The ICE craze...

Kelly just showed me this. Its hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kJTZGR63Xo

I broke up with Dael on a street corner last night... & wrote him this email tonight.

dp....

I have the ability to give myself openly and honestly when I'm in love…and I chose to be beyond open with you as I shared my feelings of us possibly being "forever" because I was so surprised that I was feeling those emotions for the very first time, and I think that was a mistake to share those with you because it ended up terrifying you. It likely made you wonder why you weren't feeling that way, and made you feel bad that you weren't to that point… which is why I regret making you feel that way. We should have been able to just enjoy the lighthearted fun and lovely part of first falling in love... but our relationship didn't start with normal circumstances and that's what made my emotions surface so quickly. I think maybe I shared my emotions with you because I wanted to express how glad I was that you stayed. That you stayed to "see where things went" and to prove to you that you made the right decision.

I feel 100% myself around you… I am goofy without feeling insecure, I laugh loudly and without hesitation, I trip constantly (can't help it really) without feeling embarrassed, I share all my feelings with you and I could kiss you at any moment & anywhere. I want that for you. I want you to feel that you have a true partner-in-crime, someone who understands the depth of you, and someone who knows all your strengths/weaknesses and STILL is madly in love with you. You hint at having a world of emotions in you and I've seen moments of it but want all of you because only then do I think you will be able to envision a future. Was I not patient enough; should I have been more gentle in pushing you to open up? Would you want to try to go and talk to someone; do you think that would help you to open up? Are you scared to show me all of you? I want to be here for all of you and only wish I knew the way to allow that to happen naturally without feeling that this breakup was an ultimatum.

Our situation of you staying in the states caused our 5-month relationship to feel more pressure than one should ever should have to endure…yet we survived this long for a reason. However; both of us feel so strongly about raising a family in our native country and I do not have a solution for it right now… I struggle with it daily as well but yet I cannot imagine not being with you? I am so close to my family and it scares me to raise a family without my family. I have never been to Sydney and I know that once you marry/have kids you create your own "family' so I am not going to rule it out as a possibility. The only thing I want is to live a happy healthy life and be a good person, make a difference in the world…and if that brings me to Sydney or if that keeps you in the states…isnt that what is most important? A lasting love- that’s what people search a lifetime for.

I think your family situation growing up did hinder you in some ways… I think it made you doubt the lastingness of a marriage, and it made you much more conservative in sharing your emotions. I want more than anything to be the person you feel comfortable sharing those fears/insecurities/stories/lessons learned. On the positive side, your family situation made you more realistic and more cautious, something I truly respect (as much as I tease you for it). Once you do decide to commit, I am sure it will be something well thought out and likely to last. I know you are scared and have fears of letting me down. I am willing to take that chance, because the winning end result of fighting through the hardships outweighs the chance of never having the opportunity to see where we wind up.

I will admit I need more emotion from you and I cannot settle for less. I need a guy who squeezes me just because he wants to get close to me, and a guy that tells me I'm beautiful on a whim when he looks at me. I need a guy who admits to missing me without being prompted. I need a guy who wants to envision a future with me, and is able to express his hopes for us. I know I have pushed you over and over to show more emotion, which was likely irritating as hell, but its true, I do need more emotions to truly FEEL that you are in it? I am overly sappy... I tear up at the slightest thing (happy & sad), and I'm not sure you love that about me or not but I hope I conveyed how much I love you during the time we spent together. I am frustrated that you made me continually ask you to share more with me... and it makes me feel embarrassed that i had to ask for compliments. Our relationship was me asking for more-and it annoyed the hell out of me, but you knew you could be giving more which is why you gave in every once in a while.

I have to compliment you now just in case I don't get the chance again. I love eating vegemite on toast with you because you make it with love. I love the way you grab my bum… I'm surprisingly being serious :). I love having us lay on the couch together and talk about nothing one moment and the next moment talk about a future little girl being named Penelope Parker. I love when we get silly and wind up in wrestle fights. I love watching the way you interact with others- you have such true charisma. I love the way you are so passionate about your "save-the-earth" crusades, I find it wildly sexy and infuriating at the same time. I love waking up next to you and I love when you are dead asleep and you curl me into your body… who knew you were actually such a snuggler? I love when you lecture me (not always at the beginning, but once I see your point and that you are doing it because you care…then I end up loving you for it). I love kissing you, smelling you, holding your hand and nuzzling. I am just so in love with you I'm finding it hard to come up with anything I don't love about you. Well, the 'stash is a given.

