Who am I? Hmnn….that is a question that I am always asking myself and that is always evolving and changing.
I have been a professional actress since the age of 17.
I have been clowning around and doing children’s entertainment since the age of 19, my “day job” so to speak.
I am currently getting receieved my M.A. degree in religious studies from CSULB in May 2011.
I decided that at the age of 50 I would start learning how to play the piano and guitar.
My passions are sex-religion-chocolate-the arts- travel and my dog Missy. And now we will add music to that list. Actually music should have always been there as I am a dancer and a dancer must have music.
This blog is where you will find pieces of my soul, my heart, my mind and hopefully my humor……
I welcome all commentary….
May 3, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Good to see you writing and growing. Of course, now I have a strong desire to go out and buy dark chocolate!!
Good luck with your studies.
Kahena
May 11, 2010 at 5:55 pm
hi ivonne!
love your blog – - so honest and funny. excited to hear you are getting a masters in religion. would love to catch up!
September 14, 2010 at 6:06 pm
May GOD Bless!!! Mark
October 12, 2010 at 12:12 am
I also escaped my home-life in San Bernardino at age 17 by studing Theatre Arts @ Cal State, San Bernardino. I graduated w/ my degree in ’85 and moved to Hollywood in ’86 where I’ve acted, Stage Managed, and teched shows for 26 yrs. Surprised we’ve never met before?
October 12, 2010 at 12:20 am
OMG! We HAVE met now that I see your pix Ivonne. We were friends back in the days of SEG! The Perez name just hit me. When did the Montijo surname get attached?
October 12, 2010 at 12:25 am
yes we have met and have worked together.
didn’t we do extea work together or work at Latin Heat together. You were married to a guerra with reddish hair and have a baby girl, mom?
October 12, 2010 at 12:30 am
Glad you remembered for a sec I thought I was the one going crazy! ;p
January 2, 2011 at 11:19 pm
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June 6, 2011 at 8:06 am
Oh my goodness…thank you so much…I look forward to reading everyone else’s blogs as well…..
ivonne
June 4, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Hi Ivonne,
I find your posts always impart a real depth of feeling and in view of that;
hello from your blog friend in London.
Congratulations! You have been awarded The Versatile Blogger Award. Stop by at http://notjustagranny.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/versatile-blogger-award/ for more details.
warmest regards
Cindy
November 28, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I had to subscribe to your blog for numerous reasons, the first one being that what attracted me to you was your name. I used to have a friend called Ivonne Montijo, believe it or not! Then I started reading your blog and was captivated by the similarities between you and me. I never thought I’d meet someone who thought and felt exactly like I do! You don’t know how grateful I am, Ivonne. Looking forward to reading more… Namaste, dear one.
December 14, 2011 at 7:17 am
Hi Carmen,
Thank you for stopping by my blog. I am always happy when someone can relate to what I am writing about, that is why I write. I hope that my words, my travails can somehow help someone else out. Thank you so much for your kind words.
ivonne
December 17, 2011 at 6:40 am
Ivonne,
I have just hit the second anniversary of my blog…. 2 years of “a lyric a day”…. 730 lyrics. You have been with me for a lot of that time. Thank you for your support.
With work pressures, I am now moving to “one per week” – although I am not short of material, having been writing daily for the past 10 years.
I read your birthday blog
When I turned 50 a number of years ago, I decided to get an Even Songs logo tattoo as it was designed by my son.
Keep blogging and enjoying life.
David.
btw… I noticed you are US-based. Even Songs is based in Adelaide, capital of South Australia.
December 17, 2011 at 7:06 am
Davind,
Congratulations that is so wonderful. How inspiring, I need to devote more time to my blog and to my writing. That is going to be my focus in the coming year.How interesting that you are in Australia. I have a friend in South New Wales that is doing music as well…what a small world. On another note turning 50 is quite something isn’t it?
ivonne
May 23, 2012 at 10:08 am
Dear Ivonne,
greeting from Jakarta
i’ve just read in my blog.. almost all of the posts. i found the post talking about ‘abortion’ in 2009, and found us discussing about it. and also, that is the way i can visit you again -thru the blog.
we discussed here –> http://liapadma.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/abortion-for-what-its-worth/
P.S.: I was 19 when writing the post. now, i’m 22 already
May 23, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Dear Lia,
thank you for stopping by the blog. So nice to hear from you. I hope you are doing well.
Ivonne
August 29, 2012 at 10:38 am
I appreciate you stopping by my blog and sharing some of your struggles with me. I’m trying to find more time to explore other people’s blogs, and yours is high on the list. Right now, i feel weighed down by my divorce, but I promise to climb all through your blog soon! Thank you for continually encouraging me, and I hope to be an encouragement right back for you!
– Bird
August 30, 2012 at 5:18 am
Dear Bird,
thank you for stopping by my blog. I too have been hurting and I have found great healing lately in other women’s blog as they write about their struglles in their relationships. Honeslty, I though something was wrong with me until I recently learned about Naricissitic Personality Disorder, which I will be writing about in the blog.
