This. Is. SPARTA!

I got these amazing Spartan sandals as a gift today. I am absolutely smitten with them. Unfortunately in my rush to come home to see Toshiya, I left them behind :( so I can't wear them tomorrow like I had planned. I'll wear my older Spartan pair, but omg I'm so in love with the new ones. I also found another pair I'd love to have (can you tell I love Spartan sandals?).  I also did my nails today with the new glitter my mom got me, I wasn't expecting the glitter to be like this but I sorta actually like it! I know they look like those Easter candies, lol. I think they look cute :)

This past week Toshiya has been driving me extra insane. At night when he knows it's time for bed and I turn off all the lights and tell him it's bedtime he decides that's when he's going to go around the apartment and start yowling like crazy and starts throwing everything down. He's cute and I love him, but come on! 

I've kept the straight hair this week, lol. 
Saw The Avengers a couple times this week, lol. Still wanna see it again.

Pinterest Casa Ginger.

I have a love for sectionals. My mom got this beautiful sectional a few years ago that I have now, but I will be replacing in a few months with another beautiful sectional. I love looking through pinterest for ideas for my apartment. I also love decals. I'm going to be painting and redecorating a lot in the upcoming months. Soooooo excited! You can look at my Ideas for Casa Ginger board to see more! :)

Photo a Day May :)

I did it! I actually completed April's photo challenge! LOL. Let's see if I can do May :) here is the list for May for those who are interested!

Photo Dump!

Had a busy busy week and I'm getting ready for another busy one. Which means I probably won't see the people I really want to see until later on in the week. Thankfully I did get to hang out with my family a few times and Mami came to visit me yesterday. I read a few books in between everything and today I'm relaxing.

Here are some photos from the past week :)

The Ana/Anna's in my books, lol.

Fair Game
They say opposites attract. And in the case of werewolves Anna Latham and Charles Cornick, they mate. The son-and enforcer-of the leader of the North American werewolves, Charles is a dominant alpha. While Anna, an omega, has the rare ability to calm others of her kind.

Now that the werewolves have revealed themselves to humans, they can't afford any bad publicity. Infractions that could have been overlooked in the past must now be punished, and the strain of doing his father's dirty work is taking a toll on Charles.

Nevertheless, Charles and Anna are sent to Boston, when the FBI requests the pack's help on a local serial killer case. They quickly realize that not only the last two victims were werewolves-all of them were. Someone is targeting their kind. And now Anna and Charles have put themselves right in the killer's sights...

I've been waiting for another Alpha and Omega novel for a while now. I just love Charles and Brother Wolf :) but then again Patricia Briggs definitely holds the throne for my favorite werewolf world. There's something that I just love about the alpha's in this world and the women who hold shit down. Anna didn't disappoint. I love how she's strong, yet vulnerable just as Charles can be when it comes to her.

The serial killer fed to my own obsession with real crime TV, lol. I guess Anna and I have more in common than our love for Charles ;) The ending of the book? AWESOME. Can not wait how Patricia goes about with this world and its ever changing dynamics! 

Fifty Shades of Grey
When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.

The unworldly, innocent Ana is shocked to realize she wants this man, and when he warns her to keep her distance it only makes her more desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her - but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey's singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success – his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving adoptive family – Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a passionate, physical and daring affair, Ana learns more about her own dark desires, as well as the Christian Grey hidden away from public scrutiny.
Can their relationship transcend physical passion? Will Ana find it in herself to submit to the self-indulgent Master? And if she does, will she still love what she finds? 

Ok. I didn't exactly fall in the wagon that most women have fallen in with Mr. Grey. I read the first two books because so many of the members in my book club were reading it and raving and that's what book clubs do, right? We share books. So I gave it a try and I'll be honest. This book bothered me. There was something off about it. I understand it's basically BDSM fanfiction, but I couldn't get over that weird feeling I was getting while reading it.

I really disliked Ana. Maybe it was her innocence that made me want to scream at Christian to really show her what he's all about so she could snap out of her shit and run with her tail between her legs (wait... Anna with the extra n is the wolf...). Her subconscious and her goddess pissed me off, I felt like I was reading a book on two fucked up people who liked to fuck each other. The ending pissed me off and I needed to read the second because I wanted to know what was going to happen.

Fifty Shades Darker
Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.

