Living a Joyful Life

1. What is your favorite handbag you own? I have a ton of handbags (a weakness of mine) but my favorite bag is my Marc Jacobs bag. I just wish it was a little bigger but it's still my favorite. 2. 3 things you would buy right now if money was no object? Plane ticket to visit my family in NY, tickets for a vacation somewhere in the Caribbean, like Turks & Caicos, and tickets to a Mets or Yankees game ^Photo taken during my first tropical vacation: Turks & Caicos^ 3. Name a place you would go right now if given a plane ticket to anywhere? Atlantis in the Bahamas 4. What is the most valuable life lesson you've learned from blogging? Don't be afraid to be honest, open, and real in blog posts. 5. What is the most valuable life lesson you've learned from a friend? It wasn't from a friend but from life in general: Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone has  challenges/battles their going through.

I received my Pop Sugar Must Have Box for May earlier this month and I absolutely loved it. This is my favorite box to date! Here are the items I received in my Pop Sugar Must Have Box for May 2014: Smell Bent St. Tropez Dispenser Retails for: $45 I absolutely love the smell of this. It feels like you're on a tropical vacation and the scent is light and airy. Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Pool Boy Nail Lacquer Retails for: $10 I love this pretty color. The blue is bright and vibrant. Kerry Cassill Eye Mask Retails for: $24 I've been wanting one of these so it was a nice surprise to see it in my box. Tone It Up exercise DVD Retails for: $15 I've been trying to start exercising more so this was great to see in my box. Zing Anything Citrus Zinger Retails for: $17 I've been looking for a new water bottle and this water bottle has an extra added function of having the option to "press lemons, limes, or any other cit...

I'm going to be real honest in this post. Everyone has things about themselves we wish we could change or work on. I have three bad habits that I've trying to fix and I wanted to write them out and come up with some suggestions on how I can go about working on them. Like the title of this post says, I want to be the best me I can be and I'm willing to work on myself to get there. 1. Feeling ignored/hurt/left out when not included in conversations people are having around me Reasons Why I feel this way & How I Can Work On This:  Having Asperger's Syndrome, I have a hard time picking up on social cues. This is one of the traits of having Asperger's. I try to do my best reading the situation around me but sometimes its very hard for me to do. My feeling ignored/left out/hurt when I'm not being included in conversations that people are having around me (by this I mean people I know, not strangers), stems back to my school years when I was constantly l...

April 2014 Happy/Loved List + Sister C's birthday <3 + Spring Break + Easter + Watching Mets & Yankees games <3 + Receiving my April Pop Sugar Must Have Box + receiving my May charm bracelet from Willabee & Ward + ordering & receiving the complete series of 7th Heaven + subscribing to All You magazine so my nephew's J & N will get Time for Kids in their classroom + babysitting niece M and nephew S & spending quality time with them + received my Origami Owl bracelet I ordered in March ^I got 5 charms: a heart that says aunt, a baseball, a #5, a paw print, and a beach ball^ + quality time with my furbabies + reading books/magazines/blogs + watching the new show, Surviving Jack + purchased some new books from Amazon + watching Dancing With The Stars (I'm loving this season!) My favorites are: James, Candace, Meryl, & Danica. I hope you all had a wonderful April! I hope you all have an amazing May! ...