The Grammys always seem like more of a party than an actual awards show to me. Half of the people at the show don’t actually sing, they just go to the Grammys for a little more publicity. The Grammys are always a blast to watch though! Read the rest of this entry »

Ok, I would totally be lying if I said I understand whey ALL guys feel the need to stay friends with their ex girlfriends  (and no this didn’t come up because of the run in last weekend - that ended a long time ago - this is for a friend of mine).  Just like having an Ex-Box, I don’t get it. Read the rest of this entry »

Today is my 23rd birthday! I’m out celebrating with my BFF all day and having my BF fix dinner for me tonight. You should celebrate for too - it’s the perfect excuse to have an apple-tini at 3 in the afternoon and an extra piece of cheesecake!

No matter how much you want to make a scene when you and your boyfriend fun into his ex when you go out for your birthday dinner, you just can’t.

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Ok, I was reading a post on www.lemondrop.com and the whole thing just bothered me. I understand that the number on the scale shouldn’t be the most important number in your life, but along with that number and your BMI you can learn a lot about your self. With over 2/3 of American’s being overweight, I think the biggest problem with people is that they aren’t willing to realize that they’re one of th Read the rest of this entry »

Ok, so as soon as you start dating a guy (or even see a cute guy walking down the street for that matter) you start to notice things about him that can ultimately make or break a relationship. Sure, some of the things may seem like harsh reasons for not wanting to date a guy, especially if you don’t really know anything about him, but a deal breaker is a deal breaker. Read the rest of this entry »

thanks to a blast e-mail we’ve all got a little bit of advice we should take into account every day …

As Ben Franklin said:

In wine there is wisdom.
In beer there is freedom.
In water there is bacteria.

In a number of carefully controlled trials scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of E. Coli - bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.

However, we do NOT run the run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey, or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

Remember:
Water = Poop
Wine = Health

Therefore, it is better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.

I say drink up! Cheers!

An ExBox - hands down! I am probably one of the few girls out there who doesn’t box up every little card, movie ticket, concert ticket, stuffed animal, t-shirts or attempt at a love note from my ex-boyfriend and put it somewhere in the back of my closet behind my winter clothes. As soon as the break up is over with and it comes time for the your stuff/my stuff exchange - give EVERYTHING back and what you find 2 months later, just throw it away. Personally, I just don’t see the need to hold on to everything that has to do with your old relationship along all 5,000 pictures of the two of you for a few reasons. Say you tried to do the “friend” thing with your ex and that doesn’t work out for whatever reason, when you find the dreaded ExBox, you’ll be reminded of the friend you lost or all the happy times you to had and you’ll have a pretty crappy rest of the day. If the breakup was bad, as soon as you come close to that box you’ll remember how much time you wasted in that relationship and hate the fact that you two ever dated in the first place - yet another bad day. Say you’ve finally moved on and you’ve got a new boyfriend (Mr. Wonderful) and the two of you are straightening up one day and he comes across your ExBox (or even worse, you come across his) and the reminiscing starts you and Mr. Wonderful may end up in a little argument - and this could be a very bad day once “the why are you still holding on to all that crap?” conversation starts. So once a breakup is done and over with, there really is no need to go out, buy yourself a new pair of shoes and then fill the box with everything your ex ever gave you. I have nothing against retail therapy, just make sure that you throw the box away when you get home.

I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who doesn’t like broccoli and cheese soup. Well turns out it’s super easy to make! Enjoy!

in a pot big enough to make soup combine 1 diced onion, 2 chopped carrots, and 2 chopped celery stalks over low/med heat. coat with olive oil and season with salt, pepper, fresh garlic, and cayenne pepper

once everything is soft - not mushy - put enough chicken broth in pot to just cover all of the ingredients and add a medium sized head of broccoli. cook for another 5 minutes or so.

once the broccoli is soft, mix everything together with a hand blender (a regular blender works too but i like having a hand blender). blend until you get to a consistency you like. i like to leave it a bit chunky

add 1/4 cup of heavy cream (more if you like really creamy soups). you can also add more chicken broth if you like soupier soups

now for the best part - the cheese! add i small block of velveta (yes, velveta!) and a block the same size of white cheddar. to make the cheese melt fast, cut the cheese into 1 inch cubes

cook until the cheese has all melted - about 15 minutes, stirring every few minutes to help the cheese melt

once everything has melted - enjoy!

It’s no surprise that some of our favorite junk foods aren’t exactly what’s best for our waistlines (but can we really help it if pizza and ice cream taste so good??). Yahoo Health just realized their list of 2009’s worst foods. Nothing that was on the list really shocked me. And when you see a list of the wost foods of a year that has just started, it shouldn’t shock you that over two thirds of the country of the country is overweight. I hate going into a restaurant and seeing people who should obviously be eating a salad with no dressing or cheese pigging out on burgers and beer, but what I hate even more than that is the kids that they have sitting at the table with them eating chicken fingers and fries and then washing it down with a soda before they have dessert. I’m not saying never feed your kids chicken fingers, but kids today have to learn better eating habits if their parents want to see them grow to become adults. Rather than a yearly list, maybe yahoo should make the worst food list a weekly thing and spam it out to everyone possible, so if nothing else, everyone can see on paper how bad that triple cheese burger really is. And if that doesn’t work … maybe they could try to hypnotize all two thirds of the fat people and convince them that if they eat anything on the bad food list that they will turn into a cow - literally.