I shot a pregnant woman!

Hehe. Well, not really. I shot photos of a pregnant woman. It was of my friend Akiea. We have been friends since about 2004ish? We met at my first job at Conway actually. We became good friends while on the job. We used to get lunch together and sometimes I would drive her home. Ahh good times. For lunch, since I had my first car back then, I used to drive to Wendy's with Akiea and get Wendy's while all our other coworkers ate the same stuff everyday. It was fun.


Anyway, Akiea is now about a month away from her due date and we decided to capture the belly. This was my first photoshoot with a pregnant woman but I'm sure it wont be my last. I had lots of fun. It feels great to capture moments like these.

Here are some of the shots from the shoot today:

Anyone interested in a photoshoot with me email: MRzHiGHLiFE@gmail.com.

I didn't watermark the photos because I didn't wanna ruin them with that and I was too lazy to watermark them just for the blog but eh. Also click pics to enlarge.

Double Date.

Yep that's what I'm doing tonight. Goin' out with my boo, my girl Michelle and her boo. I haven't met him yet and I haven't seen her since last fall I think. And before that I hadn't seen her since 8th grade graduation. Long time. I did miss her and miss her now again! I really can't wait to go out tonight. We will be goin' to eat. I will tell you guys how it all goes.

I am going to go get ready. :)

oh and while I do that, enjoy a few photos from my photoshoot with Michelle.

 

Oh and hair/ makeup was done by Jessica Swanson obviously.

Shabby.

Latest pic of my new piercing. I'm getting frustrated because it's not healing properly. It's randomly bleeding for no reason. I've woken up in the middle of the night from my sleep and felt that the ring came out. I wake up and see that since it got pulled out somehow during my sleep i started bleeding so there's a lot of coagulated blood in the morning. I clean it thoroughly i even let the shower water fall over it to make sure its as clean as possible. I don't even know what to do anymore I wanna change it already but supposedly i have to wait 3-6 months for that.

I'm also a little overwhelmed with work right now. I am constantly tired. I have low energy. I never feel like doing anything but relaxing. I need time off asap. I also have maintained my one RedBull a day regimen. Ugh. I am now gonna prepare to go to sleep since I work tomorrow 10am-8pm. At least I have Friday, Sunday and Monday off. Seriously cant wait.

P.S: I forgot to mention, my anxiety symptoms come back worse and worse each day. I need a break.

Yet another Lazy Sunday

It's now yet another lazy Sunday and I haven't posted all week. I've been pretty busy, of course. My job where I currently work is trying to make a Facebook page for the office and I had to take pics of the office. Then I been working on editing them and watermarking them. I finally put up a few on the page. I basically was made administrator so I have to take care of it. Which is fine because Facebook is pretty  easy.

Now I gave my blog a new layout. I think this one is so cute. Although it's not really me, I still like it.

Today I have absolutely no plans and I like it this way. Edie (the boyfriend) went off to a class he's taking. I'll talk about that once it's definite. Now I'm alone with the kids (our doggies) at home bloggin' and tumbln'.

Yea Tumblr pretty much took over but I'm still keeping this blog.

dont forget to check the TUMBLR.

Lazy Sunday

Sunday already ended and I have relaxed all day! I have been working like a dog and I'm quite exhausted these last few days. 


Yesterday I worked from 10am - 3pm. Lately my schedule has been 10am - 8pm so this was just great. I have been running on RedBull - it's like the gas to my car. It's the only thing that keeps me running. After work I had to pick up some candles at Bath & Body for mine and Edie's room. Since I work in the mall, it was easy to do. I bought some candles there. Then I walked over to Target and bought some Glade Candles. The Glade candles are amazing! The room smells great now.

Today all day I was lazy home with Edie. We played lots of Call of Duty. I did a lot of Tumbling. Flowlikesyringes.tumblr.com. Then we watched Dexter! It was just the perfect relaxing Sunday. Now back to wrk Monday morning. Ugh.

Change.

I must say, I love changes. They make you feel refreshed, new and improved. I got a haircut finally after not cutting my hair for almost 7 months sheesh! The hairstylist says I should be cutting my ends at least once a month. I paid $68 bucks for this haircut at Aveda and I am not paying $68 bucks every month. Oh and it was $68 after my discount for working in the Queens Center Mall.

Haircuts are one of my favorite change, I have finally grown out all my dyed hair and have cut it all off and I am planning to keep the natural color for some time now. Maybe I'll go lighter in the summer but who knows what tomorrow brings.

Also I am contemplating putting up the video of when I got my nose pierced. HAHA my silly boyfriend recorded it. I'll see. It was recorded in 3 parts so I would have to edit it a bit and put it together and maybe put music in the background instead of hearing me squirm.

Oh and I'm exciteddddd!! Tomorrow I'm going to my old job in Manhattan to help out and make a few extra bucks. It's in the Upper East Side so I will be taking full advantage of being in Manhattan again. Sounds cheese but I kinda miss it. I will be treating myself to a tasty breakfast and a nice stroll around the area. I'll be sure to take pics on my phone and if i feel up to I'll even bring the Nikon along. Goodnight for now - I gotta be up in four and a half hours!

Lost 12 pounds!!

