great news.

As you can see I'm changing my blog title into "*the great thursday" as I think it's time for a change and thursdays have always been great for me.
This day of the week has something magical about it - the rain on the balcony handrail in the morning, the cherries on the tree through the bus window, the skylines and the colors, the sun beam in your friend's eyes, the black umbrella and the library, the evenings and the shadows on the quiet table, the sigh and the step outside, ..
So I decided to dedicate my blog to my thursdays. The great thursdays.
From now on the address of this blog will be:

thegreatthursday.blogspot.com.

Don't forget to follow the new web address in your Reader + RSS Feeds!!
xoxo
Ak.

dream vacation.

photos and info via My Modern Met

As summer goes by I'm thinking what would be your dream vacation?
I've just found this project of the luxury underwater hotel that is going to be built in Dubai - isn't it amazing?

It will have 21 suites that are 10 meters below the surface and, with the hotel's ability to rotate, guests will enjoy incredible views of the ocean down below. A special lighting system will illuminate the sea life outside and guests will be able to zoom in and take a closer look at all the tiny creatures using macro photography.
That would definitely be my dream vacation!
More information if you'd like.
xoxo
Ak.

yoga.

photo via Pinterest

As I don't do anything very productive this summer, I decided to do some sports. I never was a sports fan, but perhaps as I grow older, I get a little clever and I think it's important to take care of your body and health.

Last summer I did some aerobics, instructed by Deanne Berry and since then I practiced it from time to time. Later a friend of mine, who's working at the gym, created a personal workout as I asked her for 3 main things: that it wouldn't be hard, that it would exercise my whole body and that it wouldn't last longer than half an hour. Yes, I was very accurate about that. After couple months she made my workout more difficult.
And now I downloaded yoga basics at home video and started doing it. I have to say - it's so different from aerobics, so slow, so relaxing, so it's kind of hard for me to concentrate to the breathing when I'm used to listening to loud music while doing sports. And also due to the fact that I'm not flexible at all. But it's a nice change.
P. S. I hope I will do it someday.
P. S. P. S. That's just wow.
xoxo
Ak.

wonderful hair color.

photo via Pinterest

My hairdresser would never let me this (she always praises my hair color every time I come to her, saying she has never seen such color and that she has seen A LOT of them, haha), but I'd love to dye my hair this way, it's a novelty in the fashion world - it looks fantastic, don't you think?

Oh well. I'll have to wait until I retire.

xoxo

Ak.

Inspiration Monday.

photo Imgfave

Have you ever visited this brilliant Daily Odd Compliment tumblr?

The most coolest compliments I've ever read:)

These are my favorite:

 

I'm curious- what would you say if you ever wanted to say a really nice compliment?

I think I would go for something like this:

When I'm with you, I kind of feel like Douglas Spaulding wearing his brand new tennis shoes. And if you haven't read "Dandelion Wine", most important is that it says those shoes are like menthol on your feet. And what I want to say is that you're kind of like menthol on my heart.

Have a kind week, my dears!

xoxo
Ak.

although.

photo via Pinterest

I want to share with you a lovely story that my grandma told me about her young days recently.

She was a teacher and while studying at the university, one of her professors was in love with her. He was always making some jokes about her or doing some funny things to her. One of them I find very cute.

He asked the students to write complex sentences for homework and then he collected it. My grandma has written this sentence:

Although he loves her, love is not real.

The next day he gave back the homework for students and my grandma's sentence was corrected into this:

       him

Although she loves her, love is not real.

Haha, how cute is that? 

My grandma was super angry on him all the time and it lasted years! Until she graduated and at the graduation ball he took her for a dance and said to her that he's very sorry and that he was never thinking of hurting her feelings. 

Although that was the end of the story and nothing happened between them, now she still remembers him with a smile:)

xoxo

Ak.

P. S. I'm visiting my relatives this week, so I don't have much time (and internet) for my blog - I'll catch up with you later, my dears, have a great week!

linen bedding.

photo via Pinterest

I'm curious - what's your favorite bedding?

My mom recently bought new ones, 100% cotton, but my favorite of all are the ones we have from earlier and it's 100% linen. It's warm and cozy to sleep in winter, but light and airy in summer - brilliant! The fabric is also very soft for your skin - I just love sleeping in it and if you want my advice - well, just try it, you'll get the trick the second you lie down:).

xoxo

Ak.

Inspiration Monday.

Today I wanted to show you something fun and surprising.
This video demonstrates one of the Asch conformity experiments. These experiments were made to demonstrate the surprising degree of conformity to a majority opinion.
This video is just hilarious!
I wonder how I would have reacted.
Have a fun week, my dears!
xoxo
Ak.

[..] my land is my only home.

