LOVE LIST REVISITED...HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

(Note: I am pouring over new designs for this blog and no it won't be pink...ok maybe :))

On February 9, 2008 I posted about making a Love List as layed out in the February 08 issue of O Magazine. Starting March 1, 2008 I posted for 31 days my 100 things/wants/desires I wanted in a soul mate/partner/husband. It is hard to fathom that a year has come and gone already! So in honor of my love list that has gone on to inspire other bloggers to do their own I am posting links to my still very real and desireable Love List.

The Love List 1-5
The Love List 6-10
The Love List 11-15
The Love List 16-20
The Love List 21-26
The Love List 27-30
The Love List 31-36
The Love List 37-43
The Love List 44-46
The Love List 48-49
The Love List 50
The Love List 51-53
The Love List 54-58
The Love List 59-61
The Love List 62-63
The Love List 64-66
The Love List 67-69
The Love List 70-72
The Love List 73-75
The Love List 76-77
The Love List 78-79
The Love List 80-82
The Love List 83-85
The Love List 86-87
The Love List 88-89
The Love List 90-91
The Love List 92-93
The Loev List 94-95
The Love List 100

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TRUE LOVE TUESDAY: SPRING CLEANING

I think this blog needs a makeover. Yes a makeover. It is way too dark for how I am feeling. I am ready for some color! I mean everything in my life is about color...this blog should reflect that too!

I spent last weekend organizing my house. Cleaning up the clutter. I was listening to Peter Walsh on Oprah last week and what he said resonated with me. I began to think there is no success in clutter. If your home is cluttered your mind is cluttered. There can be no real success in the midst of clutter and mess. So I cleaned, sorted, purged. All of the public spaces are orderly. My bedroom is a sanctuary. Only thing left to do is the kid's rooms.

There is no other priority more pressing than making my home the place that I am at ease in. It is the place that replenishes my spirit. If my living space is a mess...then my life is a mess too. What is on my mind is reflected in my life. So as I am newly divorced I refused to let another day pass with a junky, messy, cluttered space. I was tired of the excuses for not cleaning and creating order. I was embarrassed to have to move things out of the way to find simple things. and then I had to think what message was I sending my kids. When shit falls apart we let everything fall apart? So Spring cleaning has commenced and I am happy when I wake up and come downstairs to a clean, orderly space.

Taking back one's life begins at home. Clearing my living space of clutter is the first step in clearing my mind of clutter. Success is invited in and has a place here. Success does not have to compete for space, nor is lost because of all the other mess.

Welcome Spring!

SINGING MY FEELINGS: SUPERWOMAN...ALICIA KEYS

We are not bitches. Ho's. Worthless. FUCK YOU! to all the Brothers calling women Bitches...Bitch Niggers. Fuck you to all the men out there who think we are difficult...weak...too sensitive. FUCK YOU! I am tired of being called out of my name because I want to be addressed with the same respect as I give. I want to be addressed with respect and reverence. Regardless of who you think I am...I am who I say I am.

I am not a bitch. I am a SUPER WOMAN!

SINGING MY FEELINGS: SEARCHING MY SOUL...VONDA SHEPARD

Many won't know this song unless you were a huge Ally McBeal fan..as I was! I have this CD and it's AMAZING! This song just divinely popped into my head this morning. It's just the right tempo and mood I am in!

It's been an incredible week. It's been an incerdible life. Yeah I am searching my soul!



Ive been down this road walkin the line
Thats painted by pride
And I have made mistakes in my life
That I just cant hide

Oh I believe I am ready for what love has to bring
Got myself together, now Im ready to sing

Ive been searchin my soul tonight
I know theres so much more to life
Now I know I can shine a light
To find my way back home

One by one, the chains around me unwind
Every day now I feel that I can leave those years behind

Oh Ive been thinking of you for a long time
Theres a side of my life where Ive been blind and so...

