Miss Niagara

I attended my first ever pageant as a retired pageant girl! Without a doubt it was much less stressful watching a pageant then being in a pageant! It was a really amazing show and a great time with some of my pageant friends.

Life as be crazy lately, I started back to my masters, working two jobs and putting together some major fund raising events for local organizations.  It was great to take some time out and spend the event at the pageant. Congrats to the new Miss Niagara Desiree Wiley! All the girls were amazing first runner up was Julie Lamping and second runner up was Jasmine Juliana.

This organization truly impacts all the women who compete and helps take them to the next level. I am so lucky for my experiences and lessons I learned in the organization and feel blessed that I have been able to continue my involvement.   

 

 Miss Niagara Pageant 2012

 I also went to see Disney On Ice with my best friend Kelly :) It was awesome

Opposites Attract

I was looking on YouTube for ideas for the opening number of Miss Finger Lake's Pageant. I am so excited to be able to help out this year at the pageant, now that I am a retired pageant girl. While like everyone else once I was on YouTube I started to get sidetrack to a lot of things.

I ended up on this video, Opposites Attract by Paula Abdul. I was in love with Paula Abdul growing up, and I can remember this being the video that made me want to be a dance. I always was amazed by her skills. Truly look at this video and all her dance heavy videos. Say what you want about her but she can dance.

I was never as good as a dancer as her but I did love it. It's the best release you can have. There is nothing like walking into an empty studio, putting on music and getting whatever you are feeling at that moment out and express it.

Dancing was so important to me my whole life but became my life line while going through my mom's death and all the issues I had growing up. I truly think the arts can have a huge impact on one's life...even if you don't make it to Broadway.

So enjoy my inspiration :) And encourage the people in you life to try one of the many arts. It might be what they need to really grow into their true self

This Year-By the Number

A personal year 9 can have the following meanings for you: Death, Taking Personal Inventory, The End of an Era-The number 9 year is one of completion and marks the beginning of the ending of everything you have managed to accomplish during the last decade. This is an uncomfortable year for many individuals, especially if they are unable to embrace change. You may feel restless and things that used to interest you may be replaced by new desires. If you are not able to let go of the past willingly, a situation may manifest that forces you to change. This is the year you reap what you sow.

So I was watching Dr. Phil on Tuesday and they had a lady who does Numerology on it. So over the past couple blogs I have been showing what my birthday and name mean. Kind of cool right? I totally think my mom picked the right name for me after readying about it and I also have always known I had a cool birthday lol. 

Anyways I found a site that shows by when you were born what this year will be like for you...talk about dead on! I think this will be a very big year. I am finishing my master's degree in May and I will be exiting the world of school and entering the world of work and "adult" life. 

Its a weird sense of joy, excitement and also fear. It seems odd that I should be a real grown up, I feel like I have so much to learn and so much more to do before I am an adult. Life doesn't just start a new chapter and stop an old one. Its more of a book where the chapters flow into each other and never ends. I guess we will all see, as always I will keep you all posted.

Stuff About My Birthday

9 April 1987

Your date of conception was on or about 17 July 1986 which was a Thursday.
You were born on a Thursday
under the astrological sign Aries.
Your Life path number is 11.

Your fortune cookie reads:
Ideas are like children; there are none so wonderful as your own.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 6.
You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 9.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7.
The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2446894.5.
The golden number for 1987 is 12.
The epact number for 1987 is 0.
The year 1987 was not a leap year.

Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/29/1987 and ending 2/16/1988.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Rabbit.

Your Native American Zodiac sign is Hawk; your plant is Dandelion.

You were born in the Egyptian month of Paony, the second month of the season of Shomu (Harvest).

Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 10 Nisan 5747.
Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 11 Nisan 5747.
The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.18.13.16.10 which is
12 baktun 18 katun 13 tun 16 uinal 10 kin
The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Thursday, 9 Sha'ban 1407 (1407-8-9).
The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 19 April 1987.
The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 19 April 1987.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 4 March 1987.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 7 June 1987.
The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 14 June 1987.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Thursday, 24 September 1987.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Tuesday, 14 April 1987.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 3 March 1987.

As of 1/10/2012 3:36:56 PM EST
You are 24 years old.
You are 297 months old.
You are 1,292 weeks old.
You are 9,042 days old.
You are 217,023 hours old.
You are 13,021,416 minutes old.
You are 781,285,016 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:

Jesse McCartney (1987)	Keshia Knight Pulliam (1979)	Rachel Stevens (1978)
Austin Peck (1971)	Cynthia Nixon (1966)	Paulina Porizkova (1965)
Dennis Quaid (1954)	Michael Learned (1939)	Avery Schreiber (1935)
Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933)	Hugh Hefner (1926)	Ward Bond (1903)
Paul Robeson (1898)

Top songs of 1987

Faith by George Michael	Livin' On a Prayer by Bon Jovi
Alone by Heart	With or Without You by U2
La Bamba by Los Lobos	I Wanna Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship	I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2
Didn't We Almost Have It All by Whitney Houston	I Knew You Were Waiting by Aretha Franklin & George Michael

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 3.53894324853229 years old. (Life's just a big chewy bone for you!)

Your lucky day is Tuesday.
Your lucky number is 9.
Your ruling planet(s) is Mars & Pluto.
Your lucky dates are 9th, 18th, 27th.
Your opposition sign is Libra.
Your opposition number(s) is 6.
Today is not one of your lucky days!
There are 90 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 25 candles.

Those 25 candles produce 25 BTUs,
or 6,300 calories of heat (that's only 6.3000 food Calories!) .
You can boil 2.86 US ounces of water with that many candles.  

