California earthquakes, what is going on?!

My husband and I got married on March 28, 2014 and there was an earthquake that night.

Earthquakes around California since 17th century up to the
21st century.

For as long as I can remember, I know people have been saying that "the big one" is coming (I am talking about earthquakes here). I have lived through quite a bit of earthquakes here in California and I am sure if you live in California you have as well.

I remember one lecture in my earth science class about earthquakes, that one lecture is the one that pops into my head every single time there is an earthquake. I remember studying about the energy that makes up earthquakes. Maybe not energy but pressure, I am bad at remembering stuff so please correct me if I am wrong. Supposedly, energy (or pressure) builds up in the faults and under the earth's crust. An earthquake is the release of that pressure, it a sort of way for the earth to relieve itself, I would put it that way. I have a point, I promise. Keep reading.

People have been saying that there is a big earthquake coming to California because energy has been building up. However, we keep having all these little earthquakes, doesn't that mean that much of that energy that had built up has been released and the magnitude of that "big earthquake" that is coming won't be as bad? We might not even have that big earthquake at all if we just keep having a bunch of little earthquakes. Am I wrong?

I mean, all of this is just a simple theory, or more of a question because I wish I knew where people were getting their information about the big earthquake coming. There was like five earthquakes around the area were I live in the past 2 or 3 months alone. Imagine all of California.

Maybe I am just making up all of this so that I won't be as scared because of this thing that is supposedly going to happen, I don't know. Please correct me if I am wrong...

Andy

On family matters...

I am not sure how to start this post, I have been debating on it since this morning and I couldn't come up with something decent, or interesting so I am just going to "wing it" like my husband would say.

My life hasn't been too interesting lately. There are still my family problems, like my parents' divorce and stuff, but I hate to talk about those because they just end up bringing me down.

Last weekend we hanged out with some of my cousins in law and went to the movies. That was fun but it got me thinking.. What ever happened to my cousins. My very best friend in childhood is my cousin but I don't know what is going on in her life. She got married, I know that but I just don't see her anymore. I got married too and I would love to see her anyway, but I don't think that is going to happen.

My other cousin, Mickey, well from what I hear he will be moving away soon, so that is that. I find it hard to believe that I don't have that connection I once had with my family, I understand that I married into a new family and I adapted and don't get me wrong, I love my new family, all my new cousins, all my new relatives. However, it just reminds me how when I was growing up my closest family members were on my dad's side, I wonder if that is going to happen to my kids? I wouldn't mind, it is just a thought...

Anyway, way of topic... I had fun with my cousins' in law and my husband. I enjoy spending time with them and I know it makes my husband happy, so that is fine, I just hope I can spend more time with the family I grew up with as well.... I hope I never stop seeing my cousins, my parents and my little sister whom I adore and love deeply.

Andy

Brick Mansions and how I feel about Paul Walker passing away

This past Saturday my husband and I went to watch Brick Mansions, the last movie that Paul Walker finished. One word: Ah-Mah-Ziiing!!!

We went to watch it Saturday night with some cousins and honestly before I walked in to the movie I had no idea what it was about, so I'll give the general gist to everyone who doesn't know so that they don't walk in clueless.

It is about a part of a city that is cut away from the city where many poor and supposedly "corrupt" people live, the government of the city builds a wall so that the "normal" people can't go in, the place inside the wall is known as Brick Mansions. Anyway, Paul Walker is a cop, of course, and he is set on a mission to retrieve a bomb that was hijacked from the government when they were passing through Brick Mansions, so he pretends that he is a criminal in order to get inside undercover. Then everything goes
down and I am not giving it away!! Go watch it!!

I felt like it was packed with action and its fair amount of comical relief. Paul Walker's co-star was amazing as well and they complemented each other on the film. I honestly enjoyed it very much and was happy to see a movie where Paul Walker did such an impact. By the way the film was dedicated to him. I was very sad when I found out that he died. He was doing so good in his career and you could tell he was just climbing up and up. It is such a shame that he died so young and early, he had so many things coming.

 Point is, Brick Mansions was an amazing tribute to him and it portrays him at his fullest, check it out :)

Andy

Dream Journal - Something about Zombies

If you guys were to go and look through my years of blogging you guys would find something that I called Dream Journal. I started writing about my dreams. I liked it when I did that because whenever I looked back I would remember how that dream felt like. Anyway, this is going to be like that. I hope you like my story telling skills.

Last night I dreamt something that made me think about how I felt about family and my own personal strength. I was in a somewhat remote spot. I found out that there were zombies all over the place, but they just came out at night and if you hid properly you could stay safe. I don't understand why no one was doing anything to change this, they just lived with it. I believe this means that I am too comfortable with my life as it is, and that if I have any problems I would just accommodate to them and not try anything to change them.

I eventually found my mom but it was starting to get dark, I was carrying a knife and when I found my mom she had a gun. She was upset because I didn't have the proper protection and I was by myself. She gave me her gun and told me to follow her because she knew of a place where I would be safe. On our way there we encountered a big group of zombies.  They attacked us and my mom was killed. I desperately ran to where she had pointed me out to and found a camp where people were hiding successfully from the zombies.

I hid with the camp for a couple of days until we were attacked by a large group and we lost more than half of our people, there were kids killed, it was a horrible sight. I found my little sister's bible in my dream which was crazy amazing, that just told me how much meaning that bible has in my life and my sister's. Anyway, that bible somehow saved my life and that is all I remember... Next thing you know I woke up....

