I won! Bea is going to Scotland and I was picked out of the hat to go with her! Woop! Am looking forward to it really as me and her can be scarily similar in many ways so it shuld be a good laugh. We (as in the gang) are also planning to get another cottage in the country for a long weekend so we can get drunk and play hide and seek! I need to get thinner and more flexible and think of some hiding places to beat last year as they are already talking about checking all window sills.

Have started the Pill today for the first time ever. Am hoping it will make periods less painful and me less mean. DangerMouse said I’ve been snapping at him a lot in the last few weeks which is strange as I thought I’d been nicer to him recently. Shows how important perception is!

Am still trying to find someone to get drunk with me as its been a month since the last time. I’m not an alcoholic but I kinda feel trapped and restless. I need to let off some steam. And I know I could easily go with just Ribena but after the incident of May ‘09 I promised myself that never again would it be just me and him. However I have organised to stay at his xmas eve so that could be scuppered.

I looked up the dates for the coventry exhibition and they fall on my birthday. I really want to go to Coventry and especially the client night but I cant stand the thought of spending my birthday working. I just dont do that. In fact I dont think I’ve EVER spent my birthday working. I might have to figure out some kind of deal with The Boss and my friends.

May have found a friend to go to LA with which is good. However the mum of my favourite cousin has said that maybe they will come with me which is cool that I’d get to see them again (having only spent ten days together in our lives) but I dont think they are likely to get drunk with me so……

Well sadly thats all the news from here at the mo so,

Laters Potatoes x

Miley Cyrus no dia 23 de novembro de 2009 completou 17 anos! para quem nao acompanha o blog, nao sabe o tanto que eu sou fã dela! Fico feliz em saber que ela está feliz com sua série, com seu amor -nick jonas- e com sua vida! De acordo com o site globo.com miley no seu aniversário ganhou um grande presente: ela foi liberada de um processo que ela estava sofrendo com uma foto que consideraram racistas, a foto nada mais era que ela e suas amigas puxando o olho e parecendo asiaticos… para alguns isso foi motivo de preconceito e muito tumulto. Concerteza a disney irá fazer uma grande comemoração por esse dia, já que a miley é uma das estrelas que mais rende $.$ no canal!

Dando um rolé no Youtube eu lembrei de um video muito legal e emocionante da Miley… para quem acha que ela é vaga*, pira* entre outros palavrões esse vídeo vai calar a boca de todos : x pq ela fez esse show beneficente e ainda nao cobrou pela apresentação e ainda vai doar 10% de cada ingresso da sua turne até o final desse ano para uma instituição contra o cancer! Parabens pelo seu aniversario e por essa belisima ação miley, sei que vc nao va ler isso no meu humilde blog, mas já me sinto stisfeito com esse micro presente que le ofereço!!! video ♥

Biografia Miley Cyrus:

Miley nasceu em Nashville, Tennessee, filha do cantor de música country, Billy Ray Cyrus, e de Leticia “Tish” Cyrus e neta de Ron Cyrus. Ela tem quatro irmãos: Trace e Brandi – por parte de mãe; Christopher Cody – por parte de pai; Noah Lindsey e Braison Chance. Ela ganhou o nome de Destiny Hope porque seus pais acreditavam que ela iria trazer coisas boas. E ganhou o apelido de “Miley” porque seu pai sempre chamou ela de Smiley, por ela sorrir muito.                                             fonte wikipédia

Beijos a todos comentem que eu respondo! bjs…Matheus Bertolini

Es ist schon komisch, dass man jemanden nicht wegdenken kann. Hat man ihn einmal im Hirn, lässt sich die Zeit die man zusammen verbracht hat nich mehr löschen. Wäre ja auch schade, weil da auch viel Gutes dabei war. Die Frage ist immer die Selbe: Warum ich und warum der – UND warum der nicht und warum lässt der nicht locker und der Andere sofort?

