First of all I have to say… thanks to one of my best friends for all of your good advice these past days. I was literally depressed; on denial… no I am not turning 24… but you are right, these are the coolest years. I might not have everything “I was supposed to” but I have a lot. I really needed to hear that from someone because sometimes my head it´s like full of fog and I just can´t see things clear.

I need to close this chapter, this AMAZING CHAPTER of my life, the best year so far and when I have grown and learned the most about life. Here is my list of things I will never EVER forget about my 23´s.

1.I started this year, fresh and single, recovering from a relationship, regaining confidence and feeling better.
2.I am also ending this year single, and sometimes alone, but I like to think I am just having a “sabbatical year” to heal my soul and all of the health issues you get for being unhappy.
3.I went to Europe… what else can I say? A dream comes true. I just loved it, and sometimes I still can´t believe it.
4.What things marked me from that trip? Seeing the Eiffel tower for the first time, going to Venice. The moment I crossed the border and suddenly I was in Italy, the place I had dreamed the most all of my life. The coin, my coin that is in the bottom of the Fontana di Trevi, the peace I felt in Assisi. Drinking wine directly from the bottle while going through the Sena River.
5.I graduated from college… after so many years, finally I got my diploma. And also finding the perfect dress and the perfect shoes to match with the perfect necklace for my graduation.
6.I was unemployed for a long time (Jan to June). It time was frustrating because I felt hopeless. Now that I can see thing differently, I was just resting a lot. Sleeping until 10 am, watching TV the whole day and starting this blog. Looking to the ceiling after watching every TV show and every novela I said to myself… I should start a blog.
7.A surprise 5 day trip to New York, falling in love with the city as soon as I got there. The energy, the fashion, the noise. Broadway and 94th street. Mamma Mia… bagels!
8.Interesting jobs add at the employment web page, applying for it, with all of the illusion and energy to outstand.
9.Getting a phone call to let me know I got the job (I can´t explain with words how I felt… HAPPY)
10.Reading a lot of books and still have some left to read.
11.So many answers came to my mind while doing Yoga
12.Bachelorette parties, bday parties, wedding parties, so much celebration like in no other year.
13.My Goddaughter was born… a new angel in my life. Thanks for bringing so much joy to the family.
14.Dealing with amazing people that I am so glad to know, dealing with the worst people I would rather not know.
15.Going back to college (just 5 months after graduation) to continue my “studies” in Interior decoration
16.Reconnecting with friends and people from the past, losing people that has always been there.
17.What’s next? I have no idea… but only good things will come. Why do I say this? Because when I was 22, all sad and about to become 23, I said to myself (I just remembered this): this will be the best year of my life.

Now, one year after, I am saying the same thing to myself. It’s hard to let you go “best year of my life”. Sincerely I enjoyed you too much. But now I have to move on to something better… WELCOME 24!

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Today I ran, I drove, I talked, I smiled, I worked, I got a facial… and by the end of the day I cried. It´s almost 12 o´clock here, I already finished my ergonomics homework, the responsible for making me procrastinate so much this past weeks.

First, I´ll start talking about the reasons I am happy. I got a facial!!! It has been years since I got one! (Actually last year) but I think my skin was yelling for it. It was freakin painful though, the esthetician said I had a pretty decent clean face.

Esthetic treatments are sort of cheap here; besides that with a certain credit card you get 50% off on any procedure (except plastic surgery). So I decided that since now a professional working 20 something it´s time for me to spend money on things I´ve always wanted to do. Today was the inauguration day on getting a better skin complexion and dealing with some flaws that really annoy me. So YES I am happy that for the next 2 months I´ll be going to the spa A LOT. Hope this joyful moment won’t fade away when the bank statement comes.

I am also starting to learn how to deal with DIFFICULT to the extreme people, those who think they are better that everyone else and won´t say sorry for nothing. I have to quote a person that personally I don´t admire at all, actually she annoys me so bad. I am taking about the “blondie heiress”, I heard once that on a book she wrote, confessions about something, she said: “always tell people what they want to hear”. I would have to say that I agree 90%, with difficult people, just tell them what they want to hear, that way you can lead them without them finding out. But enough with the work talk.

