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• Honoring 2011 and Celebrating the Start of 2012
  on Dec 30, 2011 in Relationships Travel Lifestyle
  Instead of shopping for new underwear, prepping my luggage or buying grapes in anticipation of the new year, I am doing only one thing: Cleaning. And, organizing.   Ok, maybe it's two things - but you get the point. In my defense, my pa...
• Adopt a Pug
  on Dec 28, 2011
  During Chatito's last vet visit, we ran into new parents that happened to adopt a four-legged son a short time before their biological son was born. While waiting for the vet to remove Chatito's stitches, the giddy new parents were sharing how lovin...
• Don't Regift
  on Dec 27, 2011 in Regifting Gifts styling Holiday Christmas Manners
  A few years back I was forced to partake in the painful practice of an "office white elephant activity." (yes my friends, it was an activity planned within the office Holiday party!). In this hideously painful office party activity, all the staff wo...
• Christmas is Not About The Children
  on Dec 24, 2011 in Marriage Gifts #familyfirst Relationships Christmas
  I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to take, for the first time in five years, a Holiday break.  For the last two days, I have slept in, met friends for coffee, and -gasp- watched Daytime Television! Instead of using television as my...
• Cheating on Hanukkah
  on Dec 22, 2011 in Friendship Cheating Hanukkah Relationships Celebration Christmas Cooking
  This is the third year that my hubby and I host a Christmas Day brunch.  Usually it's a small crowd of friends in our Westside apartment. From friends that don't have local family, to those that had a last minute change of plans; our door is o...
• Christmas "Host" Checklist
  on Dec 19, 2011 in Plannin Holiday Hostess Checklist Christmas
  We made it! We are now officially a week away from Christmas. The good news:  The Holiday craziness will end soon.  The bad news: unless you are related to Martha Stewart, sometime today you figured out one or all of the following: A...
• Two Simple Things that Save You Time During the Holidays
  on Dec 19, 2011
  Last week I went, on what I thought was my last Holiday shopping excursion at one of my local malls. Figuring it would take my usual five minute drive, it trippled because of the light sprinkle! And when I arrived, the parking signage gave me and my...
• Who am I?
  on Dec 14, 2011 in #wordlesswednesday About Me
  <div style='padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px'><a href='http://pinterest.com/pin/212232201159490616/' target='_blank'><img src='http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/173670129350119624_3EbB0U9i_c.jpg' border='0' width='320' height...
• Twelve Day's Till Christmas
  on Dec 13, 2011 in Holiday Cheer Celebration Christmas
  It's official... We are only twelve days away until the all-mighty Holiday of the season arrives: Christmas. (This, of course, unless you are not of the faith, or practice, to celebrate Christmas). And, in our over-zealous sense of decora...
• La Guadalupana: More than a Celebration of Catholic Faith
  on Dec 11, 2011 in Catholicism Faith Catholics Indigenous La Virgen de Guadalupe La Guadalupana Celebration
  Tonight is a VERY special day for Mexican and Mexican-American Catholics.  Why?  As the story goes, several hundred years ago the Virgen Mary miraculously appeared to an indigenous Mexican named Juan Diego and a church was later erected...
• There's no High's without Miserable Lows
  on Dec 7, 2011 in Chatito Cancer
  I had an amazing weekend, both personally and professionally.  My apartment is now fully decorated for the Holiday's, and my home office is 90% complete.  Not to mention, Chatito's surgery being a success...until I received the call.
• Dedicated to the One of I Love
  on Dec 1, 2011 in Sensa Vlog #LLBlog
  My first Vlog is dedicated to the one I love and the guilt I feel about my commitment to a brand that believed in us...from day one. ** I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free for review. Opinions are 100% my own an...
• Hoy por ti, mañana por mi
  on Nov 30, 2011 in Community Building Charity community #LLBlog Donation
  Hoy por ti, mañana por mí  is a Spanish-language expression which loosely translates to "Today I will Help you, because later you will help me."   In other words, be good to you fellow human beings. I STRONGLY bel...
• The Writing on the Wall
  on Nov 29, 2011 in Public Relations Professionalism Relationships career
  It isn't a secret that I started working in PR after being hit with the "behind-the-scenes-bug" in the mid 90's.  After that life altering event, my first job was a non-paid internship at a mall. My boss, a veteran TV and entertainment publici...
• The Writing on the Wall
  on Nov 29, 2011 in Public Relations Professionalism Relationships career
  It isn't a secret that I started working in PR after being hit with the "behind-the-scenes-bug" in the mid 90's.  After that life altering event, my first job was a non-paid internship at a mall. My boss, a veteran TV and entertainment publici...
• Night and Day
  on Nov 27, 2011 in entrepreneurship success #familyfirst career
  I didn't expect today's weather to be so extremely hot! My backroom, which doubles as our guest room and home office, faces south and is the lucky recipient of this warm-weather heat, but misses out on this great sunlight. So, as much as I need to...
• Night and Day
  on Nov 27, 2011 in entrepreneurship success #familyfirst career
  I didn't expect today's weather to be so extremely hot! My backroom, which doubles as our guest room and home office, faces south and is the lucky recipient of this warm-weather heat, but misses out on this great sunlight. So, as much as I need to...
• The Gift that Keeps on Giving
  on Nov 26, 2011 in Marriage Gifts Holiday shopping Relationships Thanksgiving
  I don't recall reviewing Black Friday ad's on Thanksgiving.  Maybe it's only me, but until recently, I shopped for the Holiday's on the day's that were either a. convenient for me; or b. financially feasible.  So, as much as Black Friday d...
• The Gift that Keeps on Giving
  on Nov 26, 2011 in Marriage Gifts Holiday shopping Relationships Thanksgiving
  I don't recall reviewing Black Friday ad's on Thanksgiving.  Maybe it's only me, but until recently, I shopped for the Holiday's on the day's that were either a. convenient for me; or b. financially feasible.  So, as much as Black Friday d...
• Five Things Not to Talk About During Thanksgiving Dinner.
  on Nov 24, 2011 in Relationships Thanksgiving communication
  It's funny how we all get super excited, emotional and somewhat melancholic about Thanksgiving - until we are 24 hours from the big day. Inevitably something, or someone, will remind us why the Holidays are both the happiest time of the year, and th...

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