THE HYPOCRITE'S GUIDE TO HEALTHY

How's MY New Year's Resolution ... eat better & lose weight ....  going? Probably as well as yours. :-)

I have been off track for the past month ... eating whatever ... no gym visits ... BUT as I sit here eating my 0 calorie Stevia laced Oatmeal topped with skim milk,  I'm starting to feel a little more self- righteously equipped to preach "healthy" again ....

DON'T EAT WHITE! That's riiiiight. If your food is pure white it could contain Titanium Dioxide. .... It just sounds bad don't it? .....  It's used to enhance the color of white in plastics, paints, paper, sunscreen AND food. It is found in toothpaste, salad dressings ... there goes my blue cheese .... , icings .... oh no CAKE??? ....... pre-packaged sauces, and skim milk ... wait a minute.

Titanium Dioxide has been found to contain traces of lead. Though the adverse effects of ingesting or absorbing  the chemical through the skin  are deemed medically inconclusive, inhaling the dust particles have been found to be cancer causing.

Want to reduce your chances? Brush your teeth with minty green, use olive oils on your salad, cover up some places ... that upper chest area maybe. The girls will be so appreciative .... when you go outside, make your own cakes from scratch  .... What? I should say stay away from cake for the rest of my life? Hey, I'm on a diet not in prison .... even prisoners get cake once in a while!

Was the EMERGENCY stop button broke?

Did you see this? ...... This is 44 year old Patricia Krentcil ... yes you read that right 44 YEARS OLD ........ Patricia is an admitted avid tanner ... ya think!! Patricia is accused of bring her fair-haired 5-year into the tanning booth with her. Depending on which news agency you read, the child went to school with 1st-2nd degree burns. Her parents claim it was sunburn. We shall see .......

But apparently, since Patricia was receiving all this attention she thought it best to also add a spray tan to that "healthy glow"  .... her words ... for the all the camera interviews she felt she needed to give to plead her case to the general public for sympathy??? .... stardom??? ..... the ethical treatment of microwaving ???

 
I think it may have been your second worst decision this week Patricia!! 

MATHEMATICAL HEADACHE

SIGH ........ After spending $520 on a hair cut .... or 2 as the stylist tells it  .... or 15 as Nadya imagines tells it ... AND borrowing $450K last year  .... how much was this house?  ..... to buy the current home for her "children" ...... tomorrow the Octomom house will be on the auction block. Yet, the CYS in California that visited her again this week claim "the children are in no imminent danger".  

Oh the guy who lent her the $450k to purchase the house?  ... he is suing her for it?  Surprise!  

Let's see how many hair cuts does that come to ..... $520 divided by + or - (14) + truth - Brazilian blowout + Radar Online pic purchases - denial + added TV exposure via scandal X multiplied by another CYS visit  ...............

Editorial Cartoon credit: Alycia Rockey, The Daily Eastern News

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GORGEOUS!!

Babs is 70 today! Seriously I love this picture of her taken last year. GORGEOUS! 
Singer ...
Actress...
writer ...
director ...
producer ...
academy award winner ...
feminist ...
activist ...
philanthropist ....
legend ..... What can I tell you about her that you do not already know?

FAVORITE QUOTES:

"One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl (1968), I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice"."


"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."

Yes! They are still ALIVE ....

At Easter dinner, my in-laws and I got on to the subject of celebs that are still alive.  My in-laws are music fanatics ..... if I'm EVER on WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE and the question is Rock 'n Roll music I'm calling one of them ..... so they were naming all the music icons of the 50's, 60's still alive. Even I already knew most of the people they mentioned were still alive. So, I joined the conversation and rattled off the old movie stars I knew were still alive! .... I'm pretty sure I topped their 60's Rock 'n Rollers with my 30's/40's golden age of Hollywood icons. As a matter of fact, one of the In-laws looked at me and said "How do you know all this?". I shrugged. See if you can add to my list:

Olivia de Havilland, her REAL sister Joan Fontaine and her Gone With The Wind co-star Ann Rutherford .... Scarlett's sister.
Child actors  ...... Micky Rooney, Shirley Temple and Shirley's nemesis ... you might remember her as Josephine the plumber ... Jane Withers
Arlene Dahl and Ester Williams ... their connection both married to Fernando Lamas
Luis Rainer ... WHO? ... what do I look like a Wikipedia ..... look her up             

   ANY TO ADD??

