TAKE A BREAK, HAVE A...

...NOT JUST KITKAT BUT THE MUCH NEEDED WEEKEND BLISS!!!


See weekend breaks uk and have the delight of your life choosing where you and your better half would be staying for the weekend. Change of atmosphere, change of surroundings...a simple change always gives us the much needed break. Break from our daily routine, break from the usual sounds of the city, break from what is common.

Picture in your mind atop a boat, enjoying the sun to your leisure. Beside you is your handsome man staring at the sky holding your hand. Inhale, exhale...sigh! What a way to seize the day. A day belonging to just you and him. With no shrilling doorbells, no neighborhood squabbles, nothing to break your sanity.

It's a matter of choice to what you enjoy most. Peace and quiet alone in a boat, by the beach, or probably a family outing in a villa, a cottage...your call! The important thing is that you get your well-deserved break from the city. Now, not next year. Start the year right. Start it with a vacation!

BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE

AT WORK + AT HOME = LIFE

Nobody wants to live doing nothing, and having nothing. Everybody craves for a meaningful life. A life worth living. And to have that people focus on two things: WORK and a place to call HOME.

A house is not a home. The mere structure of a house needs to have love and happiness with people we most care about to be called home. Either the family that we opened our eyes to since birth or the family we built and wish to live with forever. Because they were the ones that makes our mornings bright and our nights cozy. They are the ones that keeps us thanking the heavens for every day we are given breath.

BUT THEN its not just love that gives us the capability to survive. The world since the first man and woman has changed totally. Man now needs to work to live. It may not always be easy thus we look for ways to make living somehow smooth. We look for careers that pays higher, we find ways to be frugal and wise. Today the most in-demand work so far that was pursed by the millions is nursing. You see them like ants in nursing scrubs. Pretty thing invented if you ask me! More comfortable than being in skirt while you rush for your patients doing things that needs you to squat over, step up machines or whatever else just so you can be in full service. Uniforms are mighty convenient and at the same time gives one less a problem among many others to which pertains to the budget of clothing. There are available scrubs for cheap if you are wise enough to know where to look.

We balance life at home and life at work. That's how it is for everyone...to have a life, one should have a happy home and a worthy work. And in between these two there's LOVE. Life cannot be survived without this that makes up a person.

LEAVE NOTHING TO REGRET

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

These words points to "Time is Gold"..."Wait not for tomorrow for tomorrow may never come"..."If only"...and all those other phrases that people utters as a reminder to another not to waste precious chances given us that we might regret not taking advantage of in the end. It is true that there are times that we tend to be confident of our youth and of our health that we delay doing or saying things that we can do today for so many reasons and excuses. The mere showing our love ones how much we love them, or doing those things we dream of doing for them or even as simple as giving ourselves what we deserve other than what we are presently having. We get too busy living our life that we lose track of time and end up being cheated by fate...therefore the chances passes us by. Either we missed the turn, took the detour or those around us did the change lanes leaving us behind.

And what was left of us...REGRETS for the words left unsaid and the deeds left undone. DO NOT WAIT FOR THAT INOPPORTUNE TIME. Take your chance NOW while you still have it. Forgive and ask forgiveness. Show love and say I love you. Make them happy while you can. Leave memories of you that will linger. Create memories of you and them for you to cherish when they are gone. TODAY and not TOMORROW. NOW and not LATER. Leave nothing to regret!!!

SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY NITES

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Pier 1 Imports. All opinions are 100% mine.

Everybody seems to be on the go for weeks already in preparation for the holiday season...the women most especially. And maybe, just maybe, we are neglecting our men for quite a time already. And an idea came to mind upon seeing this Spiced Cranberry Candles, imagining the bedroom lit with them up until the bathtub. This could be the best gift you could give your better half, a sizzling hot nite together smelling of sweet berries.

Thanks to Pier 1 for such lovely ideas of gifts that I came across this candle as I was shopping for my friends and relatives gifts for our year-end Thanksgiving get together. Some cute stuffs like this Mini sock coin purses to give my mommy friends, those Assorted Flashing Light Bulb Pens for my nieces and nephews, and so much more that you can't find just anywhere. I especially have to buy those Pashmina wraps the elders would appreciate...I'd love to have them myself since it's such a great bargain. Almost everything is, actually. And if anyone of my friends are reading this, grab the Pearl Clutch for me which I really, really would appreciate (wink!) since it matches the new slippers I just bought a few days ago. Or preferring a Modern look for my home, Black and White usually fits in...like those gorgeous Capiz Checker Placemat. Pier 1 Imports really have a lot of possible holiday gifts! They deserve a "like" in their Facebook account as a way of spreading holiday cheers, I tell you! And they share this love by donating $1 to Toys for Tots for every fan they have. You can also further support Toys for Tots by dropping off an unwrapped toy and/or making a cash donation at the register which actually started November and ends December.

