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Haha

This is just a short post (the longer one I'm saving for later because I need a few images).

Don't you just love those pictures that you take on accident while trying

to figure out camera settings?

This is one of me, the day I went to 'One Night of Queen'

and posed with a mustache.

My friend named it 'The Evil Mexican Midget"

My hair is so light in there, that it looks as if I was wearing a blonde wig

My nose just looks too funny. Oh well

Goblins in my house!

Guys,

Have you ever had experiences so weird that you think "how will I tell this story in order for people to believe me?"? It happened to me yesterday/today!

Let me explain...

Yesterday, I went to my mom's bathroom to pick up my brush and other things. I noticed there was a hair tie on one of the rugs close to the sink and I said "Ok I'll remember it's there so if I need one tomorrow, I'll pick it up" (how lazy of me not to pick it up and put it in the drawer or something!).

So today I needed a hair tie. I knew there was one in the bathroom so I went to grab it. When I got there, the hair tie was gone. I was like "weird... I swear I saw it yesterday" I even stared at the rug for several seconds and even rubbed my foot on it in order to detect if it was there... but no it wasn't. And the rug pattern is not even too dark, so my eyes weren't being fooled--at least I don't think. Then something in me said... what if I look again and it's there again... as if a goblin took it and brought it back again (someone told me goblins supposedly take items from homes and that's why sometimes you don't find the pair of your earring)...

Suddenly, I look down again, and THE HAIR TIE WAS THERE. I was in shock!! I almost jumped back. There it was... laying still... very clear to my eyes... the misterious hair tie.

I left the room because I wanted to see if it was going to disappear again when I came back... but this time it didn't. And plus I had to go to work. But... seriously guys... the most awkward thing that has happened to me so far this year.

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What the Winter Olympics should remind everyone...

Everytime I watch the Winter Olympics I hear stories of athletes who sometimes have

all odds against them and yet they still manage to fight for their

dream and achieve their goals. We should all be like them...

It's impressive how far they go... many of them fracture a bone,

undergo a lot of physical pain, and then they're told by doctors that they should forget about training. And what do they do? They just go back for the gold medal.

Some of them don't get hurt, but they do really bad in a competition and that inspires

them to come back and show everyone that they can do much better, that they too can be champions. So, I really want to learn from those

athletes and apply their passion to whatever mine are.

Everytime we 'fall' we have to stand up up again :) ...

Hope your weeks have started well! I've got more to tell you! I'll be back later!

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Dopplegangers

In view that many people are posting their 'doppelganger' pictures

on facebook as well as on blogs, I thought I

would do something similar here. I often compare facial features of people

to those of celebrities anyway.

Here are a few things I wanted to show you today... first, the closest

matches for myself:

Remember Alex Mack? My dad said one day "look Marcelita, she looks like you..."

And maybe I sort of did when I was younger. Larisa Oleynik

Will I look like that at her age? I wouldn't mind :)

That is Holly Hunter. I don't think I've seen any of her films yet.

I do know someone who looks a lot like a celebrity.

In fact, he looks a lot like two celebrities morphed.

My boyfriend. He looks like a mix of Paul McCartney and Jim Sturgess (first picture).

He's my peruvian Beatle.

And do you know anyone who looks like an animated character? I do!

When I saw the film 'Up,' which by the way is very beautiful, I couldn't help but to

think of my grandpa the whole time. Not just because they have the same chin, nose, glasses (my grandpa has them on his hands), and peculiar head, but also the cute grumpiness, the adorable pants, and most importantly, the love they have for their wife.

I gave my grandpa a mug with that drawing above... the real 'Up' character has hair;

I edited mine in Photoshop.

That's all the dopplegangers I wanted to show you dears.

xoxo ~*~ Marcela

Nite Nite

Hello pretty people! I wanted to post something about dopplegangers today but

forgot one important picture at my office, so I guess it will be tomorrow.