IRRITATING CRAP MY HUSBAND DOES ...... or the husband who won't use Tupperware .... a working title!

VS.

THE God Of Organization .... G.O.O. for short ... and chief inspector of health around here, refuses to learn how to use the Tupperware. Before I married him I owned almost every storage container Tupperware made. I'm now a Ziploc goddess but I kept the one thing no one else could make like Tupperware .... THE LETTUCE KEEPER!!! It really really really works in keeping the lettuce fresh. However, I can't convince my GOO to ever use it. Wha? ... brown and wilty not appetizing?

Ah well, since I'm into the phytonutrients now so, I don't eat iceberg anymore anyways .... happy eating GOO!

REMEMBERING EASTER

I was reminiscing this past week about Easter season … not really the religious aspects but activities that surrounded it. Growing up Roman Catholic in a neighborhood where 95% of my neighbors were also of that faith, our school at one time was the largest Catholic school in the Diocese. The grounds of our parish were almost a campus compared to the surrounding parishes. The essence of the local Catholic church's Easter preparation effect on home and community included:

The Parish bazaar – I never realized it till was I was older but technically this was a version of “Fat Tuesday” only over a loooong weekend before Lent. Everyone from the parish attended. They gave away great prizes on the chance wheels too! Huge stuffed animals, 10 lb hams and sugar, bikes, small local merchant gift baskets, etc …. The food? It wasn’t this prepackaged stuff you get at the local carnivals now! Parish woman were tripping over one another cookin’ up a fresh storm in the small “social hall” kitchen. And the gambling …… casinos had nothing on this crowd …. No chance getting a seat at the poker tables let me tell you!

Lenten Eating – Lent was a big limiting the meat intake season. So, my Mom made pierogies. I mean HUNDREDS of them. It took her all day. She made two kinds: potato and dry cottage cheese ….. my favorite! I don’t know how she did it. I tried to make one batch …. 75 pierogies ….. for Christmas. First, try to find dry cottage cheese ….. it’s a dying pierogie art I say. Speaking of a dying art …. my mom also made pierogies the old fashion way with two dough circles NOT that circle fold over like everyone else does now. Her pierogies were how her direct from Poland Grandmother made them resembling mini flying saucers. This is how I make them and I was wore out …… EVEN WITH SOME DAUGHTER HELP!

Lenten Torture – Giving something up you enjoyed and attending Wednesday afternoon marathon STATIONS …… if your Catholic, you know what I mean … ENOUGH SAID!

Lenten Fashion-ista Shopping – When else would you look for a pink, lilac or yellow dress topped off with flowery sun hat and a shiny pair of white patent leathers?

Good Friday – School was closed. All offices were closed. Retail stores were open BUT they closed Noon to 3PM. Noon to 3PM no one in the neighborhood left their homes! If you did you better be going to the hospital emergency room or already in the 3 HOUR STATIONS at Church!

My parish has been gone for years. The school, even after merging with surrounding Catholic schools, closed about 5 years ago. The religious rationale for Easter I have “issues” with and will leave the discussion for those who have a better argument than I. All I can recreate …. sometimes …. is the pierogies!

IRRITATING CRAP MY HUSBAND DOES ...... or the husband who still believes in the Easter Bunny .... a working title!

Easter came early this year ..... Oldest daughter came home Sunday (Mon Tues Wed) to visit for the holiday ..... she has to work on the actual day ..... so, back she goes ..... sniff

GOO still believes his 20-something daughters are 5. He still buys them candy. He still gets out their baskets and fills them. He still hides the baskets and makes the girls look for them. He hid one for me this year too. I guess two young woman scouring the house for chocolate isn't enough. It's much more entertaining when you add a pre-menopausal one in on the chocolate treasure hunt too!

