The end of the first quarter of 2009 is upon us…ergo my birthday will be fast approaching Here are suggestions for the people who wish to bless moi!
♥ Vera Bradley notebooks…heaven…

 
♥ SIX GREAT WAYS TO VENT YOUR FRUSTRATIONS - The only thing I don’t do is talk and punch. Hmm…
 

♥ HIROMODE photobook – this is not really necessary but still…it’s Hiro  still reminds me of Nanba Minami though.

and I love him here, though I don’t know where I got it from:

 

Of course, when I mean love I meant it more in terms of admiration rather than swooning-fan girl type.

♥ but if you want to make me HAPPY-er you can get this guy to sing me this

 He’s the current flavour of the month, Hiro was I think a four-month thing.

♥ this poem sums me up right now:

“if i can endure for this minute
whatever is happening to me,
no matter how heavy my heart is
or how dark the moment may be-

if i can remain calm and quiet
with all the world crashing about me,
secure in the knowledge God loves me
when everyone else seems to doubt me-

if i can but keep on believing
what i know in my heart to be true,
that darkness will fade with the morning
and that this will pass away, too-

then nothing in life can defeat me
for as long as this knowledge remains
i can suffer whatever is happening
for i know God will break all of the chains

that are binding me tight in the darkness
and trying to fill me with fear-
for there is no night without dawning
and i know that my morning is near.” -Helen Steiner Rice

♥  This has been playing in my head for awhile, haven’t you noticed that it’s a date-rape song?

♥ A place to admire beautiful book cover designs…and yes, book cover designs influence me to read!
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 Juri Ueno  is one of my girl crushes. She’s super talented and her acting skills are great. I loved this clip from Nodame Cantabile - farting exercise…Hahaa! And my sister says I am obsessed, I call it a phase. Just like when I was going through my Legally Blonde Musical

♥  I Just Want You - a cover by AJ Rafael. And yes, it’s just one of those songs that play constantly in your brain.
♥  Do you know that the harder thing to do, and the right thing to do, are usually the same thing? “Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life… to get anything of value, you have to sacrifice.
I don’t know where this quote came from, one thing I’m sure though it’s from a movie.
♥ Because of Happy Pill’s suggestion, I gave this album a second chance. I have to admit it is a guilty pleasure because it’s tantamount to eating cotton candy -  the sweetness is fleeting,it has no nutritional value,  it can make you sick if you have too much of it – still you can catch me bobbing my head up and down to a few songs. And her father’s comment was funny:

Happy Pill: What type of guy do you want me to marry?
Happy Pill’s Dad (looking at the album cover): As long as he’s not like one of these guys.
Happy Pill: WHY?!
Happy Pill’s Dad: Because they don’t look manly.

I laughed so hard. Because it’s true, no matter how they buff themselves up, they look so pretty!

♥ We were talking about wedddings last week, and although a part of me wants to ditch the whole ceremony, if I’d be coerced to have a wedding, this would be a super nice vow -  omae hyaku made washa kujuku made, tomo ni shiraga no haeru made (“Until you’re one hundred years old and I’m ninety-nine, we’ll be together until our hair turns white”).

♥  I want to make one of these, wearing them of course is an option.

♥  And because I think it’s just cute, I gave up watching this after the first three episodes.

 

Here’s to March 2009!