What its come to

I returned from my mini vacation from Yosemite in a very unmotivated state of mind. You would think that because I went to such a beautiful place I would love to create beautiful things, or at least write about them, but for some reason or another I cant get the mojo going.

One thing that can be contributing to this hesitant state of mind could be my constant, I really mean incessant, job hunting. If I am not on-line looking for work, I am thinking of finding a job, talking about finding a job, and just plane being consumed by this endless hunt for employment. I recently (not so recent, December) graduated from my CSUS credential program. I secretly have always wanted to be a teacher, but those dreams were shelved for a quick second. In college my aspirations were to become a Lawyer, challenging the system and its corruption and all that jazz. After working at a law firm and in different areas of law I decided that the legal system can suck it. Law was just not for me, that isn’t to say that don’t love to discuss law, or that I wouldn’t return to the legal field, its just that I would not peruse my law degree. My career aspirations have always been fueled by my want/need to contribute to my community, mi Raza. After deciding that a Legal degree was not for me I went back to my first love, Teaching. I have been relentless in my pursuit of my own classroom and job at a school, but unfortunately our education system has been knocked out by the one-two punch of the effed-up economy. I have come to the realization that more than likely this coming school year I will not be employed in the education field, other than as a substitute. My job hunt has now been expanded to grasp all fields where I can qualify to apply; mainly legal, admin and clerical. I have had some leads, and fortunately my friends have been really supportive and have given me heads up on some possibilities. I am really excited about one possible employment opportunity, but I will only share this once it evolves and becomes a Yes/No thing.

Going back to my blogging. Recently I decided to write something about me, daily. What was I thinking where I decided to do this? Sleep deprived maybe? Well technically since this is my blog I already to write about “me” therefore this idea is completely redundant. Today after a long day of “trying to fix my moms flat tire after the tow truck picked it up” game I came up with another gimmick idea. I decided that I would create a new category for my writing. Some of my favorite blog crushes do it. Ten things Tuesday!!! That’s what I came up with. Every Tuesday I will write 10 random things about me, my life, my creations, life in general. What do you think???
I know its not Tuesday, but being that the day of the week does start with T I will make an exception and write 10 things Thursday tonight.
See you then.

Love
Pita

So Im back!

Its been an amazing week and weekend. My hubby and I celebrated our one year anniversary as a married couple. I was tempted to post one of those “on this day I married my best friend” blog, but decided that just wasn’t me. I did how ever update my status on facebook to read “a year ago today I married the love of my life”, which is completely true. Its amazing to look back on this year and see how our relationship changed. I didn’t believe when people told us that “things would change” once we were married. My hubby and I lived together for 3 or 4 years before we were married and we have been dating for 9 years, so I thought, “what could change?” Our relationship changed, somehow it grew deeper and our love intensified. I am grateful for having such and amazing man in my life.
We also celebrated our amazing and beautiful friends and family that traveled all the way to Mexico to celebrate our wedding with us. It’s amazing how many beautiful people there are in life. I truly feel blessed.
So I guess I killed two birds with one stone. I just let you know one thing about me, but I do owe 4 more random things about me, and I also let you all know why I had left.
Enjoy and I will come back later on tonight, or so I hope, and post more craft pictures or maybe even a DIY tutorial.

-Pita

Just a thought

I have come to the realization that my blog needs to become a hobby of mine. I enjoy writing random stuff, but I would also like to make it a place where my creative side can shine. I will work on making my creative side sparkle on these pages. After very good advice, from one of the wises people I know, I will stick to what I know, or claim to know. I will continue talking about me and what I love, but I need to do it in segments. My focus will be my creative side. Which brings up the point, should I change the name to Creative Corazon? Crafty is a cute word, but that’s not what I would like this whole thing to be.

Anyways, this is just my poor attempt at procrastination; I should be packing and getting ready for our anniversary trip. By this time tomorrow Mr. J and I will be enjoying the great outdoors at one of my favorite places on earth, Yosemite! Mr. J was about to propose there, and we had plans on getting married there, but as some of you know Mexico was the location for both of these things (something ill post about later). Yosemite is one of my favorite places in California, it’s breathtaking beauty is unbelievable.

On another note, I need to revamp this site, I have become bored with the layout and the background.
Ill be back next week, this week is too jammed packed with adventure to bother with a computer.