I also have pictures to show you from the weekend! But today... today I only wanted to

say goodnight. I am going to bed now. Sweet dreams to all of you, and

have a lovely day in case you're in an area of the world where it's already morning.

I'll leave you with a picture that makes me smile (and laugh a little bit too).

I love silly dog costumes.

See you tomorrow!

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The alarm clock is my enemy!

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Anyone out there who actually likes alarm clocks? The poor objects are the unlucky first things we touch smack in the morning after their sound brings us back to reality. Well, at least the two that I use I don't have to smack--> Yes, lately I've been using my cell phone and another alarm clock that was in my brother's room but that used to be mine. And now that I think about it, I should put it back in his room because it's making me wake up later! Since I know there is another alarm coming, I let myself sleep 'a few more minutes.' Also, since I am still in that weird realm of sleep-awake, I confuse the two and I press one a million times only to find out that that's not the one sounding! So I guess I'll just stick with my cell phone. My boyfriend laughed when he realized several alarms were set: one for 7:30, one for 7:35, one for 7:38, and probably one more after that.

So speaking of alarm clocks, today I came across an interesting article about creative alarm clocks. Here are some:

Pillow Alarm Clock The pillow uses an LED fabric substrate below the surface to wake the user using light. This substrate also functions as display, showing the time on the surface of the pillow.

Very innovative! But who knows if it would work with me... I can sleep with anything, even lights on.

Smash Alarm Clock The alarm is switched off by punching on the top of the alarm clock.

I like it! And you don't have to feel bad for smashing it :)

Gun Operated Alarm Clock Old NES light gun was modified with tilt switches to control a vintage digital clock radio. When the alarm wakes you up, grab the gun and kill it off!

Interesting concept! But I don't think it would fit in my tiny night stand. Plus hmmm I would feel like Tomb-Raider or something with an object like this in my room.

Here are three alarm clocks that work for Marcela:

Clocky Alarm Clock Unusual alarm clock that jumps 3 feet from your night stand and runs away beeping to get you up. You can only snooze once.

Probably very ideal for me. Once I am up, I probably wouldn't get back into bed. I would have to get used to this object jumping from my night stand though...

Carpet Alarm Clock If you want to turn the alarm off, you have to get up and step on it.

Anything that makes me stand up is great! I know I could put my current alarm clock far away in my room, but if I had this carpet, it would be much easier to obey.

Puzzle Alarm Clock doesn’t let you drift off so easily thanks to an alarm setting that requires some quick puzzle skills, and more than a little coherence, to shut it off.

How neat! I like those colors.
For now I guess I just have to keep hitting the snooze button many times. I need to be able to wake up after the first time, though, like I used to! One day... :)

Have a lovely weekend everyone!!

Quick Hello

Hey everyone,

Wow this month has been hectic. I haven't been able to blog as much as I like. I think I will get back to my normal rhythm once the holidays are over. Oh but I will post a selection of pictures I want to show you later when I get home. There are a couple of interesting things to mention:

- my boyfriend is going to come see me for New Years (from Peru!)-- I'm so excited

- one of my best friends got a puppy. He also lives close to me so I will be able to see it often and play with it. I miss having a dog, and I haven't been at the shelter for volunteering lately :(

- I won my first giveaway!! I never win anything! So I was very excited when Rhianne from For The Easily Distracted told me I had won a pair of earrings with a matching hairpin from Nicole Addison's lovely shop. :) Thank you both!

- I participated in a bloggers' Secret Santa gift exchange and already received mine. It was lovely to be part of that. More about it soon!

- I have absolutely no idea what I'll do for New Years, but my boyfriend will be with me, so I don't care!

- My boss let me borrow his old Nikon film camera (70s-80s...) and it's so exciting to take pictures with it without knowing how they will turn out.

- We had a nice office-lunch today, as Christmas celebration.

