Image Matters

While we are in communication with most of you on a daily basis, and not with some who live far away and given the busy lives we live, I thought this would be a great way to kick start the new 2006 and share with you the events from 2005 and the influence you have made in our lives.

Blair and I have spent an amazing year and while at times challenging, the days were interwoven with joy and tears, and we have survived yet another year and are thankful for all those who have touched our lives.

After nine years together, seven of those married, we found a place where we meet on the turf that is “ours” instead of having it be “my way or the highway” and life has been a banquet, from which we are feasting and having a blast.

I took a self-imposed sabbatical, so to spend more time with my husband, spend time at home instead of hustling and packing and unpacking suitcases while traveling from one city to another all over the country, also to be readily available for my sister who was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 2004, when she needed me.

Without any networking what so ever I stayed busy, my career lucrative and future promising. What lights me up and kept me stay out of trouble is my passion to train new consultnts and one on one individual consulting. Morever in the recent four to five yeras I have become image expert and adviser for a multitude of publications, Cosmopolitan , US Weekly, Star, People, Shanghai Evening Post, China, German Gala, AP and etc. it gave me expresion of creatvie writing, which is another of my passions. Listed for your pleasure are few examples.

http://www.rothschildimage.com/articles/.

In May of 2005, Blair finally quit his job with Applied Minds, which was going nowhere; however, he misses the brilliance and leadership of Danny Hillis, Co-Chairman, and Chief Technology Officer. The two men born on the same day respect each other’s intelligence and talent tremendously. Today Blair is working at Sony Pictures Imageworks with some amazing people in a rewarding and satisfying position and only 15 minutes away from home. An additional bonus.

For Blair’s birthday, I surprised him with a first class train trip to San Luis Obispo, where we met his folks for lunch and celebrated father and son’s birthdays. Their birthdays are a day apart. We returned back to LA in a romantic sleeper, enjoyed an elegant dinner, with the gorgeous scenery while chasing the sunset rays along the coast, with hundreds & hundreds of dolphins frolicked in the sun embraced waters as they followed us and made this trip a wonderful experience. Try it, it is great experience, but make sure you go first class.

Blair’s parents successfully harvested their vineyards and then one after the other, survived, the mother with a knee surgery and the father a hip replacement and today are off, well almost off and running at their beautiful vineyards estate in Templeton, California. As you can see Blair’s boyish good looks are inherited from his Germanic mother Barbara.

2005 has been a heart breaking year as we helplessly observed my older sister Mira (here with my son JT in 2004) lost her battle with lung cancer. Friends and family, all those who loved and adored this dynamic woman watch her deal with this horid desise. What makes this even more tragic is the fact that she was a medical practitioner and very aware of the deadly outcome of smoking.

To her daughter Vera, thousands miles away across the puddle (what we call the Atlantic Ocean) thank you for your amazing courage and the strength we all relied on when your Mom passed away. I am impatiently waiting for the day when we will again run on the beach of Santa Monica and reminiscent the old memories while making new ones.

Another blessing in my life is my other Mom, Mrs. Helena Rothschild from Rochester New York, JT’s paternal grandmother, who is a greatest gift I been blessed with. A weekend does not go by that we do not talk with each other and she makes sure to include Blair in all our converastions. She adores him. In true sense she exemplifies what true class and love are.

My adapted sister Linda, here with her husband, JoeT in Cannes, South of France, flue to town just to take me to lunch when my sister Mira died. Some day I’ll tell you how we became sisters. She, from Denver and I from Yugoslavia. Through the years, we have made some sweet memories, some less serious from our single days when we danced till down at Tiffany’s, then an exclusive private club in Marina del Rey and then pigged out on donuts on the way home, those days we could do it, today, oh well. Truly, you are an awesome sister and I could not love you more if we came from same mother. JoeT love you too bro.

Our dear and precious friends, David and Kelley B., their two girls, Ariel 6 and Elle 2 who grow up in front of our eyes, in June 2005, moved 1,000’s of miles away to Avon, CT, to be closer to their grandparents and immediate family, and they took a bit of our hearts with them.

First snow for the California born and breed princesses, Elle and Ariel with their dad David a native of CT.

With anticipation if the 2-year-old Elle will recognize us, we picked them up at airport, as you can see she is very much at home back in our livingroom, with mutual friend Courtney, as the girls open their gifts and reconect. We shared wonderful week, which came to the end way to soon.

To my dear friend Celta, thank you for your generous heart, I been blessed to have you in my life, come rain or come shine you are always there. We truly are blessed to know you. Keep it up; the world needs your gift. She doesn’t like having her picture taken, check her website. Write a book girlfriend.

