tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344270012024-03-07T14:42:06.877-08:00COMPLAINT PRINCESSSometimes you just have to complain a little about the daily things that frustrate us all: commute to work, co-workers, celebrities,friends and family members. Sometimes you have to complain about things that stress you and that is what this is about.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-53851454207524883442013-09-21T17:20:00.002-07:002013-09-21T17:25:01.802-07:00My big Silly Sweet Golden Retriever Macy<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since probably before I was even born I have been a dog lover, my parents are both the same, so it comes to me naturally. When my family moved into our neighborhood, one of our new friend's had two Golden Retrievers, I have always thought there is no cuter puppy than a Golden. So one day my friend called me to tell me her breeder had two female dogs that just had puppies and am I interested in going to see them. So after convincing my husband, because I knew once I saw them, I would not be able to not want to bring one home. This breeder loves all of dogs, and she does things a little differently. She does not let you pick the puppy you want, she lets the puppy pick you. I wanted the runt of the litter because my husband did not want such a big dog in the first place. Lo and behold the runt of the litter was not interested in anyone the day we had our visit, but the largest female puppy of both litters, walked right up my body, kissed me on the face and laid down. So I always joke that the "chubby" puppy picked the "chubby" mommy to bring her home to the "chubby" grandmother. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Puppy years are always filled with good an</span><span style="color: #351c75;">d bad, puppy kisses are the best, their exuberance and zest for life and zany ways can always make you laugh even on the worse days. She was a pretty good puppy, the worst thing she ever did was decided to eat the molding on the bottom of a few walls. Boy was I mad but we made it through that stage. Five years later, I can't even begin to express how much joy this dog has brought to our family and extended family and friends. Watching her play with our neighbor's black lab in the backyard, her boyfriend Buddy, could make anyone laugh and has. Yes this dog is a family member if you are a person that does not understand this and think a dog is a dog, this post is not for you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Recently it was a Friday night I was throwing a tennis ball with her, my husband came home from work and I went inside, he came inside a few minutes later to tell me Macy was limping. What she was doing was way more than limping thought she might have actually broken her leg, brought her to the vet the next morning and was told she tore her ACL, I have never heard of this in a dog only in football players, now I know how common this injury is in certain large breed dogs. She would need surgery to repair. The surgery on her left leg went well, but my happy Golden was so sad the first two weeks following surgery and it broke my heart. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">My work was very understanding and let me work from home a lot to take care of her. Finally she got her sutures out and a few days after that she was really doing well and acting like her normal HAPPY self. This dog has two sets of grandparents that love her as much as we do. They came to visit on a Saturday, Macy was so happy to see them, I had been so careful with her, but took my eyes off of her for a few minutes and she decided to sprint outside to see them. Next I heard the most awful sound ever, a pop and then my dog yelped. I turn around scared to death that she somehow had really hurt her leg that she just had surgery on. Well it was even worse than that she was holding up her right leg, and it looked worse than how she was holding the original one up and I knew right away, she tore her ACL again in the good leg. I was besides myself and cried all weekend, I did not feel like a good doggie mother and blamed myself. Macy had her second surgery in a matter of three weeks and we brought her home. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Forward to last night just two days after surgery we had to go out, yes we crated her as we had been instructed, yes we had a the protective head gear. We were gone three hours, my husband was the first one to come in the house, and right away he saw her leg had blood. This crazy golden was able to take off the head gear and she took out 11 sutures. She ate 6 and we found 5 in her crate. My heart dropped, all I want is for this big sweet dog to feel better and now another setback. We took her to the ER Vet and they resutured her and tried to make us feel better by saying she did a very good job of not opening the wound just removing the sutures. We brought her back home last night and slept a little bit. Seeing your dog not feeling well is so hard, especially because they can't talk. I know she is going to be her self again later down the road, and we will all feel better but the waiting is stressful. I wanted to write the above because there is not a lot out there on ACL repair and how easy it really does happen. On a side note, the surgeons that took care of Macy and me, were so wonderful and caring, I made chocolate for each of them and they said no one has ever done anything like that for them. That shocked me, because they really were so kind. I have also met some of the nicest "dog" people in the various pet hospitals we have been to in the last three weeks. Dog surgery is very expensive and has really put a strain on our finances, but there is not anything I would not do to make my dog feel better and be able to live a happy dog life again. If you are able and willing please donate no amount is to small. If you are not able support and prayers are also welcome.</span></span> <a href="http://t.co/sRJF1xlmkW">http://t.co/sRJF1xlmkW</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-82031745890906466052012-05-21T17:10:00.000-07:002012-05-21T17:10:01.141-07:00Time to Leave<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">
<b>The following is the top ten reasons you know it is time to look for a new job:</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">1. When the highlight of your day is your bathroom break.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">2. The people who you use to consider your "friends at work" are becoming your sworn enemies.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">3. When you spend all of your working hours looking for a new job, applying to ones you are either too qualified too or not qualified enough, anything to get you out of there.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">4. You are constantly looking out the window and staring at the other office buildings thinking the grass is greener, even if one happens to be the local state penitentiary.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">5. You feel like the drones/robots that work at your company spend their days and their nights in the same cubicle.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">6. Would even contemplate having another child just so you can go out on maternity leave for a little while.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">7. When you leave the house to go to work, you look at the dog with jealousy that she gets to stay home all day and sleep!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">8. All the people that say to you "well at least you have a job" are sadists and you can't believe they live in the country.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">9. The phrase "need to get all our ducks in a row" makes you want to hit yourself over the head with a hammer.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10. Everyday when you leave for the night you take all your personal stuff home, hoping you won't be back tomorrow!!</span></span></b></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-433112749076711192011-01-06T09:38:00.000-08:002011-01-06T09:38:36.720-08:00What happened to Funny?Many people on New Year's Eve make resolutions, including myself that we usually break sometimes before January is even over. This year I decided to make a resolution that was not about weight loss or exercise but more for my mental health. I decided 2011 is going to be the year that I return to laughter. I want to laugh more and worry less. There is my son and my big golden retriever that definitely make me laugh, but I also rely on comedies to make me laugh. <br />
