Year In Review: 2013...

♥ Moving in with Justin

♥ Going to press screenings for Beautiful Creatures, Despicable Me 2, The House That Jack Built & 47 Ronin

♥ Vacationing in Cancun with Erin, Day & Chas

♥ Attending B&C and M&W's weddings

♥ Learning that I love Brussels sprouts

♥ Spending time with my family

♥ Attending LatinTRENDS 100th issue party

♥ Finally getting back to work after Hurricane Sandy

♥ Going on Phil's annual rafting trip

♥ Forming relationships that I wish I would have made earlier, better late than never

♥ Throwing my first party at my apartment

♥ Attending Lucky FABB & meeting Niki, Paulette, Emily, Jen, Charlotte, Sarah & Alicia

♥ Spending Labor Day weekend in Ocean City, MD with Erin, Day, Toni, Nick, etc.

♥ Celebrating 10 years dating Justin

♥ Discovering that I love wearing my hair down and curly

♥ Having the best friends that anyone could ever ask for

♥ Lazy days at the beach

♥ Making our apartment my own

♥ Daytripping in Atlantic City with my sister, Erin and their work peoples

♥ Having the opportunity to partner with amazing companies

♥ Seeing Stephen Lynch in concert

♥ Discovering how amazing it is having a waterproof camera

♥ Surviving knowing that I graduated high school ten years ago

♥ Scoring awesome thrift store finds

♥ Going on random day dates with Justin

♥ Having amazing readers

JANUARY (There aren't many posts because I cut my finger, had stitches & couldn't type)

♥ Chock Full o'Birthdays Weekend

♥ Overdue Archives: New Year's Eve In Instagram

♥ Twenty-Five Things That Make Me Happy

♥ Sweet Little Day

♥ Catching Up With Friends

FEBRUARY

♥ Birthday Dinners & Possible Broken Toes

♥ Getting My Craft On

♥ Nemo Found Us

♥ Beautiful Creatures Press Screening & Review

♥ Getting Ready To Go Out Playlist

♥ Bachelorette Parties & The Day After

♥ Birthday Wishlist

♥ Crap My Coworkers Actually Said

MARCH

♥ Hair Dye Makes You Nauseous

♥ Everlong

♥ Birthday Party Fail

♥ No Regrets 2013-2014 Edition

♥ Going Away Disaster

♥ Pantone Color Of The Year Wishlist

♥ Mini Rant: Driving Around The Airport

♥ Photoshoot With Erin's Cats

♥ Finally Open To The Public

♥ Update On Being Open To The Public

♥ Easter Dinner With Both Families

APRIL

♥ Day In NYC & Tickets To The Daily Show

♥ Party People In Instagram & Vine

♥ Flat Stanley & Amy

♥ Strawberry Banana Spinach Smoothie

♥ Help Me Pick Out A Dress

♥ Take Me Out To The Ball Game

♥ I Need To Stay Away From The Public Restroom

♥ Adventures In Apartment Hunting

♥ New Apartment Wishlist: Living Room

♥ Dancing By Myself

♥ Little Apartment Update

MAY

♥ Why I've Been M.I.A.

♥ Pretending To Be A Mom

♥ Cookin' Librarian: Apple & Cheese Sandwich

♥ Doctors Tending Bar For Boobies

♥ Review: Mo's Nose Series

♥ Summer Wishlist

♥ "Julia" Is Driving Me Crazy

♥ Product Review: Card From Cardstore.com

♥ B & C's Wedding In Instagram

JUNE

♥ Hospital Visits, Weddings, Birthdays, Sick People, Et Cetera

♥ Arrested Development & Frozen Bananas

♥ Talking About Horror Movies On The Radio

♥ Mini Rant: How Easy It Is To Break Victoria's Secret PINK Water Bottles

♥ Leaky Ceilings, Power Outages & Flooded Streets

♥ Bulk Air Fresheners For Litter Boxes

♥ Bilingual Story Time

♥ Best Friend Movie Date

♥ Just A Random Wishlist

♥ 50 Random Facts About Me

♥ Attempting To Interlibrary Loan A Book

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone

♥ Atlantic City In Instagram

♥ The Conjuring

♥ Cookin' Librarian: Quinoa Salad

♥ Despicable Me 2

JULY

♥ Craft Demo: Painted Flower Pot

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone

♥ Fourth Of July Fire Island Style In Instagram

♥ My Friend Guest Hosting On Tech Feed

♥ Sick Days

♥ All-Star Futures Game In Instagram

♥ Morning Full Of Stupidity

♥ Rafting Trip Weekend In Instagram

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone

♥ Wall Art For The Renter, For Real™

AUGUST

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone: Food Porn Edition

♥ Breakfast Drama

♥ Photo An Hour: Stuck At Work Edition

♥ Crazy Ladies & Reading Comprehension

♥ N'SYNC Reunion? Yes Please

♥ Tech Feed News Featuring My Girl Chas

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone

♥ Review: Confessions Of A Hater

♥ LatinTRENDS 100th Issue Event

SEPTEMBER

♥ Ocean City Labor Day Weekend Trip In Instagram

♥ I'm Going To Lucky FABB

♥ Taping Of Bethenny

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone

♥ Did I Leave My Flat Iron On

♥ M & W's Wedding In Instagram

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone: Food Porn Edition

♥ Texts From Wrong Numbers

♥ New York Maker Faire

♥ 50 Random Facts About Me

OCTOBER

♥ Girls Trip To Cancun, Mexico

♥ 'The House That Jack Built' New York Premiere

♥ New York Comic Con 2013: Day One

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone

♥ Stephen Lynch At The Space At Westbury

♥ If You See Something, Say Something

♥ Overdue: Rise Of The Jack O'Lanterns

♥ Overdue: Wandering Around The Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park

