Café Con Monica

Oh Mondays….

I wasn’t planning to post but I just got back from the gym and I am feeling good so I thought I would share some rambles.

Update on my Facebook deactivation…there is no update. They have not responded to a single email or upload of my ID yet. It is now exactly one week with no response at all. Its super frustrating and I have no idea what to do!

Weight Loss: After my winter break holiday I gained quite some weight and realized I had under 6 months before I go home and it was time to shape up my life!!! So he we are a few days short of a month into better eating and exercise and I am down 10 pounds. I have 10 to go for my goal weight and then I have to learn maintenance. Its hard, and at times it really really sucks but I felt amazing hopping on the scale today and seeing I have lost weight without doing any crazy diets. I have a feeling the next 10 will be much harder to lose than the first but I am ready for it!

Travels: I’m all excited for the Philippines in 2 weeks! I wasn’t sure I was going to do it anymore since I am trying to save as much money as I can to take home but I just can’t be on the other side of the world and not take advantage. Plus its much cheaper to go from here than it is from home. Heading to this island Bohol that my coworker went to during winter break. 4 days of beautiful beach and sun and I will be a very happy girl!!!

I am staying on this beach somewhere!

new swimsuit!!! 

School: I am really glad this class just finished. Even though I do love Ethics the other people in my class were really pushing their religious agenda in the class and it was getting really hard to have any discussions without being bombarded by scripture and in a class with hot social and ethical topics it brings out the crazy in some. I am actually just really happy to be back in school working towards my goals!!

I think that is all I have right now! 


Ooh I am super excited for new episodes of my favorite shows! I hate when they take breaks, don’t they know I am in China and need crap to watch!?!?! 

Super Star 5: Fun Facts Friday

I saw this over at and here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson last week and loved the idea. So I thought I would link up this week and share some random facts about me! 

I like to make really awful faces when I take selfies 🙂 

1. I was a girl scout. No, not the kind pictured above but I really wish I was home so I could find and post a humiliating picture but I was. I loved it and it was great for the year that I was one. It didn’t last long although my love of the cookies has definitely made it for the long haul

2. Bodily functions seriously gross me out. Burping, blowing your nose, pee, poop it seriously messes with my ability to not vomit…which also happens to fall under a bodily function. This illicits lots of laughs from my friends because I refuse to talk about them. It also makes working with children a daily struggle since they are walking around doing all the things listed all day long and sometimes all at the same time. The sound of someone blowing their nose(even me blowing my own) makes me gag. Oddly enough blood does not bother me at all.

3. Not me! I can eat the same thing pretty much everyday without getting tired of it. Back home I had a bowl of plain oatmeal for  breakfast for over a year and a turkey sandwich for lunch the same way for at least 6 months straight. Once I find something I like I can get a bit obsessive. The only exception is if I get sick at any point during or after eating it, then it will be a long long time before I can eat it…Avocados and mayo are two of those things.

4. I gave up coffee and pop…actually anything caffeinated 6 years ago. I read about the effects of caffeine on your body and all the crap they put in pop and the amount of Grande White Chocolate Mocha’s I was drinking a day was unbelievable. It was a rough first year I promise you that. Oddly enough I can’t even stand the taste of a sip of pop now but the smell of coffee still makes my mouth water. I would love to try a bit but I am convinced I will fall off the deep end if I do. When I do occasionally have a caffeinated tea I get the jitters, its pretty funny. and don’t give me that crap about de-caff either…no one drinks that shit willingly.

I need this sign! 

5. I don’t like Mexican food. I know no one ever says that. But really the only mexican food I like is super white washed like Chipotle or Uncle Julio’s. The big crapper is that I don’t really like tortillas so yea…I attribute this to growing up with a Mexican..beans, tortillas, jalapenos and avocados are staples in the house. So yea most of the time when my friends want to eat they want tacos and I definitely don’t but what happens is at 4am I am eating the inside of a taco while they all go nuts.

There you go…now you know me a little bit better!!! 

I love reading facts about people so share, either link up or just comment below!!! 

Confirm your identity!?!?!?

What in the HELL?!!! So I spent most of Monday doing my usual on/off Facebook from work and home like usual then I receive an email from my friend telling me she went to send me a message and couldn’t find me that even our thread was gone, and if I was upset with her and deleted her for some reason. 1. This is not at all something I would do especially not without talking to the person about it. 2. I was seriously on Facebook not an hour before she emailed me. Of course, I respond that I did not delete her and I would check it out…here is what I saw: 

I have no clue why this would happen since I have had the same account since opening it and have NEVER ONCE changed my name or used a fake name.

THEN it proceeds to tell me I can receive a text to the mobile number on my account…BUT as you may recall I am in CHINA!!!! So I can not get text messages to that number, nor does it give me the option of putting in another number where I can get messages. NO OTHER OPTIONS shown just the help button.

After going from page to page and trying to figure it out I found the submit your photo ID. I was freaked out about it but after searching the internet I realized I wasn’t the only one having this problem. So I uploaded the only ID I had on my computer, my passport. Then I received this email.


To which I replied a polite(kind of) email asking what the hell happened and why there is no explanation or way to contact a live person. Then I sent another copy of my passport. 

That was on Monday. Its now Thursday evening(where I am) and I have not yet received another email or have access to my account. 

I know to most people who are “over” Facebook this is stupid BUT my laptop broke down last January and every single picture that was on FB dated before January is GONE unless they give me back access to my account. GONE!!! That is not ok. I can open a new account, its annoying but I can do it. I just want my damn photos so that they are not lost to me for good because of some stupid glitch in the Facebook system. 

After reading a lot of different posts about this I have taken to uploading my photo ID numerous times(going on 20 now) over the last 24 hours and will continue to do so until I get some kind of response either way. 


WISH ME LUCK! 
If this has happened to you please give me tips on how to fix it!! 

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