#not authentically mexican

[ephemeriee]

went to wetherspoons for every meal today and had alcohol with them and in a turn of events that will shock no one i do not feel too good

[everybody-loves-to-eat]

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[greensagephase]

[ragingbullmode]

using my mixed kid powers to disgust ppl who consider themselves more ethnically “authentic” then me when i tell them about how most of the food we eat is fusion bc my baba didnt have access to a lot of mexican ingredients in japan & learned how to maneuver around it anyway to make my mexican grandpa feel more at home before they moved to the states raaaahhhhhhhh

[pinkythefeedee]

My lunch today 😍Mouth watering lemme tell you 🫦🤤

[beardedmrbean]

[nekobinn]

I spent too much time playing Security breach and ruin and now my eyes hurt, anyways, hobby :)

[fieriframes]

[TAKIN' AUTHENTIC MEXICAN COOKING...]

[everybody-loves-to-eat]

[lowcallyfruity]

Guys these tacos are so good

[olibavee]

just got home from cooking with friends for like 6.5 hours and i am full of love and good food and enough exhaustion to put me down for the next 5 years probably

[starredforlife]

beautiful tipsy woman at the movie theater with a nose ring who recommended i try the drinks from the mexican place close by. i promise unto you i will do so

[nobrina]

Very funny to me how personal Italians take American-Italian food. If I gotta hear one more “cries in Italian- stop buying canned sauce!” “Pineapple on pizza isn’t real Italian!”

As a Mexican, I am not gonna shit talk others for putting sour cream and cheese on their burritos or cooking with canned enchilada sauce. Could you imagine if people who are Mexican got up in arms about American-Mexican food ? Especially if I’m not even the one eating it ? Y’all sound ridiculous.

[melissaat31]

Working out in the morning and eating breakfast is a gamechanger. I know, I know, this isn’t revolutionary info. I mean, we all went to school and had breakfast before class. We all heard about the importance of breakfast.

I’ve been hitting a bit of a slump with my workout and diet. I lost 60 pounds and overhauled my lifestyle in the past year and a half. But after the first year, it hasn’t been so cute. I’ve found myself losing motivation for structure. I started working out during lunchtime and by the time lunchtime rolls around, I’m exhausted. I can’t bring myself to haul my ass to the gym. And then I feel guilty. And lazy.

I tried something different today. I usually work out with my husband and sometimes it feels like he’s torturing me. He’s also my personal trainer. We lift and run together. He tells me what exercises to do and I consider divorcing him. Well, today I woke up defiant, with the lingering question hanging over me. Are we going to the gym? And my Inner Teenager fought her butt off. She was a grumpster. She was like why is everyone trying to control me gargh.

I usually do morning walks with my husband before we start our day. Lately we have even started cooking some breakfast. He has been making eggs and chicken sausage. I did something this past grocery store trip, something I haven’t done probably since college or high school. I got oatmeal. I used to make oatmeal a lot for myself. It was one of those meals that I could make myself, that was healthy. So of course I felt super accomplished making it this week. And it also brought me some comfort.

So we started cooking breakfast this past week, and I started cooking my oatmeal. And today I threw a little fit in the morning and then convinced myself to go the gym because the thing I hate more than pushing myself is the moment in the day when I know I don’t want to go to the gym but I also don’t want to walk for four hours to hit my movement goal - welcome to being 5’1. So I did it. My husband threw his back out but we did it. 45 minutes of lifting. No one was in the gym. I was tired.

But during that time I remembered another little hack. I had been racking my brain trying to figure out - how do I treat myself or bribe myself to go to the gym? Breakfast is a good way to do it. Feeling accomplished having already worked out before my day starts is a good way to do it. And I remembered, hey I like music. Music is a big reason I work out. I like listening to music and being in my own world.

Music influences my mood. And something I did the other day that I forgot was I started listening to music and then looking up guitar tutorials to play the song on YouTube. I would save them for later so I could also be motivated to practice my guitar. That’s another thing I struggle with motivating myself to do. I started learning guitar a little under a year ago and have been learning from Justin Guitar, which is this great app, but when it comes to a point in the learning when it feels tedious, like the C major scale, I just hit a wall. Because I just want to play covers. I love playing something familiar that I can jam out to.

Anyways, I got to pick some covers to try out for later during my lift. And it made it go so much faster. And it put me in a good mood. When we were done, we went home and made some breakfast. And I had a little pep in my step. I realized, hey I have the  whole day ahead of me. I think a big fear of mine is that I won’t have energy for everything I want to do. Like I just will tap out at 1pm. Which totally happens but I also think it’s about curating a life that feels fun. That you can look forward to.

I see things shifting and habits forming that could potentially make me look forward to certain things. I want to start hacking the system. Like how can I motivate myself, how can I create momentum, how can I find joy in the little things. There’s so much to discover and to create in the human experience. And yeah, I gotta study and I have all these ideas in my head that never feel possible to actually action on, but if everyday could be like this, where I could start the day a bit more satisfied, I think this life could be a good one. 

[su-angelvicioso]

@the-most-pathetic-edge-marquis I was thinking of your tags about María’s outfit in my art and thought I’d share the inspiration behind it.❤️

In case anyone else was wondering where I got the idea for the outfit I drew for María. It was inspired by the dresses commonly worn in Baile folklórico. María loves dance and she has definitely attended many of the “Ballet Folklórico de México” ensemble concerts.

Because I have the hc that she makes her own clothes, often using old techniques (she learned from the best lol) to stay grounded and close to her culture. I also hc that she made that outfit, inspired by the pretty dresses she’s seen in dance but she gives her outfits a more ‘modern’ twist and added her own sense of style to it. She’s a hot girl, would you expect anything less?

Here are some pics w/sources that visualize the idea:

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[christhebrit2]