No one is immune

     You know times are hard when the White House Turkey will not be pardoned.  Apparently, with the economic downturn, your house is not alone with the challenges of high cost of groceries.  The White House as well and its current residents, staffs and its entire member are all feeling the pinch.  Thus, the Thanksgiving turkey will not roam free this year as it will be dressed and glazed and accessories with fruits and vegetable trimmings (with the exception of Gucci handbags and Burberry scarf.)  And the thanksgiving turkey will be laid out on all its glory on the White House’s Italian marble table.   To spare the turkey is unfathomable.   There are starving lobbyist and politicians to feed.

     Desperate times calls for desperate measures.   The Watutsi Tribesmen from the Capital One commercial will bless the wielding of the ax so as to symbolize a sacrificial ceremony to end amid our world economic crises.  The celebrity tribesmen’s and their ferocious barbaric band of brothers are being laid off.  They too are affected by the credit card crisis.  Also on the chopping block, Tiger Woods and Kate Walsh from TV series “Private Practice”.  Kate Walsh will now advertise for Yugo instead of that sleek red Cadillac that she happily wedge her stiletto onto the pedal and Tiger Woods will not endorsed any Buick vehicles and may sell his personal air bus in order to keep his million dollar yacht.  All because the car companies are tanking. 

     Currently, all overly paid CEO’s are taking inventory from their fat pockets.  They too are trying to make a conscious effort to cut down on the cheddar.  Instead of lavishingly endow their mistresses furs.  The CEO’s will now resolve to faux furs. As a result, animal activist will be extra happy to not carry extra spray paint cans wherever they go.   The CEOs have proposed a plan to end the disastrous Real Estate market by recommending a start up company for their mistresses.  The CEO’s will provide a house for the ladies in any vacant foreclosed home of her choosing.  It is a waste to keep those houses vacant and vacant home are considered high risk in the insurance business.    I’ve no doubt a bordello franchise will turn the housing economy around.  Look for it on the stock market ticker (xxxBORD).   I do not condone this but as a lone citizen, I do not have the power to stop their immoral wills.  They see this as a win-win situation.

     In conclusion, you are not alone my friend.   You and I were born with a magnanimous heart, we will give this Thanks’giving’.  We will not go out kicking and screaming and give to the gift that keeps on giving:  our National Debt.  We will dig our nails onto the ground and work.  So that obscenely rich families will not have to go through the walk of shame and they can keep the pretentious lifestyle while they sleep well on their 2000 thread count Egyptian cotton and pipe stitched pajamas while so many of us struggle to keep our houses warm and send our hungry kids to school.

Tryptophan Experience

 4 days before Thanksgiving.  I am so looking forward to this holiday that will be once again hosted by my mum-in-law.  Pro ranking in culinary skills and her ammunition of cheesecake from scratch not even Giada De Laurentis’ bosom will divert anyone’s attention from B’s skillet skills.  So I am thankful for the bounty she will prepare for us this Thursday.

     Actually I have a lot to be thankful for:  it has been an exhausting year (as we come to close yet another year) with the emotional under tow of the election ‘08, the U.S. economy collapsing and the ‘bailout’, with millions of Americans going in foreclosure, added to my life in constant overdrive, yes I am thankful that I remain hopeful for all the undiscovered opportunities that awaits me. No matter what situation you are in, be reverent and be thankful.

    I am thankful for my two talented, funny, and intelligent sons.  They keep me young.

    I am thankful for my family being around them reminds me of my heritage.

    I am thankful for my husband’s family.  My sis-in-law whom my children adore to no end.

    I am thankful for my friends in their company I don’t have to be careful. 

    I am thankful for my faith that keeps me grounded and offer unconditional acceptance that we all seek.

   I am thankful for my husband who constantly injects adventure in my veins  (We learned how to kiteboard recently).

    And I am thankful for the million-dollar lottery that I won recently.

