Oh Chel

"the one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person." - Invisible Monsters about a girl: around her early 30s, give or take a few years. acts like a child most often than not. horrid at spelling. loves putting in punctuation... FaceBook : Instagram : Pinterest

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Catching up with me

Catching up with me - talking about what has been going on on the blog.

Catching up with me working through my struggles with anxiety, birthing planning with our daughter, as well as finding myself as an artist

I feel like I’ve been going – going – going and haven’t had time to catch up. Figure this would be the perfect time to write about what we have been up to.

In past posts I talked about my struggles and learning to love myself in this body. Having both…

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Fostering Chronicles

Today, I would like to talk about Travis and I’s start into fostering dogs in the fostering chronicles. Now, just to let you know we are an equal opportunity when it comes to pets. We really do enjoy animals, but more so from working with Bolt we wanted to help more pups.

I have talked about my two pets before which can be found out more about Bolt here, and Lady you can read more about here.

W…

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Fails at Adulting part two

Lies that we tell each other - I will do the laundry today. Fails at adulting with the laundry

Lies that we tell each other – I will do the laundry today. That means – washing, drying, folding and putting away those clothes today.

Reality is simply that – not that. Or at least it wasn’t. This is part two, so if you would love to read up on my part one you can check it out here.

The bane of my existence…

Laundry has always been an issue at this household. To be honest, I’ve been…

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Husband loves watching the planes come in and go. While we waited for over 12 hours for our flight. Fun times... (at Chicago O'Hare International Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/B43H60Mg5xf/?igshid=1pcf9frvxs9s7

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Sleepy times... it's so hard to be a pup. Since getting Lady back she has just been a mopey ball. Guess she didnt like the little vacation. But it warmed my heart how she was able to great Travis even before me. 😍😍😍 (at Barrie, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/B42atrHgYzI/?igshid=lzmbxg903kxc

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Learning about my heritage

Learning about my heritage is a post about me slowly working through what it means to me on being Mexican. Working through my Latina side of my family.

Not many of you may know this – but I am part Mexican. That is something that I don’t really talk about for a few reasons. Mainly because I didn’t grow up really being apart of that culture. I was raised without a mother.

She had passed away giving birth to me and for those reasons I feel it was hard for my father to have us around her side of the family. Yes, there were other aspects that…

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When he makes it so hard to go out. I just adore this little face. His big ole pug eyes have warmed my heart for over 5 years and I can't imagine my life without him. Sigh. I'll eat you up I love you so.... #lifestyleblogger #livebright #shinyhappybloggers #sadpuppy #pug #pets #puppylove #dogstagram #dogsofcanada #ilovemydog #pugmix #jackrussellterrier #jackrussellmix #sillydogs #sirbarksalot (at Barrie, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4kuq9EAkTg/?igshid=1agij4nvmn3s1

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5 things I hate about Twitter

5 things I hate about Twitter

Sometimes I feel like I have a love/hate relationship with Twitter.  It is a fantastic social media (just don’t get caught being addicted to it) – and it’s one of the best ways to keep in contact with me.  Usually, though @’s but let’s face it with every favorite reason to love something there is always the flip side of things.

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Learning to love myself again

Learning to love myself again

I’ve found myself always being in this constant loop of self acceptance followed by self-loathing. Rinse and repeat over many a years.

I’ve found it to be rather taxing both on my self worth, but at times my own relationship with others – mostly my husband, Travis.

Mental illness doesn’t mean you’re worthless

For more than half my life I’ve been struggling. Struggling with two different…

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5 tools to help with tackling anxiety without medication

5 tools to help with tackling anxiety without medication

First and foremost, to anyone out there that needs to take medication this is in no way – shape or form meant to guilt you. Everyone has their reasons, these are just reasons for me as to why it hasn’t worked out for myself.

I’ve been dealing with anxietyfor a better part of 20 + years and let me tell you it isn’t easy. It was during the time where it wasn’t talked about much at all. If you…

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Whelp, I did it!

Whelp, I did it!

I’ve been keeping a secret from you. Shh – not really. Kinda. Sorta. Okay so I’ve been just keeping it a bit low key.

Are you ready?

You sure?

Okay!

Travis and I are going to have a baby!

It might come as bit of a shock for some. I know that I had expressed my fears of becoming a motheronce before. Whereas I have talked about my concerns being a mother – complete with my…

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Meet Lady

Meet Lady my Spanish Podenco all the way from Spain with two years absent I never talked about her...

Meet Lady my Spanish Podenco all the way from Spain with two years absent I never talked about her…

So, my bad – I’ve adopted Lady almost two years ago – and in that time I realized that not once did I ever really introduce her on here. Sure, I’ve talked about her and my other dog, Bolt but how much do you really know about her?

Not a lot – again my bad.

So here she is…

Meet Lady –…

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Life update again

*Little wave*

Oh hello there! I first wanted to apologize for how long I’ve been gone. Last I updated it was in July of 2017 – so over 2 full years of silence. Yikes! My break seem to have taken longer than anticipated. Yeah, my bad y’all.

To be honest everything was getting to me then and my anxiety was running wild on me. I still am struggling some days, but for now it’s been rather…

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Sometimes I feel like spring will never come... When it's cold and rainy and some say flurries. I took this back in March but seems appropriate for days like this. Hows your weather doing? #outside #nature #canada #outdoors #photography #explore #summer #travel #adventure #love #beautiful #naturephotography #getoutside #photooftheday #instagood #photo #happy #trees #spring #naturelovers #landscape #picoftheday #sun #water #lake #explorecanada #toronto #canadianblogger #lifestyleblogger #lifeincolor #livebright #shinyhappybloggers https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwuk_MCnLM_/?igshid=218k6bcltb03

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I love my lil Podenco... #podencosofinstagram #podenco_power #podencos #sighthoundsofinstagram #sighthound #sighthoundsofinsta #podenco #rescuedog #podenco #dogsoftoronto #podenco_power #dogs #hopeforpodencos #dogsofmontreal #weeklyfluff #torontoart #puppiesoftoronto #podencolove #pets #instapuppy #ilovemydog #rararaya #freethegalgo #podencopuppy #dogsofinstagram #mtl #dogoftheday #hikingdogsofinstagram #dogsofcanada #torontoinsta #podencoworld #lovepuppies #instagramdogs #ibizanhound #queenofthehill (at Barrie, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwuYHVcgmC_/?igshid=1twre4la5kn7a

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Okay okay... one more picture. I really had a lot of fun with @squiggy88 on Sunday. It's one of his favorite places to go when he was younger and it's nice to share that with me. Though it was rather busy it was still a blast. What is one of your favorite hang outs growing up? #lifestyleblogger #livebright #livecolorfully #colorfulbloggers #outdoors #gettingoutthere #casaloma #toronto_insta #torontolife #torontolove #outdoors #getoutside #shadesofpurple #purple💜 (at Casa Loma) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwoolsVgWDX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kgdnl6rlwts9

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Can you spot it? Having fun looking at all the pictures taken at our times at #casaloma in #toronto #toronto_insta #torontolife #visitingtoronto #happytuesday #happytuesday😊 #lifestyleblogger #lifeincolor #livebright #colorful #colorfulbloggers #colorful #colors #unicorn #unicorn🦄 #unicorns🦄 https://www.instagram.com/p/BwmwBzCAzGy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jsra1sk6zjks