The Quality of Being Authentic

All I want to do is go to sleep... But in good conscience I can't not update my blog. It has been a few weeks and I can't fall behind anymore. I guess things have been pretty hectic these past few weeks. I traveled home to throw my bestest friend a bachelorette party and bridal shower. That was so much fun. I went home on Wednesday and stayed until Sunday. The Bachelorette was fun, we stayed in a hotel in Atlanta, Ate a great dinner, Drank too much Champagne, and threw a little lingerie shower. The next day came early and La and I were slow in making it to The Smith's where the next party was to happen. I won't lie to you I tried to call it quits a few times throughout the day, but  thanks to Lauren and her pep talks we ended up throwing a fabulous party for the bride and groom to be. I am sure you can tell embedded in this paragraphs are stories untold, and that is correct. In reality this whole weekend was deserving of its own post, but on second t...

Z and I have been busy revamping our chic 800 sq ft apartment. We started as you know with a bed change (from queen to King) *side note: Best decision ever! Then I bought new pillow covers for the couch, new side tables and dresser for the bedroom, re decorated the closet; complete with new storage, and a new "green" themed place setting, and yes that is my home grown basil as the center piece. It has been about 3 weeks in the making but we are finally done. The apartment looks great! And I love when we redecorate, although the budget doesn't allow for that very often. Although this revamp did come with a bit of drama, specifically surrounding the bed. SOO here's the dealio, living in a one bedroom apartment in Miami has some amazing upsides, but also some downsides. The biggest one is little to no storage. So this was the drama, we store a lot of our things under the bed in the water heater closet and outside on the deck. So this is all fine and dandy until we get ou...

This week was rough. There wasn't one distinct moment that made it worse than other weeks, just as a whole it felt long and very tiring. Although it was sprinkled with good moments here and there. One of those was Thursday night when I got to join 5 of my other Mandarin Colleagues at Radio Lollipop. Radio Lollipop is a radio station located inside Miami Children's Hospital. It opens 4 nights a week and it really is a wonderful thing. Basically it staffs volunteers each night. These people give up 5 or more hours a week to bring a little bit of joy to a few sick children. The way it works: There is an activity each night- for example on Thursday Mandarin brought the activity and supplies which was to make Fans out of construction paper. After all the volunteers are briefed on how to make the activity and their supply baskets are stocked off we go. 3 of us to each "wing" of the hospital. I was chosen for the cancer wing. Once you arrive you go door to door and ask the k...

Hello all my friends and readers, I hope the end of summer is treating everyone well. I have missed you all- I have had a little writer's block since my last inspirational 1AM post. :) This past week has been exciting though. Z and I have been busy buying things, we are quite good at that. We purchased ourselves a new bed- king size as you may have guessed. It's amazing it was delivered on Tuesday and I have been in sleeping heaven ever since. Sleeping is such a past time of mine, that this makes it even more delightful. So because of the upgrade our apartment has been turned upside down! We sold all my queen furniture on Craig's List, and that included night stands dresser and bed. So I am having a bit of a storage issue- as in all my clothes are on the floor. So that will need to be the next purchase, a dresser. During all this moving we sold a lot of our unused stuff like old DVD's and movies and books. We ended up making like $400 on used stuff. So that was an excit...

Well its 12:40AM on a "school" night and I can't sleep. For those who know me well, they know that this is a very rare occurrence. I have always been a good sleeper ever since I was a baby. Sleeping through the night at a very young age. And then moving into my elementary days, I could sleep for 12-14 hours a night on average. My friends and relatives would always tease me, telling me that I was in hibernation. To be honest I have always been a little embarrassed of my sleep habits. I feel like Life is Short and I have slept away more than the average person. But I digress. I always feel like when I can't sleep its an opportunity to get things accomplished. So tonight I am trying to do just that. This weekend was one for the books. Zach and I's first wedding anniversary! What an achievement. As I was thinking and looking back at this year I was trying to pin point what has made it so successful. The thing is I don't feel "married" as I feel this is ...