Us breaking up is not about how much I love you… I think that you always knew how much I love you. The reason we broke up is because you aren't sure… because you aren't sure about me, about us, about a possible future, and you aren't sure if you will ever open up to me. I'm scared as well Dael.

I want to be with you but I cannot ask for you back. You need to want us to work. My heart is hurting so bad but Dael, I want you to be happy, I want you to be able to love yourself, because then I know you can love someone else. Dael- your family was not a cookie-cutter family model but you are a loyal, compassionate, intelligent, loving, and sincere individual who has the potential to change the lives of many. You need to believe in yourself, and you need to push yourself to find a way to open up.... and I hope to be part of that answer and that process but you have to make it happen. It is not going to happen overnight... it will take baby steps but jesus Dael, if you want to make it happen, let me know. However; if you already know that I am not the one, then you did the right thing by letting me walk away.

For me, you are beyond worth fighting for. As much as it hurts to think that maybe this is something you don't want to fight for... I can't let you go without you knowing how much I believe in you. and in us. which is why I had to write you. When I suggested we take a break sitting in that cafe, I was expecting you to fight to stay in it. I expected you to chase me down the street and kiss me. I came home from work expecting a sign on my building door that says "I want you back, love dp". I got to work this morning with several messages on my phone, and I hoped it was you. When I came home tonight with none of those scenarios played out... I had to write you.

It might take you a while to come to term with your emotions and although I can't say I completely understand everything (simply because I've only known you for a few months), I know you grew up with parents who didn't stay together. Yet, I grew up with parents who do still love each other and I want to be on that path with you... even if we fall off it a few times, I want to be on it with you at the end. I know even envisioning two years down the road seems murky... hell I don't know what city I'll be in, or what job I'll be doing... or if I'll have a dog named Captain by then... and I am not sure you & me will still be together... but I CAN see it happening, and that doesn't make me afraid. :)

Being from opposite sides of the world is beyond tough, but each relationship is made up of compromises from both parties.... eventually, we will come to a solution to what is holding us back.

I will never regret dating you... you showed me how much I could love someone and I look forward to feeling that pure love from someone else... & I am still hoping that person is you.

xo smiley.

Baby Quesada

So as you all know, there is a little baby Quesada on the way! I decided to create a blog for my family and friends to follow since I never get to update everyone!

You can check it out at http://babyquesada.blogspot.com and follow along!!!

Love you girls! XOXO

He's So Special (insert sarcasm here)

So my lovely boyfriend has a problem with piling his entire wardrobe ON TOP of the dresser, rather than where they belong, INSIDE the dresser. This is an ongoing issue for us, seeing as it absolutely drives me UP. THE. WALL. We all leave stuff out, but not every article of clothing we own. So this morning, like many mornings, we were having yet another successful (again insert sarcasm) "conversation" about this problem of HIS! Here is a little taste of how well it went.

me: stop pissing me off and put your damn clothes away.....please.

him: better to be pissed off than pissed on, right? (exits out of the bedroom)

Yes I met my sarcastic match. FML.

10 date summer? ehh probably not necessary? However, I do need to teach him a little lesson. Ideas??

xoxoxo

10 Date Summer

As many of you know, all the lovely ladies of Texas have recently become single. In a wave of inspiration we agreed to a 10 date summer. The deal is, each of us has to go on 10 dates between May 1 and Sept 1. We will have a board ironically drawn in the shape of a penis to track all of the dates and recap each experience as it happens. What better way to get back out there, right? I'm thinking we're going to need to lay down some ground rules, like: No referring to online dating sites to get dates (too easy!), the guy must pay, and it can't be someone you have dated in the past. Taking a note from Patti of Millionaire Matchmaker fame, I suggest a no sex policy as well. Not that any of us are liable to give it up on the first date... but just in case. 6 girls in a city full of gentlemen. Let the games begin!

i'm in love... and my fb relationship status confirms it.

