Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

happy 1st birthday to my blog!

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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 summerthe 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 ideashow to break bad habits.
I shared some photos I made in Bamberg and BayreuthChristkindlesmarktNürnberg vs Berlin matchSalzburgPanemunėMünchenTrakai 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.
recommended some musicbooks 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 FirstStars DeathLevitationVilnius 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.

happy birthday, to me -

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I must learn to love the fool in me--the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool. ~ Theodore I. Rubin.
xoxo,
Ak.
quote via A Cup Of Jo

[...] my breath smells of a thousand fads.

There are only two days of September left, my lovelies, are you enjoying your last sunny autumn days? I'm very glad that in Nuremberg will be 20 °C (!!) when I arrive, so I'll have more warm days to enjoy.
And one warm autumn day like this, my best friends (I love them!!) gave me a birthday present way way too early (I've got about two months to go), because I'm leaving to Germany and they said to me that my present would be too heavy to send.. and here it is - THE NEW ROBBIE WILLIAMS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was soooooooooooooooo happy!!!! And I am still now!!!!
This picture was taken after I've got my present - strange, how the lights were caught. I'm telling you, it's my happiness dancing around :)))
The book takes us to a trip down memory lane as Robbie opens up his personal photo collection from the past 20 years. The book is chaptered into major milestones in his career and each photo is accompanied by behind-the-scenes insight from Robbie, and of course a generous sprinkling of hilarious anecdotes too. (over 250 photos!!) Here are some of these:

My problems from "what's it gonna be like to live in Nuremberg for 5 months?.." changed to "OMG, how to make my suitcase hold this book??". How easy, ha.
And then I understood: in my life I want to find as much things, which make me feel like that - so smitten, so heart-lifted, as I can. And the more different things I find, the more happy I'll be. And as for everyone:
Find something you’re interested in and keep tremendously interested in it. ~ Julia Child
xoxo,
Ak.
P. S. the fifth photo must have a note: these pictures were taken when Robbie discovered Photo Booth on his computer. haha.