clearly i dont know how to hyperlink

seeing people fall/trip is something i gain too much pleasure from :/i noticed this yesterday at the corporate run as 18000 people tried to run together in compact settings. FAIL.

i get stressed having to write coherent paragraphs so id much rather prefer to write simple sentences. who invented this 'paragraph' that makes our sentences have to have something to do with one another? im not down.

the way i write is way too similar to the way i think, never on one thought for too long before jumping to the next. i term this 'the unquiet mind syndrome' my mom thinks i have a form of autism. no seriously, she does.

my mom tried to psychoanalyze me over dinner the other night and i had a knot in my throat the entire time. i think that's bad?

I love this quote I saw on my new-fellow-blogger-friend-melanie's blog: "Do not judge or gossip. Those who judge are ignorant and those who gossip are envious; I am neither". Amen Sista!

I bought my FAVORITE dress in the entire world. its even called the 'Princess Dress'. My sister says it looks like Michael Jackson's glove.

My mom says shes going to dye my hair one color while im sleeping cause shes over the two-tone. im not. i cant decide what to do and until then, two-tone it is.

Another unlikely favorite love song Pink Floyd- Brain Damage. The way to my heart is to tell me taht I rearrange you till your sane. even though i doubt ill ever have that affect on anyone. ill rearrange you till your insane, maybe?

Probably one of the best experiences of my life was randomly entering Ashley into the Big 105.9fm "Hot Legz" contest and winning front row tickets to Rod Stewart. We got called that same exact day as the contest and the concert was that night. i cancelled a work meeting and went with my nobes. i miss my nobes :(

tonight i am going to new places with new people. im excited for this new-ness.

Happy belated birthday, Prime 24! wow. time flies. where did this year go? how are we already in May? its time to hustle.

im excited to read this blog when im 75 years old. im going to write a letter to myself next blog post, yep, thats it.

May is the month i said id start doing everything i wanted to do. and im kinda lazy about this. things i wanted to do in January that i said id for sure start in may: tennis lessons, piano lessons, french lessons, go to California for a weekend, trade in my car, work really hard, move out. im annoyed i set this goal but i think i just may try to accomplish it.

my sister is truly phenomenal.

these videos complete me.

i posted a blog below. it was 'paragraphs' so it needed a separate blog. whatever.

i started hyper linking at the bottom, then went to the top, then got bored in the middle and gave up. oh, nicole.

****i just read this and maybe one or two of my hyperlinks worked. this took me forever and im highly annoyed***

hyperlinks that didnt work worth noting:

http://www.youtube.com/user/thesubpranos

http://www.tristalerit.com

happy belated earth day, earth

Thes are two of my favorite stories; a belated ode to Earth Day....

The Fawn and the Bobcat

A wildfire in Santa Barbara, California last month helped forge some unlikely
bonds. Rescued from the Jesusita Fire, a 3-week old bobcat kitten and 3 day
old fawn became fast friends. The animal rescue in California brought predator
and prey together. But these babies simply took comfort in each other’s company,
snuggling under a desk at a dispatch office for hours.

The bobcat and fawn would not normally be placed together, due to regulations, but the rescuers had no choice. They snagged the bobcat kitten first, finding it dehydrated and near death. Later, they brought in the fawn and discovered they didn’t have a crate large enough for it. No matter – the kitten ran right over to the fawn, and the two became fast friends.

Owen and Mzee

In December 2004, a frightened young hippo, separated from his family by a devastating tsunami, bonded with an Aldabra tortoise named Mzee. The 130 year-old tortoise accepted Owen as his own, and an inseparable bond was forged.

Owen immediately bonded to Mzee and would crouch behind him. However, Mzee initially resisted Owen's overtures. Over time, the old tortoise came to accept the young hippo, who began to mimic his adoptive parent. Gradually, Mzee taught Owen, who was a nursing calf, what to eat and where to sleep.

In the first year, the two became inseparable companions who ate,
slept, swam, and played together. Owen often played with the old tortoise by jumping on Mzee's back, scratching the old tortoise on the neck, and in many other ways. They surprised scientists with the strength of what appeared to be a genuine bond, as well as with the unique vocal communication that developed between them.

Happy Friday!

The Unlikely Team Captain

I don't know how this happened but somehow I was named Team Captain for our company in tomorrow's Corporate Run.

If you know me well, which most people don't, you'd know I am no where near the 'team captain' personality. I was never on Student Council and I was never president nor any authoritative figure in anything scholastic (granted I was president of the Hello Kitty club, but com'on, that's elementary stuff). In fact, I'm the person who stands next to the team captain or president, pretend I do important things, and then take the credit. No, seriously, I am that person. My strengths aren't in organization or leading but in being adorable and entertaining clients with witty commentary. (hence my title, Director of Client Relations) (just kidding, I'm not that adorable) (just kidding again, sometimes I really am.)