Und all das mündet in die selbe Antwort – FATE! Anscheinend ist es mir vorbestimmt nur an Idioten, Womanizer, Egomanen und Spacken zu geraten, um mich gefühlstechnisch noch mehr zu verwirren Ich glaube, ich erwarte einfach zu viel von meinem Leben – zur Zeit. Es lief bis jetzt alles zu gut – neuer Job, neue Wohnung, neues Leben, neue Bekannte – und neue Spacken! Aber viele der Spacken sind nett. Echt jetzt

Boah das klingt jetzt voll abwertend – NEIN so ist es aber nicht. Ich fühle mich in letzter Zeit seht begehrt aber andersherum auch nicht. Ich kann mich im Moment gar nicht leiden und würde es vorziehen, außerhalb meine Körpers zu leben. Aber das ist ja nicht möglich – mal wieder habe ich mich dazu durchgerungen, abzunehmen. Das habe ich heute schon mal nicht geschafft. Dabei sollte ich doch am Besten wissen, dass man mit leerem Magen nicht einkaufen gehen sollte. Naja, allerdings habe ich nicht zu viel gegessen, sodass der Tag nicht ganz fürn Eimer war.

Ich werd mir mal ein paar Tips aus dem Internet von einschlägigen Seiten holen ^^ Naja genug gejammert für heute – jetzt noch was gruseliges und etwas schönes. ^^”

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Unwort des Tages: “Verwesungsspezialist”

Zitat des Tages: “Ich hole mal ein paar Maden aus dem Ohr.”

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I am more happy than angry 97% of the time.

Thus, out of 24 hours of the day, I am angry for 23 hours and 28 minutes.

Happy birthday, darling Lars!!  Oh, the time passes so quickly.  You’re growing up to be a big boy.  *sniffles*

In honor of you, I wore an American Eagle sweater today.  I know how much you love them:

He’s such an adorable little porky leather head.

(An aside:  If I walked into an American Eagle and he was just standing there, perusing the racks on the guys side of the store, I would most likely either drop dead where I was standing or shriek.)

Thanks to TSN, we can now see what Alex got Lars for his birthday.  ”Right now my eyes are sore a little, but it’s okay.”

I love them.  Best part is when they show Alex and you can see Flash sticking his face in to see if the mission was successful.

In other news…

Not much is happening with the Sabres, for a change.  Lindy’s shuffling lines, Mike Grier might be back soon, Patches played at forward in practice.  Awe.  Some.

I’m inordinately excited for the game Wednesday night.  I love when my two teams play each other.  However, a word of caution for the Sabres:  Last year the day before Thanksgiving Alex got a hatter.  Just sayin’.  Watch out, boys.

I had some really funny story I was going to tell and then I COMPLETELY forgot about it.  Rats.  It must not have been that funny.

Is Drew going to be back Wednesday night?  Can we call up Tyler Ennis if he’s not?  I always liked that boy.

During the Sabres game Wednesday night, my mom and I spent a good twenty minutes discussing Timmy K’s hair.  We decided we like it.

A bit fromage…but still

Bobbye and I spoke at Professional Women’s Fellowship last week. The topic was “Depression and the Holidays.” No one wants to think that the holidays could be associated with depression. We want to think that it is a time of joy and peace. However, the holidays can also be very  stressful. We already have no margin in our lives on an everyday basis and then we have to add more things in our less time schedules.

The holidays are also “remembrance markers.” In other words, if we received a great gift during a Christmas, we remember it. We might not remember which Christmas year but we definitely remember it was Christmas time. If we get into a family conflict or a death occurs during the holidays, every holiday season brings it back to mind.  Days can go by into weeks without having a remembrance marker but at the holidays, we remember the good and the bad things that have happened  during other holidays. As a result, the holidays can be painful.

So for some of us, we find ourselves needing to act happy when deep down, we are really sad. How do we deal with ourselves while having such conflicting emotional pulls?

I really believe that in order to heal from past wounds that have happened during the holidays, we have to give some constructive thought and give some carved out time to those things that have hurt us. We need the ability to take a break, sit down and reason with the Lord over them, especially during the holidays.

Bobbye was telling me the other day that she woke up at 2am to wrestle with the Lord about certain thoughts that continue to pull at her heart. She said, “I have to keep this concern close to the Lord. I have to depend on Him to work with my thoughts so I do not take this matter into my own hands.” She is a wise woman (and a good friend).

She has learned that it is not good to push down and suppress the conflicts because they will resurface. It is also not good to regurgitate your thoughts over and over or have practice sessions in your mind of what we should have, could have or would have said.  The more time we give to our own negative thoughts and incidences, the less ability we will have to reasonably make wise decisions.

Instead, we bring these things to the Lord. He is the only One who has the ability to change the situation or to change our perspective. We need to reason with the Lord until we know that our concerns are fully before Him. We need to be brutally honest with Him as He already knows what we are thinking and feeling. Then, when we get up from putting those things down, we can continue to live for Him instead of giving the time and attention to the conflict.

