tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300210892011-08-01T21:22:53.228-07:00Random thoughts and observations from a native Angelena's perspective.Linda Gamboahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13985491681411932617noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30021089.post-6562221165705091842011-07-10T09:18:00.000-07:002011-07-10T19:11:59.890-07:00

For the past 3+ years I have been spending far too much time on Facebook. It had reached a point to where I was plugged in most of my waking hours. I'd check in before work, I'd check in while at work and I'd check in again the second I came home from work. Weekends had become a morning, noon and late night Facebook marathon. For the most part, I'd post nonsense or share far too much information.

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It's been a little over a year since I moved to Pasadena and now I am packing up once again and heading back to Boyle Heights. My time here in the city of roses has been a period of reflection. I have all but removed myself from all social activities and creative endeavors. My period of rest is over. I needed the break and to break free from being so deeply rooted in a community I thought I

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Congratulations to Marlon and Glenda on the birth of their beautiful baby girl (my 2nd granddaughter) Valeria Lily Gamboa. Born on March 11, 2011, she arrived nearly a month prior to her due date and is currently in NICU until she is strong enough to go home to join the family and meet her big sister Esmeralda. Indeed a happy time for the Gamboa/Cruz families.

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It's been five months since I traded in my view of the Los Angeles city skyline in Boyle Heights for a massive protruding heap of earth aka the San Gabriel Mountains. Impressive as it is I've never been much of a nature person. Sure, I appreciate a plant here and there but I'm most at ease amongst the concrete jungle than I am on a nature trail. So, why, you may wonder did I make the move in this

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My granddaughter, Esmeralda Arely Gamboa, was born on Monday, August 3, 2009. You can imagine the joy and excitement in the maternity waiting room as I received a text message from Marlon asking that we all reamin there because the baby is about to be born. What we didn't expect was a beautiful doll of a baby girl. All along Marlon and Glenda had been told by their doctor that they were giving

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It's been a year and four months since I've been hitting the job boards looking for full-time employment. I've sent out countless resumes and cold calls to potential employers and not once have I received a 'Thanks, but no thanks' email or postcard. I understand the job market is rough but what I've been seeing lately makes me want to scream. While browsing job postings I've looked at everything

Linda Gamboahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13985491681411932617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30021089.post-90240239236938475392007-09-12T23:05:00.001-07:002010-03-26T14:29:27.811-07:00

Glenda Arely Cruz & Marlon Gamboa-Martinez are to be married this Saturday (9/15/2007) - That's my boy and future daughter in-law. CONGRATULATIONS!

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It's all over the news and press these days. The barbarous actions of the LAPD at Tuesday's May Day rally in MacArthur Park. How many of us who live in Los Angeles and have been witness to such behavior are really all that surprised? I'm not. What gets me about all this is the amount of air time being given to news reports about this single incident and the swift response by the city's police

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It's been four years since this bloody war began and I haven't changed my views one bit. I am not alone in believing this is wrong. Here are a few photos from the protest against the war in Iraq which was held in Hollywood, CA on Saturday, March 17, 2007.

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Ok, I had full intention on Sunday of driving out to PCH via Wilshire Blvd. but I hit a brick wall at Westwood and could go no further. Well, I didn't psychically hit a wall but it sure felt that way -- actually my car's thermostat reached the 'pushing it' level. To be honest, my tolerance to the heat reached it's peak when I first got into my car to head out in the first place so I really didn't

Linda Gamboahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13985491681411932617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30021089.post-31859635468112032202007-03-11T11:24:00.000-07:002010-03-26T14:37:06.422-07:00

I heard the temps are expected to be in the upper 80s/low 90s here in the city today. It's barely 12:30 in the afternoon and it's already heated up to where I don't like it. I have a feeling it's going to feel more like 100 seeing how it should really be 11:30 a.m. right now had we not gone through an early daylight savings. It's Sunday and I have this incredible urge to get in my car continue

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The following is a repost from a Myspace blog I posted on January 2, 2006. If I'm not mistaken that was probably the last time Los Angeles experienced a significant rainfall. Call me nuts but I love this weather. I've been dying all summer. I'm not a fan of the sun, heat and uncomfortableness of triple digit temps. I love walking and/or singing in the rain. I prefer piling on the layers of

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In mid-August of this year I decided to cut living expenses by canceling my land line phone service along with the ridiculously expensive and seemingly unknown long distance carrier I had. It occurred to me that I was spending upwards of $100 a month for the sake of reporting spam to my email providers only to find the same messages in my box the following day. Seeing how I had access to the

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Don't know about the rest of you but the Griffith Observatory has been a trusted fortress over the years -- a place to retreat when feeling like taking a break from the gridlocked streets below; a place to take first time visitors to L.A. for a spectacular panoramic view of the city from the valley to downtown and out into the ocean; a place to make out like crazy teenagers with a date no matter

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These days it's harder and harder to find a good cup of old fashioned coffee shop coffee in Los Angeles. It's hard to believe there was a time when coffee wasn't served by Barista's at caffeine pusher chains into cardboard cups with sleeves to protect your hand from burning. I'm talking about the days before the fancy latte and Tall, Grande or Venti servings. Ordering a cup of coffee was just

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A year has passed since the board of directors initiated lockdown of Self Help Graphics & Art sent a shockwave through the East LA arts community. In that amount time a series of scandals have rocked the fragile multi-colored building with the magnitude of a 10 point quake on a finger shaking who's fault is it line.The summer of 2005 will be remembered as one of unraveling a tangled web of deceit

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I’ve got this strange sensation brewing in me right now. Felt it as I was walking to work from the bus stop just up the street. I know the feeling. It’s that low-grade uneasiness churning at the bottom of my gut before working its way through my central nervous system and finally planting itself dead center in my brain. Can’t quite imagine what it is makes me feel this way -- intuition,

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Last night was one of those humid L.A. summer eves that can easily drive you out of your mind and/or drive you out of your house in search of basic hydration. It was so bad I would have settled for anything liquid be it coffee, juice, a cocktail, water…whatever, just to get away from the cucaracha breeding stickiness of my floors and walls and into an air conditioned cool L.A. social setting.

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One Wilshire Blvd. is located in the financial district of downtown Los Angeles at Grand. If you drove west to its very end you find yourself up against a decision of which way to turn on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. A left takes you to Venice Beach and the funky locos on rollerblades; a right heads you to PCH and up the coast as far as you are willing to go. How much more L.A. does this get?I

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It took a recent (and first time) trip to New York City for me come back to Los Angeles feeling as though I need to pay more attention to my hometown. Up until this point my visits to San Francisco made me yearn for living in a true metropolis -- a place where you can walk to just about anywhere and/or utilize a public transit system which makes sense. Even Seattle hit me in that way. But NYC

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