So, to much of my surprise, my boss apparently thought i was capable enough to 'unite and excite the forces' and create our TEAM. This gives lil ol' me lots of anxiety; I had to order t-shirts, sign registration forms, and keep everyone 'in the loop'. All which left NO room for procrastintion, my dear longtime nemesis. I don't even think anyone takes me seriously because every time I mention anything regarding deadlines or the corporate run, I bust out in laughter, as do they in response.

However, Id like to say this small project i was assigned has matured me a bit. Despite the fact that today is the last day to turn in the forms and I'm about to leave my office to head over to drop them off, i have grown as an adult and will now take on more endeavours that require "leadership and discipline" and I encourage everyone else to try the same. Ive always sold myself short by saying 'nah, I never do things like that' and will now replace it with 'yes I can and yes I will'. Remember, Its never too late, or too soon, to become the Class President-type.

To end this, if anyone is interested in watching an ostrich run down Brickell Ave, stop by the corporate run tomorrow, 6:45pm. Any questions, call Team Captain Cunningham.

wonderfulness

“ No matter where you run, you will just keep running into yourself."
unknown

Ode to a Classic

She can kill with a smile
She can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child,
But she's always a woman to me

She can lead you to love
She can take you or leave you
She can ask for the truth
But she'll never believe you
And she'll take what you give her, as long as it's free
Yeah, she steals like a thief
But she's always a woman to me


Oh, she takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants
She's ahead of her time
Oh, and she never gives out
And she never gives in
She just changes her mind

And she'll promise you more
Than the Garden of Eden
Then she'll carelessly cut you
And laugh while you're bleedin'
But she'll bring out the best
And the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself
Cause she's always a woman to me
--Mhmm--

She is frequently kind
And she's suddenly cruel
She can do as she pleases
She's nobody's fool
And she can't be convicted
She's earned her degree
And the most she will do
Is throw shadows at you
But she's always a woman to me
--Mhmm--

Billy Joel knows women.

weekend findings

Things I learned on Friday...

• The most important meetings casually happen on Friday's at 5:15pm right after you just made plans to go to happy year. Yea, they also last an hour and a half and people make it a point to speak extra slow and repeat themselves numerous times.
• When 5 minutes into the conversation a man tells you, "I fly to Peru just to go to some of my favorite restaurants," responding with, "Well that sounds stupid", is a sure fire way to get him off your back.
• A McDonald's cheeseburger, fries, and drink combo makes the perfect 'appetizer'
• Sometimes 11pm can feel like a Saturday at 10am.
• Monica Minagorri lives far, far away. And coincidentally, there will be a train that magically stops that will make the route even longer.
• 'Mokai, Coco, Mokai, Set, Taco Bell' make a great combination.
• Taco Bell's Mexican Pizza's are not always as crisp as you'd like them to be. That's why its good to also order a Beef Chalupa Supreme 'just in case'

Things I learned on Saturday...

• Monica still insists on making me drive really far
• Some people have the patience of Gandhi and will wait more than 2 hours till you get to the boat even when an hour ago you said "I'm on my way, I swear, I just stopped to buy some ice."
• "you'll get used to it" is a cop out. If the water is cold when you first get in, chances are the water will still be cold 25 minutes later as well.
• Carlos Vives is my favorite Karaoke music and I think I sing really well.
• Burger King will give you 3 orders of french fries if they don't have onion rings. For future references, this is where you should insist "No, thats fine, dont worry about it," instead of greedily accepting.
• "Yea I'm just gonna go home and take a lil nap" = " I will absolutlely not make it out tonight but let me just pretend."
• Jurassic Park apparently takes priority over everything.

Things I learned on Sunday...

• T-Mobile could care less that my phone doesn't work in my house
• French Connection makes every dress I own and will ever own and if you happen to wear one this Saturday, we are going to be twins. Ugh.
• I need to stop with the fast food. Enough, Nicole, enough.
• Parents will always insist Sunday is 'Family Day' even when you are 25 years old and just want to sleep and vegitate.
• I not only look like an Avatar, but also have "Avatar lady tantrums"

The Experience Project

survey from www.experienceproject.com

Can you Drive a manual car? no. but i feel like something may happen one day where i really might need to know how to. you know, like maybe ill need to 'escape' or something and the only car available is manual. doesn't everyone think like that?

Something that keeps you going everyday? wanting to give my parents everything they gave they me yet neglected of themselves so their kids could have it/ do it.

Do you own a gun? no, but my lil sister has some weird kinda bb gun. "oh no, i dropped megans bullets everywhere"- my dad last week. weird.

Do you like who you are? yes, and i know about 12 other people that do too.

Do you have A.D.D.? i mean sometimes i think i.......wait, what?

