Keeping it real since One Christmas Day

Merry Christmas y’all.

Ooh, I can’t hide my excitement. It’s Christmas Day people! And my soul feels beautiful.🎄🎅🎆🎇🎈🎉🎊🍸🍹🍰

I remember when I was a little girl and wanted to grow up fast, buy more high heels and wear my hair, so that the wind can blow it.

Now I wish to be 12, or even 9.

Living your life as a young adult is not as easy as we see it when we are young. It has a whole lot of things we should warn our younger selves of. I think I need to write a book about being a young adult.

I was wide awake till I heard my phone ring. I answered it and heard “Happy Birthday, Silly!” I glanced at the clock and saw the time, 12:00am.

OMG! It’s two things: My Birthday! And it’s Christmas!

Exactly two years ago, I was on the search for a woman. A woman I have not met or seen before. I was wondering whether I could find her. I have seen a piece of her in my mother, so I had a fair idea of what part of her would look like.

It’s been two years and I realized, I am only 25% there. I wonder if it is a total waste of time.

But I am slowly learning that finding someone is not going to be an easy journey. You might get flat tyres, you’ll get hungry, eat bad food and get running stomach (diarrhoea), run out of money, meet good strangers and bad strangers. Finding someone is muddy, rough, scary, fun and overwhelming.

I thought of asking people to help me find that woman. Yes, I asked family, friends (my good friends), the church, the community, the workplace, books, the stars in the sky, the past and the present. I wanted to ask the future but it would spoil the fun.

I asked God. You know our Heavenly Father already. He has things in place to help me find her, but I will have to do my part. It’s like asking God to have sufficient money. He won’t send you gold and money, but He would give you strength and wisdom to work hard to earn money.

The woman I am looking for is the woman I want to be, and I am only 25% there.

I hope to find her.

Life has been fun and overwhelming and heartbreaking, but we are still surviving.

Yes, we are.

I have been keeping it real since the day I was born.

I feel like I am writing a post all about myself.

Hehehe xx.

That is the power of a personal blog.

How is your Christmas day?

My Birthday Wish List

Merry Christmas my friends! Wow! I can’t believe it’s Christmas. My family and I are opening presents now and I’m receiving texts and messages from loved ones.

And the most amazing part of Christmas day is……………it is my birthday! So, I get to share a birthday with Jesus Christ. Sweet!!!!

So, I’m having my birthday party virtually with you on this Facebook event. It’s not too late to join, depends on your time zone, but head over there and let’s chat.

 I have a birthday wish list. A few days ago, I did a Christmas wish list post about the things I want for Christmas and since today is my birthday, let’s get into my birthday wish list.

My Birthday Wish List

·         To start a you-tube channel

·         Get some of my mother’s qualities of a good mother. My mother is really a mother and though, I’m not a mother yet, I’m already jealous of her. She has a solution to every situation.

·         A monogrammed object

·         A 2T hard disk drive

 

Merry Christmas everyone !!!!!

Happy Birthday Marietta DeGrant As MarieNoel!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m so happy to be part of the blogosphere. 

You know why? 

Because it has changed my life.

Are you wondering how it did that? Well, here's my story.

Long ago, I had POOR fashion sense. Well, it wasn't that bad. I was good but NOT TOO good. My mother used to wonder why I was like that. She used to say "When I was your age, I was known as the Style Doctor in my town. I don't know where you got those genes from. Even Daddy is not like that."

Then I'll say in my head: Who cares what I wear? No one's watching.

But someone is.

I was that kind of "I care less" dresser. Some days good, others, not so good.

When I joined the blogosphere, I met bloggers who write fashion and beauty posts. There I began to learn from them. I don't know how I met them but I'm grateful. I also met you-tubers, fashion websites, fell in love with Pinterest and learnt from them.

Now, I'm okay. Maybe good, or better, but not the best yet. Ha ha

Happy birthday to Marietta DeGrant As MarieNoel. I started this blog exactly a year ago. My first time of blogging was when I was 16 (I can't remember the name of the blog) but it was not active due to the fact that I was in a boarding high school and laptops were not allowed (with some other rules, yada yada)

I created this one when I entered the university to share my literary works online. Then, I started to write lifestyle too. (but get ready for more new stuffs like fashion, beauty, technology.......).

The reason behind the name of the blog???

My name is Marietta DeGrant and my pen name is MarieNoel (My mother wanted to give me this name because I was born on Christmas day). So, it's like I'm starring in a "blog show" or "blog series"; starring Marietta DeGrant As MarieNoel.

I once considered changing the name of the blog but umm,............., well, what do you think?

I'm virtually sharing this cake with you.

Bon anniversaire