This Week’s Picks: November 3, 2013
By: Gabriela Yareliz
Welcome November!
Can you believe it? Already November. It is so cold outside, and it gets dark quickly. In one day, the temperature changed like 15 degrees. There is longing in the air. Longing for: seeing pets, family laughter, eating soup, staying under the covers all morning, reading something that makes you genuinely smile (and not cry from horror or laugh to cope with horror), listening to music that touches the soul, being hugged, feeling sunshine on your face, seeing an empty calendar, dancing out of happiness, a never ending walk…
1] Hoy
2] Insanity is our way of life. However, we need not be stressed and sad. Madness (a la Zorba) can be a good thing; it can keep you sane.
3] Best Things in Life
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6] Muscles
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8] El Barco
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10] De las pelis preferidas–Federico Moccia me tiene captivada.
11] An excellent series on dating and marriage
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Esclavo
Notes on love
By: Gabriela Yareliz
1] Friendship first is a solid foundation
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I no longer wish to be loved childishly. I want to be loved with the strength and charm of maturity. I don’t want to be smothered by the fear of jealousy and insecurities. I don’t want a relationship based solely upon shutting the world out and locking each other in. I want to be somewhere where I can breathe. Where, even in the midst of a million people with a million heartbeats surrounding me, I can still know the sound or even play the tune, or nod my head to the rhythm of the one I call “home.” I want to call you home.
– Unknown
3] Chocolate or Flowers?
Camila Cabello from Fifth Harmony was asked: Chocolate or Flowers?
She responded: “You can’t eat flowers…!”
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So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.
– Sylvia Plath
5] When you find love, cherish it.
6] Declare it
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If you’re ever with a girl who is too good for you, marry her.
-Unknown
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9] Perspective
10] Improvement
11] Risk
12] Multi-faceted
13] Time
14] Exclusivity
Designed to live by choice
From Life’s Greatest Lessons or 20 Things I Want My Kids to Know, by: Hal Urban
“We can’t choose what happens in our lives, but we can choose how to respond. We have the ability to survive hardship and overcome handicaps. We have the capacity to rise above negative circumstances because we have free will, the freedom and power to choose. Human beings weren’t designed to live by chance. We were designed to live by choice.” Pg 36
“God asks no man whether he accepts life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.” Henry Ward Beecher
Fe-he-he-he-he-nay
By: Gabriela Yareliz
Eric Matthews rocks. The Feeny call.
I will never…
By: Gabriela Yareliz
This will be a fun blog. All about the things we accept we will never be or have. They say never say never– but perhaps there are things we can actually say never about.
Inspired by:
http://www.garancedore.fr/en/2012/07/09/je-ne-serais-jamais/
I’ll never like Chipotle
Every time I walk by this place, I cringe. Yesterday, while walking through SoHo, a woman was like, “I think we should have gone to Chipotle.” Nooooo, believe me you are fine without it. I have tried to love Chipotle and give it a chance, but I prefer other fake Mexican joints.
I’ll never dye my hair a purple-ish red.
Latinas do this a lot, and I have never liked it. It’s different from the Henna look (even though I am wary of Henna). So, I am pretty sure I would never venture to dye my hair in that lifelong dreaded color. It traumatized me from a young age.
I’ll never get my ears pierced.
No sir. Modesty and Adventist simplicity to the death.
I’ll never look good in or buy skinny jeans.
I don’t wear skinny jeans. I don’t own a pair. I dislike tight clothes and my body shape looks like a pear or something weirdly voluptuous in these jeans. My idea of beauty is not having the silhouette of a Kardashian in tight, tight clothes. I would rather wear clothes that is more loose fitting.
I’ll never stop feeling sorry for suck-ups.
Sucking up = losing dignity. Dear people who suck up, what is the point in losing respect for yourself and placating with no restraint hoping to gain someone’s approval (very popular survival tactic in law school) from people who ultimately only care about themselves and care nothing about how you have to face yourself in the mirror. Be respectful always, but never a doormat or desperate for approval.
