Happy New Year!

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Top 5 Things

Here's my list of island necessities:

1. Milk Duds (a carton if possible)

2. Carmex - Cherry flavored

3. Swiss army knife

4. Satellite phone

5. Jug of either Rum or Whiskey


More things that would be nice to have: Sunblock (SPF 45+) to protect my ivory skin, a long good book, iPod, and large black sunglasses.

So simple...

My Top 10 list

In no particular order, these are the places I wish I could travel to right now:


1. Australia
(actually I want to live there)

2. Southern France
(tour of Nice, Marseille and Provence)

3. Napa Valley/Sonoma Valley, CA
(mmm...wine country!)

4. Tahiti, French Polynesia
(Bora Bora looks absolutely gorgeous)

5. Thailand
(wherever they filmed The Beach with Leo DiCaprio)

6. Athens, Greece
(see the famous ruins and eat delicious Greek food)

7. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(I want to go for Carnival)

8. Las Vegas, Nevada
(gamble away all my savings and eat at massive buffets)

9. South Africa
(for a big adventure trip, have to go on an African Safari sometime in my life)

10. Los Angeles & San Diego, CA
(just because I've never been)

i heart movies

Shh don't tell anyone but I'm completely addicted to a new Myspace app called "Movies". I've decided that I should quit my job immediately and move to Hollywood. With my head full of useless pop culture knowledge I could become an entertainment news reporter or a fact researcher for E! Talk Soup (so funny). I wonder if those jobs pay well or if people take them for the perks of meeting & attending posh events with celebrities... I should look into that.

Well if you are anything like me you should go online and start playing the Never Ending Quiz which looks like this:


Maybe one day after you read endless trashy magazines and watch enough Entertainment Weekly you will be able to beat my leader status. ;)

Rice tastes good!

So this post is already getting off topic but I came across a site this week called FreeRice.com and now I'm totally hooked. Basically you start playing by guessing the definition of SAT words. If you get it right, you get a harder word and they donate 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program.

Right now my "score" is up to 2460 grains, which will be distributed to hungry people everywhere. I love this idea to make a website which actually makes you learn new vocab and then contributes to a worthy cause through the use of banner ads. Here's what it looks like:



Everyone take a few minutes to go online and check it out! Love & hugs.

Hi Friends!!

I decided it's finally the right time for me to get motivated and start blogging about one of my big passions in life... traveling around the world!

My next trip is to New York City this weekend with my mom, so unless there is a major catastrophe I'll have my first real post up early next week. Keep an eye out! :)

Anyone have good suggestions for places to go in the big apple? Particularly would be helpful to get a couple of recommendations for yummy restaurants - otherwise we'll probably end up at an expensive tourist trap in Times Square.