Happy Valentine's Day

I've had the urge to sing this song out loud all day today.

let's just say I had a great weekend.

Hope everyone else had as great a weekend as I have!

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Giveaway WINNERS

Winners were selected using random.org using the True Random Number Generator

CD Winner:

Perfect Peace said...


My favorite love song is What is Love? By Matt White. I had heard it in a bunch of movies but could never find the actual song, then one of my ex-boyfriends (who was a boyfriend at the time) found it for me and made me a mixed cd with it on it! I was so happy!


CD Winner:

Shalyn said...


I have to choose "Its Your Love" by Tim mcgraw and Faith Hill- its our wedding song:-)

Collective sigh:-)






CD Winner:

Two People Loving Like CRAZY said...


ASH!! Oh my goodness! I love your giveaway idea! My comment about favorite love song would have to be love story be Taylor Swift because when Randy purposed to me that was the song that was playing and we danced to it as the sun was setting behind us!




Love Basket of Goodies Winner:

Alexis Kaye said...


That mix tape sounds awesome. I still call them mix tapes. I'm already a follower and my favorite love song is called "the luckiest" but I don't know who sings it. It's amazing! :) hope I win!







Congrats to all of these lovely winners
I am sorry not everyone could win, if I had endless moola, I would send everyone a Valentine's day CD.


Winners, please send me an email with your mailing address
email: ashley.warner88@gmail.com

CONGRATS and Happy Thursday little loveys!

{P.Y.T}

"Where did you come from babe?  And ooohhh won't you take me there?"

"I want to LOVE you, P.Y.T, pretty young thing"

as I was watching the Glee Valentine's day special last night, this song brought me joy.
I immediately turned up the volume and started to dance...seriously.
I love Michael Jackson's old tunes, and this one is dear to my heart.



a clip from the show last night



the song from Glee


P.Y.T done by Michael Jackson


Who else watched the Glee Valentine's special last night?!
LOVEEEEEEEED it!

monday

Monday.

What a day.

I'm just gonna put this out there: I had a horrible weekend.

I'm sick again.

Bad news was received.
Depression.

Loneliness.

Depression.

Anger.
Depression.
Hurt.
Depression.

It was just an awful weekend.  I can't even put into words, nor do most of you want to hear them.
I've battled depression for almost two years now and I've never experienced anything like what I've been dealing with the past few weeks.

If you don't understand depression, it's hard to wrap your head around what I'm feeling exactly.
But I just want to say, how wonderful it is to have my amazing family to fall back upon.

My father especially.

He and I had a heart to heart last night and I've never felt so much love and happiness.
My dad and I share the depression battle.
But no one understands it quite like him.

he doesn't tell me to snap out of it.  to just suck it up.  depression is so much more than that.  it's like a looming black cloud over your head, constantly. 

Most days are better than others, but I had just had enough last night.

I love my dad.

He is an amazing person! 

He understands me, where I'm coming from, and what I am feeling.
He also gives great advice.
Some of the best advice ever in fact.
People would PAY to get advice from him if they knew how awesome he is.

Anyway, long story short...I'm feeling much better today.
and it's funny how life works.

I'm at the warehouse today, and one of my favorite customer/clients came in to pick up her order today.

And guess what?

She brought me this:

A Starbucks Blueberry scone with a lovely Naked O.J.

It was a sweet gesture, but something that made my Monday that much better.

I don't think she even knows what this small act of kindness will mean in my life today.

She has reminded me that the world is still good.

People are kind.

We all need to take care of each other.

Therefore, I'm going to PAY IT FORWARD.

Going to find 3 people I can help today.

Who are you going to influence for GOOD today?

"Have I done any good in the world today?

Have I helped anyone in need?

Have I cheered up the sad or made someone feel glad?

If not, I have failed indeed."

{be mine, valentine} GIVEAWAY

i'm very excited to announce the {heart} of life is good
VALENTINE'S giveaway

There are not ONE, but FOUR possible winners of this giveaway

There will be one grand prize winner who will be walking away with:

- "Sweet Love" book full of love quotes
- Inflatable red lips
- Sweethearts strawberry chapstick
- 4 heart straws
- a Valentine's Day LOVE CD made by moi
- 2 boxes of sweethearts conversation hearts


The other 3 winners will be receiving an awesome Valentine's Day CD made special by moi:

1. Come a Little Closer - Dierks Bentley

2. Everything - Michael Buble

3. Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars

4. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

5. I Can Love You Like That - All 4 One

6. Endless Love - Glee Cast

7. Your Body Is a Wonderland - John Mayer

8. Stolen - Dashboard Confessionals

9. Sexy Love - Ne-Yo

10. Only You Can Love Me This Way - Keith Urban

11. My Boo - Usher & Alicia Keys

12. Make You Feel My Love - ADELE

13. Love Story - Taylor Swift

14. Love Like This - Natasha Bedingfield

15. Love Is - Vanessa Williams ft. Brian McKnight

16. Let My Love Open the Door - The Who

17. I'll Be There For You - Bon Jovi

18. Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley

19. Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not - Thompson Square

Three Possible Entries:

1 - Become a Follower (and let me know with a comment)
2 - Leave a comment about your favorite LOVE song
3 - Post on your own blog about this giveaway, then leave me a comment with a link

So, if I did my MATH correctly, you can have THREE possible entries for this giveaway!  I'm sharin the loveeeeee with ya reader!



You have until next Wednesday (February 9, 2011) to enter. 

Winners will be announced Thursday, February 10, 2011


good luck! oh, happy weekend too!

are you gonna kiss me or not?

A friend of mine showed this song to me the other day.

Now I am OBSESSED.

This is the cutest song I have heard in a long time.

"are you gonna kiss me or not?

are we gonna do this or what?

i think you know i like you a lot,

but you're about to miss your shot

are you gonna kiss me or not?"

have you ever asked a S.O. (significant other) this question before?

                   I know I haven't, but I think I will I have to use this line someday....

{tag it}

well, it happened.  I was in a blog slump, and the ever so cute Michelle from Wishful Thinking tagged me.

So, here's to, what hopefully is, a fun blog post.

This is how the tag game goes:

write 15 interesting facts about yourself and tag 5 people so that they can do the same.

1 - I am OCD about cleaning.  My room, bathroom, office, car, closet.  Everything has it proper place and order.

2 - I love to watch movies, but mainly I love to watch 'thrillers' or 'horror' movies

3 - I love makeup. MAC makeup to be exact.

4 - I want to own a cabin in the Alps with my future hubby some day

5 - one day I would love to travel all over, with my hubby, just so I can have a photo collection of us kissing in every city

6 - I love to take photos.  I don't spend enough time doing so, mainly because I hate shooting in the freezing cold weather!

7 - I love to workout, and now that i am better I am getting back into my workout routine

8 - I drink an 8 oz. glass of water with 1 Tbsp of apple cider vinegar, every morning

9 - I am addicted to John Mayer.

10 - One of my favorite movies of all time is The Nightmare Before Christmas.  I've had that movie memorized from start to finish since I was in 1st grade (yeah baby)

11 - I love to play ROCKBAND.  And I love to play the guitar on the "hard" level.  I've only beaten the song "Green Grass and High Tides" once.
in my entire life.
once.
listen, it's pretty intense!  Green Grass and High Tides

12 - My family is pretty much the coolest.  I really do love them!  We always have so much fun together.

13 - I've never lost a game of Boggle in my existence.  I love it so much!

14 - I want to live in the mountains for a summer.  To go fishing everyday.  Hiking.  Go for drives in the mountains with my thoughts as the music.  I love the outdoors.

15 - I want to live happily ever after.  Is that such a crime?

Now i tag these 5 lovely ladies:

Mallory
       Amy
               Kylee
                   Laura
                       Ashley

  

The Nickel Diner

When you're on vacation (or business) it's always fun to venture into the city and find the finest dining establishments the city offers...right?

One of our clients suggested we go here: the nickel diner
I wasn't expecting much.
I wasn't even that hungry...but alas, we ventured off and tried this diner.

Our cab pulled up to this really shady part of town, eeek!
I thought I was going to get shot (no, seriously)
this place was a DUMP in the middle of a bad part of LA

well, the wait was about 20 minutes, so we stood outside as by passers gave us nasty looks of hate and disgust!  One even winked at my momma...he probably wanted her wedding ring off her dead finger...

Enough of this, you get the idea of how scary it was...right?

So as we were waiting I walked up to the window and saw this:

what the beep!  what is this ish?!  this is an "employee of the month" with her peep necklace. cute, eh?

this is what I got to drink:

(sorry for the bad photo - its from my cell)

yummy.

this is what dessert looked like:

***red velvet cake with chocolate malt balls

peanut and salt cake (peanut butter/chocolate/ lays potato chips)

homemade ding dong cupcakes

Don't worry, the 5 of us shared all of these desserts...but ***I may or may not have eaten most of the red velvet.  It was to DIE for.

If you're ever in L.A., check out the Nickel Diner

oh, and did I mention it was featured on

The Food Networks: Diner's, Drive-ins, and Dives

check out the episode here