I’M MOVING!

Oh jeez! Oh golly! I am so pumped! Why, you may ask? I’ll tell you why. I’m moving! I’m on to bigger and better things! Well, virtually, that is. At least for now. So from now on I am no longer here on this little old blog. From now on you’ll find me at the offical SoniaBonia Website! There you can still find all of last years posts and goodies but now there will be more. I’m getting more serious about this blogging business and I’m going to be way more entertaining. So pack up your bags and come along with me. Its a lot prettier there!

peeve me off

I’m a pretty chillaxed person for the most part but I have a few things that just really rev my engines. Care to know?

The obnoxious sound of people eating loudly. Normal, food-consuming sounds are peachy-keen but if you’re smacking stuff around in your mouth and being really rude about it, you can bet you’re going to get smacked around by yours truly. This morning the radio host of the show I listen too was eating a candy bar on air and doing that which is (a) completely unprofessional and (b) disgusting. I’m never listening to the show again. I’m telling you people, I don’t mess around with this.

My second pet peeve is people that don’t know how to (a) switch lanes and/or (b) merge into oncoming traffic. Are you high? Did you go to driver’s ed? Who is the damn mother ducker that taught you to drive because I will get your license revoked and personally revoke your colon if you ever get all up in my cars grill due to your incompetence again.

My last one is people that mess with me. Specifically people that say things such as “Oh, this is so awesome…but I can’t tell you.” or “Its not that important anyway. You don’t need to know.” What the what? Are you shitting me? You must me if you weren’t planning on getting kicked in your baby-maker today. Don’t you dare peak my interest and not follow-through, you punk-arse son of a nutcracker! I will punch you in the throat.

So…other than those threee things, its all good. For the most part.

its la push baby, la push

What? You want me to explain those pictures? (Which I’ll credit Google Images for providing me with) That would be Rachel’s and mine May trip. The last week of May (my birthday week, as a matter of fact- May 28th!), we’re flying to the Pacific Northwest to see Seattle, Portland, Victoria, CA and, of course, in true Twilight-loser fashion, Forks!

And we wouldn’t be true fans if we did spend the night here:

Say what you wish of me, but I’m going…and I’m stealing the towels. Happy weekend!

freckle fest & other tidbits

I did something silly in that I signed up for a tanning  salon. As in a monthly fee type deal. Although its a decent deal ($30 for unlimited tanning), Sun Tan City sure knows how to try to rip you off. For example, I pick the “faster” track (there is fast, faster, fastest) and you can upgrade each time you want to go up a level. $5 extra. That’s on top of your monthly subscription. And they sure know how to entice you to upgrade seeing as the fastest track has a level that contures to your body, all around bulbs so that it tans everything evenly, extra cooling, and oh, aromatherapy. On top of that, they try to sell you $70 bottles of lotion. Yes, you read correctly, $70 for fricking goo! You’ve got to be kidding me? Who do you think I am?  An idiot? Well, you’ve got me there…I am going tanning. But only for a month! I promise! Just so I won’t burn during the summer. However, when I stepped out of the bed today, holy mother of Buddha did I have freckles! Never before has the frecklage covered such a vast surface area. It was ridiculous.

In other news, I have been using a really great new mask from a company called The Face Shop. I would have to say they have been the best facial masks I have ever used. Whats great is that they are a cloth soaked in whatever the particular ingredients may be. Website here. I’ve used the Collegan, Lemon, Vitamin A and Vitamin B Masks.

Also, I bought the most amazing book yesterday! I cannot wait to read it. Its called Sonata for Miriam and, get this, its about a man from New Zealand (which I’m obsessed with, as many of you know) that goes to Poland to learn about his parents. Perfect for me, right?

Speaking of books, everyone needs to read Geography of Bliss. Its so wonderful and witty! And chalkful of cultural information!

SB out, folks!

humane hounds

stalker

So I guess I was the only one live-tweet-reading the Bloggies, right? Sometimes I feel like such a huge blogger-stalker! I creep myself out. I’m not weird! I promise! I’m just insanely bored since graduating and have globs of free time. I am incredibly glad to see that almost all the blogs I voted for won. This blogging business is really boosting my confidence in now being in charge of my company’s corporate blog. It also makes me very excited to be move forward with this little blog of mine that’s getting some major changes in the next week. Watch out, people! Its gonna get crazy!

sad face

This makes me sad. One of the TV events I most look forward to is the Today Show’s week-long segment “Where in the world is Matt Lauer?” Imagine my dismay when I come to find that it has been postponed. No round the world trip that brings me pure bliss for a straight week? Nope! The Today show is staying in the States and while its awesome for them to highlight national attractions, I look forward to watching in jealousy as Matt Lauer goes to places that will become my new travel destinations. Le poo, I say. Le poo.

track it back

Source: http://blaugh.com/

just for licks

Another Thursday, another day with the Humane Hounds. I’m starting to realize that this is more and more about luck when it comes to these frantic and ADD pups. More pictures tomorrow (as if you care…) but I’ll leave you with this, very lucky, shot of Giffery.

i know why i’m here

I was all set to write a post about getting to be happy. Then I had a major fight with my mom and I realized just how miserable I still am. This fight was so weird; it was honestly unlike any other we have had in the past. Usually, they’re about petty things but this was so huge because it was regarding pretty much the most important thing in the world for me. In a nutshell, my mom got made at one of her friends from Latin America because they said they would do something but didn’t do it in her “acceptable time frame.” My mother, being the nutcase that she is, got so pissed off and called them rude and uncultured to which I tried to explain to her the scientific, studied analysis of how Latin America cultures view time and task-doing. Essentially, I tried to educate her about another culture and explain the difference between our Polish culture views on these two things as opposed to a Latin American cultural viewpoint. Needless to say, she was having none of it and would not accept my explanation. She said she didn’t care about stupid culture, that what they did [not] do was a reflection of their personal character. To which I tried to explain to her that she is the exact reason why I studied International Management- to prevent people from seeing the world that way. In the end, it turned into a screaming match of me trying to justify my 4 years of dedication to this topic and explanation that I’m a bit more of an expert on this seeing as I studied it for (over) 4 years and have traveled a lot more than she has and that it didn’t matter that she was older if she had spent her whole life being narrow-minded. It ended in me being called a bitch and having a door slammed in my face.

So I went to my dungeon…er…room and started reading a few travel blogs when I came across this. Which, yes, I have seen before but forgot about it. But than I watched Matt’s newest video.

And I watched it again. And again. And again. At least 10 times. About half way through my second time watching it, I started crying. Then sobbing. Followed by bawling. Followed by uncontrollable hysteria. Then I downloaded the song from the video. Then I found the poem that the song is based off of. Its called Stream of Life by Rabindranath Tagor.

Stream of Life

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.

It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.

I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

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And I realized I now knew what I feel all the time. Its that first verse “the same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.”  That’s the stream that I feel everyday when I realize I’m not supposed to be where I am. After reading that and watching that I had an epiphany, you can say. I realized I would give up anything (and I mean anything) to be able to travel the world for the rest of my life. I realized that I don’t care if I end up alone for the rest of my life and never have a family of my own because if I can just wander the world for the rest of my life, that is what would make me genuinely and unequivocally happy.