Another birthday is fast approaching and while I may not be celebrating the number that will be displayed on top of my scrumptious cake with buttercream frosting, I will definitely be celebrating the content of the year that has been and looking forward to the upcoming year that will be ( Read more... )

            1. Owning a home I LOVE.

2. Having furniture inside it that I LOVE.

3. Traveling more

What a treat, what an ecstatic surprise, to find myself at that point in life where every thing that happens gives off the kindly vibrations of luck and infinite possibility. When it goes my way, what a great and ( Read more... )

I've been so busy lately that my head is spinning.  Wooh~ I need to slow down a bit and take a breather but for all it's worth, I'm really happy with how things have been going for me lately.

Isn’t it an amazing feeling to get shit done? Don’t you just love accomplishing things? I just love that word even - "accomplish." What a sense of fulfillment ( Read more... )

As if Vegas has not given me enough reasons to spend most of my waking moments there, I just found out that the one and only Prince (or whatever the name/moniker/symbol he's using these days) is going to be performing at the Rio hotel for a limited engagement beginning November 10th!  Hallelujah!  Do I hear bells ringing?  My beloved, enormously ( Read more... )

There's seems to be a running theme in my life lately, I'm constantly wondering if I'm using my time wisely or if I'm just letting it go to waste. You see, time is a tricky phenom, it can be your very best friend or your worst enemy. It comes in abundance when you least want it to and is seriously lacking when you are in most need of it ( Read more... )

Truth is, we're all humans, and I firmly believe that humans, by nature, do not have complete control over their hearts. We are ruled by them. We are slaves to our emotions. What we feel has NOTHING to do with what we WANT to feel. You can't be in love with someone when you're just not. Time and trying does not change that. You can't be over ( Read more... )

Yesterday a kid in my class I like to call "Gizmo" approached me and asked me what I wanted for Christmas. In jest I replied, "a Rolex watch." He then took out money from his pocket and counted it in slow, methodic, by the numbers way that is only cute because he's still a little chub. After he finally finished he says to me, "I have 17 dollars ( Read more... )

Ok, my kids are brilliant. They're mini geniuses. They should be featured in a movie about their advanced intelligence. We could do a remake of "Mr Holland's Opus" (just substitute my name in there) or a "Baby Geniuses" just slightly older. Why all this gushing over these munchkins when I didn't even give birth to them? Because when I arrived ( Read more... )

This lesson becomes clearer and clearer to me : we cannot rely on things outside of our control. We need to pay attention to what we can control, to our feelings, to our relationships, and we work on what we CAN work on. When a wave comes to knock us down, we have to know what we have in life, and use our support system to pick ourselves back up ( Read more... )

It is interesting to see how life always turns up a mystery. Why do we feel the way we feel? Why can't we just accept our flaws instead of trying to deny them? Why do we find it so difficult to humble ourselves and to release our inner innocence ( Read more... )