My last day of employment with T-Mobile USA was September 27, 2010. And by some strange twist of fate, my first day of work in my new job will be on September 26, 2011. One year of unemployment. One year of sleeping in, staying up late, following my own agenda. And along with that, one year of counting every penny, of being

Wow, a lot has changed in few months and so has my body. I've reached some personal milestones and celebrated some goals as well. On May 11, 2011 I weighed in at 162.2 lbs, not the personal limit that I had set for myself of 160 lbs without dieting. So I decided that my resolution this year to love myself without diets or e

If you are anything like 95% of Americans out there, you believe that Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's day of Independence. After all, we call ours the 4th of July more often than we refer to it as Independence Day so why shouldn't it be the same? Cinco de Mayo is actually just the Americans excuse for drinking obscene amounts of

Have you ever felt so strongly about something that you were willing to sa

Just when I can't get any farther behind in my blog and the list of draft posts are adding up, I get another challenge to complete. Thankfully this one isn't taking me weeks to complete like my upcoming 7 Links post. So thanks to some prompting by Lisa over at

Unfortunately the scale has continued to wage it

If you don't see much a change from last wee

I feel great! Some days the scale goes in th

We had our official weigh-in on Friday July 1st and I weighed in at 156.4 lbs so I lost a little bit of weight before we got started. Some of the people in the group were saying goodbye to all their favorite foods and pigging out but I just can't do that to my body. Each pound I gain is another one I have to wo

Every time there is a pro-immigration story published anywhere in the world, the comments that follow are negative, racist, angry, riddled with hate, and directed towards people they've never met. The internet allows these "trolls" as we call them to pull the white hoods out of the closet and sit in front of their computers

It's time to put my money where my mouth is, $70 t

I was reminded again of why I don't go on vacation

First my phone alarm went off at 8am and I had to

Every year my mother takes my older children on a

This was definitely an off week

I was slow getting to bed last night, in fact it w

Each week I am trying to set a different goal for

Before I even started packing my bags for the retu

The best thing about today: I'm taking a long plane ride without any kids in tow. Something I'm looking forward to: Elote and cemitas Something I'm dreading: Passing through the aduana when I get to Mexico City Most inspiring event of the month: Pedro Guzma

Last week I started out at 162.2 pounds and that w

Their journey began on Monday September 28, 2009.

I'm only 37 years old and I'm already losing my mi