Sundays In My City

San Francisco, CA

I showed you mine, now you show me yours.

Share your city/town/suburb/you name it! If you link up, please link back or post the Sundays In My City button either in your post or sidebar to let people know that other bloggers are sharing their communities too. Happy trails!

Let's travel the world together!

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Fragmented Fridays on the Fly Edition

What the...? I haven't posted since Monday! That is so not like me. You may not have noticed, but I like creating little routines for myself and following. This week I decided to blog-lite and see what would happen. Well, I guess nothing much happened other than I got a lot of work done.

I was not going to post today either, but then I got a message form Sarah at Little Baby Feet:

Mami mami mami....fragmented fridays are my best friend. Where are you?

Well, it's nice to be missed so I had to do a quick post. If you don't know Sarah go check her out. I like her. 

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Remember that even in the worst of times there is always something good.

I want to give an official thank you to AC's Scrapbook. You see this beautiful image?

She sent me a print as a thank you for mentioning a giveaway that I would have mentioned regardless. How's that for thoughtful? I love it!

I also won a giveaway from It's Serious This Time! I got 4 movie passes and a coupon for a box of General Mills cereal.

I'm feeling the bloggy love.

One of the advantages of blogging with a paper bag over my head is that I can be pretty open, but I have a confession to make. I've been keeping a secret from you. I have to keep it for a little while longer, but on December 1st I get to share some exciting news with you. I'm not pregnant. I can't wait until December 1st! Wish me luck!!

Have a great weekend my friends. I'll see you on Sunday for SIMC.

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I Comment Therefore I Am

Welcome to another edition of I Comment Therefore I Am where I take the bits and pieces of myself that I've left as comments on other people's blogs and turn them  into a post.

Witness my commenting journey:

Apparently there is a  Bulletproof backpack on the marker for kids and Kristen from Hands, House, and Heart Full asked her readers if they would buy it. My answer:

I find the whole thing sad and depressing. I wouldn't buy it. If I was truly worried about my child's safety then I'd find another alternative.


I know the world is a dangerous place, but that is just too much. I've been mugged at gun point and I still wouldn't carry a gun, or walk around in a bullet-proof anything. I refuse to live in a constant state of fear.


I don't think it is such a great idea to make money off of fear. Who wouldn't want to protect their child? Of course it's important, but perhaps we should focus on fixing what ails us instead of investing in bullet proof backpacks. I don't want to give my child the impression that they live in a war zone.

Nancy on Away We Go shared her dislike of people routinely referring to themselves in the third person which led me to comment:

Unknown Mami likes your post, she also thinks smart phones rock, and she does not consider herself a "third" person. She is #1 all the way even if her parents are originally from a Third World country.

on another post Nancy wrote about the divine in relation to her son. My response:

The other day I was holding my daughter after a trying day and I was overwhelmed by a sense of beauty and privilege. I looked at her and said, "Siempre seras tuya, pero por unos pocos años seras mia." You will always belong to you, but for a few years you will be mine. And I want to cherish those years.

won shared how she suggested something she would have once thought unthinkable to help alleviate her daughter's pain (this post really touched me, please check it out if you get a chance and offer your support). I wrote:

I think what you did is wonderful. You were searching for a way to help your daughter and what you suggested is no more harmful than most prescription medication out there. I know you would never do anything that you thought would cause your daughter harm. Sometimes the law is wrong.

There was a time when interracial marriage was considered illegal, that did not make it wrong.

I was reading The Truth About Me-self and offered these words of encouragement:

I support you in your journey and believe you will be successful, but I would like to offer some advice: please never let what others say to you send you into a tailspin. Words are just words, they do not always signify the truth and they usually say more about the speaker than they do about the person being spoken to.

 The Obnoxious SAHM asked her readers if they were ever "that annoying mother". You know, the one that talks to her child in baby talk loudly or generally acts like a moron in public. My response is a resounding HELL YA:

Are you kidding me? I use my child as an excuse to be annoying. I like to dance so if I'm out and music is playing that I want to dance to I get my groove on and if anyone looks I say, "The baby loves to watch me dance." Haha. I get to dance in public and have an excuse!

Speaking of ridiculous public behaviour, Brainella the Librarian brought up some ridiculous behavior witnessed in public restrooms. My contribution:

I don't understand why people have to be such slobs in public restrooms. I went to the restroom in Costco and it was repulsive almost like people were relieving themselves everywhere except the toilet. Really people, do you do that at home?

Sometimes I just crack myself up and it doesn't matter if anyone else thinks I'm punny funny.  For example Olive Juice had a great post about her dislike of the word blurb complete with the history of the word. My hilarious comment:

I say you embrace it and start using it as a verb.

For example, "I was up late last night blurbing."

Or

"You sound like a blurbering idiot!"( Oh come on! It's funny.)

