I also wanted to mention that I am working on a little Aaliyah best of/covers mix cd that I will post up here soon!

Well, not actually do gymnastics, but maybe coach gymnastics. She could fake that she knew what she was doing, her name was  Anastasia, and she's been glued to the Olympics watching gymnastics since it came on.

She took another sip of wine.

She felt her life was like a bad Woody Allen movie. Not that his movies were bad but that they were long, drawn out, moody, emotional, ironic, and deep on a pretentious sort of level. She could be an actress, she knew it. She was always told she was a drama queen.

Anastasia Sempura - movie star. Celebrity. But she wouldn't be like a glamazon like Angelina, J.Lo, or anyone else who soaked up the limelight by being sexy all the time. She would be a hip star, kind of like a Sienna Miller, Kate Moss, Mary Kate girl but with something different - she was brunette after all. She'd be a brunette version of what they are.

Or maybe she could just be a model. She read enough Vogue and has seen enough America's Next Top Model (all ten seasons) to know how to smile with her eyes, lift her chin, and contort your body to make it look skinny and waif-like.

Anastasia liked her food though. She was never more than 5 or 10 pounds overweight, but models are generally 10 pounds underweight and she knew she could never be happy and malnourished at the same time.

Taking the last sip of her wine, she grabbed the bottle quickly, almost knocking it over but catching it last minute, and filled up her glass. She shook her head at the tv, knowing the American girl was robbed.

She knew that the one she shared her name with should have won, she stuck her landing for chrissakes. She knew that the poor girl wanted to bawl her eyes out, kick the gold medal winner and take it out from under her.

Anastasia stretched on her uncomfortable leather sofa, put down her glass, and changed the channel. She wondered if she drank too much. She wondered when she'd get a new job.

She switched the channel to TMZ, watching stupid celebrity shows made life a little easier, or maybe it just made her forget, she wasn't sure. She stumbled off her couch to her huge windows that overlooked the city down below.

She was wearing only lingerie, a D&G bra and panty set, with her bright green Louboutins.

Anastasia was hoping someone was going to stop by, but realised that at 1:30 am at night, it wasn't going to happen for the thirteenth day in a row.

She thought of going to bed.

Instead she lay on the couch, watching Britney flail, and thought about how difficult it could be to come out with your own handbag line. Anastasia had huge ideas, green clutches, yellow croc, and even red satin, how hard could it be?

ANASTASIA

a classic story, with beautiful romance. and russian! <3 i love this film very very much. the magical aspects of this are what i always wished i had.

POCAHONTAS

i love the traditional values in this movie, and the songs are ridiculously wonderful! the colours and themes represented in this film are great, too.

ALADDIN

woohoo! i always loved the evil guy, and the genie was a good laugh. i think this and hercules were the movies i watched most often as a child.

HERCULES

i always loved greek mythology, and i especially loved the characters in here (meg! pegasus <3) and i even have a stuffed pegasus, which is my favourite stuffed animal :) the songs in here are fun, and the story is of course, epic.

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

i have a piano book for the soundtrack to this movie <3 i guess i didnt know it was placed in france when i was little, but i loved all the colours and festivites and masks, etc in this movie (like in the first scene with the festival celebration). this is another one i watched quite a lot as a kid.

i hope i can get these all on dvd soon. i asked my mother wehre the tapes of these movies were, and she said they were in the garage somewhere but i bet we gave them away or something : / i'm going to learn a song from each of these movies and sing it! maybe if i can i'll record myself..

Contributed by Anastasia
Member of LovedByHer.com

I'm a mail order bride. I signed up with LovedByHer.com because I want my son to grow up with a father in his life. I was unable to find a good man who could be my sons father in the Ukraine which is my native country. I love my son.

Almost two years ago I met a man from LovedByHer.com and we began to write. I wrote several men LovedByHer.com but this man caught my eye because he wrote me regularly and his letters always gave me much detail and we ask and answered each others questions. As it was he was from America but that did not matter because my desire was to marry a good man that would be loving and caring to my son and me regardless of the country he was from. Some few months later this man (Calvin) came to the Ukraine and we met. He was not the most handsome of men but he brought my son a baseball glove and they played catch and for me he brought his kind gentle nature as the strength of a man that could lead our family. I did not care about what money he may or may not have but what I did care about was that he would love me and my son.

Now those days seem far far away as I sit waiting for tommorrow to arrive when a taxi will take me to the train station. I will ride the train some 12 hours to Kiev where my son and I will board a airplane and leave for America. My husband is from Chicago and he tells me there is a large Russian speaking community in Chicago and for that I'm happy. But I cry.

I'm happy that I have met a man that will love me and my son but I cry. I will soon leave all that I now know for a place far, far away. Ukraine life is not so good but this life I know and undersand. In America I will only know my husband. My family does not want me to go. My mother cries and holds her hand to her chest moaning that she will never see her grandson again. My sister cries because she worries for our safety and I cry because I'm scared . . . .

