Goodbye. Hello.

Dear blog, I know I have been neglecting you. I have my reasons, which I know will only sound like excuses. Reasons... excuses... Call them what you want, but they are legit.

First, I never thought that my etsy store (www.charmed.etsy.com) would take off the way it did. I am now constantly knitting or crocheting in my spare time. I am not complaining. It can be stressful at times, I admit, especially this past month and a half with all the holiday orders I was getting. But I am getting paid to do what I love. How can I complain about that?

Second, I was, and still am, a little apprehensive about blogging since being stalked (for lack of a better word- Wait... That is what she did...) by my husband's ex. I understand that my blog is public and with that, I am letting the bad in with the good. But it was off putting to know that she sought me out... to maybe size me up...? I don't know... But I highly doubt she was looking at my blog (all those times) to check out my knitting.

But now that the new year is here, I hope to be a better blogger (among other things...) This is not going to be a New Year's resolutions post... but maybe the next post? Haha! This is a quick post to say good bye to 2012, and welcome to 2013. 2012 was definitely a memorable year, but what year wasn't?

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU!

2013, please be good to me and to all those I care about. :)

xx,
Pamela

Photoblog for April (04.13.12)

 April 13, 2012

Friday, the 13th... We met up with our friends that night in Times Square. They had out of town visitors and were showing them around NYC. We then went to Bryant Park and Rockefeller Center... pretty much just walked around and chilled. :)

(Photos taken with my Panasonic Lumix GF2 with wide angle lens.)

Times Square, NYC

The ladies...

Photoblog for April (04.06.12 to 04.08.12)

As I had mentioned in my previous entry, I was going to do a blog entry with a compilation of pictures and events that took place this past April. However, while I was going through all the pictures, I realized that there were just too many pictures to put in one blog. So I'm just going to do it by weekend.

This photo dump will be about the first weekend of April...

April 6, 2012 to April 8, 2012

That Friday was my second year (boyfriend/girlfriend) anniversary with Elo. Yes, we still celebrate that! LOL. And to celebrate, we decided to double date and hit up Le Poison Rouge in NYC with our friends, Louie and Carla.

Oh, and I know that Friday is a weekday... But in my book, the weekend starts the second you clock out of work. :)

(Photos taken with my Canon PowerShot SD940 IS.)

AHA Heart Walk 2012

My next blog entry was supposed to be a compilation of pictures and events that took place this past April. But since I still haven't gotten around to going through all the pictures, and picking out the ones I'd like to post, I'll just write about the Heart Walk.

Every year our team, RE:Joyce, which mostly consists of family and close friends, raise money and walk for the American Heart Association. We do this in memory of our cousin, Roxanne Joyce Solis, who passed away at age of 22 in 2003. This year's AHA Heart Walk took place at Lake Welch, NY on May 6, 2012. Our team raised over $2,000.  The place was beautiful, but the path was too narrow to do any power walking or running. The weather was okay... It was gloomy and cloudy... We walked around in fear of rain! LOL. But at least it  wasn't cold (or hot).  After the event, we went to my cousins' house to eat, chill, and ass out. LOL.

Oh... And please don't mind my eyes... They were all swollen from allergies. :(

(Photos taken with my Canon PowerShot SD940 IS, unless stated otherwise.)

 

They had a volunteer chef...

Blast From the Past: Random Photos

Just for the sake of updating this blog, I am uploading random photos that were taken at various times in my life...

My love... my baby boy, Simba, playing in the snow...

(Taken on December 27, 2010)

My girls! From left to right: Carla, Peejay, Phoebe, Macy, me

(Taken on January 15, 2010 at Wuzz Up Cafe in New Jersey)

At Bryant Park NYC :)

(Taken on April 11, 2010, courtesy of my sister, Peejay)

There are more pictures, which I will post once I steal them from the sister.  In some of the pictures, the then boyfriend posed as if he were proposing to me... Who would have thought that he will actually be proposing to me less than a year later? :)

Me dressed up as Chun Li! My favorite costume ever!
 (Taken on Halloween 2009 at Taste Of Asia in Queens, NY)

 I'm almost caught up with my orders... Maybe I can properly update this thing before I take the next batch of orders. We'll see, I guess... :)

xoxo,
Pamela

Blast From the Past: June 25, 2011

Since I am definitely behind in updating this blog, I have decided on writing a few entries here and there titled: Blast From the Past.  And each entry will feature an event or occasion that happened (in my life) that I feel like blogging about.  This "event" could have happened months ago, years, ago... whatever! :)

Honestly, these entries will probably be more of a photo dump than an actual entry itself.  LOL.

Today's Blast From the Past will be about the night of  June 25, 2011.  I chose to blog about this night first because it was the first outing where I actually used my then-brand-new Panasonic Lumix GF2 camera.  :)

The husband and I had a double date with my best friend, Carla, and her boyfriend, Lowell.  First, we went bowling at 34th Lane, then we went to Fayrooz Cafe and Lounge to do some hookah!  (This was my second time going to that hookah bar... The first time was on another double date with another couple.)  Anyway, they actually had a belly dancer! I wish I took a picture of her but I wasn't sure if I was allowed... Plus, I was too busy watching her dance! LOL.

Well, on to the photo dump... These are just some of the pictures we took.

(Photos taken with my Panasonic Lumix GF2.)

Our colorful bowling balls... Mine was the pink one. Obviously. LOL.

Bowling at 34th Lane in Queens

Lowell's turn...

The hubby's turn...

Carla's turn...

My turn!

Me with my two loves!

Drinks up!

Cheers!

Hookah time!

Lowell

Carla (Being the only one out of the four of us who didn't really smoke, she had a hard time at first...)

Me!

Elo

The two lovebirds...

Best Friends Forever!

Group Pic, Take 1

Group Pic, Take 2

I had a lot of fun that night... I can't wait to until we go to a hookah bar again. :)

Well, back to my knitting/crocheting.  I'm in the middle of developing an idea...

-Pamela Joyce

So... with my husband and family's insistence, I had relaunched my online store:

www.charmed.etsy.com

For the last couple of weeks, I've been busy filling orders, trying to get it to my customers in time for the holidays.  I would usually do this after I get home from my full time job, which means I am sleep deprived! I have averaged about 2 to 3 hours of sleep a night!  Thank God I have a very supportive husband. :)

Anyway, I should really get back to my orders... Maybe I'll take a break later and blog again. :)

-Pamela Joyce

The Mr. & Mrs.

I really need to start organizing my wedding pictures. I am such a slacker.

-Pamela Joyce

Meet The Husband...

My most recent picture with my husband, taken in the wee hours of the morning on July 16, 2011 at Olive Tree Cafe in NYC. (P.S.-  They have the best nachos!)

His name is Angelo. We were officially together for a year (dated longer) before he proposed. We then married a month later. Fast, huh? I guess to some it is, but not for us. It felt right, so why wait? We only had a civil wedding and celebrated with close family and friends. However, our parents really want us to have a church wedding, so we are currently saving for that, and possibly a bigger reception. We'll see... I have a feeling that after all that saving, we might just use the money as a down payment for a house or something. Maybe we'll still have the church wedding our parents want, and just have a small reception in the form of a pool party and barbeque!

- Pamela Joyce