It’s a brand new year and you can start over! If 2008 wasn’t your best dating and flirting year, you change it! Decide right this minute that 2009 will surely bring someone new and exciting into your life! Let that fun, fearless and flirty person that’s been hiding inside you to shine!

There are so many things that you can try to do this 2009 to change and improve your dating life! Make sure that your dating radar is working. Too often men and women don’t pick up on the subtle messages they receive so they miss out on a good thing. Make a list of all the qualities you *must* have in a relationship and don’t settle for less. You won’t be happy and the relationship won’t last. Enjoy dating them but don’t make them a keeper unless all your must haves are covered.

With the New Year comes the opportunity to flaunt the flirt in you. It’s all very simple. When on the net or out in public places like clubs and entertainment venues, try to be bold and snag the one that you have your eye on. Flash the one you want with your warmest and sexiest smile! That one smile can change the way your luck has been running! A big smile will surely get you noticed! If he or she doesn’t move in, well it’s their loss, right? Remember that momma always said there were more fish in the sea. Every one that doesn’t bite is just a practice cast!

As we move into 2009, if you’re feeling unlucky in the dating department, don’t despair! You have 12 brand new months to change things around. Remember that you can never change other people, so if you aren’t getting the attention you want.. you have to change yourself. You have to believe in yourself and what you can do. By channeling a bit of positive thinking, it will reflect in your outlook and this will be noticed by others. So look in the mirror every day and see someone that everyone wants to get to know. You’ll get fireworks on more than New Year’s Eve!


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1. If you eat a Christmas cookie fresh out of the oven, it has no calories because everyone knows that the first cookie is the test and thus calorie free.

2. If you drink a diet soda after eating your second cookie, it also has no calories because the diet soda cancels out the cookie calories.

3. If a friend comes over while you are making your Christmas cookies and needs to sample, you must sample with your friend. Because your friend’s first cookie is calorie free (see rule #1). It would be rude to let your friend sample alone, and being the friend that you are, makes your cookie calorie free as well.

4. Any cookie calories consumed while walking around will fall to your feet and eventually fall off as you move. This is due to gravity and the density of the caloric mass.

5. Any calories consumed during the frosting of the Christmas cookies will be used up because it takes many calories to lick excess frosting from a knife without cutting your tongue.

6. Cookies colored red or green have very few calories. Red ones have 3 and green ones have 5 – one calorie for each letter. Make more red ones!

7. Cookies eaten while watching Miracle on 34th Street have no calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one’s personal fuel.

8. As always, cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breaking causes calorie leakage.

9. Any cookies consumed from someone else’s plate has no calories since the calories rightfully belong to the other person and will cling to their plate. We all know how calories like to CLING!

And finally…

10. Any cookies consumed while feeling stressed have no calories because cookies used for medicinal purposes NEVER have calories. It’s a rule!


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When we were kids, we were read stories of princes who rode away to lands far, far away to look for their princesses. They battled dragons and monsters. They fought ogres and witches. They did all this and more in their quest for their one true love. Despite the sufferings and hardships they encountered along the way, they were able to save their damsels in distress and find their heart’s one true desire. Sadly, these things only happen in fairytales but do we let real life and cynicism get in the way of our quest for our heart’s missing piece.

Too often we listen to the news or the chatter at work and it’s about blood, sweat and tears. We’re bombarded with the negative things that are happening around us. We are blinded and jaded by thoughts that have marred our optimism. It doesn’t have to be that way. We can choose how we react to the world around us.

We all long for someone to love and care for us and too often we’re too focused on the bad things around us to pay attention to the good things that happen every day to us and make us more worthy of loving.

The magic and power of love often comes in the most unexpected places and times. Believe in love. Keep your heart and mind open for it. Look for the good in people rather than always seeing their faults. Your life will be better for it in every aspect. And… start living the fairytale — maybe that prince or princess will show up before you know it.


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