Quote of the week YEAR

"Any change, [or] loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power...What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it."

-Blaine Lee & Alexander Graham Bell

living a glam life

I am officially an intern in the fashion department for Glamour magazine!  Starting in January...stay tuned :) 

tirami-oh-my!!

okay, have you ever had such a delectable experience that you want to slow down and savor each bite just a liiiiitle bit longer??  better yet, you almost don't even wanna eat it, its SO good!?  thats exactly the small part of all the emotions i felt last night as i [inhaled] half of the lovely tiramisu we had for dessert.  this was a dessert that was honest to God good enough to be the main course.  it was the main event.  although the dinner was fabulous as well (pancetta & arugula stuffed roasted chicken - tender and juicy doesnt even begin to describe it...), the tiramisu absolutely melted my heart.  food is not only the way to a man's heart, ladies.  next stop for me is safeway: ladyfingers, whipping cream, sugar, chocolate syrup and powder.  time to pull out my hidden stash of italian espresso and brew up something wonderful...YUMMO!

fyi...

you may be wondering why its been such a long time since my last post - a week ago today - but i simply haven't felt the time go by.  A WEEK??  it feels like its been a minute, in fact, a blink of an eye, no the nanosecond instant in which your brain tells your eye to blink.  you get the point.  with the load of finals (7 classes kiiinda add up to a lot when all the projects, papers and tests hit you the last two weeks) i've had a hard time catching my breath, eating something and even sleeping.  it seems like so much is asked of me all at once!  im sure you've felt that way before, its as though there is no limit or end in sight.  on top of the stressful workload at school, i've had to deal with work (which thankfully, my last day was yesterday, hallelujah) and the impossible task of getting a hold of the busy busy people working in magazines and schedule an interview for potential internships.  whew.  so sad, i can't even say it with the emphasis of an exclamation, my whew is more like a sigh.  a sad pathetic downward sigh muttered under my breath.  im just too tired to exclaim anything.  the good thing is, in times like these, we still have friends that cheer us up, roommates that help us let out the sillies of a loopy brain that's studied too hard at 2 in the morning, and family who to me is just a phone call away.  god gives us juuuust the right amount of s*#t to handle so that we don't literally die - so i guess he knows im capable of handling all this.  and the good thing is, he's led me this far and seen to it that the right people and circumstances come into my life (just as the people i dont need in my life are taken out) at just the time when i need them most...