Country you've been in? AMERICA, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, England...and probably some others that I forgot, but who forgets things like that? oh! and ToRtOLa. Chant and I lo0ove TorToLa.

Aren’t thunderstorms awesome? obvio

Who is your cell carrier? im a T-mobile girl. its love/hate. they love me, i hate them.

Would you rather be rich or famous? id like to be famous for being rich?

Do you like the cold? NO. i dont go out in the cold, i hibernate like a polar bear..awwww polar bears

Are you happy you are alive? yes, and ill be sad when I'm dead. really sad.

Do you think gay marriage is wrong? love is never wrong nor right.

Do you like looking up at the stars? im the creep who would pull over on the side of the highways on my drives from Tally to Miami, by myself, to look at the stars....sigh.....

Do you want to move? yes but Blanca gives me my vitamins in the morning so its a tough situation to walk away from : /

Do you burn or tan? im the tannest cunningham you'll ever meet

Are your parents still married? lol no...but my mom and step dad have been married for 18 years?

Are you happier single or in a relationship? depends on the kind of relationship lol

Do you have any children? olive cunningham

What other languages do you speak? wellll since you askkkedd..spanish, italian, and I dabble in french. BOOYA.

Do you daydream a lot? 'a lot' is an understatement. 24/7 dreamer.

Do you like swimming? I dont really care much for it to be honest.

What is the make and model of your phone? Blackberry Bold 9700. Dont ask for my pin, I have only 11 contacts and I plan on keeping it that way. (plus or minus 2)

Would you ask your crush out? this is when I would rely on 'the look' to do the asking. jk?

Do you like the ocean? the ocean breathes salty, wont you carry it in..

What are your thoughts on stay at home moms? they work just as hard as anyone else.

Who did you last get angry with? lol..me, angry? nevah... i dont get angry, i get 'Colombian'

Do you still live with your parents? yes, dont judge me.

Coke or Pepsi? diet coke with lime

How many credit cards do you own? my mom reads this so ill say....'two' :)

Liberal or Conservative? UGH! moderate :/

Would you ever go skydiving? yessssss..i want to fly

Have you lost any one close to you? yes, my daddy and my grandparents..didnt lose them, just gained more angels 0:)

How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock this morning? about 8 times. no joke.

Do you think you are smart? flippin' genius.

Do you do your own laundry? yes otehrwise megan ends up in my jeans and andi in my shirts. lil squirts.

Do you want to get married? i feel dorky answering this. next.

Do you want kids? yess...i need lil nicoles to entertain me and horrify me all at the same time.

Are you shy? 'awww shy vic' lol

How do you feel when someone betrays you? those that could strongly affect me would never do that to me. the others, i just say 'que se joden'

How many times have you moved? haaa....too many to count. nomad of life.

Do you hear voices? ofcourse. thats why im so cracked/cool.

Who is the last person to call you? chantel. and i didnt answer. and she wrote "rude." typical.

How many e-mails do you have? too many..leave me alone people, geez.

What is in your nightstand draw? its drawer, not 'draw' and dont be so nosey.

Are you religious? for the most part even though sometimes I think life would be easier being an evangelical. lol. dont ask.

Random Thoughts on a Monday Evening.

- My dog, Olive, has a strange habit of biting this hackey-sack kinda ball and getting her lil teeth stuck within the stitching. She cries and has mini panic attacks, as do I, while I try to take it out yet 45 seconds later, shes back at it. In conclusion, dogs, just like humans, never learn.

- Rihanna, why are you telling 'rude boy' to come here? Didn't you learn your lesson? Tell 'rude boy' to get away. Women can be so stupid. Geez.

- I love my job so much that I think I may just die there and it makes me think they should have a poster on the door saying "This is where people come to die" because no one ever quits. As I said, just a random thought.

- If Kathia, My brother, or any other person tells me one more time to eat a hamburger, I may kill a small school of fish. Enough. I eat. I also run alot and have a resting heart rate of 23423 beats per minute due to my triple consumption of 'cortaditos'.

- In another life, I was a swing dancer. FACT. There is nothing better than being flipped, turned, and knotted in cool dance tricks.

- Ive kept the same hair color for 9 months now. Monumental.

- Facebook is like a scrapbook and for that I am forever grateful. Very refreshing to know that when my 10343453 pics magically deleted off my dieing computer, they were all luckily saved on Mark Zuckerberg's 'Magic Memory Sustainer'.

- Radiohead.

- I dont know what to do memorial weekend and I like it. Im finally at that special place I was in during 2007 where I was very content staying at the apartment all by myself all memorial weekend. I'm happiest when I feel happiest alone. Sick. Cool. Weird. Awesome. Strange. GREAT.

- Monday is my favorite evening of the week. A time for looking back and looking ahead. I love it.

- If you dont have the volume up right now, I probably dislike you.

- I went from 1300 friends to 500 friends. Im sorry, all. That was a Colombian temper tantrum at its finest.