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So I was excited this week to have some of my favorite shows back from having their December hiatus. One show that usually brings the laughter is How I met your Mother. This show especially Neil Patrick Harris will make me laugh out loud. So Monday night when I tuned into this weeks episode I was really not happy with the show. At the end of the show one of the main character's father dies and I sat there and thought why in the world is this called a comedy and this is not making me feel good.<br />
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Then last night another show that usually also makes me laugh is Cougar Town, where they also decided to have one of the main characters depressed about all the bad stuff that is going on in our world. The exact reason why I no longer watch the news, so why would I want to watch it on a comedy. I totally understand when on news programs or dramas certain subjects including death are not avoided, but while watching a comedy I expect to have laughter not to wind up crying at the end of the show. <br />
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Did the writers of these shows forget who their audience is, did the forget that they are writing a comedy, what in the world were they thinking? At least Two and Half Men stuck to their comedy roots, and made me laugh on Monday night, same with Modern Family last night.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-65132647554652599492010-10-28T13:42:00.000-07:002010-10-28T13:42:07.247-07:00Fat or Thin, Black or White: Just Be Funny<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADMINI%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16pt;">When I heard the recent story about the Marie Claire blogger, Maura Kelly, and her view and rant on fat people, I was pretty annoyed and disheartened. Maura Kelly said many things that I find to be discriminating, not to mention downright rude. A small part of what she said in her blog this week: “I'd be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other ... because I'd be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything -- just like I'd find it distressing if I saw a very drunk person stumbling across a bar or a heroin addict slumping in a chair.” A lot of people besides myself have taken offense to her words, one because she is rude, two because she is saying fat people are equivalent to drug or alcohol addicts. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16pt;">My whole life I have struggled with being overweight, thin years and heavier years, nonetheless I have never had a problem with dating or having people want to date me. I think that has more to do with the person I am then what I look like. Sure I prefer my thinner self, cuter clothes and all of that, but when I am heavier I think I still deserve a life. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16pt;">The show that started all of this controversy and made Maura Kelly write her rant, is a new show on CBS, called Mike and Molly. The show happens to be one of the funniest shows I have seen in a really long time, it actually has the ability to make me laugh out loud several times during each episode. The show is clever and the actors and actresses are really funny. That being said, yes they are very overweight, HELLO, that is the whole premise of the show and what makes it funny. The show teaches a lesson that Ms. Maura Kelly obviously did not get. The lesson is just because you are overweight does not mean that you don’t deserve a life that is full of love and one that is productive. I did not start watching this show because of the premise; I watched the show because I thought the actress that plays Molly was really funny on Samantha Who. This is the same for me for a thin, black, white or any other person, I don’t care what you look like, I just care if you are on a sitcom, I want you to make me laugh. Molly and Mike, you make me laugh and that is all I ask for.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16pt;">Apologies after a firestorm are not readily believable. Would Maura Kelly have ever apologized without the backlash from many people including Sharon Osbourne saying she was going to cancel her subscription to the magazine? I think not, just like the other celebrities covered in the magazine she writes for, apologies for being rude, racist or a cheater are kind of hard to accept after the fact. <o:p></o:p></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-90940389595976727882010-09-09T07:28:00.000-07:002010-09-09T07:28:37.229-07:00"Wake Me up when September Ends"<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Californian FB";">Many people are happy when September comes.<span> </span>Me not so much.<span> </span>I am a mom who enjoys summer best, hates when my son goes back to school.<span> </span>Could be laziness but I enjoy summer’s laid back lifestyle.<span> </span>I do not enjoy the schedule of back to school, especially the homework.<span> </span>September also reminds me of loss.<span> </span>My brother passed away 20 years ago and his Birthday was September 9<sup>th</sup>, then of course a mere two days later remembering 9/11, and thinking about all of those families who also lost those they loved.<span> </span>So with a heavy heart September is my nemesis.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Californian FB";">Growing up I remember going to friends houses and if they had siblings they always fought with them.<span> </span>Some of them could get quite violent.<span> </span>My house was different; I had an older brother who from the moment I was born thought it was his sole duty in life to take care of me.<span> </span>My mom said I am an early riser because, my brother all of two and half years older than I, would climb in my crib to wake me up in the morning.<span> </span>Even then he thought he needed to take care of me.<span> </span>In Elementary school, my brother’s reputation followed me wherever I was.<span> </span>He was short but tough and could hold his own.<span> </span>One day walking home from school, there was snow on the ground, a kid was going to throw a snowball at me, then another kid says “you better not that is Andy’s little sister!!”, and lo and behold no snowball was thrown my way. <span> </span>In high school when everywhere you looked there was another clique that did not like you if you did not wear the right clothes or have the right kind of car. <span> </span>I was lucky to have a big brother who already paved my way.<span> </span>Even though he had graduated when I got there he was still looking out for me. He took me up to school before it started, showed me where everything was and because he still had a lot of friends in the school, they too looked after me, because of him.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Californian FB";">A lot of siblings fought so much, they would not want their brother or sister around them or would be embarrassed to have them hanging out with their friends.<span> </span>Not a day in my life did my brother ever kick me out of his room, tell me I could not go somewhere he was going with his friends or treat me like he did not want me around, which from everything I now know about siblings this is quite rare.<span> </span>One summer he lived at the beach with his close knit set of friends, the most popular guys from school, one cuter than the next. When we would go visit him, he was happy and proud to have his family around him.<span> </span>He and my mother were best friends and he told her things I still can’t believe a son would tell his mother.<span> </span>To my brother, family was everything and he wanted to have six kids of his own.<span> </span>Unfortunately he never got the chance; cancer took him away from us at the young age of 22.<span> </span>To say he was my idol growing up and then my hero as he bravely fought his battle with cancer is not even close to describing what he was to me his little sister.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Californian FB";">Today my brother would have turned 43, and as every year since he passed away, I am left with my memories and thoughts.<span> </span>Thoughts of what he would have been like now as an adult with his own family.<span> </span>Anyone that knew my brother would know that he would have had a beautiful wife, a few kids (not six) and at least two dogs with muddy paws.<span> </span>The saying “time heals all wounds" has to have been said by someone who has never dealt with the loss of someone they loved.<span> </span>The pain wanes but never goes away.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Californian FB";">I hope wherever he is, he knows we are thinking of him today, and will never stop missing him.<span> </span> </span></div><span style="font-family: "Californian FB";"><br />
