♥ Fashion - Evening Summer Cocktail ♥

Miiss ♥ Steph by Miiss ♥ Steph featuring Christian Louboutin shoes

Great outfit for an evening drink this summer!
Designed by Steph
xo

DJ Dean Mason ♪

All you music lovers get to this link ASAP for a sick summer session by a friend Dean Mason. Download "Miami Summer Sessions" for free and make sure you vote for Dean Mason http://www.beezo.net/djs/deanmason/
If any DJ appreciates the support it's D

Thanks for your votes. * He'll be in SD Friday July 31st *

15 years of X GAMES

Celebrating 15 years of the X Games with 200 athletes.
Category: Skateboarding, FMX, Motocross, BMX
Dates: July 30- August, 2009 -Event Schedule
Location: Home Depot Center, Los Angeles, California
Event Website:
www.xgames.com
Live coverage will be on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC July 30th (today ) – August 3. Though I will be at work, I look forward to catching as much as I can (well listening on our office TVs). For all of you that are headed to the games, I’m jealous!

There will be an awesome movie coming out, XGames 3D The Movie. It comes out August 21st, and is only out for 1 week, so go check out, I know I will!
Athletes: Bob Burnquist, Ricky Carmichael, Kyle Loza, Travis Pastrana, Danny Way, Shaun White
http://www.xgames3dmovie.com

4 Fights that Men Fear - pick your battles

Men are into action, fighting. Let’s take Hockey for example, when I hear men talk about the sport at work or I’m watching it with them in a bar, they LOVE the fighting. What I have found in my own experience and amongst my guy friends is that they HATE the fighting when it comes to relationships. Duh! Well if we woman know this, why do we continue to push? I truly believe when it comes to a female vs. male, you MUST chose your battles or you will lose. Growing up I always remember my mom asking, well perhaps what my dad would call nagging “Steve, why can’t you throw your laundry in the basket, it’s always right outside of it on the floor?!” To a woman, it seems so easy to us and we cannot comprehend why the man can make it so far to throw his clothes on the floor next to the hamper, but can’t take that extra second or “effort” to put it in the hamper. Does it really matter? Is it really that big of deal that you (the woman) feel the need to start an argument because the laundry didn’t make it in the hamper, see now reading it you see how silly it is. When you see him do that, just pick up his clothes and throw them in there because it’s a lot easier. Learn to pick your battles!

The "Blackberry" Fight
Asking “why are you always on your phone?” or “who are you texting?” It’s usually work, so don’t ask unless you have a trust issue with him and you think he is actually texting a girl. If that is the case, you have a major battle ahead of you, armor up girl!

The "Ex" Fight
When is it a good time to open the “Ex” Files? I don’t know that answer. I think it’s a good idea to know why the break up occurred, and when, because that can help or answer any other questions you may have. Unfortunately, we girls, want to know what she looked like, how did they meet, what was she like. These are not questions he wants to answer, and they aren’t really going to impact your relationship with him so try your hardest to except he is not with her, and he is with you for a reason (embrace that!).

The “Break-up” Fight
Like I have said before, Break ups suck! A lot of the times the girl see’s the break up coming but hopes that things will change and it won’t happen (girls it will still happen). I have known some guys who have stayed in a relationship a year or years with a girl ONLY because he doesn’t want to go through the “break-up” fight. Really guys, c’mon, MAN UP and do it (if you are a man)!! We know you don’t want the tears, the “I can change” or “We can make this work.” We know guys want it simple, "the END"…done…then walk away. Say your Good-bye. Granite there are A LOT of gray areas with break ups so I'm referring to the break up that you know his heart has moved on, no turning back, that is when I am saying help the guy out. Don't make it anymore of a production then it probably should be.

The "Why didn’t you call or at least text" Fights
Most men don’t like to be asked where they have been, and why didn’t they call. Girls, we have to remember that guys don’t have the same thought process as us. They don’t always think about going out of their way to make sure we know where they are and that they might be running late, or that their plans have changed, etc. etc. (granite there are some guys that do but few). My guy friends have always told me “Steph, you know that a guy doesn’t think about that.” So once you realize and accept that, it is easier. Don’t get me wrong, don’t let him walk all over you, but again, it all comes back to pick your “battles.”

