Trashy Taco Soup Recipe!

Hey Everyone! Sorry its been so long since I last posted on this blog! I've been busy with school, life, and my beauty blog is keeping me very busy as well! ;) But anyways, just wanted to post the recipe of this soup I made last night for dinner.



Its called Trashy Taco Soup. It was SO good!! I got the recipe from my awesome friend, Emily or as we all know her as Emilynoel83 :) But she made this soup a few weeks ago, and I thought it sounded so good!


The recipe is linked HERE but originally it was from Pinterest.



Thats it for this post, I just wanted to post this for y'all so that you could make it if you wanted to. :) And if you do end up making it, let me know how you liked it! Have a wonderful day everyone and I'll be blogging again soon!


Daily Nuggets....

• Got Music Fundamentals 101 college class this afternoon, yay!! :D 
• Also while we're on the subject of college classes, I also have an exam and a final for my Psychology 101 class this week and next week! Yikes! Wish me luck, please pray for me! :) 
• Possibly playing another show with my band next week and we're also for sure playing in November! yay!! Its been SO much fun! 
• Took this picture of my puppy a couple weeks ago, so cute! Love that look he's giving me :) 

Finally home from the hospital!!!

Hey Everyone! I hope y'all are having a great Thursday afternoon. After a total of 14 days in the hospital, I finally was released this morning around 10am! It feels so good to be home and I think my puppy missed me :) what do you think?
Anyways, I can't wait to be back making my beauty videos and blog posts soon! I have a Sephora haul and a Tarte hautelook haul coming soon! Thanks so much for the prayers everyone! Have a great day! :)

Hospital stay: day 8....

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are doing well. It has been 8 days here in the hospital, nothing new to report. Which in a sense is a good thing I guess :) All the cultures are coming back negative still and I am feeling pretty good.

Surgery is still set for Wednesday unless something changes drastically in the next 24-48 hours. So that is pretty much it for now. I'll be putting up another update tomorrow! Have a great night everyone! :)

Hospital stay: 1 week....

Hey everyone! So its been 1 week here at the hospital and everyday gets a little better! The cerebrel fluid cultures are still negative and the plan remains the same. We will re-internalize my shunt on Wednesday if the cultures continue to come back negative.

Well, that's about it for now :) lunch is almost here, but I hope y'all have a great day and I'll post another update tomorrow. I'm sorry I didn't post yesterday, I only had gotten 4 hours of sleep the night before so I turned everything off early last night :)

But anyways, have a wonderful day! :)

Hospital stay: day 6....

Hey everyone! Ok, so its been six days since I've been here in the hospital and it has been 5 days since surgery. Things are going well today (thank goodness!) and I met with my neurosurgeon's resident this morning. He said nothing has come back from the cultures as positive yet (which is good so far, but this slow growing shunt infection can take up to 7 days to come up positive) 

So the plan is still to re-internalize the shunt next Wednesday again barring nothing shows up positive from the cultures and my symptoms don't get worse. If everything goes as planned for next week, I should be home by next Friday. 

Thats all I have for now, I'll be updating daily :) Have a great day everyone! :) 

Yesterday was Day 5 in the hospital....

Day 5 in the hospital: Sorry I didn't get a chance to update yesterday, but I figured I would just put yesterday's update following up with today's update. (If that makes any sense :) 

officially made it to 4 days since surgery! Had some minor issues this afternoon, but other than that things are going really well! The plan is still to definitely re-internalize next Wednesday barring nothing comes back positive from the daily cultures :) again, thank you to everyone who has visited, brought me things, brought smiles and laughter when I need it most, and most of all prayed for me!! Y'all are awesome, I love each of you so dearly! {{{Hugs}}} ♥ can't wait to be back to life soon! :D 

Hospital stay: day 5....

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are having a great Tuesday morning! I got the "final final" answer from my surgeon this morning, he will be re-internalizing my mechanism next Wednesday. So I'm here at the hospital until at least next Friday :)

But anyways, one good thing I was able to skype with my college girls Bible study group last night. It was a great session and I think it was the best "medicine" for my headache! Laughter accompanied with awesome friends? I think yes! :D

Having a few of the girls from the group come visit as well as a girl I work with, so very excited for that today! :) but other than that, nothing too exciting is going on.

I'll be updating more as the week goes on, have a great day everyone! :)

Hospital stay: day 4...

