A Step Into Time!

"Baby girl wake up! Your going to be late for school! I have a meeting and I'm going to be late!" shouts a very anxious mother. "I'm coming I'm coming mommy" comes the voice of a little 12 year old from the top of the stairs. She comes flying down the steps and runs out to the car! Her mom locks up the house and gets in the car. "What took you so long mom I was waiting and so was Nana" giggles the little girl. "Hahaha" mocks the mom, "7:30 and I am late for my meeting"  The car starts and off goes the happy trio! Ring ring ring "Hi daddy I am on my way. What? Where? Ok! Talk to you later" "What happened mommy asks the girls?" " The meeting location has been changed. We are not meeting at the WTC. He said he would call me back with the new location"  About 5 minutes later they pull up at her school. "By sweety have a great day. I love you!" says the mother "By baby girl have a good day love you!" says the grandmother. "Bye mommy bye nana love you too" says the little girl and into school she goes to start her normal day! She waits in the lunchroom, talking with her friends, for her teacher to come and get them. It is the first week of 7th grade and she is super excited. The teacher finally comes and gets them and they are off to homeroom. Something is not right the loud speaker with the morning announcements does not come on like normal but everyone is chatting away and does not pay it any attention. Suddenly the door swings open. Another teacher enters frantically heading towards the homeroom teacher, turns her back to the class, and in a "calm" and "quite" voice says the World Trade Centers were just hit. All the kids gasp and turn their heads to look out the window to see the sky full of smoke and two iconic buildings that define New York City gone!

*end*

This may sound like a fictional story about the World Trade Centers but for me this was exactly how my day went leading up to when the news first broke! Even writing this brings tears to my eyes and I am finding it a little hard. When Bush said we will never forget what we where doing when we heard about the World Trade Centers (WTC) he was not kidding!  I was only 12 years old, my first week of 7th grade, a normally sunny day, that turned to epic tragedy in seconds!  The one cool thing about living in the borrows of NYC is that you can see the WTC from almost any school and my middle school just happened to be one of them.  I remember that day as if it was yesterday! The teacher that came running in was my history teacher for my second period class! I remember spending that whole class talking about what was happening and how we felt! I remember everyone crying, one by one the school became empty because parents where taking their kids out! I remember the news did not really hit me until about 6th period when I had gym and a class of about 67 students only had 15 and I had time to think. I thought of my uncle, he worked in a law firm not far from the WTC. I thought of my mom and grandpa, as far as I know they were to have a meeting there that morning an I had no idea where they were. I thought why am I still in school? Why isn't someone coming to get me! I remember my Nana coming to pick me up and saying my mom and grandpa were fine but they could not get a hold of my uncle (her son)! I remember all channels for 5 hours covering the story! I remember watching  the short lived Brady Bunch Brides sinoff show for the first time!  I remember there was no school September 12th and when we came back the 13th there still was a lot of kids missing! I remember a few of my friends hysterical because they had a family member on the plans or in the builds! I remember thinking is this real? I never imagined the effect it would carry for the rest of my life and the lives of New Yorkers everywhere.

After September 11th happened New Yorkers banded together and formed a great unity that seemed unbreakable.  People where helping each other and really there for their fellow New Yorkers.  I have never had more pride in being from any other state than New York! For me the WTC was not just a building, it was my childhood! My grandfather owned a floor in that building in the early 90s and I remember going to visit him with my Little Mermaid pocketbook and playing with the rubber band ball on his desk! I remember looking out the winds and looking down on all of New York!  So for me it was not just a building that went down it was a huge part of my childhood as well! 

No I will never forget the WTC or September 11th or the fact that God speared my mother, my grandfather, and my uncle! Like all those people that lost their lives they should have lost their lives too! Yes it was devastating for everyone but it was a 1000% worse for the people of NY!  It is this day that I try to keep in mind whenever I get angry at my mom or at anyone! Tomorrow is never promised! Hell the next minute is never promised so we should cherish it like it were our last.

My history teacher that spilled the beans

(left to right) Grandpa Mommy and Nana

My mommy and I at her 50th Birthday Party 2010

The face of innocents before the news that forever rocked our worlds
ok so this was really 2003 but its the same school and same classmates

My Happy List

Mamarazzi you rock! Love this List

Hope you enjoy

Loves and likes ya <3

Gigi

Accent Vlog

Hi ok so I know I'm super slow but I was looking at SERIOUSLY monthly vlogs and I absolutely fell in love with this one lol!

Say the following words:
Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Antenna, Rootbeer, Ambulance, Museum, Milk, Orange, Apricot

...and answer the following questions:
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped
body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry
groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
Where do you buy your groceries?

And then they wanted a tour of our favorite room in the house.