As the thoughts return, it is important to take it captive and say, “I have given that situation to the Lord. It is His concern now. I am choosing to trust Him.”

When I look back on my life, it has not been hassle free. I have had to deal with many conflicts and struggles as we all do. However, I can honestly tell you that the Lord has a way of working through them all if you allow Him to move in your heart and mind and you give Him time. God is on an eternal clock. He is not in a rush, not even during the Holidays.

Ravelry was such a good find for me. I’ve been a member of this knitting, crocheting, weaving and spinning community for some time now, but only in the last few months have I really been getting involved with some of the groups. There is a Cardiff Knitters group which I’m in, a group for Welsh yarn addicts and (the one I’m having lots of fun with at the moment!) a Harry Potter Knitting and Crochet House Cup! I joined only this term, and was sorted into Gryffindor, and the assignments have helped me to get most of my Christmas knitting and crochet done well ahead of schedule. But the extra fabulous special lovely fact has to be that I have won prizes for two of my projects! Yay!

The first prize I won was for this shawl/cardigan (the pattern is the Berocco Juliana) which I made for Maria for her birthday in September. She always dresses well, and likes to look elegant, and when I saw this pattern I hoped to be able to create something that was both elegant and a little out of the ordinary at the same time. I was quite pleased with the result, and glad that I persevered through the many weeks it took to knit it! I took this project into the detention class in September as I was worried that I wouldn’t get it done in time for Maria’s birthday if I didn’t get a bit of a kick up the bum to keep me motivated. Obviously it worked, and in October the ‘professor’ in charge of the detention room nominated my cardigan for a prize. It was against two other projects, and it was left to other students to vote for their favourite, and my Juliana won! I got my prize (all the way from Ohio) the other day – a beautiful kaleidoscope which gave me a very happy time as I sat looking at the mess in my living room through it, captivated by how beautiful it looked through the prism!

And yesterday I found out that I’ve won a second prize! But…I can’t tell you anything about it, because the item in question is intended to be a present for someone. At least the recipient can be proud in the knowledge (because you should be very sure that I will tell him or her!) that they are receiving a prize winning piece of hand crafted loveliness!!!

I will tell you all about it in January. TTFN!

After my weekend full of wine, sushi, fried ice cream, nachos, Blue Moon, and PB&J, I decided it was time to hit the gym yesterday afternoon. I was sick of my usual Party in the USA Miley Cyrus pump-up hit (Who am I kidding??? No I wasn’t, but I did want a few other tunes to balance out my workout so I wouldn’t fall off the treadmill while ‘movin my hips like yeah…’). I downloaded Leona Lewis’s single, Happy, off of her new CD, Echo, which debuted last week. There are certain songs, like Miley Cyrus’s single I referred to earlier, that you just enjoy for the beat and the fun factor. But most of the songs that are on my timeless list of favorites, are songs I love because of the words, not just the sound.

Throughout my entire adolescence and into college, I expressed myself – my inner thoughts and feelings – through poetry. I have a binder chock full of my original poems that I still pull out from time-to-time when I’m in need of some passion and inspiration. I have always said that if my apartment was on fire and I could only grab three things (assuming all humans and pets were safe), my poetry book would nab a spot on the list. As dramatic as it sounds, leaving that book behind would be like leaving a part of my soul behind.

Because I have a fondness for writing poetry and representing my life through quotes, I have always listened intently to the words in music to gain inspiration. When a song resonates with me, I will listen to it over and over again, gleaning all the personal meaning I can from it. I may identify with the song differently each time I hear it – but if it’s truly poetry in music, I will connect to it in one way or another.

I’ve digressed, so let’s return to yesterday afternoon, where I sat cross-legged on the couch, propped up with my laptop, perusing the latest iTunes downloads. As I stated before, Leona Lewis’s new song made it to my “Workout” mix, and I headed to LA Fitness ready for a run. Before Happy made its way to the top of my playlist, I listened to some other random tunes (Shout out to Pink’s So What!), warming myself up to what would hopefully be a successful 3-mile run. About 12 minutes into my run, Happy finally came on; and I can’t pinpoint exactly what it was, but right as the chorus began, this surge of adrenaline overtook me and I felt so empowered, so motivated, so…happy. Lewis’s words, her voice, my mindset – it all just came together. I opened up my mind and heart and allowed her words to seep in, and with each note, I pumped my arms harder and harder, running faster and faster. All of a sudden, I began to grin from ear to ear, for no apparent reason. I just kept smiling and smiling and couldn’t stop. It felt great – much better than my usual gym scenario that I’ve described in previous posts (you know, where I’m slumped over the hamstrung machine dreaming of margaritas and cheese dip…). Yesterday, I completed a fantastic run and held high spirits for the rest of the day.

