10 Things to Know about Love

 

Recently, I came upon a book entitled “Prudent Advice” by Jaime Morrison Curtis. It’s a small hardcover filled with 500 nuggets of advice from a mother to her infant daughter. I thought my nieces would benefit from the wisdom housed in its pages. Turns out, I might have needed it more than them. Here are my favourite pearls of wisdom about love:

1.  Anything you chase after runs.

 

2.  Your future together is not a great subject to discuss on a first date.

3.  If you wait to be swept off your feet, you may end up standing alone.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

 

4.  If you are questioning whether someone loves you or not, the answer is right in front of you.
When it comes to people who are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

5.  If you marry your first love you will miss out on the exquisite pain of a broken heart.   (Nothing personal baby, just quoting a book!)

 

6.  You should want to be with someone who wants to be with you. 


7.  You can’t strong-arm someone into loving you if they don’t.  Learn to respect yourself enough to move on.

8.  Marriage is a big decision- one that you should make for yourself.
You may want to marry a boy, or you may want to marry a girl, or you may not want to get married at all, or you may get married five times. That should be entirely up to you. Hopefully, when you are considering marriage, the idea that anyone does not have a right to it will seem absurd.

9.  You only need to call once and leave one message.

10.  People can change, but YOU can't change them.

     Ain’t that the truth!

Jar of Hearts

FAVOURITE NEW SONG:   JAR OF HEARTS by Christina Perri

  










There's just something really beautiful, raw and honest about this song that I like....

Dear, it took so long just to feel alright
Remember how to put back the light in my eyes
I wish I had missed the first time that we kissed
Cause you broke all your promises

And now you're back
You don't get to get me back

Who do you think you are?
Runnin' round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
                                              And tearing love apart                                                  
You're gonna catch a cold
                              From the ice inside your soul                             
So don't come back for me
Don't come back at all.

Don't you just love the douleur exquise of it all?!  (I can just see Nick rolling his eyes as I type this- lol!)



Mingky

I love you my darling puppy...

A dog is a loyal friend from whom you will learn the nature of love and devotion.

Mingky
January 11, 2000  to  March 4, 2011



Japanese Nail Art

I'm loving all things Japanese lately, including Japanese Nail Art:



Hello Kitty



Bows!  My favourite!



Cupcakes and Candy





Now, I don't know if I have the gumption to pull off a full set of these nails- but I appreciate those girls who do! Maybe just one bow on my ring finger...hmmm....

Valentine's Day

When I was little, my Father would walk up to the local grocery store and always buy my brother and I heart shaped boxes of chocolate on Valentine’s Day. He would “surprise” us every year- they would be sitting at our breakfast spots, so we would get them right in the morning on February 14^th. I loved those boxes. They weren’t like the ones nowadays with cartoon characters selling cheap chocolate. These ones had waxy pink roses on them with white lace trimmings around the edge of the red heart shaped box. They were so pretty and I loved opening the cover and seeing all the intricately decorated chocolates sitting perfectly in their little brown paper cups. That’s the thing about my dad, he loved to celebrate the good things in life.


So for me, Valentine’s Day isn’t about spending it with your boyfriend or girlfriend, it’s about letting people know that you love them and appreciate their presence in your life. It should not be a day where half the population feels left out or relegated to the lonely hearts club. Resentment should not loom like a late day shadow on this day. Tell someone in your life what they mean to you, create your own tradition, just like my Dad did…

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Say What You Have To Say

Love is a very complex and controversial subject. But at the end of the day; when you are laying on your death bed, isn’t it all that matters? Being surrounded by love- the love of your family and friends and being comforted by the things you love….your books, photographs and trinkets.

Not to mention, it’s the world’s most sought after commodity. Forget diamonds, platinum and gold…if you can give people the love they long for, you would literally rule the world.

As Anais Nin once proclaimed:
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishing.

Tell your friends and family you love them whenever you can. Tell them with gusto and wild abandon and don’t ever be ashamed to say it out loud and often. You won’t regret it.

I love Adele!

If you have never heard Adele's music before, you must go to iTunes and download "Rolling in the Deep" immediately. Anger +  Melancholy=  PERFECTION! Trust me, you will love it!

Check out some of the lyrics:

Finally I can see you crystal clear
Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your shit bare.
See how I'll leave, with every piece of you
Don't underestimate the things that I will do.

There's a fire starting in my heart,
Reaching a fever pitch
And it's bringing me out of the dark.

The scars of your love, remind me of us.
They keep me thinking that we almost had it all
The scars of your love, they leave me breathless

Now come on girls, you know you love it...! The album is entitled "21" and is out in North America on February 22, 2011.