God Bless you and heal your heart my dear,
Ivonnne
August 30, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Same to you, Ivonne!
October 15, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Hi Ivonne! Thanks for checking out my blog!..You seem so happy and vibrant..I hope my blog doesn’t get you down!
BTW..I’m a clown collector!!..I have a 6ft cheer leader I got in Las vegas. x
October 16, 2012 at 8:11 am
Haha…you can add me to your collection. Being a clown for kids parties has been my day job for the past 30 years.
ivonne
October 16, 2012 at 10:21 am
How cool!..I have a live clown in my collection!! Lol x
October 16, 2012 at 6:04 am
Just in case you missed it I thought I would let you know I nominated you for The {Booker} Award. http://radaronelson.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/my-cherrys-been-popped-the-booker-award/
Happy Blogging
November 19, 2012 at 3:37 am
Hi Ivonne, I am enjoying your posts!:) *High fives* that you’re a CSULB Grad!!! I live in LB, do you, too? Perhaps we’re neighbors!;) xo, Mary
November 19, 2012 at 4:24 am
Well, if you are in Long Beach, then we are neighbors
ivonne
November 20, 2012 at 2:29 am
Hi Ivonne! trying to open your post..My opinion is worth money. keeps telling me page not found? I”ll try again later. Paula xx
November 20, 2012 at 6:17 am
somebody hacked into my account and put up a spam page so I deleted it….I mean really hackinginto wordpress?! go figure…
November 20, 2012 at 8:15 am
Cannot find your last post hun, said page cannot be found?
November 20, 2012 at 8:21 am
my wordpress got hacked it was a spam posting so I deleted it…..
November 20, 2012 at 9:04 am
Oh! okay. Not sure whats going on with WordPress as a few of my regular followers keep ending up in Spam?
I didn’t even get this reply from you, I was just checking if your post had worked! *Weird* ……Paula x
December 26, 2012 at 2:53 am
I’ve nominated you for the Sunshine Blog Award, and the Reality Blog Award.
Dying to have time to dive into the indecent proposal – have only been able to read a little of it so far.
I can’t remember how I found you – maybe through the wonderful kz.
Anyway you can read about it on my blog.
Cheers
March 16, 2013 at 4:47 pm
Hello, thank you for choosing to follow my blog! I see we both have piano playing ambitions! how are you doing? I started 2 years ago and, though I’m not taking any exams have just started on the Grade 2 pieces – finding them quite a challenge but loving it anyway! I have a brilliant teacher.
March 17, 2013 at 5:34 am
Well, I can read simple sheet music and I just practiced more I would be getting better. Sometimes I just like to sit and pluck at random keys and see what sounds pretty. When I do practice it’s what I need for school, since I am taking classes at a college.
April 19, 2013 at 2:23 pm
Hi Ivonne! Your friend, Maryanne, suggested that I connect with you. I’m wanting to transition my dog to a vegan diet, and Maryanne tells me that you feed your dog vegan. I’d really appreciate it if you shared what exactly you feed your dog. That was a wonderful story you shared about the boy with no limbs, by the way. What an inspiration – he sounds so positive! Celeste:)
April 23, 2013 at 5:19 am
Hi Celeste,
I am still in the experimental stage. I had two dogs that were vegetarian and I would be the dry and canned food from Whole Foods markets. I don’t remember the brand. I had my seven year old on Salmon and Sweet Potatoe from Earth Balance. I am trying to transition to vegetarian but Missy doesn’t seem to want to be a vegeatarian. And since the store bought vegetarian is a lot more expensive I am trying to see what I can do on my own. I tried real salmon none of the dogs are big on it. So I bought white sweet potatoes, yams,carrots, canned sweet peas tuna for cats from Trader Joes (which my dogs love). I boiled sweet potaotes, yams, carrots and then mashed them with sweet peas. I added powdered garlic, lemon pepper and some salt. I mixed this all up and put in the fridge. I then mixed in the tuna. It seems my dogs can handle this. For dry dog food I have Natures Recipe-vegetarian that I got at Petco. I tasted it–yuck like cardboard but the doggies seem to eat it. You may also want to check out this group on facebook, https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/vegandognutrition/?fref=ts
April 23, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Thanks for getting back to me Ivonne! I shop at Whole Foods, but I never thought about getting dog food there. I’ll have to see what they have. I’ll also check out the Nature’s Recipe-vegetarian from Petco. I usually feed my dog half kibble and half cooked food. A woman studying dog nutrition got back to me on my blog and she told me to feed my dog a mixture of beans, rice, lentils and vegetables. So maybe I’ll do this with one of the kibble’s you recommended. We’ll see how that goes! Celeste:)
April 23, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Also I give them doggie vitamins, just to make sure they are getting all the nutrients they need as well and toplay it safe.
ivonne
April 23, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Thanks! I’ll look into those too. Celeste:)
April 24, 2013 at 4:36 pm
Hi Ivonne. You commented on a guest post I did yesterday over at scott-williams.ca, which is what brought me here. Looks like a pretty successful outfit you’re running here, and I wish you the greatest success. I love your passion!