June already?!

Well hello there. Let's see what I can update you with since the last time I wrote on here.

I've finally enrolled back in school!! I started the same day I registered for classes. I registered late and had already missed one class, which sucks because since it's summer term the professors are strict about that kind of stuff. I love being back in school and studying, I bet you I wont be saying that when I have 6 classes a week in the Fall. It'll all be worth it, you'll see!


Gary came down from NY for Sophia's birthday (which was the same day I enrolled in school :) gave her a great present!). Everything was short of a complete disaster for that week he was here, but I won't even get into any of that. I'm just glad Sophia got to see her father and spend some time with him. I hope she get to see him more often, but who knows?
She had an awesome birthday party although it was very very close to not happening. I just don't understand why the heck no one can get along in my damn family..It's so freaking annoying trying to plan a party with most adults acting worse then the children. Grow up people!

For Memorial Day weekend I went to the Electric Daisy Carnival in Orlando and had an amazing time!
I took a train with Brandon then we attended on Friday by ourselves then with his cousin Marty on Saturday.
We had so much fun, I recommend it to those of you who are into electronic music.
Being on the carnival rides while listening and watching the performers and DJs was such a blast. I totally recorded myself while on the spinning swings. Lol, yes I will be posting it for your viewing pleasure.  We ran into so many people from Miami and old friends it was kinda nuts. At one point one of the DJs asked where Miami was at and the entire crowd went wild. I was like daaaaaaaaammmmn Miami! lol

Brandon and I on our way on Friday.

On Friday I had the pleasure of seeing, The ever amazing Craze,12th Planet,Klever (who's amazing set was cut short due to a thunderstorm!),Goldie,Skrillex (who puts on a fucking show!),Gabriel&Dresden, Afrojack(who was fantastic also) and Bunny.

Me,Brandon and Marty on Saturday.

On Saturday I saw, Baby Anne (who's style I loved, she really gets in tune w/ the music), Dj Icey &Whiskey Pete, Dieselboy (who was the first DnB artist I truly enjoyed and opened up the place in my heart for that genre of music.), Beardyman (who's performance was very entertaining, the man does his thing.), Benny Benassi (who murdered it!) and it was finished with an unforgettable ending by Diplo.

This was lovely.

I am beyond glad I've had the chance to experience EDC. And glad I went with Brandon and Marty. They were the perfect candidates for this experience. lmao Thank you guys, I love you beyond words could ever tell.

Trying to find a balance.

On Sunday we went to Wet n Wild, which was to say in the least of terms, a fucking trip. Some people should just not be let out of their houses.Period. Monday we got caught in ridiculous traffic heading back south. Some fire happened near the Turnpike AND I-95 and both roads were blocked off, so we had to detour like crazy. A trip that should've taken us FOUR hours TOPS (even during holidays) took us about SEVEN hours! I was so glad to get home.

Sunday, about to head to Wet n Wild.

And then I had to deal with reality again. Bummer. I had school the next day and totally forgot I had taken a test last class, and I got an 88, which is 4 points  away from an A. My first math test was a B! Go me! lol, Hopefully I don't loose myself in this class and keep getting B's.


Anyways I've got plenty of pictures for your viewing pleasure from these past weeks.

Yeyo's massive Sunflower.

Girls night in :)

Beginning of a new chapter in my life.

Thick like a Milkshake, but better.

A lot of this seems to be happening.

And this also.

Big Pimpin on Mothers day. 

What girl doesn't love shopping?

Waiting for Mommy's cookies. I could hear her Mmmm's.

Sugar cookie cupcakes with Nutella filling..

Her little faces!

Oh, you betcha!

The Beech and I.

She totally put this on herself.

Until next time ;)

Just wanted to share this song.

I love the sounds of the instruments in this song and the voices of course. 

I've always enjoyed the great music of Buena Vista Social Club.

If you haven't, you should definitely check them out.

Back to birthday party planning, and filling up the month of May with activities. Heading to Orlando this weekend, and next month too for the Electric Daisy Carnival.  That's my Mother's Day gift :) and I couldn't be any happier about it. 

For those of you that have never heard of it, it's the biggest electronic dance music festival (outside of Europe). It's almost like Ultra Music Festival but it actually seems soooo much better!

This is the official trailer for the EDC 2010. 

Doesn't this look freaking awesome?

For Easter, we all gathered at the beach. It was nice for the most part.

Seems like we will be gone for a couple of weeks in June to New York.

After we come back, I'll be on the hunt for a daycare/preschool because 

I will be starting Culinary School in the Fall.

FINALLY! I cant wait!!!!!  I can't wait till I get my knives and chef whites! I know, you must be asking yourself "Didn't you want to do Pastry School?"  The  answer is yes, but I've

 also wanted to go to culinary school too. It'd just make me a better 
human in the kitchen :-P but before I was interested in PS I 
wanted to go to CS and I'm extremely picky with  where I want to get this education from.

