All About Me #11

 

 "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." (Judy Garland)

 

 Hello, my lovely friends!

 

       This month is just all about me when it comes to my culture and heritage. Last week we talked about my Mexican side, but I probably could do another one maybe next week about some more things. However this week we’re in Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and my Polynesian side fall into this. So, here we go…

 

1. This is my dad’s side of the family. His dad was born in the Philippines, bit sure what island though. When he was a young man in his twenties he came over to the United States to find a better life for himself. He came with one of his brothers and he moved to California. There was a big Pacific Island community in Denver and that’s why he moved here.

 

2. My first name is in honor of him, his name was Paul. My middle name is Rachel and that is named after my mom’s dad and his name was Raymond. 

 

3. Growing up the hula is a big part of the family. My dad’s sister, Nancy danced the hula and passed that down to her daughter. She now teaches hula dancing and all my female cousins and their daughters do hula. I did the dancing as a kid, but never continued on with it.

 

4. My grandpa played many instruments and wanted his children to learn to play any instrument. When I was in grade school we could sign up for band in 5^th grade. I decided to play the violin and the school would give us one to learn on for the year. When my grandpa found out I was playing the violin he gave me one of his. I still have that violin from him.

 

5. Whenever anyone in the family has a big celebration (wedding, shower, birthdays etc) we will have a luau with all the bells and whistles. Yes, it does involve a pig and other Polynesian foods. Our entertainment does have the hula dancers, both male and female.

 

6. There are many different languages that Polynesians speak, Tahitian, Tagalog, Samoan, Tongan, Māori and Hawaiian.. Our family sticks to the Tagalog and Hawaiian languages. I only know very little, but would love to learn more. The Tahitian language is spoken by mostly French Polynesians and that’s where my grandpa came from.

 

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I wish you a good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are.

Until next time… Adios!

Get Rid of the Negative Things

 

"Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out." (Robert Tew)

 

Hello, my lovey friends!  

 

Today let's talk about those negative things in life that you have to let go because we all have some of that stuff. I have a top five of things that you need to get out of your life in order to rid negative things that bring you down.

 

1. Drop the negative people in your life ~ I know I say this a lot but it can works wonders for you. Think about those feelings of dread you get when you're around that person. When you're going somewhere they'll be at and you would rather not go because of the way they make you feel. If they make you feel bad get them out or avoid them when you can. You don't need that in your life.

 

2. Stop caring about what mistakes you made in the past ~ so many of us live in our past and for some reason can't let go. We allow it to eat at us over and over. You cannot move forward if you allow the past to beat you up you will always repeat the same thing over and over again.

 

3. Stop with the negative talk about yourself ~ I'm sure we all allow those negative words to cloud things in our lives and that ends up destroying things we are trying to do. Be conscious of the negative things you say to yourself or thinking. Find ways to be more positive towards yourself

 

4. Stop feeling sorry for yourself ~ things in life sucks and we sometimes let them get the best of us, but they do not define who we are. You always have a choice in life, to be negative or pick yourself up and forge a new path.

 

5. Learn to say "No" instead of "Yes" to everything ~ we spread ourselves to thing because we think we have to say yes to everything that is asked of us. You can say no and when you do the world will not end.

 

Those are my top five things you need to find a way to stop in order to have a more positive life. 

 

 

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I wish you a good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are.

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