Happy Valentine's Day Loves

A little humor to add to your Valentine's day fun!

The Girl Between the Lines

Today I am linking up Lauren at The Albrechts Blog and Hayley at A Beautiful Exchange for The Girl Between the Lines. Every week they do a new prompt for you to write about on Wednesdays. This weeks prompt was, "Share one of your favorite photos and the story behind it."

This one was easy for me, by far one of the funnest nights of my life was Halloween 2012! Welcome back to the blog, Lil' Dulce:

Whenever I went to college one of the things I was most looking forward to was, Halloween. Now I had your typical college halloween costumes, but this one was by far my favorite. For those of y'all who have no idea what that (Lil' Dulce) is, she is a chola. Being from New Mexico, I have gotten pretty good at my hispanic accent, so from there the idea was born. I got online and googled chola make up for the inspiration, borrowed some clothes from some one of my guy friends and perfected the accent.

For those of y'all who do not know me, the picture on the left is generally how I look on a regular basis and the right is obviously Lil' Dulce. It took me 2 hours to get ready, which included glueing coffee filters over my eyebrows, caking on the foundation, lip liner and penciling on my eyebrows. After I was finally painted up, I went out and met up with some friends. I have friends that I see everyday at school that I was standing right next to and they had no idea who I was. I had complete conversations (in character of course) with friends and they all had no idea who I was. Heck, even the friends that I knew I was coming as Lil' Dulce still had no idea who I was. It was certainly one of the funnest nights I have had. 

What is some of yall's favorite Halloween costumes?

Spread The Love Link-Up Party

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The day has come for the much anticipated link-up party.

The link up is at the bottom of this post :)

One of my acts of kindness for the link up party was writing letters to the residents at one of my rotations. My last rotation before the break was at a long term care facility for veterans in Truth or Consequences, NM. Now I had been to this location before and had gotten to know most of the residents pretty well already. Since the rotation was before Christmas, I decided to write Christmas cards to all the residents. I am talking about over 125 cards thats were delivered at mail call the week before Christmas. Unfortunately, I was gone when the letters were passed out, but I am sure that they were enjoyed even if it was only for the 2 seconds while they read it.

I also did the typical, donating food to a homeless person standing at an intersection in town, but mostly I just tried to be more kind and considerate in general. Whether it was holding the door for that continuos line of people rushing in the mall for last minute shopping or letting the person with 3 items check out in front of you at the store. It was nice to make more of an effort to do all the little things that we should be or are doing all year for people. It is certainly something that I want to continue out the year doing and bring into the new year.

Parents

My parents are both teachers at a small school (I am talking 57 kids from Pre-K to 12th grade) in Eastern, NM. Well the Pre-K students made gingerbread men that mysteriously went missing from their classroom. So my Dad agreed to take the bullet and pretend to steal the gingerbread men and made a big ordeal about it razzing the little ones. I guess their teacher had told them, that if they bake more then theirs would come back. Of course they couldn't leave the little ones hanging, so they made giant gingerbread men for the little ones. Just as the story goes, as soon as the new men were baked, theirs returned--a happy ending for all.

They also shared that their kindness has been repaid to them as well. One of their sweet little 8th grade students remembered that my Dad liked chocolate covered cherries and that Mom liked Almond Joy so she paired each of those with a sweet hand written note. I love hearing about people sharing their kindness, especially young ones.

Laker Lover and her family

Laker Lover and her family have been busy being Santa's little elves. They did several acts of kindness including: buying Starbucks for the car behind them, making food baskets for families and wrapped up gifts for children in need in their hometown. She said it was really sad seeing all the families that were not as fortunate as her family, but it really helped to remind her of how blessed they are and how much she enjoyed being able to give back.

I can't wait to hear about yall's Acts of Kindness!

Happy Birthday Jesus!

I hope you are all having a very Merry Christmas with your loved ones. My family and I are currently celebrating this joyous day in Kansas. We had to fight a snow storm on the way up here, but thankfully we made it all safe and sound.

God Bless You ALL and remember the real reason for the season!

Oh and I will be posting the my link up tomorrow! I look forward to hearing all about yall's random acts of kindness during the holiday season.