</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-28482983303976286912010-08-28T11:25:00.000-07:002010-08-28T11:25:27.825-07:00All in a Day's Work: Men v. Women<div style="color: #351c75; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I love the men in my life but this seems to be the case for a lot of women out there.</span></i></div><br />
<div style="color: #274e13;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">A day in the life of a man vs. a woman:</span></u></div><br />
<div style="color: blue;"><u>Man:</u></div><ul><li>Get up!</li>
<li>Take a shower</li>
<li>Go to work</li>
<li>Come home from work</li>
<li>Eat dinner </li>
<li>Take out the garbage </li>
<li>Watch t.v. or work on the computer</li>
<li>Go to bed </li>
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<ul><li>Get Up</li>
<li>Take a shower</li>
<li>Make lunches</li>
<li>Empty dishwasher </li>
<li>Go to work</li>
<li>Make phone calls (doctor's appt., insurance company, etc.) </li>
<li>Run errands during lunch break: post office, grocery store, school</li>
<li>Come home from work</li>
<li>Help children with homework</li>
<li>Walk dog</li>
<li>Feed dog</li>
<li>Prepare dinner </li>
<li>Eat dinner </li>
<li>Clean up dinner</li>
<li>2-3 loads of laundry </li>
<li>Pay bills</li>
<li>Organize home office</li>
<li>Collapse </li>
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<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">During the big meeting of "matriarch to crazy person", Caroline speaks of trying to teach her children to do the right thing. As anyone who watches the show can see Caroline's kids are well adjusted, well behaved and love their parents. So maybe Danielle and the others should take a listen and learn from Caroline's example because she obviously is a good mother and has taught her children to grow up in the right way. Unlike Danielle who out of the mouth of her youngest daughter, just shows them that she is crazy. Her youngest daughter Jillian said, "no normal person would want to go meet Caroline." That is true because why would she want to meet someone she hates and hates her. I don't go and hang out with people, I don't care for. This whole scene boils down to Caroline has friends and family that stand behind her and who she stands behind. Danielle only has two children who have no choice to be with her, bodyguards she pays to be with her and the healing person on the phone. Danielle really needs to get her money back, you cannot have someone heal you through your cell phone, plus obviously it is not working. If Danielle was living in "love and light" she would have dropped the charges against Ashley when the lawyer asked her to. I do not blame Caroline for getting a little heated in the discussion and calling Danielle garbage, she really is garbage and the only thing you can do with garbage is toss it out!Danielle denies coming after the children when she could not hurt the adults but that is exactly what she did and she knows it. When she leaves the restaurant and talks about Theresa's kids clothing and alludes to her children being dogs, that is a low blow and is exactly why the other housewives cannot stand to be around her. Once again in this scene she is showing her true colors. </span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for a little bit of the fluff they decided to put in this episode. Ashley fighting with her mother. I understand why Ashley got upset with Jacqueline because she is sick of hearing all of the details ad nauseum, and so are the rest of us frankly. Ashley still would have been better off just keeping her mouth shut, because she wound up disrespecting her mom in front of everyone. Also, I feel like Albert was annoyed with Ashley, I think he was feeling like my wife is out there fighting for you and you still have not learned an ounce of respect out of this situation. News of Danielle getting fired from the show, I so hope that rumor is true. If I have to look at those ridiculous eyebrows one more time on the show, I might become crazy also.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know I for one will have a large bowl of popcorn and a glass of wine ready for the reunion show next week.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It seems over the top and definitely gets heated. Did Danielle bring her bodyguards and guns with her there as well? </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-70302432559519800312010-08-18T16:18:00.000-07:002010-08-18T16:18:39.840-07:00Even Oprah Cannot get people to STOP!!<div style="color: #cc0000;"><b>When is this going to end? Even Oprah cannot stop the texting craze. I will admit that I use to talk on my cell phone all the time in the car, but never and I mean not even once have I ever texted while driving. After watching Oprah's show last year about the dangers of driving and talking and especially driving and texting I got hands free in my car and try to only talk on that when it is necessary.</b></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><b>There are sometimes where I think the government oversteps it's boundaries and makes laws that we really don't need. Well I for one am in favor of them banning texting while driving in every state. I also am in favor of them banning cell phones conversations in the car unless it is hands free. Today while driving to work, there were two seperate incidences of the problem with talking on the phone while driving. One was on the highway where this one car was driving in the left lane and kept swerving into my lane, I finally was able to pass the car and stay clear from it and of course when I passed the car, he was on his cell phone being oblivious. The next one was on my lunch break, light turns green and the car in front of me does not move, honked at the car still does not move, finally I decide to move around the car and lo and behold another person being oblivious while on the cell phone.</b></div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><b><br />
</b></div><b style="color: #cc0000;">Today I heard the news that a plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan lost his life because he decided it was so important to tweet a picture of his beloved dog on the beach he just finished visiting. Instead of waiting till he got home from what must have been a nice relaxing day at the beach with his beloved dog, he decided he had to tweet the picture immediately and because of this insatiable desire to have everything done asap his life was abruptly cut short. The dog is safe and sound, which is the only good thing to come out of this story. I cannot stress this enough, everyone thinks this could not happen to them, that they are fine with texting while driving. I am here to tell you that no one and I mean no one should be doing this, a car is to powerful to take driving one so carelessly. </b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>How many more more people have to die or be killed for this to be stopped??</b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-22107782264306958682010-08-17T13:53:00.000-07:002010-08-17T14:18:16.341-07:00"We gotta be Civilized"<b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where to begin on the latest episode of The Housewives of New Jersey. Okay let's get <strike>craziness</strike> Danielle out of the way and then get on to the fun stuff that happened in Italy.<br />
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All Danielle knows how to do is think about the other Housewives and contradict herself along the way. Does anyone really believe for a minute that she is actually scared of the other housewives? She is the one obsessed with them, if she does not live in their town and does not ever want to run into them, then stay away from the places they go. New Jersey is not a small state, there are plenty of places to go to a store or plenty of other beauty salons to go to, so go there. She claims to be protecting her kids, but the one they need protecting from the most is from her. As far as her search for her mom, I don't really have a lot to say about that except that her expectations are very far fetched. Her mother was 15 when she gave her up, I doubt after all this time she suddenly is going to be thankful to have that reminder in her life. Never mind wanting to become a part of Danielle's family. Danielle and all of her talk about <strike>love</strike> hate and <strike>light</strike> darkness, seems to let all of that go out the window when it come to talking about Jacqueline's daughter, Ashley. She said she has no friends and is a terrorist and is crazy. Talking about someone who is a young adult is not at all trying to bring positive energy your way.