♥ I Haven't Even Been At Work An Hour

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone: Food Porn Edition

♥ Lucky FABB Conference

♥ Overdue: Sunday At Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve

♥ Kate Spade Wishlist

♥ 100% Confident To Be Awesome

♥ Halloween Beauty Look From COVERGIRL & Vidal Sassoon: Gatsby

♥ Halloween Beauty Look From COVERGIRL & Vidal Sassoon: Warrior Princess

NOVEMBER

♥ Halloween 2013 Recap

♥ Coca-Cola & HSF 'Share Possibilities' Scholarship For Hispanic Students

♥ If You Have Nothing To Say, Post Pictures Of Nella

♥ Drinkin' Librarian: Mojitos (Because I'm Cuban)

♥ Weekend Recap: Partying In NYC, Fake Thanksgiving & More

♥ Despicable Me 2 Giveaway

♥ Photo-An-Hour: Saturday, November 23rd

♥ Thanksgiving In Instagram

♥ LASIK Consultation

DECEMBER

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone

♥ Dinner Date

♥ Saturday In Photos

♥ Book Review: Knock Knock My Dad's Dream For Me

♥ My Newest Coping Mechanism

♥ 47 Ronin Press Screening & An Evening In NYC

♥ 47 Ronin

♥ A Misfit For Every Season: 2013

♥ LASIK Pre-Op

• #GonnaGetCrabs • #NoDeadHookersHere • #NoHayProstitutasMuertasAquí •

• #TwerkTeamDoesCancun • #CancunLovesBadBitches • #TequilaHooker • 

• #HolaMeLlamoMcMoose • #BadBitchesLoveNYE • #TwerkTeamNYE •

• #Nella • #CubanChristmas • #ButleRiveRun •

2013 has been an interesting year to say the least. I've had all the wonderful things I've mentioned above happen, as well as some pretty shitty things. But you have to take the good with the bad and here's hoping 2014 is just as good or better than 2013.

Stay safe today and enjoy your New Year's Eve! I'll talk to you in 2014.

Sick Sad Little Librarian...

Seeing as I haven't posted anything in almost a week I thought that I'd do a little update, not that anything interesting has happened aside from me getting randomly sick.

Basically after coming back from Cancun and going to The House That Jack Built (2013) premiere in New York City, I kinda spent the next two day bumming around my apartment doing nothing. And obviously while doing nothing in my apartment I got a wicked head cold/sinus thing, which eventually and magically turned into a chest cold.

So yeah, I've been sick since Friday night and that is why no one has heard a peep from me. I'm honestly just trying to get better before New York Comic Con this weekend because it would kill me to be dragging at NYCC.

'The House That Jack Built' New York Premiere...

Last night I had the opportunity to go to the New York premiere of Joseph B. Vasquez's The House That Jack Built (2013). I got to cover the red carpet, as well as see the actual movie. And can I say, it was honestly one of the most amazing experiences I've had in terms of going to a movie screening. The whole cast was there (They were super nice, especially E.J. Bonilla who played the lead Jack in the film), we got to listen to Director Henry Barrial speak about the film and it's writer Joseph B. Vasquez (Who unfortunately passed away in 1995 due to an AIDS-related complications) and we got to watch a beautifully played out drama that still stood the test of time despite being penned nearly twenty years ago.





Jack Maldonado is an ambitious young Latino man who, fueled by misguided nostalgia, buys a small apartment building in the Bronx and moves his boisterous family into the apartments to live rent-free. All the while, he hides the fact that his corner store is a front for selling marijuana but soon has to deal with new unwanted competitive forces. It’s only a matter of time before Jack’s family and ‘business’ lives collide in tragic fashion.

Genre: Drama
Cast: E.J. Bonilla, Melissa Fumero, Leo Minaya, Flor De Liz Perez, Saundra Santiago, John Herrera, Rosal Colon, Javier Muñoz, Desmin Borges, Danny Henriquez, Raymond T. Williams,  Judith Delgado, Jose Soto, Fidel Vicios, George Bass, Nathalie Lyon, Dolores Fleming, Julio Angel Feijoo, Tyler Alvarez, Jeremy Fernandez, Perry Martijena, Isabela Moner, Jonah Rosario
Directed by: Henry Barrial
Written by: Joseph B. Vasquez

As your average movie goer (Which I am, because as you all know I am in no way shape or form a film critic), I thoroughly enjoyed The House That Jack Built (2013). I thought it was a beautiful portrayal of Nuyorican life, struggles and even stereotypes within one family.

E.J. did an incredible job portraying the more than slightly delusional lead Jack. He made me love, yet hate this drug dealing family oriented individual (Go E.J. for making me want to high five a drug dealer).

I have nothing but positive things to say about The House That Jack Built (2013) and instead of sitting here and continuing gushing to you about how much I enjoyed this movie, I'm just going to urge you to see the film if you can. It is a great tribute to it's writer Joseph B. Vasquez and an awesome use of a KickStarter campaign (Yup folks, it was funded by KickStarter).

Lemme know if you have a chance to see it and what you think!