Holy cow did I lose 12 pounds in the last month? Yes I did! I have been working like hell. I thought if I quit my job in Manhattan I would have more free time and more time to relax. That didn't quite work out that way.

I now work most days from 10am-8pm. That's a looong day if you ask me. What keeps me going is the fact that I LOVE my job. I also have lots of bills to pay and school loans and what not. So I gotta keep doing what I gotta do.

I will share my secret but I hope no one follows it because it's not a good way to lose weight but my main intention was never to lose weight but in the end it happened. So since I started working such long hours, I started drinking sugar-free RedBull. Let me tell you something, I am addicted. I drink one 250mL can in the morning and one at around 3pm. I loved the taste of RedBull ever since I used to bartend back in '06. I used to drink RedBull to keep me up all night. I haven't drank it since then but recently decided to try the sugar-free one. I thought it would lose all its taste by being sugar-free just like coke and pepsi and stuff. However the sugar-free RedBull tastes exactly the same. The only difference is that since it doesn't have sugar, you don't crash. It's a pick-me-up in a can. Then after drinking it for about a month I noticed I been losing weight and everyones been telling me that I've been losing weight. So I discovered that the reason is because RedBull is a metabolism stimulator.

I must say that I have done so much research on RedBull and I am an expert! Any Questions? I'd love to answer them at MRzHiGHLiFE@gmail.com

European Chocolate! YUMM!

In case you didn't know, I'm European. I must say I absolutely loveeeee European chocolate. I love all the Kinder Brand Chocolates, the Milka products as well. Yummm. Europeans make their chocolate so full of flavor and so milky.. soooo very very milky. That's the thing I love about it most. I love how milky it is. Then you have the extra kick of flavor like Hazelnut, Strawberry, even Orange! So good.

 

Then you have the Kinder Chocolates. These are something else. Again, very very milky. But the extra goodness of the Kinder Bueno, for example, is the creamy hazelnut cream on the inside. oh yum!

 

Then there's my all time childhood favorite Kinder egg! Wow how crazy I still am about these little guys. I still get extremely excited when I see them in the store. My family brings a few from Europe every time someone goes and visits. According to wikipedia and other sources, I discovered that these eggs are actually illegal in the US. I know a few stores that have them, mainly polish delis or other European bakerys, delis, etc.

 

Now I'm craving this stuff big time!

I've been doing some reading.

I LOVE reading! I need to do it more often. It opens up your mind and it really gets your vocabulary to expand. Most recently I've had my eyes on Emily Giffin. She's such a great writer. Her descriptive way of writing is just so satisfying. In order of my favorites:

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I have all these books so if anyone wants to borrow them email MRzHiGHLiFE@gmail.com . Or leave a comment. Thanks.

Wordpress sucks, LiveJournal sucks.

I've tried a gazillion different blogging sites and none live up to blogger. So what is it about blogger that keeps sending me to new sites? When I find the answer to that question I'll let you guys know as well.

Anyway, I decided to give my blog a makeover using bloggers new template maker and I'm quite impressed at how nice and easy it is. I've used artisteer before and that's the number one application for templates and layouts generating. I do want to buy the actual program but ehh I'll give blogger a chance until then.

Now, few things I must share:
1. I got my nose pierced. :)
2. I now have anxiety attacks. (Wosrt thing to go thru.)
3. I'm obsessed with Call Of Duty.

None of the above need further explanation except number two. Yes, so I now learned that I have anxiety attacks at random times. I've had a total of five attacks since December, 2000. Three of which were horrible! It all started in December of 2009. Me and Edie (the boyfriend) decided to go to the Queens Center mall after midnight since it was opened for 24 hrs during the holidays. We decided to take train because the parking lot is also packed during the holidays. So we start walking to the train which is maybe 3 blocks from his house. I decided to stop at Dunkin' Donuts and get a hot chocolate to warm me up. I usually drink coffee but Dunkin' Donuts makes a slammin' hot chocolate. So we get me a hot chocolate and continue to walk towards the train. I start sippin' on my cocoa and we notice the train is approaching. Edie tells me to start running which I do. We make it in the train but no seats of course. So we stood up by the door. I continued to sip my cocoa when all of a sudden something comes over me. I start feeling like my mind is about to explode. My eyes start blurring. I start sweating but I'm cold at the same time. My breathing becomes heavy. My muscle start tensing. I start almost feeling like I'm in a dream. Like it's all unreal. It was the weirdest thing. I had to get out at the next stop so I told Edie. As soon as the doors opened I dropped out onto the platform of the train. I told Edie to please call an ambulance because "I think I'm going to die". I was talking crazy. As Edie starts to call an ambulance I start to feel my breathing come back to normal. My head feels like it deflated back to normal size. I finally get up and feel better. However, I still felt a little nauseous so we decide to take the train back home instead. Then I had 2 other scares where I started feeling my breathing get heavy and start kind of hyperventilating. These 2 other attacks weren't as bad as the first one. Then again recently in July I am on the train going to work in Manhattan. I actually wrote a post about this on my tumblr. Read that post here. Yea so that was extremely intense but that was before I knew I had anxiety attacks. My last episode was In August. It was just as bad as the first one. Anxiety attacks are the worst I must say.