My loves...

I was boy crazy when I first moved to NYC, then went through an asexual phase where I couldn't find any straight men I desired (only sexy gay men who told me I was pretty but lacked one important extremity), and more recently thought I was falling in love with mr.vogueboy until he broke up with me before I even had the chance to eat breakfast.

Enter Dael. He started working at Bua (our neighborhood bar where I spend more time than I do my own apartment) in August... we had been regulars since May so I distinctly remember the moment I saw this new gorgeous bartender. He is a tall, floppy dark-haired, lanky Australian with a devilish grin that crinkles up around his eyes... and the moment he spoke... my mouth watered. I could barely understand him through his accent and strange vocabulary such as "jumpers" for sweaters and "whippersnappers" for little kids... and I lusted from afar. I thought I played it pretty cool until one too many sangria's and I invited him to touche's wedding as my date. He goes "where is the wedding"?...I gave him my most winning smile and said "Arizona... it will be a blast"... he looks at me baffled and gives me the worst excuse a guy can give a girl... "Sorry, I don't own a suit"... and walked away. Erika leans over and goes "You blew it. Next time run those things by me before you blurt them out".

I continued to secretly love him but dated around as he wasn't interested in the slightest. Erika and I hosted my entire family over Thanksgiving and when we found out the entire staff of Bua was going to be in NYC for it (they are all foreigners)... we tossed them an invitation as well. Dael shows up with lilies to which my sister awkwardly and loudly exclaims "oh so cute- those are the flowers Kara wants at her wedding"... I turned beet red. Thanksgiving was amazing- full of everyone left in the city, food out on the fire escape and every counter top, and lots of toasts. Papa drank tequila, mom got tipsy on wine, fletcher felt beyond cool sitting with the boys playing cards, taylor fawned over dael's friend... and I ended up chatting comfortably with Dael for the first time outside the bar. He later told me that was the night where he was finally able to see me for who I am, rather than just a customer. We headed to Bua to continue the party late night and after Dael did a shot with the pops, he comes over... asks for my number and it and us started.

In a quick word vomit of a summary.... first date involved cocktails and a goodnight kiss that made my lips numb outside the bar, second date comedy club where we laughed at everything we should have and everything we shouldn't, third date awww who the hell cares I loved it and everything after that. Our relationship had to move fast as he was going to either move back to Australia early February or renew his visa & stay.... one night after I got beyond irritated with him for being an atheist he goes "I may not believe in God but I believe in Love... and I'm staying here to find out where this goes". We then dropped the L bomb. Which followed with us doing the deed... quickest I've ever given it up and longest he's ever waited... and its the best I've ever had. He is exactly what I want and makes me a better person.

Coming down from cloud 9, sometimes I wonder if I'm too happy in all of this and just living too simplistic ... its like I'm enjoying the moment of sun on my face while bopping around in the bug convertible like we did in college... while knowing full well a fiery and bloody crash lies just around the corner... because bottom-line... he wants to live in Australia long-term, raise little aussie punkasses and I can't imagine living anywhere but the states.

But I love the kid so I'm seeing where fate takes me.

ps... Dael shows up last night @ 4 am after a night on the town with the boys (aka hammered) because I told him if he was missing me he should come over. He shows up, picks me up and carries me to my bed.... I have to undress him one converse sneaker at a time and then when we are all snuggled up in my bed he whispers...."I love you more than vegemite". wtf.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Hope your day is filled with lots of LOVE!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY BESTS!!!

XOXOXO

Welcome to Seaside Hights!

Last weekend Aubrey, Kel and I had a Jersey shore party. It was filled with a lot of fist pumps, tramp stamps, bump-its, extensions and of course GTL (Gym, Tan Laundry)! Here is just a couple photos from the madness...

Ban-Do

http://www.shopbando.com/Products.aspx?cid=2

Might be a little on the expensive side but so cute, and creative!

Jump Fail

I thought of all my girls when I found this...

Reminds me of us, minus the fail ...

Poor girl needs to eat a little less DQ!

