A Sad, Sad Day

My friend Carissa is about to start a new job downtown and leave me all alone at work. Well, not all alone - but semi. Rachel and I are simply heart broken over Carissa's move. Though it's a wonderful opportunity for her and we are happy for that.....it's just not the same.

We were the humorous three amigos. The mighty three musketeers. The three good fairy's of Sleeping Beauty. OK, so maybe I'm taking this a bit too far. We are all still such wonderful friends and will have many good times to come. Still, I can't help feeling a bit down.

Carissa, my friend, I wish you luck as you start the next chapter of your life.....we will continue to sip martinis and guzzle beer....dance like we're the only ones on the floor....and perform wardrobe consultation. Perfect.

......And I find a little extra comfort in the fact that I'll have you here for at least a few more years. Just a little:) HEART YOU!

Autumn

School buses zooming by....leaves changing color.....a cool, fresh breeze floating through the open window.....the smell of spiced pumpkin. Yes my friends, Autumn has arrived.

I'm pretty positive that autumn is my most favorite time of year. The chilled weather is perfect for a long sleeved shirt or light jacket. You can walk all around downtown without breaking a sweat. Pumpkin patches are up and running for visitors to stake their claim. The best part of autumn though, is the smell.

You can say there's no "smell" to the season, but there certainly is. And I just heart it.

Dirty Laundry

Rules:
1. Dirty Laundry is to be kept sacred among those the owner tells. This does not give permission to observers/handlers to do any of the following:

a. tell others

b. speak freely around the owner when in a social situation

2. Dirty Laundry is only to be shared with the most trustworthy friends - obviously you are trusting them to provide you with advice or simply just get it off your chest. Not every friend is entitled to this trust so you should consider yourself lucky.

3. It shows a lack of class to air someones Dirty Laundry. Point is simple: don't do it, no matter who the people in the room are.

4. Come on all you lovely ladies out there....bring back the class I know you have somewhere deep down....possibly far far down, but still. I know it's there!

Foot Note: If one feels like they might burst out some Dirty Laundry, follow this procedure:

1. Pause to think about who you are with

2. How may this affect the owner of the Laundry?

3. Put a Hamper on it!

No one ever said housework was easy.

An unadorable mistake on the stage

For all who watched last Sunday's VMA's...or simply read the 30 blogs about it on Perez Hilton, you know that Brit Brit did not have the anticipated comeback many of us hoped for. What was supposed to be a career resurrection quickly turned into the plight of the once-fabulous Ms. Britney Spears. I can't say that I'm not disappointed or surprised.

Perez called her out on it all - drinking and partying every night instead of rehearsing, placing blame up and down the VMA guest list, simply not trying. PH might have been a bit harsh, and I certainly don't agree with him that Sarah Silverman [how fowl is she!] rocked the show....but come on Brit - take control of your life! And seriously, she should have objected to the glitter clad bikini they expected her to jiggle around the stage in - I'm sorry but she is not confident enough in her body yet to be getting down on the dance floor in anything that lacks material.

I will obviously purchase her upcoming album, with fingers crossed that Ne-Yo pulls through some fantastic, earth shattering songs for her. In the meantime, I can only hope that Britters gets her sh*t together and shows us what a truly fabulous entertainer can bring to the stage - regardless of the path her life took these past few years. It's a shame that K-Fed had ambition to be somebody.....that could have saved Brit a lot of trouble [i.e. money, style and stretch marks]