A few hours ago, while I as doing my HW, I burst in tears out of nowhere. I just started to feel sad, then my eyes got all blurry and a tear came out. Then 2, then 3, and before I could notice it I was crying like a baby. Mainly because I feel lonely, my phone never rings, and my 24th bday is next week. I DON´T WANT THE 23´s TO BE OVER!!!! This year has been the best year of my life. It wasn´t perfect but it was the best! And I have gotten to this point where college is over, I am working full time now and I feel stuck. I feel trapped at a desk for 8 hours a day. I can´t travel any time I want to, I am always tired, and I am lonely. Lonely as in… ALONE (cricket background sound). I don’t know how to get out of this social whole because I never meet any new people, and guys… ZEROOOO!

I think maybe my ex-boyfriend left me with some bad energy or something, because the “only prospects” I get and they aren´t even prospects for me, are ugly, freaks, and stalkers. What the hell!!!! I am a normal 23 year old (almost 24) who likes to do normal things, likes to take care, go out and so on. What is it then!!! Anyone in this situation or that has been and could give some advice please?!

By the way… my desk plants are doing a little bit better. We´ll see if they survive and get pretty again. Going back to happy blogger land again, I can´t wait to see the final outcome of my first “investment” (aka credit card debt). Even though we can´t help to have sad moments every day thank God you can always have a little something, a meaningful motivation. What´s my motivation today? I mix of a lot of things, all great.

I have a new "at work motto", it´s the title of this post. Usually every morning, I check encouraging websites. I found this phrase, and I love it. It´s just what I need to remember every morning and afternoon.

I would also like to share with you my love for “post its”, they are the happy papers and they can make the most awkward or difficult situation feel a little bit better.

Every morning I like to write something positive, and then I put it on my screen. I keep on reading it all day. So it´s like a constant reminder, if I am happy everything will be better. Even if keeping that “smile” is a constant struggle. Even if there is someone bugging you and whining all day long =).

You can´t control the world, but you can definitely control yourself. It´s not easy though, but on the other hand, it´s so easy for any given person to ruin one´s day, that you must work on yourself so it won´t happen.

Through these 4 months that I´ve been working, I´ve had to deal with so many situations, good and bad. Sometimes I just want to run away to the other side of the world. But when I am going through a rough time, I just tell myself: you can do this… you won it, you can take it. And I read the post it!

So yeah, post it’s mean a lot to me. I also got 2 plants for the office; sadly they are passing the way, sort of. I left them outside and their leaves burned. One was called Petunia, the other one had no name but looked nice. They brought life and freshness to my messy desk. I feel so bad!!! Now they look all sick. Sorry Petunia, you were my first office plant ever. I just can’t take care of plants; it’s like cooking, I wasn’t born with it. You can see a picture of them at the beggining of this post, my beautiful plants "sun-bathing" at the window.

Sometimes I feel like an old lady with cats. Just that instead of cats, I have almost dead plants. I´ve been thinking that I have hit the bottom. I feel so freakin lonely sometimes!... well, actually at all times. But oh well, I know the right man for me is out there, lost in the world, so patience patience.

Here is a list of things I would like for the office (it has nothing to do with the post, but since my happy plants are almost gone, I have to start thinking about how to fill the empty space they are going to left :(. A extremly small and cute ventilator, pretty speakers, I definitely need a mouse pad... no wait! I need a new computer, cause the actual turns off out of nothing and all of my unsaved work gets erased, maybe a new opportunity?, and finally a switch to disconnect myself from the world when people is talking to much!

Lots of good vibes for everyone!

As I was watching Sex & the city the movie, procrastinating because I didn’t want to do homework, I was thinking what my next step it’s going to be. I love Sunday afternoons because they are so relaxed, nothing to do just lay down and stare at the ceiling. Everytime I stare at it something comes to my mind. I was going to write about all the "thinking with no purpose" I´ve been doing. But instead of all the blah blah about life and my PMS crankyness of this week... I just want to say thanks!!! :)

What a surprise!!! Thank you Amanda from Teasingly Diverse!! She gave me the Superior Scribbler Award :).

1. Each Superior Scribbler must turn and pass on this award to 5 of the most deserved blogs.

2. Each Superior Scribbler must link to the blog and name the author from which he/she received the award on his/her blog.

3. Each Superior Scribbler must display the award on his or her blog, and link to this post.

4. Each blogger who was awarded Superior Scribbler, must visit this post and add their name to the Mr. Linky. That way we’ll be able to keep up-to-date on everyone who receives this prestigious honor.