Wait no more. Start browsing through and get your candles to spice up your holiday nites at the same time see which to have for your gift giving.

MARITAL FIGHTS ARE DISEASE CAUSING

Marital fights can take years from your life. It puts your health in danger.

According to psychologists, the immune system takes a beating every verbal clash especially those ending in sarcasm and put-downs. These instances puts us in stress. And stress hormones, cortisol and norepinephrine, helps to react in physical danger but it also reduce our body's supply of disease fighting immune cells therefore too often release of these stress hormones is not at all good for our health.

Be informed though that researchers confirms that stress hormone levels and blood pressure rise far more in women than in men...apparently since we are more emotional and that we dwell more on those arguments. The longer couples are married, the higher the chance that they were having those arguments for a long time, thus the higher risk for them in addition to them at a vulnerable age to having different kinds of diseases.

GIVE AND TAKE IN A RELATIONSHIP

Men and women naturally were created differently. People have so much difference that it is common to have disagreements. After all we were raised by different families, we were used to doing different things and living in different ways. And so, in a couple's life together, there are more than a few adjustments made to live harmoniously. We call it "Give and Take". At times you give in and in another time it will be his time to give in.

I know of a couple who admitted that they are the exact opposite of one another. That they are amongst those who said to believe that "opposite attracts" in the early stages of their relationship. Yes they are at first having difficulty living with each other for the simple reason that when one likes this color, the other likes another. If one is the messy one, the other is the ever so neat better half. They had their share of tantrums and fights until they come to an agreement a couple of months after the wedding bliss have gone plateu...that they need to give in at times.

At one time, they argued on having the griller placed not outside the house but on the porch where the husband can grill while he drinks his brandy during days of needing to relax. Not that there is no way to vent out the smoke since it is open top with sliding glass door, but the wife insists that it is so out of place there. That she prefers it out in the garden because it looks better there. In the end, they agreed to let it stay in the porch as long as it will be covered when not in use. Husband bought her a real nice Grill Cover that matches her green couch cushions. She conceded this time, next time it's his turn!

WEDDING MONTH

December is one of the busiest month for couturiers, caterers, event coordinators and wedding planners. And this is especially true here in the country.

It simply is the month most couples choose to finally take the vow, to prove of their love for one another...to finally get married. I, for one, have this unfulfilled dream of saying "I do" in December. Maybe because this is the season when most relatives and friends are visible from their long time absence under their workloads. Maybe because the holidays is partly to blame for the pouring out of sentimentality of everyone. Or it could also be the unusually colder climate that makes people love cuddling more.

...and this is one reason why I love this month the most, being the romantic fool that I am (wink!) I find December as the Love Month other than the other months most believe it to be.

LOVING DAVID BENOIT

COLLECT AND SELECT

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Smingle.com. All opinions are 100% mine.

"Collect and Select is the wisest thing to do" is what I often hear my dad say to my brother. And in my mind I know that it also is for me. At this day and age, we have to be giving ourselves further chances of finding that perfect mate. That special someone who can make us happy at the same time who we can make happy. And not just anyone who happens to come along...but he who fits your qualification.

We know that it's not easy to outright find that person. Therefore we go dating. We try and meet up people...then again, with that we are limited to those among our circles of friends and their acquaintances. And more often than not we succumb to facing someone we almost have no knowledge about which results to embarrassing meet up's. Either you're both trapped to a long boring night out or cut-off date that leaves you both frustrated.

Why not try the very effective and practical virtual dating? As the European Journal of Social Psychology says, "People who go on virtual dates first tend to like each other more when they meet and are two times more likely to go on a second date." It's like you have gotten past the uncomfortable stage of getting to know the basics of one another. Then you get to be more confident that both of you have enough knowledge on one another to get you interested for the first and second dates...which you can continue to build on the succeeding dates. And interaction with someone in the most comfortable environment for you helps a lot in doing away with queasiness. THS Investigates very words about it, "Singles can interact in a simulated dating environment online from the comfort of their own home." I personally go with such an initial interaction, at a distance. Well, not only will you be more comfortable at the comfort of your home but the common human reaction to meeting an unknown individual of nervousness and uncertainty can be forgone.

Now that it's the start of the "colder" season, a time to snuggle, a time to have someone to snuggle with...I again remember the first time I've heard of this virtual dating. I did not believe it until I have tried it...and tried it I did, with http://www.smingle.com. It is that time of the year when people mostly seeks companionship as well therefore I truly found a lot who feels the same yearning as I did. And I got to meet not just those within my usual selection of dark hair and dark eyes...but beautiful blonds and redheads with green and blue eyes of the west!!! I truly enjoyed it there at Smingle, and I know you would to. You even get 3 months free by simply uploading a photo.

...so what's the wait?! It is but a click away to finding your perfect "virtual mate" that is possibly your "reality mate"!