Remember when I told you about Festival of Songs and Dances? Well, this year it is going to be the "smaller" one - only the pupils are taking part in it. But still - there will be 8000 pupils! Wow.
Here you can watch the video from Pupils' Festival of Songs and Dances 2009 - beautiful song and lovely lyrics.
Tonight I'm going to this concert, so I promise to share some photos or videos afterwards. I can't wait, I'm so excited! It's something indescribable to see thousands of people sing the same song as one.. Every face is so happy, so joyful. It's just magical.
Have a lovely weekend, dears!
xoxo
Ak.

I will never forget your pain

But you have to know how soon the trees will be blooming again

Someday I will turn into the tree myself

My land will call me home..

Only she is the true meaning

Nothing will  ever change her

Only for her you sacrifice everything

She's your beginning and your end.

happy 1st birthday to my blog!

photo via Poetic Home

So it's already (only?) a year since I started writing this blog!
Here's my very first post on the 4th of July 2011:)
I'm really happy for myself that I didn't quit writing it.
It's becoming my lee, where I put my good feelings to.
As you probably noticed, I never wrote here something really sad. But it doesn't mean I'm always lucky. I'm not. Sometimes I wonder if I'm not this kind of person, hahaha:).
Anyway, every minute that I was thinking of giving it up, I thought of the reason why I held on trying til now. And that was what kept me doing it.
Simple. Sharing good things make them double.
So today I'll show you some things I'll wrote about during this year.
To begin with, I wrote 29 Inspiration Monday! Most visited Inspiration Monday was this one.
I also wrote about my childhood summer, the place where my mother was born, about the rules of kayking, about dreams, about what I love about Vilnius, about autumn, about loosing something, but not getting lost, about balcony conversations, about nice strangers, about how foreigners imagine Lithuania, about home being home.
I talked about how to gain more self-confidence and showed you great ideas, how to break bad habits.
I shared some photos I made in Bamberg and Bayreuth, Christkindlesmarkt, Nürnberg vs Berlin match, Salzburg, Panemunė, München, Trakai and Anykščių stumbrynas. And made a little tour for you in the main street in Nuremberg.
I gave you some tips - like how to open a wine bottle without the corkscrew. Or where to go in Vilnius at the evening. Or how to make marbleized Easter eggs.
I gave some advice about finding a present on Christmas. Or finding presents while you're travelling.
I recommended some music, books and theater performance.
I recommended some movies for you - like Volver. Or some of the Korean. And some short movies like Ticking Boxes or The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. And some TV series - like The New girl. Or The Office.
I showed you some great art projects, like  Feet First, Stars Death, Levitation, Vilnius temperature or just a random beautiful painting.
I ask you couple questions about clothes - like do you wear a Christmas jumpers? And showed you what's new that I adore in the fashion world.
I gave you some advice on beauty - like how to keep your face skin beautiful. Or how to have silky hair.
I wrote some fun random posts - like the one about planking or tebowing. And shared some fun stuff about European Basketball Championship taking place in Lithuania.
I also shared another fun facts, just like the one about night blooming flower or this scary story.
And I showed you my perfect birthday gift:).
That's not all of the posts I did - just some of them so you can get the picture.
Anyway, happy birthday to my blog!
And one more thing:

P. S. Remember: success goes after work only in the dictionary:).

With love,
Ak.

call your folks.

Last night I was chatting with one of my best friends (you can see her in the picture. We look funny though, but I like this photo - it was taken during our trip to Berlin in the summer 2010:). So I asked her without what she couldn't image me. And her answer was surprising.
She said: my life.
That was one of the sweetest things someone has said to me.
And this morning I've found this quote:
And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling "This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!"
And each day, it's up to you, to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say "No. This is what's important."
via I Wrote This For You
So call your folks - that is what's important today.
xoxo
Ak.

call me.

photo via Refinery29

Just a quick note. What a cute and delicious idea to get a date, don't you think:)?

Although I would write something else instead of these words - I laughed at the comment on Facebook with 5 likes: ugh that song is HORRIBLE!! 

Haha, that is really true.
Anyway, I would definitely call if a guy makes such pie!
But it's never going to happen - I know. And that is why - just a little joke, don't be angry guys:).
xoxo

Ak.

Inspiration Monday.

photo via My Modern Metropolis

Hello, July!
I hope you all are starting the hottest summer month with your plans on holiday with your family and friends.

Today I'm promising to myself to go by the Baltic sea this month (I hope to Jurmala, Latvia - I love that beach! It's the biggest resort in the Baltic States, by the way:).
So today I suggest you to check this wonderful ocean photos made by photographers CJ Kale and Nick Selway.
Wow. It's so beautiful - makes me want to go swimming to the sea right away!
Have a refreshing week!
P. S. More photos if you want..
xoxo
Ak.