Celebrate Everything

hap·pi·ness
ˈhapēnəs/
noun the state of being happy (also known as one's inability to grow up).

Be happy. Celebrate everything*. Celebrate your life, your home, your family, your friends, your work, your food, your pets, your beautiful body, your city, your neighbors. Celebrate your problems because without them you wouldn't grow as a person. Celebrate your broken heart because now you've developed enough compassion to realize that we are all fighting a hard battle. Celebrate that husband, boyfriend, lover that got away because love when not reciprocated will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Celebrate everything, but most importantly, celebrate YOURSELF. 

Thank you to the beautiful stranger in Washington Square Park that somehow got involved in the awkward rapidly turned awesome experience of taking pictures to a complete crazy stranger wearing a fury Michael Kors jacket and American Apparel disco pants (have you noticed how many times I have worn these pants in this blog?) 

*Thank you secret male collaborator #1 for the where-the-hell-are-you-guayaba? e-mail. Thanks to people like you I keep this crazy project called The Guayaba Project alive. 

Peace and Love to all,

Gloria

MoNdaY bLueS :.(

It's Monday March 18th, 2013. We're two days away from officially starting Spring and it's still snowing in New York City. At this point I already lost hope. I'm going to have to deal with this weather until at least June. I look at my sandals with pity. If I want my toes to see the outside world either I need to take a flight out of Newark to a lower latitude or I just wear my sandals in New York City risking on loosing a limb. I'm starting to feel the effects of S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder). 

All right I'm being super dramatic; call it PMS or stupid unrealistic deadlines in architectural offices, might even be the late hangover effects of a Saturday night of excesses :) but today I'm feeling so down that I just feel like getting under the covers with my hairy friends (Necio and Necia, my cats. I'm not that lucky to have two human hairy friends to cuddle with). If you are out there feeling the effects of this lousy weather just give me a call. There's nothing that two glasses of red wine can't solve. 

Zara Blazer, American Apparel disco pants, Mario Hernandez scarf, Coach booties, Maison Scotch sweater. All pictures by CoCo, can't tell you enough how much I love you :) Hey Alcibiades, what are you up to?

Real Nice Thing in Life #7

And the countdown continues....

I came across the most beautiful song while exploring different "stations" on my Pandora. It's called Thanks for the Memory. This particular version was sang by Frank Sinatra. It reminded me of the all the beautiful people that have touched my life one way or the other and that no longer are next to me. 

Merci Beaucoup!

So, thanks for the memory

And strictly entre-nous, darling how are you?

And how are all the little dreams that never did come true?

Aw'flly glad I met you, cheerio and toddle-oo 

Real Nice Thing in Life #7: The beautiful moments that will live in my brain forever.

And in other news from the world of Stupidity here's what I wore the day after a major storm while drinking wine with CoCo and beautiful MaFer. Talking about great memories.....

And thanks for the memory
of sunburns at the shore, nights in Singapore
You might have been a headache but you never were a bore (oh yeah!)
So thank you so much

Dr.Martens boots, BCBG "onesie", Maison Scotch jacket.
All pictures by CoCo. Thanks for the memories my dear friends.

How to freeze your vagina with style....

Nothing screams foreigner louder than bare legs in the middle of the snow..... 

ZARA coat, Frye boots

All pictures by my beautiful CoCo, que haría sin ti mon cherie?

How to survive a big load (of snow that is)

These past few days have been packed with exciting events like New York's Fashion Week, the resignation of the Pope (really? can he just resign? did he get a mid-Pope crisis? can't he just get a Lamborghini Diablo and tour the mountains of Italy before abandoning his followers? I'm so un-friending him!) and of course the Finding Nemo storm that had us covered with several inches of a powdery white substance called snow. For us mortals coming from the equator part of the globe this seasonal phenomenon still provide a great deal of excitement. The closest to snowing when I was growing up in Colombia was rain with huge balls of haze, better known as granizo. Usually this hail melts immediatly as it touches the ground. It never accumulates the way snow does.  

So in celebration of the messy snow that we (we as in we the people from The Guayaba Project, meaning me, CoCo, the ocassional friend that loves pictures, and the innocent neighbor that happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time) love so much, we've designed an infallible  method on how to survive the mother of all loads. 

Recipe for Surviving a Storm

Ingredients:

2 Small bottles of Aguardiente (Vodka, Sake, or Gin acceptable too. Adjust portions as necessary).
1 Gigantic pretty dog.
1 Crazy friend.
1 Amazing photographer.
Multiple classes of yoga and meditation to enjoy this absurd cold weather as much as a day in the warm beaches of the Caribbean.

Open one bottle of aguardiente 2 hours prior to the beginning of the storm. Consume with friends, photographer, neighbors, and total strangers. The more people involved, the merrier. Heat should be starting to build up in that cold body of yours. Adjust clothing as necessary. 

Send the crazy friend to the unknown neighbor and have her ask him for his pretty gigantic dog. Pretty gigantic dogs always make for great picture backgrounds. 

Open bottle #2 and if brave go outside. Limbs should start to freeze rapidly, so move fast. Photographer might start to see double. Make sure to adjust camera to automatic focus at this time. 

Try to enjoy the storm until the aguardiente is over or until you can't feel your toes, whichever comes first. Make sure to take a warm bath after. The chances of loosing parts of your extremities due to frost bite are great. Enjoy the snow!

Kisses,

G

All pictures by CoCo. Merci mon amour.