I am going for The French Culinary Institute, but that's in NY which is 
not where I'm currently located. So in the meantime I will stick with 
the Miami Culinary Institute in Downtown Miami.

I'm excited to see what this program will be like, and who/how are my classmates.

Ciao!

So much...too much in fact...

So much has happened since the last time I wrote in here.

Little Ms. Sophie turned ONE year old..yes already!

Two days later my sister graduated from UM! FINALLY! she's done with school!

My sister also got ENGAGED in VEGAS! So romantic and cheesy I love it. lol

Wedding is in February so we're all in wedding planning mode.

Sophia and I left Gary's parents house.

I could NOT fucking stand one more second there.

Shortly afterwards Gary got an apartment. YES! 

We FINALLY have our own place to call home.

 We came to Miami and are still here for another month or so.

I'm so ready to go back to NY. I miss it and we miss papa too.

One of my best friends lives there now so the world will be so much better now that I have her there. FINALLY a real family member close to me<3

I also started working from home and I'm so excited to go back to school. I have to figure out a plan for that though, and at the moment with work meetings in Miami,living in NY, being a bridesmaid for my sisters wedding which will be in Miami,Sophia and Gary..it's kind of impossible.

I'm just hoping for a smooth ride on this bumpy ass road.

I haven't had a phone for over a week, and I don't really miss it that much because I skype with Gary and make quick calls to whoever I need to speak with on my moms phone. I now understand why my friend Henry uses a prepaid..sometimes you just don't wanna hear from people. Lol.

Anyways I'm trying to get back into writing more and reading. I'm so bad at reading books, I'm reading like THREE at once. My head is all over the place. I have one of my great dear friends Steph coming to stay with me for a week+ my birthday :) oh yes that's on August 3rd. I'm very excited for my birthday this year. Great amazing festivities are being planned as I type...not really but we do have an amazing shindig planned.

Once I transfer all my pictures onto my computer then I will post some on here. 

I hope I remember to write in this with this crazy life schedule..

Hows your summer been so far?

Too much has been going on since the last update.

I went to Miami with SB for 6 weeks..It was 6 stressful weeks away from Gary. My family drove me insane of course. My 17 year old brother is out of hand. He's just being the normal rebellious I-only-have-a-couple-months-left-till-I'm-18-I'll-do-what-I-want teenager.My grandmothers going crazy and anything you say sets her off. It sucks because she used to be the coolest grandmother. My mom always with her problems,and work and moving. Yes, once again Mama Mela has moved. This time I approve because it's a smaller place (just her and my brother) and its in Kendall. I wont say exactly where but it's somewhere between Baptist and Town&Country. I'm just glad we don't have to deal with a crazy stalking lying landlord. My sister is her busy self as always, she's doing her last semester for her BA. THANK GOD! Hopefully I can have my sister back! That girl ate,slept,shat,walked,talked fucking school for the last SIX years!If I were to add up the time I've spent with my sister the last six yrs it would probably add up to less than two years! and we lived together for like three of those six years!. 

SB, her Godfather(Brandon) and I went to Orlando for a couple days. We went because I wanted to take SB to SeaWorld, but that shit was like $85 so we went out and dined and wined (grapedrank for SB...wtf is juice?) ourselves. Then we went to St. Augustine, which is a super weird place. I don't know how to explain it but if felt dirty and haunted, and I'm sure it is haunted. Its fucking gorgeous don't get me wrong but I just didn't like being there. After we left I couldn't wait to get into the shower at the hotel.

She was actually laughing at it because it moved. At that moment it had stopped, that why she has that face.

all that minus my bra and yellow bag fit into that brown bag!

being a mouse and looking for food.

how the fuck can she sit like that?

Her top is so cool!

doing "ojitos"

we made it to Orlando!

While we were down there SB got sick. She got Contact Dermatitis and Impetigo at the same time. That shit was a nightmare. In the matter of four days it went from a tiny pinhole sized bump to a two inch circle on her lip and chin and it also spread on her arms,chest and face.After bitching the fuck out of the ER nurse at WACKson South,going to Baptist ER, and spending a couple bills on medicine SB was back to normal. 


While All this was happening my in laws kicked SB and I out of the house. What loving caring grandparents they are. Fuck them, I never liked them anyways. The feeling was always mutual from the beginning. 


We arrived in NY ten days ago and just five days in I lashed out and told his parents how fucking crazy and miserable they've made my life in the past six months. I won't get into details but shit got nasty and I basically told them that they're dead to me, If they see me in the street... keep walking the fuck on.  I feel bad for the sister but I know they make her life a living hell too, so I'm sure she understands where I'm coming from.


