Happy Halloween 2014

Take a good look because it may be another 3 years before I have straight hair again.

Happy Halloween!

-Liz

P.S. In case you didn't know, I'm Alex Vause from Orange Is The New Black.

P.S.S. I'm really loving the glasses. I may even wear them on a regular basis.

Yoga or Zumba? The Choices We Must Make

Oh the agony of having to pick one because they both start at 7:00 p.m. Life is full of tough choices kids....

-Liz

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

I finally finished reading The Fault In Our Stars this week and then immediately afterwards I watched the movie, of course.

These are my favorite quotes:

1.)   "That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."

2.)   "...I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

3.)   "...the world is not a wish-granting factory."

4.)   "You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful."

5.)   "The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox."

6.)   "You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you."

Do you have a favorite quote in this book?

Until next time!

-Liz

Scrapbook Sunday: My Best Friend's Wedding

I recently got to scrapbooking my best friend's wedding from 2008, finally!

Happy Scrapbook Sunday!

-Liz

P.S. That is one of the few times you will ever see me with straight hair.

I Will Not Be Calling In Dead Tomorrow

The Dreadful Keyboard

Have you ever expressed frustration to your boss in an email by saying that you were going to call in dead the next day and then later remembered that the reason he is currently out of town is for a funeral? Yea, me either. *sigh*

-Liz

P.S. I really need a vacation ASAP, but since that is over a month away, I will take up drinking instead.

P.S.S. Hooray for awesome bosses who are nice and see the humor in things.

Creo En Mi / I Believe In Myself

“Creo En Mi” de Natalia Jiménez es una de mis canciones favoritas en este momento. Que bello mensaje.

A veces el favor más grande que otras personas nos pueden hacer es no creer en nosotros porque nos hace luchar más intensamente por lo que queremos y cuando finalmente lo logramos la satisfacción es más grande aun.   

“Creo En Mi” (I Believe In Myself) from Natalia Jimenez is one of my favorite songs at the moment. What a beautiful message.

Sometimes the biggest favor other people can do for us is not believe in us because it makes us fight more intensely for what we want and when we finally achieve it, the satisfaction is even greater.

First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria by Eve Brown-Waite

I have to admit I was a little disappointed at first that this book wasn't more about the Peace Corps. It's a memoir about Eve Brown-Waite's life as an American expatriate in Uganda mostly, but she does have a short Peace Corps stint in Ecuador at the beginning of the book. I loved the book at any rate.

I think Eve Brown-Waite is a wonderful story teller. Her writing is candid and unapologetic as she describes her misadventures abroad. I was literally laughing out loud throughout the book. I really enjoyed it. It's a good book to read if you are interested in learning a bit about what life as an American expat is like and even if not the love story alone is worth the read. What can I say, I'm a sucker for a good love story.    

Until next time!

-Liz