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I would like to apologize for me being absent yesterday. I just happen to have been my 21st birthday. And what a great one it was. Eventhough I had to go to school and do a lot of boaring, normal things, the lunch break in Bryant Park was wonderful. Me and my friends hada big pic nic right in the middle of the grass and people around us were looking and actually coming up to congratulate me. That was great fun!

The day continued with school, being just another day. Had a lot of success in my speach class as I actually talked about the big changes you’re faced with turning 21 in this country. Now I’m legal to drink (and of course do other stuff) in ALL continents! Finally!

The evening was spent at my guy’s house realxing infront of a movie, with a lot of swedish candy that was delivered to me earlier the same day. My wonderful family and friends had been so kind to packa big box full of candy and games and sent it to me for my birthday. So me and my guy played all sorts of boardgames and stuffed our faces with salty licorice. A truly great birthday, although a somewhat calm one. The big celebrations will take place at Sushi Samba on friday, so we’ll see how that goes! Can’t wait!

XoXo

 I don’t usually go uptown a lot. Very seldom actually. I have reasently got more opportunities to spend some time on the Upper East Side, and I must say that I really like it. Even though I’m more of a downtown girl, I actually really like UES. Nice and safe neighbourhoos to live in with a lot of cute restaurants and bars. My new favourite place though, is a park (go figure). It’s a fairly small park called Carl Schurz Park and is located just by East River. Really nice! Today we walk around the entire park watching people and listened to street singers before we sat down on the grass and just enjoyed the beautiful night.

There we surprisingly many people out tonight and the park was quite crowded for a while. Many runners and dogowners were out late and I never felt unsafe. A really nice park that I think a lot of people might not know about unless they live in the neighbourhood. It’s a shame though as the entire park has views of the water, bridges, and countless boats. I will hopefully spend more time there as it’s smaller and nicer than Central Park. CP will always be number one for many reasons but CSP is definatley worth a visit!

That underwear is important is something we can all agree on. To some, it’s even a part of the foreplay. I’m not going to go that far but I will say that it’s important. I don’t care if I’m in a relationship or single, I like to wear nice underware for my self. If the one I’m with happens to like thet, then great! Don’t get me wrong, I love getting dressed up with sexy lingerie underneath for my guy, but most of the times feeling good in your underwear is on you. In my everyday life I don’t wear the sexiest bra or smallest panties but wonderful, comfortable bras that makes me look my best; Hot!

One of the best things about moving to NY and USA was that I, now, can pay Victoria’s Secret a visit everyday if I want to. Online shopping is not the same when it comes to lingerie. They have great stuff for everyone. They carry sexy, tiny stuff with lace and cute colors as well as comfortable, more simple one color pieces that help you accentuate your curves and make you look good. I even dare to say that everything they carry is comfortable to weat and looks great as long as you get the size right.

That leads me in to the next great thing about Victoria’s Secret; the staff. No matter which store you visit, how crowded it is, or how big of a mess the place might be in, the staff is always extremely helpful, polite, and nice. They definatley know what they are talking about which is especially important when it comes to bying bras (you ladies know what I’m talking about). I would like to recommend the VS on 57th between Park Ave and Madison Ave. It’s fairly big and it’s never any people there, and the staff is the best.

I haven’t had one bad experience shopping at VS and I will forever continue to by my lingerie there. If nothing else they carry great stuff at very reasonable prices. I love it, and not to forget, their yearly fashion show is the greates one period! The hottest models in the hottest settings in the hottest lingerie. It doesn’t get any better than that. 

Since the new Batman movie came out, it seems like Heath Ledger is the only thing people are talking about. I haven’t seen the movie but I’ve heard not so great reviwes about it. The only good thing about it is Heath Ledger. My friend told me that he is brilliant and that he would be very suprised if HL didn’t get the Academy Award this upcoming January.

I know where HL used to live, where his old apartment is since it’s in the neighbourhood where I do a lot of my shopping. It’s down in Soho, on 421 Broome Street. A great location by the way.I haven’t been down by the apartment since he died, but I went there today and there are still a lot of flowers, memorycards and tributes. I don’t know if it’s because of the new Batman movie or not but I hope we don’t forget him yet. He was an amazing actor who obviously was very troubled, but I think his death got us all thinking about the seriousness of prescription drugs, and how dangerous they can be if used inaproppriately with other drugs. It’s sad something like that has to happen for us to open our eyes, but I guess that’s life, right?

Anyway, just wanted to say that the frontdoor scene was still very emotional and nice. I encourage everuone to see Batman w HL as the Joker. I think we appreciate his performance even more when we knoe he’s dead.

That’s it, over and out!  

My 21st birthday is coming up and I have to start thinking about dinner reservations for next weekend. I want to make sure us fab girls get a nice table at a nice restaurant. Some of the choices are sushi on the terass at Sushi Samba (pic above), Gramercy Park Hotel, La Bottega, or Koi. What do you think? I’d be happy to hear your thoughts!

Gramercy Park!

La Bottega!

Koi!

