Belated Sparkles and Sweets

Some of my family members decided to go abroad for the Christmas holidays and just recently got back. As a result I got a few belated Christmas presents this year. Including this gorgeous glass pendant necklace:

Not to mention quite a few bags of candy...

Yep, I think my family knows about my humongous sweet tooth :D

A Love Story

Once upon a time, a boy and a girl became best friends. They talked about everything under the sun until there were no secrets left between them.

Well, maybe just one secret.

One day, he jerked his head up off his desk, turned to her, and in a moment of sudden curiosity asked the deadly question.

"What's your reason for living?"

She, who had always felt so small and insignificant compared to him, could only stare in surprise as the word 'you' appeared in her mind over and over again.

She licked her lips as she readied herself to say the word, but it only took one gaze into those intense tawny eyes to make her falter. She tore her eyes away as her tongue stumbled over the lie.

"I don't know."

Years and years later she would realize how silly she had been in her youth. Not for having lied, but for having thought he was her only reason for living.

525,600 Minutes...

I've done it.
I've survived another year, a whole five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. There's been laughter and tears, success and disappointment. I learned a lot about myself in the past year.

• Learned how to tell when it's time to let go.
• Found out how to love all over again.
• Learned who my real friends were.
• Realized I was happy living as a Fruit Loop in a world full of Cheerios.

It's been an enlightening, if sometimes painful and strange, experience and I'm pretty sure this new year is going to be the same.
To all of you who have survived 2009... I raise my glass to you, let's all meet 2010 head on.