Old Blog Posts, Life and Living with Imperfections

I was driving down a street by my dad's kingdom hall today and I saw a horse tied to a tree with a For Sale sign written on the back of an orange traffic sign and tacked to a tree. Only in the ghetto and in Texas. I swear!

It made me think of a blog entry I wrote once called "Horses in the Ghetto" but when I Googled that title with my blog name I couldn't find it. All I found was some song by the same title. Very weird. Maybe I wrote it somewhere else, or maybe it's missing now. Now I'm starting to think it may have been a poem.

In Googling my blog post I came across other blogs I've written and I always love doing that. I especially love the blogs about the kids when they were little. Seth was just a baby when I started this blog and he's 9 now. I always tell myself I should print all my blogs into a bound book and I haven't done it yet. I need to. What if something crazy happened and Blogger folded and took all my blog posts with it?

Life is passing me by way too fast. How is it already November of 2013? How has it been two years since my divorce? And HOW is it already six months since I quit my job? The time has come for me to either start making some serious money at my business or for me to get a full time job and back into Corporate America. On a good note, I just recently signed on with a newspaper in New Jersey. I really like the publisher of this paper and I think I'll really enjoy working for her. I just need to sell something for these publications now!

I read Brené Brown's book "The Gifts of Imperfection" not too long ago and I started reading "Daring Greatly" but I got side-tracked by another book and I need to go back and finish it when I finish this book I'm reading.

The point is this. Yesterday I came across a Huffington Post article about the 14 signs of perfectionism and it freaked me out. As I read the article I started checking off all the ones that reminded me of me and what freaked me out was that I was able to check off at least 11 of the 14 signs. OK, I'll share two things. (cringe) I'm a big procrastinator and I know there's no use crying over spilt milk... but I do anyway. Terrible I know.

I thought, "How can I be a perfectionist? I'm fat and I my house is a mess." I'm definitely not a perfectionist when it comes to cleaning. But then I remembered that I read something like this in "The Gifts of Imperfection." I don't have the book with me because I let a friend borrow it but I think that I can be a perfectionist even if my life is a mess because my problem is that I worry about all those things and I don't end up doing anything at all.

Even though I read the book I kept thinking as I read it, "Oh that's not me. I'm not a perfectionist." Now I'm thinking I need to go back and read that part of the book again and I need to take a honest look at myself. It's hard, but I do...

Win a Package of Goodies from Orgullosa Breast Cancer Awareness Month

For every LIKE on their Facebook face Orgullosa is giving $1 to the Liga Contra el Cancer. Go to their page now and like their page and do your part for October- Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Once you like their page you can enter to win a giveaway for one of my readers, which includes beauty products and an iPod Shuffle!

The Orgullosa Breast Cancer Awareness Month Giveaway (the “Sweepstakes”) begins on October 20, 2013 at 6:00:01 P.M. Central Time (“CT”) and ends on October 27, 2013 at 11:59:01 P.M. CT (the “Promotion Period”).

How to Enter: During the Promotion Period, send an email with "#Orgullosa4EarlyDetection" in the Subject line to Shoegirlcorner (at) Yahoo (dot) com. A limit of one entry is allowed per person.
 

One winner will be selected. All winning entries will be randomly generated on or shortly after the Entry Deadline Date. If your name is drawn and you meet the eligibility requirements and otherwise comply with these Official Sweepstakes Rules, you win the prize. The winner will be notified by email from Shoegirlcorner

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Orgullosa House Party for Hispanic Heritage Month

Last night eight of my girlfriends and I got together for our Tertulia, a tradition we started 13 years ago. This month it was an Orgullosa theme and we got to enjoy all the Orgullosa products that they sent us. We had Oil of Olay, Secret deodorant, Cover Girl lipsticks, nail polish, Venus razors, t-shirts, bracelets and bags. Our friend Liliana was kind enough to open up her house to us.

We shared stories, gossip, food, drinks and laughed until we cried. Laughter with girlfriends is always the best medicine for any ailment but it's especially good when you have gifts to share. We talked about being Hispanic, or not, about being half Hispanic, half African American, Mexican, Colombian and American. We are all women and we are friends.

"P&G announced the launch of “Orgullosa,” an initiative created to celebrate, empower, and fuel Latinas’ accomplishments and dreams. The initiative, which carries the name of the Spanish word for “proud”, has as its centerpiece Orgullosa.com, a virtual community through which Latinas can engage in a dialogue with one another that also provides them beauty, household, and lifestyle advice to simplify their lives". - Business Wire 

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Orgullosa Hispanic Heritage Month Package Giveaway

I'm having an Orgullosa House Party with my closest group of girlfriends this coming weekend and you too can be a part of the fun!

Orgullosa is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and they've sent me over a bunch of beauty items for a party of ten. We are going to use the nail polish to create some fun "nail art" to celebrate our culture.  

So here is where you dear reader come in. They are also sending me a giveaway for one of my readers, which includes beauty products and an iPod Shuffle!

The Orgullosa Hispanic Heritage Month Package Giveaway (the “Sweepstakes”) begins on October 8, 2013 at 4:00:01 P.M. Central Time (“CT”) and ends on October 15, 2013 at 11:59:01 P.M. CT (the “Promotion Period”).

How to Enter: During the Promotion Period, send an email with "Orgullosa Hispanic Heritage" in the Subject line to Shoegirlcorner (at) Yahoo (dot) com. A limit of one entry is allowed per person.

One winner will be selected. All winning entries will be randomly generated on or shortly after the Entry Deadline Date. If your name is drawn and you meet the eligibility requirements and otherwise comply with these Official Sweepstakes Rules, you win the prize. The winner will be notified by email from Shoegirlcorner

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Fall Has Arrived, if Even for a Few Days

Every year I have my fall post. This is it. I love FALL!!! I love fall and spring in Houston. We don't really have a real winter so it's kind of just fall and then spring here and then it's summer again.

(Photo by: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT And we do not have leaves like this in Houston in the fall. Very far and few between.)

Sunday we had our first cold front. It was amazing! It was so cool on Monday morning, so after I got home from dropping off the kids I went out for a walk for an hour. It felt so great!

We're supposed to have some cool days for the remainder of the week but at the end of the week it's supposed to start getting warm again. I'm really hoping it happens on Saturday after we have our reunion on Friday night because it's going to be outside.

Outside doesn't usually go over well with me unless it's winter time. I'm hoping for the best Friday night with this new cool front. PLLLLEEEAAAASE Cold front! Can you stretch it out until Friday night?