Dancing with the Stars is one of those "guilty pleasure" shows that I watch (it's the only reality TV show that I watch, although sometimes I watch The Voice when I feel like it) mainly because I love ballroom dancing. I am not good at it, but watching the pros and the celebrities dance together...some I don't mind watching while others...let's just say that good riddance to them once they were voted off the show!

Anyway, aside from paso doble another ballroom dance i don't mind moving around the dance floor on is RUMBA. It is a Latin dance infused with passion, romance and...well, SEX! :p It is a damn sexy dance and I have a select few rumba dances from DWTS that I don't mind watching over & over again:

Rumba 1: Pamela Anderson & Damian Whitewood

Rumba 2: Shawn Johnson & Mark Ballas

Rumba 3: Jennifer Grey & Derek Hough

Rumba 4: Nicole Scherzinger & Derek Hough

Rumba 5: Gilles Marini & Cheryl Burke

Now after watching these dances, doesn't it make you wanna grab somebody, find a slow, let's-get-it-on song and just ignite the dance floor with passion?! -LoL-

I know I will be...in my dreams anyway, lol ;P

"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake."  - William Blake

I learned a long time ago that you can't just claim someone as your 'friend' after knowing them for just a year or not even.  Acquaintance might be the proper term to use to refer to said person, but friend?

Friend, to me, means so much more.  Maybe when I was younger I was so damn eager to call someone my best friend, but as I got older I began questioning the true meaning of that term and realized...I don't really have a so-called 'best friend'. I thought I found my so-called BFF, but turns out I was wrong and both so-called BFFs turned out to be...well, let's just say that the two people I thought was my BFF I lost contact with.  One BFF that particular friendship ended on a sour note and the other BFF...let's not even go there.  I dunno how that relationship ended and why it ended the way it did.  Actually, I don't think there was an ending to that relationship at all.  It just... dissipated!

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." - Socrates 

Suffice to say I became more and more selective of people I associate myself with over the years.  I also learned to separate my friends/acquaintances from work & outside of work as well; sometimes meshing the two together don't result in something promising. There's probably just a handful of people I call my 'close friends', while the others remain in the 'acquaintances' category.

Looking back there were a few people I hung out a lot with when I was younger.  We mingled with the same people and traveled in the same circle together.  But a decade later, when we all grew up and started living our own lives, doing different things and working in different fields (goodbye fast food chains that gave us a break in the work force) people from then - the ones I spent almost every damn weekend with - were no where to be found.  I kept in touch with a few of them, but only one person I moved to my 'close friends' while the others was shoved to the bottom of my 'acquainted' list.

Funny how you manage to find out what the hell's happening in peoples' lives these days courtesy of these social networks that kept on popping-up here, there, everywhere!  You see this person is connected with so and so who you happen to know from before and was actually a part of a clique together, hung out together, spent weekends and some holidays together, but you wonder: how come we are not friends and yet he/she is friends with so and so who also happens to be on my friends list too?

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." - Samuel Johnston

Now I don't take offense on that.  It just amazes me that these people remained connected with each other and yet that said connection was severed when it came to me.  Oh well, life goes on, I guess.  Life's far too precious to waste wondering why people you knew from your past don't give a damn about whatever 'relationship' you might've had with them before.

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington

So in a little over a month I'll be celebrating yet another birthday, but for this year I'm setting up a goal for myself to meet before my birthday arrive.  Since there's a 24 Hour gym just down the hall from where my second job is located, I think I'm gonna sign up for a membership and hopefully I get to follow-through with making sure to keep up with it.

It'll give me something to do & at the same time it will help me stay healthy as well as get fit.  I tried staying fit and working out at home, but I just don't get motivated enough.  At least with this one (I hope) I'll be forced to put in at least 30 to 60 minutes of work-out time and get something accomplished & look good for my birthday.

Last year I sorta started a tradition for my birthday.  I wanna keep it up every year, but where to go and who to contact is the problem...oh well, I'll eventually figure it out.

