And I Quote...

This quote is way too good to let a day go by without posting it on MY blog.

Thanks Bug,

Mom Knows Best!

A friend sent me this and I thought it was really awesome and true.......

At the age of 4: Mom knows everything!

At 8: Mom knows a lot!

At 12: Mom doesn’t really know everything

At 14: Mom doesn’t know anything.

At 16:Mom doesn’t exist.

At 18: She’s old fashioned.

At 25: Maybe Mom does know about this!

At 35: Before we decide, let’s ask Mom.

At 45: I wonder what Mom thinks about this?

 At 75:... I wish I could ......ask my Mom about this.

i love my mommy

I'm STILL awake

jfv....

Lost and Weird

*JFV*

I LOVE(d) YOU

One of the hardest things you'll ever have to do is to stop loving someone because they've stopped loving you.

Even if he doesn't like me tomorrow, I knew he loved me yesterday.

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.

Where my future leads, I don't know. But if you're not there, I don't want to go.

Sometimes the memories are worth the pain.

Every love gone wrong is one step closer to your own true love.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Life without love is a life without meaning.

When forever is through, then I'll be over you.

Tears are the words the heart can't express.

You taught me how to love, but not how to stop.

The hardest part of loving someone is knowing when to let go, and knowing when to say goodbye.

The only person who can make me smile, made me cry.

Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful.

Love is on the lips of many, but in the hearts of a few.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Once upon a time I was falling in love, but now I'm only falling apart.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

It's better to be with no one than to be with the wrong one.

Time goes by, life goes on; and all I can think of is why you're gone.

God can heal a broken heart, but you have to give Him all the pieces.

Friend At All Times

Friend is someone you keep close to your heart ...

A child asks his mother:

- Mom, can I go to the hospital to see my friend? He is sick!

 The mother replies:

- Sure, but what has he got?

The son, with his head down, says:

- Tumor in the brain.

The mother, furious, says:

-And why would you want to go there for? To watch him die?

The child turned around and left to go to the hospital ...

Hours later he comes back eyes blood red from crying, saying:

- Oh mother, it was so awful, he died right in front of me!

The mother, in anger:

- Are you happy now?! Was going there worth seeing that?!

One last tear falls from his eyes, and accompanied by a smile, he says:

- Very, because I arrived in time to see him smile and say:

"'- I knew you would come! "

Moral of the story:
COUNT ON YOUR FRIENDS AT ALL TIMES! WHEN THERE IS NEED TO FORGIVE, FORGIVE IN ADVANCED! AND BE HAPPY BY THEIR SIDE BECAUSE THE VALUE OF A FRIENDSHIP DOES NOT HAVE A PRICE.

Friendship is not just only in good times, joy and celebration. A friend is for all times, good or bad, sad or happy.

Wish List

AHHH Dear Juicy, or is it Miss Couture?

Some of your items just made my WISH LIST for 2010.

Ahhh. Everything is so girly, and cute and juicy...

it's all ADORBIE's!

I never thought of myself a "Juicy Couture" type of girl, but these are just the GOTTA HAVE items of 2010 Collection.....

I hope my Father Santa Claus is reading this... (wink wink.)

here it goes.....

Long Floral Necklace

USD $118.00

Floral Cluster Ring

USD $88.00

Butterfly Chain Toggle Bracelet

USD $88.00

Pave-Heart Stud Earings

 USD $48.00

Pave-Heart Necklace

USD $48.00

Say YES! to Juicy!

A Plane Ride Away

“Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away” -Sex and the City

Live The Questions Now

When life gives you opportunities, what do you do? TAKE IT! duh! Which sounds like an obvious answer, correct? Well...No, because most people question every: sign, feeling, & thought, down to every little detail.  If we think about it, life is easier than we make it be.... We make it harder when we like to sit there and wonder too much... wonder what road to take... Maybe, we wonder because most changes comes with a little sacrifice that's attached with a little fear, and insecurities for the unknown destiny... So we have to BEG ourselves to have patience with everything that is unresolved in our life and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. To take chances without doubts (without making that long PROS and CON list). Refrain ourselves from demanding the answers right away, which can't be given to us now, because we would not be able to live nor understand it all the way. But the mystery is the best part of it all....To live everything, and to live the questions now..... Because perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. The right answer.... which was always the right choice, the obvious one meant for you, without actually killing ourselves for answers, as if your life is a big strategic puzzle, that you have to have it complete before taking a big step. Sometimes what takes us far in life, is the heart, and not the reasons..