Doris Scott, what a gift you are. Thank you for the light you bring, like a fresh bright sunrise you light up whereever you go and do it so effortlessly as you empower others ☺. To Joseph your husband thanks for putting up with us during the renovation period, which at times was nothing if not challenging, you are a treasure, “your lordship.” ☺

Time has been kind to this handsome man, and didn’t leave marks of its journey across the face of this charming proprietor of Divino, a four star restaurant at 11714 Barrington Ct Brentwood, CA 90049 310-472-0886. A long time friend, a water polo player for the Yugoslavian team in 1984 Olympics, Goran Milic personifies integrity, charm and hard work and makes me so very proud to be my countryman.

Blair’s younger sibling Bard, stopped for a visit on his way to Germany where he is teaching children skiing, and with the Masters in Atmospheric Sciences is what I call adventurous living. He resembles their father, Blair Sr. There is no place in our home that my husband doesn’t invade with his putters. We have three desks and he is using Carrera marble dining table.

Dear Rochelle, I know I said it before and am saying it gain, thank you, for your generous heart. Girl, keep your dreams alive and don’t ever stop going for what you wont from life. Love you. Check her talented self website.

Then there are people we did not see daily but whose influence on our lives is has left a permanent impact and we still remember. I wish you could know some of those amazing people we call our friends.

Heidi, my dear friend we miss your passion, your awesome leadership, and your New York flavered intelligence. We miss you in our lives and wish you an amazing future in your marriage to Joel and your new journey, in the process don’t forget friends who love you profoundly. You are greatly missed by us all.

Kathy Popoff a friend and a client, for over twenty years, we have watch each others lives travel through some challenging and rewarding roads. As a single mom and an attorney at law, you show no sign of aging. Picture speaks 1,000 words, this one taken at our place on Thanksgiving Day 2005, says it all. Photograph below taken in 1993.

Laura and David B. what a magical, and I mean magical day, at the beach in Santa Monica, on Jewish New Year this was. I spent my whole life by the sea, from the shores of Adriatic where I learned to swim, to the shores of the magnificent islands of Hawaii, where I spentdays body surfing and nights dancing at the waterfront, but none can compare to this day. In pure sense, it was mystical. I’ll treasure this experience for long time to come.

A treasured friend Sarah seated next to Blair, we love you profundly and are blassed to have you in our lives. Without a doubt you are one of the most genrous and courageous people I know. Keep up the good fight my dear, you know we are in your corner.

To you my dear husband and my soul mate thank you for your partnership and your trust in us. Without your belief in this relationship, we would have parted long time ago. We are off to make some new adventures and live an extraordinary life, we did it once we can do it again

While I am thankful for the blessed life that we live and for the people in our lives, not for a moment do I forget the injustices that permeate this government, and the tragedies of the World. From the war in Iraq (pronounced phonetically, Erak) to the New Orleans tragedy and those millions of misplaced people in the crowded streets of this wealthiest country referred to as the homeless. Taxpayers money, yours and mine should be spent not on wars for some political egotistic gains, but to fund facilities where the homeless could be housed, medically helped, educated and sent back into the world to be useful participants of this planet we call Earth.

So when the next election comes around let’s not forget today’s politicians, our decision makers who blow air up each other butts while our fellow Americans in Louisiana were left to themselves to die as the result of political negligence. What a disgrace and some of us actually think that this presidency works.

Lets make our voice count and make difference the next time around.

If you are not listed here forgive me, you know who you are and how you have contributed to our lives. Every clint I ever worked with, new image consultans I trined personly, hair stylist, makeup artis, stuardes, sales assocaites I have ever worked with, every restaurants owner, servers and all my dear friends and family members all over the world, you know how much you are appreciated.

Next year this face will look at least 10 years younger thanks to the best plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills Dr. Dr Randal Haworth. The look on my face is most likely result of the shock how much I have to hand over have this done☺ Ouch, in more ways then one. But trust me he is worth it, I have seen his resoults for the last 10 years and they are fenamonal.

Rated as the one of the top plastic surgeons in the country, Dr Randal Haworth, Bevelry Hills Ca.

So lets finish on a lighter note with a salute to our amazing futures with this outlandish World Cocktail.

Adapted from the World Bar at Trump World Tower, New York

1 ounce Courvoisier XO
1-ounce Pineau des Charentes
1 ounce white grape juice
Dash of Bitters
1/2 ounce lemon juice
Float of Veuve Clicquot
4 Drops of 23-carat edible liquid gold.

À votre santé to The World Peace, our healthy, prosperous and loving 2006 for all.