Andrea on Good Girl Gone Redneck wrote about being in New York on 9/11 and how life was forever changed. My reaction:

I had just been to New York for the first time that year and I could not believe what I was seeing on TV. I was in shock. I thought it was a lie. Never in my wildest nightmares would I have imagined planes flying into buildings on purpose. The world stopped making sense.

On Half-Past Kissing Time I read about a little girl being left unattended at the mall, while the mother shopped at a nearby store. The little girl happened to be Latino and in the comments section it was mentioned that perhaps it was a cultural difference to which I responded:

Cultural difference my butt! I'm Latino and was raised when things weren't even as bad as they are today and my family would never have left me alone. I guarantee you that there are non-Latinos doing the same thing. Dumb and clueless do not discriminate.

Now I would like to take a moment to celebrate commenting genius exhibited on my blog.  The following jewel was left by MiMi from Living In France:

My comments suck dirty monky butt lately. I would be embarrassed to showcase them. Although, I have come up with some witty responses...the comments are better than the post usually! (Right she wants me to believe this wasn't a painstakingly crafted comment. Ha! I'm on to you MiMi. I know your clever wit labored over this one. I noticed the nonchalant misspelling of the word monkey, but I'm smart enough to know you did that on purpose so I would think you were being careless.)

Wanna play along? Go forth, spread the comment love, and turn it into a post. Then link up! Recycle, reuse, and reduce my friends; it's the wave of the future.
Oh and feel free to comment on my comments.

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Sundays In My City

 

San Francisco, CA

I showed you mine, now you show me yours.

Share your city/town/suburb/you name it! If you link up, please link back or post the Sundays In My City button either in your post or sidebar to let people know that other bloggers are sharing their communities too. Happy trails!

Let's travel the world together!

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10 Things, 5 Things, and Two Blogs I Love

I'm having one of those days where being me just isn't so much fun. I'm grouchy and feel put upon. I'm sure it will pass, but in the meantime I thought I would list 10 things that make me happy. The idea came because My Life in Purple gave me an award and it asks that I list 10 things that make me happy.

1. Showers make me happy. They used to me mundane everyday things, but now they are indulgent rarities.
2. Sleep makes me ecstatic. I have a very active dream life and many answers come to me in my sleep.
3. Acting makes me joyous; it's like a form of meditation where I feel focused and in the moment.
4. My family makes me enjoy the everyday.
5. Laughing is what makes everything bearable.
6. Clothes! New to me clothes that I love can put a smile on my face.
7. Finding a great deal brings me so much joy I have to brag about it.
8. You reading this makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
9. Hearing my daughter say, "Mama". Who knew I would like it so much?
10. Knowing that even with all my faults, craziness, attitude, and general mayhem, I am loved.

I was also tagged by Keep in Touch With Mommakin as a Theta Mom (The True Authentic Mom) and she demands that I share five experiences that have shaped me as a True Authentic Mami. That Tammy is so demanding, but she's a badass so I will do as she says.

1. Well, I've spent my life trying to be an authentic person. I see no point in trying to be other than myself because I do Me pretty well. I'm flawed, but it's part of my charm and I am always growing.
2. I was raised by an authentic mom. She was a single immigrant mother with very little education and a think accent who never apologized for being herself. She refused to feel ashamed when being mistreated and once told me that racism didn't affect her because it was about the other person not her.
3. I am not afraid to speak my mind. If I think something is wrong, I will address it. I am not rude, but I do not mince words.
4. I had an extremely difficult pregnancy. Horrific even. It taught me much. It taught me to take things as they come, not be so judgmental, make informed decisions, not to second guess those decisions, to listen to advice, but throw out any advice that was ill suited. I am a stronger person and a better mother because I do not expect an ideal situation, but I know how to make the best of what is presented.
5. I've come to realize that perfection and nitpicking do not make for a happy mother, a happy husband, or a happy child.

The awards come with disbursement rules, but I am a rebel so instead I pass on The Mami Likes Me And You Should Too! Award.

This award was created as my response to all the lovely awards I have been honored to receive. Please check out my awards page for a complete list. I love getting awards, but I am not good at following the rules so what I have done is absorb all the wonderful mojo of these awards and turned them into another award that I will distribute from time to time. I will give this award to blogs that I truly love in hopes that you will visit them and love them to.

The rules of this award are simple. You may display this prestigious award on your blog or in your bathroom or nowhere at all. You do not need to do anything other than know in your blogger's heart that I think you and your blog are fantastic. Mami likes you! Mami really likes you!

I present this award to the following blogs:

My Life in Purple: This is not a tit for tat. I love the wit and charm of her blog and think she needs a larger audience to share it with so please stop by and check her out. Stay for awhile and visit her often.

Away We Go: I just found this blogger and already I am in love. She's an intelligent and gifted writer. Give her a chance, you'll love her too.

That's it. I only feature a few bloggers at a time because I really hope you take the time to check them out.

Have a great weekend and I'll see you on Sunday!

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