So let your heart wander...... and your mind follow.........

What you love, will never lead you wrong 

More Than Friends

"He will always be able to play the "friend" card on you. He only has to be responsible for the expectations of a friend, rather than the fargreater expectations of a boyfriend. He's got the ultimate situation: a great friend with all the benefits of a girlfriend, whom he can see or not see whenever he wants to. He may be one of your closest friends, but I'm sorry to say ... as a boyfriend, he's just not that into you."
-He's Just Not That Into You (The Movie)

Run Free

“Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.”

Wedding Bells Ava_Rich

Ava and Richard

Engagement Photo

Love is in the AIR....

(literally! wink wink TLC)

between

Mariana Ava and Richard

Where: New York City, NY

MANHATTAN

When: Today, August 27th, 2010

It is a Day to be Remembered!

Ahh these two amazing birds are schedule to get married Today, at 5pm in a secret, and beautiful location (extremely expen$ive too, yikes!) in Manhattan, NYC. It will be a beautiful religious ceremony followed by the nicest, most expected wedding reception of the year!!! and the SMALL fact that TLC Cameras will be on site, rolling and capturing EVERY MOMENT, is just an extra added bonus.....

AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!

Stay TUNED!
and

Cross your fingers and pray that my bestie WINS the HONEYMOON destination package

 

I know absolute love makes a lot of things possible. But still... Getting married is probably one of the most important decisions a woman can ever make in her life. It certainly takes courage to finally decide your man is the right one for you and to share the rest of your life with him (especially at these kids age, but love is love and real love EXISTS) ..And not just because they are having the perfect fairytale princess wedding   means their marriage will be easy, because it won't, there will be though times, rough patches, but it will all come with a reason. "Nobody said it would be easy, JUST THAT IT WOULD BE WORTH IT" .... The love, respect, trust these two people have and demosntrate for one another makes them the IDEAL candidates to enter a marriage of lifetime commitment.  I wish them the greatest happiness and a blessed married life ever!

Mariana, may you look your most beautiful and happiest on your wedding day!

 TE AMO AMIGA!

Live The Life You Love

Love the Life you Live. Live the life you Love."

— Bob Marley

Fatherly Advice

Sometimes,  ALL THE TIME... I feel like I have the B E S T E S T father in the world.  He is so understating, supportive, funny, caring.... I could go on and on and on....  He allows me to do anything and everything I want, whether it is good or bad, better or worst... He understanding it and doesn't question me or give me persuasive lectures. If I fall, he is there to give me a hand.... and if I rise, he is also there to give me a hand (and maybe a little standing ovation too....*thank you, thank you*). 

"And the only advice I can give you is to follow the obvious .... the best part of life is when you are NOT driven by anyone else's opinion, but your sense of direction."

My father, knows what an intense, driven, and super decisive, goal driven young beautiful, smart woman I am (toot toot, I'm honking my own horn, I know I got carried away LOL). Who also knows what she wants, while remembers where she has been, and knows where she wants to go.  So when I tell him I am to once again going to risk it for the sake of F I N D I N G  M Y S E L F by turning my life upside down, shaking it, change it all up, and taking "The Road Less Traveled" because it is in my heart to do so.. he simply says.....

Always be honest .... offer advice .... talk less, listen more.

This time in your life is when $ $ $ is no concern...  just be happy.

Demonstrate to him that you want to help built a future with him. The lives of the two together ... from the start.

I trust your judgement with whatever you chose to do, or go.

 YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT.

Awwww, my crazy, spontanious self, loves you Daddy :)

 

I Don't Want To. . .