<br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Italy so fun and funny. Where to begin, Joe and Theresa fighting remind me of my husband and I, we fight, we makeup and get over it quickly. I too got a giggle along with Caroline about Joe saying we have to be civilized, who was he talking to himself, his children or did he realize he was a little out of control with the cussing in front of everyone and was trying to make light of it. Either way he is funny. Some might think he was annoying, but I have been on vacation before and ranted when things did not go as expected, so I understand his angst. A lot of people don't care about their families and it was so wonderful to see how happy Theresa and Joe's family were to see them and the kids. So welcoming to such a large group of people they did not know invading their homes. The scene with Caroline and Jacqueline eating spaghetti was what I love about the show. When they act like this they remind me of just your everyday type of person and could be friends of mine for sure. I hope no one gives Jacqueline grief for talking about the old people, I think she was trying to make a point and they are older people and it was okay to say so. I don't think I would have made it up that hill no way. Theresa doing it and in heels wow I was impressed. I loved when Theresa and her daughter were walking up the steps in their house and her daughter said I don't want to be home yet, that really sums up how most people feel when they have to come home from vacation. I don't know how many times I can say this without sounding like someone is paying me off, but Caroline's sons are just too sweet to their mom, I cannot get enough of them and think they are great kids. Caroline and her husband definitely did something right in raising them. She should be the one writing a book about parenting like some of the other housewives on other shows have done. The previews for next week look to be very exciting and blood curdling, go Caroline you are the only one she is really scared of the rest she just pretends to be.</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-14517938716573191382010-08-10T11:18:00.000-07:002010-08-10T12:19:37.220-07:00Karma's A BitchLast night's episode of the Real Housewives of New Jersey reminded me of why I enjoy the show. It was filled with the main housewives going on a crazy trip to Italy with a lot of family in tow. The antics of all of the families is the reason I enjoy the show. The less they show Danielle the more I enjoy the show.<br />
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The conversation about Joe's accident was plausible to me. I do not condone drunk driving in any way, and I hope for his family he is telling the truth. If not I hope that the accident scared him straight and he will never do that again. His girls are so precious and you can tell how much they love their dad, so I am glad he was not seriously injured.<br />
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Here is my advise and thoughts for the Housewives based on last night's show:<br />
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<u>Theresa:</u> Stop Shopping for a little while, you have more than you need. Your taste in rings is going downhill, I did not understand the green ring, looked way to big and a little gaudy if you ask me. The way you handled Jacqueline's mother breaking your vase was very classy, I don't know if I would have taken it as well as you did. Once again, I have to say your girls are to adorable. I hope the chocolate cake with potato chips was good and that Malania did eat a piece eventually.<br />
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<u>Jacqueline:</u> I thought it was so cute how you dressed up the kids to get your husband to say lets go to Italy. I think the two of you have a great relationship and the love shines through in the way you treat and look at each other. I think you did the right thing with leaving your daughter at home, I think she needed to show she was being more responsible for her actions. I hope someone finally gave you Dramamine, I have been sick on a cruise before and it is no fun.<br />
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<u>Caroline:</u> Could never offer you any advice, but I am sure you could offer me some. Your boys were so sweet in telling you and your husband not to worry and to have fun. I hope my son grows up to be like your sons, it is so obvious how much they love you and you love them. I think when you have your own grand-kids you will still be a little stern but you will also have more patience with them. I don't know how often Theresa's kids have heard the word "no", so it was interesting to see their reaction when you told them they had to wait to eat ice cream.<br />
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<u>Danielle:</u> Karma might be a bitch, but you take the cake. You are the only one who has bad karma, because you pretend that you are a positive person but all of the time you are always wishing bad things to happen to someone else. You find joy in other people's problems and think it is funny. So the only one who will have to watch out for Karma being a bitch is you. The other housewives don't care about you, and only want you out of their lives. You are the only one who keeps talking about them and it is easy to see that you are just jealous of them. Spending all your time with Danny, who is just a thug, does not reflect on you well but either does anything else you do. <br />
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<u>Dina:</u> Why oh why can't you be on the show and Danielle be off. It was so nice when you were on the show last week. You bring such style and fun to the show and I miss you on it.<br />
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Last thought for today, Jacqueline and Theresa were hysterical when they were hanging out with each other, they both bring out the goofiness in each other that makes me laugh. The glass elevator part was so funny. <br />
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Ciao for now until next week, looking forward to Theresa and Joe's family reunion, looks like a crazy time.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-62349754219744920722010-08-02T13:22:00.000-07:002010-08-02T13:22:15.011-07:00Mondays are inherently EvilWhat is it about Monday's? They always come to fast and for most including me they are always so stressful.<br />
Today, I woke up trying to think positively and before I even had time to have my eyes fully opened, my dog proceeds to throw up on the carpet in two places. After cleaning that up, then have to get ready to work, as soon as I turn on the computer, it keeps shutting down. So I think today is Monday, things are going to go wrong, they always do. I think a lot of people put work related things off on Friday, and then get back to it on Monday. When you work in customer service as I do, Mondays are usually really busy with people taking care of things they postponed doing from the week before.<br />
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I really think if weekends were three days and not two, Mondays would not be as bad. The weekends are so short and then we all try to cram as much as possible into the weekend, we don't take the needed time to relax. Monday then rolls around and we are already tired from the weekend, and then the stress of the work week begins. Don't even get me started on the fact that it had to rain today also.<br />
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MONDAY'S NEED TO BE ABOLISHED!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-19430763751851711042010-08-02T13:13:00.000-07:002010-08-02T13:13:13.332-07:00Be Careful What you wish forThis phrase really bothers me "Be careful what you wish for"<br />
I have never understood it, because the things that I wish for I really want to happen.<br />
For instance winning the lottery, do not see any downside to that, unless you already had surrounded yourself with shady people prior to winning the lottery, which I have not.<br />
Another one of my wishes is to write a book and get it published. The worst thing that would happen is no one reads it, the best is that it became a bestseller. So again, why would that be a bad thing? I think it would be great. <br />
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I know in the case of celebrities, maybe they wished to be a celebrity, but the downside to all of that money and fame is lack of privacy, but you can't have one without the other. I would take the losing of the privacy any day in order to make enough money to put food on the table and pay my bills instead of struggling every day.<br />
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I know this phrase is used a lot and since this is my blog, I thought I would tell everyone how much I dislike it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-72127251324483810832010-08-01T14:00:00.000-07:002010-08-01T14:00:48.182-07:00If I was President.....Do you remember when you were in Elementary School and one of your assignments was to tell your class what you would do if you were the President. Of course most kids would say have ice cream everyday.<br />
