-do and to-buy list on my bullet journal. I want to look decent so I need to push harder with workout, practise more English, take care of my body and also save money to spend there. That last is not easy lately for me, I keep buying things. The last week I bought a new parfum which I like, it's cheaper than international parfums and it stay long on my skin. I'm really happy with this parfum, it's perfect to use everyday then I can save the good parfums to use for special days. 

Another stuff that I bought is a box for store the stationery things and new markers which I can do fake lettering :D

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The last order I did from Ali Express is in the Customs for  2 weeks, but there is not mail for me yet. I'm pissed about this. How long they will hold my order until send it to me? And tomorrow it's holiday so nobody works. I don't want to do another order before to get the last I bought. Will they make me pay taxes for a bunch of washi tapes? 
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Today it's bloody cold! 8ºF at morning and right now it's 12ºF. Ok it's not sooooooo cold I know but remember that my heart beats slow then I'm always cold, even on summer.

I got the boots, I'm in love with them ♥. My feet look small with those boots :D 

There are some stuff that Michael wants to get for me: Swell bottle, fitbit, and matching underwear Meundies.

Today I chose the bottle, 25 oz, purple and blue. I really love the color


then Michael made me choose the Fitbit, and I liked this one


 

We will wait until he loses more weight to look for underwear. This week he lost 11 pounds and I'm really happy that finally he started to care himself. He's also looking for new job and already had some interviews. He's doing courses to develope apps, working slowly to leave his comfort zone... it's amazing, I feel proud of him. All that he needed was someone who support him, who trust him. I love to see how people growth, how they become better, how they can do amazing things with their lifes.

Time for designing and drinking coffee before my fingers freeze!

Hot Sale

May. 18th, 2018 08:00 pm
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On Wednesday I went to the shoes store. I looked for a nice pair of boots for weeks but there was nothing that I liked. Finally I found one and I decided to buy them. Genuine leather, rounded point, 10cm heels with platform, perfect to walk without feel pain. I tried them on and they were sooooo comfortable that it took me only 2 minutes to decided to buy them. When I was going to pay for it, the girl tell me its price and it was not the price I saw in the showcase. I told her about it and we both walked to the front of the showcase and she saw the price. Although I was right, she said they did a mistake when they put the shoes in the showcase. It was a difference of usd 40 including the discount for paying with cash, and that piss me off, I think they do it on purpose but even when I loved those boots I was not going to pay the other price.

When I got home I looked the website of the official store and I found they sell the shoes cheaper than the retailers, free shipping, and they were giving discount because "hot sale", bingo! I saved 24 usd and I paid with credit card (3 payments 0% interes rate) , I got free shipping and today, 2 days after, they sent my boots to my work adress. I was not there though so my coworker got the box for me. 

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Today was a good and productive day. First of all it was sunny and a little cold after days and days of rain, plus it's Saturday and I woke up at a message from Aliexpress saying that my order has arrived to my country!

I worked 4 hours then I did some errands. I went to Chinese store and I bought some brushes to try with watercolors, then I went to another Chinese store and I got those brushes that you can fill with water! it's a win. I bought 2 to try them, school watercolor, more fine point pastel markers, gloves because we will have cold days next weeks, flowerpot, a soft eraser just because I liked its color, and a BIG cornstarch alfajor :D



I got home and I ate 2 pizza slice than I cleaned the house. I cleaned the windows althought next week we will have some rainy day but I don't care, I want to see my house clean. I put one of my cactus in the new bigger flowerpot and I felt happy because I'm sure my beatiful baby cactus will love it and will bloom to thank me :P



After cleaning I had dinner then I take a shower. Now I'm drinking blueberry coffee while I try to catch up with all the design work behind.

Washi tapes

May. 9th, 2018 08:07 pm
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I'm in love with the washi tapes I got yesterday from AliExpress. My order took 4 weeks to arrived, I thought it was going to take longer. The package arrived directly to my address, if I am lucky I'll get the other soon.

I love the colors of the tapes, and they are very soft. I think the quality is good but since I don't have so many tapes to compare I can't say. The brand is "Twilight". I'm very happy with my order :)

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To cheer myself up I bought some clothes. I also got one of the orders of washi tapes that I bought from AliExpress. I'll write about that tomorrow, now I'm going to bed.

