Hey all!
So in terms of my battle with sugar I have unfortunately been loosing recently. I feel like my relationship with sugar is like an abusive relationship, I love it but I abuse it. Especially around this time of year with Halloween candy being on sale and Christmas treats and pastries everywhere it's particularly difficult for me to resist my cravings. I was doing so very well before my Europe trip but all went to hell when I returned. I need to get back into my previous state of mind. Also, a deterring factor is that I've been able to keep off the 15 or so pounds I managed to lose. That is a deterrent because I don't feel the urgency I felt before so it makes it harder to stay on track... I just have to remember my ultimate goal and somehow make it my number one focus for the next few months. Wish me luck!
Chocolate and cupcakes
Maureen
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Happy Birth of Love
Hey guys!
Yes I know it's been ages since my last post but I've been sooooooooo... etc... busy in the last two months that I actually didn't have the brain power nor motivation to write anything. Today however, is a special day! It's the day the love of my life was born! I am a person who loves easily and forgives easily as well... it's a gift God has given me. I always talk about how I love my family and friends and God. It's true I feel deeply connected to people and, perhaps naively, I believe I AM connected to everyone. However, there is one person in my life that has been able to inspire me more than anyone else. He is my own personal gift sent from God. Today is the day he was born and I will always be grateful to God and his family for allowing me to be part of his life and for him to be part of mine. We've been in a relationship for almost 7 years and at times it has been rocky but every bump in the road has only become part of a stronger foundation. I'm so lucky that we connect so well and that our lives connect so well also. So here's to you my love, all the best in life and beyond.
Maureen
Yes I know it's been ages since my last post but I've been sooooooooo... etc... busy in the last two months that I actually didn't have the brain power nor motivation to write anything. Today however, is a special day! It's the day the love of my life was born! I am a person who loves easily and forgives easily as well... it's a gift God has given me. I always talk about how I love my family and friends and God. It's true I feel deeply connected to people and, perhaps naively, I believe I AM connected to everyone. However, there is one person in my life that has been able to inspire me more than anyone else. He is my own personal gift sent from God. Today is the day he was born and I will always be grateful to God and his family for allowing me to be part of his life and for him to be part of mine. We've been in a relationship for almost 7 years and at times it has been rocky but every bump in the road has only become part of a stronger foundation. I'm so lucky that we connect so well and that our lives connect so well also. So here's to you my love, all the best in life and beyond.
Maureen
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Makeup and more
Hello followers of my blog!
To update you all, my Europe trip was fantastic!!! It's another world over there! Small old streets, history all around you, beaches, monuments, cathedrals and thousand year old artifacts! No words can really describe the feel of Rome, Venice, Paris, Nice or England. I also got to meet Dumo's brothers. I was really nervous at first, what if they didn't like me? What if they thought I was weird or boring or snobby or something? Well luckily they were great! They went above and beyond to make me feel welcome and at home, and they really didn't have to do that, I mean, shouldn't I be the one trying to make them happy? I am the stranger in the group, the one who wants to be part of their family, but I didn't feel out of place at all. I really appreciated that and how down to earth and easy to talk to they were. Their mom did a marvelous job with them, God rest her soul.
In other news, I can't help but feel like everyone around me is getting hitched! I guess we're just at that age where all my friends and relatives are transitioning to their next stage in life. It's a beautiful thing to see that two people love each other and I wish everyone all the best in their marriage and in life.
In terms of my sugar battle... I was doing amazingly before I left for Europe, no sugar, no carbs not even fruit (except once a week) then when i returned I guess my way of thinking was altered because while in Europe, on the beaches, I realized that my size was actually average. I was shocked to say the least. Most people were more or less the same size as me. However, I still do want to lose some weight, I have been able to lose about 15 lbs so far but I'm not yet at my target so I'm gonna keep on it! When I feel like something is too hard or out of reach I like to surround myself with positivity and positive voices. One of my favorite songs for that purpose is "Almost There" from the Princess and the Frog. Check it out here:
Also for those of you who know me and my personality I'm all about diversity, I love to surround myself with it. I love to learn! I also love the arts and creativity so I like to try and dabble in several things. One of those things is makeup and I really appreciate the art of makeup artistry, it's really cool and unique. So sometimes I have fun with my own makeup and the most recent result is:
which was inspired by:
obviously I'm not as pale as the second model and my take is not as flawless but I'm still proud of my attempt. Also I used more pink on the cheeks as opposed to purple because I like pink better :)
Ok well that's all for now folks! Till next time...