I have come up with a list of the top ten things I would immediately put into law if I was President.<br />
Let me know what you would put on your list?<br />
<ol><li>The work week would be Monday- Thursday and the weekend would be Friday-Sunday. This would be for the whole entire country, regardless of what industry you work in.</li>
<li>We would not spend millions of dollars helping out other countries when there are still homeless Americans living in every city in America.</li>
<li>Taxes would be eliminated. </li>
<li>Do the crime, do the time. Eye for an eye, if you blow up a building, then you will be put to death the same way.</li>
<li>There would not be 10% of the country having all of the money. Teachers, firemen and policemen would never make less than athletes and celebrities.</li>
<li>Tours of the White House would not cost money and you would not have to do the tour in a time in the morning that no one has barely heard of.</li>
<li>Hospitals would not be allowed to charge you 10.00 for an aspirin.</li>
<li>Mothers would be allowed to stay home for a year, and get paid maternity leave for the entire time and still be guaranteed a job when the year was over.</li>
<li>Fathers would be given a month of paternity leave and not have to be embarrassed to ask for it.</li>
<li>When you get old, you are not tossed into an old age home, as if you did not matter.</li>
</ol>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-87366489204078994702010-07-22T10:09:00.000-07:002010-07-22T10:09:49.219-07:00The Joys and The Horror of Facebook!<div style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What a cool site Facebook is I said to myself when I started using it a few years ago right before my high school reunion. Talking to old friends that I had not spoken to in forever was so much fun. After the reunion still being able to communicate with them on a daily basis I thought was great. I go on Facebook everyday, love to see what my friends are up to, check out their status, love to see pictures of their kids and some of things my friends say on their status are hysterical. Some of my closest friends make fun of me because I love Facebook so much, and I am okay with it, and am not embarrassed whatsoever with my obsession. So I find joy on Facebook everyday, getting new friends and adding them is delightful.</span></div><div style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Now to the horror. Why does Facebook allow anyone to post a picture of anyone they want to with no approval process in place?? I was horrified to find pictures of myself posted on Facebook from a recent party I went to. Even more disturbing to me was why my good friend would post all of these pictures without asking if it was okay with her friends to post some of these unflattering pictures. I love Facebook but this piece of it really bothers me. I try to be very respectful of all the pictures I post and always inquire first with my friends if it is okay with them. After the above happened to me I decided I am not going to post any pictures on Facebook anymore except ones of myself. Will just send pictures I think other people would be interested in through e-mail and then leave it up to them if they want to post the pictures. To the creative team behind Facebook, you need to have a button that comes up and asks for your approval, where you can click yes or no to approve pictures other people are trying to post. Then Facebook will be the perfect social networking site in my opinion.</span></div><div style="color: #351c75;"><br />
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-45440150985480546442010-07-20T10:15:00.000-07:002010-07-20T13:09:12.281-07:00The Ladies of the New Jersey Housewives<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Of course we never know how much of what we see is real vs. scripted, but however here are my thoughts on some of the ladies of The Housewives of New Jersey and the recent drama that has been unfolding.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: blue; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: black;"></span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Danielle: </span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The most hated of all of the housewives that have been on any of the shows. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">I also can't stand her myself.That being said in the most recent episode of RHONJ, she really made some valid points. She was chased down, I have watched from day one, and as Theresa said you got me to this point. Danielle has tried in anyway she could to become friends with all of them, and when that did not work she took to threatening them and stalking them first. When they finally gave it back to her she runs like a scared rabbit. Danielle you can't play innocent and then make comments like this: "one good smack to the head is all it takes to make another person never walk again". I don't think that makes you look very innocent, not at all. On the Bravo live show, she needs to respect herself more and put on some more clothes, also stop thinking anyone cares whether you are a lesbian or not, because we don't.</span> throughout the place where the fashion show was, Ashley definitely attacked her and Theresa was running after her. They all looked like the crazy ones while Danielle came off as a victim. <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Theresa:</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">My most favorite of the Housewives for some reason. Even though she is my favorite, I have to take her to task a little bit in this blog. I believe she is a really nice person, I also believe she sincerely did not like the fact that she felt that they were all at an event and could not say hello to each other. Unfortunately though I do not believe for one minute that Theresa sat outside of the bathroom waiting for Danielle to come out, just to say hello. I think Theresa goaded her and caused the scene that unfolded. If Theresa sincerely wanted to clear up some things with Danielle she should have done so in a more private setting like Dina did, even though that backfired, it showed Danielle's true colors. What happened with Theresa made Danielle come out looking like a victim and Theresa looking like a crazy person. Again though anyone that has watched this show knows the opposite is true of Danielle. Still love Theresa but have to call it like I see it.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Jacqueline:</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">You knew before you ever went to the fashion show, that something bad was going to happen, you should have followed your intuition. The biggest problem with Jacqueline is she wants things to be both ways, she wants to be in the fray and then be the voice of reason. I was glad she got it together to try to diffuse the situation but she added fuel to the fire first, by chasing Danielle and yelling accusations at her. I think Jacqueline is sweet and funny but she is not stern enough when it comes to her daughter. She lets her daughter get away with disrespecting her and then is shocked when her daughter disrespects other adults like Danielle. The other thing is she only reprimands Ashley with another adult present like her husband, Caroline or Theresa, almost as if she can't handle Ashley on her own.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ashley:</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">She is not a bad person, just has a lot of growing up to do. Needs to learn her place in the world and needs some strong guidance to help her figure it out. I think she was in the wrong to pull Danielle's hair, and I personally think she is lying when she says she did it because she though her mother had been hit. If you view the scenes right before she pulled Danielle's hair, Ashley is standing right behind her mother and Theresa. Her mother is screaming at the top of her lungs to tell Theresa to stop it. So how could Ashley not have seen her mother and saw that she was perfectly fine. Even if she did think this, it would have made more sense to go find her mother than to pull Danielle's hair, it was uncalled for. In the episode, Ashley right away says I pulled her hair because she is a *itch, then later realizes how serious everything was becoming and then decided to act all holier than thou, that she was protecting her mother. When Jacqueline talks to Ashley at Caroline's house about Danielle filing a claim at the courthouse, she starts laughing and still seems to be very nonchalant about the whole thing. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Kim G:</span></i> </span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">What are you thinking about? Do you not realize that Danielle can see the show and see how two faced you are. If you would have said to Danielle don't file a claim against Ashley, she probably would not have pursued it, but you stirred the pot. After stirring the pot, you had the nerve to go to Jacqueline's house as if you are her friend and care about what happens to her or her daughter. Shame on you for having no integrity whatsoever. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Caroline:</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">The most normal of the Housewives and the one that can be trusted the most. Trying to live her life to the fullest, loves her kids and wants them to have a great life. Is not happy about empty nest syndrome, but who can blame her. Anyway Caroline in my opinion is the voice of reason. She knew nothing good could come out of them all being at the fashion show with Danielle and she was right. What she says to Theresa and Jacqueline sums up the drama that went down in a nutshell. She said to them, "you gave her what she wanted, you proved her theory that you are the mean girls". I hope Caroline continues to be real, because I for one find her refreshing.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Lastly, although he is not a Housewife, I have a few things to say about <i><span style="color: blue;">Bravo Andy</span></i>. People watch your show for the stars that you are interviewing, not to hear you just talk about nonsense. Please stick to your questions, we wanted to hear more about Danielle's craziness, not you just talking about I don't even know what or why.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-49482848918802008132010-07-16T19:42:00.000-07:002010-07-16T19:42:56.692-07:00The Ending of The Hills: I am over it already.<div style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As if the the last two seasons of The Hills was not bad enough, we sit through the finale of the show, which was not even worth watching. Then I decide to stay up to watch the LIVE after show. I can't tell you how disappointed I was. There were so many questions left unanswered and can't believe how all sappy and loving everyone was. What happened to these people actually not liking each other? Or was that as fake as Heidi's new body.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">First of all as soon as Lauren Conrad left the show, the reason most people watched it, the show should have ended right then and there. Replacing Lauren with Kristin Cavallari was a joke, all of a sudden here she is out of nowhere, being friends with everyone and lo and behold her closest friend on the show is Stacy, the bartender. What? Does any of that even make sense? The two people everyone loved to hate Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are not even on the show anymore and are not invited to the after party and not one person brings it up to say why they are not there. Thinking the fans of the show just won't notice this is just plain crazy. During the last season when Lauren was still on the show, Lo and Audrina did not get along at all and Audrina wound up having to move out, because they could not stand each other, now they are always confiding in each other. The last biggest question is Lauren and Kristin supposedly mortal enemies are seen hugging each other and standing next to each other as the camera goes off on the live show.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goodnight Hills and good riddance, the show should have been over a long time ago. Regardless of whether it was real or not, I still enjoyed Brody Jenner and his beautiful smile, so for that I will be forever grateful.</span></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-51124428617534673102007-05-29T17:10:00.001-07:002007-05-29T17:25:15.907-07:00Where have all the Manners gone?Everyday I notice more and more, how people do not have manners and to be honest it really baffles me. I am all for the more technology the better, but when you have people, including your friends, call you on purpose when they know you are not home at that time, or e-mail you instead of ever calling, I think it is a problem. I love having a cell phone, just as much as anyone else, however I do believe there is a time and place to use it. I don't think when you are in line at the grocery store, right in front of the cashier and you never get off the phone while the cashier is ringing you up, you are rude and your phone should be confiscated. I also think why you are shopping in a store, that you should not be carrying on a cell phone conversations, as if you were the only person in the store, I do not really care about where you are meeting your friends, and what kind of shoes you are going to wear.<br /><br />When I am driving, I try to be courteous to those around me, I frequently will let someone out in front of me, but I can't tell you how frustrated I become when I have gone out of my way to let you in front of me, and then you don't have the decency to give a quick wave of thanks.....and I hate to say this ladies, you are the biggest culprit of this. If you are driving, on a two lane highway, but have decided for whatever reason, you are going to remain in the left lane, but are not even doing the speed limit, let me give you a hint, when at least 3 cars have to move around you in the right lane to get past you, you do not belong in the left lane, please move over immediately.<br /><br />Manners in the workplace, I don't even know where to begin. Where I work we sit in cubicles, so there are certain things that are just plain disgusting. If you cannot stop burping all day long, you have a problem and should go to a doctor. When you are getting on an elevator, common courtesy, not too mention common sense should tell you to let the people get off first before you try to run them over to get on. I am happy that some people enjoy music, I however do not appreciate when co-workers listen to their crappy music too loud, and even worse when they decide to sing to the music and bop their heads. If you receive a funny e-mail, I am happy for you, but laughing out loud at an e-mail is just plain rude not to mention annoying. <br /><br />This goes hand in hand with manners, customer service. If I am ready to purchase something, I expect you to greet me, stop talking to your co-workers, ring me up and oh yes, possibly say thank you when I am done. How hard is this, I can't tell you how many times, cashiers do not even bother to greet you when you are paying.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-4900703093181427862007-05-29T16:09:00.000-07:002007-05-29T16:24:13.089-07:00Dieting WoesWalking around as a fat person, all day long, is like having someone constantly criticizing you every 15 minutes, then you realize the person who is criticizing you is yourself, but you can't stop. Like so many other people, I have been on every diet there is, I have lost a lot of weight on several programs, even getting to my goal weight several times. I feel like as soon as I get to my goal weight, something takes over my mind, some evil spirit or something, and then before I know it, and before I even really get to enjoy my new skinny body, I am right back up to my starting weight all over again. I ask myself how many times can I do this, before I just either finally get it right or just give up all together. Right now I am at the just give up all together point. <br /><br />Everyday, I have this mantra running in my head, your arms are too fat, your butt keeps getting bigger, all the cute clothes you love will never look good on you, but then all of this does not stop me from wanting to eat stuff I know is not healthy for me.<br /><br />Some people think fat people are just lazy or weak. I am actually not lazy at all, and do not consider myself weak. I just think in the country we live in, food is everywhere you are, and it has become part of our landscape. Imagine going to a baseball game, and everywhere you are food surrounds you, you go to a movie, and no matter how ridiculous the price of popcorn becomes, you still can't think of seeing a movie without popcorn. I am a very social person, I have a lot of friends and family, so of course, have you ever been to a party that did not serve food. For some people that do not have a food issue, they might not constantly see the world this way, but if you already have a problem, with overeating, and then you are always surrounded by food, it makes it really difficult to say no. I swear this to be true, days I am trying to stay on a diet, are always longer than a day when I am not watching what I eat. Kind of like how workdays are so much longer than weekend days. <br /><br />Here is another thing that inevitably happens when you do lose weight, all your friends are happy for you, but they are even happier when you gain it back, because it makes them feel less bad about themselves. How many people secretly watch Oprah, week to week, to see if she is thin Oprah or a little heavier Oprah. I think to myself if Oprah, can't even keep it off, with having a private chef, a personal trainer, and everything else she could possibly need to keep it off, than my struggle with weight makes me not feel as bad about myself. Then there are many overweight people out there that say they like who they are, and do not want to lose weight. To them I say you are a liar, no one likes being overweight, if there was a magical pill, every single fat person would be lined up, as if they were giving away free playstation 3's.