Sitting here listening to Christmas songs!

DWTS New Cast – Let’s Talk

Here’s the group that will be competing this season – really!

Kristin Cavallari, Ricki Lake, Chynna Phillips, Hope Solo, Elisabetta Canalis,  David Arquette, Rob Kardashian, J.R. Martinez, Chaz Bono, Ron Artest, Carson  Kressley and Nancy Grace comprise the Dancing With the Stars Fall 2011 cast.

It’s Thursday…………. Wake up!

O.k. so the week is slowly dragging and as of today, we are officially over the half way mark. So why am I so tired? I know why? Because I need a week long vacation…… maybe even two! I just booked me a mini vaca at the beginning of November and hopefully off to Disney World at the end of November. Any plans for anyone else?

Let’s Talk Breakups

Okay, so – people are breaking up and a home wrecker is PG – let’s talk about.

First off, Lee Dewyse is engaged.  Te 2010 winner of American Idol, the  singer, 25, is engaged to model/actress Jonna Walsh, he tells PEOPLE exclusively.

Breakups:  Jessie and Kat VonD – just after she got a tatoo of her exfiance – rumor he was cheating on her, what else is new?  Of course, the official story is the commute between her show taping in Chitown and his living in Austin, TX is the reason.

Pregnancy rumors are “floating” around Fantasia Barrino again thanks to new paparazzi photos of the singer frolicking in Barbados with married boyfriend Antwaun Cook, whose own marriage disintegrated last year in the wake of his headline-making affair with the “American Idol” star.  The blogosphere swears ‘Tasia’s sporting more than just a “baby bump” in the photos, as the lovers sunbathed and snorkeled on the beach.  Dang, has Tas gotten big!

Let’s Chat????

Hey all!.  Happy Friday.

Scandles here, Scandles there – Scandles Everywhere??

Murdoch, Anthony, Weiner, scandles, scandles scandles.  Are you keeping up with the news?  What’s your take?

Eat This, Don’t Eat That, No Wait, You Can Eat This

Confused?  Me too.  First you cannot eat something it’s bad for you.  Then, low and behold, it’s okay to eat a little of that, but leave off this stuff.  What are you to do?  And you think by chosing more veggies, you’re doing better.   Some vegetables even get into the act – now!  If the economy isn’t grim enough for you, just check out the February issue of the Journal of HortScience, which contains a report on the sorry state of American fruits and veggies. Apparently produce in the U.S. not only tastes worse than it did in your grandparents’ days, it also contains fewer nutrients — at least according to Donald R. Davis, a former research associate with the Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas, Austin. Davis claims the average vegetable found in today’s supermarket is anywhere from 5% to 40% lower in minerals (including magnesium, iron, calcium and zinc) than those harvested just 50 years ago.

And if you are wondering about how much pesticide is in your veggies you buy,  a full ranking of 53 vegetables and fruits, along with the Dirty Dozen and Clean 15, are available on the EWG website. You can also glance at the lists below:  (healthland.com)

Dirty Dozen:
1. Apples
2. Celery
3. Strawberries
4. Peaches
5. Spinach
6. Imported nectarines
7. Imported grapes
8. Sweet bell peppers
9. Potatoes
10. Blueberries
11. Lettuce
12. Kale/collard greens

Clean 15:
1. Onions
2. Corn
3. Pineapples
4. Avocado
5. Asparagus
6. Sweet peas
7. Mangoes
8. Eggplant
9. Domestic cantaloupe
10. Kiwi
11. Cabbage
12. Watermelon
13. Sweet potatoes
14. Grapefruit
15. Mushrooms

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/14/dirty-or-not-you-still-need-to-eat-your-fruits-and-veggies/#ixzz1RynAfIgH

 

Back In The Saddle Again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We’re back!!!!!!  What ya wanna talk about?

The Party’s Over

Turn out the lights, the party’s over, they say that all good things must end, call it a run, the party’s over – and tomorrow will start the same ole thing again!

Have we reached the end?  I think so.  It’s been fun, laughs, tears, and good times.  We started as strangers, on a strange blog, and became life long friends.   I hope we will always talk through e-mails, facebook, wherever.   I’ve enjoyed doing posts, looking for things to write about, pictures, but unless ya’ll disagree, I think we’ve come to the crossroads.  My deep affection to all!  You will always be in my heart – and hopefully keeping me up-to-date on your adventures, always.  One chapter closes – but there is always another one waiting to be written (Jexiee – hint hint – looking forward to reading your first book).   For the record:  I have published 272 post to this site!  Amazing.

Ugh! Here Comes The Summer Heat!

Summer is almost upon us – the weather is as Robin Williams said in the movie Good Morning Viet Nam “Adrian Cronauer: I just want to begin by saying to Roosevelt E. Roosevelt, what it is, what it shall be, what it was. The weather out there today is hot and shyietty with continued hot and shyietty in the afternoon. Tomorrow a chance of continued crappy with a pissy weather front coming down from the north. Basically, it’s hotter than a snake’s backside in a wagon rut.

I want to go outside, but as soon as you step out, the melting process begins.  Going swimming is a good idea, but you gotta have those underwater shoes on to walk around the waterpark cause you can’t bare the feet, you won’t be walking for months because of the hot fry your eggs sidewalk you’d be walking on and then spend the rest of the summer in the nice cool air-conditioned house – wait, maybe that’s not so bad??? 

Of course you could spend time “under the boardwalk” but you know what goes on under there!  And you’d still need those water shoes to get there, cause the sand would have the same effect on your toes as the hot frypan sidewalk. 

I watch youth baseball – and you have to give it to those young men and women, who go out on the diamonds with that hot clay dirt and survive 2 or 3 games in one day.  Lots of water, water, water.  All the while you are sitting under manufactured shade, with portable fans, until you surrender those fans to the dugouts for air circulation, and the sweat begins to do what a sauna does for you in the gym you pay membership to attend but because it’s summer, you never seem to have the time to get there!  What’s a person to do?

How about you – you have a way to beat the HEAT!  (Ooops, maybe that’s the MAVERICKS job!)  Anyway.  Happy Sum Sum Sum Sum Sum Sum Summertime! ya’ll.