But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding Fifty Shades.
While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her, and make the most important decision of her life.

This book... now this book is what made me actually like Christian. His vulnerability and how fucked up he is but his need for love and acceptance won me over. Ana? No, still don't like her. There are so many things I preferred in this book over the first, but I still can't understand the hype. Sure, the sex is fun to read but so are the scenes from plenty of other more interesting books. This book however, seemed to actually have more of a plot than a string of sex scenes with some in between scenes like the first. I dunno. So many of my friends are so obsessed with the trilogy and I just can't get into the hype like they are. 


I have a strong opinion that it's mainly because most of the women reading the books have boring sex lives (or no sex lives) and so they're living vicariously through their dear Fifty. As for the third book, I tried reading it... then I gave in and read Fair Game, lol. I'll finish it eventually. 


What have you read lately?

Tagged!

So the lovely @mrswhiffin tagged me over at her blog and I finally did it! (told you I would!). Enjoy ;)

1. What is your favourite candy bar?
   It's a tie between Kit Kat and Crunch :D
2. Who would play you in the movie of your life?Hey, remember when America Ferrera was thick? Yeah. Well when Real Women Have Curves came out, I constantly heard about how I reminded people of her. Not anymore because she's lost so much weight, but I think thick America would have played me in the movie of my life. Of course she would need to dye her hair red and learn how to act like Nuyorican, lmao.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. ... and who would write the soundtrack?
   It would be a mix tape of Dir en grey, Lil Wayne, Rihanna and Jowell y Randy.
4. Where is your happy place?
   My apartment! It is my solace. Since I live alone this is the perfect place for me to just be... me. And when I can't? I go to my parents or Puerto Rico, lol.
5. Coke or Pepsi?
   Coke.
6. Favorite Film?
   I honestly have way too many.
7. Show me your tattoos, or your "would be" tattoos!








8. Favorite book? Again this would be an insane list. So I'll mention just a few :) Night Huntress series, The Hunger Games trilogy, Vampire Academy series, Southern Vampire Mysteries (though in recent installments I just want to kill Sookie), In Death series, Dangerous Angels, The Host, The Mortal Instruments series, The Black Dagger Brotherhood series, Fight Club...
9. What item do you carry with you at all times?
   My iPhone 4S Bones.

10. Which Simpsons character are you?
    Maggie!
11. Why do you write a blog?I like to share my life, I started blogging when I was a teen and it just stuck. I was on LJ for many years, then I hosted my personal blog on different domains before I had a long hiatus. Eventually I came back and here I am. I don't blog in a constructive manner like I see other bloggers do. It's just my lil' random blog and that's how I like it. You see snippets into my life even though I've been using instagram more for photo blogging. I still enjoy to sit and actually write. 

I'm not going to tag anyone, but if anyone would like to answer these questions just leave your link here so I can see! :)

My cheer up date.

I haven't been feeling particularly good this week. With a mixture of sadness, depression, weirdness and then a bit of heartbreak. Today didn't exactly start off on the right track either. With the message about the death of one of my Aunt's. Let's just say I really needed a few hours to forgot about all the bad and the ugly of life and focus on the good. To me the good would be my family, friends, lovers, cats, food and love. Not in that order exactly, but you get the gist of it. 

I was picked up with some Crumbs waiting for me in the car :) but we were both pretty hungry so we waited and didn't dig into the cupcakes. On the drive to get us some nom nom's we listened to music, said jokes and laughed a lot.

We went to Sushi Q, hadn't been there since I celebrated my birthday dinner there! Was nice to see Peter and the guys. That's one thing I like about being a regular somewhere, the hospitality is so much nicer when they remember and miss you when you haven't been around for a bit! So when we walked in Peter automatically lit up and said our regular orders, lol. Another cool thing about being such predictable regulars. We don't need menus :D

After our fill of yummy goodness we came back to my place to have our cupcakes and just chill. I can't spend too much time alone because I start feeling a bit disconnected. Especially now that Toshiya and I are all alone. We get too comfortable in our solitude, I also gotta take him to see his Grandparents because Papi is missing him and has mentioned how I haven't taken him in a few weeks. 

LOL. These are not questions I asked. But I won't say who did. Cause they asked me not to.


Today started bad. And while I still have sadness in my heart, I really am feeling a lot better. Love does that. 

Yesterday I found this love.