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“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

-Corinthians

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Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, or as many know her as, Coco Chanel, was born August 19th, 1883 in Saumur, a small city in France.

She was born in a poorhouse to traveling salesman Albert Chanel and Jeanne Devolle.

When Coco was just twelve years old her mother died, leaving her father to care for the six children. He left a short time latter, and for the next seven years, Coco was in the orphanage of the Catholic monastery of Aubazine. Here she learned the trade of a seamstress.

While working as a cafe and concert singer, Chanel adopted the name, Coco.

Coco Chanel did not always dream of becoming a famous fashion designer. She danced, attempted to be an actress, sold hosiery, rode horses, dispensed mineral water, and worked as a cabaret singer.

Maybe there was something special in the number 5 - enough to have Coco Chanel superstitious and in awe of it. Chanel No. 5 was introduced on 5th May 1921

Coco also brought out the little black dress in 1926

Coco Chanel died in 1971

It's 11:11 make a wish! We are currently in escrow and we are arranged to have the inspector come friday at 9 a.m. I am so excited about this house!! So far everything is going to plan. Yesterday I did splurge a little on new things for the house. When we move in a I do not want to be living in an empty area! Yes, we have a bunch of furniture already, so we don't need anymore. All I bought were little things to decorate the place, put a little lipstick on this pig, ya know? Once we move in all we're doing to the house is buying a window for the master bedroom and putting wood flooring in the 2nd living room.
There's this new store that just opened down the street and it's called "Hobby Lobby". Think of a Jo Ann Fabrics and a Michael's mixed, then times the area by fifty! It was such an amazing store! First of all, everything was either 50% or 40% off. How wonderful could that be?! I bought a few things for fall and Halloween. I couldn't resist myself and I also bought a few decorations for Christmas. Once we are actually living in the house, this store, will be my sanctuary.
I just wanted to share this. That time of the month has not come yet and to my discretion it is because I have stopped talking my oral contraceptive. Why did I stop? Because it was making me psycho! My hormones were always ranging and I was very emotional. Now that I haven't taken it for a few weeks I feel like myself again. I haven't felt nauseous or have any random headaches since. I feel great, it's just more risky now if an accident happens. Yes we're being safe, I don't feel the need to get into that because, well, you know what I mean. I just hope my present from mother nature comes sooner instead of later.

THEY ACCEPTED OUR OFFER!

Yes we did it! Yesterday on my way home from work Elio called me. He told me that the bank has accepted our offer, so today he is going to finish up some paper work and find out when we get the keys. Honestly, it hasn't been that long since we started looking at houses. I believe it was since June, so for about 2 or 3 months. I am so happy with this house too. It needs a little bit of work but it going to be a place of our own!

I had the weirdest dream last night. It went on for a long time, it felt like hours, but in reality it was probably 40 minutes or so. I stayed at Elio's house last night and we had a long conversation with his mom last night. Mostly talking about the divorce with her and her husband. Crap of a husband if you ask me. He has four ex wives and about to have the fifth one. At the beginning Luisa was really sad and upset, but now she's been strong as ever. She moved out of the room and staying in her daughters room, since she's gone off to college. Cross your fingers we get this house, if we do that we'll be out by September 30th, God it feels like I've said this a million times, then we can move in. Luisa has a surgery that is in about 3 weeks, after that she plans on going to New Jersey to visit her family then come live with us for as long as she needs too. Basically, we're not going to charge her rent or anything but most likely she will offer. We want her to save up enough money so she can move out to New Jersey to live with her mom and dad.
I just really hope we get this house, honestly, that's all I'm worried about, all I've been thinking about, and anything I think about!

I wish I could crawl back into bed right now and not have to go back to work. It was 108 degrees here in Henderson, NV, and the sun has sucked the life out of me. I was planning on working out on my hour break but once this massive headache occurred, the idea was shut out.
I've decided that I'm going to start Weight Watchers. It's a program to help people loose weight and by counting points with each item of food eaten. For example, a whole banana is about 2 points.

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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I've decided that every Tuesday I'm going to post random facts. Why not learn a little something when you're reading?


Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

It took 3 tries last night for me to go to sleep. I don't know what it was, but I kept tossing and turning. Finally, I took a benedryl and passed out. My alarm woke me up at 5:20 a.m. I forgot that my boyfriend was dropping my cell phone off because, forgetful me, left it with him last night.
I received my 2011 Ikea catalog yesterday in the mail. That thing is my bible. I scanned through it, marked pages, and wrote lists of what we're going to need in this new house if we get it. If you've never been to Ikea, you need to go! It is a 4 story building with everything from shelves, utensils, curtains, and couches; an interior designer's paradise. I've only been twice in my life, once in Chicago and one in Los Angeles. They are both amazing, but the L.A. one is quite larger.
I really hope we get this house, because all this planning and saving money can not be for nothing.
Today I have work. Lets just say, it's going to be a long day. Last week we had a thunderstorm at work, we had to close down the pool and call all the swimming lessons that were happening for the rest of the night. Of course I had one private lesson too. I rescheduled them for today at 7:00 p.m. and I get off 2 hours earlier. OOPS! Hopefully they will let me stay the extra 2 hours so I can have a much nicer paycheck then I was receiving.

