A Cita Life

I happened to be on Spence Taylor ’s live and he was talking about this woman he met at Essence Fest. He spoke about how they hit it off and became friends. He found out that she owned a body care brand when she stated that he needed to give her products a try. He said how he loved her products and would get complimented on his smell after using them. They had teamed up to do a giveaway of one of her new products that was launching soon. One winner from Facebook and one winner from Instagram. I followed the instructions and entered to win. Let me tell you I was not expecting to win until she said my name on the live!   She dm me later on for my mailing address. When I got the package let me tell you the box alone smelled amazing and I hadn’t even opened it yet. The packaging was packaged very well because it was difficult to get into the box. I was grateful for it because I know my package was secure and nothing happened to in during shipping. Once I opened the box the scent waffle...

Fashion Nova had a bogo (Buy one get one half off) sale on its demin. It was the perfect opportunity to get a new pair of jeans seeing how all my jeans and my youngest son were about the same age.The last pair of jeans I bought was from Forever 21 when they had a sale on their jeans and it was all skinny jeans. I wasn’t a big fan of skinny jeans at the time but I bought what my money could afford me seeing how all of my jeans had either had holes in the thighs or were ripping at the seams.   When I reflect on it I remember days trying to conceal the holes in my jeans with sitting with my legs crossed whenever we had to go into the conference rooms for meetings or I would just opt to stand up since that one time I sat down in a conference chair and my jeans ripped at the seam exposing my thigh from the inside seam of the jean. It got to a point that the 4 pair I had went down to 2 pairs and I would rotate each pair on alternating days so no one would notice I was wearing the same pa...

I woke up with a cold sore last week Friday and I was filled with so many emotions none of which were happy. I was upset with the fact that I didn’t think the day prior was that stressful but my body told me otherwise. I was upset because that meant I let an event get to me that much that the stress caused this to happen. But, I hadn’t eaten the best that week I had been reminded that I had eaten McDonald’s twice that week (which is something I normally don’t do), my upcoming cycle didn’t help the situation either and the life event was just probably the icing on the cake.   I was disappointed to say the least but I had to sit with the thought of everything happens for a reason. The longer I sat with it the more I thought about how I hadn’t been taking care of myself like I really should in a while now. I remembered some of the stuff I use to do and I wasn’t doing it anymore. Talking with a family member they reminded me that sometimes as a mother you neglect yourself while caring...

I posted my first blog post in some years just the other day. While I was going through my drafts I counted and I have 26 drafts of posts that I have not posted in the all the years I was blogging! At first I couldn’t believe I had so many posts just left there. Then I really thought about I know and understand why they were just left there. Some for reason of “being seen” and others for situations I was dealing with in my life. I didn’t want to start the blog post off with “I’m back!” Or “Yes, I know it been awhile…” I’ve done all of that before only to leave and not post for months or in this case years until now… all I can say is that I am here now.  I wanted to start this month off with easing back into blogging. I want to get use to blogging again and do it with no pressure to post for the sake of posting. I enjoy writing and getting back into the swing of things will show me how much I missed the creative process. I’m unsure if I should use any of those old post at this point...

I reached a big milestone. Well, I think I did on YouTube. I posted my 100th video on there. I had shown one of my cousins my YouTube channel and she was like “Wow. You got a lot of videos.” I didn’t immediately respond like I heard her but I guess it didn’t register seeing how I had been doing YouTube off and on for about 6 years now. Repeating herself, “You got a lot of videos.” I nodded my head in acknowledgment of what she said and we all kept talking. She then stated “ You don’t understand that’s a big deal.”   When I started my YouTube channel back up last year I already had 26 videos uploaded to the channel. I hadn’t realized how far I had came in a year until I posted my 100th video. I didn’t even realize it was my hundredth video until I went back to check my description box to make sure it was all correct and then I saw it. It was a quick glance I had to go back and look at it again to make sure I saw what I thought I saw. 100 video… my mouth fell open… like how did I al...

Can I be honest for a second? I don’t know what I want to do! I feel like I’ve been there more times than I can count in my life and especially at this point. In life, in work, my career, my blog, YouTube channel, social media, and myself but I can’t get the message of what I’m supposed to be doing if I can’t hear it and I’m being focused on too many different things.  Organization  I decided that I need to get my life in order and organized if you will. I see clutter in my house, clutter in my work area and if it’s clutter there in all of those spaces it’s definitely has to be cluttered in my mind. I purchased a Happy Planner a few months back. I’ve been using it mainly to keep track of my water intake. I went to the doctor some months back and my blood pressure was low because I wasn’t keeping enough water in my system. Which prompted me to finally purchase the planner because I had been hemming and hawing about maybe getting organized.  Any who, I was exc...

So, I am super excited about today I didn’t think I would be this excited but I really truly am! Today we are launching a new way we do our YouTube channel for the Fae and Cita Show. Fae and I had a discussion on what will be best to better utilize our channel and it was just coming up with one weekly post instead of doing multiple posts throughout the week. It just made better sense for us and we really believe it would free up some time for me because I was the one that was doing the post every single day. We’ll see how it works because the hopes is to give us and to give me more time to be able to focus on a lot more things because I do wear many hats being a mom, being a wife, and just still trying to work a regular 9-to-5 job, while we are work on our channel, blog, and our other endeavors. Our whole idea about the YouTube channel was to make it more of a variety show that was always our idea and premise behind the show when we first discussed it and I ended up breaking up thi...