GET UR BLUE ON

Tomorrow is "Worldwide Autism Awareness Day". To bring attention to this disorder that affects 10's of millions of people across the globe, the United Nations General Assembly has asked those who want to show their support to wear BLUE.

EASY ENOUNGH!

IT SHOULD BE ABOUT IGNORING COMMON SENSE

I have been wanting to rant about the Zimmerman case for the last few weeks since I heard the about the story on my AM news. This new video just gave me the incentive. My planned rant was going to include my total skepticism to the Zimmerman version of the incident. I mean come on, the whole accounting does not add up to “self-defense”!

First, it was around 9 PM on a Sunday night. What self-respecting criminal is looking for a heist at that time of night? Zimmerman …. the self-appointed head of neighborhood watch …… was getting ready to go grocery shopping. Many of his neighbors are awake to make 911 calls because all that screaming for help was disturbing their listening to the court room drama on “Desperate Housewives”.

So Georgie sees a baaad person walking around outside. He calls 911. Have you heard this call? Georgie says the suspicious person has “something wrong with him”! He could tell that all the way from inside his house because he took some criminal classes! Although, Georgie sounds like he had a few of something himself …….. hmmm has to get to the grocery store at 9PM!

He then goes outside while on the phone with the dispatchers to chase the kid ……. and he knows it is a kid because he tells the dispatcher he is a teen ………… and they tell him not to. He is still outside when the call ends and he wants the police to call him when they get to the gated community entrance. Why? You were a good citizen. You made your call. NORMAL people let the police handle it. That wasn’t good enough for a wanna-be-cop hero and able to catch a criminal before he hits the PUBLIX snack aisle Georgie. Already packin’ his pistol for the grocery store he gets in his car and hunts an unarmed kid down.

As Georgie tells it he was fearing for his life because the teenager half his size that he chased down to "corner" for the police was beating the crap out of him. Really???? Even if he was, you couldn't run to a neighbor ..... get back in your car ..... sit on him .... the only answer was shoot him? Now did that make sense? Oh and by the way Georgie that’s not what the new video shows either. There wasn’t a guy beaten to even half a pulp on that video.

What does make sense is Florida police screwed this one up. Let us hope for the sake of our justice system the Feds have a little more common sense from here on out.

FEMALE FIREFIGHTERS FIGHTING FIRE ... uuuuh ... Wait a minute?!?

Did you see this? (click) When I first saw this .... the forward thinker that I am .... I thought "What is the big deal? SO, the ladies had to come from some wedding to put out the car fire!" Not quite. Those are male firefighters who jump off their fundraising float ..... not sure how that works dressing in drag to raise money ....... in a parade to put this fire out.

This reminded me of a riddle I heard as a kid in the '70's ... I saw it later in an "All In the Family" episode too ..... I was hangin' at the community pool when this annoying younger kid I usually avoided came up to tell me this riddle:

• A man and his son are driving home from a basketball game,when they have a terrible accident.The man is taken to the emergency room for treatment and the boy is taken straight to the operating table. The surgeon comes over to the operating table, sees the boy and says,"I can't operate on this patient, he's my son!" Who is the doctor?

I gave her that tiresome look like I always gave her .... in my head I was saying what kind of riddle is this you weirdo ........... and blurted out: "It's his mother!". To her surprise I knew the answer.

Why wasn't I suppose to know the answer? Did I mention it was the '70's? This riddle stumped many many many people then because no one could imagine or even dare think women could be surgeons ....... ladies things have changed for the better some what! However, now I see men in drag and think they are women just doing their job.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. ROGERS

sniff sniff ..... Can it be? Fred Rogers has been gone for 9 years now. Since I grew-up in Pittsburgh, I always thought he was just a local show. I never realized how many generations of children .... including my own .... nation wide he mesmerized till probably the Saturday Night Live skit with Eddie Murphy.

Even though I probably came close ..... being in the same "neighborhood" so to speak .... I never bumped into him around here. The closest I ever came to him, other than the TV set, was the time one of my mothers friends was a fairy Godmother on one of his earlier PBS shows.

Hopefully, the innocent appeal of his many characters will remain in repeats a long long time for many more generations.