Crazy dream if you tell me,
Andy

My long weekend

I started my weekend early and that is the reason you guys didn't see any new posts since Wednesday. I suppose this can count as an update on my life.

I am on the process of watching my new and first tattoo heal. It has been a very weird process if I can say. Right now I am just watching the thing peel like a snake's skin. I still don't regret it though, I don't think I will ever regret it because that tattoo has so much meaning to me. I just love it, and I think that I am going to become very attached to it.

Anyway, that was one of the reasons why I didn't write. I just realized that I find it funny that I am always trying to explain why I didn't write on certain days. I mean to be honest, I guess it is because so many of the blogs I read don't do that, they don't try to post stuff everyday and that is something that should be done by some of them, then again that might mean that they don't have a life.

Point is, I am about to write a movie review for my next post, so I hope you guys read that.

Living life with happiness,
Andy

My feelings about tattoos

This should be fairly obvious since just yesterday I posted about the tattoo I got, you would think that you know how I feel about tattoos from there, but it's not just "I like tattoos, period." There is more to it than just that.

I have never been against tattoos, I know and I understand that after I got this tattoo I won't be able to donate my blood anymore, not to anyone because I have a tattoo. I know that I will have to have it covered in a professional environment, because well tattoos aren't professional. I have all of this in mind and I understand it and I still decided to get one.

Tattoos don't just necessarily mean that you are in a gang or you are gang related. Tattooing is a form of art, it is a way for you to express yourself, and nowadays everyone (almost everyone) has some sort of a tattoo on themselves. I mean it is not a thing where people can necessarily point you out, no one is going to be able to see my tattoo unless I wear a tank top or a swimsuit, so what makes it a big deal. I think it looks pretty and it makes a statement. When people see my tattoo, it is going to suggest the question... What does it mean?

I am happy with my tattoo, it holds much meaning and the love I have for my husband. I am sure most people with tattoos have a meaning for them. I wouldn't want to get a tattoo with no meaning, at least that's my opinion.

Loving my tattoo,
Andy

I got a tattoo yesterday, want to know about it?

Today I am supposed to talk about what is going on in my life, so I am going to talk about the tattoo I got yesterday.

I have always wanted a tattoo, I always found them attractive and well they are all unique and they carry so much meaning.

This is not mine, just example

About three years ago or so, I told my parents I wanted one, my dad supposedly knew some guy who did tattoos, he was a neighbor and he was going to come over to my house to give me a tattoo, I was going to get the Ying & Yang with Koi Fish instead of just the circle. Something like the picture to the left. Anyway, husband, who was my boyfriend at the time discouraged me from getting it because he knew it was dangerous to get a tattoo like that, besides, the first clue should've been that my dad scheduled it. I am actually that I didn't get that tattoo at the time because the one I got yesterday has so much more meaning than the ying yang. I mean, I would still like to get a ying yang but not as big as I was going to get it that day.

Anyway, I will share my experience. Yesterday, we woke up early because our appointment was at 11 in the morning. We got to the tattoo shop around 10:45am and our tattoo artist was ready. Honestly, I really like our tattoo artist, he made us feel really comfortable. He showed us the drawing he made for my tattoo and then made the stencil. It seemed really small when he showed it to us and it was really nice, he was able to turn the drawing my husband did to an amazing and flattering tattoo. Did I forget to mention that my husband designed my tattoo? He drew me a picture of something that incorporated the things that I originally wanted in my tattoo. The tree, the blue flowers, the two lotuses, the owl, and the date. My husband also added something that defines me personally, the swing. That symbolizes my young heart.

This is my tattoo, it is approximately 1/4 of my back

The meaning of my tattoo is simple and complex at the same time. The tree in itself symbolizes life, the owl is for wisdom and since it's cute and not like a normal owl it is also for my silliness, like the swing. The date on the bottom is 12/25/10 which is the day that my husband and I started to date, the two lotuses on the swing symbolize my sister and I, they stand for how we have prospered through the bad things that are found in our life.

So there you guys have it, my new tattoo. It actually still hurts really bad and you guys can see the redness on my skin still. It is no longer swollen though. I thought it was going to hurt really bad but I guess you can compare the tattoo pain to someone scratching your back without stopping and then scratching over the scratching. Do you know what I mean? That's how it felt, I mean it is not like terrible pain, but as long as you are brave enough you can take it. Come on! If I was able to sit through four and a half hours of scratching in my back you can too.

Happy,
Andy

PS. I know that there is much controversy with tattoos. I am thinking I'll write another post on that later.

Switched at Birth review

Today is TV Show or movie review and since I have successfully discussed Supernatural I decided I wanted to talk about another show of my liking. Switched at Birth. I don't know how many of you have heard of it but it is a really nice show, I remember seeing billboards everywhere at the malls when it first came out, but I never wanted to watch it, it just didn't captivate  my attention.

A couple of months after we got Netflix at home (Yes I am a very high Netflix fan, honestly I don't think I can live without it), I found it roaming through the Netflix selection, me and my husband decided to give it a try. I saw the first episode and I was hooked, my husband not so much. It could be because it is a more girly show. Anyway, I should give you a synopsis, but I am not going to kill it for you guys.

Naturally, this show is about two girls that get switched right after birth, a Hispanic girl and a Caucasian girl. The Hispanic, who's name is Bay, grows up with the other girl's family and vice versa. The other girl's name is Daphne. I can't remember how old they are when they find out they were switched but point is they find one another and their parents are upset both of the girls' parents want both the girls. Daphne is deaf by the way, this is one of the parts of this show that hooked me because there is a good amount of the show done just in hand language, don't let this stop you from watching it though, there are always subtitles!

