A little something

Hello all.

The last few days have been completely unplanned. The fiance dislocated his knee (again), the future in-laws came into town and we ventured off into the Texas Hill Country, I happened to catch a cold which means I haven’t done any physical activities in the past 5 days (yoga included cause this head CANNOT go upside right now) and I had two finals yesterday. I mean, those finals were planned but I was far from prepared.

Anyways, the reason for this post was to share some goodies that I have neglected to showcase for the world. I’ve posted a few on my Instagram but I fear if I post too many of them on there I…. I’m not really sure why I’m afraid to post them on my Instagram.  I guess I’m a little embarrassed. Maybe even afraid I might set off this “spam” vibe , which is something I never want to do. I just get so excited to share what I think is cool stuff that sometimes I might go full speed. Bleh, none of this is really relevant to these shots, it’s just me rambling.

Anyways (again), all of these pictures were taken by me, some of them were slightly edited, most of them were not.

 

 

 

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Cool, huh?!

I love taking pictures. I love being able to look back and see all the cool stuff I got to capture in time. I’m a person who likes to look at beautiful things. I find happiness in having beautiful things in front of me whether that be a physical picture or one on a screen, whether it be the perfect matching pillows to a couch or a view of the sunset. Beauty is all around and I like having it near me, I like surrounding myself with good looking things! Sounds vain, but I thinks it’s a little less harsher than that and a little less complicated.

As you can see, my dogs are constant focal points to my pictures. I mean, some days I’ll just be laying in my bed doing absolutely nothing and I look over at my dog who is just chilling with me and I just see how ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE HE IS and I have to capture it. Dogs are the best models, next to cats of course. Alpacas are pretty great too, mind you.

I  hope you like pretty things because… let’s face it, what would life be like if we couldn’t appreciate pretty things?

Let me introduce myself!

Hello, all!

My name is Alexandra and I am starting a blog! How original, right? What could I possibly say that hasn’t been said before? The answer to that: probably nothing. So, what am I doing on here? You could probably have a better answer to that question than me, because I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING. But I’m doing it, and I’m going to do it to the best of my ability.

So, enough with the shpeel, let me introduce myself!

Let’s do bullet points, I love me some bullet points.

• Name: Alexandra (Alex)
• Age: 21 (Oct 25th)
• Ethnicity: Hispanic (Peruvian (but also very white))
• I am a full time student at UTSA
• I am engaged to a lovely man
• I am a Certified ACE Personal Trainer
• I have two dogs: Sparky (10 year old beagle mix), & Luma (6 month old Black mouth cur mix)
• I am vegan, have been since July 5th, 2014
• I’m 5 feet 1 inch
• 108-112 pounds
• I suck at public speaking and I’m even worse at private speaking
• I love photography, I have too many* pictures of my pets
• I’ve had Episodic Depression and General Anxiety since about age 12
• I have Trichotillomania and PCOS
• I struggle with Standardized education
• I’m a sensitive soul
• I want to fulfill my life without having to work a desk job from 9-5
• I want to help people but mostly, I want to help myself.

Well that last one sounds pretty douchey, but let me explain. Imagine that you are me. A 21 year old female who is set to marry her “Mr.Right”. They’ve verbally planned out basically their whole life together. “We get married in 3 years (long engagement), have kids soon after, build our careers around our passions, pay off all our student debt, advocate for those who have no voice, help people live healthier lives and retire to a farm sanctuary.” Sounds alright, yeah. Of course, it’s not everyone’s plan, but it’s ours and honestly, it could change at any second. You see, this plan involves events and actions that make us happy, that make ME happy. So, in my eyes, I come first. I mean, I know what some mothers would say to that, “My kids come first” and I see what they’re saying. I don’t have kids right now and I have no idea what it’s like to be a mother, but I believe that you need to take care of yourself in order to take care of your children, right? When we’re on a plane why do we put our oxygen masks on before our children’s? Because you won’t be able to help your child if you’re not alive!

And I believe this is the same with relationships, romantic or not. Before my fiance and I got together, I was a personal mess. I couldn’t communicate with any of my partners before, I couldn’t figure out why none of them filled that void that I had. It took me a while but I finally realized that they weren’t the ones who were going to fill that void. That was my job. I had to do it myself, I had to care for myself, I had to heal myself and so on. To be honest, I’m still healing, it’s a long process and I will never stop caring for myself, even when I have kids. I’ll just be caring for more souls. It’s not like I ONLY care about myself, that’s not the case at all, but that’s obvious, at least I think so.

I proposed a challenge to myself to start this blog in the hopes of finding what I can succeed at. Maybe blogging wont be my “calling”, but maybe it will. And there’s only one way to find out.

P.s. this blog will (most likely) be composed of health tips and tricks, personal stories, vegan recipes, free workouts, photography and the like. Hope you stop by every week!

P.s.s. I accept and value any feedback, critique and advice from anyone who is willing to provide it (nicely).

*too many for the average person