This thread here has been cracking me up, ladies!! Thank you! Anyhoo, to put my two cents’ worth in, I have realized that I AM two different people … I tend to put on the huge happy front (HHF) when I’m out & about. When, for some reason, I don’t put on the HHF, my husband, my kids, my co-workers bug the crap out of me, wanting to know what’s wrong … ! It doesn’t mean i’m in a bad mood or unhappy … i’m just having a low-key day. I feel that the older I get, the more mellow i get. Or is it being lackadaisical???? I don’t know. Guess i would term it as just pickin’ my battles! ha.

I devoured James Frey’s book … and I was very angry when he was outed. I felt duped, as I’m sure Oprah felt. He made a fool of her on the world-wide stage, and she wanted her pound of flesh. If he wanted to embellish on the truth of his memoir, then he should have labeled it in some way. I, too, feel that the media overall cannot be trusted. I get tired of ‘sensationalistic’ local news broadcasts … of the spin the print media puts on their stories to serve their own agenda … the deceptions created by computer generated images/tweaking photographs. where will it end? Just lay the facts out and let me make up my own mind, come to my own conclusions, please.