Back on track, the TV show follows the two girls as the try to fit in their new lives and well things get intense with the clash of cultures. So you guys definitely have to check it out.

I loved it and I can't wait until more episodes are loaded onto Netflix,
Andy

My High School Experience

Since it is Sunday I thought I would reminisce on my past for a few minutes, I mean, why not?

I decided I wanted to think back to my accomplishments and what I remember from High School, I know it's only been like two years but so much has happened in my life that sometimes it feels like it's been ages and ages ago. The other day I was talking about our ten year reunion coming up!

I know there might be some of my High School classmates might be reading, or so I can hope. I know that I can ask you guys to comment if you remember me, but I am not so sure you do. However, point of this post is to try to think back to my High School years... Let's see how much I remember.

I can get started on Freshman year. My classes, hmm, I remember Mrs. Jocham, she is an amazing English teacher and she is, I hope she still is running the book club. Freshmen year is more or less of a blur, there were so many things that happened during that year and yet I can't remember. One thing I do remember is that I had a group of friends, I don't want to mention names because, well just in case any of you high school people from my past are reading this. Anyway, I had a group of friends. It was me and two more, a girl and a boy. We would always be together during the beginning of this year. We might have not had lunch together, oh no we didn't, I remember now, I was kind of lonely freshmen year during lunch, I mean I hanged out with some of my friends but it wasn't the same as those year's mornings at the library study rooms. Oh! You remember now huh!? Well, the one thing that stuck or made its mark for my freshmen year memory was the fact that I broke up my little group of friends. I made my other two friends stop talking to each other because of one stupid rumor. Sucks, but that is what high school is about.

Sophomore year, I joined Journalism and I was so happy! I had been wanting to join Journalism since I was in middle school and for my dream to be coming true, it just made me the happiest sophomore in the school. However, my dream was not just to be in Journalism but become Editor of the Newspaper, which did happen, but hold on a minute, that was after sophomore year. I am not quite sure of anything else that happened my sophomore year, other than me hanging out with my friends, becoming closer and closer to my one friend I still talk to today, and well me writing and having fun in Journalism. I remember I stopped talking a lot to my one guy friend I made the mess with my freshmen year. That sucked, I mean we still talked once in a while, I had a crush on him for a couple of months, but then we seized to be friends like we once were. That was my drama for the year I guess.

Junior year was awesome though, I joined many clubs, Book club being one of them, an arts and crafts club and I think I attended one of the meetings for an anime club. I also had dance that year, advanced dance if I can be brave enough to say it because that didn't make a difference. I loved that class and I think I was the skinniest I could be when I was in it. I performed in two performances during that year and it even lingered in my mind that I should've joined the dance team, but if I had joined dance team I would have had to give up on Journalism because as things were looking I was getting busier and busier working on that paper. I spent hours after school working to help make sure the paper was awesome. I was not going to give that up for dance, even though now I regret not having tried out. I also forgot to mention this was the year when I started dating my husband. That is when my life turned around, at least my love life. So guys can probably imagine why the end of this year is well, mostly gone because I was busy falling in love.

Senior Year.... I can't say it was the way they say it's in movies. I was not Prom Queen, I was not Homecoming Queen, I didn't date a popular guy, I wasn't Valedictorian, I might have been close but no, I didn't do something crazy that would have me remembered for the rest of my life. I didn't get drunk, I didn't get high, I didn't go to those crazy high school parties everyone was talking about, I didn't get pregnant. I didn't do any of that, but I was editor in chief of my newspaper, what I dreamt of achieving during high school. I had the best group of friends I could ever wish for, no one ever backstabbed me and they always supported me, even when I was the only one with a boyfriend. I was dating the man of my dreams and falling in love by the second. I went to Prom with my friends, danced until I couldn't feel my feet. I went to Grad Nite, and I got to throw my little hat looking thing with the tassel up in the air after I graduated. Honestly, I think that is more than anyone could ask for. I enjoyed my High School Years, I had fun, I fell in love, I did what I wanted to do and I came out with beautiful memories that no one will ever be able to take away. So, I am happy with how those years of my life turned out because I am sure that just paved my way to more happy and healthy years in my life.

With love and remembering all my High School peers,
Andy

What I do bored on a Saturday Night :)

I should've really come up with something to write on weekends because well... I got nothing. I am sorry if this turns into another ranting post.

I already told you guys that I want to start making YouTube videos again and that is in my near future. I just have to figure out what types of videos I am going to make because I already tried out beauty videos, that didn't work out... I tried vlogs, that might be a bit better since I can play around with those and I think I have a pretty fun life, or so I think. I suppose you guys might think I have more of a nostalgic life from a couple of previous posts, but lets not focus on that. I am sure I'll figure something out, I could do reviews, I could do short funny videos, things like that. Maybe once a week?

You guys probably think I have no life because this appeared here during Easter weekend but hey, I have a lot of free time :) I have to do something productive with it and this comes naturally. I was thinking that next week I should write something about our honeymoon when we went to San Francisco, I am sure you guys would enjoy a play by play of our road trip over there :)

I guess this is my weekend check in for today, because I don't think I can do much more than this since I do have a life and my husband is home on Sundays and that is his day.

HAPPY EASTER WEEKEND,
Andy

Starting to making YouTube videos

I just figured something out, it is really hard to come up with stuff when you're under a time frame but I find this schedule will help me because sometimes I don't know what to write and now it has become a little more strict. That makes me happy because it narrows down my choices for when I come down to the computer to try to think about what to write.

