::yuletide:cheer::

I changed my blog! Yea that's right. I liked the layout of the one before...but it was a pain in the ass to maintain and so many things that I just did not get. I am not a web-page designer or anything like that by any means...I am liking the look of the blog now so will leave it this way for now. :) I will definitely make sure to post more, even if at times I feel like I am just talking incessantly about nada. 

Anyways...

It's snowing out there! It's so pretty. :) I love the first snow...the feeling you get...it's just...it's somethin' else. You get like that too with what you feel like is the first actual day of Spring...but...the snow and Winter time is different, because Christmas is coming! And that's the best. By far. 

So to try and get everyone into the Christmas spirit...let's share some Yuletide cheer. ;) 

::happy:reading:&:dream:library::

Grrr....the brand new Kate Moss book *was* available on Amazon and now it's disappeared! Will ship in 1-3 months! :( *tears*tears*tears*

This book was released as an homage to her 40th birthday and to her beyond successful career...I own pretty much all the Kate Moss books...because I'm obsessed with her and want to BE her. Lol.
Anyways...it's available on the US Amazon if anyone is interested. Please let me know what you think! I am desperate to find out what that book is like! I can't even find it in my local stores!
Anyways...

I told you I would share some new Spring reads and here they are! They aren't novels...but I am sure you are going to have a lot of fun reading them - of course, there are cookbooks...I read those like I read Harlan Coben or Dean Koontz. ;) 

Happy Reading!!

"The Body Book" by Cameron Diaz - $15.99 CDN
Wow, the price of this book has come down a lot since I threw it in my wish list bucket on Amazon. Okay, I must admit, I wasn't a *huge* fan of Cameron Diaz...I don't know why! I guess she annoyed me immensely in Charlie's Angels...but I did love her in The Mask with Jim Carrey.
Anyways...for some reason when I saw that she released a book all about nutrition and your body there was a switch that flipped and I though - yea, I could like her again. I don't know why! I guess I am loving all people that tout healthy living these days. I love even more the photo of her here...no makeup and just happy to have a copy of her own book. That'll be me one day! Mark my words!! :D
I looked through the book (online) and it really does seem quite interest, a no nonsense, layman terms take on nutrition and being overall healthy.

"Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience.

Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down-to-earth star was not always health-conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the life-changing lessons that has fed Cameron’s hunger to educate herself about the best ways to feed, move, and care for her body. In The Body Book, she shares what she has learned and continues to discover about nutrition, exercise, and the mind/body connection.

Grounded in science and informed by real life, The Body Book offers a comprehensive overview of the human body and mind, from the cellular level up. From demystifying and debunking the hype around food groups to explaining the value of vitamins and minerals, readers will discover why it’s so important to embrace the instinct of hunger and to satisfy it with whole, nutrient-dense foods. Cameron also explains the essential role of movement, the importance of muscle and bone strength and why we need to sweat a little every day.

The Body Book does not set goals to reach in seven days or thirty days or a year. It offers a holistic, long-term approach to making consistent choices and reaching the ultimate goal: a long, strong, happy, healthy life."

::a:little:panache::

The last couple of weeks have been rather busy ~ and have gone by so quickly. I honestly don't know where the time has gone. I have many little changes I would like to make to this blog. Would love to go into more of a lifestyle/health direction with it...but as I do look back on past posts I think it's fun that there are some fashion editorials, style hits and whatnot sprinkled throughout. Things like that can be inspiring. 

I am really trying to catch up on school ~ I am quite behind so I have been studying non-stop. I am slowly getting there. So my life the next few months, including weekends, long weekends, summer vacation, will be non-existent. 

I really do enjoy studying holistic nutrition though. So much to learn...so many things I had no idea about. 

Anyways...it's Friday!

So going to leave you off with some pretty, inspiring {what I call sugar-jar} pictures. ;) 

::my:birthday::

Apparently curry day didn't happy yesterday! Lol! Oops! But it's another new day. Oh and...

Happy Birthday To Me!!!

Another year. ;) I have turned 27 and it's getting ever closer to the dreaded 30! Lol. 

I have received a slew of birthday wishes so far today that has made my day. And a bunch of text messages from loved ones as well. 

I think I might lay low tonight...meaning, I am going to get home after work and do a little more unpacking and cleaning up, I still have yet to bath Lou'e then I will wait for Travis to finish work and we will go to a little restaurant in the new city we are living in, afterwards we will come back home, play with Lou'e, sit outside on the balcony, chat and have some wine and hopefully there will be a few thunderboomers! 

How I love thunderstorms. :) 

Then this weekend, Travis and my Sister have something planned so we shall see what that is! Whatever it is, I am sure it is going to be fabulous!

Going to post some pretty sugar-jar pictures to inspire and put a little sparkle into everyone's day. :) 

::no:truer:words:have:been:spoken::

There are days when you realize that life is too short. 

Too fragile.

Too beautiful. 

Too complicated.

Too stressful.

Too hopeful.

Too hopeless. 

Too melancholy.

Too breathtaking.

But at the end of the day, life is all these things and it is precious. 

::valentines:love::

Happy Valentine's Day all! 

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful start to their lovey-dovey day. I, on the other hand, don't celebrate Valentine's Day with my boyfriend. Well, I mean, we used to go out and do dinners and stuff but it is sorta overrated. Of course it is so nice to get wined and dined...but my boyfriend isn't one to plan romantic get away's or nothing like that, but that's okay with me. 

::be:merry:happy:2013::

2013 is going to be MY year! 

That is right ladies and gents. I am going to make the MOST out of this year. Try new things, meet new people, see new places. I am so excited...I really am. I am usually a 'glass half-empty' kinda gal but since ringing in the New Year with my boo's I am just way more optimistic! Especially since we had such a great NYE and New Year's Day!

I don't have any resolutions but I do have goals. I just find no one ever follows through with their resolutions...

::in:the:spirit::

Because I can't get into the spirit of Christmas {I know, wtf?} I am going to try and get into the mood and peruse Christmas-themed Tumblr blogs...hopefully it helps. 

Ugh. 

I want it to feel like Christmas. It is my favourite time of year! Oh please let it snow already!!!

::sugar-jar::

Some inspiring photo's on this lovely fried-egg Friday!

Courtesy: Sugar-Jar 

{I do not own these images ~ just sharing. :)}

::sugar:jar:inspirations::

Just some random, inspiring photos for your MONday. ;) 

For more gorgeous random photo's like this head on over to Sugar-Jar.