I love this and this and this... oh, and also this

Ok, time to share a little something of what I'm currently obsessed with.

1. 1. I am LOVING the Gym people. And yes, I know my latest post was about my horrible experience there but I just happen to love it now. I love the feeling your body gets once you are DONE with your routine. It rocks. 
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3. 2. I am loving Sleeping 'till I want to wake up :) I don't get to do this everyday when I'm on a normal schedule at school, for now, we're just in summer school and we have classes only on Monday and Wednesday 'till 2:30 p.m. 
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5. 3. I am loving my "Creative Redaction" class. And I'm loving my teacher, she is T-H-E  B-E-S-T.
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7. 4. I am loving my late night class just because I laugh for 3 hours in a row with my classmates.
8. 5. I am loving Twitter. It gets to be fun to talk to yourself sometimes without knowing who will read your tweets, and yes, most of my tweets are super random and silly, you can follow me here
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10. 6. I am loving BOLD Nicodemus, I laugh every time I see him, he's so cute bold.
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12. 7. I am loving NoiseTrade.com, SERIOUSLY... totally free, legal download server for amazing music.
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14. 8. I am loving Brooke Waggoner, I found her on NoiseTrade.
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16. 9. I am loving going to bed really really late either reading or writing. 
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18. 10. I am loving my bonding time with my mom in the gym :).
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20. 11. I never thought I would say this, but lately, I've been loving San Salvador weather. I just love the rain so much!.
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22. 12. I am loving going to bed with the calming sound of raindrops falling on my roof...

Jen

My Sabbath looked like this...

As some of you may know, I keep the Sabbath. That means that THIS day is the Lord's day and not ours. So because my dad is the pastor of our church and because is SO far from our house, we get to spend the whole day at church (which is just 1km. away from the crater of San Salvador's inactive volcano, so cool huh). Is super cold and beautiful, people are warm and tender and SO loving. I love love my church, but the point is that I took some pictures today! it was frikin' freezing cold and fog everywhere, you couldn't see from 10mts. away from you, and every time you talked, smoke would come out of your mouth, I loved it.


NOTE: sorry for the crappy resolution of the pictures, I took them from my dad's phone. 

This is how the street looks on regular days.
This is Marjorie :)

I locked myself in the car all afternoon because I couldn't stand how cold it was.

And YES, this is how it was ALL DAY today, foggy, rainy,gray, VERY COLD, and me, with a terrible mood.

A butterfly landed on my finger :) 

The place people call "The Gym"

One of my resolutions for this year was to enrole in a gym (I know, we're almost in July) and so I was encouraged by my own mom to go with her, she started off this past Monday and I started on Tuesday. And let me tell you something: nothing made me happier than to see my mom SO full of energy and happiness because she started it. She has already lost about 34 pounds from diets and restraining herself from junk food... I couldn't be more proud of her, and actually I could totally and completely agree that losing weight and trying to have a better/healthier life makes you a happier person. I can see it in her, she's another woman.


I gained weight since I'm in college, because, you know, there's NO healthy food on campus, I barely have time to take a proper (and by proper I mean a LONG) shower and basically time to take care of myself. That plus being on the computer almost the entire day because I'm a graphic design student, YOU LIVE on your computer. However, I think that is our own responsibility to take care of our body. OUR HEALTH COMES FIRST than our career.


So, I joined the gym with my mom. So here's the sum up:


I HATED IT, haaa!


The gym is HUGE, and we went at around 6 p.m. and it was FULL of people, mostly sweaty disgusting men. YUK.


At first I made 10 minutes of spinning (two men beside me sweating like pigs) and I started to get really really really dizzy and wanted to throw up. Seriously, I got off the machine and I felt like I was gonna pass out or something, I had to sit on the floor as my mom and my trainer watched me turning white as paper, they went to go get me something sweet because apparently, my blood pressure was too low. I couldn't do anything else, that was it 10 MINUTES of spinning was my first day at the gym. Hilarious.


My mom was worried at first, asking me every minute if I felt good, well, I didn't. I just saw all those sweaty people and my stomach would twist as if I was on a roller coaster. That, plus I felt like the place was too big but almost with no windows, so we were all smelling each other's sweat, so so gross. Then, I hated the gym. 