Hey everyone!! I hope y'all are having a great Monday morning! So it has been officially over 48 hours since my first surgery and I'm still doing pretty well. Got up, sat in the chair and ate breakfast this morning (doctors orders to get up out of bed :) and so far the only meds I'm on is Tylenol with some caffeine in it :)

So how's everyone else doing? Is it nice outside? When you go outside please breath some extra fresh air for me :)

That's all for now, excited to be skyping in with my college girls Bible study group tonight! I'll continue to update as the week goes on :) have a great day everyone!

Hospital stay: day 3....

Hey everyone! I hope everyone is having a great Sunday morning. Well, its been 40+ hours since my surgery and I'm doing pretty well so far! I'm moving a lot better than I was yesterday :)

So everything is going pretty well! That's all I have for now, I'll update more as the week goes on :)

Hospital stay: day 2.....

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are doing well. Ok, so day 2 of my hospital stay. We are officially 24 hours out of surgery, finally went in for surgery around 11am yesterday morning. It went well, I'm sore but doing pretty well :)

That's all for now, I'll be updating more the week goes on. I'm here for 2 weeks for IV antibotic treatment and then back in for surgery at the end of 2 weeks to put my mechanism back in my brain.

Have a great day everyone! :) thanks for all the prayers! I really appreciate it! :)

Hospital stay: Day 1.....

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are having a great night. So just updating y'all on my hospital stuff, I was admitted this afternoon from my doctors office and I since then have gotten all checked into a room for the night. I got my IV placed in my arm and surgery is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon

I'll be here for 2 weeks receiving antibotic treatment through my IV and then at the end of 2 weeks I will go back into surgery to have my mechanism that regulates my cerebral fluid put back into my brain after I have been treated.

I'm on the adult floor tonight, but I'll be moved to the ICU floor after my surgery tomorrow and I will stay there until I am released to go home.

So that's the update for tonight, I'll be updating more as the week goes on. Have a great night everyone! :)

Crazy last few weeks!!!

Hey everyone! So it has been really crazy the last 3 weeks at my house. I have finals in 3 weeks, I'm trying to do school AND keep up with my extra curricular activities as well as both of my blogs on here AND my youtube beauty channel. And unfortunately, I have dedicated all of my time to college. So that is why you haven't seen any new blog posts or new videos up in quite a while and for that I apologize, but I have to say (please don't get mad at me when I say this) that school comes first for me right now. I'm hoping that I'll be able to film a haul video this weekend as well as hopefully do a blog post on my beauty blog.



BUT in other news, I had my re-audition for my church's worship team and my worship pastor said I'm on the team for vocals!!!! I am beyond excited because I have been wanting to branch out in addition to being on the team for choir, I just wanted to do some single stuff. So I am so excited to be able to lead our congregation in worship on Sunday mornings!!!


Anyways, just wanted to update you guys and let you know that everything is going great, I am just insanely busy with school right now. Well, I better go study for finals! Have a great weekend everyone and I'll hopefully be blogging again soon! :)

First week of college: Complete!

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are having a wonderful Sunday night. One of my new years resolutions was to give this blog some love, since my beauty blog has been taking all of my time as well as my youtube channel....BUT as you can see that resolution has failed. I apologize for not keeping up with this blog, but I just wanted to share with you that my first week of college at Thomas Edison State is complete!

I have to say, I am really enjoying my class and all my professors. I have completed the first 2 lessons in my Comparative Worldviews class as well as 2 exams for the first 2 lessons. So tomorrow, I begin my third lesson and probably will start my 4th lesson on Wednesday. I get my lessons done within a couple days, which is nice because I can go as fast or as slow as I want. I am well on my way to getting my BA in Music which I am beyond excited about! :)


I am finally starting to realize that the changes that were made in the beginning and end of 2012 were made for the better. Because of the things that happened, I am a better person and I have learned SO much about myself over the past 6 or so months. You could say I have been changed for the better! :)

Anyways, thats about it for now! I'll continue to try and remember to update this blog more often. As school picks up more I may not be able to get to either blog as fast as I have been, but I will try my absolute best. Also, it would mean so much to me if you would go check out my youtube beauty channel! Here's the link: www.youtube.com/mariahsierra94 there will be a makeup collection video coming soon!

Have a great night everyone and I'll be blogging again soon! :)