Today I wanted to talk about how I am thinking about getting back on my YouTube channel. Yes I have a YouTube channel. I have had one for a long time and I there are a couple of videos there. If you guys want to check it out and see how funny I look my channel is Sakurannie93. Yup :)

Anyway, my husband suggested that I work on it and start making videos again. I think I will, I actually enjoyed making my videos when I made them. They made me happy and I feel like they improve my social skills a little. I mean, a shy person would not have the guts to get in front of a camera, talk like your talking to a million people and then upload it to YouTube.

I give props to everyone who started a YouTube because it is a very crazy thing to do. I mean, everyone who puts videos up on YouTube is making themselves vulnerable to bullying, vulnerable to being called a bunch of names. So, if someone who things that something like that will affect them shouldn't do it, but someone who things that those types of things will make them stronger then go for it and I think I want to go for it... Why not?

Andy

Why I have a crazy obsession with owls?

If you were to walk into my room and look around you could literally count over 10, but that is counting only the visible ones. I probably have over 20 owls floating around.

Oh, just for the record, I think this is going to be more like a little story. Since Manny didn't get a chance to write today I chose something that I know will make him smile a little :)

When I first starting obtaining owls I didn't know I was going to end up having so many. Right now, at this moment I have no desire to buy more owls, but before, it was crazy. Like, anything I saw that had an owl I had to have, I still think owls are so pretty but I don't lunge at every chance I get to buy one like before (maybe it is because you don't have money Andy!).

My husband used to ask me this all the time when my owl obsession was going on and I didn't realize why until recently. He would ask me what my favorite animal is, to this day whenever I hear that question, giraffe pops up in my head. I believe that is my favorite animal, but I didn't realize that Manny kept asking me that because he was waiting for the day that I finally said owl.

One day, he did ask me and I stopped to think about it and I realized, maybe it is not giraffe anymore. He laughed all that day, and mocked me about it. But hey, I think it is okay to have little obsessions like that, they make people happy. I mean I don't want to become the crazy cat lady that loves owls instead of cats.

I think I like owls a lot because of Harry Potter, Winnie the Pooh, and Legend of the Guardians. I mean I always had a thing for Harry's owl, and I really think that owls symbolize wisdom because of the intelligent owl that comes out in the Winnie the Pooh series. Oh, Legend of the Guardians just made owls look a bunch of more times cooler than they already were in my eyes. So there you guys have it, this is why I love owls so much :)

Andy


PS. Check out my impressions on the Legend of the Guardians Movie.

Nokia Lumia 521 review

So since I just put up my new schedule for this post I thought I would start on it right away. Before I go on, I would like to say that I might not only post what I say I'll post on an specific day. I might have a couple of more posts that day that might not have anything to do with what the schedule says. Like the one I posted up earlier about my husband.

Anyway, for today's review I am going to review the Window's phones. I currently own a Window's phone, specifically the NOKIA LUMIA 521. Before I owned that phone I owned the NOKIA LUMIA 720. I loved my 720 and now I love my 521. I feel like Windows outdid themselves. I have never owned an iPhone but I have owned an ipod. I don't think there is much difference other than the fact that with the iPhone you can make calls, send texts and use the internet. In my true and honest opinion I believe that the windows phones are so much better and more efficient than an iPhone. I mean it is a phone after all and so is the iPhone but I have not experienced any technical difficulties with my windows phone. I've had it for about a year and it is still working fine.


I love the shape of it as well. I mean I do have one concern... For a very long time I could not find a pretty case for my phone. I struggled and I looked in every mall I stepped in and no one carried a nokia lumia case, which really bothered me, but hey, that is why we have the internet. I ordered three cases for the price I would have bought one in a random mall. So I ended up winning there. Yay for me. I also love the way that you can organize your main menu. I don't know, call me crazy but I think it is revolutionary. I love the way it looks and how you can customize it. By the way did I happen to mention that I also have a Windows computer and I am so in love with it. Point is I give this phone a ten out of ten.

I highly recommend that you guys check into this if you are looking for a new type of phone, but if you love your IPhone too much, then forget it, you wouldn't appreciate the worth of this phone anyway. Lol, no seriously it rocks!

Andy

Coming up with something new for you guys

I thought it was time for something different on this blog. I am going to try to come up with new posts to post up everyday. I was thinking maybe come up with a sort of schedule, like a certain type of post everyday. Like a DIY one day, a personal post another, a review another and so that you guys don't just get posts about me ranting on. For example the post where I went on talking about my father.

So for everyone's amusement here is the schedule for you guys. I might change it up later on to my liking but for now here is the schedule I could come up with.

Monday - Review for a TV Show or movie
Tuesday - What's going on in my life
Wednesday - Something about the world, my opinion
Thursday - Review for an item
Friday - Manny's Pick of the day :)
Saturday and Sunday will vary

So if you guys have any suggestions please comment below :)

Wanting to have some fun!
Andy

Finding my other half

Yesterday I posted two very sour things. They kind off killed my mood for the whole day, but that's what happens when a person has to vent. I figured that today would be different. Today I need happy posts. Something that might cheer people up.

I wanted to dedicate this to my husband because he is someone that indeed makes me happy. He makes my days brighter and happier. Whenever I am sad, he does everything to get me to smile. He spoils me everyday.

Before I was dating him I wrote a post about finding my other half, you can read that here. I find that he is just like I described my other half... I found that amazing and found myself thinking about it randomly the other day. It just makes me really happy that I was able to fall in love the way I did with my husband and I know that one day I will have a heck of a story to tell my kids and my grandkids.