5. Each Superior Scribbler must post the rules to their blog.

So now, I would like to pass this award to:

Just putting it out there, Life of a single girl, Always carried away, En Quete d´Inspiration, and Prima. I love all these blogs!

Also would like to give an awesome post award to:

Cooler Ranch or Nacho Cheese
Katie la vie in Paris
Nonsensical sprinkles
Novelista Barista

Fun fact: I had to edit this post like 20 times, every time I pressed "post" I found out something was wrong. :)

It’s not a war I am trying to start here! with violence and back stabbing… Years ago, this teacher made us read Sun Tzu’s “The art of war”. Of course we all complained lot, this man was crazy making us read a book that had nothing to do with Design Methodology. I read it though and found it interesting, but that was it.

Today, I´ve been thinking a lot about this book. I have this sort of “battle. The thing is, how can I get through it? A lot of times, when we feel in competition with someone else, or there is a person that is trying to make us look bad, we react the wrong way, and we end up losing it.

I don´t think that looking life as a battle field is the best option, instead we should see challenges and “back stabbings” as opportunities to grow. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, so if we learn to “fight” the right way, we will conquer it.

Why am I being so “war focused” right now? Because I am at war; someone (I think you might know in what part of my life this is happening) is trying to kill my spark. If you are supposed to be a team, then why there is “people” that think their word is –da sh$t? Dominant Macho alert!

As I remember reading, you have to study your opponent (you can also read this at any “how to deal with dominant people” book or article). I´ve been doing that and I have discovered many things. Dominant people actually are very unsecure, that´s why they have to control the situation to feel better.

But the question is: how can I stop this? I have a strong character, but I don’t like to be hated by people, so a lot of times I end up doing things I definitely don’t want to in order to make everyone happy. The problem with evading conflict is that it will make you get angry on the inside and having hard feelings as a result. And that is nooooot a happy way of living.

Sun Tzu said: The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

So the strategy here is winning without making any harm or having any fight. Patience is the key, wait for the right moment to act. And always keeping one´s integrity intact.

This might sound like a weird post to you. Actually it sounds weird to me and I am writing it. But with this roller coaster week, with all the joys, fun moments, uncomfortable situations, and so on, this book has I have in my mind.

If you are looking for a way out of a nasty situation, or wanting to outstand at something, instead of getting frustrated and giving up, I think the best thing to do is to come up with a winning strategy. Have a plan and act, at least having guidance and not letting the emotions ruin everything.

There´s this popular phrase here that says: “The one, who gets mad, the one who loses”. So happy wins mad. Besides patience being a key, being happy and a big smile is the shield. May the happiness guide your war against life obstacles!

Image from: wikipedia.com- the art of war

Happy bday to me?... yes, but in one month. Happy bday to my blog? really? According to my profile, yes.

One year ago, 2 months after breking up with my one and only exboyfriend, I needed a way to say what I needed to say. So I oppened my blogger account and started to "write". I only did like one boring post about... oh no, you love them with all your heart and then thet always end up hurting you, I am so sad, blah blah.

Then I forgot about it, I don't even remember the name. I think it was something like "my thoughts right now", etc. But this year, I had the "anxiety" of making another blog. I tried to open another account, but this one was still here. After a lot of thinking and some other names, Something good in everything I see was "born". In case you don't know, it was inspired on Mamma Mia's song "I have a dream", because I HAD SO MANY DREAMS, and I still...

Teena in Toronto left me a comment on my last post, wishing me a happy blogoversary. At first I didn't understand, but then I saw a little cake on top of my page and it hit me! One year ago, some rainy day in October I became a blogger! or at least I started trying. So thanks Teena, if you wouldn't have left me that comment, I wouldn't have notice it!

I should do a give away or something to celebrate! but the mail service here in CR isn't the best... But if you want, I'll be more that happy to send you a post card from here =).

I am emotionally attached (but in a good way) because no matter what I can always write here my thoughts (happpy or sad) and there is always extremly cool people that will leave me a comment.

Thank God I'm over with my "I don't know what to write about" period. Can't believe I stopped writting for over a month, and worst... reading other blogs regularly for so long. By the way... I didn't use Word to write this, so it wasn't checked by a machine to see if I had any grammar mistakes.