Excuses, excuses, or maybe just how I live my life!

I am always late. 
Always. 
Without an ounce of doubt, whatever it is- my own funeral, my own wedding- you can count on me being late to it.
A lot of times I have tried to "justify" my lateness as a cultural thing. Being Hispanic, I'm sure you have heard of the lightness we put on the importance of being on time. But I can no longer justify it, seeing as how my best friend, who is also Mexican, is RARELY late. She is my clock and the reason why I am on time. If it wasn't for her constant "we need to go" then honestly, I'd never get to do much because when we plan to do stuff and she's involved in the timekeeping, it always comes out well.
Being on time is just NOT a skill I have. I have tried to work on it with no success. So what do I do? Beat myself up about it? Work on it harder? Start wearing a watch?
No. Instead I come up with excuses. Lately my tardiness has really been on my mind. Mostly due to the fact that I've been arriving later and later to work. 
In my own words, it's really hard to be at work at 7:30am when I leave the house at 7:31. 
But that's not all. It's hard to get to work at my night job by 4:30 when sometimes I'm leaving the house at 4:28 and it takes me five minutes to get there. Here are some of my most colorful excuses I've given my manager (so far):
*Note: My job allows us 14 minutes to be late, anything over and you will be talked to. But come on, we're adults, we should be on time. I admit that. 

• Sorry, I was eating pizza. 
• Oops, I was playing with my YoucamMakeup app.
• Traffic!
• I got pulled over.
• I had to stay over at my day job longer than usual.
• I couldn't find my vest/keys/name tag/pen
• Car wouldn't start
• I was talking on the phone with mah bestie
• I hadn't finished my popsicle
• I was sleeping
• I forgot something at home and had to go back to get it
• I was watching Hulu/Netflix
• I forgot I was scheduled today
• I thought today was my day off
• My alarm didn't go off 
• I was hungry so I decided to eat first
• I was in the bathroom
• I was running an errand
• I had to stop and get gas for my car
• Some guy took forever to turn and so I was stuck behind him
• I was dealing with a family crisis
• My niece needed a ride
• I had important things to do
• My street was blocked off

...honestly, I just didn't feel like coming in.

Obsessions

February seemed to have just flown by! It started off great, ended not-so great and now here we are in March! Time is flying by for sure.

My post today has to do with obsessions.

I happen to have a VERY obsessive personality. I didn’t notice this until my best friend Erika pointed it to me one day. She noticed how, when I started dating a guy, I’d become obsessed with whatever his interests happened to be. There was the one guy who was into baseball and guns and Christina Perri. So I started reading baseball fiction books (Mike Lupica is SUCH a great author!) and looking up info on stuff he’d mention and I started listening to Christina Perri a lot more than I had before. One guy was into this song about rain, and I hate to lie, but it was a GOOD song! Another guy was into drawing and computers and animation, so there I go looking into it. I know it’s cool when your partner tries to get into the stuff you like, but I just took it too far! Anyway, I wanted to write about the periods of times when I became obsessed with buying certain things. I go through these phases quite often where I just buy a bunch of one thing. Some of things have included:

Earrings
I got my ears pierced when I was 19 for the first time so I went way overboard buying earrings. I must have bought at LEAST 20 pairs, and I ended up only wearing maybe 5 or so pairs.

Lotions from Bath and Body
SO many. I ended up having to give some to my mom because I had a huge collection that I was NEVER going to finish. Plus after awhile I realized that the smells were so strong, they were ok for awhile but then they got on my nerves.

Pens
All sorts of pens. Especially colorful, girly, cute ones. I ended up not even using these and most of them dried out so it was really a waste. I can’t help it. I just love having tons of different colored pens.
 
Journals/notebooks/composition books
OMG I have like 70 unfinished journals! I try to reuse them, but it’s hard. And I always end up buying NEW ones when I start a new hobby.
 
Eyeliner
I went through this phase where I’d buy every eyeliner I’d see. Thankfully, I won’t run out for a few years!
 
Lipgloss
Same issue as the eyeliner. But I had to throw away a lot of it when I realized glitter got everywhere and annoyed me too much.
 
Stickers
Especially Barbie stickers! I still have some, but nowhere to put them.
 
Magazines
I have stopped this since then, but I once had a pretty amazing collection of magazines. My favorite was “m”, but it stopped printing back in the day. I loved it because it had quizzes and free posters!
 
Phone cases
I actually haven’t bought a phone case in a few months, unless you count me signing up to a subscription that sends you a case monthly!
 
That’s all I can think of at the moment! Oh wait… my biggest obsession:
 
BOOKS.
I have too many. I buy several every month. I have a problem.
 
No I don’t.