 

 

 

 

   Ha! Just checking if you we’re still reading.  Sending positive energy your way and I can’t wait for my “Tryptophan experience” this coming Thursday

  

continous post on President Elect Obama’s transition advisory board

Janet Napolitano Secretary of Homeland Security

Tom Daschle advisory of health care reform

Penny Pritcher Secretary of Commerce

Tis’ the season of shallow conversation – fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

Yes with Christmas coming up or better yet allow me to be politically correct “Chriskwanukkah”, a few cocktail soiree e-vites has hit my inbox. So, once again I am cramming the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” that I acquired from a yard sale. Armed with the principles of David Carnegie, I will seize the chalice of shallow conversation. At 3- something age, I’m still trying to figure out how to be cool. I wasn’t short of suggestions on how to do it. The most bizzarre suggestion to me was I should get a ‘brazillian‘ yet I really didn’t see the correlation. I’m trying to win friends not start a black book and by all means I’m no Ashlee Dupre (but with the economy so slow a profession like hers is definitely recession free).

So I’m brushing up on current issues on what would make me socially valuable. Topic of skills: banning of gay marriage. My two cents: there should be far more incomprehensable issues that should be on the dirty laundry list other than gay marriage such as banning the reality TV show on VH1 “The Pick Up Artist” Am I the only one that think this show is repulsive! Next topic of arsenal: on women’s fashion in correlation with the falling economy. Why women tend to cover up more when recession is likely to occur and hike up our skirts when the gettin’ is good. I’m going to stay away from current main stream topic that involves change and politics in the same sentence for avoidance of loosing whatever captive audience I might’ve fished. On sports: this one is hard because I don’t exercise. I would have to rely on my celly’s live ticker and wiki the shizzy of this info in order to sound like I’m in the know. Maybe I’ll talk about Tom Brady since I’m not his biggest fan. He’s a cocky son-of-a-mother-jumper.

I’m still jotting down topics that would make me ‘influence and win friends’. Perhaps my biggest mistake is that I had no idea that gaining social approval involves so much cosmic hoopla. My point of overly and obscenely obsessing about this shallow cocktail moments is that I always feel awkward and feel like I’m out of place. It’s not me for I love a good social gathering it’s the insipid conversations involve that I would not be subjected to had I been around my real friends.  Damn I need a hug.

Hillary Clinton (she could be the next Sec. of State)

Hillary Clinton could be the next Secretary of the State…pop quiz who will she be replacing?  and if she gives up her democratic seat in the senate then who would take that seat?  As we likely get nearer to cabinet appointees, the democrat seat ranking could be potentially not reach it’s goal of 60 seat.  Meanwhile, can somebody tell me what’s up with Lieberman’s “personality swings”.   Don’t we have medication for this condition?   Somebody needs to hand this man a needle and a yarn and teach him usefull skills like knitting.  Or better yet introduce him to Paris Hilton apparently she’s on the quest for a new BFF they both share an uncanny trait of ‘personality transparencies’ they’d make a good pair.  The new Rocky and Bullwinkle!  Did anyone saw the G20 Meeting in the news?  A possible new Asian currency is in discussion to stabilize our erratic global econmy.  Stay informed and reaserch this:  Amero if you haven’t heard about already.

To offshore drill or not offshore drill that is the question

     During the election of 2008, I heard the Republican Party in a frenzy screaming “Drill Baby Drill!!!.”  This was the mantra that echoed in Sarah Palin’s VP’s speech and her and the Republican party’s words left me broken.

     I am oppose to off-shore drilling for simple reasons:

1.     Off-shore drilling will not significantly affect me financially. 

2.     The environmental risk by far out weighs the benefits the State would receive.

3.     Off shore drilling will only postpone the inevitable solution, which is alternative energy.

As I raise my concern, offshore drilling in the Virginia coast is moving forward with the push of the current Bush Administration.  I can’t say democrat Tim Kaine had no role on this issue he supported the bill back in 2006.  Currently, 50 miles offshore in Virginia is being considered for offshore oil and natural gas exploration. In North Carolina ocean waters, they are pushing for 100 miles offshore but Virginia will set the standard.    

     In closing, I want to say that I love the ocean.  I love the gifts the ocean bestows to families, my friends and me.  When the day comes that my husband and children cannot surf or swim or I can’t jog on the beach because of environmental issues caused by offshore drilling, yes I will be angry.  The vision of black slick oil accompanied by lifeless sea creature washing on shore isn’t appealing at all to me.  I have strong reservations with regards to nature.  Remember oil is a global commodity the price is set according the entire world demands.  Don’t be fooled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

President Obamas State Department Advisory

Names in the hat or possible names in the hat:

- Warren Christopher

- James Steinberg

- Richard Danzig

- Bill Lynn

- Michael A. Flournoy

- Kurt Campbell

- Wendy Sherman

- Tom Donilon or Thomas E. Donilon

- Sam Nunn

- John P. White

Any corrections or addition just comment.

