Almost over and a Thank You

I know it has been way too long since my last post, but I have a pretty exciting announcement! I am officially done with my university life work, the last things that are coming up in line next are FINAL exams, which I am not that worried about but I can easily study and just focus on them. 

This past weeks have been an emotional roller coaster but in a good way, both for my career life and my personal life in which the things and the people surrounding me have helped me to find myself in the way and maybe not letting some bad things get to me. 

Today I can say that being a senior at University has been a lot of fun and challenging, even more challenging than at the beginning of the path to obtain a degree, but it is all worth the struggle and the sweat and the tears (specially the last bit of all). You have no idea how many times the thought of quitting has gone through my mind, but there always was something insignificant but great that would lift me up like a little ray of sunlight coming through my window in the darkest of days and a simple smile from the ones who love me and whom I love back. 

Having supporting friends and family has always made my day a little easier whenever I felt like not wanting to do anything else but crawl back into my bed and never leave it again. I am so thankful for each and everyone who has crossed my path, even if it was just for a couple seconds at the street, or for the last 22-almost-23-years of my life. So thank you if you are just here for a flash and thank you for making a difference in my day to day. 

To recap a little of my past weeks, lets just say that it has been amazing. New people, new projects, new aspirations and a whole lot more to life than just living it. 

It may seem that this post has become a little cheese ball of feelings, but I hope you are still sticking around reading it. If so, thank you again ! (have you noticed I am a little grateful for everything?). 

Lessons have been learned in just a short period of time. Friends have become closer to a point where family is their next status. Teachers becoming mentors. Relationships have come and gone but always will remain as a part of my story (way too much drama back then). Family. Bosses that are more like friends. Co-workers who understand you and teach you on the way being friends and family at the same time. Opportunities. Feeling loved and respected and feeling that you have left a mark on somebody's heart.

And to all the people portrayed and who made it into this cheese ball of cheesiness of pictures. Sorry I'm not sorry for putting you out there in the internet for you are the most important thing that has happened to me. These are just some of the pictures of the journey, and if you don't find yourself here, it's not because I don't love you (cause I do and more than you can imagine) but because there are waaaay to many cute pictures and my blog may crash from the cuteness. 

New Face

You may have noticed the new image of the blog. I wanted something simple, sleak and with not so much going on. I opted for just a gray background image with a little of texture and just some fun pops of color with the links and titles.

Cheers!

I felt it was time for a change as new transitions and exciting things are going on with my life and learning to love the simplicity and little things which come with new beginnings.

Cheers to new beginnings and for the new image of SKMS.



S.A

Start of the week

My week is going to be cray cray. To start it off right I have a midterm to take, a presentation of a project and some huge readings for late at night, which is not bad, but just crazy for my brain to add up so much info in just one day. But fear not, I will be ok and that is why I leave you with cute puppies and a place where I just wish I was at the moment.

 

Swiss Alps dream

puppies <3 

Have a nice start of the week!

Current Status: Stressed

For so long, and after being 2 months or so apart from the blogging world, I finally sat down, and decided to start writing even though I had no plan on doing so and therefore my rambles will be here on and on and on again.

My mood: Meeh
My hopes: underground
My dreams: semi-starstruck
My goals: on hands reach
My spirits: not so good
My motivation: needs improvement

picture from here. 

I have this strange urge to sit down and write my heart out in poems and in little verses and phrases. Maybe it is this mix of feelings overflowing my mind, that maybe my heart can handle but my brain is not prepared to. On Sunday I had a major break down, life is just not loving me right now, in every single aspect it tries to screw me over. I need some chill time. I will try to relax (but i think that there are waaay too many things on my plate right now that my mind is just not wanting to respond as it should).

Ramblings and rants stop here.

Almost fine now that I poured my frustrations here, things can get a little more cheerful, but not now, maybe from the next post onward.

Have a good day, I'll try to have one too.

Not an apology nor an excuse.

It has been waaaaaay too long since I posted here. I have nothing to say about it, just that I have been running around like a crazy person and my batteries were always running low by the time I got home. I had no energy therefore no imagination to sit down to write a lengthy blog post or even a small one with pictures in it.

Today is a Sunday of my so-not-summer-vacations from University, and as my last semester approaches, and work is more hectic than ever, I decided that this was enough and started writing. I really do miss time for myself like this, and I feel that in the way I have lost my writing essence. It feels odd and like rusty with the time that has passed by. The last post was on November!? Say what? I have to catch up on a lot of things with all of you, and I will be posting bits and pieces here and there.

Although I haven't been absent on my other social media like instagram and twitter, I feel like nothing compares to writing in a more chit-chatty form which is more familiar and friendly to all. I am not good at wrapping things up, so I will just say...till later alligator!

