How do I know my boyfriend is awesome?

When I tell him “We’ll watch the movie in a bit, just let me post some Shiina Ringo pictures on Tumblr and we’ll get to it”…

And he’s all “Sure hun, if you want, you can show me more of those new Lady Gaga songs you liked while you do it”

❤ ❤ This man has my heart, and I had never felt more in love.

 

 

 

Love,

 

 

Love list for the pony-soul

I’ve been very hateful these past days. I was actually writing a very long rant about things I’ve been holding for a couple of weeks, things that are stopping me from finishing projects and pending work and from contacting other human beings.

I am having second thoughts about a lot of things. I wonder and worry, and I am pondering many options. I feel stressed out to the max. I may publish it, cause I need to get it out of my system. I may publish it somewhere else, not here.

Right now, I need to make a Love List cause I am feeling a bit neurotic.

A compilation of things I am loving about my life right now:

• Taking Yoga classes. I am coping with a lot of issues here. It’s so liberating to be able to do it.
• Grey nails. Grey is my favorite color, I could wear it every day, and having it on my nails cheers me up every time I look at them. This one goes along with wearing my toe nails red.
• Noticing a very close friend looks a lot like Maggie Gyllenhaal when she’s relaxed.
• The upcoming Luis Miguel concert in my city (don’t you dare judging me!).
• My radio production class looking so promising.

Tokyo Jihen’s new video. I could straight up die right now.

• The possibility of meeting Cygenta in about two weeks.
• Being able to wear dresses I wasn’t able to wear about 4 weeks ago.
• Finding out a loved one in Japan is safe and sound.
• Making a triumphant come back to the SG world, just before I have to leave it for about ever.

• Planning the Dinosaur Appreciation Day (While trying to remember the exact date my boyfriend and I celebrated it last year)
• Listening to The dresden dolls like there’s no tomorrow
• Remembering why Erika Moen is such a queen (in other words: re-reading DAR!)
• Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen’s Dance me to the end of love to be precise.
• Growing my hair.

• Buying an amazing pair of boots.
• Not owning a TV in my bedroom at my mom’s place.
• First second anniversaries that mean the world. Having heart-felt conversations in the middle of the night and not sleeping until 5 am. Waking someone up.
• Discovering I don’t suck so much at things I feel very self-conscious of.
• Being unexpectedly complimented.
• Holding high hopes on something I did a couple of weeks ago.

I’m having a hard time finding things that I love. Give me a couple of weeks.

How to drink tea, the Ponicorn way.

After last week’s post on how much I love tea, and tea becoming hipsters’ coffee and everything I started thinking a bit, lately, tea has become such a big deal in my life, it’s kind of eponymous of my current relationship, so having all of this in mind I felt a bit inspired to write this guide to drinking tea.

Why tea? I’m sure you can just type “Benefits of Tea” on Google and you’ll get a long list of awesome things that will happen to your body if you just start drinking tea. I won’t give you that. Yes, tea has a lot of antioxidants, has less caffeine than coffee and all that, but that is a given.

Let me tell you about my experience with tea.

I’ve been a tea drinker ever since I was a kid, both my parents are coffee drinkers and somehow didn’t want me to get the habit, so they made sure to always have a wide selection of tea herbs and bags at home, and I loved it so much, I never really go the hang of coffee, not even when I became a teenager and all of my friends wanted to go for a hot capu.

Coffee has always been bad for my body, I have to drink it with lots of cream and lots of sugar, it gives me headaches, makes me nauseous, shaky and I feel tired and sleepy after a while. I can drink it if I have to, but I hate the feeling so much, I prefer not to. Tea on the other hand, can either wake me up or help me sleep depending of what I’m having. I don’t need to drink it with cream at all, gives me lots of energy and I don’t feel it drop after a while.

“Lot’s of cream, lot’s of sugar” You and I, both, Mr. Wolfe

So, If you hadn’t yet, give it a try, it will give your metabolism a more natural boost.

To prepare tea, the Ponicorn way you will need:

• Tea cups
• Tea herbs
• Kettle
• Tea pot
• Tea bags
• Sugar
• Cream
• Infusers
• Killer company

Mix and match the way you prefer it: You won’t need tea bags if you have tea herbs and infusers; you won’t need sugar and cream if you dislike their taste on your tea and so on.