Weakeend

May. 6th, 2018 10:46 pm
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I don't feel great lately. On Thursday I couldn't wake up on time so I worked from home. It was not bad though, I helped Martu with her homework. On Friday after work I got coffee with a BIG cornstarch alfajor. The sugar overdose made me sleepy. I had a short nap until my sister and niece came to home for I to do their makeup. When their left I tidy up the house, had a shower then I went to the bed and watched 2 episodes of Money Heist.

Saturday was a nice day. My friend came to pick me at 2 pm. The plan was gong to the Cactus feria but it was cancelled then we decided to go eat somehing. We went to a restaurant very famous for its pancakes. We decided to order sweet pancakes instead salty because it was late for lunch. My friend Pablo ordered a pancake with caramel, cream and almonds. Mine was caramel and chocolate mousse. For drink I ordered Italian capuccino. It was a shock of sugar on my body, I couldn't finish my pancake.

After that we decided to go to Chinatown. I've never been there. We went to many stores, I loved it! My friend is a good partner for this. He already knew he best stores so that's a plus. I bought washi tapes, markers, stickers, unicorn erasers, underwear without stitches, nail file, etc. My friend was like "Nat stop spending money!!!" while I ran here and there choosing things. He also took me to a big supermarket where we bough milk coconut which is delicious and I bough rice pasta and chinese soup.











I didn't see my friend for 5 years so we talked a lot about how our lifes are going. It surprised me that he lives wit his girlfriend (ex gf) but their relationship is over for 2 years. He said that nobody knows and they still living together to split bills and because they are friends. He's not the only man in this situation that I know, and it's hard for me to understand how you can continue sharing a house with a man/woman who you don't love anymore. I'm not spiteful but I can'even be friend with my exs. We also talked about work, I explained to him how muh the company I work from sucks and he said he can make me enter in the company he works. I'll evaluate it, that company is away from home.


We came back home and I let him come him because I trust my friend. We talked a little more and he looked my cactus and magic cards, then at 10 pm he left and I went to the bed and finished to watch Money Heist. I liked this show.

Today I woke up at 1 pm, I got up, drank coffee, I tried to work on designs but I felt bad so I went to the bed again. I laid down but I couldn't fall asleep so at 5.30 pm I got up, I hadanother coffee and i tried to work... failed again. I went to the bed and I draw in my bullet journal.
I really hate how long this take for me to get sick. My body will fights against illnes for weeks making me feel tired, weak, depressed but not any symptom strong enough to treat with medicine. I prefer to get sick in the normal way where you have fever and some other symptoms which make you stay in the bed for a week and after that you feel better, but nope, I'm a figher for everything I guess.

Shopping

May. 3rd, 2018 10:31 pm
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Today I got a message from AliExpress, one of the orders of washitapes that I did last month arrived to my country :O Let's see how long it takes to the post mail to deliver it. In the other hand, I had to ask for refound to Amazon for first time. Some stencils I bought never arrived.
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I'm feeling so bad. Yesterday for 3rd day I was so tired that when I got home I had nap for 1:30 hours, then I got up, I cooked, I did the lunch for next day, I had dinner then I went to bed again. It was hard to fall asleep because how bad I felt. I checked my heart and it was the problem... 48 bpm. I don't know why I didn't realize before that my heart could be the reason of all my fatigue. 

Today I woke up at 6 am still feeling bad, I took the kids to the school then I came back home, not feeling good to work. I fell asleep until 11 am, checked my heart after got up and it was 50 bpm but I forced myself not to go back to sleep. When it was time to pick kids from school my mother called me and start yelling to me because I was at home but I didn't go to pick Martu. I explained to her that I was feeling very bad and I could not make my heart go faster, she didn't care and continue yelling at me, saying that she had to stop doing her things to make me a favor when I was at home!!! Of course she didn't even ask if I needed something at all because she gives a shit. I told her don't worry I won't ever ask for a favor again and that I was not feeling great to argue then I hung up. The older she becomes, the more aggresive she is. 