Ive been searchin my soul tonight
I know theres so much more to life
Now I know I can shine a light
Everything gonna be alright
Ive been searchin my soul tonight
Dont wanna be alone in life
Now I know I can shine a light
To find my way back home
Baby I been holding back now my whole life
Ive decided to move on now
Gonna leave all my worries behind

Oh I belive I am ready for what love has to give
Got myself together now Im ready to live

Ive been searchin my soul tonight
I know theres so much more to life
Now I know I can shine a light
Everything gonna be alright
Ive been searchin my soul tonight
Dont wanna be alone in my life
Now I know I can shine a light
To find my way back home

(repeat chorus)

SINGING MY FEELINGS: I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW...JOHNNY NASH

Johhny Nash knows my heart this morning! This is the prefect song for an optimist like me. I can see clearly now the rain is gone. The rain may come back but so what! Either I put up an umbrella or I get wet, either way I am going to be alright!



I can see clearly now, the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright
(Bright), bright (bright)
Sun-shiny day
It's gonna be a bright
(Bright), bright (bright)
Sun-shiny day

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for
It's gonna be a bright
(Bright), bright (bright)
Sun-shiny day

Look all around, there's nothin' but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin' but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright
(Bright), bright (bright)
Sun-shiny day
It's gonna be a bright
(Bright), bright (bright)
Sun-shiny day
It's gonna be a bright
(Bright), bright (bright)
Sun-shiny day
Oh, what a bright, (bright)
Sun-shiny day

SINGING MY FEELINGS: SOMEONE EXACTLY LIKE YOU...VAN MORRISON

I woke up this morning with this song on my heart. At first I was like WTF? I am getting divorced in a few hours why would I be singing a song about new love and finding new love. Then it dawned on me. I am supposed to be singing a song about finding new love. It is about hope. Today is not an ending...but a beginning. It is another example of changing my mind....changing my life. Rather than seeing today as a sad ending. I am reminded that I need to see it as a glorious beginning. So this song is appropriate. The lyrics and music are stunningly beautiful and it indeed makes me hopeful.


Someone exactly like you - Van Morrison

I've been searching a long time
For someone exactly like you
I've been travelling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. Someone exactly
Like you.

I've been travellin' a hard road
Lookin' for someone exactly like you
I've been carryin' my heavy load
Waiting for the light to come
Shining through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. Someone exactly
Like you.

I've been doin' some soul searching
To find out where you're at
I've been up and down the highway
In all kinds of foreign lands
Someone like you... etc.

I've been all around the world
Marching to the beat of a different
Drum.
But just lately I have
Realized
The best is yet to come.

SINGING MY FEELINGS: THIS IS MY LIFE...SHIRLEY BASSEY

I am amazed that this song found me this week! I LOVE LOVE LOVE Shirley Bassey! Loved her from the first note of Goldfinger...from James Bond. I love her style...I love big pouffy gowns and matching dusters...LOL! Anyway This Is My Life is an amazing song! and I am so FEELING THIS!



Funny how a lonely day, can make a person say:
What good is my life
Funny how a breaking heart, can make me start to say:
What good is my life
Funny how I often seem, to think I'll find never another dream
In my life
Till I look around and see, this great big world is part of me
And my life
This is my life
Today, tomorrow, love will come and find me
But that's the way that I was born to be
This is me
This is me

This is my life
And I don't give a damn for lost emotions
I've such a lot of love I've got to give
Let me live
Let me live

Sometime when I feel afraid, I think of what a mess I've made

Of my life
Crying over my mistakes, forgetting all the breaks I've had
In my life
I was put on earth to be, a part of this great world is me
And my life
Guess I'll just add up the score, and count the things I'm grateful for
In my life
This Is my life
Today, tomorrow, love will come and find me
But that's the way that I was born to be
This is me
This is me

This is my life
And I don't give a damn for lost emotions
I've such a lot of love I've got to give
Let me live
Let me live

This is my life
This is my life
This is my life