Merry Belated Christmas and Happy Belated New Year to all!

<3

Food.Good.Food

Have you ever tried Alpaca meat? well I had never tried it till yesterday! It was amazing!

That is the only thing I have to say about it. IT was SO GOOD.

In other news, I am busy as busy can get, this semester is CRAZY, but it is so worth it. I am only a few months away from graduating University and as they go by I am one step closer to reaching my goals.

I have to concentrate now and keep on doing some school work and work stuff.

I hope you are enjoying everything that is coming your way!

picture from here

Do's and Don't's at University #1

This is is going to be a new series in the blog about the Do's and Don't's at university or college. One Do and one Don't will be posted in a series of posts (sorry for the redundancy).

Update

I think I might be doing too many things lately. I have been busy as hell with school and work and frankly, I have had zero time to spare. Midterms are coming my way. My job is taking interesting turns and my social life is just as a mess as it was a couple months ago.

So basically, I am complete mess once again. I am trying to work my hardest for things to work out smoothly. I am in the process of finishing my career and my classes and my credits to be able to graduate as planed and blogging has been left behind for all reasons mentioned above.

The only spare time I have is to take a little control over my personal life to clean my room (which is constantly messy) take care of my little one and be some kind of help for my mom to make the house somewhat organized. I have a lot to take on. I feel a huge weigh on my shoulders right now and I feel I am juggling very badly with 15 glass balls in the air and trying not to let any single one of them fall to the ground to break. That is how stressed I feel if you get what I am saying.

I took a day off yesterday. Did nothing all day. And I feel horrible about it. Now my work has packed up on me and need to do my best to catch up on it.

I don't like to leave my blog behind but sometimes life is just not helpful. I have to go now.

I hope you all are doing great! you can keep up with me a little via twitter and sometimes over at facebook

Twitter: @stephmejia
Facebook: SKMSblog

Love you all!

Seasons Drama

I'm sitting here knowing very little about the meaning of the changing seasons. They are very stressful for me, in winter I want summer and in summer I want winter. 

Yes, a total roller coaster of emotions when I get one and not the other. A little drama queen. 

So today I am in one of those moods where I hate summer and wish it was winter to bundle up and layer my clothes and look even cuter without worrying that the sweat (gross) comes down my face and ruin the piece of art that is my make-up (LOL totally not true!!) but lets pretend it is. 

Even though I have a fan blowing at the maximum capacity, I just can't get the heat to turn off (I wish there existed a switch to just turn seasons on and off) and my desire for it to be winter is even greater. 

Heat in summer makes me dizzy somehow, specially it being hot when my classes at Uni start and keeps on going till the middle of the semester. It is just unbearable. 

I feel I have been writing a lot about things that bother me, but let's face it, there are a lot. Keeping up with the seasons is one that makes my mind tired. 

That is enough about my babbling, that could continue for hours, but I wont bother you any further with it. 

I hope you are enjoying your week and have an awesome time. 

picture from here.

Craving: Breakfast at Tiffany's

Today, I've tackled up 2 proyects! yey! 

But now that it is the afternoon and I am a bit tired of everything (well...of the majority of things) I feel like relaxing for a bit, I love, love love love to watch some old movies, and by old I mean timeless. One of them is Breakfast at Tiffany's. I adore it, I can relax so much with it and have a nice time. And I've never realized that if you part Holly's last name, you get GO Lightly, you get it? hahaha I felt kindda silly not noticing it before! 

This is a very short post, but I wanted to stop by and say HI! so HI! 

enjoy your day! 

Midterms. Done.

Probably these are the most stressful exams I've took in my life...well maybe not, but they where really close to be THE ones. I had way too much to read. I will probably learn from this and read ahead and study each class by the date. If the midterms were this hard for me, I don't want to imagine just yet how the Finals are going to be. I learned my lesson, don't worry. 

Today, I wanted to talk about the bag that I have been carrying for midterms. It is the most pretty rosy, baby pink-ish huge bag. I know, you're probably (I feel I've repeated this word like a million times already) wondering, why on earth you carry that big of a bag for midterms? Well the answer is, because I had two tests every day, and inbetween them I had one or one and a half hours to review the concepts for the upcoming one. Some of the reading I had online, so I needed to get hold of them. Plus, I have this small notebook where I write my summaries and it is just perfect. 

I am a crazy girl, and love big bags even if I don't need to carry them. Plus, my bags are always heavy...who knows why...

Of course I had to have my hand sanitizer  with me!

It is so huge and I feel the picture does no justice to it. 

I've had it for 2 or 3 years now, and It's been worn so much. It already has some parts where it's peeling, I might have to retire her soon and take her to be renewed and taken care for. The brand is Navigata, I think you can get this brand only in Latin America, but I am not positive about it so don't take my word on it. It is so well made that  it is crazy the price I payed for it. I think it was like an equivalent of 30 US$ or less (plus it was on sale!) 

