At the core, people are good!

Like most of you, i've been captivated by the US Airways plane that went down in the Hudson River. The event has sucked me in for a variety of reasons, I fly from Laguardia often, I am on business on the west side of NY, right near and often on those very piers where the plane went down, and because its hard to imagine that a plane can really land in a river, and everyone can get out safely.

But what has really sucked me in is the fact that at the very core people are good and selfless. I think about all those people who run the ferry boats in NY, who immeadiately headed over to the sinking plane and helped to save every last one of them, dockhands, captains, even the ticket takers, they acted flawlessly and with ease, to just help!

It speaks volumes about human nature. I think it is an innate characteristic that we all have, but rarely are we tested on!

So i raise a glass to all of you, the people of the New York Waterways, and say KUDOS for not only a job AMAZINGLY DONE, but for reminding all of us, what teamwork, and selflessness and the goodness of mankind is all about!

A few Good Ideas!

So i'm getting ready to head to New York next week for the NY International Gift Show! Its a daunting task, and for those of you have never been, picture a huge huge convention center set up with thousands of booths that are 10 x 10 filled with everything you can imagine. I have often thought of pitching a reality game show where you are given an empty house and then you and other contestants are given a certain budget and a time frame to race through and furnish the house, but not just with furniture, you must get everything, and the gift show has it all! Beds, bedding, towels, kitchen sets and placesettings, frames, mirrors, utensils, food for the cupboard, clothing, accessories for the living room and family room! At the end of the show, they deliver everything and they see if you stayed in budget! Admit it sounds sort of fun!

So the problem i face is, i'm out of ideas of new cool gifts to buy, so if you have a favorite product or gift you like to give, a keepsake that's so cute or something fabulous for the desk in your office, email me and let me know so i can find it!

Not sure where to start, so i'll take Revolutionary Road for 100!

So the other night I saw the DiCaprio Winslet much ado about nothing movie Revoltionary Road, the big screen adaptation of Richard Yates' novel. It tells the age old story of people in an unhappy marriage. I will say, it was an excellent character study of the furiously bored. Here's what i take from the movie and can see it applied to so many people I know, but who keep it all a secret hush hush!

Many people think they are destined for something big, something important in their lives, career, philanthropy, world travel, fame, fortune! The truth is, really we are all just human, except for the very few who either by fate or by lots of hard work and devotion, and perhaps a bit of luck become bigger than themselves in life. Most of us go to college, maybe onto graduate school, have our first apartment and our first job, do the 20 something social scene. For some its just regular and for others, its a very impressive high life. But in the end, most people trade it in for a house in the suburbs, 2 kids, a dog, a husband who works very hard to provide a good life, a few trips and some great friends.

There are choices that we make and sacrifices. And in the end, some except the road they've chosen and realize that they are good and kind and hard worker, but really no different than the majority of people. For those that are different, we oooh and ahhh over their lives and sometimes feel a twinge of envy. The ones who suffer are the ones who can't accept who they are and what life is.

2009, full steam ahead!

Happy New Year! I actually like New Years Day, much better than New Years Eve. I like to stay home, enjoy the peace and quiet, clean out the old, organize the new and get ready for the new days ahead. I don't believe in resolutions, mainly because I seem to break them much faster than the time it took me to come up with them. I'll make some general goals, which i'll share with you. Get to the gym more often, don't sweat the small stuff, release negative energy, don't surround myself with people who either stress me out or just make me feel bad, stop and smell the fresh air, aprreciate each day, BLOG MORE!

In honesty, i feel like New Years Day is my day at the Ashram, no talking, no working, no stressing, just being, just flopping in bed, reading the paper, reading a book, decluttering the mind and soul!

I hope you had the same type of day!

Bahumbug!

So I braved the mall today! I wouldn't have gone, except i have a friend coming in and needed to buy new sheets and a new blanket! I must admit, second to a new lipstick, there is nothing like buying really soft sheets and a great blanket! And then i started to stroll, just for the hell of it!

Honestly, I have never seen so many people! Not in the stores, because they seemed empty but roaming the halls and standing in line to take pics with Santa! What struck me on my walk was just how many jean stores and beauty stores were there!

Kiehls, bath and body works, lush, origins, l'occitaine, fruits & passion, crabtree & evelyn, the body shop, aveda, sephora, mac and bare escentials! How much creme, soap and makeup can one buy?

Next up was denim stores, 7 for all mankind, AG Adriano Goldschmied, True Religion, not to mention, lucky brand, abercrombie & Fitch, then just the run of the mill, Gap, American Eagle, and 3 department stores loaded with denim!

Just You Wait!

Here at B.Dazzled, i am done with holiday gifts. I'm a forward thinking girl and am hard at work getting ready to bring you great new stuff for 2009!

So, keep your cash in your wallet and some room on your credit card because I am about to bring you great new gifts and jewels to start the year off right!

xoxo

b.dazzled girl!

Escorts and Economics

Last night i went to pick up food for dinner and in front of me was a very pretty young woman, who i am certain was an"Escort", she had lots of cash in her wallet, lots of shopping bags on her arm and a lot of bling! It got me to wondering, in this economic climate, are the prostitutes, dancers and Escorts, feeling the crunch as well? Most of us have cut back, fewer dinners at fancy restaurants, longer periods of time between facials and haircuts, less trips, less new shoes!

But what about the sex industry, have men cut back or are those girls still doing well?