Songs really are just another form of poetry and can speak to us on a whole other level. I love that feeling of hearing a song and thinking it was created to mirror a time in your life or to echo your current situation. It just speaks to you, and the songs that really have an effect on us, are the ones whose power is unexplainable. So today, I want to share the words of Leona Lewis’s song with you, and I hope that at least once a day, you find words in books, poetry, music, etc. that empower you; and that someday soon, you have a random smile moment on the treadmill, or wherever you may be – cause in the end, we’re all just “trying to be happy.”

Leona Lewis – Happy (I bolded the chorus – it’s my favorite part):

Someone once told me that you have to choose
What you win or lose
You can’t have everything

Don’t you take chances
You might feel the pain
Don’t you love in vain
’Cause love won’t set you free

I could stand by the side
And watch this life pass me by
So unhappy
But safe as could be

So what if it hurts me?
So what it I break down?
So what if this world just throws me off the edge,
My feet run out of ground
I gotta find my place
I wanna hear my sound
Don’t care about all the pain in front of me
Cause I’m just trying to be happy
Just wanna be happy, yeah

Holding on tightly
Just can’t let it go
Just trying to play my role
Slowly disappear, oh

But all these days
They feel like they’re the same
Just different faces
Different names
Get me out of here

But I can’t stand by your side
Oh no
And watch this life pass me by
Pass me by

So what if it hurts me?
So what if I break down?
So what if this world just throws me off the edge?
My feet run out of ground
I gotta find my place
I wanna hear my sound
Don’t care about all the pain in front of me
Cause I’m just trying to be happy

Oh, happy
Oh

So any it turns that I can’t see
Like I’m a stranger on this road
But don’t say victim
Don’t say anything

So what if it hurts me?
So what if I break down?
So what if this world just throws me off the edge
My feet run out of ground?
I gotta find my place
I wanna hear my sound
Don’t care about all the pain in front of me
I just wanna be happy
Oh yeah
Happy
I just wanna be
Oh
I just wanna be
Happy
Oh Happy.

“If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we’ll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.”

Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

(via FFFFOUND)

We are constantly striving; striving for the next degree, the job promotion, or to be better than our neighbor/sibling/co-worker. Contentment is not easily found in a culture that consistently tells you that you need to be reaching that next level in order to find fulfillment. However, if there’s one thing I have learned in my 24 years on this earth, it’s that this race is unending and tiring.

Think about setting your goals toward happiness and contentment in your near future, and see what your surrounding decisions/career choices/relationships look like.

There’s nothing like a good fall to cheer me up.  This time at poor Jenny’s expense nonetheless.  Or actually I think she has adopted a new stage name, after taking a moment to Google the facts I return to you with “Lola.”  According to one site that came up in the Google earch description for “Jennifer Lopez new name” (which turned up to be a blank dead end link) Jennifer Lopez denies claiming a new name.  So I’m a little unclear as of now…either way the video gave me a good laugh lol.  In a “Damn that’s so shitty I’m embarrassed for them” kind of way.  I mean that’s the bitter-sweetness of falling isn’t it?  The embarrassing faces you make and movements you make while in that split second of not being in control of your body, or in J.Lo/Lola/Jennifer Lopez/whateverhernamereallyis’s case that split second of falling smack on that infamous ass of hers.  In front of thousands of people in the audience, and millions of people watching live nonetheless!  I wonder if she chewed anyone’s ass out about the floor being slippery or something…unless maybe it was just that her heels didn’t have the right traction or something…lol either way that sucks.  But you know what?  Infinity million kudos for that quick recovery!  Either way, I still love her and that big ole derriere.

And I’m cheered up.  Just like that.

Greetings, darlings!