Birthday Announcement

Today is two of my absolute favorite lady's birthdays, Mother Dearest and G-Ma.  I am lucky to have two of the best people and wonderful role models I know in my life as family. I would not be where or who I am today without these two women. I love you both and hope you have the wonderfully blessed day that y'all deserve. 

Just a friendly reminder folks that you have exactly ONE week until the Spread the Love link-up ends!

Happy Hump Day!

A Christmas Miracle

If y'all haven't seen this video yet, watch it. It may or may not have made me cry in the middle of public. The world needs more companies and people like this today.

Happy Holidays!

My First Ever Link-Up PARTY Y'all

For awhile now I have wanted to host a link-up party so I finally did it. Here goes nothin' ... 

Sometimes I get so caught up with everything going on with life that I forget to take a step back and remember how truly blessed I am. This is especially easy to do as we are rushing around trying to get everything settled for the holidays before we get off work or out of school. We are over consumed with finding the perfect gift for our loved ones and making sure we all have the best that we sometimes miss out on the true reason for the season. So in the spirit of the holiday season I am going to host a link up for others to help spread a little Christmas cheer. It is super easy and a GREAT opportunity to give back as we remember the reason we celebrate this season. Whether it is to the less fortunate or a random stranger, it is all about the thought that counts.

Here is all the details . . . Sometime between now and Christmas do some kind of selfless act, that's it! It can be as simple as paying for the person behind you at Starbucks, sending an extra Christmas card to a neighbor, drop off a batch of cookies to a friend, visit a nursing home, buy an extra toy for a child, donate an old coat, etc. There are endless possibilities to be explored and I am sure y'all are a lot more creative than I am, so start a thinkin'. Then, after Christmas I will host the party and everybody can link-up with their stories. Now don't you miss out on the fun just because you don't have a blog. If you do have a blog, you can send your description/story to me and I will gladly write it up and post it for you. Oh and I am having a few minor technical difficulties working the link up so I will post that as soon as I get it working :)

Have a great week lovelies!

Happy Halloween

In the spirit of Halloween (and lack of able to dress up this year) I figured I would share some of my favorites from last year. Welcome back to the blog, Lil' Dulce

What's some of yall's favorite costumes?

Valentine's Day Cheer

 That's right y'all it's that time of the year again, Valentine's Day. Single girls across the world have been dreading this day for awhile now. It is a day dedicated to telling everybody about how much you love your significant other.

Now if you are batting for the single team this year you might start to feel a little like Jessica Biel from the movie Valentine's Day, throw your own Anti-Valentine's Day party . . .

Well maybe you are not the one planning the party, but perhaps you are Jennifer Garner who just shows up to the party and has all the fun . . .

Or maybe you are glad your single and want to enjoy the evening all to yourself. If that's the case I found a few fun things for you to do on your evening all alone . . .

Well then that leaves the other part of girls who are still trying to find the "Perfect Man" . . .

And we certainly can't leave out the hopeless romantics who have convinced themselves that they don't need a man like my home girl Carrie from Sex in the City . . .

. . . but in the end even Carrie ends up falling in love. So enjoy the red hearts plastered all over town and sappy love songs on the radio because one day you will be joining all those love sick couples out there with your own "Mr. Big".

I hate to break the news to you folks, but Valentine's Day isn't just about couples. It's about showing love to ALL your loved ones. Whether it's picking up the phone and calling an old friend or sending your grandparents a card in the mail. So get off the couch, out of your 2 day old pajamas, and go make someone's day, that is what this day is all about!

So spread the love today, wherever you go!

Favorite SB Commercial

I hope by now everybody has recovered from their Super Bowl coma. I still think that the Monday after the SB should be a national holiday. I mean after a day spent full of eating, relaxing and celebrating it is so unfair to make you wake up bright and early and go to class first thing in the morning. Anyways, how was yall's SB Sunday? We had some friends over and had entirely wayyyy to much food. Needless to say it was great, oh and the Ravens won (not my typical team, but that was who I was rooting for Sunday.)

Now lets get down to brass tacks here, how about them commercials?!?! What did y'all think? What were your favorites? I am sure y'all have all seen this, but incase you haven't, check it out! This was Dodge's Super Bowl Commercial "So God made a farmer.", and also my favorite one!





