Top 10 Funny Hotties

Goldie Hawn

Kristen Wiig

Shirley Maclaine

Tina Fey

Betty White

Amy Poehler

Jane Fonda

Anna Faris

Beverly D'Angelo

Lucy Ricardo

Thanksgiving

Regardless of how Thanksgiving started, for me it is a holiday of thanks, family, sharing and the food.  A designated day or days to share time with each other while eating lots of food.

Growing up Thanksgiving was always at our house. The day before the house cleaning started as well as food preparations. Thanksgiving morning was about setting up tables, finish cleaning, finish up food sneak a few olives and Oliver the musical playing in the living room. Every year I don't know how it started but Oliver as I remember it played. Perfect for this holiday, good memories. Then everyone shows up, the usual faces and always a few new ones someone's girlfriend, co-worker or neighbor etc.

These days the family has grown up, gotten bigger, some have moved away so we are transitioning to new traditions. I hope one day soon to host my own Thanksgivings...and Oliver will sure as hell play during the festivities pre-game prep time.

This year I am thankful for having a boyfriend who loves me even though I'm a crazy weirdo ding dong and his family and their support and kindness, my parents for always loving me and being there for me through the 29 year of my existence so far, my brother I hope to spend more time together now that I'm back in AR, and my friends new ones who have only known be a couple years but share strong love with me and old ones who know damn near everything about me the good and bad and still love me for me, and my kitty cay and a fun job where I can be myself. Thank you.

Now some Oliver clips. Happy Turkey Day!

Blessed be the Pedicure

Feet can be weird looking, stinky, cracking, peeling.. thats enough you get the point. If taken care of any feet can be pretty. I hate neglected feet and I hate long toenails. HATE. It freaks me out it's like witch rat wizard feet, not sexy even if they are painted and such. I don't dig it. As a child I was so freaked by long toenails I used to cut mine way to short which I eventually got under control..little OCD.

I maintain my tootsies bi-weekly not only do they look good and feel good but it keeps them healthy. Now and then I can afford or justify a salon or spa pedicure. Even if they shaft you on the calf massage or nick you with the nippers. It's so much better to sit in a massage chair and have someone else take care of it. My feet are ticklish when they file and scrub but the rest is usually great, especially if you get a good massage.

So blessed be the pedicure and the fact that there are so many places to get one and choose from these days. Be careful though you do want a sanitary responsible salon so you don't end up with some fungus.

If you have the money and time go get a pedicure. If you find a good nail tech stick with them.

Now I don't have a foot fetish like Quentin Tarantino or anything, but I do appreciate a good pedicure just as much as a cute dress or fine linens.

My Brother

Morgan Bland. Quiet and shy at first, then he unfolds into an outspoken creative freak. He's  a photoshop nerd for doing graphic design wizardry. Peaceful watcher and explorer through photography. Out there vibrant artwork. Check it out. Need graphics or another creative mind or wanna say his work is sweet? Drop him a line.

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Top 10 Vampire MEN

David

Dracula

Jerry Dandridge

Armand

Det. Nicholas 'Nick' Knight

Barnabas Collins

Modoc

Count Vladimir Dracula

Dracula

Nosferatu

Over 30 Foods that are supposed to be good for you.

I have taken the time to research top foods you should eat regularly and these are the ones I came up with. Some of these may not be good for some people, I'm no dietician. Some of these my not taste good, but surely I can enjoy most of them in some form whether it be raw or cooked. Have to be careful with the cooking though you can dilute or destroy the nutritional value if over cooked and the texture and flavor can very by preparation as well. 

Only problem is it can be expensive and inconvenient to eat healthy because some of it requires the time and preparation to suit your palate and if you don't use the items soon enough they will spoil and you just wasted money. It takes a certain passion and motivation to change from microwave and fast food to home cooked and healthy packed lunches. Sure there's healthy places to eat out if you can afford to do that everyday but most of us can't. 

I am going to attempt to work some of these foods into my regular eating habits. Some of them I already do, a few I've never tried. So we will see. I know there's more foods like beets that should probably be on this list but these were the most common in my searches.

Almonds

Apples

Avocados

Bananas

Black Beans

Blueberries

Broccoli

Butternut Squash

Carrots

Cashews

Cinnamon

Collard Greens

Eggs

Flaxseed

Garbanzo Beans

Garlic

Greek Yogurt

Guava

Kale

Mangos

Mustard Greens

Olive Oil

Oranges

Papaya

Pink Grapefruit

Quinoa

Spinach

Sweet Potatoes

Swiss Chard

Tea

Tomatoes

Turnip Greens

Walnuts

Watermelon

Whole Grains

Wild Rice

Wild Salmon

Four Eyes

My favorite style of eyeglass frame...
The Horn-Rimmed plastic frame with a Clubmaster/Browline look.

                                   Browline                +                 Horn-Rimmed          =

and here is a few pretty ladies wearing them

Metropolis

One of my all time favorite movies is Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis, revamped by Giorgio Moroder 1984

Moroder cleaned things up a bit, added color tints for mood and visual enhancement and gathered popular artists of the time for an awesome soundtrack.

You can get it on DVD from Gil and watch the amazing crystal clear trailer for it on his website ... just beautiful.

Moroder Metropolis DVD

To avoid depriving the studios of their income he requires that you buy a VHS or Laser Disc copy scan it and send image of your copy to him or email him your receipt from your online order.

You must already own Metropolis to order this bad ass DVD version from him.

or you may be able to find it on ebay or somewhere released on DVD from KINO Classics.

This just in! Giorgio Moroder presents Metropolis is now available on Netflix Instant!

Here's a few video clips from some of my favorite scenes.

Shift Change

Maria's Transformation

Rotwang presents his guests the new Maria

Sweet Mango & Sticky Rice Roll

One of my favorite things to get at the thai restaurant is Sweet Mango and Sticky Rice. While researching the best ways to prepare it myself I discovered this fun creative recipe on She Simmers.com

Yummy.

First, you need to peel a ripe mango and slice it thinly lengthwise, with the knife blade on its side parallel to the pit.  This is done more easily with a mandoline.  If you don't have a mandoline. make sure your knife is so sharp it can cut your cutting board in half.  Without a super sharp knife, you really can't pull this off.

Then on a sushi mat, lined with a piece of plastic wrap, arrange the mango slices, overlapping, to form a 5x8 rectangle.  Scoop prepared sweet coconut sticky rice onto the mango slices a shown.

Then very gently and carefully roll everything up sushi-style, making sure the rice is entirely encased by the mango slices.  Using the sushi mat, lightly squeeze the roll to get rid of air pockets.  Gently remove the plastic wrap and cut the roll crosswise in 1-inch pieces.

Sprinkle some black sesame seeds on top, if desired.  Whatever you do, don't pop these rolls into the refrigerator.  They need to be made fresh and served right away.  You can keep them at room temperature, covered, for an hour or so.  But refrigeration will cause the rice to harden, and reheating it along with the fresh mango wrapper is inadvisable.