La Bellota has a lot of different definitions and interpretations. Kinda like me.
La Bellota was a name I was given well over 10 years ago….wow. I am aging myself.
Any hoo.
1) La Bellota can be a slang term for very beautiful. Bella – Beautiful, word with –ota on it…..most beautiful. I can’t relate to this definition, although I imagine that inside of me there are very small parts of beautiful...and I can take that..
2) Here is the not so beautiful part but you will see where it brought me my name. Had a boyfriend of many years. He always loved me but he thought I could be better. And I thought the same. So he would make a suggestion and I would follow it . One bright idea of the day was I should dye my strawberry blonde hair black. 3 boxes of dye later, I had waist length Morticia hair. And it occurred to me as I looked in the mirror that I looked like death. And then I thought what you see is true. You are dead. You walk, you breathe, you exist….but you, you, you are dead. So I grabbed a pair of scissors. I cut and I cut and I cut. Think Toni Braxton, Halle Berry short. And I felt pretty good. It is always better to curl up and dye, you know. This doesn’t end the story…it just begins it.
3) I worked at the hospital and I loved my job. Part of my job was doing film check and finding things that were lost. The hospital was huge. So lots of people would see me running all the time and they said I had the energy of a powerpuff girl. Now I had the hair and the attitude of one…….Buttercup.
4) I speak enough Spanish to make me dangerous to know. My latino friends (I keep friends of many flavors....or sabors for my Latino friends) would call me gringuita. And that was fine….but I hated the generic-ness of it. My real name is nearly impossible to pronounce well in Spanish. After the haircutting incident, new attitude, black hair and my running to put fires out all over the place…..I got a new name. La Bellota…..(she is Buttercup in Latin America) …..and the name stuck.
So here I am today….a La Bellota…..looking more like a Bombon these days with a Burbuja Heart wrapped up in La Bellota’s shell.
Hey Steve & John
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I knew Bella to be beautiful but was mislead with the ota. And thanks for an article directed to my curiosity. You are a doll.
Mi Sonia - Ella vive en Honolulu. Vivi muchos años con mi ohana Hawaiiana. Un dia quiero ver la isla conoci en mi corazon, mi mente, y mi alma.
When we meet someone, we are perhaps first attracted by their physical appearances although this is not always the case. After we get to know each other, we then discover the "inner person". It is in this inner person where true beauty (or ugliness) resides.
Many fall in love and then try to change their partners into something that they are not. If the person does change, often the one that demanded the changes finds that the one they fell in love with no longer exists! Thay leads to problems.
And yes, Mister Legend you are quite lucky to have a little Trix in your bowl. :)