It’s A Wonderful Life.
Chicas…
I bid you all a belated Merry Christmas. I can only hope that awl of yours was as great as mine.
You might believe that mine was great only because I got so many wonderful presents.
Well let me tell you that if you were thinking that, you’re very much wrong.
I’m Alicia Rivera, and I have tons of money to spend whenever I feel like it. There was no point in getting a ton of gifts that I couldn’t have already bought.
You see, this Christmas holiday I decided to dedicate all of my time and some cash helping charities. It makes me incredibly sad seeing someone less fortunate than I. There are tons of people out there who have never gotten a Christmas present in their life.
These people never have enough to eat, they never have the warmth and comfort of a home, and a lot of times never get helped.
This is where I came in.
Like I said a few lines up, I have tons of money. My motto on my credit card is, ‘the limit does not exist.’ [Obviously meaning I'll always have enough money.] So I decided to go down to Westchester’s local homeless shelter [shocker we have one, right?] and spend my Christmas Eve and most of my Christmas day there.
The week before Christmas, I had been going around all of the Westchester neighborhoods asking for last season’s coats, scarves, hats, gloves and blankets. Each person who’s house I went to, asked what I was doing with all of those outdated clothes since I’d never been seen wearing anything off season. I told them that I was collecting for the homeless shelter and that I was going to be helping out there this break. I apparently touched awl of their hearts because they each gave me a thousand dollar check to buy more clothes, blankets and food for the homeless.
After I had bought all that I could transport, I had my driver drive me over to the homeless shelter. You’d think, that this being Westchester, they would have a nice homeless shelter. [Okay, well you'd think we wouldn't have homeless shelters or homeless people.] The homeless shelter was far from nice. I was in shock and pity at the terrible condition of it.
Immediately upon seeing it, I pulled out my iPhone 4 and dialed my father’s number. When he picked up, I explained to him what was going on, and if he would allow me to somehow get a better shelter built. Not being able to deny his little girl anything, and also being amazed at my kindness, assured me he would get right to it.
After the phone call, I marched into the building, smiling warmly at every person I walked past. When I saw a lady who appeared to be a worker at the shelter, I walked over and started telling her about everything that I had gotten. The shock on her face was apparent. We walked out to the car together, and when she saw all that I brought, she started to tear up and was thanking me profusely.
I told her it was nothing and started helping her unload all of the items. When we walked back into the shelter with our arms full of stuff, the eyes of the homeless lit up. It warmed my heart to see their joy.
Needless to say, I spent the other couple days before Christmas helping out still. I knew it would be a few months before a new homeless shelter would be finished being built, so I decided to buy some decor that would make the place somehow more homier.
Christmas Eve came, and I hired a chef to start preparing a Christmas dinner for the people. While the chef was preparing, I was out shopping. I was shopping for all of those who lived at the shelter. I bought them all new clothes, some sanitary tools, books, a few TVs to place around the shelter along with movies and TV show seasons, and for the kids I bought them toys of all kinds.
The joy and hope on their faces was beyond that time when we brought in the coats and blankets. You could tell that they felt loved and cared for, for once in their lives. It was truly amazing.
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Do you have any gifts that you were very surprised &/or happy to have received? What was your worst present?
I got everything that I had on my Christmas wishlist.
Would you care to know what I bought for the PC?
Massie: Pure gold necklace with a “M” on it; the perfume Amarige by Givenchy; and I made a collage of photos of her and I along with some of Bean; $100 gift card to Nordstrom.
Dylan: Pure gold necklace with a “D” on it; BCBG Max Azria, Max Azria perfume; and I made a collage of photos of her and I along with some of her favorite foods on it; $100 gift card to Dylan’s Candy bar.
Kristen: Pure gold necklace with a “K” on it; Bond No. 9 Little Italy perfume; I made a collage of her and I with David Beckham thrown in; $100 gift card to H&M.
Claire: Pure gold necklace with a “C” on it; Someday by Justin Bieber perfume; I made a collage with the two of us and a bunch of her other photography pictures; $100 gift card to GAP.
Lastly, to hang in the HQ was a huge collage of the PC and I, along with our crushes and fellow cheerleaders.
As you can see, the gifts were all similar to each other, but they loved them nonetheless.
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Heart You Forever: The Blog
As you can no doubt see, I gave the blog a complete makeover.
The theme has changed from Pilcrow to Vigilance [Also seen on Crystal's of LegitimatelyLuxurious].
I changed from my usual three pictured headers, to this one [that if you're wondering, I did make myself].
There’s a new ‘text’ widget that I suggest you read.
I also added a ‘calendar’ widget where you can see what days I posted on and what the date is. ;p
Most of the pages have been updated too.
- The extras page has lost a couple links, but the pages inside are still as wonderful.
- All About Me : A page that gives you the basics about me and the reason that I’m not Alpha(; [Don't worry, I luh-v ya Mass].
- Contact : I decided to get myself a new email, because I honestly hate HotMail. If you’d like to know what it is, to contact me; go to the page.
- Lovely Photographs : A page with gorgeous pictures that I find and that will be updated with more & new photos monthly.
- Music Video Of The Month : You can see it explains itself. Interested to know what I think is the best music video of the month? Go to the page.
- Poly-icious : A page dedicated to all of my Polyvore sets that I’ve made by scratch. Although there probably won’t be anymore new ones, I did have some that I hadn’t uploaded that are now on that page. And they’re amazing, if I do say so myself. (;
- Favorites : If you’re interested in knowing mine [& Kaddie's] top 5 favorite movies, TV shows, books, songs, etc. This is the page to go.
- Advice : Umadbro? If you ever have a problem that needs to be solved, or if you are mad, and want to let off some steam, comment there.
- And I Quote : This page hasn’t actually changed, besides some colors. If you would like to know some quotes from some very classy ladies, or have a quote that you’d like up there, then you know what to do.
- En & Fuera : Check out my monthly ins and outs here. This month’s features the Jonas Brothers, Wonderstruck, and more.
- Picture It : A page full of pictures of me that many of you may not have seen? I think that’s a seller.
- The Classy Pretty Committee : If you’d like to know the blogs of my clique, there you go. We’re currently looking for a Dylan, so if you’d like to apply, comment on that page or contact MBL.
- Winter Beauties : This is the advertisement page. I’ve gone through the list and anyone who has quit or hasn’t posted in about a month has been deleted off this page. Scroll through the names mentioned and see if you’re up there. You aren’t? Comment on the page and I’ll add you.