* Disclosure on the below video, don't take it seriously, humor people!

Chelsea Lately - Kristen Cavallari

Great interview!! I know we're all looking forward to the new season of THE HILLS, and Lauren "LC" is no longer on he show (thank you for getting rid of mute girl)! Enjoy.

Saying "Thank You" in 21 Different Languages

Sometimes when you say thank you, you don’t know the best way to express it, is saying “thank you!” enough? Sometimes words don't seem to do justice, asking yourself “how else can I say thank you”, what more can you possibly do to show this person you’re really thankful? You write a thank you letter, or leave a cute thoughtful thank you note. Being able to say thanks to another person is a great feeling because it usually means that someone did something nice for you, thought about something and did something for you. Taking you to the airport, making you a great dinner, bringing you a gift from a traveled place, telling you that you look great, or opening a door are all common things we say thank you for. Saying thank you in your relationship can add a great deal of romance. To show your appreciation to someone, perhaps your significant other, is a big part of making them feel special, and there are few better ways to do so. To show them how much they mean to you, saying “thank you” can go a long way! Saying thank you in a different language can set the mood, for instance you don’t speak Spanish but when your friend does something for you, you send a friendly playful “Gracias!” and in reply you receive “De Nada!” When in another country you hear someone say “Merci!” and it sounds so romantic, why is that? Speak another language to me and my heart melts. An old boyfriend of mine spoke Russian, and I would always hear him talk to his family in Russian and I thought it was just so sexy, even though they could have been talking about the traffic going into Los Angeles. I would say “Spasiba” (thank you) and “Pajalusta” (you’re welcome) in Russian. "The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." - Oscar Wilde

1. How to say “thank you” in Albanian – Faleminderit
2. How to say “thank you” in Arabic – Sukran
3. How to say “thank you” in Australian – Thoinks, Moite!
4. How to say “thank you” in Bulgarian – Blagodaria
5. How to say “thank you” in Bosnia – Hvala
6. How to say “thank you” in Cantonese –M’goy (sp? —thank you for service)
7. How to say “thank you” in Chinese (Mandarin) – Xie_Xie (shieh shieh)
8. How to say “thank you” in Croatia – Hvala
9. How to say “thank you” in Czech – Dekuji (deh’-ku-yih)
10. How to say “thank you” in Danish – tak (tahg)
11. How to say “thank you” in Dutch – dank U wel
12. How to say “thank you” in French – merci (mehr-see’)
13. How to say “thank you” in German – Danke (dahn’-kuh)
14. How to say “thank you” in Hawaiian – Mahalo
15. How to say “thank you” in Hungarian – Köszönöm (kuh’-suh-nuhm)
16. How to say “thank you” in Irish(North)–Nice one bro’r,or Cheers mucker!
17. How to say “thank you” in Italian – Grazie (grahts’-yeh)
18. How to say “thank you” in New Zealand – Cheers – LOL
19. How to say “thank you” in Polish – Dziekuje (dsyehn-koo-yeh)
20. How to say “thank you” in Russian – Spasiba (spah-see’-boh)
21. How to say “thank you” in Yugoslavia – Hvala

'09 Newport Beach Wedge- up to 25 foot waves

The Ugly Truth ♥

A romantically challenged producer (Katherine Heigl) agrees to listen to her male chauvinist, newly aboard, correspondent (Gerald Butler) to prove what she thinks are crazy “theories” on a relationship between a female and male. Does the girl find what she was looking for, love? Does the ugly truth find love in the end? You’ll have to watch the movie. It's funny, and great even for guys to see. It's about the female, and her emotions, her "list". Then there's the guy that, wants looks, sex, you get the idea. They compare what each side goes through when dating, and they learn what it really takes for a relationship to work, to find love.