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-23109865272877181882006-11-20T18:14:00.000-08:002006-11-28T14:06:19.107-08:00A few Stars that need to get off our radar and some I hope never do.I am a person who is pretty into celebrities, I read People Magazine, every week without fail, watch a lot of the entertainment shows, never miss the Emmys or the Oscars, and all of the walks down the red carpet.<br /><br />However some celebrities I am really getting sick of in no particular order:<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)">Tom Cruise:</span><br />What the heck happened to him? He use to be one of my favorite, some of his movies are in my top 10 of my alltime favorite movies. Now I don't really care if I ever see another Tom Cruise story. All weekend there was all sorts of news about his wedding to Katie Holmes~I could not listen to any of it for even one minute.<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)">OJ Simpson:</span><br />Don't even get me started with this one. I will just leave it at this: you got away with murdering two people and now you want to make a mockery of it. I for one hope you just crawl under a rock and keep your mouth shut, you should spend the rest of your life thanking your lucky stars that you still walk free, and never utter another word on the subject of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and stop tormenting their families.<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)">Kevin Federline:</span><br />Okay, I know, I know, not many even consider him a celebrity, but just the same. So you married Britney Spears and fathered two children, neither of these things make you a singer or a rap artist. The reason she married you, I have no idea, but I am glad your 15 minutes are coming to an end.<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)">Mel Gibson:</span><br />Okay, you apologized. Okay you said you did not mean what you said. I know some people believe you, I am not one of those people. I think alcohol is like a truth serum, and those were your true feelings, but you want to say it was the alcohol and you really don't feel that way. The thing that makes me even more sick about this incident, wasn't just what you said, but the fact that your blood alcohol content put you way over the limit and you should have had your drivers license taken away for drunk driving, because all though the words you uttered can hurt, the fact that you could have killed an innocent person with your drunk driving hurts even more.<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)">Jessica Simpson:</span><br />You left a guy who was crazy for you. Put you on a pedestal, and never once forgot to plan special surprises for your birthday anniversary, instead you traded him for your father, who in my opinion is way to in control of your life. I use to like you, did not really care if some of the things you said were kind of ditzy, now don't really need to see you in any more magazines.<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)">Angelina Jolie:</span><br />Okay yes she is doing great things that are very noble, but lest us forget she wore Billy Bob Thornton's blood in a chain around her neck and practically had her tongue down her own brother's throat every other minute on the red carpet.<br /><br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(102,51,102); FONT-STYLE: italic"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">And now for a few I never get tired of hearing about:</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)">Jennifer Anniston:</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(102,51,102); FONT-STYLE: italic"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><br /></span></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,0,51)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">I think she is way prettier than Angelina Jolie, my husband of course says I am nuts. I think she is one very classy celebrity and never get tired of seeing her interviewed. </span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)">George Clooney:<br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Yes a great actor, yes still one of the sexiest men in our country, but I like him because he does not seem to take himself to seriously. His humor makes him really one of my favorite and the fact that he is friends with another perennial favorite of mine Matt Damon, does not hurt either.</span> </span></span></span><br /><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,0,51)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)">Michael J. Fox:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Have loved you for years, never cease to make me laugh out loud. I don't care if you did not take your medicine to show the effects of your disease on purpose, I think it took a lot of courage number one, and number two, you helped a lot more people than you can possibly realize and I thank you.</span></p><p><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span> </p><p><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span> </p><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,51,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,0,51)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,0,0)"> </p><br /></span></span></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(102,51,102); FONT-STYLE: italic"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(102,51,102); FONT-STYLE: italic"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-1160451248713324392006-10-09T19:39:00.000-07:002006-10-09T20:52:02.250-07:00Life in a CubicleWell when you spend more time at work then you do with your family, you are bound to get annoyed with your fellow co-worker's and your manager's behavior. Here is my list of the top 20 things that are annoying at work:<br /><br />1. Never, and I mean never is it acceptable to clip your fingernails in your cubicle.<br /><br />2. Of course many of us have to eat at our desk, so try to be considerate and keep the fish that you made the night before for dinner at home or in the garbage can.<br /><br />3. Just because you have to walk past my desk to go to the bathroom, does not mean that I want to talk to you, everytime you walk by.<br /><br />4. If you are a manager, remember people skills go a lot further than technical skills. So please go try to find a personality, I swear lightning won't strike you if you actually say hello to the peons that work for you, instead of nod at us while you run down the hallway.<br /><br />5. Also if you are a manager, don't every say the following:<br />~I am too busy to answer your questions.<br />~If you need help, don't come to me, I am way to busy, so basically you are saying you dont want to do your job.<br /><br />6. I know people have the right to smoke, but if you smoke, you get an extra hour a day in smoke breaks, I want an extra hour of fresh air breaks.<br /><br />7. Also, I don't care if you smoke, but if it is raining and you still choose to smoke don't block the door so us non-smokers have to walk through a wall of smoke just to enter the building.<br /><br />8. I have a kid, I love kids, but I really don't want to hear all day long about your kids and how cute they are, everyone thinks their own kid is cute, and everyone else could care less.<br /><br />9. Also, on the kid thing stop badgering me for money every week to buy from this fundraiser or that fundraiser.<br /><br />10. Don't call me on the phone to ask for help and when I give it to you, ignore everything I just said, why bother calling me in the first place. Along with this one, don't call and say "I know the answer but I just wanted to check", well obviously you did not know the answer.<br /><br />11. I don't care if you are the president of the company, if you are sent an e-mail, acknowledge the fact, we know you have read it, this is just plain rude.