And this is what I see every morning I wake up in my bed. Just thought I'd share that with everyone. Soon enough that will change once we get into a house!

House update: We have put an offer on a house. Just received an email from our realtor that the sellers have received our offer. In 5-7 days we'll know if they accepted, rejected, or countered our offer!

Finally laying in my own bed. We came back from Reno last night. E's sister is there for college now. It was so nice just to get away from Las Vegas and be in cooler weather. We left Thursday morning at 4:30 a.m. and arrived at the hotel at 12:30p.m. Let's just say that it was a long drive! I slept most of the way anyways, and we watched movies on the way up there too. The first day we helped Nadia move in to her dorm and that took a few hours of unpacking and placing. Then we went back to the hotel and met up with Elio's, mom's friend. We decided to go to the Waldrof's Saloon and hangout for a bit. They had $2 shots, $5 pitchers, and $3 drinks. Now I know why people love Reno so much. Let's just say at the end of the night we ended up getting in this huge fight and went to sleep angry at each other. (I was more upset about the situation than he was) The next morning I had a cold; my nose was stuffy, my eyes were watery, my throat hurt and I had a massive headache. We laid in the hotel room all morning and afternoon, then finally around dinner time we went to our friend's home to eat this amazing meal!

Overall, it was a trip that was well needed, for all 4 of us. Except that 4 of us went up to Reno and only 3 came back. Good Luck Nadia! I know you'll do great!

Had a 2 hour inservice today at work. It was about drowning. Towards the end of the summer all lifeguards tend to get lazy. By lazy I mean but daydreaming on stand, not paying attention to their water, and not scanning their areas accurately. I'll admit it, I tend to get lazy too, but once I can tell that I start slacking off I get myself together and go back to work mode. Last summer we had 3 accidents at work within a two week period at my pool alone; it was also the middle of August when these occurrences happen. One 4 year old had a seizure and his parents weren't around, another autistic man had fallen on his way up the stairs to the slides and split his head open, and a 10 year old girl passed out while waiting with her family to enter our pool; I was actively rescuing her on that last one. If most of our staff were to be put in any situation like that in real life, honestly, I don't think they could handle it. Good thing there are always veteran guards working so they could take over in any situation and also managers on duty too. Let's pray and hope that these last few weeks we stay lucky and nothing happens, and also today on friday the 13th. KNOCK ON WOOD

Day one of house and dog sitting. I arrived to feed the dog and the family was still here, it was quite awkward. It's always so nice house sitting and just getting away from it all. It give me good practice for when we have our own house one day. I clean and water their flowers, just about any and everything you can imagine.

I asked a girl at work today how her day was going and she said just by me asking how she was doing made her day better. Are we programmed to feel good and be happy what people actually seem to care about us? Or when someone compliments something we're wearing or how nice we look? We have be having the worst day then all of a sudden someone says, "Wow you look so thin! What have you been doing?" Then all of a sudden our spirits are lifted and we feel better.
I started taking up yoga again and I'm sore as ever! I've decided I'm buying a kindle as soon as my credit card limit goes back up. I've also decided that I'm back on a diet, or basically trying to eat better. No, the nachos that I ate for lunch were not that good but at least I made them and didn't buy them pre-made. I have received the worst tan lines and a pretty bad sun burn.

Clouds in the desert

It finally rained here in Vegas yesterday and today. I was at work all day outside and it rained right when we closed the pool, of course. August and September are usually our thunderstorm months and we're always closing early because of it. The only thing that is morally wrong about closing the pools early is the parents that get pissed off. Okay it's either you can swim in the pool and get struck by lightening or get out of the pool and be safe? I hate when parents are so hard headed especially when we give them free passes for the next time they come in.

Miscommunication

This morning I received a missed call from my work. Supposedly I had a private lesson to teach at 8:30 a.m. , but I wasn't scheduled until 10:45 a.m. I stayed at E's house last night. I had to rush home to change then drive to work. On my way home I receive another phone call saying that they found a cover and that I do not need to come in until the time I was suppose to.
Now I understand that my supervisor is pregnant and is about to pop in 2 months, but I shouldn't be getting in trouble for not showing up for my private lesson right? It's not an excuse, no, but I understand that all her hormones are going crazy and she has a million things on her plate right now that I hope she doesn't get in trouble either.
Oh and by the way, I'm going to her baby shower this weekend. She is actually one of my good friends. We've known each other since high school. When I was a manager, we were managers together. I'm just debating on what to get her for her shower. Basically I wish it was next weekend after pay day! I have money but I'd rather be saving it for the house. Dollar store here I come! They actually have some quality things there!!
Well wish me luck today at work, hopefully I'm not the one getting in trouble.

