Nathasha Alvarez Is Your Latina Diva On Wheels
I made the simplest, quickest and healthiest breakfast. As a child, I was a very picky eater but my abuelita, grandmother, would always find a way to push food. It’s a grandma thing but at the same time, I am sure my disability was another reason for her to concoct ways to add nutrition into my brittle body.
Continue reading “Project 365 Day #58 Abuelita Would Be Proud”
I woke up at 5:30 and the weather channel said it was 28 degrees outside but it also said it feels like 19! That’s all I needed to know about the day! I stayed home. It was to prevent me from getting sick but it seems no such luck! I have a nagging cough that is making me sick!
I had no idea that Mother Nature had such a wicked sense of humor! Thanks Mummy! Now can you please give us some sun? Just a few extra rays.
Continue reading “Project 365 Day #11 Tulips To Kiss the Cold Away”
Several years ago, I penned the word F00F00 to those fluffy slippers that people wear at home. One Christmas, my Aunt Consuelo gave everyone unique Foofoos to fit their personality. Mine resemble my late fluffy love, Scrappy. Now I wear mine when the weather gets so freaking cold! And today, 35 degrees in Miami makes it FREAKING cold!
Fendi seems to think that I wear them to entertain her!
To most people, this cold,windy, cloudy weather is depressing. To me, it’s comforting. This year, I didn’t really have much of a plan for my 40th birthday. Other than the fact that I made it another year, I wasn’t too gung ho about celebrating.
Luckily, the weather helped me out. I spent the day inside, relaxing, reflecting and having visitors come to wish me a happy birthday.
These past two days have been the sweetest days of 2010!
A student in each period brought a cake and the kids sang Happy Birthday in English and even Spanish. These are the priceless moments that teachers get to enjoy despite the beauracratic mumbo jumbo work the district gives us.
Officially, my birthday is on the 9th but this year it lands on a Saturday. Today, a student in my first period Language Arts class gave me this beautiful gift. I don’t need to write much because the picture says it all.
This is being written today but the picture is from yesterday because there was no way in the world that I could have written anything last night. Bottomline, my car got hit in the rear and I am ticked off! I was on 147 avenue, on my way home from work. Luckily, my car was not moving and the car behind me didn’t hit me so hard that it would engage the air bag but that doesn’t mean there is no pain today. There is! I feel foggy and my back feels like someone did tae bo on it.
The rescue team was constantly reassuring me that it could have been worse. I don’t disagree there but someone needs to relay that message to my body.
My car is brand new! Last year, I didn’t know whether to buy a Toyota Camry or Honda Accord but after reviewing the crash tests, I chose the Honda because it out performed the Toyota in rear end crash tests. And looky here! Rear end crash and my car only needs a new bumper! I am super fortunate for that! Happy snappy, I say!
However, not only do I have an achy breaky back but I have this horror that one day someone will rear end me harder and that air bag will kill me! Since I have brittle bones, aka Osteogenesis Imperfecta, the pressure from the airbag could have caused significant physical injury to my body. It would be better if I didn’t have the airbag at all. Now, this is something I have heard from several people with OI. The problem is that it is illegal to tamper with the airbag. There should be an exception to this law! I don’t feel like having my face flattened!
Weatherman says it will be chilly but he never said it would “OMG! FREAKIN COLD!”
This little latina diva on wheels is chillin in Miami! I am a huge fan of cold days in Miami but this week is ridiculous. Now, we are being told that it will get even colder. Is there any ajiaco in the house?
The number one reason why I don’t live in the north is because I couldn’t stand to be locked up in my home for weeks or months during these winter cold blasts. It can do major damage to any diva’s life; socially, mentally and physically.
Although my heart is in New York, my body must be in Miami!
This picture captures exactly how I see my surroundings at 6ish in the morning to walk Fendi for her poo poo dance. Amazingly enough, my iPhone camera captured it perfectly today.
There’s my car in the background, a nice reminder that I have the freedom to go wherever I want and not have to totally depend on Miami Dade County’s Paratransit system which might be in danger of changing and not for the better. The idea that our society would consider taking or limiting the service that greatly shapes the lives of people with physical disabilities is pathetic. It is greatly compounded by their excuse that it is the economy that is forcing their hands. I doubt it! So every morning I look at my car and pray that I never have to totally depend on Paratransit but I also promise every morning that I will continue to fight for its service because there are others who need it more than me.