Tata n toodles
Maureen
To update you all, my Europe trip was fantastic!!! It's another world over there! Small old streets, history all around you, beaches, monuments, cathedrals and thousand year old artifacts! No words can really describe the feel of Rome, Venice, Paris, Nice or England. I also got to meet Dumo's brothers. I was really nervous at first, what if they didn't like me? What if they thought I was weird or boring or snobby or something? Well luckily they were great! They went above and beyond to make me feel welcome and at home, and they really didn't have to do that, I mean, shouldn't I be the one trying to make them happy? I am the stranger in the group, the one who wants to be part of their family, but I didn't feel out of place at all. I really appreciated that and how down to earth and easy to talk to they were. Their mom did a marvelous job with them, God rest her soul.
In other news, I can't help but feel like everyone around me is getting hitched! I guess we're just at that age where all my friends and relatives are transitioning to their next stage in life. It's a beautiful thing to see that two people love each other and I wish everyone all the best in their marriage and in life.
In terms of my sugar battle... I was doing amazingly before I left for Europe, no sugar, no carbs not even fruit (except once a week) then when i returned I guess my way of thinking was altered because while in Europe, on the beaches, I realized that my size was actually average. I was shocked to say the least. Most people were more or less the same size as me. However, I still do want to lose some weight, I have been able to lose about 15 lbs so far but I'm not yet at my target so I'm gonna keep on it! When I feel like something is too hard or out of reach I like to surround myself with positivity and positive voices. One of my favorite songs for that purpose is "Almost There" from the Princess and the Frog. Check it out here:
Also for those of you who know me and my personality I'm all about diversity, I love to surround myself with it. I love to learn! I also love the arts and creativity so I like to try and dabble in several things. One of those things is makeup and I really appreciate the art of makeup artistry, it's really cool and unique. So sometimes I have fun with my own makeup and the most recent result is:
obviously I'm not as pale as the second model and my take is not as flawless but I'm still proud of my attempt. Also I used more pink on the cheeks as opposed to purple because I like pink better :)
Ok well that's all for now folks! Till next time...
Tata n toodles
Maureen
Thursday, August 11, 2011
One more day... I'm so excited
So tomorrow at exactly 10:45pm I will be off on my European adventure. Woo hoo!!! Time has felt like it was moving at a snail's pace so far but now, on the eve of my flight I wish it would move even slower.... I must admit, I have a fear that the whole trip will go by in one big blurr and feel like it all never happened. I'm going to make a point of soaking in every single moment. I'll be like one of those nerdy tourists carrying their video camera and digital camera around everywhere they go. I still can't even believe this is going to happen, this was one of my bucket list items and soon I'll be able to cross it off.
I even made a new dress for the occasion (I learned how to make it by watching GiannyL on youtube). This was my second attempt at the dress and it turned out great!! Check it out.
In addition to seeing the beautiful and historical countries in Europe I'm super excited to meet my boyfriend's brothers. Those of you who know me, know that I am a super duper family oriented person. My cousins are my best friends in the world and I've been blessed with the most loving and fun family. Therefore, I'm so curious and excited to meet my other half's family since I already consider them a part of my own.
Also, to update everyone on my sugar addiction, I have started the Slow Carb Diet, from the book The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferris. I've been on it for about 5 weeks and so far I lost about 8 lbs in total so I consider that a success but I'm not at my goal yet. In terms of sugar I do still eat it but the diet only allows me to have it one day a week so I eat all the sugar I want every Saturday and the rest of the week my sugar cravings are assuaged with gum (which happens to work quite well). I will try very hard to stick to my diet as much as possible while in Europe, we'll see how it goes.
It's so funny how life works, how much life can change from one day to the next. One day I'm down the next I'm up. I'm just thankful to God for all my blessings and I sincerely pray for all you who are reading this who are going through any kind of hard time that God may lighten your load and that you may come out of your dark time with a better understanding and appreciation for God and life.
Well that's all for now...
Lots of love
Maureen
I even made a new dress for the occasion (I learned how to make it by watching GiannyL on youtube). This was my second attempt at the dress and it turned out great!! Check it out.