In 1987 there were approximately 3.7 million births in the US.
In 1987 the US population was approximately 226,545,805 people, 64.0 persons per square mile.
In 1987 in the US there were 2,421,000 marriages (9.9%) and 1,157,000 divorces (4.8%)
In 1987 in the US there were approximately 1,990,000 deaths (8.8 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

In 1987 the population of Australia was approximately 16,394,641.
In 1987 there were approximately 243,959 births in Australia.
In 1987 in Australia there were approximately 114,113 marriages and 39,725 divorces.
In 1987 in Australia there were approximately 117,321 deaths.

Your birth flower is DAISY

Your birthstone is Diamond

The Mystical properties of Diamond

Diamonds are said to increase personal clarity to help one see things clearly as well as be straight-forward and honest. Supposedly, the higher quality the diamond, the better it is supports these qualities.

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Opal, Quartz, White Sapphire

Your birth tree is

Rowan, the Sensitivity Full of charm, cheerful, gifted, without egoism, likes to draw attention, loves life, motion, unrest and even complications, is both dependent and independent, good taste, artistic, passionate, emotional, good company, does not forgive.

There are 350 days till Christmas 2012!
There are 363 days till Orthodox Christmas!

The moon's phase on the day you were
born was waxing gibbous.

What My Name Means

Victoria Rose Rippel
There are 18 letters in your name.
Those 18 letters total to 104
There are 8 vowels and 10 consonants in your name.

What your first name means:

Latin

Female

Victory; triumphant. Famous Bearer: Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

Your number is: 5
The characteristics of #5 are: Expansiveness, visionary, adventure, the constructive use of freedom.
The expression or destiny for #5:
The number 5 Expression endows with the wonderful characteristic of multi-talents and versatility. You can do so many things well. The tone of the number 5 is constructive freedom, and in your drive to attain this freedom, you will likely be the master of adaptability and change. You are good at presenting ideas and knowing how to approach people to get what you want. Naturally, this gives you an edge in any sort of selling game and spells easy success when it comes to working with people in most jobs. Your popularity may lead you toward some form of entertainment or amusement. Whatever you do, you are clever, analytical, and a very quick thinker.
If there is too much of the 5 energy in your makeup, you may express some the negative attitudes of the number. Your restless and impatient attitude may keep you from staying with any project for too long. Sometimes you can be rather erratic and scatter yourself and your energies. You have a hard time keeping regular office hours and maintaining any sort of a routine. You tend to react strongly if you sense that your freedom of speech or action is being impaired or restricted in any way. As clever as you are, you may have a tendency to make the same mistakes over and over again because much of your response is glib reaction rather that thoughtful application. You are in a continuous state of flux brought by constantly changing interests.
Your Soul Urge number is: 5
A Soul Urge number of 5 means:
The 5 soul urge or motivation would like to follow a life of freedom, excitement, adventure and unexpected happening. The idea of travel and freedom to roam intrigues you. You are very much the adventurer at heart. Not particularly concerned about your future or about getting ahead, you can seem superficial and unmotivated.
In a positive sense, the energies of the number 5 make you very adaptable and versatile. You have a natural resourcefulness and enthusiasm that may mark you as a progressive with a good mind and active imagination. You seem to have a natural inclination to be a pace-setter. You are attracted to the unusual and the fast paced.
You may be overly restless and impatient at times. You may dislike the routine work that you are engaged in, and tend to jump from activity to activity, without ever finishing anything. You may have difficulty with responsibility. You don't want to be tied down to a relationship, and it may be hard to commit to one person.
Your Inner Dream number is: 9
An Inner Dream number of 9 means:
You dream of being creative, intellectual, and universal; the selfless humanitarian. You understand the needy and want to help them. You would love to be a person people count on for support and advice.

Weight Wars

I got home from my daily running around a bit earlier than normal today. Normally I am not a fan of many of the daytime talk shows. However I found myself being sucked into Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil’s shows today. Oddly enough both shows dealt with weight problems.

I am the queen of Yo-Yo weight, I can remember a time when I use to be able to eat whatever I wanted. However that time has long since passed and weight has be a struggle every since. Weight however I must say isn’t the core issue. Like most women much of how I view myself and feel about myself is wrapped up in how I look. I am not someone who believes that how we look shouldn’t or doesn’t matter.

Does that shock you? First anyone who tries to say they have never judged someone by how they look is lying. Imagine you are sick, very sick and need to go into the OR right away. The hospital tells you there are two doctors that can operate on you; you are given a chance to say hi to both however you are far too weak to say anything more and cannot interview them.  They both walk in one is in a suit, with his hair cut and smiling, the other is in a t-shirt and jeans and hands are dirty, he isn’t smiling and hasn’t shaved. Who would you pick?

I do believe imagine is important and I also think that healthy weight is so important to have a healthy lifestyle. So now back to me, I have always have issues with my body and how I look. Growing up, I went through my ugly duckling phase and once I started to grow out of it...I also started to gain weight.

I definitely don’t have all the answers or know everything there is about staying healthy. Like I said, I am the Queen of Yo-Yo. What I do know is that you have to start by loving yourself no matter where you are; you have to love yourself enough to want the change.  Looking over my years of up and down, up and down, times when I go up are the times when I don’t put myself first, or I let internal and external dialogue effect me. This is why I say weight for me in only the outward manifestation of the internal issues.

Like so many people, part of my new year’s resolution deals with weight. So welcome to 2012 and welcome to following my journey. It’s not all about weight but it is about finding out who I am at this point in my life. This year will have a lot of milestones, graduation, 25^th birthday, more than one promotion in my personal business. Most important about this year, taking steps to becoming the new, improved Victoria