ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE... LOVE... LOVE..

So I just wrote "The Buzz" Section for the February issue... and of course I focused on Valentines Day... here are a few fun tips I pulled together! I hope you enjoy!  

How to Write a Love Letter
Here are some tips to help you get over writers block and write what you truly mean for your love this valentines!
*Don’t use a Hallmark card, make sure the letter you write is about what YOU have to say. Find a blank card, or use nice stationary.
*Can’t figure out how to begin? Make a list off to the side of adjectives that describe everything you love about your significant over. Then use the list to start your letter. Or, just pretend you’re writing a thank you note and thank your special someone for all he/she does.
*Make sure to point out the length of your relationship and how your feelings have grown over time.
*Compliment the usual subjects—like their eyes, hair, or lips, but give them praise in a new way. A good example of this would be “Your smile is my favorite distraction.”

Pucker Up!
Not only is kissing good for your relationship, it also is good for your health! Locking lips can boost your immune system, relieve stress, and even slow the aging process!

Go for the Dark!
Pick the Dark Chocolate this Valentine’s Day. Research shows that it may help lower blood pressure and bad cholesterol since it contains flavonols. The darker the chocolate, the higher the flavanol content.


Love Quotes:

“True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.” - Leanna L. Bartram

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” Sam Keen

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller

“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” Mark Twain

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” Aristotle

“A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.” Ingrid Bergmen

Harmor Love

We just love Tyler and Desiree Harmor! :)  We were ever so lucky to meet up with them in Seattle for Christmas this year!  Here are some pics of a lunch we went to! :)  

More Kristen's Wedding Photos

So I finally took the time to download my camera this morning and found some wedding pics. Russ had a fun time with the camera--he bundled me up to keep me warm with 2 jackets and then decided to take pics of how funny I looked.  :) RUSSELL RUSSELL RUSSELL.

Rob and Russ Dress up for Mapsons big day

So here are some pics of my friend Dustys wedding. He's a red head so we wont even show him. Here is Rob and his girl friend Megan.

So long story short me and Rob were asked to be groomsmen about a week before the wedding (well almost) so we had to get on ebay and find a tux so that we could be in the pictures. It was fun and we should have rented our tux's from Bo'Ds (the best tux shop in Palmdale and all the nation)

Girls Night Out January 2008!

Girls Night Out! Yeah! We went to Cheesecake Factory and were there for 3.5 hours!  It was so much fun to catch up and gab! :)  Here is a picture of the fun night!

New January 08 Cover

It's Jan 21, and we're finally putting the Jan. issue "to bed."  You guys get a sneak peak at the cover! :)  I'm also attaching the Miss Utah exclusive one of our writers got. I don't know if you've been watching "Ms. America Reality Check" on TLC, but Miss Utah has been in the limelight! :)  I hope she does well in the upcoming pageant! :) If you haven't been watching it, check it out on TLC.com.

  

The Lupus Twitch

So for those of you who don't know, I have Lupus (you can read more about the disease at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupus_erythematosus ) .  Yeah, it sucks.  It's been a crazy last few months trying to discover what it is that's been making me so tired, swollen, and sick, but now I'm finally starting to feel better.  YEAH!  My doctor has me on "steroids."  And Russ keeps making fun of me that I'm going to want to join American Gladiators soon! :) So the point of telling you all this is a funny story of what happened to me today!  I've been doing a lot of tests lately to see what organs the disease has affected.  So far it hasn't been anything too crazy, but they wanted me to go and do a neurology exam to test my muscles and nerves.  I didn't know what to expect, I thought they would put a metal cap on my head and they would know what was going on.  

Yeah, that wasn't the case.  So I go, and the doctor is this little tiny Russian woman.  She tells me to take off my shoes and hop on the table.  She then has me lay down and she hooks up these wires on my arms and then on my hands and she she sends these nice electric shocks through my arm to see how my nerves react.  It's funny because my arm and hand muscles keep jerking. You know how in Harry Potter, the Cructecous curse makes people do things without them wanting to do it--that's what my arms and hands were doing! :)  I thought it was quite funny and kept laughing--even though it kinda hurt.  The doctor told me to calm down and just relax, but how can you do that when your body is totally twitching without you doing anything?  

Hum... so now it's time to do my legs. My feet were pretty easy, but when she got to the top of my legs, she kept shocking the wrong thing, and it would make my foot kick out. I almost hit her right in the face one time! And being the "mean Russian" she is...she kept telling me not to do it, each time she shocked me... but how could I not? She was the one doing it!!!    She kept telling me to relax my foot-- but honestly how can you relax something when somebody else is electrifying it to twitch?  "I mean really--what is the deal?"  

So next came the really not-so-fun part, but actually cool part.  She then went back over my body in about 15 places (even though she poked me like 50 times) and would put a needle/scope in my muscle to "listen" to it.  I swear, it was the weirdest thing ever.  I would probably compare it to an ultra-sound of the muscle.  So she would put the needle in against a muscle and then she would move the needle around, so that it would hit up against the muscle.  She would then have me flex it, and this weird "white noise" would come out.  It sounded like a bad-horror film.  It was really really strange. After doing this in like 15 different places--I was done.  After an 1.75 hours, I was totally over it.  The best part is that she said everything looks pretty good and it's not that bad! :) So yeah, for the twitching, yeah for the needles, and yeah for everything looking good!  I get my results at the end of the week, so I'll keep you posted. For now, I'll just continue to be steroid girl!  :)

Russ aspires to be part of the BLUE MAN GROUP.