I messaged my sister to warning her about my mother, because she works with her and last weekend my mother was aggressive to my sister so better she try to avoid talking to her. My sister said if arguing with mom didn't make my heart go faster then there is nothing that can help me lol. I was a little upset so I did online shopping. I bought groceries, a new mug to drink coffee, a box to put inside the stuff I use to make the bullet journal and another blue pillow. 


 

After confirm the order I was still upset soooo I went to AliExpress and I bought 2 set of 45 stickers for journals, 5 Zebra highlighter midliner and 28 washitapes. I got 4usd discount and free shipping to my country. It will take 2 months to arrive though and if I am lucky Customs wont stop my order making me pay taxes. My heart didn't get better but my mood did.

I worker a little in the design for the law firm then I had dinner and I did 30 minutes of bike to see if this helps my heart. I tried to catch up with journals but I think I'm still delayed. Now I'm going to bed to do study 1 English lesson then sleep.

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Things that piss me off last 24 hours:

- I got the weights. 3 weight discs drips water. I had no idea why they have water inside but I sent a message to the seller on the auction site to let him to know about this issue. After a while I read my messages but he didn't reply. Instead that, he informed to the site that I got my order. I open a claim on the site and attached photos to it. I had the feeling that the seller won't take care of my problem so I was very pissed. Good thing: this morning the seller call me and told me that it's normal that the discs have a little of water inside and he explained to me the reason, and also told me that usually they drain the discs before sell it. We agree that I'll drain the discs and if they still drips after a couple of days they will change them for others. I hope I can fix it without change, I like the weights very much and I want to use them asap!.

- Martu had a short Math test and she didn't pass it. The test was not programmed and nobody knew they will have to do it, but still it was a test. She got 2/10 and I got very mad about. I took away her phone yesterday and I put her to do the homework. This weekend I'll do the same because she has Math test again on Wednesday.
 

- Workers next to my building stayed working until 1 am last night making loudy noise with their tools. WTF, are they crazy??? this is the first time they work during the night and I hope this be the last. I couldn't sleep until they finished. 5 hours of sleep is all that I got.

- This morning my boss came to work at 8.30 am. Nobody expected she came because she was in a trip, but she came to catch the people who is coming late to work every day. She yelled to 2 guys. After that we spoke about the organization of the trade show and she told me she will send fat ass with me.... thank you for ruining my Friday!!! If this man smells I'll say to him directly, without care if I hurt his feelings. If he harass me I'll kick his ass and tell to him what he does is not right. I won't keep silence anymore. 

- Last week I had a meeting with the daughter of my boss to organize the trade show. Sales manager was not online so she and I took some decisions about what brochures we will print, etc. We cancel some of the brochures that sales manager wanted to print because the company had money troubles last week and because there is not enough time for me to design them and send it to print. Today sales manager called me and I informed to him about this. He said we got money so we will print everything that he originally planned. I asked to him if he already has the design because there is not time to do one and he said he has not but "we will see how we do the design". We??? I WON'T rush to design while I am alone in the office  answering the phone, doing quotes, answering mails, finishing the brochures that we need to print, calculating commissions next week, having a training because we are migrating to a new version of our ERP system, etc, etc, and a lot of etc more.  Why I'll kill myself doing everything alone when he won't even go the the trade show because he will go on vacations????? 

I think there is nothing left to bitch about so far, let's see if I can breath and start my day again!

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I'm in excellent mood today because I worked from home lalalala. I'm more efficient working here that when I work from the office. I made ground coffee instead instant coffee, blueberry one!

Michael called this morning, another reason to be in good mood. We are always making jokes and laughing. Last weekend he started to run. He did on Saturday and Sunday but not yesterday because his legs sore so much. I'm so happy to see him working on himself :)

I got a new project with websites. My customer wants an online store so I have so much work to do the next weeks. It's good that we have some days off because Easter so I can work just on this project those days.

Now I'll try work on my bullet journal then I'll work on the websites at night. 

Oh! Yesterday I got some stuff for home: 2 pillows and a glass jar for flowers.



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This should be a good day because it's Friday but so far is not as good as I wish. I took my nieve and Martu to the school and we missed the train because it arrived 3 minutes early to the station... oh well, we had to wait the next train then walk very fast to the school. We made it though. 