Laugh of the Day

With the high rate of attacks on women in secluded parking lots, especially during evening hours, the Minneapolis City Council has established a 'Women Only' parking lot at the Mall of America. Even the parking lot attendants are exclusively female so that a comfortable and safe environment is created for patrons.

Below is the first picture available of this world-first women-only parking lot in Minnesota .

Grammys!

Tonight was the Grammy Awards and for those of you that didn't have a chance to watch it was quite the performance. Beyonce and Taylor Swift were the biggest winners of the night, taking home Best Single and Best Album respectively. In my opinion they were well deserved! Other bands like Kings of Leon and Zac Brown Band made some surprise appearances on stage. Overall the performances at the awards show is the real reason to watch. Lady Gaga and Elton John didn't disappoint, while P!NK did a death-defying acrobatic performance in the air. See below for video. Oh, and YAY Taylor!!!

Sprinkles Cupcakes

 
FYI Sprinkles has gluten free cupcakes now!

Give me some American Honey

So I'm kind of obsessed with Lady Antebellum. I saw them open for Jason Aldean in Salina, KS in November 2008 and they've pretty much exploded on the country pop scene since. They're like a group version of Taylor Swift where you want to sing along to every song and the lyrics are always the story of your life. Lady A's new album Need You Now came out Tuesday. It's pretty much the best thing ever... one of my favorite songs is American Honey. You can see why below. They're also going on tour with Tim McGraw this summer = AMAZING! Check their site for dates but I'm pretty sure Tim and Lady A make an unstoppable combination as far as summer country concerts go. Put on your cowboy boots and let's go!

Surprise!

So my mom had the funniest phone call for me today! It was recently my cousin's birthday, who also just got engaged, so my mom sent her a fun package of wedding magazines and books as her gift. A week later, my mom receives a sweet thank you card in the mail from her, which included "p.s. I loved the picture of Kristina!". Sure enough, our wedding was chosen to be featured in Tucson Bride and Groom without us knowing! Thanks to mom's gift, we found this out! Here is the link to the online version:
http://www.tucsonbrideandgroom.com/ws2010-wi_09.php
Enjoy!

Backstreets Back, Alright!

Move over American Idol, Simon Fuller is on to a new and exciting adventure: The search for the best new Boy Band!! I have a feeling this is going to be very entertaining...

I'm already cracking up at the sample audition videos:

http://www.BoyBandSearch.com/

Were N'sync and Backstreet Boys 13 years old???

Home Sweet Home around my neck

While shopping on one of my favorite sites today (http://www.gilt.com/), I found these adorable necklaces. I was thinking it'd be fun if a group of people from all over each had one from their home state - like friendship necklaces! Or you could make a necklace with one from every state you've lived in. For me that would be Kansas, California and Texas! Fun right?
If you'd like more information on http://www.gilt.com/, please let me know and I'll invite you to this member's only discount designer clothing site :) Happy Shopping!

I saw this today and thought it was genius!

I'm not trashy, unless I drink too much.

Calling all you Guidos and Guidettes! Yea yea yea. Here's The Situation. W, Aubs and I are throwing our first ever Dirty Jersey party this Saturday. It's funny to me how quickly Jersey Shore has picked up. It's a cultural phenomenon. I've only seen one episode and yet still found it necessary to spend an entire Saturday shopping for my outfit. I definitely miss themed date dashes from college so this party will be serving as my "you're a responsible adult now" replacement. So far my outfit contains a black buckle dress with a boombox necklace and lace gloves!

And even though I've been told Snooki is openly against Bump Its, I decided to get one. After all, I need all the help I can get if I'm going to transform myself into a true Jersey Girl. Right now the plan is to hand out name tags and Jagerbombs as guests enter the apartment. They will then make their way into the living room aka Club Karma. DJ Pauly D has put together some killer tracks with some raging techno beats. I'm still trying to get down all the lingo of a Guidette, it's like an entirely different language! But, after going through the nickname generator for a good hour (I really need to be more productive) I came up with the perfect nickname - "Tanny" 

This should be an epic beginning to the year.
G.T.L. baby. Gym, Tanning, Laundry. - Fist Pump!

Shhhhhh

Who decided to start this silliness? I like it!