I hope you guys enjoyed knowing which bag I carried during my torture week! 

what bag do you carry? 

xo, 

S.A 

Midterm Blues: A cure.

When I am having a bad day of studying, or well an intense study day to say it better, hahaha, i always find myself getting really depressed and hating my life at the moment. Midterms can be stressful enough alone and to add up the whole lot of readings and summarizing to do, is just not pretty nor pleasant. That's why guys! let me tell you! Study way ahead so you're not suffering like me right now! 

Well enough with the rant. I came to speak of a cure, yes I am in deed a little expert on how to cure my blues. I just eat sweet things. I go on the hunt of candy, some gummy's work. If there is nothing at all in my house, which is rare, I stage some sweet diversion. For example, Yesterday I made a banana sprinkled with cinnamon, sugar and some blue berries, that I microwaved for like 30 seconds (just a rough count) and TADA! dessert was ready! It made my mood change and gave me some more energy to keep up and to be able to keep my eyes open longer. 

what is your way to cure any kind of blues? 

xo, 

S.A 

picture from here. 

Busy as a bee

So, it's Saturday, most of you are probably resting and getting some more sleep than normal. You are seriously making me so jealous. I have 2 tasks for today.

The first one is to go to a recovery class of Business Law. I know fun, but it is just compulsory for me to go  because the professor is going to be saying which are the topics that come in the midterm. Yes.

The second one, is to do a presentation about the different ways to measure the external vulnerability of an economy for my Global Economics class. We have also 4 hours of recovery. We missed them and now we are paying the bills. That class is 4 hours...I don't know what I'm going to do with my existence all that time.

Totally how I feel today! 

I am a busy busy bee today.

Hope you enjoy your day and have fun!

xo,

S.A

picture from here.

cafeteria inspiration

I'm siting at the cafeteria at University, enjoying of an apple and an Arizona Blueberry White tea. It is good, and I feel entertained. People all around me have some pretty interesting food/snack options, I see a couple eating a big greasy burger, some have Dorito's all over their tables, some others are having some coffee (I would be one of them if I wasn't drinking tea this time) and almost everyone is having for drink....surprise, suprise...water (which is great) 

This has inspired me to take into consideration that most of the food offered in a Cafeteria, is greasy, non healthy and saturated. I was trying to find some healthy options, and found that they have to offer fruit salads, some salads for lunch and that is it. what else could be healthy you may ask? Well that is a question I am asking myself too. Once a week I have this idea on making a series about what healthy meals to bring to school, university or college. and also some friendly snacks for short classes so that you keep your metabolism going! 

Do you like the idea? let me know in the comments or via my contact information :) 

have a great day! 

xo, 

S.A 

picture from here. 

My Everyday beauty and makeup routine

I normally don't wear much makeup, just for when I am having a big party, where all my friends or family are going to be and it is a more "fancy" one. I tend to go bare skin to where ever I go. Specially if I am running errands. Not much interesting people to find when you are grocery shopping is there? 

Well, lately I've been obsessed with going out, more often, and heading to class, with at least my eyes eye lined, with some mascara and color on my lips. That is all I use. 

So my routine starts in the morning by washing my face and moisturizing it, I take a shower every other day. Then I chose my outfit and then get my hands on my eyeliner, mascara and lipstick. The color of lipsticks tend to be very subtle and natural for daily wear. I leave the bold colors for meeting my friends at night and having a good time. 

what is your beauty routine? 

xo, 

S.A 

Back to School(well.. University): First Week

Today begins my second week of classes. It's weird to start on a Wednesday, it totally freaks out my biological calendar. I'm a person of habit, but I try to always switch things up and want to get out of my comfort zone. This week has been quite like that. I decided to take a workshop during the first days of classes where they taught us how to handle making the CV, the personal interviews and test when you apply for a job and how to dress properly for it. 

It was a huge success for me, I went all by my self when normally I'd ask for a friend to come with me. I feel I am becoming a little more secure and confident every time I take little steps like this one. Baby steps they say. 

The long way down to the underground floor at campus. 

As long as classes go, each and every single them have their positive and negative aspects. But luckily I am focusing more on the positives than the negatives. The teachers all seem nice and are very immersed in what they know and have a lot of good advice and experiences to share. The work for these classes has doubled up. I already have way too much readings to catch up with, but I am not complaining, I am quite enjoying the fact that I will be reading more, something I just don't do so much. 

Speaking of reading...Our brand new Library building. 

The weather is awful, I have been going to University with many layers of clothes so that I don't freeze to death, and to compensate that I have been drinking lots of coffee (surprised?). I have really missed being in there. Those walls and the corridors are just great, they are like my 3 security blanket, the first is home, the second one is my school. Oh and the people, yes, I've made good friends and met a lot of different people all with great stories to tell. 