The girl who works with me messaged me yesterday to tell me that she deal with my boss she will enter to work earlier, at 8am since I am going early too, so she depends on me to can enter to the office (she has not keys) and I should to say her whenever I'm not going early to work. That bother me a little. I do not want to take responsibility for her schedule nor report her whenever I have something else to do before our normal working hour (at 8.30 am). I replied to her that I'll try to remember to messaged her if I'm not going early though. This morning after left the kids I got her message: "let me know when you take the bus". I was already in the bus 10-15 minutes away from work. It piss me badly that she messaged me when yesterday we deal that I'll just say to her when I am NOT going early, but now she wants I report to her every time I get the bus???? I'm sorry but NO. I don't want to start my morning stressed running to the school then keeping in mind that I have to report to her when I get the fucking bus. I usually arrive to the office at 7.35-7.45 so there is not reason for me to report a coworker when the hell I get the bus unless I arrive late.
 

To make my morning worse, I checked all the emails that I got the 3 days I was working from home to see if my other coworker did good replacing me... of course he doesn't. There are quotes that he didn't do, sales process that he didn't finish, emails that he didn't reply but he didn't let me know about this after I went back to the office. He knows how to do the work but he doesn't do because he is looking for new job so he gives a shit. 

I got my new exercise bands today, need to try them. I bought few more things for the bullet journal and Mike got the fine point markers I bought from Amazon :)

Now I'm working on a new website while trying to get inspiration to draw a logo.

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I'm excited about this Bullet journal although I'm not sure if I'll have enough time to write on it. This afternoon I picked Martu from the school then we went to the office supply store to buy the notebook. We don't have notebooks dotted pages here but there are some notebooks blank pages for drawing so I bought one of those. I also bought another notebook for drawing because Martu was dying to have one. Now she draws awesome characteres in it :)

At night I'll think how I want to design my journal, I can't wait! If I like this, I'll buy a couple of good notebooks when I go to USA ♥

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I decided that I want to try it, so there is some stuff that I already have and I think I can use. I bought more fine point markers and some stencils from Amazon and tomorrow I'll try to get notebook without lines.






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Yesterday after work when I got home I was soooo tired that I fell asleep. One or two hours later I woke up, I cooked for today then I went to bed again. So today I was not so sleepy!

Day at work was quiet so I could design a banner for the mining trade show. the trade show is from 18 to 20th April in San Juan, and they will send me there with 2 sellers. I've never been there. It's an area of valleys and mountains. The main economic activity is winemaking and mining.  If I'm lucky maybe I can visit places around. There is so much I have to do to get ready and it seems I'll be almost alone to do everything (as usual). My coworker is going to Italy one week before the trade show and sales manager will be on vacation so this mean that I have to do all the work on sales department plus all the organization of the trade show without help. 

In the other hand I'll have work to do at home. I sold another website and also there is another person who wants a website and logo for his project :)

When I got home I was not so sleepy so I did washing, washing up and I mopped the floor. This make me feel good, I didn't waste the evening. I ate pizza then I did online shopping. I bought new bands and I am thinking about to buy 10lbs weights.

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 My sister and I did plan to go shopping because she knew a place to buy cheap school uniforms and also clothes. Mom wanted to come with us so we went to pick my sister and niece to their house and we all went to that city. It was a very bad idea... as soon as my sister got in the car, she and mom started to argue and also to yell... my sister is exactly all that she hates about my mother: agressive, intolerant, hater. I tried to ignore them but I knew it was going to be a shitty day. 
The first place we wanted to go was the store to buy the school uniforms. My sister asked for the v-neck shirt and the skirts but they said it was out of stock. I needed more than those but we decided to look for another store so we looked for it on Google...another bad idea. We walked to those stores but they don't sell the kind of uniforms we were looking for. After walking and wasting 1 hour of time we were in the same place where whe were at the start. I bought some clothes for the uniform in a store then I went back to the first store. They had all that I needed for Martu's uniform... I spent more money than I wanted but it was necesary. At this point we all were hungry but we keep walking trying to get white dresses to wear in my niece's party... oh yes, dress code is white clothes and I'm not happy about that. 
We went to few stores when my mother proposed to move to another city. My sister was agree but I didn't wanted because the stores in that other city are expensive. I told that to them but Ilet them decide. We bought lingerie in a store then we moved to the other place.
The first store we entered had normal price but we couldn't find white clothes that we like. As usual mom didn't remember were the stores that she wanted go were so we started to walk. I tried a lot of white dresses that I didn't like and which were also expensive. My sister was moody and complaining althought we were in that fucking situation because her stupid dress code. Mom was upset with my sister, and I was tired and hungry with a bloody headache. All that I have was less than half banana split frappuccino from Starbucks.