Sigh. My deepest, sincerest apologies to you wonderful patient people for my looooooooong absence. Lol. But now, I’m back! So YAY. \o/ And I know I should’ve posted the moment I finished last Friday, but what can I say. Slow internet + wordpress = daunting. Seriously. The site hates me. But on a brighter note, I’LL BE HERE MORE OFTEN, MY LOVELIES. ^__^

Anyhoos…

I CANNOT believe that A’s are over. Seriously. It’s like, huh? Really? *cue confused look*

But yes. It. Is. Done. I’m sorta leaning towards disposing of all my study materials and whatnot, but I have to admit that they didn’t go as well as planned, enough so that I have the confidence to know that I definitely will be going to university next year. Sigh. But. Whatever. I do not give a shit anymore. Seriously. I think those WWII Japanese soldiers or whatever could’ve used exams to torture their POWs, with more dire consequences. Like, you know, “STUDY AND DO WELL… OR IT’LL END IN YOUR UNTIMELY DEMISE.” or something like that. Hurhur. I’m sure it’ll surmount to the same level of torture that we went through. Tsk.

Anyhoos, I have a few things to address, so short of that, this post will just be full of my inconsistent blatherings.

I. ROFLMAO. That was my reaction when I saw our blog header. Lol. Not that Tom looks funny or anything, but I miss your random spazz-ness, J. Lol. For want of a better word. And that previous post that someone said which was labelled “Why Tom’s face why?” Was that C, by the way? Hahaha. I laughed. It was a funny, expected reaction.

II. Speaking of that, I really don’t mind that header. Cos he IS hot. You can take turns and change the header to a different guy we each like every month or something. xD I approve! Heh. Oh, except for Bill. Never, never, never, NEVER EVER use the fauxhawk. Seriously. Just by browsing through posts of the past I see a high number of unnecessary reminders of the mistake that Bill has unwittingly done unto his fine head. Damn the boy. And, J, it’s only hot from the side. From the front he looks… malnourished or something. I dunno. And I don’t hate it, per se. BUT. I prefer the hedgehog hair. And I thus find myself ignoring Bill from the shoulders and up. Sigh.

III. Is it possible for us to like, I dunno, color code our posts? Like, Let’s say Jelly’s is all in blue and X’s is all in Red or something? Cos it’s easier to differentiate posts that way. I know that you guys like the whole professional thing, but it’s killing my eyes through my glasses. Lol. The black on white. And you guys know how nearly dyslexic I can be when it comes to reading. Well, but as of now, I don’t find a tool button that allows you to change colour or whatever. But yeah. If it’s possible, I would gladly appreciate it. Lol.

IV. And I saw the Human Connect to Human (seriously, I know that they’re German and all, but babies, what’s with the title, damn it? o.O) lyrics. And yes, I have never been so sure of anything in my life. Lol. I totally get your interpretation now.

V. And lol at that MTV interview on how to dress like ToHo for Halloween. Tom’s mean! Lol. But yes, his answer was funny. Omg. And I realized that most of previous points were all on ToHo or something?

And btw, I’ve started calling them ToHo. Lol. For no particular reason, except that I really like that Japanese band I mentioned before called Tokio now. So like, it’d be extremely confusing. Lol. And speaking of which…

VI. I have been so absent from the English-speaking world it’s not even funny. Seriously. Like, I dunno all the latest American dramas or latest hit songs or whatever! I turned on MTV the other day and I found some random person rapping and I was like, hmm. Who’s that? And then I realized that it was Jay-z or something. Not that I was really all that big on the rap scene previously (cos it’s just an example outta many), but I totally don’t recognise people anymore! And that’s just sad in itself cos through the next 20 minutes of that show the only person I recognised was Katy Perry! DOUBLE YOU TEE EFF, people. And I don’t even like her that much. Ugh. What’s become of me?! And when people talk about the latest shows or whatever I totally don’t understand. Lol.

And the worst part is that I know it’s all self-inflicted. Hahahaha. This is almost like King Lear. But I’m not gonna go mad and start ripping off my clothes in the middle of a storm. Lol. It’s just as if I got exiled to Japan or something. Bleh.

VII. And on that note, I agree that we should have a post to keep track of all the people we like. HAHAHA. I need faces, people. Since I don’t know anything anymore.

And btw, J, I know that Ian Somerhalder from somewhere!  (See? I freaking forgot everthing. T.T)

And that picture of Bill… looks… UGH. I DUNNO. *speechless* He looks like a freaking woman. And I’ll say it again, like Liza Minelli. Seriously.