Immediately following the airing of the commercial my facebook newsfeed blew up with posts and reposts of the video. How great is it that I have so many friends and family members advocating for the agricultural industry. I think in today's society it is so easily overlooked how much that industry is the backbone of our great country. I couldn't think of a better platform to talk about agriculture and all the hard work our farmers, ranchers, and their families put in day in and day out than in front of millions of Americans and other countries across the world. You have read before about how people here in the city view country livin' and how so much of that outlook is skewed. So if you have a few free minutes, take the time to watch the video and see how much farmers and ranchers really put in day in and day out. All of these sacrifices are made so that we can have that fresh gallon of milk in the fridge or that oh so favorite blue sweater. If you really like it, comment, share and help advocate agriculture babyyyy :)

Have a great day lovelies!

That Time of the Month

That's right, it is that time of the month again! Before you start to think I'm talking about something inappropriate, but it's care package time! This one is pretty fun since there are two festivities going on in February; Valentine's Day and Mardi Gras.

This care package is full of all kinds of goodies besides Valentine's candy. I put a couple different kinds of PopTarts, sugar cookies, Queen Anne's chocolate covered cherries, 4 different kinds of spices, coffee, ramen noodles, chocolate, red hots, gum, and of course some Mardi Gras/Valentine's decorations.

On another note, since I last updated you guys about this project, I have convinced 2 more people to sign up to adopt a soldier. Whoohooo!! :) One of them is our fellow blogger, Miss Football. So if y'all get a chance drop by her blog and check out all the good things she is doing. Also, while I was working the KOB TV health fair Saturday I had the privilege of talking to 2 previously deployed soldiers about ideas. It was nice reinforcement to know that I am working the right direction.

Just a heads up y'all, sometime in the future I am going to send my soldier a full box of letters from my friends and family. I probably won't be sending the package until March or April, but if you would like to volunteer to send a letter to him, email me and I will send you my address! I think it will be a nice spin on the care package.

I hope yall's week is going great!

Weekend of Fun

Well as always things are crazy around here! School has been on crack the past couple weeks, but finally slowed down on Friday! Lucky for me it slowed down right in time for me to dress up for a costume party this past weekend! It was an absolute blast even if it did take me about 2 hours to paint my face on. I think that words could not begin to describe this any better than pictures so here we go!

At this point you might be thinking... What the heck? Why did you just add pictures of some chola girl? Well folks that is indeed me! (If you are new to the blog my picture is in the right upper corner!) Yep, you heard me right. Don't feel bad some of my good friends knew that I was going to be a chola and still did not recognize me! Pretty crazy huh? I was so far deep into the mannerisms of my character that I was struggling Sunday morning when I woke up to talk like a normal person. It was pretty histerical!

Miss Artesia and Laker Lover in their cute costumes

& me being real ghetto! Haha

Kappa Psi Family!

Link up with these girls for your weekend update!

Have a great week friends!!

Leap Day Challenge

 Happy Leap Year, let's just take a moment to think about it, on this day 4 years from now. Are we still the same person as we were before?

Since today only happens once every four years I have a challenge for you! Yes I am talking to you buddy. Whether you are sitting on your couch taking the morning easy, currently in the middle of a temporary break from your hectic life or killing time between meetings, this is your time to do something fun, original, and interesting!

My darling friend, Miss Football, had a fun idea she stumbled upon and shared in her blog! So the challenge is to write a letter to yourself stating the 10 things you want to accomplish in 4 years! The best part about this challenge is that it can be whatever goals you want! It doesn't have to be anything serious or crazy, but on the other hand you don't have to limit yourself either. Let your creativity run free doll! After you are done with your letter, put in an envelope, seal that baby up good and place it somewhere for safe keeping for the next 4 years! Then in 4 years when the next Leap Year comes along open up your letter and see where you stand.


I was going to try to find a funny joke to leave y'all with today, but nobody seems to have any funny jokes about Leap Year. So I thought I would summarize with a fun fact. 

Anthony, Texas is the self-proclaimed Leap Year Capitol of the World! They have a 9 day festival to celebrate this joyous day! Crazy huh?!? Who knew we had a such a gem only a few hours away! Y'all can check out more information on it at www.leapyearcapital.com!