Entries from November 2009

November 25, 2009

Thanksgiving Plan

Muslim, Jew, Christian, Hindu, black, white, yellow, red – none of that matters tomorrow.  If you’re American, you’re celebrating Thanksgiving.
All across the country friends and families are cutting turkeys and passing gravy.  People are smiling, laughing, fighting, and crying.  Some people are alone and don’t want to be.  Some people are in a crowd and [...]

November 24, 2009

Red Lobster

The other day a commercial came on for Red Lobster.  Now I’ve never been to a Red Lobster in my entire life.  I’ve always kind of thought there was something fishy (no pun intended) about all you can eat seafood.  Why is it that I can’t buy a king crab claw at the market for [...]

November 23, 2009

He Said What?

On Saturday I witnessed something that I just can’t get out of my head.  What does it signify?  Why did he say it?  Maybe you can decipher it and tell me what the heck it all means.
I was at the gym minding my own business (read: people-watching) when I passed it…
He was a larger man [...]

November 20, 2009

Dog Fight

This morning, my 12 pound Shih-Tzu leaped off of the sofa and landed on top of my quietly supine, 80 pound Mastiff.  At which point, she proceeded to bite his legs and crawl all over him like something out of a Three Stooges fight.  The Mastiff had a two foot long, stuffed monkey leg in [...]

November 19, 2009

The Last Episode

Tonight, Lifetime will air the last episode of this season’s Project Runway.  The episode will take place at Fashion Week in Bryant Park, which happened in real-time this past September.  I of course, will have to wait until this weekend to see the episode online as I am still living in a world without cable [...]

November 18, 2009

AWOL

A little seasonal flu has had me out of the office this week and home on the sofa watching Netflix.  When I’m feeling less than dapper, there is nothing better than a series of bad movies, one after the other, hour after hour, all day long until they beat the badness out of you.  There’s [...]

November 16, 2009

The Baby and the Crack

True story: on Friday the 13th, a toddler at a Minneapolis day care center was found sucking on something.  Nothing unusual about a 13-month old, little boy putting a foreign object into his mouth, right?  Wrong.  When a staff member took the object out of the child’s mouth, she found a hard ball of crack [...]

November 11, 2009

Planning a Wedding with Details

You know the old saying, “It’s all in the details.”?  Well that holds true for planning weddings too.  This quick look expose long-windedness retelling of mine (five steps to planning a wedding) began with Chapter 1 ‘Atmosphere’ (11.05.09), moved on to Chapter 2 ‘Personality’ (11.6.09) and Chapter 3 ‘Creativity’ (11.09.09), and then included Chapter 4 [...]

November 10, 2009

Planning a Wedding with the Love and Help of Your Friends and Family

There is no way, noooo way I could’ve thrown myself a wedding without my family and friends.  At first I didn’t want to trouble anyone and was sure I could do it all alone.  By the end, I was asking my mailman if he minded coming in for a moment to help me decorate gift [...]

November 9, 2009

Planning a Wedding with Creativity

For those of you sick to death of the wedding program over here in blog world….hang in there.  Just a few chapters left, I promise!
Planning a wedding with creativity means taking your personality, taking your budget, and putting them together in a way that says, “Hello, hello, hello.” instead of “Fire in the hole!”  Here [...]