Happy New Year!

So glad to start a new year! I love new beginnings!

Resolutions:

- eat healthier

- travel as much as i can

- save money

- work towards figuring out what i am meant to do professionally

- get rid of negative thoughts

Wishing you and yours a beautiful new year!!!

Bring it on 2012 :D

xoxo

Winter Break

It's good to be on a break!

After spending a lovely Christmas with my family at my parents' house, I decided to take advantage of my week off and go on a little trip. So, my best friend and I decided to drive to Vegas and stay there for a couple of days...

Lots of walking, lots of food, some shopping and a bit of gambling :) We both won 10 bucks! Woohoo, haha!
It was so nice to get away from LA a little but Vegas isn't really my favorite place to go.


Hope you all are enjoying the end of the year...
2012 soooon :D
xoxo

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Christmas Eve is here!

"Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart… filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever." - Bess Streeter Aldrich

Wishing you all a fun and cozy night :) Let's see what Santa Claus brings tomorrow morning!! (I'm still a little girl at heart)

Lots of love <3

xoxo

Shit Girls Say

Too funny!!! I watched these videos a million times already and they get funnier and funnier!

Follow them on twitter: twitter.com/shitgirlssay



*giggles*
xoxo

Happy Winter

I wish it felt like winter in LA! I mean yes, I have to wear tights to work now, and a jacket in the morning...but I want snow, a fireplace, a big sweater and an enormous cover to go to bed just because it's so cold outside...like when I was growing in freezing France.

But, the good thing about California is that nothing is too far: I live 15 mins away from the beach, and 50 away from the mountains! That means, tomorrow, snow here I coooome!
Christmas is going to be Great.

I'm almost finished wrapping my presents and I'm so excited about seeing everyone opening theirs! 

And this morning, I decided to bake some cookies for my coworkers because...well...because I couldn't help myself!
The holidays excite me :) plus I'm on a week long break starting tomorrow! Woohoo!



Hope my excitement was transferred to you all!
xoxo

Favorite Things

So dreamy...and exotic...
Love the perfume too!







xoxo

A little stroll

Surprisingly, one of the most glamorous streets in the world is pretty empty at night...yet it makes it all the more romantic :)

Love being a tourist in my own town...
xoxo

Weekend in pictures

Favorite simple pleasures: Food and Family. Mix the both together and you get a pretty awesome weekend!

Saturday: feast with family friends

 Sunday: couch potato w/ hot chocolate 

Can't wait til Xmas!

xoxo

Let's remember...

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself" - Anna Quindlen

Yes, indeed!

xoxo

Inspired

I knew I was going to love this month! I knew good things were going to happen!

So, I went to cold cold cold Minneapolis last week to participate in a professional development seminar that lasted 4 days, organized by the company I work for. It was pretty amazing to meet people, and surprisingly (but not really, it makes sense) meeting girls my age, doing the exact same thing I do, using the same tools and dealing with the same issues I deal with during my work hours.
We were definitely "brainwashed" in a way to really love and support our company of course, but overall, this seminar enabled me to give a new meaning to my job. I really feel like I have a better idea of what my purpose is in the office, and I  really learned about myself, about what I can do and what I love to do a bit more. Yay for that!

One of the headquarters of the company I work for ;)

Cute view of the outside of the hotel I was staying at (snow!)

I also would like to add that I had the pleasure of  meeting some lovely people from the Midwest and South and that there is such a thing as Southern hospitality as well as Southern gentleman! :P

Overall, this trip, these people and this new motivation made me think that maybe...hopefully...no, surely, in the next couple of years, it might be time to get out of my comfort zone, move out of LA and "explore new horizons"!

Hope you are as inspired as I am ;)

xoxo

Let's remember...

"By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity, we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us".



Hopping on a plane to Minneapolis tonight. It definitely counts as fear of the unknown: it's supposed to be around 20 degrees there...Oy!

xoxo

Happy December!

Already???

Even though I love the holidays, it seems like time is going by so fast. I mean, I remember exactly what I was doing last year, how I was feeling, what I wanted...like it was yesterday.
So much has changed since "yesterday", yet nothing is like what I expected, which isn't necessarily bad at all :)

Expectations are boring anyway, and I'm starting to be okay with that, and embrace the randomness, mystery and surprises that life brings better than before. Let's hope I continue making progress.


The past six months have been difficult because I was dealing with being, for the first time, in power of my life, my decisions, and I was trying to figure out what I was going to do now that I was done with school. Being out of a structured life that has been built for me since birth, and now having the freedom and responsibility to create a new structure has proven to be quite a task!
I began feeling very anxious about my future: what if I never find what I like to do? What if I make the wrong decisions and make myself unhappy? What if I'm stuck feeling doubtful forever? What if...

Though I am still dealing with questions, doubts and some anxiety attacks, I have high hopes and a really good feeling about this last month of 2011. A bit less questioning, a bit more action-doing! The ultimate goal is to enjoy.

"Life is too important to be taken seriously" - Oscar Wilde


On a different note, today I can finally start my Advent Calendar :P and God knows I love my chocolate, so this can only be a good a sign!

Sending warm thoughts your way,
xoxo