The ugly truth can definitely be ugly, as they say “the truth hurts.” But does it really hurt? If you think about it, the truth can in the end be positive, a great, amazing thing! I say this because, well take relationships for example. You’re dating this guy/girl for a couple years, everything is good, you enjoy your time together, you have the same interests, and the best part is you don’t argue. Now let’s think about that, does that sound perfect to you? Well maybe, but let’s be real, it doesn’t sound GREAT. To be honest it sounds a bit boring. In anything you do in life, you have to go through obstacles to appreciate what really matters in life, making you stronger! Experiencing hardships makes you a better person; it helps you define yourself, and teaches you what makes YOU. If relationships were easy, there would be no learning, not only about yourself but about your partner, and working as a team. I think it is important to feel heartbreak, to feel a low so low. You have lost someone you loved (will always love), asking yourself how will I get to tomorrow. Break ups suck! No one wants to go through it; no one wants to hurt someone, especially if you love them. When it comes to love, you have to be selfish at times, it’s your life and you can’t hold on to something or “walk” through the motions of a relationship that is well, just good. People tell you it takes half the time of your relationship to get over them (6 months for a year relationship). I am helping a best friend go through a break up and it’s hard because I know exactly what she is going through. The best advice I think I can give her is that it’s not easy, but the more you push yourself to be strong and allow yourself to let go, the faster your heart can heal. Healing will allow you to open your heart to the next person that may come along and could be “the one,” or maybe the "just for now" but you won't know till you know. Timing is everything, and if you can help that process just a little or maybe a lot, then DO IT, what do you have to lose? Nothing. You have everything to gain. You have possible love, laughter, new memories to create (you don’t have to forget the old ones), a new chapter in your life, and most importantly, someone new to share your life with. It doesn't matter if they are coming into your life for a couple weeks, months, or maybe a lifetime. What matters is they are there, embrace it, enjoy the moment. Sometimes it’s hard to start something new because what you had before was familiar, it was easy. You don’t think that you can feel the same way you did before, and you won’t because it’s with someone different. However, what if you open your heart to someone new and as time goes by your heart opens and it’s....AMAZING! That is a chance I am willing to take. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives ♥

xoxo

A Timeless Story | Coco Chanel's Story

A Timeless Story | myLifetime.com ** Click to Watch Preview Clip **

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One of my all time favorite movies, Coco Chanel, played by Shirley MacLaine. Now don’t get me wrong Chanel is fabulous (my fave!), and I love fashion, but this movie is beyond fashion, it’s about life! Every woman should watch this movie; it inspired me in many ways to work ethics, self confidence, believing anything is possible, and love! Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel teaches generations of woman the art of elegant simplicity.

I love these boys! ♥

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FDuMAxSbv0

I don't know where I would be without music. What you hear is priceless, and music makes life that much better. Music gives you hope, it gives you faith. It has the power to make people come out of tough times and feel better. Music is full power. That's what it is. For me music is that wonder that makes the moment far more alive. You can take that one moment, remember it and forget it five years down the road. But the second that certain song starts playing in the background, or playing on the radio, you remember that moment five years ago as if it was yesterday. Cities change, people change, but there is nothing that can change the way you heard a song for the first time, or the reason you played a song over and over again because it wasn’t enough. And personally for me, it's the best way to express my emotions. Just like people cannot survive without water, just like people cannot survive without air, I cannot survive even for a second without Music. Michael Jackson has shown the world that a musician, an icon, can have a world impact and create so many memories. When you’re a girl growing up, and you have a broken heart, you play every love song you possibly can find, you fall asleep to 103.5, and you associate a song with a certain boy. Nothing really changes too much even in your late teens and going into your twenties. We listen to the words that perhaps someone else felt, or experienced, and we take that and run with it because someone else felt that very same thing. Music can create a mood in a room, one pop song can make girls go crazy and want to dance, dance party USA (oh you know we have had those still to this day!). Reggae plays, and everyone is relaxed (best pool music), and just “loves” everyone. Country music is three chords and the truth. Rap and Hip Hop has changed so much in the last 10 years, what is Rap? There are so many other genres of music that have impacted and perhaps made a difference in our lives. I went to New Orleans a couple years ago and experienced Jazz for the first time, and couldn’t have experienced it in a better place. It’s amazing. The passion and the feeling it gives you is incredible. There is so much history and comes from the soul. "Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains."-Paul Whiteman. When you’re younger your mom yells upstairs, “turn down that music.” When you’re in your twenties (or dirty thirties), the cops come to the door “the neighbors have complained about loud music.” But no matter how old you might be, there is always that time when you yourself, or you look to the car next to you (windows up) and the music is so loud that the neighbor cars can not only hear the blasting music, but they can hear the singing as you watch them hit their steering wheel as if they are the drummer in a band. We all come from different cultures, have different walk of life, but at the end of the day do we listen to our music so loud because it drowns out reality for that 3 minutes of a song?