My husband might not be perfect, but in this world no one is, you're not perfect, I'm not perfect, no one is. Everyone makes mistakes at some point in life. When looking for someone to share your life with don't look for someone who is perfect because you'll end up looking until your dead. You have to look for some one that will make a match, and if possible don't even look because your other half will come to you. One random day, you'll find out that they were there in front of you the whole time, or that miracles can happen. You'll find the love of your life and you'll live happily ever after.
I wish you the best my friends and good luck finding your soul mate,
Andy

My discovery of Calle 13 "El aguante"

Who likes Spanish music?
I do!

Calle 13 is a Hispanic rap group which I recently discovered through my husband. On our honeymoon to San Francisco we ended up listening to a Shakira CD and on that CD there was a song where Shakira featured Calle 13. My honest first reaction to that was speechless because of the way they said things.

My husband then told me that he really liked that group and that they are the type of band that just says things straight out and so I looked up a couple of their songs. I found out they have many songs that are sexual, but they also have many songs that speak the pure truth. So therefore I wanted to give you guys a translation of my favorite song I have heard from them. Okay, it might not be full translation because the song is really long, but you guys get the point. This song is about how humans can endure.

El Aguante

Nacimos para aguantar lo que el cuerpo sostiene  - We were born to endure what the body can take
aguantamos lo que vino y aguantamos lo que viene. -We endure what happened and what's going to happen Aguantamos aunque tengamos los segundos contados,-We endure even if we have the seconds counted
nuestro cuerpo aguanta hasta quince minutos ahorcado.- Our bodies endure up to15 minutes hanged

 aguantamos el frío del Ártico, el calor del Trópico-We endure the cold of the artic, heat of the tropics
aguantamos con anticuerpos los virus microscópicos -with antibodies we endure microscopic viruses
aguantamos las tormentas, los huracanes, el mal clima-We endure storms, hurricanes, and bad weather
aguantamos Nagasaky, aguantamos Hiroshima...- We endured Nagasaki, we endured Hiroshima
aunque no queramos, aguantamos nuevas leyes-Even if we don't want to, we endure new laws
aguantamos hoy por hoy que todavía existan reyes-we endure that we still have kings
castigamos al humilde y aguantamos al cruel- we punish the humble and endure the cruel
aguantamos ser esclavos por nuestro color de piel- we endure being slaves because of our color of skin
aguantamos el capitalismo, el comunismo, el socialismo, el feudalism-we endure capitalism, communism, socialism

 Aguantamos cualquier tipo de dolor aunque nos duela- We endure any pain even if it hurts
aguantamos Pinochet, aguantamos a Videla,- We endured Pinochet, Videla
a Franco, Mao, Ríos Montt, Mugabe, -Franco, Mao, Rios Montt, Mugabe
Hitler, Idi Amin, Stalin, Bush, Truman, Ariel Sharón y Hussein- Hitler, Idi Amin,Stalin,Bush,Truman,Sharon and Hussein
aguantamos más de veinte campos de concentración-We endured more than 20 concentration camps
cuando nadas bajo el agua, aguantas la respiración;-when you swim underwater you hold your breath
 el que no fuma se aguanta el olor a cigarillo.-If you don't smoke you endure the second hand smoke

 aguantamos el salario mínimo y el desempleo- We endure minimum wage and unemployment
  en la ciudad de Pompeya  - In Pompeii
aguantamos lava volcánica y dentro de la lógica-we endured volcanic lave and in the logic
de nuestra humanidad, nos creemos la mentira de que nadie aguanta la verdad - of our humanity, we believe lies and endure truth

 Aguantamos al ateo, al mormón, al Cristiano- we endure the Mormon, the christian
al budista, al judío,-the budist, the jew
 aguantamos el que vende balas y el que la dispara-we endure who sells bullets and who uses them
aguantamos la muerte de Lennon, la de Víctor Jara- we endured the death of Lennon, Victor Jara
aguantamos muchas guerras, la de Vietnam, la Guerra Fría-We endured many wars, Vietnam, Cold War,
la Guerra de los Cien Años, la Guerra de los Seis Días-The hundred year war, the war of six days.

 

 

 

So there you guys have it.... I don't know I just really liked this song, I suppose because of the truth behind its words. I am sure there wasn't a single lie on those lyrics.

 

-Andy

Art is beautiful

You want to know something funny? All my posts are somehow related back to how I moved in with my boyfriend. I guess that is when the interesting part of my life started huh? That's when I started to live!!!

Before I moved in with my boyfriend I didn't know much about art, I mean, I knew about art but it wasn't encouraged to me. Not at home at least. If you guys have been reading my blog for a long time now, you probably remember I tried to start a picture of the day... That didn't really work out, because well it wasn't encouraged...

After I moved in with my boyfriend, now husband, I learned many things about art... I learned that he is a type of person who loves to draw and paint for fun. That spiked a sense of creativity in me. I know my writing is kind off like art, but physical and colorful art is beautiful, just like good writing. I've seen many of his painting and he has a beautiful style, I mean it is not like anything I've seen before.

I wanted to showcase a couple of his paintings here, and therefore you got the pictures. Amazing huh? I tell him that all the time. I just love the way he paints. I like it so much that I even asked him to paint me, or draw me something for the tattoo I will be getting in about a week or so. He drew me the most amazing thing ever and it screams ANDY. I just love it so much and I hope the tattoo artist can recreate it, I guess we will find out on the 21st of this month. Don't worry, you guys will see a long post about it when it is approaching, I can assure you that  much.

