I documented this year in video and photos, again. And as I stopped to analyze 2022, I want to write every thing I did, I accomplished, I learned and I suffered this 2023.

There has been so many learnings that would be almost impossible to find just one quote that summarizes these 365 days but if I really get into it and choose one, maybe I’ll choose “God is present every day, mom is present every day, you should be present every day”. The people that love you the most in this world are present for you every day and your love for yourself and for them should be able to develop in the same way that you are able to be present every day. Therefore, love is not a feeling but a compromise and an action. ❤

Without furder ado, I share with you my 2023 recap and everything that came true this year:

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1. I fed so well the kitty I adopted on 2022 that is a fluffy 5kg kitty, already!
2. I never stop trying to come back to the healthy lifestyle.
3. I learned how to use REVIT.
4. I continued developing my habit to attend the gym before going to work.
5. I learned to choose peace and feeling comfort in it.
6. I delevoped a selfcare routine.
7. I enjoyed quality time with my mom, my family, my friends and my mom’s friends.
8. I walked.
9. I went to the beach.
10. I did an inventory of every cosmetic product I own.
11. I returned to practice pilates at home.
12. I designed my first architectural project.
13. I got my driver’s licenses for motorcycle and lightweight cars.
14. I understood loud and clear the meaning of “where there’s smoke, there’s fire”.
15. I was proud to detect certain warnings on time and act accordingly without waiting to see if I was right or not.
16. I bought an automatic vacuum cleaner to help me do the cleaning.
17. I went to a technical visit to different highways of my country.
18. I had a better understanding of structural analysis.
19. I wore sweaters again! (I stopped using them because the heat was wild the last few years, however, this year I bought a shruggie that is basically a only-sleeves kind of sweater… but, at the end of the year it was cold again over her, so I could use the other normal sweaters, too!).
20. I tried to recover my hair waves.
21. I tried arepas and cachapa (a sweet giant quesadilla).
22. I got ready for my graduation photo.
23. I took my graduation photo.
24. I made cinnamon rolls.
25. I bought an ice cream scoop.
26. I went to a technical visit to the new buildings in construction in University City of Universidad de El Salvador.
27. I learned to love the volume and style a blow-dry achieves.
28. I sealed the joint between a door and a wall with transparent silicone.
29. I bought an electric epilator.
30. I learn how to use PTV Vissim.
31. I made my final presentation for the architectural project with 3D design, set of plans, explanation of structural elements and the powerpoint.
32. I approved my final presentation for the architectural project.
33. I enjoyed a surprise birthday celebration for the first time in my life thanks to my Univeristy friends (I can’t recall anything like a surprise party before this one!).
34. I bought silk pillow covers.
35. I celebrated mother’s day with my mom going on a tour and she enjoyed it.
36. We bought a rosebush on the mother’s day tour and it has given us a lot of roses on our home since that day.
37. I renewed my passport.
38. I bought a 360 camera and finally have some memories of me driving my motorcycle.
39. I decided to use stiletto heels for my graduation.
40. I graduated from Architecture by the University Cetec from Mexico in alliance with Avanza El Salvador.
41. I held a gathering for family and friends for my graduation. I was nervous and excited because it was the first gathering I was holding with different groups of my life after my sweet XV.
42. I restarted training with dumbbells at home.
43. I tried walking in the sun to get my vitamin D.
44. I got some strange freckles on my hand for walking in the sun, so I stopped.
45. After some time, those strange freckles on my hand dissappeared.
46. I learned how to cook creamy seafood soup at home.
47. I was with me and we survived to the saddest days of my life.
48. I experienced a night terror for the first time in my life.
49. I tried a canoli for the first time in my life.
50. I tried an italian pizza for the first time in my life.
51. I celebrated 15 years of having this blog.
52. I learned to listen to God’s Word and helped me a lot to deepen my relationship with Him.
53. I started to see result of home training with dumbbells.
54. I learned that my type of skin needs to moisturize with a gel and not a cream.
55. I learned to ask for help.
56. I was moved by the fact that my kitty enjoys sleeping with me. There were some nights that I noticed he tried to move slowly to place his paws between my feet so he can roll like a donut without waking me up.
57. I found a taste for things not so sweet like dragonfruit.
58. I understood elegance is a way to tell the world you’re worth it and that you’re never overdresses for anything if the quality standard is in your interior. In your interior is God so you’re allowed to dress like the daughter of The King.
59. I understood the selfcare routine is daily from a certain age, not weekly.
60. I knew frequency was more powerful than a great try every once in a while, so I developed a dumbbell exercises routine for me. The series and repetitions increase by one from 1×5 to 5×20 with the goal in mind to develop discipline and frequency.
61. My goal changed from getting to a certain number to just appear for me every day.
62. I started to see results in the scale and the health category. I left the obese category and entered the overweight category.
63. I bought my protein and learned that you should drink it after training.
64. I put together my compact shoe rack for a better idea of what to wear every day and also have a cleaner bedroom.
65. I started to find the joy of doing things around the house every day, because that’s also a commitment of choosing to be present every day for you and for the people you love and love you back.
66. I survived buying a microwave and bring it home in the motorcycle at night.
67. We have a new microwave in the house.
68. I returned to crocheting.
69. I started to take magnesium daily to improve my internal processes and my rest.
70. I improved the home privacy placing a windbreak tape on the cyclone mesh at the patio.
71. I found my other favorite spot of the house, which is one of my favorite sofas on the third bedroom with my succulents and a slice of heaven as the view.
72. I started sewing creating paper patterns, cutting fabric and hand-sewing.
73. I learned the reason for so many things. I learned that my instict will tell me what’s best for me right now, and it’s possible that it’s the right thing for my current circumstances, but the majority of the times will not be the best for my future self. That instict has to learn to discern with your strategy for the future to know if that current decision will create an obstacle for you or not.
74. I also learned that so many things happening are not really that, a lot of times a certain situation is an undercover gift to help you understand another situation.
75. I learned, understood, and practiced that actions are louder than words.
76. I stopped being a Civil Engineering Junior and became a Civil Engineering Senior, thank God.
77. God speaks every day, by every media, every way; a lot of times I just need to ask for wisdom to be able to understand His message.
78. If God writes a message in your heart, do not doubt it.
79. God is an excellent coach and Father, He will not send you to a mission without proper training, He will provide prep time for you to get ready in mind, body, soul and heart.
80. Nothing and nobody can take away from you what God has planned for you.

Farewell, 2023! Thanks for everything.

Here’s to a prosperous 2024!

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