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Get your fav snack … it’s Oscar weekend


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The Oscars, 2024, known for being one of a few Award Shows that people actually schedule their day and or lives around, is finally here. Quick get your fav snacks and, drinks and ooh girl look on.  It offers up winners and losers in film, costume, writers, music, actors, and directors, but most of us seem to tune in for the fashion, makeup, or latest cutie pie.  The night is about the best of all things good-looking, ugly, and maybe a malfunction of some kind. There might be some dancing possibly people you won’t see in person …unless you live in NYC go to Aspen a lot or live in Cali, and reports are some look different … well, fantasy is just better than reality isn’t!

This year the Oscars offer us more than just family fun or fantasy but films about slavery, politics, autism, or being bipolar and what impact each has on lives and legacies … tune in on March 10, 2014

Oscar enthusiasts watch to find out the latest info on who might be pregnant, divorced, who is wearing what, why, and in the end, all of us have an opinion on all the fashions worn during the event, as a star or model walks down the Red Carpet, and the big question?  … honestly, did your family, your agent, or your date let you leave out the house with that on?  I said it.

It seems like very few Oscars have been amusing due to the state of our economy  …entertainers were telling us … money doesn’t buy you happiness etc. blah blah blah; I agree, but it doesn’t buy taste either, SO …let the judging begin. lol

There are a lot of us couch potatoes stylists wondering about the credentials needed and being claimed by some of these so-called pros … don’t get me started

My observation is that dressing in labels is great – love labels, but maybe it’s time to switch it up People …the economy is making brand names have two lines …the upscale and what you can get at a “Regular” store or off the rack.  Yes, we all know that it is important not to be seen wearing something, us civilians would wear and most try to avoid being caught with the same dress on at any given event. We can also forge-’bout actors slash designers wearing their own clothing lines to a high-end event, or seeing anyone who makes a living in front of the camera wearing a Vera done for Kohl’s clothing store. I could be wrong. However, it seems like a great idea, a change of pace and given the times would probably bring more interest and sales to the clothes at the “Regular” store.  We all know a FLOTUS who wore both Designer and Average Girl Fashion

Anyway,  … no one sits at home without voicing an opinion on what these folks are wearing on Oscar night … let’s help change fashion don’t into fashion do … by tweeting some lol advice, and enjoy!

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Mindful Behavior … Stop Smoking … new beginnings
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Mindful behavior … Stop smoking

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I believe that great information makes us think – hopefully starts a conversation, and makes us take positive action. We have all heard about the current political noise in California and possibly other states concerning taxing cigarettes; a move that Washington State decided was a good idea, deciding folks must pay both the cigarette tax and the use tax, which goes directly to the Department of Revenue. The art of Mindful behavior takes some a mere moment while others a few hundred tries, but … it can be done.

As a parent and an ex-smoker (cold turkey) for well over 15yrs, the idea of taxing cigarettes is a good idea though no revenue will benefit the state itself, it will help others in the different ways the act of smoking affects our lives. It took becoming a parent to stop, along with an increase in allergies and asthmatic symptoms.  My mindful behavior, and the love of my kids not to mention a long family history of asthma helped so much.  Mindful behavior has a lot of angles … by definition or what society thinks of when contemplating the word “behavior”  is a need for guidance or in its totality has to do with the quality of awareness that a person brings to everyday living; learning to control your mind, rather than letting your mind control you.  However, being mindful in this case includes actions that can be stopped, controlled, or at least altered if you make a lifestyle change, reduce stress with exercises, and or find other things to do.

California and other states can or should at least explore subscribing to a Tobacco Tax; the increases can offer win-win-win solutions, especially as they face a severe fiscal crisis and work to balance budgets while preserving essential public services.

  Stop Smoking

In 2009, Orzechowski and Walker, an economic consulting firm, said …

$1,712 is the average amount a pack-a-day smoker in the US spends annually

What can $1,712 buy?

** 170 mosquito nets from nothingbutnets.net and prevent malaria transmission to African families.

** Provide 11,900 meals for the nation’s hungry through www.feedingamerica.org

** Donate to local programs to give 10 kids fun and creative after-school options every day for a month.  www.aferschoolalliance.org for tips on finding an organization near you.

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Reality TV …

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is it me or is Reality Tv slowly on its way out? im thinkin it’s wishful

i admit i have watched my share of  reality tv, and felt no guilt until the ugliness of the Kate+8 came out,won’t even mention the husband’s name,it’s a situation where neither seems grown up enough to take themselves off the air waves, it’s obvious to make ends meet, kate will need to write another book, gotta say listening to her say she has done enough tv to do movies? i was rooting for her til that and her need for a 8diamond ring? wtf Kate … is she really qualified?

another character… the ex-miss or the fallen miss Cali should have known if you make a sex tape, it will get out, how clueless is she, her behavior was offensive  and if this is what conservatism is then we are all in for an America that excludes and discriminates. I don’t feel this is what the majority of Americans want. i also question if  this is really what she feels conservative family values are all about? just asking

Anyone, supposedly 21 and slightly older on the hills,  the city, planet or state are very strange to watch.  As a person of colour, the black hills offended me but then so did these other shows claiming to highlight the fashion industry, the city and businesses in their States were definitely one-sided …the fashion district HAS got to have more ppl of colour to offer the show than just the bootlegger right?

and housewives in any state should wrap their shows up and end them, these shows are clearly harmful to the reality families themselves as several are getting evicted from their homes?, dating each others spouse or exes,  jail time and several divorces have popped up and out, who wants to see this stuff, really tell me.