i love..love...love

i love traveling.

i love food shopping.

i love cupcakes.

i love sushi.

i love finding clothes i need in my size!

i love getting magazines in the mail!

i love that my roses have finally bloomed.
i love libraries and scrapbooking
i love that my favorite bookstore has a starbucks and everyone knows me by name.
i love coffee.

i love tea.

i love travel!
(did i say that already?)

i love learning new things
i love that people have purchased my books :)

i love how soft my puppy is, especially now that he got his hair cut! smoooooth
i love smoothie and juice places.
i love the kind diet and the happiess project

i love blogging!
i love pasta...mmmm

i love making my own wraps
and going to the vineyards

i love drinking wine
wherever and whenever
i love watching scary  movies
at night.

i love pedicures..
i love spa days!

i love writing
and reading
and drawing!

i love squishy hugs from my family
and especially from LML

i love when puppy woofs the sound of the words 'i love you'
i love the words 'i love you'.

pink, yellow.
sunflowers, tulips, roses
botanical gardens
new places to eat and get coffee
new notebooks, to write down my ideas <3

great purses, and cute shoes
only when i find a good deal...
i love being organized and everything organized...

i love helping people clear out and organize their clutter
i love hookahs, dancing, greek dancing

i love the fact that i was almost a black belt in tae kwon do!

i love falling asleep on the couch when it's raining outside
and i love guacamole.

i love beer...and mojitos...mmmm

i love pictures and taking them in general, because it's in my blood
i love how i never run out of stories and ideas

i love to be happy...
and i love when my hair is perfect!!
curls are really hard to manage, you know.

i love neon nailpolish...because why should nails look "serious and responsible"?

i love post its and gel pens
stationery and all books by sophie kinsella...

i love stories and tv shows and movies about ghosts
i love that i used to want to be a ghost hunter...but would rather not now.

i love the culure of halloween, but not the blood and gore. i'm sorry...
i love when it's crisp outside and you feel like you can sleep in all day...

and so many other things i love that i'll forget to name

home videos, the sounds of christmas, smooching LML, letters in the mail and writing stories with my nephews.

i love how motivated my niece is...you go, girl!

i love free books! (ah, library)
and letters from agents who think i am good!!

i'd love for an agent to pick up my books...because i'm sure i have well over 50 ideas at this point.
i love history, and scuba diving.
i love horseback riding and that my first time was in a snowy wooded area during sunset.

i love so many blogs that i can't name them all! but they know who they are ;)
i love the street where i grew up and the high schools i attended

i love the beach and crystal blue waters and crawfish
my friends because...just because they're freaking amazing!

my mom, cuz she listens to me prattle on about books!
i love funny tv shows and 80s music and new york
oh, and traveling

and i think
i'd love to have enough money to do what i want with it and help so many others

yay!

love me,
the globetrotting gamine

oh tuesday, tuesday

oh tuesday,
today you had me thinking about all i have to do and all i want to do.
you had me tying up loose ends at the homefront, so that i can venture out to places like this:

i have so much i would like to do this year- that i'm thinking

being home accomplishing what needed to be done

and planning out my year

was not at all bad...

in fact, i've quite enjoyed myself other than being sick.

LML and I have planned out our globetrotting for the year...

i guess you'll have to stay tuned :)  ...

and yesterday, while he lovingly prepared stuffed cabage leaves

(or laxanodomades, as we Greeks like to call them)

we daydreamed and drank wine about

all the fun we are SO ready for.

we have mapped out a not-so specific plan of action-

mine is a little more specific than his.

wherever we go, he's more of a traveler than a tourist...

we almost never go the tourist route...

and i am a total tourist in the state

of new york.

my type-a (when did that happen?) personality

is telling me to be a little more like LML

but i am just so EXCITED about what this year has in store.

if this weekend was any kind of prelude to what

we're headed towards this year- bring it on, 2011!

so if you live anywhere in the tri-state area

or have visited, and would like to hear my thoughts

about somewhere you've been...

please let me know!

i'd like to keep you as entertained and happy as possible this year!

lots of love <3

Bloggie Love & GG Featured

It feels so great to have wonderful bloggie friends! Recently, my blog has been featured on these uber-spectacular blogs...

The ladies are awesome, so promise me that you'll stop by for a visit. These women are phenomenal!

The Novelista Barista- December 28, 2010

Becks and The City- January 21, 2011

they. are. amazing. please check them out <3

waving goodbye to summer

dear summer,

well, you certainly are out of here as quickly as you've snuck up on us.
as sad as we are to see you go, we'd like to thank you for a few things:

last minute road trips...

visiting 3 casinos...

impromptu gatherings of friends

drinking wine in front of views like this one below...

experiencing sunsets unimaginable, like this one...

non-stop fireworks shows- no matter where we were!

and being crazy with family...

we ate great food,

and have many stories to tell.

we've celebrated birthdays and nothing at all.

we've watched movies and pranced through vineyards...

summer, you've served us well <3

love me,

the globetrotting gamine

globetrotting definitions

i love looking words up in the dictionary.
it's one of my favorite things.

here are the really good definitions of globetrotting:

To travel often and widely, especially for sightseeing.




globe·trot   /ˈgloʊbˌtrɒt/ Show Spelled[glohb-trot] Show IPA


–verb (used without object), -trot·ted, -trot·ting.


to travel throughout the world, esp. regularly or frequently.


Origin:


1880–85; back formation from globetrotter
 
 
globe·trot·ter   /ˈgloʊbˌtrɒtər/ Show Spelled[glohb-trot-er] Show IPA



–noun


a person who travels regularly or frequently to countries all over the world.
 
 
and gamine's definition:
a diminutive or very slender girl, esp. one who is pert, impudent, or playfully mischievous.
 
put 'em together and what do you get?
 
a diminutive and playfully mischievous girl who travels regularly to countries all over the world.
 
hey, that's me!
 
 

 

Anything else, Universe?

Gamine is a French word, the femenine form of gamin, originally meaning urchin, waif or playful, naughty child. The word was used in English from about the mid-19th century (for example, by Thackeray in 1840 in one of his Parisian sketches). In the 20th century, the word gamine came to be applied in its more modern sense of a slim, wide-eyed young woman who is, or perceived to be, mischievous, teasing or sexually appealing.

Moving on from said vocabulary lesson- I was just bored & I think that's the cutest definition ever...

I have so much to do it's not even funny, and I obviously can't stop harping about it. I so want to be under the covers for a good part of my day with LML and our doggie..pup sleeps between us like the cheese in a sandwich. It's a very cute picture that neither of us will ever get up and take...unless I do.

Today is another day filled with to-do lists if I want to get this business up and running. Good thing is, that I've put a serious dent in it- despite feelings of dizziness and nausea. Blech...

Hope you have a warm day!
MG