My Happy Place

Sometimes, life gets ya down. Sometimes you feel like you just need a place to escape and unwind and forget all your troubles. That place may be a childhood home or an isolated forest or just an empty room. For me, it's my own Isle Esme. The sun, the sand, the sparkly vampire and I, all alone... *sigh* What could be better?

Wouldn't it be nice if I had my own little island to which I could escape? It would be outrageously awesome. Hell, I'd be there right now if I could be... just hook up my internet and I'm good. Maybe my imagination is a little overactive, because I've kinda already designed my own Island. It's called Isle AnnaBella. Let me give you the tour!

Naturally, I need to have my own cleaning staff, but they're more like cleaning ninjas. I never see them, but everything is in immaculate condition. Same goes for the maintenance. It breaks, I walk away, then when I come back it's fixed! That's right, no laundry to do, no nasty toilets to clean (seriously, 3 boys here= ew), no dust bunnies, nothing. The chef here is world-renowned and makes whatever I want. He also shops for all the groceries and makes sure the pantry is stocked with whatever snacks I could ever desire.

This is what I like to call my dessert island. Yes, I spelled that correctly. Mmmmmm.

The house is small, simple and beautiful. It's nestled in a stand of palm, lemon and lime trees right along the beach so that it's shady and cool all year round, and boy does it smell gooooooood. Think the smell of margaritas. There's an office for my computer (how could I live without it?), a TV room for watching Twilight (and soon-- New Moon!!), a reading room stocked with my 4 favorite books as well as all the smut I can manage, and then there are two bedrooms-- a white bedroom and a blue one. For obvious reasons. And if they're not obvious, go read Breaking Dawn.

This is NOT the blue bedroom I had in mind. *shivers*

If only island ownership weren't so damn expensive. I actually got super-excited that you could rent an entire island for yourself... until I saw that the nightly rate was $36,000. Oh, to be rich! And honestly, if I were rich enough to pay that a NIGHT, wouldn't I just buy my own island? Since that won't be happening any time soon, I guess I'll have to be content with the island in my head.

This is called Secret Island. You can buy it for only $350K. Of course, that doesn't include a house, but these are trivial details! Click the picture for the listing page.

Interestingly enough, while I was searching for pictures for this post, I stumbled across the Hilton resort in the Maldives...

I want to go to there. Click picture for the resort website.

At around $1000 a night, this is far more reasonable than renting an island, although flights there cost an additional $2000 a pop. Yeah, still not very likely, but a girl can dream! And dream I will. I want my Isle AnnaBella!

Maybe something like this would be more attainable:

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It's called St. Somewhere and it's in the Caribbean and it goes from $400-800 a night. Sure, why not? I'll just add it to the enormous amount of travel I'll be doing this year! Then again, I do have a 10th anniversary coming up in a few years. Island living, here I come! Hehe, that sounded dirty...