THE ONE WITH THE 13 REASONS

Hello world, it’s been a while.

I’ve been pretty busy NOT accomplishing my list but what I actually have time for is watch so many series but one in particular had quite an impact on me, and that’s the new Netflix series ’13 Reasons why’ (Again thanks Netflix for keep me away from social life and sleep...)

This series are based on a book I wish I knew as a teenager, in fact, I wish all schools make their kids read it or watch the series so maybe some of them change their behaviour.  

If you haven’t hear about it, you def. should (maybe after you finish reading this). But here’s a lil resume: Hannah Baker is a teenager girl that commits suicide but before that she records 13 tapes with the 13 reasons/people that lead her to that end, you will listen to all the tapes along with her classmate Clay Jensen who has his own tape.

I won’t lie, sometimes is not easy to watch, it also gets harder along with the tapes. I cried along in some episodes and couldn’t watch a scene from last episode.

But I mean it it’s really worth it, you can’t stop watching it, you need to know how it ends... but you already know how it ends...

Again, what are you doing still not watching it? Oh, wait yes, finish this post 😜

Watching this series made me go down memory lane to my high school time, in my school there aren’t sports teams or cheerleaders like in the typical American schools but the kids are much alike and you can tell apart different groups. I had my own group of friends, and this may sound weird or like I mean to brag or something but we were the cool girls

Yeah you read right, but being part of the cool kids doesn’t mean you’re cool. I guess I wasn’t the cool one, the pretty one, the most popular... I guess if I have to label it I was the funny one the group needed 😄

You may think being in the cool group makes the high school experience easier for you, but trust me, you can’t me more wrong. You know as a normal teenager you may like some boy but again you’re quite shy to say anything, back then you may think is because you’re shy but is more lack of confidence, also the fact that almost every time a boy tell you ‘can I talk to you for a moment’ it ends up as ‘do I have any chance with your friend? Can you help me?’ and guess what I wasn’t just the funny one I was the nice one so I helped them. If only one of those short high school romances lasted I could call myself cupid 😂

And even when you try to be ‘off the radar’ and be nice to everyone the time something really happens to you it runs like fire and becomes local news and everyone has a say on it, that can be a bit overwhelming and make you do or say things you didn’t want cause you suddenly have the weight of the world on your shoulders. Sometimes you get the feeling that everyone is looking at you or talking about you and it’s hard.

I think I open my heart and soul a bit to you guys in this post and I guess that’s enough for today. So I hope everyone realise that you can’t put labels on people according to their group of friends of their appearance or the telling about them, cause there may be a really different person underneath that one you think you know if you dedicate enough time for it.

We all are responsible of our acts and also the consequences of those acts on other people, is easier to be nice than to be a b*tch so why is everyone so mean?

I really wish some future generation gets wiser and doesn’t make as many mistakes as ours is making. Let’s hope for a nicer world.

I hope you enjoy this one, see you soon!

Xoxo Gummy Girl ❤

PS: most images credit to http://giphy.com/  only few form google images

THE ONE WITH THE LIST

HI GUYS!! How you doin’? (You read that in Joey’s voice, don’t you? Now sure you do... 😂)

As we recently entered a new year everyone is making new years resolutions and all that crap that by today may almost all become bullsh*t (I really love that word, may blame Suits for it)

So turns out I don’t like to be as everyone else, and that got me thinking, what could I do?

BANG! Here’s a pretty cool idea, I swear it is and not just because it mine... well this is my blog I can get some credit, I nailed it! 😂

Here’s the plan, I’m gonna make a ‘Things to do before I’m 30’ list, you may think I’m not too original but as I told before... bullsh*t! 😜 This means I have more or less a year and half to accomplish it. Maybe it sounds easier than it really is; all depend on the goals of the list. I mean everyone thinks they know what they wanna do in life, but if you really take some time to think it through you may find out some new things coming to your mind, or even an unexpected blanc and tons of doubts...

In my case my head is boiling with some times incoherent ideas, so in order to made up my mind, I went online to check some existing list.

And here we go

BEFORE I TURN 30 I WILL...