But Tom looks hot with that guitar.

Oh, and VIII. I love all those random songs and stuff you guys posted. Hahaha. Ghostbusters pwn all.

Ah, and will my rambling or god-knows-what, I almost forgot! So our names are now whateverletteritstartswith-word? Hahaha. I like Summer! ‘Tis a lovely feeling that it puts into my heart. xD And Jelly too! Reminds me of… happy comfort food. HAHA. Ach. So it’s sorta set that we’ll just use random words, yeah? Haha.

You know I went to that link J provided on all the words starting with X? I get what you mean now when X was complaining that time that there weren’t many words that began with X. I went the same website with S instead, and I can’t even choose cos they have fucking subcatagories that go all, Starting with Sab, Starting with Sac, Starting with Sad ALL THE WAY until the last alphabet possible. Wtf. It was just too intimidating to even click anything.

Oh, and the name Chickpea is awesomesauce. Lol. *throws confetti*

Gosh. And I must be a retard or something. It took me an hour and fourteen minutes to type this out till here. o.O

Oh, and on a completely irrelevant sidenote, DID YOU GUYS KNOW THAT SEMBAWANG IS BANKRUPT OR SOMETHING? I totes just found out yesterday when I went out with my parents and we got all excited cos there was this clearance sale at one outlet, and I thought it was just that outlet that was shifting or something but it turned out it wasn’t. :O

And the CDs were dirt cheap. If they weren’t so disorganized I would’ve spent more time browsing and buying more. Tsk. But I did buy a fair bit. I got Duncan James’ album for like, $2.50. Like, wth, right? Not that I’m complaining, but the prices were like, all from $2 – $5 on average. :O

Gosh. And they had no tags on them so I only found out how much it was after I got the receipt! But yeah. Haha. Okay. Enough of the random. I’ll leave it here, cos it’s already past midnight. And I’ve been sleeping for only 3 hours or so a night since Friday cos I was marathon-ing  J-dramas. HAHA. 

I’ll leave you peeps with this, whether you can understand, or choose not to understand, is entirely up to you. But it’s hilarious. I found it on TH-S! xD

HAHAHAHAHA. Okay. ‘Nuff said. I’ve been on such a slash/porn spree lately it’s completely ridiculous. With Japanese men, too. Lol. I know there’s bound to be plenty of BMIs in thine heads right now. My apologies for any traumatizing images your innocent minds might insert into your imagination. ^__^

Okies, babies. Till thursday! Or the next time I post! Whichever comes first! (:

–S… S… S…? Uh, Shell? Hawhaw. xD

hey! nu ma asteptam dar iata ca am ajuns si aici am acest blog de 19 de ore si deja am ajuns in topul WordPress ceea ce pana acum nu am mai patit si sunt foarte happy nu stiu cat timp voi ramane acolo dar e minunat. va multumesc celor care ati intrat pe blog (oricum, ati facut-o pentru interesul vostru) si celor care ati lasat comentarii

Your smile is the most important and easiest physiological change that you can make to give a good impression on others, especially women.  The results you get from doing something so simple will absolutely blow your mind.  This is why this is the first article on Alpha Allure. I can’t stress enough how easy and important the smile is.

Most people do not smile, so if you are in the habit of smiling you will automatically stand out from the crowd in a positive way.  If you ever want to attract a woman, being unique and different from “the herd” is one of the best ways to do it.  Smiling is a huge step in that direction.

When you smile, it conveys to other people you are happy and that your life is really good (even if it isn’t).  Smiling actually can change your biochemistry and make you happy.   No matter how bad a day you are having, you can force yourself to smile and your mood will instantly change.  There is the saying, “people want to be part of a party, not a pity” and if you are smiling all the time, people will think that your life is a party and they will naturally be attracted to you and your positive energy.  On the flip side, “misery loves company” so if you are smiling and happy, you can easily avoid the people who are angry, sad and have a negative energy.  This will help you to be discerning about what people you associate with.

Smiling can improve your health.  When you feel good emotionally (which is your body’s natural state) your body responds positively.  People who are always frowning, or sad, or angry usually are not in the best of health.  This creates stress in the body which leads to disease.  So smile and expect to live longer and better.