"Love sees with the heart and not with mind."

It's almost been 18 months since we've been together. That's almost a milestone to me. The longest relationship that I had was 19 months, after that it was 13, then 9, then 6. So basically they kept getting less and less, I wasn't able to trust as much as I use to, even though I was being the monogamist. I've had a guy tell me "Once a cheater, always a cheater". You could imagine how that made me feel. All throughout high school I had a boyfriend then had one on the side "just in case". I had that feeling that I never wanted to be alone or end up alone. I didn't care about studying or doing homework, it was all about boys. I've told so many guys that I've loved them but ever since this one has been here, it feels like I actually mean it. We're doing things that a real couple would do.
All throughout high school I didn't drive and neither did any of my boyfriends at the time. So it was up to our mothers to drive us back and forth, and trust me that got old quick. A month before college started I received my license. Now when I was dating it was much more efficient and I would actually drive myself.
Almost 2 years ago when E and I started dating, it was so easy. I knew all he wanted to do was to just sleep with me, but I'm great at playing hard to get. It didn't just start 2 years ago when we dated, but in 2008 my grad night from high school we hung out. I stayed the night at his place and we made out for hours. We met about 6 years ago in high school. I was a freshman and he was a senior. I dated one of his good friends, so from now and then we'd see each other at parties and bonfires. He would aimlessly flirt with me and I did the same. Back then he wasn't into the greatest things as in over drinking and the occasional drugs, so I kept my distance. A few years later after his friend and I went our separate ways he would call and ask to pick me up, or tell me to meet him at a party. Of course I was dating someone.
At one time I was dating someone that I was on and off again with for 4 years, I really liked him but he never wanted to go out. I love when guys want to show you off to their friends, but this one didn't. Yeah his best friend knew we were together but no one else. One night I was going to the boyfriend's house at the time and before I came over I went to go hangout with E. He knew I was dating someone, but they all knew I was dating someone but it never stopped a flirt, and wanted to take me out. I said what the hell, he's hot, italian and I was ready to go out that night. I don't quite remember what we did or where we went but all I remember was he dropped me off at the condo, where I was living at with my mother, we both got out of the car, he offered to walk me up to the door but I had told him it was fine, I remembered him saying "God I wish I could kiss you right now" in response I told him he could but I had a boyfriend.
Next thing you know there, we were in the middle of the night, a taken girl was being kissed but this sweet yet playboy of a guy. Now I don't remember if I ended up going to the boyfriend's house or not but I do remember the next night. He text me and said that last night was great and he wanted to see me again. I told him I was at the guys house and he blew up at me when he found out I hung out with E the other night. Why I told him? I don't know, it was to make him jealous and maybe then he'd want to show to me off but after that it was over. Thank god.
E had started a long time ago, but we never made an effort to go through with dating or being together. It was just hooking up and dating. Now after my graduation was when it became obvious that we liked each other. We started randomly hanging out and seeing each other. One night we were in the park drinking a few beers and playing a card game. Another night he took me to a porn store cause I never went to one, that is how random it was. Soon enough I started to come over to his house, I would eat dinner with his family and we'd kiss and laugh all night long until our lips and stomaches hurt from kissing and laughing too much. It was fun, I don't want to say we were casually dating, but neither one of us was seeing anyone else and we both had our full attention on each other.
This was a first for me but I had asked him to be my boyfriend. Well I actually texted him and said "I'm telling being that I have a boyfriend now, how do you feel about that" and his response was "Woah that's a little too fast for me". Of course I didn't talk to him for a few days after that and let him respond to me first. And of course he did, we actually talked about it. It was close to Valentine's Day and I wanted him to be my valentine. I asked him if he was doing anything on the 14th and he said no, we ended up going to sushi and seeing Friday the 13th in theaters. Pretty romantic huh? It was great, just being in his company, I even splurged on a $90 Juicy Couture dress from Nordstrom's Rack, then felt guilty after and returned it. A few weeks later I had told him I loved him. We were joking around about something then all of a sudden I said "I think I'm starting to fall for you". He had gotten quiet after that. He explained to me how much he's been hurt in the past with ex girlfriends cheating on him and everything and I told him that I wouldn't do that, and to this day I have never and will never hurt him. I told him how I was hurt in the past too, it even came out that I had cheated on every single one of my boyfriends. Let me tell you, that was not a good idea to tell him that. Never tell any man that no matter what. I know he's the one because I haven't cheated on him or have ever even thought of the idea. He means too much to me, then he did and now he does even more. He is my sweetheart and I'm his.
A few weeks later he told me that he loved me too. After that I knew everything would come into place. Yes we've had our crazy, outrageous fights, but we've also have had some pretty romantic evenings and days together. I love him with all my heart.