This is a recap of my week, I hope you have a great day and make the best out of it. If an opportunity shows up, don't over think it and just go grab it. 

xo, 

S.A

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Back to school: Snack Options

Hey Everyone! 

While I've been doing a ton of reading for classes just in 3 days back at Uni, I've figured out that snacking is constantly in my mind more than eating actual full meals. I am not skipping on them, it's just that I have more pick-me-ups through the day. 

What I'll do is eat breakfast early in the morning, keep with my routine (reading, writing, blogging, etc) and I'll get a little anxious, or just plain bored that I have to keep me busy with something else while doing it all, I'll grab 20 almonds, and eat them slowly so that I don't run out of them too fast, and drink some water or tea or coffee. Coffee is what the majority of university students indulge in most of the time. One can never have too many cups of it. 

After Lunch, sometimes I have class and I am busy paying attention to the professors and the subject that all I can manage, in a break, is grab an apple, or any other fruit that can be eaten with out making a mess out of it. And that is pretty much it, oh and the coffee to keep me awake. 

So snacking is your best friend students! keep that in mind.

Another idea is to get some proteins going, take a piece of grilled chicken breast and eat it in between meals. The protein will give you more energy to keep going. 

Also, having a snack in between foods will make you less hungry for the actual meal making you eat a little less than you would normally eat. This is a great tip for those who want to stay fitter and leaner and maintain a good weight range. 

I hope you guys liked this post from my little snacking life and that it is helpful in your everyday activities. 

xo, 

S.A 

apple picture from here. 

Updatable me: Back to classes

Hey everyone! 

As some may know already, I am back at University. I've been back for just 2 days and I feel the teachers are giving us a lot of work already! Final projects, essays, presentations, well indeed a lot! I am feeling exhausted but I have the feeling that this is going to be a great semester! I have recovered some great tips on getting organized for these projects, specially from The College Prepster, that I feel ready and it's nice to see that other students have great organizational tips! I might write a post or 2 on the subject with the tips I've gathered also through my personal experiences and what I have mixed with other tips I have received. 

My time now is going to be a little more limited because of the pressure of all the classes and managing group meetings, CV meetings and all, but I will try my best to keep up with everything and will try my best to balance it all out. 

I hope you understand and that I love everything I do and sometimes have to prioritize on certain aspects, specially in my academic life. 

Lots of love for everyone!! 

xo, 

S.A 

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Back to School: Heavy Duty Calculator

Hey Everyone!

It's about time to start school, college, university, you name it. It always comes in handy to have a nice and powerful device to do mathematical calculus when a class requires it. I am a huge sucker for those big and bulky calculators. I am a nerd at heart and soul. 

There are various options in the market of these great calculators. For example, the Texas Instruments brand have a really nice and great quality calculators. This model, the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition is the one that most of my fellow class students were using at high-school and was a rock. And you can change the cases of this calculator any time you want to the colour you desire.

The next calculator was the one that all of my friends used. It is a Casio CFX-9850GC Plus in colours. It was, and still is, my baby. It is great to draw graphs, do derivatives, equations and every other mathematical problem your teachers present you.  This model was recommended to us by our science teacher. He swore on these calculators and he was so right. I use it for everything from a simple add up of 60+96 or a very long 2 variable equation. 

Another calculator, also from Casio, is a more recent model of my dearly beloved GC plus. It is the FX-9860GII. It has all the features of the later calculator but also has a USB cable in which you can download every data you have, both in your computer and the calculator, to have it everywhere. 

So with any of these calculators you could be prepared to rock those maths problems and get good grades hopefully. Before you buy them, be sure that they meet the requirements for the classes and what the teachers recommend. There is also a great variety of non-graphic calculators, which are much simpler to use. 

I hope you are having a great end of vacations and enjoy your last bits of freedom! 

xo, 

S.A 

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August Rush

Hey Everyone! 

It's August already! I can't believe how fast July has come and go. As the month gets to a start, Back to School is just weeks around the corner (or maybe just few days around it!). I have already worked out my class schedule and find it a very nice and relaxed one. I will have good amount of times to space my working commitments! 

This is a post where I wanted to tell you that I will do some back to school posts to help everyone going back to classes a little more all from Fashion to School Supplies, which are always a must (DUH!). I am starting my Junior year of University, so this posts might be more focused in that matters but also on high school because that is the most that I can remember from previous years. 

I still love to go supply shopping and am like a little kid left alone in a candy store! let's face it, I still am a little kid at heart. 

I hope you will enjoy the posts about back to school and if you have any suggestions please let me know in the comments below or through my contact information. 

xo, 

S.A 

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