Although, Lorraine Bobbit might have had the anger to Guillotine her man in only one area, I might think it a good tactic if a man were to cheat on a wife. Vows are vows. committment is serious business…I guess I have no slack for this behavior…..Hey, Liz thinks that walking on the left is murderous! Ok, maybe not guillotine, branding might be good….OHhhh, how about the forehead! LOL (humor, dark, but, humor none the less!)

Oh! my comment on Phyllis’s Nun theory is that don’t they think of England when the urge comes up? LOL…I believe that a happy life, which sex is part of (single or two person) is a major factor in skin. I am having a wonderful relationship with a man 10 years younger than I. The happiness that he makes me feel I know adds to the blushing that is referred to in the article. Yes, the sex is great! ok, now for my last thought. Phyllis mentioned that they would not tell us about how we would look when we were preggers….They did not warn me about what my skin would do when stretched to its limit. I want a lotion that returns it to non marked…..My body is good enough for a bikini, but, alas, my skin it not. Sigh……..

I have a green thumb for the vegetable garden that I attempt every year with my 8 year old. He is better at selecting the spaces and what goes where…I try to have flowers outside, but, they always seem to die, too much water, too little water etc. Inside I have a black thumb, gray with a edge of green. I have two plants that are doing fine, they don’t like lots of water…..(good for me) I have another that is just fading fast and it seems like a “charlie brown” tree as I am anticipating the last leaf to fall any day….Maybe with my stress level at this time in my life, that plant just can’t take it? Hey, I did try….

It may be poor manners, but, he was right, in my opinion to write the book and publish it. The country has been dragged into years with bad practicing presidents because no one within the walls was willing to publish or speak out. If one speaks out before leaving they are usually fired….but, this gentlemen truly feels that he was used, not treated with openness and was pushed into decieving the public as well. He wanted to clear his name before trying his next job and being blasted for being part of a deceptive presidency. Yes, there is a differnece between wierd and just deceptive, bad running of the country. Bush has done it all in the name of glorification of “Bush”. I doubt there is anyone within adult age in the US, who does not see him for who he really has become. I hope, that he fades into the wallpaper quickly and stays there. I prefer trapped in his own portrait, but, that is only my anger for his poor management of the us and his handing the decisions over to Cheney. But, again, this is not the 50’s. Just look at the paparazzi and the effect they have on publications, TV and covers someones dating life and reality TV, (which is not reality). It is no longer the 1950’s.

I just finished watching 27 dresses. The eternal belief with some reality thrown in, that marriage might not be that bad….Now, before I get basted on divorce etc. I have had two marriages and I know that it does not always work out as dreamed. But, Joseph Campbell’s quote always makes me think of the future. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” I am living the life planned for me and I still have the hope, not for the huge, over the top, never be able to get out of debt, wedding, but, the man who will be the partner for the last part of my life. Romantic, not all, just more realistic…

Yes, I think of him almost every day. Honorable, steadfast, intelligent and sadly drop dead handsome. He runs a export business to the Baltic / Russia area. Well traveled and eloquent, just the thought of him talking with me makes me almost weak in the knees. His best friend thought that I was tooo independent and would interrupt their social life, so he spent three months convincing him that I was not a good choice. He never called. Do I think of him, yes. Do I blame him? No. I blame his friend who involved himself in something that was not his business. The man is still single and so am I. His friend has left his wife and has already asked me out on a date….I bet you can guess what I told him…..:)

When a woman puts her husbands career in the front of her own goals and trusts him with the financial earning and supports him with her time, energy, organization etc (like Maria Shriver does for Arnold in CA) and then is betrayed, when the relationship goes bad, (lets talk jack welsh! GE CEO) Dumping your ex spouse with no retirement, savings and a few bucks after 1 to in my case 12 years, or in Welsh’s case close to 40 years of marriage is just BAD. Whether the number is 25,000 per year in alimony or the 51,000 per month for a very short time, if it is all the financial support she will be getting, she should be thankful. I know that the average woman can’t fathom why she should get $51,000 per month, but, if she needs to find or establish a career to earn money to survive, return to school etc. I would take the money and be working on a plan for the future. Alimony was put in place so that men could not dump their wives after years of marriage without the ability to transition to a single life after most, being housewives raising kids instead of out in the career path with no kids. I am thankful, although it is all I got, for the alimony that I did receive. I left for abuse reasons verbal and public humiliation, I did not want him teaching that to my son. After 12 years, being a CIO’s wife, he granted me “nothing”. No retirement, no savings and screamed at the Judge that I did not deserve Alimony. I accepted the alimony I recieved and know that at 45, it was the right thing to do. I too walked out with just my clothes and my sons belongings. But the alimony made it so I had the ability to rent a small place and get a car. Items that I cherish today….. The dollars don’t matter in any situation it is the idea that he doesn’t want to grant her any. It shows what type of man he really is……..