This was hilarious the second part was a tour of my favorite room but I will have to post that a little bit later ;)

Loves and likes ya <3
Gigi

Adventures in the Kitchen

Hello everyone so Kimora and I decided that we wanted to open up our own bakery business lol.  So I have been just baking away in the kitchen for a while. Well today I wanted to try and do a cup cake tower starting with that big cupcake from "As Seen on TV" and ending with mini cupcakes! Well you know when things aren't meant to be you get a little red flags before the big crash? Well that was me! First red flag: I had traveled to about 5 stores before I was able to even find this huge cupcake mold. Second red flag: When I found it I did not have a cook sheet to place it on but I decided to try it anyway! Third red flag (you think I would have gotten the hint from the first red flag smh): The top half tips over in the oven!!! Well this leads to the biggest domestic adventure ever because I then had to figure out how to take my oven apart, clean the bottom of it, put it back together all while still baking!! Oh and did I mention that A) all the batter was done and B) the batter that had spilled in the oven was my first ever attempt at making a cake from scratch? Well I figured out how to take the oven apart and I cleaned the oven but it back and I put the oven back together and then I start to preheat the oven again while I wash the dishes! So I finish the dishes and I begin to load the oven, and boy do I mean LOAD!! (1) 12 cupcake pan (1) 6 big cupcake pan and finally the HUGE cupcake mold! I'm starting to feel really good because I'm doing all this domestic activities by myself! So I start to sweep and clean the kitchen, I begin to spell something burning! I check the oven and everything is fine, or so I thought! All of sudden my fire alarm starts whaling!!! I run upstairs, because it could not be on the main floor, and I'm waving it frantically because I do not want to wake my mother, who I know is a light sleeper. Well I open the upstairs terrace door, fan the smoke detector, and when all else failed I ran down stairs got a chair climbed on it and took the smoke detector down and pulled out one of the batteries.  I left the chair up there so I could Put it back together when I was finished! So as I am in this process my cell phone starts to ring and it is my Nana calling to see how the baking adventure was going! MIND YOU MY MOTHER IS SLEEPING THROUGH ALL OF THIS!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?! As I am on the phone I hear my mom wake up to go to the bathroom and that is when she sees the chair and asks what is going on? Lol all i could do was laugh hysterically because he I was being all domestic and independent, being Betty Crocker and Mr. Fix-it all in one, exemplifying her good teachings of how she raised me and it was a need to us the loo that made her wake up and ask what was going on lol. My mother who jumps up to see what is going on when I wake up to use the bathroom slept through all that ruckus!! That meant one thing............... SHE WAS SUPER TIRED lol!!! After having a great laugh at the situation I reassured her that all was well and to go back and get some rest, which she gladly did! So back to baking! I go finish sweeping and finally get to relax! My phone rings again and its my friend and I am talking to him about my crazy adventure of Betty Fix-It (My own creation of the name lol).  I get up and check on my baking! Great everything was finally done! I pull it all out one by one and let it cool! After it was cool I checked my smallest cupcakes, ahh PERFECTO, then I check my big cupcakes, BODECIMO (idk if I spelt that right, 9 times out of 10 I did not lol sorry), finally I check my HUGE cupcake............. diablo que paso? This is the crash! I take the base cake out, the bottom is burnt and the bottom of that mold burnt and ripped away, the top half only one side was burnt but the mold was ok! So here is the half final product of my cupcake tower (needs frosting)

Hopefully frosting can save this lol

I think maybe I am going through a maturity growth spirt because everything with me always has to be perfect and when it is not I get upset! But this time all I could do was laugh and say oh well I will try again next time! 

Well that was my domestic adventure! Hope you got entertainment from struggles lol I only wish I had pics of my with half of my body in the oven trying to unscrew and re-screw the base of the oven lol smh! The only thing missing was a crying child that was scared from the smoke detector lol! Ahhh good times!!!

Loves and likes ya <3

Gigi

*Yawn* What a lovely dream!

Hello happy people so I had a dream last summer that I will never forget and I thought I would share with you all.  It was June of last year and I woke up with such a great smile and feeling amazing because of this one dream! I do not know how to interpret dreams so if you have any ideas of what this means please feel free to tell me in the comment box!

Ok so the dream starts of in a beautiful scenery in a car driving down a road that is surrounded with gorgeous trees; I'm guessing it was fall because the leaves were red and orange, but it was still a beautiful sunny day! I am in the passengers side and the drive in a male, but I can not see his face! He says something that makes me laugh, then from the back of the car I hear a little girl say "mommy". I turn around to find two beautiful children, a boy and a girl, that are full of smiles and happiness.  The girl looks like she is older then the boy but only by a year or so.  She asks me for something and I hand it to her, then I turn around look at my mystery man as I guess we shall call him smile and we hold hands for the rest of the drive. Even in my dreams I could feel this happiness! But the dream is not over there is another segment.

