Birthday weekend

My Birthday way WILD!

Whoever says you need Vegas to have a crazy time is boring!

Tamales

There has been many times in my life when I have changed my opinion about someone and some things that I didn't know too much about. One  instance had to do with tamales. It was a very nice Christmas day filled with a lot of food. On that day I started out eating at my cousins house. My cousin Rayshell had made an amazing turkey and ham meal. On the side she had: macaroni and cheese, stuffing, sweet potatoes, yams, corn, and potatoes au gratin. It was amazing and I stuffed my face. The day was still early and I ended up at a close friend's house later on that night. My friends mom had gone all out and made a mexican dinner that was to die for. Tamales followed by rice, beans, enchiladas and more tamales. I was so excited for the tamales because they have been apart of my life for as long as I can remember. I ate until my stomach hurt. I got home and sat down to watch TV. I was extremely uncomfortable because of how much food I ate. I watched a show for a while until I couldn't take it anymore. I ended up in the bathroom facedown on the toilet. I spent a good while throwing everything up. Unfortunately the most prominent flavor coming back uip was of the tamales. Tasting tamale throw up was how I spent that christmas. It was horrible and I was disgusted by the thought of tamales from that day forward. To this day, about four years later, I still have no desire to eat tamales. They don’t disgust me anymore but my desire to eat them is non-existent. It hasn’t really affected anyone else around me because I don’t choose what they eat. Looking back I feel happy it happened. Tamales are really fattening and that is one less fatty food I eat.

family:)

I often think that I am lucky to have been born to a family that is loud, funny, and incredibly caring. I have been told many times by different people that I am funny and if it weren't for the people I grew up around who knows what I would have turned out to be like.How important are the people in your life while you grow up and develope your own identity? I feel that your influences change as you get older but at the most critical point in our lives, being an infant to the age of five, your parents are the most influential people we will ever come across. Though our parents help mold our character, most people often seek to expand their uniqueness.

Growing up I was always attached to my mom. As time progressed I began listening to my own music, my choice of clothing greatly differed from what she would choose for me to wear, and I just wanted to do my own thing. On the flip side, I always valued my moms unique style in arts, food, and personality. My mom introduced me a wide variety of foods including sushi for the first time when I was six years old, the ballet when I was ten years old, and giving back to the community ever since I can remember. I am so grateful that I was raised by a woman who gave to local charities and food banks as often as possible which in doing so helped me recognize that there is more to life than the physical things.

           Now, I continue to make decisions that I gained from my mom. I am frugal with my money when I need to be because she taught me that money doesn't come from nowhere. I always try to make people laugh because she was so funny that I always aspired to be someone that could make an entire room laugh because of my antics. Finally I am hard working because I as raised by a single mother of four and was given so much more in my young life because my mom was a hard worker. I am fortunate to have so many great qualities because of the people, especially my mom, who were in my life from the beginning.