Luv.
Pita

So it begins

As mentioned before I have made it a goal to blog something about myself every day, just so people get to know me. I will blog about things I like, things I do, things that piss me off, etc. The problem now is getting started. Where do you start when trying to explain yourself to someone? Do you rant about your favorite things, your pet peeve, your loves, your hates, where do you start? Being that I don’t know where to start, I will just start off by talking about LA. I am originally from LA, born and raised in the LA area. I love LA with all my heart because of its uniqueness, its quirkiness, and because of all the Raza that live there. When I first came up to Nor Cal, my soul was screaming for some rancheras blaring out of someone’s car window, paleteros, swapmeets, and my mom (and her cooking). There were many times when my heart skipped a beat when I somehow my imagination got the best of me and I “heard” a paletero passing by with some yummy goodness to sell. Everything I missed about home I could not find in Davis, CA (no surprise there). As I settled in for a 4-year stay in a little college town, I came across beautiful people, which eventually saved me from my home sickness. In Davis, the feeling of home was only achieved through the people that surrounded me, my friends, which I now consider my family. These people are the ones who know me, and love me, for that I am grateful.

  (some a lot of people are missing from the picture)

In my last post I mentioned that I feel manipulated by some, yet I failed to mention all the other people around me who are amazing and beautiful. I will focus on these people, the ones that make me happy, the ones that I can truly call friends. To those people I say, I love you for who you are. I love you for what you do. I love you because you are amazing and beautiful, and I am thankful for you. You know who you are.

I am on a new mission, I want to meet and befriend interesting, fun people, wish me luck.

Gracias.
-Pita                            


ps. Ill be out of town starting tomorrow until Sunday. Already I am failing on my new goal, where Im going there isn’t  internet. ☺

Creating Myself, lets begin

In my attempts to develop my blogging I have come up with an ingenious idea. I have decided to attempt to blog one thing about myself every day, a little snip bit of who I am, and what/who I love. This is my attempt to not only express myself, but also its my attempt to develop who I am. I sometimes find myself feeling void, empty and reminiscing of the person I thought I once was. I fail many times to recognize the person that I am missing is the person that I continue to be. I have allowed many people in my life to define me, and in doing so I have allowed them to paint a portrait of me that suits their needs, meets their ideas, and establishes their priorities. I say FUCK THAT. I am tired of people thinking they know who I am, and thinking of me in an unflattering light. As someone famous (probably dead now) once said “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself”. Let the creating process begin!

Happy Happy Summer Days

Hello All!!!!
June has been a good month. I have been crazy busy crafting up a storm to participate in my first ever craft fair/art fair. I created a lot of cool things, ill post some pics.
I am doing good, not great, still looking for a job. I have applied to many positions, but unfortunately I have not had any luck. Thinks are really hard because so many teachers are out of work and are having a hard time. I think that by the end of the month I will start looking for “other” jobs, ie admin jobs/office jobs/ legal jobs. Its hard to come to the realization that perhaps my dreams of having my own classroom will have to be shelved for a little bit. I have been keeping my head high, and looking on the bright side. I will one day have my own class, but for now I will just keep on looking and hoping for the best.
I am happy, which is wonderful.
Here are some pictures of my crafts and my view from the Second Saturday Park Your Art event. ☺

Have a good week.

-Pita 

And so summer starts

I am happy to say that I finally feel like I am on top of my things, everything, well except the whole no job thing. I have been on an upward movement lately. I have come to the conclusion that I have cycles of being “up” and also “down” swings. I love the ups, but the downs are hard. May might have been a “down” time for me, it was so hard to get it together, the only thing that helped me was the constant subbing and being in the classroom, which always puts me in a great mood. Now that May is over I plan on taking June on! My spring was absolutely fabulous! We had such a good time, maybe this is why I couldn’t find time for my crafts and my art? Here are some pictures of our adventures.

 May Day March 2010, State Capitol

 Mr. J's amazing daily drives for work

Me*

  My next pet, they were on sale at the Strawberry Festival!

 Went to an AMAZING concert!  Que Viva Julieta!

 Yummy goodness at the Strawberry Festival

 I cant complain about our crazy spring, it was great!  Summer will be even better, I can feel it, camping, picnics, drive in movies, beach bunny bingo and much more! Woot woot.

Will be back later today to post on my crafts and my hope to participate in Park Your Art, as well as my attempts at an Etsy shop.

Thanks
-Pita