This drawing was my daughter's art work. She entered this drawing at the drawing contest at Martin's Market which is grocery store. As I posted yesterday that she won $50.00 gift certificate from Toys R Us. And she was ecstatic about it, Anyway, just wanna share with you all.

Is other than .....my daughter Avory! My daughter entered a coloring contest at Martin's Market which is a convenient store like Fred Myers. The drawing was posted and the judges had to picked which was the better coloring made. And my daughter won it! Yehey! She has been complaining to me about not winning anything everytime she entered the contest....and now she won. Her excitement was beyond explain. When I was talking to the lady on the phone who was letting me know that my daughter won the contest. Avory jumped up and down, running back and fort around the house. She was so excited.

Anyway she won $50.00 gift card from Toys R us. Tomorrow we are planning to shop online. Sharing some photos with you all. Of course my camera's date,year, month and time still all messed up. I will try to fix it tonight, so that it will not complicate the photos anymore.

Post Holiday Syndrome is defined as the syndrome which people suffer when they have spent a wonderful holiday and no longer have a functional daily rhythm. As defined by the DSM IV, holiday blues or holiday depression are terms commonly used to depict mental distress occurring after the winter holidays and festival. The term used here is "blues” since it describes mild mental distress, which is a commonly occurring phenomenon when we are dealing with daily life problems. The more severe form of this is referred as depression since it is an illness of persistent sadness, and is not attributed to normal holiday reaction. Below are the common steps to get rid of post holiday stressors:


Always make healthy choices – like choose healthy food, healthy drinks, and have some good amount of exercise. This act as a mood enhancer and pumps more positive energy in you. Good food and exercise is associated with mood relaxing hormones. Make realistic resolutions. We are not perfect people and we are living in a world which is far more imperfect. So refrain from making too sensitive or harsh resolutions. Stick to something which is realistic. The goals should be reasonable and most importantly achievable. If we take a weight loss as an example, targeting for a size zero is unrealistic, but looking for 1lb in a span of week seems to be more achievable.

Take help from professionals - be it for finance or be it for oozing the ill feelings out of the mind. This is important for those who were not planning well enough for the holidays and are now deep down in the debt rack. Search to your past for getting more on what turns you on and what turns you off. If you have spent period after last 2 holidays in despair, then the chances of this post holiday period in despair are high. Look carefully about what you did last time and what relaxed you. Generally speaking these problems can be prevented with simple steps and are no cause of major concern.Don't hesitate to reach out to professional medical help if the feeling persists for more than 3 weeks.

A person suffering from Post Holiday Syndrome will behave in erratic fashion for the initial weeks after the holiday like waking at night and sleeping during the day. It is attributed to heavy responsibilities an enjoying which people do during holidays. According to a study conducted in Spain, it is estimated that 35 % Spanish workers face post holiday syndrome once they are back to routine work. It is the discomfort which causes the individual's inability to adapt back to work after the holidays.

I am having my Moment about sharing music video. I love this song, I love alisha Keys a alone, she is a great singer.

Yea I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in TriBeCa
right next to Deniro, but I'll be hood forever
I'm the new Sinatra, and... since I made it here
I can make it anywhere, yea, they love me everywhere
I used to cop in Harlem, all of my Dominicano's
right there up on Broadway, pull me back to that McDonald's
Took it to my stashbox, 560 State St.
catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons with them Pastry's
Cruisin' down 8th St., off white Lexus
drivin' so slow, but BK is from Texas
Me, I'm out that Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
Say what's up to Ty-Ty, still sippin' mai tai's
sittin' courtside, Knicks & Nets give me high five
Nigga I be Spike'd out, I could trip a referee
Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from....

[Chorus: Alicia Keys]
New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There's nothin' you can't do
Now you're in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let's hear it for New York, New York,
New York

[Verse 2: Jay-Z]
Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous then a Yankee can
You should know I bleed blue, but I ain't a Crip though
but I got a gang of niggas walkin' with my clique though
Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we sellin' rock
Afrika Bambataa shit, home of the hip-hop
Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
for foreigners it ain't for, they act like they forgot how to act
8 million stories, out there in it naked
City, it's a pity, half of y'all won't make it
Me, I got a plug, Special Ed "I Got It Made"
If Jeezy's payin' LeBron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
Three dice cee-lo, three Card Monty
Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade
Long live the King yo, I'm from the Empire State that's

[Chorus:]

[Verse 3: Jay-Z]
Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
so they can step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is
lined with casualties, who sip to life casually
then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple eve
Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style
End of the winter gets cold, en vogue, with your skin out
City of sin, it's a pity on the wind
Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
Mami took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
Hail Mary to the city, you're a virgin
And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church end
Came here for school, graduated to the high life
Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
MDMA got you feelin' like a champion
The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien

[Chorus:]

[Bridge: Alicia Keys]
One hand in the air for the big city
Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty
No place in the world that could compare
Put your lighters in the air
Everybody say "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"