I couldn’t have put it better myself 

I am a list person, I make grocery lists before I go shopping (and I almost stick to them…ok, I might buy a thing or two in addition), I keep an agenda whenever the week gets busy, I even tried a “to buy” clothing related list but that one I had to drop because…well… it never ends! I always need want (I am still learning the difference and it takes a while to adjust so bear with me) a new pair of jeans, 2 pairs of shoes and bags that match…

Also, I like to think big, thus, the need for The List. And I’m sure every, each one of you has it’s own. Call it as you wish, the Bucket List, the To Do list, it gathers all the small, big, crazy things you want to do before you hit the bucket. I am sharing mine and since it is an open list I will have a lot of later edits, adding things and hopefully checking some.

The List

• travel to all continents… well, except Antarctica and see as many places I can. On top of the list are Egypt, Maldives, Thailand,  France (Paris), Italy (Tuscany), Spain (Barcelona), Scotland and Ireland, LA, Miami, Las Vegas, NY. I have Greece, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic checked.

• go horse riding

• act

• buy a Mustang

• move to a big house, with big windows and a really big closet

• do charity every year

• have a surprise birthday party – not up to me, I know, but I never had one

• go on a trip with no predetermined destination

- the order is absolutely random

How does your list look like? This would be a fun tag-type kind of post but  since I’m not so much into the blogosphere thing, please go on and tag yourself. Link back to me so I can track you and read yours as well or leave a link to the comment section.

I wanna wake up to this

When you hit rock bottom there’s nowhere else to go but up.

Why do we act the way we do, why do we choose some things over the others, why do we make certain decisions? The final purpose of all our actions and decisions is one and the same – happiness. That’s why you save money to go on a vacation, or buy a convertible, or a pair of shoes. Yes, maybe it takes months of savings and a lot of sacrifices, but the moment you will be sailing on that yacht, away from work and stress, or see yourself behind the wheel of your brand new car, it will all worth it. And happiness comes with little things also, you don’t need tones of money. Good news, finding a good book, getting together with friends, going dancing, a beautiful sunny morning, cotton candy (ok, I’m getting personal here ) … There are n things that can make one happy.

Some, make you happy for a day or less, others for a month, or a year and if you are really lucky you might just find what could make you happy for life. The most complex, long lasting and complete happiness comes with (more…)

Think for a second about the guys you dated. I know, mostly affairs you don’t want to remember. But what you’ll come to realize is that regardless of their actual profession (if they had one, that is), they would be so much better in other fields.

For example, I am sure you’ve met The Actor. Very talented guy, puts on impressive shows. For a moment there you actually believe everything he says is true. The stories seem so real, the interpretation so authentic. (more…)

Maxine was driving down the street in a sweat because she had an important meeting and couldn’t find a parking place.
Looking up toward heaven, she said, ‘Lord, take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to church every Sunday for the rest of my life and give up sex and tequila.’
Miraculously, a parking place appeared.
She looked up again and said, ‘Never mind. I found one.’

Everybody comes to the point when life teaches them a lesson…or two. And although when we say “I have learned from my mistakes” we say it with a bitter voice and a frown on our face, we must realize that these mistakes are the ones that make us wiser and stronger and more aware of things we should value and the ones we should keep away from.
It isn’t nearly as meaningful when you hear it from someone else (you have to discover your own life thinking) but if this was a lesson over life, here is what I would teach you…

1. Do everything you wish to do if it’s in your power to do it. Face the fears and insecurities, the vanity and pride and take a shot because otherwise, you will always ask yourself  “What if?”. I know I would rather regret the things that I did than the things I didn’t do. What about you?  As Mark Twain once said, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the (more…)

Why is it so hard to end up certain relationships and let go of certain people? Could it be the habit, the sense of security? Did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, when we think of getting out of a relationship that lasted long, what really holds us back is the familiarity and the fear of unknown? After all, most of us are afraid of changes.

It’s hard to move from your old home to another, to change your neighborhood, your pain in the ass neighbors with possibly worse ones, the so familiar home-office, office-home drive and to pick a new store for your every day shopping, as good as the last one (close to home, good prices, dear old saleslady).
It’s hard enough when you have to change your job, it’s even harder getting hired for the first time and leaving behind college life.

Most of us, most of the times, prefer the familiar over the unfamiliar. Extending this supposition, is it possible this could go for relationships too? If you have been in a relationship for a considering long time, the thought of being single again might be scary. Especially when (more…)

1. How can I put it? Love is like searching for the perfect pair of shoes and finding them! But when he loves you back too, well my friend… that’s like finding the shoes, you try them on and they’re a perfect fit! No! It’s even better: they’re on sale!

2. -He loves me!
-How can you tell?
-If he got through a whole day of shopping with me without backing out, he must love me. He eighter loves me or he wants to have sex with me really bad!

3. Love is the Michael Kors of fashion! Certainly, utterly, the best!

4. True love is like your shadow. You carry it with yourself until you are gone.

5. Love is like a bird locked into a cage too small for the bird to fit.

Having sense of fashion is not buying everything that’s “in” according to the latest trends, but wearing the clothes that work for you. Define your style and just adapt the latest trends to it. Not the other way around. Act clever and avoid the combinations that disadvantage you (try and leave out the black stockings from your wardrobe if you have really skinny legs) and learn the tricks to make the best of it (swimsuits with horizontal stripes are said to make your breasts look bigger).

Tell me what you wear and I’ll tell you who you are

Yes… it also goes for your clothing choices.You can tell a lot about a person just by analyzing the way she or he dresses. I remember a quote by Melanie Griffith’s character from the movie Working Girl. Well, it’s actually Coco Chanel’s: ”Dress shabbily, they will notice the dress. Dress impeccably, they will notice the woman.”
So be careful what you choose from that closet of yours before you go out. And always, always ask yourself (more…)

From time to time we get to the point of asking ourselves “should I let the game go on or should I yell fault…or time out?” But when we get to that point it is usually to late to have a change of heart – you are already in his bed and you’re way over first base. You can try the time out (”we shouldn’t do this”, “this is wrong”) but that never works. And if you’re playing away it’s a lost game. But still you can try to fake you’re hit ( the good old headache) and get away with that.

…To sex or not to sex? When does the question pop into our head? Well, it usually does when you know that what you’re about to do is wrong (if everything would be ok you wouldn’t have any doubts). He is either your best friend’s man or maybe you have a man back home. Maybe both. That is 1 wrong + another wrong that equals a disaster.

There are, of course, other situations that force you to play in defense – like being a condom short. And you know what they say: better safe than sorry.

There are people who think that (more…)

People go to blind dates the same reason they go to casinos. Hoping to hit the Jackpot. But most of the times they end up broke or alone at the bar. They know it but they’re still willing to take that risk. And they go there hoping for the best.

So that’s how you find yourself all dressed up, in front of a Martini glass or a Coke, checking your watch every 10 seconds. You scan every guy who enters, more and more convinced that this time it must be him. You smile, he smiles back but he passes right by you and stops 2 tables away where his friends are. Or even worse… (more…)

As the years pass and you keep getting in and out of relationships, you begin to realize that life is not as you thought it will be. Sure, you imagined prince charming in a white Cadillac or a black Rolls would somehow find you (while you do nothing but wait) and you would live happily ever after in one of his penthouse suites.


But all you get is 5 so called relationships in the past 14 months. And that’s if you (more…)