I am passionate about ..... {Blog-tember Challenge}

Today's Prompt:

"I am passionate about ______________. "

: I like to think of myself as being a very passionate person. Everything I love to do, I do with a passion and enjoying every moment of it. Whether is reading books, or obsessing over lipsticks or just spending time with the people I love. So this list is a very similar list of the things that make me happy.

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.... enjoying life

.... laughing until my tummy hurts

.... being inspired

.... and inspiring someone

.... sunny summer days

... the smell of rainy days

.... watching baseball

.... reading until the wee hours of the night

.... love

.... spending time with family

.... seeing my friends

.... working with children

.... being a helping hand to somebody

.... God

.... having justice in the world

.... feeling good about myself (I'm working on this one on a daily basis)

.... putting on lipsticks

.... creativity

.... dreaming and achieving those dreams

.... exploring new places

.... learning new things

Fashion Trends {Blog-tember Challenge)

Hi lovelies!!! It's finally Thursday and the weekend is just around the corner!!! Yay!!! :) 

Today's prompt:

Pick a fashion trend you love and a fashion trend you hate. Win us over!

My favorite this year was DARK LIPS!!! I think they look amazing!!!!So bold, and so confident, so different. I love it!! I hope that the dark lips continue. :) Because I will not stop.  

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This was my attempt at wearing dark lips. I'm wearing NYC in Mahagony. 

One of the trends that I do not understand is rainbow colored hair. Think Katy Perry, and the above picture of Kylie Jenner. Okay, I can let Kylie pass, she is still a teenager, experimenting with her hair having fun etc. But Katy Perry and older people, dyeing their hair ridiculous colors, I just don't understand. 

What do you think?? A fan of Dark Lips? Would you ever dye your hair green? 

When I Grow Up... {Blog-tember Challenge}

Hi lovelies, 

Hope you all have been having a great week. It's almost the weekend. Woot!!!

Today's Prompt: 

"When I grow up I want to be...." Feel free to answer as your 5-year-old self or as of now.

I've written a very similar post some time ago on my "All Grown Up" goals. Read it in full here.

You know how some kids change what they want to be when they grow up every so often. I remember not really changing it. I wanted to be a teacher, for as long as remember. I remember having this ping-pong table at our house, and when it was time to play outside, me and my cousins would play school. The ping-pong table was green, and big, and it looked like a chalkboard, and we would literally use it as such. I would be the teacher and my brothers and cousins would be my students. I would even make a roll sheet to look like the ones that the teachers have. 

As I got older, being a teacher stayed with me. It was in college where I really realized that I enjoyed working with children. 

Yes I've always wanted to be a teacher, but I also had a dream career that not a lot of people know that it was serious. In high school I took a Fashion Design class as one of my electives. We learned to sew clothes, work with patterns, draw croquis. I fell in love with it. So now at age 24, if teaching doesn't work out, when I grow up I want to be a Fashion Designer. I would love to go back to school and take some fashion design courses. :) 

What did/do you want to be when you grow up?

Do What Makes You Happy {Blog-tember Challenge}

Hi lovelies!!! 

Hope you are all had a great long weekend, and ready for a day back at work.I sure ain't, but we gotta do what we gotta do. ;)

Today I bring you a special post. And omg, it's the third post in a row, in a long time. I know I've mentioned recently how I've been M.I.A here. And how sad I am about it. But I found this awesome challenge that I think will help me get back into blogging again. I found it last night. So I will be doing yesterday's post and today's post together. 

First, a little bit about the blog challenge. The challenge is hosted by Bailey Jean over at Brave Love. She kindly came up with a daily post for each day for the month of September, called The Blog-tember Challenge. Check out all the prompts here.

Yesterday's prompt: About the Author

Imagine the front sleeve of a hard cover novel. Give us your "About the Author" so we can get to know one another, and for fun tell us what your imaginary novel would be about.

Adrianna Avila, known as Adri to her loved ones, is the proud author of Adri's Thoughts. As a small girl, she has loved writing her daily life in journals. Now at the age of twenty-five she combines her love of reading with her dream of writing. This novel will be her debut novel, which combines her love of writing, reading and the fashion designing world. Adri was born and raised in California, and she currently lives there, and loves the California sunsets and year long warm weather. Visit her at thoughtsbyadri.blogspot.com to see a glimpse of her daily life. 

Today's prompt: What Makes You Happy

Write about what makes you happy, from the little joys to the huge game-changers.

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- Pumpkin Spice Lattes

- My parents

- My brothers (although they still annoy me at 24)

- My Family

- Babies (Nieces and nephews)

- God 

- Best Friends

- Baseball

- Reading

- The time I get for myself

- Laughing

- Making things

- Flowers

- Health

- Love

- Finding words to live by

What would your About the Author say?

Hello September

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Happy Labor Day!!! Happy First Day of September!! Its September, can't believe. 

Well here's to another amazing month. The month when we can finally start buying those Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and when the Fall begins. 

Things I'm looking forward to this month:

- My dad's birthday. 

- My trip to the Bay to see my friends. Roadtrip!!

- Those Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Starbucks!!

- Cooler temperatures in California, crossing my fingers.

- Mug Swap buddy getting her box. :) Check her out at Overextended April. 

- seeing friends that I haven't seen in a long time. 

Goodbye August!!!

Row 1: I love first Friday of the month at work when they bring us free lunch!! My cousin planned a Raging Waters Family Trip, which was so much fun!! 

Row 2: After a really long and hectic week, we got cupcakes at work. It was also my cousins baby shower, and I was finally able to make her a little baby blanket. Isn't it cute!!! Ahhhh and this month I received my first ever IPSY bag!! I was sooo excited. :) 

Row 3: finally started decorating my little cubicle at work. Speaking of work, they had an annual company party for us at the beach. It was hot, but fun. 

Row 4: My cousin baptised my little niece. She looked so cute. I had dinner with one of my best friends. It felt good catching up with her. :) 

What are you looking forward to the most thing September?