This is my to-do list for this summer, or atleast before it’s over. I reccomend you to do all of the following:

1) Skinny dip! I know it might sound difficult to execute here in NY, but if you get a chance, it’s a cool, fun thing to do. Everybody needs to do it once!
2) Sleep outside! A fun thing to do and we don’t have to wory about being cold so this is something everyone should be able to do easily!
3) Plan a backward dinner party! This is exaclty what it sounds like. You start with the dessert, take the main course in the middle, and finish it up with the appetizers. This is a fun twist to, what can be, boaring, normal dinner parties. It’s definatley something your friends will remember.
4) Start a waterbaloon fight! Is there anything that’s more fun to do in the summer time than being a part of a waterbaloon fight? It’s a great activity for you and your friends for those lazy days in the park.
5) Theme parties! You can either arrange or go to a theme party. It can be anything from Hawaiian tropic parties with palmtrees and coconuts to pirates and boats. Don’t be afraid to explore and be goofy, I bet my money that your friends will enjoy and appreciate the interruption to their normal going-out routine.
6) Drink your weight in booze! Or if you don’t want to go that far you can just be sensible and have one or two (but where’s the fun in that?) Within the near future, I’m going to invite my friends over for drinks like Mojitos, frozen Margaritas, and Capriñas. ince I’m a bartender, it’s only fair that my friends get to benefit from that every once in a while.
7) Concerts and festivals! If you do nothing else, please make sure you go to a concert or outside festival. Enjoy the music and go with the flow!

Which one of these is your favourite? Do tell!

Even though we might have the absolute best stores, boutiques, and departmentstores here in NY, there are still a couple of downers revalving this.
1. It’s bloody expensive. If you want it you have to be ready to pay the big buck.
2. It’s always so crowded. Although Manhattan is big, it sometimes feel like it’s not big enough. Too many people, and by people I mean tourists.
3. Rude, unpleasant, snorky workers in the stores. I understand that they are busy and are just trying to do their job, but that also includes being nice to the customer and more importantly helpful.

When all of the above tires me or gets to me, I like to focus my attention to online shopping. It’s a great thing and it’s very convenient. Especially when you want something that you can’t get anywhere else.
Just look at this wonderfully, nice bag above. As we all know by now, purple is the “it” color for this fall, and big bags are always fashion so I’ve spotted this darling from Nordstrom. Nice, huh?

Check these bad boys out, from Miu Miu.

Or why not this cool t-shirt from Abbey Dawn?
They’re all found online and can be yours with just a cklick of a buttom. Practical? Hell yeah!

I think we can all agree on the impotance of communication. Weather it’s between two people in a relationship or between two coworkers, you need to be able to communicate. In the business world it’s an exxential quality that you need to posses and I really feel that I understand the importance of it. Maybe that’s why I love my new Oral Communication class, and am doing really well. I’ve always been artuculate, I’ve always liked being the centre of attention, and I like public speaking. These qualities definately helped me tonight when I hade to perform a speach. It was a fairly short and simple speach, and I did very well and feel so happy about that. I don’t usually flash my grades or brag about how well I might be doing, but tonight I feel proud. I know I’m a good speaker and the even better part is that I like it. I think it’s a lot of fun being up there, knowing that everyone is listening to me.

I strongly advice all of you to always try to improve your communication skills. You need it for every aspect of/in your life. And trust me, once you get the hang of it and let go of your anxiety and nervousness, you’ll like it as much as I do because you’ll have the upper hand. If you know how to express your self well, you have the world (and it’s attention) in your hand!

What do you do when you’ve gotten stud up? You get back in the game as if nothing has happened. That’s what I’m going to do. To say that I’ve gotten stud up is probably not the right word, but I’m just not in to all the games and playing-hard-to-get stuff that everybody seems to be engaging in. That’s no my style so I’m stying out of it.
The good thing about this situation (besides it being his loss) is that I’m a cute, young, single girl in the greatest city in the world. And it’s summer. It couldn’t possibly be any better, right?

I know it’s not as easy as it sound but this time I’m really going to act (or at least try very hard) as if the dating/non-dating scene doesn’t bother me. It’s no something I’m usually good at as I tend to make a chicken out of a feather, but this time I’m determined to succeed. If it works for the women in SATC it can work for me. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll exclude some of the sex stuff they’re engaged in but damn it, I’m independent, fortunate, and happy. It’s my world!

 As the Spice Girls once so proudly said it
“Girl Power!”

So yesterday’s preparty was held at the sundeck of Chelsea Tower (26th/6th Ave). Cool building in a fluid neighbourhood.

The next stop as at a rooftop party in Tribeca. Amazing view and delicious margaritas!

The 3rd and final stop was B8 (Bungalow in the heart of Meat Packing District. This place use to be really cool, with top people coming every night, giving the lounge a great reputation. All I want to say after yesterday is “Don’t live in the past”. This place was so not good. Although the interior is great that’s about it. The staff were rude, the service was bad, the croud irregular and weird, and the music sucked. The sucking of the music was probably the worst part about it. They played old songs, without any kind of remix or modern twist to it. They played music my grandmother wouldn’t even listen too. It’s times like these you realize just how important the music is.

So would I recommend going to B8? No!

Do youselfs a favour and listen to me. Save your money and time by ignoring this lounge. It’s really was that bad!