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Awwww....2015 giving a flower to 2016

Hi everyone, wow, just wanted to make sure I sneaked in a last post before year end, cause we are going to Disneyworld!!!! (no seriously) For all the Disney mayhem you can read my last post. And yes the Disney insanity continues. But I can only do so much. Christmas left me wiped out, Santa is exhausted . I've wrapped so many gifts I have to get a manicure- hehe anything to squeeze in a manicure.
I know , I know I was supposed to technically post this past Friday, but Hello Christmas! We are all very excited for the New Year. I mean very very excited: (bullets please):

• Will get more gym time in! I'm not kidding
• More books to read (and magazines) yum
• More recipes to make !
• More friends to visit and entertain
• More business to grow!
• More all things related to @garyvee
• More @periscopeco
• More me (I mean on the blogosphere)

Ok stop the bullet points we don't want to get carried away. I know a lot of people are shy about making comments. However, feel free to let me know what topics you wan't me to cover or you have an interest in. Because you know I can continue typing about anything an everything. I don't suffer from Bloggers block-hehe.
SO 2016 -here we come- it will be another Roller-coaster ride (yeah but this time I will be riding real ones at Magic Kingdom) For all live action - follow me on Periscope too!
love you guys, and thanks for tuning in every Friday!!!
Happy & Healthy 2016 to all of us!!
xo @latinabug_nj

INSTAGRAM INSANITY!!!

Yep, as my title says , this week has been all consuming by an APP!!!! Yes my friends, in 2 days I have gone from complete amateur , to #tagitlikeaboss thanks to the help and tips by Ms. +Peg Fitzpatrick herself. 

That being said, I have totally neglected my other platforms such as Twitter, and Periscope and at the bottom of my list poor, poor, poor +Pinterest . Instagram is like a bullet train , Poor Pinterest is like the locomotion.(choo-choo) Sad. but true. So here is my 2 cents or should I say in all caps CAUTION!!! Instagram will run your life. Why ? because you want to capture , video , post every living moment of your being. Talk about being in the present. Then you get excited when random ppl like your posted pics of your cat, then start following you. Thats where the anxiety sits in . Omg I am a Star ! In 2 days I have almost 200 followers. Now lets be honest here, there is no way shape or form that this would have happened to me on Twitter circa 2009. No way. And you know that, probably by now.

There are a variety of topics that absolutely mesmerize me: bullets please:

• book worms
• architecture
• photography
• other business owners
• men
• +Grumpy Cat 
• +Kat Von D's High Voltage 
• +thekatvond 
• and drum roll: makeup , makeup, makeup.

On this last topic of makeup: it will consume you. Please do not fall into the Makeup vortex like I did and ordered every single liquid lipstick and glitter galore. Yes folks I am currently waiting for my makeup to arrive. This is where they get you!!!

So stop breathe , smell the roses. Pause and then think of the next picture you will post, sorry I have to get back to +Instagram 

xo +latinabug nj 

GOING TO DISNEYWORLD? PREP PPL...

MY MIND WHILE "PREPPING"

Well Hello M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E! Remember the Mickey Mouse show?!! I think it was on 2 centuries ago. Anyway, I haven't been to Disney world since 1994 , so do the math. I wasn't aware of all the "prep" you actually need before arriving.
The "prep" or Mise en Place (meeze-on-plahs) definition: means to have on hand all the ingredients measured and prepared- we are going to need bullet points for this:

• Here I am thinking of all nights, I am just going to pick up the phone and voila there will be a Disney Magic Kingdom table reserved and ready for me before midnite -not . Make sure you call way in advance to make your dinner reservations. I am lucky enough to have a fellow tweep that hooked me up with a wonderful app : My Disney Experience- whatever you do download this! Of course after putting in my date and refreshing the screen after 100 times, I got a dinner reservation at 9pm!! woot!
• Another term or event that you may be unfamiliar with: Maximum Park Capacity. Meaning you will actually be turned away, regardless if you got there as early as 10am. Yep, so we are getting there at 7am and we are planning to stay there way past midnight.Gasp
• Now in the event you are not app friendly , you have the option of calling for dinner reservations: which of course I did: and you are greeted with harps and twinkle and magic and a unicorn and rainbows. Then the customer service rep comes finally on the line. This is me: Hi! I want to make reservations for Magic Kingdom for NYE. Insert unamused emoji here. Ok no places available. Me: Check Epcot! Check Animal Kingdom! Customer Service rep: Mam Epcot is not Magic Kingdom...

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•  Who knew after 20 years things would be so different. But they are. Remember in 1994 there were no apps there was only Mickey & Minnie and Pluto and well you get the picture.
• Oh and also if you think you will get into a drunken stupor on NYE forget it the only place that you can get a beer is at "Be our Guest Restaurant" which is book till 2020. We will only have coca-cola (wink)
• Oh and I have included a link below on how to enjoy Disney w/ the Whole Family (yes there is a You Tube channel for that)
• And it goes on and on and on....geez sometimes I wish it was 1994 again.DISNEY PARKS YOU TUBE CHANNEL NO REALLY 

So guys, I will keep you updated... this is really a work in progress...
xo @latinabug_nj

TROLL EPIPHANY ON THE SCOPE...

Awwww so you guys missed me , you really really missed me. Yep by one day. So anyway yes my "epiphany" was as follows:

This is all regarding Periscope, and how happy I was to see that I had close to 1,750 followers. If you tweet organically like I do , meaning its me folks not a bot, then you would be jumping up and down if that was your real follower count. And believe me it took me a way long time on twitter to actually get to the two thousand mark . Way too long. To my amazement , and after just a few months on the Scope a.k.a Periscope my follower count was on the up and up. That was until this past Thursday when I watched a live scope done by Mr @raygcreative and mind you that this was after 10 pm when I'm usually getting ready to sleep and on a weekday. What was happening on Periscope was a troll invasion, like a virus I was getting new followers but upon close inspection my followers looked something like this:
SEX CHAT
SEX CHAT
SEX CHAT
So Thank you Ray for opening our eyes , because Trolls come in all shape and sizes. And some of them look like supermodels. They even have FAKE VERIFIED CHECK MARKS!!! FOR REAL, (Thank you Ray for pointing this out to us) Another way to spot a troll or "fake follower" is when they have 4 followers and they follow more than 6000 ppl , yeah you do the math ratio. After watching the Ray scope , it took me until 1am to block all the trolls one by one. I even was tweeting to Ray and giving him live updates.
Bottom line: I went from 1,700+ followers to 614, now that's a lot of blocking!! But it needed to be done.
Mission accomplished, not really , its still a work in progress. Just ask Ray
xo +latinabug nj

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A TROLL MAY LOOK LIKE THIS....