<br /><br />12. If you are a manager of a call center, try to not act like you are someone's mother: we are adults if we need to go to the bathroom, need a few minutes to finish something up or need to get a drink, we don't need you screaming across the department to say get back on the phone, there are calls waiting, in the time it took you to track all that and tell us to get back on the phone, you could have just taken the call, heaven forbid you actually take a call.<br /><br />13. Every now and again, it would be nice to hear you guys are doing a good job, I am going to buy you guys lunch or why don't you leave a little early one day.<br /><br />14. Stop having meetings, and start working!! Having meetings 3 times a day, so you can hear yourself speak, and they never result in a positive change anyway, makes no sense, and just makes everyone more behind in their work.<br /><br />15. If I am ordering lunch with a few friends, that does not mean I want to pick up something for you and your friends, if I did not ask you, don't even bother asking me if I mind? Yes I mind, hence the not asking you part in the first place.<br /><br />16. If you get on the elevator from the lobby to go one floor up, as soon as you hit the button, instead of the light coming on, I think there should be something that automatically ejects you right back into the lobby.<br /><br />17. One more thing about elevators, it is proper etiquette, to let people get off before you steam roll over them to get inside.<br /><br />18. Just because you are an exempt worker does not mean you should take off a few hours everyday to do errands and get your haircut, come on already, who do you think you are fooling.<br /><br />19. Stop and I mean stop right now sending those e-mails that say your wish will come true in 3 days, as long as you forward this to 15 other suckers that believe an e-mail can make your wish come true. How ridiculous.<br /><br />20. If there is a celebration at work, and you did not bring something in or contribute money, stay at your desk, everyone knows who you are and you should be ashamed of yourself.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34427001.post-1158809789788372782006-09-20T19:38:00.000-07:002006-11-04T20:08:41.840-08:00Howard Stern Detractors: Who do you Think you Are?<span style="font-family:verdana;">Okay, this is not something I thought I would discuss on my complaint blog, but when I was driving home from work I got pissed off about the latest goings on regarding Howard Stern. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I am not a person you would think would be a Howard Stern listener, I work in a very conservative place, I have been married for 11 years, have a son in kindergarten and am more innocent than most, with that said <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">I am a HUGE and I mean HUGE Howard Stern fan.</span></em></strong> </span>I have been listening to Howard Stern for about 10 years and I really have to admit I am addicted to the show, some people need Starbucks to start their day, I need to listen to Stern. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">All of my friends and even some of my family who know my personality and how I conduct myself find the above statement pretty shocking. I started listening to Stern because I really think he is a great interviewer when it comes to stars. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">He asks the real hard hitting questions that other talk show hosts would be way to afraid to even dare ask, but he does it in a way, where I really believe allows the celebrities to feel at home and relax. I drive an hour each way to work and listening to the Howard Stern Show makes my commute bareable, I love Artie, he is such a great addition to the show and a thousand times better than Jackie, and of course I have always loved Robin and Fred.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Some of the things that supposedly people have been saying are more rumor and innuendo designed to make Howard Stern say their name on his show and feed their ego. The only way they can even get face time on television is by bashing Howard Stern, saying things that are lies. Any person who has any common sense at all realizes they are just jealous of Howard Stern's fame and talent, and they want to ruin his success. I don't really understand this at all, his success has never been based on what the main stream media thinks or says about him, he is successful, whether he realizes it or not, because he is TALENTED, down to earth, surrounds himself with a crew that is also talented and last but not least makes his fans laugh out loud. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><em><strong>I will tell you this</strong></em></span>, with the recent five year anniversary of September 11, 2001, there is not one show you can watch, that is more poignant, will make you cry harder and get you mad all over again at the terrorists that flew those planes, than the Howard Stern rebroadcast of that day. Who the hell do these people think they are when they talk about his fans. I remember during this horrible time in our country, Stern fans raised quite a lot of money for the New York firefighters and the families they left behind, yes we did this because it was the right thing to do but we did it through his show as opposed to anywhere else because Howard asked us to and we, his loyal fans trust him. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">There is no more fitting praise that I can give to Stern, than the fact that NY firefighters and police love Howard Stern, if he is good enough for these people that put their lives on the line everyday for us, than he is good enough for me. Not only that, do you have any idea how many soldiers call into his show or say they are so happy when they can listen to his show, because it makes them laugh and forget about the war they are fighting for our country. They respect Howard Stern and he respects them because they both fight for freedom.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">It infuriates me when they say Howard Stern fans are all men, basically stupid, never went to college and are really lazy~<span style="color:#ff0000;"><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>funny last time I checked I graduated from college, am definitely female, work a full time job and have a small chocolate business.</strong></span> </em></span>Yes, there are times when I find his show a little to raunchy for my taste, like when women ride the sybian, but like anything else I don't want to listen to or watch, <span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>IMAGINE THIS</strong></span>, I just change the station, I don't write a letter to my congressman. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Thanks to Sirius Satellite, I now have a choice of hundreds of other stations to listen to without all that morning filler that is on terrestial radio. One other point I would like to refute is about all these statistics regarding Howard Stern's website and how his name and his website are not getting many hits. This is ridiculous, the only hits it probably gets are from people that don't have Sirius Satellite and can't listen to Stern. Unlike other super stars, that lie to their fans, have their publicists come out and say "how this is not true and that is not true" and then a week later we all come to find out everything they have denied was true. <strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">HOWARD STERN FANS</span></em></strong> don't have to click on a website to get information about Howard Stern and his life, because if you listen to the show, he tells us, his audience everything and then some on any topic we could possibly want to find out about, and we get our information right from the proverbial horse's mouth. I bought my Sirius Satellite radio a few weeks before Howard was starting the show, I did not bother having someone install it until the day before, because I really only bought it for him, I did not want to miss one minute of the new show. However, I quickly began to love my Sirius Satellite for all of the other channels as well. I can't live without having cable television and now I can't imagine not having Sirius Satellite. My car was in the shop for 3 days a few months ago, so I had to drive my husband's car without Sirius Satellite and Stern and I thought I would go crazy. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Anyway, long rant, but I love Stern, love my Sirius Satellite and would challange anyone out there to buy a Sirius Satellite, use it for a month and then try to live without it for a few days, </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>IT CAN'T BE DONE I TELL YOU, IT JUST CAN'T BE DONE!!!</strong></span></em></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><em><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></strong></em><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454286121957367736noreply@blogger.com2