Yesterday I decided to go to another gym because just the thought of going back to that other gym made me sick. So we went to this gym that is close to my house and it was MUCH better. I made 2 hours of thighs exercise, including 10 minutes of spinning at the end and I did not feel sick at all! I loved the gym yesterday, and I plan to keep on loving it :)


Special K by Kellogs with sliced banana and apple for dinner :) yumm.




Jen

What can I say?

I've been in Guatemala since Wednesday for 3 days of conference in church, my dad was invited to give them and they were GREAT. I learned things that I already KNOW but it was just SO different this time, I don't know why, but I tryly believe that this trip was planned by God; This was a blessed trip, since spending time with my aunt and talking a lot about everything that's going on in my life. Gosh I really needed to do that with someone I trust and care for.

• --Learning how to make flower arrangements (one of my favorite parts, is SOOOO entertaining and beautiful!); 
• --Playing with my little cousin and feeling good about her admiring me so much, I feel blessed by her.
• --Spending time with my friends at church :), 
• --Spending time with my girlfriends tonight (went to see Kung Fu Panda II) and laughing so hard with them, it was girls night :) and people at Mc Donald's almost kicked us off  because it was late.
• --Rain and cold weather... I wish El Salvador was more like this :( 
• --Make flower arrangements for the "Gala night", that was one tiring day I must say, but it was great.

Highlight of these past few days I must say it was getting feedback from the Lord. 


I have been praying about some specific areas in my life that I feel like I'm failing and that I really need to work on. So, I was really hoping for advice, a word, SOMETHING.


I must say that it came in the last minute and I was really thankful about it. At first it kind of hurt because the Lord lets you KNOW in what areas you are not that strong and courageous as you should, and it hurts to know the truth, but what he really wants and hopes in us is to CHANGE them but always searching for his guidance and word. 


So I got my part. I clearly understand what areas I should work on, how to deal with them, how to do MY BEST effort correcting these things and just look what I have in front of me and never look back. 


The Lord is right next to me, I know it. All this change in me is not gonna be easy, is gonna be HARD! and I will have to work very hard to achieve the goal I want, but then, I have to remember that the Lord is here, he's here...


I got this from this blog that I follow and I think God really HEARS us whenever we call his name. He answered my prayer and now I'm more than thankful.

He hears us when we are struggling. He hears us when we are complaining. He hears us when we are grumbling and will bring justice down. He hears us in our suffering and will bring deliverance. He hears us in our repentance of sin and promises to forgive. He hears us amidst our enemies and provides us with a way out. He hears our cries, our tears, our pains, our down and outs, our praises, our good days, our bad days.

And also, I found this song that it meant a lot last night when I heard it. :) enjoy

 

Some randomness

It's time for a new Mini list of Randomness about my life :) So, here I go:


1. We have a heat wave in my country right now, it should last for at least 3 days, and right now we're at 38° C. Burning hot. 


2. I realized that I really and truly hate cats. Don't know why, but I cannot stand any cat :S yuk.


3. I'm about to start packing for Guatemala (BIG YAY) for a conference about the "5 languages of love" by Gary Chapman given by my dad at church :) should be great. I'm coming back 'till next Monday!


4. I realized that I don't like -like really don't- to wear any kind of pants. I'm a purely "dresses" girl, and I LOVE IT. Specially with this hot steaming weather which I can't stand and I say: why is is so hot? every 5 minutes. 


5. I realized that I'm a person who can REALLY forgive. I was talking to my older brother last week and he asked me about my ex boyfriend and I told him he was doing great and that we still talk almost every day. He looked at my with an uncertain face and said: I could never talk to my ex girlfriends!. Then I realize that I talk to all of them. And I'm friends with all of them as well, I'm happy when they find someone who love them and we're still friends, even though some have really broken my heart. Like this one that got married with his ex girlfriend a week after he broke up with me, haha.


6. I'm loving school and all I'm learning :) 


7. Nicodemus is getting a haircut as I write this. He's going bold. Poor thing, he has so much hair that he suffers with this weather, and he had a lot of hair knots and I couldn't keep up with them, it's a shame though, he's beautiful with his fuzzy hair. 


8. I'm still loving Key Lime Pie.


9. I also realized that I'm ALWAYS reading "Redeeming Love" by Francine Rivers. I'm gonna finish reading it again (4th time) today. The ending always makes me cry :(


10. I've been laughing A LOT at school! though we had some problems with our group in a class, we worked things out and everything's back to normal again :) here's a nice picture of my whole class.