1. Have a different and original New Years in another country. Must notice that I only have on shot for this one and is next New Year...  😳
2. Try a new sport. This may also help me with the ‘go back to the gym’ thing I’ve been delaying for too long. I already have a sport in mind to train but not gonna tell you now
3. Move into my own place. I’ve been working on this one for a while but wanna push myself a bit to not delay it more than is needed.
4. Take singing and acting lessons. Maybe just one class, don’t wanna make a big deal of this one but I would really love to try, and maybe in this same line I’m gonna say sing in a karaoke but of course in a place no one knows me 😂
5. Find my own way. Let me explain this one, I really like my job right now but I think I can do much more and find something I’m really passionate about, maybe even become my own boss but that for sure will be in another list not this one
6. Meet someone I admire. It’s well known that 2016 has taken a lot of people away, some I wished I could have met and that made me realise (guess also everyone) that time doesn’t stop for anyone so I really wish I get to meet some cool people, wanna say right now that my childhood and teenage crushes must be n this list starting with Jim Carrey, Mathew Perry and Will Smith and also all four Mcfly guys (hope they see this and come visit 😜)
7. Discover anew Place. I would rather if it is in a country I’ve never been in. And travel more, some online lists recommend to travel alone... that is one I will think about but nor sure of it
8. Learn more about photography. If you read my previous post that encouraged me to learn more about it and find more time for it, to this propose I already started an online Harvard course which I find pretty awesome (I mean... its Harvard!)
9. Do/Buy something for me without worrying about the price. This may as well be clothes, accessories, something for the house or a trip but without care how expensive it is and enjoy it!

And last but not least.... 
     10. THROW ONE HELL OF A 30^TH BIRTHDAY PARTY!! 
I wrote that sentence and realise that may be directly related with the previous one...

Well I think a 10 point list is a good one, right? There are some things I could have on the list but already accomplished like win a photography award (you know I had to say that), dye my hair in a funny colour (even when it was temporary I did have my hair pink for a weekend), learn about dressmaking, how to sew  and made my own clothes (I need time to improve those skills but already have a fake fur vest and a dress made by me), buy and renovate a house (sure it won’t be the last one), and sure I have others I don’t recall right now but as they’re done they’re off the ‘to do’ list that was today’s point.

What about you, do you have any list? Will you come up with one now? Or do you have any suggestions? 😄

Well I think I’ve talked too much already, if you have a list I hope you accomplish it, well I hope I do the same too... See you soon!!

Xoxo Gummy Girl ❤

PS: all images credit to http://giphy.com/

THE ONE WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

Hi everyone! 

I have pretty exciting news, well is not exactly news cause everyone knows about it but with all the holidays and Christmas 🎅 and stuff... I’ve been kind of busy, so here we go.

I used to participate in some photography contest a few years ago but it’s been a while since last time, anyway I had this photo I took last year that I really liked but never did anything with it. So there is this photo contest in my town and I decided to apply, in fact I presented 3 photos but that one was my fave.

And after the due date I keep on with my life to the point I even forgot what day I was living in when suddenly I get a call in the morning from a weird number and they tell me I WON SECOND PRIZE!! I don’t have to say it was with my fave photo, do I? I was so thrilled! I know is the second, not the first price but is the first time I get an award so I’m allowed to make a big deal of it, right? 😍

I called everyone right away and couldn’t believe it all day, also couldn’t believe I had to wait another week to see my pic on the wall of the exposition.

Surprisely when I get to the expo I saw another of my pics hanging in the wall, pretty cool huh, double happiness

Now let’s get to the award ceremony 😄 actually a friend of my dad’s was there giving the awards and that made me a little less nervous but ... well I was a bit of a mess anyway 😂

It was a quick ceremony and I can say I was the only woman receiving an award which is kind of weird, woman out there rise up to the photography world!

But moving on, the main point of this post is that I had photography, well personal photography projects on stand by and I tend to change that as long as I find time for it cause you know I’m kind of a busy person and time doesn’t actually grow up in trees ... But I will find it!

Well that’s all for now guys! Hope to see you soon!!

Xoxo Gummy Girl ❤

PS: all images credit to http://giphy.com/

THE ONE WITH THE DRIVING LICENSE

Hello everyone!

I know i’m suposed to do this blogging thing every 2 weeks, that’s what I planned and I really really wanna stick to that plan, but I kinda have a lot of work and also plenty of things to do at home wich leaves a tiny amount of time for this... yeah whatever i know you won’t buy that amount of crap... I am a LAZY WOMAN! 😜

But here I am, once again with a funny story, well not sure how funny it will turn out... so here we go!

Little while ago, right after finishing High School along with a friend we sign up to get our driving license that summer trying to get it befor starting class at College, so we started the classes and we pass the theoretical test and started the practice classes. It was really fun learning how to drive, we had a pretty good teacher 😉 So that same year when i was 18 years old in December i got my Driving license and my parents got me an old ugly car i really hated but if it works then its fine...