Wow, I can't believe we're well underway into the last few days of the third month of 2011.  What has happened during the first quarter of the year?  So much has happened since the new year and...well, I'm back to working two jobs right now.  Long story short: I need some extra cash to pay off everything!  I mean, sure my one job's enough to keep me alive & kicking, but it's not enough to help pay for the bills and whatnots!  Hopefully with this second part-time job I'll be able to earn enough so I can get all my bills squared off.

Anyway, despite of some monetary problems (let's face it, who doesn't worry about money these days, hm?), I am still working on getting some of my numerous work-in-progress stories done.  Speaking of which, right now I have so many ducks lined up in a row and slowly working on them.  Also I've decided to enter one of my many WIP stories for this year's Watty Awards over at Wattpad; it's home to most of my WIP fan fiction stories as well as some original fiction stories.

Since I need to get as many votes as possible in order for me to win the Watty Awards, I am shamelessly pimping my current WIP original story.  So if you're feeling bored and wanting something to read, well, why not surf on to Wattpad & check out my current WIP that's competing for the aforementioned Watty Awards:

The Hunters, The Vampires, & The Girl

Two seasoned hunters are following the trail of a rumoured vicious were-person; its actual classification yet to be determined, but it was cited as dangerous.  The trail led them to a small Alberta town enriched with the supernatural dating back to its early settler years where a couple of vampires quietly reside amongst the humans.  The reception between the hunters and vampires wasn’t welcoming, but the foursome knew they must forge an alliance and a temporary truce in order to stop this entity that barrelled into this quiet small town.

Snippet from The Hunters, The Vampires & The Girl

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It occurred to me that in two weeks' time we will be saying au revoir to 2010 and screaming bienvenue to 2011. Can you believe the new year's almost upon us? What has happened to the past 12 months of 2010? Was 2010 a memorable year for you? Were you able to do all the things you said you'd do this year?

Looking back I think I had a wonderful 2010. I managed to check-off more than one item off my New Year's Resolution List, so that was a good thing. Usually I make up these lists for the new year and barely checks off any one of the things I listed; being able to check-off two to three items off that list this year sure was an accomplishment.

Now for 2011 I want to make it something worth remembering and hopefully start something that would continue on for years to come. It was a plan I hatched a week ago with the help of my wonderful mother.

You see I was planning on putting together a "treat" basket and put it up for auction on eBay to whomever wants to snag it for a possible Christmas or Birthday or Whatever gift for someone they know. I was thinking of making it a "themed" treat basket; filling said basket with stuff for a certain "fan-person" like a Twilight treat basket or a Justin Bieber treat basket or something that would make whomever the recipient might be so damn happy because the basket contained stuff they really wanted.

Anyway, as I was canvassing how much one basket would actually cost to put together, I started thinking of other things, like getting some "one of a kind" stuff from certain individuals. Of course I'd have to contact certain popular individuals and plead my case with them in the hopes of snagging something worthwhile to include in my treat basket, but as I was thinking of doing this another thought entered my mind: The treat basket auction sale must be for something worthwhile for these people to actually consider donating something to spice up each treat basket! So then I started thinking of what worthy charity should I sponsor so half of the proceeds for the auctioned treat basket(s) will be given to said charity.

Mom helped me out with this one. I wouldn't have thought of it first because really this type of non-profit organization often stays under the radar due to the nature of what this organization's helping with. I know a lot of people would automatically sponsor something for cancer research or children's hospitals or some other well-known charities/organizations, and that was what I did when I started thinking which charity/organization to help, then my wonderful voice of reason (aka my Mother) asked: Why not sponsor a center for abused women and children?

Proverbial light bulb lit-up over my head as soon as Mom mentioned it. Of course! These women - especially the children - didn't ask to be involved and raised under such dire circumstances. The women and children such organization helps are the ones who are wanting a new lease on life violence-free.

So now I have my charity/organization to sponsor, I am doing the necessary research, plotting and planning and hopefully by Christmas 2011 I'll be able to pull off a special event fundraiser event to support my charity/organization. Hopefully I get to work out all the kinks, get as many people to volunteer and/or donate and file any necessary paperwork to run a fundraiser event and start helping these women and children in need!