At this moment I have no idea where I'll be living.I'll probably rent out a room or something for a few months or just go back to Mama Mela's. I'll be away from Gary and so will SB but at least we'll be treated better than disgusting dogs. 


It always seems like I'm about to accomplish my goals and someone gets in the way. UGH. I'm so tired of it. People need to focus on themselves and let others be. Talking about focusing on thyself, I totally agree what someone said about Tiger..I think it applies to a lot of people in general. Stop asking questions, if that person wants to tell you, they will. If they don't move the fuck on with your life. And seriously why aren't parents role models anymore? "It's time people keep their private lives private and not discuss them. He is not a family member or close friend,he has no reason to answer to you about his private life.  it's none of our business. people who think it is, have a distorted sense of reality. If you are using him as a role model for your kids, that's your fault, the freaking PARENTS are the role models for kids. Raise your own kids, be their role model and stop looking to people outside of you to do your job!"  


Seriously raise your fucking kids like civil humans and teach them some fucking manners! Come on people get your shit together, or don't reproduce. Simple as that.

The view from my aunts living room.

Love her big bow :)

haha

little baby jeans 

haha they're freaking crazy..

MAD not Glad! 

 what a little woman!

I should start video blogging because you guys probably think I'm the angriest sex deprived bitch to exist. I'm sorry if I come off that way, I don't mean to. I just love to curse. Which I have to stop or find an alternative to the words Fuck,asshole and shit. Fudge isn't going to cut it and SB will catch on too quick to the spelling. That girl is tiny but she's super smart. Any ideas?

 never mind the cone bra...I lost 25 lbs in those 6 weeks...

I KNEW I had to benefit off something for being rocked coarsely in such a short time :)

How Do I Make Time For All This?

So my uncle calls me  on Friday night and tells me "Hey I'm in NY, but I gotta drive mami down to Miami can you pllleeease come with me so I don't drive alone." I was like "SWEEET! I'm down since Gary just got laid off (FML!) that will save us money and I'll be back in 3 weeks." Long story short after long talks with Gary we decided SB is staying with him for a week.  I'm going to miss them like fucking crazy! :(

I don't even want to go anymore but I kinda have to in order to pick up boxes we still have over there from our move! I'm saving a lot of money by doing things this way. No moving costs, no airplane costs!  I'm not paying for gas either. I'm the guest, remember! :)

Anyways, Since I'll be on the road most of this week I thought I'd leave you with some sweetness from the past few days.

Enjoy and wish me well on my road trip! LOTS of pictures when I return!

Little Sophie...

I remember when I was a small little girl I would always be roaming around the kitchen floor. SB's new thing is doing just that. All she ever wants to do is be somewhere on the kitchen floor. Maybe she's already bored of the tiny living room we've been in for the past five months! 

 Making a cake with her aunt.

 Looking at me..

 Standing with the help of the dresser.

 <33

 Little Stinker!

Playing around with her bed.

Always looking out.

Like mother, like daughter.

haha, I love this.

She's doing a split!

Shaking her money maker.

SUPERSTAR!

There she goes on the kitchen floor.

Can't deny she's dominican...

Look at her playing with platanos, after we wasted money on her toys!

Pigging out on Zesty Tomato Crunchies.

One day she'll learn not to stand under my chair.

On the dresser again.

She loves Yo Gabba Gabba!. I swear that show is crack for kids.

Breakin' it down.

Taking a break.

Of course you know we had to go outside and play in the snow.

It was too cold so we were only out there for like five minutes.

She looks so lost.

Her first Snow Blizzard!

We were dressed for the occasion.

We didn't make a snowman but she made a snow angel!

On the floor.

Hello StirFry.

Yeah, I look pretty beat.

Those teeth are killing her...

But baby girl still manages to smile.

Part of our kitchen..Which his parents totally hate,

because "it resembles a restaurant kitchen"... I love it.

Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Yum.

Stuffing her face.

I made her that bow.

She's way into that brush.

gorgeous.

uhhh.

Her nose is too cute!

Finger in the mouth!

"rEATING" her book.

<3

I hope you enjoyed this bunch of photos. 

I haven't had much time to put aside for this blog, but hey! I'm trying my best.

Does anyone even read this? You know a comment here and there wouldn't hurt.

We're going to go see an apartment on Saturday! I'm so excited and I hope it's like when I first moved here,

I searched and searched for the right place to rent our a room in and I couldn't find anything;

When I gave up and posted a classified, got a few calls but the first and only place I went to go see was perfect.

I felt like I was right back at my mom's but without the chaos.

I wish I could afford to rent that whole entire house. I miss that place.

Ah, I need to sleep! Goodnight! :)