Even though that car didn’t last long in my house there is this one time I drove it to the University that i will never forget, as you know it was freshman year at college we were having a regular monday, that year we had evening classes on mondays (as  mondays weren’t bad enough), we finished arround 8pm and I taking a friend home we went to the parking but the car had other plan... It stopped right in the parking exit and didn’t seem to wanna come back on again!

Let’s take a look of the picture we have here, me, my friend and my ‘not working car’ at night in the university parking pretty cool huh?

Well wait for it cause it just gets better... As we were waiting and trying to figure out how to make the car work again (kinda hard for a two girls with a 2 week driving license) and a random nice guy with a broken arm sees us and stops to help and a few minutes later someone else stops helping us... guess who? Damn right OUR TEACHER! And you know there is only one way to make this moment just more unconfortable and that’s was when the teacher told us we would have to PUSH THE CAR, yeah like what could go wrong? 😱

Let’s talk about this new picture so we have my friend and I along with out teacher pushing the car while the broken arm guy is on the drivers seat, nice right? But the good point is it actually worked and we could finally drive home.

I don’t have to say after that night all classes with that teacher were a bit awkward, do I? and as a bonus we had that teacher every single year 😒

So after that story we come back to the present, when few months ago I got a letter saying I have to renovate my license this year and i was like WHAT? Are you kidding me? How is that even possible? I mean that embarasing moment feels like yesterday and now it’s been 10 years and I have to renovate my license?? Again... WHAT?

I got an appointment to that psych technical test needed to the renovation and so the freaking out begins....

‘I don’t even remember how the test was’ ‘Is there a chance I screw up?’ ‘Oh my God I will screw up, won’t I?’ ‘What will I do without a driving license??’

We already had a long story this post so I won’t make it two of it, 😜 I will skip the suspense, luckily nothing of the above happened, even though I got really really nervous that ‘stay into the line’ with those weird joysticks wasn’t that hard and I have my new driving license for another 10 years (please don’t make them pass as fast as the previous 10 ones). 

That’s all folks! Hope to see you soon!!

Xoxo Gummy Girl ❤

PS: all images credit to http://giphy.com/

THE ONE WITH THE TARDIS

Hi there, last post was a pretty sentimental (and intense) one, so I thought we could use a little joy or humour this time.

I guess most people know what a Tardis is, but for those who don’t... you really should start watching Doctor Who asap!

I remember like 3 years ago... 3 years oh dear time flies! 😳 ... where was I... oh yes, a friend told me to watch Doctor Who, at first I was sceptical and refuse to watch it but in order to convince me we make a deal he would give a try to the series Constantine (have to say that He liked the series of course) and I would give the Doctor a try too. So he gave me a flash drive with a wisely named folder “Choose your doctor” with 3 episodes one of each doctor David Tennant, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi, after watching them I have to say I chose the 10^th Doctor (David) as my fave one but didn’t watched more episodes.

Until now, again thanks Netflix you really keeping me away from reality, I started to watch it again, starting on season 5 with the 11^th Doctor (Matt) and well... I have to say it’s been 3 years since I picked up my fave Doctor but I may have to change that answer  😂

After watching that 8^th Doctor movie (and kinda regretting it) I started with season 1 of new episodes (not sure I can handle the old ones) I also have to say I’m happy the 9^th Doctor only lasted one season, so I can finally catch up on the 10^th Doctor, I also enjoy pretty much all episodes from 12^th Doctor (Peter) but you know... bowties and fez are cool! SO COOL! So I declare myself a huge 11^th Doctor FAN!

At this point you may already know (and if you don’t is because you haven’t pay attention cause I told you on this post) I have a great imagination and a thing for renovation shows, thanks Scott Brothers 😜

So I was thinking as some houses have a small porch, a little entrance, in the front door, some are just a little celling but others are closed, have walls, those are the ones I like...

Maybe you can use some paint, you can paint the calls in blue, not any shade of blue of course, it has to be TARDIS BLUE, and you can add all the details you want so it can look like an actual Tardis parked just next to the house but as an entrance it can look like a house size inside 😂

I know, I know, I’m a total nerd right now to some of you but I can think about a few people who would love to have one in their own houses. Also I have to say that is kinda probable that every time I entered my house I would think... let’s face it I would SAY “ITS BIGGER ON THE INSIDE”

That could be a really good Whovian (aka ‘Doctor Who fan’ for those not related to the word) detector cause they will also have to say that sentence too

So, if there is any Whovian reading this... are you still reading or did you already left to the paint shop to buy Tardis Blue paint?? 😉

Guess that will be all for now, see you soon!!

