A PEEK INTO CITYNITZ'S SENTIMENTS

Happy Friday everyone!  I just started reading The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor and it has me reminiscing : How ultimately do you define if you're happy?  It seems like from the day you are brought into this world there is this task reward system in place.  Get an A and you'll be happy, get a promotion and you'll be happy, get married and you'll be happy and the list goes on.  I know I thought this way and it's been how I've lived my whole life, but realize as these accomplishments are hit, instead we set new things to obtain in order to stay "happy" .   So when will we truly be happy?  As discussed in the Happiness Advantage many believe that we need to work hard, be more successful to be happy.  However, studies have shown that is actually backwards.  Instead happiness fuels success, not the other way around. Someone once told me I don't seem happy and they would be correct.  If there's one thing I can't do is pretend to b

To all those people that visited my site and was waiting for more content, but was met with nothing.  I'm so sorry for disappearing on you for so long. If you're looking for food content please follow me on instagram @citynitz and @city_niche. I had to take care of some things and if I could rewind the clock I don't think I would have started a blog years ago.  You see back then I was this insecure girl trying to find my way living alone in Los Angeles.  So many things have changed since then and I wouldn't recognize the girl I used to be staring back at me. I cherish the good, bad, ugly and all of it though because it's made me the woman I am today. You know that scene in Little Mermaid where she gives up her voice to become human?  In some ways I view my younger years as a time where my voice was trapped in that shell around Ursula's neck.  Only just now that shell has been yanked by Scuttle and the shell has shattered releasing my voice back to me.  So

Wow, it's been 8 years since my last post and looking back on this blog I had half assed it and really didn't do it justice.  In my defense, back then I didn't have a vision as to what I wanted this to be, but most importantly my WHY was not strong enough to keep me motivated to put time and effort into this source.  Let's be honest, I always struggled with blogs and those that knew me back then know how much I struggled with all the coding (GOD, I hated all the coding).  While people I knew were drafting up long extravagant write ups of their restaurants describing every detail of each ingredient, I struggled to describe a piece of chicken differently for the 50th time. I held back always concerned that I was doing or saying something wrong from all the other food bloggers.  It was what people I knew were doing, so I blindly followed. Fast forward to present day and I realize now that timid, quiet girl who was always concerned about what other people thought just n