Stay artistic,
-Andy

Your friends matter, value them

I graduated from High School almost two years ago... My high school life was fairly normal, I went to a fundamental high school, I had my close group of friends and well I liked it. I mean, it wasn't glamorous and it wasn't scandalous, but it was fun. I don't regret any minute of it.

Out of all my friends I had in High School, I only talk to a counted group. I still talk to the people who bothered to stay in touch after we threw our caps in the air that June afternoon.

Out of all of those, one of them is a very close friend of mine. She has been with me since about freshman year, and even though we ended up taking way different paths after high school she still talks to me. I mean come on! I am going to community college, she is going to University! (Props to her) I moved out of my house right after we graduated and got married and she still enjoying the fun of school. I mean I have that too, but you have to admit that there are a lot of differences there.

Most people, well this is my theory, but I feel like most people would stop talking to someone after they got married because well they're married. Well, at least that's how I feel.. Theory here! However, my friend didn't stop talking to me. I mean we don't hangout and talk as often as we used to but we still keep in touch. The fact that I am one of the people who broke the norm and left her home right after high school doesn't bother and it sure doesn't stop her from talking to me.

My point you ask? Fairly simple, I am sure you have some one like this too... You have a friend that has been there for you in bad and good times. Their name has been on your mind for a couple of minutes now.. So don't let that person go. I beg of you!! They will most likely follow you throughout your life and you'll one day be grateful for having them in your life.

Just a happy friend,
Andy

PS. I know my close friend is reading this.. So thank you for being with me through all these years and not letting me go!:) Looking forward to many more years of friendship :D

What happens when you marry into a family?

I don't know what happens to you... but I can tell you what happened to me...

When I decided that I wanted to move in what boyfriend. It wasn't just a decision I had to make by myself. Since I was moving in with his family, he had to talk to his family and I had to talk to his family. It was like if we got married at the moment I moved in because my husband's family started to introduce me to everyone as his wife. I didn't mind, but I knew they wanted us to get married ASAP.

After a couple of months I got used to it and now that we are married, nothing has really changed with my husbands family because they already treated us like if we were married before.

Anyway, point of the story. When I moved in, I left my former family behind. I mean, my parents are still my parents, my sister is still my sister, but they are no longer the family that knows every single thing about me and my days. For example, they are not the ones I have to report to, to tell that I am going to be home late, for that I have to tell my husband. I mean they know what's going on in my life but they don't know every single detail of my life...

Also, when I decided to be adopted into this family, I also obtained new brothers in law, who are my husbands brothers. Honestly, I miss my sister because hanging out with them is not the same as hanging out with my sister. However, they are a cool pair. I mean, I see them as my little brothers. We play video games, we talk, and we hangout often... It is like what I used to do with my sister but different. I don't know if I am making any sense...

Well, those are just a couple of things that happen when you decide to marry into a family. I mean, you are marrying your husband or wife and not necessarily a family, maybe you don't even know your significant other's family, but you have to keep in mind that after you marry your husband, his family becomes your family and your family becomes his. Specially if you two still live at home with one of the parents... I am not saying that's wrong... I promise you'll move out eventually :)

Happy Saturday!
Andy

Is it okay when married couples play video games?

I have been living with my husband for over a year and a half. We have been living together as a married couple for over a week. Honestly, I don't think much in a relationship has changed. Since the day I moved in I have learned to accept that my husband is a video game player. I am too.

My husband plays video games with his brothers and I don't think that there is anything wrong with that. I believe that a grown man or woman has all the right to play video games even if they are grown up, married or full on professional businessman.

About a month ago I saved up enough money to buy myself a Nintendo DS, and I bought it. I spend a couple of hours of my week playing on that thing, specially pokemon games. Yeah, I can hear you judging me but don't lie, I am sure you would enjoy playing on any type of game console, play station, xbox, you name it.

These past couple of days I have specially been liking playing video games with my husband, and my brothers in law. They have an X-box 360 and own Call of Duty - Black ops II. Before this week I hated playing that, but after these past couple of sessions on the Zombie multiplayer, I actually enjoy it a little. Okay, it is lots of fun. Specially just following my brothers in law and my husband so I won't die in the end.. Ha!


-Andy

The Husband's Side of the Story

Hello everyone my name is Manuel. I am the husband that Andy keeps talking about. I've known Andy for about 5 years now. 

Now where can I start? I guess, I shall start at the beginning. I first met Andy when I was 16 and she was 15. I met her through my dad. My dad and her dad were at the time, close friends, her dad would bring her to my house a couple of times and every time she would visit I would seclude myself in my room.
After a while, I started to spend some time with her, though we didn't really talk. I finally decided to talk to her after some motivation from my cousin. Soon after we started talking during her visits and not too long after that she invited me to go to Knott's Scary Farm. It was fun, even though I thought she was a big scardy cat(; I still do:) Soon, we started a nice friendship soon and after that, on Christmas of 2010 I asked her out. We had tons of fun that year so when our anniversary came along I gave her a ring, which at the time was just a nice present. Eventually, we got engaged about half way through the second year and nearing our second anniversary she moved in with me:) That same year I upgraded her ring into an engagement ring. At first we moved in to see how it would be to live together and after a year of living together and having a lot of fun and getting along we decided to get married. We chose a cool date to get married, we got married march 28 2014, three years three months and three days after we first became boyfriend and girlfriend :) and now we are happily married. Our story has just begun. So, that was a glimpse into our story from my point of view. I will be posting once in a while too, so keep checking in:)

-Manny

Chuze Fitness

I never in my life imagined that I would ever have a gym membership!

