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Stylists...

Why would you put attractive actresses in these: 

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Weird, unlined dresses? 

When she wore this just the other night? 

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I mean I am biased, but come on!

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I saw the Muppets movie over Thanksgiving and have to say I kinda love Jason Segal. I think it is so precious that he loves muppets so much...it is a little weird and dorky but hey it appears to be working for him.

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Choices

In our lives we all need to make choices. 

Sometimes we make good choices. 

Sometimes we make bad choices.

When you make the choice to go to 7:15 PM yoga class and agree to go to a cardio based, strength training class at 6:00 AM the next morning

.......you may temporarily lose full range of motion. 

Just a warning. 

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UhOh on Domesticity

I saw a show being advertised last night about some guy who dresses up as a woman to get a job. It looked like a knockoff of that show Bosom Buddies where Tom Hanks got his start. 

Full disclosure, I have never watched Bosom Buddies, I just happen to know a lot of pop culture trivia.  I have seen Tootsie, which is similar I believe, although I think Dustin Hoffman dressed up as a woman for an acting part -- or something.  

Anyway. The show looked pretty stupid and I will be unlikely to watch it.  

There have been a couple of articles about how the current economic downturn has been better for women -- more have been hired than men, and men were less likely to get hired at the time the article was written (about a year ago.) 

I also saw this article in the Washington Post yesterday about the "New Domesticity." Which I found to be pretty interesting as I know several women who fit the description.  I have a good friend who has a craft blog that has really taken off, everyone knows of my love for Pinterest, which I have found the ratio of delicious recipes and DIY projects to anything else to be higher.  The article talks about women being able to take more control over their lives, and know what products, food etc. they, or their families are consuming.  I don't know how to sew, I rarely cook and all my DIY projects wind up costing me more for a half made object -- because I never get around to completing what I started.  I LIKE the idea of painting my apartment, but the prospect of having to paint it one time is enough to deter me.  It is too exhausting to even think about painting it back, so the white walls have stayed.  In spite of my hatred of moving and likelihood I will probably stay in this place for at least another year.

Our grandmothers embraced canned goods, and the microwave to lessen preparation time for meals, they bough electronics and appliances that would take the labor out of the chores required around the house, and products became cheaper so that we could replace a sock with a hole in the toe rather then fix them.  

I wonder with all the new technology if people -- men and women alike -- are findings ways back to a simpler time because of the nostalgia, or just because they are overwhelmed with the pace they are at now. Instant everything seems to have added more chaos and stress, not less.  

Is this new wave of domesticity setting "feminism" back? Or is it a new wave of Feminism? 

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One of those days

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Vitamins...and other topics

Good Morning peeps! 

Over the Thanksgiving weekend I did manage to work out a little bit, one day for about an hour.  My parents and I went to the rec center in my hometown on Saturday morning and I ran on the treadmill, did some weights and then read a magazine on the recumbent cycle while my parents finished up their exercises.  

I had full intentions of doing some cardio with my new running shoes yesterday but was sidetracked by the fact that I wanted to sleep; after not having to get up at 5 am for 5 days.  The empty promises I made to myself to run after work were not fulfilled.....

Which brings me to this morning.  I dragged myself out of bed, made a smoothie and went to TNT where I spent most of the morning feeling like I was going to vomit all over myself.  I don't know if I was hot, or tired from the weekend.  I suspect it was a combination of that and the fact that I had a multi-vitamin on a relatively empty stomach.  Or the multi-vitamin and smoothie were not agreeable.  I don't know but I felt, and still feel a little nauseated.  Lovely.  

Kind of a bummer, I feel like I still got a relatively good workout in, despite the fact that I was concerned about stomach pyrotechincs....GREAT topic for the morning right?!  

Change of topic entirely, but as I was searching for a clever way to wrap up this post I came across this picture on my favorite website ever:

This is true.  As I am now in my 30's my friends are getting married, having babies and...I am not.  

I am getting more awesome? (said with conviction)

*All the pictures are pulled from various pins from Pinterest.  

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Fa la la la la la

As I was in graduate school for two years and worked on short term job before my current one last year this is the first time in three years I have had to work between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  In fact since I left undergrad in 2004 this is the 2nd time I have had to work over the holidays. 

I find this activity to be highly overrated for a variety of reasons. 

1) People are kind of short tempered. Between holiday shopping, preparing for various guests or holiday travel plans -- everyone runs around like maniacs in an attempt to be extra efficient at work, driving around town, volunteering, eating out or whatever. This seems to mean more traffic, more grumpiness and more stress.

2) It is COLD. (Even in ATX) Why must we get up, get ready etc. etc. when really all this cold weather invites us to do is sit around in cozy pjs drinking hot beverages and watching the 900th showing of ELF on the USA network.  

3) It is dark. I have talked about this before, but it is freaking dark by 6 pm. Which in my world means that I need to go to bed about an hour after it gets dark, so that period between 7 and 10 pm when I actually do go to bed seems to stretch on and on without my accomplishing anything.  I have no energy, there is good television to watch and it is dark.  

4) Although the holiday season is supposed to be a time for cherishing loved ones -- everyone is cooped up inside, because it is a) cold and b) dark so everyone gets on people's last nerve.  This creates a vicious cycle of creating traffic jams in the morning, road rage or other rude behavior when out in public because all people really want to do is cozy up with a hot beverage, pjs and ELF or A Christmas Story