I’ve been lagging on the blogging lately. My one resolution for 2008 was to finally concentrate on myself, my own personal happiness and growth/evolution. I wanted to pamper myself as well as search for what would be truly fullfilling. And I have stayed true to my word (i think this is literally the only resolution I have ever followed through with). This blog had sort of a specific focus for a while but as I evolve so needs to the blog. I am hoping to have a new design soon, and with that more blogging from me. I don’t want to be just one thing. Because I’m not. I’m vain and superficial and spend hours reading Perez Hilton and Gawker and googling Botox and face creams and fad diets. But there is the other side to me, the humanitarian, the political junkie, the web nerd. This year is all about integrating my two selves. I can write a chick lit novel and also work for The Innocence Project. I can be silly, laugh at myself, wear makeup, throw on 4 inch peep toe pumps and spend two hours curling my hair,  wonder why love seems like it’s so hard to find and even more difficult to keep. I still watch Sex and the City. And I’m not ashamed of it. I spend most of my days in Hello Kitty pajama’s wrapped in a Hello Kitty Blanket writing on Pink post it notes, listening to Feist thinking  “Omg, I should so be at the gym right now.” But I can conversely be incredibly serious, thirsty for knowledge, compassionate and empathetic, determined to do something, anything with my time on this earth that will have mattered in a significant way. I don’t want to live in a box. Anyone’s box. Especially my own. Here’s to having great boobs, a love for skinny jeans and juicy gossip and also being an actual intelligent, hard working, noble human being:)

xoxoxo,
ilyana