Xoxo Gummy Girl ❤

PS: all images credit to http://giphy.com/

THE ONE WITH THE GOODBYE ANIVERSARY

Hi guys,

Today is a sad day for me, I guess since 2015 every Nov 7^th will be a sad day, cause that day I had to make a really difficult choice and I will never forget it.

But in order to tell you about that day I think you may wanna now a bit of backup story, so let’s go back in time to when I was a teenager.....

You may already know how every single kid on the planet wants a dog (maybe some who are scared of dogs don’t do but I have a friend that was scared of dogs until he got one now they’re inseparables)  but in my case I guess it was more than just “want”. Being an only child can be boring sometimes, all people with siblings complain about arguing but at least there is always someone in the house to play with.

So it came to September 2004 that something changed, a friend of my parents had some puppies and asked if we wanted one, of course it took me no time to say YES! But it took me a little bit longer to convince my parents... or should I say parent? 😜 With dad as partner in crime we went to pick up a little puppy while mom was at work (perfect crime... for a few hours, we’ll figure out what to say to her later) and when we got there she still have two puppies left a boy and a girl and I actually don’t remember, maybe don’t even know what I choose her but it was love at first sight 😍 but tell me who could not fall in love with this pretty face?

And there it she was really small in my hands, I had like five names even a fave one for her in my mind but when my dad asked me “What’s the name?” the word just came out without thinking... NUKA it felt right, it fit her and I loved it I could see the surprise on my dad’s face, that name wants even on the table. But it had to be Nuka, and from that day I knew we will be together forever! Or that’s what I thought back then.

 

That first day we arrived home and the very first thing she did when I put her on the floor of my room was pee on the carpet!! I took her as fast as I could to the “pee-place” and told her “I won’t say a thing if you promise to never do that again!” you can call me crazy cause a month old dog may not understand that level of blackmail but she actually never did it again so i guess it worked 😂

 

That moment our journey together began, we shared room, she tried to steal my bed so many times I can’t even count, went for so many long walks, play and watch TV together, fight every bath time cause she really hated it, she loved her holidays at the beach, she had her own pups once and we have 6 little crazy lads running in home which was amazing, everything was great and years came along

 

But one day right after she turned 10 years old I think was November 2014 something changed, I notice something weird was happening and did some research, then went to the vet to confirm my theory, and sadly I was right Nuka had DIABETES, so we took blood samples every day for a week to stabilize the sugar in her system but I guess I were a bit late cause she went blind suddenly, here we started the fight.

Took her a few weeks to get used to not see, pretty hard ones, many times hitting herself with a door or a wall, I even had to put a bell on her necklace to be able to know when she was on the move so I could follow and help her and if that wasn’t enough we had the insulin injections twice a day 😱 as much as I have a huge needle fear how could I not do it?

With that dynamic we made it through another year, my little girl made it to her 11^th Birthday!! Huge time, but again everything became more complicated after that.

She had some X-Rays and there were many things going wrong, her heart and lungs were too big, and the other organs were like out of place, she kept losing weight till the point you could notice every bone in her body, had some breathing problems and a terrible cough and everyday was getting worse. As she slept in my room the less she sleeps the less I sleep too...

It wasn’t right, it wasn’t fair, I could see she was suffering and so was I, always worried, always alert, taking care of her day and night, didn’t have a proper night of sleep in a long time and it started to pay back at me. I was on deny “she will get better” I keep saying to myself “she will get better and I’m fine I can take care of her as long as it takes” but none of it was true she wasn’t getting better and we were both exhausted.

I cried my eyes out for two days trying to both deny and accept the awful truth... I had to let her go, believe me that’s one hell of a decision to make.

Wow, it’s been a long ride, this post has been like a rollercoaster of emotions for me but here we are finally, right were we started, one year ago, November 7^th 2015

That morning I took Nuka into my bed and hug her as hard as I could trying to make that moment last forever, but it couldn’t, so my dad and I went to the vet to put an end to her suffering. I don’t really know if it was some kind of faith thing but the Vet’s dog died few days before that he was kind of the same age as Nuka, so we actually could understand each other perfectly, (it’s been a year and we can’t talk more than 5 min without remembering our dogs and getting sentimental). He gave a sedative to sleep her before.... you know..... it was both the fastest thing and the longest day of my life, I just still can feel her in my arms slowly falling asleep, my eyes hurt of so many crying, and could see huge sadness in my dad’s face and suddenly she was gone... And now it’s been a year since that awful goodbye time really flies.

One thing is sure I will never forget you. I will always love you Nuka! We’re N&N  🐶😍

I’ll come back soon, hopefully with a happier story. See you soon.

Xoxo Gummy Girl ❤