Feel your boobies

Some of you know that my mom survived breast cancer. TWICE!

The first time was when I was 18 months old and the second time was 3 years after that. My mom was only 33 years old when she was told she had breast cancer.

Now almost 25 years have passed and she's been cancer free ever since.

I am so lucky to have my mom after all she's been through, she truly is my hero.

Today my mom was interviewed about surviving breast cancer by Telemundo ch 51. The interview will air tonight during the 6:00pm news.
Please watch it tonight.


Thanks for your continued support and please girls, "Check your boobies" This is no joke.

My mom's doctor (the woman in the interview with my mom) Dr.Kallos is offering free mammograms to women who don't have health insurance. You have no excuse not to go.

I got the Video! Yay! Check it!

Converse = Love

If you have ever met me or spoken to me for more than an hour, you may have heard about my love for the converse shoe. I loved wearing them as a kid.
When they came back into mass consumption a few years ago, I never imagined my love would turn into obsession. I own maybe 20 or more pairs of converse shoes. I have classic low tops in pink, black, hippie "peace and love", diva rocker, etc. I love my hi-tops in pink, mint green, white, red, and even a gold leather pair that my good friend Julietta passed on to me. I even own extra high tops in electric blue with glitter and black with a fun pattern when you fold them down.
But my favorite so far have been my super knee high converse boots. They have seen so much in the few months I've had them (concerts, birthdays, photo shoots,music gigs, etc. They are my equivalent to the trusty little black dress or the sexy pump. They give me the necessary confidence to take on anything.
Today I received my newest pair of converse( 2nd new pair in a week). This brought me to the famous conversation I have with anyone who ever brings up the topic of marriage. Unlike most girls who fantasize about what their wedding dress will look like, I dream about the shoes I will wear on my walk down the aisle. I want to wear converse under my wedding dress. Why spend a super long day in high heels that hurt so much your thinking about your aching feet when you should be enjoying the most beautiful day of your life.
I also want whoever I marry to wear converse too. I have never taken the thought of wearing converse footwear further than the bride and the groom. This evening I found pictures of a couple that had their entire wedding party + the guests wear converse.
Here are the pictures and blog. This is too cute.
http://klugstravels.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html

Frequently Asked Questions (AritstaMundo.com

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Artista|Mundo ?
ArtistaMundo.com was founded by three sisters from Miami who had a common interest at heart: to create a platform for artists to gain exposure, exchange ideas and interact within a global arts community. Through their various arts backgrounds, travels and experiences, they came up with the model that is ArtistaMundo.com today.

In 2001, ArtistaMundo.com partnered with OassySoft, a technology company in Barcelona, to design and create an interactive platform for artists online. OasysSoft provides the latest in technologies to improve and add new features and applications to the site.


Who is Artista|Mundo ?
Fernando Figueredo, APR
Chairman of the Board & Interim Chief Executive Officer

Cristina Figueredo Zizold
Founder / Creative Director

Annette Figueredo
Vice President of Marketing

Alexandra Figueredo
Vice President of Business Development

Nancy Mendoza
Marketing and Media Relations Specialist

Is Artista|Mundo free?
Yes! Artista|Mundo.com is 100% FREE.

How do I change my profile picture?
-Start by making sure you are logged in.
-Click on "My Studio" in the top right navigation menu from any ArtistaMundo.com page.
-Click on "Edit Profile"
- Locate "Upload Profile Image" number 1 on the edit profile page
-Browse for desired photo located on your computer
-Save changes

How do I upload images?
-On your "My Studio" page ( your main profile page)
-Go to the "Upload Images" link located to the top right corner of the "My Gallery" block .
-Once on the Upload Images page, select the image you want to upload (located on your computer)
- Save changes

I Can't upload images.
-If you encounter an error message stating "Don't use the characters:ñ,Ñ,á,é,í,ó,ú,Á,É,Í,Ó,Ú,ç,Ç,(space)"
-Try renaming your image file without spaces
-This problem happens because in the field image there is a space or character after the last "/". (Ex: image 1)
-Try again re-naming the file to image_1, image1 or image-1.
-Please note, the issue with space does not affect the Title field .

