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This month
goodbye 29
hello 30 :)
Seems like this birthday crept up on me. I still feel 25. I don't think of myself as "older". I hope maybe a little "wiser". But definitely happier. 29 you've been a pleasure. I'm sad to close this chapter (marriage, love, Mr. Handsome) but I'm ready to go onto the next. I anticipate many more happy memorable moments. He's the best pre-birthday party date ever.
underlying beauty
"* Enjoying the feeling of relief when some things are over and you made it through."
{gratitude}
"there are times i just feel so lucky...even if i dun have much"
peace of wild things
"when despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds."
中女的死因
往日男的事業為重，女的只求好歸宿，今日角色逆轉，感情市場失衡，不在話下。有趣的卻是，人說港女過份實際港男不思進取，天曉得事實可能剛剛相反。中女千錯萬錯錯在一把年紀才去追求不切實際的兩小無猜；中男敗在務實進取只求結果不問過程。中女太遲對愛情希冀，中男一早相信愛情已死。。
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November 2009
monday note
every monday for the last year my love has written me a special note. i laid them all out on the floor tonight and read them all again.
and then i realized... every monday, for the rest of my life, i'm going to wake up excited to read his note. and if we're lucky, and we live for another 50+ years, i'll be the receiver of over two thousand love notes.
not bad huh? :) i think i'll keep him.
moments & memories
""she held dear her collection of moments and memories."
how true it is. our lives are a patchwork of moments....."
rules for living well
Choose quality over quantity with everything - shoes, friends, food - everything.
Look into alternative forms of medicine.
Take the time to figure out who you really are, what you like and dislike, what you need and don't.
Live within your means and respect every dollar you make.
Cultivate a passion.
Eat Real Food! Stay away from processed and buy local whenever you can.
Refuse to give in to texting.
As hard as it is, acknowledge and work on whatever keeps you from living the life of your dreams.
Refuse to play small or dim your light in order to make others comfortable.
Listen to your body.
Spend part of every day in silence, even if it's ten minutes.
Create a living space that reflects who you are.
Make visual beauty a priority.
Tell people you love them often.
Be true to yourself at all costs.
芝士淺談
最多人熟識的車打芝士（Cheddar），大可與蘋果作伴。同樣受歡迎的法國 芝士Brie，其味清淡而質軟滑，最理想的配搭是核桃。英國 名產Stilton，是聖誕大餐必備，襯上好年份的砵酒，燭光爐火，共謀一醉。Stilton味濃，質膩，頗鹹，平日最好伴以清甜香滑的梨子，特別以Conference或Bosc品種為佳。
這三種芝士之外，要數意大利 派瑪森芝士（Parmasean）最合小食佐飲，它越陳年味越甘香，不需任何配搭，切成不規則形狀，朱古力大小的小塊，用牙籤取食，就可伴意大利白酒或任何紅酒。
abc card
We have a birthday tradition in our family we’ve been doing since we were kids. We go around the dinner table and each person takes a letter of the alphabet, and we say something nice about the birthday girl/boy. A is for Artistic! B is for the Beautiful! We go around and around the table until we get to Z
and it's all blessings.
for permission to have heady days and overwhelm while still being aware and in the center of the best life imaginable.
ceramic quote tag - some books
some books leave us free and some books make us free
- emerson
小小浪漫。
這記憶成全了那一點點的浪漫，因為大家都記下來了。
【料理】日式蘿蔔燒雞翅
先介紹做這道菜需要哪些材料：
市售雞翅（二節翅）一盒（約十到十二隻）
日本種蘿蔔半根
醬油50ml
味淋60ml
烹大師鰹魚口味約5ml (一茶匙左右，可視雞翅的量而定)
青蔥兩枝切段
right now i'm...
Hearing: Norah Jones, The Nearness of You, and the tappity tap of small-scale furniture being re-positioned in it's wooden doll house
Smelling: rosemary bread in the oven
Touching: chopping freshly rinsed basil for pesto penne alfredo
Seeing: a yellow no. two pencil with a fat nub eraser scratching out spelling words on double-ruled paper
Tasting: iced ceylon tea
four
Today, my baby, you turn four. When did this happen? Was it not just yesterday that I had to put you inside my coat to keep you warm? Now look at you! Almost as tall as your sister with just as much spunk. Happy Birthday my punkin.
What four is looking like so far:
You pronounce your Rs as if you lived in Boston your whole life- A feather is a featheh.
You sing from dawn to dusk- singsong monologues of your life.
You eat a peanut butter sandwich every single day.
You wake up hungry and must immediately eat a granola bar or your world collapses.
You love coffee
Your favorite color is blue
You swing so high that I have to hold in my own concern because I see how much you need to do it.
When you get mad, I suggest people step away, as you get a bit ferocious.
You will brush my hair four an hour straight, and therefore I'll not ever cut it.
You like to get your back lightly scratched, just like Mama.
Happy Birthday, my sweet girl. Every day with you is a treasure and a surprise. I love you.
real life tweet #4
by 2 otherswe can learn a lot from his films. a quick list:
1. life and people are impermanent.
2. slow down.
3. look people in the eye.
4. drink tea.
5. be kind.
6. simple things hold the secret.
tuesday intentions
what are your intentions for the day?
here are mine:
* today i will get 45 minutes of exercise.
* today i will clean our condo in preparation for our lovely house guest arriving on thursday.
* today i will have a relaxing and fun trip to the hair salon, which will result in a gorgeous new hairdo (hee hee)
* today i will not gossip, complain, or make excuses.
* today i will drink oodles of water.
* today i will remind simon that i think he's really hunky. like, the hunkiest.
now it's your turn!
what's on the menu today
what are you doing today? here's my plan...
October 2009
one step at a time
artist and professor horst glasker painted these 112 steps in wuppertal, germany to convey a different emotion or behavior associated with relationships. some examples are "to forgive", "to cuddle", "to offer resistance", and "to seduce."