Thank you .....28 great years!

Thank you to all my friends for sharing this very special day with me. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about my mom, and I'm so thankful that she brought me into this amazing but crazy world 29 years ago today. I miss her so much (I love you mom!).
In loving memory, Blanca Cruz ♥
xoxo

Dating in the Dark , abc Monday nights

"Is Love Blind?" I watched a new TV show last night, called Dating in the Dark, Monday nights @ 10pm on abs. It was really interesting how the experiment worked, and even better the outcome with some of the "couples." Three girls, and three guys, get to know each other in complete darkness, talking, touching, and even some kissing. They go on dates getting to know each other and the last day the light turns on to see who they have connected with, left with the decision..."do they stay with the person they fell for in the dark, or leave them behind?" There was one girl who stuck out the most, Christina. Like he said he was not a 10 but also not a hobbit (I thought he was worth getting to know). They kissed on multiple dates, and had great chemistry, well until the lights came on the last day and she didn't think he was cute enough. He waited outside for her to show up and she never did. She now see's how much looks mean more to her then anything, as she cried. Check out the show!

Where would I be today without my girlfriends? For those of you that know me, you know that I am girlie as they come and I love my girlfriends. Growing up I was always shopping with my mom and dragging one of my girlfriends with me. One that I can always remember, as if it were yesterday, is my best friend Shayna. Ironically, she is a total tomboy. She would have her weekend softball games, while I would be cheerleading at the weekend football games (and of course boy crazy). However we always made time for each other and were attached at the hip. If I wasn’t at her house she was at my house. Back to the shopping, like I said I would drag her with me and my mom, we would pretend we were sisters, that’s what I remember most! Growing up it was always important to me for me to have the best girlfriends, the friends that I knew I would have fun with and could laugh with and just be silly (not to mention make up the best dance to a Paula Abdul song). I am thankful that I took that with me to today, now at 28, still spending time with my best girlfriends! So many times, girls tend to lose their selves in their relationship with their boyfriends, or just don’t make the time. One of the most important things that a girl should always remember is that your girlfriends will always be there no matter what is going on in your life and no matter how far you are from each other, so MAKE the time. If you don’t have these types of girlfriends, find one today! Guys need their guy time, girls need their girl time, and if you don’t have that then I think you’re in trouble. Don’t get me wrong, I hope to love the person I’m with and want to spend all the time in the world with him, but I also need my girlfriends and he also needs his guy time. For the girls that can’t handle their men away from them, and question every hour on the hour while they’re with the guys, find yourself again. If you don’t it will not only hurt your relationship, but it will hurt you in the end. So I thank all my girlfriends who have been there for me, and have helped me realize how important it is to keep you girls close. This weekend will be great for all of us to spend time together, reconnect and remember how fun it is having “girl time.” I love all you girls and I hope that the JW is prepared for our craziness!

"Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they are meant to be there; they serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or help you figure out who you are."

xoxo

Around the corner.....

It's crazy to think that yet another year has passed. It really is true that they say the older you get the faster time goes by. Wednesday, I will officially be able to turn another page and start a new chapter. I begin to think what I can do in these next two days that I can leave in my year of being 28...... The only thing that comes to mind is to enjoy my last two days being 28 and prepare myself for my last year in my twenties!!

"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. "
-Bacall, Lauren

xoxo

Ready for a new chapter in my life......

" Life is a book in volumes three- The past, the present, and the yet-to-be. The past is written and laid away, The present we're writing every day, And the last and best of volumes three Is locked from sight - God keeps the key.♥ "