I've been going to this gym, CHUZE, for about three months now. I have to say it is amazing! I mean, it's affordable and it gets the job done. I don't know if I can call this a review of this gym but I have to say I am happy to be going there. I do want to recommend it to anyone who is thinking about joining a gym, or getting a gym membership.

I go to this gym at least three times a week at night. My routine is not complicated. We usually walk, or run on the treadmills for about 30 to 40 minutes and then move on to some heave machinery! Just kidding, but no really. My husband really likes to encourage me to do as much as can until I end up really tired. I appreciate it that because if he didn't do that I wouldn't last more than the treadmill.

Anywho, I really like this gym. It is so clean and everyone of their staff is really nice. I specially  like how it is asked from us that we clean the equipment after it has been used. I mean, I've never had another gym membership but I think that is awesome. There's even a circuit, where we get to exercise for one minute at a time. I really like that one, even though in the last couple of weeks we haven't been there.

There is also an option of having a personal trainer, which I think would be really cool for someone who was looking for a little more encouragement. I got my own personal trainer already! My husband :)

So anyone out there is wondering about trying out a gym membership, check CHUZE out! I give it 5 out of 5 stars. I honestly think you won't regret it :)

Stay motivated
!
Andy

Having a pet....

I recently had to surrender my dog to the pound because of... well because of family issues. When I moved in with my boyfriend, I had my dog, and I kind of did the thing where I told my boyfriend that it was both me and my dog or neither one of us. Well, he said yes, and then I asked my parents in law, they reluctantly agreed as well.


I guess I should start with how I obtained my dog in the first place. When I still lived with my parents, my sister and I wanted a dog.. We begged our parents for a dog and they said they would get us one, a tiny one of course with the condition that we cleaned up its mess. My dad took us to the local shelter and there we found so many pretty and cute puppies. When we went up to the people that were in charge we asked what we had to do in order to get a dog. The price, well the price was steep because they did the shots, they neutered them, and handed them out all clean. My father being the stingy person he is, said no.

We walked out of the shelter with no dog and almost in tears because we had fallen in love with so many dogs. On the parking lot there was a couple in a truck attracting much attention. They were giving away puppies. I jumped at the idea and ran over there with my sister. The puppies were pit bull mixes, there was a brown one, a black one, and a little one that was brown and white. My boyfriend grabbed the one that was mixed and before we knew it that was the only puppy left. My sister and I begged my dad to let us keep the puppy, and well since it was free, he couldn't say no. He neglected to tell my mom of this.

Anyway, point is, a couple of months after we obtained our puppy the only ones looking after it was my mom and I. By the way it was a girl. We fell in love with this puppy, we just loved her. We decided at the end to call her Cocoa. Perfect name right?

After I decided to move out, which was after my mom moved out, I knew that our Cocoa would die with only my dad and sister watching after her. So, I brought her with me. My husband's family rents a big house so there was enough space in the back yard for her. We allowed her to run around and she was happy. After a year and so many months... everyone could tell that our Cocoa didn't have the attention she had when she had barely been brought to this house. I neglected to look out after her and I didn't hang out with her as often. My parents in law told me that I either had to get on my doggy and take care of her or give her up. I cried my heart out and I started cleaning up on her mess, showering her once a week, etc.

Everything was good for a couple of months until we found out we might be having to move houses. Once again I felt my heart sink... I was so sad... The day before I got married, I made up my mind.

I got her blankets, her food, her toys and her leash on the car. Heard my Cocoa cry and cry and drove her to the shelter were a year and half ago I had picked her up.
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Moral of my story.... Dogs are wonderful friends and wonderful companions, but they need attention, they need time, they need to be walked and they need a friend in return. I know for a fact that my Cocoa understood me, she recognized me, and she loved me... but sadly, I must have not be that great of an owner...

I will miss my Cocoa, but I do pray that at the shelter she will find a family that will love her more than I ever could.

Missing my puppy,
-Andy

Changing my name after I got married

I know for a fact that there is controversy around this topic...

As some of you guys might now, I recently got married. When I decided I did want to marry my husband I also made another important decision, I changed my name to my husband's name.

Now here is where the interesting part comes in, I am from a Mexican background and my dad is, well let's just say he is more like a traditional Mexican. Point is, my dad is very proud of his last name. I remember very clearly a conversation I heard when I was little. My dad was talking to someone and he told them that he wished he had had sons instead of daughters because now we (My sister and I) weren't going to be able to carry his first name or his last name because when we got married we would lose his last name. This hurt me, and for a second I wished that I had been the son he wanted. I am glad that I wasn't though, I like being a girl, thank you very much.

I don't understand why men, specifically coming from a Hispanic decent, are so worried about last names and passing on theirs. It just doesn't make sense to me. Now, as a wife I have my husbands last name and I am fine with that. I don't mind if I have sons or daughters, and I am sure my husband doesn't mind either. So why are traditional Hispanic dads so worried about their last name??

I come up on a couple of theories, but they don't make sense with my dad. Theory #1: If a family had a family business, I would understand why they would want their kids to have the family's business name, so they can be recognized as part of the business.... But my dad doesn't own a business.
Theory #2: I got nothing........