We're all supose to graduate together :)

11. I'm so hot right now, I confess that I'm just in my undies, but that's ok, that's the good thing about being at your house.


12. There's someone cute out there.


13. I noticed that the first think I do when I wake up (apart from bushing my teeth and pee) is to read! when it should really be pray, shame on me.


14. I need to pray more.


15. New friends :) Since my best friend left school, I've been getting along with these two amazing girls :) and I already love them to death! Ili and Patty :D they're my girls now, oh yeah.

15. I need vacations.


16. I have a very happy life :)


Jen

Crazy enough?

Key Lime Pie :) :) :)

After a very exhausting, tiring, crazy, afflicting, full of stress and worries last couple of days. I finally have a little bit of time to sit down and write as I have a hot cup of coffee and a piece of key lime pie from my favorite place: Viva Espresso!! Believe me; I’ve been waiting for this moment like a kid waiting for summer break.

Where do I start? Can’t believe that so much has happened only in a couple of days.

For starters, just imagine this:

Me in my last week of school (SO many projects to work on), sitting in front of the computer the entire day, and if I wasn’t there, I was at school. I took 7 classes this semester and it was crazy, so just go figure the amount of projects and homework I had.

• 1 My brother

My brother’s accident (this was the worst part of my week). Turns out I was at my house doing homework and I get this call from my mom with a very worried voice asking me where I was, I told her and I haven’t even finish my sentence when she told me that Stephan (middle brother) just had an accident and that I needed to go to the hospital immediately ‘cause I was closest person to get there (luckily the hospital is like at 4 blocks from my house). I RAN like I’ve never done it before in my life, I felt like I had my heart in my hands!. I go into the hospital asking for him and I see him across the hall with his pants covered in blood and his nose completely covered with bandages and filled with blood. I was petrified! In small randomness words he asked me if I had seen his girlfriend, I said no, he said: she was with me when I had the accident (he has a motorcycle and he ran into some girl that didn’t look both sides when she crossed the streets), we start looking for his girlfriend everywhere in the streets, my brother with a completely broken nose, with a WHOLLLEEEE lot of pain, in shock and worried about his girlfriend-just imagine this chaotic picture- plus, at the hospital, they couldn’t do anything for him ‘cause it’s a national hospital and he doesn’t have health insurance, so we were waiting for my dad to pick us up to take him to a private hospital.

Dad shows up, we find his girlfriend, she had a broken ankle, he takes the both of them to the hospital, I stay at home, in shock, with a huge migraine and still nervous. I thank the Lord that this accident wasn’t worse than it was. I pray that my brother learns this lesson-to whatever the Lord is trying to say to him- I hope he listens and obeys. I really do!

• 2 Grandma:

If you have read my latest 2 post, I’ve talked about my grandma, how she had a very difficult knee surgery and how she was recovering from all of it.

Well, what can I tell you? She’s not having that much pain (from her knee) but she’s desperate about her gastritis, now, that really hurts!, but she’s a stubborn grandma ‘cause she just doesn’t want TO EAT! So, just go figure the amount of pills she’s taking for her knee, now, go figure the kind of pain in her stomach! We are forcing her to eat because she has to. PERIOD.

• 3 School

Projects are NOT EASY. Like:

• Design a collection/luxury book with 7 other people is equal to chaos. Trust me.
• Design a full programmed portfolio in flash. Flash and I have a love/hate relationship.
• Design a magazine, a blog and a group presentation.
• Design another magazine of 20 pages.
• Design a website for an institutional company.
• Design a complete book cover for a dead man.
• Design a FULL campaign (mupis, posters, coupons, newspaper ads, normal ads, etc) For Nine West.
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JUST TO GIVE YOU AND IDEA FOR WHAT I’VE BEEN UP TO (all of this, plus family problems).

I had the most important final presentation of the semester like 2 hours ago, and thank God we did GREAT! J and then I had my portfolio (the flash one) presentation right after and I also did great.

Luckily I have the day off tomorrow, and I just have 2 projects to go and then I’m DONE. THANK GOD.

Bad news is that I’m finishing the semester on Monday and that same day I start summer school! L it was obligation for all of us, but we already look like zombies, let’s see how we manage this. 

Yet, I’m still thankful and blessed for all that God has shown me these days, and I couldn’t love him more. 

Shirts we designed for the book presentation, plus a button :)
My group mates designed it actually! I wrote the whole book. Fair enough.




Jen