In addition to seeing the beautiful and historical countries in Europe I'm super excited to meet my boyfriend's brothers. Those of you who know me, know that I am a super duper family oriented person. My cousins are my best friends in the world and I've been blessed with the most loving and fun family. Therefore, I'm so curious and excited to meet my other half's family since I already consider them a part of my own.
Also, to update everyone on my sugar addiction, I have started the Slow Carb Diet, from the book The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferris. I've been on it for about 5 weeks and so far I lost about 8 lbs in total so I consider that a success but I'm not at my goal yet. In terms of sugar I do still eat it but the diet only allows me to have it one day a week so I eat all the sugar I want every Saturday and the rest of the week my sugar cravings are assuaged with gum (which happens to work quite well). I will try very hard to stick to my diet as much as possible while in Europe, we'll see how it goes.
It's so funny how life works, how much life can change from one day to the next. One day I'm down the next I'm up. I'm just thankful to God for all my blessings and I sincerely pray for all you who are reading this who are going through any kind of hard time that God may lighten your load and that you may come out of your dark time with a better understanding and appreciation for God and life.
Well that's all for now...
Lots of love
Maureen
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Family ties and summer skies
Hey Everyone!!!!
So I know I've totally been slacking with my blog. So sorry y'all, but I just wanted to give you all an update regarding my cousins visit and my summer in general. So.... as I previously mentioned my cousins Sasha and Lara came to visit from the US. We had THE MOST AMAZING TIME OF OUR LIVES!!! That is totally not an exaggeration either, at least not for me. It was amazing seeing them after 6 long years!!! We got along like we saw each other everyday. My family is such a blast to hang out with. Every single one of them is incredibly beautiful on the inside and gorgeous on the outside! We did so much fun stuff from visiting Harbourfront, to the distillery district to Unionville to Port Perry to Canada's Wonderland (not to mention the clubs we hit up at night mostly thanks to Georgie... we love you lil brother... who is now bigger than us and taking care of all his sisters... who could ask for any better?) I could go on and on about how awesome my family members are, how loving, caring and funny but I think most people would think I'm exaggerating or being insincere but my cousins, aunts, uncles, siblings, friends, boyfriend and grandma are honestly the light of my life, they make me who I am today and all the good things about me come from them. Thank God Almighty for such a rich blessing! I'm so fortunate.
Now the other good news... less than a month away from my first Euro trip!!! I can't believe it. I think I won't really believe it till I'm on the plane or even in Italy. This is so amazing.
More news... I recently got accepted to two Universities in the US to do my graduate studies in Forensic Psychology. Firstly I was accepted to the Chicago School of Professional Psychology (LA campus) to their PsyD program in Clinical Forensic Psychology. I was super excited about this until.... I saw how much tuition would cost.... 30k a year!!! for 4 years!!! who has that kind of money??? Honestly! Well I tried to look at my options but even so it was still waaay too steep for me :( The second school I was accepted to was John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of the City University of New York) for their MA in Forensic Psychology. Now this one is much more to my liking! Tuition is about $10600 a year and it's only 2 years since it's an MA program. So I decided to defer my start and use this year to save like mad lol. I'm even scheduled to take some courses to get my bar tending license so I can get a job bar tending part time to make some extra cash. I'm really excited about the prospect of doing my MA and especially doing it in NEW YORK CITY!!! sooo close to Broadway!!! woo hoo... maybe I'll do some auditions while I'm there as well lol why not?
Well that's all for now my lovelies...
Maureen
So I know I've totally been slacking with my blog. So sorry y'all, but I just wanted to give you all an update regarding my cousins visit and my summer in general. So.... as I previously mentioned my cousins Sasha and Lara came to visit from the US. We had THE MOST AMAZING TIME OF OUR LIVES!!! That is totally not an exaggeration either, at least not for me. It was amazing seeing them after 6 long years!!! We got along like we saw each other everyday. My family is such a blast to hang out with. Every single one of them is incredibly beautiful on the inside and gorgeous on the outside! We did so much fun stuff from visiting Harbourfront, to the distillery district to Unionville to Port Perry to Canada's Wonderland (not to mention the clubs we hit up at night mostly thanks to Georgie... we love you lil brother... who is now bigger than us and taking care of all his sisters... who could ask for any better?) I could go on and on about how awesome my family members are, how loving, caring and funny but I think most people would think I'm exaggerating or being insincere but my cousins, aunts, uncles, siblings, friends, boyfriend and grandma are honestly the light of my life, they make me who I am today and all the good things about me come from them. Thank God Almighty for such a rich blessing! I'm so fortunate.