I don't want to be "sort of dating" someone. I don't want to be "kinda hanging out" with someone. I don't want to spend a lot of energy suppressing my feelings so I appear uninvolved. I want to be involved. I want to be sleeping with someone I know I'll see again because they've already demonstrated to me that they're..

 Trustworthy

Honorable

&

Into me!

I BELIEVE . . .

Cut Your Losses and Don't Waste Your Time

"Cut your losses and don't waste your time .

Why stay in some weird dating limbo when you can move on to what will surely be better territory? Don't want to hear it? Fine. Here's the answer you're looking for, "Hang in there, baby. He's not the loser everybody's telling you he is.

 If you wait and keep your mouth shut and call at exactly the right time and anticipate his moods and have no expectations about communication or your own sexual needs, you can have him!"

But please don't be surprised if he dumps you or continues to drag you through a completely unsatisfying relationship."

-He's Just Not That Into You (The Movie)

Nearly Overwhelmed Me

"I was stunned by the unexpected electricity that flowed through me, amazed that it was possible to be more aware of him than I already was. A crazy impulse to reach over and touch him, to stroke his perfect face just once in the darkness, nearly overwhelmed me." -Bella Swan, Twilight

Before You

"Before you, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ….And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything."

-Edward Cullen, New Moon

Yesterday's Feelings.

I guess to some extent you get used to being alone.

You get used to not expecting phone calls & having nothing to do at night.

You don’t expect to turn around to open arms any longer.

The small sounds of him have been replaced by silence.

Your thoughts echo through my head,

with no one to share them with.

All in all, being alone isnt terrible…

it just hurts like hell
BUT THANKFULLY
......

It's ENOUGH

"Chasing Dreams, not Diamond Rings"

-Emerson

When You Are Gone

A Reason Why

"There comes a point in ur life when u realize WHO matters, WHO never did, WHO won't anymore, and WHO always will. So don't worry about people from you past..there's a reason why they didn't make it to ur future!"

Accept Who You Are.

“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who YOU are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

How Can You?

Why, Hello There Feeling... I know you VERY well.... For years I have been involved with someone who has been heaven in my eyes, but hell on my heart. He was IS so wrong for me, but yet I loved him for everything he was and I accepted him for everything he wasn't. I felt like I was his EGO booster, he NEEDED me, in order to feel good, he took advantage that my love was absolute, and he appreciated it for the ego strokes.... And when I had thought I built enough strength COMMON SENSE, he would say those three magic words to make me want to stay longer and keep trying because maybe "he meants it, and even though he keeps me there for all the wrong reasons, he still needs me in order to get through some aspects for his life." The words I LOVE YOU, would go straight to my heart, skipping my mind where my common sense could have the chance to stop it for questionings.  It was enough, enough to turn my world from upside down, to right side up (for that quick minute, that is)! Why does that always  happens? Do I have thaaaat much pride to just allow to live in misery to prove to myself one day I will conquer that something, even if that something isn't what I dreamed of for myself.  I believe we do did love one another, but we knew that we LOVED differently, and that Unhappiness lied within us!

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.I'd been broken beyond repair."

                                                               -- Bella Swan, Twilight
...

Well maybe that was it.... The damn three letters worlds gave me some self gratification..... "I love you," wasn't enough to actually heal my bleeding heart, but it worked as a bandage, to helped cover up the recent wounds and bruises until the next lie he told, the next pain I feel, and the next battle he made me fight (When I say fight, is fight to still stay, to forgive his mistakes and try to forget, I fought alone to keep the relationship stable, when he was the one doing me wrong.) I guess I loved us enough for the both of us.  I knew he was fooling around, but my only proof was called "a woman's intuition" .. in other words... A WOMAN'S CRAZINESS.. as he likes to call it.

Tourist Destinations in America

The Travelors Zone wrote an article listing the Top 25 Most Visited Tourist Destinations in America according to Frobes, which some of these locations came to me as a complete surprise, but don't get me wrong, they are all beautiful and highly recommended by me.....