- For some reason, Bigdaddy.com hasnt called me to renew my website and I'm nervous. My public diary is going to disappear into thin air and I will be oh-so-sad.

- 'To Gillian on her 37th Birthday' is a very underrated movie.

- 'Young Folks' and 'Malibu' are my favorite love songs. Particularly because I dont suppose too many people think they are in fact love songs.

- Andy Fernandez is my uber talented, uber cool friend. Check out his music: http://soundcloud.com/doma_studios/07-not-worth-the-trouble

- Cyrina Fiallo is my other uber talented, uber cool friend. Check out her movie 'MADE: The Movie" premiering on MTV in August.

- Me, my only attempt at talent is trying to communicate my thoughts in a way which other people can relate. And prying hackey-sacks out of lil poodle-like creatures.

Dee, My Purple Backpack

I probably wouldn't be alive if it weren't for Diana Puente Gutierrez.

Above anyone else, including Blanca Cunningham, Diana has saved my life more times than I care to recount. "Dee, help" was all she needed to read or hear and she was either getting into the speed mobile, cici sparkle, looda, or whoever else's car she could steal and on her way to save sweet lil nicky all the while grumbling "SERIOUSLY NICOLE CUNNINGHAM?! SERIOUSLY?!"

Aside from helping me out of tumultuous situations, she has also helped in unnerving situations. Boys, if you ever called me, or Chantel, during years 2001-2007, there is aVERY likely chance you spoke to Dee and not me on the phone because i was "too nervous" to talk and made Diana speak and pretend it was me. Yep, the cats outta the bag.

I met Dee in 9th grade. She was the new girl from public school who showed up wearing granny panties and scrungies and was immediately X'ed out of the 'cool girl' island I had imaginably created. Luckily for her, she was one hell of a cheerleader and Lisa "Im Too Nice" Colon befriended her which led to her quick inception into the group. Right of the bat, this Cuban Blonde with the 'perfect torso' and absurdly cute dimples caught my attention with her ridiculousness sweetness and obscenely loud voice. And yes, she was even a willing participant in my "Sunset Place" cult.

One of our bond-forging moments together happened during my Senior year of high school when I was dating Louie who was in Gainesville at the time. Blanca didnt let me travel alone to see him so of course I went after Dee to come with me with promises of "Grandiose times" and "College parties." What did this mean? I broke up with Louie the night I got there and it was her duty to find our housing and entertainment the entire weekend. I couldve tested the patience of Gandhi that weekend but Diana was there with a smile, always looking for ways to smooth over any situation, no matter what it took.

Another ingredient that makes this friendship beautiful are our STRANGE things in common. One of these strange commonalities is our equal participation in something we call "Operation Bootylicious". This is when we both sit next to each other in front of a mirror and point out things we don't like and how we can change them. GIRL POWER! haha, its not as sick and sad as it sounds, I promise you. Another torture mechanism we both commonly used was driving to luxurious neighborhoods to look for 'cul-de-sacs' we could all live in in the future. We'd also plan our lucrative careers and acted out scenes in movies to see if we could ever make it big in Hollywood. To say we were dreamers wouldn't be suffice. In fact we still are because just last week Dee called me and said "aye nic, I feel bla, come over so we can do bootylicious".

Dee is and will always be my beloved purple backpack. There is no one as giving as this woman and sometimes it makes me want to slap her in the face and say "BE MEAN!", "SAY NO!" but she wont, she just wont. She gives more of herself and never expects anything in return;She is happy when you are happy and if you are sad, she is sad. The best times of my life were spent on weekdays (yes, during school hours) in Tallahassee singing "gotta getup, gotta, gotta get up", drinking chocolate milk, watching The View, and saying "sucks to be someone else."


To this day, Dee is the proud mother of a gorgeous babygirl named Abigail NICOLE (supposedly its the only name that sounds good with Abigail but we just say that so the other girls dont get jealous ;) She is happily married to my wonderful friend Joel and lives in a gorgeus apartment in Brickell, just like the ones we planned when we were little. Smarter than the average Blonde, Dee is working as a Real Estate agent alongside one of the top Realtors in Miami and showing all the houses we drove by as young girls, still calling me and sending me pics saying "okay so I figure ill live in this one but theres one next door I think you'll like".

There is no feat or dream too big or too small for this lil milf and I only see rainbows and bootyliciousness in her future. Diana, Happy 25th Birthday you gorgeous mother, wife, sister, daughter, and above all, friend. You touch the lives of everyone you meet and the reason this blog came so late in the game is because its hard to word my appreciation for everything you have done in my life. I love you with all and then some and cant wait to build more obscene and beautiful memories with you.

Also, I kinda really need you to stick around because when Im the 46 year old cougar at the bar getting her car towed, Im gonna need you to come pick me up. Geez, thanks.