Friday, October 31, 2014

The Gym Chronicles & ending on a spooky note...Happy Halloween!

So here we are October 31st folks, and Happy Halloween to all! Yeah that sounded more like X-mas. Anyway , let me just tell you how the week started, first reminding you that my weeks run Saturday through Friday with my post written on Friday (yes I will try my best)... here we go!

  • About the gym...   I usually do my strength training twice per wk on Tuesday & Fridays, but this week because of my crazy life , I woke up with a positive attitude that this Saturday training class would be a piece of cake , but when in doubt , I was prepared! I did not have breakfast (on purpose) , just a good cup of  Java to get my blood flowing. Of course I tweeted that I was heading to the gym, and predicted that for some reason , someone was going to barf or be on the verge of barfing. Oh boy did my predication come true! Ppl around me were dropping like flies, I felt like we were in Boot Camp, but the real Boot Camp like West Point drop and give me 20 kinda shit. One girl even asked for permission to puke, Denied!! as Suze Orman would say... I honestly don't know what made me get through this one hour class, actually I do know, its called endurance & stamina and strength. Even though the younger ones were weak, I mentally was repeating a mantra in my head "you will get through this" & somehow I did and without puking 
DIY.. so I've probably mentioned this in the past ... I hate DIY anything, and of course my son decided to be this Halloween a character THAT IS NOT EVEN IN PRODUCTION< seriously. So here we are running up and down Route 17 in NJ, actually for those of you living in NJ you know its more like crawling. We stopped by Petco, Michaels, Pet Goods, Bed , Bath & Beyond and back to Michaels. And I even had to stop by Univar , my vendor to pick up a hazmat suit. Yes you read it here first, and this is not to be safe from Ebola. So as I type this at 2pm , we have to put this entire thing together for his trick o treating time. This is BA-NA-NAS.
So you guys, since I'm new at this blogging thing, I don't want to seem like I am doing a weekly rant. I want you to come out of this with knowledge but most of all laughter. Because bottom line my sense of sarcastic humor is what makes me sane to get through my week.
love y'all (yes was in Texas this year) 
xo
@latinabug_nj

Friday, October 24, 2014

So lets do this! ...

Woah, Plonk , Bloop !! as my #rhoa followers would agree this week has been a week of ...
  • Reflecting... Last Saturday, October 18th 2014, was a ying / yang day for me. For all of us here in our Ex-Terminator , Inc. world... why you may ask? Because it was 11 years to the day that our founder, my husband, William Blauvelt, passed suddenly. I was so wrapped up running my street fair , giving my 100% , all day from 8am till dusk, that I was caught up in a whirlwind. When the dust settled , Bill was on my mind , just like he was on my mind everyday and will always be on my mind. Wink- Bill you know this.
  •  Connecting...speaking of whilwinds, yesterday was the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey (@shccnj) and of course I found out about this event on Twitter, yes a day before. I woke up that morning in a "cloudy" mood, meaning uggghh its raining , not a good day, jump in the shower, dont think about it, then bam! my soul said this to me: if you dont go , you are a failure! What? when , where , oh hell no! I accommodated my rats nest of a hair to the best of my ability, took a quick shower, and bam I was ready! Of course I get there bright and early (this is the chirpy mood inside me) then Oh , I just realized we are running in Spanish time. No hot Goya coffee yet, no empanadas, no nothing. PPL slowly started to set their table as in slow motion, well this latina did not miss a beat! I was running around w/ my umbrella, got the ummm so called Brownstone coffee and grabbed the first pens / highlighter, bags and guess what at the end of the day the merch was Umbrellas! ha . One of the messages that stood out for the "Latinas in Social Media" panel was what one of the panelists said: Continue moving forward,  Follow through, Make a plan!
  • Its here... Lets do this! WHAT ? well aprox. one year ago something I read something tragic on my TL , the sudden and tragic death of an author. But this wasnt any author. She was a single mom, living in NJ , author of a childrens book on ADHD. I had never heard of her before, but somehow , someway I was going to do something to honor her legacy. And since this week my 12 year old son has approached me with : "Mom can you do this already? you have been talking about this for almost a year". Insert surpised emoji here. Woah , I'm not talking . From now on I will be doing. Yes doing. The author was : Tanji Dewberry , her book:  Oh Fiddlesticks! My plan? 
To type for Tanji
To tweet for Tanji
To talk for Tanji
Thats right, but I will need funds to purchase typewriters, the big dry erase boards and start teaching / tutoring. Yep, we are learning to type old school  as in use your fingers typewriters. Its hard work and thats how I learned decades ago , if I could do it w/ my skinny fingers whining the whole time, so can you!
Anyway, I left the best part out for every 8 sessions that I manage to book, One book of Ms. Dewberry will be donated to a local library in her honor & we wont stop until we covered the entire State of NJ.
Wew, so who is with me...??
Stay tuned, I have to set my IndieGogo account to raise the mullah $$$
ttys
xo
@latinabug_nj