It is a big chance I take for my son and if I have chosen wrong it could be a disastourous chance. So I cry, pray, cry, pray. In the end I will go and be the best wife that I can be and hope that the man I think I know will be the man I have dreamt of for so many years. That his family will love me and I them and that together I take my son to a better life of love and opportunity. But for this I give away a life I know with certainty for a man I have known only a few weeks and a country I dont know at all.

Anastasia
Zaporojie, Ukraine

GIRL RECEIVES MAGAZINE ON TIME:  I actually got my New Yorker when I was supposed to - before it hit the stands!

HUSBAND PROVES HIMSELF CHEF:  This evening Philip made yet another delicious limerick ham from the Irish Pub Cookbook.

TEXAS STILL HOT, LOCALS SAY:  I walked down the stairs to my car and was sweating.  Does this seem fair to you?

WEEKEND GARBAGE STRIKE:  Our 'valet waste' service only comes on Sunday through Thursday.  I guess we just put our garbage out wishfully today.

ANASTASIA ATTAINS NEW HEIGHTS:  When the door slams, the ferret can jump.  Very high.

I won't post any "popular" songs here. Afterall, if you want the popular songs, you can just go onto iTunes and click the "Top Songs" button. I am just recommending a song which you might like to listen to if you like the "happy, flowing, can-dance-with-it" music. The first one is "At the beginning" from "Anastasia". Anastasia's the movie, not the singer. There's a billion editions on iTunes, just choose one you like.

Second: Everytime we touch, Cascada

Your arms are my castle,
Your heart is my sky.
They wpe away tears,
That I cry.

The good and the bad times,
We've been through them all.
You make me rise,
When I fall!

Now that is a real dance song. And it sounds great too! Again, search it up on iTunes. There's a Yanou's Candlelight Edition which is slower, and great for music videos.

Then there is Amy Pearson's Ready to Fly, 7's "Olympic Song". Nice.

There's lots more songs. Why by Ayaka is nice if you like Japanese songs... but that's all for now.

Anastasia! (Nastenka or Nastusha)

She was born on July 9th.

Little over 7pounds.

For more pictures:

Anastasia's Photo Album

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• July 1. Drive to Texas, have an interview with a bookstore (which went well, except for the fact that they will pay me less than the company at which I am already employed), visit Ikea and select a rather attractive bed frame.
• July 2. View my new apartment in McKinney, which will be quite nice, and drive back to Shawnee.
• July 3. Drive to Arkansas where I hang out with Philip and his family, visit my favorite used book store (Dickson Street Bookshop), and eat a wonderful dinner and finish reading The DIspossessed [review to follow soon].
• July 4. Breakfast with my future in-laws, a fourth of July cookout lunch with my extended future in-laws at the cabin, 4-wheeling around their land, dinner with Philip, fireworks with the grandparents and cousins.
• July 5. Sleep in, return to Dickson Street - I know I'm a glutton, but what can I do? - and drive back to Shawnee.

The only book I bought was Travels in Hyperreality, a collection of essays by one of my top five favorite authors, Umberto Eco. I began reading it, and I believe that it is too smart for me. At first this was depressing, and then I was energized by the hundredgazillion things there are to learn and ponder. I will have to read this book with a dictionary beside me.

Now Anastasia is jumping around my living room trying to explore and escape at the same time, dragging my flip-flops to the corner she has designated for her horde, twisting herself into and out of the cardboard tube, and generally wearing herself out.

This week I also learned that bathing a ferret is one of the funniest things a person can do in her life. Directions on the bottle of ferret shampoo (FerretSheen, cucumber melon scent):

Wet ferret completely. Apply liberal quantity of shampoo to coat and work into rich lather. Rinse well, towel dry, and comb.

If you imagine that the process actually occurs like this, you are a very naive person.

Bio:Tall, long legged and kinky as hell, Anastasia Pierce has been starring for the past five years for the top bondage and fetish companies. Internationally recognized, this tantalizing brunette brings sexuality to everything she touches. Switch at heart she loves to deliver harsh and cruel punishment to her submissive sluts but her high threshold for pain and pleasure takes her in the most unusual situations…

In early 2005, this kink priestess launched her own production company (Anastasia Pierce Productions). She first released to the American and European public the “Mind Control“ series in association with AVN Award winner Gwen Media. Soon after, the tantalizing Swiss miss released a dozen of movies on her own. With new titles released every month: she brings to life her favorite BDSM scenarios, her most secret fetishes and her incredibly horny fantasies to a higher level that sets them apart from others. In June 2006, AVN Magazine recognized her efforts by naming her: new fresh talented company of 2006!

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