TRIVIA TIME:

• McFeely, was his middle name as well as his much loved Grandfather. The Mr. McFeely character is alive and well in Pittsburgh. He still is a staple making appearances at local TV and events.
• Fred's mom made most of the sweaters he wore on the show.
• He was an ordained Minister
• Pittsburgh locals Micheal Keaton and Ming Na got their acting starts in the "Neighborhood". I swear Dennis Miller got a start their too but, I can't find the confirmation on the net.

THE VOTE FOR BETTER AMERICA -2012

Rick Santorum has now focused on one of the country’s most pressing issues as he sees it from his campaign trail. Yes, Americans when Rick is President ….. Gaaaaaag ……. He will save all Americans from the dreaded porn industry because as you know this is what is really bring down the American economy and world opinion of us. Yes Americans, forget that old tired on-going, fiscal draining, brave military killing, hunting down the “destroy America” terrorists war in Afghanistan. Forget about the fact you cannot find a decent paying job, the bank is foreclosing on your home and your kids are strung out on drugs. Rick’s says you do not need free welfare programs or foods stamps or medical assistance …. That’s your problem …. Rick says buck up and deal with it!

The government should not be providing for its citizens!!!!! America’s REAL problem is the fact that your morals are not the same as Rick’s. YES ….. when Rick is President, we will all become Christians with strict moral values and PORN IS OUT!!!! You cannot be watching that stuff on TV or the internet or in a movie or magazine. SO censorship is what the government should really be doing. After all, we should be in church, those slags will have to get off their birth control and have babies as GOD intended, …. Everyone should only be having sex if they are married anyway …… and we shall ship all those Gays off to Samoa because they should not be mixing with us God fearing people. THIS will repair things in America …. wave your flags now! ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜

And speaking of terrorists is not their war on Americans ….. I’m not a political analyst just an observer ….. based on religious morals? Who is to say whose morals are God’s preferred? RICK?

Sometimes Rick and his idealized scruples just need to shut-up!

COCKTAIL TIME!

Fresh from a weekend of girlfriends, cocktails, food, games, food, cocktails, gossip, food, cocktails, music, cocktails, food & my favorite ..... every one's cocktail-food ..... shrimp! So, after eating my share of the succulent platter and thinking all that could possibly happen is elevated cholesterol ... I just by chance RE-read an article I forgot all about: The Five Grossest Things You Can Eat! You guess it, smack in the middle of that list is shrimp! Having two little beady eyes looking at you and a slimy black vein to remove are the least of the gross issue.

What makes them so gross they are one of the grossiest things? Most of the thin shelled ones are imported from "farms" overseas .... hmmmmmm could that be China ..... whose tanks are plied with chemicals to disinfect their filthy farming pens. Add to that our pinky friends are also snacking on and swimming in Rat turds and bugs. Yummy! Only 20% of the farmed imports are even inspected!!! .... WTF??? You want better .... there is better ...say it ... say it ... say it with me now .... DOMESTIC !!!! That's right the best and safest is home grown from the Gulf. When will we learn to eat what's in our own backyards. Sigh!

THE EASY WAY OUT ......

I’m still tired from "Girlfriend" weekend this past week soooooo… I'm just taking the easy way out … to show I am alive also … just going to wish Happy Birthday to obscure celebs today …… see if you can remember where you saw them before:

Our first birthday girl would have been 96 today. Where oh .... oh where have you seen her?

On the right, this Birthday boy is 66 ...he is .... he is ... he is ... I'm not telling ... yet!

Here is our Birthday Boy on the left: ... com'on you know that face! He is 54 today if that helps! Where did you first see him? Hmmmmmmmm .......

GIVE UP YET????

VIRGINIA GREGG ........ famous character actress in both TV and a few movies of the 50's-80's ... was the voice of Norman Bates mother in Psycho I, II & III, appeared on Dragnet 13 x's, Gunsmoke 7x's, Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock presents, and every other TV show in between.

MARTIN KOVE ....... most famous for being the "chauvinist pig" of Cagney and Lacey and the bad guy in The Karate Kid movies

EDDIE DEEZEN .... most famous for "Eugene" in Grease!