After 2 hours walking and trying white clothes we were ready to give up when mom's friend told us where we could go to buy nice and cheap clothes. It was our last try. In the second store we were, we all got white dresses which fit us. The one I got was very cheap. I liked it because it's very simple dress and the fabric is soooooooo good. It cost me 17 dolars!!!



I also got a cheap dress for Martu in a expensive store for teens. I was not going to spend so much money in white clothes which probably we won't wear again. It was a very shitty day but at least I got all that I was looking for. I went to sleep to my house.
Self-note: never do shopping with mom and my sister together anymore.

Multitask

Feb. 10th, 2018 10:11 pm
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I don't know how I do to do all that I do. It was a long week. I left work late twice. Sales manager was in the city and he wanted to modify all the price again so it's good that I didn't update the list price yet. But this mean that in 9 days when I take my week of vacations the list price will shows old prices. One more time he waste time talking so much and losing focus so I could not teach him how to do all what I do. He trust my coworker will do that, and he will, but I know he will do a lot of mistakes. It's not my problem anyway.

In 10 weeks we will participate of a trade show and of course I am in charge of it. there is a lot of things that I need to do like banners, brochures, videos, advertising, designing the stand, etc. I already have some ideas of what I want to do. I asked to sales manager who will go since the trade show is in another province, and he asked me to go with the local seller and someone else, probably fat ass, which means I'll be stucked in the truck with him for 13-14 hours, unless my boss be smart and send me by plane while he goes by car. Anyway my boss still doesn't know that sales manager wants send me there and maybe she won't want. We will see.

Another thing that keep me very busy this month is my niece's birthday party. I printed the photo props and they look great! it's a win. I also started to build the online guestbook for her and so far I could get a way to make this works like I wanted. Another win! Today my sister, niece and I went to the center of the city to buy things for handcrafts. We got all the stuff we were looking for, and we spent on it less that it cost in our place. We walked from store to store for 5 hours, my iPhone says we did 12k steps so we are tired but happy because now we can start making the souvenirs, decorations, etc... well mostly me, because my sister is not good for handcrafts. I do not work the next 3 days but I'll be busy with this.

Anyway despite all the things that keep me busy this week, I had some time to read books (Origin, and Pride and prejudice) and to watch few episodes of The Fall.

Now I'll have dinner with my sister and we will continue working on the decoration. I hope everybody is having a nice weekend!
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Of course I did shopping today but it was basic stuff: body cream, deodorants, hair treatment, etc. I got 30% discount. Tomorrow I'm going to the store to withdraw the ankle weights that I bought yesterday, then I'm going home and later to the cinema. 
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I waste the first week of this year being lazy. I didn't study, not exercised, not worked on projects, I didnt read any book...at work I barely can take a break but when I get home, I don't know where the time goes.
I feel weird, tired, weak.. not sure if I'm depressed, if this is because weather, or maybe because my hormones, but I feel weird. My body feels swollen and also hurts, this hardly ever happens to me!!! I feel heavy but the body scale says I weight 123 lbs. I really hope it just be something hormonal,

Things at work are going well for us, which means I have more and more tasks to do. We got ride of all those people who were stealing money from the company. Now they are selling another brand of tools which is cheaper than the brand we sell, so they became our competitors, but today we made a deal with that cheap brand to sell their tools too.. we are going to mess with all those motherfuckers that fucked us up. Probably I'll need to make a new website to sell the other tools but I don't think I can do that without take vacations first. I'll collapse.
I'm working to make them lose their contract with that brand of tools. I should be detective, I always find the others dirty business!
Today we setted a code for the alarm for me because my boss will give me the key of the office.

Shopping therapy )
I started watching Mindhunters. So far I like it, this is for me always interesting to know and understand other people minds, even the mind of assassins.

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