- Before going to that lunch I tripped while walking to my car. We don't have smooth asphalt outside. We have a rough parking lot. My pants teared open; they are stapled right now. I hit my knee, I scratched my foot and my elbow. Not good. I do think I probably looked funny while in the air.

Anyway, that's all going on right now. I guess this wasn't just a quick hello :)

Thanks for reading, lovelies.

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Things that make me smile automatically :)

These are based on the past few days:

When I see an old Volkswagen

Toy Poodles jumping like asking you to carry them

Doorknobs that remind me of the one from Alice in Wonderland

When Paulie looks at me from the kitchen lamp

Cute coffee-lover necklaces

(found on Etsy)

Clever designs, like these piggy-shaped earphones!

Christmas-overly-decorated houses. More like an amazed-smile... and then I think of the energy spent, yikes

When I realize a store sells Panettone;

even more if I see Donofrio!

the smile turns into a Panettone-in-the-bag

I could go probably on and on... but now it's

your turn to tell me a

few things that have made you smile lately :)

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Post Interrupted

Guys, I was about to write a new post when I came across this, so the post will be after lunch, but meanwhile please take a look at this woman's talent. I am blown away. I know
it is long, but it's so worth it!

Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine's version of "America's Got Talent." She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

Kentucky Fried Cockatiel and Randomness

Hello everyone!

Wow this weeks is going to go by so fast...

How was your weekend? Mine was sort of uneventful but relaxing.

- I slept late (my mom will look at this and frown)

- I organized my room a bit

- I went to Hobby Lobby to buy some things for a mounted picture

project I want to make. I spent quite some time there looking

at things and imagining all the projects I could come up with if I had those materials at home. I also spent time looking at other things I don't work

with (like candles, fabrics, etc) and wondering if I'll

ever become skilled in those areas [is that how you say it?].

- I went to Petco to buy bird seeds and saw some cute doggies,

but not as many as I would have liked.

- Time went by so fast... living in the suburbs is not too exciting sometimes :P

- I took some more pictures, which I will post tomorrow,

but you can see some at my Etsy shop.

- I realized a few more people marked me as 'favorite' on Etsy;

I smile every time I see that.

- I laughed at Paulie going inside a Kentucky Fried Chicken bag and having so much fun inside. Too bad I only had my phone camera at that moment:

And not much to add... I have to go meet a friend now, but let me leave you with a picture to show you how ready and excited I am for Christmas!

When your English is not perfect...

I love this song!

Long before I discovered the use of google lyrics search, and before coming to Texas, I was a teenager in Lima, Peru. It was there where I realized my favorite type of music came from the 80s. And one of the songs that allowed me to discover that, was Down Under from Men at Work. One thing, when you speak a language other than English, is that you tend to like songs for their rhythms and notes rather than the lyrics. You also tend to sing whatever the words sound like as opposed to what the song is really saying. Anyway, of course I now know how to sing Down Under better and what they're saying, but I actually didn't have it 100% accurate until now. After listening to it like 3 times yesterday in my car, I decided to look at the lyrics... here's a few things about the song I just learned today (not only in terms of the correct word but also the real meaning):

- I did not know Australia was known as "the land down under"

- "where women glow and men plunder" to plunder means 'to take by force or wrongfully'

- "where beer does flow and men chunder" chunder is slang for throwing up, yuc! I like that better than the v word though.

- some lyric translations*:

Fried out Kombi - a broken-down van. The lyrics are often translated as "Combie," but the correct spelling is Kombi. It came from the VW Kombivan which was very popular in the '60s and early '70s, especially with surfers and hippies. --> I actually knew what a 'combie' was because we have them all over in Lima!

Head full of Zombie - Zombie was a particularly strong batch of marijuana which was floating around Australia for a long time. People called it "Zombie Grass." --> Absolutely no idea! I just imagined a bunch of zombies on a trail...