Now the other good news... less than a month away from my first Euro trip!!! I can't believe it. I think I won't really believe it till I'm on the plane or even in Italy. This is so amazing.
More news... I recently got accepted to two Universities in the US to do my graduate studies in Forensic Psychology. Firstly I was accepted to the Chicago School of Professional Psychology (LA campus) to their PsyD program in Clinical Forensic Psychology. I was super excited about this until.... I saw how much tuition would cost.... 30k a year!!! for 4 years!!! who has that kind of money??? Honestly! Well I tried to look at my options but even so it was still waaay too steep for me :( The second school I was accepted to was John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of the City University of New York) for their MA in Forensic Psychology. Now this one is much more to my liking! Tuition is about $10600 a year and it's only 2 years since it's an MA program. So I decided to defer my start and use this year to save like mad lol. I'm even scheduled to take some courses to get my bar tending license so I can get a job bar tending part time to make some extra cash. I'm really excited about the prospect of doing my MA and especially doing it in NEW YORK CITY!!! sooo close to Broadway!!! woo hoo... maybe I'll do some auditions while I'm there as well lol why not?
Well that's all for now my lovelies...
Maureen
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Loong time... Best summer ever!!
Hello internet people!
I apologize for not keeping up with my blog that was terrible of me. I've just had sooo much going on and soo much on my mind that blogging was really not a priority :( I'm sorry.
To bring you all up to date with my sugar battle. Honestly, I haven't made any great commitments, I take it one day at a time and try as much as I can to substitute. I eat lots of fruit everyday, I drink lots of liquids and try not to think about it, although I have had the occasional cupcake in the past couple weeks, I can't help it... red velvet with cream cheese frosting is heaven! Anyways, that's my sugar battle update.
Now for more news...
I have been trying to get myself in the right mindset for my trip to Europe this August!! I can't believe it! It's like a dream come true. Finally I am traveling and visiting Europe! This is so exciting!! Yay... here are some of the places my boo and I are going to go:
I apologize for not keeping up with my blog that was terrible of me. I've just had sooo much going on and soo much on my mind that blogging was really not a priority :( I'm sorry.
To bring you all up to date with my sugar battle. Honestly, I haven't made any great commitments, I take it one day at a time and try as much as I can to substitute. I eat lots of fruit everyday, I drink lots of liquids and try not to think about it, although I have had the occasional cupcake in the past couple weeks, I can't help it... red velvet with cream cheese frosting is heaven! Anyways, that's my sugar battle update.
Now for more news...
I have been trying to get myself in the right mindset for my trip to Europe this August!! I can't believe it! It's like a dream come true. Finally I am traveling and visiting Europe! This is so exciting!! Yay... here are some of the places my boo and I are going to go:
Rome
Venice
Paris
Nice
Geneva
Majorca (Spain)
England (Birmingham and London)
Because I'm planning on having a fantabulous trip I want to lose some weight before I go. So I guess it's just lots of fruits and veggies for me for a while :( lol.
In other news... my beautiful cousins and my lovely uncle lol are coming to visit us at the end of this month YAY!!! so excited for that as well, it's gonna be soooo much fun! I miss them so much, we only see each other every like 5-10 years :( but finally they are coming woo hoo! This is gonna be such an awesome summer.
I hope you all are having a wonderful summer as well!!
Maureen
Monday, April 25, 2011
Workout hair
So I recently cut my hair even shorter than it was before and I think it looks pretty cute, especially straight. However, I ran into a dilemma today. When I went to work out... I had a hard time putting my hair back and had to stick like a million pins and clips in it to stay put. My hair is not only short but has various layers which makes pining it up even harder.
Then because it was straightened and I was sweating I couldn't fix it until after it dried which is kinda gross but otherwise I'd have to rewash and straighten it and that would take like 2 hours because my hair is very curly and stubborn! Still... I love my hair it's vibrant like me! Unfortunately it's also kinda rebellious and hard to tame.
love
Maureen
Then because it was straightened and I was sweating I couldn't fix it until after it dried which is kinda gross but otherwise I'd have to rewash and straighten it and that would take like 2 hours because my hair is very curly and stubborn! Still... I love my hair it's vibrant like me! Unfortunately it's also kinda rebellious and hard to tame.
love
Maureen
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