President Obama’s Foreign and Domestic Policy Advisors

this is part of an ongoing post Keeping Track Until 2012.  Any names added or need to be deleted (on this post or previous post) just comment.

- Michelle Obama

- Susan E. Rice

- Madeline Albright

- Anthony Lake

- Michael Froman

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

- Richard Clarke

- William Daley

- Ivo Daalder

- Dennis Ross

- Stephen Flynn

- Lawrence Kord

- Bruce Reidel

- Richard Lugar

- Chuck Hagel

- John Kerry

- Richard Holbrooke

President Elect Barack Obama is pioneering an administration with  open platforms to the public.  Here’s a link:  http://change.gov/

more names to be added in the Transition Team:  Valerie Jarrett, John Podesta, Pete Rauss or Peter Rouse, William Daley, Carol Browner, Federico Pena, Janet Napolitano.

on the works an “Office of Urban Policy”  focusing on urban development

Defense Sec. Robert Gates is staying for the meantime otherwise it’s still TBA who will replace him.

*Depending on where you get the news or read the names varies.  Example:  Pete Rauss or Peter Rousse

A puppy in The White House and a puppy for me

     I can relate to the dilemma of President Elect Mr. Obama of choosing the right kind of puppy.  My 7-year boy suffers from allergies as well but the hypoallergenic trait doesn’t factor in on his list of the puppy’s pedigree. 

     So his dad and I gave him a research project simply because we wanted to stall his want of having a puppy.  I didn’t think that my kid would follow through and at age 7, I was pretty impressed of his starting point of research, his school library.  Soon he was coming home with stacks of books from pugs to wiener dogs to labs and poodles.  He even made a list of what he is looking for in a puppy.  (I hope he applies this knowledge when he starts searching for a wife but let’s not go there.)  Little dude’s sentence began something like this (almost poetic), “What I want in a puppy…”

A puppy that can swim or surf.

A puppy that can climb a tree.

A puppy that I can ride like a big horse.

A puppy that will protect and defend.

I want a lab.

His list went on.  So this what my son is in the pet market for …he wants a Labra-squirrel (climbing ability), a Labra-dolphin (a surfing buddy), A coppoodoodle ( a police and a poodle mix).  If any of you know where I can find a perfect pet let me know and one more thing my husband wants a Labra-wife.    

 

 

 

 

It’s the Holiday Season

Just in case you doubted my generosity this upcoming gift giving season…here’s your proof. It’s in one of these container. So pretend I’m Oprah for a minute and here it goes….”You get a box. Yoooo get a boooox!…You get aaaaaaaa boxxxxx!!!” Oh joy.  Let’s all jump in jubilation on our extra buttery leather couch because ….the season of “Extreme Shopping” is right around the corner.
Yes folks, tis’ the season of ‘contact sports.’ This is my RBI STATS last year. I was in the market for a Wii. I started my game already late in the season. Beginning of November, I had a list of bases (stores ranging from EB Games to Circuit City) within 13 miles radius then first thing a.m. i’d make a few phone calls, “Hey do you have any Wii?” Often I didn’t have any hits and it went on like this for days even weeks. I was getting dissapointed that my children were never going to have this coveted holy grail of game console and that they would have to be scarred for life. So I worked harder, I even contacted family members in California (could you say desperate) and talked to my friends Kathy and Marky-Marc and the funky bunch, that if you see any Wii will you buy it for me and i’ll pay you back? Oh yeah we are still friends even after that intrusive crazy idea. But finally, I scored. I called a certain store and they happen to have two left. I ran over pot holes and concrete divider (i happen to be in an armor clad SUV that day) parked on the fire truck zone–kicked open the door and announce myself to the cashier with a crazed look and i say screaming “This is Sparta!” they had no choice but to give me the Wii at that point. I was rabbid that day. I’m sure they would’ve given me the other one if I asked for it.  Good luck to all the hockey moms and soccer moms.  Let’s keep the injuires to a minimum.