- I did not know a Vegemite sandwich looked so... yucky:

- In the original video {not the one above}, the guy who stands up and offers the Vegemite sandwich is the band's drummer, Jerry Speiser. He wasn't really "6 foot 4 and full of muscles," he had to stand on something to get extra height. He also wore a wig.--> I actually like to imagine him somewhat like this:

- I thought land down under was referring to a happy place where everything was perfect...

- I would always sing : I said to the man, "Are you trying to touch me?" as opposed to I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me?"

- I would always sing "where women blow and men plunder" as opposed to "where women glow and men plunder." It sounded a bit strange indeed...

Isn't it funny when you discover you've been singing the incorrect lyrics for years? And isn't cool when you learn that a song has a deeper meaning than what it seems?

*Songfacts.com
zombie, giant, happyland

Random Thoughts

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Hello pretty people!

This post is full of random thoughts that are going through my mind right now. Feel free to jump parts if you don't feel like reading lots of randomness :)

1) First I want to tell you about my Halloween... I actually celebrated it on Friday by going to a party dressed as Princess Leia. This would be my version of a princess pose:

I saw several interesting costumes that day, some of which included: a man dressed as a Christmas tree, with lights and a present included; Adam & Eve with clever non-naked-that-looked-like-naked costumes; a girl dressed as a... uterus. But it wasn't too weird; she was just dressed in black with the drawing in the middle of the shirt. The two ovaries were two different people... she constantly looked for them; she also had glued cotton balls as eggs for people to take if they wanted to... crazy. Oh! and I didn't see this one but heard about it at the party: a love triangle (three people dressed as hearts and connected to each other with yarn strings).

2) {Photography} I can't take it anymore... I can't continue taking pictures with a point-and-shoot camera while I see how others learn, improve, and are able to get more creative with other (better) equipment. I feel I need to get started with something of higher quality soon if I really want to carry out the projects I have in mind. I've decided to buy a Canon 30D. My friend has one as well as a Canon 50D. He said I could buy the 30D from him, and I'd love to do that as opposed to buying it online or at Craigslist (I have to settle for the 30D right now since I don't have much money). He let me borrow that camera when I went to Venezuela, and I know that it is a great way to start {or should I say move on... transition}. I enjoy photography a lot... and these are my goals: I will be better at it, I will become an artist with it, I will have my own style, I will be known-- at least in the city I live in!

3) I am 23 and already have some facial lines! Yes, I'm complaining a bit... here is the positive thinking: it's because I smile a lot! :) Actually, it's a bit my fault. I don't drink the amount of water I should every day; I don't didn't until now put creams/lotions on. I always thought they weren't necessary... how many beautiful older women say "I never put anything on actually..." and so I thought I could wait until later... but I guess not. Here's what I'm doing about it: I bought daytime & nightime moisturizers with very natural ingredients, I am will drink more water, and I found these nice facial exercises that everyone should try! {and I have one more my mom taught me! Maybe I will have the nerve to take some pictures of me doing those funny faces and post them... we'll see}. I won't become an old lady yet!

4) This past Saturday was not only Halloween. It was "El Dia de la Canción Criolla"* {Day of Criolla Song} in Peru. For those of you who are new here, I'm from Peru. I wanted to use this opportunity to post a poem that my uncle wrote to honor an important man in the world of Musica Criolla who died recently. My uncle creates beautiful poems (décimas) and he could create one for any topic you give him. He just started a blog and I will promote it by showing you the poem I just mentioned. As a Peruvian [and of course as a niece], I needed to include this in today's post. Thank you for reading my random thoughts today!

Message for any Peruvian visitors: Hola! Gracias por visitar mi blog, aquí les dejo una décima escrita por mi tío. Les recomiendo que visiten su nuevo blog, ya que él tiene un don y al fin se animó a darle un rinconsito en internet. Le pueden pedir que escriba una décima de lo que deseen! Por ahora su dirección es:

http://deximas.blogspot.com/ Feliz Día de la Canción Criolla a todos los peruanos!