1. Boil your water, for this I use my tea kettle.
2. While your water boils, prepare either your tea bags or infusers with tea herbs.
3. Set your tea cups with tea deliciousness, pour the water let it sit for about 2-3 minutes.
4. Remove the tea implements, add sugar and cream if you like it that way.
5. Add the killer company or a nice solo time, and enjoy.

Extra Tips for Tea Lovers and Beginners.

• Know your preferences, know your tea – I love tea extra strong, with two bags or lots of herbs, but over the years I’ve learned that when I try a new brand of tea for the first time, I’d better go slow on it at first.
• Don’t be afraid to mix – My boyfriend once mixed peppermint, apple and cinnamon and we loved it so much it became a regular.
• Careful with Green tea – This is not very common, but it happened to me, so let me warn you: Some people can have a slight adverse reaction to green tea manifested in the form of a slight migraine, sometimes it varies depending on the brand you’re getting, sometimes your body gets used to it, but it’s really hard to know. My advice? Go Slow.
• Don’t limit your tea intake to hot beverages. – The taste of your regular hot tea changes dramatically when you turn it into a cold drink. Then again, don’t fear the experience.
• If you’re feeling frisky, you can do this:

I may write later about cool tea items to you can buy to make your tea drinking experience not only delicious but also visually appealing, but for now, you’re set to go. I hope you enjoyed reading my guide to tea drinking the Ponicorn way. Now if you excuse me, I’m going to have a nice cup of roses before going to bed.

Strawberry and vanilla kiss

Pinterest + Invites Giveaway

When I first heard about Pinterest, I wasn’t really excited. I’ve been on Tumblr for over 2 years now and I just love the way it works, I love being able to repost what others post and laugh about inside jokes, and I though ‘Meh, Pinterest seems like the same but not as cool and intimate’. Well, I gotta say I ended up falling in love with it.

Pinterest is social catalog organized into boards, pretty much the same way Delicious works, you can pin a website or a picture, sort it into categories and use it later if you need it. You can either give it a real purpose or just keep it as a gallery. Right now, I use it both ways, I keep some galleries of things I find visually appealing, and project manager.

My nicest Boards?
Cat Cat Cat About kittens.
Decor Decoration inspiration, and projects.
Things my boyfriend would like pictures and objects my boyfriend would love to either see of have.
Cute things I want Silly little things I’d love to have.
Clothes Love Fashion lust.

I keep more, but these are my favorites.

Now, since getting a Pinterest invites are a bit tricky to get, since it’s not a free registration website, you have to get into a waiting list, before they invite you, or you must have a nice friend sending you an invite. That’s why, I have 3 invites for any taker reading this. Just ask for it here, or send me a private message, all I need is a valid e-mail address.

Give it a try, ponies, I’m sure you’ll love it.

Love.Love.Love

And ‘I love…’ list to cheer this girl up. (Awesome things that sometimes go unnoticed when I am depressed, which I am)

• My cat, cause she missed me so much she can barely stop hugging me. I love her, she’s so fantastic, I took this pic last Wednesday.
• Last night’s conversation with my boyfriend, he’s so understanding. Thank you for being the amazing man you are, love.
• Getting a hair cut. I needed it
• Organizing my house, and going through old documents finding things I thought to be lost.

• Watching Equilibrium with my boyfriend. I’ve been wanting to watch it for a while and he was a sweet heart and got it for me.
• Fernando. ❤
• Discovering I have so much creative freedom in most of my classes.
• Quitting a bit of my Online life, to start living a bit more.
• Ordering Multi+Daily Glow from Genuine Health, and receiving a skin care kit from Clinique.
• Trying to  get new good habits like exercising regularly, taking vitamins every day, and keeping a daily paper journal.
• Finding time to be with myself.

• Emilie Autumn’s Shalott. Nothing to say, I just love it.
• Spending time with my mom. She’s sick and I miss her.
• Don’t really caring about people saying I’m now a Libra, I couldn’t really be any more Scorpio than I am.
• Otona.
• Being able to go after some thing I’ve been wanting for a while.
• Having awkward conversations and being a grown up about them.
• The amazing marshmallow scented body cream Divymode gifted me with. It’s so yummy I can’t stop using it.

I need to remind myself, everything in this moment is worth loving.