FATshion Journal Blog by Lilly

The 3rd bear to hold my heart! #1 My Teddy #2 Corduroy bear When spending a lovely Tuesday night, with your husband, watching movies and bad reality TV and you're inspired to write! My name is Lilly and I am addicted to reality TV, more specifically, all of Bravo's Real Housewives-ish (Was never a big fan of the DC housewives, mind you, they only had one season) But to the point... Why is Pooh Bear to the left of this blog? Well, because about four days ago we spent #24HoursAtDisneyland... Yes! You read that correctly, if you don't follow me on IG, shame on you, SMH, but you would know that we spent 24 hours at Disneyland! We were there to kick off the Diamond Celebration #Disney60 - The park has been an American staple for 60 years! My first visit to the park I was still small enough to fit in a stroller, I think I might have been 3 years-old circa 1988 and my great, great grandmother, mi abuelita Juana, was there! Along with my grandmas, my parents, my aun...

The Invitation from Minted -  Photograph by Anna Perevertaylo   Hi Everyone! I'm back! And this is my first official blog of 2015! And as Mrs. Perez-Ngo! Holy chetos! Yeah soooo uh, I dunno if y'all heard... We're married!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I am ready to relive our wedding day with y'all! And we will! But first the thoughts that have been running on mind like crazy... Our wedding day was Awe-mazing! Like toot-toot honey, toot-toot honey, toot-toot honey!!!( I liked it so much I said three times:) It was 18 months of planning and you best bet your bottom dollar that I am STILL riding on cloud nine!!! And I wanted to thank the ladies who gave me some of the best advice! My co-worker, who messaged me and let me know to enjoy and really soak in every moment and to one of the sweetest souls, one of the groomsmen's wife, who swore that I would have a moment of zen as I walked down the aisle... And guess what? I totally did but even more so as s...

Rather than post after post on Facebook... I am going to "write" a blog about my favorite  commercials! AGAIN!!!Only this segment is my favorite Holiday Commercials - some classic and some newbies! Like always some make me laugh and some just #tear... Here they are, in no particular order... This one is just pure genius! I know it's the Holidays, as soon as this commercial starts circulating...   This one is a take from last year's Joe Boxer commercial and I like this one much more!  I'm just sad I wasn't invited to be in it! This one is simple! I love Bears!  Penguins are f***ing adorable! Who doesn't love The Beach Boys! And I love coke! Give. Live. Love. Folger's commercials always make me cry... but especially this one... The best gift is family and having people in your life that truly love and support you... I love this one especially because I can hear all sto...

Hi Everyone, So I wished myself a Happy Blogiversary and disappeared... There was an angry post I wrote but I might save that for another day. It's the Holidays and it just feels weird to post my angry thoughts. And it is safe to say that as much as I would like to be more consistent with my blog - it's gonna be more sporadic than anything, probably until after the wedding. It hit us really hard this past Friday, on the 28th--- That our wedding is officially FOUR MONTHS AWAY!!! Needless to say, I have been scaring the crap outta my poor Babo in the middle of the night because I'll wake up in the middle of the night with an anxiety attack! The nightmares can be anything from trivial regarding plastic untensils(As the MOH pointed out to me, "the woes of my life") to having nightmares of running like a mad woman in my wedding dress and then out of no where falling into the abyss. We have reached the point of no return and as most bridal magazines have s...

Toyour left: My favoritest blogging area, our dining room, with fresh-cut flowers and a cup of... wine, coffee, coca-cola, hot cocoa or simplly water ;-) ----------------------------------- Happy Blogiversary to me, happy blogiversary to me, happy blogiversary to Lilly, happy blogiversary to me! Okay now that we got that outta the way- what to write about... What to write about... Hmmm... I guess what makes the most sense, is to reflect on the last year since I jumped on this crazy train people call social media or sosh med... Depending who you talk to...lol or laughing out loud orphonetucally speaking, lowl! Well my blog has simply been a whirlwind of stupid and necessary fun!  I could give y'all a list of pros, so here they go: - It has given folks an opportunity to get to "know" me - I put that in quotations because the blog is a snippet of me but a cool enough snippet - It has become a conversation piece and it allows people to ask m...

It's that time again... Time for my FATSHION post! I strongly believe that no matter your size a day at the hair salon, always manages to make you feel prettier. And today, thanks to the randomness of life I finally got to cut my hair! After over 14 months of delaying a haircut... I finally treated myself to an evening of some self pampering at the hair salon! And as I sat down at the chair, I couldn't help but beat myself up! Ugh! The hair studio I go to (that I haven't been to, in over 2yrs) has floor length mirrors, so you're literally staring at yourself sitting. And you must be wondering... ...Aaaaaand, your point is.... Well, sitting down, I feel, it makes me look wider... Like my thunder thighs (which I do love) look more thunderous! And my double chin, that I normally don't have to look at and be in denial of, was staring at me straight in the face. And I kept on forcing myself to look at the mirror and truly and genuinely like what I w...

So far I've been 29 years old ly a week and thus far, not so bueno!My daddy was in a scary car accident (he's doing well, mainly super shaken up - he drives rigs for a living), then a trip to DL was followed by a REALLY BAD allergic reaction to something, I'll never know... And then missing a day of work (which to most is like yay but when you're recovering and missing a shit load at work--- it never feels like yay) It's only Tuesday but I feel like I've lived a whole month already...  Though we can't choose what chaos life will throw at us and what challenges we'll face... What we do have control over is how we react...  And last night after some self-healing my unhealthy way... I woke up this morning relieved... Because I woke up with an answer, rather than get angry, melancholy, anxious, crazy, bitter, psychotic,depressed (feelings that I am all to familiar with) - This morning, I chose kindness instead. It set me back a couple bucks for the...