I haven't been tuning in to America's Next Top Model too much this year. I've gotten over the novelty of it and I hate the fact that seeminly the skinnier you are the more chance you have of winning! This year I did watch the first episode because I knew of one of the models from another friend, through another friend, you know how that goes. So I had to tune in to see how she was doing. She's still there, and doing well I might add! I must say that I don't agree with America's Top Mod...

Human emotion is such a fragile thing, one minute you’re up, the next you’re down. Love is the best of human emotions. It is sometimes a time for singing and rejoicing; Yet also a moment of weeping and loss felt deep within one’s soul. Love’s emotion can be so infinite, wholesome, and deep. Some wish never to experience it. Some wish never to repeat it Some wish it could last forever! If you haven’t experience it, I hope you will one day. It is better to have loved than ...

Sometimes I feel like I’m at odds with my oldest child. My first born and still the love of my life! I think she forgets that sometimes and I have to remind her. She somehow gets lost in the shuffle of the care for her younger siblings and I know that isn’t easy for her. They happen to be more demanding than she was. I’m trying to put myself in her place when I was her age when it comes to her attitude about some things. She’s not a bad kid; she’s sometimes misunderstood by me. I’m ...

I’m flawed…in my own mind because I’m not perfect I’m flawed…..because I cannot be like you in your perfect world And then I remember that Society’s expectations should not become my burden! But in my imperfection I find myself and I remember that it’s ok to just be I find myself living in life’s moments and appreciating each experience as they come, Because I’m flawed and I’m me!

I'm tired and it's been a very long day! I've been up for most of the night, last night. Tending to another sick child. Why does it always end up being the mommy's job to take the brunt of this situation. Sometimes dads just fall apart, maybe not fall apart, but they just look on helplessly and yell for tired mom to take action! My youngest, the five year old, was sick all night last night so it was a night of watching and cleaning up after her and praying that whatever it is will pass ...

It has to be a conspiracy! Why else have we had such a problem with our food supplies lately?! First it was the Spinach, then the Lettuces, then the peanut butter and now dog food?! You tell me something is not wrong with this picuture? I can't believe that people's beloved pets have died because of the food they have eaten! It's so sad and should never have happened! It's a good thing that no human died from the peanut butter they ate. Heavens forbids, everytime I remember that we...

Oh the good life.....bathing in beer, washing my hair in beer, cooking with beer....yes I do it all, except the bathing part...that I've never done and didn't realise you could do until now! Seriously! I like to think I'm a connoisseur of beer (in my own humble way) because I just enjoy drinking it! I love a wide variety. The colder the better is how I like mine. I realise that not many people like their beer cold, rather, at room temperature. In fact, there is a Beer Club somewher...

I came across this article on MSN Money at msn.com, that there will probably be a chocolate shortage: _______________ "A drought in Western Africa and unrest in the Ivory Coast -- the world's biggest cocoa producer -- has combined with rising consumer taste for cocoa-rich dark chocolate to raise concerns about a shortage in supply. As a result, cocoa futures have been trading at three-year highs, with prices rallying since the beginning of the year. "In the last few months, cocoa p...

I’m going to talk about something that probably will make some of you, your initial response will probably be, “oh not that again” or you’ll probably not bother to read because you’re heard it all before. That’s OK. I write this for those of you who keep asking the question, why some people can’t get over themselves and stop crying racism as often as some do. Granted, there are those people ‘out there’ (‘Society’) who do use the word ‘racism’ no matter what happens or is happening and it...

Is what my kids do a lot – it has to be! Why else when I call them, ‘a thousand times’, and tell them to do something, they ignore me and keep on doing whatever it is they are doing, i.e., watching television, playing a game, playing with dolls, etc.; when I get testy, i.e., call their names out in full, raise my voice and demand that they do as I say or else, then they look sheepish and scramble to do what I asked them to do, saying “I didn’t hear you mommy”! Yeah right! My response...

The sound of the machine that gives my son his medication the nebulizer It might help him to breathe more easily, it might help to open his lungs after a treatment but it is the sound I hate the most because it reminds me of how unwell he is sometimes. I hate the coughing that comes, that brings on the asthma the weird look in his eyes tells me how sick he's going to be and then I worry it's been happening on and off for the last three weeks today to the doctor again...

They were lying on the bed, heads cushioned by pillows, her leg tossed carelessly across his thigh. He pulled a hair from his scalp, a grey one, the way he usually do, put it in his mouth, then playfully tossed it in her direction. She made a sucking noise with her mouth, batting his hand frantically and swore at him while laughing hysterically! "Stop that!" She reached over and tugged at his hair playfully. He closed his eyes. He loved it when she played with his hair. Alex t...

MARCH 14 is your SPECIAL DAY SABRINA, SABRINA, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY IT'S TIME TO CELEBRATE ANOTHER YEAR OUR WISH FOR YOU FOR THIS HAPPY DAY FILLED WITH LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE OF MIND NO TIME TO SIT AND PONDER YOUR WORLD WILL FOREVER BE FILLED WITH WONDER CAUSE THE UNIVERSE IS YOURS SO COMMAND AT WILL YOUR WISHES WILL BE GRANTED ************************************************* * OVERVIEW: Pisces is having a once in a lif...

How many of you are sleeping in separate bedrooms? Seriously, I’m just curious. I have been hearing about this a lot lately, on the news, on interior design shows; in the magazines….it’s the latest trend. Even my co-worker told me that she and her husband don’t really sleep together all night. He snores too much so she sleeps in the guest room in order to get some sleep. I guess in a case like hers, I can understand the reasoning behind it, although my hubby snores down the roof an...

I read today that designer Marc Jacobs is in rehab after 7 years of sobriety, he slipped, and now he’s working on getting himself ‘together’. Link I found this discussion on the linked site interesting. Link Someone commented that celebrities go to rehab to gain publicity. One asks why they can’t go quietly; another commented that it’s the media’s fault. Another reader commented: “I think putting people with real mental health issues and most of the celebs is a bit...