Make sure you can face yourself and God.
Courage
“If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'” Ann Landers
Walk with me through Central Park
By: Gabriela Yareliz
First things first, the quality of the photos is not the best. They came from my phone. Later, I will post some better ones I took with my camera, but my camera decided to pass out mid-walk, hence the phone photos. But it will give you an idea of the beautiful autumn morning I spent walking through the park. Fifty degrees, sunshine, and the park is bustling with preparation for the NY Marathon. My hair smells like falafel carts.
Clear blue skies! Stay with us a little longer.
By the Poland statue there were some colorful trees.
Turtle Pond–something like that. So pretty.
Walking through The Ramble is so lovely. It’s a peaceful walk. I recommend you walk it with company. It’s a solitary little hike, and it merits someone appreciating the beauty with you.
The famous skyline.
One of these days, I will be in one of those boats. Hahaha.
The Bow Bridge was lovely. There was a man playing his guitar there.
🙂
More boats.
Yes, I did. The American Girl Place 🙂 Looooove.
The NY Public Library by Bryant Park was blooming despite impending cold weather.
Xoxox from NYC.
-GY
This Week’s Picks: October 27, 2013
1] Demi Lovato’s best song:
2] How to stay warm now that it is freezing (wink)
By: Gabriela Yareliz (me)
1] Tights/leggings (the very hated elements of winter that help)
2] Laugh
3] Gloves that are not knit; that have no holes where the cold seeps in
4] Grow your hair long and wrap it around your neck
5] Scarves you wrap around your head, so you look like babushka
6] Type with your laptop on your lap–Kidding (I am pretty sure that is not healthy)
7] Drink Roma or tea. In fact, you don’t even have to drink it, just holding the warmth makes you happy.
8] Walk over the vents with warm air and steaming street holes (could end up being a tort for the city)
9] Flannel, wool, layers. You don’t have to limit yourself to one outfit, you can wear five–at the same time!
10] Some man at a laundry mat told me you shouldn’t make your body stiff because that supposedly makes you colder because it restricts blood flow (whatever–may be true, but he made it to number ten).
3] Paris holds the key to your heart
4] Zarka (Leila Bekhti, Paris, Je t’aime) speaks the truth.
5] Adorable find
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8] New Fab blogger: Garance Dore.
A great post: http://www.garancedore.fr/en/2013/09/10/au-naturel/
9] Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas workin’ things out!
(Big smile). I like them together.
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“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
― Mother Teresa
11] Songs of the week:
Goin’ back in the day: Sara Groves: When the Saints
New stuff: Fifth Harmony: Leave my heart out of this
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13] Anyone remember How to Deal?
Aslyn: That’s When I Love You
When you have to look away
When you don’t have much to say
That’s when I love you
I love u, just that way
To hear you stumble when you speak
Or see you walk with two left feet
That’s when I love you
I love you endlessly
And when you’re mad ’cause you lost a game
Forget I’m waiting in the rain
Baby, I’ll love you
I’ll love you anyway
‘Cause here’s my promise made tonight
You can count on me for life
‘Cause that’s when I love you
When nothing you do can change my mind
The more I learn, the more I love
The more my heart can’t get enough
That’s when I love you
When I love you
No matter what
So when you turn to hide your eyes
‘Cause the movie- it made you cry
That’s when I love you
I love you
A little more each time
And when you can’t quite match your clothes
Or when you laugh at your own jokes
that’s when I love you, I love you
More then you’ll know
And when you forgot that we had a date
Or that look that you give when you show up late
Baby, I’ll love you
I’ll love you anyway
So here’s my promise made tonight
You can count on me for life
‘Cause that’s when I love you
When nothing you do can change my mind
The more I learn, the more I love
The more my heart cant get enough
That’s when I love you
When I love you
No matter what
Ohh that’s when I love you when nothing baby, nothing you do could change my mind
The more I learn, the more I love, the more my heart can’t get enough
That’s when I love you, when I love you no matter what
Ohhhh no matter what
GABRIELA YARELIZ 