How do I change the background color on my profile?
-On your "My Studio" page
-Go to the [ Customize your web page ] link near the top right corner, located on the same block with your name.
-change the background color to desired color or image (ex: 000000 for black )
- Save changes

How do I set the slide show?
-On your "My Studio" page ( your main profile page)
-Go to the "Edit Slide Show" link located to the top right corner of the left block with your name.
-Once on the Edit Slide show page, select the images (from the images you previously uploaded to your profile) you want displayed on your slide show
- Save changes

How do I become a featured artist?
An artist is featured every week. We feature artists who are getting particular attention on the site from other users and are contributing new or interesting art.


If your question has not been answered above, please contact us by e-mail at ArtistaMundo@gmail.com

I'm semi famous...well this might help...

So a few weeks ago I was invited to Jungle Island to share my experience with a blog. I sent the blog along with pictures to the Marketing Jungle Island staff and now you can see the blog on the official Jungle Island website blog.

Check it out!

http://www.jungleisland.com/blog/index.php

Thanks to Steve Pierre ( the super nice student I met at the UM workshop who also works for Jungle Island for hooking me up with this experience) You rock!!!!!

Last Comic Standing

Last night was the season finale of Last Comic Standing. My favorite is still Marcus although Jeff Dye and the Eliza were also my favs. Eliza won making her the first female last comic standing. She really is funny, and I am so happy that she won. I have to say that everyone of the performers left last night were funny.
I still really like Marcus for the impersonations. He's so going to get his own TV show or something bigger. He's like the next Dane Cook,but better.
You have to see his videos on YouTube.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/comedianmarcus

Yesterday I took my mom to Jungle Island. She had never been, but had heard mixed reviews about the place. We set out for our Jungle adventure at 10:00am. I took my 3 year old niece Katherine as well.

I have been to Jungle Island once before with some friends, and I had a great time. I pumped up the trip to my mom for about a week, so by the time Friday rolled around she was excited.

The first thing I wanted to show her was the Liger. My mom could not believe the enormity of the animal when I showed pictures from my first trip. It must have been too hot (about 94 degrees) because we just couldn't catch the Liger standing up and walking around. I don't blame him, it was too hot for my family and me as well. Good thing Jungle Island is covered in most areas, or we really wouldn't have been able to stand the heat.

I next took them to see the Crocosaurus. I was amazed by the creature on my first visit, so I just had to show my mom and neice. My niece was a bit scared, but my mom was amazed and just had to get pictures of the animal. My favorite is the story about the albino alligator and how it was sick until they brought in other alligators to keep it company. It's pretty amazing.

I really enjoyed the fact that there are so many great picture opportunities, and that J.I. allows guests to get so close to alot of animals. I personally enjoyed feeding the kangaroos and having our picture taken of the experience. I adore kangaroos so it made my day to be able to feed and pet them.

My moms favorite part of the day was when she finally realized a life long dream of petting a skunk. (yup you read right). She has always wanted to own a skunk and she had never come so close to one. She got to hold it and take pictures. I have never seen such a giant smile on her face when taking a picture with an animal. The skunk was soft and very sweet. Her name is Flower.

Katherine and I bottle fed the goats and got to feed pellets to the Llama. She kept calling it "Kuczo" like from theDisney film The Emperors New Groove. It was cute and she loved feeding the goats by baby bottle. We went back 4 times to get new bottles.

I think Katherine's favorite part of the day was meeting Lilo, the South African penguin. We even got to take a picture with Lilo and another of the penguins.

We had so many pictures taken that we bought a CD of all of them.
The experience I had yesterday is one that not many others may experience in their lifetime.
I will never forget feeding the kangaroos, petting a skunk, and sitting so close to an orangutang without any cages or glass to separate us.