Trust is one of the most important things you need to establish with a woman.  If you don’t have trust, I don’t care how sexy you are, you won’t get anywhere with them.  Trust is huge to women.  So how can you start to establish trust without saying a word?  Smiling.  How’d you guess ?  When someone smiles it is much easier to trust them.  Would you trust a stranger who was staring angrily at you?  No!  So the opposite would have opposite results.

These are just a few of the benefits received from smiling.  If you begin to make smiling a habit amazing things will happen in your life, so I suggest you get to it.  Try it, right now!

Exercises:

1.  Start smiling everywhere you go.  EVERYWHERE WITHOUT FAIL.   To the mailbox, to the store, to the bank and especially in social settings like parties, nightlife etc.  Take notice of how many girls make eye contact with you and reciprocate a smile back to you.

2.  At home, look in the mirror and watch yourself smile and notice the way it affects your body and attitude.  Do you feel better?  Were a little more happy?  Start to become in tune to these subtle changes because it will benefit you later when we discuss the power of the mind.

3.  Make sure your smile is a subtle smile.  You just want a nice casual smile not a huge grin.  Smiling too big can make you look ridiculous, so easy does it.

You know I’d smile.

with me

and there, we'd fly together

today’s our longest chat via sms throughout the entire year.
its God who made it possible, xoxo

I’m going to take the rest of this week off to soak up family and home and rain and time to process everything that’s happened this semester

I’m thankful for all of it — although it’s been pretty hard at times. Lots of new things have been thrown in my face over the last couple months… and I’m tired. But thankful for the moments that stick out: out-of-control laughter with my roomie, impromptu games of pool and balderdash and cards, lazy days at the beach, deep conversations at coffee shops, that first phone call from my agent, late-night volleyball games, sunsets in dirty parking lots, first dates… and the promise of Thanksgiving break.

What would we do without Thanksgiving break?

Be thankful this week. And eat lots of turkey.

Create your own FACEinHOLE

Don’t Edward and I look great together? HA. Yes, I really did just go there.

But seriously, let’s talk New Moon. Thursday evening when I got off work I drove back to my hometown to meet up with one of my BFFs for a late dinner, the midnight showing of New Moon, and a sleepover. After scarfing down some delicious chips and salsa, a huuuuge burrito, and several diet cokes we headed for the theater. By the time we got to our seats, at 11:05pm, the theater was full. We overheard that some people had been camping out for seats since 7pm. Umm no thanks, I have more of a life than that and I can enjoy Edward and Jacob just as well from my super close fourth row seats.

Of course the teenage girls were screaming and squealing as soon as the lights dimmed. And there was more screaming when Edward and Jacob appeared on the screen. I do agree those boys are super hot, but all the screaming kind of ruined it for me.

Anyway, my thoughts on New Moon:

Sooo much better than Twilight. I was disappointed when I saw Twilight and was especially annoyed by the blue tint throughout the movie. Thank goodness,  New Moon was tint-free! I also thought New Moon was less cheesy (still a good amount of cheese though, don’t worry!) and followed the book a lot closer than Twilight.

Kristen Stewart is still just as awkward, but somehow tolerable. Her hair looked awesome too.

Edward was hot, but it seemed like he was only in the movie for like 10 minutes. And his shirtless scene? Kinda creepy, if I’m being honest. I know he’s a vampire and supposed to be pale, but it was kind of too much. Not attractive, sorry Rob. Jacob on the other hand…

Oh, Jacob. I’m pretty sure he has the sexiest body ever. Some of his lines were pretty corny and I sort of felt like I was watching a bad soap opera, but his adorableness and rock hard abs totally made up for it. And he and Bella have some serious chemistry on screen. Because of all his hotness? I’m sort of torn… am I Team Edward or Team Jacob? I DON’T KNOW!!!

Did anyone else crack up laughing during Alice’s vision of Edward and Bella in the future? Seriously, the slow motion running and flowing white dress? Hilarious.

And the break up scene? I almost cried. Not sure if it was because I was already exhausted from a long day, or if the acting was really that good… or maybe I just empathize with Edward and Bella too much?

The werewolves were great, but the special effects were a little over the top. At one point I felt like I was watching a cartoon which was not what I wanted.

Also, I laughed way more during New Moon. The whole first half of the movie was filled with great one-liners that I will be quoting for the next six months. You have been warned.

And the ending? I gasped. At least we only have to wait until June because OMG!

Overall, I loved it. And I will be seeing again. Many, many times.

Have you seen New Moon yet? What did you think?