Thanks for keeping me on track Maria Tortilla :)

** See below for explanation of picture..

It's January 14Th, fourteen days into my New year, and resolution, and I'm already behind.. hahaha!! My goodness, I just might have set my goal a little high, since I'm a huge huge procrastinator, but I'm still trying and thanks to Maria Tortilla, she's keeping up and keeping me in line.. hahahaha!! But it's not to say that I don't think about this everyday, because in the truth of it, I think of my resolution every single day.. I could be at work, busy as hell because my co-worker is out, which means I'm by myself with her work and mine, or on the toilet, and at any given moment, I always tell myself "I need to do the blog, I need to say the things I've been doing".

So, here we go again..

One of the things that I've been pretty proud of, or maybe I should use the word scared of, is my need and want to say yes immediately to anything in order to fulfil my "new" resolution. In Which, lets face it, I usually like to "play things by ear". It's such a safe sentence or phrase.. It leaves me without full-on commitment if something were to come up unexpectedly, in which, I absolutely hate cancelling on people. It makes me feel terrible!! In addition to the plain fact that I am late to just about everything in life. And in all truth, most days I'm physically or mentally exhausted, and to think of adding anything to my day, makes me tired just thinking about something else. My safe sentence just gives me relief that I don't have to think about my carefully planned budget immediately (will I have enough gas? Can I skimp somewhere else in order to go to dinner? do I really need to save for Christmas? ect..ect..), and I don't have to look at my calendar to see if I've got something else going on. So with my little explanation, I had a friend text me randomly one day, asking if I wanted to go to Vegas.. ( I love Vegas) I gave one big chuckle and responded "sure!" without even thinking twice.. HUGE HUGE HUGE change for me.. hahahahah!! I still make myself laugh just thinking about my irresponsible response. I didn't even ask, who, when, what, where will we be sleeping? The when question should have been my first, but I didn't even dare to ask, knowing that I'd be going right back into my "safe zone". Turns out, I've got til February, and we're still working out the kinks as far as rooms, but my quick response turned in my favor. And with that one word of "sure" it spiraled me into making another vacation plan that I've been putting off for months now.. I'm gonna be poor before I know it.. hahahahahaa!!

First let me say that this particular vacation I've been putting off for awhile, because Kelly wanted to make plans BEFORE we even went to Italy.. I refused to make plans for a big vacation before I even went on the first one.. Especially since she wanted to do it within 2-3 months of just getting back from Italy. There was just no way to conceive something like that in regards to work and most important, money. And now I have given the "yes" to go on another vacation. She's been dying, and I mean absolutely dying, to go to Mexico. Mainly for the beaches, food, and resorts. Personally, I've been to Mexico countless times, and I love it, but I will never, ever, go without a male friend. I'm not down for getting raped, or sold to a sex trade in Mexico. And while it could happen anywhere in the world, there is just something about Mexico that always screams "danger" to me. Maybe because those are my peeps, and my "mother-land", and I know how sick some of those bastards can be. (Need I remind you of the lady and the donkey...) So instead, with my now-careless word "new" I enticed her to go somewhere like Fiji.. hahahaha!! I still laugh just thinking about the craziness in it.. Freaking Fiji!!! Its either that, or the Caribbean.. Either one, I've never been to, so that takes care of "new" this coming Summer... Oh and I cant wait!!

One other "new" thing, was the re-newel of a friendship. My Stacy Michelle. God, how I loved her so!! And while its kinda weird to call it a renewel, especially since neither of us ever weren't friends, at one point, I let life get in the way, and before I knew it, time flew by... I am terrible at keeping in contact with people (I've got good intentions, but my mind can be flighty at times).. And while we never really had a blow-out, or a fight, (how could anyone ever fight with her??) I'm still calling this a "re-newel". Only because we live at two opposite ends of California (we used to be roommates), and time has flown by.. On top of that, I used to drink an absurd amount of alcohol in that crazy house with her, and some memories have been forgotten, and I'm holding on like hell to the ones I do remember (cake fight! and beans) Regardless, I'm putting this up because I'm makin new memories with my shmish.. (quack?)

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending" ~Maria Robinson”

** On my way home from Stacy's moms house, I couldn't help but notice the gorgeous day in January that we were having.. So I called up Kelly, and went to the beach. Another New thing, going to the beach and laying out in the sun in the dead of winter.. This picture was taken while I was driving on the 101 freeway on the coast in between Ventura and Carpinteria.. Oh California, How I love you so....