Anyway, I love my dad and everything but I honestly think that it was heartless to say something like the thing he said those many years ago about wishing he had had at least one son to pass on his last name. I mean come on! He has a bunch of brothers who had sons who will keep the family name running. So why be so heartless to the women... I suppose, at the end of the day, those traditional Hispanic "machos," like I like to call them have to learn a lesson...... Your wife changed her last name for you, so it is fine that your daughter takes someone else's when she marries. Oh! Please stop asking and wishing that your daughters were male!

Sincerely,
Andy

I have become a Supernatural Fan

I started watching the series a couple of weeks ago and I am on the third season!

When I still lived with my parents my dad would watch Smallville without missing a single episode. Naturally, I would watch this too and was a fan of Smallville, up until all the new superheroes started showing up. I can't remember if Supernatural was before or after Smallville, but point is that I always thought that Supernatural was silly. "Too exaggerated," I told myself.... My dad of course thought the exact same thing so I never even bothered to check it out, or find out what is was about. Yeah, I know, can you blame me?!

Anyway, when I moved in with my boyfriend, who is now my husband, I found out that he was a fan of Supernatural. SHOCKER! However, he was on like the Seventh season and so nothing on the show made sense to me. I always walked out of the room so I could avoid being confused. One day, I actually sat down and saw an episode of this show. In this episode, one of the brothers was stuck in hell and an angel was helping him survive. I become intrigued!

A couple months later, this past February, I decided to give this show a chance and I started watching it from the first season and boy am I hooked!!! Honestly, I feel sad for myself because I never gave this show a chance before and I missed everything that was so good for the crappy Smallville! Okay, Smallville wasn't that crappy but honestly I think Supernatural is way better.

In case any of you guys are wondering I am on Dean's side.


GO DEAN!!!
-Andy

Divergent Movie Review

Just saw this movie on the first!

I listened to the book on audible last year and I fell in love with the plot. My husband and I heard and when we found out a movie was coming out we went crazy. Just like with the Hunger Games, but honestly I liked this one better.

I think the cast is pretty much perfect, even though I imagined Four a little more older and Eric was a little different, other than that I loved the movie.

I liked the fact that the movie pretty much stayed close to the book and there was only a few changes. Well there were multiple twists on the movie but to be honest they made sense, unlike other movies where the plot takes a 360 degree turn to make sense, but this one was great. By the way Tris is pretty much portrayed amazingly ! So props to Shailene Woodly for her acting. I don't think I had seen her in another movie but if this was her first lead role she did awesome! Theo James is really goodlooking!! Just had to leave that out there before I end this.
-Annie

PS Sorry if this is short... First time I do a review in a long looooong time!!

My Relationship with my husband

It has been a little over a week since I got married.

I know I talked about this before in another post but I am finally coming through and telling you guys how this wedding went. I am not just going to talk about the wedding, but more about the relationship that I carry with my newly husband. How we came to be how we are, because in my honest opinion I believe that we have a beautiful relationship.

On March 28, 2014, Manuel and I got married at the local courthouse of my town. We have been in a relationship for 3 years and 3 months, we have been living together for about a year and half, and now we have been married for about a week.

Before we started dating, when we just starting to talk to each other, my parents discouraged me from going out with him. They came up with excuses to tell me, that I would stop going to school, that my responsibilities would grow, they even made up a fake girlfriend for Manuel. I still don't understand why they would go through all this trouble just so I wouldn't date him.

This happened on the winter of 2010. Anyway, he asked me out on a date. We went out on a winter night, watched TRON and then went to eat some Carl's Jr. That was our very first date. Not as girlfriend and boyfriend but just a date. We spent hours texting and messaging each other on myspace and facebook. I guess you could say that's normal.

We didn't spend Christmas Eve together though, but we did talk to each other over text that entire night and when the clock hit midnight he told me that Santa had put him on my Christmas wish list. I was the happiest girl! So yea, that's how we become a couple. Even though the first couple of months we were just friends because we didn't really hold hands or kiss until that March 2011. Point is we got to know each other for quite a while. He asked me to marry him on our first anniversary. Of course I said yes, but we agreed that we would wait a while before actually getting married. I was ecstatic! I mean, honestly at the time I was not thinking about marriage but well I did (still do) love him.

The following year we spent getting to know each other more and more.... we spoke about moving in together, as dream of the future, but never as a matter of fact. However, around the time I was going to graduate my parents started the divorce paperwork.... This was a very heartbreaking and sad time in my life. Even though I was the one that pushed my mom to go for the divorce, it broke my heart that my parents were splitting up. My mom gave me her reasons and told me everything that was going on between her and my dad. Honestly, I kind of wish that she wouldn't have done that... I would have been better off if she had left things out because well now I hold a grudge against my dad. I can never take that back. Not the point of the story!!!!

I didn't want to move in with my mom and I didn't want to stay with my dad after the divorce. Manuel offered that I move in with him. Around November 2012 is when I moved in with him. Both our parents wanted us to get married right away, but we decided that we wanted to live together and see how we would get along under the same roof because living together is much different than just dating each other. I know that everyone criticized us at first. They said that we wouldn't last and that we wouldn't get married and look at us now. They also said we wouldn't go to school, and we are going to school. I mean we skipped a semester this year but that was because we couldn't afford school and a wedding.

Back to my point..... Manuel and I have a great relationship because we were patient and we didn't get married right away. I feel like the way our relationship developed helped be the couple we are today. We aren't really just a couple, we are each other's best friend, we are lovers, we treat each other like friends and love each other like husband and wife, we argue, yes, but that's okay, only once in a while.

So yea.... I love the fact that I married my best friend.... I'll let you guys know how it moves along :)

-With love,
Mrs. Andy S.