Reasons for My Smile: Sunny Days, Acts of Kindness and Dodgeball games :D

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• Enjoying high 50s weather and beautifully sunny days. Yesterday I wore a t-shirt to class. A T-shirt!!!!

• Taking tango with about 7 of my friends weekly- My first class ended with me practically in stitches. So much fun should be illegal. The last class we had (on Valentine's day) ended with all the guys in the class surprising us girls with roses!! So sweet!!!

• My Class's Valentine's Day Modern Dance routine. It was just so cute! It has a cupid-like movement with arrows, a whole bunch of heart shapes, and even ended with a hand-blown kiss combined with an Arabesque stance. It rocked!

• Seeing a lovely old man skiing on a patch of snow on my way to Mass. He looked like he was having the time of his life and that made me happy.

• Seeing some college students enjoying what they perceived to be their last couple of days of winter by having a final snowball fight.

• Discovering (or rediscovering I guess) Regina Spektor's song Samson.

• Going for a retreat and making a few new friends :D

• Watching the latest episode of Being Erica! It was soo good!!!

• Having a sleepover party and watching 13 Going on 30 again with my gal pals.

• Working on organizing my life- one step at a time.

• Seeing these three college age/young adults bring cupcakes a trolley and other stuff to a homeless woman on the street and wishing her a happy birthday.She was so happy!

• Being able to grab a lovely breakfast at the dining hall despite having gotten there 20 minutes after it should have closed. It's the little things in life.

• Having an epic dodgeball to the death match with my friends last night. So much fun!

• Realising that I am truly blessed to have all these people who love me so much and whom I love so dearly. I Love you all too my darling devotees!

Love you all and Stay inspired,

P.S. So let me know what you think. What made you smile this week? Feel free to let me know in the comments below.

Reasons For My Smile: Retreats, Family Visits and Thanksgiving Break

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• Watching and Re-watching amazing movies like Uptown Girls, Never Been Kissed, and When Harry Met Sally! Loved them!
• Going with an equally crazy friend and in the company of many college students to see Harry Potter 7 part 1 at 3:30 am! So much fun and totally safe because every one was out that night (since it was opening night) and we got back at sunrise. The costumes I saw people in were awesome too :)
• Taking a train ride to New York city to visit my Godmom, and getting to spend some time with her :)
• Fabric Shopping and Swatching in New York City. Weaving in and out of fabric store aisles, pulling swatches, feathers, and trims, and searching for the perfect match was so exhilarating! I was born to do this!
• Hanging out with friends from my fellowship. We're so close we feel like siblings.
• The scenery on the train ride back to Massachusetts. Absolutely Breathtaking.
• Visiting St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC. The architecture is stunning and its definitely a must-see if you're a Catholic in New York city.
• Celebrating Thanksgiving and having the opportunity to just be grateful for all that I have been blessed with in life.
• Going on an all day Theology of the Body Retreat and getting the opportunity to experience so many beautiful things that weekend.
• Dreaming of someday living in the European countryside with my own horse, field and stables.
• Reading Ella Enchanted . Even if you've already seen the movie I highly recommend the book because they are not the same.
• Building my Itunes library and signing up for Netflix. I've discovered there are way too many amazing movies that have come out than I haven't seen yet.
• Visiting my aunt and cousin over the weekend and finally getting my hair redone.
• Planning to DIY some of my new jeans and sweatpants. I'm really excited for this, especially since I just discovered that some of my new close friends are into DIY too :P
• Preparing for Christmas!!!

Love you all and Stay inspired,

P.S. So let me know what you think. What's made you happy this week? Feel free to let me know in the comments below.

Reasons for My Smile: Slumber Parties, Feeling He's Here, and a 100 Followers!

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• Having a particularly awesome slumber party at my one of my darling friend's dorm and a random but equally wonderful sleepover at another friend's dorm :) It made me feel like a kid again :)
  
  
• Watching 10 Things I Hate About You with friends. Seeing my favorite actors as little teenagers was oddly entertaining.

• Feeling He is here :)

• Doing my own version of NaNoWriMo and Art Every Day Month because I've realized working on and hopefully completing my anthology this month means more to me than working on a new novel right now. So excited!

• Planning crafting parties

• All the love shown to me when I was ill and finally getting well again.

• Renovating my Halloween costume dress to turn it into something I can wear everyday. TeeHee.

• Organizing my dorm room. I love having white space.

• Getting my new inspiration board! It's here!!!! and it looks AWESOME!

• Wishing My Dad a happy birthday!

• Listening to some awesome TED talks on creativity. The links should be posted in my seeking inspiration post this week.

• Choosing to learn River Flows In You by Yiruma for my piano final. So pretty and so different from anything I've ever done.

• Loving Life :)

• And last but definitely not least loving the fact that I now have 100 followers on Google reader! Thank you so much my darling devotees. You all always make me happy.

Love you all and Stay inspired,

P.S. So let me know what you think. What made you happy this week? Feel free to let me know in the comments below.

Reasons for My Smile: Beautiful music, letters from family and finding the silver lining

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Dearest Devotees,

I've gotta admit this week has been pretty trying, but if there is anything I've learnt this semester it's that there will always be trying times in life, the only way to get through them is by doing my best and refusing to let them get me down. If I let the bad things get me down, then I may get to that awful place where I am unable to do anything to get myself out of it. I know that bad experiences sometimes inspire people to create but I've also realised that I can become so paralyzed by negativity that I am unable to even create. To stop this from happening, and to stay strong even in the face of adversity, I have learnt to look for the good things in my life and be grateful for them. By taking time out of my week to focus on these good things I am able to see that everything usually really isn't as bad as it seems. This is why I've decided to start writing about the things that have made me happy during the week.

Some of the reasons for my smile this week include:

• Decorating my dorm room and looking for fall things to add to it.
• Finishing 2 of my midterms without going crazy over them.
• Preparing for an amazing Theology of the Body seminar this weekend. It will be epic.
• Finding out what Inception: A musical in limbo as well as what Inception: The Musical is.
• Starting to ease my way back into a blogging schedule.
• My new-to-me-vintage-thrifted trunk!!!
• Buying fabric for my Halloween costume- I'm making it and I'm going as Susie Carmichael from Rugrats
• Having a deep conversation about Harry Potter over dinner.
• Realising that my heart has been healed :)
• Realising that I no longer have self-esteem issues or stage fright :)
• Starting to catch up with life and all my obligations.
• Getting an awesome email from my parents :)
• Listening to beautiful music like There For You by Flyleaf, Fall For You by Secondhand Serenade, and Girls and Boys by Ingrid Michaelson.
• Contacting my siblings
• Hanging out with the awesome people God has blessed me with.
• Swing-Dancing: I'm getting really good.
• Going for adoration- it's just amazing and really calming.
• Trying to transition this blog into my new vision for it.
• Reading Mini-Shopaholic on my Kindle!
• Learning the true meaning of love.

Love you all and Stay inspired,

P.S. So let me know what you think. What are the reasons for your smile this week? Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments below.