The dream then cuts to a wedding!  The two kids are not there but I am surrounded by family and friends! I feel nervous, anxious, and excited! I walk down the isle again mystery man is there and when he pulls my vail back still just a blank face, but I feel so happy! Like I'm floating on cloud 9.  That feeling you get as a teenager when you really like a guy that "puppy love" feeling. We say I do and kiss! Best feeling ever but still can not see his face. BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE!!!! SEGMENT 3 (the final segment lol)

The dream then cuts to a beautiful house kitchen! There again reappear the same 2 children but they look just a few years older.  They ask if they can be excused from dinner to watch tv, to which I replied "Yes you may but first you must clear away your dishes".  The children do as directed and then proceed to the living room to watch television mystery hubby and I are left at the table and we begin a conversation about symbolism in  a movie we had recently seen! We stated what different scenes could have meant and so on and so forth.  As we are having this talk we begin to clear away our own dishes and put away that nights dinner as left overs.  While I am at the sink washing the dishes, mystery hubby comes up behind me and gives me the biggest squeeze, I turn around and rap my arms around his neck.  Then he says "I love you so much" and kisses me. We stand there in each others impress for only a minute but it felt like forever! I loved the feeling and I never wanted to let him go! We finally break apart and he grabs a towel and says, "You wash and I'll dry?" to which I say "Sure". That is when my alarm clock woke me up for work lol.

This was the best dream ever! Never have I ever experienced a dream that seemed so real! I could feel every emotion as if it were truly happening! Never have I ever had a dream so detailed and vivid that I remember it over a year later! It was one of the warmest dreams ever! IDK who mysteryman/hubby was but I hope I get to meet him lol. What do you guys think of my dream? I would love to know!

Loves and likes ya <3
Gigi

Adventure With Kimora

So today I spent the whole day with one of my oldest BFFs Kimora! This chica is hilarious! We decided to go to the mall and boy what an adventured that was! First off I have never been to the mall on Labor Day so what a shock it was to the both of us when we learned that the mall was closing at 7:30! But we manage to get a few great hours in! Our longest stop was at Sephora; our favorite place on earth! I am a crazy slobbering Yves Saint Laurent products and she had to treat me like a kid in the candy store in that section!  I am new to that makeup world (my recent obsession) and there are a few products I have found that I love! Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat under eye concealer is my drug of choice! My under eyes is one of my biggest insecurities and Touche Eclat Radiant Touch works wonders, that is how I got hooked and every time we go to Sephora she has to keep me away from that isle lol. We played in Sephora got some great make-up and advice! Then it was on to the next store!

It is easy to make friends but it is hard to make a best friend! Your best friend is suppose to be Thelma to your Louise, Ethel to your Lucy, Flounder to your Ariel they are suppose to be the ones that are down with you no matter what! For example; the next store we went to was Wet Seal, she likes that store and wanted to look around. While in the store a random song came on and she started to do a random dance! Ahhh the test of true friendship! What do you do when your best friend is acting weird and dancing crazy in public?!?!?!? Well the answer to that question is simple .............. you join them.  If your a true friend then you will never leave their side and thats exactly what I did. I looked at her, laughed while shaking my head, shrugged, and joined her haha. That is what true best friends do ........ make complete ninys of themselves in front of people lol! Anyway after our random dance we both laughed and made comments, out loud, about how stupid we are! Ahhh time for  the next store, Spencers!

This shirt sums up the whole store experience reading shirts and laughing and agreeing with them!

Well finally we figured it was time to leave (7:30pm lol closing time anyway) and get some food!

We went to Red Lobster and laughed till we cried! We joked about everything! Probably the funnest moment of the night lead to Kimora making this face at one of my comments

So while we are dinning I get a text message from a old high school friend (male), lets call him Practice 1 (P1). He was my first boyfriend! It didnt go anywhere I think we lasted like 2 months. Anyway P1 and I keep in touch. Well a few months back we hooked up (first time ever) and it was an experience he would like to see happen repeatedly! Anyway the reason for this face lol! Anyone who knows me knows that I have a perverted mind! I can turn almost anything into a sexual referrence and find humor in it! I believe there is nothing wrong with a healthy sex life! Well P1 was texting me and asking to see if we could "hangout" tonight! Kimora knew the deal and her response was "No your mine tonight" lol. So we are talking and he is texting and I am reading his messages to her and we are talking about sex so here goes the convo with pictures:

Kimora: Why is he texting you

Clearly not the same day lol

Me: Cuz he wants to get some but that is not going to happen because I have decided to become celbate until I find the guy I want to be in a relationship with! 

Me: I'm serious (while laughing hysterically)

  

That was the literally the highlight of the night! Every time Kimora and I are together I do nothing but laugh until I cry! True friendship will never die ;)

BFFs forever

Walnut Brownies

Hey so one of my mom's FAVORITE sweet treats are Walnut Browns (especially mine hehe ;) so here is how to make them! What you will need

                                                                     A Bowl

                                                                      1 Egg

                                                                         Mix

                                                                     1/3 cup of Oil

                                                                       1/4 cup of Water

                                                                       Measuring cup

                                                 Walnuts (I eye ball the amount)

                                                         A Wooden Spoon

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees

Combine your 1 egg, 1/3 cup of oil, and 1/4 cup of water and mix

One you have mixed it should look like this and you are know ready to mix in the brownie mix and walnuts and stir

This should be your final product and you are ready to pour in the pan

Before pouring in mixture be sure to coat your pan with a substance so that your brownies will not stick! I use vegetable oil!

Pour into pan and place in oven! It should take about 20 minutes or so to cook!

Once done let cool for about 30 minutes 

Once done cooling enjoy (Milk MAY be preferable over Mascado lol )