hot*hot*hot

1. Converse ALL STAR LIGHT HI - Leather Brown    2. Cashmere infinity scarf
        3. Ray Ban RB5226 in Tortoise                                  4. Paul Green 'Valetta' sneaker 

1. Essie - Don't Sweater It   2. Essie - Lady Like
      3. Essie - Au Natural        4. Opi - Over the Taupe

Christmas time in the jewelry industry

At last, a post. To prove to myself that I can actually accomplish things other than eating or sleeping after coming home from the meat grinder…I mean work…

Doughnuts, cookies, five other types of sweets, and coffee are abundant in our kitchen at work right now. It's not very subtle at all - everyone's exhausted and even the healthy eaters (which is what I like to consider myself from time to time)are reaching for the sugar/caffeine fix to keep going. Chocolate covered cherries are my favorite.

*One more week*

A note from the Universe for today:

The loudest arguments happen in your own head, and your greatest opponent, is yourself.

Happily, you're the most amazing peacekeeper, strategic negotiator, brilliant diplomat, hot life coach, and coolest best friend we've ever known.

Check,
    The Universe

Mid November already

This year retail stores decided to pay little attention to Thanksgiving and display Christmas merchandise instead, right after Halloween. At least that's what I've been noticing during my strolls at lunchtime downtown Chicago. As usual, I started my gift shopping pretty early because:

•  I like to have things done properly and in a timely manner.
•  Work gets really fuckin hectic around Christmas, and I don't want to spend my 1 hour of peace (lunch) pushing through a big crowd of people in a frenzy. That's my time to sit (across the street from my work) at the Cultural Center with a sandwich, chilling in one of their dimly lit nooks. Hopefully.

For me, Christmas still looks like this, my childhood book stories coming alive!

Go buy yourself a personality {Boardwalk Empire}

Continually impressed by A. Rothstein's calm and calculated demeanor. 

*** beaded chemise dresses, silky negligees***

How I would love to have a boudoir...

…and tend to myself there

*Alert as a warrior in enemy territory*

10:08 pm

This month I read Escape from Camp 14

One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

So very disturbing that this nightmare is taking place RIGHT NOW, enforced by a dynasty of lunatics. We look back at WWII and grieve for all the innocent people that died in concentration camps, yet here we are, again it seems, powerless. Meanwhile, the chubby "Supreme" leader is chillin with Dennis Rodman at a basketball game !@#$%^&**()!!

P.S. Tomorrow is my U.S. naturalization ceremony, my last step in the citizenship process. 

My space has been claimed, in more ways than one.

I like to mess around with beauty products as much as the next girl, however, I prefer low maintenance to constant touch up. For that reason, lash and brow tinting have become my staples. I got it done again yesterday, and it will last about 4-6 weeks. This means when I get up in the morning, I already cut out two steps out of my getting ready routine- the eyebrow and eyelash definition is already there, super! 

Never has there walked the face of the earth
someone who thinks with your degree of insight. 
Who loves with your degree of care. 
Or who feels with your degree of hope.
And never has there been such a need for someone with gifts like yours,
because at this very moment there are people
only you can reach and differences only you can make.

Your #1 fan,
    The Universe

I want this coat for winter

beautifully portrayed marriage {The Godfather}

The Corleone home.
After having to leave his job at the grocery store, Vito walks in. He takes off his hat and unwraps a pear that he places on the dinner table.
Carmela: What a nice pear!
[Vito smiles, removes his coat, sits down and kisses his wife]

Seasoned:::bay leaves

robust, strongly aromatic with a woody,

astringent flavor and a pleasant,

slightly minty aroma

I always feel like the bay leaf stands alone in a crowd of regular spices.
It is ordinary useful enough for frequent use, yet it finds no comparison in form within the spice rack.

You are the creator of your own reality, so you are not in jeopardy.

You do not need to control the behavior of others in order for you to thrive.

It is not what they do you; it's what you do to yourself

in fear of what you think that they will do to you.

yea

last couple o days

glowing with particular emotions

tired and uncomfortable.

make me think / like I need any more of that :)

Face Yoga With Ranjana Khan

*Happy Independence Day*