I recommend taking your kids and even your parents to Jungle Island. You will experience things there that you may never again see in your life.

For more information about Jungle Island please visit their website at jungleisland.com/

Below are some pictures from our day at Jungle Island

Ten Rules for Being Human

I found this while "Stumbling". I thought I'd share it. Enjoy.

Ten Rules for Being Human
by Cherie Carter-Scott

1.You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2.You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
3.There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
4.Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5.Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6."There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7.Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8.What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9.Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10.You will forget all this.

Mtv Choose or Loose

From July 6th until July 26, 2008 I will be working with the University of Miami Peace Sullivan/James Ansin High School Journalism Workshop.
During the first week I met Anthony Wojtkowiak(Mtv Choose or Loose Reporter for Florida). He decided to do a story about our workshop.
Here is his video

Back to work.

Today was the first day I worked with my street team in almost 7months. I have to hand over management of the street team in Jan since I had to focus on my final class project to graduate.

I don't regret doing that 1. Because Carla did a fantastic job of keeping the street team at concerts. 2. The company I did my final project for (ArtistaMundo.com) has hired me. That means I have my first real job out of college. I thought I would be looking for a job for several months before I found something.

I was surprised to find that handing out flyers is not as much a pain in the butt as it had become at one point. I though something was wrong with me, because when I used to pass out flyers at a concert, most people would avoid me like the plague. It made me feel like something about me was making people not want whatever I was giving away.

Today was different. Carla and Tati put up posters and I handed out flyers as concert goers entered the Cruzan Amphitheater for the Motley Crue show.
Most people coming into the concert were friendly, smiled and actually thanked me when I gave them a flyer. At first I was taken back, but then I was like ok maybe I'm doing something different and people are reacting different. Maybe I'm smiling more, because I'm not stressed out over everything like I was back then.
I used to have to deal with a whole lot of bullshit just to do my job. Now I'm actually enjoying myself.

We caught the last half of Buckcherry, all of Papa Roach (which I always love live), and all of Motley Crue. They were really good live. I'm just a little disappointed at myself. I should have been more excited about the show.
Carla and I were totally on the same page tonight. She felt exactly like I did. She felt like that because the PR people for Motley Crue were being impossible and didn't let the press take their pictures up at the stage like usual. They were way behind the first section and had to deal with fans getting in their shots. Carla couldn't get many good shots being so far away.

But I'm going to file this lesson in my PR do's and don'ts for future reference. I think it's a very bad move on the part of the bands PR person, because if the press can't get good shots of your band, they won't bother writing about you and you won't have any pictures in the newspapers, magazines or online. So who wins here? no one. All you've accomplished is making a bunch of photographers mad at your band. So thats not a good thing.

It rained for a bit (ice cold rain drops) I tried not to get too wet, but I got just wet enough to have a mini asthma attack and loose my voice somewhat. Good thing Carla was shooting the show, we got to sit in the VIP lounge to wait out the rain.
So, it was a pretty good first day back on the job. It feels good to be back in the scene making things happen and making more people aware of the great upcoming shows.

First real job

I finally graduated after what seemed like an eternity. So naturally I have to take the next step, getting a JOB. Job searching is not easy at all. I can't decipher the language on the job search sites. Monster, Career Builder, etc.... It's all hieroglyphics to me.
Then there are job posts that sound too good to be true, and usually are. I have a habit of "Google"ing anything I don't know, and if I can't find any information on a company, I won't apply.
Ideally, I'd find a job doing something in music, but it seems like there isn't much available. The Miami music scene isn't very big, so there's not many jobs to apply to.
The real world (not the TV show) sucks. I think I'll start my master's in the fall as planned and continue to look for something good during that time.
I was so ready to graduate a few months ago, now I just want to be back in school, not dealing with looking for a job.

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