The movie/Tv show maybe for the screen, but, I feel that it relates very well to women everywhere and like Gianna mentioned, we at different times have been these women. Charlotte with her children and love of the housewife life. Samatha with her sensual/sexual side. (if you don’t have that, you need to find it. It is worth finding!) Carrie with her love of girly and finding herself (what we should have done by 40), well, I did…. To Miranda, who questions life and is the steadfast woman who most women in America and around the world are. They are all of us, just glammed up for the screen and giving us a little to dream about with Clothes we wish we could afford and bodies we might not have, but, always aspire to have. It is a guilty pleasure to watch the TV show and now the movie. Look closely, you are in them, laugh, enjoy that is why they call it entertainment! I will be…..

A lady is polite and kind. dresses to look her best, but, not expose her body parts! has a great sense of humor, but, never at anyones expense. Never talks about her friends behind their back. Faces her past without regre, Handles her present with confidence and prepares for the future without fear. Mom talked about the underwear, dad talked about how your actions tell others who you really are. If mom new the underwear I wear she would be saying “why bother”! My dad, I am sure looks down on me and says keep going, you are doing fine…..

Ah, yes, instead of a trip to the beach, I am enjoying my back yard and doing the gardening. Wish I could share the roses with each of you….Remember those we have lost this weekend. I am….

I make a awesome choco brownie with chocolate chips. I roast a mean, but deliciously tender chicken and also make the best chocolate chip cookies, so says my family and my son. But, my claim to fame is my lavender bread baked in a flower shaped tube pan then sliced for a tea party. My son’s friends as for it often as the once a week treat that they share at the classroom “Tea Party” day. Is it time to write a cook book? Maybe…..

I have been married twice. Once at 30 for 3 years. He was very content not to have a job, look for one or keep one! But, it was below his pride to clean or cook! I realized that I am not ment to be a man’s nurse or purse. The second was very high achiever when I was 35. He had is own business and successful in all rights until he sold and had a “mid life” crisis 4 years later. Decided that he really did not want to work for “a while” and that we should just tighten our belts for a while……after tightening my belt for a man with 20 million in the bank for 5 more years who became verbally abusive in public and private, I left. Would I marry again. In suprise, yes. But, like the title country artists “Sugarland” have for a song, this time, there is no “Settling”. I am content, but, will not settle and recommend that to all girls who ask me for advise.

Ann Was the strength that most women have to draw up inside themselves when times are hard. She oozed it and we forward thinking women, loved it! She made men who were stick in the mud types as well as the ride the gravy train ones, cringe when she walked in the room. She was a role model for me and when the going gets tough I still think of her and wonder what she would say to me….Well, I know some of what she would say! Miss her….She would have been an amazing president. (Can you hear me up there? Ann. Enjoy those wings and look down on us every once in a while?) Keep sending those thunderbolts of courage.

It is true that several major issues have been advoided during the dem’s race. Education and employment as well as mentioned in above notes the clean up of Katrina. I have a fundamental problem with giving money away to foreign countries(Burma), when we have not finished cleaning up our own. Others would find that my views of space exploration are drastic as well. I think when we can feel and shelter and keep safe our own country, then we should be able to help others. Living within ones means as so many of us have to do right now. The engineers at NASA could be making triple at a environmental firm working on projects that don’t use fossil fuel, etc. Hillary, fight for what you believe in. You are more qualified and will clean up the mess. But, remember that Mr. Obama will be in the back ground waiting…..No, let her run. She seems to be the only sensiable voice out there right now. I only pray that the country sees the issues with McCain and Obama before it is too late.

I would say my child, but, I truly feel that people are not possessions but, time spent with them is a gift. I think that each time my son creates a piece of art for me it becomes my most prized possession. If it is not a gift from him, it is a gold shaped heart necklace, that my mother gave me years ago. She got it from a beau and really did not like it. It was from her and I love it as each time I see it I realize how much she gave up to raise all 5 of us. Pictures of her and my son are high up there, but, my memories are up there too. If I lost the necklace, the photos, I would morn. But, no possession is worth the value and love of a child. I value that most.