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"love is not blind - it sees more, not less.
But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
- rabbi julius gordon

mmm...

so much joy from this little shell!!!

I'm tempted to reach into the box for some more... but joy could easily become a tummy-ache... ahem!

Me love Godiva longtime!

...and so the week ends/ another begins

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Happy "Love Day"

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss

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la la la la...

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Since feeling is first...

I know i said i wasn't going to get sucked into the mushiness of the week...but I can't help it. There's so much lovey-dovey stuff popping up around me. I'll go back to being stone cold next week (or month). Bite me!

Here's one of my favorite poems by ee cummings:

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

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but...but...

in the theme of "love week" eh?

I was at Barnes & Noble today...and I saw Valentine's Scrabble. Are you freaking kidding me?!? They'll come up with almost anything these days!

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"I wear my heart on my sleeve
like it's the new fashion"
- Lil' Wayne, Don'tgetit

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In the words of Liz Lemon: I want to go to there....

Today, I feel blue :$ ... It feels like the perfect day to sit home watching my collection of Audrey Hepburn movies, eating double chocolate cheesecake with vanilla icecream...OR...drinking the perfect bottle of red wine. Aaah well, moving along....

Hope you're having a happy saturday....

off to rescue a kitten from a tree....

xoxo ;)

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words every girl wants to hear/read/feel... from the right person, of course :)

from the movie Love Actually... probably the sweetest part of the movie.

I AM MUSIC!

Ah, another blog post dedicated to music.

I love music! I wish I could play an instrument but it seems all I've got - for now - is my voice. There's something very freeing about music. I kind of get lost in my own world when I have my headphones on and i'm listening to random tracks on my ipod. Quite loudly too! I think music is the one thing I've always been in love with - we've always had the simplest of relationships :)

It's funny - whenever i'm thinking through my day or random life situations, it's like I have an on-going soundtrack. There's always a song in the very back of my mind. LoL! Yea, I agree - I'm weird...but I love it! The song lyrics don't always have to do with my current state of mind but the tone of each song - the instrumentals perhaps - reflect my state of mind... most times. So the songs that would skip on my ipod - if it was possible for mp3s to skip - would be (in no particular order) :

1) P!nk - I Don't Believe You
2) Jay-Z, TI, Kanye & Weezy - Swagga Like Us
3) Kanye - Love Lockdown
4) Santogold - You'll Find A Way
5) Santogold - Shove It
6) Dbanj - Fall In Love
7) Robin Thicke - Everything I Can't Have
8) Roots - You Got Me
9) P!nk - Glitter In The Air
10) Paul McCartney - This Never Happened Before

... I'm sure I could add some more to that list but I guess that's my top ten for November. I'm sure there'll be more to add soonest...can't wait!

I don't quite get myself these days BUT I have peace of mind. Go Figure!

Until next post... it's over and out!

xoxo

I AM MUSIC!

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Just because...

It's nice to pretend that I'm multilingual every once in a while... saying words I don't really understand in other languages...just 'cause! Today, I decided to look up "I love you" in other languages. Here are the ones i think sound sweet:

Hausa: Ina sonki
Albanian: Te dua
Spanish: Te amo
Italian: Ti amo
Portuguese: Eu te amo
Tagalog: Mahal kita
Persian: Tora dost daram
Kiswahili: Nakupenda
French: Je t'aime

I think they all roll off the tongue rather nicely...even if you don't have the accent full down...

Now, there are some languages that "I love you" sounds/reads rather harshly... for example:

Hungarian: Szeretlek te'ged
German: Ich liebe Dich
Bavarian: I mog di narrisch gern
Welsh: 'Rwy'n dy garu di

Ouuuch!

Don't mind me though.... I guess when you're hearing those words from the right person, they sound great however it is that they're said. But, if you're saying those words and you're not quiiiite sure just yet about the other person, stick to English or one of the kinder languages!

xoxo ;)