Top 10 Most Visited Tourist Destinations in America

1. New York City; New York 

AHHHH Times Square, the most bustling square of New York, is known for its many Broadway theatres, cinemas and super signs.  Times Square has all sorts of fun, exciting and informative tours to explore other parts of the city. You can Choose from walking, bike, bus, food, limo, TV, landmark, ethnic or water tours.
Times Square Alliance estimates an average of more than 2,000 pedestrians traversing a block of 7th Avenue during a 15-minute weekday period.

2. Las Vegas; Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment.  Enticing over 31 million visitors,about 80 percent of the city’s total (39.2 million) visitors, a year with its million-gigawatt smile and globetrotting attractions, Las Vegas Strip is more than glitz and gambling.

3. Washington DC

National Mall & Memorial Parks contains some of the oldest protected park lands in the National Park Service.  Many of the nation’s iconic public landmarks are found in the 1,000-plus acres of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, including the Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Memorials, and the Korean and Vietnam War Veterans Memorials.

 

4. Boston; Massachusetts

Which gets 20 million visitors, encompasses four historic places in one location — Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market, North Market and South Market, all set around a quaint cobblestone promenade where jugglers, magicians and musicians entertain the visitors.  There are more than 100 places to eat, shop and drink at this historic site.

5. Orlando; Florida

 

The most popular of Disney’s Florida attractions saw a 2.5 percent increase [17.1 million] in visitation compared with 2006, according to the TEA/ERA Theme Park Attendance Report.  How the Magic Kingdom has managed to maintain its charm and appeal over the years is a lesson in simplicity. It has stayed true to its original vision, a place where families could gather in a clean and safe environment to enjoy the time they spend together. 
 

 6. Anaheim; California

Walt Disney’s original theme park features eight themed lands with classic Disney characters, favorite attractions, live entertainment, and parades.  With nearly 15 million visitors last year, the original Disney park, had a record season according to the TEA/ERA.

Currently the park has been visited by more than 515 million guests since it opened, including presidents, royalty and other heads of state.

 

7. San Francisco; California

 

The Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) is a U.S. National Recreation Area administered by the National Park Service that surrounds the San Francisco Bay area.  The Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes the famous orange bridge along with numerous other spaces throughout the Bay Area, draws 14.3 million visitors annually.

8. Niagara Falls, N.Y.

The Falls, which straddle the U.S.-Canadian border, have been a tourist mecca since the mid-19th century. With statistics from the Niagara Falls Tourism Bureau and Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, visitors are approximated at 12 million a year.
 

9. Tennessee/North Carolina

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, America’s most visited national park is neither the Grand Canyon nor Yosemite. The natural beauty and the four distinct seasons enjoyed in the GSMNP is unmatched!

With more than 800 miles of protected trails, this natural wonder hosted nearly 10 million hikers, birders and drivers last year

10. Chicago; Illinois

 

Opened in 1916, this Chicago landmark on the shore of Lake Michigan has served as a campus and military training facility. With 8.6 million visitors, From rides to restaurants, exhibitions to entertainment, shopping to dining cruises and tour boats Navy Pier has it all – in a location unlike any other!
 
 
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I Will Cry Too

The Right Friendship

So I have this best friend, and she's kinda of a BIG DEAL... And she often always inspires & motivates me... and this was one of the entries that was posted on her blog today, that I just had to have it on mine... and declare an UNofficial Friendship Day... :)

It is better to be alone than in the wrong company.

Tell me who your best friends are and I will tell you who you are.

If you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl.

But, if you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights.

A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the

kind of friends he chooses.

The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you closely associate for the good and the bad.

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.

Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity.

An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

As you grow, your associates will change.

Some of your friends will not want you to go on.

They will want you to stay where they are.

Friends that don't help you climb will want you to crawl.

Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

Those that don't increase you will eventually decrease you.

Consider this:

Never receive counsel from unproductive people.

Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing

to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are

always first to tell you how.

Not everyone has a right to speak into your life.

You are certain to get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas with

the wrong person.

Don't follow anyone who's not going anywhere.

With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it.

Be careful wherever you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life.

Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships.

Miles apart but together at heart, I love you LB; (no homo)

Between the Shadow and the Soul

Go After Her...

..

Die By Your Side

The Most Precious Gift

"Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have -

L I F E    I T S E L F